'Fire extinguisher to the head' story has now been withdrawn. There was plenty of wrong done that day, without exaggeration. But the fact that Democrats had to manufacture exaggerations to embellish their narrative speaks volumes about how disingenuously exploitative they are.
The most intriguing aspect of the narrative that "insurrectionists killed a young cop by hitting his head with a fire extinguisher" should not be that it was a complete lie but who invented it and how did the completely fabricated imagery of 'extinguisher to the head' come about?
It is now clear that the media and the Democrats were disappointed in the scope of actual injuries and casualties, bad as they were, so they went looking for deaths they could link back to Capitol events, no matter how tangentially.
Killing of a protester by a cop, which actually happened on video, didn't quite make the cut for the political exploitation MSM and the Democrats had in mind. The occasion demanded the opposite. So they invented a narrative of a cop being killed by the protesters gruesomely.
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A cop kills an unarmed protester in cold blood on video and we don't even know the name of the cop, nor have there been any outcries of 'police brutality' because the cop was defending members of Congress. Yet the Democrats say the cops who defend the public need to be defunded.
Have the friends & family of the protester who was shot dead by a cop at point-blank range not shed any tears worthy of news media coverage? Is every news media outlet in the country of the singular opinion that the protester deserved to be shot dead? What has the media become?
A shooting death in the halls of Congress in plain view of the world cannot, must not, remain a murder mystery. The nation needs to be given a full and complete debriefing on the investigation of the case. This must not be swept under the rug as a politically motivated coverup.
NYT: "There is a new absolutist health fad: the discouragement — or even prohibition — of any behavior that seems to increase the risk of coronavirus infection, even minutely."
Notice the idiocy of famed educational institutions.
2. There are two big questions to ask about these actions: How much are they doing to reduce the spread of the virus? And do they have any downside?
The answer to the first question, according to many experts, is: They seem to do little good.
3. Prohibiting outdoor activity is unlikely to reduce the spread of the virus, nor is urging people always to wear a mask outdoors.
Worldwide, scientists have not documented any instances of outdoor transmission unless people were in close conversation.
"Gov. Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID, telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors." nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuo…
2. After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context.” But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors, she tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience to them.
3. In addition to stonewalling lawmakers on the the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19, Cuomo’s administration also refused requests from the news media, and fought a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Empire Center on Public Policy.
1. Covid-19 Update: Things Are Looking Up Worldwide
The pandemic is in retreat. The number of new coronavirus cases continues to plummet, as does the number of Americans hospitalized with symptoms. Deaths have also begun to decline.
2. Since reaching a peak on Jan. 8 — related to holiday gatherings — the number of confirmed new daily cases has fallen by almost 60%. The decline in actual cases is probably somewhat smaller, because the volume of testing has also fallen over the last few weeks. But still...
3. But still ... most of the decline in the chart above is real. We know that because the percentage of tests that came back positive has also dropped sharply (to 7 percent, from 14 percent on Jan. 8).
Democratic delegate Stacey Plaskett from Virgin Islands, who is one of the House Impeachment Managers, just recounted among Trump's transgressions: "his supporters vandalized churches."
Democratic shamelessness is veritably an 8th wonder of the world.
Democratic delegate Stacey Plaskett from Virgin Islands, who is one of the House Impeachment Managers, is now comparing January 6, 2021 with September 11, 2001.
Good Lord!
It is worth noting that having scoured thousands of hours of January 6 videos, the only 'weapon' that Democrats could locate anywhere in the security camera footage was a baseball bat being carried by one of the rioters.