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I wrote last week about how leftist elites engage in Logomancy, the Renaissance superstition that manipulating words can hand them power over reality. I was speaking then about how the same media that called the Coronavirus “the Wuhan Flu” a couple of months ago now refuse to use such phrases. The memo went out that talk like that is “racist” and they obeyed. In the 1930s, Communist Party agents in Hollywood studios would do something similar. They’d run new movie scripts by their handlers in Moscow, and edit them as ordered. (Ever wonder what the “Hollywood Ten” refused to testify...

A man called in a bomb threat to the Orlando Police Department late Tuesday, threatening to blow up the agency’s headquarters and other nearby buildings because people are being “put... out of work” due to the coronavirus crisis, an arrest report said. Justin Demorea Black, 28, faces charges of false report of a bombing and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. Police did not find any explosives when they arrested him, according to the report. Police said a caller dialed 911 about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday — about two hours after Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings...

A Florida man diagnosed with coronavirus claims he was saved from certain death by an anti-malaria drug touted as a possible treatment by President Trump. Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York. Doctors at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet. After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could...

A Florida man was arrested last week for causing almost $70,000 in damage to a neighbor's home after putting a water hose through a broken window, police say. Jonathan Babij, 37, of Ocala city, was detained by deputies from the Marion County Sheriff's Office on February 27 and hit with multiple felony charges related to incidents that took place during 2019. In a media release, police confirmed the suspect has a dozen prior theft convictions. Inmate records posted online suggested that Babij has since posted the required $14,000 bond. His latest arrest was first reported by local media outlet WGFL....

A Florida man diagnosed with coronavirus claims he was saved from certain death by an anti-malaria drug touted as a possible treatment by President Trump. Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in New York.

Florida man was arrested and charged with felony theft after he was allegedly caught using a garbage can to sneak 66 rolls of toilet paper out of a Marriott hotel. Angel Esteban Hernandezcinto, 31, was arrested in the early morning hours of Thursday after police responded to security guard Yamil Egipciaco's call complaining that a man was stealing toilet paper from the hotel. At 1:30 a.m., the guard said he was on regular patrols when he noticed suspicious activity from Hernandezcinto, according to an arrest affidavit. "Yamil saw Angel pushing a trash can toward his Honda van," the arresting officer...

Don’t expect to argue before a Florida state jury in the next two weeks, as all jury trials have been suspended over coronavirus fears. The suspension includes all grand jury proceedings, jury selection, criminal and civil jury trials, according to an order from Chief Justice Charles T. Canady, which encouraged judges to conduct proceedings electronically where possible...

VIDEO Wow! Roland Martin really really does NOT like Candace Owens as he made clear in this video. What set off this rant by Martin was the fact that Owens broke the Andrew Gillum story in which the former gubernatorial candidate was found naked in a Miami Beach hotel room with a gay male escort and three bags of meth. Martin claimed that Owens just "made up some crap" despite the fact that Owens based her story on a police report. Meanwhile Gillum has gone the expected rehab route to supposedly treat his alcoholism but, in reality, to get...

According to Tallahassee Reports , a news publication based out of Andrew Gillum’s hometown where he served as Mayor from 2014-2018, bodycam footage of law enforcement officers entering the meth fueled orgy where a self-identified pornstar and Andrew Gillum were found does in fact exist.TGP spent yesterday covering the leak of a police report detailing how Gillum and two other men were found in varying intoxicated states, including Travis Dyson, who appeared to have suffered an overdose from crystal meth.Andrew Gillum was named in a police report that involved baggies of crystal meth and two other men in Miami Beach hotel room...

An FMPD K-P unit located the suspect hiding in a chicken coop behind a nearby home.A man who jumped off a balcony while running from the police is found guilty of obstructing an officer without violence and possession of a controlled substance. Last July, Fort Myers police officers arrived at an apartment complex on Central Avenue in Downtown Fort Myers to investigate a fight, according to a report from the State Attorney's Office. One officer was talking with Jeremy Jamal Moore and gathering his information when he suddenly ran and jumped off a third-floor balcony. When Moore hit the ground,...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/report-alleged-male-escort-involved-in-andrew-gillum-crystal-meth-party/

Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) was allegedly involved in a suspected crystal meth incident on Friday morning at a Miami Beach hotel, according to a local police report. The Miami Beach Police Department report states officers found Gillum inside a West Avenue hotel room with two other men shortly before 1:00 a.m., where first responders were providing medical attention to one of the individuals for a possible drug overdose. “Mr. Gillum was unable to communicate with officers due to his inebriated state,” according to the report.

SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA—A missing person alert has been issued for an elderly man wandering down a highway in Florida. The man was spotted early this morning near a freeway off ramp trying to get better reception on his rainbow trout.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/03/05/gov-ron-desantis-to-make-major-announcement/

Diver spotted shark off Riviera BeachHow did you say Happy Valentine's Day to your significant other this year? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? A dozen red roses? A romantic candlelit dinner? A day of pampering at the spa? A Viera man has most of us beat, at least on unique style points. Jim Cocci named a shark after his wife, Colleen, News 6 partner Florida Today reported. ThatÂ’s right. A great white shark, no less. Tuesday, Cocci and 10 other divers were on a group charter with WalkerÂ’s Dive Charters out of Riviera Beach. On their second dive of the...

A man who felt like he was being ignored set his hospital bed on fire while another patient was in the room in an attempt to get a nurse’s attention, according to the New Smyrna Beach Police Department. According to authorities, John King admitted to setting a plastic bag on fire on Saturday because he felt the AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach staff were ignoring his request to bring him his clothes and he believed that the fire would get their attention. King’s roommate in the hospital explained to officials that he had seen King light a small object on fire,...

A Marion County man is facing charges for allegedly lighting eight Molotov cocktails outside the Department of Children and Families office in Ocala back in November, according to authorities. According to new court records, Tommy Holt had 18 different interactions with DCF and his five children had been taken away from him before showing up with the homemade firebombs.(snip) Sunny Patel, an eyewitness to the situation back in November, said she remembers seeing Holt hanging outside an Ocala gas station, begging others and even convincing another customer to buy him a 12-pack of Bud Light. “It was early morning, I...

In Broward County, a guard assigned to an elementary school leaves a loaded gun in his locked office. Near Orlando, a safe-school officer sends a nude video of herself to her husband from a school bathroom while on her lunch break. In Hillsborough County, a school guardian accidentally fires a bullet through a bathroom mirror while practicing for a firearms certification test.

MIAMI, FL—Florida man Clint Cooper has obeyed all state and federal laws and generally stayed out of trouble. He has not fired any guns in his backyard and hit random strangers with .22 caliber bullets. He hasn't attacked a McDonald's employee or hit his dad with a pizza for helping give birth to him. He hasn't murdered any ex-girlfriends in an attempt to get rid of the devil or driven his Ferrari 360 into the ocean at top speed. He had no syringes hidden anywhere on his person and was not arrested in an argument over a cheesesteak. Additionally, he...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reacted Tuesday to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., praising some aspects of the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba -- a regime which some of his relatives escaped in order to seek a new life in the U.S. Rubio said on "Hannity" that Sanders has "gotten away with -- for years -- saying that he's a socialist. He's actually not a socialist, he's a Marxist ... and Marxism is based on the belief that no person has any value as an individual. Your value is that you're a member of a class. Second, Marxism is based on the...