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You are assuming he is going to still be the President after January 20, 2023?

A Starbucks Boycott? 🤣 So, do Democrats think Starbucks suddenly became conservative? SF is Pretty sure it's because they can't find employees. https://www.wavy.com/covid-19-vaccine/calls-for-starbucks-boycott-after-vaccine-rule-axed/ (NEXSTAR) – Coffee giant Starbucks is facing some venti-sized criticism Wednesday after the company announced it no longer requires U.S. workers to receive COVID-19 vaccines or test negative each week, with the java juggernaut citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling as its reasoning. Last week, SCOTUS voted 6-3 against the Biden administration’s federal mandate requiring employees of companies with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated. Starbucks currently has around 9,000 stores employing about 200,000 workers, the New York Times reports. In a statement to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer John Culver wrote: “We respect the court’s ruling and will comply.” The announcement came just weeks after Starbucks said all employees would be required to be vaccinated by Feb. 9 or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing. Many consumers online condemned the decision, with #BoycottStarbucks trending on Twitter Wednesday afternoon. “I will not go to Starbucks or anywhere that does not require workers to be vaxxed,” tweeted @SoCalSusan. “Our health is worth self-advocating for.” Meanwhile, @Charles_791 writes: “Vaccines prevent serious illness and death. All steps have been taken to ensure that vaccines are safe and effective for people ages 5 years and older. It’s such a shame that a brand as big as Starbucks will make such a ridiculous decision.” Starbucks has previously faced boycott calls for a variety of decisions, including backlash in 2020 after the company said employees weren’t allowed to wear items supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, saying it could “amplify divisiveness.” Starbucks reversed the decision last year. The company’s decision wasn’t without supporters, however. Some conservative users tweeted their approval, with some vowing to continue or even begin frequenting Starbucks. Meanwhile, Culver says while the requirement is now gone, “… we continue to believe strongly in the spirit and intent of the mandate.

Thinking about this thread during the debate over the so-called "Voting Rights" legislation in the Senate today.......And actually agreeing with Biden's "Malarkey" statement.....

As we begin to make the turn and head into the THIRD YEAR of "2 Weeks to flatten the curve" (March 2020 - ICYF) here is the reason for the current hysteria: COVID CASES USA 712,051 JAN 17 2022 170,094 JAN 17 2021 DEATHS 774 JAN 17 2022 1,730 JAN 17 2021 Case numbers are almost 5 times last year's number, but deaths are about 40% of last year's number. But let's keep the hype going anyway. At least it's an election year, so look for the focus to shift around March (SF prediction)....... I heard yesterday that 80% of adults have been vaccinated to date - BTW - according to the news in March last year, we needed to hit 60%, then the virus was beat......So I guess it's over?

