In crisis there is opportunity, and the left wants to seize it
The left must see COVID-19 as a fabulous and fortuitous opportunity to accomplish a host of things they’ve been wishing for and hoping for.
They believe it will destroy Trump, hurt the economy, and convince people that big government and Democrats must take over. A fearful populace is a malleable populace, so fanning the flames of fear is good. And of course, elites know best – and nearly all elites are leftist these days.
I don’t think this virus was engineered and purposely released, as some people do. Whether it even escaped accidentally from a Chinese lab is very iffy. But whatever happened, the left is purposefully taking advantage of it.
And this may be as good a place as any to insert the following (hat tip: Ace).
Via Twitchy, Harmeet K. Dhillon uncorks a rant for the ages.
1/As a San Francisco resident and business owner, I’m wondering–can I trust the health judgments of leaders who let thousands live on the streets in their filth? And if we are now getting homeless into shelter, why couldn’t that have happened earlier? Doesn’t their health count?
2/ All of a sudden we are supposed to accept 24-hour curfews “for your own safety” from people who order the police to stand down when Antifa & friends beat the hell out of taxpayers; people who refuse to enforce laws they don’t like (death penalty, bail, property crimes) …/
3/ City leaders who literally give wanted alien criminals a public heads up when ICE is about to conduct raids are now telling me what’s best, declaring a death penalty for businesses, no hearings or due process?! Forgive me if I don’t fall right into line with the fascism …/
4/ which seems awfully situational. The Governor’s suggestions yesterday that older and vulnerable people take extra care and stay inside seemed reasonable. Liberal city leaders decided to seize the opportunity and throw the whole economy into a tailspin as collateral damage …/
5/ but don’t worry — we’ll soon have a government sponsored bailout for favored groups soon, funded with a tax increase crammed down the throats of the dwindling number of taxpayers. Homeless go back to the streets, illegal alien criminals get sanctuary, car break-one continue…
Just for my own curiosity today, I checked that 14 out of 19 states that have imposed more restrictions such as restaurant closing have Democrat governors.
Here’s a thought! What if it backfires on them, and the election has to be postponed? HAHAHAHAHA
Tom:
Simple. Everybody mails it in. And then it’s easier to manipulate, too.
Tom,
Now the superintendent of schools in the state of Washington is saying some school closures could last into the fall and beyond which is insane so yeah let’s postpone the election for, I don’t know, 4 years?
Just got a covid alert on my telephone for christs sake..
What I wonder is what has to happen for them to loosen some of these restrictions. Since they were put in place totally subjectively how will they be removed? If the curve bends down they’ll just use that as proof that we need to keep doing it and if it doesn’t then we have to do more.
Will there be some sort of pushback at some point?
An ‘enough is enough’ moment?
There was a song by Jonathan Edwards, back in the day, “Sunshine”, that pretty much says it. It’s on You Tube – don’t know your policy on links so didn’t – the lyrics are right on the point (short bit promise):
“How much does it cost? I’ll buy it.
The time is all we’ve lost. I’ll try it.
He can’t even run his own life,
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine”
Pretty much the answer I give to the whole Democrat Socialist -Communist Party and their programs and promises.
Neo, I meant that mostly as a joke. But seriously, the left has been more successful at shooting themselves in the foot throughout Trump’s administration. I think they’ll figure out a way to do it with this too. Trump will help them, because he’s good at it.
Wow! Dhillon absolutely nails it! What a great reaction to what is feeling ever more like over-reaction on the part of our betters! Thanks, Neo.
I will NEVER vote for a democrat again.
The democrats and the news media will take down the country to remove Trump.
They have crossed the line — and are now working together to destroy the US.
And I voted for Gore so long ago.
Ike,
Great song by a great songwriter. I have his first 2 LPs.
Edward,
Perhaps wanting millions to die and our investments to tank is not a winning proposition.
Lesley Gore or Gore Vidal? (kidding)
Why, along with TP, is there such a run on guns and ammo again?
The fascism is evident in the unconstitutional abrogation of our rights and I believe many are instinctively preparing for the aftermath.
Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh.
It must really hurt the anti Big Business Dems to see that so many of the businesses are working closely with the Trump team to get things done.
Calls for nationalization, open borders, stop all fracking and do national health care go against everything that is helping mitigate this unfolding disaster.
I won’t mention guns.
