coronavirus
Nancy Pelosi Sees The GOP's Bullsh*t Coming
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August 03, 2020 04:03 PM
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx appeared on CNN's "State Of The Union" this weekend, where she proved House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lack of confidence in her is merited:
BIRX: I want to be very clear. What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread.
Now?! Now it's "widespread"?! Before it was, what, just a hiccup? We are all Meryl Streep right now.
Birx also told CNN:
BIRX: I'm going to do what the CDC guidelines have recommended, and certainly the director. If you have high caseload and active community spread, just like we are asking people not to go to bars, not to have household parties, not to create large spreading events, we are asking people to distance learn at this moment, so we can get this epidemic under control.
On Monday, Nancy Pelosi reiterated why she has so little confidence in Birx:
PELOSI: I don't have confidence in anyone who stands there while the president says [swallowing] Lysol is going to cure your virus. You know, it'll kill you, and you won't have the virus anymore.
And so forth.
As you know by now, Pelosi's statements and Birx's slight disagreement with Trump on school reopenings elicited this response:
So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on… https://t.co/E0d5Oy4CIY— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1596462296.0
<p>Same shit, different day. But back to Pelosi!</p><p>Pelosi spoke about the GOP's refusal to extend the $600 unemployment add-on, on "This Week":</p>
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<strong>PELOSI</strong>: We have been for the $600. They have a $200 proposal, which does not meet the needs of America's working families.
And it's a condescension, quite frankly, because they're saying, really don't need it; they're just staying home because they make more money at $600.
So, the idea that they made a proposal is really not actually factual.
[...] [T]he fact is [...] they're subjecting somebody who gets $600 to scrutiny they won't subject some of the people that are getting millions of dollars in the PPP.
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Not only is Speaker Pelosi absolutely correct (again) but it was like she was clairvoyant, Treasury Secretary and <a href="https://youtu.be/gY7EnEuqb7M?t=2459" target="_blank"><em>Batman V Superman</em> producer</a> Steven Mnuchin said this literally minutes later on the same show:</p><blockquote>
<strong>RADDATZ</strong>: [Y]ou do think it is a disincentive to find a job if you have that extra $600?
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<strong>MNUCHIN</strong>: There's no question in certain cases where we're paying people more to work -- stay home than to work. That's created issues in the entire economy.
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Yep! During a highly contagious pandemic and worsening recession, Mnuchin is concerned we peasants will be lounging back and snacking on caviar with an extra $600. </p><p>Raddatz cited a Yale study that refuted this theory, which Mnuchin dismissed while seemingly forgetting America is a <em>consumer</em>-driven economy that can't function if Americans are busy starving or unable to spend money. Bernie Sanders pointed out Mnuchin's transparency about what the GOP actually values when he retweeted the interview clip: </p><p>So that happened. But back to Pelosi on "This Week"!</p><p>
Pelosi called out the GOP's attempts to disenfranchise voters by trying to stop mail-in voting, noting how very recently the GOP and the Trump family were all about mail-in voting:</p><blockquote><strong>RADDATZ</strong>: President Trump suggested that November's election could be delayed over concerns over mail-in voting. That drew widespread criticism, of course. But what are your concerns come November?
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<strong>PELOSI</strong>: Well, I'm a former chair of the California Democratic Party, and I know that Republicans know how to do mail-in voting. They always would prevail when the mail-in votes came in.
<strong>But I think it's important for you to know, Martha, that in the most recent election we had in California, spring special election, that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter in law both did robos and ads saying, Republicans, mail in your ballots.</strong> It's important for you to mail in your ballots.
So they were talking about mail-in voting at this most recent election. I think that the president -- I don't think it benefits one party or another.</blockquote><p>
We'd call the GOP's tactics cartoonish, but they don't even rise to that level.</p><p>
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Trump Attacks Dr. Birx, Because We Guess He’s Intent On Exactly Zero Women Voting For Him
Trump's Twitter tirades won't save us from COVID-19.
August 03, 2020 01:25 PM
It's 92 days until the presidential election, which should last about a month. Donald Trump is behind in the polls, but as we're often told, he still has time to turn things around. He just needs to not be Donald Trump for the next three months. Can he do it? Of course not. Come back to reality, for God's sake.
White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx gave an interview Sunday where she expressed concern that the coronavirus is everywhere, including RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
DR. BIRX: It's into the rural as equal urban areas. And to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.
