thelibertydaily--2020-04-28--Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Blasts Globalist Bill Gates for Saying It’s Not The Time To Blame

Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Blasts Globalist Bill Gates for Saying It’s Not The Time To Blame Communist China

CNN ’ s Farid Zakaria interviewed Bill Gates on Sunday about whether China is to blame for the spread of the coronavirus .
There is no question that China is to blame for hiding the coronavirus and then allowing it to spread all over the world .
Bill Gates has a problem with admitting the obvious and defended China by saying they “ did a lot of things right ” with their coronavirus response .
He dismissed President Trump ’ s criticism of China by saying it ’ s just a “ distraction.
” Huh ?
Listen to Gates shill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter Navarro in the video below slamming China .
It ’ s like night and day listening to the America First Navarro and then the globalist Gates .
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro responded to Gates ’ comments without holding back during an interview with Fox & Friends : “ The Chinese Communist Party basically inflicted this virus on the world , and we should never forget that here in America.
” Navarro ’ s interview with Neil Cavuto is below along with a partial transcript .
Navarro is brutally honest about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
No .
Let me give the ; there ’ s something that China would call the four kills .
I think it ’ s worth going over because the Chinese effectively declared war .
They spawned that virus .
The most likely explanation is it came out of a biological weapons lab , probably by accident , but who knows ?
But more importantly , we know they knowingly hid that virus , Neil , for six weeks .
That ’ s the second kill because , during that time , hundreds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flew to places like New York and Detroit and all around and Milan , all around the world , effectively seeding the planet with this Wuhan virus .
And it just , if they had simply been honest , honest with the world , they could have contained it within Wuhan .
And we wouldn ’ t be having this conversation .
That ’ s the second kill .
The third kill and China ’ s own customs data , Neil , show this — we saw while they were hiding the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and vacuumed up all the PPE around the world , two billion masks they bought alone .
And they took it from countries in Europe , South America , the United States .
And so when the people , the nurses , the brave nurses and doctors on the frontlines in New York or Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans needed PPE , part of the reason they didn ’ t have it is because of that third kill .
The Chinese had basically vacuumed that up .
And now , the fourth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that and using that PPE as a weapon in their soft power to project it and to profiteer .
I mean , we ’ re seeing , Neil , these are 30 , 40-cent masks , 50-cent masks at retail usually , and they ’ re selling them , they ’ re coming to the hospitals here for $ 7 and $ 8 .
And , so how do we trust the Chinese ?
Why is Bill Gates defending China ?
Their terrible behavior has caused death and sickness around the world .

CNN’s Farid Zakaria interviewed Bill Gates on Sunday about whether China is to blame for the spread of the coronavirus. There is no question that China is to blame for hiding the coronavirus and then allowing it to spread all over the world.
Bill Gates has a problem with admitting the obvious and defended China by saying they “did a lot of things right” with their coronavirus response. He dismissed President Trump’s criticism of China by saying it’s just a “distraction.” Huh?
Listen to Gates shill for China and then WH Trade Adviser Peter Navarro in the video below slamming China. It’s like night and day listening to the America First Navarro and then the globalist Gates.
https://twitter.com/VertueCo/status/1254638370698989570?s=20
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro responded to Gates’ comments without holding back during an interview with Fox & Friends:
“The Chinese Communist Party basically inflicted this virus on the world, and we should never forget that here in America.”
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White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Responding To Bill Gates Saying It's Not The Time To Blame China "The Chinese Communist Party basically inflicted this virus on the world and we should never forget that here in America." pic.twitter.com/IvDXfczj1w — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 28, 2020
Navarro’s interview with Neil Cavuto is below along with a partial transcript. Navarro is brutally honest about China:
Do I trust the Chinese? No.
Let me give the; there’s something that China would call the four kills. I think it’s worth going over because the Chinese effectively declared war. They spawned that virus. The most likely explanation is it came out of a biological weapons lab, probably by accident, but who knows?
But more importantly, we know they knowingly hid that virus, Neil, for six weeks. That’s the second kill because, during that time, hundreds of thousands of Wuhanians and other Chinese flew to places like New York and Detroit and all around and Milan, all around the world, effectively seeding the planet with this Wuhan virus.
And it just, if they had simply been honest, honest with the world, they could have contained it within Wuhan. And we wouldn’t be having this conversation. That’s the second kill.
The third kill and China’s own customs data, Neil, show this — we saw while they were hiding the virus from the world, they went out and vacuumed up all the PPE around the world, two billion masks they bought alone. And they took it from countries in Europe, South America, the United States.
And so when the people, the nurses, the brave nurses and doctors on the frontlines in New York or Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans needed PPE, part of the reason they didn’t have it is because of that third kill. The Chinese had basically vacuumed that up.
And now, the fourth kill is that they’re hoarding that and using that PPE as a weapon in their soft power to project it and to profiteer. I mean, we’re seeing, Neil, these are 30, 40-cent masks, 50-cent masks at retail usually, and they’re selling them, they’re coming to the hospitals here for $7 and $8.
And, so how do we trust the Chinese?
Why is Bill Gates defending China? Their terrible behavior has caused death and sickness around the world.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-28--US Could Seek Billions from China Over Chi-Com Virus, President Trump Says

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions during the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 27 , 2020 .
( Win McNamee/Getty Images ) US Could Seek Billions from China Over CCP Virus , Trump Says President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is investigating China ’ s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and may seek hundreds of billions in damages from Beijing .
“ There are a lot of ways you can hold them [ China ] accountable .
We ’ re doing very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happy with China , ” Trump told a press briefing at the White House Rose Garden .
Trump added : “ We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source , it could have been stopped quickly , and it wouldn ’ t have spread all over the world.
” The issue of seeking compensation from China was brought up when Trump was asked by a reporter about a German newspaper editorial , which wanted China to foot a 130 billion pound bill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loss to Germany caused by the pandemic .
“ We can do something much easier than that , ” Trump answered .
The editorial , published by Germany ’ s largest newspaper Bild , published an “ invoice ” for Germany ’ s damages , which included $ 26 billion in lost tourism revenue from March to April .
“ Germany is looking at things and we ’ re looking at things , ” Trump said .
“ And we ’ re talking about a lot more money than Germany is talking about.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ amount has yet to be determined , but would be very substantial .
“ This is worldwide damage , ” Trump said , before adding , “ This is damage to the U.S. , but this is damage to the world.
” The CCP virus , commonly known as the novel coronavirus , originated from the central Chinese city of Wuhan .
The virus has since spread to over 200 countries and territories , causing more than 56,200 deaths in the United States alone .
The Chinese regime initially concealed the virus outbreak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took to Chinese social media to warn people about a new form of pneumonia in late December .
In early January , a provincial health commission official in China ’ s Hubei Province told a genomics company to halt testing virus samples and destroy all existing samples .
Also on Monday , two U.S. senators pointed to China ’ s cover-up of the virus after the Chinese ambassador to Australia threatened economic retaliation after Australia called for members of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to support an independent review into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ China ’ s Communist government is grasping at straws , ” tweeted Marsha Blackburn ( R-Tenn. ) .
“ They are desperate to hide their role in spreading the coronavirus.
” Todd Young ( R-Ind . )
wrote in a tweet : “ If the CCP have nothing to hide , why make this threat ?
” In a news briefing on April 22 , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States “ strongly believed ” the CCP had failed to report the outbreak “ in a timely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It [ the CCP ] didn ’ t report sustained human-to-human transmission for a month until it was in every province inside of China , ” Pompeo said .
Taiwan ’ s health officials warned the WHO about the virus ’ s risk of human-to-human transmission in late December .
The WHO initially repeated Beijing ’ s claim that there was “ no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission ” on Jan. 14 .
Beijing didn ’ t admit the virus was contagious until Jan. 20 .
There are currently class-action lawsuits in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Beijing over the spread of the virus .
Meanwhile , attorney generals in Missouri and Mississippi have also filed lawsuits against Beijing over its coverup of the virus .

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is investigating China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and may seek hundreds of billions in damages from Beijing.
“There are a lot of ways you can hold them [China] accountable. We’re doing very serious investigations … And we are not happy with China,” Trump told a press briefing at the White House Rose Garden.
Trump added: “We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn’t have spread all over the world.”
The issue of seeking compensation from China was brought up when Trump was asked by a reporter about a German newspaper editorial, which wanted China to foot a 130 billion pound bill (about $163 billion) for loss to Germany caused by the pandemic.
“We can do something much easier than that,” Trump answered.
The editorial, published by Germany’s largest newspaper Bild, published an “invoice” for Germany's damages, which included $26 billion in lost tourism revenue from March to April.
“Germany is looking at things and we’re looking at things," Trump said. "And we’re talking about a lot more money than Germany is talking about."
The president said that the final amount has yet to be determined, but would be very substantial.
“This is worldwide damage,” Trump said, before adding, “This is damage to the U.S., but this is damage to the world."
The CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, originated from the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The virus has since spread to over 200 countries and territories, causing more than 56,200 deaths in the United States alone.
The Chinese regime initially concealed the virus outbreak, including the silencing eight doctors who took to Chinese social media to warn people about a new form of pneumonia in late December.
In early January, a provincial health commission official in China’s Hubei Province told a genomics company to halt testing virus samples and destroy all existing samples.
Also on Monday, two U.S. senators pointed to China’s cover-up of the virus after the Chinese ambassador to Australia threatened economic retaliation after Australia called for members of the World Health Organization (WHO) to support an independent review into the origins and the spread of the virus.
“China’s Communist government is grasping at straws,” tweeted Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). “They are desperate to hide their role in spreading the coronavirus.”
Todd Young (R-Ind.) wrote in a tweet: “If the CCP have nothing to hide, why make this threat?”
In a news briefing on April 22, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States “strongly believed” the CCP had failed to report the outbreak “in a timely fashion” to the WHO.
“It [the CCP] didn’t report sustained human-to-human transmission for a month until it was in every province inside of China,” Pompeo said.
Taiwan’s health officials warned the WHO about the virus’s risk of human-to-human transmission in late December.
The WHO initially repeated Beijing’s claim that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” on Jan. 14. Beijing didn’t admit the virus was contagious until Jan. 20.
There are currently class-action lawsuits in the United States, Italy, and Nigeria against Beijing over the spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, attorneys general in Missouri and Mississippi have also filed lawsuits against Beijing over its coverup of the virus.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-28--Congress Tells FCC to Stop 5G Rollout in Virginia Because It Interferes With Military Signals