Get ready for the shift away from Covid (as the next election cycle starts) https://bangordailynews.com/2022/01/15/news/nation/a-shift-away-from-daily-covid-case-counts-has-begun-joam40zk0w/ The most familiar indicator of COVID-19’s inexorable nationwide spread—daily state and local case counts—may be on the way out. Instead, public health officials are considering a shift from increasingly inaccurate case data to numbers they say better represent the effect of the disease on the community and the health care system: COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Omicron case counts are shattering all previous COVID-19 records. But the numbers don’t carry the same weight they used to. State and local health departments are preparing to explain that to the public and start reporting more meaningful data on the virus. “The goal of public health data is to provide information to people so they can take actions to keep themselves safer and healthier,” said Meredith Allen, vice president for health security at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. “We’re getting to a point where a daily case count isn’t giving people that information.” So far, Tennessee is the only state to scale back its COVID-19 case reporting since omicron hit. But experts expect other states to follow once the omicron surge subsides. In addition, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul last week asked hospitals to start providing more meaningful COVID-19 data by specifying whether patients were admitted because of COVID-19 or entered the hospital for unrelated reasons and incidentally tested positive for the virus. For now, daily case counts remain the primary gauge of omicron’s nationwide spread. But epidemiologists caution that the numbers should be relied on only as broad indicators of the velocity and direction of the disease’s transmission. Because of testing shortages, unreported home tests and a high percentage of asymptomatic infections going undetected, daily case counts are vastly underreported, said Janet Hamilton, executive director at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. The true number of infections is some multiple of the reported cases, she said. This week, the average daily reported case count was 781,000, more than three times the daily count of 250,000 at the peak of the delta surge a year ago. On Jan. 3, more than a million omicron cases were recorded. But that doesn’t mean hospitalizations and deaths, which lag new cases by several weeks, will rise in equal proportion. Early data indicates that omicron infections are producing milder symptoms and fewer deaths than previous COVID-19 variants. “We don’t want to keep telling people there’s X number of new infections out there without giving them an idea of how many of those cases will have serious outcomes,” Hamilton said. Despite its lower hospitalization and death rate, omicron’s soaring infections are resulting in a surge in hospital visits, almost entirely among unvaccinated people, straining health care systems nationwide. And even though it’s proving less virulent than previous COVID-19 strains, omicron is expected to result in more deaths because of the sheer number of people infected. Better barometers Months into the pandemic, epidemiologists said COVID-19 ultimately would become endemic, infecting nearly everyone and remaining in the population indefinitely. That endemic era may have started. As a result, many state health officials say they’re preparing to scale back the frequency of case count updates, possibly as soon as the current surge subsides, Allen said. “That would allow public health agencies to focus on prevention efforts in high-risk populations such as long-term care facilities and work more closely with schools and vaccination clinics,” she said, “rather than put the time and energy into producing that daily number.” Tennessee shifted from daily to weekly reporting of new COVID-19 cases Jan. 1, citing a need to focus on other public health priorities, including the expanding opioid overdose crisis. Florida, Iowa and Nebraska moved to weekly counts last summer, as COVID-19 cases waned nationwide. Alaska, Kansas and Michigan publish case data three times a week. For now, though, state and local COVID-19 policies, including school and business closures, travel restrictions, mask requirements and quarantine rules, largely hinge on daily numbers. Since the pandemic began, the rise and fall of case counts has proven a reliable indicator of whether the virus is gaining ground, leveling out or retreating, said Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We all know that the data is less precise than it was,” he said. “But we do get a good sense of the trends over time and geographically, particularly in a state that is long and thin like Tennessee. It allows us to look at what’s happening in Nashville versus Chattanooga, for example.” The CDC official guidelines continue to recommend that state and local health departments publish daily COVID-19 case counts, he said. But in discussions with health officials, the agency is “giving states leeway to put more emphasis on hospitalizations and other data.” Schaffner and other experts say the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 may be a better indicator of the severity of the disease and its impact on communities and the health care system. Others argue that the number of patients in intensive care units would be a more meaningful measure. Gray areas As cases of omicron mushroom, it’s becoming increasingly likely that hospital patients will test positive for the virus upon admission or become infected while in the hospital, said Eili Klein, an epidemiologist and associate professor of emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Even before omicron became dominant, studies showed that roughly half of patients admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 were there for other reasons. Still, their COVID-19 infections likely affected their health outcomes and the length of time they stayed in the hospital, Klein said, and it certainly meant the hospital had to expend additional resources to treat them. It’s not easy to unspool COVID-19 hospitalization data, he said. “There’s a large gray area that’s difficult to determine in real time.” Klein and other experts argue that use of intensive care is a better measure of the virus’ health burden. “In Maryland, for example, hospitalizations are at an all-time high right now,” Klein said, “but use of intensive care is not.” Last year during the delta surge, hospitalizations in the state were much lower than they are now, but almost every patient was very sick. “As we move forward, there needs to be some decisions about how we adjust our reporting,” Klein said. “Do we go to weekly reports, separate people admitted for COVID as opposed to those with COVID? It depends on how we plan to treat people who test positive but aren’t sick. “Do we quarantine them? Maybe we stop doing that. We don’t quarantine people who have the flu.” Testing shortages From the beginning, testing shortages, inaccuracies and delays have plagued the nation’s response to COVID-19. As a result, many county and city health departments have never been able to publish daily case counts, said Adriane Casalotti, chief of public and government affairs at the National Association of County and City Health Officials. In this omicron surge, she said, long lines at testing centers continue to stress city and county health departments, particularly as they field an avalanche of questions from the public about the CDC’s recent about-face on COVID-19 quarantines. In December, the CDC announced that it was reducing its quarantine recommendations from 10 to five days. The American Medical Association and other experts called the weaker recommendations risky, suggesting that people get tested before ending quarantine. With home tests still in short supply and people waiting hours to get tested at a public site, it’s a hard call for local health departments to suggest people get tested before they end quarantine, Casalotti said. On top of that, local health departments typically experience major public backlash when they try to implement stiffer COVID-19 restrictions than the CDC. When will the testing shortage ease? President Joe Biden announced this week that insurance companies will be required to cover the cost of up to eight tests per person per month starting Jan. 15. But drugstores are still short of tests. Mara Aspinall, a professor of biomedical diagnostics at Arizona State University, projects the nationwide supply of COVID-19 home tests will jump from 631 million tests this month to 732 million in February and 907 million in March. Since many consumers buy tests to have them on hand when needed, not all tests are used in the same month they’re purchased, she explained. Since omicron hit the United States in December, Aspinall estimates Americans have been using an average of 4 million home tests per day, rising to 5 million per day last week as corporations distributed tests to employees coming back to in-person work. Whether that number stays the same, rises or falls depends on the spread of the virus, she said. As it should be - with more testing availability obviously the case numbers are going to rise. FYI - Anyone (Vaxed or not) can and WILL carry the virus, additionally - The tests will pick up any Cornonavirus. (Not just the man-made one that can potentially be Covid-19 SARS)

