The Guardian........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion,[8][9] and its reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies.

.......no radical Left axe to grind there................not.

Does everything have to be political and be blinded by political extremism?

The Guardian is a very long long way away from politically 'extreme' or 'radical'.

The Guardian has a strong advantage for being supported by a well funded charity that is independent from the constraints and bias of advertisers and such as Rupert Murdoch...

That independence allows for far clearer news and views of the world around us.

... Meanwhile he's gone quiet on his so called "wonder drug".

Trump stops hyping hydroxychloroquine after study shows no benefit. wrote:

... The malaria drug showed no benefit in a relatively large trial of its use at US veterans hospitals. An analysis showed that nearly a third of veterans at US military hospitals died when treated with hydroxychloroquine, a greater fraction than patients who received standard treatment.

“These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs,” researchers wrote...

Phew! That is totally damning...

Sounds to me like 'anecdotal' tales of woe...........and from the all doubters POV, what percentage of those "third of veterans at US military hospitals" had pre-diagnosed terminal comorbidity?

Always something left out that doesn't quite fit the narrative. That's called fake news by omission.

Yes, indeed so.

So, what is the real background and context?

My personal suspicions are that Trump blindly jumped on anything of the day some days ago that could distract from 'bad news' or otherwise hype up his own position in some way. The now totally discredited hydroxychloroquine study rushed publication was the big 'it' for that day... That now looks to be to deadly results.


Are there any credible studies to show that hydroxychloroquine really is useful against the Cov-SARS-2 virus?

And despite the well known deadly side effects? For which some of those side effects (heart arrhythmia/failure and organ failure) are known to worsen some the very symptoms that are suffered with severe COVID-19?


This is all with peoples' lives.

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It is any surprise that King Donald voters are more likely to be criminal?
https://news.yahoo.com/video/yahoo-news-yougov-poll-trump-133749842.html

Voters who cast their ballots for Donald Trump in 2016 are more likely than voters who cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton to say that they have “cheated” on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic — and much less likely to say they will continue to obey their state’s lockdown order as long as it’s in effect.

Well......

What PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished.....
Here you go.
* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
* Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.
* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
* Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
* Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
* Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.
* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.
* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
* In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
* Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
* All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price
* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
* The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.
* Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.
* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
* Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
* Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.
* More than 7 million jobs created since election.
* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
* Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
* Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
* Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
* Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
* Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
* Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.
* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
* Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
* Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
* Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
* Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
* Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.|
* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
* Stock Market has reached record highs.
* Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
* African-American unemployment is at an all time low.
* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low.
* Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low.
* Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.
* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.
* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
* U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.
* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.
* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.
* Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.
* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.
* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.

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Not much of a list there, but when you compare Presidency of Barack Obama to that of The Dictatorship of v2.0 it's just like comparing light of the sun to the darkness down a mile deep hole in the ground.

Oh. Trump has accomplished all that. Just by signing a bill.
Well give us the list of ALL the previous US president bills so we can compare.
And how many of them are fulfilled by anyone?

Less than a year has passed since Donald Trump launched an unsuccessful attempt to buy off Greenland. The US is now expected to announce a comprehensive support package for the Arctic island, the AP writes. A message that provokes anger in Denmark.
- This is an attempt to bribe the Greenlandic population, says Danish MP Karsten Hönge.
Greenland is of great strategic importance to the US military, including the country's ballistic warning system. A US acquisition of the island would also balance Russia's and China's military and commercial armaments in the Arctic, Reuters writes.

FACTS: GREENLAND
Greenland is the world's largest island, with a population of about 56,000 inhabitants. Around 80 percent of the land area is covered by ice and the ice-free area is slightly smaller than Sweden's surface.
Greenland has been a Danish colony since 1814. In 1953, Greenland's status changed from colony to Danish county and in 1979 the Greenlanders gained autonomy.
This means that the Danish queen is head of state and that the Danish government is responsible for, among other things, foreign and defense policy, the judicial system and the administration of natural resources.
In 2009, self-government was expanded. Greenland was granted ownership of its natural resources in the land, with the proviso that if the profits became large, the Danish aid would decrease to a corresponding degree.
Denmark's annual contribution corresponds to about half of Greenland's budget. The most important source of income in addition to the money from Denmark is fishing.
According to opinion polls, the Greenlanders themselves would like to have independence, but not at the price of poorer living standards.

