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We wanted to know: What’s the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election? President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while my colleagues and I at the Transition Integrity Project didn’t want to lie awake at night contemplating the ways the American experiment could fail, we realized that identifying the most serious risks to our democracy might be the best way to avert a November disaster. So we built a series of war games, sought out some of the most accomplished Republicans, Democrats, civil servants, media...

One of the most successful elements of the government’s response to the coronavirus recession — protecting people on the margins from falling into poverty — is faltering as the safety net shrinks and federal benefits expire. Major recessions are especially fraught for low-income earners, whose finances can veer from tenuous to dire with one missed paycheck. But as the economy cratered this spring, economists and poverty experts were mildly surprised to discover that the torrent of government support that followed — particularly the $600 a week in expanded unemployment benefits and one-time $1,200 stimulus checks — likely lowered the overall...

Like it or not, the U.S. is already fighting an economic and technological cold war against China. While we should aim to eventually return to the optimism and promise of a broad China/U.S. partnership, the time for that is not now. This is a major challenge to our country, and we must do everything we can to avoid losing our economic leadership. By now, we all know the rivalry in 5G and AI, part of China’s $1.4 trillion technology commitment. Less attention has been given to an equally consequential struggle: who will control our future global financial systems. The power...

I’m voting for Trump again this time and am very happy with him as our President. However, I feel he is going to lose the election albeit illegally. There is no way we can overcome the combination of the coming mail-in voter fraud and accompanying ballot harvesting that will occur in old folks homes, both facilitated by democrat operatives. That said, the vote tally likely won’t matter in the end anyway. Why is this? Due to the mail-in voting debacle the results of the election won’t be known for weeks and probably in reality months. The counting of votes will...

If the United States has not certified a new President by Jan. 20, 2021, what happens??? (This Presidential term expires 12:01 PM on that day.) Someone has opined that the Order of Presidential Succession takes over, and the Speaker of the House becomes President. 1) Is this true, Constitution scholars? and 2) If (1) is correct, don't we have pretty conclusive evidence that the DeepState and Nazzi Peesloosley will stop at NOTHING to get Mr. Trump out of the way? A vote-by-mail boosted turnout ~10% larger than the previous years ought to trigger extensive challenges to the results for any...

<p>As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged from war and revolution in 1949, it became apparent that the Chinese economy lacked the capacity to compete with the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. in the production of advanced military technology. Transfers from the Soviet Union helped remedy the gap in the 1950s, as did transfers from the United States and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, the Cultural Revolution stifled technology and scientific research, leaving the Chinese even farther behind.</p>

Sen. Ted Cruz warned the Texas GOP State Convention if the Democrats win the Lone Star State both the White House and the Senate are gone. 'If the Democrats win Texas it's all over,' Cruz said by video to virtual convention attendees. 'Texas is the single biggest target for the left in 2020, politically speaking. There are 38 electoral votes at stake. There's a U.S. Senate seat at stake. And Texas is the key to national domination for years to come,' the Texas Republican pointed out, in the video address he posted to Twitter Sunday. Polling has shown the race...

Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and painful headache when her parents found her unresponsive in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors ultimately diagnosed the then-5-year-old Sudbury, Massachusetts, resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling. Garabedian survived the potentially fatal virus after about a month in Boston hospitals, but her parents say her ordeal and ongoing recovery should be a warning as people take advantage of the outdoors this summer. “It’s been a rough year,” said David Garabedian, her father. “With any brain injury, it’s hard to tell....

White House's top social media staffer referred to Dr. Anthony Fauci as 'Dr. Faucet' in a cartoon post on social mediaAnd White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany referred to Fauci as 'one member' of the Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Fauci is one member of a team but rest assured his viewpoint is represented and the information gets to the president through the task force,' she saidWhite House circulated document on Fauci statements on COVID this weekendIt was seen as an attack on Fauci's reputation In a sign move backfired senior administration official told DailyMail.com it wasn't a White House memo on...

In this two minute video, members of Brazil's parliament break into a hospital that is lying about Covid-19 patients. Lots of yelling, and I don't speak the language, but it was so refreshing to see them break in and at the 1:24 mark in the 2 minute video, (apparently) one of the people trying to hide the fact that the hospital is empty tries (and fails) to confront one of the parliamentary members, and that person does NOT back down. It was all fake - no patients there.  NOTE: The text below this image was posted by the Bitchute channel. click...