It's finally happening......

Like the FBI answering Senator Cruz's questions regarding the FBI agent's involvement on January 6 yesterday - "I can't answer that"........

Was this the end game all along - starting with Covid-19? The Great Reset? "In every crisis - there is an opportunity" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/ Now is the time for a 'great reset' In every crisis, there is an opportunity Image: Space Uptopian/Unsplash Visit the Great Reset microsite here. Hear Klaus Schwab on these podcast episodes: the Great Reset launch and his book. We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes Schwab. The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible. This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism - and here's how it can be achieved. COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to worry: a sharp economic downturn has already begun, and we could be facing the worst depression since the 1930s. But, while this outcome is likely, it is not unavoidable. To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism. There are many reasons to pursue a Great Reset, but the most urgent is COVID-19. Having already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the pandemic represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history. And, with casualties still mounting in many parts of the world, it is far from over. This will have serious long-term consequences for economic growth, public debt, employment, and human wellbeing. According to the Financial Times, global government debt has already reached its highest level in peacetime. Moreover, unemployment is skyrocketing in many countries: in the US, for example, one in four workers have filed for unemployment since mid-March, with new weekly claims far above historic highs. The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to shrink by 3% this year – a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points in just four months. All of this will exacerbate the climate and social crises that were already underway. Some countries have already used the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and enforcement. And frustrations over social ills like rising inequality – US billionaires’ combined wealth has increased during the crisis – are intensifying. Left unaddressed, these crises, together with COVID-19, will deepen and leave the world even less sustainable, less equal, and more fragile. Incremental measures and ad hoc fixes will not suffice to prevent this scenario. We must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems. The level of cooperation and ambition this implies is unprecedented. But it is not some impossible dream. In fact, one silver lining of the pandemic is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles. Almost instantly, the crisis forced businesses and individuals to abandon practices long claimed to be essential, from frequent air travel to working in an office. Likewise, populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of health-care and other essential workers and vulnerable populations, such as the elderly. And many companies have stepped up to support their workers, customers, and local communities, in a shift toward the kind of stakeholder capitalism to which they had previously paid lip service. Clearly, the will to build a better society does exist. We must use it to secure the Great Reset that we so badly need. That will require stronger and more effective governments, though this does not imply an ideological push for bigger ones. And it will demand private-sector engagement every step of the way. The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes. To this end, governments should improve coordination (for example, in tax, regulatory, and fiscal policy), upgrade trade arrangements, and create the conditions for a “stakeholder economy.” At a time of diminishing tax bases and soaring public debt, governments have a powerful incentive to pursue such action. Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition. The second component of a Great Reset agenda would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability. Here, the large-scale spending programs that many governments are implementing represent a major opportunity for progress. The European Commission, for one, has unveiled plans for a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery fund. The US, China, and Japan also have ambitious economic-stimulus plans. Rather than using these funds, as well as investments from private entities and pension funds, to fill cracks in the old system, we should use them to create a new one that is more resilient, equitable, and sustainable in the long run. This means, for example, building “green” urban infrastructure and creating incentives for industries to improve their track record on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. The third and final priority of a Great Reset agenda is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges. During the COVID-19 crisis, companies, universities, and others have joined forces to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and possible vaccines; establish testing centers; create mechanisms for tracing infections; and deliver telemedicine. Imagine what could be possible if similar concerted efforts were made in every sector. The COVID-19 crisis is affecting every facet of people’s lives in every corner of the world. But tragedy need not be its only legacy. On the contrary, the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.

