Clicked on the second view of this particular post out of curiosity? Found the jpg in question. Apparently an American flag is now considered "sensitive material" to twitter?
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CLAIM: Photo shows all the exterior and interior lights out at the White House on Sunday night, as President Donald Trump hid in a bunker.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The original photo was posted to a stock image site in 2015, before Trump took office.
THE FACTS: An image shared thousands of times online that appears to show all the lights out in and around the White House was taken before Trump even assumed office.
Associated Press photographs taken Sunday night show the front of the White House illuminated by exterior lights and the portico lantern turned on, but the mansion’s interior is dark.
The viral photo, which has been edited, can be found on Getty Image’s stock website, where it was uploaded in December 2015. In the original, the lantern hanging in the White House portico is lit, along with several lights that surround the fountain in the front lawn.
The edited version that is being widely shared online has been darkened, and manipulated to remove the lit lantern.
Dozens of social media users shared the edited 2015 photo, claiming it showed the White House on Sunday night.
“Lights out at #WhiteHouse is a powerful symbol,” one Twitter user wrote.
Others claim it showed the White House Sunday night as Trump took shelter in a bunker. The Associated Press reported that Secret Service agents rushed the president to a White House bunker Friday night, as hundreds of protesters surrounded the executive mansion.
And now the fake uniter is trying to pander to catholics and their vote.....seems to me he just failed again trying to look the role instead of leading!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Michelle Boorstein June 2, 2020 at 3:17 p.m. EDT President Trump triggered sharp condemnation from top religious leaders for the second time in two days on Tuesday, with Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory slamming his visit to a D.C. shrine honoring Pope John Paul II. On Monday, Trump’s appearance in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House set off a controversy because it involved aggressively clearing peaceful protesters. “I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people, even those with whom we might disagree,” Gregory said in a statement as Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Northeast Washington. AD
The history of St. John's, the 'church of the presidents' As protests over the death of George Floyd continue in Washington, St. John’s Church, located a block from the White House, has become a focal point. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post) The shrine was opened as a museum to John Paul in 2001 but nose-dived financially and was bailed out in 2011 by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s religious organization that has lobbied for conservative political causes, such as opposing same-sex marriage. In his statement, Gregory noted the legacy of Pope John Paul II, suggesting he would not have condoned Trump’s actions, including his walk to St. John’s as hundreds of demonstrators nearby were protesting the death of George Floyd last week in the custody of the Minneapolis police.
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The blond cunt of the WH inner circle fueling the fire like her boss.....wonder how long the evangelicals will take to start walking from the fraud in chief??????
Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s decision to tear-gas protesters for a photo-op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church Monday night by going after the bishop who presides over that congregation.
The White House counselor was confronted with the criticism from Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde during an appearance on Fox News early Tuesday afternoon. Asked to respond to Budde, who told CNN’s Anderson Cooper she was “outraged” that Trump had used her church as a “prop,” Conway went on the attack.
After listing off various actions Trump has taken in the name of “religious liberty”—implying that all clergy should be grateful for his help—Conway addressed Budde directly.
“That is not ‘her church,’ that is not ‘her bible,’” Conway said. “We don’t look into other people’s hearts and souls and discern and judge what their faith is.”
CNN’s Don Lemon Goes Off on Trump for ‘Declaring War on Americans’
Then, after saying we can’t pretend to know why the president “felt compelled to walk there” and hold a bible in the air awkwardly, Conway did just that.
Attorney General William Barr personally ordered for the perimeter near the White House to be extended, pushing protesters away from Lafayette Park shortly before President Trump spoke in the area on Monday night, The Washington Post reported.
Two federal law enforcement officials told the newspaper that Barr and other officials made the decision late Sunday or early Monday to extend the perimeter around Lafayette Square, across from the White House, by one block.
Barr found the perimeter had not yet been extended Monday afternoon and ordered law enforcement officials to complete the extension, according to The Post. Law enforcement officers pushed protesters away from the area shortly before the city's 7 p.m. curfew.
"He conferred with them to check on the status and basically said: 'This needs to be done. Get it done,'" a Justice Department official told the newspaper.
Shortly after Barr's order, police dispersed the peaceful crowd using teargas, horses and riot shields.
Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s decision to tear-gas
It wasn't tear gas it was smoke canisters and the park police wasn't following Trump's order but reacting to bottles thrown at them by "peaceful protesters".
Kentucky police chief fired after shooting kills barbecue restaurant owner The Guardian
The police chief of Louisville, Kentucky, was fired on Monday after the mayor learned that officers involved in a shooting that killed the popular owner of a barbecue spot failed to activate body cameras during the chaotic scene.
SEE THE ENTIRE STORY IN THE NEXT THREAD DOWN AT June 2, 3:21PM.
The man killed was popular and beloved by many, including police.
It wasn't tear gas it was smoke canisters and the park police wasn't following
It was TEAR GAS YOU DUMB FUCK!!!! BTW.....The australian govmt is investigating the police brutality of one of their reporters when he was rammed by a police shield for doing his job.....BTW.....witness I saw on the news had to use his gas mask......sad how the simple mind of cramps is so easily manipulated by his love of trump!!!!! BTW....asshole....why would Kellyanne defend smoke??????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! God you just won the dumbest fuck here, surpassing the goat fucker!!!!!
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police released video footage Tuesday they say shows popular barbecue chef David McAtee firing a gun before officers and National Guard troops shot and killed him early Monday morning.
McAtee, who neighbors and friends have called a West End “community pillar,” was fatally shot at 12:15 a.m. after a crowd had gathered at Dino’s Food Mart, the grocery next to McAtee’s Ya's BBQ, at 26th Street and West Broadway.
Before playing the footage at a press conference Tuesday, interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder said the video "does not answer every question," including, he said, why McAtee fired.
"We are providing this information because we have made a pledge to this community to be transparent," Schroeder said. "The video appears to show Mr. McAtee firing a gun outside of his business door as officers who are using pepper balls to clear the Dino's lot were approaching. The video does not provide all the answers."
My feeling is that he tragically mistake the police officers for looters.
The australian govmt is investigating the police brutality of one of their reporters when he was rammed by a police shield for doing his job.....
Since the Australian government has about the same authority to investigate an incident in the US as the US does in Australia then all they can do is write a nice pretty please note.
BTW it was a her and she was bumped by a riot shield. Drama queen.
Dopie now use Twitter as a foundation in his debate.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! I wouldn't use Twitter for toilet paper you dumb fucking asshole!!!!!!!!! Only morons and idiots like you use it!!!!!!
They saw their reporter beaten and will investigate it....they certainly can do whatever they want...and should they file a complaint, which is their right....another self inflicted event the world will laugh at the US!!!! Stupid is your middle name!!!
really BWAA? you expect me to trust the sewer that produced dan rather?
in case you haven't noticed, this has become a fucking widespread NARRATIVE. the MSM is DESPERATE to make this a white supremacist, white nationalist, neo nazi thing because they SUPPORT ANTIFA root and branch.
the park police uncorked smoke canisters to give the secret svc and the president cover and to disperse the crowd to set up a perimeter.
fuck.
you're so fucking gullible and so gripped by TDS you'll believe fucking anything.
I saw the video ... It was a full slam of the shield to the gut....knocked the reporter back....If it was a girl....double shame on that fucking asshole who should be fired!!!!!!
Ben Sasse is a fraudster who’d rather have the White House turned over to rioters. The legitimate protests were hijacked a long time ago by ANTIFA terrorists & if Sasse removed his head from his ass, & talked to LEOS who were there defending the WH, he’d know that. He’s a toolbox
According to cramps the liar.....these clergy were just inhaling smoke and not tear gas as he claimed......bWAAAAAAAAAAA
op. Lafayette Square is a park that lies directly north of the White House.
Rev. Gini Gerbasi, rector of a different St. John’s Episcopal Church in the city, said she and seminarian Julia Joyce Domenick were tear-gassed and driven off of church property by police.
“I was coughing, her eyes were watering, and we were trying to help people as the police - in full riot gear - drove people toward us,” Gerbasi wrote in a Facebook post late Monday night.
The patio of the church had been “holy ground” and a place of rest for protesters, Gerbasi said, but Tru
President Trump’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church last night was met with heavy social media backlash after reports by many news outlets were publicized suggesting that peaceful protestors were forced from the area using tear gas. According to reporting by Neil Augenstein for WTOPnews, however, there were only smoke canisters.
“A source says tear gas was never used — instead smoke cannisters were deployed, which don’t have an uncomfortable irritant in them,” tweeted Augenstein. “And, the source says Park Police didn’t know President Trump would be walking across the park several minutes later.”
And so again Dopie folded . Yes, Northrop Grumman uses China Made parts. DoD confirmed and granted waivers during the Obama years. Dopie next time, come with facts, not ur opinion.
confirmed and granted waivers during the Obama years.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Not for my programs or any fighter......since NOC does not build fighters......idiot There was a blanket one off Chinese waiver......but not in my world.....asshole can speak for my programs only.....American products built by Americans in the USA.....
The media is falsely claiming Trump is trying to stop "peaceful protests" while showing terrorists, anarchists, and looters on loop, 24 hours a day this week.
Statement from United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan about the actions taken over the weekend to protect life and property Date: June 2, 2020 Contact: uspp_pio@nps.gov
The United States Park Police (USPP) is committed to the peaceful expression of First Amendment rights. However, this past weekend’s demonstrations at Lafayette Park and across the National Mall included activities that were not part of a peaceful protest, which resulted in injuries to USPP officers in the line of duty, the destruction of public property and the defacing of memorials and monuments. During four days of demonstrations, 51 members of the USPP were injured; of those, 11 were transported to the hospital and released and three were admitted.
Multiple agencies assisted the USPP in responding to and quelling the acts of destruction and violence over the course of the weekend in order to protect citizens and property.
On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.
To curtail the violence that was underway, the USPP, following established policy, issued three warnings over a loudspeaker to alert demonstrators on H Street to evacuate the area. Horse mounted patrol, Civil Disturbance Units and additional personnel were used to clear the area. As many of the protestors became more combative, continued to throw projectiles, and attempted to grab officers’ weapons, officers then employed the use of smoke canisters and pepper balls. No tear gas was used by USPP officers or other assisting law enforcement partners to close the area at Lafayette Park. Subsequently, the fence was installed.
Throughout the demonstrations, the USPP has not made any arrests. The USPP will always support peaceful assembly but cannot tolerate violence to citizens or officers or damage to our nation’s resources that we are entrusted to protect.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said... Fatty “saw” people wiping their eyes that’s proof of tear gas,
So the clergy lied asshole???? Were you there???? An agency lying about something is no surprise anymore.....Sorry....too many witnesses verified tear gas to be a lie.....idiots....Yean the fake news is all on you!!!!
Former President George W. Bush wrote in a statement that he and his wife, Laura, are “anguished” by the death of George Floyd, and said that “it is time for America to examine our tragic failures.”
He added: “How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.” __________
Well said. I said that earlier. We need to end systemic racism in all the places it exists.
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, writing in The Atlantic:
“It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel—including members of the National Guard—forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church. I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump’s leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.
“Whatever Trump’s goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces.
George Bush America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity. The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union. The answers to American problems are found by living up to American ideals — to the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by God with certain rights. We have often underestimated how radical that quest really is, and how our cherished principles challenge systems of intended or assumed injustice. The heroes of America — from Frederick Douglass, to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — are heroes of unity. Their calling has never been for the fainthearted. They often revealed the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine. We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised.
