It’s Monday, March 30th, 2020…but before we begin, courtesy of Speed Mach, another of those pictures worth far more than a mere thousand words:
Rest assured had Fredo’s brother A-hole and Little Mike been running Hubei province and the city of Wuhan back in early December, though they’d surely have aided Xi Jinping in covering up the truth regarding the nature and origins of COVID-19, at least they’d have forced the restaurants and wet markets in their the respective jurisdictions to publish the nutritional value and ingredients of the various…distinctive…menu items offered.
For more on the subject, consider Michigan Dimocrat Haley Stevens’ rather unique style of public speaking, which is certainly distinctive…and then some:
Though we must give her points for consistency:
Turning briefly from the consistent to the inconsistent, courtesy of Walt Meisen, allow us to offer one quick thought on the curious increase in coverage of what was previously reported…
Take if from us, the Powers-That-Be within the DNC have come to realize Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. isn’t any more cognizant than a two-year-old, let alone Smarter Than a 5th-Grader. Thus, we’d suggest the recent and repeated dissemination of previously oft-reported rumors concerning Hairplug Joe’s innumerable gropings signals the onset of a concerted effort to prevent his heretofore inevitable nomination in Milwaukee.
Boy, are the Sandersnistas…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, courtesy of James Nichols, writing at FrontPageMag.com, James Perazzo describes The Donald as…
“…The coordinated campaign of premeditated lies and smears that the Democrats and their media mouthpieces have been waging against President Trump ever since the word “coronavirus” first entered the American people’s consciousness, has been obscene. But there is something else that also needs to be addressed. Have you noticed that even now — after the life-and-death dangers inherent in the Democrats’ open-borders, catch-and-release immigration policies have been thoroughly laid bare by the current crisis — Democrats in public office have been utterly silent about those dangers? Have you noticed that they have not ventured even to speculate that perhaps President Trump’s pre-coronavirus warnings about the need to regulate our nation’s borders were well-founded and had absolutely nothing to do with racism?
This is because the Democrat narrative never changes in any significant way. It merely makesminor adjustments for the sake of political expediency. So because right now it would be politically inconvenient to link racism to the type of border security that is very obviously a matter of life-and-death for many Americans, the Democrats have simply found a new way of framing their tried-and-true “racism” charade. Thus have we heard one Democrat after another intone their latest mantra-of-the-moment: the notion that Trump’s use of the term “China virus” is damnable proof of his “racism.”
The Democratic Party has devolved into something quite diabolical. Its very considerable energies are now spent on little more than a constant stream of frenzied efforts to cover their political foes in rhetorical bird droppings.Aside from that, the party has nothing to offer the American people.“
While we certainly concur with the claims in the author’s conclusion, we’re less supportive of the adjectives he ascribes to Trump in his headline.
“Unappreciated”? Certainly in some quarters, but certainlynot among those who’ll matter most come November. “Superb”? Most definitely as regards his judicial appointments, but definitelynot in other areas, including but not limited to self-control, communications skills (both written and verbal, as English OFTEN seems his second language), along with fiscal discipline.
That being said, as we’ve always maintained, The Donald is, has been, and will always beinfinitely preferable to Hillary, Biden, Bernie, Little Mike or any other possible Dimocratic alternative, including Fredo’s brother…
“Millions of American households and businesses are in danger of sinking financially. But instead of offering life preservers, Congress has thrown them what amounts to an 880-page bag of concrete mix. Given all the complexities and special interest provisions written into this law, millions are sure to sink long before anyone can figure out how to make the loans in this rescue package.
If anybody thinks a bill this complex will get money to households and businesses quickly, they have no idea how the government really works. The relief measures in this bill are very complex. Congress has put in mountains of specific requirements that must be satisfied by those seeking help. If past experience is prologue, it will take months to write the rules and guidance necessary to put these emergency relief programs in place and disburse payments.I will provide a couple of examples to support my assessment, one personal, the other more general…”
Here’s the juice: our government just pissed away $2.2 TRILLIONthe U.S. Treasury doesn’t have, and the vast majority of which isn’t going to those who really need it.