The CDC Director says 75% of Covid-19 deaths had 4 or more comorbidities..... (And NOBODY is asking her about this statement?) https://gazette.com/ap/cdc-director-says-75-of-covid-19-deaths-had-4-or-more-comorbidities/article_2c944302-7267-11ec-91c9-a3689650d909.html Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said 75% of people who died of COVID-19 had at least four comorbidities, sparking an outpouring of commentary from people surprised by her statement and others saying, “I told you so.” The top health official made the comment on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, days after Dr. Anthony Fauci said on TV that statistics on child hospitalizations are being overblown. Vaccine mandate skeptics have said the COVID-19 death toll was inflated by people who died with COVID-19 as opposed to dying of COVID-19, and some of them claimed they were made into pariahs or punished on social media for making these claims. “This is a stunning admission and one that is quite literally at the crux of my Facebook lawsuit against their fact-checkers,” conservative commentator Candace Owens tweeted. “I reported on the scam of them calculating deaths ‘with Covid’ years ago and fact-checkers called me a liar.” “The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities,” Walenksy said. She added that this was “encouraging news” considering the spread of the omicron variant, which health officials believe is more transmissible than other strains but causes less severe illness.

Nope - I was NOT there.......I was in Sebring with my fishing boat.....Not at a Drag Show further South...... SF wonders how a Supreme Court Justice can utter falsehoods from the bench in a case without repercussions. So does Rand Paul.... https://www.sarahpalin.com/2022/648499/far-left-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-gets-brutally-fact-checked-after-claiming-100000-children-are-in-serious-condition-from-covid-2/?fbclid=IwAR0xOmBSX_eXrKG23Pslqmkyi9s3L85jUCIN6Ug_u1KJpMvuZ5x0epiUX_I

Why haven't we found the so called bomber that placed the "pipe bombs" the night before???? Oh and why hasn't the Speaker of the House had to turn over any of her communications with the Sargent of arms to answer why they turned down six requests for the national guard to be sent in before this happened??? In addition, if this was an insurrection, then why has no one been found guilty of or has been charged with insurrection or sedition?? . Just a few of the items that would be interesting to know. I get that there is jail time deserved by the idiots who actually broke the law and deserve what they get, but the real meat of the matter (insurrection) is no where to be found in any of the cases so far. Also - pretty sure the lumber 16' 4 x 4's or 6 x 6's that was needed to construct that gallows display in front of the Capital building didn't just "show up" there organically by the protesters carrying the pieces...... Does anyone really think that serious conservatives with insurrection actually on their minds would have entered the capital building un-armed and not brandishing weaponry?

