Senator Rand Paul
(R—Ky) delivered false information and misleading claims surrounding
the novel coronavirus in a new interview, wrongly stating Covid-19
survivors were immune to the virus while encouraging them to forego
social distancing measures.
Speaking to Fox News, the senator
encouraged the 11 million Americans who have tested positive for the
coronavirus since the pandemic began earlier this year to “celebrate” by
no longer using the personal protective equipment that doctors have
cited as having saved tens of thousands of lives across the country.
Mr
Paul said the nation’s leaders should urge Americans who have already
contracted Covid-19 to essentially abandon safety measures: “We should
tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again,
because these people are now immune.”
There is no evidence to
indicate coronavirus survivors are immune to the disease caused by the
novel virus. Furthermore, there is no evidence that survivors cannot
pass on the virus to others.
Scientists
are still learning the complexities surrounding the coronavirus that
has killed almost 250,000 Americans so far, including how much time
after contracting the virus patients were typically still able to spread
Covid-19.
Mr Paul was not corrected when he made the misleading
claims, before he then went on to attack the nation’s leading
epidemiologist, Dr Anthony Fauci, who has served on the White House
coronavirus response task force.
He claimed the scientist “doesn’t
want to admit” that coronavirus survivors were immune — though, again,
he provided no evidence to back such assertions.
“Dr. Fauci is like ‘Oh, woe is me’ until the election occurs,” he said. “But now maybe he’ll be changing his attitude.”
Dr
Fauci and the Republican senator have sparred on multiple occaisions,
with the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious
Disease having corrected Mr Paul over his misleading claims about herd
immunity.
After the senator claimed without evidence during a
committee hearing that cases in New York may not have been rising due to
the state allegedly developing herd immunity, the doctor shot back:
“No, you've misconstrued that, senator, and you've done that repeatedly
in the past.”
Trump news – live: President’s convoy swarmed by fans MAGAts as he drives through DC during MAGA rally
Rally-goers congregating in Washington DC in support of Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud have swarmed the US president’s SUV as he drove past the event.
Mr
Trump waved at supporters as he left the White House on Saturday
morning, heading to his golf club in Virginia for the 282nd game of his
presidency.
It came the day after Mr Trump appeared to come closer than ever in admitting defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election.
On Friday, he called the electoral college result in Arizona “a very close loss”, before telling reporters at a coronavirus vaccine briefing - in his first public comments since election day - that “time will tell” if his administration is replaced by a Biden one.
But on Friday, the Fox Business host took his regular, propaganda-like praise
of the outgoing president to a higher level, declaring the win of
President-elect Joe Biden to be an attempt to “take over the country and
deny this president what is rightfully his, a second term.”
Dobbs asked his guest, fellow Trump sycophant and criminal Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.), why all Republicans aren’t similarly on board with Trump’s
baseless allegations of mass voter fraud and refusal to acknowledge his
loss.
“You know, the president doesn’t want a statue erected to
him. What he wants is a free and fair election and honest results,” said
Dobbs.
“What I’d like to know is what in the hell is the
Republican Party doing to defend and to, I mean — why not just say we’re
not going to accept the results of this election? It’s outrageous,” he
added.
Nunes, meanwhile, repeatedly tried to pivot the conversation toward promoting alternatives to Twitter, which he has tried to sue for defamation over a joke account — @DevinCow — that pretends to be his cow.
Check out Dobbs’ full rant here:
Lou Dobbs suggests Republicans should just say "we're not going to accept the results of this election" pic.twitter.com/4gYdLLjseS
After Pouring Gasoline On U.S. Divide, Charles Koch Now Claims He Wants To Heal Nation
After spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
Charles
Koch wants to sound like Rodney King: 'Can't we all just get along?'
Meanwhile, he's trying to buy GOP control of the Senate in GA https://t.co/eRDLylyZXg
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
Charles
Koch wants to sound like Rodney King: 'Can't we all just get along?'
Meanwhile, he's trying to buy GOP control of the Senate in GA https://t.co/eRDLylyZXg
“Sure I might have planted the seeds that nearly destroyed this country, but I just wanna come here to say: oops, my bad”
Don’t
think this will cut it, Charlie. Millions have had their lives made
more insecure and precarious by your dangerous agenda. 👎🏾👎🏾 https://t.co/IpG88vlYeE
Giuliani admits to collusion.