Imagine living in a country so stupid that a doctor has to tell idiots that the coronavirus isn't Woody Allen or the ladies from "Sex and the City": COVID-19 will visit rural America without complaint. (And no we don't know what "rural as equal urban areas" means, but we checked. That's what she said.)
.@DanaBashCNN presses Dr. Deborah Birx on school reopenings. “If you have high case load and active community spre… https://t.co/hDwSbfIWRI— State of the Union (@State of the Union)1596375311.0
<blockquote><strong>DR. BIRX:</strong> And that is why we keep saying, no matter where you live in America, you need to wear a mask and socially distance, do the personal hygiene pieces. […]This epidemic right now is different, and it's more widespread. And it's both rural and urban.</blockquote><p>Aside from recognizing this observable reality, Dr. Birx downplayed Trump's own incompetence and malicious negligence. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn't having it, which is why she told ABC's This Week that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53631341" target="_blank">she had no confidence</a> in Birx.</p><blockquote><strong>PELOSI:</strong> I think the president has been spreading disinformation about the virus and she is his appointee, so I don't have confidence there, no.</blockquote><p>Damn.</p><p>Republicans went after Pelosi almost immediately, as if they didn't recall the White House specifically attacking <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/white-house-trade-idiot-peter-navarro-falls-flat-on-his-dick-with-op-ed-attacking-dr-fauci" target="_blank">Dr. Anthony Fauci in BS op-eds.</a> Or <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/texas-lt-governor-dan-patrick-aint-taking-medical-advice-from-that-pinko-fauci" target="_blank">Republican governors</a> and senators <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/mall-optometrist-rand-paul-doesnt-know-why-dr-fauci-thinks-hes-such-an-expert-on-pandemics" target="_blank">slamming Dr. Fauci.</a> They're shameless hypocrites, is all. </p><div id="f6808" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d965bad1dcdbaddf9d28346cdbb08342"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1289939157624619009" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">It is deeply irresponsible of Speaker Pelosi to repeatedly try to undermine & create public distrust in Dr Birx, th… https://t.co/A1KlJxQjbZ</div> — Alyssa Farah (@Alyssa Farah)<a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssafarah/statuses/1289939157624619009">1596380435.0</a></blockquote></div><p>White House Director of “Strategic" Communication Alyssa Farah thinks it was “deeply irresponsible" for Pelosi to “undermine and create public distrust" in Dr. Birx. It's just wrong. Period. Hard stop. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSKn8RlD7Is" target="_blank">(No exclamation point?)</a></p><p>That was Sunday morning. How quickly could Trump undermine his own communications director while moving at the speed of dumbfuck? </p><div id="4b1be" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="daf82365c6a6727b4bcae3588602f869"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1290282508303716352" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on… https://t.co/E0d5Oy4CIY</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1290282508303716352">1596462296.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Yeah, the president of the United States is a gross misogynist who calls the first woman speaker of the House “crazy." Meanwhile, Republicans struggle to solve the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/gops-charming-b-es-be-crazy-platform-sure-to-keep-women-from-leaving-party-in-droves" target="_blank">Mystery of the Vanishing Woman Voter. </a> </p><p>Trump considers Pelosi's blunt assessment of Dr. Birx's performance some personal attack, like Pelosi said her scarves were ugly, and he counters with actual personal attacks against Pelosi. Why is this man president? </p><p>Given the horrible shape the country is in right now, Pelosi is rightly skeptical of any rosy outlook from this administration. The United States is affirmatively <em>no</em><em>t</em> doing a “very good job combatting" COVID-19. Calling the virus racist names doesn't make it less infectious, and randomly capitalizing "Vaccines & Therapeutics" like they're a 1980s emo band won't make either magically appear.</p><p>It's unclear which accomplished woman Trump is calling “pathetic," but claiming a White House health official buckled to political pressure creates more “public distrust" than anything Pelosi said.</p><p>Please vote this moron out of office while we're still <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuSFLE-ujbc" target="_blank">technically alive. </a></p><p><em>Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! 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Just How Gross Is Every Powerful Man Who Spent Time With Jeffrey Epstein?
Pretty damn, we think.
August 03, 2020 12:35 PM
A federal judge unsealed court documents last week connected to the 2015 defamation case Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently arrested for allegedly helping procure underage girls for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Giuffre filed the suit, which was settled in her favor, almost two decades after the alleged abuse. The unsealed documents go into further detail on the laundry list of powerful men who allegedly had sex with an underage Giuffre, on Epstein and Maxwell's instruction.
At one point, the attorney questioning Giuffre ran down a list of prominent men with whom she said she was told to have sex.
