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CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
« on: May 12, 2020, 08:00:09 AM »
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  • There's a rebellion brewing and Trump is egging it on
    Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/what-matters-may-11/index.html

    Updated 12:25 AM ET, Tue May 12, 2020


















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    Hospitals frustrated by Remdesivir supply





    Shop tried to reopen and social distance, it didn't work.





    Differing rules divide town on Tennessee-Virginia border





    Stelter: To look away is a disgrace to coronavirus victims





    Breaking down state of play for reopening states





    Fauci starting 'modified quarantine' after exposure





    Questions about accuracy of coronavirus tests





    Latino communities in the US devastated by Covid-19





    Trump questions 'whole concept of tests.' See Gupta's reaction





    Dr. Gupta explains symptom called 'Covid toes'





    Coronavirus found in men's semen. Can it spread through sex?



    Ex-Bush official says lockdown protesters aren't heroes



    Man at early Covid-19 epicenter near NYC tells his story



    See Matthew McConaughey's message to people not wearing masks





    Helping families cope during lockdown





    Cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to California birthday party





    Hospitals frustrated by Remdesivir supply





    Shop tried to reopen and social distance, it didn't work.





    Differing rules divide town on Tennessee-Virginia border



    A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.

    The federal government is taking very little action at all as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new guidelines, still under review from the White House, remain unreleased.
    Where does your state stand? Click here.
    Town literally split -- In Bristol the border between Virginia and Tennessee runs down the middle of State Street -- it has always been split in two. But now the divide is much more meaningful. Tennessee's Republican governor lifted many restrictions. Virginia's Democratic governor has not.
    So CNN's Natasha Chen found Delta Blues BBQ open for dine-in in Tennessee. Across the street, the Burger Bar can still only do curbside pickup or delivery. More here.

    Calls for a regional approach -- And even as Virginia moves toward easing restrictions, Chen notes more populous Northern Virginia local governments have asked him to do it regionally.
    Bristol might be ready. Arlington and Alexandria and Fairfax County, urban hotspots, aren't there yet. That pattern repeats all over the US.
    Working together out West -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the five states in the western pact -- California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- are asking the federal government for $1 trillion in aid to prevent drastic budget cuts.
    Asterisk in Florida -- Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has made a big deal about opening his state and the low numbers there are encouraging even as they are scrutinized (Florida does not include likely coronavirus cases in its death toll as many other states do).

    Large counties still closed -- Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward, which account for nearly a third of the state's population, have not followed suit and will stay relatively closed until at least May 15.
    Who is Ron DeSantis? There's a very good profile of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in The Washington Post. It includes some great comparisons of DeSantis to Trump and also some of his personal affectations, which include hair twirling.
    Frustration in Georgia -- There's clearfrustration between Atlanta's mayor, who supports continued distance mandates, and the state's Republican governor, who opened the state up.
    Complicating all of this is that even after opening, we won't know for several weeks if it leads to new or increased outbreaks. That data should start to come out of Georgia, where some restaurants began opening April 27, soon. Many restaurants have stayed closed.
    Open and shut -- Read about a Massachusetts ice cream parlor that opened and then closed after customers failed to follow social distance guidelines.
    "One of my best workers quit yesterday at the end of her shift. She stuck it through her shift," owner Mark Lawrence told CNN affiliate WFXT. "But the words she was called and the language, you wouldn't even say in a men's locker room. And to say it to a 17-year-old kid, they should be ashamed of themselves."
    Lawsuits are starting to pile up -- In Maine, in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in Nevada.
    Tesla has sued Alameda County in Californiaover the closure of its Fremont factory.
    Elon Musk has emerged as a prominent shutdown critic and pusher of debunked coronavirus claims on his Twitter feed. He also promised to make ventilators that never showed up.
    No one knows how it got into the White House
    This is a real-life example of why contact tracing can be so hard.
    The White House still doesn't know how Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, Katie Miller, got Covid-19. They also don't know how the President's valet who tested positive got the disease.
    No clear plan to deal with it -- Read this from CNN's Kaitlin Collins and Kevin Liptak: One official said it wasn't certain which colleagues would stay home. Some officials who had extended contact with Miller announced they would self-quarantine, while others who had similar contact with her did not.
    Trip canceled -- Pence, for instance, is not quarantining. A weekend trip to Camp David was scrapped in part due to concerns about coronavirus. Pence and Trump were both there last weekend. And so was Miller.
    Trump is frustrated -- "In conversations this weekend, Trump has expressed concern that aides contracting coronavirus would undercut his message that the outbreak is waning and states should begin reopening, according to a person who spoke with him."
    Why reopening won't fix everything
    Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate and pusher of a universal basic income, was interviewed by Joe Biden on a campaign podcast released Monday and he shared his concern that the economy won't just bounce back in part because companies won't be fast enough about rehiring workers.
    They're actually not that interested in hiring workers at all, argued Yang, who's also a CNN commentator. This is an interesting point:
    "Investors aren't investing in job growth, they're investing in bottom line profitability of the firms, and the tough truth is that a lot of these firms can operate more efficiently and more profitably with fewer people.


