Darn It

One big trial of hydroxychloroquine with and without azithromycin came up empty.

If Trump is willing to settle for a lay-up rather than a Hail Mary, he should talk up Vitamin D. Its cheap, safe, probably more than half of us have low-ish serum levels of D, and Vitamin D is already a standard recommendation for good health even if it does not specifically help with COVID-19.

Lots here.

Comments

[jimmyk]

Anyway, none of them compare with Drudge in its heyday, but it's an interesting list.

I kind of like (or got used to) the Drudge format, if not the content. I hate pages like Whatfinger that have photos for every story, so you can only see the 8 or 10 they choose to put at the top of the page, and then I have to keep scrolling down. Pro Trump News copies the Drudge format, so that's good. I don't necessarily want biased news one way or the other, but I'd rather have that bias than TDS-infected pages.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I didn't know until this year that Confucius was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
ZH: Here Are All The Chinese "Propaganda" Centers [Confucius Institutes] Currently Operating In The US
I would most definitely not say all. Only the most obvious.

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! Cold and rainy here,at least the snow melted! I took a nap and just now catching up,there are three links to Dov Fischer,so I read his article. Very powerful.
I broke quarantine yesterday. :) I went to Walgreens. Not to worry,I wore a mask.

Mike,LOL.

[Rocco]

Crossfire Hurricane is a repeat of Operation Mockingbird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCfTIapds0

[Tom R]

Rand Paul comment:

Based on the idea that recovering Corona virus patients are developing immunity and that it can be beneficial as donated. Studies show that the recovering covet 19 patients from the asymptomatic to the very sick are showing significant antibody response. Studies show that SARS and MERS also viruses induce immunity for at least two to three years, and yet the media continues to report that we have no evidence that patients who survive coronavirus have immunity. I think actually the truth is the opposite. We have no evidence that survivors of coronavirus don’t have immunity and a great deal of evidence to suggest that they do.

Does SEN Paul's comments indicate there has been a scientific study where those patients who have gotten sick from COVID 19 and survived it have been intentionally re-exposed to the virus and displayed immunity from getting sick again?

[henry]

Brennan used private contractors to unmask.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=387226

Were they based in Bangalore or Wuhan?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Infinite money printing: Fed now buying ETFs

Just when you thought they couldn’t come up with any more crazy ideas, the Federal Reserve announced last night that they will start buying Exchange Traded Funds, effective immediately.

Just to be clear, this means that the Fed is going to conjure money out of thin air, and then use that new money to buy ETFs.

But not just any ETF. The Fed is specifically targeting ETFs that own corporate bonds.

The key idea here is that the Fed is trying to bail out bankrupt companies across the Land of the Free.

[Captain Hate]

Lickspittles are having a good day

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=387226

[lyle]

so a call between Odumbo and Biden should be highly entertaining.

Or depressing...

[Jane]

Jane, the more interesting question about Flynn's bill at Covington is how trivial that $4 million might be when he sues for damages caused by mal-representation and undisclosed conflict of interest if some of those rumors pan out. Too bad we can't all buy stock in that claim.

I wonder if he'll go there OL. They will lose a ton by not being able to represent any of the unmaskers, as well.

[Melinda]

henry-

Chicago and Iowa.

Jack-

GHW Bush declared Project Mockingbird "closed" in the 70s and it wasn't an eavesdrop outfit. It was in the news placement biz.

Ig-

Yes, much talk of the PLAN to buy ETFs, again. Just like a few short months ago.

And yet, they still have bought nothing in that area. Nothing.

[Jack Lillywhite]

You want a legit alternative to Drudge?

Go to Rantburg. It is primarily focused on WOT but pages 3,4,5 And 6 are great aggregators of the rest of the news. The commenters are a lot of ex-grunts of varied services but spit bullets from time to time.

My go to site every morning.

https://rantburg.com/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Here's a somewhat odd story.
A friend from my men's bible study texted a day or two ago to say their dog keeled over and croaked for no apparent reason after several minutes of some type of acute respiratory problem.
He has two teenage sons so their doc instructed the whole family to go to Quest to get Covid antibody tested.

[James D.]

That kind of verbalization is frowned upon here.

Verbing weirds language.

[henry]

Micromanaging everything.

https://www.wisn.com/article/coronavirus-8-wisconsin-shooting-ranges-allowed-to-reopen/32449540

[henry]

Oh crap. A new extreme the rest of the Dems will want to exceed.

@latimes

Breaking: Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1260275851804864512?s=21

[Jack Lillywhite]

An example from rantburg you can’t get anywhere else except the DailyMail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8309017/Horrifying-moment-man-standing-middle-road-run-hit-run-driver.html

Why I love it.

