Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Covid Update

Yesterday's numbers:

Illinois - 8322 new cases,  61 new deaths

Sweden - 3507 new cases, 7 new deaths


121 comments:

Anonymous said...

The DNC is the NFC East of the NFL.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/nov/24/us-election-donald-trump-joe-biden-coronavirus-covid-19-live-updates

The President elect is not anti science like Scott asshole

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Covid-19 case surge forces Sweden to rethink strategy praised by U.S. conservatives

New measures command "both fear and respect," said Pady Cortinez, adding that she had stopped going out to bars and "did not hug."
But the number of cases started to rise significantly late last month, a trend that has continued into November. Almost 6,406 people have died from the virus, and almost 208,295 cases have been recorded, according to John Hopkins University. As a result, the government has been forced to act.

Download the NBC News app for full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak

"It is very frustrating and worrying to hear about the increasing number of sick and dead people," said Mats Jerresten, 75, adding that the new rules will make little difference to him, as he has been limiting his time in public since March.


Instead of using fake Excel spreadsheets the nation of Sweden has changed their minds in order to save lives.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/covid-19-case-surge-forces-sweden-rethink-strategy-praised-u-n1248545

Anonymous said...

How will be Biden's top "Cure Cancer" Scientists?

He promised to cure it.

Trump cured China Flu with Operation Warp Speed.

Anonymous said...




uh, about that "mandate" (LOL) that slow joe thinks he has -

We all need to keep in mind that, except for a handful of pollsters, polling is irretrievably broken. So, with a grain of salt and a big, broad smile across my face, I am happy to pass along this CNBC/Change Research poll that shows only three percent — a mere three percent, of President Donald Trump’s supporters see former Vice President Joe Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2024 presidential election.

Alternately, far-left CNBC reports that a “staggering 73% of respondents consider Trump the legitimate winner. Another 24% said they are not sure.”

Staggering. LOL.


https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/24/nolte-only-3-trump-voters-believe-joe-biden-is-legitimate-winner/


oh, and about that "healing and unity"...

LOL. GFY.


#WAR.



Anonymous said...

Roger, are you kids coming to visit you in your new Luxury Home?
Thanksgiving is going to be great right.
Have they met your new Model GF?
What is your "Private Chef" cooking?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Ignore.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I watched the President elect introduce his cabinet and climate change leadership.

We are going to reunite the 70 old commitment to working with our allies and strengthen democracy around the world.

Anonymous said...



LOL @ the alky.




Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Trump Speaks for 64 Seconds But Takes No Questions
2:44 pm
President Trump gave a brief statement to reporters marking the Dow Jones hitting the “sacred number” of 30,000.

Trump spoke for just 64 seconds and quickly fled as the White House press corps bombarded him with questions on whether he’d eventually concede the election.

As the president exited the briefing room, one reporter was overheard saying: “Well, that was weird as shit.”



YouTube Suspends OANN from Posting New Videos
2:40 pm
“YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19,” Axios reports.
_______________
How appropriate to interfere with their "freedom of speech" to spread misleading and dangerous lies. If only the American people could have done that with Trump.


Almost No Trump Voters Think Biden Won
2:38 pm
A new CNBC/Change Research poll finds a mere 3% of those who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election think Joe Biden actually won the 2020 election, while 73% think Trump was the victor.
___________

Tremendous numbers of college educated people did vote for Biden and they know better.




Biden’s ‘Balancing Act’ Shows How He’ll Govern
2:23 pm
NBC News: “Biden is attempting the high-wire act of balancing diversity demands with ideological fissures between progressives and moderates. He has sought personnel with government experience who aren’t seen as too controversial to gain approval from a divided Senate. Many were confirmed during the Obama administration, some in deputy positions to roles they have been tapped to fill now.

“So far, he’s giving everybody from progressive activists to centrist Democrats something to be happy about and little to fight over.”


What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers
2:20 pm
Charlie Warzel: “In mid-October I asked two people I’d never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to and after Election Day. I wanted to immerse myself in the feeds of a type of person who has become a trope of sorts in our national discussion about politics and disinformation: baby boomers with an attachment to polarizing social media.

“I went looking for older Americans — not full-blown conspiracy theorists, trolls or partisan activists — whose news consumption has increased sharply in the last few years on Facebook. Neither of the two people I settled on described themselves as partisans. Both used to identify as conservatives slowly drifting leftward until Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party offered a final push. Both voted for Joe Biden this year in part because of his promise to reach across the aisle. Both bemoaned the toxicity of our current politics.”



Biden Certified as Winner In Nevada
12:59 pm
The Nevada Supreme Court certifies Joe Biden’s win in Nevada, making his win in the battleground state official, the AP reports.

Anonymous said...

LOL @ the alky" RRB
I do it many times Daily.

Economics and Math evade Alky and Jane.

anonymous said...

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election


Breitbart still dead asshole in spite of you wishing he was not.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!

population density...sweden 65 per square mile

Population density Illinois 232 per square mile...

Hey Lil Schitty.....see anything different there??????

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Scott, how does this horror story look?

One of the hardest hit by the virus on a per capita basis is rural Hodgeman County in western Kansas, which had 45 new cases in the week ended Nov. 7—nearly one for every 40 people in the county.

How does that look in comparison with Sweden?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-americans-stopped-staying-in-then-covid-19-hit-11606244401?mod=mhp

C.H. Truth said...

How does that look in comparison with Sweden?

Well... not very Good.

But the Governor of Kansas is actually Laura Kelly, a Democrat... she has been in pretty close lockstep with other Democratic Governors.


What is your point? That Sweden is AGAIN better than a Democratic run state from the US?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If Sweden had the same infection rate they would have 253,117.4

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Your a computer geek publish a spreadsheet of the red states in contrast to Sweden.

