Politicizing A Pandemic

According to a report in the Daily Caller, senior White House officials claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pressed for “several” provisions which would guarantee federal funding for abortion services……during negotiations on a coronavirus economic relief package. One of those several demands was for $1 billion to reimburse laboratory claims. Can you say, “E-V-I-L?” But progressives never let a good crisis go to waste, and this world-wide life-threatening disease pandemic is no exception. Apparently, if pro-abortionists find themselves negotiating to save countless lives, they feel the necessity to ensure that funding is provided to take countless lives, as well. Yin-yang, I guess, to use a little Chinese lingo. After all, seems appropriate in this case.  

What the hell does abortion have to do with protecting Americans from the coronavirus, you ask? Good question. Perhaps the more people protected from the coronavirus, the more will elect to have abortions. (I was going to say “women” instead of people, but I wanted to be inclusive.) Incredibly, Pelosi lashed out at Republicans for not immediately rolling over and acquiescing to her demands. She stated of the pushback, “Families have needs. We don’t need 48 hours. We need to just make a decision to help families now.” In reference to Congress’s upcoming recess week, she added, “I’m not sticking around because they don’t want to agree to language. Right now we have to find our common ground, work together, to get this done as soon as possible.” This is right out of the Democratic Playbook: add a partisan provision to a bill that has nothing whatsoever to do with it…and then blame Republicans for noticing.

This is another in a series of disgusting—and divisive—actions in which Pelosi has recently engaged. You will recall that she ripped up a copy of President trump’s State of the Union Address immediately upon its completion, with the world still watching. The Speaker is to repulsive as the Pacific is to oceans.

Speaking of repulsive, Planned Parenthood addressed the issue, tweeting: “Using this very real public health emergency to attack abortion coverage shows a despicable lack of concern about the severity of the crisis.” This, of course, is exactly the reverse of reality. It’s so preposterous, you can’t make it up. The administration and Republicans weren’t trying to use this crisis to “attack abortion coverage,” but Pelosi, Democrats and Planned Parenthood were trying to use it to promote abortion. Moreover, abortion itself is a crisis, a public health emergency.

Must Democrats make everything political? (It’s a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know the answer is ‘yes.’) Frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t also ask for another billion dollars to fund transgender bathrooms.

Let us all pray that the coronavirus, COVID-19, can be contained and eradicated in the very near future. Let us pray for those affected by this scourge. But let’s also remember that there is another illness to which we have already fallen prey: a sickness of the soul. And we need to fight this one, too.

Sanders Vows To Prosecute Fossil Fuel Executives

Avowedly Socialist Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate and long-time admirer of all things Communist, recently wrote on Twitter that, if elected, he would not only pass a Green New Deal, but would “criminally prosecute the fossil fuel executives who destroyed the planet.”  

I assume those would be the same fossil fuel executives responsible for providing all of the products and energy allowing Bernie to live in luxury in not one, not two, but three homes-- while traveling around the country in private jets and limousines hectoring people on the evils of fossil fuels.  

As is nearly always the case with radical progressives, he has everything exactly backwards, perfectly wrong. Fossil fuels, along with free market capitalism, have been the driving force behind the doubling of human life expectancy since 1800. They have allowed literally billions around the world to escape abject poverty. Fossil fuels, combined with the incentive and innovation that capitalism engenders, have made possible virtually every invention, every technological leap, and every advancement in health care achieved in the past 200 years. They have permitted dramatic improvements in sanitation, nutrition, and access to clean water. They have allowed countless billions to see parts of the world that would otherwise be unreachable. They have made it possible for nearly everyone to be immunized against heretofore deadly diseases and led to the invention of advanced medicines, hardware and surgical techniques that have saved the lives of staggering numbers of human beings. They have allowed for the transmission of more information in the space of minutes than was possible in a person’s (much shorter) lifetime just decades ago. They have not only saved many lives but made them worth living.  

Before a Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Al Gore, Michael Moore, or any other shameless charlatan steps up to a microphone again to badmouth fossil fuels (or capitalism), they should think of what their lives would be like without smart phones, hospitals, medications, computers, restaurants, planes, chauffeured automobiles, furnaces and air conditioning. For starters. In fact, they should be forced to sell their homes, dispense with all their phones, appliances and computers and travel only by foot. (Oh, and they won’t be able to take advantage of that—or any-- microphone again, either.)

They like telling others how to live their lives—or lose them—so they should be amenable to their own advice. Right?  

If not, perhaps they should be criminally prosecuted.

