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This has to be her "Let Them Eat Cake" moment!! In her mansion, dual refridgerator stocked by servants (do you think she masked up and went to Ralph's?), holding Congress in recess, and she does this?? If here is one example of the political elite, this is it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgfumenJbXE

If you were waiting with baited breath for how Nancy Pelosi would respond to Trump’s cutting of funding to the World Health Organization, your wait is over. She’s chimed in to make several nonsensical charges, including claiming that the cut is “illegal.” Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller Pelosi on Trump WHO funding freeze: "This decision is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged.” 302 11:42 AM - Apr 15, 2020 296 people are talking about this Here’s the more full quote via Fox News. In a statement, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the halt in funding amid the global pandemic “is senseless.” “This...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday plans to give cash payments to adult immigrants living illegally in the state to help them weather the coronavirus crisis. The plan, which would use a mix of taxpayer money and charitable donations from corporations and philanthropists, will give 150,000 adults $500 each during the coronavirus outbreak, the governor said. California has had an estimated 2 million immigrants living in the country illegally. They have not been eligible for the $2.2 trillion stimulus package approved by Congress last month, which pledged cash payments to most Americans while boosting unemployment benefits by $600 per...

For three decades, Meshawn Maddock and her family have run A-1 Bail Bonds in Milford, Michigan. But just a few days ago, she said she was forced to lay off her last three employees due to courts being shuttered and jails being emptied to blunt the spread of coronavirus in the hard-hit state. Instead of staying in her house, adhering to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home orders, Maddock drove 60 miles from her residence to Lansing, the state capitol, to join a convoy of motorists Wednesday afternoon protesting the governor's pandemic directive and calling on state leaders to allow small businesses...

If so, do you know if they had the flu earlier?Between December and when the junk from china hit them. I was wondering if the effected ones had any antibodies from a previous bout with the flu.

It is most certainly past time to open the country for business again. Since mid-March, states and/or cities around the nation have gone above and beyond the call of duty to enact policies to keep citizens safe from contracting the China Virus. Attempts to “slow the spread” are noble. To say that is a given and pretty much understood. BUT… there are obvious “unintended” consequences that are now happening as a result. Unemployment has shot through the roof and is approaching Great Depression levels with between 3 and 6 million people filing for benefits WEEKLY. Not because there are no...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will “swiftly” challenge what she called President Trump’s “senseless” and “illegal” suspension of US funding to the World Health Organization. Trump stopped the funding on Tuesday, saying the WHO needs “meaningful reforms” after failing to report accurate coronavirus data from China, worsening the pandemic’s punch to the US. But Pelosi said Wednesday the United Nations body is essential to battling COVID-19. “This is another case, as I have said, of the President’s ineffective response, that ‘a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others,'” Pelosi said in a statement.

China lied and people died. That’s a fact. Tired of being cooped up inside, do you miss sports, do you miss being outside with friends at BBQs and bars? We all do—and you should blame China for torpedoing pretty much everyone’s lives because of their incompetence. This government, which already kills its own people, decided to go for a grand slam hit of spreading this pneumonia-like virus, known as the Wuhan coronavirus, everywhere. It’s a pandemic. Oh, and now the Associated Press reports that China knew this virus would become a global pandemic, but sat on its hands for nearly...

A Drexel University student has filed a class action lawsuit against the college demanding a refund for tuition and other fees for the Spring 2020 semester that was disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Grainger Rickenbacker, the filing plaintiff, is a full-time student at Drexel University and hails from South Carolina. He asserts that he and other students paid for services that were not delivered by their school. The form of those payments were tuition costs and other related expenses.

Russia has tested a system designed to shoot down satellites, the US Space Command announced Wednesday. “Russia’s DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to US and allied space systems are real, serious and growing,” said Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, USSPACECOM commander and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations. “The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the Nation, our allies and US interests from hostile acts in space.”