I dare you.

anonymous said...

But the Governor of Kansas is actually Laura Kelly, a Democrat.

Is that all you got you fucking cocksucker???????? Kansas is a red state.....the people who live there are just as stupid as you are and similar to the fraud farmer who lives in that area!!!!! It is the GOP that has problems with wearing masks and following direction because it is an inconvenience to wear a mask and stay out of bars.....ND has ridiculously high rates because of the transients oil workers who live together in crowded housing........Dayum you are an asshole of trumpian proportions....!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Rural areas are almost 90% Republican.

As new virus cases broke records all over, Americans in rural counties were leaving home about as much as they did before the pandemic struck, a Wall Street Journal analysis of coronavirus case data from Johns Hopkins University and cellphone mobility metrics from data firm SafeGraph found. In cities, people have remained more hunkered down.

My point is pretty simple, the Lame duck President has been discrediting scientists about masking and social distancing. His unwillingness and inability to care for anyone but himself, has caused incalculable deaths. And for some reason, you continue to defend him, even after he was defeated by a significant majority.

I don't know exactly why. I don't get it.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-americans-stopped-staying-in-then-covid-19-hit-11606244401?mod=mhp

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I used the Wall Street Journal reports, because you can't claim they are fake news!

anonymous said...

I use the WSJ for bird cage liner!!!!!!!

anonymous said...

Rural areas are almost 90% Republican.

But the governor of Kansas is a democrat who leads like Cuomo!!!!! WTF is wrong with you Roger???????

Anonymous said...


Roger Amick said...
If Sweden had the same infection rate they would have 253,117.4



and if my aunt had balls he'd be my uncle.

that's the fucking point alky, and it's a point you refuse to accept. everywhere who is using your blessed sacred masks under the threat of yet another economy crushing lock down is doing WORSE than sweden or than GOP-led states.

anyway you cut it alky, your ways aren't the panacea you wish them to be.

fact is, all your methods have done is cause harm. in many cases irreparable, deadly harm. but hey, look at the bright side -

Killer Cuomo got an emmy for murdering 12,000 seniors.

yay.




Caliphate4vr said...

and following direction

And there it is supine to the fealty of the elites.

Do you have a ring in your nose so you can be led fatboi?

Fuck you three are so gutless.

Anonymous said...

One of the hardest hit by the virus on a per capita basis is rural Hodgeman County in western Kansas, which had 45 new cases in the week ended Nov. 7—nearly one for every 40 people in the county.


LOL. did you even bother to look at the population and the pop density of that county.

and how many are false positives, alky?

fuck, i cannot fucking wait until slow joe an da ho are installed.

*POOF*... covid will be gone overnight.


Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Biden Weighs Mike Morell as CIA Chief

“President-elect Joe Biden is strongly considering Mike Morell, the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to run the CIA,” the Daily Beast reports.

“But those familiar with the process say that other candidates are still in the mix for the position of the nation’s top spy chief.”



Mnuchin to Put $455 Billion Out of Yellen’s Reach

“Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will put $455 billion in unspent Cares Act funding into an account that his presumed successor, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, will need authorization from Congress to use,” Bloomberg reports.

“Mnuchin plans to place the money into the agency’s General Fund… That fund can only be tapped with ‘authority based on based on congressionally issued legislation,’ according to the Treasury’s website.”

anonymous said...

And there it is supine to the fealty of the elites.


While you bow and worship the gospel of trump and his tyrannical rule!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! BTW...do you wear seat belts in your car??? Use your cell phone which is illegal in Ga?????? Do you pay your taxes???? God you are an idiot!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In the first few months, we didn't even know how to virus was spread. It was unfortunate that the elderly people in nursing homes were infected and died.

But look at the fact that New York has been successful since then.

Anonymous said...


I don't know exactly why. I don't get it.


well alky, perhaps it's because you politicize EVERYTHING. and if you're going to politicize covid you really need to re-consider because the worst run areas in the nation and around the world are run by leftists.

Caliphate4vr said...

Hey fatboi, I’ve stated repeatedly I voted Dr Jo.

We all know you’re very slow and stupid

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It's population density is hundreds of times lower than Sweden, so your argument is full of shit.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

188,000 more infections today.

Myballs said...

After 4 years of calling Trump a dictator, we have democrat governors putting everyone on lockdown and curfew.

Hmmmm........

Anonymous said...


But look at the fact that New York has been successful since then.

only if having the highest number of covid deaths in the nation is considered a success.

NYC is a fucking GHOST TOWN alky.

hardly a success.

300,000 families at a minimum have fled.

the NYSE and NASDAQ are seriously considering leaving for good.

broadway - shuttered.

the subway is a death trap with the cops telling the public "you're on your own."

so far in my lifetime "1984" became true, and "escape from "new york" & "idiocracy" are prime to be re-classified as documentaries.

and two NYPD cops were shot TODAY. fortunately the scumbag is dead. and if he's black we'll have another spontaneous african-american street festivals with free TV's for black friday.

everything you assholes touch turns to shit alky. everything.

but slow joe an da ho WON, and that's all that matters.

yay.

anonymous said...

Poof....trump will be gone on January 20.....covid will still be exploding as trump plays golf!!!!!!!! BTW.....why don't you tell us why a county with such a small population has such a scary infection rate.....maybe like georgia, they are all kissing cousins......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

anonymous said...

NYC is a fucking GHOST TOWN alky.


BWAAAAAAAAAA!!! And your fucking head is empty asshole!!!!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Republican governors are calling for shutdown and masking regulations too.

Balls, both sides have to keep us safe from the covid virus seriously

anonymous said...


the NYSE and NASDAQ are seriously considering leaving for good.



You fucking slime ball lying asshole again full of shit!!!!!!!!

anonymous said...

and two NYPD cops were shot TODAY.