Yes I am a deviant bastard. Sue me😀

[Extraneus]

They think they can keep LA penned up all summer? I bet they can't make it to the end of May.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Isn’t there an old Bob Wills or Waylon Jennings song to not mess with cowboys?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8309981/Thousands-attend-California-rodeo-despite-states-order-against-public-gatherings.html

[henry]

Seattle ftw

@seattletimes

Gov. Jay insole's office has released a set of guidelines that restaurants will have follow to reopen for dining room service. It includes “a daily log of customers and maintain that daily log for 30 days, including telephone/email contact information."

[henry]

https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1260072515004780544?s=21

Forgot the link

[Dave (in MA)]

Jack's clip with no editing and the annoying DailyMail moving crap around on the screen to make sure you won't want to visit often.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=kmUHw_1589202432

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Waylon Jennings advised mommas against letting their babies grow up to be cowboys, which isn't quite the same thing.

[henry]

Then Newsome with a slam of moar regulation to reopen, assisted by local government pile ones.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/coronavirus-california-offices-can-reopen-with-modifications-malls-can-offer-curbside-pickup.html?

ID to grab a hamburger, but not to vote.

[Jack Lillywhite]

So, iggy, why isn’t that the same thing? What I posted?

[Rocco]

In Dave's 4:30, note how the guy filming pans over to the left and films the vehicle approaching the pedestrian. How did he know that car was going to hit the pedestrian?

[Melinda]

henry-

There has to be a bill submission to Congress to open in CA, because you and I both know it's not free free.

[Melinda]

"I forgot."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-emory-university-professor-and-chinese-thousand-talents-participant-convicted-and

[anonamom]

As of a few days ago, I would appreciate it if people would start using 65+ rather than 60+ to refer to the elderly or vulnerable. :)

The medical stuff has risk starting at 55!!!

[henry]

I can’t drive 55

[Threadkiller]

SWC:

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/05/12/the-one-where-wittes-and-jurecic-ask-moderately-legitimate-questions-probably-because-the-atlantic-insisted-on-it.

[Dave (in MA)]

"Jay insole" 😜

IowaHawk's response to that,

David Burge@iowahawkblog·
To me, Americans have always seemed to be fairly thoughtful law-abiding citizens, but I guess that was before the State Ministry of Emergency Calvinball began issuing daily walking & breathing rules

[Neo]

My local TGIFridays took down their marquee today.

[Dave (in MA)]

How did he know that car was going to hit the pedestrian?

It wasn't unlikely.

[Pinandpuller]

You want to know how dumb people are? DA Jackie Johnson recused herself from the Aubrey case, OK? People on social media are saying she’s a racist who hates Black people because she refuses to be involved in a case where she is biased towards the DEFENDANTS.

[Jane]

Why did Lou Dobbs move to 5:00?

[Dave (in MA)]

RG has been tweeting his ass off about the Arbrey shooting. He even got a "Yike" from TM.

[Threadkiller]

Here is a doozy from SWC. Complete with a shout out to Sammy Finkleman who comments regularly at Patterico’s.

https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/05/12/very-likely-judge-emmet-sullivan-committed-error-in-connection-with-flynn-sentencing

Fresh off the digital press.

[sbwaters]

I have it!

The answer to contact tracing. Everyone will carry around an old style library card and a personal stamp.

Every time you get within six feet of someone you get to collect their personal stamp.

We could have contests on length of card or ingenuity of stamp design.

I tell you people would want to get back together again just for the sport!

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane, FoxBiz shows him at both 5 and 7.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

A song to not mess with cowboys is presumably warning strangers, mostly men presumably, not to tangle with cowboys because they're tough guys.

Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys which I think Willie Nelson actually wrote was a warning to mommas that her son would be different and lonely and have a difficult time so he ought to be a doctor or a lawyer instead.

[Narciso]

Yes mockingbird was a similar pattern re george town aet bet sympathetic reporters like stew alsop operatives like wisner and politicians like say jfk operated in the same circles

[Dave (in MA)]

Athletic social distancing:
https://www.facebook.com/debbie.foreman.503/videos/10218376673511598/

[Melinda]

California Rep. Maxine Waters has confirmed that her sister died after contracting the coronavirus.

SO CLOSE….

(I unashamedly stole that.)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I got a better answer to contact tracing. Everyone carries around a shotgun.
Sure as shooting people will keep their distance and be polite about it. there won't be any contact and there won't have to be any tracing.

