bonginoreport--2020-08-29--CSPAN Overwhelmed by Dem Callers Saying They Now Support Trump

C-SPAN changed their open phone line labels after an overwhelming number of Democratic viewers called on Wednesday night proclaiming their support for President Donald Trump in the upcoming election .
“ I ’ m a longtime Democrat , born and raised … After watching tonight … I have made up my mind .
I am definitely gon na vote for Donald Trump , ” said one of the many voters who dialed in .
Before the Republican National Convention , C-SPAN ’ s open phone lines were labeled as open for “ Democrats , ” “ Republicans , ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and share their opinions on-air .
After Trump ’ s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention , however , C-SPAN received an influx of callers who identified as Democrat but said they would be voting for Trump in November .
Due to the increasing nature of these calls , the network adjusted the phone lines to encompass those who “ Support Trump , ” “ Support Biden , ” and “ Support Others.
” While polling about the effect Trump ’ s speech on voters is not out yet , many of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frustration with the Democratic Party as well as the Democratic National Convention .
“ The DNC—I turned off…they didn ’ t name any policies ; it was just depression … I ’ m voting for Trump , ” one caller stated .
“ [ President Trump ] is fighting for Americans … I used to be a Democrat…I ’ ve switched completely—I ’ m now Republican , voting Republican all the way .
No more Democrat for me , ” another said .
Other callers noted that President Trump and the RNC ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Kenosha , Wisconsin is what pushed them over the edge to change their vote .
“ I ’ m from Minnesota , where all these riots and looting and the burning started , and , I mean , not a mention about us last week , about saving our communities , helping our homeless , rebuilding our businesses , ” said one woman .
“ This [ Republican ] convention , just in the last two nights , has awakened me that there is hope—that there are people that are willing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t vote for Trump , but I am now .
Most definitely .
The riots going on … is that what we really want ?
I don ’ t think so .
It ’ s amazing how the Democrat Party has changed , ” she added .
Watch The Federalist Radio Hour Host Ben Domenech and Senior Editor Chris Bedford break down the differences in the two conventions here : *This article is corrected to show that C-SPAN made the change to their call-in labels Wednesday night instead of Thursday night .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ occurred on Wednesday , it was not applied until Thursday night .

C-SPAN changed their open phone line labels after an overwhelming number of Democratic viewers called on Wednesday night proclaiming their support for President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
“I’m a longtime Democrat, born and raised … After watching tonight … I have made up my mind. I am definitely gonna vote for Donald Trump,” said one of the many voters who dialed in.
Before the Republican National Convention, C-SPAN’s open phone lines were labeled as open for “Democrats,” “Republicans,” and “Other” viewers to call into and share their opinions on-air. After Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, however, C-SPAN received an influx of callers who identified as Democrat but said they would be voting for Trump in November.
Due to the increasing nature of these calls, the network adjusted the phone lines to encompass those who “Support Trump,” “Support Biden,” and “Support Others.”
So many Democrats have called into C-SPAN supporting President Trump this week during #RNC2020 that C-SPAN literally changed their call-in structure tonight to make it more even. On left: C-SPAN after Biden speech. On right: C-SPAN after Trump speech. pic.twitter.com/E8nAQ1n9g9 — Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) August 28, 2020
While polling about the effect Trump’s speech on voters is not out yet, many of the callers who dialed in expressed their frustration with the Democratic Party as well as the Democratic National Convention.
“The DNC—I turned off…they didn’t name any policies; it was just depression … I’m voting for Trump,” one caller stated.
“[President Trump] is fighting for Americans … I used to be a Democrat…I’ve switched completely—I’m now Republican, voting Republican all the way. No more Democrat for me,” another said.
Other callers noted that President Trump and the RNC’s acknowledgment of the riots and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin is what pushed them over the edge to change their vote.
“I’m from Minnesota, where all these riots and looting and the burning started, and, I mean, not a mention about us last week, about saving our communities, helping our homeless, rebuilding our businesses,” said one woman. “This [Republican] convention, just in the last two nights, has awakened me that there is hope—that there are people that are willing to fight for us.”
“I didn’t vote for Trump, but I am now. Most definitely. The riots going on … is that what we really want? I don’t think so. It’s amazing how the Democrat Party has changed,” she added.
Watch The Federalist Radio Hour Host Ben Domenech and Senior Editor Chris Bedford break down the differences in the two conventions here:
*This article is corrected to show that C-SPAN made the change to their call-in labels Wednesday night instead of Thursday night. While the decision to change the labels occurred on Wednesday, it was not applied until Thursday night.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Your Tax Dollars at Work: NPR Promotes Book Celebrating Looting and Riots

Vicky Osterweil 's new book , In Defense of Looting : A Riotous History of Uncivil Action , is a social justice justification for property damage and theft .
This book promoting riots is a number one new release on Amazon , a mega-corporation that benefits every time a local shop gets torched .
Osterweil 's book is a celebration of looting in the name of anti-racist action directed at dismantling whiteness and property ownership .
Speaking to NPR 's Natalie Escobar , Osterweil made the point that looting during the course of riots is a redistribution of wealth , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , too , is simply a way to reapportion assets which she deems necessary in an unequal society .
Osterweil claims that looting is what happens when people want to express that society is n't working .
She defends it as a `` mass expropriation of property , mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot . ''
This is nonviolent , she claims , no one gets hurt , `` it 's not a home invasion… '' The gaslighting Osterweil wants us to believe is that the `` mass shoplifting '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minneapolis , Philadelphia , New York , Portland , Kenosha , Chicago , Atlanta , Washington , DC , and so many other American cities were not undertaken by force .
For Osterweil , whose book is graced with a glossy crowbar , smashing windows , ripping down plywood , breaking into shops and taking that which does not belong to you , is perfectly fine .
In fact , she believes that the term `` looting '' is racially based because the word comes from a Hindi root .
To those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Osterweil attributes the lofty goals of socialist property redistribution towards a more equitable society .
And she has no concern , even remotely , for the people who were hurt during the riots and looting .
David Dorn died at the hands of looters and his death was live streamed to Facebook .
For Osterweil , Dorn ’ s death was merely collateral damage in service to a greater cause .
His family are suffering a deep loss because criminal thieves believed that their right to property was more important than Dorn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ looting attack on white supremacy , because that ’ s how the social justice left gives authority and credence to all criminal activity in service to their cause .
She claims that `` Looting strikes at the heart of property , of whiteness and of the police .
It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected . ''
She not only justifies the riots and looting , but lauds them for giving people `` an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure . ''
This mass destruction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sort of joyous and liberatory . ''
We have lived with a basis of morality in the US , one in which parents , black and white , teach their children not to take joy in the misfortune of others .
But that is gone .
While mainstream media demanded that the public differentiate between protestors and rioters , Osterweil said that this distinction is only made to make the protestors `` appear respectable '' to white people , to show their movement as `` politically viable . ''
It is looting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' however , that `` immediately provides '' the ability for `` poor people who want to live a better life . ''
In part , she claims that this is the case because `` Most stores are insured ; it 's just hurting insurance companies on some level .
It 's just money .
It 's just property .
It 's not actually hurting any people . ''
She clearly has no understanding of how an interconnected , capitalist economic system works .
Either that , or she has no problem seeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point where no one has anything , hard work is mocked , and people scrabble and steal from each other to fill their own pockets , with no concern for their fellow citizens .
This entire sordid story is a perfect encapsulation of what 's wrong in American society today .
The author is a privileged member of the chattering class .
She advocates for the destruction of hard-working Americans ’ businesses .
Her book is then sold on Amazon , the mega corporation that benefits the most from the destruction of small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the book is a number one new release on Amazon .
The people are frustrated and appalled and it has a rating of one star .
But it does n't seem to matter what regular people want .
Amazon gets richer and the author gets to continue feeling superior and she smugly advocates for more destruction .