1027 americans died today because trump played golf!!!!!!!!

anonymous said...

Trump was cheated out of 10 million votes because he said so!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...


It's population density is hundreds of times lower than Sweden, so your argument is full of shit.

your ENTIRE argument revolves around and is completely dependent upon pop density at the dismissal of every other potential factor.

in other words, no matter how you cook the numbers, you still can't accept the failure that is liberalism and how it's handled covid.

all you can do is award trophies for the most kills.

for fuck's sake, the next thing you know you'll be installing ted kennedy in the motoring hall of fame.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Biden is attempting the high-wire act of balancing diversity demands with ideological fissures between progressives and moderates. He has sought personnel with government experience who aren’t seen as too controversial to gain approval from a divided Senate. Many were confirmed during the Obama administration, some in deputy positions to roles they have been tapped to fill now.

He's getting the progressive supporters happy. He's going down the same path as Obama. I think that most of them would rather have a moderate President than a crazy mothrfucker.

Anonymous said...



those fucking JOOS...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that an Orthodox Brooklyn synagogue would be fined $15,000 for hosting a secret wedding packed with thousands of maskless guests, CBS New York reported. (See video of the wedding below.)

“That was amazingly irresponsible, just unacceptable,” the mayor told NY1, threatening “additional consequences.”


https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/yetev-lev-fined-maskless-wedding-121502675.html


i hope de Bolshevik sends the cops to collect and the NYPD tells him to get fucked.


anonymous said...

your ENTIRE argument revolves around and is completely dependent upon pop density


You really did flunk out of ag school rat.......per capita is not pop density......sorry sport you need to keep up......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Anonymous said...



Biden is attempting the high-wire act of balancing diversity demands with ideological fissures between progressives and moderates.


in other words he's putting identity politics above EVERYTHING.

shocker, i know. LOL.


hey alky, is it true that Downtown Willie Brown is going to "administer" (LOL) the oath of office to Cum Allah, one time for old times sake?

Anonymous said...


You really did flunk out of ag school rat.......per capita is not pop density......sorry sport you need to keep up......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!


hey fat-ass...

i was replying to this:

Blogger Roger Amick said...

It's population density is hundreds of times lower than Sweden, so your argument is full of shit.



so yeah, eat that pistol on turkey day, ass-wipe.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I'm not a great mathematician but I'm not insane with anger like the racist rodent bastard.

He failed English too.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Population density is based upon the square footage.

3rd grade math

anonymous said...

i was replying to this:

In which he was completely correct.....all the other data presented was per capita sport!!!!!! And his original post was "
One of the hardest hit by the virus on a per capita basis is rural Hodgeman County in western Kansas" A per capita statistic which also translates to the small population of the county with its large size!!!! Try to keep up you dumb fuck....your lack of ability to think is monumental......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Failure, so your grade is an F.

"Population density is based upon the square footage.

3rd grade math"

Idiot Alky

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

Population density is based upon the square footage.



actually alky, in a county as sparsely populated as Hodgeman County in KS, they measure pop density by the square MILE.

As of the 2000 census,[10] there were 2,085 people, 796 households, and 581 families residing in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile (1/km2). There were 945 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile (0/km2).

two people per square fucking mile, spread out over 860 square miles.

LOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgeman_County,_Kansas

anonymous said...

While trump continues to steal land from texas farmers to build his fake wall!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-details-trump-administrations-efforts-013203604.html

Anonymous said...

Correct, Grade of an A

"actually alky, in a county as sparsely populated as Hodgeman County in KS, they measure pop density by the square MILE."RRB

LOL@Alky

anonymous said...


two people per square fucking mile, spread out over 860 square miles.


Which makes their covid infection rate even more astounding you dumb fuck!!!!!!!!

Caliphate4vr said...

Roger Amick said...
I'm not a great mathematician



I guess you got around 30 points for 97 SAT in math?

Anonymous said...


k-dem, when i lived in olathe i had a neighbor who grew up in pratt. never had the pleasure of visiting her family farm before her dad passed away. nice people. friends to this day.



Anonymous said...


Blogger Roger Amick said...

I'm not a great mathematician


ring the call bell and ask the nurse to borrow a calculator. none of this is all that complicated.

Anonymous said...




Marcus noted that the award was for Cuomo’s daily press conferences at the beginning of the pandemic, when he gained national attention for explaining how New York was responding to coronavirus.

“What was not mentioned, either in the wording of the award or in the video montage of old New York celebrities congratulating him, was that his response in New York was not only disjointed and shambolic, that the state not only has the highest number of COVID deaths in the country, that he has not only put needless and dangerous doubt on new vaccines, and that he also personally decided to put COVID patients in nursing homes, killing many in the process,” Marcus wrote. “But you see, none of that matters to the Emmy awards, because none of that happened on the television.”

Marcus noted that “these disastrous mistakes by Cuomo did in fact happen, in the real world, that of flesh of blood and dying, but on television, none of these things were spoken of by anchors smitten with his bold yet calm leadership” in the face of crisis. Cuomo was billed as the opposite of President Trump and the mainstream media ate it up, giving him a pass on a variety of issues in the process.

“The reason Cuomo so dearly deserved his winged Emmy statue is precisely because despite his failings of leadership, he was fantastic on television,” Marcus wrote. “It is all a bit strange, isn’t it? Andrew Cuomo is America’s best governor on television and its worst in real life.”


Marcus ended his takedown by suggesting the people who produce TV often don’t care about the truth, and focus instead on making a compelling product regardless of facts.