That is exactly where we now stand. Many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. Black people see the repeated violation of their rights without an urgent and adequate response from American institutions. We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means. Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress. But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.
This will require a consistent, courageous, and creative effort. We serve our neighbors best when we try to understand their experience. We love our neighbors as ourselves when we treat them as equals, in both protection and compassion. There is a better way — the way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice. I am confident that together, Americans will choose the better way.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ohio Bill Would Make It Harder to Vote
“An Ohio House elections bill, lined up for a swift series of committee hearings since it was introduced last week, would make this year’s presidential election THE FIRST ONE SINCE 2008 in which the state WOULDN’T mail an unsolicited absentee ballot application TO ALL REGISTERED VOTERS.”
The bill “also would eliminate in-person early voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the election, SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN OFFERED SINCE 2015.” _______________
SO FEARFUL ARE REPUBLICANS OF THE WRATH OF THE ELECTORATE.
“The proposal runs counter to a plan by Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who has sought to expand early voting for the November election, in part due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
Former officials from the George W. Bush administration have formed a super PAC to support former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House campaign.
The super PAC, dubbed 43 Alumni For Biden, referring to the 43rd president, was formed Monday, according to a Tuesday filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Karen Kirksey, a former Treasury Department official from the Bush administration, is listed as the group’s treasurer and custodian of records.
Former top military officials also took issue with Trump’s use of U.S. soldiers to counter demonstrators.
“It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel — including members of the National Guard — forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church,” retired Gen. Mike Mullen, a former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in an extraordinary op-ed in the Atlantic. “I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump’s leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.”
Another former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, was similarly bothered by Trump’s actions.
Retired Gen. Tony Thomas, former head of Special Operations Command, said Trump’s promise to flood the streets of America’s cities with U.S. soldiers is “not what America needs to hear.”
Absent from every single tweet I've seen from media types on here making excuses for rioting and looting is the acknowledgment that George Floyd's family has called for an end to exactly that kind of chaos
The nation’s 43rd president’s statement does not mention Trump, but his call for compassion and unity presents a stark contrast to the current president’s more inflammatory rhetoric.
Incredible statement from a leader of the NYPD to the rank and file officers: "I know we are losing the city. We have no leadership, no direction, and no plan. I know you are being held back and used as pawns."
David Dorn was 77. He spent four decades protecting people as a police officer in St Louis and then came out of retirement to keep serving as Moline Acres' police chief.
Looters shot him in the torso & he died bleeding on a sidewalk
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 64% of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and 55% disapprove of President Trump’s response to the unrest.
The Hill: Bush Alums Form Super PAC to Support Biden
Former officials from the George W. Bush administration have formed a super PAC to support Joe Biden’s White House campaign. reports. __________
Gabriel Sherman: ‘He’s Paralyzed’
“Confronting a failed presidency after 100,000-plus COVID deaths and the protests that are still convulsing the nation this week, Donald Trump is venting to West Wing officials that Democratic governors are allowing civil unrest to rage in American cities to damage his reelection campaign.”
Said a Trump adviser: “He feels the blue-state governors are letting it burn because it hurts him. It’s a lot like how he sees coronavirus.”
“Trump’s sense of victimhood, and his view that the crisis ignited by George Floyd’s gruesome death is largely a political problem, have resulted in a shambolic White House response, veering from Trump’s retreat to the bunker as the protests neared the White House to the culmination of police using teargas(?) on peaceful protestors so that he could walk through a park to stage a photo op in front of St. John’s Church.”
Said one former West Wing official: “He’s paralyzed.”
*** NOTICE OF CONSTANT SPAMMING and USE OF TAEGAN GODDARD's POLITICAL_LIRE ***
Regular readers of this blog know the constant spamming, lying and obsession for that left-wing Taegan Goddard blog by a certain poster. That poster james, also called the "pastor" (which he claims to be even if you can't tell by his actions) is the POS responsible and considers his mindless rude behavior his hobby. Sometimes he credits Taegan Goddard, sometimes he doesn't.
He has descended so far into TDS and desperation he fills every discussion thread with what people have described as an avalanche of spam. If this is being posted today is no different. He even gets his edited news from that site and spams that if he thinks it will hurt Trump. Every day he repeats what that site posts, regardless of topic. It gets so bad he feels the need to even repeat his spam multiple times in a single thread as well as posting in every active thread the very same spam.
He has exhibited the same mental deterioration as Joe Biden and his postings should be given the same consideration. Both their heads will probably explode when it becomes obvious that Trump will win a second term. Biden will not even notice his head did.
I'm JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE -------- NOTE TO READERS: --Retired pastor James, an old white POS who will waterboy forever from his ultra-liberal GODdard and savior political_lire's blog.
No matter what the thread topic is.
And will try and do whatever it takes or approve of any means, legal or illegal, to dispose of a duly elected president.
AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine
PDF of complaint: http://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-6-2-2020.pdf
Today, June 2, 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which President Trump and other world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19.
Two million doses of HCQ are being sent by the Trump Administration to Brazil to help medical workers there safeguard themselves against the spread of the virus. But at the same time the FDA continues to block Americans’ access to this medication.
HCQ has been approved as safe by the FDA for 65 years, and the CDC states on its website that “CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria.”
More than 150 million doses have been donated to the strategic national stockpile controlled by the federal government, but unjustified FDA restrictions limit its use to only hospitalized patients for whom a clinical study is unavailable. Hospitals are even returning HCQ to the stockpile because they are not able to use it effectively.
“It is shocking that medical workers in Brazil will have access to HCQ as a prophylaxis while Americans are blocked by the FDA from accessing the same medication for the same use,” observes AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient, M.D.
“There is no legal or factual basis for the FDA to limit use of HCQ,” states AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. “The FDA’s restrictions on HCQ for Americans are completely indefensible in court.”
Many foreign nations, including China, India, South Korea, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, use HCQ for early treatment and prevention of COVID-19, AAPS points out.
“Entrenched, politically biased officials at the FDA should not be allowed to interfere with Americans’ right to access medication donated to the federal government for public use,” Schlafly says. “By preventing Americans’ use of HCQ as a prophylaxis, the FDA is infringing on First Amendment rights to attend religious services or participate in political events such as political conventions, town halls, and rallies in an important election year.”
“FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn states that the FDA does not interfere with physicians’ ability to prescribe HCQ, and yet at the same time the FDA denies access by millions of Americans to 150 million doses of it in the national stockpile,” Schlafly adds. “This irrational hoarding by government is an abuse of power.”
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has represented physicians of all specialties in all states since 1943. The AAPS motto is omnia pro aegroto, meaning everything for the patient.
Eric Garcetti took a knee and now a massive number of protestors have gathered in front of his house. Huge police presence. This is all getting stupid. Carry on.
B>The Charlotte Observer Reports That Trump Says He’ll Move GOP Convention
President Trump said he will move the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina after the state and the GOP clashed over potential health restrictions due to the coronavirus. ____________
There's talk he's planning to move it to Lousville, KY.
Stupid move. It's almost impossible for Trump to lose Kentucky, but he may badly need to keep from losing NC.
STUPID, STUPID move.
The governor of NC stood up to Trump and let him know he would not let him tell NC what coronavirus measures the convention would or would not follow at HIS dictation.
Defense Secretary Esper Claims He Didn’t Know About Photo Op
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told NBC News he had no advance notice before President Trump led him and other senior administration officials to St. John’s Episcopal Church for a widely criticized photo-op.
Said Esper: “I thought I was going to do two things: to see some damage and to talk to the troops.”
He added: “I didn’t know where I was going.”
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said he was caught by surprise when Trump led them to the church for a staged visit.
HOW DEMEANING. USING OUR MILITARY OFFICIALS LIKE THAT.
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The New York Times: Trump Deploys Federal Law Enforcement to Crush Protests
“President Trump’s vow to ‘dominate’ demonstrators protesting police brutality has mobilized the full might of federal law enforcement, from border agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration to F.B.I. hostage rescue teams, working alongside local law enforcement, the military police and the National Guard.
“In all, nearly a dozen federal agencies and components have joined in Mr. Trump’s effort to quell protests incited by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and ostensibly to put an end to rioting and looting — and determine whether anarchists and other extremist groups had infiltrated the protests.” _________
Politico: Pentagon Officials on Edge Over Dealings with Trump
“The optics of the past 72 hours are putting people inside the halls of the Pentagon on edge as images of U.S. troops on the streets of the nation’s capital dominate airwaves across the globe, and as the top brass is increasingly viewed as mixing politics and the military.
“Defense Department officials say they are INCREASINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE with the more prominent role the U.S. military is playing in tamping down violent protests breaking out all over the U.S., and the growing tendency of the president to call on the troops for domestic missions ranging from border security to law enforcement.” ______________
HE WANTS TO FORM A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. HE MUST BE STOPPED, AND HE WILL BE STOPPED, FOR WE ARE NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC.
New York Times: How Trump’s Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash with protesters that preceded President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments. Updated 10:12 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own front yard and forced him to briefly retreat to a bunker beneath the White House, President Trump arrived in the Oval Office on Monday agitated over the television images, annoyed that anyone would think he was hiding and eager for action.
He wanted to send the military into American cities, an idea that provoked a heated, voices-raised fight among his advisers. But by the end of the day, urged on by his daughter Ivanka Trump, he came up with a more personal way of demonstrating toughness — he would march across Lafayette Square to a church damaged by fire the night before.
The only problem: A plan developed earlier in the day to expand the security perimeter around the White House had not been carried out. When Attorney General William P. Barr strode out of the White House gates for a personal inspection early Monday evening, he discovered that protesters were still on the northern edge of the square. For the president to make it to St. John’s Church, they would have to be cleared out. Mr. Barr gave the order to disperse them.
What ensued was a burst of violence unlike any seen in the shadow of the White House in generations. As he prepared for his surprise march to the church, Mr. Trump first went before cameras in the Rose Garden to declare himself “your president of law and order” but also “an ally of all peaceful protesters,” even as peaceful protesters just a block away and clergy members on the church patio were routed by smoke and flash grenades and SOME FORM OF CHEMICAL SPRAY deployed by shield-bearing riot officers and mounted police.
After a day in which he berated “weak” governors and lectured them to “dominate” the demonstrators, the president emerged from the White House, followed by a phalanx of aides and Secret Service agents as he made his way to the church, where he posed stern-faced, holding up a Bible that his daughter pulled out of her $1,540 MaxMara bag.
The resulting photographs of Mr. Trump striding purposefully across the square satisfied his long-held desire to project strength, images that members of his re-election campaign team quickly began recirculating and pinning to their Twitter home pages once he was safely back in the fortified White House.
The scene of mayhem — barely 1,000 feet from the symbol of American democracy — that preceded the walk evoked images more commonly associated with authoritarian countries, but that did not bother the president, who has long flirted with overseas strongmen and has expressed envy of their ability to dominate.
Throughout his time in office, Mr. Trump has generated concern over what critics see as his autocratic instincts, including his claims to untrammeled power to “do whatever I want,” his attacks on quasi-autonomous institutions of government like the F.B.I. or inspectors general and his efforts to discredit independent sources of information that anger him, like the news media he denounces as the “enemy of the people.”
And when the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash at Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.
Mr. Trump and his inner circle considered it a triumph that would resonate with many middle Americans turned off by scenes of urban riots and looting that have accompanied nonviolent protests of the police killing of a subdued black man in Minneapolis.