"Other than Glenn Dubin, Stephen Kaufmann, Prince Andrew, Jean-Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince, the large hotel chain owner and Marvin Minsky, is there anyone else that Ghislaine Maxwell directed you to go have sex with?"
"I am definitely sure there is," Giuffre replied. "But can I remember everybody's name? No."
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson denied the charge last year, but he seems an unusual name for a supposedly delusional woman to pick out of a hat.
<p>Giuffre has claimed Epstein also forced her to have sex with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who gave a bizarre interview in his “defense" last week on Tucker Carlson's show.</p><div id="15e7e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="842e9521861e71ad237aeb066d4c524c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1289356271292829696" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">"I have had sex with one woman since the day I met Jeffrey Epstein" https://t.co/pJ53RLLitS</div> — Andrew Lawrence (@Andrew Lawrence)<a href="https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/statuses/1289356271292829696">1596241464.0</a></blockquote></div><blockquote><strong>DERSHOWITZ: </strong>Let me be very clear: I have had sex with one woman since the day I met Jeffrey Epstein.</blockquote><p>This is very precisely worded legalese. No one cares about Dersh-Dog's scoring record with consenting adult women — God help them. That's nobody's business. What is the state's concern is whether or not he has raped minors.</p><p>Giuffre says she became involved with Maxwell and Epstein about 20 years ago when she worked at Mar-a-Lago, which is owned by Donald Trump. That alone would be presidency- or at least campaign-ending, but now it barely rises to the level of sketchy email server maintenance.</p><p>She also told lawyers in 2011 that former President Bill Clinton visited Epstein's private Little St. James Island with herself, Maxwell, and "two young girls" from New York. Yikes. </p><p>From the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-and-ghislaine-maxwell-accuser-virginia-giuffre-says-bill-clinton-partied-on-pedophile-island" target="_blank">Daily Beast:</a></p><blockquote>"You know, I remember asking Jeffrey what's Bill Clinton doing here [on the island]," Giuffre told the lawyer. According to a transcript of their conversation, Giuffre added that Epstein laughed off her question and said, "Well, he owes me a favor."<br><br>"He never told me what favors they were," Giuffre said. "I never knew. I didn't know if he was serious. It was just a joke."</blockquote><p>She claims Clinton stayed in Epstein's residence on the island, where "orgies were a constant thing that took place." What is anyone doing spending time with this scumbag? The Clintons attending Trump's wedding was bad enough.</p><p>Clinton also denies the allegations, through his spokesperson.</p><div id="345b8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e3ee78974b1c9d6482581119baad5049"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1289224440715202560" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">The story keeps changing, the facts don’t. President Clinton has never been to the island. https://t.co/XHVgyyI9Px</div> — Angel Ureña (@Angel Ureña)<a href="https://twitter.com/angelurena/statuses/1289224440715202560">1596210033.0</a></blockquote></div><p>According to flight logs from Gawker, Clinton took 11 flights on the “Lolita Express," a repulsive nickname for Epstein's private plane. Let's charitably assume Clinton didn't know what it was called. He insists he had nothing to do with Epstein for "well over a decade" once his “horrible crimes" came to light. That's also somewhat precise legal wording. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to raping underage girls and received a sweetheart plea deal from Trump's <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/acosta-nopes-out-to-victim-shame-in-the-private-sector" target="_blank">former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta,</a> who was then the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2008. </p><p>Epstein served just 13 months in jail after being accused of sexually abusing dozens of young women and girls. During his prison sentence, he was allowed to "leave incarceration for work" five days a week. Hedge fund management is presumably essential work, even if you're a sex offender.</p><p>While giving away the farm to a confessed pedophile, Acosta agreed to a "confidentiality" provision in which his office wouldn't tell Epstein's victims about the non-prosecution agreement until after it won a judge's approval. Last year, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735804464/jeffrey-epsteins-sex-offender-plea-deal-must-stand-federal-prosecutors-say" target="_blank">a federal judge ruled</a> that the “arrangement" had violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act.</p><p>Dershowitz suggested the FBI should “investigate" Giuffre and her claims, but it sure seems like he's just trying to intimidate her. The powerful men she's named probably don't want too much further digging into this situation, but it might become impossible.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/896627505/judge-releases-trove-of-sealed-records-related-to-case-against-ghislaine-maxwell" target="_blank">[NPR</a> / <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/us/epstein-court-documents-allegations/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>]<br></p><p><em>Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! 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Nevada Legalizes Safe Voting, So Trump Ragetweets GOP Into Another Pointless Lawsuit
It's a bold strategy, Cotton!
