Saturday

Teabagger Chaos

The inevitable wingnut tantrum arrives

Right-wing propaganda can turn its cult on anything its leaders don't like and make life hard for the rest of us. We will never have a civil society as long as this continues.

The picture below could go in a God-Damn Fox News section but it's related to the post above.

Fox trying to make the protests look big and growing but pictures in the linked article show only handfuls of people that look exactly like the people who go to Trump rallies.

I'll bet you that behind the Guy Fawkes mask is Fox News watcher and not an Occupy or Anonymous member. This is not bipartisan. It is a Cult protest.

Media - The Liberal Media Isn't

LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS -- TOWARD CONSERVATIVES

"Check out the lede of a story that appeared last night at The Washington Post: 

More than a dozen protesters gathered near the governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge Friday calling for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) to suspend measures designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus so people can go back to work. 

Really? "More than a dozen" people show up to gripe and that's a news story? Sorry -- "more than a dozen" people isn't a protest, it's a small social gathering. It's not news.'

CNN the morning after - Not a word about Trump's LIBERATE tweets.

Answers for the Fox-Watchers in Your Life

Some Simple Math

".. let's do the math on deaths. Right now the U.S. has 23 percent of the world's covid-19 deaths: 34,641 out of a total of 147,508. China has announced 4,632 deaths. Let's bump that up to 46,320. The additional 41,688 would bump the world death toll to 189,196. The U.S. total of 34,641 would be 18 percent of 189,196, for a country that has 4 percent of the world's population."

BBC: Coronavirus: Is there any evidence for lab release theory?

 "..despite rampant online speculation, there is no evidence of any kind that the Sars-CoV-2 virus (which causes Covid-19) was released accidentally from a lab."

Yes. I know.  This doesn't mean that it isn't a bio-weapon or escaped from a lab but it does mean "There is no evidence for that".  

Trump

Jeffrey St. Clair - on Trump

+ Trump, January 24: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American people, I want to thank President Xi!” 

+ Trump on February 10th: “China is very professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control….we just sent some of our best people over there, World Health Organization and a lot of them are composed of our people. They’re fantastic.” 

+ Deadbeat America: Trump is “suspending” US payments to the WHO at a time when the US owes the WHO $100 million…This is how Trump has run every business he’s ever owned: failed to pay his debts, blamed the people he owes and sued them if they complained.

and on health care.

 + In the throes of one the most dangerous public health crises in the nation’s history, the Democrats offer a plan that continues to feed the private health insurance industry, leaving unemployed workers with the bill. How can Bernie say he’s had any influence at all on these corp hacks?

President Chickenshit - from the update at the bottom.

UPDATE: More evidence that Trump is a chickenshit, as he is afraid to talk to any news network … other than Fox News:

According to the meticulous record kept by Mark Knoller of CBS, Trump hasn’t granted an interview to a non-Fox employee since January 22, when he chatted with CNBC’s Joe Kernen in Davos. Kernen began by asking about the coronavirus: “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?”

“No. Not at all,” Trump said. “And — we’re — we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.”

Since then, Trump has been interviewed a dozen times on Fox News and Fox Business. Knoller’s list also includes a February phone call to Geraldo Rivera‘s radio show, which is not a Fox production, but Rivera is also a Fox personality. Bottom line: The president is staying on Fox, i.e. shoring up his base, and avoiding all other interviewers during this emergency.