Vicky Osterweil's new book, In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action, is a social justice justification for property damage and theft. This book promoting riots is a number one new release on Amazon, a mega-corporation that benefits every time a local shop gets torched.
Osterweil's book is a celebration of looting in the name of anti-racist action directed at dismantling whiteness and property ownership.
Speaking to NPR's Natalie Escobar, Osterweil made the point that looting during the course of riots is a redistribution of wealth, not theft, and that property damage, too, is simply a way to reapportion assets which she deems necessary in an unequal society.
NPR supports a book that defends looting.
Defund NPR. https://t.co/Hjn6hxUqVE — Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 29, 2020
Osterweil claims that looting is what happens when people want to express that society isn't working. She defends it as a "mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot." This is nonviolent, she claims, no one gets hurt, "it's not a home invasion…"
The gaslighting Osterweil wants us to believe is that the "mass shoplifting" events we have seen in Seattle, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Portland, Kenosha, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and so many other American cities were not undertaken by force.
For Osterweil, whose book is graced with a glossy crowbar, smashing windows, ripping down plywood, breaking into shops and taking that which does not belong to you, is perfectly fine. In fact, she believes that the term "looting" is racially based because the word comes from a Hindi root.
To those who are in the streets committing mass theft, Osterweil attributes the lofty goals of socialist property redistribution towards a more equitable society. And she has no concern, even remotely, for the people who were hurt during the riots and looting.
David Dorn died at the hands of looters and his death was live streamed to Facebook. For Osterweil, Dorn’s death was merely collateral damage in service to a greater cause. His family are suffering a deep loss because criminal thieves believed that their right to property was more important than Dorn's right to life.
Osterweil says looting attack on white supremacy, because that’s how the social justice left gives authority and credence to all criminal activity in service to their cause. She claims that "Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected."
She not only justifies the riots and looting, but lauds them for giving people "an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure." This mass destruction of "riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory."
We have lived with a basis of morality in the US, one in which parents, black and white, teach their children not to take joy in the misfortune of others. But that is gone.
While mainstream media demanded that the public differentiate between protestors and rioters, Osterweil said that this distinction is only made to make the protestors "appear respectable" to white people, to show their movement as "politically viable."
It is looting, which she calls "basically nonviolent," however, that "immediately provides" the ability for "poor people who want to live a better life."
In part, she claims that this is the case because "Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people."
I spoke with Scott and his mother Linda. Their furniture store was set on fire last night during the Kenosha riots. Linda cried at the sight of the wreckage.
Scott had a response to people who would say it's just property and there's insurance. Full vid: https://t.co/y1F7QgigE6 pic.twitter.com/Zw1y6ayds6 — Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 25, 2020
She clearly has no understanding of how an interconnected, capitalist economic system works. Either that, or she has no problem seeing the entire social structure crumble to the point where no one has anything, hard work is mocked, and people scrabble and steal from each other to fill their own pockets, with no concern for their fellow citizens.
This entire sordid story is a perfect encapsulation of what's wrong in American society today. The author is a privileged member of the chattering class. She advocates for the destruction of hard-working Americans’ businesses.
Her book is then sold on Amazon, the mega corporation that benefits the most from the destruction of small, independently owned businesses. Right now, the book is a number one new release on Amazon. The people are frustrated and appalled and it has a rating of one star. But it doesn't seem to matter what regular people want. Amazon gets richer and the author gets to continue feeling superior and she smugly advocates for more destruction.
Meanwhile, America burns.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Top Dem Operative Admits Voter Fraud Is No Myth

PATERSON , N.J. — A judge has ruled that a new ...

A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.
Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.
But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
“An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.”
The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.
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“There is no race in New Jersey — from city council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” the tipster said. “I worked on a fire commissioner’s race in Burlington County. The smaller the race, the easier it is to do.”
A Bernie Sanders die-hard with no horse in the presidential race, he said he felt compelled to come forward in the hope that states would act now to fix the glaring security problems present in mail-in ballots.
“This is a real thing,” he said. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
Mail-in voting can be complicated — tough enough that 84,000 New Yorkers had their mailed votes thrown out in the June 23 Democratic presidential primary for incorrectly filling them out.
But for political pros, they’re a piece of cake. In New Jersey, for example, it begins with a blank mail-in ballot delivered to a registered voter in a large envelope. Inside the packet is a return envelope, a “certificate of mail in voter” which the voter must sign, and the ballot itself.
That’s when the election-rigger springs into action.
Phony ballots
The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots.
“I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said.
But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters.
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He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.
“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.
He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.
“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
The insider said he took care not to stuff the fake ballots into just a few public mailboxes, but sprinkle them around town. That way he avoided the attention that foiled a sloppy voter-fraud operation in a Paterson, NJ, city council race this year, where 900 ballots were found in just three mailboxes.
“If they had spread them in all different mailboxes, nothing would have happened,” the insider said.
Inside jobs
The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.
“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
In some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative.
In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. “For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,” city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery.
Nursing homes
Hitting up assisted-living facilities and “helping” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots was a gold mine of votes, the insider said.
“There are nursing homes where the nurse is actually a paid operative. And they go room by room by room to these old people who still want to feel like they’re relevant,” said the whistleblower. “[They] literally fill it out for them.”
The insider pointed to former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, who was sued in 2007 after a razor-thin victory for a local school board seat for allegedly tricking “incompetent … and ill” residents of nursing homes into casting ballots for him. McCann denied it, though he did admit to assisting some nursing home residents with absentee ballot applications.
Voter impersonation
When all else failed, the insider would send operatives to vote live in polling stations, particularly in states like New Jersey and New York that do not require voter ID. Pennsylvania, also for the most part, does not.
The best targets were registered voters who routinely skip presidential or municipal elections — information which is publicly available.
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“You fill out these index cards with that person’s name and district and you go around the city and say, ‘You’re going to be him, you’re going to be him,'” the insider said of how he dispatched his teams of dirty-tricksters.
At the polling place, the fake voter would sign in, “get on line and … vote,” the insider said. The impostors would simply recreate the signature that already appears in the voter roll as best they could. In the rare instance that a real voter had already signed in and cast a ballot, the impersonator would just chalk it up to an innocent mistake and bolt.
Bribing voters
The tipster said New Jersey homeless shelters offered a nearly inexhaustible pool of reliable — buyable — voters.
“They get to register where they live in and they go to the polls and vote,” he said, laughing at the roughly $174 per vote Mike Bloomberg spent to win his third mayoral term. He said he could have delivered the same result at a 70 percent discount — like when Frank “Pupie” Raia, a real estate developer and Hoboken nabob, was convicted last year on federal charges for paying low-income residents 50 bucks a pop to vote how he wanted during a 2013 municipal election.
Organizationally, the tipster said, his voter-fraud schemes in the Garden State and elsewhere resembled Mafia organizations, with a boss (usually the campaign manager) handing off the day-to-day managing of the mob soldiers to the underboss (him). The actual candidate was usually kept in the dark deliberately so they could maintain “plausible deniability.”
With mail-in ballots, partisans from both parties hash out and count ballots at the local board of elections — debating which ballots make the cut and which need to be thrown out because of irregularities.
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The insider said any ballots offered up by him or his operation would come with a bent corner along the voter certificate — which contains the voter signature — so Democratic Board of Election counters would know the fix was in and not to object.
“It doesn’t stay bent, but you can tell it’s been bent,” the tipster said. “Until the [certificate] is approved, the ballot doesn’t matter. They don’t get to see the ballot unless they approve the [certificate.]”
“I invented bending corners,” the insider boasted, saying once the fixed ballots were mixed in with the normal ones, the bed was made. “Once a ballot is opened, it’s an anonymous ballot.”
While federal law warns of prison sentences of up to five years, busted voter frauds have seen far less punishment. While in 2018 a Texas woman was sentenced to five years, an Arizona man busted for voting twice in the mail was given just three years’ probation. A study by the conservative Heritage Foundation found more than 1,000 instances of documented voter fraud in the United States, almost all of which occurred over the last 20 years.
“There is nothing new about these techniques,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at Heritage who manages their election law reform initiative. “Everything he’s talking about is perfectly possible.“
The city Board of Elections declined to answer Post questions on ballot security.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Massachusetts Governor Activates 1,000 National Guard Troops

Massachusetts Gov .
Charlie Baker activated up to 1,000 National Guard members in the state on Friday , though he 's yet to give a reason for the order .
The measure comes amid civil unrest in Kenosha , Wisconsin in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake , a Black man .
Here 's what to know : • National Guardsmen have been present in Massachusetts twice already in 2020 .
Once in March during the earliest stages of the response to the coronavirus pandemic , and again in late May in the days following the murder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officers .
It is not believed that this order is related to the virus .
• The order began on Friday and will continue until the further order of the Adjutant General .
• In a statement , the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security said that `` National guard personnel are deployed only at the request of , and in coordination with , the communities seeking support . ''
• The state is paying for the deployment of the National Guard this time around , unlike in March , when the @ @ @ @ @ @

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker activated up to 1,000 National Guard members in the state on Friday, though he's yet to give a reason for the order.
The measure comes amid civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Here's what to know:
National Guardsmen have been present in Massachusetts twice already in 2020. Once in March during the earliest stages of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, and again in late May in the days following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of officers. It is not believed that this order is related to the virus.
The order began on Friday and will continue until the further order of the Adjutant General.
In a statement, the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security said that "National guard personnel are deployed only at the request of, and in coordination with, the communities seeking support."