Why do we not treat the virus-like scourge of Socialism and Communism with the same seriousness as COVID-19, SARS, MERS, H1N1, etc.? Socialism and Communism have killed more people than those real viruses combined. I am thankful that the Democrat Party decided that Bernie can’t be allowed to win but why do we allow it to get to this point? If Martial Law is the next thing to protect us from COVID-19 then why aren’t we taking prophylactic measures to squelch the rise of Socialism and Communism in America? Why is COVID-19 a public health crisis and the other a personal lifestyle choice? I am not suggesting that sympathizers be arrested but something needs to change in the school system. People who wear Che shirts should be publicly denounced as thoroughly as people who use the N-word.
Interesting bit from Wikipedia on the “Black Death”:
“Consequences / Social: One theory that has been advanced is that the devastation in Florence caused by the Black Death, which hit Europe between 1348 and 1350, resulted in a shift in the world view of people in 14th-century Italy and led to the Renaissance. Italy was particularly badly hit by the plague, and it has been speculated that the resulting familiarity with death caused thinkers to dwell more on their lives on Earth, rather than on spirituality and the afterlife. It has also been argued that the Black Death prompted a new wave of piety, manifested in the sponsorship of religious works of art. However, this does not fully explain why the Renaissance occurred specifically in Italy in the 14th century. The Black Death was a pandemic that affected all of Europe in the ways described, not only Italy. The Renaissance’s emergence in Italy was most likely the result of the complex interaction of the above factors.”
Will COVID-19 become another pivotal moment in humankind’s evolution?
even if it didn’t come from a lab, and in fact from a chinese animal abusing zoonotic open air wet market (as did most pandemics over the last 100 years)it is no different from a smallpox blanket.
Now, now, people. Please let the better angels of your nature guide your comments and actions. Pointing fingers, stigmatizing, and selfishly cutting yourself off from sharing, and caring, and … other stuff like that … will do no victims any good.
Singing songs of defiance, sharing hugs … that’s the ticket.
Now here are some people with progressive attitudes that we can all admire … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNMdg4morQs
I don’t know if Jonathan Edwards is anti Virus after all since he also wrote:
gonna sit down in the kitchen and fix me something good to eat
and make my head a little high and make this whole day complete
cuz we gonna lay around the shanty mama and put a good buzz on
which seems like an argument for shelter in place…or shelter in space (if you’re holding)
Edwards did a great rendition of Paper Doll. These days you’re not allowed to say you like it, but the hell with that. I like it!
I live in one of the fastest growing counties in Texas with perhaps the best performing HEB grocery store in Texas which is a big damn deal..
I realized that we were running out of fresh vegetables which I use every day preparing out meals so I thought that perhaps a quick run to the store would be all right as long as I stayed away from others and used all the quick germ killer stuff. I also knew that when I came back home I should leave my boots in the garage and then strip off all my clothes into the washing machine in the laundry room before coming into the house just to keep the virus things away.
Our huge oversize HEB grocery store was spooky, most of the vegetables that I wanted gone, I picked up the last cauliflower, a bit of broccoli and some zucchini along with a nice pack of medium tomatoes but that was about all I found because I alway cook with fresh produce. Then I went over to the dairy and eggs, no milk and only one size of eggs with a max of two dozen per person.
The can goods were stripped and the meat section was pretty much gone so I bought one rack of Saint Louis style ribs which I will cook in the next few days. I purchased several days of frozen fish and there were not too many of them. I filled out out purchase with some high end lunch meat, bacon and that was about it.
The guts were sucked out of one of the the highest performing grocery stores in the nation and I wonder when they will ever be able to restock and I presume that the entire nation is seeing this giant wipe out of food. Hopefully the next few days will bring more replenishment however, perhaps not, and then what will the average people do?
I am a good cook and made my wife a delicious meal tonight with half rations, a genius amount of pasta with a half bottle of spaghetti sauce a few vegetables including only a half an onion, the rest goes in the fridge for tomorrow, and leftover pork tenderloin. From now on we will eat all right but kind of on adjusted rations. In my life time I have never see shelves stripped like I did today and I am afraid the next two weeks will be worse.
I always keep at least a month of meals tucked aways but what the heck happens for the rest of the folks who don’t cook and plan. Lord help us as those who might be out of work have to depend upon McDonalds and other fast food places for their dollar meals. I hope and pray those folks can keep their supply train rolling or else we, the nation will be in real big trouble.
May our Dear Lord Bless, and send HIs Blessings. for all of us as we go thorough our time of need and give us our daily bread, etc.
I fore see the next two weeks, or a bit more, as a historic point in the life of all who are living so this is not a laughing matter or a partisan point of view.
