On February 19th, The Hill headlined “Sirota: It’s up to Democrats to hold Cuomo accountable” and hid the bigger and still hidden story, which is that America’s ‘news’-media had been hiding this enormous corruption-story for as long as they possibly could. The scandal of the ‘news’-media hiding each others’ rottennesses — the totalitarian reality of the nation’s press — is the biggest of all U.S. scandals. And it is never being reported, since they cover for each other.

Here’s that  story:

Though The Hill includes there the video of Sirota speaking, they don’t  print that he also said in his 2-minute statement, the following, which really is the most important part of what he said there: “This is all unfolding while Andrew Cuomo was on a recurring CNN guest slot with his brother (Chris Cuomo). It was all happening when he was getting a six-figure book deal about his leadership during the Covid crisis. It was all happening when he was making the rounds on all sorts of national media getting an Emmy for his television briefings. This was all happening, and, to be clear, some of it was happening where you couldn’t see, the hiding of the data, the hiding of the death-count, but some of it was right out in the open, I mean it was concealed in[to] the fine print when it was first put in there, but there were legislators like Ron Kim and other progressives blowing the whistles on this for months, and they couldn’t break through because the media was busy valorizing Andrew Cuomo.”

On February 20th, Sirota reported at Newsweek the following, under the headline “Andrew Cuomo Caved to Donors As He Shielded Nursing Home Bosses, Ron Kim Says”: He asked the progressive New York State Democrat Ron Kim, “New details have emerged about what was going on in New York’s nursing homes last spring, as the pandemic was ravaging the state. What were you seeing and doing last spring?” Kim answered, “A month into it, the nursing home executive order comes out, the March 25 executive order, the infamous one that directs untested COVID patients [who were in hospitals] to nursing homes [to boost their owners’ incomes]. And we eventually found out there were 9,000 of these patients that were transferred. That happened, and right away, everyone said this is wrong [because the other residents there were the most vulnerable people in the state, to catching and dying from the virus].”

Those 9,000 spread it to others, who lived there; and they, in turn, spread it to the employees and to the general public, including to any family-members who visited those nursing-home residents.

As a consequence: when the definitive website that reports both cases and deaths from Covid-19, around the world, which is started, on 5 April 2020, to calculate both the “Tot cases/1M pop” (total cases per 1 million population) and the “Deaths/1M pop” (in other words, to report the ratios which show how well or how poorly a given locality’s political leadership against Covid-19 is) the U.S. state that had the highest on both was the same state, and it was N.Y., where the figures were actually the worst in the world — higher than that of any country in the entire world. This world-leading worst performance continued until at least May 31st, but by June 30th, N.Y. was the worst state on cases but only the second-worst state on deaths. By the time of July 31st, N.Y. wasn’t the worst on either. However, Andrew Cuomo’s corruption (if not also his general incompetency as a political leader) had made his state the world’s capital of Covid-19 infection, and of Covid-19 deaths, for several months running.

On 21 November 2020, NPR headlined “Andrew Cuomo To Receive International Emmy For ‘Masterful’ COVID-19 Briefings”, and reported that, “The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced Friday that it is breaking with tradition and awarding its International Emmy Founders Award to a real politician who is currently in office. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is being honored his daily coronavirus briefings earlier this year.”

At the very same time when he was killing tens of thousands of New Yorkers, he was giving those deceptive and evasive, but pretend-transparent, Emmy-Award-winning, press conferences.

This was like when in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama had won a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing but his rhetoric, and then in 2011 he started planning the overthrow of Syria’s Government and replacement of it by one that would be selected by the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and also planning in 2011 the overthrow of Ukraine’s Government and replacement of it by one which would be selected by U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland, whom Joe Biden has recently appointed to the #3 post at the State Department, under Antony Blinken, who had worked with Nuland to install a fascist regime in Ukraine.