But critics, including some fellow Republicans, WERE AGHAST at the use of force AGAINST AMERICANS WHO POSED NO VISIBLE THREAT AT THE TIME, all to facilitate what they deemed A HAM-HANDED photo opportunity featuring ALL WHITE FACES.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who was not consulted beforehand, said she was “outraged” over the use of one of her churches as a political backdrop to boast of squelching protests against racism. Even some White House officials privately expressed dismay that the president’s entourage had not thought to include a single person of color.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington sharply objected on Tuesday and said the federal government had even privately broached the idea of taking over the city’s police force, which she pledged to resist. “I don’t think the military should be used in the streets of American cities against Americans,” she said, “and I definitely don’t think it should be done for a show.”
Arlington County in suburban Virginia withdrew its police from those assembled to guard the White House and other federal sites after the Lafayette Square clash. Even beforehand, Democratic governors in Virginia, New York and Delaware refused to send National Guard troops requested by the Trump administration.
The spectacle staged by the White House also left military leaders struggling to explain themselves in response to criticism from retired officers that they had allowed themselves to be used as political props. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put out word through military officials that they did not know in advance about the dispersal of the protesters or about the president’s planned photo op, insisting that they thought they were accompanying him to review the troops.
The police action cleared the way for the photo op, but it hardly quelled the anger in the streets. By Tuesday afternoon, demonstrators had returned to the edge of Lafayette Square — where new tall fences had been erected overnight — and shouted their discontent at the line of black-clad officers.
“Take off the riot gear, I don’t see no riot here,” they chanted.
Aides on Tuesday defended Mr. Trump’s walk to the church, given that a small fire had been set in its basement during demonstrations over the weekend. “The president very much felt when he saw those images on Sunday night — that crossed a terrible line, that goes way beyond peaceful protesting,” Kellyanne Conway, his counselor, told reporters.
But she distanced him from the decisions on how to disperse the crowd. “Clearly, the president doesn’t know how law enforcement is handling his movement,” she said.
This account of the clash is based on descriptions by reporters at the scene, interviews with dozens of protesters, White House aides, law enforcement officials, city leaders and others involved in the tense day as well as an analysis of video footage from the New York Times’s visual investigations team.
THE STORY CONTINUES AND IT IS A DOOZY. TRUMP REALLY GOOFED ON THIS ONE.
I can hardly believe this. Even the hard line biblical fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson is compassionate enough to criticize Trump. __________
The Washington Post: Pat Robertson Joins Criticism of Trump
Televangelist Pat Robertson joined the religious leaders criticizing President Trump for his “law and order” response to the nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police, the Washington Post reports.
Said Robertson: “It seems like now is the time to say, ‘I understand your pain, I want to comfort you, I think it’s time we love each other. But the president took a different course.”
He added: “You just don’t do that, Mr. President. It isn’t cool!” _____________
Actually, Trump only wants to appeal to his base. That's all he cares about. But he seems to have miscalculated this time.
A retired police captain was fatally shot by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday — in a chilling incident apparently aired on Facebook Live.
David Dorn, a 77-year-old former cop who had spent half his life on the Missouri force, was shot dead on the sidewalk in front of a pawnshop early Tuesday amid violent protests after the Minnesota police-brutality killing of George Floyd — and several people, including a state pol, said they watched Dorn’s murder unfold in a clip on the social media platform, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.
“I just seen a man die on live man! Smh,” state Rep. Rasheen Aldridge wrote on Facebook.
Another person suggested that as Dorn lay dying, no one helped him, instead choosing to record his death.
“What I just witnessed on several lives has me sickened to my stomach. The man just was shot and killed outside of Lee’s Pawn and Jewelry,” wrote Marquaello Futrell, whose profile says he is a former city cop.
“It’s one thing to be a victim of a robbery/assault but to lie in you own blood pleading for help and no help comes other than people standing around on FB Live recording his death. All over social media. I’m upset and can’t sleep!” he said.
The video has since been taken down, and Facebook told the Post-Dispatch that it was trying to gather information about the incident.
Dorn’s wife told the paper that her husband was a friend of the pawnshop’s owner and would check on the property, including when its burglar alarm went off. There were widespread violent protests in St. Louis overnight.
A retired police captain was fatally shot by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday
Just as sad as the fat assed obese trump waving a bible in front of a church he never goes to unless he is being followed by his fat assed AG and entourage of idiots!@!!!!!
Finally someone with a conscious in the trump era...Undersecretary of defense raising his middle finger at Trump!!!!
Hon. Mark T. Esper Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, D.C., 20301
Dear Secretary Esper,
I resign from the Defense Science Board, effective immediately.
When I joined the Board in early 2014, after leaving government service as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, I again swore an oath of office, one familiar to you, that includes the commitment to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
You recited that same oath on July 23, 2019, when you were sworn in as Secretary of Defense. On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath. Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op. You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo.
President Trump’s actions Monday night violated his oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” as well as the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble.” You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it. Instead, you visibly supported it.
Maybe this is the first step in the GOP having a set of ballz with trump.....at least one asshole going down!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Election 2020 Rep. Steve King, who was shunned by GOP leaders for his racist remarks, loses in Iowa primary Support for King started to evaporate last year after he made racially offensive remarks that forced national Republicans to distance themselves from the conservative Iowa firebrand.
That is your opinion asshole......I am sure you can say without hesitation no chemical agents were used against peaceful protesters......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Rat once again takes a deep breathe of trumps fat ass and declares another to be a deep state villain without a shred of proof!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!! Keep chewing asshole
Another deep stater rat or someone have second thoughts about the asshole in chief?????
A former principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy has resigned from the Defense Department's science board.
James Miller's reasoning centered on President Donald Trump's visit Monday to St. John's Church, where protesters were cleared with tear gas so that he could pose with a Bible for photographs.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper was also present during the visit.
"You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it," Miller wrote to Esper in his resignation letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post. "Instead, you visibly supported it."
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A Department of Defense adviser has resigned, effective immediately, from the military's science board, citing what he believed to be a violation of conduct from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
In his resignation letter to Esper, which was obtained by The Washington Post, James Miller Jr., who served as the US undersecretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, recalled that he swore an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and "to bear true faith and allegiance to the same," similar to what the defense secretary had done before he took office.
"On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath," Miller wrote to Esper.
Anyone know how that bible miraculously appeared in the fat fucks pudgy hands in front of that church???? Does he carry one all the time? Does he ever read IT???? Or was it a minion in the entourage saying this might help....?????? BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
God triumphs over evil and violences, that's the message
While you support there amoral liar in chief,.......That really is amusing cramps....the lengths you go to support his despicable behavior and pandering for votes any way he can!!!!
"You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it," Miller wrote to Esper in his resignation letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post. "Instead, you visibly supported it."
we should be glad this goy is out at DoD. he's obviously too stupid, like BWAA, to realize that wherever POTUS goes, the perimeter is secured. and the measures taken to secure the perimeter are commensurate with the threat posed at the time.
BWAA, i'm not sure why you keep touting this story. it just makes miller look like the TDS-afflicted pussy he obviously is.
we should be glad this goy is out at DoD. he's obviously too stupid,
And it certainly can be said that thank the lord you and your kind are in the minority and growing smaller every day!!!!! Repent GOP......the end is near!!!!
lo iq said: A former principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy has resigned from the Defense Department's science board.
Excellent, but to more correct he should have said he disgracefully surrendered. We do need a few more like him though their ranks are thankfully thinning.
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START A MORNING !!! AP: Nation’s Streets Calmest In Days
“Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off demonstrations that at times brought violence and destruction along with pleas to stop police brutality and injustice against African Americans.”
THANKS TO OUR OWN STATE GOVERNORS--- Trump Softens and Backs Down on Sending Troops to States
“A day after threatening states that he would dispatch the military to quell protests, President Trump appeared to be privately backing off his threat to deploy troops, with White House officials saying this week’s response to demonstrations across the country indicated that local governments should be able to restore order themselves.”
*** NOTICE OF CONSTANT SPAMMING and USE OF TAEGAN GODDARD's POLITICAL_LIRE ***
Regular readers of this blog know the constant spamming, lying and obsession for that left-wing Taegan Goddard blog by a certain poster. That poster james, also called the "pastor" (which he claims to be even if you can't tell by his actions) is the POS responsible and considers his mindless rude behavior his hobby. Sometimes he credits Taegan Goddard, sometimes he doesn't.
He has descended so far into TDS and desperation he fills every discussion thread with what people have described as an avalanche of spam. If this is being posted today is no different. He even gets his edited news from that site and spams that if he thinks it will hurt Trump. Every day he repeats what that site posts, regardless of topic. It gets so bad he feels the need to even repeat his spam multiple times in a single thread as well as posting in every active thread the very same spam.
He has exhibited the same mental deterioration as Joe Biden and his postings should be given the same consideration. Both their heads will probably explode when it becomes obvious that Trump will win a second term. Biden will not even notice his head did.
I'm JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE -------- NOTE TO READERS: --Retired pastor James, an old white POS who will waterboy forever from his ultra-liberal GODdard and savior political_lire's blog.
No matter what the thread topic is.
And will try and do whatever it takes or approve of any means, legal or illegal, to dispose of a duly elected president.
GO FUCK YOURSELF "pastor".
only a couple of Goddard political_lire cut-n-pastes but it's early.
Embattled at Home, Trump Finds Himself Isolated Abroad, Too
After years of snubs and American unilateralism, European allies have stopped looking to the president for leadership, and are turning their backs on him.
President Trump has become a figure some of America’s closest allies prefer to keep at arms’ length.
THE NEW YORK TIMES Steven Erlanger
BRUSSELS — With American cities burning and the coronavirus still raging, killing more people than in any other country, President Trump also has growing problems overseas. He has never before been so isolated and ignored, even mocked.
In Europe, after years of snubs and American unilateralism, America’s traditional allies have stopped looking to him for leadership, no longer trust that this president will offer them much, and are turning their backs on him.
That was evidenced most obviously this week by the decision of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, not to attend the Group of 7 meeting Mr. Trump wanted so badly in Washington this month to show that the virus was behind him and the world was returning to normal.
Ms. Merkel cited the lingering threat of the virus, but a senior German official who spoke on the condition of anonymity made clear that she had other reasons to decline: She believed that proper diplomatic preparations had not been made; she did not want to be part of an anti-China display; she opposed Mr. Trump’s idea of inviting the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin; she did not want to be seen as interfering in American domestic politics.
And she was shocked by Mr. Trump’s sudden, unilateral decision to pull out of the World Health Organization.
The divide between Mr. Trump and European allies was widening even before American cities were convulsed by rioting. But the chaos on American streets, viewed from abroad, has only reinforced a sense that the conflicts Mr. Trump seems to sow have caught up with him.
On its face, it was a major finding: Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly. A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
Within days, some large randomized trials of the drugs—the type that might prove or disprove the retrospective study’s analysis—screeched to a halt. Solidarity, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) megatrial of potential COVID-19 treatments, paused recruitment into its hydroxychloroquine arm, for example.
But just as quickly, the Lancet results have begun to unravel—and Surgisphere, which provided patient data for two other high-profile COVID-19 papers, has come under withering online scrutiny from researchers and amateur sleuths. They have pointed out many red flags in the Lancet paper, including the astonishing number of patients involved and details about their demographics and prescribed dosing that seem implausible. “It began to stretch and stretch and stretch credulity,” says Nicholas White, a malaria researcher at Mahidol University in Bangkok.