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Trump mocks Biden for trusting scientists while Biden slams Trump's Covid-19 lies
President Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden on Sunday for trusting scientists about Covid-19 shortly after Biden lambasted the president for continuing to "lie" about the state of the pandemic.
Speaking
at a rally in Carson City, Nevada, Trump imitated the former vice
president, saying he would "listen to the scientists."
"If
I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country
that would be in a massive depression," Trump said. "We're like a
rocket ship."
He
then attacked the Democratic governors of several states who have put
in place measures to stop a likely second wave of Covid-19.
"Get the places open, let's go," he said.
A spokesman for Biden's campaign, Andrew Bates, swiftly responded to Trump in a tweet.
"This is tellingly out of touch and the polar opposite of reality," Bates said.
"Trump crashed the strong economy he inherited from the Obama-Biden
Administration by lying about and attacking the science, and layoffs are
rising. Meanwhile, Joe Biden would create millions more jobs than
Trump."
At a campaign stop earlier Sunday in Durham, North Carolina, Biden highlighted rising Covid-19 case counts, which reached their highest single-day total since late July on Friday, before pointing to recent remarks Trump has made downplaying the virus.
"Yet, the other night, Trump said in one of his rallies,
'we've turned the corner,'" Biden said. "As my grandfather would say,
this guy's gone around the bend if he thinks we've turned the corner.
Turn the corner? Things are getting worse. He continues to lie to us
about the circumstances."
Referring
to Trump's remarks telling the journalist Bob Woodward that he had
downplayed the severity of the virus so people would not panic, Biden
said, "The American people do not panic — Trump panicked."
The drive-in rally featured attendees chanting and honking from their cars. A rallygoer shouted: "Send him home, Joe."
Trump has in recent days said repeatedly that the country is "rounding the corner" when it comes to the pandemic.
"We
are rounding the corner and we have — unbelievable," Trump said
Saturday at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin. "The vaccines are
unbelievable. Except for a little politics. We have unbelievable
vaccines coming out real soon. And the therapeutics are unbelievable."
The
president has talked up the available therapeutics for Covid-19 after
he contracted the virus and was treated this month with an antibody
cocktail, remdesivir, and a heavy steroid typically associated with more
severe cases.
Herman
Cain was an asshole and I'm glad he's dead. I am especially glad that
that Trump's hoax virus killed him but more that that, I'm thrilled that
the MAGAts are still believing Trump and dropping like flies. Flies are
the final stage of the MAGAt.
There
is no point in trying to reason with Trump's supporters. I would argue
that convincing them that they are 100% right to believe Trump's lies
and spread those lies as well as the coronavirus is moral and prudent, The more Trump lies,
the more MAGAts will die. They aren't worth the effort. Don't waste your
breath.
President Donald Trump refused to denounce supporters of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon at his town hall event Thursday night, spiraling into a fit of outrage at the NBC host for even asking him about it.
Trump, who has lent support to the dangerous and cultish movement throughout his presidency, said at Thursday’s event he knew “nothing about QAnon” when host Savannah Guthrie asked him if he would denounce the movement once and for all.
The only definitive remark he made about backers of the far-right, convoluted theory was complimentary: “What I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that,” adding they “fight it very hard.”
The core belief of those who follow the mysterious QAnon is that high-ranking Democrats, media figures and entertainment personalities are secretly members of a satanic pedophile ring that Trump is covertly working to stop. The movement has had some dangerousandviolent consequences beyond the spread of its misinformation, including a shooting at a Washington pizza parlor.
In August, Trump said of QAnon followers that he’d “heard these are people that love our country” and said he appreciated that they “like me very much.”
Guthrie didn’t let Trump’s response slide. “You do know” about QAnon, she said as the president repeated he didn’t and tried to pivot the conversation to anti-fascist activists known collectively as “antifa.”
Trump grew angry with Guthrie when she wouldn’t move on.
“Let’s waste the whole show,” he said. “You started off with white supremacy; I denounced it. You started off with something else. Let’s go. Keep asking me these questions.”
At one point when he and Guthrie were competing to speak, Trump quipped at her, “So cute.”