Considering that the U.S. imprisons a higher percentage of its population than does any other country in the world, nothing that is being reported here should surprise anybody. But, because of the extreme media-censorship in the U.S. and in their allied (vassal) regimes, it does. The one thing that the ‘news’-media in a dictatorship absolutely ban to report on is the corruptness of the ‘news’-media themselves.

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Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, the governors of California and New York, respectively, appear to be struggling for their political lives over their bungled handling of the pandemic. Is the tide finally turning against the lockdown mentality?

The groundswell of public animosity currently being directed at the Democratic state leaders disproves the adage that ‘all publicity is good publicity’. Just ask New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Despite a fawning media that only shows its fangs at Republican prey, the accusations against Cuomo are becoming harder to ignore considering that they border on criminal neglect.

The problems for the governor date back to March 1, 2020 when the first reported case of Covid emerged in New York. Nineteen days later, with just 35 fatalities connected to the virus in New York City, Cuomo ordered all nonessential workers to stay home, prohibited gatherings of any size, while demanding that citizens comply with a 6-foot social distancing decree. At this point, many New York citizens were wondering ‘where’s the science’ behind the seemingly irrational commands.

Why is Andrew Cuomo still holding his seat in office?

— Kambree (@KamVTV) February 16, 2021

Then came a truly bizarre move. On March 25, the Cuomo administration barred nursing homes from refusing seniors on the grounds that they had COVID-19. If ever there was a perfect way for spreading a deadly virus, all the more virulent among senior citizens, many of them already suffering other health issues, this was it. New York health officials said that nursing homes were forbidden “by law” to reject anyone they couldn’t adequately care for. While that may be true, it was an unforgivable directive from officials who were trying to come to grips with a pandemic that had just shut down their entire economy. And the ‘oversight’ would prove deadly.

Last month, a shocking report from New York Attorney General Letitia James describes how the governor’s office may have undercounted the number of COVID-linked nursing home deaths by more than 50%. That news should have come as no surprise considering that New York is one of the only states that calculate residents who died on the territory of the nursing homes and not those who later died in hospitals. That methodology allowed Cuomo to say that the Empire State had a lower percentage of nursing home deaths compared to other places, when in fact just the opposite was true.

Instead of an official tally of 8,711 nursing home deaths to the virus, the toll was actually more than 13,000, sending New York from number 6 to highest in the country.

Any guesses who the Cuomo administration blames for its lack of public candor? If you guessed ‘Russia’ you are close.

Secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa admitted during an audio meeting with Democratic lawmakers that the Cuomo administration had turned down a legislative request for a Covid count in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football.”

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”

In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”

“And basically, we froze,” she explained to the lawmakers.

It would be nice to believe that the Democratic lawmakers will follow up with a serious investigation into Cuomo’s lockdown madness, which led to the deaths of untold senior citizens as coronavirus swept through nursing homes like wildfire. But with partisan politics what they are, calls for an investigation, and even Cuomo’s resignation, will be thwarted by allusions to the greatest bogeyman next to Russia, which of course is the former U.S. president Donald Trump. Whether the New York citizenry continue to buy that charade now that Trump is out of office is another question.

Meanwhile, across the country and just after Valentine’s Day, members of the Recall Newsom 2020 movement sent a love letter of sorts to embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom, saying they had collected enough signatures – 1.5 million to date – to trigger a special statewide election to challenge his grip on power, and more specifically the way he has handled the pandemic response. The recall group, which has employed a small army to circulate their petition around the state, mentioned the “significant things” Newsom has done to help the group get the necessary signatures before the March 17 deadline.

“The governor has done things, significant things, to help our cause, and, actually, you know, we have nobody else to thank but Governor Gavin Newsom for the success of this recall and he has nobody else to blame,” Orrin Heatlie, lead petitioner for Recall Newsom 2020, told NBC 7.

While Democrats have slammed the initiative as a “vanity project” of ‘Trump Republicans,’ the movement has found sympathy among many Californians who are frustrated with the enforcement of rules and regulations that many people find senseless and self-defeating.

Our ICUs are climbing quickly toward their capacity. Our death rate is rising.

