YOU’RE GONNA NEED A LESS COHERENT BLOG: BidenWatch for April 27, 2020. “The Tara Reade rape-accusation scandal isn’t going away, nor is the Bejing Biden tag, no matter how hard Team Joe might try to jujitsu it away. Plus Q1 fundraising numbers drop.”
Plus: “Want to guess which Democrat is calling on Biden to bow out over the Tara Reade accusations? Would you believe notorious Hillary shill Peter Daou?”
Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face could not be reached for comment.
YOU MIGHT NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: YouTube Removes Biotech Company’s Video Showing Potential Internal UVA Light Treatment for Coronavirus.
WHAT DID SHE THINK WOULD HAPPEN? Biden accuser Tara Reade ‘lost total respect’ for CNN’s Anderson Cooper for not asking former VP about assault claim.
I WAS KIND OF HOPING THIS WAS A TIME-TRAVEL STORY, BUT NO: How an F-16 Fighter Jet Accidentally Bombed Japan.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘Kim Jong-Un Dead’ Sounds Like a Dictator Vampire. “The geopolitical consequences of the demise of Kim Jong-un probably won’t be that great. It’s a closed dictatorship, and it will still remain the same if he does die, just with a different chubby commie in charge. That is, unless NoKo breaks with tradition and lets Kim’s sister take over. She’s not chubby and probably ten times worse than he is.”
Easy call: If she takes the job, the press will fawn over her and wonder why we haven’t had a female murderous dictator yet.
CRITICISM OR FRIENDLY ADVICE? ‘Just Calm Down’: Nancy Pelosi Fires Back After Jake Tapper Suggests She Made ‘A Tactical Mistake.’
UGH: Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes. “Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected.”
There was one report out of Wuhan, China, that showed that some hospitalized patients had experienced strokes, with many being seriously ill and elderly. But the linkage was considered more of “a clinical hunch by a lot of really smart people,” said Sherry H-Y Chou, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center neurologist and critical care doctor.
Now for the first time, three large U.S. medical centers are preparing to publish data on the stroke phenomenon. There are only a few dozen cases per location, but they provide new insights into what the virus does to our bodies.
A stroke, which is a sudden interruption of the blood supply, is a complex problem with numerous causes and presentations. It can be caused by heart problems, clogged arteries due to cholesterol, even substance abuse. Mini-strokes often don’t cause permanent damage and can resolve on their own within 24 hours. But bigger ones can be catastrophic.
The numbers are small enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if they were linked to regular drug use.
COLORADO: Coffee shop workers laid off during COVID-19 start ‘Pandemic Donuts.’
After one last hurrah on St. Patrick’s Day, the coffee shop where Gabrielle Henning and Michael Milton worked closed down because of COVID-19.
A week and a half later, they opened their own business.
“Woke up the next day and started Pandemic Donuts on Instagram and hit the ground running from there,” Milton said.
Pandemic Donuts took off. The pair said they shifted from taking orders through Instagram messages to on a website in less than a week.
“The first day we were really surprised we got a couple dozen, like wow this is pretty cool, we could do this every day,” Milton said. “And by the second and third day we were selling out into the future.”
It’s impossible not to enjoy the increase in entrepreneurship we’ve seen.
FAKE NEWS: Poison Control Calls Are Up After Trump’s Disinfectant Remark.
To be fair, if it weren’t for fake news they wouldn’t know what to report.
COLORADO: Knife shop owner declares independence from Governor Polis’ shutdown orders.
Sedalia knife shop owner Hal Van Herke on Tuesday posted a Declaration of Business Independence on Facebook saying he would reopen CastleGate Knife and Tool Tuesday in defiance of Governor Polis’ stay-at-home order.
Van Herke’s declaration says in part:
“WHEREAS: Small businesses have carried the burden of this effort more heavily than special interests, large corporations and major banks who once again received preferential treatment and largess from the Federal Government at the further cost of small business tax payers, and
WHEREAS: Non-essential Government, Academic, and Corporate staff continue to remain unconscionably fully paid at the same time that Small Business, the Self Employed and the Unemployed suffer, and
WHEREAS: Our attempts at petition and righteous redress, to Our Government has fallen on uncaring ears, and in some cases has been actively suppressed, and
WHEREAS: We refuse to become second-class citizens, beholden to the entitled class for our safety, freedom, and wellbeing, and
WHEREAS: We have the ability to operate our business in such a manner as to reduce and mitigate the risk to our Community, Customers, and Staff, and to adjust operations in a responsible and balanced manner commensurate with local conditions.”
Much more at the link.
I’d just add that I can always use another pocketknife or two…
BLUE ON BLUE: Biden’s Ad Saying Trump is Soft on China Not Going Over Well on the Left.
And on the Right we’re laughing at it.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Tom Brady Embraces His New Identity.
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress… but I repeat myself.” -Mark Twain
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Found a Fossilized South American Frog in Antarctica.
CONSERVING THE TRUE CONSERVATIVISM BY ENDORSING AN INCREASINGLY PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT: Republican Group Sings Biden’s Praises In New Political Ad.
A conservative group—whose advisers include George Conway, husband to top White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and former Republican strategist Rick Wilson—released a new video lauding Joe Biden’s qualifications to be the next president of the United States.
The video ad, uploaded to YouTube by The Lincoln Project this week, calls former Vice-President Biden, the “man for this moment,” insisting that the veteran politician has a record of service and is “a bipartisan leader who puts good ideas ahead of party politics.” The ad titled “Ready” also takes a few subtle shots at Donald Trump, saying that Biden’s life “has been marked by triumphs that didn’t change the goodness in him and public office that never went to his head.” It added that personal events gave him “the character that this country needs more than ever.”
Conway, Wilson, et al. might still be Republicans, technically. But they’ve proven themselves over and over again to be no conservatives.
RELATED: Joe Biden Is Unfit to Serve by Any and Every Measure.
EVERYTHING IS AN EXCUSE FOR WHAT I ALREADY WANTED TO DO: Biden: Coronavirus Is a ‘Wake Up Call’ on ‘Climate Change,’ an ‘Opportunity’ for ‘Institutional Change.’
WE DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: U.S. Views of China Plunge During Corona Crisis.
To be clear, we’re talking about the mainland People’s Republic of China, not the finely-run Republic of China on Taiwan.
CRUEL, BUT FAIR: Stacey Abrams Is Running for a Job She Never Wanted Because Her Career Is Over. “Right now, we’re just a little under halfway through Kemp’s first term as Governor. He’s not done a bad job, and has even scored some victories along the way that people didn’t expect of him. But the impact of the novel coronavirus on his legacy isn’t something we can measure yet. Abrams, in trying to get the Vice Presidential pick, is trying to put herself into a situation that is hard to come out a loser in.”
ADAM FORD: Opinion: 2 different ways of being an American; 2 different ways of being a human being.
I looked for a good excerpt from this piece, but you’ll really want to click over and read the whole thing.
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