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You can't see anything when your head is up your ***.
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On the bright side for him, he doesn't have to go to anyone for a colonoscopy.
Why bother? You can't read them.
you also need to fully understand that India is one of the nastiest places on the planet.
their hygiene makes Ark look like he just showered
I was sooooooooooooo hoping you'd pick up on that. Thanks!!!!
www.nbcbayarea.com
www.statesman.com
their hygiene makes Ark look like he just showered
I was sooooooooooooo hoping you'd pick up on that. Thanks!!!!
Nancy Pelosi Visits San Francisco's Chinatown Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco’s Chinatown Monday to send a message. She said there’s no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of coronavirus concerns.
www.nbcbayarea.com
Fact-check: Did Biden call Trump 'xenophobic' for China travel restrictions?
This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on March 27, 2020.Amid criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,
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Follow the science!! Follow the science!! Well, until the science disagrees with the left.
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Dan Gainor: On COVID, forget 'follow the science' now it's follow the liberal media as they attack the CDC
The CDC changed its masking recommendations and suddenly found itself in a firestorm of criticism from the liberal media. So much for following the science.
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Fine, so you support publicly funded healthcare but not socialized healthcare. Split hairs much?
Is this your last, whimpering, dying breath? Please?
Hey HypoFlog, your hero, Dictator Whitmer's in a lot of real hot water this time.
You preached lock down, stay at home, mask up hard - a lot like Whitmer. And you both took trips to Florida lecturing us all. Hypocrites cut from the same cloth.
www.breitbart.com
In early April 2021...Whitmer warned Michiganders not to go to Florida for spring break.
But what she did not say at the time was that on a Friday morning, March 12, the governor ...took an unannounced trip to Florida for four days. She returned Monday evening, March 15. Whitmer was not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 at the time of the trip.
After news stories broke (including one reported exclusively by Breitbart News) that two of Whitmer’s top aides traveled to Florida and Alabama for spring break, Whitmer’s office admitted to MIRS News on April 19 that the governor had traveled to Florida for “personal” reasons, a key claim that would complicate her future attempted explanations about the trip.
Whitmer’s office also said that she traveled “at her own expense,” another claim that would be questioned after later versions of the story emerged.
Two days after the initial story broke, Whitmer continued to use her father’s health as the excuse for the trip, claiming that she went to Florida to tend to his needs and “did a lot of cooking, a lot of cleaning.” The governor’s father, Richard Whitmer, is a former chief executive of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan insurance company who collected over $1.5 million in compensation in 2002, according to a 2003 MIRS News story. The elder Whitmer owns a property in West Palm Beach, Florida, tax records show.
It is not clear exactly what the nature of her father’s immediate medical emergency was which required the unvaccinated governor to travel to Florida. In fact, not long after the news broke about the Florida trip, the governor’s father was spotted in Lansing, Michigan, shopping and driving alone in his Tesla vehicle.
“It’s maddening,” the governor said of the mounting criticism and allegations of hypocrisy about her Florida trip, adding, “A lot of these same people would accuse me of not having family values if I didn’t show up when a family member needed some help.”
Critics have pointed to Whitmer’s “hypocrisy” on the issue, after she prevented countless families from helping their elders in Michigan nursing homes during her mandated lockdowns.
“It was certainly not spring break,” she said. “I was doing both my job as governor from a distance and being that of a daughter who was helping out a parent who needed a little help.”
That claim sparked constitutional questions because the lieutenant governor acts as the governor when the sitting governor is “absent from the state,” according to the Michigan Constitution.
As questions persisted, Whitmer’s excuses seemed to generate more questions than answers.
More than two weeks later, investigative reporter Charlie LeDuff reported at Deadline Detroit that a plane owned by Air Eagle, LLC — a company owned by three Detroit businessmen — took Whitmer to Florida.
A former lobbyist speculated to Breitbart News that one of the families who own the plane may have agreed to let Whitmer use the plane in exchange for face time with the governor during the 2+ hour trip to Florida.
Whitmer’s office then refused to provide additional details about the governor’s trip, citing “ongoing security concerns.”
Addressing the secrecy around how she got to Florida, Whitmer said, “This flight was not a gift. This flight was not paid for at taxpayer expense.” That was a shift from her original claim that she travel “at her own expense.”