To slow the surge of #COVID19 and save lives, CA is introducing a Regional Stay-At-Home Order.

Regions where ICU capacity⁰fall below 15% will be placed into this Stay-at-Home Order ⁰for 3 weeks.

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 3, 2020

Just some of those orders included a 10:00 p.m. – 5 a.m. curfew for 41 of the state’s 58 counties, which is representative of more than 94 percent of the state’s total population. The two-month curfew, which remained in place throughout the make-or-break holidays, was put into effect just days after Newsom was spotted at a birthday party at an upscale restaurant. None of the dozen guests in attendance, including Governor Newsom, were observed obeying the very mask and social distancing rules he had imposed on the citizens of his state. As far as hypocrisy and elitism goes, that disastrous decision ranked close to Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’ quip.

Other draconian rules put in place by Newsom include the closure of beaches, the cessation of indoor worship, the cancellation of in-school classes, including the nation’s second-largest school district in Los Angeles, and the shutdown of most indoor businesses. Particularly cruel, especially considering that the youth are particularly resilient to Covid, was the closure of playgrounds amid the stay-at-home orders. The insanity reached fever pitch when some California cities actually covered over skateboarding parks with sand to ensure pubescent youth remained bored out of their minds.

These regulations, which seemed to be motivated more by an insane and insatiable lust for power than any scientific decision-making process, have led many to suspect they were part of a deliberate effort to drag down support for then-president Donald Trump amid one of the most consequential elections in modern U.S. history.

With the benefit of hindsight, the draconian lockdowns imposed by both Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, as well as dozens of other Democratic leaders, did very little to halt the outbreak of Covid. In reality, it only exasperated the living conditions for their citizens, deprived as they continue to be of their ‘nonessential work’ and the freedom to live their lives as they wish.

A simple comparison of statistics between lockdown-happy California and freedom-loving Florida tells the whole story. According to analysis conducted by the Daily Mail, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s harsh lockdowns resulted in 8,499 cases and 130 deaths per 100,000 residents. At the same time, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who dropped regulations preventing people from operating businesses, has resulted in 8,306 cases and 117 deaths per 100,000 residents.

Today, Ron DeSantis is being discussed as a possible running mate for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, while Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo appear to be heading to political oblivion. How their political fortunes ultimately turn out remains to be seen, but now that the American people can see that there are viable, healthy alternatives for battling the Covid pandemic than isolation and economic destruction, harsh lockdowns are going to be increasingly difficult to defend in the future.

Now we’ve seen the DNC’s sheepdogs like The Young Turks, The Hill’s Rising, and Jimmy Dore, all fall in line and report out on the resuscitated claims against Biden. That’s how we know this isn’t a form of vetting that builds upon his electability. This has all come up before, and when things already settled come up again and again, and they come from inside the DNC itself, that’s how we know the fix is in against our failed fixer himself.

Coronavirus changed everything

Maybe there was some idea that the novel coronavirus would work out well for Democrats – the collapsed economy, public disapproval of Trump’s response. But two strange events went down in the middle of March that may be related. Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and Bloomberg backed out of his billion-dollar pledge to defeat Trump ‘at any cost’, leaving the DNC with a meagre $18 million dollar ‘thanks’.

Bloomberg was Biden’s meal ticket. This is the real scandal about to be exposed, when it’s discovered that Biden has no real fundraising to defeat Trump. And how that went down was no accident.

The #MeToo axe being taken to Biden, and the fact that his dementia is becoming more and more a talking point among DNC sheepdogs, and is no longer denied by any Democrat having an off-record conversation, truly raises some very big questions. It also makes other things increasingly likely.

If it comes from the DNC, this is Hillary’s move – point blank.

