Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 Apr 2020

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 19 Apr 2020 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

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The Talk Shows

Easter Sunday, April 19th, 2020

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Vice President Mike Pence; House Speaker Nancy Piglosi, D-Calif. Panel: Karl Rove, Marie Harf and Bret Baier. “Power Player of the Week” segment with José Andrés.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): VP Pence; Govs. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., and Mike DeWine, R-Ohio. Panel: Peter Alexander, Jeh Johnson and Danielle Pletka.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Scarf-wearer Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus task force coordinator; Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass.; King Abdullah II of Jordan; Suzanne Clark, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Panel:

THIS WEEK (ABC): Piglosi, Scarf Wearer Birx; Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash. Panel: Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel, Austan Goolsbee, Tom Bossert and Danielle Allen.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Whitmer; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md. Panel:

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): White House Trade Negotiator Peter Navarro; Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.); Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) Former Senior White House Advisor Steve Bannon.

*NOPE = “Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever”

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As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions on the shows.

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C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

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Here are the email addresses or web pages--and now Twitter pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter: @MeetThePress @ChuckTodd

Email: Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com Twitter: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter: @MariaBartiromo

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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-10 KJV

The Chinese Communist Media claims the DNC is so compassionate and caring about the worker they have an entire one half of the country believing it. It is what they run on and tell their people the evil Repubs are for big industry and the 1%. Then Late-Night TV flashes to Pelosi’s mansion in San Fran and shows the country how she is surviving this crisis by eating chocolate. If you could recreate an out of touch Marie Antoinette “Let them eat cake” moment this was it. In her case it would be, “let them eat crumbs!”

Everyone was focused on her $30K freezer and her expensive designer chocolate but the real focus should have been on the $200 chocolate basket which was most likely a gift from a lobbyist. She gets twenty of those a month and especially on Easter so of course she makes it through these troubling times with the most exclusive gifts in the world.

While over half the country is wondering how they are going to pay their mortgage and two car payments without declaring bankruptcy Nazi Pelosi is sitting at home eating chocolate from a fat cat wanting to make sure his abortion factory gets part of the next stimulus bill rather than you. She is holding up the additional funds for small businesses in hopes of forcing more money to hard hit people like the Kennedy Center so her big donor friends have a place to visit in DC. Doesn’t that make your problems disappear?

Pelosi has laundered well over a billion dollars through her husband making him one of the richest men in America. He owns several businesses which are formed to launder her bribes. She claims she is for the little guy, but she is in it for Nancy Pelosi and nobody else. She and her fellow Dems such as Slow Joe have milked this system for fifty years and plan on their families milking it for another generation.

That basket of chocolate most likely had a few thousand dollars in green grass to sweeten the pot if it was like most of the DC gift baskets. Everyone got upset about her ice cream as well they should since it and the chocolate represented the difference between the Pelosis of the ruling class and their slaves who pay for all of those “gift” baskets. You drop a couple of thousand in a basket of chocolate and you take out a couple of million from a bill to help small businesses and families from losing everything they worked the last thirty years for, but hey Healthcare will be a right.

Speaking of corrupt families, Andrew Cuomo claims God and Faith had nothing to do with the successes he has had in New York. If having over half the deaths in America between NY and NJ, then yes God did not have anything to do with your massive failure. If social distancing and closing businesses is such a great solution, then why is South Dakota which has not shut down doing so much better than the Big Apple? Maybe God is telling you something?

By the definition of the task force success is lowering the curve so South Dakota should be a model for the rest of the country to copy. The last place we should copy would be NY since they are by far the worst place in America to live if a virus strikes. They must do something about the subway which is obviously the biggest transmitter of the disease anywhere.

These rail systems the Socialist Democrats dream, and their Nationalized Healthcare are being exposed for the death traps they are. If you want Nationalized medicine you can go to China or North Korea and enjoy what happens when you have hospitals run by the gummit. In Italy nobody over 60 were allowed a ventilator and in China had their doors welded shut to social distance. Some were burned alive to stop the spread, this is National Healthcare? Oh we wouldn’t be like that! No, you would be much worse.

Speaking of Chairman Xi and cheap phones, did he release it on purpose or accidentally? Most of the world is giving him the benefit of the doubt on diplomatic terms, but what if this was an attack against America? Of course, nobody wants to contemplate this level of evil, but is it that far from accidentally letting it out of a lab and not telling anyone? The world is supposed to believe they had somebody working on these deadly viruses get infected without knowing it and then went shopping spreading it through the city without knowing?

