A COVID lockdown backlash?
It’s a little bit – just a tiny bit – as though people are waking up from a bad COVID dream. Something about the length of the whole thing, plus the seeming relative mildness of Omicron, appears to have caused this.
Sensing the fatigue in the voting public, and feeling the hot breath of the midterms on their necks, many Democratic politicians have backed off somewhat on their most draconian anti-COVID measures. Perhaps they’ve read polls such as this:
The DCCC, which is the main campaign arm for House Democrats and is currently chaired by New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, worked with outside consulting groups to conduct an online poll of voters in the 60 most competitive House districts for the upcoming 2022 midterms. The poll was conducted from mid-January to early February, had approximately 1,000 respondents and a 3.1% margin of error…
The poll found that that 57% of voters in competitive congressional districts agree with the statement, “Democrats in Congress have taken things too far in their pandemic response,” and 66% of self-defined “swing” voters in competitive districts agree with that statement. White and Hispanic voters in competitive districts were equally as likely to agree (59%), while Black voters (42%) and Asian voters (46%) disagreed with the statement. The poll also did not define what “taken things too far” means.
Must be a bit frightening for them, if they can’t make up the difference with fraud.
The article begins with this sentence:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is concerned that Republican attacks on the Democrats’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have “alarming credibility,” according to a slide deck obtained by SFGATE.
I wonder whether it occurs to them that this may be because Republican attacks turned out to be factually correct. Or is that even an issue that matters to them?
I don’t think the truth or falsehood of attacks matter to them at all.
It doesn’t matter when they are making attacks.
They have never really looked at data or science only “The Science” tm.
The only thing they are afraid of is that independents and conservative democrats, yes the exist in the wild, will see that much of what they did and what they pushed Trump to do was not backed very well by data and small s science.
If I had school age children in a public school that had remote learning and then required masks, I’d never vote for a Dem in my life.
The Dems need to pay a high price for their child abuse as that is what it was.
Covid revealed the Dems to be the lunatics and authoritarians that they are.
Their big worry has to be the House. Fraud cannot take the whole thing, as there are too many districts outside the big blue corruptopolis. They can still do some, of course, and they are going all in on redistricting, unlike the GOP in some places*. The Senate, of course, they can steal, and I’m not betting against that.
However, I expect them to try other tactics in the House. One would be seeing that so many Republican winners are disputed that the undisputed House remains majority Democrat. They then settle the disputes.
*I was talking to a friend who has a theory that overdoing gerrymandering is counterproductive, because things change too fast over a decade. Maybe. And even if he’s right, one cycle may be enough to end it.
They will never ever admit they were wrong. That is the common theme of leaders around the world from Canada to NZ to Australia to US governors. Instead they either gaslight everybody by claiming the NPI’s worked or they just quietly move on from them.
And it is a mortal lock that mask mandates will return again next winter if not sooner.
Their only chance for electoral success is to hope enough people have forgotten by November and my cynical self says they will probably see their hope realized.
Democrats are now responding to awesomely bad polling eight months before an election. They’re responding so abruptly because they’re genuinely surprised at how awesomely bad they are. And they’re surprised because THIS is the media bubble in which they live:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Mike
The democrat party is facing a bloodbath and since the only way they can see to reduce it is with deceit and fraud, they have no alternative but to dig the hole they’re in even deeper. In seeking to appear to get out of that hole, they have to engage in even more deceit and fraud. They’re caught in a vicious cycle.
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive” Sir Walter Scott
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” Abraham Lincoln
The left’s supporters are slowly being reduced to fools and traitors and that, by their own actions.
The new narrative will be that they did follow the science and now it is safe to return to normal, and their loyal followers will be relieved that the evil deplorables can be not only ignored but ridiculed for being so impatient. It will comfort the true believers but may not be accepted by the unwashed masses.
Speaking from rural south of Houston Texas the following is accurate: The level of hatred for Democrats has reached biblical levels. In rural America, pro-Joe Biden stickers are hidden. Democrats feel like they’re “on the run.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/17/i-feel-like-were-on-the-run-the-hatred-for-democrats-in-rural-america-has-rea-n2603428
IMO the GOP campaign slogan should be Defund the Swamp..