“So as you huddle over your giant bowl of mashed potatoes by yourself this Thanksgiving, governor’s orders, remember to be thankful for Andrew Cuomo and all he has done for television,” Marcus wrote.



https://www.foxnews.com/media/andrew-cuomo-mocked-emmy-covid-leadership

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Square mile is still population density measurement The population density in Sweden is much higher the county in Kansas. Dumbest asshole ever ejaculated

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump has called the New York Times and the Washington Post were "failing fake news " Trump bump: NYT and WaPo digital subscriptions tripled since 2016

Anonymous said...

Broke and broken Alky

"Roger Amick said...
I'm not a great mathematician"

Yet, you want us to believe you ran/bid on multi-million dollar construction jobs.
Flat out Lie.


I guess you got around 30 points for 97 SAT in math?"

Anonymous said...

RRB. We Kansans are like your life ling friend. We are kind, caring, giving and Forgiving. We are open minded and tolerant as well.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

YouTube suspended One America News Network, one of the right-wing channels aggressively pushing false claims about widespread election fraud, for violating its policies on misinformation.

Some Republicans claimed that this is censorship and violated the first amendment. I'm not a lawyer but no private company is required to publish anything. If you write a letter to the editor of the newspaper, they don't have to publish it.

The Republicans want to make it possible to sue Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Politicians, the political parties and even more dangerous is for anyone to sue them and perhaps put them in bankruptcy. Because they want to control the social media era information availability.

The President elect Joe Biden said that we are going back to normality! We the people have saved our country from the most dangerous President in history. I have never been so proud of our nation.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/youtube-under-pressure-over-election-falsehoods-suspends-oan-for-covid-19-misinformation.html

OANN is bullshit

Anonymous said...

The President elect Joe Biden said that we are going back to normality! We the people have saved our country from the most dangerous President in history. I have never been so proud of our nation.


and you celebrate the censorship of your political enemies. just like you celebrated James Hodgkinson's shooting of republicans at the baseball field.

how very fascist of you.

i can see exactly why you're so proud.

you really are a piece of shit alky. like runny, greasy dog shit.

enjoy your nursing home lockdown in God's waiting room..


Anonymous said...


OANN is bullshit


so the first amendment only applies to the media YOU approve of, eh alky?

that's not how the first amendment works.

patriots know this. and traitorous enemies of the state should know this too.

Anonymous said...


Some Republicans claimed that this is censorship and violated the first amendment. I'm not a lawyer but no private company is required to publish anything. If you write a letter to the editor of the newspaper, they don't have to publish it.


and i'll proceed to clean your fucking clock on this topic...


...juts like i did the last time.


shitstain.




Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

HEADLINES FROM POLITICALWIRE.COM
WHERE CHTRUTHERS GO WHEN THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON

6.4 Million Doses of Vaccine Could Go Out in December

McConnell Still Mum on Biden’s Win

Biden to Deliver a Unifying
Thanksgiving Address

Obama Memoir Sold 1.7 Million Copies In First Week

Ivanka and Jared Look for a New Beginning IN FLORIDA

Dem Progressives Seek to Block Bruce Reed

Biden to Receive President’s Daily Brief
Three weeks after the election, the White House has given formal approval for President-elect Joe Biden to receive the President’s Daily Brief, CNN reports.

Biden Weighs Mike Morell as CIA Chief

Mnuchin to Put $455 Billion Out of Yellen’s Reach

Trump Speaks for 64 Seconds To Brag About the Stock Market But Takes No Questions and Runs Away

YouTube Suspends OANN [One America News Network] from Posting New Videos (after Promoting Phony Cure For Covid-19P)

Only 3% of Trump Voters Think Biden Won
73% Think Trump was the Victor
(I guess 24% don't know what they think.)

Biden’s ‘Balancing Act’ Shows How He’ll Govern
===NBC News: “Biden is attempting the high-wire act of balancing diversity demands with ideological fissures between progressives and moderates. He has sought personnel with government experience who aren’t seen as too controversial to gain approval from a divided Senate. Many were confirmed during the Obama administration, some in deputy positions to roles they have been tapped to fill now.
===“So far, he’s giving everybody from progressive activists to centrist Democrats something to be happy about and little to fight over.”

Biden Certified as Winner In Nevada

Biden Transition Moves Quickly to Get Needed Info and Hit the Ground Running

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Trump has told confidants he plans to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios.

Behind the scenes: Sources with direct knowledge of the discussions said Flynn will be part of a series of pardons that Trump issues between now and when he leaves office.

The big picture: Flynn's pardon would be the culmination of a four-year political and legal saga that began with the FBI's investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election.

The retired lieutenant general is viewed by many Trump supporters as a victim of political retaliation by the Obama administration.Flynn's lawyers and members of conservative media have accused the FBI of entrapping him and cited his case as part of a broader campaign to discredit the Russia probe.Earlier this year, Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, another associate charged in the Mueller investigation who the president complained had been unfairly targeted in a political witch hunt.

The backdrop: Flynn's legal troubles began during the 2016 presidential transition, when he urged former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a phone call not to escalate in response to the Obama administration imposing sanctions on Russia for election interference.

Flynn then lied about not discussing sanctions, to Vice President Mike Pence who repeated that denial to the media — causing alarm among Justice Department officials who feared the lies made Flynn susceptible to Russian blackmail.In January 2017, Flynn was interviewed without a lawyer present by FBI agents as part of a counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference. He later admitted to lying to the FBI as part of a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Flash forward: In January 2020, after two years of sentencing delays due to his cooperation with the Mueller investigation, Flynn and his new legal team sought to withdraw his guilty plea, alleging prosecutorial misconduct.

A federal prosecutor appointed to review the case by Attorney General Bill Barr recommended that the charges be dropped, finding that the FBI interview in which Flynn lied was "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis."District Judge Emmet Sullivan did not immediately agree to drop the charges, and asked for outside legal experts to weigh in on the unusual case.Flynn's lawyers filed an emergency appeal to force the judge to comply with the DOJ motion.That resulted in a protracted legal fight, which ended in August with an appeals court siding with Sullivan.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Your stupid


Go ahead asshole

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

My prediction for CH Benghazi

Under Obama's guise, Sullivan was part of the exclusive team working to restore ties to Cuba and nut out the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal. But perhaps Sullivan's greatest influence in the scope of framing world events came earlier when he joined Clinton as her deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning, playing a pivotal role in procuring policy when it came to Burma, Syria and, most crucially, Libya.

US SHOULD ENCOURAGE CHINA'S RISE, BIDEN NATIONAL SECURITY PICK JAKE SULLIVAN SAYS

Indeed, Sullivan worked as Clinton's close confidante in the Libya plan, which was developed months in advance of the October 2011 takedown of long-running dictator Moammar Qaddafi, just as the Arab Spring accelerated. This was followed almost 11 months later by the slaying of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other American contractors in Benghazi, yet those tragedies are only a portion of the Libyan quandary.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-touted-hillary-clintons-libya-debacle

Anonymous said...

Alky loves when America is Bloodied at home and Abroad.

Anonymous said...


Heh:

In the latest blow to CNN’s claim to be a news organization, National Review and Wired found last week that their much-heralded November 16 interview with South Dakota nurse Jodi Doering, who was trashing her patients, had more than a few holes.

While Doering’s story drew widespread attention by over a half dozen CNNers, National Review and Wired couldn’t find anyone to confirm Doering’s claims of coronavirus patients “who still don’t believe the virus is real” and that it’s instead a conspiracy theory.

According to a Nexis search of CNN-U.S. shows, CNN dedicated 23 minutes and 38 seconds between November 16 and 18 to Doering’s tale of, in the words of weekday afternoon CNN Newsroom host Brianna Keilar, “doctors and nurses...battling conspiracy theories along with the virus.”

Of course, CNN has yet to air an acknowledgment or correction because, when there’s a narrative to push, CNN subscribes to the mantra of if it rings true, it is true.

Wired’s David Zweig reached out to South Dakota hospitals and Doering’s story quickly fell apart

Writing for National Review, Ryan Mills spoke with two spokespersons for hospital conglomerates operating in South Dakota and neither could corroborate Doering’s assertions that some patients were delusional due to their political inclinations.

Doering’s viral tweets warranted zero fact-checking from CNN, so she was then catapulted into an eight-minute-plus interview on the November 16 New Day with co-host Alisyn Camerota boasting: “When I read some of your tweets, my jaw dropped.”

Camerota sat in awe, lobbing one softball after the next. Here were some highlights of claims Doering (click “expand”):

“Thank you for all the you do for your patients even when they scream at you, and we just — we just really appreciate you and that you go back in every day and do that all over again,” Camerota then concluded.

CNN then used clips from Doering’s interview throughout the day, appearing on CNN Newsroom editions helmed by Kate Bolduan and Keilar.

The Lead’s Jake Tapper also participated in spreading this lie, both in a clip from correspondent Nick Watt (which also ran on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer) and then in a remark to chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanja Gupta:

And we heard from that nurse from South Dakota earlier today on CNN, talking about the denial that patients are in. They're dying of COVID, and they still won't accept that fact, because they have been lied to by figures in the media and politics who have been denying that this crisis is as serious as it is.

CNN Tonight host Don Lemon dedicated just over four minutes to Doering’s story and asked a panel of three medical experts whether they had experienced anything remotely similar. None of them said they had COVID patients angrily denying their illness, but that skepticism didn’t stop Lemon from treating the narrative as fact.

November 17 featured three more shows touting Doering’s story, including New Day with co-host John Berman noting to a South Dakota family physician that Doering said some “still refuse to believe the reality of this pandemic.”



https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/11/23/cnn-gives-23-minutes-south-dakota-nurses-dubious-claims-trashing


so... you were saying alky?

LOL.

Myballs said...

Biden will hit the ground running by opening the border once again. Except that hourly workers are now aware that this policy drives down their wages. This will effectively solidify the voting block as Republican. Even the minorities.

Anonymous said...

Blogger KansasDemocrat said...

Alky loves when America is Bloodied at home and Abroad.


the slow joe administration's 'China First' policy, coupled with a return to the Paris Climate circle jerk with us as the pivot man, PLUS a re-capitulation to Iran and the joke of a nuclear deal should tell the world that "America is back baby!" and ready to take it up the ass from friends and foes alike once again.

Anonymous said...




SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners, local and federal prosecutors said Tuesday, detailing a scheme that resulted in claims filed in the names of well-known convicted murderers like Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner.

From March to August, more than 35,000 inmates were named in claims filed with the California Employment Development Department, with more than 20,000 being paid, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. At least 158 claims were filed for 133 death-row inmates, resulting in more than $420,000 in benefits paid

“It involves rapists and child molesters, human traffickers and other violent criminals in our state prisons,” Schubert said.



https://apnews.com/article/sacramento-california-prisons-290cd657122ea1191a7dcbb14bd4a507?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

anonymous said...

BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And the trump policy of pulling out of paris and china sanctions are not only failures, but massive stupid failures!!!!!! The only pivot man is you rat since all you like is trumps little dick with small mind!!!!!!!! The border will not be open, the wall will be stopped and your lives will continue unhindered by the insanity of a tyrant!!!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President-elect Joe Biden won more than 80 million votes in the 2020 election, the ongoing vote count.

The Week: “Biden currently has 51 percent of the vote, versus 47.1 percent for Trump, making him also the first president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 to unseat a sitting president with more than 51 percent. (Ronald Reagan won a landslide in the Electoral College in 1980 but got only 50.7 percent.)”

anonymous said...

