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Friday News Roundup: Musk Shames Bezos, Whitmer Shames Herself and de Blasio is Just a Giant Shame
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 06/05/2020 5:25:19 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

Elon Musk confronts Jeff Bezos: Bezos blinks. – Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter who has done yeoman’s work on Twitter exposing all the massive false information that has been spread about the Wuhan Virus by the government and the corrupt news media. His information has been quoted here many times over the past few months.

Berenson has just published a new book exposing these merchants of disinformation, titled “Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns”:

Early yesterday, Amazon blocked Berenson’s book from being marketed on its site, citing non-existent “standards” that it does not apply anywhere else. Basically, Berenson was being blocked because his book does not conform to the propaganda being pushed by China and the WHO.

Berenson complained about it on Twitter, where Musk has obviously been following him. Musk responded by tweeting, “This is insane, @JeffBezos,” and “Time to break up @Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!”

Within a few hours, Amazon suddenly restored Berenson’s book to its platform, and a spokesman lamely explained that it had been block due to an “error.” Yeah, sure.

Generalissimo Gretchen Whitmer again violates her own edicts. – Gretchen Whitmer, the aspiring banana republic dictator and barber-hater who currently serves as Governor in Michigan, has apparently decided that all of her stay-at-home and social distancing nonsense is completely optional.

On Thursday, she made that clear by doing this:

Governor Gretchen Whitmer ✔ @GovWhitmer Today, we marched.

For George. For Ahmaud. For Breonna.

I will never be able to fully understand the pain that Black and Brown communities are forced to bear, but I will spend my life fighting for the justice and peace that everyone deserves.

View image on Twitter 21.7K 3:59 PM - Jun 4, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 5,784 people are talking about this So, if you’re a protester or a looter or a rioter in Michigan, hey, no worries about all that social distancing and staying-at-home stuff! Frau Gretchen was just kidding.

He’s gone full AOC. Not a good look, Joe. – Joe Biden told a group of climate alarmists yesterday that he’s going all-in on the Green New Deal as a means of not just saving the earth, but also to solve all the problems of racial injustice.

No, I’m not kidding. From a report at the Washington Examiner:

In a virtual fundraiser on Thursday afternoon hosted by Climate Leaders for Biden, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate said addressing climate change is urgent “not just to stop the earth from warming, but to address the environmental injustices that have left so many low-income people and people of color more vulnerable to the coronavirus, to asthma and other respiratory problems, the effects of pollution,” according to a pool report.

Biden also touched on mass unemployment due to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, saying that “creating millions, over 10 million good-paying jobs” while investing in clean energy is “an enormous opportunity to rebuild the backbone of this country.”

Addressing “a stimulus to create clean energy jobs that will spur the economic recovery,” Biden said that, “I think that we’re on our way, and we can be on our way to a significant economic recovery, not just to build back but to build back better. Building back what we had before this crisis is not enough.”

“Invest in jobs and the technology of the future,” Biden said. “The clean energy infrastructure is at the very top of the list.”

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This is all Church of Climate Change dogma straight out of the Green New Deal, a collection of mindless shibboleths that have no basis in reality. But hey, Biden himself is out of touch with reality most days, so what else would we expect from him?

He’s under-shooting here. – Biden created a media kerfuffle for himself on Thursday at another event at which he was speaking to minority supporters. From a New York Times Report:

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. told a group of black supporters on Thursday night that most Americans were good people who think the nation can be improved, while also declaring that “there are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people.”

Mr. Biden offered his estimate during remarks in which he spoke about the importance of a president setting a positive example for the nation on racial issues. He accused President Trump of dividing the country while pledging that, as president, he would not.

“The words a president says matter, so when a president stands up and divides people all the time, you’re going to get the worst of us to come out,” Mr. Biden said during the discussion, which was moderated by the actor Don Cheadle.

“Do we really think this is as good as we can be as a nation? I don’t think the vast majority of people think that,” the former vice president said. “There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people, but that’s not who we are. The vast majority of the people are decent, and we have to appeal to that and we have to unite people — bring them together. Bring them together.”

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Naturally, Biden’s critics jumped on the “10 to 15 percent” remark as if it is some sort of “basket of deplorables” moment, but that’s not going to fly. I doubt there is anyone in the United States who doesn’t believe that at least 15% of the population of this or any other country are “just not very good people.” If anything, Biden is underestimating here.

If you’re looking for ways to take Biden’s campaign out, look elsewhere because this cat don’t flush.

Hey, 2/3rds of them voted for the guy. – I found this incident to be highly ironic:

Breitbart News ✔ @BreitbartNews New York City hates De Blasio https://trib.al/xUqT2vV

Crowd Boos Bill de Blasio at George Floyd Vigil: 'Get the F*ck Out of Here' The crowd booed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during his appearance at Thursdays’s vigil for George Floyd, with some hurling expletives.

breitbart.com 854 6:42 AM - Jun 5, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 420 people are talking about this From the Breitbart piece:

The crowd booed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) during his appearance at Thursdays’s vigil for George Floyd, with some hurling expletives, demanding the Democrat politician to “get the f*ck out of here!”