( Natural News ) Some of the 5G rollout in Virginia is under attack , but not necessarily for the reasons you might think .
Members of two powerful congressional committees are demanding that the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) reverse a ruling allowing a mobile phone operator to activate its new 5G network because the signals could interfere with military and other operations .
A bipartisan cohort of politicians in the House and Senate Armed Services committees wrote in a recent appeal to the FCC that if the commission does not immediately halt this 5G activation that Congress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end .
According to Senators Jim Inhofe and Jack Reed , along with Representatives Adams Smith and Mac Thornberry , Ligado Networks , based out of Virginia , is planning to open up its 5G network on the L-band spectrum , which could disrupt signals used by the military and GPS systems .
These four , who serve as the chairmen and ranking members of the two committees , have accused the FCC of using the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) crisis as an excuse to rush through approval for Ligado ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into roadblocks gaining activation approval .
“ But the Federal Communications Commission has used the crisis , under the cover of darkness , to approve a long-stalled application by Ligado Networks – a proposal that threatens to undermine our global positioning system ( GPS ) capabilities , and with it , our national security , ” their letter reads .
“ The departments of Defense , Commerce , Interior , Justice , Homeland Security , Energy , and Transportation – as well as NASA , the National Science Foundation , the Coast Guard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strongly object to Ligado ’ s plan.
” Be sure to listen below to The Health Ranger Report as Mike Adams , the Health Ranger , talks about how 5G technology increases blood cell permeability , increasing the risk of serious Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) infection and death : Why doesn ’ t Congress care as much about the health of Americans as it does about military GPS signals ?
The issue is apparently so serious to these four that they are willing to rush through their own legislation to force Ligado @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to please the military .
“ If they do not , ” the four committee heads further wrote about the FCC , “ and unless President Trump intervenes to stop this from moving forward , it will be up to Congress to clean up this mess.
” Keep in mind , however , that none of this opposition to Ligado ’ s 5G network has anything to do with how 5G might affect the health of Americans .
Even though there is copious evidence to suggest that 5G millimeter waves are toxic to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to infection and other problems , Congress has thus far done nothing to curb its rollout .
Perhaps good American patriots need to dig up evidence somehow to suggest that military operations will be impeded by all 5G signals everywhere , and maybe that will prompt committees like this to issue similar threats to the FCC to revoke all approval for 5G activation .
It is a sad state of affairs when Congress is more concerned about the continuity of government than with the health of the people they are supposed to represent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ represents a major threat to public health , and yet Congress only seems to care about protecting the military deep state from having its signals interfered with by its use .
To learn more about the dangers of 5G , be sure to check out the film 5G Apocalypse : The Extinction Event .
You can also keep up with the latest news about the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) by checking out Pandemic.news .

Congress tells FCC to stop 5G rollout in Virginia because it interferes with military signals
Some of the 5G rollout in Virginia is under attack , but not necessarily for the reasons you might think.
Members of two powerful congressional committees are demanding that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reverse a ruling allowing a mobile phone operator to activate its new 5G network because the signals could interfere with military and other operations.
A bipartisan cohort of politicians in the House and Senate Armed Services committees wrote in a recent appeal to the FCC that if the commission does not immediately halt this 5G activation that Congress itself will force through legislation towards that end.
According to Senators Jim Inhofe and Jack Reed, along with Representatives Adams Smith and Mac Thornberry, Ligado Networks, based out of Virginia, is planning to open up its 5G network on the L-band spectrum, which could disrupt signals used by the military and GPS systems.
These four, who serve as the chairmen and ranking members of the two committees, have accused the FCC of using the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis as an excuse to rush through approval for Ligado's 5G network, which had previously run into roadblocks gaining activation approval.
"But the Federal Communications Commission has used the crisis, under the cover of darkness, to approve a long-stalled application by Ligado Networks – a proposal that threatens to undermine our global positioning system (GPS) capabilities, and with it, our national security," their letter reads.
"The departments of Defense, Commerce, Interior, Justice, Homeland Security, Energy, and Transportation – as well as NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Coast Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration – all strongly object to Ligado's plan."
Be sure to listen below to The Health Ranger Report as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, talks about how 5G technology increases blood cell permeability, increasing the risk of serious Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and death:
Why doesn't Congress care as much about the health of Americans as it does about military GPS signals?
The issue is apparently so serious to these four that they are willing to rush through their own legislation to force Ligado to stop its 5G rollout in order to please the military.
"If they do not," the four committee heads further wrote about the FCC, "and unless President Trump intervenes to stop this from moving forward, it will be up to Congress to clean up this mess."
Keep in mind, however, that none of this opposition to Ligado's 5G network has anything to do with how 5G might affect the health of Americans. Even though there is copious evidence to suggest that 5G millimeter waves are toxic to the human body, opening it up to infection and other problems, Congress has thus far done nothing to curb its rollout.
Perhaps good American patriots need to dig up evidence somehow to suggest that military operations will be impeded by all 5G signals everywhere, and maybe that will prompt committees like this to issue similar threats to the FCC to revoke all approval for 5G activation.
It is a sad state of affairs when Congress is more concerned about the continuity of government than with the health of the people they are supposed to represent. There is no denying that 5G represents a major threat to public health, and yet Congress only seems to care about protecting the military deep state from having its signals interfered with by its use.
To learn more about the dangers of 5G, be sure to check out the film 5G Apocalypse: The Extinction Event.
You can also keep up with the latest news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) by checking out Pandemic.news.
Sources for this article include:
JustTheNews.com
NaturalNews.com


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Brit Hume Cites Two Reasons Why The Case For National Lockdown Is Getting ‘Weaker And Weaker’

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained on Tuesday why he believes the case for the ongoing national lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic is getting “ weaker and weaker.
” “ You say that with each passing day , the argument for this lockdown , this nationwide lockdown , gets weaker and weaker , ” Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said after introducing Hume on Fox News ’ “ The Story.
” “ What do you mean by that ?
” “ Two things , ” said Hume .
“ First the collateral damage from it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasons for the full lockdown was to “ protect our medical system from being overwhelmed.
” Except , he said , “ hospitals are failing across the country.
” “ The damage to our medical , our health care system it seems to me is something we really have to take into account here , ” said the Fox News correspondent .
“ It ’ s very serious.
” Hume cited the “ economic damage ” and “ budgetary harm ” as other examples : “ We are saddling our country and future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was already high and now it is far , far worse .
Not to mention the toll on businesses with which won ’ t reopen and so on .
The unemployment .
The consequences for children being locked up at home and not being able to go to school with their friends and be outside , the mental health issues that arise from that , the domestic domestic violence … That ’ s part of it , the damage from it.
” The Fox News correspondent ’ s second reason centered around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people and those with serious underlying medical conditions.
” “ Everyone else is much less vulnerable , down to children who seem almost totally invulnerable to catching this disease , ” he said , contending that it “ can be addressed ” by having the vulnerable quarantined .
“ This is not in my view all about simply we are so good at the mitigation efforts , ” Hume said after observing how the virus has failed to spread to places outside major metropolitan areas like New York City .
“ I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this disease turned out , outside of certain populations , not to be not early as severe and dangerous as we thought and certainly the death rates I think will end up reflecting that.
” Later in the interview , Hume contended that dire early prediction models could have been used to keep people obedient to social distancing guidelines .
( RELATED : ‘ This Is Insanity ’ : Tucker Carlson Questions The ‘ Science ’ Behind The Shutdown ) “ I think Doctor Fauci and Birx were content to sort of let @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were afraid that people wouldn ’ t socially distance and people wouldn ’ t engage in the mitigation efforts , and the result is we have a terrified population and we have people wearing masks while out jogging in Central Park .
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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained on Tuesday why he believes the case for the ongoing national lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic is getting “weaker and weaker.”
“You say that with each passing day, the argument for this lockdown, this nationwide lockdown, gets weaker and weaker,” Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said after introducing Hume on Fox News’ “The Story.” “What do you mean by that?”
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“Two things,” said Hume. “First the collateral damage from it is extraordinary.”
Hume explained that the initial reasons for the full lockdown was to “protect our medical system from being overwhelmed.” Except, he said, “hospitals are failing across the country.”
“The damage to our medical, our health care system it seems to me is something we really have to take into account here,” said the Fox News correspondent. “It’s very serious.”
Hume cited the “economic damage” and “budgetary harm” as other examples: “We are saddling our country and future generations with debt on a scale that was already high and now it is far, far worse. Not to mention the toll on businesses with which won’t reopen and so on. The unemployment. The consequences for children being locked up at home and not being able to go to school with their friends and be outside, the mental health issues that arise from that, the domestic domestic violence … That’s part of it, the damage from it.”
The Fox News correspondent’s second reason centered around the fact that coronavirus “overwhelmingly affects elderly people and those with serious underlying medical conditions.”
“Everyone else is much less vulnerable, down to children who seem almost totally invulnerable to catching this disease,” he said, contending that it “can be addressed” by having the vulnerable quarantined.
“This is not in my view all about simply we are so good at the mitigation efforts,” Hume said after observing how the virus has failed to spread to places outside major metropolitan areas like New York City. “I think there’s reason to believe that this disease turned out, outside of certain populations, not to be not early as severe and dangerous as we thought and certainly the death rates I think will end up reflecting that.”
Later in the interview, Hume contended that dire early prediction models could have been used to keep people obedient to social distancing guidelines. (RELATED: ‘This Is Insanity’: Tucker Carlson Questions The ‘Science’ Behind The Shutdown)
“I think Doctor Fauci and Birx were content to sort of let that happen, because I think they were afraid that people wouldn’t socially distance and people wouldn’t engage in the mitigation efforts, and the result is we have a terrified population and we have people wearing masks while out jogging in Central Park.”