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Portland Protesters Stage Sit-In at Home of Mayor Who Supports Them

Protesters gather at Mayor Wheeler's Northwest Portland condo
Protesters gather outside the home of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Friday night, Aug. 28, 2020. (Photo: Megan Allison/KATU Staff)


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--HHS Official: “We Are Absolutely On Track” to Approve Tens of Millions of Coronavirus Vaccines By Ye

HHS Official: “We Are Absolutely On Track” to Approve Tens of Millions of Coronavirus Vaccines By Year’s End

Paul Mango , deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services , said the agency is `` absolutely on track ” to approve “ tens of millions '' of coronavirus vaccine doses before end of 2020 .
When formally accepting the presidential nomination on Thursday evening , President Trump said a vaccine would be available by the end of the year `` or maybe even sooner.
” Mango told reporters that manufacturing is already underway for three of the COVID-19 vaccines .
“ We feel we are absolutely on track , if not a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our overall objective , which is tens of millions of safe and effective vaccines approved before calendar year end , ” he said on Friday during a conference call briefing on Operation Warp Speed .
“ We ’ re dealing with a very , very complex logistical task when it comes to vaccine distribution.
” Operation Warp Speed “ aims to deliver 300 million doses of a safe , effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021.
” However , Mango was not able to quantify how many doses of safe vaccines would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this year .
“ We don ’ t know exactly how many doses we ’ re going to have , ” he said .
`` We don ’ t know at what time you ’ re going to have those doses as we approach the end of the year .
And we don ’ t know yet in which subpopulations those vaccines are going to be efficacious.
” Dr. Robert Redfield , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , said there are several vaccines developing and the that the CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systems for vaccine distribution and building on “ state and local planning ” that is underway around pandemic influenza .
Redfield said prioritization is a major component of the vaccine-distribution process .
“ At first , there will likely be a limited supply of one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines .
Because limited doses will be available initially , it ’ s important that the early vaccines are distributed in a fair , ethical and transparent way , ” he said .
Redfield said the CDC and groups like the National Academies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eventually make recommendations on which populations should be prioritized for vaccines .
“ We need to determine how much vaccine will go to each state and jurisdiction , ” he said .
Redfield explained that the CDC ’ s goal is to ensure there are no delays between the FDA authorizing a vaccine and the “ implementation of vaccine programs nationwide.
” Although the process is moving at “ warp speed , ” Redfield emphasized that any COVID-19 vaccine will be “ held to the same standards as other vaccines to make sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
”

Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the agency is "absolutely on track” to approve “tens of millions" of coronavirus vaccine doses before end of 2020.
When formally accepting the presidential nomination on Thursday evening, President Trump said a vaccine would be available by the end of the year "or maybe even sooner.”
Mango told reporters that manufacturing is already underway for three of the COVID-19 vaccines.
“We feel we are absolutely on track, if not a little bit ahead, in terms of our overall objective, which is tens of millions of safe and effective vaccines approved before calendar year end,” he said on Friday during a conference call briefing on Operation Warp Speed. “We’re dealing with a very, very complex logistical task when it comes to vaccine distribution.”
Operation Warp Speed “aims to deliver 300 million doses of a safe, effective vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021.”
However, Mango was not able to quantify how many doses of safe vaccines would be available for distribution before the end of this year.
“We don’t know exactly how many doses we’re going to have,” he said. "We don’t know at what time you’re going to have those doses as we approach the end of the year. And we don’t know yet in which subpopulations those vaccines are going to be efficacious.”
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said there are several vaccines developing and the that the CDC is focusing on “leveraging” existing systems for vaccine distribution and building on “state and local planning” that is underway around pandemic influenza.
Redfield said prioritization is a major component of the vaccine-distribution process.
“At first, there will likely be a limited supply of one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines. Because limited doses will be available initially, it’s important that the early vaccines are distributed in a fair, ethical and transparent way,” he said.
Redfield said the CDC and groups like the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will eventually make recommendations on which populations should be prioritized for vaccines.
“We need to determine how much vaccine will go to each state and jurisdiction,” he said.
Redfield explained that the CDC’s goal is to ensure there are no delays between the FDA authorizing a vaccine and the “implementation of vaccine programs nationwide.”
Although the process is moving at “warp speed,” Redfield emphasized that any COVID-19 vaccine will be “held to the same standards as other vaccines to make sure they are safe and they are effective.”


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Tucker Carlson: For the First Time Since the Pandemic Began, Trump Looks Likely to Win Reelection

Fox News host Tucker Carlson cited ongoing riots and violence by the left to contend that President Donald Trump “ seems likely to win reelection ” for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began in March .
Carlson began his Friday night “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” monologue by referring to Trump ’ s nomination acceptance speech at the previous night ’ s Republican National Convention .
“ The United States has flaws , but it ’ s also , as the president reminded us last night , the most free , just and exceptional nation on Earth , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country free speech is allowed , violence is not allowed , ” Carlson said .
“ What separates American democracy from Taliban theocracy , for example , is that in America people can disagree with one another and disagree with the government without fearing for their lives .
This used to be obvious .
It was the foundation of our civic life.
” “ And all of a sudden Joe Biden could never say this out loud , ” he continued .
“ His voters have destroyed cities across the country and murdered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silent about that , but Donald Trump doesn ’ t have to .
So , he said it , and as a result , for the first time since the Wuhan coronavirus arrived here , the president seems likely to win reelection.
” The Fox News host contended that Democrats “ can smell something has changed ” because most Americans “ hate the violence they have unleashed.
” Although Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “ issued a tepid statement gently scolding the rioters , ” Carlson argued that those voters “ no longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : ‘ Path Taken By Democrats And Their Radical Supporters ’ Will Destroy America ) “ Last night as the president spoke , a group of Biden voters gathered outside the White House to threaten and intimidate anyone who dared support Donald Trump , ” he said .
“ They waited to ambush attendees .
The mayor of Washington , an incompetent hack called Muriel Bowser , made all of this possible .
Bowser has been on the mob ’ s side since the first day .
She allowed the mob to harass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on city streets they pay for.
” Carlson played clips of mob violence and intimidation against convention attendees as they made their way home , including Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and his wife .
“ This isn ’ t happening by accident , ” he said .
“ It didn ’ t happen five years ago .
It ’ s happening now not because police are more brutal or more unarmed African American men are being killed by the police .
That ’ s not happening .
It ’ s a total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the leadership of the Democratic Party are encouraging it and have been for quite some time .
”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson cited ongoing riots and violence by the left to contend that President Donald Trump “seems likely to win reelection” for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began in March.
Carlson began his Friday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” monologue by referring to Trump’s nomination acceptance speech at the previous night’s Republican National Convention.
“The United States has flaws, but it’s also, as the president reminded us last night, the most free, just and exceptional nation on Earth,” Carlson said.
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“In our country free speech is allowed, violence is not allowed,” Carlson said. “What separates American democracy from Taliban theocracy, for example, is that in America people can disagree with one another and disagree with the government without fearing for their lives. This used to be obvious. It was the foundation of our civic life.”
“And all of a sudden Joe Biden could never say this out loud,” he continued. “His voters have destroyed cities across the country and murdered dozens of Americans. He must stay silent about that, but Donald Trump doesn’t have to. So, he said it, and as a result, for the first time since the Wuhan coronavirus arrived here, the president seems likely to win reelection.”
The Fox News host contended that Democrats “can smell something has changed” because most Americans “hate the violence they have unleashed.”
Although Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “issued a tepid statement gently scolding the rioters,” Carlson argued that those voters “no longer listen.” (RELATED: Kristi Noem: ‘Path Taken By Democrats And Their Radical Supporters’ Will Destroy America)
“Last night as the president spoke, a group of Biden voters gathered outside the White House to threaten and intimidate anyone who dared support Donald Trump,” he said. “They waited to ambush attendees. The mayor of Washington, an incompetent hack called Muriel Bowser, made all of this possible. Bowser has been on the mob’s side since the first day. She allowed the mob to harass and terrify elderly taxpayers as they walked on city streets they pay for.”
Carlson played clips of mob violence and intimidation against convention attendees as they made their way home, including Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and his wife.
“This isn’t happening by accident,” he said. “It didn’t happen five years ago. It’s happening now not because police are more brutal or more unarmed African American men are being killed by the police. That’s not happening. It’s a total hoax. It’s happening because the leadership of the Democratic Party are encouraging it and have been for quite some time.”


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Tucker Carlson Teases Release of Taped Conversations Between Michael Cohen and Chris Cuomo

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said a tape-recorded conversation between CNN host Chris Cuomo and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen reveals a different side to the network host .
Copies of the tape have been `` floating around '' for a time but have n't been reported on publicly , he said Friday .
The Fox host added that he intends to share the details of the tape at some point between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4 .
`` Television is a famously phony medium , grown men wear makeup to work .
Hate to admit that , but it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over time , is revealing .
If you watch long enough , you can tell who is real and who is fraudulent .
Well , you ’ re about to have all of your perceptions confirmed , '' Carlson began , teasing the tape .
`` Remember Michael Cohen , the president ’ s former lawyer , the one who went to jail for tax evasion ?
Cohen was a committed sleazeball , so it probably won ’ t surprise you to learn that he was very friendly with a number of well-known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they had a lot in common .
The unethical lawyer and the unethical talk show hosts .
Cohen talked to all of them recently .
Well , it turns out those conversations were tape-recorded ...
Copies have been floating around for quite some time now , none has aired publicly yet .
Who is he talking to ?
A lot of people , '' Carlson said .
`` Chris Cuomo at CNN was one of them .
Cohen and the governor ’ s brother had a pretty shocking conversation .
Bottom line , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretends to be on CNN .
And there is more .
This is a developing story .
We 'll have all of it for you next week .
Tune in . ''
The Washington Examiner reached out to CNN for comment .
In August 2018 , Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges , including bank fraud , tax fraud , and campaign finance violations related to facilitating hush money payments to two women who alleged romantic affairs with President Trump .