I live in the congressional district that Sean Patrick Maloney represents.
I look forward to voting for his Republican opponent in the 2024 election.
@ Dick Illyes > “IMO the GOP campaign slogan should be Defund the Swamp..”
Except the Swamp includes far too many of themselves.
That bit about Republican attacks having “alarming credibility” also underlies the general point of view of the Talking Points Memo Bubble Bunch – as described in this post by Byron York.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/war-over-trump-spying
It’s always all about them.
York gives the background, which we don’t need to rehearse for Neo’s audience.
Very typical methodology at the Times.
Whatever changes one may see in Democrats now is completely fraudulent; their default setting is “accrue power to rule over society because they’re the smartest people who know better than anyone else.” When facing voter backlash they appease. It’s all an act.
Once the dust settles they will go back to their natural way; leopards, spots, etc. Trust them at your – and our – peril.
Whether Republicans can grow enough vertebrae over the next few months to take the Democrat threat to our country seriously remains to be seen. I rather doubt it, myself, but we’ll see; an 80% response from Repubs will be inadequate, but easier on the landscape than what the Citizens would do if forced to assume the duty.
PS. Reading the entire post from SF Gate, the Democrats have more to worry about than just the public response to their Covidiocy:
I have developed a Grand Unifying Field Theory about why the Canadians (among other governments, including the USA), are being so hysterically adamant about enforcing injection mandates for the Covid vaccines that, it is increasingly clear, are not effective either at preventing infections in the jabbed, or preventing passing them along to anyone else, jabbed or not. In other words, mandates are a useless tool for stopping the viral spread. [see post linked below]
So why the double – triple – quadrupling down on the mandates, to the point that they are willing to run horses over elderly ladies in walkers?
[I can’t believe no one has pulled up a parallel to the Border Patrol Whips Immigrants stories, but the Canuck Faux-Mounties aren’t getting out of this one so easily.]
Go back in time to the first days of the vaccines’ public introduction, and the stories of the tests for efficacy and safety, and look at this particular point. The placebo group is the unvaccinated cohort, having received an injection of something other than the product being tested.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/pandemic-vaccinated-two-studies-show-new-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-cause-illness-prevent/
Now, consider some of the very, very many stories where the illness or death of vaccinated persons is alleged to be the results of the vaccines, which are one of the reasons a lot of people are rejecting the jabs (other objections stem from the fetal cell connections, but that’s an irrelevant issue to my argument).
I don’t know that any of those allegations have been proven yet.
There has to be a statistical analysis of the same sorts of health events in the unvaccinated in order to determine if the illnesses and deaths are more likely caused by the vaccines and not some other factor.
BUT, if you don’t have an unvaccinated population, you can’t make that kind of comparison, and you then can’t definitively blame the vaccines for the adverse health events.
Funny how that works out.
Ah, but what about using the unvaccinated in other countries as the placebo group?
Well — I would argue, if I were one of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s minions — those populations are too different demographically from the ones we are talking about here to make meaningful comparisons.
There are more points in the Theory having to do with immunity for lawsuits (which hasn’t been court-tested yet), suppression of the actual trial data for 75 years (although I think that’s been knocked down to a shorter period), and a few other things, but you get the gist of it: in addition to the fees for providing vaccines – the more people, the more money — the pharma companies get the added benefit of not having any unvaxxed population to compare to the vaxxed for purposes of charging them with being, for some people, a cure worse than the disease.
That’s not chump change, for the pharma companies, or the governments that have promoted them.
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I’ve added some paragraphing to make the text more readable.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-vaccines-are-a-tool-not-a-silver-bullet-if-wed-allowed-more-scientific/
So the demokrats are changing their policies as a result of, and ONLY as a result of the polling data.
This implies that “science” never had anything to do with the implementation and continuation of masks, shots, lockdowns, etc.
The also implies that if the polling data was favorable to the demokrats, they would continue the masking, shot, lockdown policies.
In a nutshell, the ENTIRE COVED response imposed upon the citizenry by the govt was a hoax, a sham, a fraud. Science never had anything at all to do with it.
