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Kayleigh McEnany Does Not Take Questions From CNN 'Activists'
Trump never got a transition, so why should anyone else?
November 20, 2020 03:36 PM
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her first press briefing in 50 days, coming out to tell the assembled enemies of the people that while Democrats were all wasting their time impeaching poor innocent Donald Trump, the Dear Leader, his heart near bursting with love for His people, was busy fighting and defeating the coronavirus pandemic, as proved by the arrival of two vaccines that have shown very promising early test results. Also, she very carefully dodged questions about who won the election, because who can possibly know yet at this early point?
Here's the whole sorry mess, which actually lasted a tad less than fifteen minutes before McEnany stalked off, snubbing CNN's Kaitlan Collins by telling her that "activists" don't get to ask questions, which was pretty rich, considering she'd just taken a question from One Trump News Network's Chanel Rion.
Look, Fox Business used the stock photo of McEnany in a black dress, not us.
<p>Asked whether the administration's refusal to allow the Biden transition team to have access to the work being done on the vaccines might delay their distribution, McEnany chirped, "Not in the slightest!"</p><p>You see, Joe Biden doesn't need to worry, because the vaccine distribution plan is <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/downloads/COVID-19-Vaccination-Program-Interim_Playbook.pdf" target="_blank">on the CDC website,</a> and he can just read it there if he's interested. Factcheck: It's an outline, and while it's a fairly detailed outline of how a process should be set up, it lacks the actual operational data a new administration will need to really do anything. </p><p>Besides, she explained, all 64 regional jurisdictions that'll be involved have their own "individualized distribution plans" that have been assessed already, so don't you worry, OK? You don't need to worry about a thing, especially since, in Kayleigh's world, Donald Trump might still win the election. So when a vaccine is approved for emergency use, the Trump administration is ready to start distributing it within 24 hours. </p><p>Someone shouted, "When are you going to admit you lost?!" But McEnany ignored that rude monster.</p><p>Someone asked what Trump planned to discuss with the Michigan lawmakers he's called in to ignore the actual vote, but again, not a problem, because "nobody from the campaign" will be in the meeting, except for the candidate himself, and the Great Man "routinely meets with lawmakers all across the country." Perfectly normal, nothing more to say.</p><p>Again: "When are you going to admit you lost the election?!!" (ignored) </p><p>Another reporter asked, more nicely, when Trump might concede and begin the transition. Well don't get ahead of yourself, Buster! There's "ongoing litigation," and besides, 74 million Americans voted for Trump, "and that's more votes than any president has gotten in history, it's really extraordinary." Gee, wonder if some other candidate might have gotten more votes than that? Probably not, because of all the fraud. </p><p>McEnany went on to reassure the reporters that nobody in the White House had pressured the GSA to delay the start of the transition, but that the White House certainly can't <em>start </em>a transition until the GSA makes that ascertainment, because it's the law. </p><p>Asked about the more than 250,000 Americans who have died in the pandemic, she suggested we all look on the bright side, because experts originally said there'd be two million dead (if no action were taken at all), so we're doing great as long as we stay below that! Also, greatest testing program anywhere, American ingenuity, and President Trump oversaw all of it! Then, in a weird monotone, McEnany rushed out the phrase, "But of course we are seeing cases rise and it's very important to wash your hands socially distance we're taking this seriously." Maybe take the spaces out of that. </p><p>What about mixed messages? Mike Pence said to follow state guidelines, but McEnany <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/kayleigh-mcenany-who-has-never-read-orwell-calls-public-health-measures-orwellian" target="_blank">called some state guidelines "Orwellian."</a> So how should people know what to do? She helpfully suggested trying some doublethink: Take the virus seriously, but Oregon IS Orwellian for wanting to jail people if they have more than six people at Thanksgiving. Which isn't really true, but it proves she's right. </p><p>Finally, OANN's Chanel Rion gave her own speech: "Contrary to the court of media opinion, there is real-time data showing vast irregularities in the voting system." What she wanted to know is, "Where is the FBI in this entire scheme?" Will the guilty be punished? WHAR FBI???</p><p>Kayleigh explained that Rion would have to check with the FBI, then launched into a prepared closing: "It's worth remembering that this president was never given an orderly transition of power, his presidency was never accepted." Then, the full list of grievances, from Peter Strzok to the "baseless Mueller investigation, which searched for collusion, found none, and exonerated President Trump," as well as some folks who didn't attend his inauguration — but how how could there even have been room for them when it was the most crowded in history? So really, that was absolutely terrible and also absolutely perfect. McEnany went Full Pagliacci at the end: </p><blockquote>While in 2016, President Trump became the duly elected president, many sought to undermine him, discredit him, delegitimize him, and deny his victory. There were no calls for unity, there were no calls for healing. So while all the legal votes are counted, let us not forget the inexcusable transition, or lack thereof, that President Trump had to endure in 2016, and four years into his presidency. </blockquote><p>That poor man. Why don't you all appreciate all he's done for you? Then Kaitlan Collins tried to ask a question, Kayleigh smirked and said, "I don't call on activists," and it was all over, GOOD DAY, I SAY.</p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. 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Geraldo Rivera Wants To Heal The Country, Trump's Ego, By Naming Covid Vaccine After Him
Almost as effective a world peace plan as buying the world a Coke.