If you are working with these deadly diseases and the woman suspected was trained at the University of North Carolina she was trained completely on how to secure the facility. These facilities have multiple layers of protection and someone just became infected and walked out into the general population starting the epidemic?

Next, we are supposed to believe the regime brutally locked down Wuhan yet allowed these infected people to fly around the world spreading it. They could fly back and forth to Italy, France, America, and Britain but could not fly anywhere in China. Either the Premier Xi was working overtime to hide this disease or he was attacking all his rival economic powers with a virus.

Finally, he killed all the witnesses to the outbreak of the disease. How do you do an investigation of a brutal regime like China? China has always had a goal of ruling the world and still does. They believe they are the superior race, and, in many ways, they are one of the most organized countries in the world. Their main problem is communism, it does not work. That said, they believe they are on the path to pass America as the number one economic power in the world and Donald Trump is standing in their way.

The only explanation which fits is this was an attack on the world economy with a minor killer disease that could be hidden as an animal to human transmission. They could blame their disgusting wet markets where they sell and butcher live dogs and cats, bats, and rats for a tasty and romantic meal for that incredibly special date. You take your date to a restaurant where they cut the dogs head off and cook him at your table, if your lucky you get to eat the dog’s brains or testicles, rare please; a night to remember.

If you want to cause a worldwide economic crisis while you have most of the vaccine production capabilities for this disease you would do what they did. You would make trillions. Release it into the general population or your spies and then have them travel to the world economic centers and begin the exposure. You expect the hospitals to be overrun and a complete shutdown of the world economy and especially Trump’s booming economic juggernaut to bring it down to your own level. Then you restart at a lower level and a more even playing field as you negotiate the new agreements. If you take out Trump, you know dealing with Slow Joe would be ideal.

Who knows if it was deliberate or incompetence, neither
one of them are acceptable? If it was deliberate it was an act of war although perhaps impossible to prove. This is where communism takes you. Since you must force people against their will to produce goods in your gulags, you have massive corruption at every level. You have Pelosi and her baskets throughout the ruling Party only rather than sending chocolates you send 85% of your earnings and hope it is enough. You have one child and if you get pregnant again you are forced to abort, or they kill your baby at birth then send the mother to a camp. If you are a dissident you go to concentration camps and make batteries in horrific conditions for Apple, Tesla, and Samsung. But hey, Healthcare is a right which they have while being cremated alive.

Nazi Pelosi’s chocolate basket may look cute on TV, but her and the Communist Party is the biggest threat to turning this country into China it has ever seen. This is not a war with China or Russia it is with Americans. Is America willing to give up all her freedoms for the promise of free healthcare? Is it ready to live like the Chinese in absolute fear to supposedly save the planet from CO2? Is it ready to give up everything for fear of a disease which was released by our enemy to defeat us? The answer is no.

Hong Kong knows the oppression of China and now HK is likely dead, but they had the right to free healthcare. Is America ready to give up its freedom to the Democrats for free chocolate? This is the decision she must make.

Pray for the sick

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

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Thought I'd post a "TV" category Blog category for a change. It is germane, I argue, in that I do a detailed review of the political pundits most of us watch on Fox or listen to on the radio.

• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

• • Daily Miscellany

Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.

Enjoy.  Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".

Who are these Medicare Plus people and why do they call me every damn day?

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Review "Secrets of the Zoo"

"Secrets of the Zoo" airs on NatGeo Wild-WILDH- at 9 pm on Sunday nights.

It's proven to be quite a successful series, interesting and a learning experience.

The series is featured at the Columbus Zoo, which I know nothing about except what I see on the show.  It is a large, well-managed Zoo in which the public can get close to the animals and interact with them.

A show usually features three animals in the zoo, afflictions or sickness they might be fighting, and the Veterinarians and staff that make them better.  For example a recent episode featured some newly obtained otter babies, a giraffe that just had a baby, and a cougar that unusual inflammation of the eyes.

The episode will go on to show the newborn otters, obtained from another zoo because their mother stopped caring for them.  The Zoo employees are shown trying to accustom the baby otters to the water, beginning with a small wading pool which the otters do not like, on to a larger and deeper pool of water.