Today, The Lancet issued an Expression of Concern (EOC) saying “important scientific questions have been raised about data” in the paper and noting that “an independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere and is ongoing, with results expected very shortly.”
Hours earlier, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) issued its own EOC about a second study using Surgisphere data, published on 1 May. The paper reported that taking certain blood pressure drugs including angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors didn’t appear to increase the risk of death among COVID-19 patients, as some researchers had suggested. (Several studies analyzing other groups of COVID-19 patients support the NEJM results.) “Recently, substantive concerns have been raised about the quality of the information in that database,” an NEJM statement noted. “We have asked the authors to provide evidence that the data are reliable.”
A third COVID-19 study using Surgisphere data has also drawn fire. In a preprint first posted in early April, Surgisphere founder and CEO Sapan Desai and co-authors conclude that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, dramatically reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients. In Latin America, where ivermectin is widely available, that study has led government officials to authorize the drug—although with precautions—creating a surge in demand in several countries.
Chicago-based Surgisphere has not publicly released the data underlying the studies, but today Desai told Science through a spokesperson that he was "arranging a nondisclosure agreement that will provide the authors of the NEJM paper with the data access requested by NEJM.”
CNN says there are some fine people marching with the looters and domestic terrorists.
I saw CNN's ratings were down something like 15 % year-over-year while FOX was up over 40 %. They crushed even more with younger demographics. And even more during prime time when Fox is still Fox.
Nobody uses CNN anymore, except liberal old white men like Goddard and the "pastor"
Stuart Rothenberg says SORRY, REPUGS, BUT The House Is Not In Play
“A new map in North Carolina guarantees Democrats will pick up two seats in the Tar Heel State. Add an open Republican seat in Texas that is likely to flip to the Democrats, and instead of starting off needing 17 seats, the NRCC really needs to net at least 20 Democratic seats in November.
“Republican strategists hope that 2018 was an aberration. They expect GOP voters who swung Democratic during the midterms to swing back again in November. If that were to happen, the House would likely come into play. But for now, that seems more like wishful thinking than hardheaded analysis.”
Today, The Lancet issued an Expression of Concern (EOC) saying “important scientific questions have been raised about data”
Yesterday a physician group sued the FDA over lack of access to hydroxychloroquine caused by the FDA's political directive. It is mind numbing how politics is overriding science now on the left.
They are now in fact the anti-science party. Depending on politics.
5,900,000 people watch Tucker Carlson Monday night, that was most people who watch a show that night and that covers broadcast, cable, and streaming networks,
Which was prescient since it was a hell of a monolog.
It is even more mind numbing that fucking daddy and dumb fuck rat can breathe and type at the same time!!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-treatments-heres-what-you-need-to-know-174057669.html June 2, 2020, 1:40 PM EDT There are 2,100 clinical trials are underway for coronavirus treatments. Remdesivir, an IV medication picture here, is the only one that has proved effective. (Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images) There are 2,100 clinical trials are underway for coronavirus treatments. Remdesivir, an IV medication picture here, is the only one that has proved effective. (Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images) Doctors have been searching for an effective treatment against the coronavirus since the outbreak began — doing so at a pace the pharmacology world has never seen. Debate over the safety and efficacy of emerging treatments has proceeded at an equally rapid pace, with doctors this week questioning an earlier study on the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that suggested it may have led to an increased mortality rate in the patients given it.
HCQ, while inarguably the most discussed, is just one in a sea of drugs being explored to combat the virus. As of this week, there are 2,138 clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment underway worldwide — according to a database created by experts at NYU Langone Health — including 442 in the U.S. alone.
“This is really unprecedented, both in the volume and the speed with which these different trials have been launched,” Dr. James Cutrell, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern’s Division of Infectious Diseases, tells Yahoo Life. “I think it really speaks to the number of cases and just the newness of this disease.”
Cutrell has been tracking research on the pharmacologic treatments since the weeks after the outbreak began. He and others at UT Southwestern created a guide for doctors in mid-April, published in the Journal of American Medicine, outlining the clinical trials underway. Six weeks later, already a lot has changed. But the three top contenders for treatments at the moment seem clear: hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir and convalescent plasma.
To help distill down the influx of information on all three, here is what you need to know.
There is “no evidence” that hydroxychloroquine is effective
There are currently 252 clinical trials underway for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine (the original drug from which it derives), more than any other drug. But Cutrell says there’s not yet clarity on whether it works. “We don’t have any large randomized studies to show that it is effective, but we also don’t have definitive evidence that it’s not effective — particularly as a prevention or taken early on in the disease,” he says. “There’s less thought that it’s going to be effective in people who have more severe disease, but there are still several large, ongoing clinical trials looking at it, so we may still find it provides a benefit.”
Funny how you righties think all those seniors dying from the virus lived long enough.....Now you mourn the loss of a 78 year old retired cop in St Louis that was shot!!!!! Isn't that hypocrisy or am I missing something?????
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CLAIM: Photo shows all the exterior and interior lights out at the White House on Sunday night, as President Donald Trump hid in a bunker.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The original photo was posted to a stock image site in 2015, before Trump took office.
THE FACTS: An image shared thousands of times online that appears to show all the lights out in and around the White House was taken before Trump even assumed office.
Associated Press photographs taken Sunday night show the front of the White House illuminated by exterior lights and the portico lantern turned on, but the mansion’s interior is dark.
The viral photo, which has been edited, can be found on Getty Image’s stock website, where it was uploaded in December 2015. In the original, the lantern hanging in the White House portico is lit, along with several lights that surround the fountain in the front lawn.
The edited version that is being widely shared online has been darkened, and manipulated to remove the lit lantern.
Dozens of social media users shared the edited 2015 photo, claiming it showed the White House on Sunday night.
“Lights out at #WhiteHouse is a powerful symbol,” one Twitter user wrote.
Others claim it showed the White House Sunday night as Trump took shelter in a bunker. The Associated Press reported that Secret Service agents rushed the president to a White House bunker Friday night, as hundreds of protesters surrounded the executive mansion.
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8983690810
FAR MORE IMPORTANT:
BLACK ACTIVISTS RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT WHITE AGITATORS ESCALATING PROTEST VIOLENCE
https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/questions-raised-about-role-of-outside-groups-in-local-protests-84201029671
And now the fake uniter is trying to pander to catholics and their vote.....seems to me he just failed again trying to look the role instead of leading!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
By
Sarah Pulliam Bailey and
Michelle Boorstein
June 2, 2020 at 3:17 p.m. EDT
President Trump triggered sharp condemnation from top religious leaders for the second time in two days on Tuesday, with Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory slamming his visit to a D.C. shrine honoring Pope John Paul II.
On Monday, Trump’s appearance in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House set off a controversy because it involved aggressively clearing peaceful protesters.
“I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people, even those with whom we might disagree,” Gregory said in a statement as Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Northeast Washington.
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The history of St. John's, the 'church of the presidents'
As protests over the death of George Floyd continue in Washington, St. John’s Church, located a block from the White House, has become a focal point. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)
The shrine was opened as a museum to John Paul in 2001 but nose-dived financially and was bailed out in 2011 by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s religious organization that has lobbied for conservative political causes, such as opposing same-sex marriage.
In his statement, Gregory noted the legacy of Pope John Paul II, suggesting he would not have condoned Trump’s actions, including his walk to St. John’s as hundreds of demonstrators nearby were protesting the death of George Floyd last week in the custody of the Minneapolis police.
HD.....buys billions from CHINA......NOC....makes america great with thousands producing products in the US that keeps us safe!!!!!! No china content!!!!!
The blond cunt of the WH inner circle fueling the fire like her boss.....wonder how long the evangelicals will take to start walking from the fraud in chief??????
Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s decision to tear-gas protesters for a photo-op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church Monday night by going after the bishop who presides over that congregation.
The White House counselor was confronted with the criticism from Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde during an appearance on Fox News early Tuesday afternoon. Asked to respond to Budde, who told CNN’s Anderson Cooper she was “outraged” that Trump had used her church as a “prop,” Conway went on the attack.
After listing off various actions Trump has taken in the name of “religious liberty”—implying that all clergy should be grateful for his help—Conway addressed Budde directly.
“That is not ‘her church,’ that is not ‘her bible,’” Conway said. “We don’t look into other people’s hearts and souls and discern and judge what their faith is.”
CNN’s Don Lemon Goes Off on Trump for ‘Declaring War on Americans’
Then, after saying we can’t pretend to know why the president “felt compelled to walk there” and hold a bible in the air awkwardly, Conway did just that.
Attorney General William Barr personally ordered for the perimeter near the White House to be extended, pushing protesters away from Lafayette Park shortly before President Trump spoke in the area on Monday night, The Washington Post reported.
Two federal law enforcement officials told the newspaper that Barr and other officials made the decision late Sunday or early Monday to extend the perimeter around Lafayette Square, across from the White House, by one block.
Barr found the perimeter had not yet been extended Monday afternoon and ordered law enforcement officials to complete the extension, according to The Post. Law enforcement officers pushed protesters away from the area shortly before the city's 7 p.m. curfew.
"He conferred with them to check on the status and basically said: 'This needs to be done. Get it done,'" a Justice Department official told the newspaper.
Shortly after Barr's order, police dispersed the peaceful crowd using teargas, horses and riot shields.
Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s decision to tear-gas
It wasn't tear gas it was smoke canisters and the park police wasn't following Trump's order but reacting to bottles thrown at them by "peaceful protesters".
Kentucky police chief fired after shooting kills barbecue restaurant owner
The Guardian
The police chief of Louisville, Kentucky, was fired on Monday after the mayor learned that officers involved in a shooting that killed the popular owner of a barbecue spot failed to activate body cameras during the chaotic scene.
SEE THE ENTIRE STORY IN THE NEXT THREAD DOWN AT June 2, 3:21PM.
The man killed was popular and beloved by many, including police.
Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barr-personally-ordered-removal-of-protesters...
The "peaceful" crowd dispersed apparently taking their bricks, rocks and spray paint with them.
The others apparently left them behind.
Some of Trump's own people are admitting that the protest had been peaceful.
It wasn't tear gas it was smoke canisters and the park police wasn't following
It was TEAR GAS YOU DUMB FUCK!!!! BTW.....The australian govmt is investigating the police brutality of one of their reporters when he was rammed by a police shield for doing his job.....BTW.....witness I saw on the news had to use his gas mask......sad how the simple mind of cramps is so easily manipulated by his love of trump!!!!! BTW....asshole....why would Kellyanne defend smoke??????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! God you just won the dumbest fuck here, surpassing the goat fucker!!!!!
WATCH: Louisville police release video they say shows David McAtee shooting at officers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police released video footage Tuesday they say shows popular barbecue chef David McAtee firing a gun before officers and National Guard troops shot and killed him early Monday morning.
McAtee, who neighbors and friends have called a West End “community pillar,” was fatally shot at 12:15 a.m. after a crowd had gathered at Dino’s Food Mart, the grocery next to McAtee’s Ya's BBQ, at 26th Street and West Broadway.
Before playing the footage at a press conference Tuesday, interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder said the video "does not answer every question," including, he said, why McAtee fired.
"We are providing this information because we have made a pledge to this community to be transparent," Schroeder said. "The video appears to show Mr. McAtee firing a gun outside of his business door as officers who are using pepper balls to clear the Dino's lot were approaching. The video does not provide all the answers."
My feeling is that he tragically mistake the police officers for looters.