Only 2k dead americans yesterday and trump touts the stock market.....Rat applauds because he made another 10 bucks to buy cheap beer......BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Our allies are thrilled!

Vladimir Putin is not. He doesn't have a Monica Lewinsky in the White House anymore!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The dreamers will not be deported, and instead they will be productive American

anonymous said...

How trump feeds the frenzy of mindless slurpers like rat and Lil SChitty who believe everything trump tweets!!!!!!!


“ ‘In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. In the past there were 20,000 people. This past election there were 120,000...and Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process.’ @VicToensing @newsmax”

— President Trump, in a tweet, Nov. 24, 2020
Every part of this is false, proving once again why none of Trump’s claims about election fraud should be given any credence.

As we’ve documented in recent fact checks, the statements from Trump and his lawyers are all absurd and easily debunked. Last week, it was Sidney Powell alleging with no evidence that an algorithm from Venezuela had changed millions of Trump votes to votes for President-elect Joe Biden. This week, Rudolph W. Giuliani is mixing up Michigan and Minnesota to peddle a false claim about “phantom voters.”


Here, we have Victoria Toensing mangling pretty much everything about Wisconsin in a Newsmax interview and Trump repeating the disinformation to more than 88 million Twitter followers. (Twitter quickly flagged the tweet as misleading.)

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The cages will go away.

The 500 children will be reunited with their parents!

anonymous said...

reported, and instead they will be productive American


According to rat....nothing but beaners who are using MY tax money to make my life a hell hole!!!!!! The are illegal and deserve to be shipped back to their shit hole country!!!!!!

anonymous said...

I wondered yesterday where the Fox Network demise was coming from.....Should have know it was a Trump retweet of a mentally deranged actor who had a mental episode a year ago!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And trump finally found it!!!!!! Laughing stock of the world will soon be in floriduh practicing his foot mashie!!!!!!!

Minyvonne Burke
Tue, November 24, 2020, 1:38 PM EST
President Donald Trump retweeted a series of bizarre videos and messages by Randy Quaid, including one where the actor alleged voter fraud and another in which he attacked Fox News.

The first video that Trump retweeted Tuesday was a video Quaid originally posted more than a year ago.

“Is this the way America goes? From George Washington to George Soros? From oceans white with foam to a socialist swamp," Quaid says in the video as he sits backwards on a wooden chair.

"Is this the way America goes? Is this really our future? Wake up you sleeping giant, the lilliputians have tied you down with their fantastic dreams of icebergs melting into dinosaurs and train tracks stretching across the Pacific waters. Trump trumpets reveille and it's time to heed the call."

anonymous said...

And I wonder why the Sentate R's follow trumps lead like a bunch of lemmings......sad that these guys are infected at an unusually high rate.....maybe if they wore masks like Fauci advocated, they would not all be sick....IDIOTS OF THE RIGHT!!!!!

ip Bump
November 24, 2020 at 3:09 p.m. EST
Add to list
Since the novel coronavirus emerged in the United States, more than 12.5 million Americans have been confirmed to have been infected by it. The actual number is unquestionably far higher than that, given the slow rollout of effective testing for the virus. But even by itself, that number constitutes nearly 4 percent of the population.
In the Senate, the rate of infections is even higher. As of writing, eight senators have tested positive for the virus, according to data compiled by GovTrack. That’s an 8 percent rate of positive tests, more than twice the national measure.
All eight of those positive tests, though, occurred among members of the Republican caucus, which currently numbers 53 senators. In other words, nearly 1 in 6 Republican senators has contracted the virus — about 15 percent of the caucus.
Republicans in the Senate have been about four times as likely as Americans overall to have tested positive for the virus.

Anonymous said...

13 guests at my home tomorrow and with my wife , daughter, my son and his GF.

Great to share my home with All.

wtlgu

anonymous said...

Another study showing masks do work.......science that the slurpers will all deny and stick their collective heads further up trumps fat stinky ass!!!!!!!!! Facts are a 4 letter word to the morons of trumpism!!!!

Yahoo News
Study: A good cloth mask is a powerful weapon against the coronavirus
Alexander Nazaryan
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Tue, November 24, 2020, 5:43 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Face coverings, including masks made of cloth, are highly effective in protecting the people who wear them as well as those around them, according to a new study from Linsey Marr, a leading aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech University.

“Filtration works both ways,” Marr said. “If it works for source control,” she said during a media presentation on Monday — that is, if the mask filters out particles coming from the wearer’s mouth — “it’s going to work pretty well for exposure reduction to protect the wearer also.”

Testing 11 different types of face coverings (nine cloth masks made from coffee filters, cotton and other materials, a surgical mask and a face shield), Marr and co-author Jin Pan found that many of the materials they “challenged” with particles meant to simulate the coronavirus exhibited a 75 percent filtration capacity. A high-quality cloth mask consisting of three layers could allow filtration as high as 90 percent. Crucially, that accounts for incoming particles as well as outgoing ones.

Yahoo News
Study: A good cloth mask is a powerful weapon against the coronavirus
Alexander Nazaryan
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Tue, November 24, 2020, 5:43 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Face coverings, including masks made of cloth, are highly effective in protecting the people who wear them as well as those around them, according to a new study from Linsey Marr, a leading aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech University.

“Filtration works both ways,” Marr said. “If it works for source control,” she said during a media presentation on Monday — that is, if the mask filters out particles coming from the wearer’s mouth — “it’s going to work pretty well for exposure reduction to protect the wearer also.”

Testing 11 different types of face coverings (nine cloth masks made from coffee filters, cotton and other materials, a surgical mask and a face shield), Marr and co-author Jin Pan found that many of the materials they “challenged” with particles meant to simulate the coronavirus exhibited a 75 percent filtration capacity. A high-quality cloth mask consisting of three layers could allow filtration as high as 90 percent. Crucially, that accounts for incoming particles as well as outgoing ones.