Zoo employees who ride around the zoo caring for the animals in the wide open meadows are shown tracking a beautiful giraffe and her calf she was expected to drop any minute.  They spot the baby giraffe but explain how their job is not done until they witness the baby nursing, pooping, and peeing...that all natural processes are working fine.  Then the baby must be captured to be examined by the zoo veterinarian.  Capturing a baby from the herd is quite the job.

The cougar too must be captured to have its eyes examined and get medicine if needed. Cougars are a bit on the dangerous side and the viewer gets to see all involved in capturing the cougar from its den, doing what is necessary to calm the animal and transport it back to the zoo medical offices.

It's a good learning show, artfully and dramatically produced, with great human beings who love their charges.

Watch it.  And get your kids to watch it too.

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Taking a Look at Conservative Political Talk Show Pundits

Since I listen to a lot of talk shows on both radio and TV I thought it might be worth the time to discuss them at some length.

We must begin with the greatest of them all, Rush Limbaugh.  I have listened to Rush since Bill Clinton got involved with Monica.  It's not the entire time he's been on the air but we are talking over 20 years of Limbaugh devotion.

He was born to do what he does.  Sadly, Rush was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.  He has to be off the air frequently of late and I, just as sadly, was po'd about it.  Showing a strain of selfishness that I have and am not proud of.

But there is none better and the rest of the pack know it.

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We move on to both a radio and talk show pundit that came to recognition BECAUSE of Rush Limbaugh.  That would be Sean Hannity who would get a B- if I were giving out grades here.  Hannity got a lucky break and many people got to follow Rush on radio stations across the USA.

Sean is notorious for interrupting guests and quite rudely I might add.  I hurry to insert here that I love to watch Hannity's evening Fox TV show as he has gotten quite a reputation through the years and has groomed quite a few people to give him insights on what goes on behind the scenes.

As for his interruption tendency, lookit, sometimes political talk hosts have to stop guests from taking over the show.  I get that.  But Hannity doesn't just politely insert words to cut a talkative guest short.  He will start talking, on and on, right over the guest.

Still, with his contacts and his experience I'd have to put Sean Hannity as second in terms of talented political talk show hosts.

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Next, in almost a tie, are two female political talk show hostesses: Judge Jeanine and Laura Ingraham.  Laura too has both a radio show AND an evening Fox cable show.  Judge Jeanine, who once ran for a public office, including Senate against Hillary Clinton and Attorney General of New York.  She has a Fox cable political talk show that airs on weekends and is voted best of the bunch every week.

Laura is very knowledgeable but while Laura doesn't interrupt guests like Hannity, she does allow her guests to engage in on-air shouting matches that are very annoying.  I know that a bunch of guests of very differing political views often get involved in on-air debates but Laura allows it to go on entirely too long.

Justice Jeanine has a weekend show that I really quite enjoy.  She doesn't have twenty five guests to come on for her to interrupt or engage in on air verbal fist fights.

Jeanine Pirro has a talent that this listener quite enjoys.

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Next we have Fox cable talk show host Tucker Carlson.  I enjoy Tucker Carlson who rarely interrupts guests and keeps a close and polite attention to the show's dynamic.  The only problem I have with Tucker is....well he's not all that interesting.  He is on air around Hannity and Ingraham's shows and I suppose he has to dig up topics that they don't already cover all over the place.  Nonetheless, he's new to the political talk show theme and he's very good at it.

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Next we have one of more famous of the political talk show hosts and definitely one of the most knowledgeable.  I speak of Mark Levin, also known as "The Great One".

I enjoy Mark Levin's radio political talk show although after an hour I tend to end my listening.  If something really big is going on Mark Levin is first on my dial in the early evening of his broadcast times.

Levin also has a show on Fox cable on Sunday nights, titled "Life, Liberty and Levin".  Folks, do not be angry but I despise that show.  First, Mark only has one guest on the show and often it's somebody very boring and from a long time ago.  Mark tends to talk very softly as he interviews this guest, so much so that often I cannot hear him as I begin to doze off for the night during his air time.  Also, he doesn't tell the broadcast audience often enough just who the hell his guest is so you better not tune in after the show begins.

I don't think this show is going to last.  It's just boring and more boring.

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We end with two political talk show hosts who are not that well known but are worth an honorable mention.