    "I'm privy to the thinking of many major company CEOs and they are telling people confidentially that they're not going to hire back a lot of the people that they furloughed or let go.
    "This economy is not going to snap back into place like a rubber band in part because that relationship that you described, that if businesses do well then workers will benefit, that bargain has broken down and now it barely exists."
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


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    Re: CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
    « Reply #1 on: May 12, 2020, 08:07:20 AM »
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  • Nothing like pics of an armed militia on the steps of the capitol to kindle hope and make the commies wet their pants.

    Machine guns in the hands of committed patriots have that effect.

    CNN blundered by showing that pic.  No doubt, it was included to shock their gun-hating base, but it had the additional unintended effect of encouraging countless others:

    We are not alone;

    Courage remains;

    Hope is kindled!
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


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    Re: CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
    « Reply #2 on: May 12, 2020, 08:13:44 AM »
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  • Nothing like pics of an armed militia on the steps of the capitol to kindle hope and make the commies wet their pants.

    Machine guns in the hands of committed patriots have that effect.

    CNN blundered by showing that pic.  No doubt, it was included to shock their gun-hating base, but it had the additional unintended effect of encouraging countless others:

    We are not alone;

    Courage remains;

    Hope is kindled!

    I certainly hope that we are not alone.

    In Democrat/leftist strongholds, it may be difficult. The Dems/leftists love authoritarian control if it's promoted by Democrat/leftist politicians and the mainstream media. They'll try to thwart any attempt to think independently.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29

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    Re: CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
    « Reply #3 on: May 12, 2020, 08:32:49 AM »
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  • I certainly hope that we are not alone.

    In Democrat/leftist strongholds, it may be difficult. The Dems/leftists love authoritarian control if it's promoted by Democrat/leftist politicians and the mainstream media. They'll try to thwart any attempt to think independently.

    Just as the Church is most militant where she is most oppressed, so too with the American people:

    The CNN capital pic was taken in Michigan, which has been one of the top 5 violators of civil rights since the fraudulent government reaction to COVID19 began.

    Yet according to one book I read, Michigan is so swarming with local militia (particularly in the U.P.), that the author nicknamed the state “Militiagan.”

    Sun Tzu (in his book “The Art of War”) explains the reason that the most committed resistance is found among the most brutal oppressions:

    (Paraphrasing from memory):

    Never press a defeated or trapped enemy too tightly.  If you do, they will fight harder than they otherwise would have, because you will incite desperation, and with nothing to lose, an enemy grows more savage (like a cornered animal), and you will absorb more casualties than had you offered terms.
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

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    Re: CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
    « Reply #4 on: May 12, 2020, 08:54:42 AM »
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  • Just as the Church is most militant where she is most oppressed, so too with the American people:

    The CNN capital pic was taken in Michigan, which has been one of the top 5 violators of civil rights since the fraudulent government reaction to COVID19 began.

    Yet according to one book I read, Michigan is so swarming with local militia (particularly in the U.P.), that the author nicknamed the state “Militiagan.”

    Sun Tzu (in his book “The Art of War”) explains the reason that the most committed resistance is found among the most brutal oppressions:

    (Paraphrasing from memory):

    Never press a defeated or trapped enemy too tightly.  If you do, they will fight harder than they otherwise would have, because you will incite desperation, and with nothing to lose, an enemy grows more savage (like a cornered animal), and you will absorb more casualties than had you offered terms.

    I didn't know that about Michigan - that they have a lot of militias.

    Yes, we may have to fight harder than we would like, if we are pressed. But it's the leftist person on the street that I'm just as worried about. They are conditioned by the media to not tolerate dissent. I get funny looks from them because I don't wear a mask outside, and I feel that they may be willing to turn people in who do dissent. I guess that's the price we have to pay for not going along with the gov. oppression.
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29


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    Re: CNN Troubled by Growing Resistance
    « Reply #6 on: May 14, 2020, 04:34:48 PM »
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  • Protesting has never done anything except push Marxist causes.

    All I see are LARPers in the OP's linked news article.