*mistook
Dopie are you sure that NOC does not use any China Made parts in any of their Fighter Planes?
It was TEAR GAS YOU DUMB FUCK!!!!
Not according to the park police. Who I somewhat trust more than the Trump hating media.
They should know, they fired the canisters.
What did the reporters fire? Or did that just assumed that the smoke they saw was tear gas?
BLACK ACTIVISTS RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT WHITE AGITATORS ESCALATING PROTEST VIOLENCE
yup.
antifa, NOT white supremacists, pederast.
Not according to the park police
Gotta link asshole???? If not shut the fuck UP!!!!! Your word is about as useless as the goat fuckers........BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Hey asshole.....reports are white supremacists are spreading discord on twitter....James is correct!!!!!
Enjoy the suck you dumb fuck rat....
]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-fake-antifa-acount-white-supremacists-removal/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wtop.com/dc/2020/06/dc-george-floyd-protests-day-4/amp/
Smoking Dopie, too easy, <>
Dopie said Twtter is not real.
Dopie now use Twitter as a foundation in his debate.
The australian govmt is investigating the police brutality of one of their reporters when he was rammed by a police shield for doing his job.....
Since the Australian government has about the same authority to investigate an incident in the US as the US does in Australia then all they can do is write a nice pretty please note.
BTW it was a her and she was bumped by a riot shield. Drama queen.
Dopie now use Twitter as a foundation in his debate.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! I wouldn't use Twitter for toilet paper you dumb fucking asshole!!!!!!!!! Only morons and idiots like you use it!!!!!!
They saw their reporter beaten and will investigate it....they certainly can do whatever they want...and should they file a complaint, which is their right....another self inflicted event the world will laugh at the US!!!! Stupid is your middle name!!!
Blogger anonymous said...
Enjoy the suck you dumb fuck rat....
really BWAA? you expect me to trust the sewer that produced dan rather?
in case you haven't noticed, this has become a fucking widespread NARRATIVE. the MSM is DESPERATE to make this a white supremacist, white nationalist, neo nazi thing because they SUPPORT ANTIFA root and branch.
the park police uncorked smoke canisters to give the secret svc and the president cover and to disperse the crowd to set up a perimeter.
fuck.
you're so fucking gullible and so gripped by TDS you'll believe fucking anything.
Do you know this name:
Patrick Underwood
No , why not.
(Google him).
she was bumped by a riot shield.
I saw the video ... It was a full slam of the shield to the gut....knocked the reporter back....If it was a girl....double shame on that fucking asshole who should be fired!!!!!!
Dan Bongino
@Dbongino
June 2, 2020
Ben Sasse is a fraudster who’d rather have the White House turned over to rioters. The legitimate protests were hijacked a long time ago by ANTIFA terrorists & if Sasse removed his head from his ass, & talked to LEOS who were there defending the WH, he’d know that. He’s a toolbox
https://share.par.pw/post/859e9079284646cebf466d717391ca86
Dopie are you sure that NOC does not use any China Made parts in any of their Fighter Planes?
According to cramps the liar.....these clergy were just inhaling smoke and not tear gas as he claimed......bWAAAAAAAAAAA
op. Lafayette Square is a park that lies directly north of the White House.
Rev. Gini Gerbasi, rector of a different St. John’s Episcopal Church in the city, said she and seminarian Julia Joyce Domenick were tear-gassed and driven off of church property by police.
“I was coughing, her eyes were watering, and we were trying to help people as the police - in full riot gear - drove people toward us,” Gerbasi wrote in a Facebook post late Monday night.
The patio of the church had been “holy ground” and a place of rest for protesters, Gerbasi said, but Tru
"Tuesday's presidential primaries in DC, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Dakota "
As those people go to the polls is the left still concerned of a new 2nd waive?
Democrat said...
Dopie are you sure that NOC
Are you sure you can breathe and walk at the same time????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Stupid question if you only had a brain!!!!
Gotta link asshole????
Here you go numbnuts.
Source Says Only Smoke Canisters, Not Tear Gas, Used On Protestors Before Trump’s Arrival At Burned Church
President Trump’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church last night was met with heavy social media backlash after reports by many news outlets were publicized suggesting that peaceful protestors were forced from the area using tear gas. According to reporting by Neil Augenstein for WTOPnews, however, there were only smoke canisters.
“A source says tear gas was never used — instead smoke cannisters were deployed, which don’t have an uncomfortable irritant in them,” tweeted Augenstein. “And, the source says Park Police didn’t know President Trump would be walking across the park several minutes later.”
Just waiting for you to asked that.
And so again Dopie folded .
Yes, Northrop Grumman uses China Made parts. DoD confirmed and granted waivers during the Obama years.
Dopie next time, come with facts, not ur opinion.
confirmed and granted waivers during the Obama years.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Not for my programs or any fighter......since NOC does not build fighters......idiot There was a blanket one off Chinese waiver......but not in my world.....asshole can speak for my programs only.....American products built by Americans in the USA.....
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
We have reached peak fake news.
The media is falsely claiming Trump is trying to stop "peaceful protests" while showing terrorists, anarchists, and looters on loop, 24 hours a day this week.
Statement from United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan about the actions taken over the weekend to protect life and property
Date: June 2, 2020
Contact: uspp_pio@nps.gov
The United States Park Police (USPP) is committed to the peaceful expression of First Amendment rights. However, this past weekend’s demonstrations at Lafayette Park and across the National Mall included activities that were not part of a peaceful protest, which resulted in injuries to USPP officers in the line of duty, the destruction of public property and the defacing of memorials and monuments. During four days of demonstrations, 51 members of the USPP were injured; of those, 11 were transported to the hospital and released and three were admitted.
Multiple agencies assisted the USPP in responding to and quelling the acts of destruction and violence over the course of the weekend in order to protect citizens and property.
On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.
To curtail the violence that was underway, the USPP, following established policy, issued three warnings over a loudspeaker to alert demonstrators on H Street to evacuate the area. Horse mounted patrol, Civil Disturbance Units and additional personnel were used to clear the area. As many of the protestors became more combative, continued to throw projectiles, and attempted to grab officers’ weapons, officers then employed the use of smoke canisters and pepper balls. No tear gas was used by USPP officers or other assisting law enforcement partners to close the area at Lafayette Park. Subsequently, the fence was installed.
Throughout the demonstrations, the USPP has not made any arrests. The USPP will always support peaceful assembly but cannot tolerate violence to citizens or officers or damage to our nation’s resources that we are entrusted to protect.
Now you know why the media is Fake-News.
well BWAA, i would consider your clock thoroughly cleaned.
Fatty “saw” people wiping their eyes that’s proof of tear gas, just like he and pederast “hear” shit that they can never back up
watch this and try no to laugh until you pass out:
https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1267916493016240129
Dopie said:
NOC....makes america great with thousands producing products in the US that keeps us safe!!!!!! No china content!!!!!"
Yes, they did.
Dopie confirmed they did.
Dopie again, shown up. too easy.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Fatty “saw” people wiping their eyes that’s proof of tear gas,
So the clergy lied asshole???? Were you there???? An agency lying about something is no surprise anymore.....Sorry....too many witnesses verified tear gas to be a lie.....idiots....Yean the fake news is all on you!!!!
I am willing to admit that tear gas was not used.
I passed on what earlier texts actually said.
Apparently tear gas was not used.
But force was.
Bush Speaks Out on George Floyd
Former President George W. Bush wrote in a statement that he and his wife, Laura, are “anguished” by the death of George Floyd, and said that “it is time for America to examine our tragic failures.”
He added:
“How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.”
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Well said. I said that earlier. We need to end systemic racism in all the places it exists.
I’m just relying on your expert testimony of what you claim you “saw” fatman, don’t get angry
BTW putting the townhouse up for sale and already several interests for $70k more than I paid 5 years ago. Daughter wants to relo to closer to KSU
Suck it fatboy
‘I Cannot Remain Silent’
Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, writing in The Atlantic:
“It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel—including members of the National Guard—forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church. I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump’s leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.
“Whatever Trump’s goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces.
“There was little good in the stunt."
George Bush
America’s greatest challenge has long been to unite people of very different backgrounds into a single nation of justice and opportunity. The doctrine and habits of racial superiority, which once nearly split our country, still threaten our Union. The answers to American problems are found by living up to American ideals — to the fundamental truth that all human beings are created equal and endowed by God with certain rights. We have often underestimated how radical that quest really is, and how our cherished principles challenge systems of intended or assumed injustice. The heroes of America — from Frederick Douglass, to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King, Jr. — are heroes of unity. Their calling has never been for the fainthearted. They often revealed the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine. We can only see the reality of America’s need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised.
That is exactly where we now stand. Many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. Black people see the repeated violation of their rights without an urgent and adequate response from American institutions. We know that lasting justice will only come by peaceful means. Looting is not liberation, and destruction is not progress. But we also know that lasting peace in our communities requires truly equal justice. The rule of law ultimately depends on the fairness and legitimacy of the legal system. And achieving justice for all is the duty of all.
This will require a consistent, courageous, and creative effort. We serve our neighbors best when we try to understand their experience. We love our neighbors as ourselves when we treat them as equals, in both protection and compassion. There is a better way — the way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice. I am confident that together, Americans will choose the better way.
Cue the racist rodent bastard.
Alky , sorry about how your life crashed n burned.
Those words of George W. are even better than the portion I cited.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Ohio Bill Would Make It Harder to Vote
“An Ohio House elections bill, lined up for a swift series of committee hearings since it was introduced last week, would make this year’s presidential election THE FIRST ONE SINCE 2008 in which the state WOULDN’T mail an unsolicited absentee ballot application TO ALL REGISTERED VOTERS.”
The bill “also would eliminate in-person early voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before the election, SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN OFFERED SINCE 2015.”
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SO FEARFUL ARE REPUBLICANS OF THE WRATH OF THE ELECTORATE.
“The proposal runs counter to a plan by Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who has sought to expand early voting for the November election, in part due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
I do believe numerous Republicans will ultimately support mail in voting, hoping that it will rid them of this cancer in the White House.
Bye ROGER.
So the clergy lied asshole???
The "clergy" did indeed lie.
Former officials from the George W. Bush administration have formed a super PAC to support former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House campaign.
The super PAC, dubbed 43 Alumni For Biden, referring to the 43rd president, was formed Monday, according to a Tuesday filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Karen Kirksey, a former Treasury Department official from the Bush administration, is listed as the group’s treasurer and custodian of records.
Former top military officials also took issue with Trump’s use of U.S. soldiers to counter demonstrators.
“It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel — including members of the National Guard — forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church,” retired Gen. Mike Mullen, a former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in an extraordinary op-ed in the Atlantic. “I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump’s leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.”
Another former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, was similarly bothered by Trump’s actions.
Retired Gen. Tony Thomas, former head of Special Operations Command, said Trump’s promise to flood the streets of America’s cities with U.S. soldiers is “not what America needs to hear.”
James Hitchcock
@JamesHitchcock
Absent from every single tweet I've seen from media types on here making excuses for rioting and looting is the acknowledgment that George Floyd's family has called for an end to exactly that kind of chaos
The nation’s 43rd president’s statement does not mention Trump, but his call for compassion and unity presents a stark contrast to the current president’s more inflammatory rhetoric.
Noah Pollak
@NoahPollak
Incredible statement from a leader of the NYPD to the rank and file officers: "I know we are losing the city. We have no leadership, no direction, and no plan. I know you are being held back and used as pawns."
