Saturday, March 21, 2020

op ed review 3/22


THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Dark Money Groups Spending Millions to Politicize Coronavirus
Mid-crisis, Democrat Super PAC to Spend $5 Million Attacking Trump over Coronavirus
Majority of Independents Aren't On Board With Media's Politicization of the Wuhan Virus

CNBC gleefully proclaims:  “Three pillars of Trump’s case for reelection are collapsing all at once”
Paul Krugman Celebrates Stock Market Rout: Thinks It Hurts Trump
CBS news delighted to report that market losses “(wipe) out nearly all the gains of Trump's presidency.”
CNN: Why is he so positive?:  “Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times”
CNN Hid Swine Flu For Obama, Went Gonzo On Wuhan Flu Under Trump
Media Fact Checks Ignore Obama's Botched H1N1 Response

Americans Overwhelmingly Approve of Trump’s Coronavirus Travel Ban
After seeing polling data, Schumer deletes Tweet attacking Trump for China travel ban

Trump calls himself a ‘wartime president’ over coronavirus as he invokes Defense Production Act
Dr. Ronny Jackson says Trump prevented American coronavirus pandemic on level of Italy, Iran

Pigs were seen flying in New York. Wait! It was a CNN anchor praising Trump.
This is a little worrisome: Rep. Ilhan Omar Lauds Trump’s ‘Incredible’ Response to Coronavirus — ‘Unprecedented Leadership’ ??

This Should Go Well: Philadelphia Police to Stop Arresting Criminals Over Coronavirus Concerns
Philadelphia’s progressive DA has declared war — on cops, law and order

‘Governments are really scared’: Virus builds back borders that European Union demolished
Clueless celebs slammed for cringe video promoting world with no borders during pandemic

Obama-Era Whistleblower Philip Haney's Death Likely Murder, Lawmakers Say

Sen. Cotton Introduces Bill to End US Dependence on Chinese-Manufactured Pharmaceuticals After China Threatens to Cut America's Access to Vital Drugs

Trump admin to begin turning back all undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers at borders
Border chief won’t hand over criminal illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities

The Puyallup Police Department in Puyallup, Washington is asking all criminals to put a halt to criminal activity as the coronavirus pandemic is underway.  The department posted the tongue-in-cheek to message to its Facebook page

BIDEN GOES EXTREME: Give Oil Industry ‘No Ability’ To ‘Continue To Drill’, Take ‘Millions’ Of Cars Off The Road
But watch the media try to turn Joe Biden into a moderate.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
The Democrats' Project Fear Will Fail  
JB Shurk  3/15

Have they scared you yet?  Me neither.  Not for want of trying, though.  Project Fear is ramping up, and it’s only going to get worse.  The Democrats and the global establishment class do not care how many lives are lost or how much financial damage results.  They have only one concern: removing President Trump from power, silencing us, and bending the arc of history back toward the plutocratic governing elite.  For them, that is the only moral universe that can exist.

All of us have known this was coming.  From the moment on November 8, 2016, when we looked at each other and smiled, we knew the real war had just begun.  The people with the most power in our country and across the globe had spent six months before that fateful election campaigning on nothing but fear.  They promised economic ruin.  They promised imminent nuclear holocaust.  They promised that internal unrest would lead to civil war, that foreign policy inexperience would lead to global war, and that global warming skepticism would lead to planetary extinction.  They laid all this and more at the feet of American voters, but enough of us had finally grown so furious with decades of ineptitude and betrayal by the federal government that we drew our own red line across America’s timeline and said, “No.”  We did not fall for their scaremongering and delusions; we held our ground and finally pushed back.

That is why the election year of 2016 will always mark a turning point in American history, while most other election years will be long forgotten.  2016 was significant not just because President Trump won, but because so many of us looked around and realized just how many of us there actually are.  For years we had been minimized and mocked and made to feel very much alone.  We held our tongues in class; we held our tongues at work; we endured the ritual hazing from Hollywood movies and primetime television and late night comedy and cable news; we took it and took it and stayed silent like good soldiers while the institutions in our country worked to make us feel small.  Then one day we stood up, threw the mother of all uppercuts to their open jaws, and knocked the bullies right on their backs.  To this day, I’m not sure who was more surprised: the pummeled looking up from the ground or the pummelers staring at our own fists and enjoying what we’d done.  Either way, everything changed that day because conservatism changed.  We finally remembered that the fight for liberty in 1776 wasn’t done over wine and cheese.  Conserving freedom requires more than passive respect for one’s traditions; it requires active and vigilant participation.  And if our best fighters weren’t getting the job done, we’d just have to send a new type of fighter into the ring, or better yet, stop watching the fight from the damn spectator’s gallery, lace up some gloves, and set to work swinging.

Since that time the Democrats and the global establishment class have done everything to pretend that 2016 never happened.  The “smart” set sees the Russian boogeyman under every bed, lack of education behind every Trump vote, racism responsible for every Trump victory.  So sure are they that they’re on the “right side of history” that they have abandoned any pretense of supporting free speech or alternative points of view.  For them, the Bill of Rights was never anything more than a vehicle toward State control of everything, another troubling and outmoded vestige of America’s past that can be discarded and abandoned on the road to America’s socialist future.  So, they’ve sent attack after attack against President Trump and all of us.  While the CIA and FBI have conspired to oust the president, the social media giants have closed our accounts, censored our words, and silenced our voices.  The harm they cause is as real as their inability to grasp the seriousness of their actions, for by depriving us of our pens, they will leave us only our swords.