November 20, 2020 01:34 PM
Geraldo Rivera, who is looking more and more like the Purple Pieman from Strawberry Shortcake every day, has an idea for how to heal our divided nation. Is it by establishing Single Payer Medicare for All? No, that is too literal. He wants us to remain sick (or poor, your choice!), but just get along really well like none of this shit ever happened. He also wants to try and make Trump feel better about people thinking he should stop being president just because he lost the election.
This plan? Naming the COVID vaccine after Trump and then having that be the term everyone uses for it all of the time, for decades to come.
"I had an idea with the world so divided and everybody telling him he's gotta give up and time to leave and time to transition and all the rest of it why not name the vaccine The Trump, make it, like, 'have you gotten your Trump yet?' It would be a nice gesture to him. And years from now it would become just kind of a generic name."
<div id="0ed84" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="49493015b452e4a600523fe20ce80fdb"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1329778349275832321" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Geraldo WHAT: "I had an idea with the world so divided and everybody telling [Trump] he's gotta give up and time to… https://t.co/IydYNZ3XfW</div> — The Recount (@The Recount)<a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/statuses/1329778349275832321">1605878839.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>Trump does like putting his name on things, this is true. And if the vaccine were the kind you get in the butt, it would feel marginally appropriate as a Dad joke, as he is certainly a pain in the ass. But no, no. I don't think that anyone would call the vaccine "The Trump" even if it were officially named that, because that is just weird. </p><p>According to Geraldo, he kind of deserves it though because of how we wouldn't even have it if he hadn't pushed so hard for it. </p><blockquote> "I wished we could honor him in that way. Because he's definitely the prime architect of this Operation Warp Speed and but for him we'd still be waiting, you know, into the grim winter these amazing, miraculous breakthroughs."</blockquote><p>Yeah, that seems like a thing that is not actually true. I'm gonna say that probably the scientists are the reason why we are not still waiting! Also no one gets vaccines named after them. No one goes around saying "I'm gonna get a Jenner" because Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine. That would be weird and also confusing because like 90 percent of Americans would think it was somehow related to Kylie. </p><p>If Geraldo truly wants to heal this nation, he can encourage the people who watch his station to stop being terrible. Or he can try to find Al Capone's vault again because pretty much everyone laughed at that. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.towleroad.com/2020/11/geraldo-rivera-trump-vaccine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+towleroad%2Ffeed+%28Towleroad+Gay+News+%29" target="_blank">Towleroad</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Tyson Managers (Allegedly) Ran Betting Pool On How Many Pork Plant Workers Would Get COVID-19
So THAT'S why Mitch McConnell wants to block coronavirus lawsuits.
November 20, 2020 09:20 AM
Managers at a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, allegedly bet on how many employees would contract COVID-19, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of a Tyson employee who died in April. The lawsuit accuses Tyson management of engaging in "fraudulent misrepresentations, gross negligence and incorrigible, willful and wanton disregard for worker safety" that led to the April 26 death of plant employee Isidro Fernandez.
Tyson Foods President and CEO Dean Banks, who's one of multiple Tyson executives and managers named in the lawsuit, announced Thursday that the managers accused of running the betting pool have been suspended without pay, and that the company was launching an investigation into the claims, to be led by former US Attorney General Eric Holder. In a statement, Banks called the alleged behavior "disturbing," and said the company is "extremely upset about the accusations involving some of the leadership at our Waterloo plant." You know it's a very sincere statement of concern because the statement's heading reads, "Team member actions not aligned with company's core values." Core values, folks, with a link in the statement to the company's CORE VALUES page.