Princess Anne seems to take a veiled dig at her nephews, Princes William and Harry in a new interview. The Princess Royal, who turns 70 this August spoke with Vanity Fair and described herself as a “fuddy-duddy” when it comes to charitable work, in comparison to the younger royals who she thinks might want to “go back to basics” when it comes to philanthropy. The interview was conducted before Harry and Meghan exited the royal family and announced the establishment of their own private foundation named Archewell after their son Archie. Harry — especially while still a working member of...

Lifelong Democrat and Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones has officially endorsed Donald Trump for President. Jones, who is black, released statements to the media and social media. He also recorded a short video of himself not only giving his endorsement to Trump, but explaining why. In the video, he addressed a big elephant in many Democrat's room, which is why how he can be black and endorse Trump at the same time. His take was simple. Trump is doing great things for the black community. Lowest black unemployment rate ever. Funding for HBCUs (Black Colleges). Opportunity zones, school choice, you...

Old enough to drive a car? Then you would be old enough to receive $2,000 a month under a plan introduced this week by two Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Under the Emergency Money for the People Act, US citizens who are 16 or older — and make less than $130,000 a year — would receive cash payments from the federal government for at least six months and until unemployment falls to pre-pandemic levels. The bill was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Tim Ryan, a former presidential candidate associated with the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and Rep....

Rapper Kanye West said he is “definitely voting” in the upcoming November election and left little doubt about who he will be backing. The interview: “Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn’t drink from, and they used to sit in restaurants where they were told they couldn’t eat from. They didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on,” said the Trump-supporting rapper-turned Christian in an interview with GQ magazine.

Hundreds of beeping vehicles swarmed downtown Lansing today, jamming up several intersections, blocking roadways and crowding the State Capitol lawn to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay Safe, Stay Home” executive order. Many defied social distancing mandates in Whitmer’s order, crowding closely together with rifles and signs supporting Donald Trump. Others stayed in their cars and trucks, some pulling construction gear, landscaping equipment and motorboats. Music blared from loud speakers. Hundreds ignored guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by not wearing masks or face covers, shouting about how Whitmer needs to be removed from office. Rich Freiburger,...

A pro-life group in Columbia, South Carolina, has received an exemption from the state’s stay at home order, meaning the group can continue to protest safely outside the city’s Planned Parenthood facility. The exemption comes after group members were ticketed for their presence and threatened with arrest in violation of a citywide stay at home order last week. According to the Post and Courier, Mark Baumgartner, president of the group A Moment of Hope, received a citation on April 7 for violating Columbia’s stay at home order as his group was praying outside a Planned Parenthood facility. While responding police...

A medical ventilator to help Covid-19 patients breathe has been granted regulatory approval, meaning hundreds could be rolled out to hospitals from next week. Penlon’s ESO2 device, developed under the codename Project Oyster, will become the first model to get the green light from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), with an announcement expected as soon as Thursday. Formal approval comes amid mounting concern that tens of thousands of ventilators ordered by the government are still awaiting regulatory clearance. The length of the process has stoked fears about the readiness of the NHS for a surge in patients...

A prominent Israeli mathematician, analyst and former general claims simple statistical analysis demonstrates that the spread of COVID-19 peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it. Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, told Israel’s Channel 12 (Hebrew) Monday night that research he conducted with a fellow professor, analyzing the growth and decline of new cases in countries around the...

“We Are No Longer Asking Or Suggesting That Marylanders Stay Home, We Are Directing Them To Do So.” ANNAPOLIS, MD—As the COVID-19 crisis escalates in the National Capital Region, Governor Larry Hogan today issued a Stay at Home order to protect public health and safety. The order, which takes effect at 8:00 p.m. tonight, states that no Maryland resident should leave their home unless it is for an essential job or for an essential reason, such as obtaining food or medicine, seeking urgent medical attention, or for other necessary purposes.

Mid-week, schmidweek, I can’t tell Sunday from Wednesday right now, so at this point it really doesn’t matter if it’s Saturday or whenever. Though as it happens today we are halfway between Western Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter, so this is a suitable time o get in a few Easter-related memes and such that we didn’t have on hand last Saturday. And oh yeah, somebody named Barack O’Bernie or something endorsed Joe Biden for something.