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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Sees 'Silver Lining' to Deadly
Virus—It's Hurting Trump
Democrats take this as good news: Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to
levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American
workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus.
Can’t make this up…….Green River Killer, Gary Ridgeway,
comes within one vote of being released from prison by the Washington State
Supreme Court over coronavirus fears.
USA Today poll: 80% of Americans Support Total Immigration
Halt
Bitter Michigan Democrats plan to censure dem state
representative who credited Trump with saving her life after she took hydroxyquinone. Kick her out of the dem party?
Idaho Police Arrest Subversive Mom For Taking Children to
Playground? Idaho??
Idaho Woman Facing 6 Months in Jail For Violating
Coronavirus Lockdown Order by Holding Yard Sale
AOC suggests low-income Americans should boycott work after
coronavirus shutdown ends because they work too hard anyway.
Biden flashback to 2011: China Provides Jobs, ‘Fuels World’s
Prosperity’
Snohomish County Sheriff refuses to enforce stay-at-home
order
2,500 protesters rally against Washington stay-at-home
orders
As Californians Reach the Tipping Point, Rebellion Against
Stay at Home Orders Begins
'Let us work' protests spread all across the US this
weekend; demonstrators labeled as 'far-right'
Could anti-lockdown protests be new Tea Party movement?
Blue State Governors Demand Facebook Remove Information
Organizing Protests Against Their “Orders” – Facebook Complies
Georgia, Tennessee, SC announce plans to reopen some
businesses, wind down coronavirus stay-at-home orders
Oklahoma joins the US states planning to reopen
White House Instructs Agencies to Begin Process of Returning
Some Employees to Their Offices
Democrats in Texas hope to loosen voting rules to turn the
state blue.
Kentucky's GOP legislature overrides governor's veto on
voter ID requirements
CNN finally has one sexual assault allegations story against
Biden, had nearly 700 articles on Kavanaugh accusations.
Newly Declassified Evidence: Russia Didn't Try to Help Elect
Trump in 2016
Trump edging Biden in battleground states
Washington state: at least 20 county sheriffs refuse to
enforce new gun laws
New Michael Flynn Filing shows how he was railroaded into a guilty
plea.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
America
Held Hostage
Peggy Ryan 4/25
What
are we doing, America? We've destroyed a booming economy, turned a record
number of jobs into record unemployment numbers, and given up our basic tenets
of liberty — all so we won't get sick? We're
allowing governors to restrict people's movement; prevent citizens from
assembling; and order mandatory masks, testing, and vaccines. These governors
now claim the right to track our every move, to surveil every American in order
to ensure compliance. This shutdown is not just a slippery slope to socialism
and communism; it's a downhill slalom.
How
did we get here? Americans aren't cowards who would eagerly surrender liberty
for immunity. But therein lies the genius of the left. It's not just about you
and me, now, is it? The left has
hostages: our aging parents, grandparents, sick relatives. Either we put down
the Constitution and slowly back away or the hostages will die. This hostage
situation is why kids are
kept out of school even though they're not seriously affected by the virus. They're
walking time bombs, carriers who will initiate a senior genocide should they be
unleashed on the world.
I
call BS.
If
we want to protect the elderly, how hard would that be? We can avoid
the elderly and those with health issues (duh). Our "most vulnerable"
citizens can wear masks, use sanitizing wipes on surfaces (doors, counters),
and minimize their risk. And despite the narrative, the virus isn't a death
sentence for the elderly. So how does locking up the rest of America provide them
additional protection? F act is, it doesn't.
Yet
this false narrative of protecting our "most vulnerable" population
is reason enough for Americans to comply with martial law, put liberty in
abeyance, and suffer economic destruction.
So, ostensibly to protect the hostages, America shut down. But the death
toll was never the real threat of this virus; it was the contagion, how many are infected at the same
time.
Thus
the president's "15 Days to SLOW the Spread." This was time
we could use to ramp up production of hospital supplies, of hospitals. If we slowed the spread, we could
"flatten the curve" long enough to keep our health care systems from
collapsing. OK, done. We now have enough
resources across the country to meet the demands of an outbreak. So we should
be good to go, right? Not so fast.
Governors
have in the name of health incarcerated their constituents, imposed martial law
(shelter-in-place, shutdown) in several states yet remain for the most part
unchallenged. If we had a free press, they'd talk of the constitutionality of
these moves. They'd ask what state
health crisis justifies martial law. Instead,
our enemy media demand that every state shut down. A ubiquitous question at press
briefings is, why doesn't the president just close down the whole damn country? The president talks over the media's head
about the Constitution, federalism. Since
reporters don't have any prepared notes on that stuff, it usually shuts down
the subject, for a day anyway.