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said a tape-recorded conversation between CNN host Chris Cuomo and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen reveals a different side to the network host.
Copies of the tape have been "floating around" for a time but haven't been reported on publicly, he said Friday. The Fox host added that he intends to share the details of the tape at some point between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4.
"Television is a famously phony medium, grown men wear makeup to work. Hate to admit that, but it's true. But television also, over time, is revealing. If you watch long enough, you can tell who is real and who is fraudulent. Well, you’re about to have all of your perceptions confirmed," Carlson began, teasing the tape.
"Remember Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, the one who went to jail for tax evasion? Cohen was a committed sleazeball, so it probably won’t surprise you to learn that he was very friendly with a number of well-known media figures. Underneath it all, they had a lot in common. The unethical lawyer and the unethical talk show hosts. Cohen talked to all of them recently. Well, it turns out those conversations were tape-recorded ... Copies have been floating around for quite some time now, none has aired publicly yet. Who is he talking to? A lot of people," Carlson said.
"Chris Cuomo at CNN was one of them. Cohen and the governor’s brother had a pretty shocking conversation. Bottom line, Chris Cuomo is not the person he pretends to be on CNN. And there is more. This is a developing story. We'll have all of it for you next week. Tune in."
The Washington Examiner reached out to CNN for comment.
In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance violations related to facilitating hush money payments to two women who alleged romantic affairs with President Trump.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--CA Gov Newsom Rewrites the Rules For the State’s Reopening (Again)

California 's incompetent governor , Gavin Newsom , just rewrote the rules for a third time regarding the state 's reopening process .
The governor 's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been so muddled even the Associated Press has taken note .
On Friday , Newsom unveiled a fun , color-coded map of the state depicting the various counties and their current lockdown statuses .
The colors range from yellow to purple , with each darker color indicating a more draconian lockdown status .
A county has to spend 21 days in each color before being eligible to move @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fun is that ?
Purple represents the most severe lockdown orders , where in-classroom instruction and indoor dining are prohibited .
A map of California shows the current colors of the various counties .
Once more , Gavin is changing the rules on everybody with this stupid new coloring system .
Newsom had delegated the reopening process down to the county level before rewriting the rulebook and reinstating lockdown orders across the state .
Newsom should color a map of California showing the current levels of wildfires , blackouts , and homelessness in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mostly purple too .
On second thought , the only thing Newsom should be allowed to color is a coloring book .
Californians need to remove this Gov .
Nincompoop before he transforms the entire state into a cesspool like he did with San Francisco .

California's incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, just rewrote the rules for a third time regarding the state's reopening process. The governor's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been so muddled even the Associated Press has taken note.
On Friday, Newsom unveiled a fun, color-coded map of the state depicting the various counties and their current lockdown statuses. The colors range from yellow to purple, with each darker color indicating a more draconian lockdown status. A county has to spend 21 days in each color before being eligible to move on to a lighter color. How fun is that?
NEW: California is launching a Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
It’s simple.
Your county will be assigned a color based on:
- Case rate
- Positivity rate
Your color determines how businesses can operate in your county.
Find your color & what’s open ?? https://t.co/xtXFwVeWc2 pic.twitter.com/fFXR7rbtU1 — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 28, 2020
Purple represents the most severe lockdown orders, where in-classroom instruction and indoor dining are prohibited.
A map of California shows the current colors of the various counties.
Here's how the state stacks up now. As you can see, most counties are marked as "widespread" C-19 transmission and thus the worst performing. pic.twitter.com/D5Hrf8gfyn — John Myers (@johnmyers) August 28, 2020
That's a lot of purple.
Once more, Gavin is changing the rules on everybody with this stupid new coloring system. Newsom had delegated the reopening process down to the county level before rewriting the rulebook and reinstating lockdown orders across the state.
Newsom should color a map of California showing the current levels of wildfires, blackouts, and homelessness in the state. That map would be mostly purple too.
On second thought, the only thing Newsom should be allowed to color is a coloring book. Californians need to remove this Gov. Nincompoop before he transforms the entire state into a cesspool like he did with San Francisco.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--Trump Administration Offers Workers a Temporary Deferral of Social Security Tax

The Trump administration on Friday allowed employers to suspend collection of some Social Security taxes , although business groups do n't like the idea and it may create political headaches for Republicans .
Democrats are already saying it would undermine retirement benefits .
The Treasury Department guidance came late in the day , less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention and a speech by President Donald Trump in which he promised to protect Social Security and Medicare .
GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE It allows employers to offer their workers a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tax employees pay into the Social Security Trust Fund for the rest of this year .
The taxes owed would not be forgiven , and instead would come due in 2021 .
It 's unclear how many employers will take the option , since implementing it would involve additional effort and expenses on their part .
“ The guidance allows employers to defer withholding and paying the employee ’ s portion of the Social Security payroll tax if the employee ’ s wages are below a certain amount , ” Treasury said in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cutoff is $ 104,000 a year .
Trump had ordered the tax deferral in early August after Congress deadlocked on the latest coronavirus relief bill .
The president argues more money in workers ’ pockets for the rest of this year will translate to a boost for the economy .
But major business groups traditionally allied with the White House called the idea unworkable for employers and unfair to workers .
Employers wanted to avoid the hassle of having to collect the deferred taxes later on from their workers .
3 REASONS TO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'S A SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19 Neil Bradley , policy chief for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , said Friday night the Treasury guidance leaves many practical questions unanswered .
“ However , it makes clear that employees will be required to pay more taxes beginning in January to offset any benefit they receive now , ” Bradley said .
“ The only way to achieve a workable proposal is for Congress and the administration to come together and enact a change in the law.
” Lawmakers have little desire to tinker with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chamber found that a hypothetical worker making $ 75,000 a year would get nearly $ 179 more every two weeks through the rest of this year .
But that same worker would owe about $ 1,610 next year .
A worker making $ 35,000 would get about $ 83 more biweekly the rest of this year , and owe just over $ 750 next year .
Separately , AARP wrote Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to express concerns about the potential consequences for Social Security finances .
3 SOCIAL SECURITY STEPS TO TAKE 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practical impact of Treasury ’ s action , it appears Social Security will be thrust into the election maelstrom .
Trump has also teased that if he ’ s reelected he would press for a permanent cut in Social Security taxes .
Although the president argues it will help revive an economy battered by the coronavirus , many economists disagree .
“ At the end of the year , the assumption that I win , I ’ m going to terminate the payroll tax , which is another thing that some of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Trump told reporters earlier this month , adding that “ tremendous growth ” in the U.S. will cover the costs of Social Security .
“ We ’ ll be paying into Social Security through the general fund.
” White House aides insist that Trump is only referring to permanently forgiving the taxes that would be deferred this year , but the president himself has repeatedly indicated he has much bigger ideas in mind .
As a candidate in 2016 , Trump promised not to cut Social Security and Medicare , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promise .
“ He is defunding Social Security and breaking his promise — it ’ s staring us in the face , ” said Rep. John Larson , D-Conn. , who chairs a subcommittee that oversees the program .
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has joined the criticism .
While the president has the authority to defer collection of the tax in a national emergency , only Congress can forgive the amounts owed .
Trump directed Mnuchin to work with lawmakers to secure that goal .
Administration officials say any legislation would repay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But congressional Republicans have shown little interest .
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS Many economists say the policy is dubious .
While it would put more money in workers ’ pockets , people might not spend it if they ’ re afraid the government will ask for it back .
Also , a payroll tax deferral benefits those who are working , not the unemployed going without a $ 600 weekly benefit from the federal government that has lapsed .
The White House says Trump ’ s commitment to @ @ @ @ @