First, Mark Steyn, a frequent fill-in for Rush Limbaugh and he does a damn good job of it.  Although I get tired of Mark after about 3 days of Rush missing.

But he's funny and I generally agree with his political view points.

Finally, Greg Gutfield.  Gutfield has a Fox cable show that airs on Saturdays and he's also on weekdays as one of the hosts on "The Five".

I quite enjoy Gutfield although I can only take him one day a week.  He's not that most glib of political talk show hosts but he's on point and I also like his kinda co-hosts Kat Timpf and Tyrus.

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Review Shark Tank

https://abc.com/shows/shark-tank

Kevin O'Leary, Mark Cuban, Barbara Cocoran, Robert Herjavec, John Daymond, Lori Grenier

Indeed Shark Tank is one of my favorite shows. Although there are a couple of Sharks who I distinctly do not like, more on this later.

First, hey, almost every "invention" presented on Shark Tank I like!  In fact, at times I sit up straight and wonder where I can get such an item.

Further, if ever a TV show was the definition of capitalism and talent, it is this show.

As for the Sharks, they all bid on items as offered, sometimes accepting the request from the entrepreneur, most times not.  I really like Lori Grenier, who is big on Home Shopping Network and right there you got a happening customer base.  I also like Kevin O'Leary, who likes to call himself "Mr. Wonderful".  Lori is very generous with her offers but will stick only to those items that will show well on HSN.  Mr. Wonderful tends to bid on a return for each item sold.  Thus if those beach towels with a handy pouch sell 100,000, Mr. Wonderful will get a certain amount for each item sold.

If nothing else, Robert Herjavec is very handsome.  In fact, as I guess, I believe he got married to an entrepreneur who appeared on the show.  Don't hold me to this but as aging memory serves.

John Daymond doesn't bid all that often but he's got a gracious smile and will make offers, often on sports type items, but not always.

Throw out Barbara Corcoran because she was once guest on some show and went on a love rant about Mayor Bloomberg, how much she admires him, how she'd vote for him.

Right there I have no respect for anybody who loves that awful failure with no personality.

Also throw out Mark Cuban because this guy loves the TV camera and I'm betting he has political plans for his future.  He was a huge fan of Hillary Clinton so right there who wants this guy on their side with that bad judgement?

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TIME FOR A SMILE

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I don’t watch much TV but like you I do listen to Rush every day.

I am a Rush subscriber also, but listen to him in the later afternoon or early evening on You tube. I like this because I can pause and skip if necessary, and all the commercials and station breaks are removed. That gives about 1 hour and 45 minutes of Rush being Rush.

Like you I was saddened by his cancer diagnosis and his being off. I have though, come to appreciate Mark Steyn. The other guest hosts are no match.

I have a feeling Rush is going to beat this cancer. His zest and forcefulness tell me all I need to know. He fight this and survives handily.

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Jose Andres, the Dem-darling chef on FNS.
Yes, he feeds people during crises, will he manage to throw in some anti-Trump zingers to please his celeb following?

[a little elbow grease]

ABC and Faux News will entertain Pigliosi.

Can't wait. Hope she preens about her double-wide freezer stuffed with ice cream.

[Savage Beast]

Nancy Piglosi has surfaced? I thought she was still pigging out in her mansion on designer ice cream.

[Nekman]

I see my Governor Witless will be planting her face on some shows. Too bad the residents of Michigan aren’t allowed to plant anything.

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First, Bray....I found myself cheering as I read your essay.

Because if ever a political blunder took place before my very lying eyeballs, it was my childhood friend Nancy Pelosi and her sight bite of her $50K freezer and $13 a pound chocolate ice cream.

Then I heard her this very morning responding to a query as to whether Americans should be released from their prisons.

“No,” she said, this icon of intelligence who controls our lives. “Everyone should shelter in place,” she continued as I cursed and scream that this nothing burger should command all of America to stay home as she flies the friendly skies and eats expensive ice cream.

Folks, I am so sick of these politicos who got a big too much power and act like assholes.

That Michigan woman.....can’t buy paint....they do not like her one bit in Michigan.

This Cuomo guy....man he never met a TV camera he didn’t like.

They are taking over our country and next week all of America will start to rise.

We were good. If this shutdown was a success it was mostly because us Americans who carry this country on our backs figured out how to handle it.

