Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
We’re probably at the end of the beginning of the great Chinese coronavirus insanity, and in not-to-long, we’ll be back to work, despite the people screaming that Trump wants to kill all the old people to please Wall Street fatcats because of course he does. We’ll also soon be assessing blame.
There’s lots of blame because there are a lot of stupid people and institutions who should be blamed. There are also heroes. I wrote about them the other day. But most of the people you recognize from the idiot box were zeros.
The list of zeros must begin with the media, as if that’s a shock. If you were expecting anything but garbage from our media, you have not been paying attention for, oh, the last half-century. Like its establishment masters, the press was freaking out because the Democrat candidates were a collection of mutants and nothing they threw at Donald Trump could stop him, not emoluments, not taxes, not chicks, not Russia, not Ukraine, not Upper Volta, nothing. And then…the Chinese flu. Yeah, that was it! Yeah, that would totally get Trump! Yeah, instead of dealing with the bogus impeachment, Trump should have been rebooting Contagion, though when he cut Bat-Soupland off from direct air travel the smart set called him “racist.”
Yeah. Uh huh. M’kay.
And when the virus got going, the media decided that it should provide critical information to help people cope with the crisis, information like the freshly-minted notion that identifying a virus by its place of origin is racist. That was super-helpful and not-at-all-frivolous nonsense. Oh, and blaming Trump because mental defectives decided to gobble fish tank cleaners – without mentioning the fish tank cleaner part.
Someday, an expert is going to write the definitive book on the modern American media. That expert will be a proctologist.
A big hero is Dr. Anthony Fauci for going everywhere and talking to everyone. Yeah, he’s a liberal in his personal life. He seems to like Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit for some reason but he does what you should do in his position and plays it straight. Where he disagrees with the president, he does it respectfully and without the spittle-spraying insanity of the Never Trump set, and where he thinks the president is right, Dr. Fauci says so. Sure, some conservatives are suspicious of him, and that’s no surprise. What is shocking is seeing someone not being a liberal hack.
Nancy Pelosi is another huge zero. Boy, talk about stepping on your Ted Lieu. Her idea about tanking the relief bill and trying to force her liberal Kwanzaa shopping list of commie fetishes down America’s throat was a strategic blunder of incredible proportions. Nancy forgot that it’s not 1970, when she was 62 years old, anymore. Her media pals will try to cover for her but the gatekeepers got no gate no more to keep. The truth came out and she wilted under the heat. The Dems look like idiots.
China is a huge zero. Those of us who aren’t globalist hacks were already over it, but now it’s pretty clear even to the dummies who it was not already clear to that you can’t trust commies. They lie, they cheat, and for some reason, they eat weird stuff. We’re going to consciously uncouple ourselves from reliance on China, and hopefully take a good look at its citizens’ infiltration of our own institutions in terms of outright espionage and buying influence. Many of our alleged best n’ brightest have shifted into outright support of the ChiCom line. The Atlantic has sucked up to the Chinese so hard that if you read one of its Xi-fluffing features, a half-hour later you’re ready to read it again.
Trump is a hero, of course. He’s been calm and cool and out there every day so effectively that the lib media was demanding his press conferences not be shown live – hypocrisy, thy name is MSNBCNN. No one who is not insane or stupid or a social distancing lifestyle practitioner who scribbles for the Bulwank, to the extent that sad Venn diagram is not a single circle, blames Trump because the Chinese insist on munching on pangolins.
And no one outside that set of losers thinks Trump chose not to wave his magic mask n’ ventilator wand and make them appear in Manhattan. His ratings are going up, and when he starts pushing to get America up and running again, the haters – who are already test-driving their “Trump wants to kill all your grannies because his hotels haz the vacancies!” memes – are going to find that most Americans want to get back to work. This lockdown stuff may play for a while, but its sell-by date is fast approaching and if they think Trump is going to get blamed for freeing people once the Great Curve Flattening starts, they are – as they usually are – wrong.
And Biden is not just a zero but a negative number. He’s like a -4. This is a disaster for the Dems. They have him locked away in Delaware occasionally doing weird vids that seem to channel the bizarre conspiracy radio shows you get at the far left of the dial while driving through Nebraska at midnight. The guy’s a mess and manifestly unable to perform the job they are putting him up for. The presumptive nominee is supposed to be the leader of the party, the big cheese, el numero uno, and he’s on an easy chair staring at his Matlock repeats. The only thing he could lead is a slow amble around the inside of shopping mall with the other crustaceans.
This pandemic has made it painfully obvious that they need a replacement, and that replacement could well be a Democrat who did very well during this disaster, Andrew Cuomo. Fredo’s brother is liberal, and I’m not a fan, but he has been calm and capable during this chaos despite a few missteps. He presents as the anti-Biden – stable, not weird, and not gropey. Plus he has no stripper-poleing, Bolivian powder-huffing son with zillion dollar deals with the ChiComs to explain. So, basically, the hardest hit in this could be the Trump oppo guys who built up stacks of material on Senile Joe and may well see him replaced before the convention by New York’s governor.
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Back to work, Kurt? Not so much, not for a whole fat lot of people. The Coronavirus® is a big scam, but it is enabling the global reckoning and realignment that our betters have been planning lo these many years. Heroes? Not a one to be found in any of the government, businessmen, administrators, not one. Zero heroes there, nothing but sociopaths and their able helpers.
Heroes will be people you know, who go out of their way to help and comfort others as this mess begins to unfold. Right now, we are in the midst of a time-out. When the action resumes, it will be with a new set of rules, an soon a new set of referees. We will all realize that this is a new game altogether, and figure out how best to play it.
