Posted on 08/01/2020 12:13:25 AM PDT by weston
Andy Ngô
@MrAndyNgo
New DA for Multnomah County (which includes Portland), @DAMikeSchmidt, announced at a presser today his office will not prosecute felony riot, escape, harassment, interfering w/an officer, criminal trespass & more. Charges of assault of officer will be subject to “high scrutiny.”
5:05 PM · Aug 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1293337705317687296?s=20
Pennsylvania Is Playing Politics With Drug Rationing
Just as a reminder of the kind of central planners we are dealing with, this is the same Pennsylvania Department of Health that decreed on May 12 that nursing homes “must continue to take new admissions, if appropriate beds are available, and a suspected or confirmed positive for COVID-19 is not a reason to deny admission.” Months later, nearly 70 percent of coronavirus fatalities in the state have occurred in nursing homes.
Not being content with causing such a disaster, the state health department has issued guidance on how healthcare facilities should ration the limited supply of the new drug Remdesivir in the event that there are not enough doses to go around, but notes that the guidelines should apply to any scarce form of treatment. While certainly an unpleasant subject to address, it is true that in the face of scarcity the limited supply of Remdesivir or any other treatment will need to be rationed and that some kind of method of choosing will be needed. Scarcity is simply a fact of life that must be dealt with. However, because the distribution of Remdisivir has been taken over by the federal government, which distributes it to state governments, which in turn distribute it to healthcare providers, the process has unavoidably become political.
Putting all the jargon aside, the guideline is very clear about several points. First, it is not considered acceptable to distribute care via a random lottery, or on a first-come-first-served basis. Rather, healthcare providers must take into consideration “community-benefit” when rationing care and the department recommends the use of a weighted lottery system.
What raises the most concern is the idea that members of “disadvantaged communities” should be given a better chance at receiving treatment than others.
According to the guidance, because “low-income communities and certain racial/ethnic minorities” are being disproportionately burdened by the coronavirus, the end goal of public health is served by benefitting some groups over others.
According to the guidance, “the rationale is that a core goal of public health is to redress inequities that make health and safety less accessible to disadvantaged groups.”
One can certainly argue that certain populations do not have very good access to healthcare resources, but it seems outrageous to think that the time to attempt to remedy such inequality is when triaging patients.
Similarly concerning is the way the guidance recommends that the treating physicians be removed from the rationing process and that it be left in the hands of hospital bureaucrats instead, effectively tying doctors’ hands to treat their patients. Is this the kind of state-run healthcare that we have to look forward to in the future? Doctors as helpless as their patients as bureaucrats “assess” a patient’s social suitability to be worthy of treatment?
What that list is lacking is a prohibition on discrimination based on socioeconomic status, which is the method the guidance suggests should be used for the purposes of weighing the lottery. Specifically, it recommends the use of the Area Deprivation Index, which is based on data from the 2015 American Community Survey. Hospitals would use the index’s Neighborhood Atlas to enter a patient’s address and determine if they are a disadvantaged community member.
This entire scheme is just a taste of the ways medical care would be infected with politics if it were to be run by the government. In a system of socialized medicine would we see similar redistributionist schemes of rationing introduced? No doubt, many people of all political persuasions would view it as a fertile field for attempts at social engineering. Similarly, it is not hard to see politicians scheming to ensure that favored constituents and voting blocs have access to care at the expense of their opponent’s supporters, or that whole classes of people are purposefully and consciously disadvantaged based on whoever holds the keys to power at the moment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pennsylvania-playing-politics-drug-rationing
BREAKING: Wikileaks Posts 137 Documents on Kamala Harris Hours After She Is Named Joe Biden’s Running Mate
Via Jack Posobiec.
137 documents from @WikiLeaks
on newly announced Vice Presidential Running Mate Kamala Harrishttps://t.co/M5BfZXOjlm pic.twitter.com/MzFJlWK2xb
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 11,
Dinesh telling Laura about Kamala’s slave ancestry. Laura seems not to know about it.
Whereas the original definition of lynching meant a hanging by a mob, it now means something like any kind of assault by more than one person on a person in a protected class.
If this so-called anti lynching bill ever gets signed into law, it will provide the camel’s nose under the tent for gender identity as a protected class.
Man Arrested For Brutally Beating Alzheimer’s Patient and Stealing Her Wedding Ring – Michigan Nursing Home Tried to Cover Up Attack!
Thanks.
I’m sorry but how can we ever win when these fascist pigs are in office and refuse to stop the insurrection to protect the people?
Good question. Why do we even have laws?
News video report at site
DIANE PATHIEU
@pathieuabc7
Looters smash the doors of the Ronald McDonald House in Streeterville with families and their sick children inside:
10:38 AM · Aug 11, 2020
https://mobile.twitter.com/pathieuabc7/status/1293240359112318976
Biden says you have to have a slight Indian accent to work at 7-Eleven. I wonder how Kamala feels about that?
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David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) have filed suit against Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., alleging that she targeted them for exposing Planned Parenthood back when she was the state attorney general.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. It says, “This complaint seeks justice for a brazen, unprecedented and ongoing conspiracy to selectively use California’s video recording laws as a political weapon to silence disfavored speech.”
It goes on to state, “David Daleiden became the first journalist ever to be criminally prosecuted under California’s recording law, not because of the method of video recording he utilized in his investigation — which is common in investigative journalism in this state — but because his investigation revealed and he published ‘shock[ing]’ content that California’s attorney general and the private party coconspirators wanted to cover up.”
Nick Short
An actual memo went out from an ad hoc group of Dem operatives (pretending to be advocates for women such as Valerie Jarrett & Hilary Rosen) to media organizations w/orders on how to proceed w/coverage of Kamala. Watch as the legacy media falls in line.