OK,
but we're going to reopen now. Not so
fast. Many states that reopen will do so
with conditions, a virtual ankle bracelet in case we break parole. There will
be mandatory masks, tests, and vaccines. People will no longer have a say over
their personal health because we have to think of the general population. I bring you Communism 101…..
A
chilling reality of mandatory testing to stamp individuals virus-free is that
it's not so far from Bill Gates's digital certificate of health. Employers who buy into forced
testing would soon concede it's far easier to scan employees than test them. And
how long until stores require proof of a customer's health before they let him
inside? Pretty soon people won't be able
to buy a loaf of bread without a digital
health certificate. But it's all good, necessary to protect the masses.
So
people will wear a mask because if not, if we interact with other humans
unprotected, we'll kill not just ourselves, but many others. I call BS.
If
our mere presence will kill people, then we already have blood on our hands. Tens
of thousands of Americans are hospitalized every year with the flu. Tens of
thousands die from the flu…Influenza was deadlier last season than it has been for at least four decades, killing
80,000 Americans. Did we as
careless, uncaring Americans kill 80,000 people with a handshake, a hug, or a
visit? Did we murder 80,000 people by
not wearing a mask or gloves? Or could
they have been exposed to the flu in a store, a doctor's office, at church, the
hairdresser, the school play, or a hundred other places we go every day? We don't need to take responsibility for
spreading a virus; the viruses do a bang-up job of spreading on their own. It's what they do.
But
talking about avoiding this virus is again the wrong discussion. No matter what
we do to dodge this virus, in the end, we're all going to die of something. It
might be this virus or the flu, cancer or heart disease, a blood clot, an
aneurism, or even a car accident, but no one's getting out of this world alive. “You cannot hide from danger. Death floats on the air, creeps through the
window, comes with the handshake of a stranger. If we stop living because we
fear death, then we have already died." —Margaret Weis, The
Soulforge
Am
I saying the virus isn't bad? No, it is. Some people get very sick; some will
die. But it's not the bubonic plague. Most corona virus patients (80%) have
mild symptoms. A new study shows that the mortality rate for this virus is not ten times as lethal as the flu, but very close
to flu's 0.1%. "98% to 99% of people infected with the
virus will recover." Plus an anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, shows great promise as an effective
treatment and possibly a prophylactic (preventative measure)….
Too
many Americans have died for our liberty for us to squander this treasure over
a virus. Over a million American soldiers — young, healthy — ran headlong into
gunfire, navigated mine fields, dodged bombs, and otherwise gave their lives so
Americans can be free. Not a single patriot sacrificed his life, his future, to
keep Americans from getting sick. The
government claims it's protecting us from the virus. With the Constitution in
lockdown, who's protecting us from the government?
"There
are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They
promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." —Daniel Webster
More
good reading: “So far, the Swedish
strategy of allowing some exposure to the virus in order to build immunity
among the general population while protecting high-risk groups like the elderly
appears to be paying off. The country’s chief epidemiologist reported that
“herd immunity” could be reached in the capital of Stockholm in a matter of
weeks. “…the vast majority, for now, want Sweden to keep its cool. We don’t
want to remember 2020 as the time when we caused irreparable harm to our
liberties -- or lost them entirely.” Sweden instructing the U.S. on liberty?
Who would have thought?”
Loving The Lockdown: The Left Is Taking Pleasure From The
Economic Crash: “Democrats realized
lockdowns could be the transformational crisis they’ve been pursuing for
decades. There’s a reason the lockdowns are being called a “free trial of
socialism.” They’re crushing the economy. And this creates the perfect
opportunity for the political left to move in and “save” advanced economies in
the U.S. and elsewhere with socialist/statist/collectivist policies favored by
Democrats.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I think it’s time to consider the possibility … that this
lockdown — as opposed to the more moderate mitigation efforts — is a colossal
public policy calamity.”
-Brit Hume
“Citing polls to support shutdowns is absurd. Asking 100
[people] if they support it, 70 who still have jobs, while 30 are desperately
trying to feed their kids & save their homes, is a recipe for civil
disorder.”
-Dan Bongino
“26M Americans unemployed. 4.4M more this week. That’s a 16%
unemployment rate. 1 in 6 workers without a job. If that doesn’t make you sick
to your stomach… then you must be a politician still collecting your paycheck.”
-Liz Wheeler
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Coronavirus and the smell of Saul Alinsky
Feminist ‘scholar’ calls to ‘abolish’ the family amid
pandemic: “Households are capitalism’s pressure cookers”
Harvard Professor Wants A ‘Presumptive Ban‘ On
Homeschooling, Claims It Promotes White Supremacy
Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called
'green' energy
For the first time since 1861, Democrats want to see
Republicans die.