<p>According to the lawsuit, the defendants<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936905707/tyson-managers-suspended-after-allegedly-betting-if-workers-would-contract-covid" target="_blank"> told supervisors</a> at the plant to falsely deny there were any "confirmed cases" or "positive tests" at the plant in March. </p><blockquote>The top brass also allegedly told workers "they had a responsibility to keep working in order to ensure Americans don't go hungry."<br><br>The plaintiffs say managers also continued transferring employees between plants after some had tested positive for the coronavirus without requiring them to quarantine.</blockquote><p>As the pandemic worsened in March and April, the plant <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936905707/tyson-managers-suspended-after-allegedly-betting-if-workers-would-contract-covid" target="_blank">stayed open,</a> even after Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson advised the company to shut it down, saying that working conditions there "shook him to the core." But wait, there's more! </p><blockquote>[Employees complained] to Waterloo health care providers that they did not have sufficient personal protective equipment and that social distancing guidelines were ignored on the plant floor and in employee locker rooms. They also said under-resourced nurses could not accurately conduct temperature checks. And non-English speaking employees mistakenly believed they could return to work while sick.<br><br>"At least one worker at the facility vomited on the production line and management allowed him to continue working and return to work the next day," lawyers for Fernandez' family said.<br><br>Tyson also offered $500 "thank you bonuses" to employees who turned up for every scheduled shift for three months, the filings say.</blockquote><p>But let's not forget all the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyson-foods-lawsuit-managers-john-casey-tom-hart-bet-money-covid-19-employees/?fbclid=IwAR19ITnvQXhXAHckoby_U9FaOuRyUW5KCdEqzMrC8k2ap7_YjhUpW34o73w" target="_blank">gambling fun,</a> because what good is a story of horrifying negligence without a little gratuitous cruelty mixed in? </p><blockquote>"Around this time, Defendant Tom Hart, the Plant Manager of the Waterloo facility, organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19," the lawsuit says.</blockquote><p>In what seems a disappointing failure to put in the journalistic legwork, none of the stories we looked at said which lucky manager took the pot. CNN does <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/business/tyson-coronavirus-lawsuit/index.html" target="_blank">note </a>that the suit claims that by late March or early April, "most managers at the Waterloo Facility started avoiding the plant floor because they were afraid of contracting the virus," and that they handed off their duties to "low-level supervisors with no management training or experience," which certainly seems to indicate the managers were committed to the health and safety of all Tyson employees who were themselves. </p><p>The suit also <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyson-foods-lawsuit-managers-john-casey-tom-hart-bet-money-covid-19-employees/?fbclid=IwAR19ITnvQXhXAHckoby_U9FaOuRyUW5KCdEqzMrC8k2ap7_YjhUpW34o73w" target="_blank">alleges </a>that while all this was going on, Tyson executives went to Washington DC to lobby the White House to let the meatpacking industry keep operating, without too many dumb disease-prevention measures that might slow down production. In late April, Donald Trump did indeed <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/president-meat-sweats-hereby-orders-americas-meat-makers-to-keep-making-him-meats" target="_blank">issue a Hereby Declare order</a> that the killing floors must keep going, to feed a nation that needed its meat sweats. </p><p>The suit also says Tyson "successfully lobbied, or directed others to lobby Gov. [Kim] Reynolds to issue an executive order stating that only state government, not local governments, had the authority to close businesses," which only makes sense, because what if local governments had too many weak-willed Democrats who refused to see that business must keep going? </p><p>In conclusion, we hope the Fernandez family and other families of the workers who were sickened and killed by irresponsible food processing companies get a huge payout, because goddamn, that's only right. </p><p>And don't forget, all this casual disregard for workers' health and safety is why Republicans demand that any new stimulus bill include a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/republicans-covid-19-liability-shield-is-so-much-worse-than-you-thought" target="_blank">big fat liability shield</a> for corporate America. All the coming liability lawsuits might hold executives and managers responsible for infecting their workers and customers, and we simply can't afford <em>that.</em> </p><p>[<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyson-foods-lawsuit-managers-john-casey-tom-hart-bet-money-covid-19-employees/?fbclid=IwAR19ITnvQXhXAHckoby_U9FaOuRyUW5KCdEqzMrC8k2ap7_YjhUpW34o73w" target="_blank">CBS News</a> / <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936905707/tyson-managers-suspended-after-allegedly-betting-if-workers-would-contract-covid" target="_blank">NPR </a>/ <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/business/tyson-coronavirus-lawsuit/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>]<br></p><p>Yr Wonkette is funded entirely by reader donations. 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Actual Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Now Submitting To Medical Expertise Of The MyPillow Guy
Taking a poison to own the libs, we guess.