Other than that, how’d you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?!?
Meanwhile, as this forward from Jeff Foutch and the Daily Wire records…
“Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massively downgraded projection of the potential deathtoll on Wednesday.
Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve. The model predicted far fewer deaths if lockdown measures — measures such as those taken by the British and American governments — were undertaken.
After just one dayof ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, crediting lockdown measures, but also revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured…”
Reading the data, “drastically” may be somewhat too strong a term.
“…In the aftermath of the SARS epidemic, most insurers excluded coverage of losses due to viruses or bacteria, and state regulators signed off on this exclusion. But last week 18 Congress Members signed a letter calling on insurers to “help sustain America’s businesses through these turbulent times, keep their doors open, and retain employees on the payroll.”
Earlier this month New Jersey Assemblyman Roy Freiman, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would retroactively rewrite interruption coverage contracts and force insurers to foot some losses for any policyholder with fewer than 100 full-time employees. Mr. Freiman says he doesn’t know if he has the legal authority to do this, but he says he doesn’t care.
He has thus far held the bill from a final vote and asked insurers to “come back with solutions and actions that you’re going to take on this issue.” This reminds us of former Gov. Chris Christie’s demand that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield cough up hundreds of millions of dollars from its reserves for state opioid costs—or else. And since Mr. Freiman’s bill was introduced, lawmakers in Ohio and Massachusetts have drafted similar legislation.
Small businesses need relief since they’ve essentially been forced by the government to shut down. But interruption coverage is intended to indemnify businesses for losses due to property damage, not losses in customers. Leaning on insurers to pay businesses for the coronavirus would only make sense if the federal government or states backstopped insurers—effectively administering bailouts through the insurance industry.
The political temptation will be to simply raid and redistribute insurer cash reserves, transferring losses from one business to another. Premiums for all businesses would go up in the future. Business insurance premiums have already been surging due to a tort epidemic and an extended period of low government interest rates that have reduced their investment returns.
If business-interruption insurance can be stretched and exclusions nullified during a crisis, insurers will conclude that this product is not worth the risk and will eliminate the coverage.This pandemic will pass, but businesses may find themselves more exposed during the next flood, wildfire or hurricane.
The rule of law and contracts are crucial in a free society, especially in times of uncertainty when it is a restraint on bad policies driven by panic. If lawmakersinvalidate contracts in a rush for cash, they will compound the harm from the virus.“
Once more do politicians attempt to legislate industries absent any idea at all how they function.
Next up, again courtesy of the Journal, proof positive the last place you wanna be is between Barack Obama and a purported political triumph…other than, of course, Rosie O’Donnell and an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet…as the Editorial Board relates…
“…It is a tragic end to a terrible story. Initially, U.S. officials told the American people Levinson had been on a private business trip.Later we learned he’d been dispatched to Iran by CIA analysts who had no authority to do so. Perhaps most disgraceful was the Obama Administration’s decision to conclude its nuclear deal with Tehran without bringing Levinson home or at least resolving the case—at the moment America had the most leverage.
Iran has taken many American hostages. But Bob Levinson was taken prisoner while on a mission to gather intelligence in a dangerous country. Let’s hope those who pressed hardest for his return continue to insist on a final and full public accounting—from our own government as well as from Iran.“
Add Robert Levinson to the list of people who died ’cause Obama lied…
…for purely political purposes, along with…
…Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Amazon’s primary P.R. person, Jay Carney.
Which brings us, incongruously enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these two memes from Shannon…
…another three from Balls Cotton…
…along with two glimpses of reality from Speed Mach…
…and TLJ:
Finally, we say good-bye to the month of March with The Sports Section, courtesy today of Jimmy Crilley and this actual video of Tom Brady breaking the news of his departure from the Patriots to Julian Edelman:
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