Putin Seeking Third Term

                Russia’s Constitutional Court recently ruled it was legal to change the nation’s constitution in a manner that could allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 2036. Not coincidentally, this came just a week or so after Putin himself mused about staying on for a third term, stating: “There are precedents for elections for more than two terms, including in the United States. When a country is going through such upheavals and such difficulties—in our case we have not yet overcome all the problems since the USSR, this is also clear—stability may be more important and must be given priority.”

                A petition denouncing the act as “politically and ethically unacceptable” garnered over 18,000 signatures almost immediately, with those of many prominent scientists, journalists, and writers among them. The petition avers that “the threat of a deep constitutional crisis and an unlawful anti-constitutional coup…is hanging over the country.” Ironically, this is the reverse of what has recently taken place in the United States, where a deeply entrenched and shadowy cabal of career bureaucrats joined forces with the Democratic Party in an attempt to take down a duly elected president, in part because the party couldn’t accept that it was voted out of the White House.

                It is nonetheless amusing to hear Putin cite the U.S.-- and Franklin Delano Roosevelt-- in support of his quest to retain power. Perhaps Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin wants to be re-branded as “VVP,” in the way that Roosevelt was commonly known as “FDR.” Maybe he will start brandishing lengthy cigarette holders and giving reassuring “fireside chats” to Russians: “All we have to fear are queers themselves!”

China Threatens To Withhold Coronavirus Drugs From America

In war, you never want to let the enemy cut your supply lines, as an army can’t fight without arms, food, fuel, medicine, and other necessities. Yet, in “peacetime,” the United States (and the West as a whole) has simply allowed a foreign power to become our supply source for critical parts, technologies and life-saving drugs. This is a potentially disastrous situation as recently evidenced by a threat China’s Communist Party made in regards to the coronavirus pandemic. Xinhua, the state-run media agency that is the voice of the party, published a piece in which Beijing bragged about its handling of COVID-19, a virus that originated in the city of Wuhan, and noted that China could restrict pharmaceutical exports thereby plunging America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus.” The Food and Drug Administration has already announced a shortage of an undisclosed coronavirus drug, due to the inability to access enough raw components from China.

What kind of a government would threaten to withhold the life-saving drugs its nation manufacturers during a world-wide pandemic? The kind that, even after the deaths of so many of its own citizens, would use the term, “the mighty sea of coronavirus” in a mocking manner. Sick doesn’t begin to describe it.

Though the U.S. is the clear global leader in medical research, it has effectively allowed the outsourcing of most critical pharmaceuticals to China. This would be as if the Allies allowed Germany to make their ships, planes, tanks and ammunition in World war II. We are dangerously, absurdly, reliant on the Communist government of China for vital goods. China currently supplies nearly 90 percent of the antibiotics the United States needs, roughly 70 percent of the acetaminophen, and a significant percentage of many other important drugs, as well. 

Even as a new report surfaced, suggesting that the Chinese government knew about the existence of the coronavirus a month earlier than it has admitted, and chose to cover it up, it has arrogantly and preposterously attempted to portray itself as a global hero. Angered that the U.S. had the temerity to point out that the virus originated in China, it has demanded a thank you for containing it as long as it claims it did. An editorial in Xinhua stated, “We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian went so far as to tweet: “It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!” Well, that’s an interesting take, though Lijian failed to say how the Wuhan virus could be the work of the U.S. Army. Maybe China’s borders are more porous and undefended then we’ve been led to believe.

There are several key takeaways here. First off, that we can never let this happen again should be an existential lesson for the U.S. and the West, though it likely will go unheeded. (Progressives are far more worried about the possibility of deplorables avoiding Chinese restaurants. And far more angered by Trump and Republicans calling COVID19 the “Wuhan virus” and asserting that it is Chinese in origin, though it is, as was SARS.)

Secondly, progressives are wrong in thinking that we’re all just the same inside, or that the U.S. should model itself after Marxist, authoritarian governments. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Yet, Bernie Sanders recently lauded China, averring: “They have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for their people.” The only positive thing they’ve done for their people is allowing them more economic freedom, even as they’ve abused and enslaved them in every other way. Historically, governments have differed in the amount of power they allocated to their citizens. The Founders designed the government of the United States in the reverse, delegating all but specifically enumerated powers to the people. That made all the difference. It is the United States that has alleviated more poverty, extreme or otherwise, than any country in the history of civilization.

Lastly, though leftists claim Trump is an authoritarian at heart, he is anything but, and the only one truly fighting for the U.S. and its people in matters such as this. He knows the leverage China has accrued over the nation he loves and is committed to reducing it.

Whenever any other nation is afflicted by tragedy, the United States is there to help out, physically and monetarily. Always. Historically, this is undeniable…and unprecedented.