The Trump administration on Friday allowed employers to suspend collection of some Social Security taxes, although business groups don't like the idea and it may create political headaches for Republicans. Democrats are already saying it would undermine retirement benefits.
The Treasury Department guidance came late in the day, less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention and a speech by President Donald Trump in which he promised to protect Social Security and Medicare.
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It allows employers to offer their workers a temporary deferral of the 6.2% payroll tax employees pay into the Social Security Trust Fund for the rest of this year. The taxes owed would not be forgiven, and instead would come due in 2021.
It's unclear how many employers will take the option, since implementing it would involve additional effort and expenses on their part.
“The guidance allows employers to defer withholding and paying the employee’s portion of the Social Security payroll tax if the employee’s wages are below a certain amount,” Treasury said in a terse press release. The earnings cutoff is $104,000 a year.
Trump had ordered the tax deferral in early August after Congress deadlocked on the latest coronavirus relief bill. The president argues more money in workers’ pockets for the rest of this year will translate to a boost for the economy.
But major business groups traditionally allied with the White House called the idea unworkable for employers and unfair to workers. Employers wanted to avoid the hassle of having to collect the deferred taxes later on from their workers.
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Neil Bradley, policy chief for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Friday night the Treasury guidance leaves many practical questions unanswered.
“However, it makes clear that employees will be required to pay more taxes beginning in January to offset any benefit they receive now,” Bradley said. “The only way to achieve a workable proposal is for Congress and the administration to come together and enact a change in the law.”
Lawmakers have little desire to tinker with Social Security.
An analysis by the Chamber found that a hypothetical worker making $75,000 a year would get nearly $179 more every two weeks through the rest of this year. But that same worker would owe about $1,610 next year. A worker making $35,000 would get about $83 more biweekly the rest of this year, and owe just over $750 next year.
Separately, AARP wrote Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to express concerns about the potential consequences for Social Security finances.
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Regardless of the practical impact of Treasury’s action, it appears Social Security will be thrust into the election maelstrom.
Trump has also teased that if he’s reelected he would press for a permanent cut in Social Security taxes. Although the president argues it will help revive an economy battered by the coronavirus, many economists disagree.
“At the end of the year, the assumption that I win, I’m going to terminate the payroll tax, which is another thing that some of the great economists would like to see done,” Trump told reporters earlier this month, adding that “tremendous growth” in the U.S. will cover the costs of Social Security. “We’ll be paying into Social Security through the general fund.”
White House aides insist that Trump is only referring to permanently forgiving the taxes that would be deferred this year, but the president himself has repeatedly indicated he has much bigger ideas in mind.
As a candidate in 2016, Trump promised not to cut Social Security and Medicare, and Democrats say he has now abandoned that promise.
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“He is defunding Social Security and breaking his promise — it’s staring us in the face,” said Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., who chairs a subcommittee that oversees the program. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has joined the criticism.
While the president has the authority to defer collection of the tax in a national emergency, only Congress can forgive the amounts owed. Trump directed Mnuchin to work with lawmakers to secure that goal. Administration officials say any legislation would repay the Social Security Trust Fund as well.
But congressional Republicans have shown little interest.
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Many economists say the policy is dubious. While it would put more money in workers’ pockets, people might not spend it if they’re afraid the government will ask for it back. Also, a payroll tax deferral benefits those who are working, not the unemployed going without a $600 weekly benefit from the federal government that has lapsed.
The White House says Trump’s commitment to Social Security is ironclad.


bonginoreport--2020-08-29--C-SPAN Overwhelmed by Dem Callers Saying They Now Support Trump


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--The Numbers Are In: RNC Garners 25 Million More Total Viewers Than DNC

Over its four-day convention , Donald Trump and the Republican Party earned 147.9 million viewers and raised $ 76 million in cash , reports Fox News .
Over its four-day convention , Rapey Joe Biden and the pro-riot party that wants to confiscate your guns and force nuns to pay for abortions earned only 122 million viewers and raised just $ 70 million .
That means , and feel free to recheck my math — I went to public schools , after all — Trump earned a whopping 25.9 million more viewers than Rapey Joe and $ 6 million more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this ?
You are if you ’ re still stupid enough to pay any attention to the establishment media .
Which brings me to my next question… Why are you still stupid enough to pay attention to the establishment media ?
In an effort to stop the spread of fake news , I won ’ t be linking any of this , but the following headlines are indeed fer realsies .
Feel free to Duck , Duck Go them : • CNNLOL : “ Biden hits Trump where it hurts : in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Despite All Those Fireworks , Trump Still Had Lower Convention Ratings Than Biden ” Not a single one of those headlines is true or accurate .
They are all lies .
Bald-faced lies .
Over those four nights , more than 25 million more people tuned into the Trump ’ s convention than Biden ’ s , and will you just look at those media headlines that claim the exact opposite .
A few of those stories are caveated with , Well , admittedly , harrumph-harrumph , we don ’ t know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but… Which only makes it worse because it proves they know their own headline is a lie .
Sorry , but if you don ’ t know the streaming numbers you don ’ t publish that headline .
This isn ’ t 1996 when people are dialing into AOL .
This is 2020 , and if you are not counting streaming viewers in a country of 330 million where — this is not a typo — 60 percent of the public are comfortably with streaming TV , then you don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , declaring a winner in the ratings without counting streaming viewers is like declaring a winner in a football without knowing the score of one of the two teams .
That ’ s all the media do anymore is lie .
The headlines above are not an oopsie .
They are lies .
And believe me , there are plenty more where those came from .
Whether it ’ s Hands Up , Don ’ t Shoot ; Brett Kavanaugh , Covington , fish food , Russia collusion , “ mostly peaceful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie .
It ’ s to the point now , where I have literally stopped believing everything reported in the media , and I doubt I ’ m the only one .
My default position is This story is a lie , and it almost always is .
In the case of some of the above headline , I didn ’ t even have to wait for the final viewership numbers to prove the headline was a lie .
All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story itself .
The headline reads : “ Biden hits Trump where it hurts : in the convention speech ratings , ” but the story itself admits “ Nielsen ’ s data sets count traditional TV viewership across America but largely leave out streaming and other digital forms of engagement , so the picture is incomplete.
” [ emphasis mine ] In other words , I don ’ t know the final score of the Super Bowl but the Patriots won .
They won !
And the other team sucks !
Sucks !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ share of mistakes over the years , Never , though , have I done what Brian Stelter or the rest of these fools have , which is to deliberately attempt to mislead people .
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @ NolteNC .
Follow his Facebook Page here .

Over its four-day convention, Donald Trump and the Republican Party earned 147.9 million viewers and raised $76 million in cash, reports Fox News.
Over its four-day convention, Rapey Joe Biden and the pro-riot party that wants to confiscate your guns and force nuns to pay for abortions earned only 122 million viewers and raised just $70 million.
That means, and feel free to recheck my math — I went to public schools, after all — Trump earned a whopping 25.9 million more viewers than Rapey Joe and $6 million more in cash.
Are you surprised by this?
You are if you’re still stupid enough to pay any attention to the establishment media.
Which brings me to my next question…
Why are you still stupid enough to pay attention to the establishment media?
In an effort to stop the spread of fake news, I won’t be linking any of this, but the following headlines are indeed fer realsies.
Feel free to Duck, Duck Go them:
CNNLOL: “Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings”
NPR Welfare Queens: “Democrats Beat Republicans In Convention Television Ratings”
Something Called Salon: “Trump’s Republican National Convention was a ratings flop”
HuffPost: “Despite All Those Fireworks, Trump Still Had Lower Convention Ratings Than Biden”
Forbes: “In Battle Of Convention Speech Ratings, Biden Beats Trump”
Not a single one of those headlines is true or accurate. They are all lies. Bald-faced lies.
Over those four nights, more than 25 million more people tuned into the Trump’s convention than Biden’s, and will you just look at those media headlines that claim the exact opposite.
C-SPAN
A few of those stories are caveated with, Well, admittedly, harrumph-harrumph, we don’t know the streaming numbers, harrumph-harrumph, yet, but… Which only makes it worse because it proves they know their own headline is a lie.
Sorry, but if you don’t know the streaming numbers you don’t publish that headline.
This isn’t 1996 when people are dialing into AOL.
This isn’t even 2012.
This is 2020, and if you are not counting streaming viewers in a country of 330 million where — this is not a typo — 60 percent of the public are comfortably with streaming TV, then you don’t have the numbers.
In the year 2020, declaring a winner in the ratings without counting streaming viewers is like declaring a winner in a football without knowing the score of one of the two teams.
It’s a farce.
No, it’s a lie.
The media lie.
Deargodinheaven how they lie.
That’s all the media do anymore is lie.
The headlines above are not an oopsie. They are lies. And believe me, there are plenty more where those came from.
Whether it’s Hands Up, Don’t Shoot; Brett Kavanaugh, Covington, fish food, Russia collusion, “mostly peaceful” riots… the media lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie.
It’s to the point now, where I have literally stopped believing everything reported in the media, and I doubt I’m the only one.
My default position is This story is a lie, and it almost always is.
In the case of some of the above headline, I didn’t even have to wait for the final viewership numbers to prove the headline was a lie. All I had to do was read the story itself.
Take Brian “Tater” Stelter’s CNNLOL story…
The headline reads: “Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings,” but the story itself admits “Nielsen’s data sets count traditional TV viewership across America but largely leave out streaming and other digital forms of engagement, so the picture is incomplete.” [emphasis mine]
In other words, I don’t know the final score of the Super Bowl but the Patriots won. They won! And the other team sucks! Sucks!
Heaven knows I’ve made my share of mistakes over the years, Never, though, have I done what Brian Stelter or the rest of these fools have, which is to deliberately attempt to mislead people.
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here.