The rules will be simple and straight forward. It will be them or us.
The government has shut down Mom and Pop while boosting the earnings of Wally World, Amazon, Target, Walgreen, CVS, Lowes and Home Depot. Who will have massive cash reserves coming out of this and who will have increased debt and zero cash flow for a month or more?
All of those CEO’s are fucking baby eaters, a club of sorts.
yes, the sheep are being moved to new pens during this fleecing, some will enjoy it, some will be turned to mutton
Some will be used for sexual pleasure before they are turned into mutton.
The decision makers in government allowed flights full of Chinese infected to enter the USA for two full months after Wuhan was shut down. Every single epicenter of the disease is where there is an international airport.
The decision makers allowed all of our critical infrastructure, manufacturing and intellectual property to be outsourced to a communist dictatorship for maximum profits.
The decision makers spend 10’s of billions of dollars annually to an organization called the Center For Disease Control who assured everyone that this was nothing until they assured everyone that this was huge. In all that time not one employee or administrator thought to build a strategic stockpile of even the most rudimentary implements for dealing with the spread of a disease, like masks.
The decision makers daily scold the public about social distancing in order to fracture what little common interactions we have with one another, yet every single night they monkey hump each other packed like sardines on a stage the size of a bath mat huffing in each other’s exhalations.
The decision makers assure us of the danger of this virus and daily trot out some B list celeb to relate to us with their Covid-19 tribulations, yet not a single one of them has died, defying all of the RO nonsense they blast the rest of the public with 24/7
The decision makers knowingly and willfully destroyed several segments of the economy that will likely never recover, destroying lives, wrecking communities and driving millions into debt while the biggest corporations rush in to fill the vacuum.
I cannot think of a single thing that any of these people have done that resembles a sober, mature decision making process.
They have sown the wind.
They did let those people in. Because of two things: They knew from minute one that this was not the zombie apocalypse and so they, at the time, didn’t fully grasp what a great tool they initially had in hand to do what they are doing now.
I am pretty sure no one was briefing the POTUS that some people had some kind of flu in China. That’s why no body gave a rat’s ass that people in China had some coronavirus, despite all the gnashing of teeth about how we were “warned” months before it hit here.
The the PTB said “holy shit guys, this is IT! This is the way to tank the economy, the DOW, everything, and bring the spray-tanned savior down!”
And then, right on cue, China cooperated without even trying by doing what they always do, lie to ‘save face’. This played right into the hands of those that wanted what we currently have, a basic shut down of the country.
If China had just shut up, let it play out, NONE of this here would have been made possible.
Folks, there are 1,439,323,776 people in China. That’s 1.4 BILLION. The deaths in their country are drop in the bucket. Not even a blip on the screen. Even if you triple or quadruple that number, it’s barely even a statistic.
In the US the 2019-2020 flu stats are:
38,000,000 – 54,000,000 ill (MILLION)
17,000,000 – 25,000,000 medical visits for flu (again, MILLIONS)
390,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations for flu (haven’t heard of the medical system crashing on that one, eh?)
23,000 – 59,000 deaths.
In contrast, we have had 124 people die here in the US but it’s all we have rammed into every sensory orifice every 5 minutes.
Words like surged, surpassed, exploding, all are used specifically to inflame the public and stoke fear.
Now let’s look at some other numbers:
Opioid deaths 2019:
290 (no one cares really, I don’t care what they say, they simply do not. How can you say anyone gives a shit when people are sitting on sidewalks on the West Coast and shooting up in plan sight)
Alcohol related deaths (the current numbers are from 2017 only and I can only imagine this year will see a spike due to quarantine related drinking, fear, panic, and depression):
72,300
Shootings:
15,292
Car accidents:
38,800 (although this number will likely plummet as we are kept home so I am sure the left will see this one as a win)
From everything I have read from rational scientists not paid to act like your crazy Italian mother that thinks the sky is falling, the real numbers of people who have it, have had it and didn’t know, or had it and recovered is likely to be well into the 500,000 range or more.
I think this virus was here much much sooner that we were actually told. I can tell you right now back in December I had what I thought was the flu. High fever, the worst cough of my life, all in my throat. Actually could barely even talk for 2 days it was so bad. Many people I talked to had the same thing, or were recovering. At no point did I think I was going to die. I super dosed on Vitamin C, stayed home, and rested. The cough did linger for about 14 days and was a rib-cracking experience (my ribs did not crack)
What we need to be testing for is antibodies to see who had had it and recovered. But there’s probably no fear or panic that will come out of that so why bother.
Mr. President, step up and talk about this. Let people get this test, encourage it, so the real numbers can be seen and we can stop all this Chicken Little nonsense. Otherwise, the fall out from the shut down is going to haunt the US for years to come and the damage may already be done.
Realestatepup,
Any change you received an email from Admin?
I’m hoping we can talk through email.
Me email is [email protected]
Sent you an email.
HSF, that is either crying over spill milk (a/k/a Monday-morning-quarterbacking)
or very self-contradicting reasoning.
So which one is it:
– We (just like the Chinese) shut down key parts of our society, and damage/destroy segments of the economy, or
– to save the economy we don’t introduce shut-downs.
I’m following the lead of the Massachusetts govenor and jazz legend Charlie Parker. Even if his guidance fails I have his sweet sweet music to carry me home. Amen…
tall deval?
Trump wants all the Christians jammed together in church on Easter Sunday. What could go wrong?
Cuomo? There would be ads 24/7 that “if you are pro-life or a gun owner, you are not welcome in New Yaawk.” Plus he even LOOKS like an asshole.