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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
As Emergency Funds For Small Businesses Run Out, “Nancy Antoinette”
Pelosi sits in her plush San Francisco chateau, shows off her $24,000 freezer full
of chocolate ice cream to a friendly reporter. Doesn’t have to worry about negative
press coverage.
Pandemic likely to exceed Great Recession in number of bankruptcies.
Dr. Phil: Lockdown Could Eventually Create More ‘Destruction’
and ‘Death’ Than Coronavirus
We’re doing this why? The U.S. death rate (mortality from all
causes) still remains at a multi-year low despite
COVID-19. Look at the yearly graph. One explanation would be that normal deaths
are being misattributed to COVID-19.
Thousands of Michiganders protest governor's extreme
lockdown order with in-vehicle demonstration at capitol building.
Michigan Gov. Whitmer denounces protesters 'Endangering
People's Lives'
Petition to Recall Michigan Governor Passes 150,000
Signatures
Whitmer bans landscaping work, orders closure of garden
centers and nurseries, bans the sale of paint at Home Depot.
Mayor DeBlasio introduces New York City Snitching Program –
Take a Photo of Non-Compliant Behavior, turn your neighbors in.
But this is rich! CNN’s
Acosta: Trump 'Really Highlighting Some of His Authoritarian Impulses’
Trump Shows Media Video of Their Reporting Failures on
Coronavirus
Brutal Trump takedown at the coronavirus hearing leaves media
screaming 'Pull the Plug!'
Trump calls on voters in swing states to ‘LIBERATE’ from Dem
governors and heavy-handed restrictions.
Washington
Governor Inslee: ”The president is
fomenting domestic rebellion.” Governor Inslee is saying that any form
of protest against his unilateral authority; against his self-defined power and
unrepresented decree; is an act of “domestic rebellion.”
Biden Gets Confused Again... Says He Wants to "Put
Millions of Citizens on a Pathway to Citizenship"
Crazy Joe Is Assembling a White House Transition Team Seven
Months Before Election Day
MSNBC host suggests Biden form ‘shadow government’ to
counter Trump on coronavirus
Trump Halts Funding to World Health Organization Pending
Review
Chamber of Commerce Slams Trump for Stopping WHO funding. Same CoC who opposes the border wall, favors
increased immigration with millions of Americans suddenly out of work.
World Health Organization Spends Twice as Much on Travel as
on Medical Supplies
Criticism of the WHO is now a "right-wing stunt",
apparently.
Can We Talk About American Media's Connections to Chinese
Interests?
China collusion? CNN
Report Criticized for Repeating Chinese Propaganda on Coronavirus
Democratic Group Received $100,000 From Tech Firm With Links
To Chinese Communist Government
Growing confidence among officials that coronavirus emerged
from Chinese lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US.
You can’t make this up:
U.S. National Institute of Health (Dr. Fauci’s organization) gave $3.7 million
grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing
experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have
originated.
Press not interested. Is this because Dr. Fauci is somewhat
of a media favorite for his ambivalence and cautiousness towards President
Trump’s virus response initiatives.
Sen. Josh Hawley Announces Justice for Victims of COVID-19
Act to Hold China Responsible
Kanye West Goes All in for Trump: I Won't be Told Who to
Vote for Because of My Skin Color
California unemployment center hours extended, $125M fund
created to help illegal immigrants
Study: States dole out millions for illegal aliens while US
veterans struggle
Democrats introduce legislation to release detainees and
stop ICE enforcement
Good news: DHS Grants
Environmental Waiver to Speed Texas Border Wall Construction
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Never Let A Good Crisis Go to Waste
Derek Hunter 4/19
Yes,
that title is a Democratic Party mantra, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t
useful lessons in it for everyone. For the American people, it’s an important
reminder that Democrats will seek to exploit something as horrible as the
coronavirus pandemic to advance huge portions of their big-government agenda.
For conservatives, it may be the best opportunity to roll back the size of
government we’ve ever had because it’s been the best real-life example of the
failures of massive concentrated power in history.