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office will not be enforcing the statewide order Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday requiring masks and face coverings in public as coronavirus cases continue to increase in California. In a statement Friday, the Sheriff’s Office recommended people should be “exercising safe practices” during the pandemic, including wearing masks, but said it would be “inappropriate” to criminally enforce the governor’s order, or target people and businesses for failing to do so. “Due to the minor nature of the offense, the potential for negative outcomes during enforcement encounters, and anticipating the various ways in which the order may...

SNIP Back when the coronavirus pandemic cases started picking up in early Spring, many Americans and experts asked: Should we be wearing masks? In response, some public health officials, such as the U.S. Surgeon, said that masks weren't necessary for the general public. And then the public was told that, actually, masks are good to wear to help prevent the spread and also allow you to go out without anxiety of anyone coming within six feet of you. Dr. Fauci joined TheStreet to talk about why masks are important when you leave the house, and to better explain why there...

VIDEO Now that there will be a Trump rally in Tulsa with over 800,000 signed up to attend, the media has discovered that coronavirus is rising again. Of course, during the recent wave of protests with little to no social distancing that concern was pretty much absent. Oddly enough, the graph of the actual deaths from the virus as you can see paints a starkly contrasting picture to what is now being portrayed.

Dr. Deborah Birx said that it was “difficult to tell” whether a second coronavirus wave in the Fall could cause another national lockdown. Birx’s Sunday morning interview on ABC’s “This Week” came after President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he will not “close” the country if, as Dr. Anthony Fauci expects, cases spike again later this year. WATCH: “I think we’re trying to learn right now very carefully about how you reopen safely,” Birx responded when asked by ABC’s Martha Raddatz if that was the “right approach.” “You know we act like we’ve actually done this before and besides...

Are politicians now continuing the lockdowns because admitting error — that they’re guilty of advancing one of American history’s greatest blunders — would mean political destruction? Are they continuing to destroy the careers of millions to save their own (when, perhaps, something more sinister is not at work)? Many may now draw this conclusion after yet another study, this one by establishment company JP Morgan, has found that the lockdowns have done nothing to alter the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic’s course. As the Daily Mail reports:Falling infection rates since lockdowns were lifted suggest that the virus ‘likely has its own dynamics’...

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine offer no clinical benefit for people with COVID-19 and might cause serious heart-related side effects, according to a study published Friday in The Lancet. People with severe illness caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, treated with either drug -- either alone or with an antiviral medication -- were up to twice as likely to die than those in the control group, which received standard, supportive care, the researchers found. Those who died did so either as a result of COVID-19 or from side effects from treatment, the authors said. "This is the first large-scale study to find...

Coronavirus infections could reach as high as 5.4 million in the US in the next two months and more than 290,000 Americans could die if social distancing isn't adhered to, according to a COVID-19 forecast model. The ominous forecast from the University Of Pennsylvania's Wharton School model accounts for all states fully reopening without any social distancing measures. In comparison, the model predicts nearly 4.3 million cases and 230,000 deaths by July 24 if states reopen but individuals maintain their social distancing efforts.

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (CBS Local) — A Wisconsin woman who has taken hydroxychloroquine for 19 years to treat lupus says the anti-malarial drug will not protect someone from COVID-19. Kim, who doesn’t want to show her face or give her full name, says after the pandemic began, she only left her Oconomowoc home to go the grocery store. But by mid-April, she started feeling coronavirus symptoms. “Weak all over. Coughing, fever. The fever was very high,” she told WISN. “It just went downhill from there. I couldn’t breathe no more.” Kim said she tested positive for COVID-19. “When they gave the...

Police officers may feel the brunt of the pain as cities throughout the United States are struggling to balance their budgets because of revenue losses triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2,100 cities have reported budget shortfalls because of the coronavirus, according to data from the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Most of the financial pain stems from a lack of tax revenue from companies closing during the pandemic. Nearly 90% of cities noted that they have revenue shortfalls that could force budget cuts. At least 1,100 cities plan to reduce their public works...

But that’s not the worst of it. In the Telegraph, two software executives write that Ferguson’s model was, on its face, incompetent and would not have been accepted by anyone well-versed in computer technology. (“Neil Ferguson’s Imperial model could be the most devastating software mistake of all time.”) The article is beyond a paywall, so I will excerpt liberally: In the U.K., as here in America, the responsible government officials believed they had no choice but to follow the advice of officially-anointed “experts.” These alleged experts were bureaucrats and academics, not practicing physicians. The result has been a disaster, blighting...