August 03, 2020 11:23 AM
He's saying the quiet part out loud again.
President Donald Trump has once again taken to Twitter to admit that his entire reelection strategy rests on making sure Americans can't vote.
In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state. Pos… https://t.co/5R3OTc5hZq— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1596454645.0
And by "in force," the RNC Chair means a whole 19 people showed up to protest when the legislature met to pass a law making it safe to vote during a pandemic. And while we're on the subject, WTF is a "clubhouse governor?"
<p>On Friday, the Nevada Assembly <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/bill-expanding-mail-in-voting-during-times-of-emergencies-passes-assembly-on-party-lines?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rop" target="_blank">passed</a> a bill on party lines, 29-12, to send mail-in ballots to every registered voter in the state and keep polling places open for early and in-person voting this November. The legislation also allows for non-family members to collect and deliver completed ballots to county elections supervisors, which the GOP has labeled <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/26/what-is-ballot-harvesting-why-is-trump-so-against-it/" target="_blank">"ballot harvesting"</a> and is working overtime to convince Americans is rife with fraud. <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/29/what-ballot-harvesting-and-why-trump-tweeting-abou/" target="_blank">It isn't</a> — the Heritage Foundation found a whopping <a href="https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=24487&fraud_type=24489&page=9" target="_blank">107 cases</a> of misuse of third-party ballot collection dating back to 1988. </p><p>Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington routinely send every registered voter a mail-in ballot, but Republicans have convinced themselves they can't win if people actually vote. This <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-is-no-evidence-that-voting-by-mail-gives-one-party-an-advantage/" target="_blank">may or may not</a> be the case, but the GOP certainly accepts it as true and has been shouting from the rooftops about the dangers of mailing ballots to all voters.</p><p>In March, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/breaking-sh-tmouthed-authoritarian-wannabe-does-sh-tmouthed-authoritarian-wannabe-thing" target="_blank">Trump objected</a> to Nancy Pelosi's ballot access proposals, telling his pals on Fox's "Wake Up, Grandpa, It's Time To Be Very Afraid!" morning show, "They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again." And just last week he was blarping out nonsense about it again, while suggesting the election would have to be delayed.</p><div id="57628" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7bdb07540878ba6ee4b867f68c385674"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1288818160389558273" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT E… https://t.co/VcSCg7IPwj</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1288818160389558273">1596113169.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Hmmmm, needs citation. Also, fuck off, we're not postponing the election.</p><p>On Sunday, the Nevada Senate passed the bill 13-8, again on party lines. Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak has indicated he plans to sign it shortly. You don't need "Schoolhouse Rock" to tell you that's not a "late night coup." It's how a bill becomes a law. <br></p><p>Nevertheless, Sisolak's 2018 GOP opponent, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamLaxalt/status/1289416556171034628?s=20" target="_blank">tweeted</a> late Friday night that "Gov. Sisolak and the NV Dems called a special session with no public present and inside 24 hours are ramming through mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting. They are massively altering our election 97 days out entirely without the SecState. They are working to steal our election." </p><p>Forget the lie about ramming through legislation in 24 hours — yes, the bill was brought to the floor at the last minute, but it passed in three days during a special session in which several bills were under consideration. And forget that multiple reporters <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleRindels" target="_blank">live-tweeted</a> the hearing, so it obviously wasn't a secret. </p><p>Literally the only person who has ever <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/russia-if-youre-listening" target="_blank">suggested</a> Nevada was seriously in play this cycle is that dipshit Brad Parscale, which is why <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/nevada/" target="_blank">no one even bothers</a> to poll the state. Nevada was always purple, but in the past five years, it has elected two Democratic senators, a Democratic governor, flipped both houses of the legislature blue, and voted for Hillary Clinton by a five-point margin. And that was before the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>Democrats don't have to "steal" this election in Nevada, because they were going to win it anyway. The only thing this law accomplishes is to allow Nevada voters to cast their ballots safely, and the GOP can't allow that. Particularly since Laxalt managed to spin the old man up, and now the RNC has to take time away from trying to cobble together a convention, after the old man got spun up and burned their plans to the ground, to file some bullshit lawsuit against the state of Nevada. On what grounds will said lawsuit be filed? Not clear! They'll probably have to come up with something better than "Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation," but it's the GOP, so who the hell even knows.</p><p>[<a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada-senate-votes-on-party-lines-for-bill-expanding-mail-in-voting-during-times-of-emergency?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rop" target="_blank">NV Independent</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. 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