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--New Video Surfaces of Portland Clash Where Trump Supporter Was Killed

New footage showing the slaying of a Trump supporter has surfaced , showing another aspect of the tragic incident on Saturday night .
The footage , which posted on the YouTube channel Stumptown Matters , went viral on social media after it was clipped on Twitter .
The video begins with the cameraman pointing the camera at the ground when shouts are heard .
Two gunshots gunshots ring out .
The camera then focuses on the victim , who is already on the ground .
A man in a white shirt , who is apparently a friend of the victim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Shortly thereafter , after people show up , a person whom onlookers claim is a `` medic '' pulls out a first aid kit .
The man in the white shirt pushes her away as she leans over the victim .
Some of the onlookers appear to be Antifa militants , who scold the man in the white t-shirt .
Seconds later , officers from the Portland Police Department roll up , shooing the group gathered around the victim away before administering proper medical help .
The police take over the care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the man in the white shirt and others gathered around the location .
A woman ’ s voice can be heard describing that the shooter had fled in a red car .
It is unclear if this actually happened .
After the man was pronounced dead , many Black Lives Matter and Antifa militants protesting in the street celebrated the man 's death , calling him a “ Nazi ” and claiming a “ victory against Trump ” .
Footage of the fatal incident shows a loss of control by the city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rejected help from the federal government in quelling the riots that have been raging for almost three months .

New footage showing the slaying of a Trump supporter has surfaced, showing another aspect of the tragic incident on Saturday night.
The footage, which posted on the YouTube channel Stumptown Matters, went viral on social media after it was clipped on Twitter.
Remember, @CNN & nearly all of the MSM has spent months defending antifa.
"We got them right here. We got a couple right here."
"Pull it out!"
"Right here?"
*shots fired*
And an innocent Trump supporter is killed by a leftwing anarchist. #BidenRiotspic.twitter.com/rKr38gc1YC — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 30, 2020
The video begins with the cameraman pointing the camera at the ground when shouts are heard. Two gunshots gunshots ring out. The camera then focuses on the victim, who is already on the ground. A man in a white shirt, who is apparently a friend of the victim, appears and attempts to revive him.
Full clip + new audio edited together
A Trump supporter was executed while wearing a Blue Lives Matter flag pic.twitter.com/pyVQ9sYGyJ — Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) August 30, 2020
Shortly thereafter, after people show up, a person whom onlookers claim is a "medic" pulls out a first aid kit. The man in the white shirt pushes her away as she leans over the victim.
Some of the onlookers appear to be Antifa militants, who scold the man in the white t-shirt. Seconds later, officers from the Portland Police Department roll up, shooing the group gathered around the victim away before administering proper medical help.
The police take over the care of the victim and start asking questions of the man in the white shirt and others gathered around the location.
A woman’s voice can be heard describing that the shooter had fled in a red car. It is unclear if this actually happened.
After the man was pronounced dead, many Black Lives Matter and Antifa militants protesting in the street celebrated the man's death, calling him a “Nazi” and claiming a “victory against Trump”.
Footage of the fatal incident shows a loss of control by the city's failing Mayor Ted Wheeler, who rejected help from the federal government in quelling the riots that have been raging for almost three months.


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--FDA Willing to Fast Track Coronavirus Vaccine

( Reuters ) - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) is willing to fast-track a COVID-19 vaccine as quickly as possible , the Financial Times reported him as saying in an interview published on Sunday .
Dr. Stephen Hahn , the FDA Commissioner , said his agency was prepared to authorize a vaccine before Phase Three clinical trials were complete , as long as officials are convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks , the newspaper reported .
Without providing evidence , U.S. President Donald Trump last Saturday accused members of a so-called `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of complicating efforts to test COVID-19 vaccines in order to delay results until after the Nov. 3 presidential election .
A day later , the FDA gave `` emergency use authorization '' of a coronavirus treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered patients .
NO CLEAR ELECTION WINNER ?
OPTIONS MARKETS ALREADY PREPARING FOR THAT POSSIBILITY '' Our emergency use authorization is not the same as a full approval , '' Hahn told the FT , adding that his decisions will not be made because of political pressure .
`` This is going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data decision .
This is not going to be a political decision , '' Hahn said , according to the report .
He said the safest way for the vaccine to be available for use before the end of Phase Three trials , which involve thousands of patients and can take years , would be by issuing an emergency authorization for use by certain groups rather than a blanket approval , the FT reported .
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(Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is willing to fast-track a COVID-19 vaccine as quickly as possible, the Financial Times reported him as saying in an interview published on Sunday.
Dr. Stephen Hahn, the FDA Commissioner, said his agency was prepared to authorize a vaccine before Phase Three clinical trials were complete, as long as officials are convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks, the newspaper reported.
Without providing evidence, U.S. President Donald Trump last Saturday accused members of a so-called "deep state" working within the FDA of complicating efforts to test COVID-19 vaccines in order to delay results until after the Nov. 3 presidential election.
A day later, the FDA gave "emergency use authorization" of a coronavirus treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered patients.
NO CLEAR ELECTION WINNER? OPTIONS MARKETS ALREADY PREPARING FOR THAT POSSIBILITY
"Our emergency use authorization is not the same as a full approval," Hahn told the FT, adding that his decisions will not be made because of political pressure.
"This is going to be a science, medicine, data decision. This is not going to be a political decision," Hahn said, according to the report.
He said the safest way for the vaccine to be available for use before the end of Phase Three trials, which involve thousands of patients and can take years, would be by issuing an emergency authorization for use by certain groups rather than a blanket approval, the FT reported.
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(Reporting by Rebekah Mathew in Bengaluru, Editing by William Maclean and Hugh Lawson)


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--John Ratcliffe Coordinating With John Durham to Declassify More Documents

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed he is coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham in the federal prosecutor ’ s inquiry into the Russia investigation and expects to make further declassifications public soon .
Ratcliffe , who has overseen the nation ’ s 17 intelligence agencies since taking over the role in May , shed a bit of light on how the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is assisting in the `` investigation of the investigators '' investigation during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News and insisted he is working to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t `` prejudice '' Durham ’ s inquiry .
“ We ’ ve actually , for several months , been coordinating with his team of folks to make sure that he has access to all of the intelligence community documents that he needs , ” Ratcliffe said of Durham .
“ He ’ s looking at the same , some of the same documents that I am , and so our work is running on parallel paths .
Now , his is a criminal investigation , and he ’ s not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s doing , but I ’ m coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work , and what I don ’ t want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work , so we ’ re going to have to coordinate as we go forward the completion of his work with my ability to declassify documents , and so we ’ ve communicated along those lines.
” Durham collected his first guilty plea this month from former FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a false statements charge for altering a CIA email in 2017 that helped justify the continued Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretapping of onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page by fraudulently adding that Page was `` not a source '' for the agency when the CIA had told Clinesmith and the bureau on multiple occasions that Page was an “ operational contact ” for them .
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham contends the FBI misled the Senate Intelligence Committee in early 2018 about British ex-spy Christopher Steele ’ s primary subsource — recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D.C.-based lawyer Igor Danchenko — who the FBI knew by then had undermined the credibility of many of Steele ’ s Trump-Russia allegations across multiple interviews with him in early 2017 .
Ratcliffe recently declassified the FBI memo showing Danchenko undercutting the reliability of the now-discredited Steele dossier .
“ I was a congressman , and in that role , I felt strongly that the FBI had continued a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign without a proper predicate , in other words , illegally continued it , and obviously the Clinesmith plea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with that are related to that , ” Ratcliffe said .
“ The question now is : Did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all ?
And that ’ s the issue that John Durham is looking at , and it ’ s also the issue that I ’ m continuing to look at.
” DOJ Inspector General Horowitz wrote in his lengthy December report that the FBI 's Russia investigation , code-named Crossfire Hurricane , was `` opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with Attorney General William Barr , disagreed with the assertion that the opening of the investigation was justified .
“ When I went through confirmation , I pledged to a bipartisan group of senators that I ’ d look at all of the underlying intelligence surrounding the intelligence community ’ s assessment of Russia and Russia ’ s interference and this idea of Trump-Russia collusion , so I ’ ve spent the last three months doing that , ” Ratcliffe said Sunday .
“ And I ’ ve declassified certain documents — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but I ’ m not going to prejudice John Durham ’ s work in connection with that , so we ’ ve had to coordinate with this office about the timing of that , but I ’ m optimistic that I ’ ll be declassifying additional documents soon.
” Durham is looking into whether former CIA Director John Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin ’ s motivations .
“ There was definitely Russian interference , ” Barr @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Durham is looking at the intelligence community ’ s ICA — the report that they did in December [ 2016 ] .
And he ’ s sort of examining all the information that was ... the basis for their conclusions . ''
The 2017 assessment concluded with `` high confidence '' that Putin “ ordered an influence campaign in 2016 ” and Russia worked to “ undermine public faith '' in U.S. democracy , `` denigrate '' former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , `` harm her electability and potential presidency , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Trump .
The National Security Agency diverged on one aspect , expressing only “ moderate confidence ” that Putin actively tried to help Trump win .
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report in April determining that the assessments by the CIA , FBI , and NSA present `` a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis . ''
Those findings clash with a 2018 report from the House Intelligence Committee , led at the time by Rep. Devin Nunes , a California Republican .
That assessment , which was not bipartisan , concluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Community Assessment judgments on Russia 's election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft '' but found the `` judgments on Putin 's strategic intentions did not.
” Horowitz ’ s report criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “ significant errors and omissions ” related to the FISA warrants against Page and for the bureau 's reliance on Steele ’ s Democratic-funded dossier .
Declassified footnotes also now show the FBI was aware that Steele ’ s dossier might have been compromised by Russian disinformation.a