China’s leaders can threaten to cast the U.S. into “the mighty sea of coronavirus,” but they should proceed with caution. For though they may sow the wind, they may reap the whirlwind.

Sanctuary Cities?

Sanctuary cities?

We need sanctuary cities for Christians. We need sanctuary cities for conservatives, for guns, for free speech rights, for plastic straws and forks, for traditional mores, for free market capitalism, for independent thinkers, for people who pay their own way, for those who like contact sports, for people who don’t wish to live in a drug culture surrounded by human fecal matter, for those who believe in no taxation without representation (i.e. draining ‘The Swamp’) and limited  government, for those who like to fish and hunt, for those who aren’t ashamed they like to eat meat, for those who recognize there are only two sexes, for those unafraid to say that a vagina is specially designed to accept a penis and an arsehole is not, for those who believe that hard work makes people luckier, and, most of all, for reason, logic and sanity.

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, little conservative boys and conservative girls will be able to join hands with little liberal boys and liberal girls as sisters and brothers without the conservative boys and girls being chastised by academia, Hollywood and the mainstream media. I have a dream that one day, people wearing ‘MAGA’ hats will be able to safely walk down the street, proud and unafraid. Yes, I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day—one day my friends— saying ‘All lives matter’ won’t be considered racist. I have a dream that one day the youth of this nation will not feel the need to run for their ‘safe spaces’ if they hear something with which they disagree. I have a dream that one day groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center will be considered bigoted and intolerant whereas those such as the Tea Party will not be so considered.

So, let freedom ring from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, California!

Let freedom ring from every newsroom and boardroom! Let freedom ring from every college and university!

Let freedom ring from Hollywood to The Big Apple! From every hill and dale, let freedom ring!

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Unfortunately, that dream is an illusion, unlikely in the extreme ever to be realized. Why? Because leftists won’t allow it. They have weaponized “tolerance” and used it against the rest of us with lethal effect.

Democrats Suggest Skipping Rest Of Debates Because "Biden's Won" Already

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House Majority Whip, recently stated, “I think it is time for us to shut this primary down, it is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates," referring to those upcoming  between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Clyburn purportedly wants to dispense with the continuation of the democratic process because he believes there is no conceivable way for Sanders to win the nomination. (Just a couple of weeks ago, most thought there was no path forward for Biden.) Clyburn, and some other Democrats, are concerned that if Biden and Sanders continue to oppose each other through the primaries that end in early June, it could benefit President trump. Clyburn noted, “People will say things that you can’t overcome,” meaning that Sanders could permanently scar Biden with an accusation, weakening him for his general election battle with Trump.

What Clyburn didn’t say, but is almost certainly more to the point, is that Biden’s handlers and Democratic party operatives are terrified that he will continue with his gaffe-fest, potentially damaging his own credibility. (Although, if he hasn’t done so by now, it may, incredibly, prove to be an impossible feat.) So, best to just forget the voters in all the other states that have yet to be afforded their opportunity to weigh in on the little matter of who will be their next president. Let’s wrap this thing up now and batten down the hatches!

This is like an NFL football team coming from behind to take the lead in the third quarter of a conference championship game and then having its coach say, “stop the game, it’s essentially over anyway. We need to get ready for the Super Bowl!”

Besides, it would be patently unfair to deprive Americans the joy of watching a crazy, arm-waving old commie spar with another octogenarian who is quite likely to forget the names of the debate’s moderators…and his opponent. Hell, before long, he might forget his own name. After all, he’s already claimed to be an “Obiden-Bama Democrat.”

Colleges Stressing Sustainability

                “Sustainability” is a fast-growing branch of social-justice-warring on college campuses across the ever more fruited plain. The schools are teaching the students-- and the students are teaching the schools-- that we must dramatically lessen our greenhouse gas emissions lest the planet suddenly combust like a Molotov cocktail at an Antifa demonstration.

                Calandra Waters Lake (!), Director of Sustainability (!) at the College of William & Mary, told the school’s news service, “We’re trying to keep in mind that our carbon footprint is something that can expand during the holidays.” Much like many people’s waistlines. Waters Lake generously offered students several tips for how to “be wise…through our purchases, through food that we eat,” and “through the activities that we’re doing” over the winter break. She suggested not buying anyone a Christmas gift, noting that “Going out and doing something with the recipient to spend time with them may be a better option.” If you’re selfish enough to buy gifts for someone else, however, Waters Lake cautions against wrapping them and wasting the materials. Which is also why she recommends not sending folks actual Christmas cards, preferring that e-cards be sent instead. There’s nothing quite as intimate and rewarding as opening up an e-card for Christmas, is there? Special.