Mayor Rudy Giuliani desperately needed here again
Nate Madden
@NateOnTheHill
David Dorn was 77. He spent four decades protecting people as a police officer in St Louis and then came out of retirement to keep serving as Moline Acres' police chief.
Looters shot him in the torso & he died bleeding on a sidewalk
This chaos must end
https://stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/retired-police-captain-shot-to-death-at-st-louis-pawn-shop-in-slaying-caught-on/article_d482138c-0224-5393-bd87-9898bebb3fd1.html
Where is the outrage over this fine black man ? His life should matter.
ian bremmer
@ianbremmer
Turnout for George Floyd protests in Amsterdam.
Extraordinary.
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1267857256697278465
Where is last weeks outrage over social distancing ??? Groups of 10 or less ??? Are we all just political pawns now ???
Most Americans Sympathize with Protests
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
64% of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and
55% disapprove of President Trump’s response to the unrest.
The Hill:
Bush Alums Form Super PAC to Support Biden
Former officials from the George W. Bush administration have formed a super PAC to support Joe Biden’s White House campaign. reports.
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Gabriel Sherman:
‘He’s Paralyzed’
“Confronting a failed presidency after 100,000-plus COVID deaths and the protests that are still convulsing the nation this week, Donald Trump is venting to West Wing officials that Democratic governors are allowing civil unrest to rage in American cities to damage his reelection campaign.”
Said a Trump adviser:
“He feels the blue-state governors are letting it burn because it hurts him. It’s a lot like how he sees coronavirus.”
“Trump’s sense of victimhood, and his view that the crisis ignited by George Floyd’s gruesome death is largely a political problem, have resulted in a shambolic White House response, veering from Trump’s retreat to the bunker as the protests neared the White House to the culmination of police using teargas(?) on peaceful protestors so that he could walk through a park to stage a photo op in front of St. John’s Church.”
Said one former West Wing official:
“He’s paralyzed.”
This must be the video the "pastor" remembers, though he may have got the details wrong or misremembered so he wasn't lying in his mind.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1267832039912464384
*spit*
how tolerant of the peaceful protestors.
*** NOTICE OF CONSTANT SPAMMING and USE OF TAEGAN GODDARD's POLITICAL_LIRE ***
Regular readers of this blog know the constant spamming, lying and obsession for that left-wing Taegan Goddard blog by a certain poster. That poster james, also called the "pastor" (which he claims to be even if you can't tell by his actions) is the POS responsible and considers his mindless rude behavior his hobby. Sometimes he credits Taegan Goddard, sometimes he doesn't.
He has descended so far into TDS and desperation he fills every discussion thread with what people have described as an avalanche of spam. If this is being posted today is no different. He even gets his edited news from that site and spams that if he thinks it will hurt Trump. Every day he repeats what that site posts, regardless of topic. It gets so bad he feels the need to even repeat his spam multiple times in a single thread as well as posting in every active thread the very same spam.
He has exhibited the same mental deterioration as Joe Biden and his postings should be given the same consideration. Both their heads will probably explode when it becomes obvious that Trump will win a second term. Biden will not even notice his head did.
I'm JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE
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NOTE TO READERS:
--Retired pastor James, an old white POS who will waterboy forever from his ultra-liberal GODdard and savior political_lire's blog.
No matter what the thread topic is.
And will try and do whatever it takes or approve of any means, legal or illegal, to dispose of a duly elected president.
GO FUCK YOURSELF "pastor".
Gabriel Sherman, writer for ultra leftist rags vanity fair and new York mag. Yeah we believe him.
Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson
So far we've seen federal officer David Underwood and former police captain David Dorn lose their lives in the riots.
How many more?
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
“He’s gone, over some TVs”
Hard to watch. raw emotion. raw language. But when do we protest for this man’s family? Killed just doing his job. 👇🏻
HEARTBREAKING VIDEO: https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1267966782356312064
𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓪
@Rockprincess818
Civil unrest is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party.
Joe Biden accomplished more as vice president than Donald Trump has as president, so the idea that Biden has done nothing is absurd.
Biden vs. Trump
Chris Stigall
@ChrisStigall
The imagery yesterday. It’s positively striking.
https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1267955570805440512
TRUMP 2020
Michael Knowles
@michaeljknowles
You can spend many years reading many books to try to understand liberal modernity, or you can just watch this 24-second video.
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1267921090451435520
Every day this goes on increases Trumps 2020 victory margin. And dems have panicked and are trying to destroy society.
Peaceful rallies will not do it for them. Nor will riots.
More politics costing American lives
AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine
PDF of complaint: http://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-6-2-2020.pdf
Today, June 2, 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which President Trump and other world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19.
Two million doses of HCQ are being sent by the Trump Administration to Brazil to help medical workers there safeguard themselves against the spread of the virus. But at the same time the FDA continues to block Americans’ access to this medication.
HCQ has been approved as safe by the FDA for 65 years, and the CDC states on its website that “CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria.”
More than 150 million doses have been donated to the strategic national stockpile controlled by the federal government, but unjustified FDA restrictions limit its use to only hospitalized patients for whom a clinical study is unavailable. Hospitals are even returning HCQ to the stockpile because they are not able to use it effectively.
“It is shocking that medical workers in Brazil will have access to HCQ as a prophylaxis while Americans are blocked by the FDA from accessing the same medication for the same use,” observes AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient, M.D.
“There is no legal or factual basis for the FDA to limit use of HCQ,” states AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. “The FDA’s restrictions on HCQ for Americans are completely indefensible in court.”
Many foreign nations, including China, India, South Korea, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, use HCQ for early treatment and prevention of COVID-19, AAPS points out.
“Entrenched, politically biased officials at the FDA should not be allowed to interfere with Americans’ right to access medication donated to the federal government for public use,” Schlafly says. “By preventing Americans’ use of HCQ as a prophylaxis, the FDA is infringing on First Amendment rights to attend religious services or participate in political events such as political conventions, town halls, and rallies in an important election year.”
“FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn states that the FDA does not interfere with physicians’ ability to prescribe HCQ, and yet at the same time the FDA denies access by millions of Americans to 150 million doses of it in the national stockpile,” Schlafly adds. “This irrational hoarding by government is an abuse of power.”
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has represented physicians of all specialties in all states since 1943. The AAPS motto is omnia pro aegroto, meaning everything for the patient.
𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓪
@Rockprincess818
Eric Garcetti took a knee and now a massive number of protestors have gathered in front of his house. Huge police presence. This is all getting stupid. Carry on.
No law and order, no peace.
James Doesn't read Rogers posts, too funny.
The Thin Blue Line is getting Murdered and Thinner as the Leftist riot and Murder.
B>The Charlotte Observer Reports That
Trump Says He’ll Move GOP Convention
President Trump said he will move the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina after the state and the GOP clashed over potential health restrictions due to the coronavirus.
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There's talk he's planning to move it to Lousville, KY.
Stupid move.
It's almost impossible for Trump to lose Kentucky, but he may badly need to keep from losing NC.
STUPID, STUPID move.
The governor of NC stood up to Trump and let him know he would not let him tell NC what coronavirus measures the convention would or would not follow at HIS dictation.
rrb said :
watch this and try no to laugh until you pass out:
https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1267916493016240129
Worth watching twice, I missed your earlier post.
Defense Secretary Esper Claims He Didn’t Know About Photo Op
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told NBC News he had no advance notice before President Trump led him and other senior administration officials to St. John’s Episcopal Church for a widely criticized photo-op.
Said Esper:
“I thought I was going to do two things: to see some damage and to talk to the troops.”
He added: “I didn’t know where I was going.”
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said he was caught by surprise when Trump led them to the church for a staged visit.
HOW DEMEANING. USING OUR MILITARY OFFICIALS LIKE THAT.
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The New York Times:
Trump Deploys Federal Law Enforcement to Crush Protests
“President Trump’s vow to ‘dominate’ demonstrators protesting police brutality has mobilized the full might of federal law enforcement, from border agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration to F.B.I. hostage rescue teams, working alongside local law enforcement, the military police and the National Guard.
“In all, nearly a dozen federal agencies and components have joined in Mr. Trump’s effort to quell protests incited by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and ostensibly to put an end to rioting and looting — and determine whether anarchists and other extremist groups had infiltrated the protests.”
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Politico:
Pentagon Officials on Edge Over Dealings with Trump
“The optics of the past 72 hours are putting people inside the halls of the Pentagon on edge as images of U.S. troops on the streets of the nation’s capital dominate airwaves across the globe, and as the top brass is increasingly viewed as mixing politics and the military.
“Defense Department officials say they are INCREASINGLY UNCOMFORTABLE with the more prominent role the U.S. military is playing in tamping down violent protests breaking out all over the U.S., and the growing tendency of the president to call on the troops for domestic missions ranging from border security to law enforcement.”
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HE WANTS TO FORM A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.
HE MUST BE STOPPED, AND HE WILL BE STOPPED,
FOR WE ARE NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC.
The Leftist are killing and injuring cops like it is open season.
Leftist Take a Victory Lap.
"One hundred and thirty-two police Chicago police officers were injured during this weekend’s riot"
How many people has your team killed today James?
No need to answer, obviously not enough for you.
At least until your GODdard stops telling you what to think.
Like always
New York Times:
How Trump’s Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash with protesters that preceded President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.
Updated 10:12 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own front yard and forced him to briefly retreat to a bunker beneath the White House, President Trump arrived in the Oval Office on Monday agitated over the television images, annoyed that anyone would think he was hiding and eager for action.
He wanted to send the military into American cities, an idea that provoked a heated, voices-raised fight among his advisers. But by the end of the day, urged on by his daughter Ivanka Trump, he came up with a more personal way of demonstrating toughness — he would march across Lafayette Square to a church damaged by fire the night before.
The only problem: A plan developed earlier in the day to expand the security perimeter around the White House had not been carried out. When Attorney General William P. Barr strode out of the White House gates for a personal inspection early Monday evening, he discovered that protesters were still on the northern edge of the square. For the president to make it to St. John’s Church, they would have to be cleared out. Mr. Barr gave the order to disperse them.
What ensued was a burst of violence unlike any seen in the shadow of the White House in generations. As he prepared for his surprise march to the church, Mr. Trump first went before cameras in the Rose Garden to declare himself “your president of law and order” but also “an ally of all peaceful protesters,” even as peaceful protesters just a block away and clergy members on the church patio were routed by smoke and flash grenades and SOME FORM OF CHEMICAL SPRAY deployed by shield-bearing riot officers and mounted police.
After a day in which he berated “weak” governors and lectured them to “dominate” the demonstrators, the president emerged from the White House, followed by a phalanx of aides and Secret Service agents as he made his way to the church, where he posed stern-faced, holding up a Bible that his daughter pulled out of her $1,540 MaxMara bag.
The resulting photographs of Mr. Trump striding purposefully across the square satisfied his long-held desire to project strength, images that members of his re-election campaign team quickly began recirculating and pinning to their Twitter home pages once he was safely back in the fortified White House.
The scene of mayhem — barely 1,000 feet from the symbol of American democracy — that preceded the walk evoked images more commonly associated with authoritarian countries, but that did not bother the president, who has long flirted with overseas strongmen and has expressed envy of their ability to dominate.
Throughout his time in office, Mr. Trump has generated concern over what critics see as his autocratic instincts, including his claims to untrammeled power to “do whatever I want,” his attacks on quasi-autonomous institutions of government like the F.B.I. or inspectors general and his efforts to discredit independent sources of information that anger him, like the news media he denounces as the “enemy of the people.”
