[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sources are reporting that Trump has dealt a killer blow in his ongoing war against his sworn enemy, the U.S. Post Office. In a move of sheer, mind-blowing brilliance, Trump directed the Post Office to put his face on every single stamp, forcing the Democrats to reverse course and abolish the institution once and for all.
The new stamp, dubbed "The Trump-Stamp," to be used on all pieces of mail features a smiling Donald Trump, with the caption "GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER."
Don Lemon broke the news in a tearful address to the nation last night. "Our democracy is over," he said. "It doesn't exist anymore. I will never send another piece of mail ever again, and neither should you or else you're a racist."
Antifa and BLM responded by marching on local post offices and burning them down. Enthusiastic Trump supporters quickly bought up all the stamps. They are now selling for $3,000 apiece online.
#2
Remove the attribution to the Babylon Bee and I think you have a winner. Left-wing dingbat heads would spin and throw-up like the little girl in the Exorcist?
[HuffPoo] A Fox News panel had high praise to offer after former first lady Michelle Obama’s address at the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
In her nearly 19-minute speech, Obama denounced President Donald Trump for creating chaos and division and failing to lead with empathy and competence. She also urged Americans to bring his presidency to an end and elect former Vice President Joe Biden.
Many right-wing figures, including some Fox News contributors, criticized the address online. Fox News chose not to air much of the first portion of the convention, opting instead to show Sean Hannity interviewing Donald Trump Jr. Nonetheless, the conservative network’s panel for the convention was apparently impressed by Obama’s speech.
"It’s very difficult to try to connect with an audience without an actual audience there with you but she has the ability to connect with people through the screen," Fox News anchor Dana Perino said. "You got the sense when you talk about authenticity, she has it in spades."
#8
I forfeited my right to make any comments on Mike's speech because I couldn't be bothered to watch it. Reruns of Last Man Standing and Big Bang were more my speed. But I gather from the comments I've read that she was short on facts and long on depression. She needs to see a therapist about her problem. Then she blamed Trump for covid-19, black youts breaking the law, resisting arrest, murdering each other and overdosing on fentanyl. Isn't that what Democrats typically do?
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Yep. She played to the idea that this virus was entirely preventable, that if any competent Democrat were in charge that it would be gone by now, and that all WuFlu deaths are blood on Donald's hands. Of course, we may have this under control soon, and if Joe happens to get elected, they'll claim all the credit. And if it still persists, it'll be "oh, sorry, but we're in power now and we're not giving it back because you morons couldn't figure out we were lying."
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[Breitbart] Monday on CNBC’s "Squawk Box," White House trade and manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro shared the belief held among those in the Trump administration that China is "biding their time" in trade negotiations and "waiting for the election hoping Joe Biden will get elected."
In the interview, Navarro warned that the Chinese Communist Party is "waging information warfare against" the United States in attempt to "manipulate" the upcoming 2020 presidential election with "pro-Biden messages" on the internet.
"I think in terms of productive conversation we had today, we have China. They came to the table. They signed a phase 1 deal. They’re abiding by the deal. At the same time, they’re clearly biding their time now, waiting for the election hoping Joe Biden will get elected," Navarro cautioned. "And by the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Wu Mao Army, but one of the things that’s going on is the Chinese Communist Party is waging information warfare against us, trying to manipulate our election. The Wu Mao Army is this vast army of millions of Chinese that basically get paid to troll our internet and push anti-Trump messages, pro-Biden messages."
"I looked at what’s going on here with our democracy, and it’s the scariest I’ve ever seen it’s because as beneficial as the social media is, it’s also become a tool for people like the Chinese Communist Party to influence what’s going on here. So, as the president loves to say, let’s see what happens in November, but in the meantime, we have to be on guard," he concluded.
[Mises] As the widening gyre that that is 2020 continues to turn, it seems that every day some new disastrous and ill-thought-out proposal is made or policy implemented. Among the chaos, the chorus to cancel rent in particular has stuck out for its sheer insolence and the ease with which it has entered the discourse as a sensible policy solution.
The idea of abolishing rent is not new, but until now it has never really been considered anything but a nutty pipe dream. But with the economic carnage wreaked by the virus and ensuing government lockdown still ongoing it has disturbingly come to be viewed as a conceivable policy option. With tens of millions out of work, the ability to pay for basic necessities like housing is obviously a valid concern, but the callousness of the idea of simply expropriating housing from property owners is disturbing and indicative of darker trends coursing through the body politic in these turbulent times.
