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You can’t acknowledge he’s a lying sack of ****.

I am speaking of Blatham. He has proven himself to be a liar extraordinaire. I have no problem whatsoever acknowledging that.

Doesn't matter who says it. You can't acknowledge he's a lying sack of ****.

I am speaking of Blatham. He has proven himself to be a liar extraordinaire. I have no problem whatsoever acknowledging that.

It shows how weak you are.

'Why No One Trusts Media': NYT Reporters Circulate Misleading Trump Quote on Wuhan Coronavirus

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It shows how weak you are.

Three years of attacking Trump on absolutely anything and he is still standing. Who is weak?

So go on that dream cruise you've always wanted to go on, CJ!

It isn’t easy to find any bright spots amid our ongoing slide into failed-state status, but here’s one: Far more Americans trust the news media than trust President Trump to tell them the truth about our coronavirus crisis.

A new poll from NPR, PBS News Hour and Marist finds that only 37 percent of Americans have a good deal of trust in the information Trump tells them about coronavirus. By contrast, 60 percent have little to no trust.

Meanwhile, the poll also finds that 50 percent have a good deal of trust in the news media’s information about the disease, versus 47 percent who lack trust. That’s not ideal, to be sure, but it’s good that far more trust the media than trust Trump.

I’d like to suggest that a great deal is at stake here. Our national response to a crisis with extraordinarily far-reaching destructive potential is more or less under the control of a megalomaniac who, with the eager backing of his media allies, vastly prioritizes protecting his reelection chances over protecting the country.

Some important new reporting helps underscore these stakes. The Post reports that Trump propagandists like Sean Hannity have stampeded in herd-like fashion from initially attacking the media for supposedly hyping coronavirus to claiming its dire nature actually displays Trump’s heroism.

Such attacks on the media have been central to the broader project of protecting Trump’s reelection chances at all costs. First Trump and his propagandists accused the media of exaggerating the threat to protect his initial instinct to downplay it himself, all to avoid rattling the markets, to buoy his reelection hopes.

Then, when it became obvious the crisis was very serious indeed, Trump attacked the media to discredit its aggressive reporting on his failure to respond to it competently and with urgency. And now, Trump’s propagandists are supplanting that reporting with their own narrative — one in which the very same crisis they previously downplayed now showcases Trump’s decisive and “bold” leadership...

Could add Wal Mart to this equation too.

Stacy Mitchell
@stacyfmitchell
Collapsing our distribution system to a single pipeline called Amazon is very risky & deeply damaging to the economy.

For one, it means Amazon is effectively regulating our commerce, like a government.

In a competitive market, there would be other channels of distribution.
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Vox
@voxdotcom
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Amazon is banning some non-essential items during the coronavirus pandemic

Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
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The global system is going to be very different after this crisis. The world is not flat. And it looks like China is gearing up for major hostilities, though hopefully not military ones.
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Melissa Chan
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China appears to be kicking out ALL American reporters for NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. Including those in Hong Kong (no longer two systems eh?)

As always, LL has no clue what she's talking about. Hong Kong ostensibly has a separate system of governance from that of mainland China. (Hint LL, Hong Kong is an island.)

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk cavalierly. On Tuesday he took to the White House podium and made a remarkable pronouncement: He knew it was a pandemic all along.

“I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters.

Here is what Mr. Trump actually said from the beginning of the pandemic.

Jan. 22, asked on CNBC whether he was concerned about a global pandemic: “No, not at all,’’ Mr. Trump said. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

Feb. 26, at a White House news conference, about the number of reported cases of the virus: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”

Feb. 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

March 7, seated next to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., club: “I’m not concerned at all.” (At least three members of the Brazilian delegation and one Trump donor at Mar-a-Lago on March 7 later tested positive for the virus.)

March 16, in the White House briefing room, warning that the outbreak would last until summer and then suddenly disappear: “So it could be right in that period of time where it, I say, wash — it washes through. Other people don’t like that term. But where it washes through.”

I don't give a rat's ass what you do or don't understand. As for "global," that was mentioned in a different tweet than the one which mentions two different systems. Those tweets were by two different people. Try to pay attention, so that you can keep up with the discussion.