For weeks, the people of San Francisco have been waiting for local restrictions to lift so they could return to their routine hair colouring, trims and blowouts. One person, it turned out, did not have to wait.
The most powerful elected US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, has visited a hair salon in San Francisco, breaking rules that only allow service outdoors, in order to control the spread of coronavirus.
Ms Pelosi was also seen with a face mask around her neck rather than over her mouth. She has criticised President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask.
A spokesman said she did not realise she was breaking her home city’s rules.
Thousands of California businesses have shut as part of measures to fight coronavirus.
Mrs Pelosi – who always wears masks in public – often admonishes Republicans to “listen to the science” on the pandemic.
The Goodyear company labeled Black Lives Matter as acceptable while calling Blue Lives Matter and MAGA unacceptable.
A Goodyear employee in Kansas is calling the company’s new zero-tolerance policy “discriminatory” after the company told workers that it is acceptable to wear attire supporting certain social and political causes like Black Lives Matter while labeling others like MAGA and Blue Lives Matter as unacceptable.
The photo shared to social media after a recent diversity training session at the plant in Topeka showed a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company slide with two categories: Acceptable and Unacceptable.
President Trump responded to the policy on Twitter Wednesday morning.
“Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES,They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).”
The White House Press Secretary defends Trump and the Goodyear shares fall as a result of his reaction. What was Goodyear thinking, discriminatory politics has no place anywhere.
Part of the speech by Eva Longoria as she opens the DNC Convention;
“Joe knows about Pandemic’s in 2014. He helped stop the spread of Ebola and brought the world together to keep it contained. And after that success, knowing this would happen again. Vice President Biden and President Obama assembled a pandemic playbook to make sure that America was prepared and protected.
The Trump administration disbanded the pandemic response team that was given to them knowing this would happen again.
Vice President Biden and President Obama assembled a pandemic playbook.
The Trump administration disbanded the pandemic response team.
Americans have died and lost their livelihoods because of it. We, the people, deserve a president who believes in science, that recognizes the threat of covid, who has a plan to get us through it. And that is Joe Biden.”
FACT CHECK #1 – THE PANDEMIC PLAYBOOK Download or view the Pandemic Playbook assembled by Obama and Biden in 2016.
The Trump administration had been briefed on the document in 2017, but it was not approved by the NSC (National Security Council) referring to the document as “quite dated”:
Download or view the National Biodefense Strategy 2018 (this url link has since been removed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/National-Biodefense-Strategy.pdfBiodefense-Strategy.pdf) streamlined by the Trump Administration. This directorate combined NSC experts focused on biological threats under a single and more senior leader and did away with a confusing organizational chart that required some experts to report to two bosses simultaneously.
In short, the NSC retained the same number of experts focused on biological threats that the Obama administration had, but focused and housed them in a more coherent structure and with a more Senior Leader.
FACT CHECK #2 – DISBANDING THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE TEAM Trump did not get rid of the Pandemic Unit at the National Security Council, he did however move them to another division with a different title.
The President never lost expertise on the Pandemic front at the National Security Council. It didn’t reduce the Security Council’s ability to deal with this in any way. This is just misguided media narrative.
Some Interesting clips:
Rumors had been passed around by the press that Trump threw Obama’s playbook out to the detriment of the country. Kayleigh called out this rumor as untrue, explaining that in fact, the Trump administration had produced two robust reports to replace the one outdated, insufficient report left behind by the Obama administration. She then held up two professionally full-color binders to prove the point, each containing Trump’s new updated playbooks.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, at her press briefing on May 15, 2020
The usual thing in the news cycle is the fear mongering about the president trying to steal the election. He wants to be a dictator. He doesn’t want free and fair elections. He’s trying to defund the postal service. He’s taking away mailboxes off the streets because he doesn’t want people to vote.
Transcript from an interview on MSNBC Saturday, August 15th, 2020 with Maxine Waters.
“This is a president that is the most deplorable human being that I’ve ever encountered in my life, and he’s undermining our democracy. We cannot take any more of this president.
This president is not only attacking the person that was just appointed, selected by Biden to be his vice president, and he has not hesitated to do it. This man has no shame. The name calling, he called the nasty on and on and on. I don’t know how much more the American people can take.
As a matter of fact, when you couple that with what he’s doing, undermining our democracy, tearing up the post office, I believe that it is time for Section four of amendment twenty five to be put in place. And his cabinet should send to Nancy Pelosi, the speaker, as I think, as I identified in the Constitution, that this man should be removed from office section twenty five should be put in place. He is dangerous. He is tearing up again.”
CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT THE MAILBOXES DEBUNKED So the first claims that have been coming out from Democrats are all about mailboxes, that mailboxes are being removed. And the theory that they’re putting out there is that the federal government is going across the nation picking up mailboxes and just driving them to some location and storing them there so that people can’t put their mail in them and therefore people can’t vote.
And that the president is going to win the election because they hid 1,000’s of mailboxes.
In a image that’s gone viral on social media, it is claimed that these stacked mailboxes are proof of voter suppression.
Well, it turns out all of those missing mailboxes are the photos of mailboxes taken during the Obama administration. But we also note that scenes like this are not uncommon. In this widely shared viral image, the company site is that of Hartford Finishing — in business since 1986 with about 220 current employees that has a contract with the Postal Service to refurbish old mailboxes. The business specialises in powder painting systems.
What a surprise, the exact same thing that we saw with the president placing children into cages and all the pictures that are surfacing out there were all from the Obama administration.
FALSE CLAIM ABOUT TEARING UP THE POST OFFICE The stimulus aid right now is being held up by Congress because the president refuses to sign a bill that adds three point five billion dollars in funding to the USPS, the US Postal Service.
And the reason behind that is that the current administration are against the notion of universal mail in ballots. They believe that fraud will be a major issue.
So the president isn’t defunding the US Postal Service. As Maxine Waters said, all he’s doing is refusing the 3.5 billion dollar tax to fund something which he views as fundamentally undemocratic.
MISLEADING CLAIMS ABOUT VOTER FRAUD BEING SMALL The narrative pushed is that voter fraud in ‘vote by mail’ is rare. It is not mentioned that the these numbers come from the results on absentee voting, this represents a tiny percentage of total ballots being cast.
REAL EVIDENCE OF MAIL VOTER FRAUD TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT Over eighty thousand mail in ballots was disqualified in the NYC Primary mess. Philadelphia Democratic official pleads guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for cash. New Jersey attorney general charges local politicians and mail in voter fraud case. Pendleton County mail carrier charged with attempted election fraud. Man pleads guilty and voter fraud scheme on Skid Row. Illinois’s error registered a possible five hundred and forty five noncitizen voters, not to mention the amount of deceased people that are getting ballots as well as dogs and cats. Former Gordon Mayor Albert Melton, convicted of voter fraud, sentenced to a year in jail developer’s conviction for voter fraud reverberates throughout Hoboken.
Democrat presidential candidates are threatening to impose tax increases on the American people.
From repealing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, raising personal and corporate tax rates, the payroll tax, the death tax, and proposing a carbon tax and “wealth tax” — one thing is clear: Democrats will raise taxes if they win the 2020 elections.
The ‘Ways and Means Committee’ (Democrat-controlled) are laying the groundwork for a tax increase on businesses, falsely claiming that the corporate rate was lowered at the expense of middle-class families.
The corporate tax reduction from 35% to 21% has benefited families and workers alike by growing the economy, raising wages, and creating new jobs.
It’s no coincidence that, in the two years since the tax cut, unemployment has dropped to a 50-year low. It has hit all-time lows for key demographics including women, African Americans, and Hispanics. Thanks to these pro-growth policies, nearly seven million jobs have been created since Trump took office, and there are now fewer unemployed people than job openings.
In addition to wage growth, the tax cuts have allowed businesses to expand, hire new workers, and increase pay and benefits.
When Trump was elected president, the Dow Jones sat at 18,332. It is now at roughly 29,000, an increase of about 60%. This stock market growth benefits the 100 million 401(k)s, the 46.4 million households that have an individual retirement account, and the nearly $4 trillion in public pension funds, half of which is invested in stocks.
Democrats claim that the benefits to businesses far outweigh any benefits to the middle class. Often, they point to the fact that some corporations have low federal income tax liability.
This is misleading. Companies are still paying state and local taxes, as well as payroll taxes, which often total billions of dollars. This argument also ignores the true reason why companies have low tax liability: the existence of a number of credits and deductions intended to promote investment and job creation. For instance, full business expensing allows the deduction of new investments while the research and experimentation tax credit encourages companies to innovate.
As a direct result of the corporate rate cut, utility companies in all 50 states reduced their prices. That means lower monthly electric, gas, and water bills for households and businesses.
The fact is, corporate tax cuts have grown the economy, lifted wages, and created more jobs.