Two days later, Whitmer’s office claimed her 501(c)(4) organization, a so-called “dark money” nonprofit originally created to fund Whitmer’s 2019 transition and inauguration activities, paid for the flight. This claim introduced a new element to the growing scandal: a potential violation of the IRS rules governing 501(c)(4) nonprofits.
Whitmer and her aides had been adamant that her trip was “personal,” but a 501(c)(4) nonprofit cannot pay for “personal” expenses. It can only pay for expenses incurred for organization-related activities.
“501(c)(4) groups are social welfare organizations and are not allowed to pay for personal expenses for officials,” Michigan Rising Action — itself a 501(c)(4) group — said in a news release.
“Either Whitmer’s Florida trip was for a legitimate 501(c)(4) purpose, in which case the c4 could pay for it, or it was personal, in which case a c4 can’t pay for it,” Tori Sachs, Michigan Rising Action’s former executive director, said.
Whitmer’s chief of staff, Joanne Huls, told MIRS News that the flight cost $27,521 and that Whitmer’s 501(c)(4) nonprofit paid Air Eagle, LLC for the use of the plane. It is not clear if paying for the plane was the governor’s intention all along or only after the secret trip became public.
According to Huls, the governor reimbursed the nonprofit $855 — the value that they determined to be the price of her seat on the flight. Whitmer “paid for her seat on the flight with her own personal money,” Huls told MIRS News. However, it is unclear how simply reimbursing the 501(c)(4) for the price of her seat negates the fact that the c4 paid for the entire flight for a “personal” trip for the governor.
Additionally, Huls’ claim that the 501(c)(4) “chartered” the flight introduced yet another element into this growing scandal. The claim touched off questions that Air Eagle, LLC may have violated its agreement with the FAA because the company is not approved to act as a charter service.
Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the FAA, told the Detroit Free Press that “companies that operate charter flights must have a Part 135 certificate” from the agency. However, Air Eagle, LLC “does not have a Part 135 certificate,” according to Cory.
After Huls created potential legal issues for Air Eagle, LLC, several questions remain, including whether Air Eagle, LLC truly operated as a charter, or if paying for the plane was something Whitmer’s aides decided upon after the fact, which would perhaps explain why the $27,521 expense for the chartered flight and Whitmer’s $855 reimbursement for her seat on that flight was listed in her 501(c)(4)’s May expenditures and revenues, rather than being recorded in March when the flight occurred.
There are also questions concerning who Whitmer may have met with in Florida to justify this flight being paid for by her 501(c)(4). We also do not know whether the governor traveled elsewhere in Florida other than her father’s home, or whether she stayed at her father’s home or at another residence while there. And we do not know what else she may have done in Florida other than helping her father with “a lot of cooking” and “a lot of cleaning.”
We also do not know yet whether the FAA will investigate the chartering of the plane, whether the IRS will investigate Whitmer’s 501(c)(4)’s payment of this “personal” expenditure, and whether Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) will probe the situation for potential corruption.
We also do not know why Whitmer failed to notify Florida law enforcement that she would be in the state, even though she cited concerns about her security as the reason for why she needed to charter a private flight instead of flying commercial.
But most of all, it is still unclear why the unvaccinated governor of Michigan, who warned Michiganders not to travel to Florida, would make an extended weekend trip to Florida — amid rising coronavirus cases in her state — in order to help her wealthy allegedly ailing father cook and clean.
You preached lock down, stay at home, mask up hard - a lot like Whitmer. And you both took trips to Florida lecturing us all. Hypocrites cut from the same cloth.
Private Jet Scandal Threatens Gretchen Whitmer's Political Future
Dishonesty and hypocrisy surrounding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's secret "personal" trip are threatening her political future. | Politics
www.breitbart.com
In early April 2021...Whitmer warned Michiganders not to go to Florida for spring break.
But what she did not say at the time was that on a Friday morning, March 12, the governor ...took an unannounced trip to Florida for four days. She returned Monday evening, March 15. Whitmer was not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 at the time of the trip.
After news stories broke (including one reported exclusively by Breitbart News) that two of Whitmer’s top aides traveled to Florida and Alabama for spring break, Whitmer’s office admitted to MIRS News on April 19 that the governor had traveled to Florida for “personal” reasons, a key claim that would complicate her future attempted explanations about the trip.