                Parker Angelos, the head of Indiana University-Bloomington’s new sustainability department, is also urging his school’s students to be kind to the Earth, the Indiana Daily Student has reported. Mr. Angelos helpfully edified his fellow scholars, stating, “Living sustainably is one of the easiest things you can do.” He then told them: “Turn off your lights, unplug your electric devices, take shorter, cold showers.”

                These bastions of higher education have inspired me. We can all do so much more. What if we just turned off our heat in the winter? Refused to turn on the air-conditioning this coming summer? These two simple gestures alone would have a second-level benefit, over and above reducing energy use. A large number of us would perish, greatly reducing our carbon footprint! Moreover, what if we got rid of our ovens and refrigerators? (And don’t cook things in a fire, either, as the smoke rises into the atmosphere, contributing to greenhouse gas buildup, too). After all, raw fruits and vegetables are the best things we can consume for our health…and the health of our mother the Earth. If we all go vegan, we won’t need to kill our fellow beings, nor cook them. We won’t need guns. We will only need communal vegetable gardens. And, we should give up toilets as well as showers, rendering other forms of fertilization unnecessary. We should all just poop on our communally mandated garden plots. Talk about a “twofer?!” This just keeps getting better and better.

 What’s more, if we give up air-conditioning and showers in the summer months, and eschew toilets in favor of pooping on our garden plots, it is very unlikely we will find anyone willing to mate with us, which will help to alleviate the population crisis, further reducing greenhouse gas emissions going forward. 

 Sustainability. Genius!

The Eleventh Democratic Debate

Eleventh Democratic Debate

A Studio In Washington, D.C. (No Audience)

March 15, 2020

8-10 PM ET

CNN, Univision

Moderators: Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Ilia Calderón

Bash: Good evening and welcome to the eleventh Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle. The field has been narrowed to two candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. One note, due to concerns about the coronavirus, there is no live audience for tonight’s debate. With that said, let’s get started, shall we? Mr. Biden, speaking of the coronavirus, what would you have done differently than President Trump, so far, to counteract the deadly virus?

Biden: Well, Donna, I would’ve taken the cordovavirus very seriously. I would’ve made sure there were more than enough testing kits to go around from day one, and I would’ve banned all train travel to and from Indo-China well before President Bush did.”

Bash: But, after the president suspended entry visas for persons traveling from China over a month ago, you called it an act of (looks down at monitor) ‘hysteria, xenophobia and fearmongering.’

Biden: You’re a lying sack of sh*t!

Tapper: Well, um, okay, on to Sen. Sanders then. Sen. Sanders, same question.

Sanders: What the hell did my friend Joe just say? This is why he should not be the nominee! (waving arms) And it’s also why we need Medicare for All and a fully nationalized single-payer health plan! Look at how effective the Chinese were in containing the virus early on! I don’t know why people are so afraid of big government and a little authoritarianism! Makes the damn trains run on time! But not to ‘Indo-China’ from here! Hee, hee…

Biden: (Yells out) I think we should ban all travel. Period. To anywhere. Even within our own country. No planes, no buses, no trains, no automobiles!

Tapper: Mr. Biden, you’re out of order…and wouldn’t that be a bit extreme?

Biden: ‘Extremism in defense of health issues is no vice!’ Barry Manilow said something like that.

Tapper: No he didn’t. Neither did Barry Goldwater. Anyway, Mr. Biden, what do you have to say to those who have questioned your…shall we say stamina…and ability to perform your duties if and when you take office?

Biden: I know damn well what you meant by that, Greg! But a little verbal slip here and there is not a sign of cognitive dissonance! I’m just as sharp as I ever was, Chris, and you’d do well to remember that, bud!

Sanders: The next question better damn well go to me!

Calderón: Yes. Mr. Sanders, some have questioned how you would pay for all of the government programs and freebies you have proposed. What would you tell them now?

Sanders: Soak the rich! I call it the ‘Robin Hood Plan,’ Ilia. Or ‘dictatorship of the proletariat.’ By the way, your name, ‘Ilia,’ is Russian! Good name, comrade!

Calderón: Thank you, sir. But can you be a bit more specific? Details, numbers, anything?

Sanders: Of course. Specifically, we will tax the hell out of everyone making more many than I do! (waving arms around again now) And we will do it for four years…or eight years if I’m re-elected!