)
The efficacy of surgical masks had been widely known. Their use was endorsed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Food and Drug Administration head Scott Gottlieb published on Sunday evening. He encouraged people to wear N95 respirators or, failing that, surgical masks. “The level of protection depends on the type of themask,” he wrote, cautioning people away from bandanas and other loosely-fitting face coverings.

Marr’s study suggests that cloth masks work better than some have claimed, in part because many virus-bearing particles are significantly larger than previously thought. Her study adds crucial new information about the relative benefits of cloth masks, which people find easier to wear — and more stylish — than their light-blue medical counterparts.

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

The dreamers will not be deported, and instead they will be productive American



productive:

pro·duc·tive

/prəˈdəktiv/

adjective

producing or able to produce large amounts of democrat votes, while firmly attached to the government tit.



outstanding. somewhere between 11 MILLION and 25 MILLION brand new beaners to drive down the wages of America's working class.

that's what ol' 'Corn Pop from Scranton' is poised to deliver.

how appropriate it is to have someone in such severe cognitive decline presiding over America's decline.



.

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

The cages will go away.



and we should send them directly to the Barack Hussein 0linsky presidential lie-berry & ACORN-sanctioned crack house in honor of the jug-eared fuckstick who built them.


anonymous said...

Maybe we should send trump slurpers like asshole rat to trump U so he can claim he graduated from somewhere!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Fuck those 500 kids who don't even know who there parents are....Is that why they named you busted rubber rat???????LOLOLOLOL

anonymous said...

between 11 MILLION and 25 MILLION


BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Those beaners pay more taxes than trump does you flaming rectum!!!!!!

anonymous said...

Trump POTUS library...

Collection of Richie Rich Comics
His golf clubs
His bone spur X-ray
His gold toilet seat
His left golf shoe


And rat will drool all over that collection!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Broke and broken Alky

"Roger Amick said...
I'm not a great mathematician"

Yet, you want us to believe you ran/bid on multi-million dollar construction jobs.
Flat out Lie.


I guess you got around 30 points for 97 SAT in math?"

Anonymous said...

"China First" RRB

Exactly. Biden will repay them .

He has "signaled" a hard left turn to "re-negotiate" the Trump First trade agreements.

anonymous said...

And double assed Mitch looking out for his career instead of the country......what deplorable scum bag!!!!!

McDonnell remains silent on Biden’s win even as transition begins
The Senate majority leader’s ongoing silence leaves a question mark over what could be the most important Washington relationship of the next two years.

No wonder why the idiots of fake truth cannot admit defeat....no member of the GOP can !!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!

anonymous said...

Fox news should go away with trump.....they deserve bankruptcy since all their reporting is bankrupt!!!!!!!!

Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff·Chief Investigative Correspondent
Tue, November 24, 2020, 7:32 PM EST
News Corporation headquarters
Fox News headquarters in New York City. (Richard Drew/AP)
WASHINGTON — Just as star anchor Sean Hannity and other high-profile Fox News figures were due to be deposed about their promotion of a bogus conspiracy theory about the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, the cable network last month threw in the towel and moved to settle a lawsuit brought by Rich’s parents that threatened to expose a wealth of new details about one of its most embarrassing screw-ups in recent years.

The settlement between Fox News and Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary Rich, was publicly disclosed Tuesday, but with no details about the terms. But legal sources tell Yahoo News that the settlement includes a lucrative seven figure payment to the Rich family consistent with the size of payouts Fox News and related corporate entities have made in other cases that have brought them negative publicity.

The hastily arranged settlement also had the benefit of sparing Hannity and other Fox News figures — including network president Jay Wallace and contributor Newt Gingrich

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

CONTRIBUTING TO THE FIRE NEXT TIME...

Black leaders are angrily pointing out that the GOP, after attempting to keep blacks from voting BEFORE the election, are now trying to disenfranchise black voters AFTER they have voted by disqualifying ballots they legitimately cast for Biden in city areas with large populations.

Source: Public Radio

Anonymous said...

A Stimulas Check in the hands of the People now, will help a Biden Presidency.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

And you say the GOP isn't racist.

Anonymous said...

this damaged the Republic.

"He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” she said. “I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.” Hillary

Myballs said...

Gop is so racist that minorities voted Republican at highest levels in history last month.

Don't let facts get in the way of a tired old narrative.

Anonymous said...

Myballs, James is fitted with blinkers.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Aides Begin Avoiding Trump
8:00 am EST
Wall Street Journal: “In a West Wing where advisers have often loitered near the Oval Office in the hopes of being asked inside, there has been noticeably less angling among aides to get an audience with the president in recent weeks, administration officials said. Aides have said privately they are concerned that the president might ask them for something that would draw them into the legal battle.”


LANDSLIDE BIDEN
Biden Tops 80 Million Votes

6:58 am EST
President-elect Joe Biden won more than 80 million votes in the 2020 election, the ongoing vote count.

The Week: “Biden currently has 51 percent of the vote, versus 47.1 percent for Trump, making him also the first president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 to unseat a sitting president with more than 51 percent. (Ronald Reagan won a landslide in the Electoral College in 1980 but got only 50.7 percent.)”


Trump Plans His Next Act
6:57 am
Wall Street Journal: “In private conversations, he has polled advisers on what he should do next, musing about how he can stay relevant in the media and in the Republican Party and how he can earn money.

“He has repeatedly expressed interest in running for president again in 2024, which some advisers have urged him to do as a way to save face, telling him he can decide whether to follow through later.”