Whitmer’s office also said that she traveled “at her own expense,” another claim that would be questioned after later versions of the story emerged.
Two days after the initial story broke, Whitmer continued to use her father’s health as the excuse for the trip, claiming that she went to Florida to tend to his needs and “did a lot of cooking, a lot of cleaning.” The governor’s father, Richard Whitmer, is a former chief executive of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan insurance company who collected over $1.5 million in compensation in 2002, according to a 2003 MIRS News story. The elder Whitmer owns a property in West Palm Beach, Florida, tax records show.
It is not clear exactly what the nature of her father’s immediate medical emergency was which required the unvaccinated governor to travel to Florida. In fact, not long after the news broke about the Florida trip, the governor’s father was spotted in Lansing, Michigan, shopping and driving alone in his Tesla vehicle.
“It’s maddening,” the governor said of the mounting criticism and allegations of hypocrisy about her Florida trip, adding, “A lot of these same people would accuse me of not having family values if I didn’t show up when a family member needed some help.”
Critics have pointed to Whitmer’s “hypocrisy” on the issue, after she prevented countless families from helping their elders in Michigan nursing homes during her mandated lockdowns.
“It was certainly not spring break,” she said. “I was doing both my job as governor from a distance and being that of a daughter who was helping out a parent who needed a little help.”
That claim sparked constitutional questions because the lieutenant governor acts as the governor when the sitting governor is “absent from the state,” according to the Michigan Constitution.
As questions persisted, Whitmer’s excuses seemed to generate more questions than answers.
More than two weeks later, investigative reporter Charlie LeDuff reported at Deadline Detroit that a plane owned by Air Eagle, LLC — a company owned by three Detroit businessmen — took Whitmer to Florida.
A former lobbyist speculated to Breitbart News that one of the families who own the plane may have agreed to let Whitmer use the plane in exchange for face time with the governor during the 2+ hour trip to Florida.
Whitmer’s office then refused to provide additional details about the governor’s trip, citing “ongoing security concerns.”
Addressing the secrecy around how she got to Florida, Whitmer said, “This flight was not a gift. This flight was not paid for at taxpayer expense.” That was a shift from her original claim that she travel “at her own expense.”
Two days later, Whitmer’s office claimed her 501(c)(4) organization, a so-called “dark money” nonprofit originally created to fund Whitmer’s 2019 transition and inauguration activities, paid for the flight. This claim introduced a new element to the growing scandal: a potential violation of the IRS rules governing 501(c)(4) nonprofits.
Whitmer and her aides had been adamant that her trip was “personal,” but a 501(c)(4) nonprofit cannot pay for “personal” expenses. It can only pay for expenses incurred for organization-related activities.
“501(c)(4) groups are social welfare organizations and are not allowed to pay for personal expenses for officials,” Michigan Rising Action — itself a 501(c)(4) group — said in a news release.
“Either Whitmer’s Florida trip was for a legitimate 501(c)(4) purpose, in which case the c4 could pay for it, or it was personal, in which case a c4 can’t pay for it,” Tori Sachs, Michigan Rising Action’s former executive director, said.
Whitmer’s chief of staff, Joanne Huls, told MIRS News that the flight cost $27,521 and that Whitmer’s 501(c)(4) nonprofit paid Air Eagle, LLC for the use of the plane. It is not clear if paying for the plane was the governor’s intention all along or only after the secret trip became public.
According to Huls, the governor reimbursed the nonprofit $855 — the value that they determined to be the price of her seat on the flight. Whitmer “paid for her seat on the flight with her own personal money,” Huls told MIRS News. However, it is unclear how simply reimbursing the 501(c)(4) for the price of her seat negates the fact that the c4 paid for the entire flight for a “personal” trip for the governor.
Additionally, Huls’ claim that the 501(c)(4) “chartered” the flight introduced yet another element into this growing scandal. The claim touched off questions that Air Eagle, LLC may have violated its agreement with the FAA because the company is not approved to act as a charter service.
Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the FAA, told the Detroit Free Press that “companies that operate charter flights must have a Part 135 certificate” from the agency. However, Air Eagle, LLC “does not have a Part 135 certificate,” according to Cory.