Biden’s campaign blasted the president shortly after the town hall ended.
“In a false, alternate reality of his own making, President Trump was combative and lashed out at voters,” Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, said in a press release. “He refused to denounce QAnon. He defended an unhinged conspiracy theory about the brave American soldiers who took out Osama Bin Laden. He lied about the effectiveness of masks.”
We want to know what you’re hearing on the ground from the candidates. If you get any interesting ― or suspicious! ― campaign mailers, robocalls or hear anything else you think we should know about, email us at scoops@huffpost.com.
The U.S. Postal Service is one of the oldest public institutions in the country. It’s self-funded and requires no taxpayer dollars
for its operating expenses, instead relying on the sale of stamps and
other products. It’s also legally mandated to serve every single
community regardless of cost. Rain or shine, the USPS serves Americans
in every ZIP code, delivering everything from postcards to veterans
benefits and lifesaving medications.
The USPS has struggled financially in recent years, in large part due to a 2006 mandate that required it to pre-fund retiree health care costs 75 years in advance. The coronavirus
pandemic has only accelerated the financial troubles faced by USPS; the
vast majority of mail is sent by businesses, many of which halted
operations. Without financial help from Congress, the agency could be
bankrupt by next year.
Recently, President Donald Trump seemingly admitted that he is withholding funds from the USPS in order to hinder mail-in voting in November. That, along with alarming moves by Trump’s appointed postmaster general, prompted concerned citizens to flock to the USPS online store
in hopes of giving the agency a financial boost. And there’s a whole
lot more than just stamps for sale ― the USPS released a wide variety of
products that had the internet shook. Among them was this rather
fabulous crop top.
Not surprisingly,
the top sold out quickly. We can only hope that it gets restocked soon.
In the meantime, there are plenty more items still available from the
USPS store and third parties that allow you to show your support for the
postal service, financially and otherwise.
U.S. Mail Carrier Dog Costume
store.usps.com
U.S. Mail Carrier Dog Costume, $17.99
Halloween is coming up ― if you haven’t already picked the perfect costume for your dog, the USPS you covered. This mini mail carrier outfit is equal parts adorable and hilarious. Currently, only the extra small is available for $17.99.
Magic Kit
store.usps.com
The Art of Magic, $34.95
There’s never been a better time to work on your magic skills. The USPS teamed up with magician Mac King to design The Art of Magic
kit, which will help you learn five card tricks. The kit costs $34.95
and includes a set of The Art of Magic Forever stamps, which served as
the inspiration.
3-D T. Rex Puzzle
store.usps.com
Tyrannosaurus Rex 3-D Puzzle Notecard Set, $16.95
If you’re looking for more quarantine activities, this 3-D puzzle should keep you occupied. It comes with a set of notecards and, of course, stamps. The set costs $16.95.
APWU Varsity Jacket
apwustore.org
APWU Varsity Jacket, $50
Crop tops are out, varsity jackets are in. This jacket
offered by the American Postal Workers Union is one of many
fashion-forward items it has for sale. It’ll run you a cool $50 ― a
reasonable price to help save the Postal Service.
Retro Mr. Zip T-Shirt
walmart.com
Mr. Zip T-shirt, $19.97
Mr.
Zip ― aka Zippy ― was a mascot used by the USPS in the ’60s to
introduce the ZIP code system. Today he’s become synonymous with the
dedication of postal workers, who trudge through rain and snow to ensure
Americans receive their mail. This shirt from Tee Luv is officially licensed by the USPS and available from Walmart starting at $19.97.
USPS Face Masks
Etsy / VintageVibe
USPS Face Mask, $12-$15
Show your support for the U.S. Postal Service from a safe distance with these handmade face masks.
Proceeds don’t actually go to the USPS, but no one you see will miss
your show of support. These masks come with a filter pocket and optional
nose wire and adjustable ear straps. Pricing is $12 to $15 per mask,
depending on customizations.
Actual Stamps
store.usps.com
Email
and texting may be the preferred modes of communication these days, but
it’s still nice to receive a letter every now and then. Add a little
flair to your mail with one of the many fun Forever Stamp collections,
including Hot Wheels, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, frogs or my personal favorite, spooky silhouettes. A book of 20 stamps will run you $11.