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed he is coordinating with U.S. Attorney John Durham in the federal prosecutor’s inquiry into the Russia investigation and expects to make further declassifications public soon.
Ratcliffe, who has overseen the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies since taking over the role in May, shed a bit of light on how the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is assisting in the "investigation of the investigators" investigation during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News and insisted he is working to ensure that any intelligence documents he releases don’t "prejudice" Durham’s inquiry.
“We’ve actually, for several months, been coordinating with his team of folks to make sure that he has access to all of the intelligence community documents that he needs,” Ratcliffe said of Durham. “He’s looking at the same, some of the same documents that I am, and so our work is running on parallel paths. Now, his is a criminal investigation, and he’s not sharing his findings or the work that he’s doing, but I’m coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work, and what I don’t want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work, so we’re going to have to coordinate as we go forward the completion of his work with my ability to declassify documents, and so we’ve communicated along those lines.”
Durham collected his first guilty plea this month from former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to a false statements charge for altering a CIA email in 2017 that helped justify the continued Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretapping of onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page by fraudulently adding that Page was "not a source" for the agency when the CIA had told Clinesmith and the bureau on multiple occasions that Page was an “operational contact” for them.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham contends the FBI misled the Senate Intelligence Committee in early 2018 about British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s primary subsource — recently revealed to be Russian-trained, Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Igor Danchenko — who the FBI knew by then had undermined the credibility of many of Steele’s Trump-Russia allegations across multiple interviews with him in early 2017. Ratcliffe recently declassified the FBI memo showing Danchenko undercutting the reliability of the now-discredited Steele dossier.
“I was a congressman, and in that role, I felt strongly that the FBI had continued a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign without a proper predicate, in other words, illegally continued it, and obviously the Clinesmith plea and documents that I declassified in connection with that are related to that,” Ratcliffe said. “The question now is: Did the FBI have a proper predicate to begin a counterintelligence investigation at all? And that’s the issue that John Durham is looking at, and it’s also the issue that I’m continuing to look at.”
DOJ Inspector General Horowitz wrote in his lengthy December report that the FBI's Russia investigation, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, was "opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication." But Durham, along with Attorney General William Barr, disagreed with the assertion that the opening of the investigation was justified.
“When I went through confirmation, I pledged to a bipartisan group of senators that I’d look at all of the underlying intelligence surrounding the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia and Russia’s interference and this idea of Trump-Russia collusion, so I’ve spent the last three months doing that,” Ratcliffe said Sunday. “And I’ve declassified certain documents — and I plan to declassified additional documents, but I’m not going to prejudice John Durham’s work in connection with that, so we’ve had to coordinate with this office about the timing of that, but I’m optimistic that I’ll be declassifying additional documents soon.”
Durham is looking into whether former CIA Director John Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations.
“There was definitely Russian interference,” Barr said in June. “I think Durham is looking at the intelligence community’s ICA — the report that they did in December [2016]. And he’s sort of examining all the information that was ... the basis for their conclusions."
The 2017 assessment concluded with "high confidence" that Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and Russia worked to “undermine public faith" in U.S. democracy, "denigrate" former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "harm her electability and potential presidency,” and “developed a clear preference" for Trump. The National Security Agency diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump win.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report in April determining that the assessments by the CIA, FBI, and NSA present "a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis."
Those findings clash with a 2018 report from the House Intelligence Committee, led at the time by Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican. That assessment, which was not bipartisan, concluded that “the majority of the Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Russia's election activities employed proper analytic tradecraft" but found the "judgments on Putin's strategic intentions did not.”
Horowitz’s report criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Page and for the bureau's reliance on Steele’s Democratic-funded dossier. Declassified footnotes also now show the FBI was aware that Steele’s dossier might have been compromised by Russian disinformation.a


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--BLM Rioters in D.C. Call for Killing Police, Burning Down White House

Black Lives Matter terrorists gathered again on Saturday night in Washington , D.C. , this time uniting around the call to “ put police in the f**king grave , ” and “ burn the f**king White House down , ” shocking videos reveal .
Speaking at Mayor Muriel Bowser ’ s Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) Plaza – which has shuttered local businesses and created a street full of illegal activity – one speaker shouted to cheers and applause : “ I ’ m at the point where I ’ m ready to put these police in the f**king @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point where I wan na burn the f**king White House down.
” The speaker went on while the crowd egged him on : “ I wan na take it to the Senators , ” he said , in a chilling statement coming just one day after Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked in the street outside the White House .
“ I wan na take it to the Congress , ” he continued .
Click Here to Help Stop AntiFa “ I wan na take the fight to them .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ain ’ t gon na hear us , we burn them the f**k down.
” Bragging about his own violent actions in New York , the speaker said : “ I ’ m one that talk real sh*t. I talk it in New York and I talk it in DC .
The same way I f**k police up in New York , I f**k cops here in DC .
The same way I bust police in the head in New York , I bust police in the head in DC.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was shot in killed in Portland , Oregon .

WATCH – DC BLM Terrorist: ‘Put Police in Graves, Burn The White House Down, Take it to Senators… Burn Them Down’
Black Lives Matter terrorists gathered again on Saturday night in Washington, D.C., this time uniting around the call to “put police in the f**king grave,” and “burn the f**king White House down,” shocking videos reveal.
Speaking at Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) Plaza – which has shuttered local businesses and created a street full of illegal activity – one speaker shouted to cheers and applause:
“I’m at the point where I’m ready to put these police in the f**king grave. I’m at the point where I wanna burn the f**king White House down.”
The speaker went on while the crowd egged him on:
“I wanna take it to the Senators,” he said, in a chilling statement coming just one day after Senator Rand Paul and his wife were attacked in the street outside the White House.
“I wanna take it to the Congress,” he continued.
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“I wanna take the fight to them. And at the end of the day if they ain’t gonna hear us, we burn them the f**k down.”
Bragging about his own violent actions in New York, the speaker said: “I’m one that talk real sh*t. I talk it in New York and I talk it in DC. The same way I f**k police up in New York, I f**k cops here in DC. The same way I bust police in the head in New York, I bust police in the head in DC.”
The video emerged as reports suggested a conservative was shot in killed in Portland, Oregon.


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--Biden Retirement Proposal Would Overhaul Tax-Deferred Treatment of Traditional 401(k) Plans