After Huls created potential legal issues for Air Eagle, LLC, several questions remain, including whether Air Eagle, LLC truly operated as a charter, or if paying for the plane was something Whitmer’s aides decided upon after the fact, which would perhaps explain why the $27,521 expense for the chartered flight and Whitmer’s $855 reimbursement for her seat on that flight was listed in her 501(c)(4)’s May expenditures and revenues, rather than being recorded in March when the flight occurred.
There are also questions concerning who Whitmer may have met with in Florida to justify this flight being paid for by her 501(c)(4). We also do not know whether the governor traveled elsewhere in Florida other than her father’s home, or whether she stayed at her father’s home or at another residence while there. And we do not know what else she may have done in Florida other than helping her father with “a lot of cooking” and “a lot of cleaning.”
We also do not know yet whether the FAA will investigate the chartering of the plane, whether the IRS will investigate Whitmer’s 501(c)(4)’s payment of this “personal” expenditure, and whether Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) will probe the situation for potential corruption.
We also do not know why Whitmer failed to notify Florida law enforcement that she would be in the state, even though she cited concerns about her security as the reason for why she needed to charter a private flight instead of flying commercial.
But most of all, it is still unclear why the unvaccinated governor of Michigan, who warned Michiganders not to travel to Florida, would make an extended weekend trip to Florida — amid rising coronavirus cases in her state — in order to help her wealthy allegedly ailing father cook and clean.
Like Hillary's emails. Like Hunter's laptop. The media is beginning to provide cover on the origins of the virus.
Which makes you see how sinister the Left really is. A virus that has killed 3.6million people. One would think all of mankind would want to prevent this happening again in the future. Part of doing so is understanding how this one came to be.
But the Left wants that hidden. Covered up.
You have to ask why? The answer is obvious.
thefederalist.com
Which makes you see how sinister the Left really is. A virus that has killed 3.6million people. One would think all of mankind would want to prevent this happening again in the future. Part of doing so is understanding how this one came to be.
But the Left wants that hidden. Covered up.
You have to ask why? The answer is obvious.
The Media’s COVID Origin Coverup Campaign Has Begun
David Frum is the first prominent journalist to fictionalize the debate over the origins of COVID, but he won’t be the last.
thefederalist.com
If stupid were currency, you'd be rich. It's not, so you're just stupid.
"Socialized" health care means health care to everybody, at little to no cost. Medicare is exactly the OPPOSITE. It has requirements for pay-in and indeed the vast majority on Medicare have paid in for 45 years or more.
So if you propose some sort of medical insurance to people who pay in for a minimum of 10 years, usually a lot more, perhaps 20 is the better cut-off, and begins providing coverage at age 65, and is limited to American citizens getting health care in the United States, then we can begin the discussion. Instead, you idiots on the left propose publicly-funded health care to everybody in the nation, legally or otherwise, with no required pay-in and at no cost to the person getting the medical care. Well, at a cost, just paid for by the taxpayers. Vast, vast, VAST amounts paid by the taxpayer.
That's not splitting hairs, you idiot. That's turning Pangea into seven continents.
I'll turn 70 this year, currently on Medicare for my health insurance, and have paid for it since it's inception in 1965. A sizable amount also comes out of my SS every month ( I'd have to look at how much), and I paid into SS since I was 13. So there is a difference between Medicare for those my age and healthcare for all, other peoples money will only go so far.
BTW, even as it stands now, Medicare isn't sustainable.
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Medicare isn’t sustainable as it stands now, neither is private health insurance that outpaces inflation.
and why is that? certainly a brilliant mind such as the one you have collecting dust between your ears would allow you to divulge such petty information to us lower-knowledge individuals.
please, the floor is yours.
Poll: Confidence in Anthony Fauci Decreased 42.2% in Past Year
Confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci has decreased 42.2 percent among Americans in the past year, according to a Trafalgar Group survey.
www.breitbart.com
But, but but.....Fauci is our single source of truth, a man you can rely upon for wisdom and never-wavering stances on health-related issues.
I'm stunned. STUNNED
I'm waiting for HypoFlog's next foray into "I am right, you are wrong" on this issue.
Floggy: Socialized Medicine = Medicare
In other news, Floggy believe a baseball bat is an assault weapon and Cheetos are meat products.
