It’s Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020…but before we begin, it’s come to our attention some of you experienced technical difficulties with three of the videos featured in our last offering.
The technical aspects of the problem aside, working Saturday in preparation for the Monday edition, we edited and embedded into The Gouge three separate clips from Tucker’s Friday night show. When we went to finalize things Sunday evening, we discovered the source video had been removed from YouTube, so we found another version of the show and laboriously repeated the process. All three clips were functioning when we published later that night, as well as when we checked Monday morning. So sometime between early Monday and mid-morning Tuesday, when the great Stilton Jarlsberg informed us all three videos once more were down, somehow…someway…the code of the source video at YouTube had again been modified.
We’d chalk it up to chance if it were the first time it’s happened, but it’s not. Progressive pixies or a network overprotective of its content? If anyone can tell us, we’d love to hear from you.
In the meantime, while we still can’t locate a complete copy of Tucker’s Friday night show, his exposé of the NIH’s resident racist researcher can be viewed below. It’s WELL worth the watch.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, assuming the role of political prognosticator, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman is…
“Is there a model that can predict when media pundits will shift from claiming Donald Trump underreacted to claiming that he overreacted? The President’s coronavirus critics have shown impressive flexibility in finding ways to condemn both his assertions of power and his deferrals to state authority. The next opportunity to condemn the President may come rather quickly as the curves of virus mortality appear to be flattening in many countries around the world, even in places free of media-approved lockdowns.
Niclas Rolander reports for Bloomberg:
Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist.
Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to stabilize.
“We’re on a sort of plateau,” Tegnell told Swedish news agency TT…
Volvo, which was forced to halt production across Europe and furlough about 20,000 Swedish employees, will resume production at its Swedish plants on Monday.
“Our measures are all based on individuals taking responsibility, and that is also an important part of the Swedish model,” Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson tells Mr. Rolander.
The lesson is that lifting state shutdowns in the U.S. would not mean deciding to do nothing to counter the virus, but simply relying on common sense to protect both health and livelihoods.“
“Relying on common sense”: in other words, lifting the state shutdowns should work…outside of the Progressive states on either coast and urban enclaves across the country.
“All official Chinese government propaganda is the official voice of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). By following the propaganda lines with regime actions in chronological order, we can trace how the Xi Jinping regime responded to the coronavirus outbreak and weaponized it to attack the United States and divide its leaders. (Not that the Disloyal Opposition needed a reason!)
We can then push back against Chinese propaganda, break through the regime’s disinformation and censorship inside China and here at home, and devise ways to hold the Communist Party responsible for the pandemic.
The following timeline by Dr J Michael Waller, our Senior Analyst for Strategy, is updated daily…”
The rest is as complete and accurate a timeline of Xi Jinping’s responsibility for the Peking Pandemic as we’ve seen to date.
Next, in a follow-up to our earlier assessment of Tedros Adhano…Adhano…
…courtesy of Jeff Foutch, Front Page Magazine fills in the spaces we earlier left blank, offering…
“…From 2012-16, Tedros was Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. During that period, he greatly strengthened his own personal — as well as his nation’s — ties to Communist China. Indeed, during Tedros’s years as Foreign Minister, China loaned more than $13 billion to his impoverished country. Beijing’s massive investments in Ethiopia were intended, in part, to make the latter a strategic bridge for China’s imperialist designs on the African continent.
In December 2014, Tedros and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi wrote a joint op-ed in which they gave voice to the close bond that was developing between their respective countries. “[O]n the basis of the principles of equality, mutual respect and win-win cooperation,” said the authors, “China and Ethiopia have developed multi-dimensional relations…We are sincere friends, reliable partners, and good brothers…each rejoicing in the successes the other has achieved…China has become the biggest foreign investor and the largest trading partner of Ethiopia.”
In 2017, Tedros ran for the post of Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), But at that same time, a reportappeared in the Ethiopian News & Views bulletin stating that he stood accused of complicity in the commission of “crimes against humanity.” That charge was related not only to the three aforementioned cholera coverups, but also to allegations surrounding Tedros’s longstanding political affiliation with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an organization that: (a) grew out of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT), and (b) was responsible for horrific atrocities in Ethiopia — particularly targeting the Amhara ethnic group in the country’s northwest region. In the 1990s, the U.S. government listed TPLF as a terrorist group. The Global Terror Database continuesto list it as such, given the group’s ongoing commission of armed attacks in rural areas. Meanwhile, the aforementioned Amhara Professionals Union has issuedmany accusations of systematic discrimination and human-rights abuses perpetrated by TPLF.
