AOC IN A NUTSHELL.
Archive for 2020
February 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Some Covid-19 speculations.
JULIETTE OCHIENG: THEY TELL NO TALES. “Not suspicious at all: A mystery has taken hold of me. Phil Haney was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security – an agency that investigated him nine times and found nothing untoward. And this very same agency scrubbed its own records that Haney had been using to investigate Islamist terror networks in the United States. Vaguely, I remember his name from my early days of blogging. He’s back in the news again; unfortunately for being dead.”
CORONAVIRUS: Mainland China reports 573 new coronavirus cases on Feb. 29.
Iranian Coronavirus Cases Jump as More Officials Infected.
First death from coronavirus announced in U.S.
Kent State recalling all students studying abroad in Italy due to coronavirus concerns.
Thousands sign petition calling on SXSW to cancel 2020 event as coronavirus spreads.
US Pro Sports Leagues Monitoring Coronavirus Outbreak.
Gatherings banned, travel restricted as coronavirus cases grow worldwide. “Leaders in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas rolled out bans on big gatherings, and stricter travel restrictions as cases of the new coronavirus spread around the world.”
Plus, since some of you think this news is too dark, some comic relief:
CNN Host Seemingly Compares Bernie Sanders’ Campaign To Coronavirus. Well, it’s destructive and dangerous and spreading uncontained, so . . .
And: Michael Bloomberg Will Address Coronavirus in Prime-Time TV Ad.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Relativity Space will 3D-print rockets at new autonomous factory in Long Beach, California.
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WITNESS NO MORE — HUNTER BIDEN EMBRACES LIFE AS AN ARTIST, AND THE NYT IS HERE FOR IT.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and the whitewashing all makes sense.
COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Dem Congressman Threatens Don Jr. on Live TV for Saying Dems Want Coronavirus to Spread: If I See Him ‘There Would Be A Serious Altercation.’
Related:
● Krugman Thoroughly Embarrasses Himself (Again), Excited About Drop In the Dow.
● Roger Kimball: Donald Trump vs. Corona Hysteria. “His critics are desperate for him to mishandle a crisis. So far he hasn’t.”
● Liz Peek: Desperate Democrats hope coronavirus will undermine Trump.
● Jemele Hill Warns VP Pence Dooming ‘Y’all’ to Coronavirus.
● Chuck Todd Taunts Trump On Coronavirus: ‘Reap What You Sow.’
● Playing Politics With Coronavirus: ABC, NBC Try to Stoke Fears of Trump’s Response.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China.
SOCIALIST FAUX PAS OF THE WEEK: Bernie Sanders boards the wrong private jet. “Mistakes like this (getting on the wrong Gulfstream) are bound to happen.”
Plus: “It’s a 2 hr drive from Charleston to Myrtle Beach & locals do it all the time – Not @BernieSanders- He & his entourage flew from Charleston to Myrtle Beach in not 1, not 2, but 3 Gulfstream Jets today. It took them 10 minutes to fly. Who is the elitist??”
I don’t know, but I don’t want to hear another goddamn thing about my carbon footprint.
SO WE HAVE BETTER DATA ON FACTORY PRODUCTION THAN ON EPIDEMIOLOGY IN CHINA. WHAT DOES THIS TELL US:
Note: This isn’t a PR effort to hurt Trump politically. Domestic talk in the US may be, but this reality is too expensive to the Chinese to be fake.
UPDATE: Similar thoughts from Richard Fernandez.
MORE: (Via the comments): China’s factory activity plunges to all-time low, worse than global financial crisis, February data show.
HEY, DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN DEMANDING THAT HE DO SOMETHING: Trump: Administration ‘very strongly’ considering closing southern border amid coronavirus outbreak. And this is something!
Also: Trump sets new travel restrictions over coronavirus, considering southern border shutdown.
Related: Flashback: California Sees Surge In Chinese Crossing Illegally From Mexico.
I FOUND THE OLD X5 SURPRISINGLY UNIMPRESSIVE: 2020 BMW X5 M Is Irrationally Excellent.
AS ALWAYS, BAD NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE LEFT: Krugman Thoroughly Embarrasses Himself (Again), Excited About Drop In the Dow.
ANN ALTHOUSE: The deceptiveness of Politico’s claim that Trump called the coronavirus “a hoax.” “The fact that the quote doesn’t continue and ‘Then Trump called the coronavirus’ is inserted before ‘their new hoax’ should make you suspicious, whether you’ve heard the original or not. But the purportedly verbatim text above it is not, in fact, verbatim. . . . Trump is clearly not calling the virus a hoax. What he’s calling a hoax is the political talking point that Trump has been failing to protect the country from the virus! Now, Politico is pushing a hoax hoax — it’s putting out a false story about what Trump called a hoax.”
SANDERS TESTS OUT NEW MUSTACHE STYLES IN PREPARATION FOR BECOMING NEXT TOTALITARIAN ICON.
From the Babylon Bee, America’s Newspaper of Record. Curiously, one possible mustache choice was not pictured.