While Rev. Kevin McCall urged the crowd to treat de Blasio with respect, the mayor did not receive an overwhelmingly warm welcome, as the audience inundated his appearance with boos and shouts of “get the fuck out of here,” “f*ck the mayor’s curfew,” and “shut the f*ck up.” Some reportedly turned their backs to the mayor:

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s speech at the memorial for George Floyd in Brooklyn was met with boos and jeers, despite requests from organizers for the crowd not to do so.

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Let’s be honest here: New Yorkers get what they deserve in a mayor. In the 2013 election, they elected this giant Marxist boob over his Republican opponent by a margin of 73% to 24%. When he ran for re-election in 2017, after four years of abject failure and rampant nit-wittery, these same New York City voters gave him another four-year term by a margin of 67% to 28%.

According to NYC law, de Blasio is now term-limited out, but the reality is that if he could run for a third term, the very same people who tried to boo him off the stage on Thursday would overwhelmingly re-elect him again for the simple fact that he would have a “D” next to his name.

There is a word for the process of doing the same stupid thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. That word is “insanity,” and it perfectly describes the voter of New York City and other major cities that have been controlled by Democrat machine politics for many decades.

That is all.


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1 posted on 06/05/2020 5:25:19 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

If there were ever a candidate for a vasectomy and a hysterectomy it would be deblowjob and his lesbian wife. These two have defective gene pools in their own right. Maybe their parents should have visited planned parenthood. Mankind has been infected with a world wide health EMERGENCY, MENTAL ILLNESS


2 posted on 06/05/2020 5:29:18 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (I WILL NOT KNEEL)
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To: EyesOfTX
Berenson complained about it on Twitter, where Musk has obviously been following him. Musk responded by tweeting, “This is insane, @JeffBezos,” and “Time to break up @Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!”

Within a few hours, Amazon suddenly restored Berenson’s book to its platform, and a spokesman lamely explained that it had been block due to an “error.” Yeah, sure.

I am so tired of leftists, when caught and called out, claiming an "error", "glitch", "mistake" or some other obvious BS. Nobody is buying it.

3 posted on 06/05/2020 5:33:22 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: EyesOfTX

I wonder if idiots from other states and cities really think it’s a 100% vote for a Democrat? :-) you people seem inept to enough to think so. The word voter is used too. As if 100% of the people count as one vote.

If we decide to stay you call us idiots. No, that would be a coward. This is my home I’m not leaving.

People running like b****** is the reason these places are predominantly Democrat.

I don’t care what the South or the Midwest is like. That’s not my home. New York is my state and Staten island is by borough and I’m staying.

I will fight to get this district seat back to R, even with Asians and Russians killing us in the Brooklyn part of this district.

Ask for Elon musk. Who knew he was one of the good guys? That’s a good thing


4 posted on 06/05/2020 5:33:29 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: EyesOfTX

HA!!! In other news the US added 2.5 million payrolls and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3%!!!

The media was so cheering for 20%.

This is awesome news!!


5 posted on 06/05/2020 5:34:56 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

tragically, Brits are being betrayed by their “conservative” govt:

3 Jun: Breitbart: Britain Unleashes a Green New Deal to Kill What’s Left of the Economy
by James Delingpole
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has found an ingenious scheme to ensure that Britain never recovers from the economic damage caused by the lockdown: a ‘green industrial revolution’...

There is going to be no escaping this looming disaster, caused by a mass outbreak of green groupthink at virtually every level of the Boris Johnson administration – from Prime Ministerial girlfriends (green activist Carrie Symonds) to key members of the quadrumvirate (Greenest Gove ever), from Prime Ministerial advisors (Dom Cummings) to formerly sound Tory MPs who definitely aren’t any more because they’ve been put on the payroll and have to spout whatever eco bilge they are told to spout.

In the latter category, we can include Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng who, shamingly, can now be heard spouting drivel about how the UK is going to become a ‘world leader in tackling climate change’ by launching a carbon Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Meanwhile, as Western nations choose to hobble their recoveries by burdening their economies with more expensive energy, the Eastern powers, led by China, are heading in the opposite direction.

According to the Times, China is upping its coal usage...

What exactly did Britain do to deserve a Conservative government quite this lumpen, embarrassing and un-Conservative? And given that the Opposition is actually even worse what can we possibly do to save ourselves from this ongoing, slow-motion train wreck of a disaster?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/03/britain-unleashes-green-new-deal-to-kill-whats-left-of-the-economy/


6 posted on 06/05/2020 5:38:54 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

in Australia, public anger forced State premiers to backtrack on approval of BLM protests this weekend, claiming it was hypocritical, with many saying if it’s ok to protest, it’s ok for all Australians to get back to their normal lives, without the heavy restrictions. in New South Wales, so-called “conservative” Premier backflipped and took the Sydney protest to court. we’ll see where this leads.

protest cheer-leaders - taxpayer-funded ABC Australia - and BBC - clearly not on the side of the court!