While TYT, Rising, and Dore all seem to have been pro-Bernie and ‘anti-Hillary’, thinking people aren’t fooled. Appearances are such just because the entire base of the party was pro Bernie and anti-Hillary. You have to meet people where they are at – the sheepdog has to run alongside the sheep for quite a few long strides in order to herd them in the desired direction. The three related YouTube endeavors who share an interlocking directorate of backers, all operate towards the same goal, with each channel playing to a particular grade or hue of Democrat. TYT is for those who hate Hillary the least, Rising sits in between TYT and Dore, as Dore is there for those who just might even vote Trump as a ‘spite’ vote and really already know it’s been time for a third party for decades – Dore’s job is to keep them involved in ‘Democrat resultant politics’ and promoting down-ballot ‘progressives Democrats’ like the psy-op AOC, while never openly endorsing Clinton or the DNC’s shenanigans at the top.

In the past few days, all of them have brought up the #MeToo allegation from former staffer for Joe Biden Tara Reade, who is making the rounds now recounting her experience from the 1990s with then-Senator Joe Biden. This now shockingly includes the use of the words ‘sexual assault’, along with the previous and more mild (version of the same), inappropriate touching.

Her denial of legal resources from the Time’s Up #MeToo organization previously was at first given a rather weak reason. This organization behind #MeToo claims that as a nonprofit, they can’t make a charge against Biden because he’s a candidate for office. But the hashtag and memetic #MeToo feels otherwise. This much doesn’t really matter, and those claims are pre-existent – they had been there to give Biden the veneer of protection from the #MeToo Twitter Stormtroopers. All the while, we had only heard of the Bernie Bros misogyny against Pocahontas Warren.

Doesn’t that candidate excuse echo Biden’s Burisma invincibility armor as well? A candidate can’t be implicated, but a sitting president can be impeached – riddle me that one.

And what of Clinton – will she take “O’Biden’s” place?

The DNC has been engaged again in its ‘auto-leaks’, where it begins to promote an idea in virtual spheres at a distance, simulating that the notion had come organically from netizens themselves. This time, it’s that the Queen of Warmongers, Madam Secretary Clinton herself, would ‘step up’ and become the DNC nominee.

The poll numbers are already there, and event gambling sites are already giving odds. These odds have spiked in recent days.

What’s more? Rasmussen’s been running scientific polling data on the question since October 2019. In reporting now that Trump vs. Clinton is ‘Still Neck and Neck’ – they explain:

<<Among her fellow Democrats, 48% see a Clinton nomination as likely, 46% as unlikely. This includes 17% who say it’s Very Likely and 20% who consider it Not At All Likely.>>

The neoliberal BBC was among the best ‘foreign’ press examples of Clinton’s actually existing presidential campaign for 2020. Here we are informed that Madam Secretary is “under enormous pressure to run in 2020”. This much is featured, while in the entire text we are never informed that this pressure comes from anywhere besides Clinton’s own second, third, or fourth personality. Indeed, the BBC explains:

<<“I will certainly tell you, I’m under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it.

“But as of this moment, sitting here in this studio talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans.”

Mrs. Clinton did not elaborate on who was pressuring her to mount what would be her third White House campaign.>>

We offer this slight clarification: “At this moment, no, but in the previous moment and in the following moment, yes.”

Clinton had set up the terrain for some time, refusing to go away. She produced and featured in a Hulu original documentary about … herself! Fittingly titled Hillary, this love-letter exalts her own legacy as seen through her own eyes; she’s the most caring, righteous, progressive, skilled, and qualified historical figure in living American history. The adversities she’s faced makes MLK Jr. seem like some out-of-touch mansplaining privilege lord. Clinton deserves to be president, don’t you see?

Why was this doco produced? Narcissism alone can’t explain its timing. As this author previously wrote – none of these antics are a bug, they are a feature.

She’s also written yet another book, with the same narrative themes as the doco, titled The Book of Gutsy Women. ‘Gutsy’ seems strangely appropriate when we look at the ‘guts’ used in Marina Abramovic’s ritualistic cannibalism, the Clinton’s Rasputin.

As for Cuomo, we will deal with Cuomo, because there are various possible combinations which insert Clinton in the end.

On a certain level it’s practically unbelievable that a person so fantastically despised not only by potential swing voters but by her own party’s base, would continue on like this. The lack of self-awareness is stunning indeed, but more unbelievable is that it forces decent people to once again confront the charmless neurosis of clinical narcissism and sociopathology.