Anyone
paying attention has noticed how Democrats across the country are using this
emergency to expand their power. From the Governor of Michigan banning the sale
of vegetable garden seeds and paint, to the speaker of the House holding up
emergency funding to prevent the complete collapse of the nation’s economy for a
week in order to secure taxpayer payoffs to liberal interest groups and pet
projects, liberals everywhere have shown the world who they are. And that’s
just the tip of the iceberg.
There
is an active Democratic push in the House of Representatives to give US
taxpayer money to illegal aliens while they are opposing the expansion of the
Paycheck Protection Program, which is the only thing keeping tens of millions
of Americans employed right now. You can tell a lot about people by looking at
their priorities, and none of the Democrats’ priorities are the American
people.
Nancy
Pelosi, with her $20,000 fridge in her mansion’s kitchen, spends her time
eating expensive ice cream and giving safe interviews with sycophants about how
awful she thinks the president is at doing his job. While she hides 3,000 miles
away, the president is doing his job; Nancy won’t even show up to work. (Why
isn’t Congress in session right now? They’re being paid.)
Instead,
she masterminds the ever-changing narrative for the media to attack the
president – from “Trump is a racist for banning travel from China” to “Trump
did nothing to stop the spread” – Pelosi is a cross between Tommy
Flanagan and Joseph Goebbels,
a comparison I don’t make lightly. Maybe she’s incapable of doing anything
good; it’s difficult to know when there’s no record of her trying. Perhaps they
could make one up and engrave it on a plaque in her honor to hang in the
Kennedy Center, using a small part of the $25 million she found so important
that she held up the relief bill for a week to get.
Meanwhile,
in Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer is earning her nickname “WHitler.” After
declaring marijuana and lottery tickets “essential” (the government wets its
beak thoroughly with those), she’s banned vegetable seeds and house paint –
because people need to be stopped from taking care of home improvement projects
they didn’t previously have the time for while the government mandates they
remain in their homes. You can’t get “elective” surgeries like joint
replacements, but she kept abortion clinics open because they’re “life
sustaining.”
After
Michiganders protested these restrictions, Adolf WHitler whined that
demonstrators were going to force her to extend her ordered home imprisonment.
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy absolved the Chinese for the spread of the
virus, blaming instead President Trump. Maxine Waters declared the president to
be “slow walking America to dictatorship” because he was “trying to defund US
Postal Service, & opposing vote by mail.”
There are useful idiots, and then there are just idiots. Sadly, so many
of both are elected Democrats.
Times
of crisis reveal who people really are, and Democrats are awful. But so is big
government. If Republicans are smart, they’ll message the obstruction to
fighting the coronavirus presented by the government. Of course, when it comes
to the ability to message and coherently make a case, it’s always a big “IF”
with Republicans.
Americans
for Tax Reform has compiled a running list of federal, state, and local laws
and regulations that had to be waived to speed up the coronavirus response. (As
of this writing it’s up to 300!) Government had to waive everything from the ability of
trucks in Texas that deliver alcohol to also deliver food, to the federal red
tape preventing states from deploying coronavirus tests. It’s enough to make
you wonder if these needed to be circumvented in an emergency, why were they
ever there in the first place?
Pointing
this out would reduce Democrats to arguing, “Big government failed us, we need
bigger government!” If Republicans can’t beat that message, they deserve to
lose.
Democrats
view every crisis as an opportunity, even ones they’ve made worse. Republicans
need to ensure everyone sees who they are and what they’re doing. The media
won’t do it. Republicans have to start a campaign now. They need to nationalize
this election, make it a referendum not only on where we go next, but where
Democrats have taken us during this crisis. Otherwise, it will have all been a
waste.
Another good read:
“Battle Lines Drawn: Texas Opts for Liberty, While
Washington State Makes Liberty Illegal”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The Paycheck Protection Program ran out of money … because
Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, blocked the necessary $250 billion
replenishment for the program that Congressional Republicans tried to deliver.
Now ‘Nancy Antoinette’ has to explain to America why she chose to show off her
luxury refrigerators and … ice cream collection from her chateau in San
Francisco instead of funding the Paycheck Protection Program which has saved
millions of jobs all across the country.”