And when the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash at Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.
Mr. Trump and his inner circle considered it a triumph that would resonate with many middle Americans turned off by scenes of urban riots and looting that have accompanied nonviolent protests of the police killing of a subdued black man in Minneapolis.
But critics, including some fellow Republicans, WERE AGHAST at the use of force AGAINST AMERICANS WHO POSED NO VISIBLE THREAT AT THE TIME, all to facilitate what they deemed A HAM-HANDED photo opportunity featuring ALL WHITE FACES.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who was not consulted beforehand, said she was “outraged” over the use of one of her churches as a political backdrop to boast of squelching protests against racism. Even some White House officials privately expressed dismay that the president’s entourage had not thought to include a single person of color.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington sharply objected on Tuesday and said the federal government had even privately broached the idea of taking over the city’s police force, which she pledged to resist. “I don’t think the military should be used in the streets of American cities against Americans,” she said, “and I definitely don’t think it should be done for a show.”
Arlington County in suburban Virginia withdrew its police from those assembled to guard the White House and other federal sites after the Lafayette Square clash. Even beforehand, Democratic governors in Virginia, New York and Delaware refused to send National Guard troops requested by the Trump administration.
The spectacle staged by the White House also left military leaders struggling to explain themselves in response to criticism from retired officers that they had allowed themselves to be used as political props. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put out word through military officials that they did not know in advance about the dispersal of the protesters or about the president’s planned photo op, insisting that they thought they were accompanying him to review the troops.
The police action cleared the way for the photo op, but it hardly quelled the anger in the streets. By Tuesday afternoon, demonstrators had returned to the edge of Lafayette Square — where new tall fences had been erected overnight — and shouted their discontent at the line of black-clad officers.
“Take off the riot gear, I don’t see no riot here,” they chanted.
Aides on Tuesday defended Mr. Trump’s walk to the church, given that a small fire had been set in its basement during demonstrations over the weekend. “The president very much felt when he saw those images on Sunday night — that crossed a terrible line, that goes way beyond peaceful protesting,” Kellyanne Conway, his counselor, told reporters.
But she distanced him from the decisions on how to disperse the crowd. “Clearly, the president doesn’t know how law enforcement is handling his movement,” she said.
This account of the clash is based on descriptions by reporters at the scene, interviews with dozens of protesters, White House aides, law enforcement officials, city leaders and others involved in the tense day as well as an analysis of video footage from the New York Times’s visual investigations team.
THE STORY CONTINUES AND IT IS A DOOZY.
TRUMP REALLY GOOFED ON THIS ONE.
THE ENTIRE NYT STORY... A MUST READ
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/trump-walk-lafayette-square.html
Apparently smoke grenades and flash grenades and "some form of chemical spray" were used against peacefully protesting Americans near the White House.
I can hardly believe this. Even the hard line biblical fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson is compassionate enough to criticize Trump.
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The Washington Post:
Pat Robertson Joins Criticism of Trump
Televangelist Pat Robertson joined the religious leaders criticizing President Trump for his “law and order” response to the nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police, the Washington Post reports.
Said Robertson:
“It seems like now is the time to say, ‘I understand your pain, I want to comfort you, I think it’s time we love each other. But the president took a different course.”
He added:
“You just don’t do that, Mr. President. It isn’t cool!”
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Actually, Trump only wants to appeal to his base. That's all he cares about. But he seems to have miscalculated this time.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Joe Biden accomplished more as vice president than Donald Trump has as president, so the idea that Biden has done nothing is absurd.
an interesting claim, alky.
let's see the list of biden accomplishments.
A retired police captain was fatally shot by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday — in a chilling incident apparently aired on Facebook Live.
David Dorn, a 77-year-old former cop who had spent half his life on the Missouri force, was shot dead on the sidewalk in front of a pawnshop early Tuesday amid violent protests after the Minnesota police-brutality killing of George Floyd — and several people, including a state pol, said they watched Dorn’s murder unfold in a clip on the social media platform, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.
“I just seen a man die on live man! Smh,” state Rep. Rasheen Aldridge wrote on Facebook.
Another person suggested that as Dorn lay dying, no one helped him, instead choosing to record his death.
“What I just witnessed on several lives has me sickened to my stomach. The man just was shot and killed outside of Lee’s Pawn and Jewelry,” wrote Marquaello Futrell, whose profile says he is a former city cop.
“It’s one thing to be a victim of a robbery/assault but to lie in you own blood pleading for help and no help comes other than people standing around on FB Live recording his death. All over social media. I’m upset and can’t sleep!” he said.
The video has since been taken down, and Facebook told the Post-Dispatch that it was trying to gather information about the incident.
Dorn’s wife told the paper that her husband was a friend of the pawnshop’s owner and would check on the property, including when its burglar alarm went off. There were widespread violent protests in St. Louis overnight.
No arrests have been made in the killing.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/looters-kill-retired-st-louis-police-capt-on-facebook-live/?utm_campaign=applenews&utm_medium=inline&utm_source=applenews
awesome:
we need more of this -
Steve Skojec
@SteveSkojec
This man is the hero we need right now
https://twitter.com/SteveSkojec/status/1267887483989004288
hit the link to see the best part.
A retired police captain was fatally shot by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday
Just as sad as the fat assed obese trump waving a bible in front of a church he never goes to unless he is being followed by his fat assed AG and entourage of idiots!@!!!!!
Washington, DC was quite last night. New York City? Not so much.
Mayor Putz is still not calling out the guard.
Finally someone with a conscious in the trump era...Undersecretary of defense raising his middle finger at Trump!!!!
Hon. Mark T. Esper
Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
Washington, D.C., 20301
Dear Secretary Esper,
I resign from the Defense Science Board, effective immediately.
When I joined the Board in early 2014, after leaving government service as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, I again swore an oath of office, one familiar to you, that includes the commitment to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”
You recited that same oath on July 23, 2019, when you were sworn in as Secretary of Defense. On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath. Law-abiding protesters just outside the White House were dispersed using tear gas and rubber bullets — not for the sake of safety, but to clear a path for a presidential photo op. You then accompanied President Trump in walking from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church for that photo.
President Trump’s actions Monday night violated his oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” as well as the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble.” You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it. Instead, you visibly supported it.
Just as sad as the fat assed obese trump waving a bible in front of a church
Really Denny? You're equating the murder of a retired police officer with the action of a president you hate?
You're fucking morally bankrupt. And scum.
Washington, DC was quite last night.
Yes cramps it was quite a night in DC....nobody was gassed or sprayed or shot!!!!!!!
David Reaboi
@davereaboi
Sent by a source I trust, from an NYPD officer on the streets last night.
https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1267934868920578055
hit the twitter link to see a first hand account from an NYPD officer on the front line.
Maybe this is the first step in the GOP having a set of ballz with trump.....at least one asshole going down!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Election 2020
Rep. Steve King, who was shunned by GOP leaders for his racist remarks, loses in Iowa primary
Support for King started to evaporate last year after he made racially offensive remarks that forced national Republicans to distance themselves from the conservative Iowa firebrand.
Nobody was gassed the pervious night either Denny . But don't let the facts get in your way, I'll be glad to hand your ass to you again.
David Reaboi
@davereaboi
Sure rat.... a trusted twitter post.......only dumb fucks like you will accept!!!!! God you are an easy troll!!!!
Nobody was gassed the pervious night either Denny
That is your opinion asshole......I am sure you can say without hesitation no chemical agents were used against peaceful protesters......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
I resign from the Defense Science Board, effective immediately.
so another deep state douchebag flees to a liberal think tank job.
why is this news? the dumb fuck was too stupid to even read the true account from the Park Police.
he just hiked up his skirt and left in a huff. "Well I never..."
LOL.
toolbox.
equating the murder of a retired police officer with the action of a president you hate?
Sad that trumps immoral display of the good book is just as heinous....surprised you don't think so being the zealot cultist you are!!!!
Rat once again takes a deep breathe of trumps fat ass and declares another to be a deep state villain without a shred of proof!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!! Keep chewing asshole
When Did Alky and Dennis get so Religous?
Another deep stater rat or someone have second thoughts about the asshole in chief?????
A former principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy has resigned from the Defense Department's science board.
James Miller's reasoning centered on President Donald Trump's visit Monday to St. John's Church, where protesters were cleared with tear gas so that he could pose with a Bible for photographs.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper was also present during the visit.
"You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it," Miller wrote to Esper in his resignation letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post. "Instead, you visibly supported it."
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A Department of Defense adviser has resigned, effective immediately, from the military's science board, citing what he believed to be a violation of conduct from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
In his resignation letter to Esper, which was obtained by The Washington Post, James Miller Jr., who served as the US undersecretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, recalled that he swore an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States" and "to bear true faith and allegiance to the same," similar to what the defense secretary had done before he took office.
"On Monday, June 1, 2020, I believe that you violated that oath," Miller wrote to Esper.
id Alky and Dennis get so Religious?
You mean like trump and you????? BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Goat fucker rides again!!!!
Sad that trumps immoral display of the good book is just as heinous....
God triumphs over evil and violences, that's the message.
And Denny finds that heinous, he's truly an agent of evil.
Anyone know how that bible miraculously appeared in the fat fucks pudgy hands in front of that church???? Does he carry one all the time? Does he ever read IT???? Or was it a minion in the entourage saying this might help....?????? BWAAAAAAAAA!!!
Mark Dice
@MarkDice
The Communists want every white person in America to do this.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1267737942811791360
this is disgusting and this guy deserves a baseball bat across the face.
God triumphs over evil and violences, that's the message
While you support there amoral liar in chief,.......That really is amusing cramps....the lengths you go to support his despicable behavior and pandering for votes any way he can!!!!
Mark Dice
@MarkDice
Fuck both of you......assholes......keep believing in the easter bunny.....it is all you got!!
"You may not have been able to stop President Trump from directing this appalling use of force, but you could have chosen to oppose it," Miller wrote to Esper in his resignation letter, which was obtained by The Washington Post. "Instead, you visibly supported it."
we should be glad this goy is out at DoD. he's obviously too stupid, like BWAA, to realize that wherever POTUS goes, the perimeter is secured. and the measures taken to secure the perimeter are commensurate with the threat posed at the time.
BWAA, i'm not sure why you keep touting this story. it just makes miller look like the TDS-afflicted pussy he obviously is.
Dopey hates Trump holding a bible but was fine watching bill clinton carry one out of church time and again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPC43SK3eR0&feature=youtu.be
we should be glad this goy is out at DoD. he's obviously too stupid,
And it certainly can be said that thank the lord you and your kind are in the minority and growing smaller every day!!!!! Repent GOP......the end is near!!!!
lo iq said:
A former principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy has resigned from the Defense Department's science board.
Excellent, but to more correct he should have said he disgracefully surrendered. We do need a few more like him though their ranks are thankfully thinning.
What a GREAT DAY to start a morning !!!
* WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START A MORNING !!!
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START A MORNING !!!
AP:
Nation’s Streets Calmest In Days
“Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off demonstrations that at times brought violence and destruction along with pleas to stop police brutality and injustice against African Americans.”
james said:
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START A MORNING !!!
Nation’s Streets Calmest In Days
Thanks President Trump !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCyfvBw8yaE
Meanwhile NY Gov and NYC Mayor continue their feud and neither has called up national guard.