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Turncoat Justin Amash is Running for President . . . or Trying to Get a Show on CNN

Justin Amash just announced he ’ s running for president on the libertarian third-party ticket : Amash must know that @ @ @ @ @ Trump .
While I ’ m sure he ’ ll tell you he just wants @ @ @ @ @ choice or something , He doesn ’ t stand an ice cube ’ s chance @ @ @ @ @ And talk about bringing people together ?
He voted with House Democrats to impeach Trump @ @ @ @ @ were bogus .
He ’ s not trying to bring anyone together .
I can @ @ @ @ @ just wants to see Trump lose .
I hate to be cynical , but he @ @ @ @ @ the kind of support Trump has behind him .
All he can do is take @ @ @ @ @ votes .
I wonder how many Democrats it took to talk him into running…

Justin Amash just announced he’s running for president on the libertarian third-party ticket:
Today, I launched an exploratory committee to seek the @LPNational’s nomination for president of the United States. Americans are ready for practical approaches based in humility and trust of the people. — Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 29, 2020
We’re ready for a presidency that will restore respect for our Constitution and bring people together. I’m excited and honored to be taking these first steps toward serving Americans of every background as president. — Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 29, 2020
Amash must know that he can’t beat Trump. While I’m sure he’ll tell you he just wants to give Americans a true choice or something, He doesn’t stand an ice cube’s chance in hell of winning.
And talk about bringing people together? He voted with House Democrats to impeach Trump when everyone knew the charges were bogus. He’s not trying to bring anyone together.
I can only surmise that he really just wants to see Trump lose. I hate to be cynical, but he knows he can never get the kind of support Trump has behind him. All he can do is take away a small percentage of votes.
I wonder how many Democrats it took to talk him into running…


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Muslim in California Guilty of Multiple Murders — Sought to Kill ‘As Many White Males as Possible’

African-American Muslim sought to kill “ as many white males as possible.
” A jury in Fresno , California , has found Kori Ali Muhammad , 42 , guilty of murdering Zackary David Randalls , 34 , Mark James Gassett , 37 , and David Martin Jackson , 58 , on April 18 , 2017 .
A week before , Muhammad murdered Carl Williams , who was only 25 .
Muhammad encountered Williams at a Fresno Motel 6 and felt “ disrespected , ” so he killed the man , whom he did not know and had not previously met @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shooting , Muhammad planned to “ kill as many white men ” as he could before being caught .
So he drove through downtown Fresno firing at his targets of choice .
When he walked up to a truck , Muhammad said in his confession , “ I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy .
I didn ’ t want to target the driver because he was Mexican , so I shot the white dude.
” The “ white dude ” was Zachary Randalls , whom Muhammad did not know and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targeted solely because of his skin shade .
Muhammad encountered Mark James Gassett emerging from a Catholic Charities USA building and gunned him down with a .357 magnum revolver , shooting the victim again after he fell to the ground .
Gassett was the father of two boys , Layten , 9 , and Troy , 14 .
Muhammad also found David Jackson , 58 emerging from Catholic Charities and shot him dead with the powerful revolver , which he calmly reloaded .
Muhammad located Zachary Randalls in Pacific Gas and Electric truck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrested , Muhammad proclaimed “ Allahu Akbar ” and raised his right fist when sworn in last month in a Fresno court .
“ When you took aim at these individuals , you intended to kill all three of them didn ’ t you ?
” prosecutor Kelly Smith asked .
“ Yep , ” Muhammad replied , “ I kill them .
Yes , he ’ s dead , so it happen , ” adding , “ God is going to destroy white men in particular , specifically.
” Smith asked Muhammad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again when the victim was on the ground .
“ To kill him , just like the Coronavirus is killing white men right now , ” Muhammad testified .
Despite Muhammed ’ s open proclamation of a racial motive , the case was not described as a hate crime or terrorism .
Fresno police quickly identified Muhammad from surveillance video at the Motel 6 , but waited five days until naming Muhammad as a suspect .
As Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters , “ We were exhausting some follow-up leads , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and we also put out alerts to all officers and law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for him.
” Chief Dyer also described that the incident as “ a random act of violence.
” Imam Seyed Ali Ghazvini of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno told reporters , “ We denounce and reject in the strongest words possible this kind of violence and attack.
” Kori Ali Muhammed was born Cory Allen Taylor and changed his name after converting to Islam as a teenager .
In his social media posts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white devils , ” as the Nation of Islam explains , created 6,000 years ago by the mad scientist “ Yacub.
” According to police , Muhammed also supported a separate country for all “ non-white ” residents of the United States .
Muhammed believed he was part of an ongoing war between whites and blacks , and that a battle would soon take place .
Derek Bavin , a classmate at Fresno City College , said Muhammad would miss weeks of classes then accuse his instructors of being racist .
He released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between blacks and whites .
Kori Ali Muhammad also boasts a long criminal history , with arrests for weapons , drugs , forgery and making terrorist threats .
He was sentenced to seven years in 2008 and released early in 2016 .
In his 2017 Fresno murder spree , Muhammed fired 16 shots at four different locations .
He targeted white males and during his trial never denied killing the men , nor his reason for doing so .
News reports of the verdict made no mention of a hate crime .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s stepsister Stephanie Rodriguez .
“ The hate needs to stop , ” she said , “ the racism needs to stop.
” The murder conviction did not prompt a statement from attorney general Xavier Becerra or Gov .
Gavin Newsom .
Politicians did not cite the murder case as an example of racist hatred or decry it as “ gun violence.
” Muhammad ’ s attorneys Richard Beshwate and Antonio Alvarez , argued that Muhammad was “ not thinking clearly ” and has a history of schizophrenia , delusions and hearing voices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the time of the crime , Kori Ali Muhammad did not know the difference between right and wrong .
If the jury decides Muhammad was sane , they could opt for the death penalty or life imprisonment .
The sentences may amount to the same .
In one of his first acts in office , Gov .
California reprieved 737 convicted murderers on California ’ s death row .
In the Golden State , a murderer can take four innocent lives and be certain of keeping his own .

A jury in Fresno, California, has found Kori Ali Muhammad, 42, guilty of murdering Zackary David Randalls, 34, Mark James Gassett, 37, and David Martin Jackson, 58, on April 18, 2017. A week before, Muhammad murdered Carl Williams, who was only 25.
Muhammad encountered Williams at a Fresno Motel 6 and felt “disrespected,” so he killed the man, whom he did not know and had not previously met. When police sought him for the shooting, Muhammad planned to “kill as many white men” as he could before being caught. So he drove through downtown Fresno firing at his targets of choice.
When he walked up to a truck, Muhammad said in his confession, “I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy. I didn’t want to target the driver because he was Mexican, so I shot the white dude.” The “white dude” was Zachary Randalls, whom Muhammad did not know and, as with all four victims, targeted solely because of his skin shade.
Muhammad encountered Mark James Gassett emerging from a Catholic Charities USA building and gunned him down with a .357 magnum revolver, shooting the victim again after he fell to the ground. Gassett was the father of two boys, Layten, 9, and Troy, 14.
Muhammad also found David Jackson, 58 emerging from Catholic Charities and shot him dead with the powerful revolver, which he calmly reloaded.
Muhammad located Zachary Randalls in Pacific Gas and Electric truck and calmly shot him dead. When arrested, Muhammad proclaimed “Allahu Akbar” and raised his right fist when sworn in last month in a Fresno court.
“When you took aim at these individuals, you intended to kill all three of them didn’t you?” prosecutor Kelly Smith asked. “Yep,” Muhammad replied, “I kill them. Yes, he’s dead, so it happen,” adding, “God is going to destroy white men in particular, specifically.”
Smith asked Muhammad why he shot victim Mark James Gassett again when the victim was on the ground. “To kill him, just like the Coronavirus is killing white men right now,” Muhammad testified. Despite Muhammed’s open proclamation of a racial motive, the case was not described as a hate crime or terrorism.
Fresno police quickly identified Muhammad from surveillance video at the Motel 6, but waited five days until naming Muhammad as a suspect. As Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters, “We were exhausting some follow-up leads, some sightings, including one in Madera, and we also put out alerts to all officers and law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for him.”
Chief Dyer also described that the incident as “a random act of violence.” Imam Seyed Ali Ghazvini of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno told reporters, “We denounce and reject in the strongest words possible this kind of violence and attack.”
Kori Ali Muhammed was born Cory Allen Taylor and changed his name after converting to Islam as a teenager. In his social media posts, Muhammad made references to “grafted white devils,” as the Nation of Islam explains, created 6,000 years ago by the mad scientist “Yacub.” According to police, Muhammed also supported a separate country for all “non-white” residents of the United States.
Muhammed believed he was part of an ongoing war between whites and blacks, and that a battle would soon take place. Derek Bavin, a classmate at Fresno City College, said Muhammad would miss weeks of classes then accuse his instructors of being racist. He released hip-hop albums with repeated references to violence between blacks and whites.
Kori Ali Muhammad also boasts a long criminal history, with arrests for weapons, drugs, forgery and making terrorist threats. He was sentenced to seven years in 2008 and released early in 2016.
In his 2017 Fresno murder spree, Muhammed fired 16 shots at four different locations. He targeted white males and during his trial never denied killing the men, nor his reason for doing so. News reports of the verdict made no mention of a hate crime. The strongest comment came from Mark Gassett’s stepsister Stephanie Rodriguez. “The hate needs to stop,” she said, “the racism needs to stop.”
The murder conviction did not prompt a statement from attorney general Xavier Becerra or Gov. Gavin Newsom. Politicians did not cite the murder case as an example of racist hatred or decry it as “gun violence.”
Muhammad’s attorneys Richard Beshwate and Antonio Alvarez, argued that Muhammad was “not thinking clearly” and has a history of schizophrenia, delusions and hearing voices. His attorneys must now prove that at the time of the crime, Kori Ali Muhammad did not know the difference between right and wrong.
If the jury decides Muhammad was sane, they could opt for the death penalty or life imprisonment. The sentences may amount to the same. In one of his first acts in office, Gov. California reprieved 737 convicted murderers on California’s death row. In the Golden State, a murderer can take four innocent lives and be certain of keeping his own.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--The ‘Evil Called Barack Obama’ and the Genocidal Slaughter of Nigerian Christians

New allegations concerning the “ sheer wickedness ” of Obama , Kerry , and Clinton .
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
Not only is Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari behind what several international observers are calling a “ genocide ” of Christians in his nation—but Barack Hussein Obama played a major role in the Muslim president ’ s rise to power : these two interconnected accusations are increasingly being made—not by “ xenophobic ” Americans but Nigerians themselves , including several leaders and officials .
Most recently , Femi Fani-Kayode , Nigeria ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , wrote in a Facebook post : What Obama , John Kerry and Hilary Clinton did to Nigeria by funding and supporting Buhari in the 2015 presidential election and helping Boko Haram in 2014/2015 was sheer wickedness and the blood of all those killed by the Buhari administration , his Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram over the last 5 years are on their hands .
Kerry ’ s and Clinton ’ s appeasement of Boko Haram—an Islamic terror organization notorious for massacring , enslaving , and raping Christians , and bombing and burning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this “ sheer wickedness.
” For example , after a Nigerian military offensive killed 30 Boko Haram terrorists in 2013 , then secretary of state Kerry “ issued a strongly worded statement ” to Buhari ’ s predecessor , President Goodluck Jonathan ( 2010-2015 ) , a Christian .
In it , Kerry warned Jonathan that “ We are … deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations ” against the terrorists .
Similarly , during her entire tenure as secretary of state , Clinton repeatedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foreign terrorist organization , despite nonstop pressure from lawmakers , human rights activists , and lobbyists—not to mention Boko Haram ’ s countless atrocities against Nigerian Christians .
“ Those of you that still love the evil called Barack Obama , ” Fani-Kayode added in his post , “ should listen to this short clip and tell me if you still do.
” He was referring to a recent Al Jazeera video interview of Eeben Barlow , a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force and chairman of a private military company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still president , to help defeat Boko Haram .
“ In one month , ” Barlow said in the interview , “ we took back terrain larger than Belgium from Boko Haram .
We were not allowed to finish because it came at a time when governments were in the process of changing , ” he said in reference to Nigeria ’ s 2015 presidential elections .
“ The incoming president , President Buhari , was heavily supported by a foreign government , and one of the first missions [ of Buhari ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being asked if he could name the “ foreign government , ” the former lieutenant-colonel said , “ Yes , we were told it was the United States , and they had actually funded President Buhari ’ s campaign , and the campaign manager for President Buhari came from the US .
And I am not saying the United States is bad—I understand foreign interests—but I would have thought that a threat such as Boko Haram on the integrity of the state of Nigeria ought to be actually a priority .
It wasn't.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ his Facebook post that it would have been the priority had Obama not been president : “ I just thank God for Donald Trump , ” the former minister said in the same post .
“ Had he been President of America in 2015 things would have been very different , Jonathan would have won , Boko Haram would have been history and the Fulani herdsmen would never have seen the light of day.
” Fani-Kayode and Barlow are not alone in accusing Obama of “ heavily supporting ” and “ actually funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming president , has increasingly turned a blind eye to the worsening slaughter of Christians at the hands of Muslims—that is , when not actively exacerbating it , including with jet fighters .
In 2018 , former president Jonathan revealed that , On March 23 , 2015 , President Obama himself took the unusual step of releasing a video message directly to Nigerians all but telling them how to vote… Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [ Buhari/Muslim-led ] opposition to form a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it was as if Nigerians did not know what to do and needed an Obama to direct them .
Between 2011 and 2015 , and supposedly because they were angry at having a Christian president , Boko Haram slaughtered thousands of Christians , particularly those living in the Muslim majority north , and destroyed countless churches .
In 2015—and thanks to Obama—Nigeria ’ s Muslims finally got what they want : a Muslim president in the person of Muhammadu Buhari .
As seen , however , not only did he immediately rescue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former lieutenant-colonel Eeben Barlow has now revealed ; but atrocities against Christians have gotten significantly worse since Buhari replaced Jonathan—they are now regularly characterized as a “ pure genocide ” —particularly at the hands of Muslim Fulani herdsmen , the ethnic tribe whence Buhari himself happens to hail .
Thus according to a March 8 , 2020 report titled , “ Nigeria : A Killing Field of Defenseless Christians , ” Available statistics have shown that between 11,500 and 12,000 Christian deaths were recorded in the past 57 months or since June 2015 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government of Nigeria came on board .
Out of this figure , Jihadist Fulani herdsmen accounted for 7,400 Christian deaths , Boko Haram 4,000 and the ‘ Highway Bandits ’ 150-200.
” How and why Fulani tribesman have managed to kill nearly twice as many Christians as the “ professional ” terrorists of Boku Haram—and exponentially more Christians than under Jonathan—may be discerned from the following quotes by various Christian leaders and others : • “ They [ Fulani ] want to strike Christians , and the government does nothing to stop them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Fulani ethnic group.
” — Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia , 2018 .
• “ Under President Buhari , the murderous Fulani herdsmen enjoyed unprecedented protection and favoritism ... Rather than arrest and prosecute the Fulani herdsmen , security forces usually manned by Muslims from the North offer them protection as they unleash terror with impunity on the Nigerian people.
” — Rev .
Musa Asake , the General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria , 2018 .
• Buhari “ is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nation and destruction of vulnerable Christian communities.
” — Bosun Emmanuel , the secretary of the National Christian Elders Forum , 2018 .
• Buhari “ is himself from the jihadists ’ Fulani tribe , so what can you expect ?
” — Emmanuel Ogebe , Washington DC-based human rights lawyer , in conversation with me , 2018 .
Based on all these developments , statistics and accusations , it seems clear that the Muslim president is behind the unfolding genocide of Christians in Nigeria—and Obama helped .

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Not only is Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari behind what several international observers are calling a “genocide” of Christians in his nation—but Barack Hussein Obama played a major role in the Muslim president’s rise to power: these two interconnected accusations are increasingly being made—not by “xenophobic” Americans but Nigerians themselves, including several leaders and officials.
Most recently, Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former minister of culture and tourism, wrote in a Facebook post:
What Obama, John Kerry and Hilary Clinton did to Nigeria by funding and supporting Buhari in the 2015 presidential election and helping Boko Haram in 2014/2015 was sheer wickedness and the blood of all those killed by the Buhari administration, his Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram over the last 5 years are on their hands.
Kerry’s and Clinton’s appeasement of Boko Haram—an Islamic terror organization notorious for massacring, enslaving, and raping Christians, and bombing and burning their churches—is apparently what connects them to this “sheer wickedness.”
For example, after a Nigerian military offensive killed 30 Boko Haram terrorists in 2013, then secretary of state Kerry “issued a strongly worded statement” to Buhari’s predecessor, President Goodluck Jonathan (2010-2015), a Christian. In it, Kerry warned Jonathan that “We are … deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces are committing gross human rights violations” against the terrorists.
Similarly, during her entire tenure as secretary of state, Clinton repeatedly refused to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, despite nonstop pressure from lawmakers, human rights activists, and lobbyists—not to mention Boko Haram’s countless atrocities against Nigerian Christians.
“Those of you that still love the evil called Barack Obama,” Fani-Kayode added in his post, “should listen to this short clip and tell me if you still do.” He was referring to a recent Al Jazeera video interview of Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel of the South African Defence Force and chairman of a private military company hired in 2015 by Jonathan, when still president, to help defeat Boko Haram.
“In one month,” Barlow said in the interview, “we took back terrain larger than Belgium from Boko Haram. We were not allowed to finish because it came at a time when governments were in the process of changing,” he said in reference to Nigeria’s 2015 presidential elections. “The incoming president, President Buhari, was heavily supported by a foreign government, and one of the first missions [of Buhari] was to terminate our contract.”
On being asked if he could name the “foreign government,” the former lieutenant-colonel said, “Yes, we were told it was the United States, and they had actually funded President Buhari’s campaign, and the campaign manager for President Buhari came from the US. And I am not saying the United States is bad—I understand foreign interests—but I would have thought that a threat such as Boko Haram on the integrity of the state of Nigeria ought to be actually a priority. It wasn’t.”
Fani-Kayode was quick to add in his Facebook post that it would have been the priority had Obama not been president: “I just thank God for Donald Trump,” the former minister said in the same post. “Had he been President of America in 2015 things would have been very different, Jonathan would have won, Boko Haram would have been history and the Fulani herdsmen would never have seen the light of day.”
Fani-Kayode and Barlow are not alone in accusing Obama of “heavily supporting” and “actually funding” a presidential candidate who, since becoming president, has increasingly turned a blind eye to the worsening slaughter of Christians at the hands of Muslims—that is, when not actively exacerbating it, including with jet fighters. In 2018, former president Jonathan revealed that,
On March 23, 2015, President Obama himself took the unusual step of releasing a video message directly to Nigerians all but telling them how to vote… Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [Buhari/Muslim-led] opposition to form a new government… The message was so condescending, it was as if Nigerians did not know what to do and needed an Obama to direct them.
Between 2011 and 2015, and supposedly because they were angry at having a Christian president, Boko Haram slaughtered thousands of Christians, particularly those living in the Muslim majority north, and destroyed countless churches. In 2015—and thanks to Obama—Nigeria’s Muslims finally got what they want: a Muslim president in the person of Muhammadu Buhari.
As seen, however, not only did he immediately rescue Boko Haram from imminent defeat, as former lieutenant-colonel Eeben Barlow has now revealed; but atrocities against Christians have gotten significantly worse since Buhari replaced Jonathan—they are now regularly characterized as a “pure genocide”—particularly at the hands of Muslim Fulani herdsmen, the ethnic tribe whence Buhari himself happens to hail. Thus according to a March 8, 2020 report titled, “Nigeria: A Killing Field of Defenseless Christians,”
Available statistics have shown that between 11,500 and 12,000 Christian deaths were recorded in the past 57 months or since June 2015 when the present central [Buhari-led] government of Nigeria came on board. Out of this figure, Jihadist Fulani herdsmen accounted for 7,400 Christian deaths, Boko Haram 4,000 and the ‘Highway Bandits’ 150-200.”
How and why Fulani tribesman have managed to kill nearly twice as many Christians as the “professional” terrorists of Boku Haram—and exponentially more Christians than under Jonathan—may be discerned from the following quotes by various Christian leaders and others:
“They [Fulani] want to strike Christians, and the government does nothing to stop them, because President Buhari is also of the Fulani ethnic group.”— Bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu of Lafia, 2018.
“Under President Buhari, the murderous Fulani herdsmen enjoyed unprecedented protection and favoritism… Rather than arrest and prosecute the Fulani herdsmen, security forces usually manned by Muslims from the North offer them protection as they unleash terror with impunity on the Nigerian people.”— Rev. Musa Asake, the General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, 2018.
Buhari “is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted in countless murders of Christians all over the nation and destruction of vulnerable Christian communities.”— Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of the National Christian Elders Forum, 2018.
Buhari “is himself from the jihadists’ Fulani tribe, so what can you expect?” — Emmanuel Ogebe, Washington D.C.-based human rights lawyer, in conversation with me, 2018.
Based on all these developments, statistics and accusations, it seems clear that the Muslim president is behind the unfolding genocide of Christians in Nigeria — and Obama helped.
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Photo from Obama White House


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--The Pandemic’s Biggest Victims? To ‘Fat Activists,’ It’s All About Them

To “ fat activists , ” it ’ s all about them .
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center .
One of the curiosities of the cable network TLC – and this observation is hardly original with me – is that its program schedule has , for several years , included two popular series whose messages could not be more precisely antithetical .
On My 600-Pound Life , now in its eighth season , Houston surgeon Younan Nowzaradan ( “ Dr .
Now ” ) preaches to his morbidly obese pre-op patients about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eating habits under control .
If they ’ re not able to prove to him that they ’ re sufficiently capable of long-term self-discipline , he won ’ t operate on them , and they ’ ll die – and he ’ s not above shaming and scaring them in order to get them to move their tochises .
Meanwhile , on My Big Fat Fabulous Life , now in its seventh season , a young woman named Whitney Way Thore who ’ s pushing four hundred pounds seeks to inspire viewers with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dimensions keep her from leading a rich and fulfilling life – dating , dancing , partying , traveling , running in a footrace , participating in a fashion show , and designing a logo for a “ No Body Shame ” campaign .
Yes , Whitney experiences setbacks – for example , a physical collapse that leads to an emergency-room visit and , in turn , to bleak news from a cardiologist – but she doesn ’ t let anything get her down .
No , sirree !
Of course , you can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Either you take seriously the menace posed by morbid obesity or you support the “ fat acceptance ” movement and the related field of academic Fat Studies , both of which deny that obesity ’ s a problem at all .
It ’ s a question of plain fact coming up against an ideology that , in good postmodern fashion , has little regard for fact .
It ’ s not unlike the transgender athlete thing : either you back M-to-Fs who want to compete as women , or you recognize this demand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threat to women ’ s sports .
In the same way , there ’ s no reconciling the medical perils of corpulence with an ideology that deems the truth “ fatphobic.
” In the year 2020 , alas , it can be dangerous to voice objective truths , however well-established , that are at odds with an academically approved ideology and purported insensitivity to an academically anointed victim group .
Recent reports , then , that excessive flab may be a leading indicator of susceptibility to the novel coronavirus are problematic indeed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Melissa Healy reported in the Los Angeles Times last week , two new studies , both out of New York University , show that young and middle-aged COVID-19 sufferers with high body-mass indexes ( BMIs ) are “ twice as likely as their non-obese peers to be admitted to the hospital for acute care instead of being sent home from the ER.
” They ’ re also nearly twice as likely to end up in the ICU .
( Among patients over 65 , interestingly , these distinctions disappear . )
One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generous waistlines might help explain why COVID-19 illness and mortality statistics are “ higher in the U.S. than in South Korea , China and Italy.
” Meanwhile , the other NYU study concluded that the three “ most potent predictor [ s ] of hospitalization for COVID-19 ” were ( 1 ) being over 75 , ( 2 ) being between 65 and 75 , and ( 3 ) exhibiting “ severe obesity.
” Persons in this last category , it turns out , are “ more than six times more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Even a history of heart failure , ” wrote Healy , “ was less likely to land a COVID-19 patient in the hospital ” than a major problem with paunchiness .
For most observers , these findings will merely confirm that – hello !
– being exceedingly overweight is unhealthy .
But Darci Thoune , a professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and a big name in the ballooning Fat Studies racket , has another angle .
As reported by Campus Reform ’ s McKenna Dallmeyer , Thoune was fretting way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spread of the Wuhan virus would be bad news for persons of chunk – not because it ’ d kill them at higher rates , but because the tendency of some people to overeat while in lockdown would lead others to “ shame ” them for “ not going to the gym , [ for ] eating ‘ too much , ’ for getting fat , and for not starving ourselves at the end of the world , ” thereby fanning the flames of “ fatphobia ” and advancing the nefarious goals of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fatties on her blog , Thoune advised : “ Your trauma is real .
You do not need to suck it up .
We need to seek solace and comfort where we can , and for some folx [ sic ; apparently this is how the word folks is spelled at institutions of higher education in Wisconsin ] that solace and comfort will be in food .
AND , THIS IS OKAY.
” In short , treat the pandemic as an excuse to pig out .
Weighing in at Metro UK the other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writer and self-described member of the “ body positivity movement , ” made the same argument .
The lockdown , she revealed , has triggered her own long-suppressed angst about avoirdupois : “ My thoughts sometimes run wild – what if I ’ ll never be able to get up the hill again ?
What if I eat all the food in my fridge in one go ?
... .I wonder if anyone will ever find me attractive again if my belly swells even more , my arms wobble and my chins take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s vanquished those worries .
Her weight , she realizes , isn ’ t her problem .
In fact , it ’ s not a problem at all .
Especially during a pandemic !
The idea that it ’ s a problem is the fault of – yes – the “ diet culture , ” which is insidiously designed to plump up the wallets of diet-industry CEOs .
It ’ s that culture that ’ s the real problem – that culture , and the guilt and self-loathing it engenders among the seatbelt-extender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a chubby self-quarantiner can do for herself while in self-quarantine is to embrace the fact that weight gain , under the present circumstances , is “ just your body adjusting to change .
You don ’ t need to control it.
” And whatever you do while you ’ re binging guilt-free on cake and ice cream , don ’ t dare joke about it .
On April 12 , NRK ’ s Emrah Senel reported that Norwegian “ body activists ” Carina Elisabeth Carlsen and Wilde Siem have been calling out social-media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and weight gain while in lockdown , using such terms as “ corona body , ” “ corona kilograms , ” and “ quarantine fat.
” This kind of language , Carlsen and Siem complained , attest to profound anti-fat prejudice and a “ narrow ideal of beauty.
” Amy McCarthy agrees .
Writing in a magazine called Eater , she condemned the proliferation of comic memes “ about gaining weight during quarantine , ” calling them “ body-shaming at its most insidious ” and attributing them to – you guessed it – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s all wrapped up with “ classism , body shame , and a multibillion-dollar industry that stands to profit from all of us deeply hating ourselves.
” Keep in mind , McCarthy scolded her readers , that when you share weight-gain quips online “ you let the fat people in your life know exactly what you think of them — that their bodies are disgusting , and you ’ ll do just about anything…to avoid looking like them.
” In these unnerving times , McCarthy suggested , we should be “ a little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the bodies that we are told are not good enough.
” Psychologist Renee Engeln preached essentially the same sermon in Psychology Today , cautioning readers to “ think carefully ” before posting lockdown-related gags about weight gain ; such material , she warned , sends “ a clear message to everyone whose body is bigger than yours – and it ’ s not a nice message .
You ’ re using the bodies of people heavier than you as a punchline.
” The wet-blanket policing of weight-related drollery has become so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pushback .
In the Independent , Valentina Valentini wrote that she ’ d recently gotten flak on Twitter for a bit of levity to the effect that “ I ’ m gon na get so fat self-isolating because I don ’ t know how [ to ] ( or won ’ t ) ration.
” She noted that she ’ s not alone : “ people like me are now being ‘ called out ’ en masse.
” For example , “ plus-size model ” Tess Holliday “ blasted people for talking about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But Valentini refuses to be guilt-tripped into silence .
Explaining that she ’ s fat herself ( albeit “ not fat enough for many in the body positivity movement ” ) , Valentini asked : “ Isn ’ t that what body positivity is all about anyway ?
Being able to objectively look at our own selves and say whatever we want about it ?
” Nope , not in this era of humorless , rigorously enforced groupthink .
( And I ’ m speaking as someone whose ain ’ t exactly Calista @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fat activists have been slamming fat-shamers and would-be weight wits , others have been freaking out about the dread specter of fatphobic triage .
As early as mid-March , some high-profile social-media users were spreading the apparently baseless rumor that “ coronavirus patients with high body mass indices [ were ] being denied ventilator treatment ” in the U.S. “ I predict , ” tweeted Lindo Bacon , “ that in a year , doctors [ will ] point to higher death rate for fat people from COVID and say , ‘ See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BUT THEY ARE LITERALLY CAUSING IT NOW.
” Who is Lindo Bacon ?
None other than the author of the 2010 book Health at Every Size , which popularized the extraordinarily irresponsible notion that weight has virtually nothing to do with health .
Thanks to Bacon , the phrase “ Health at Every Size ” – which is a registered trademark , and is often shortened to “ HAES ” – has become a Fat Studies mantra .
( Incidentally , Health at Every Size was written under the name Linda Bacon ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be considered a triumph of intersectionality – now identifies as a man , hence the name change . )
Of course , the NYU studies of COVID-19 risk factors have underlined the already manifest absurdity of the “ Health at Every Size ” paradigm , making the current pandemic a deadly reality check for the professionally obese .
If fat people do turn out to be overrepresented in the COVID-19 death statistics , then , it won ’ t be the fault of doctors but of people like Bacon herself , whose reckless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ light to gorge themselves on goodies .
But will this reality check spell the end of Fat Studies and the “ fat positivity ” movement ?
Will it even cause a few of the movement ’ s leaders , such as Bacon , to slink in shame away from the lecterns and back to their fridges ?
Fat chance , given that , like other victim-group “ studies ” and “ movements , ” this whole fraudulent field never had anything to do with reality in the first place .
Which means that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bacon and company – who know , after all , which side of their bread is buttered – will almost certainly resume telling the morbidly obese that nothing about them is their fault , that everything about them is beautiful , and that the only dark cloud on their horizon is the harsh voice of dietetic truth .
We can only hope that in the wake of this quarantine , which is giving all of us a hefty helping of reality , at least some of the out-of-control eaters who ’ ve swallowed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up .

Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
One of the curiosities of the cable network TLC – and this observation is hardly original with me – is that its program schedule has, for several years, included two popular series whose messages could not be more precisely antithetical. On My 600-Pound Life, now in its eighth season, Houston surgeon Younan Nowzaradan (“Dr. Now”) preaches to his morbidly obese pre-op patients about the vital importance of exercising and getting their eating habits under control. If they’re not able to prove to him that they’re sufficiently capable of long-term self-discipline, he won’t operate on them, and they’ll die – and he’s not above shaming and scaring them in order to get them to move their tochises. Meanwhile, on My Big Fat Fabulous Life, now in its seventh season, a young woman named Whitney Way Thore who’s pushing four hundred pounds seeks to inspire viewers with her determination not to let her Falstaffian dimensions keep her from leading a rich and fulfilling life – dating, dancing, partying, traveling, running in a footrace, participating in a fashion show, and designing a logo for a “No Body Shame” campaign. Yes, Whitney experiences setbacks – for example, a physical collapse that leads to an emergency-room visit and, in turn, to bleak news from a cardiologist – but she doesn’t let anything get her down. No, sirree!
Of course, you can’t have it both ways. Either you take seriously the menace posed by morbid obesity or you support the “fat acceptance” movement and the related field of academic Fat Studies, both of which deny that obesity’s a problem at all. It’s a question of plain fact coming up against an ideology that, in good postmodern fashion, has little regard for fact. It’s not unlike the transgender athlete thing: either you back M-to-Fs who want to compete as women, or you recognize this demand as a revolt against biology and a threat to women’s sports. In the same way, there’s no reconciling the medical perils of corpulence with an ideology that deems the truth “fatphobic.” In the year 2020, alas, it can be dangerous to voice objective truths, however well-established, that are at odds with an academically approved ideology and purported insensitivity to an academically anointed victim group.
Recent reports, then, that excessive flab may be a leading indicator of susceptibility to the novel coronavirus are problematic indeed. Here are the specifics so far: as Melissa Healy reported in the Los Angeles Times last week, two new studies, both out of New York University, show that young and middle-aged COVID-19 sufferers with high body-mass indexes (BMIs) are “twice as likely as their non-obese peers to be admitted to the hospital for acute care instead of being sent home from the ER.” They’re also nearly twice as likely to end up in the ICU. (Among patients over 65, interestingly, these distinctions disappear.) One of the studies suggests that Americans’ generous waistlines might help explain why COVID-19 illness and mortality statistics are “higher in the U.S. than in South Korea, China and Italy.” Meanwhile, the other NYU study concluded that the three “most potent predictor[s] of hospitalization for COVID-19” were (1) being over 75, (2) being between 65 and 75, and (3) exhibiting “severe obesity.” Persons in this last category, it turns out, are “more than six times more likely to be hospitalized” than thinner individuals. “Even a history of heart failure,” wrote Healy, “was less likely to land a COVID-19 patient in the hospital” than a major problem with paunchiness.
For most observers, these findings will merely confirm that – hello! – being exceedingly overweight is unhealthy. But Darci Thoune, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and a big name in the ballooning Fat Studies racket, has another angle. As reported by Campus Reform’s McKenna Dallmeyer, Thoune was fretting way back in early April that the global spread of the Wuhan virus would be bad news for persons of chunk – not because it’d kill them at higher rates, but because the tendency of some people to overeat while in lockdown would lead others to “shame” them for “not going to the gym, [for] eating ‘too much,’ for getting fat, and for not starving ourselves at the end of the world,” thereby fanning the flames of “fatphobia” and advancing the nefarious goals of the “diet culture.” Addressing fellow fatties on her blog, Thoune advised: “Your trauma is real. You do not need to suck it up. We need to seek solace and comfort where we can, and for some folx [sic; apparently this is how the word folks is spelled at institutions of higher education in Wisconsin] that solace and comfort will be in food. AND, THIS IS OKAY.” In short, treat the pandemic as an excuse to pig out.
Weighing in at Metro UK the other day, Mel Ciavucco, a feminist writer and self-described member of the “body positivity movement,” made the same argument. The lockdown, she revealed, has triggered her own long-suppressed angst about avoirdupois: “My thoughts sometimes run wild – what if I’ll never be able to get up the hill again? What if I eat all the food in my fridge in one go?….I wonder if anyone will ever find me attractive again if my belly swells even more, my arms wobble and my chins take over my face.” But she’s vanquished those worries. Her weight, she realizes, isn’t her problem. In fact, it’s not a problem at all. Especially during a pandemic! The idea that it’s a problem is the fault of – yes – the “diet culture,” which is insidiously designed to plump up the wallets of diet-industry CEOs. It’s that culture that’s the real problem – that culture, and the guilt and self-loathing it engenders among the seatbelt-extender set. Ergo, the best thing a chubby self-quarantiner can do for herself while in self-quarantine is to embrace the fact that weight gain, under the present circumstances, is “just your body adjusting to change. You don’t need to control it.”
And whatever you do while you’re binging guilt-free on cake and ice cream, don’t dare joke about it. On April 12, NRK’s Emrah Senel reported that Norwegian “body activists” Carina Elisabeth Carlsen and Wilde Siem have been calling out social-media users who jest about their own overeating and weight gain while in lockdown, using such terms as “corona body,” “corona kilograms,” and “quarantine fat.” This kind of language, Carlsen and Siem complained, attest to profound anti-fat prejudice and a “narrow ideal of beauty.” Amy McCarthy agrees. Writing in a magazine called Eater, she condemned the proliferation of comic memes “about gaining weight during quarantine,” calling them “body-shaming at its most insidious” and attributing them to – you guessed it – a “diet culture” that’s all wrapped up with “classism, body shame, and a multibillion-dollar industry that stands to profit from all of us deeply hating ourselves.” Keep in mind, McCarthy scolded her readers, that when you share weight-gain quips online “you let the fat people in your life know exactly what you think of them — that their bodies are disgusting, and you’ll do just about anything…to avoid looking like them.” In these unnerving times, McCarthy suggested, we should be “a little bit nicer to both our own bodies, and the bodies that we are told are not good enough.” Psychologist Renee Engeln preached essentially the same sermon in Psychology Today, cautioning readers to “think carefully” before posting lockdown-related gags about weight gain; such material, she warned, sends “a clear message to everyone whose body is bigger than yours – and it’s not a nice message. You’re using the bodies of people heavier than you as a punchline.”
The wet-blanket policing of weight-related drollery has become so widespread that there’s actually been pushback. In the Independent, Valentina Valentini wrote that she’d recently gotten flak on Twitter for a bit of levity to the effect that “I’m gonna get so fat self-isolating because I don’t know how [to] (or won’t) ration.” She noted that she’s not alone: “people like me are now being ‘called out’ en masse.” For example, “plus-size model” Tess Holliday “blasted people for talking about their potential weight gain in quarantine.” But Valentini refuses to be guilt-tripped into silence. Explaining that she’s fat herself (albeit “not fat enough for many in the body positivity movement”), Valentini asked: “Isn’t that what body positivity is all about anyway? Being able to objectively look at our own selves and say whatever we want about it?” Nope, not in this era of humorless, rigorously enforced groupthink. (And I’m speaking as someone whose ain’t exactly Calista Flockhart, either.)
While some fat activists have been slamming fat-shamers and would-be weight wits, others have been freaking out about the dread specter of fatphobic triage. As early as mid-March, some high-profile social-media users were spreading the apparently baseless rumor that “coronavirus patients with high body mass indices [were] being denied ventilator treatment” in the U.S. “I predict,” tweeted Lindo Bacon, “that in a year, doctors [will] point to higher death rate for fat people from COVID and say, ‘See? I told you so!’ BUT THEY ARE LITERALLY CAUSING IT NOW.” Who is Lindo Bacon? None other than the author of the 2010 book Health at Every Size, which popularized the extraordinarily irresponsible notion that weight has virtually nothing to do with health. Thanks to Bacon, the phrase “Health at Every Size” – which is a registered trademark, and is often shortened to “HAES” – has become a Fat Studies mantra. (Incidentally, Health at Every Size was written under the name Linda Bacon; the author – in what can only be considered a triumph of intersectionality – now identifies as a man, hence the name change.) Of course, the NYU studies of COVID-19 risk factors have underlined the already manifest absurdity of the “Health at Every Size” paradigm, making the current pandemic a deadly reality check for the professionally obese. If fat people do turn out to be overrepresented in the COVID-19 death statistics, then, it won’t be the fault of doctors but of people like Bacon herself, whose reckless writings have given 10XL types the green light to gorge themselves on goodies.
But will this reality check spell the end of Fat Studies and the “fat positivity” movement? Will it even cause a few of the movement’s leaders, such as Bacon, to slink in shame away from the lecterns and back to their fridges? Fat chance, given that, like other victim-group “studies” and “movements,” this whole fraudulent field never had anything to do with reality in the first place. Which means that, after this lockdown is over, Bacon and company – who know, after all, which side of their bread is buttered – will almost certainly resume telling the morbidly obese that nothing about them is their fault, that everything about them is beautiful, and that the only dark cloud on their horizon is the harsh voice of dietetic truth. We can only hope that in the wake of this quarantine, which is giving all of us a hefty helping of reality, at least some of the out-of-control eaters who’ve swallowed this swill will finally vomit it back up.


thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Ignoring Rape Claim Against Sexual Predator Joe Biden, ABC/CBS Fake News Cheer Crooked Hillary’s End

Ignoring Rape Claim Against Sexual Predator Joe Biden, ABC/CBS Fake News Cheer Crooked Hillary’s Endorsement

It was one of the most predictable developments on the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential election : two-time presidential flunky Hillary Clinton endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden .
But that didn ’ t stop ABC ’ s World News Tonight from fangirling Tuesday and declaring it “ another big milestone ” for the campaign .
At the same time , ABC News and the CBS Evening News continued their blackout of former Biden Senate staffer Tara Reade and her allegations of rape against him .
As a Media Research Center study showed earlier Tuesday , it had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accused Biden of sexual assault but ABC News and CBS Evening News were doing all they could to keep their viewers in the dark .
But both celebrated Clinton ’ s endorsement as if it was something special .
“ On the virtual campaign trail today , Joe Biden got a boost from Hillary Clinton , ” boasted ABC ’ s senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce .
“ She and Biden go way back .
They 've worked together for 25 years.
” Bruce gushed about how they interacted while in the Obama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secretary of state , they met once a week .
A private breakfast every Tuesday.
” And she did the same for an inane story Clinton told about their childhood during the announcement stream : CLINTON : And my grandfather and then my father grew up in a house on Diamond Avenue , and while the Rodham ’ s were living on Diamond Avenue , the Bidens were over on North Washington Street .
BRUCE : Today she officially endorsed her old friend .
CLINTON : I am thrilled to be part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repeatedly reminded viewers that Clinton had won the popular vote and opined about how “ powerful ” she was .
“ Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 and has a loyal following ... .Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes , so she has a powerful base , ” she declared .
And clearly flaunting her fandom of the two-time failed presidential candidate , Bruce concluded by proclaiming : “ There 's no question , Clinton ’ s endorsement is another big milestone for the Biden campaign.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Norah O ’ Donnell ’ s new brief echoed ABC ’ s lauding .
“ Today , Hillary Clinton became the latest big-name Democrat to endorse Joe Biden , ” she said as she too reminded viewers of the popular vote .
“ Biden called her the woman who should be president , ” O ’ Donnell added on that point .
O ’ Donnell also noted that “ Clinton says Biden , quote , ‘ Can repair the damage that he would be inheriting.
’ ” Interestingly , NBC Nightly News didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Perhaps they realized how bad the optics looked to have Matt Lauer ’ s enablers covering Biden without mentioning his alleged sexual misconduct .
The transcripts are below , click `` expand '' to read : DAVID MUIR : The virus , of course , having a major impact on the race for 2020 .
And Joe Biden today with a surprise guest , Hillary Clinton endorsing Biden .
And here 's Mary Bruce .
MARY BRUCE : On the virtual campaign trail today , Joe Biden got a boost from Hillary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BIDEN : And I 'm really thrilled to have my friend , the former Senator , and former Secretary of State , and a woman who should be president of the United States right now .
BRUCE : A polarizing but powerful figure , Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 and has a loyal following .
She and Biden go way back .
They 've worked together for 25 years .
As vice president and secretary of state , they met once a week .
A private breakfast every Tuesday .
Clinton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scranton , Pennsylvania .
HILLARY CLINTON : And my grandfather and then my father grew up in a house on Diamond Avenue , and while the Rodham ’ s were living on Diamond Avenue , the Bidens were over on North Washington Street .
BRUCE : Today she officially endorsed her old friend .
CLINTON : I am thrilled to be part of your campaign .
BRUCE : Without saying her former rival 's name , Clinton had a clear message for President Trump .
CLINTON : Just think of what a difference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we had a president who not only listened to the science , put facts over fiction , but brought us together .
[ Transition ] Think of what it would mean if we had a real president , not just somebody who plays one on TV .
BRUCE : Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes , so she has a powerful base .
But she 's also criticized for losing the election to Donald Trump , and is accused of alienating progressive voters .
The group Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But , David , there 's no question , Clinton ’ s endorsement is another big milestone for the Biden campaign .
David .