An often overlooked part of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden 's tax plan would overhaul the tax preferences of traditional retirement accounts like 401 ( k ) plans .
Biden has vowed to convert the current deductibility of traditional retirement contributions into matching refundable credits for 401 ( k ) s , IRAs and others .
Under current law , workers contribute pre-tax dollars to the accounts , reducing their annual taxable income .
( When the funds are eventually withdrawn in retirement , that money is taxed ) .
But the system tends to disproportionately benefit wealthier earners since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's income bracket is .
SOME RETIREES COULD SEE 5 % SOCIAL SECURITY RAISE WITH BIDEN AS PRESIDENT For instance , a taxpayer in the top income bracket would receive a $ 37 benefit for every $ 100 contributed to a retirement account .
By comparison , a taxpayer in the bottom bracket would get just a $ 10 benefit in exchange for the same $ 100 contribution .
But Biden has proposed eliminating such deductions and instead replacing them with flat tax credits for each dollar saved , as first reported by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specified with the percentage would be , but the Tax Foundation estimated that a 26 % credit would be roughly revenue-neutral , something the Biden campaign is aiming for .
`` Compared to current law , the flat credit would provide a larger benefit to lower-income earners and reduce the benefit to higher-income earners , '' the Tax Foundation reported .
If taxpayers contributed $ 100 into a traditional retirement account , the 26 % credit would be the equivalent of a 20.5 % marginal tax rate for all taxpayers , regardless of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tax Foundation .
TRUMP 'S TAX RETURNS MAY BE SHIELDED DURING 2020 ELECTION - WILL VOTERS CARE ?
Typically , a taxpayer in the 12 % income tax bracket earning $ 35,000 would receive a 12 % deduction under current law for any contributions to a traditional retirement account .
But under Biden 's proposal , they would see an effective deduction at a 20.5 % rate .
Of course , a taxpayer in the 37 % bracket would see their deduction rate essentially reduced to 20.5 % .
Proponents of the change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earners .
But critics argue it could shift an exodus among high-earners to Roth-style retirement accounts , shifting savings away from traditional accounts .
Detractors have also noted it would reduce the tax benefit of traditional retirement accounts for those earning above $ 80,250 and earning under $ 400,000 -- violating the former vice president 's pledge to not hike taxes on earners below the $ 400,000 threshold , the Tax Foundation said .
The proposal from the former vice president would shift some of the benefits of tax deferral in traditional retirement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the intent of boosting saving among those individuals , according to Tax Foundation , a Washington-based non-profit .
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An often overlooked part of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's tax plan would overhaul the tax preferences of traditional retirement accounts like 401(k) plans.
Biden has vowed to convert the current deductibility of traditional retirement contributions into matching refundable credits for 401(k)s, IRAs and others.
Under current law, workers contribute pre-tax dollars to the accounts, reducing their annual taxable income. (When the funds are eventually withdrawn in retirement, that money is taxed). But the system tends to disproportionately benefit wealthier earners since deductions are more valuable the higher one's income bracket is.
SOME RETIREES COULD SEE 5% SOCIAL SECURITY RAISE WITH BIDEN AS PRESIDENT
For instance, a taxpayer in the top income bracket would receive a $37 benefit for every $100 contributed to a retirement account. By comparison, a taxpayer in the bottom bracket would get just a $10 benefit in exchange for the same $100 contribution.
But Biden has proposed eliminating such deductions and instead replacing them with flat tax credits for each dollar saved, as first reported by Roll Call. The campaign has not specified with the percentage would be, but the Tax Foundation estimated that a 26% credit would be roughly revenue-neutral, something the Biden campaign is aiming for.
"Compared to current law, the flat credit would provide a larger benefit to lower-income earners and reduce the benefit to higher-income earners," the Tax Foundation reported.
If taxpayers contributed $100 into a traditional retirement account, the 26% credit would be the equivalent of a 20.5% marginal tax rate for all taxpayers, regardless of their income level, according to the Tax Foundation.
TRUMP'S TAX RETURNS MAY BE SHIELDED DURING 2020 ELECTION - WILL VOTERS CARE?
Typically, a taxpayer in the 12% income tax bracket earning $35,000 would receive a 12% deduction under current law for any contributions to a traditional retirement account. But under Biden's proposal, they would see an effective deduction at a 20.5% rate. Of course, a taxpayer in the 37% bracket would see their deduction rate essentially reduced to 20.5%.
Proponents of the change argue it would boost saving among low-income earners. But critics argue it could shift an exodus among high-earners to Roth-style retirement accounts, shifting savings away from traditional accounts. Detractors have also noted it would reduce the tax benefit of traditional retirement accounts for those earning above $80,250 and earning under $400,000 -- violating the former vice president's pledge to not hike taxes on earners below the $400,000 threshold, the Tax Foundation said.
The proposal from the former vice president would shift some of the benefits of tax deferral in traditional retirement accounts toward lower- and middle-income earners, with the intent of boosting saving among those individuals, according to Tax Foundation, a Washington-based non-profit.
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bonginoreport--2020-08-30--Uh Oh: Up to 90% of Positive Coronavirus Tests Should Have Been Negative

Testing , testing , testing -- that 's how Pelosi and the Democrats say we 'll defeat the coronavirus .
Meanwhile , President Trump and his administration are conducting `` operation warp speed '' at breakneck pace to develop therapeutics , diagnostics , and a vaccine for the Wuhan flu .
Unlike testing , treatments will actually do something for you when you come down sick with the disease .
But now we 're learning the overwhelming majority of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus should really have been found negative after all .
According to The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing .
Leading public health experts are now concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems .
`` Most of these people are not likely to be contagious , and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if overtesting is causing `` bottlenecks '' that keep us from identifying contagious people in time , what does The New York Times believe the solution should be ?
More testing !
It helps to understand The Times ' religious devotion to testing if one understands that Democrats have long-since committed to taking the polar opposite position of whatever President Trump believes .
It 's a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome .
If Trump is hopeful about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine , then Democrats believe the drug will kill you .
If Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and more on treatments , Democrats and the media will insist we do nothing but testing and forget about treatments altogether .
This is the state of reference through which The Times can publish an article admitting that overtesting is creating deadly delays while continuing their demand for increased testing .
The Times has now modified its call for more testing by saying everyone should specifically get a rapid test , which has a higher threshold for the quantity of the virus needed in order to render a positive result .
`` In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ direction , the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would purchase 150 million rapid tests , '' The Times admitted .
A step ?
150 million rapid tests -- enough to test nearly half of all Americans -- and that 's just `` a step '' in The Times ' estimation .
It looks like the CDC was right , and not The Times , when the CDC issued guidance saying not everybody and their mother should get tested for COVID-19 .
If the coronavirus has made one thing clear , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` experts '' are wrong all the time .
They ca n't accurately forecast a virus , they tell us different things about the effectiveness of a face mask , they insist the virus ca n't spread at leftwing protests , and there 's a myriad of other examples too long to document here showing us the `` experts '' are really just making it all up as they go along , with their political biases on display for everyone with eyes to see .

Testing, testing, testing -- that's how Pelosi and the Democrats say we'll defeat the coronavirus. Meanwhile, President Trump and his administration are conducting "operation warp speed" at breakneck pace to develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and a vaccine for the Wuhan flu. Unlike testing, treatments will actually do something for you when you come down sick with the disease. But now we're learning the overwhelming majority of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus should really have been found negative after all.
According to The New York Times, potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing. Leading public health experts are now concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems.
"Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time," warns The Times.
So, if overtesting is causing "bottlenecks" that keep us from identifying contagious people in time, what does The New York Times believe the solution should be? More testing!
It helps to understand The Times' religious devotion to testing if one understands that Democrats have long-since committed to taking the polar opposite position of whatever President Trump believes. It's a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome. If Trump is hopeful about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, then Democrats believe the drug will kill you. If Trump believes we should focus less on testing and more on treatments, Democrats and the media will insist we do nothing but testing and forget about treatments altogether.
This is the state of reference through which The Times can publish an article admitting that overtesting is creating deadly delays while continuing their demand for increased testing. The Times has now modified its call for more testing by saying everyone should specifically get a rapid test, which has a higher threshold for the quantity of the virus needed in order to render a positive result.
"In what may be a step in this direction, the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would purchase 150 million rapid tests," The Times admitted.
A step? 150 million rapid tests -- enough to test nearly half of all Americans -- and that's just "a step" in The Times' estimation.
It looks like the CDC was right, and not The Times, when the CDC issued guidance saying not everybody and their mother should get tested for COVID-19.
If the coronavirus has made one thing clear, it's that so-called "scientists" and "experts" are wrong all the time. They can't accurately forecast a virus, they tell us different things about the effectiveness of a face mask, they insist the virus can't spread at leftwing protests, and there's a myriad of other examples too long to document here showing us the "experts" are really just making it all up as they go along, with their political biases on display for everyone with eyes to see.


bonginoreport--2020-08-30--As Second Wave of Coronavirus Hits, South Korea Finds Itself Low on Hospital Beds

Calling it a breeding ground for COVID-19 , staff and students ...

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A second-wave spike in the coronavirus cases in South Korea has led to fears that Seoul may be running out of hospital beds, Reuters reported Saturday.
South Korea has had 16 consecutive days of triple digit rises in new COVID-19 cases as of Saturday — most of them in and around the capital.
As a result, health officials said that just 4.5% of hospital beds in the greater Seoul area were available for critical cases.
More than 1,000 cases have been traced to the Sarang Jeil Church in Seoul, the center of the second wave of infections. Its head, Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon, who opposes the government, has contracted the virus.
The country’s total reported number of COVID-19 cases has now reached 19,400, including 321 deaths.
To make matters worse, almost 16,000 doctors have been on strike since Aug. 21. They walked out in a fight over government’s plans to increase the number of doctors to deal with crises like the coronavirus.
Health officials filed a police complaint against at least 10 doctors and extended a back-to-work order for doctors.
The striking doctors have volunteered at temporary testing centers to help with the outbreak, but major hospitals have had delays and disruptions since their walkout, Reuters said.