5 Jun: ABC Australia: NSW Supreme Court bans Sydney Black Lives Matter protest
By Jamie McKinnell, Lily Mayers and Emma Elsworthy
Before the hearing, organisers declared the rally would go ahead regardless of the outcome of the court case.
Justice Fagan acknowledged the rally’s aim was to raise awareness about Indigenous deaths in custody, among other issues.
“There is no doubt that cause is one that is widely supported in the community and with great strength and feeling,” he said...

Greens MP David Shoebridge said the court’s decision was “clearly a disappointing outcome”.
“What this means is that the organisation that was there to make this rally as safe as possible, to ensure that the social distancing was as thorough as possible, that organising can no longer continue,” he said.
“Effectively the police have taken over responsibility for what happens tomorrow out of the hands of the protesters.”
Mr Shoebridge said he would still attend tomorrow to ensure it was “as safe as possible”...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-05/court-rules-sydney-black-lives-protest-unsafe-due-to-coronavirus/12324186

BBC finally noticed no covid crisis in Australia!

5 Jun: BBC: Court bans Australian Black Lives Matter rally over coronavirus
Organisers say they are determined to go ahead with the protest...
Australia has recorded about 7,200 cases of the coronavirus and rapidly flattened its curve since April. There have been no community transmissions in NSW for more than a week...

However, Latona Dungay, whose son David died in prison in 2015, told AFP news agency: “We are going to march if they like it or not, because this is our land and nothing is going to stop any of us.”...

The decision has been criticised by some as an attempt to stifle free speech.
“This is not what’s needed. This needs co-operation and understanding, not force,” said politician David Shoebridge of the Greens party.

In advance of the court ruling, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi commented: “There’s no doubt Covid-19 is dangerous, but so is systemic racism. First Nations people have asked for our support. See you at the rally.”

The state’s police force was criticised earlier this week over the controversial arrest of an Aboriginal teenager in Sydney...

The state recorded four new cases on Friday - all from returned travellers in quarantine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-52931409

in Australia, it’s impossible to separate the climate mob, from the covid mob that a week ago was demanding everyone stay home, from the BLM mob today. same agenda.


7 posted on 06/05/2020 5:48:32 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: EyesOfTX

Thanks for this post! It made my day. FINALLY some common sense is raring its head and putting pressure on these democrat idiots.

God bless Trump and Bezos!


8 posted on 06/05/2020 5:51:53 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: demkicker

Correction - God bless Trump and Musk!!!


9 posted on 06/05/2020 5:52:30 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: EyesOfTX
Governor Gretchen Whitmer ✔ @GovWhitmer Today, we marched.

For George. For Ahmaud. For Breonna.

No mention of Calvin Munerlyn in her virtue-signaling tweet. You would think that the governor of Michigan would have mentioned a black man who was murdered in Flint, Michigan in the time frame during which the other individuals were killed.

Unfortunately; Calvin Munerlyn was killed by another black man with an assist from the murderer's adult son so this killing of a black man does not fit the narrative, and therefore does not matter to the governor, the media or to the other leftists who love to preach to us that "black lives matter".

10 posted on 06/05/2020 6:08:56 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: dp0622

“If we decide to stay you call us idiots. No, that would be a coward. This is my home I’m not leaving.“

I think I know how you feel - last month a FReeper said we Pennsylvanians deserved Wolf, since we were stupid enough to elect him Governor.

The actual quote was “Shove it, PA. You elected the talking anus. Suck up and enjoy the smell.”

In David Blackmon’s defense I think he was referring to the Democrats who robotically vote for Democrats - not the voters as a whole.


11 posted on 06/05/2020 6:12:12 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: dp0622

There was a caller on Rush’s show the other day, and he suggested that NY could flip red if the Republicans had stronger candidates. Fight the good fight, since as you said, NY is your home! I have family out on LI that are conservative and Republican, and I know they share your sentiment.


12 posted on 06/05/2020 6:58:39 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: EyesOfTX

The Mayor’s name is Warren Wilhelm?

Wilhelm KLINK ran a better Stalag.


13 posted on 06/05/2020 8:37:28 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

14 posted on 06/05/2020 10:00:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Berenson has just published a new book exposing these merchants of disinformation, titled "Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns": Early yesterday, Amazon blocked Berenson's book from being marketed on its site, citing non-existent "standards" that it does not apply anywhere else. Basically, Berenson was being blocked because his book does not conform to the propaganda being pushed by China and the WHO. Berenson complained about it on Twitter, where Musk has obviously been following him. Musk responded by tweeting, "This is insane, @JeffBezos," and "Time to break up @Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!" Within a few hours, Amazon suddenly restored Berenson's book to its platform, and a spokesman lamely explained that it had been block due to an "error." Yeah, sure.

15 posted on 06/05/2020 10:02:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: EyesOfTX
“This is insane, @JeffBezos,” and “Time to break up @Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Within a few hours, Amazon suddenly restored Berenson’s book to its platform, and a spokesman lamely explained that it had been block due to an “error.” Yeah, sure.

Nice to see our people are fighting back...

16 posted on 06/05/2020 1:51:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (The black community needs sensitivity training - it's insensitve to burn citie down.)
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