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CORONAVIRUS
Facts about Covid-19:
1. the overall lethality of
Covid19 is between 0.1% and 0.4% (similar to flu) and thus up to twenty times
lower than initially assumed by the WHO. 2. The median age of the deceased in
most countries (including Italy) is over 80 years and only about 1% of the
deceased had no serious previous illnesses.
3. Countries without lockdowns and contact bans, such as Japan,
South Korea and Sweden, have not experienced a more negative course of events
than other countries…..
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Will the Covid-19 PsyOp succeed?
Remember the government shutdowns? Funny how we don't see
those same sob stories about lost paychecks now.
In a National Emergency, Does the Constitution Still Apply?
“Coronavirus Immunity Cards? Kill that Idea Right Now. Imagine
if in September of 2019, a government official had told you that America was
going to launch a new database, into which you would be required to enter your
vaccine status and other personal health history, and that this would be used
to determine whether you have freedom to leave your home, go to work, open your
business, travel, or be in public places.
The American patriots' response would have been “Are you out of your mind? That will never
happen. Maybe in China, but not in America." Yet
this is exactly where we are headed today.”
Distinguished Stanford physician says “The data is in — stop
the panic and end the total isolation”
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HOW BAD IS IT?
United Airlines (UAL) posts $1.2 billion loss amid
coronavirus, seeks more federal aid
Stunning footage shows more than 400 passenger jets sitting
idle in the California desert
3 million Americans are not paying their mortgages right now
1000s Of U.S. Businesses That Were Shut Down Will Be Closed
Permanently
Protests banned at capitol, on state property in California
No advertising revenue, US newspapers face
'extinction-level' crisis
COVID-19 puts rural hospitals in Eastern Washington on brink
of financial collapse
Disney stops paying 100,000 workers during downturn
Neiman Marcus to file for BANKRUPTCY after furloughing
nearly 14,000 employees
50% of Americans expect that their savings will run out by
the end of April,
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TUCKER CARLSON
Another outstanding Tucker monologue: Are
coronavirus lockdowns working? The eight
U.S. states that have still not issued statewide shelter-in-place ordinances
are below the national average in coronavirus cases and deaths, per capita.
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ARTICLES
Nightmare prospect: “How
the Obamas could easily win eight more years in the White House.”
How does Nancy Pelosi get away with blocking desperately
needed aid? “She appeared to feel a remarkable confidence that she would not be
skewered in the national media for holding up urgently needed money. And
indeed, she was not.”
Walter Williams: “The
absolute worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly its most
unrecoverable damage, is the massive power that Americans have given to their
federal, state and local governments to regulate our lives in the name of
protecting our health. Taking back that power should be the most urgent
component of our recovery efforts. It's going to be challenging; once a
politician, and his bureaucracy, gains power, he will fight tooth and nail to
keep it.”
Greenies panicking over the discrediting of computer models
predicting virus disaster
Reopening Georgia and Colorado: A Study in Double Standards
15 Election Results That Were Tossed Over Fraudulent Mail-In
Ballots
Green New Deal -- Coronavirus Economy Is a Preview of the
Green New Deal Economy
Schlichter: “If the
Malevolent Donkey Party was actively seeking to plunge the country into an
economic tailspin, while still maintaining some level of deniability to the
credulous suckers out there, exactly what would it be doing differently? It
would be pretty much doing exactly what it is doing right now – shilling for
the (Chinese Communists) , delaying needed assistance to keep America working,
and generally trying to keep us all locked in the dark in perpetuity.”
Nigeria’s
former Minister of Culture and Tourism: “How
the ‘Evil Called Barack Obama’ Enabled the Genocide of Nigerian Christians”
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CONSPIRACY CORNER
“…we should all be talking about possible Chinese
interference in the 2020 presidential election.”
Fox’s China expert Gordon Chang: "I can't say what was in Xi Jinping's
mind, but if he — after seeing the devastation in China — if he wanted to
spread this deliberately to other countries, he would have done exactly what he
did." “level the playing field”?
Wuhan laboratory scientists 'did absolutely crazy things' to
alter coronavirus
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OTHER STUFF
Washington State R-90, Repeal the New Sex Ed Laws. “We have very limited time to gather 150,000
signatures, by early June.”
Follow the construction of the border wall system
Somebody has dumped the Wikileaks files to the web. You can look at Hillary’s emails now.
Check out AOC’s green new deal posters: “admired for their resemblance to Soviet
and/or Nazi propaganda posters”
Trump campaign goes for the jugular with new ad: 'Let them
eat ice cream — Nancy Antoinette'
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WISE
WORDS
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has
already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since
for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.”
-Albert
Einstein
“Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us
that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous
attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.”
-Patrick
Henry
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