Biden: Can I just tell Colonel Sanders here that that ‘plan’ won’t work? I mean, that dog won’t hunt! C’mon, man! Also, I’d just like to say how much I enjoy being here in the Southwest. You know, it’s not just the blacks that have an affinity for me. I have a way with Indians, too. And, I’ve always loved New Mexico!—

Bash: Mr. Biden, this debate is being held in Washington, D.C. Not Arizona, as originally scheduled. Or New Mexico. You are in Washington, sir.

Biden: I knew that, Donna! The flight wasn’t long enough. Just seein’ if you were paying attention to good old Uncle Joe, and--

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A Joe Biden Campaign Rally, March 2020

A Joe Biden Rally

Somewheresville, USA

March, 2020

Biden (beaming, looks out at the crowd and begins to shout):

“So we were dead, huh? Come on, man! They shoulda known. We’re better than that! (much cheering). They said the other guy was gonna win! But that was before…Alabama! (cheers) Arkansas! (cheers) Macedonia! (fewer cheers) North Kor-- er North Carolina! (cheers) Oklahoma! (cheers) Tennessee! (cheers) Texas! (cheers) Virginia! (cheers) Michigan! (cheers) And Mexico! (fewer cheers, some look around nervously) So, if you believe in the Declaration of Interdependence, say it with me now, ‘we believe these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created by the, you know…the thing. And that they are well endowed by their…you know…the thing…with certain unbreakable rights, that among these are strife, liberty and the pursuit of sloppiness.’ I say to you today, come with me and we will go forward…all the way to Washington, A.C.D.C.! I served with Barack Obama, the greatest president in the history of this republican democratic. I served as his vice president. He told me I was the best one ever. Ever. I can’t wait until I myself am sworn in as the leader of the free world. I can’t wait to take the oath of office and utter those famous words: ‘I do solemnly curse that I will faithfully execrate the office of Senator of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, deserve, project and defund the Constitution of the United States.’ But first, we got some work to do. But I have to say, I’m lookin’ forward to Milwaukee come this July! (cheering) I’m gonna get up on that stage in Brewtown and look at Elizabeth Warren and say, ‘Lizzie, wanna get me a beer?!’ (laughing and cheering) Seriously, I love West Virginia…Mountain Mama! Love those Badgers! And we are gonna carry West Virginia! (confusion, some polite cheering) With your help, we will beat back those Bernie Brothers, kick Trump in the berries…and retake the White House!! (loud cheering) You know, I’m a big fan of women in politics. (cheering) I still think women will have something to say about the upcoming erectio—election. (cheering) Maybe I should name my wife as vice president, huh, how would that be? (grabs his sister standing next to him at the podium and gives her a big smooch on the lips; his wife on the other side of the podium recoils, but recovers quickly and says, ‘yoohoo, big boy, I’m over here.’ Biden blushes uncomfortably but says, ‘you guys switched up on me again’) Well, we’ll just have to see how it plays out, won’t we? Well, thank you all, and, as Sherman Potter said during the Civil War, ‘On to Georgia!’”

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Student Upset White People Using Multicultural Center

                A video from the University of Virginia’s brand-new Multicultural Student Center recently appeared on Twitter. The footage was originally put up by one of the school’s students who subsequently deleted the post, but not before the Young America’s Foundation captured and re-posted it. Since that time, it has accrued nearly 3 million views. What is so captivating about a video shot at a Multicultural Center? It shows an unidentified woman loudly lecturing an audience of students. She bellows: “Public service announcement, if y’all didn’t know, this is the MSC, and, frankly, there’s just too many white people in here. And, this is a space for people of color, so, just be really cognizant of the space that you’re taking up because it does make some of us POCs uncomfortable when we see too many white people in here.” She added, “There’s a whole university for a lot of y’all to be at, and there’s very few spaces for us, so keep that in mind.” Sadly, her rant was met with vociferous applause from her fellow students, many of whom she had just warned away.

                Screw character, skin color is all that matters. What would MLK say? The leftist led balkanization of the United States continues at an ever-accelerating pace. Her instructions are being carried out on a “macro” scale around the country. Multiculturalism has morphed into a reverse racism and is tearing the nation apart. Straight white males, Christians and conservatives are being routinely—summarily—marginalized. Saying that there are “just too many white people” in a multicultural center would be funny if not so sad. People of color (and other “minorities”) are at least as welcome as anybody else around the entire Virginia campus, as they are on virtually every campus across the fruited plain. In fact, in some cases, literally more so-- as evidenced by racial and diversity quotas, etc. In every aspect of American life, old white men, “the patriarchy,” the Founders, traditional values-- and “whiteness” itself—are being denigrated. If “POCs” are uncomfortable around non-POCs, and vice-versa, if we recede into self-segregation, this house divided will not stand.

                Thought we had that one figured out around 155 years ago.