Day: July 15, 2020

On Tuesday, President Trump was asked in an interview with CBS News about why so many African Americans have been killed by the police, and Trump replied, “So are white people!  What a terrible question to ask,” and he added “more white people, by the way, are killed by police.”

But first of all, why was it a “terrible question”?!  Obviously it is an important question, especially due to the events that have been happening during the past few months.

Also, Trump saying that more white people are killed by police is in fact accurate, but he didn’t address the fact that a much higher percentage of black people are killed by the police, and in doing so he made it appear as if he was trying to distort the facts for racist purposes.

The truth of the matter is that all studies show that the police kill all demographics of people in generally equal proportions once crime rates are figured in.  A higher percentage of black people are killed by the police, but they also commit much higher rates of violent crime which puts them in close proximity with police at a much higher rates as well.  See this article which explains those statistics.

Trump’s behavior in the interview fits a classic type of “Trump communication” where what he says is actually technically true, but he intentionally doesn’t explain it properly in order for it to have the maximum divisive effect.  Corrupt leftist media outlets then capitalize on it by harping on what he said to make it seem as bigoted and wrong as possible (as this NPR article does, as was intended to happen by Trump), and conservative outlets almost universally ignore the fact that Trump has said anything at all and simply talk about something else.

[Note: July 17, 2020— For an example of typical corruption of leftist media outlets and NPR in particular, see this article  on NPR entitled “What’s In A Karen” that was running on the same day as the other linked article.  The article intentionally misrepresents the situation of the “Central Park Karen” that happened the previous month.  For the truth about that matter, see this article on Open Minded Realism.]

Trump’s intentionally divisive communication is pure rocket fuel for his leftist opposition such as violent Marxist anti-freedom groups like BLM and Antifa, and it gives Joe Biden’s corrupt campaign a hefty boost.  The NPR article also mentions studies that say that two-thirds of Americans said that they disprove of the way Trump handles race relations, and it says that Biden is an average of nine percentage points ahead of Trump.  (Note also that many busy people get their news only from NPR when they listen to the radio in their cars, and in doing so they are being very misinformed about the real problems that are happening in the country.)

Image from Wikipedia.

As corrupt and divisive as Trump’s communication is, he at least purports to be opposed to Establishment corruption.  Hillary would have been an absolutely evil president who would have wholeheartedly embraced the corrupt Establishment and the destruction of the United States, and of course Joe Biden would do the same.

Trump recently said in a press conference at the White House: “[There has] probably never been a time when candidates are so different.  We want law and order; they don’t want law and order.  We want strong closed borders with people able to come in through merit, through a legal process; they don’t want to have any borders at all.”

A Breitbart article details a list of over 40 disastrous things that Joe Biden would do if he was elected president, as drawn up by Trump’s staff based on Biden’s proposals and drawn from a transcript of Trump’s press conference.

Here is the horrific list from the article:

1.  Abolish immigration detention.  No more detention.  You come in here illegally, no more detention.
2.  Stop all deportation.
3.  End prosecution of illegal border crossers.
4.  Support the deadly sanctuary cities.
5.  Incentivize illegal-alien child smuggling.
6.  Expand asylum for all new illegal aliens.
7.  Cancel all asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, Guatemala, with El Salvador.
8.  Taxpayer-funded lawyers will be given to all illegal aliens.
9.  Abolish immigration enforcement against illegal workers.
10.  Restore Catch and Release policies for illegals.
11.  Grant work permits for illegal aliens.
12.  Provide taxpayer subsidies and welfare for illegal aliens and new immigrants.
13.  Federal Student Aid and free community college for illegal aliens.
14.  Sign new immigrants up for welfare immediately.
15.  End requirement for immigrants’ self-sufficiency and maximize their welfare.
16.  End all travel bans, including from jihadist regions.
17.  Grant mass amnesty.
18.  Vastly expand low-skilled immigration to the United States.
19.  Increase refugee admissions by 700 percent.
20.  Abolish law enforcement as we know it.
21.  End cash bail.
22.  Abolish completely the death penalty.
23.  Appoint social justice prosecutors in order to free violent criminals.
24.  End mandatory minimums.
25.  Incentivize prison closure.
26.  End solitary confinement.
27.  Free federal housing for former inmates.
28.  Rejoin Paris Climate Accord.
29.  Mandate net-zero carbon emissions for homes, offices, and all new buildings by 2030.
30.  Mandate zero carbon emissions from power plants by 2035.
31.  Mandate net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
32.  Mandate all 500,000 school buses and all 3 million government vehicles be changed to zero-emission vehicles within five years.
33.  Install 500,000 taxpayer-funded charging stations nationwide.
34.  End school choice.
35.  End tax credit scholarships serving disadvantaged students in 26 states.
36.  Oppose 14 million Americans with education savings accounts and get rid of school choice, having to do with school choice.
37.  Eliminate school choice in Washington, D.C.
38.  Abolish all charter schools.
39.  Ban funding for charter schools in poor neighborhoods.
40.  Abolish educational standards.
41.  Abolish the suburbs with AFFH regulations.
42.  They’re going to rip down the wall.