Over these long years since the 2016 election, though, our tormentors have unintentionally accomplished something else: they’ve steeled our resolve.  In those first few months after President Trump was elected, the attempt to take him down was so furious that none of us knew for sure what would happen.  Would Democrats successfully subvert the Electoral College?  Would Republicans like Paul Ryan and John McCain demand the president’s resignation?  Would Jim Comey’s accusations lead to impeachment and removal?  How many James Hodgkinsons would the Democrats send our way?  How lethal would John Brennan’s threats against President Trump prove to be?  Their attacks on the legitimacy of the 2016 election and attempts to overturn it have created an unrelenting siege against all of us who would have gladly gone back to our own lives until the 2020 election.  Because they have given us no peace, however, they have made us sharp for what lies ahead.

This is the year that the Democrats weaponize fear like never before.  Every one of us knows that.  They will do everything they can to torment and torture American voters until they exchange their votes in November for temporary mercy.  But no mercy will ever come.  This is the lie they’ve told for generations.  The lie they’ve used to make Americans submissive while stealing everything from them.  The Democrats have always been the hostage takers who collect their ill-gotten gains before promptly shooting all the hostages they’d promised to free.  That’s the history of their party.  For them, 2016 was inexplicable.  Americans had never stood up to them before, and they intend to make sure it cannot happen in 2020.  If they must, they will destroy what they cannot possess.  We, on the other hand, are no longer asleep, and we know what is coming.  For the first time in many decades, a growing number of Americans finally see who the Democrats are and what they are capable of inflicting upon their fellow citizens.  There is a fire before us; we must walk through it; but we no longer have to do so alone.  With eyes wide open, we will.


Another good read:  “It's clear Democrats see the coronavirus outbreak as an opportunity, not an epidemic. The yearly cases of influenza are ignored because no one can criticize Trump for them. But a new mystery disease? Woo-hoo, open the floodgates of blame!   It's a crying shame dozens of people have died from the coronavirus in America. But it's an even bigger shame that millions are having their livelihoods disrupted, thanks to the media-fueled hysteria. Calm down, people.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The economic devastation that is now playing out before our eyes is not caused by the Wuhan flu virus. In the last 21 days, approximately 162,000 Americans have died. Of that number, 150 were killed by the Wuhan virus.”
            -John Hinderaker

“I hate to thrust my Western cultural values on anyone, but maybe it’s time to stop eating bats.”
            -David Harsanyi
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Baltimore Mayor begs residents to stop shooting each other and keep hospitals clear for coronavirus.

DNC chairman: “I don't know what faith Trump supporters follow”

Deep Pocket Democrats Intend to Buy Congress

James Clyburn Compares Trump to Hitler, Could Make America 'Germany in the 1930s'

8 Crazy Things Bernie Has Said To Propagandize Socialism
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CORONAVIRUS
Stanford professor: “Coronavirus may be less deadly than we think -- and too mild to justify these aggressive countermeasures….If in fact this virus is less deadly than the flu, do we actually want a coast-to-coast shutdown to contain it?....we’re using the social equivalent of thermonuclear weapons to try to take this disease out.”
Per Capita Death Rates In One Chart  “there is almost no reporting that uses comparative analysis weighted for population.”
Apocalypse No
MIT Biologist and Inventor of Email Says Deep State Fear Mongering on Coronavirus Will Go Down as Biggest Fraud to Manipulate Economies

Obama holdovers at the CDC were busy fighting racism and obesity instead of stopping epidemics.

The United States might have a secret weapon against coronavirus:  the US practices a form of social distancing in its daily life through suburban living. Americans have been criticized for their detached, single-family houses and their solo car commuting, but these factors may also mean that Americans are less likely to be in close quarters with strangers during their daily lives than are residents of most other developed countries.

Bureaucratic idiocy:  “Seattle infectious disease expert Dr. Helen Chu had, by January, collected a huge number of nasal swabs from local residents who were experiencing symptoms as part of a research project on flu. She proposed, to federal and state officials, testing those samples for coronavirus infections…..the CDC told Chu and her team that they could not test the samples unless their laboratory test was approved by the FDA. The FDA refused to approve Chu's test on the grounds that her lab, "was not certified as a clinical laboratory under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months."

Mass Transit, The Pandemic Petri Dish The Left Loves

The Wuhan Virus and the Imperative of Hard Decoupling

“What's worse?  The rapid spread of a novel virus that originated in China or the media hysteria created and broadcast around the world?  If it was the intent of the American media to create a state of fear and panic, they've succeeded brilliantly.”

How Coronavirus Will Strengthen Trump's 2020 Campaign
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ARTICLES
Joe Biden, the Manchurian Virus Candidate

VDH:  America In a New Upside-Down World
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OTHER STUFF
These historic places are offering virtual tours during the coronavirus pandemic

BroadwayHD Is Letting You Watch Your Favorite Musicals For Free — For a Limited Time

Feeling stir-crazy? The Met's best operas will be free online
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WISE WORDS
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
              -Thomas Jefferson

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