This is the real, life or death, and for the disadvantaged and those living on the week to week paycheck a time that will can really cause damage and hardship.
Trump’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic has been praised by both Gov. Newsome of CA and Gov. Cuomo of NY. That didn’t get much play. I wonder why.
Amen OT.
Ike…it’s one of many 1960s & 1970s songs calling for more freedom…ironic that the political movement to which these songs gave impetus turned out to be largely about *less freedom”.
All this talk about “the next couple weeks” reminds me of the expectations of the Civil War and WW1.
“It’ll be over in a couple weeks”.
Not if they keep prolonging it.
This is the best time to buy into the stock market. So much fear has made people sell at ridiculous rates.
Watching humanity try to deal with this is… interesting.
This is all I have to say about that, my favorite stories in the Old Testament are first JOB and then RUTH and both are about, to me, being loyal, trusting int the Lord and let the Lord’s will be done.
All of that staying the course and doing what each of us is called to do to the best of out abilities. Yep, kind of time for us all to step up and take care of each other and ourselves to the best we can. ‘BE BEST’, etc.
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Trump’s actions are likely to be those that minimize responsible criticism of his actions, with his job to later claim those who criticize him as being irresponsible.
His support for, and from, Big Business, is certain to allow faster response and solution implementation than is done by other democratic countries.
His market oriented success is an implicit attack against the “market failure” narrative which Socialist lovers want to push — so they will continue telling lies and half-truths.
“Too many deaths” and Trump loses.
“Too much economic damage” and Trump loses.
On economics, Trump’s “conservatism” is trusting markets and tax cuts, more than Big-gov’t “experts”. He’s likely to throw lots of US gov’t money at those hurt by the econ panic to reduce its costs, but for Dems it will never be enough.
Will Reps leave Trump and vote Dem? No.
Will Dems accept Trump and vote Rep? I don’t think so, tho maybe blacks go from 8% up to 20% (a huge hit to Dem votes). White college grads under 40, probably not, most continue TDS.
Will independents accept Trump and vote Rep, even after constant barrage of Dem media Trump-hate? Too soon to tell.
Freedom lovers have noted that the FDA & CDC are relaxing many regulations in this emergency — it might be that after the emergency, such regulations can stay relaxed or require more justification before they are re-imposed. My hope on this would be to convert them into recommended guidelines, not regs.
OCR will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency. This notification is effective immediately.
Lost three years of wealth creation on the DOW..
people doing this is making sure that the people that were happy getting jobs and all that wont have them in the near future…
you have to break eggs in an economic war
the advantage of such a battle, is that no one knows they are in it
Artfldgr: “Lost three years of wealth creation on the DOW..
people doing this is making sure that the people that were happy getting jobs and all that wont have them in the near future…”
On Trump’s victory in 2016 I wanted to email him to say to be careful in 2020 but I didn’t want to come across as a nutjob. To this day I still think that the 2008 financial crisis was manufactured to hurt Republicans. This time around I’ve got that same bad feeling.
To this day I still think that the 2008 financial crisis was manufactured to hurt Republicans.
Yes, Citigroup and AIG ruined their balance sheets to benefit the Democratic Party.
Current data is up at my friends site: http://covid19.rumments.com/Dashboard.cfm
Artfldgr: “Current data is up at my friend site…”
Thanks, wow I haven’t seen a Cold Fusion app in a long time.
Terrible Mistakes almost being made:
Giving money to people. Helicopter money. All this does is cause prices to be raised. Dumbest thing to do. You have to match total money to goods and services produced. Help people by giving them vouchers for specific purposes, money equivalents, with redemption value if they don’t use them… something they yearn to save.
Cancelling schooling. We have the brightest people sitting in Silicon Valley. They should be devising curriculum with educators and getting ready for on-line schooling within a week. You can’t have kids sitting home with no classmates for months. You know this is going to damage their brains and social development. Use Zoom or FaceTime.
Artfldgr:
You haven’t lost anything if you haven’t sold.
DNW:
Thank you for that link.
Just saw Chuck Schumer speaking in the well of the Senate. It didn’t take long for him to blame the administration for delaying addressing the Wuhan virus. Almost threw my tv out the front door. As usual he demonstrates what a heaping pile of cow excrement he is. Were I there, I would have puked on his shoes.
People still have tvs and watch them? Tisk tisk. All that stuff will be junk in 1 to 2 years.
That may be, but Schumer’s still a heaping pile of cow excrement.