Just when MN takes the lead in worst politicians, NY says hold my beer.
THANKS TO OUR OWN STATE GOVERNORS---
Trump Softens and Backs Down on Sending Troops to States
“A day after threatening states that he would dispatch the military to quell protests, President Trump appeared to be privately backing off his threat to deploy troops, with White House officials saying this week’s response to demonstrations across the country indicated that local governments should be able to restore order themselves.”
THE BIG BLUSTER AND THEN RETREAT PRESIDENT.
*** NOTICE OF CONSTANT SPAMMING and USE OF TAEGAN GODDARD's POLITICAL_LIRE ***
Regular readers of this blog know the constant spamming, lying and obsession for that left-wing Taegan Goddard blog by a certain poster. That poster james, also called the "pastor" (which he claims to be even if you can't tell by his actions) is the POS responsible and considers his mindless rude behavior his hobby. Sometimes he credits Taegan Goddard, sometimes he doesn't.
He has descended so far into TDS and desperation he fills every discussion thread with what people have described as an avalanche of spam. If this is being posted today is no different. He even gets his edited news from that site and spams that if he thinks it will hurt Trump. Every day he repeats what that site posts, regardless of topic. It gets so bad he feels the need to even repeat his spam multiple times in a single thread as well as posting in every active thread the very same spam.
He has exhibited the same mental deterioration as Joe Biden and his postings should be given the same consideration. Both their heads will probably explode when it becomes obvious that Trump will win a second term. Biden will not even notice his head did.
I'm JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE
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NOTE TO READERS:
--Retired pastor James, an old white POS who will waterboy forever from his ultra-liberal GODdard and savior political_lire's blog.
No matter what the thread topic is.
And will try and do whatever it takes or approve of any means, legal or illegal, to dispose of a duly elected president.
GO FUCK YOURSELF "pastor".
only a couple of Goddard political_lire cut-n-pastes but it's early.
ROFLMFAO at the mindless "pastor"
Embattled at Home, Trump Finds Himself Isolated Abroad, Too
After years of snubs and American unilateralism, European allies have stopped looking to the president for leadership, and are turning their backs on him.
President Trump has become a figure some of America’s closest allies prefer to keep at arms’ length.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Steven Erlanger
BRUSSELS — With American cities burning and the coronavirus still raging, killing more people than in any other country, President Trump also has growing problems overseas. He has never before been so isolated and ignored, even mocked.
In Europe, after years of snubs and American unilateralism, America’s traditional allies have stopped looking to him for leadership, no longer trust that this president will offer them much, and are turning their backs on him.
That was evidenced most obviously this week by the decision of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, not to attend the Group of 7 meeting Mr. Trump wanted so badly in Washington this month to show that the virus was behind him and the world was returning to normal.
Ms. Merkel cited the lingering threat of the virus, but a senior German official who spoke on the condition of anonymity made clear that she had other reasons to decline: She believed that proper diplomatic preparations had not been made; she did not want to be part of an anti-China display; she opposed Mr. Trump’s idea of inviting the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin; she did not want to be seen as interfering in American domestic politics.
And she was shocked by Mr. Trump’s sudden, unilateral decision to pull out of the World Health Organization.
The divide between Mr. Trump and European allies was widening even before American cities were convulsed by rioting. But the chaos on American streets, viewed from abroad, has only reinforced a sense that the conflicts Mr. Trump seems to sow have caught up with him.
THE ARTICLE CONTINUES AND IS ANOTHER WHOPPER...
james said:
THE ARTICLE CONTINUES AND IS ANOTHER WHOPPER...
Everything now from the New York Times is another whopper
WHOPPING REACTIONS TO TRUMP'S HOLDING UP A BIBLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmwvvJwNjc
Everything now from the New York Times is another whopper
just like Goddards political_lire
ROFLMFAO !!!
Buck Sexton
@BuckSexton
We were lectured for 3 years by liberal columnists about how Trump was “undermining our institutions”
And now those same columnists are minimizing mass looting and calling for police to be defunded
Property rights and rule of law didn’t make the cut, apparently
Thank God we have our guns, this proves we need them.
JUST WHEN YOU THINK TRUMP CAN'T POSSIBLY GO ANY LOWER, HE GOES LOWER. ROF!!!
On its face, it was a major finding: Antimalarial drugs touted by the White House as possible COVID-19 treatments looked to be not just ineffective, but downright deadly. A study published on 22 May in The Lancet used hospital records procured by a little-known data analytics company called Surgisphere to conclude that coronavirus patients taking chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine were more likely to show an irregular heart rhythm—a known side effect thought to be rare—and were more likely to die in the hospital.
Within days, some large randomized trials of the drugs—the type that might prove or disprove the retrospective study’s analysis—screeched to a halt. Solidarity, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) megatrial of potential COVID-19 treatments, paused recruitment into its hydroxychloroquine arm, for example.
But just as quickly, the Lancet results have begun to unravel—and Surgisphere, which provided patient data for two other high-profile COVID-19 papers, has come under withering online scrutiny from researchers and amateur sleuths. They have pointed out many red flags in the Lancet paper, including the astonishing number of patients involved and details about their demographics and prescribed dosing that seem implausible. “It began to stretch and stretch and stretch credulity,” says Nicholas White, a malaria researcher at Mahidol University in Bangkok.
Today, The Lancet issued an Expression of Concern (EOC) saying “important scientific questions have been raised about data” in the paper and noting that “an independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has been commissioned by the authors not affiliated with Surgisphere and is ongoing, with results expected very shortly.”
Hours earlier, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) issued its own EOC about a second study using Surgisphere data, published on 1 May. The paper reported that taking certain blood pressure drugs including angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors didn’t appear to increase the risk of death among COVID-19 patients, as some researchers had suggested. (Several studies analyzing other groups of COVID-19 patients support the NEJM results.) “Recently, substantive concerns have been raised about the quality of the information in that database,” an NEJM statement noted. “We have asked the authors to provide evidence that the data are reliable.”
A third COVID-19 study using Surgisphere data has also drawn fire. In a preprint first posted in early April, Surgisphere founder and CEO Sapan Desai and co-authors conclude that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, dramatically reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients. In Latin America, where ivermectin is widely available, that study has led government officials to authorize the drug—although with precautions—creating a surge in demand in several countries.
Chicago-based Surgisphere has not publicly released the data underlying the studies, but today Desai told Science through a spokesperson that he was "arranging a nondisclosure agreement that will provide the authors of the NEJM paper with the data access requested by NEJM.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling
heh.
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
CNN says there are some fine people marching with the looters and domestic terrorists.
I saw CNN's ratings were down something like 15 % year-over-year while FOX was up over 40 %. They crushed even more with younger demographics. And even more during prime time when Fox is still Fox.
Nobody uses CNN anymore, except liberal old white men like Goddard and the "pastor"
"A video clip shows pepper spray being shot directly at a live CNN camera outside the White House."
What is someone afraid of?
Stuart Rothenberg says SORRY, REPUGS, BUT
The House Is Not In Play
“A new map in North Carolina guarantees Democrats will pick up two seats in the Tar Heel State. Add an open Republican seat in Texas that is likely to flip to the Democrats, and instead of starting off needing 17 seats, the NRCC really needs to net at least 20 Democratic seats in November.
“Republican strategists hope that 2018 was an aberration. They expect GOP voters who swung Democratic during the midterms to swing back again in November. If that were to happen, the House would likely come into play. But for now, that seems more like wishful thinking than hardheaded analysis.”
Today, The Lancet issued an Expression of Concern (EOC) saying “important scientific questions have been raised about data”
Yesterday a physician group sued the FDA over lack of access to hydroxychloroquine caused by the FDA's political directive. It is mind numbing how politics is overriding science now on the left.
They are now in fact the anti-science party. Depending on politics.
The left always was anti-truth.
5,900,000 people watch Tucker Carlson Monday night, that was most people who watch a show that night and that covers broadcast, cable, and streaming networks,
Which was prescient since it was a hell of a monolog.
Here's your VIDEO "pastor"
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1267832039912464384
No, here's my video.
(Signed) Rev. James Boswell
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/houston-police-chief-donald-trump-protests-070438131.html
JT Lewis
@thejtlewis
This is a list of fatalities and injuries of police officers across America over the past few days.
This is UNACCEPTABLE. This is not what America stands for.
LIST: https://twitter.com/thejtlewis/status/1267999988795297792
Totally unacceptable
Tucker Carlson had a great piece on the Houston police chief last night.
I'll post a link when I run into it.
In short he describes him as someone you never want running a police department anywhere in America. Figures the "pastor" would support him.
And btw does the left really think their "defund all police departments" is a winning 2020 message ?
It is mind numbing how politics is overriding science now on the left.
the good that comes out of this is that the claims of the left being "the party of science" can be dismissed.
It is even more mind numbing that fucking daddy and dumb fuck rat can breathe and type at the same time!!!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-treatments-heres-what-you-need-to-know-174057669.html
June 2, 2020, 1:40 PM EDT
There are 2,100 clinical trials are underway for coronavirus treatments. Remdesivir, an IV medication picture here, is the only one that has proved effective. (Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images)
There are 2,100 clinical trials are underway for coronavirus treatments. Remdesivir, an IV medication picture here, is the only one that has proved effective. (Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Doctors have been searching for an effective treatment against the coronavirus since the outbreak began — doing so at a pace the pharmacology world has never seen. Debate over the safety and efficacy of emerging treatments has proceeded at an equally rapid pace, with doctors this week questioning an earlier study on the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that suggested it may have led to an increased mortality rate in the patients given it.
HCQ, while inarguably the most discussed, is just one in a sea of drugs being explored to combat the virus. As of this week, there are 2,138 clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment underway worldwide — according to a database created by experts at NYU Langone Health — including 442 in the U.S. alone.
“This is really unprecedented, both in the volume and the speed with which these different trials have been launched,” Dr. James Cutrell, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern’s Division of Infectious Diseases, tells Yahoo Life. “I think it really speaks to the number of cases and just the newness of this disease.”
Cutrell has been tracking research on the pharmacologic treatments since the weeks after the outbreak began. He and others at UT Southwestern created a guide for doctors in mid-April, published in the Journal of American Medicine, outlining the clinical trials underway. Six weeks later, already a lot has changed. But the three top contenders for treatments at the moment seem clear: hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir and convalescent plasma.
To help distill down the influx of information on all three, here is what you need to know.
There is “no evidence” that hydroxychloroquine is effective
There are currently 252 clinical trials underway for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine (the original drug from which it derives), more than any other drug. But Cutrell says there’s not yet clarity on whether it works. “We don’t have any large randomized studies to show that it is effective, but we also don’t have definitive evidence that it’s not effective — particularly as a prevention or taken early on in the disease,” he says. “There’s less thought that it’s going to be effective in people who have more severe disease, but there are still several large, ongoing clinical trials looking at it, so we may still find it provides a benefit.”
Funny how you righties think all those seniors dying from the virus lived long enough.....Now you mourn the loss of a 78 year old retired cop in St Louis that was shot!!!!! Isn't that hypocrisy or am I missing something?????
It wasn't "righties" who sent coronavirus patients like torpedoes back into the nursing home. If was the left's fav governor.
He was murdered Denny, by looters. What the fuck is wrong with you.
am I missing something?????
ense said...
5,900,000 people watch Tucker Carlson Monday night
5.9 million idiots being led down the road of stupidity inability to think or realize they are being trolled!!!!!
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