Paying for membership here is worth every penny for the entertainment.
If you were not such an absolute dullard, you might be interested in why that is.*
* Hint: Look at the price of prescription medication in the United States vs. the rest of the world, the effort by Trump to change that, the immediate quashing of that effort by Biden, the number of politicians (both parties, chief) who are on the healthcare lobby payroll, the costs of preventative medicine in the United States designed to prevent lawsuits.
"Gee, why don't politicians do something as basic as tell pharmaceutical companies that Americans are not going to pay four or five times as much for the same drug as Canadians?"
Oh, you mean like the Trump executive order in July of 2020 ordering limits on the amounts pharmaceutical companies could charge for Epi-pens and insulin, and the September 13, 2020 executive order limiting the prices the companies could charge Americans compared to other nations?
Trump Says Executive Order Will Drop the Price of Insulin Down to Pennies a Day
President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Friday aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, the first of which will lead to the cost of insulin dropping to “just pennies a day.”
www.cnsnews.com
Trump Signs New Executive Order On Prescription Drug Prices
The order, which would include Medicare parts B and D, replaces a previous order the president signed in July, but the move is unlikely to have any immediate practical impact.
www.npr.org
Executive orders which Beijing Joe, Basement Boy, Dementia patient, and receiver of vast donations from the pharmaceutical industry, revoked??
Fact check: Biden administration delays implementation of Trump rule on insulin, EpiPens
The Trump executive order on the cost of insulin and EpiPens at community health centers isn't being reversed, as some claim. The rule is on hold.
www.usatoday.com
Biden Kills Trump Executive Orders Designed to Lower Drug Prices For Americans Including Insulin
On Thursday, President Biden’s US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) killed off Trump executive orders that were designed
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Open up purchasing insurance across state lines, make them compete for the business, you know, capitalism.
I was wondering when you were gonna break that out again. Now if it was just wearing like 5 masks waving around Covid Vaccine literature (with empty pages), it'd be perfect.
Well sombitch.....looky here. Ain't this just rich as chocolate pudding? @Troglodyte and @Tibs told us all, this virus came from a bat, Fauci is innocent, no way it came from a lab. Said Ron Johnson was a flaming idiot Conspiracy theorist. Said anyone suggesting this dang virus came from a lab was a tinhoil-hat wearing looney.
Now, even the Deacon of their Church of Leftism is saying this **** prolly didn't jump from a bat to a human....that is was ENG-uh-NEERED.
Sure gotta be tough bein' a Liberal...always screaming yelling 'bout yer beliefs, only to have science and truth proves those beliefs wrong over and over again. Yet they never seem to be apologetic, them pruhgressives. They just get worse with their dumb *** convictions, like 59 genders and stuff.
Fauci, folks, is done. 100% of his credibility now gone.
www.foxnews.com
Now, even the Deacon of their Church of Leftism is saying this **** prolly didn't jump from a bat to a human....that is was ENG-uh-NEERED.
Sure gotta be tough bein' a Liberal...always screaming yelling 'bout yer beliefs, only to have science and truth proves those beliefs wrong over and over again. Yet they never seem to be apologetic, them pruhgressives. They just get worse with their dumb *** convictions, like 59 genders and stuff.
Fauci, folks, is done. 100% of his credibility now gone.
Fauci 'not convinced' COVID-19 developed naturally
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is "not convinced" COVID-19 developed naturally, and called for an open investigation into the virus' origins.
www.foxnews.com
The cure is worse than the virus
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More Than a Third of California Restaurants That Closed for the COVID Lockdown Will Stay Closed Forever
More than one-third of California's 76,000 eating establishments will never open their doors again and reopening the rest will prove to be difficult.
pjmedia.com
you also need to fully understand that India is one of the nastiest places on the planet.
their hygiene makes Ark look like he just showered
I was sooooooooooooo hoping you'd pick up on that. Thanks!!!!
Nancy Pelosi Visits San Francisco's Chinatown Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco’s Chinatown Monday to send a message. She said there’s no reason tourists or locals should be staying away from the area because of coronavirus concerns.
Fact-check: Did Biden call Trump 'xenophobic' for China travel restrictions?
This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on March 27, 2020.Amid criticism of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,
Yeah. India is filthy