She can’t help that arrogant smirk and head wobble when she thinks she’s said something brilliant. It begins even as she takes a seat. It’s strange in that it communicates a sort of a child-like state of ecstasy as well – likely giving psychoanalysts a field day as they connect her psychopathology to early childhood events.

There’s been so much written about why she’s disliked that over-complicates that point. As this author wrote at the end of 2015, Clinton needed to transcend her own limitations and accomplish a narrative arc of transformation simply by being apologetic. She doesn’t have this in her, and along with the head wobble and smirk, that’s what it boils down to. Not neo-liberal policies – she’s capable of lying about progressive stances. Re-watching her first debate with Trump, there was nothing she said that didn’t come from Bernie Sanders talking-point arsenal.

Yes, psychopaths can feign sincere apologies – in fact they excel at them often. People elect likable psychopaths all the time. What makes Hillary strange is the combination of this pathology combined with an aggressive lack of self-awareness.

As this Coronavirus pandemic hysteria either persists or blows-over, and the real economic crisis it attempted to take credit for ruins the lives of millions of Americans – the gamble now is that Trump will be unable to act decisively, and that Clinton can run against this.

No, Clinton wouldn’t do any better were she the president, this much is known. But she will be running against the sitting president and how the media – which she has tremendous sway over – construes his response. This comes as her very own Pelosi worked to derail the more progressive aspects of Trump’s first round recovery and aid package, and media reported out the literal opposite. And therein lies the rub and the growing possibility that Madam Secretary is aiming to be finally crowned the long-overdue honorific, Madam President.

And Corona-hero Cuomo?

Like Giuliani who became America’s hero after 9-11, a very real event – at least a real as the Coronavirus pandemic that has struck the U.S. – Cuomo has become America’s governor. Just like Madam Secretary, he has denied any intention to run for office ‘someday’ (people are talking 2024, which is alarming for weird reasons once you think that one through to its two only logical paths). But yet, media keeps asking him about it.

Are we really to believe this played out arc of the reluctant protagonist? Will ‘moderate’ Dems have to ‘recruit’ Cuomo to his historical destiny, despite his scripted deference to ‘compassionate and competent Joe Biden’?

Cuomo hasn’t been vetted, there’s likely many things that Epstein will reveal about Cuomo once he testif …. Ahh haa! But interesting images are circulating around of Cuomo in a polo shirt giving a coronavirus briefing, and his kinky sex-fetish nipple rings are abundantly and obviously poking through that thin shirt.

The truth is that there’s no time. No time to vet Cuomo, this is an emergency, and the DNC convention has been delayed by a month – for now. Will it be delayed again? The truth is that Trump set a new standard, being sleezy or creepy is no longer a campaign killer in real life. But it can be used to cover for the fact that Bloomberg pulled out right as Gates stepped down from Microsoft. The conspiracy sphere is having a field day with the fact that both were the primary sponsors of the Event 201 scenario-drill from just last October, and then the U.S. is hit with the same event – but with live ammunition – or as Mike Pompeo said ‘This is a live exercise’, slipped in during a White House press briefing on Corona in the third week of March.

These are the conspiracy theories and – who knows, maybe planted – Easter eggs that the hardcore post Q-Anon Trump sector will drill into the public through Reddit and beyond.

But something happened that forced out the primary Event 201 sponsors that forced one to step down, and the other to step out.

And as a result, Biden is decreasingly viable. The real problem is how Hillary can get herself back in the campaign. Will it be Sanders-Clinton? Clinton-Cuomo? Cuomo-Clinton? Biden-Clinton?

This is what we need to be asking now regarding the 2020 election – if, that is, there is one.

Is it a done deal? Not yet – but at this time as we enter April, an increasingly strong argument can be made that Clinton is absolutely angling her way to be Madam President. By hook or by crook – the Clinton way.

The author can be reached at FindMeFlores@gmail.com