The ones that don't abide by the rules will not die of covid.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I love RG even when he's wrong.
When he's right, as he is about Arbery, I love him even more.

[Melinda]

Ig-

But they can't register you to vote that way!

[Narciso]

That will leave a mark

[Jack Lillywhite]

Wow, Iggy

That is some interruption I have never saw before.

Just say disagree.

[henry]

I’m sure they expect students to pay full price (illegals free as always)

@ABC7

#BREAKING California State University campuses to remain closed through fall semester, affecting 23 universities

https://twitter.com/abc7/status/1260306956255817729?s=21

[Narciso]

Sounds like deja vu all over again:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RattlerGator/status/1260289337465470976

[Melinda]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8301955/Venezuela-regime-publicly-exposed-American-mercenaries-plan-month-failed-coup.html

Almost as if it were staged, or something....

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Just say disagree.--

That's OK, JiB. Disagreement is what makes the world go round.

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://babalublog.com/page/2/

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I suppose I should say "Shame on you!" but she is one of the most obnoxious people in Congress.

I second the "So close..." comment.

[Narciso]

The good prosecutor isnt amused by someone (else) pointing out his category error

[Threadkiller]

The Yellow Loon is bouncing off the blog walls because a couple of regulars have posted separate SWC Redstate links. Warnings and threats are flying!

This could be what I have been waiting for. Total loss of control.

Unfortunately the most recent SWC link hasn’t been posted and it has the shout-out to one of Yellow Loon’s more prolific posters. I am too chicken to post it there.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Iggy,

The willie Nelson comment, not rhe others,so we are synched.

[Extraneus]

California State University campuses to remain closed through fall semester,

Insane.

[henry]

Ext, the shutdown virtue signal “hold my beer” event has no end date.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Cool, JiB.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

TK,
Just got done reading SWC's latest.
I actually felt a bit sorry for Wittes and his accomplice.
I see SWC is a defense attorney now. Would love to see him and Patti-reak-o on opposite sides of a case.

[Jane]

Yeah Dave I thought so because I've been watching him at 7:00 but hearing he's on at 5:00.

I'm watching him now. No one - NO ONE is better at talking about the stuff I want to hear about (Obamagate) and he has the best guests every single night.

Oh and did you hear the latest about Lindsay Graham. He says there is no reason for the Senate to call either Obama or Biden as witnesses.

He needs a republican opponent for the election. He sucks.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sorry "reek-o".

[Narciso]

Oh they arrested abdel bary the wannabe islamic state beattle in spain two weeks ago.

[Narciso]

Dejavu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/spanish-police-fbi-radical-islamic-terror-plot-barcelona.amp

[Pinandpuller]

sbwaters

Everyone here should be old enough to remember autograph books.

[Extraneus]

I still say the shutdown Dems haven't thought this through.

For example, do they think Elon Musk is a Republican? The guy's threatening to move his plant to Texas. What are the chances he'd vote for a Dem this November?

They're creating Trump voters. California could even be in play this year.

[Jack Lillywhite]

Jane,

Who, are you referring to in your post above?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Newsome did defend Musk, so at least one of them isn't completely nuts.

[Jack Lillywhite]

ISIS, is by the way tanking for the CoVid19 diversion.

[Jane]

"Who, are you referring to in your post above?"

The guests? Sydney Powell, John Soloman, Donald Trump jr, and a guy who I know (expert on China) whose name I can't recall.

[MissMarple2]

Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
·
7h
Giuliani: What Comey, Brennan Orchestrated ‘as Close to Treason as You Can Get‘

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So officially CA is in Phase 2 which as far as I can tell doesn't mean a whole lot.
However counties without many cases can attest to their worthiness and the Sac empire will allow accelerated Phase 2 stuff like sitdown restaurants that allow half the fire marshal rating or seat every other table and most retail can reopen.

Since we have had 8 cases which are all recovered I hope we can be good enough little boys and girls to keep the feudalists in Sac happy.

[Melinda]

Hypocrites.

https://twitter.com/vogler79/status/1257358666459746305

[Jane]

It was treason - which is probably why Trump wouldn't name the crime at last nights presser aand they all went after him. I'm beside myself about it!

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I have a new financial instrument for the Feds to buy.

I call them International Overdraft Units. I can issue them in various currencies and market them in Euros, dollars or bitcoin.

They will be used to purchase appropriate real estate and be secured through a series of Cayman Island, Panamanian and Bermudan banks.

Any takers? Paging Messers Powell and Mnuchin.

Honest, it's a sure thing.

[Extraneus]

Well the Tesla employees are probably paying close attention, since they know they're not all moving to Texas.