One of the most high-profile leaders of the cancel rent movement is Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who introduced legislation in April that basically amounts to nothing other than government extortion of landlords. Christian Britschgi reports that the bill would simply cancel all rent and mortgage payments for primary residencies across the entire country until a month after the federal state of emergency has ended. Attempting to collect rent or reporting the nonpayment of rent to credit agencies results in increasing fines, including the seizure of one's property.
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#1
Bad enough I had to live through a professional tenant who wound up costing me nearly $20K last year *never mind the stress induced heart attacks), now I gotta hear shit like this. If the state wants to deprive me of rent from my downstairs apartment, the least they could do is knock that deprived rent off of my principal balance. Throw in no real estate taxes for the same time frame and you might actually get some other landlords to take this bullshit seriously. Until then, fuck off.
#2
Rent is a fact of life, but lowering rent (and other rent-seeking) as a %age of the economy IS a noble goal advocated by actual Capitalists from Adam Smith (via Ricardo onwards). The current parties seem to want to MAXIMISE rent-seeking in it's various forms by subsidising title (yet making it hard to get to all but the biggest companies) in all forms.
#3
If the rents are controlled by law or regulation, landlords will get it from the tenants in other ways: additional fees to cover their costs plus a reasonable profit (I informed tenants as part of their move-in walk through that I would be significantly overcharging them for each burnt out lightbulb they left for me to replace when they moved out, or they could do it themselves for the cost of 60 watt incandescents from the grocery store), delaying maintenance until the cost to hold the property matches the rents received, or selling the property to the tenants as condos. This is how slums and multimillion dollar condos happen — we’ve seen all that play out over the half century or more New York City has enforced rent control.
The rest of this opinion piece, is, I think, farther left than I am willing to go, the author clearly unaware that the anti-Bibi movement is not a grassroots uprising but the weaponization of Israel’s branch of Antifa by Israel’s Deep State, payrolled by American Progressives, but the first bit is useful background to current events in the region.
[IsraelTimes] Last November, three dozen public figures from around the Arab world gathered in London to launch the Arab Council for Regional Integration — meaning, the integration of Israel into the Middle East. It was the first time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict that a pan-Arab group had formed for the sole purpose of ending the Arab boycott of Israel. The group included a Lebanese Shiite holy man, a Saudi publisher, a member of the Egyptian parliament.
For all the fear of an imperialist Iran, what really motivated them to take the great personal risk of publicly calling for normalization was the Arab world’s existential crisis. The collapse of the Arab spring, the self-devouring of Syria, the destruction of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and Libya and Iraq — all convinced Council members that the Arab world’s decades-long obsession with Israel was poisoning their own societies with hatred and a conspiracy mindset, undermining their ability to deal with chronic problems. Ending its war against Israel, Council members said, was a prerequisite for the Arab world’s ability to heal itself.
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Surely, someone will beat me to this punch. [Washington Examiner] President Trump's joint announcement with the UAE and Israel was landmark enough on its own. The normalization marks the first between Israel and another Middle Eastern nation since President Bill Clinton helped broker the peace deal between Israel and Jordan in 1994. A single new formalization is a big deal that it is, and for other nations to join, especially as Iran grows unusually embattled, would constitute a monumental realignment of the axis of power in the Gulf.
And, of course, it would undercut the entire thesis of the de facto Obama Doctrine that assumed peace in the Middle East was contingent of empowering Iran and cowering to the Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Obama Doctrine has been disproven, and Trump's approach to the Middle East is clearly focused in the right direction. The real political question to come: Will the Israel-friendly Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris cut their losses and follow Trump or go down with the ship to preserve Obama's crumbling legacy?
Since neither of them would be in charge of foreign policy were they to win in November, the question of how much the Deep State hates President Trump and seeks to undo all his works contains all the answer we need.
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Will the Israel-friendly Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris cut their losses and follow Trump or go down with the ship to preserve Obama's crumbling legacy?