 

[Note that Trump’s actual policies are generally much better, but they are not nearly as good as most people assume, despite his rhetoric.  For example he has been continuing to import many tens of thousands of unvetted Muslims from jihadist regions despite his supposed “travel ban” and despite the fact that wealthy Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia take NO supposed refugees!  Such “refugees” are chosen by a corrupt UN program and the president of the U.S. has the sole decision of how many to admit, yet Trump has still decided to bring in many tens of thousands!  (And note a “corrupt Obama-appointed judge” didn’t “force Trump to do it”— he has been secretively making that decision for himself every year!  Joe Biden actually ESTABLISHED that program along with Ted Kennedy in 1980 during the Cater administration!)]

This 2017 BBC morning news report is a preview of what the local news will likely eventually be reporting in the U.S. if Joe Biden wins the presidency.

 

Also watch this segment from the video “Creeping Sharia: The Islamization of the West” that explains what happens to societies during their various stages of being replaced by Islamic populations.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.  Image from Wikipedia.

Following is a summary of this AP article:

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing “blistering criticism” over an internal report that claimed a state directive that sent over 6,300 Coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic was “not a significant factor” in some of the deadliest nursing home outbreaks in the United States.

Scientists, health care officials, and elected officials lambasted the report that was released last week for its flawed methodology and selective statistics.

Cuomo, “who has been praised for leadership that helped flatten the curve of infections in New York” has also been criticized over his order that told nursing homes that they could not refuse to accept recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals as long as they were “medically stable,” and his order even barred homes from testing if such patients still had the virus.

The supposed justification for the directive was to “free up hospital beds,” however relatives, patient advocates, and nursing home administrators are saying that it helped spread the virus among the state’s most vulnerable residents.  [And note there was never a shortage of such hospital beds in New York!]

To date, nearly 6,500 deaths have been linked to Coronavirus in the state’s nursing homes, however the 33-page report claims “nursing home admissions from hospitals were not a driver of nursing home infections or fatalities.”

The report claims that the virus’ run through the nursing homes was caused by the 37,500 nursing home workers who became infected between mid-March and early June and unknowingly passed it on, and it says that 80% of of the nursing homes already had a confirmed or suspected case of Coronavirus among its residents or staff before the directive was issued.

Cuomo said in a news conference, “Ugly politics [were behind] this political conspiracy that the deaths in nursing homes were preventable.  And now the report has the facts, and the facts tell the opposite story.”

However, several experts who reviewed the report said it had fatal flaws, including the fact that it never even addressed the effects of his directive.

Catherine Troisi, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas, Houston, said the the report never addressed what happened to the dozens of nursing homes that were COVID-free before people with the virus were sent to them.

Dr. Michael Wasserman, president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, said “They really need to own the fact that they made a mistake, that it was never right to send COVID patients into nursing homes and that people died because of it.”

Denis Nash, an epidemiologist at the City University of New York School of Public Health, noted that the New York nursing home death toll also didn’t include nursing home residents who died at the hospital, which greatly undercounted the virus’ death toll.

New York’s Legislature plans to hold a joint hearing next month, with Republicans in Congress demanding that Cuomo turn over records related to his March 25 order and its effects.

Louisiana U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, Republican leader of a House subcommittee on the COVID crisis, wrote in a letter to Cuomo last week: “Blame-shifting, name-calling and half-baked data manipulations will not make the facts or the questions they raise go away.”

When asked to respond, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, “We’re used to Republicans denying science but now they are screeching about time, space and dates on a calendar to distract from the federal government’s many, many, embarrassing failures.  No one is buying it.”