Tammy Bruce
Here’s the full Obey Or Else missive:
We Have Her Back
August 6, 2020
To:
News Division Heads, Editors in Chiefs, Bureau Chiefs, Political Directors, Editors, Producers,
Reporters, and Anchors
From:
Fatima Goss Graves (National Women’s Law Center), Ilyse Hogue (NARAL)
Valerie Jarrett, Alexis McGill Johnson and Melanie Newman (Planned Parenthood), Debra Ness
(National Partnership for Women and Families), Cecile Richards (Supermajority), Jess Morales
Rocketto, Hilary Rosen, Stephanie Shriock and Christina Reynolds (Emily’s List), Tina Tchen
(TimesUp)
Re: NEWS COVERAGE FOR THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
We are reaching out now because we are about to embark on a historic moment - once again -
having a woman on a Presidential Campaign ticket. While you have already done significant
reporting on the process, we know you are actively preparing for coverage about the specific
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee.
Given how few women have reached this point, the sometimes disappointing coverage of the
process to date and the double standards we’ve seen in the public and media expectations of
women leaders over the years- and even more so for Black and Brown women leaders - we
wanted to respectfully share some thoughts with you about the media’s role in the scrutiny and
coverage of women and women of color candidates in general, and the vice-presidential
candidate in particular.
We do this today without knowing who Joe Biden’s choice will be, as it allows you to consider
your coverage in the context of these important societal issues without the additional
considerations that a specific candidate’s personal story may bring.
Our country - and your newsrooms - have learned a lot since the killing of George Floyd and the
subsequent protests for racial equality that his death spurred. For the first time in too many
years, there was a national conversation about what real systemic racism means and how it
insidiously creeps into stereotypes and tropes that are common in our everyday lives. We know
from public reporting that many of your newsrooms had internal conversations about your
coverage, your diversity and your editorial judgments. Good and thoughtful questions were
raised, often by your own journalists, about how you could produce news coverage that took
systemic bias out of the equation. And each of you took action. While there’s still work to do,
that action included being more careful about the choice of narratives for stories, including more
Black people and people of color on the front lines of reporting and behind the scenes producing
and editing. In short, the times and the experience made you, the most powerful people in
media, stop and think about your role in perpetuating inequality and the opportunity you had to
promote equality and simple justice with your reporting of the news.
We are calling on you to do this same with this next historic moment. A woman VP candidate,
and possibly a Black or Brown woman candidate, requires the same kind of internal
consideration about systemic inequality as you undertook earlier this year. Anything less than
full engagement in this thoughtful oversight would be a huge step backwards for the progress
you have pledged to make to expand diversity of thought and opportunity in your newsrooms
and in your coverage.
Women have been subject to stereotypes and tropes about qualifications, leadership, looks,
relationships and experience. Those stereotypes are often amplified and weaponized for Black
and Brown women. Attempts at legitimate investigations of a candidate have repeatedly turned
into misguided stories that perpetuate impressions of women as inadequate leaders, and Black
and Brown women as worse. There are multiple ways that media coverage over the years has
contributed to the facts of the lack of diversity at the top of society’s roles. For example:
• Reporting on a woman’s ambition as though the very nature of seeking political office, or
any higher job for that matter is not a mission of ambition
• Relationships with partners, staff, colleagues and donors are characterized differently if
the woman is not seen as subservient or supportive
• Reporting on whether a woman is liked (a subjective metric at best) as though it is news
when the “likeability” of men is never considered a legitimate news story.
• Reporting, even as asides in a story, on a woman’s looks, weight, tone of voice,
attractiveness and hair is sexist news coverage unless the same analysis is applied to
every candidate
• Reporting on questions of electability of women is, in itself, a perpetuation of a
stereotype about the ability of women to lead
• Reporting on doubts women may not be qualified leaders even when they have
experience equal to or exceeding male leaders
• Reporting on the heritage of Black women or women of color perpetuates a
misunderstanding about who is legitimately American
• Reporting on and using pictures of a woman’s, particularly black women, show of anger
at injustice or any other kind of passion in communication perpetuates racist tropes that
suggest unfairly that women are too emotional or irrational in their leadership or worse
“hate America”
We are certain that if you pursue thoughtful conversation internally, you will find even more
examples of how these stereotypes can seep into coverage, and thereby seep into the public
consciousness as voters are seeking to understand those seeking office. We believe it is your
job to, not just pay attention to these stereotypes, but to actively work to be anti-racist and antisexist in your coverage (ie: equal) as this political season progresses and this Presidential ticket
is introduced. As much as you have the public’s trust, you also have great power. We urge you
to use it wisely.
We are here to help you with this challenge. We would be happy to meet and continue to
engage on these issues. This is a defining election no matter your viewpoint. We intend to
collectively and individually monitor coverage and we will call out those we believe take our
country backwards with sexist and/or racist coverage.
As we enter another historic moment, we will be watching you. We expect change. We expect a
new way of thinking about your role in how she is treated and the equality she deserves relative
to the three men running for President and Vice President. Your great institutions, the ideals
you serve, and our country, deserve no less.
Thank you
To those gathering around The Kelly Building on the 4700 block of E Burnside, you are not allowed to enter the property. If you enter the property, you are trespassing and subject to arrest, use of tear gas, crowd control agents, and or impact weapons.— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 12, 2020
This order also includes all journalists and members of the press.— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) August 12, 2020
While liberals are having an aneurysm over Alex Morse hitting on college students, they're celebrating a woman whose career was kickstarted by an unapologetic groomer https://t.co/o0U2pVMn8d— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 12, 2020
For reference here’s how they covered the Pence choice https://t.co/spBWtuo9xA pic.twitter.com/fzIBoZdY02— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) August 12, 2020
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