After being on vacation for the past 3 weeks in Florida, I would like to make a few simple observations about Covid..... 1) The "explosion" of recent cases come pretty much in tandem with the "explosion" of testing and testing kits and sites that are now all the fad anytime anywhere anyone has so much as a sniffle...... 2) Why doesn't anyone follow the all-Covid-knowing great and mighty Fauci's recent advice to follow the death count, not the case count? Cases have nearly tripled, but deaths are down? https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-says-watch-covid-hospitalizations-as-infections-top-1m-2022-1 Covid Cases USA 704,369 1/5/2022 235,016 1/5/2021 Deaths USA 2,113 1/5/2022 3,689 1/5/2022 3) If vaccines are really working, then WHY are there so many "breakthrough" cases? It appears to be a fad to have the vaccine, then announce you have Covid and boosters, but now need to quarantine, like it's the latest "in" thing...... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10386631/Today-anchor-Savannah-Guthrie-reveals-COVID-days-Hoda-Kotb-tested-positive.html 4) Where is the real reporting of the long-term "side effects" from the vaccines especially for the elderly and the young kids relative to heart conditions? 5) Why isn't it concerning that it appears to be more than just the "redness or swelling at the vaccine needle site", and more kids (with comorbidities) have died from the vaccines than the virus itself. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/93029

https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/bette-midler-slammed-for-calling-west-virginia-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out/ Bette Midler has been forced to apologize after sparking mass outrage for branding the entire state of West Virginia as “poor, illiterate and strung out.” The 76-year-old diva used the less than divine choice of words for the Mountain State in a Twitter strop at rebel Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoing President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending plans. “What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out,” the “Beaches” legend tweeted Monday. “He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out,” she wrote. She was quickly ripped by followers and accused of being an out-of-touch elite. Perfect example of why Bette should stick with her role in show business. She can remain an elite there.

SF remembers back in 2005 when the South was hit by hurricane Katrina and the RV industry reacted faster than anything I had ever seen before and was able to deliver 200,000 RV's to FEMA in short order for disaster housing units in NOLA. A plan was then initiated by the Bush administration to purchase and inventory 200,000 FEMA trailers on a rotating basis to be able to react quickly when Americans needed temporary housing. These were the same units they had used since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. (without any complaints) The plan was running very successfully with FEMA storage lots spread out in various locations in the US with inventory ready to move whenever a hurricane approached.....until 2008...... Then the Sierra Club caught wind that there was Formaldehyde in the wood products used by manufacturers, (even though they were CARB compliant - and NOT TOXIC) and the rest is history. Even though the very halls of Congress had higher levels of formaldehyde than the "toxic trailer", (Democrat Joe Donnelly actually used the EXACT SAME device in Congress that we had used to test the trailers in question and told the committee this data) the Democrats in Congress (Harry Waxman in particular) called the manufacturers to testify before the House giving the lawsuit happy lawyers plenty of ammunition to hold the industry liable and extract $42.6 million (literally) from the industry of which the "victims" they "represented" received little or in most cases - none....... Thus ending the RV industry's relationship with FEMA, especially given the numerous hoops a manufacturer now has to jump through compliance-wise to produce a unit for FEMA that is literally nothing like the product consumers currently purchase and use. FEMA tried to bring the industry back to the table during the Trump Administration, and SF was involved in those meetings with both FEMA and HUD but the industry didn't want to further participate with FEMA after the Katrina debacle that finally closed in 2013. So today in 2021, the 33,000 homeless families (resulting from last weeks tornadoes) are left to fend for shelter themselves because FEMA hasn't come up with any effective plan like the FEMA trailer plan that was incredibly successful until 2005. Try to find an RV to purchase today and these folks will pay top dollar in today's RV market where units are in historically short supply and the manufacturers are producing at record levels. Sorry FEMA - you had your chance to defend an excellent and safe plan that the industry could help re-supply and keep Americans sheltered in their time of need, but nope - you failed. Would make a great story if any real journalists still existed today......

Klinger's ruse won't work anymore......