-Republican
National Committee
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Eric Holder: Coronavirus is an 'Opportunity' to Change
America's Voting System
California Public School Teacher Admits to Teaching Her
Students That Trump is Fascist, Trashes Republican Students On Social Media
Barbra Streisand: “20,000 Dead Because of Donald Trump”
On MSNBC, Reza Aslan Likens White Evangelicals to 'Doomsday
Cult'
Virginia is the new east coast California? Governor Signs Law Ordering ‘All Places’ Open
to Public to Let Transgenders Use Ladies’ Rooms
WaPo Columnist Who Wrote A Book About Brett Kavanaugh Now
Says #BelieveAllWomen Is ‘Dumb’ Given Accusations Against Joe Biden
CNN Goes Full Resistance: Chyrons During Trump Coronavirus
Briefing Read Like Democrat Attack Ads
‘Action Will Be Taken’: Georgia Democrats Vow Revenge On African-American
Democrat Lawmaker Who Endorsed Trump
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CORONAVIRUS
Strassel: Here's Why the Democrats Keep Moving the Shutdown
Goal Posts: “Knowing that the longer the
lockdown remains in effect, the deeper and more prolonged the recession will
be, Democrats would like to see it continue for as long as possible. They are
acutely aware that a slow economy will hurt the President’s chances of reelection.”
“The resistance freaks want the country to stay closed as
long as possible because they think it will hurt Trump and they don’t care
about the collateral damage of their political jihad. American companies
destroyed and Americans out of work, WHO CARES? Orange
man bad. The narratives, which are very obvious if you read the corporate
media, are that 1) Trump knew early on about the virus and 2) we can’t open the
country because people will die.”
Media Hope In COVID-19 They Finally Have The Event That Will
Destroy Trump
The Media Controls the 'Crisis'
Behind the curtain of corona-madness
Prager: “Has the
Lockdown Worked?”
Nancy Pelosi says Says Trump Handling Of Coronavirus ‘Almost
Sinful’
Pelosi Demands Public 'Ignore President Trump' on
Coronavirus
https://neonnettle.com/news/10982-nancy-pelosi-demands-public-ignores-president-trump-on-coronavirus
Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern, lockdown
or not. Didn’t have to do it?
NPR proves true AG Barr’s claim the media is on a ‘jihad’
against hydroxychloroquine
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ARTICLES
Horowitz report is enough to make J. Edgar Hoover blush
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/16/horowitz-report-is-enough-to-make-j-edgar-hoover-b/
Lemons into Lemonade: Did President Trump Trick Dems into
Going 'Full Authoritarian' during Virus Crisis?
Democrats Fear Trump’s New 2020 Strategy Is Working
VDH: “As we continue
to debate about numerators and denominators in determining the real impact of
this virus, one common denominator remains certain about the elites advising,
crafting, and developing our response: they aren’t touched by the impact
of their decisions.”
Political Elite Plays Its Last Card “…in response to a fortuitous virus pandemic,
(Democrats) purport to require President Trump to commit political suicide by
shutting down the economy for so long that the soon-to-be 30 million unemployed
will turn him out on election day.”
Democrat
playbook is to blame Trump for not acting earlier against virus. Suppose he had: “The first COVID test positive patient in the US was on January 20. The Senate
impeachment trial began on January 16, four days before the first COVID
case in the US. What if Trump, upon learning of this first case, (had) instituted
a national stay-at-home order for the entire country? This of course would have
included all members of Congress, effectively ending the impeachment trial. Anyone want to guess the chyrons on CNN? Words like
“despot,” “tyrant,” and “dictator” would have featured prominently.”
Does Liberalism Cause Mental Illness?
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OTHER STUFF
Take a Virtual Tour of Two Recently Excavated Homes in
Pompeii
Virtual tour of the National Gallery of Art
An interesting deep dive into one renaissance painting: “Tower
of Babel,” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Nice Buckingham Palace tour:
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WISE
WORDS
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of
the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe
depositories.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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