And what will all the students do in LA? Get jobs at Walmart or Home Depot? Stay home with mom and dad?

Republican states will be wide open before the start of the Fall semester, and large gatherings will return.

Hmmm...

Maybe they're afraid of Trump holding rallies in blue states?

[Jack Lillywhite]

Rudy should know. I agree.

#4 or MoreWeeks.

[Melinda]

Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory

By David Harsanyi, May 12, 2020 5:46 PM

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/trump-russia-investigation-obamagate-not-conspiracy-theory/

[D]

Jane:
Pillsbury.
Loved how Dobbs said what kind of Senate Judiciary chairman says up front who he is NOT going to call to testify.
In this case Biden and Barack.

[Melinda]

Graham said he saw no need to call iBama.

That's a qualified statement if I've ever heard one.

[D]

I am very happy that the people responsible for the attempted coup are being held up to the public as lying, treasonous characters.
Let’s take some law licenses and let’s kick out of Congress any co-conspirators. Anyone not already fired has to give back their pension and face criminal charges.

[Dave (in MA)]

People are apparently only comfortable with accusations of "treason" when it's not true.

[Melinda]

Megan Mineiro
@MMineiro_CNS
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan responds with a lengthy order to DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn prosecution and quotes the judge on Roger Stone's case. Order states that "at the appropriate time" he will set a schedule for the submission of any amicus curiae briefs. @CourthouseNews

https://twitter.com/MMineiro_CNS/status/1260329588170862594

[henry]

Dave, not so much “not true” as only upset by treason versus the Comintern. Treason against the U S Constitution is righteous to them.

[henry]

Sullivan went full Patterico?

[henry]

“No analogous rule in the Local Criminal Rules”

There is a reason for that dumbass.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Treason: the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

Sedition: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

Do we have a twofer?

[Rocco]

Lindsey Graham does suck.

It wasn't just Democrats amping up the pressure. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said a special prosecutor should be appointed if investigators find any evidence of wrongdoing by the Trump campaign, adding that Sessions should recuse himself from any investigation into contacts between the campaign and Russia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170302051151/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597">https://web.archive.org/web/20170302051151/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597

And who was the first person McCain showed the dossier to, Graham.

[Extraneus]

From the Hirsanyi piece:

It is not conspiracy-mongering to note that the investigation into Trump was predicated on an opposition-research document filled with fabulism and, most likely, Russian disinformation.

SMH. Everyone should suspect by now that the Russian disinfo angle is just prep for legal defenses.

"Your honor and members of the jury, my client - a devoted husband and father - after many years of exemplary service in high positions of responsibility, was simply carrying out his duty to protect America and all that she stands for. If, in his zeal, he was fooled by the clever ex-KGB agent Putin's disinformation, he apologizes unreservedly. But he was doing his job faithfully, and political thoughts were the farthest thing from his mind."

Drop the disinfo angle is my advice, and that was Lee Smith's idea, not mine.

[Another Bob]

Sullivan is being an immature jerk.

[Rocco]

Again

https://web.archive.org/web/20170302051151/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597">https://web.archive.org/web/20170302051151/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597

[Rocco]

Well that's frustrating, the archived link worked in preview.

[Captain Hate]

If DOJ doesn't think charging someone serves the interests of justice and dismisses the charges, that's all she wrote.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2020 06:42 PM (ZLI7S)

He is allowed a jurist differentiation on this point, he is a federal district court judge and not a some local county or state court jurist - but his career is over at that point and he'll get a sharp rebuke that would be a professional embarrassment at the appellate level - its crazy to think that any judge would go forward and deny the prosecution motion to dismiss.
Posted by: Boswell at May 12, 2020 06:46 PM (32YRo)

[Extraneus]

Here, Rocco.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/graham-sessions-trump-russia-235597

[James D.]

AB @ 6:46

That’s about the kindest way to put it.

Sullivan should have been removed from the bench for allowing all the crap that went on with the Stevens persecution.

[Extraneus]

After he called Flynn a traitor and then had to backtrack after a brief recess, yet never faced the slightest consequence, I realized that judges have no supervision. Whatever boards or higher courts people may tout are b.s. He should have been removed from the case and probably the bench right there and then.

Maybe a white judge would have faced some consequences, especially after the Stevens hit, but obviously not old Emmett.

[Melinda]

You Have One Job, Stay Indoors
@_youhadonejob1
Me: “I just want some sort of sign to know this year will get better.”

https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1260333220043853831

Click for "The Sign It Will Get Better".

[Jane]

As soon as Trump is re-elected we need to demand a 3rd term, since the first one was taken from him - assuming he wants it.