Why do writers talk as if Biden / Harris has a non-single digit chance to become Prez and VP? Their campaign is about to become the first with little to no campaigning; Trump hit the road and Joe's gonna hide in his basement as long as possible. Last week had three consecutive days of Biden mumbling and drooling in front of the press corps, only to be whisked away every time when someone asked him a question. Last week also had him announce as uninspiring a VP pick in recent memory - an opportunistic slut who openly admitted she'll say anything that the moment requires and was polling at 0% and won zero delegates when she was the first broad to exit the Dem Prez race. They will do everything in their power to prevent Biden and Trump from debating.
I'll say it again - in what significant manner are the Dems running a national campaign?
#14
"America's Covid Response worse in the World" infomercials.
Heard one of those on the Beeb just the other day. The US had the highest death toll, followed by a list of much smaller countries. That suggests they weren't using Per Capita numbers which means the data is useless for other than Jeopardy questions.
h/t Hot Air
By Haider Warraich
Dr. Warraich is a cardiologist.
[NYT] - ...Eduardo Rodriguez was poised to start as the No. 1 pitcher for the Boston Red Sox this season. But in July the 27-year-old tested positive for Covid-19. Feeling "100 years old," he told reporters: "I’ve never been that sick in my life, and I don’t want to get that sick again." His symptoms abated, but a few weeks later he felt so tired after throwing about 20 pitches during practice that his team told him to stop and rest.
Further investigation revealed that he had a condition many are still struggling to understand: Covid-19-associated myocarditis. Mr. Rodriguez won’t be playing baseball this season.
Myocarditis means inflammation of the heart muscle. Some patients are never bothered by it, but for others it can have serious implications. And Mr. Rodriguez isn’t the only athlete to suffer from it: Multiple college football players have possibly developed myocarditis from Covid-19, putting the entire college football landscape in jeopardy.
I recently treated one Covid-19 patient in his early 50s. He had been in perfect shape with no history of serious illness. When the fevers and body aches started, he locked himself in his room. But instead of getting better, his condition deteriorated and he eventually accumulated gallons of fluid in his legs. When he came to the hospital unable to catch a breath, it wasn’t his lungs that had pushed him to the brink — it was his heart. Now we are evaluating him to see if he needs a heart transplant.
An intriguing new study from Germany offers a glimpse into how SARS-CoV-2 affects the heart. Researchers studied 100 individuals, with a median age of just 49, who had recovered from Covid-19. Most were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.
An average of two months after they received the diagnosis, the researchers performed M.R.I. scans of their hearts and made some alarming discoveries: Nearly 80 percent had persistent abnormalities and 60 percent had evidence of myocarditis. The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness. 0.05%????
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That's what I think the virus was intended to do. Low mortality - to avoid panic & lockdowns. Infects most of the population with mild symptoms, and a few months later - bingo.
By the way, the effects of Covid 19 on hearts and brains were only discovered because of all the attention. In the scenario described above, it would've taken years. And be old news.
That is, in this view, the high mortality is an unintended product of the way they produced the virus (growing bat viruses on human tissue cultures) and before they could tone it down, the virus escaped.
That's raises an interesting question. We know "herd immunity" approach originated with China - who made it WHO's official position, and it spread from where*. So the question is - are "herd immunists" paid Chinese agents or simply idiots?
*It was the official position of most state epidemiologists (including Fauci - look it up) in the beginning. Fortunately, dropped when the corpses started pilling up.
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sources are reporting that Trump has dealt a killer blow in his ongoing war against his sworn enemy, the U.S. Post Office. In a move of sheer, mind-blowing brilliance, Trump directed the Post Office to put his face on every single stamp, forcing the Democrats to reverse course and abolish the institution once and for all. 
[Breitbart] Monday on CNBC’s "Squawk Box," White House trade and manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro shared the belief held among those in the Trump administration that China is "biding their time" in trade negotiations and "waiting for the election hoping Joe Biden will get elected."
[Mises] As the widening gyre that that is 2020 continues to turn, it seems that every day some new disastrous and ill-thought-out proposal is made or policy implemented. Among the chaos, the chorus to cancel rent in particular has stuck out for its sheer insolence and the ease with which it has entered the discourse as a sensible policy solution.
[Washington Examiner] President Trump's joint announcement with the UAE and Israel was landmark enough on its own. The normalization marks the first between Israel and another Middle Eastern nation since President Bill Clinton helped broker the peace deal between Israel and Jordan in 1994. A single new formalization is a big deal that it is, and for other nations to join, especially as Iran grows unusually embattled, would constitute a monumental realignment of the axis of power in the Gulf.