But we’re tired. And that Michigan woman really needs to be removed from office, she didn’t help anything.

We’re sick of it.

We’ll figure it out. We’ll protect the vulnerable, we’ll adjust our business, we won’t get violent or stupid.

But they’ll not hold us back any more.

That Michigan woman is a stellar example of WHO SHOULD NEVER HOLD ANY POWER IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY.

Whitmer I think is her name.

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Sunday Morning Talk Show Propaganda is what this should be called.

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Way to go bud brilliant as usual!
We already have the skinny on Piglosi and if our side has half a brain we will see photos and videos of Piglosi with an ice-cream vendors hat and apron on selling $20 half gallons of gourmet cones all over the place in between her cocaine needs which are said to be voluminous.
I'm gonna review some of the comments of others today from a web site of Paul Furber who is described as follows:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/08/paul-furber/

A South African web developer and tech journalist has been identified in a NBC News report as one of three people who helped boost the Qanon conspiracy theory to a wider audience, spreading the cryptic posts and messages from 4chan by taking the conspiracy from the dark corners of the Internet to the living rooms of everyday Americans.

Paul Furber, the web developer, joined forces with a Virginia man, Coleman Rogers, to enlist a “small-time YouTube star” and former “fringe right-wing” radio show host, Tracy Diaz, to bring the posts from Q, known as “Q drops,” to a more mainstream audience, according to NBC News. They helped spread them from anonymous message board websites to more widely used social media channels, including YouTube, Reddit, Facebook and Twitter. It was that mainstream promotion of Q that led to people wearing Qanon shirts and holding up signs about Q at President Donald Trump’s rallies.

The Qanon posts began on 4chan in October 2017 with the anonymous poster claiming to have “Q-level security clearance” and knowledge of a secret effort by Trump and his allies to take down a government and cultural cabal, including politicians like Hillary Clinton, Hollywood celebrities and members of the so-called “deep state.” As NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins write, “Qanon is a convoluted conspiracy theory with no apparent foundation in reality,” and there is “no evidence,” of the claims about the targets of the theories.

Here’s what you need to know about Paul Furber, who says on Twitter he is a “Journo, Programmer, Artist, Musician, Pilot, Teacher, Luthier, Biker, Christian”:

I found some stuff from Furber and whomever that is simply priceless.No telling what is real and what is not but its tantalizing and could not be resisted by yours truly.

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Where’s Joe?

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Thanks for posting this thread each week.

Walla$$ has already interviewed Piglosi. Fox is showing an except of Nervous Nancy answering one of Walla$$’s softball questions. I’m expecting Walla$$ to be rude to VP Pence by arguing and interrupting his answers. I’m sure he treats Piglosi with velvet gloves.

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Before I do the Furber thing which is endless here's the latest from Joshua Philipp:

Chinese Child Trafficking ring

https://www.theepochtimes.com/2-9-million-estimated-ccp-virus-cases-in-china-uk-warns-china-exploiting-the-crisis_3315639.html

Once again Joshua Philipp of Epoch Times comes using his infinite knowledge of China.The guy is a Chinese expert. He’s now doing five videos a week on everything from the wuflu to child trafficking by big wigs in the Chicom world.

A top Chinese Exec. affiliate with big companies like ZTE, Jere group with ties to Cisco, Bao Yumin, was busted for molesting his adopted child.According to Philipp's video Human sales are occurring partly due to a gray area of adoption law in China. Chinese fetus’ sell for 40,000 Juan,or a little over $6,000 in US dollars. You can buy a newborn for 100k or just over 14,000 US dollars in China if you are brazen enough to do such a thing.

Anyone who actually engages in human to human sales is about as low as you can get,down near the “Piglosi freezer full of ice cream” level. These trafficking operations are sophisticated enough that many women act as “breeders” for this group.These are women who have had second and third births for the traffickers. No telling what the price to women that birth babies for sale is. How low can you go.!! Groups of pregnant women are being used only to “sell children” accd. to a short part of Philipps video.

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Herr Gretchen Whitmer said she is coming out with a cookbook for kids. You’d think they would be too fast for her to catch?

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Pence will be on...Going to watch him... No AntiTrump panel on Face the Nation? 😋

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Great stuff fish time for a closer look by powerline at slow joe and how his camaping is going: