Found, appropriately enough, on page A8:
"Dinner reversal shows risks to Democrats as they preach virus restrictions" by Rachael Bade Washington Post, November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The elaborate event seemed like the kind of celebration President Trump might host in the coronavirus era: about a dozen circular tables with purple and pink flowers brimming from gold vases, arranged in a grand but windowless room, but this was no Trump affair. It was a setup for a dinner to be hosted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This as the American people are left twi$ting in the wind in the face of more lockdowns based on lies.
No wonder they LOST SEATS!
“It’s very spaced,” the California Democrat assured reporters, arguing Friday evening that the post-election reception she was about to host for just under 50 incoming and reelected members was socially distanced and approved by the House physician.
A few hours later, amid a furious backlash on social media — including from people who questioned why they were not allowed to bury their dead while lawmakers attended fancy parties — Pelosi canceled the dinner, turning it into a takeout meal instead.
It was the latest in a series of moves by the speaker, who has routinely knocked Republicans for acting irresponsibly during the pandemic, that have played into the hands of critics who see a double standard.
It's only the critics who see a double standard, and that obviously doesn't include the Wa$hington Compo$t. There was also the infamous ice cream incident, but that has melted down the old pre$$ memory hole.
For the first 10 months of the pandemic, Pelosi rejected calls to institute regular virus testing for lawmakers who fly back-and-forth across the country, though so too did her GOP Senate counterparts, and early on, she was recorded on camera getting her hair done at a San Francisco salon despite a local prohibition on such services.
The furor over Friday’s dinner is spotlighting a conundrum facing the Democratic Party as infections are again soaring: With Joe Biden capturing the White House and many party leaders advocating tough restrictions, Democrats will have to be careful not to appear hypocritical — especially as Americans are urged to sharply limit their Thanksgiving gatherings.
Don't appear to be, even as they are!
I'm ready to puke at this slop the Globe served up today!
''We’ve seen a lot of double standards,'' Representative Mike Johnson, Republican of Lousisiana, said. ''They impose these draconian restrictions and then they go and violate their own regulations. I can tell you what the people back home think about it in Louisiana — I mean, they were very frustrated about what they see to be a double standard and they see political leaders saying one thing and then not practicing it.''
Still, Pelosi and the Democrats have been far more mindful of coronavirus restrictions than Trump and the GOP. Unlike the outgoing president, the speaker has always worn a mask in public while Trump mocked those who followed doctors' orders and covered their faces.
Trump spent much of the fall flying around the country, attending campaign rallies and hosting White House events — eventually contracting the virus himself following a Rose Garden celebration for then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, which became an apparent super-spreader event.
The Biden celebrations were not!
Over the weekend, while Pelosi canceled her reception, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, went ahead with his own version of a new members' welcome, hosting about 90 lawmakers in one room for a short happy hour on the second floor of the Capitol, but unlike her GOP counterparts, Pelosi has portrayed herself and her Democratic colleagues as model citizens in this year of crisis. She has dubbed Democrats ''the party of science,'' hitting Republicans all year for acting irresponsibly and ignoring doctors' recommended precautions.
The conceited arrogance and image of themselves is unbelievable.
Pelosi struck that note again at midmorning Friday, rapping Trump and the GOP at a news conference for failing to ''listen to science'' and arguing that separation and isolation would help ''crush the virus.'' That was about seven hours before the dinner was scheduled.
Representative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, said switching to takeout was the right move and that such decisions are not always easy.
“I think members are trying to navigate this, the work in Congress and the welcoming of new members of Congress . . . just like people are trying to figure out how to have certain important events in their lives,” Cicilline said. “This is all new for everyone.”
Pelosi’s defenders have argued that she has followed the House physician’s advice on everything, including Friday’s dinner. That event was slated to be socially distanced, her office said — four people to a 10-person round table, for a total of fewer than 50 attendees. The architect of the Capitol has also installed a new air filtration system to keep people safe, they said, following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but after an NBC reporter tweeted a photo of the tables being set up for the celebratory gathering, the criticism kept piling up on social media as well as on Capitol Hill. Party leaders eventually instructed incoming freshmen to simply grab a boxed dinner and head back to their offices.
They don't get that it is the optics, and they seem to be certifiably insane!
“Our office strictly follows the guidance of the Office of Attending Physician, including for this dinner,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill tweeted amid the backlash. “To be a further model for the nation, this event has been modified to allow Members-elect to pick up their meals to go in a socially-distanced manner.”
Hammill noted that the offices of the Capitol architect and the House’s attending physician oversaw the lying in state of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and civil rights icon John Lewis. Both events were held during the pandemic, and neither resulted in any known COVID-19 cases, Hammill said.
Pelosi is not the only Democrat to run afoul of coronavirus restrictions. California Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed regret for attending a birthday party on Nov. 6 with a small group of friends at the exclusive French Laundry restaurant.
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"California has to slam the “emergency brake” on reopening, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Monday, making it the latest state to reestablish restrictions as it experiences its sharpest increase in coronavirus infections yet. The state’s daily case count doubled in the past week, a rise that is “without precedent,” Newsom (D) said during a news briefing Monday, as California tallied 9,890 new cases. To slow the surge of infections, Newsom said 41 of the state’s 58 counties — including Orange, Santa Clara and Santa Barbara counties — will be on the most restrictive “purple” level, which requires many nonessential indoor businesses to close. Purple counties are ones reporting more than seven cases per day per 100,000 people and where the positivity rate for testing is above 8 percent. Last week, 13 counties were in that category. Restaurants, gyms and places of worship in these hot spots must be outdoors-only, and bars must close, according to state guidelines. Nonessential offices are required to work remotely. Because outbreaks have spiraled in recent weeks, Newsom announced that the state will move counties multiple tiers as needed and reassess more often, instead of only on Tuesdays. “The bottom line is we’re moving from a marathon to a sprint,” he said. Newsom added that he was considering a statewide curfew but said he was still reviewing research to see how effective it would be. The closures come as states across the country have ramped up restrictions to try to tackle mounting infections and hospitalizations ahead of the busy Thanksgiving holiday....."
Now bottoms up!
"Melania Trump, like America, may be more in love with President Trump than his critics would hope" by Mary Jordan and Jada Yuan Washington Post, November 17, 2020
Bookies started taking bets on Election Day as gamblers considered a question on many people’s minds: Will Melania Trump dump her husband when he is no longer president?
I thought the pre$$ couldn't go any lower, and yet they do.
This vapid, shallow, and superficial bullshit is now taking up space and ink and passing itself off as serious news.
Way to go, Boston Globe!
Who made the call to pick up this piece of trash?
Needed a filler, huh?
Soon after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, Jimmy Kimmel made a spoof of ''The Bachelorette.'' In it, a woman steps out of a limo to meet a roomful of nervous suitors. The camera pans from her stiletto heel, up her sparkly gown, to her familiar face: It’s Melania Trump! (Her head was superimposed on the body of the actual bachelorette.)
That is not official, it's simply a biased media declaration, and can a pre$$ organ be any more out of touch as they push farcical celebrities at us as they gleefully spew their TDS hate?
Is Melania Trump really looking forward to being rid of President Trump as much as tens of millions of Americans are? Or is it just another fantasy that Trump critics are projecting on a first lady who has succeeded in shrouding her true self in mystery?
Are these serious issues and questions given all that is going on, and what is with the salacious garbage the Globe decided to pick up?
Just another gleeful turn of the knife, huh?
If this keeps up, this blog is finished because their piece of $hit paper is no longer worth the paper on which it is printed.
Many who despise Donald Trump imagine that his wife does, too. They point to a few videos of her seeming to refuse to hold her husband’s hand as proof. They also notice that Melania spends a lot of time apart from her husband, and she’s not as publicly affectionate with him as, for instance, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama or Jill Biden are with their husbands. Some have baselessly claimed that Melania has a body double who stands in for her when (they imagine) she refuses to appear at her husband’s side.
They all have them, some have pointed out differences in photographs, and the fact that the Wa$hington Compo$t hollers baseless pretty much confirms it.
Melania Trump keeps a small inner circle, but two people close to her spoke to The Washington Post and said that she has shown no sign of leaving her husband, at least not any time soon. (They spoke on condition of anonymity because they know Melania would not want them to speak to the press. ''She believes her private life is no one’s business,'' said one.)
The first lady has said several times over the past four years that she does not always agree with the president, but in the closing days of the 2020 campaign, she emerged as one of his most ardent cheerleaders. In forceful, highly partisan speeches, she slammed Biden, the Democrats, and the news media while urging people to vote for her husband, the one true leader and ''optimist'' in the race.
''I don’t think Melania leaves Donald. She’s very willingly complicit in his schemes and holds his beliefs as her own,'' said Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former attorney, who is under home confinement while finishing out a felony federal sentence for tax fraud and campaign finance violations. ''Those two deserve each other.''
He also perjured himself before Congre$$.
That's the expert source to which the pre$$ turns.
The Trumps are remarkably in sync despite their personality differences, said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and aide who wrote a book that was highly critical of the first lady. ''It’s part of the show. She’s always been the quiet. He’s been the loud. She’s been the soft. He’s been the hard. They play off one another. It’s part of the relationship that makes it work.''
Why did that political marriage of corruption and convenience that encompasses the Clintons just spring to mind?
Asked for comment on the fact that people were speculating about the possibility of the Trumps splitting up, Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff, offered a stern rebuke: ''This question is pathetic and exactly why people no longer trust the mainstream media. No legitimate journalist would ask this.''
That's not the only reason, and they are legion.
The idea that Melania can’t wait to ditch Donald might be a natural extension of the same wishful thinking that led people to assume that the president’s reckless disregard for truth and the norms of presidential behavior would lead to a huge repudiation at the polls, and although Trump lost reelection, that karmic wave never materialized.
He didn't even lose, liars, he won in a landslide and the Dominion computers flipped votes with the help of a CIA Scorecard and Hammer along with other instants of massive early morning fraud.
Maybe Melania is similar to America: A big part of her admires Donald Trump, even if another part of her is appalled by him.
How in the f***k would the Wa$hington Compo$t pre$4titutes know that?
Are they inside her head?
Why does the "journali$m" in this country get worse by the day?
It’s been a trying year for a first lady who values her privacy. Late in the summer, Winston Wolkoff, the former friend and aide, released secret audio recordings in which Melania is heard expressing her views in an unguarded way. On the tapes, Melania could be heard using strong language when referring to her White House decorating duties (“Who gives a f--- about Christmas stuff and decorations?”) and saying she delighted in ''driving liberals crazy.''
It's hard to care about Christmas with COVID, but that is why is all the more important this year.
I don't mean purcha$ing products like the corporate media wants as they act like COVID doesn't even exist. I mean with love and spirituality.
She also sounded heartless when talking about children at the border who had been separated from their parents. Those children had a bed in detention, she could be heard saying, and the United States took better care of them than Mexico did.
The release of those tapes, along with other criticism, has contributed to a bunker mentality in the White House, with both Trumps feeling besieged. Some of those working in the White House attribute that solidarity to why they have appeared closer in 2020 than they did in 2016.....
The "reporting" then turns to, I kid you not, Internet memes and ''Saturday Night Live'' sketches!
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That article was at the bottom of the page, and Biden promises to offer coverage for transgender procedures.
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Biden filling top White House team with campaign veterans
It's an increasingly diverse White House leadership team with a woman at the head.
The Globe is expressing ratitude this Thanksgiving as the clock will soon strike midnight on the Great Trumpkin, who contemplates an alternative reality to which he can escape where he is still a pretend president and whatever helps Democrats the most -- even if that means Blacks must acquiescence to a Biden regime.
Zuckerberg, Dorsey face angry lawmakers still split on concerns
Enjoy the show hearing that the Globe back-paged.
Aide to Raffensperger confirms call with Graham
I didn't answer it, sorry.
The Globe front-paged this as their top story:
Biden team locked out of key vaccine information as COVID rages
Biden is warning of dire consequences with his main concern being “how to get over 300 million Americans vaccinated and what’s the game plan?”
The "game plan" accompanied that article:
Fauci says 20 million Americans could get COVID vaccinations around the end of the year
When I logged in the one-upman$hip continued after a day, and it would be laughable were it not for the looting and and existential threat to life.
That was a day after the Dow soared to new heights on promising vaccine news, and the Globe tells you what you need to know about the experimental Moderna vaccine and the supply chain and as AG Healey urges action on health care disparities (also discussed on the Monday call: ensuring that the state is committed to an equitable strategy for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine when it is ready. Healey urged the Department of Public Health to collect data on the race and ethnicity of all recipients so it can determine whether enough vaccine is reaching low-income populations and communities of color. “The data element is at the core,” said Frank Robinson, vice president of public health at Baystate Health, during the call. “I expect that we will have in place, by April, a community-facing health equity dashboard that will allow us to measure and watch the distribution of COVID vaccines.”).
"Life Science Cares Boston, a nonprofit group that raises money from the life sciences industry, has awarded $755,000 in grants to 27 social service organizations for a second year. The 2020 awards bring the collective member organization’s four-year total of donations to more than $3.8 million. Life Science Cares was founded in 2016 to combat poverty. In addition to its annual grants program, Life Science Cares has led a COVID-19 relief effort since March to help Greater Boston. Some 600 area biopharma executives and employees have raised $1.8 million for organizations that provide food, shelter, and medical care throughout the pandemic. “This year, more than ever, it is an honor to invest in our partners working tirelessly to provide food, housing, education, and employment to our neighbors in need,” said Sarah MacDonald, executive director of Life Science Cares. Following are the recipients of this year’s grants...."
I'm $ure they are very thankful.
Nantucket means a perfect Thanksgiving
Hanna Krueger of the Globe Staff says "it is unlikely that the president-elect will visit Nantucket this Thanksgiving, amid a global pandemic and a tumultuous transition of power, but when Joe Biden does return to the island, he’ll do so as the 46th president of the United States."
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"Seeking to combat the spread of COVID-19, Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Tuesday urged residents to spend Thanksgiving only with immediate household members, and he implored college students to stay home if they go there for the holiday and finish the remainder of the fall semester remotely. Walsh said he does not want to shut the city down again, as it was in the early stages of the pandemic, but he did not discount that possibility. “The last resort would be to shut things down right now, and we’re headed toward that last resort,” he said....."
Thanks for the warning, and I agree the kids shouldn't return.
Now where is the restroom?
"Governor Charlie Baker also addressed the pandemic during a separate briefing Tuesday at the State House, saying the state is making progress in expanding its testing capacity. “I think you’re also going to see some new products come into the marketplace that are going to make it possible for people to significantly expand testing without necessarily having to use the pathways and the routes that we’ve used traditionally to make this happen,” Baker said. The governor was pressed on continued reports of unemployed residents experiencing delays in receiving their benefits. “The biggest challenge I think we face at this point in time with respect to unemployment insurance generally is the continued and ongoing effort of a lot of really bad actors to fraud the system,” Baker said. “And this is not just true in Massachusetts. This is now true in all 50 states, and it creates all kinds of problems.” Baker said it is critical that officials determine the veracity of each application. Officials have to "get to the point where we actually cull out the people who are legitimate and make sure that they can then work their way through the process and get the unemployment benefit that they’re entitled to,” Baker said....."
Another Freudian slip from King Chuck.
"With more shutdowns looming and a vaccine months away from wide distribution, governors across the U.S. are pleading for more help from Washington ahead of what is shaping up to be a bleak winter. Renewed restrictions on indoor businesses, overloaded hospitals and the coming end of unemployment benefits for millions of Americans have led governors to paint a dire picture of the months ahead unless the federal government steps in with more money and leadership to help them shore up their damaged budgets and beat back the resurgence of the coronavirus. The cost of distributing tens of millions of doses of a vaccine in 2021 is also emerging as a major concern for governors. State health authorities have called on Congress to provide $8.4 billion. A new infusion of federal money does not appear to be on the way anytime soon. A lame-duck session of Congress and a presidential administration on its way out have chilled the prospects for a deal....."
Trump will have to eat cold turkey, huh?
I imagine he had a hard time choking down this:
"Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security" by Ben Fox Associated Press, Nov 18, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election.
Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.”
While abrupt, the dismissal was hardly surprising. Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had offered a stream of statements and tweets over the past week attesting to the integrity of the election, directly contradicting Trump’s false assertions of widespread fraud without mentioning the president by name.
The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee, comes as Trump is refusing to recognize the victory of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and removing high-level officials seen as insufficiently loyal. He fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Nov. 9, part of a broader shakeup that put Trump loyalists in senior Pentagon positions.
A former Microsoft executive, Krebs ran the agency, known as CISA, from its creation in the wake of Russian interference with the 2016 election through the November election. He won bipartisan praise as CISA coordinated federal state and local efforts to defend electoral systems from foreign or domestic interference.
OMFG!
Related: "Microsoft said it has developed a security technology that chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices plan to incorporate into personal-computer processors to boost their ability to ward off hackers and cyber-attacks. Intel and AMD said chips with the new technology, which Microsoft is calling Pluton, will be ready within the next few years. Qualcomm expressed support for the approach, but declined to say whether it would incorporate this specific design in its chips."
That makes me feel more secure!
Krebs has repeatedly pushed back against false claims that the election was tainted. Earlier Tuesday, he tweeted out a report citing 59 election security experts saying there is no credible evidence of computer fraud in the 2020 election outcome.
We all know it was stolen. The whole world does.
Trump fired back on Twitter later in the day. He repeated unsubstantiated claims about the vote and wrote “effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”
Krebs, from his personal Twitter account, responded: “Honored to serve. We did it right. Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow.” He closed with the phrase “Protect 2020,” which had been his agency’s slogan ahead of the election.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House intelligence committee, assailed Trump for “retaliating against Director Krebs and other officials who did their duty. It’s pathetic, but sadly predictable that upholding and protecting our democratic processes would be cause for firing.”
Krebs kept a low profile even as he voiced confidence ahead of the November vote and, afterward, knocked down allegations that the count was tainted by fraud. CISA issued statements dismissing claims that large numbers of dead people could vote or that someone could change results without detection.
It also distributed a statement from a coalition of federal and state officials concluding there was no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in the Nov. 3 election and that the vote was the most secure in American history.....
We all know the entire apparatus is closing ranks behind the stolen election and coup.
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I'm full up, folks, and am going to leave it there.
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