Meanwhile, all in with the politics of gaining votes for coal:


Trump Administration Courageously Ignores the Benefits of Reducing Toxic Mercury Emissions
wrote:

Humans have long known the health dangers of mercury, but that won’t stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from doing away with regulations designed to reduce emissions and protect public health. The agency released an update on Thursday that undermines a key rule to lower mercury emissions from coal plants...

... Not only do people breathe this toxic junk in. Mercury can also wind up in land, water, and ultimately the fish on our dinner table. Eating fish and shellfish is the main exposure to mercury, according to the EPA. However, the new analysis doesn’t take into account the full health benefits of decreased mercury emissions. What’s more, the EPA also doesn’t include barely any of the co-benefits, such as the reductions in other air pollutants that occur alongside mercury...

... Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who now runs the EPA, is dead set on ignoring that evidence. And Trump is gonna Trump. Not even a global health crisis will stop this man from trying to harm even more people.

The votes come before poisoning?

Is that not criminal??



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The votes come before poisoning?

Is that a rhetorical question?

The votes come before poisoning?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Also, a sad deadpan multiple pun.

In this case, non-humor for those that will be poisoned and die sooner...


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I can't help thinking: God help America & the world if this bozo gets elected for another 4 years!

"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute," he said. "And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
"Because you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number on them, so it'd be interesting to check that," he said.

Trump knows best

His "base" should try it. After all, they believe every word that moron spews out. Would make the November election a bit easier....

,,,& a lot cleaner. :-)

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Anti-Science crap again of course. How Trumpish. Trump is God for the uneducated base.
Is there no end to the craziness of the brainwashed Trump base?
You have obviously no idea, how bad this is going to end for the Trump base.
When you say adieu to Science, you're on your way to the dark ages.

They are waiting for the apocalypse and doing everything in their power to hasten its arrival, so they can say, "I told you so!"

Uneducated is correct. When they got their vouchers to send their children to their madrasas to indoctrinate them in the lies of the holey book and prevent them from the true knowledge of science it set the USA on the course for destruction.

Still in disbelief at Trump's deadly dangerous comments about how to use disinfectants and heat and light in people!

(Obviously stupidly bad. I hope no one is so silly to try that!...)


Further comments brought over here to avoid polluting the Corona virus thread.

Two notes:

Trump speaks at level of 8-year-old, new analysis finds



Will International Courts Investigate Pro-Trump Media?
wrote:

Journalists who amplify the president’s most divisive rhetoric should consult history—and perhaps a lawyer.

And my humble personal observation of his presentation about disinfectants, heat, and light:

I'm no psychologist but I think Trump shows very clear signs of:

• aphasia;
  
• not being aware of the descriptions he is talking about;
  
• having to fall back on using rote phrases to bluff past his unawareness;
  
• automatically going onto a bullying offensive to bluff out of any question that is a challenge.
  

Most striking is that he really does seem to be unaware of the people around him, and so he feels he has to overemphasize that he knows everyone really really well, but he also has to emphasize that he is still a god genius that they all must look up to...


Does that describe a senile despotic?


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BBC Live 21:54

The US state of Maryland has sent out an emergency alert after receiving more than 100 calls to the state's emergency hotline about the use of disinfectant related to the coronavirus.
“We have received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use and Covid-19,” the state's emergency agency wrote on Twitter. "This is a reminder that under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route.”
The suggestion from President Trump that disinfectant could be used inside the body to treat the virus has been rejected extensively by scientists and medical experts. Trump later defended his comments, saying they were "sarcastic".
Maryland has 16,616 confirmed cases to date, with 798 deaths.

Trump later defended his comments, saying they were "sarcastic".

Love to hear that comments.
Trump do tremendous speeches to the public...
But what is more scary is of course that so many in the US believe it's true what he's saying.

Hmm, could the sun actually remove brain cells by shining on the neck? :-)

Not sure, but I bet Dettol could. :-)

Roy Chon was Donald Trump's mentor. Needless to say more.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

sorry. big picture.

Trump later defended his comments, saying they were "sarcastic".

I think "caustic" would be better description, burning a hole in the fabric that holds America together and makes it great.