November 19, 2020 02:20 PM
For all of Ben Carson's absolute batshittery over the last seven years, he was, at one point, an incredibly talented pediatric neurosurgeon. Can't take that away from him, he really was very good. Famously good. Enough to have Cuba Gooding Jr. play him in a television movie of the week, even. One might think that, as a very talented pediatric neurosurgeon, he would have lots of resources and contacts in the medical community, certainly more than the rest of us. But when he got diagnosed with COVID-19, rather than turn to his fellow doctors for advice, rather than consult actual medical experts (like himself!), he decided to seek out the advice of the guy who invented an As Seen On TV pillow.
Yes, according to a report in the Washington Post, famous neurosurgeon Ben Carson, after being diagnosed with COVID-19, took the advice of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and took some Oleandrin, a product marketed by a company Lindell owns a stake in, which also happens to be derived from a very deadly poison. Like there was a whole Michelle Pfeiffer movie about murdering someone with oleander, and it was literally called White Oleander. You do not have to be a neurosurgeon to know that Oleandrin is dangerous, you simply have to watch many, many episodes of the ID Channel's Deadly Women series.
<p>Via <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-guys-giuliani-scaramucci-lewandoski-omarosa-parnas-/2020/11/18/8ecc78f2-25b3-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post:</a></p><blockquote>When Ben Carson, Trump's secretary of housing and urban development, came down with covid-19 last week, the former surgeon wasn't worried. He had a Guy for that.<br><br>"I heard about the oleander extract from Mike," Carson said in an interview.<br><br>"Mike" is Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate who served as a Trump campaign chairman in Minnesota; oleander extract is an unproven therapeutic remedy for the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> that Lindell has been pushing.<br><br>Carson said he took the extract, which has not been approved for such purposes by the FDA and which experts say may be dangerous, and within hours his symptoms disappeared <strong>—</strong> to the delight of Lindell, who has a financial stake in the company that makes the extract.<br><br><span></span>"Anybody who has ever gotten covid and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway," said Lindell, who has pitched the Trump administration on its effectiveness (which, again, has not been proved).</blockquote><p>To be fair, while Carson spent the 1980s as the youngest ever chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States, Mike Lindell <em>was</em> getting an education in pharmaceuticals — by which I mean he was smoking <em>a lot</em> of crack. Actually, according to his memoirs, he was smoking crack until about 2009, and while I do not believe in shaming drug addicts because it is a disease not a crime (the <a href="https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2017/03/mike-lindell-cocaine-addiction-domestic-abuse-arrest-my-pillow/" target="_blank">domestic violence</a> he was arrested for was, however, a crime), it seems like smoking crack for like 30 years would probably do some shit to your brain that not even Ben Carson could fix. </p><p>It's nice that it worked out for him, but it's a huge risk. After all, oleandrin is a poison. He's very lucky, not just because he survived, but because boy would it have been embarrassing for him to be a neurosurgeon who died because he took medical advice from the MyPillow guy.</p><p>Carson is no stranger to experimental procedures, having mostly become famous for separating five pairs of twins conjoined at the head — with only one of those surgeries having turned out well for both siblings. That's not a ding on him, it's hardly an easy surgery and the parents knew the risks going in. He was the first person to do it without killing both children. But it does seem like it's one thing to take a risk when you have no other choice and the person you're turning to is an actual expert in the field and another to take a risk by following the medical advice of a dude who invented a pillow that is not even a very good pillow (I tested it in a Bed, Bath and Beyond and was not impressed) and did a lot of crack. I mean, I sure wouldn't.<br></p><p>In fact, it seems like a thing that a guy like Ben Carson probably would not do were he not in the thrall of Trump. In order to stay in the inner circle he probably has to pretend he is just as ignorant about science and poisons as everyone else around him. Given how things tend to go in the Trump White House, he probably got chastised for <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-premature-promote-latest-unproven-coronavirus-treatment/story?id=72476046" target="_blank">giving an interview in August</a> in which he said he couldn't recommend the product until it was tested and approved in trials, like any other drug. There was probably some kind of "Oh, you better take this poison for your COVID or it's really going to hurt the MyPillow Guy's feelings! People will think he's not a medical expert!" thing happening there. </p><p>If Ben Carson were not such a huge jackass, we might feel a little badly for him. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-guys-giuliani-scaramucci-lewandoski-omarosa-parnas-/2020/11/18/8ecc78f2-25b3-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p>Keep your Wonkette paying the writers please, if you are able! </p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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