As we are nearing the 2 YEAR point of "2 weeks to flatten the curve" I am remembering when this thread started back in 2020. My tin foil hat remains firmly ensconced to this day as there is literally no other way to die in the US except by Covid. This thing came from a lab and is doing exactly what it was intended to do. According to the CDC, 61% of the US population has been vaccinated as of 12/14/21 (yesterday). The Northeast has the highest vax rate (70 - 75%) yet is leading in Covid cases. (Guess what - it's cold in the Northeast, viruses are going to spread at a higher rate - just they did in the South during the summer) Also, without fail - EVERY one of my relatives and friends that had past open heart surgery have ALL since getting the vaccine had re-occurring issues. 2 have had to have pacemakers put in, and 1 is waiting for a 2nd open heart surgery. I can't say with certainty the vaccine is the cause, but I can sure be suspicious. Again - The virus is real, but the orchestrated (over) reaction to this thing is so very obvious. Someone sneezes - they have to immediately go get tested for Covid. ANYONE can and does carry the vaccine regardless of vaccine status, but the unvaccinated are the cause of this outbreak today? Heading to Florida for a few weeks with the in-laws who are in their 80's now and fully, fully vaccinated as they should be. We are driving, towing a boat and not staying in a hotel while the 2 others (vaccinated) are flying in. I have to think that I should be more concerned of them than they should be of me? Okay - venting is over.....

Turns out it WAS staged......

https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/white-house-working-with-media-to-get-positive-biden-coverage/ White House ‘working behind the scenes’ with media to get positive coverage The White House has been secretly begging news organizations to give “favorable” coverage to President Biden rather than focusing on his failings, according to a report. The administration is “not happy” with the unflattering headlines and coverage of the supply-chain disaster and handling of the economy — and so “has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor,” CNN’s Reliable Sources said. Senior White House and administration officials “have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week,” a source told the outlet’s media reporter Oliver Darcy. The meetings have been led by a trio of administration officials: National Economic Council deputy directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, as well as ports envoy John Porcari, Darcy wrote in his newsletter. “I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials,” Darcy wrote. Reliable Sources has itself been leading the way, with its latest tweet on Monday about how the White House is “absolutely right” to have grievances about brutal coverage of Biden’s time in office. Darcy’s report about the secret talks also linked to the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who recently wrote an op-ed titled, “The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.” In it, he pointed to data analysis reportedly showing that “Biden’s press for the past four months has been as bad as — and for a time worse than — the coverage Trump received for the same four months of 2020.” He said that the findings during a time when Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted “confirmed my fear: My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.” Milbank admitted that “Biden has had his troubles,” mentioning the Delta variant, Afghanistan and inflation, but not numerous other scandals that have seen the president’s ratings plummet. The columnist appeared on CNN Monday to further push his theories — admitting that the negative press was bipartisan, having ramped up from the spectacular failings of the doomed withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The left-wing media is tough on him … He has no real support,” Milbank said of Biden, showing his own feelings as he hailed the commander-in-chief as a leader “trying to restore the organs of democracy.” His views knocking the media were — unsurprisingly — shared by the White House, with chief of staff Ron Klain sharing the Washington paper’s op-ed, writing, “Submitted for your consideration.” Reports of the secret PR mission quickly had the administration roasted online. “Biden’s policies are so popular that he’s begging the MSM to do a better job at lying about it,” one person wrote on Twitter. Another wrote, “BIDEN’S HANDLERS MEETING WITH THE MSM ASKING FOR A BETTER SPIN ON HIS POLICIES AND A MORE POSITIVE IMAGE OF HIM. ALL THEY DO IS LIE.” Others suggested that the spin was “the opposite” by being favorable to the president, noting the lack of media coverage of The Post’s numerous scoops on first son Hunter Biden. “Had they not protected [Biden] and his con artiste son for months we wouldn’t be here now,” one person complained, while another urged the media to “strap their balls back on and show this pathetic president for exactly what he is.” Really? Does anyone have any sympathy for the current President considering the unrelenting negative press the former President had for 4 solid years?

Why not?