It was one of the most predictable developments on the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential election: two-time presidential flunky Hillary Clinton endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. But that didn’t stop ABC’s World News Tonight from fangirling Tuesday and declaring it “another big milestone” for the campaign. At the same time, ABC News and the CBS Evening News continued their blackout of former Biden Senate staffer Tara Reade and her allegations of rape against him.
As a Media Research Center study showed earlier Tuesday, it had been over a month since Reade had publically accused Biden of sexual assault but ABC News and CBS Evening News were doing all they could to keep their viewers in the dark. But both celebrated Clinton’s endorsement as if it was something special.
“On the virtual campaign trail today, Joe Biden got a boost from Hillary Clinton,” boasted ABC’s senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce. “She and Biden go way back. They've worked together for 25 years.”
Bruce gushed about how they interacted while in the Obama administration. “As vice president and secretary of state, they met once a week. A private breakfast every Tuesday.” And she did the same for an inane story Clinton told about their childhood during the announcement stream:
BRUCE: Clinton today recalling their family ties back in Scranton, Pennsylvania. CLINTON: And my grandfather and then my father grew up in a house on Diamond Avenue, and while the Rodham’s were living on Diamond Avenue, the Bidens were over on North Washington Street. BRUCE: Today she officially endorsed her old friend. CLINTON: I am thrilled to be part of your campaign.
Of course, Bruce repeatedly reminded viewers that Clinton had won the popular vote and opined about how “powerful” she was. “Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 and has a loyal following....Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes, so she has a powerful base,” she declared.
And clearly flaunting her fandom of the two-time failed presidential candidate, Bruce concluded by proclaiming: “There's no question, Clinton’s endorsement is another big milestone for the Biden campaign.”
For CBS’s part, anchor Norah O’Donnell’s new brief echoed ABC’s lauding. “Today, Hillary Clinton became the latest big-name Democrat to endorse Joe Biden,” she said as she too reminded viewers of the popular vote. “Biden called her the woman who should be president,” O’Donnell added on that point.
O’Donnell also noted that “Clinton says Biden, quote, ‘Can repair the damage that he would be inheriting.’”
Interestingly, NBC Nightly News didn’t mention Clinton’s endorsement. Perhaps they realized how bad the optics looked to have Matt Lauer’s enablers covering Biden without mentioning his alleged sexual misconduct.
The transcripts are below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s World News Tonight
April 28, 2020
6:44:46 p.m. Eastern DAVID MUIR: The virus, of course, having a major impact on the race for 2020. And Joe Biden today with a surprise guest, Hillary Clinton endorsing Biden. And here's Mary Bruce. [Cuts to video] MARY BRUCE: On the virtual campaign trail today, Joe Biden got a boost from Hillary Clinton. FMR. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: And I'm really thrilled to have my friend, the former Senator, and former Secretary of State, and a woman who should be president of the United States right now. BRUCE: A polarizing but powerful figure, Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 and has a loyal following. She and Biden go way back. They've worked together for 25 years. As vice president and secretary of state, they met once a week. A private breakfast every Tuesday. Clinton today recalling their family ties back in Scranton, Pennsylvania. HILLARY CLINTON: And my grandfather and then my father grew up in a house on Diamond Avenue, and while the Rodham’s were living on Diamond Avenue, the Bidens were over on North Washington Street. BRUCE: Today she officially endorsed her old friend. CLINTON: I am thrilled to be part of your campaign. BRUCE: Without saying her former rival's name, Clinton had a clear message for President Trump. CLINTON: Just think of what a difference it would make right now, if we had a president who not only listened to the science, put facts over fiction, but brought us together. [Transition] Think of what it would mean if we had a real president, not just somebody who plays one on TV. [Cuts back to live] BRUCE: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million votes, so she has a powerful base. But she's also criticized for losing the election to Donald Trump, and is accused of alienating progressive voters. The group Joe Biden is now trying to win over. But, David, there's no question, Clinton’s endorsement is another big milestone for the Biden campaign. David. MUIR: Mary Bruce, tonight. Mary, thank you.


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thelibertydaily--2020-04-29--Giving Financially Mismanaged States a Bailout Is Morally Reprehensible

“ Never let a crisis go to waste.
” Those now infamous words ring as true , maybe truer , today than ever before and the current crisis is no exception .
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic , Americans are witnessing a new epidemic emerge—an epidemic of middle-class theft .
Politicians in states that have been fiscally irresponsible for decades , amassing massive levels of debt and unfunded liabilities are coming hat in hand to the federal government—to you , the middle-class taxpayer—in an attempt to exploit our current health crisis to solve their financial mismanagement .
Such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should the taxpayers of fiscally responsible states be forced by the federal government to bail out the states who failed , in many cases for decades on end , to wisely and responsibly manage their finances ?
President Trump posed this very question on Twitter earlier this week and last week Senator McConnell dared to suggest that states consider filing bankruptcy instead of looking for bailouts .
The response ?
Exactly what you would expect from the governors of multiple states who have longstanding track records of fiscally irresponsibility—anger , outrage , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called the notion “ dumb and vicious.
” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy blasted the idea of states taking responsibility for their own past financial mismanagement as “ completely and utterly irresponsible.
” Governors Whitmer and Pritzker , of Michigan and Illinois respectively , similarly attacked the concept as foolhardy .
While these Democrat responses are less than encouraging , they are also not unexpected .
The genesis of this current debate stemmed from a letter by an Illinois State Senator to that state ’ s Democratic congressional delegation requesting a federal bailout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of buying ventilators and test kits , but to help sinking public employees ’ pension fund .
Make no mistake—Illinois ’ pension fund has been sinking for decades and Democrats ’ policies in the state have continued to compound and exacerbate the problem long before the coronavirus became common nomenclature .
In fact , the systemic mismanagement of state finances by many , arguably most states , dates to well prior to the current health crisis and is not limited to merely pension fund obligations .
Let ’ s take a look at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referenced above : Each of these states , along with many others , was running budget deficits prior to the coronavirus .
So , again , we are forced to ask the question : why should the taxpayers of fiscally responsible states be forced to clean up the mess and foot the bill for the fiscally irresponsible ones ?
The citizens of states like New York , New Jersey , Michigan , and Illinois have repeatedly voted for politicians who fail at even elementary money management .
Any American with common sense , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business , can immediately tell you that when you spend more than you take in , you have a deficit .
This isn ’ t politics or rocket science , it is simple arithmetic .
For these states ’ politicians to now expect that they can exploit the current pandemic to make up for their failures isn ’ t just wrong , it ’ s morally reprehensible—it ’ s theft .
The people of Tennessee , Kansas , Florida , Arizona , or any other state for that matter , didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , nor did they elect those who did .
The only ones responsible for an individual state ’ s fiscal shortcomings are the people who live within that state .
As Washington gets ready to look at yet another round of coronavirus relief and with the U.S. national debt rapidly approaching $ 30 trillion , Congress must reject any notion that the citizens of another state should be forced to bailout the irresponsibility of another .
Failure to do so will result in yet another unfair financial burden being redistributed to today ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children and grandchildren .
Jeff Webb is an internationally renowned entrepreneur , founder of Varsity Brands—a global sports empire , President of the International Cheer Union , and a business , politics and culture commentator featured in outlets such as Newsweek , The Washington Times , Forbes , ESPN , and more .

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Those now infamous words ring as true, maybe truer, today than ever before and the current crisis is no exception. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are witnessing a new epidemic emerge—an epidemic of middle-class theft. Politicians in states that have been fiscally irresponsible for decades, amassing massive levels of debt and unfunded liabilities are coming hat in hand to the federal government—to you, the middle-class taxpayer—in an attempt to exploit our current health crisis to solve their financial mismanagement.
Such exploitation rightfully begs the question: why should the taxpayers of fiscally responsible states be forced by the federal government to bail out the states who failed, in many cases for decades on end, to wisely and responsibly manage their finances?
President Trump posed this very question on Twitter earlier this week and last week Senator McConnell dared to suggest that states consider filing bankruptcy instead of looking for bailouts. The response? Exactly what you would expect from the governors of multiple states who have longstanding track records of fiscally irresponsibility—anger, outrage, and name-calling.
Governor Cuomo of New York called the notion “dumb and vicious.” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy blasted the idea of states taking responsibility for their own past financial mismanagement as “completely and utterly irresponsible.” Governors Whitmer and Pritzker, of Michigan and Illinois respectively, similarly attacked the concept as foolhardy. While these Democrat responses are less than encouraging, they are also not unexpected.
The genesis of this current debate stemmed from a letter by an Illinois State Senator to that state’s Democratic congressional delegation requesting a federal bailout for Illinois, not for the purpose of buying ventilators and test kits, but to help sinking public employees’ pension fund. Make no mistake—Illinois’ pension fund has been sinking for decades and Democrats’ policies in the state have continued to compound and exacerbate the problem long before the coronavirus became common nomenclature.
In fact, the systemic mismanagement of state finances by many, arguably most states, dates to well prior to the current health crisis and is not limited to merely pension fund obligations. Let’s take a look at the financial stewardship of the four states referenced above:
Illinois: Current debt $165 billion
New York: Current debt $349 billion
New Jersey: Current debt $95 billion
Michigan: Current debt $73 billion
Each of these states, along with many others, was running budget deficits prior to the coronavirus. So, again, we are forced to ask the question: why should the taxpayers of fiscally responsible states be forced to clean up the mess and foot the bill for the fiscally irresponsible ones?
The citizens of states like New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Illinois have repeatedly voted for politicians who fail at even elementary money management. Any American with common sense, and certainly anyone who has run a business, can immediately tell you that when you spend more than you take in, you have a deficit. This isn’t politics or rocket science, it is simple arithmetic.
For these states’ politicians to now expect that they can exploit the current pandemic to make up for their failures isn’t just wrong, it’s morally reprehensible—it’s theft. The people of Tennessee, Kansas, Florida, Arizona, or any other state for that matter, didn’t cause New York’s financial woes, nor did they elect those who did. The only ones responsible for an individual state’s fiscal shortcomings are the people who live within that state.
As Washington gets ready to look at yet another round of coronavirus relief and with the U.S. national debt rapidly approaching $30 trillion, Congress must reject any notion that the citizens of another state should be forced to bailout the irresponsibility of another. Failure to do so will result in yet another unfair financial burden being redistributed to today’s middle class and tomorrow’s children and grandchildren.
Jeff Webb is an internationally renowned entrepreneur, founder of Varsity Brands—a global sports empire, President of the International Cheer Union, and a business, politics and culture commentator featured in outlets such as Newsweek, The Washington Times, Forbes, ESPN, and more.