Yeah. Laptops, desktops, cell phones, iPads, tablets will all be junk in 1 to 2 years. As if brinster said what platform he was using to watch the Chuck.
Comedy gold.
My parents must have read me the Halliwell version of Chicken-licken; we’re all running around the barnyard.
FWIW, some old commune friends, very anti-Trump, were quite pleased with Trump’s COVID speech. They were surprised at how reasonable and presidential Trump sounded.
I have concluded Trump has that gear when he wishes to use it.
re: schooling. Florida has had a complete on line school streaming for years now, since they adopted the Sunshine State standards for testing. However, teacher’s union successfully restricted it to children registered in public schools who are out of school for medical or other approved reasons for long periods. Also Australia has been running Class room of the air for rural kids on faraway farms back when it was broadcast instead of online.
huxley: “They were surprised at how reasonable and presidential Trump sounded”
So all they see is “presentation”? Why is that so important do you think? Must be Daddy and Mommy issues. He hurt my feelings! Boo hoo. Grow up already, why don’t-cha.
So all they see is “presentation”?
Brian Morgan: Don’t you respond to presentation? If a smelly, homeless person told you the truth, interlaced with profanity and wackadoo conspiracy theories, would you hear that truth?
Or do you have Daddy and Mommy issues?
For comic relief, here’s good ole Roger Miller with the funniest, truest song about envy ever written:
Yeah, I see you’re goin’ down the street in your big Cadillac
You got girls in the front, you got girls in the back
Yeah, way in back, you got money in a sack
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders rared back
Root-doot-doot-doot-doot, do-wah
I hear tell you’re doin’ well
Good things have come to you
I wish I had your good-luck charm
And you had a do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka, do-wacka-do
–Roger Miller, “Do-Wacka-Do (1965)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lw33d7K12E
Do-Wacka-Do ~ “Do like I do”
One theory is Miller was singing about Elvis. Couldn’t say.
The entire Trump stock rally is gone: Dow erases all its gains since Donald Trump took office
–https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/investing/stocks-erase-trump-gains/index.html
For Democrats this is a dream come true.
huxley,
I like honest talkers regardless if they ruffle feathers. The truth is hard for many people to handle. The problem is that our betters have persuaded us that our feelings are paramount, all the while they take us to the cleaners. (I can think of a better metaphor but I won’t say it in polite company.)
huxley:
It’s a dream come true for them except for one important thing: they would much prefer it hadn’t happened as a result of a worldwide disaster that most people can recognize is not Trump’s fault.
Oh, they’ll try to say it is, but I don’t know how many people will buy that except for the usual Trump opponents.
Brian Morgan: The truth is you were also talking in a personal and disparaging way about my friends, who are as ordinary as you and me.
It’s a dream come true for them except for one important thing: they would much prefer it hadn’t happened as a result of a worldwide disaster that most people can recognize is not Trump’s fault.
neo: The good strategist accepts less than maximal outcomes. Noam Chomsky taught me that.
huxley:
I’ve already written in previous posts that it’s something they’re ecstatic about in terms of politics. My point here is only that their real dream was to have the same thing happen and to have it be clear it was Trump’s fault.
Yamiche Alcindor, still an asshole: (video at link) https://mobile.twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1240324022069493760
huxley on March 18, 2020 at 3:01 pm said:
The entire Trump stock rally is gone: Dow erases all its gains since Donald Trump took office
* * *
Now imagine if this had happened with Clinton as President, and the Dow had never gone UP in the first place.
My point here is only that their real dream was to have the same thing happen and to have it be clear it was Trump’s fault.
neo: I already understood that point going into my comment. Why do we keep having this interaction?
I said “a dream come true,” not “the absolute bestest dream Democrats have.”
huxley:
We keep having the interaction because I think there’s still a tiny bit that I want to clarify. But it’s not a big deal, believe me.
But what I’m trying to emphasize – and perhaps it’s already understood, but I wanted to make it more clear – is that I don’t think even the Democrats dreamed this particular dream, and that the dream they did dream was that some sort of financial recession would occur and be clearly, unequivocally Trump’s fault. This has the potential for making Trump look “presidential,” which would end up being not a dream but a nightmare for a lot of people who cannot stand him and have spent over three years wanting him OUT, or dead.
Jonathan Edwards? Gee whiz, I thought he had pretty well hit his personal best with “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Now he’s into rock? Wow — what a multi-talented guy!
BTW, Ymarsakar, you’re wrong again. Everybody knows the world ends in the year 6000. Since it’s only 5780, we’ve got 220 years to go!
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