Trump to Attend Giuliani ‘Hearing’ on Election
6:47 am
Rudy Giuliani and Pennsylvania State Senate Republicans are planning a public event in Gettysburg on Wednesday to discuss supposed voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, and President Trump is expected to attend, the New York Times reports.

Some aides had tried talking Trump out of taking part.

Axios: “His attendance at the hearing was not on Trump’s public schedule as of early Wednesday, and officials said his trip is subject to change.”
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Oh, DO go, Mr. ex-Prez, and put yourself up there beside that other discredited clown.



Trump Stress-Tested the Election System
6:41 am
New York Times: “In the end — and the postelection standoff instigated by Mr. Trump and his party is truly nearing its end — the president’s attack on the election wheezed to an anticlimax. It was marked not by dangerous new political convulsions but by a letter from an obscure Trump-appointed bureaucrat, Emily W. Murphy of the General Services Administration, authorizing the process of formally handing over the government to Mr. Biden.

“For now, the country appears to have avoided a ruinous breakdown of its electoral system. Next time, Americans might not be so lucky.”
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HA! Next time it will not be so easy to try to disenfranchise black voters.

Anonymous said...

Spam from a retarded Troll.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Balls, are you aware that Biden owes winning the election largely to... are you ready for this?

Black WOMEN!

Anonymous said...

When Trump won in 2016 , we conservatives partied.

The three socialist Stooges of CHT are Dystopian Folks.

Anonymous said...

Biden is pissed off, he lost control of his very hot temper again when a reporter claimed his term is just the Lost years 3 term.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Israeli Military Prepares for Possible Trump Strike on Iran
9:41 am
“The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office,” Axios reports.

“The Israeli government instructed the IDF to undertake the preparations not because of any intelligence or assessment that Trump will order such a strike, but because senior Israeli officials anticipate ‘a very sensitive period’ ahead of Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.”
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Wishful thinking on the part of Bibi? I don't think our disgusted military leaders would permit Trump to do this.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Covid is really racing ahead in the USA, all over.

We need more humility about it. The truth is, states that did more to encourage wearing face masks and locking down and social distancing are also being hard hit.

County by county comparisons do indicate, however, that those counties that early on encouraged masking and distancing are emerging in better shape so far.

Highly populated areas are sometimes a different story because they are so densely packed.
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Oh. I just remembered: Trump wanted us to pack the churches last Easter.

Myballs said...

My last post still applies. Record high minority vote for gop last month.

And it remains to be seen if Biden won because of ballot stuffing. For example, WI turnout was 89%. Even when Paul Ryan was on the ticket 8n 2012 turnout was 70%. This unusually high turnout is questionable.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Take it to the courts and prove it there, Balls. So far, your side has not.
.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Moseley Braun Stumps for Interior Post
November 25, 2020 at 9:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) is interested in being President-elect Joe Biden’s Interior secretary, telling the Washington Post the position is “just a natural fit for me.”

The Hill: “The former Illinois lawmaker, who also served as ambassador to New Zealand in the late 1990s following her single Senate term, would be an unusual choice to lead the Interior Department given her lack of experience on environmental issues.”
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I LIVE IN ILLINOIS AND AM TOTALLY OPPOSED TO THIS. THIS BLACK LADY HAD EVERY CHANCE TO DO A GOOD JOB AND RUINED IT. SHE WAS AN INCOMPETENT DISASTER IN OFFICE.

Anonymous said...

To wrap this up, with a bow.

"The truth is, states that did more to encourage wearing face masks and locking down and social distancing are also being hard hit."

The loss of work, homes, businesses and education of our youth was a huge mistake, according to soon to be back tracking again, Jane.

Anonymous said...

Senator Warren and Bernie have been shafted out of jobs in the Biden Administration after they caved, ending their campaigns.

This is great news. Makes my day.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

El Paso Seeks to Collect Outstanding Debt from Trump

City officials in El Paso told KTSM that they would be hiring legal counsel in their fight to obtain $570,000 owed by President Trump’s reelection campaign from a rally held in the city in February 2019.
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Legal counsel will be needed. It is established fact that collecting unpaid debts from Trump is an uphill battle.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Raffensperger Says Trump Threw Him Under the Bus
9:44 am
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) lambasted President Trump in a USA Today op-ed, saying that the commander in chief threw him under the bus although he voted for him.

Said Raffensperger: “By all accounts, Georgia had a wildly successful and smooth election. We finally defeated voting lines and put behind us Fulton County’s now notorious reputation for disastrous elections. This should be something for Georgians to celebrate, whether their favored presidential candidate won or lost. For those wondering, mine lost — my family voted for him, donated to him and are now being thrown under the bus by him.”
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Brad, that's what happens to those who observe the laws, uphold the Constitution, and refuse to LIE for Trump.

anonymous said...

ast post still applies. Record high minority vote for top last month.

WHO STUFF THE BALLOTS FRAUDULENTLY!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Scott asshole Jr. said...

LASALLE, Ill. (AP) — State officials have launched investigations into a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home in Illinois that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff members, and killed 27 veterans.

News outlets reported Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office and the state’s Department of Veteran’s Affairs are attempting to determine what caused the outbreak at the state-run LaSalle Veterans’ Home. The department on Tuesday requested an independent probe into the facility, which was the focus of a state Senate committee virtual hearing on the outbreak.

“The tragedy of what has unfolded at the veterans’ home cannot be understated," said State Senator Sue Rezin, who represents the district where the home is located. “I’m glad that the director has called for an independent investigation and agree that there are lesson to be learned from this terrible outbreak that has claimed the lives of 27 of our nation’s heroes.”

The current outbreak was identified in late October when a staff member and a resident tested positive for the virus, the Chicago Tribune reported. The home was not largely impacted by the pandemic until then. In fact, two-thirds of residents and employees tested positive since the beginning of this month, according to the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.