Tedros, for his part, is a high-ranking member of the TPLF’s Central Committee, or politburo. The “crimes against humanity” allegations pertain to a systematic genocide that was carried out — at a time when Tedros was a leading figure in Ethiopia’s public-health infrastructure — against the Amhara, whom TPLF has identified as its “eternal enemy.” As the Amhara Professionals Union explains:
“The candidate has treated his own citizens differently based on their ethnicity…[Tedros], who descends from Tigre ethnic group, disfavored the ‘Amhara Regional State’ through poor health care. For instance, disproportionately high mortality coupled with selective application of contraceptives use has led to a selective reduction of the growth rate of the Amhara people. (Gee,…or more appropriately, Xi, sound familiar?!?) Such disparities were created and gaps increased across all measures of health in his leadership tenure. Of particular importance is the unexplained 2.5 million decrease in the Amhara population [between 1994 and 2007] under his healthcare leadership. The Amharas were victimized and punished due to their ethnic background.” (A state of affairs to which the Uighurs can certainly relate!)
TPLF provided millions of dollars for Tedros’s campaign to become the leader of the WHO. Those funds – along with vital support from China – propelled Tedros to victory when, at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017, the WHO Member States elected him to a five-year term as their Director-General, making him the first person to hold that position without a medical degree.Notably, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping was the WHO’s longtime goodwill ambassador – a post that enabled her to effectively promote Chinese interests under the penumbra of the UN.
Upon formally taking the reins of the WHO on July 1, 2017, Tedros outlined severalprioritiesupon which he intended to focus.Most notably: (a) universal health coverage (basedon models in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sri Lanka), and (b) the health impacts ofclimate and environmental change.
On October 18, 2017, Tedros announced that he had chosen Zimbabwe’s former president, the Marxist tyrant Robert Mugabe, to serve as a WHO goodwill ambassador helping to deal with non-communicable diseases in Africa. Tedros justified his selection of Mugabe by lauding Zimbabwe as “a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide health care to all.” But in fact, Zimbabwe’s health system, like everything else under the broad shadow of Mugabe’s dictatorship, was in total collapse. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Mugabe’s “utter mismanagement of the economy has devastated health services” in his homeland. HRW’s Kenneth Roth noted that “[w]hen you go to Zimbabwean hospitals, they lack the most basic necessities.” (Undoubtedly The Donald’s fault!)And the prominent Zimbabwean politician Obert Gutu said: “The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a shambolic state, it is an insult. Mugabe trashed our health delivery system…he allowed our public hospitals to collapse.” Moreover, it was an open secret that even Mugabe himself did not use his own country’s health system when he needed medical care, traveling instead to Singapore for treatment. As a result of widespread public outrage sparked by the Mugabe nomination, Tedros was forced to withdraw Mugabe’s name from consideration…”
Frankly, that should have been the last we we ever heard of Tedros. “Deceiver-General” inDEED! We like that; sort of the Ethiopian/WHO equivalent of another utterly under-qualified, incredibly over-hyped individual we know.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, toThe Lighter Side:
Then there’s these two memes from Balls Cotton…
…along with one from Shannon…
…another from Mark Foster…
…as well as this old advertisement we saw on a nostalgia site:
And in the latest installment of News You Can’t Use, we offer proof positive mass effects gravity, not gravitas, as the Peach State’s incredibly corpulent former gubernatorial candidate…
Reports Abrams supported reopening any restaurants offering all-you-can-eat buffets remain unconfirmed. While also unconfirmed, reports Georgia restaurants offering all-you-can-eat buffets plan to remain closed until Abrams leaves the state appear credible.
Finally, since we’re on the subject of political has-beens, we’ll call it a wrap with the Ask A Stupid Question, We’ll Still Give You A Straight Answer segment, courtesy today of a man who can only ask stupid questions, as…
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