Goes to show how reprehensible and disgusting the demonkrats are. All they care about is power and control.
In this regard, they are no different than the policies, ex-exterminations, of a Stalin or Hitler.
The PM of Canada, Trudeau, spilled the beans when he admitted he most admired the govt of communist China. This statement, from a politico/ ideological perspective is in accord with Hillary’s ” the deplorables,” and barry HUSSEIN ocommies, “guns and bibles,”comments.
Do not think for one minute that lefties do not admire and wish once again to emulate the types of govt that existed in Europe prior to about 1900; govt. of, by and for the “anointed by God, destined to rule” elites.
The elites HATE the notion of govt of, by and for the people.
God: I told you all that the injections were bio weapon binary component toxins.
‘Stories like the Durham filing, the Times wrote, “tend to involve dense and obscure issues, so dissecting them requires asking readers to expend significant mental energy and time — raising the question of whether news outlets should even cover such claims.” ‘
A—typically—“cute” tack from the NYT!
indeed, THE MASTER of obscurantism, spin and dishonesty pronounces on the difficulty of covering “dense and obscure” issues…and then goes on to—you guessed it—ignore, spin and cover up those “obscure” issues so as to make them even MORE OBSCURE…as their DEAR (not to mention, PRECIOUS) READERS are further—by intention and malice—misdirected and misinformed.
The NYT really has this “trick” down pat!
“All the news that WE DECIDE YOU SHOULD SEE—AND HOW YOU SHOULD SEE IT”, indeed.
Meanwhile, Durham (continued from AF’s post, above) still has to bushwhack through the sleaze, to which the NYT et al.—punching above their weight as usual—are contributing more than their “fair share”….
Margot Cleveland and Andrew McCarthy explain remarkably clearly what the NYT seems to find “obscure” (and intentionally makes MORE “obscure”).
Their respective posts should be read in tandem, though there is overlap. More revelations should be forthcoming pretty soon.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/18/michael-sussmanns-lawyers-its-ok-if-he-lied-to-the-fbi/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/the-misleading-claim-that-durhams-reference-to-trump-white-house-records-was-misleading/
Durham, continued…
“Durham for Dummies” provides a rundown of several articles on what the NYT and its fellow masters of the cover up tell us there is nothing really to see (except more Trumpian subterfuge, of course)—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/durham-for-dummies.php
H/T Powerline blog.
1.
“Truth about techies who targeted Trump” by Kimberley Strassel—
https://nypost.com/2022/02/18/truth-about-techies-who-targeted-trump/
2.
“The Clinton campaign’s plot to politically assassinate Trump”—
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/clinton-plot-politically-assassinate-trump-durham-joffe-neustar/
Key grafs (from #2):
“…This would mean Hillary and her lawyers masterminded a coordinated electronic conspiracy against Trump when he was a candidate and later president, while simultaneously perpetuating the dossier hoax. As with the dossier, everything Clinton peddled was fake. There was no pee tape, no payoffs from Putin, no connection to Alfa Bank and no Russian-made smartphones.
“But this is not a fake scandal. Durham has potentially uncovered the most destructive political assassination attempt since Kennedy.”
When the media deigns to tell you there is nothing to see, then you know—automatically, absolutely—that there is. An awful lot, in fact.
More on the “uncontested” election, from Michigan (again)…
“Lawsuit claims Michigan election chief illegally accepted Zuckerberg money to swing 2020 election”—
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/lawsuit-claims-sos-benson-illegally-accepted-zuckerberg-money-swing
From the Someone-Really-Doesn’t-Get-It File:
“….Trudeau Needs To Stop Using COVID As A Wedge”
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/02/20/harry-rakowski-trudeau-needs-to-stop-using-covid-as-a-wedge/
But that’s PRECISELY what he’s doing to assume total control of what was once Canada.
“Biden”, similarly, is exploiting COVID—and extending it as much as “he” possibly can—to amass total power of the USA.
Two peas in a pod of perversity. (And there are others.)
File under: The Double-/Triple-/Quadruple-Down Club…and their slipping masks…