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President Trump announced late Monday he will soon sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States,” in what appeared to be a drastic escalation of his efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic and boost the economy.

Trump to ‘suspend immigration into the United States’ by executive order amid coronavirus

I believe we are about to see a major explosion of cases in South America. So far, they have been spared because they were the last area the virus moved too, but I have the feeling it is about to change. The problem is, I bleieve it is already there, but te countries are being less than truthful about the cases. You guys saw the post of the craziness in Guayaquil, Ecuador with government officials admitting to the BBC about the more than a thousand corpses picked up, yet the “official” number as of this posting is only 507 for the whole country.

A hospital in the country side of Colombia just saw his personnel quit en masse because they do not have the proper equipment to take care of the patients or safety gear for themselves. Officially Colombia only has 3,977 cases and 189 deaths with a population of 49 million, which should not be enough to tax the health system of the country.

In Venezuela, the government says it only has 285 cases with 10 deaths, yet they close down access to Nueva Sparta State (Margarita Island) and imposed martial law with a curfew from 4:00 pm till 10:00 am.  The reason? Covid-19.

@taniapsuv Alfredito, calladito te ves mas bonito, jajaja ?Ah buena enjabonada le echó esta camarada al gobernador de Nueva Esparta. pic.twitter.com/VmKZEJkenb #20Abr TOQUE DE QUEDA Municipio Acevedo

— Patéticos_ca (@PateticosC) April 20, 2020

I haven’t checked other countries, but I can almost smell something brewing. When I see parsimony and quietness from south of the border, my neck’s hair stands up.

I do hope I am wrong.

The other day I wrote about how New York was asking residents to rat each other out to a text message hotline for not social distancing.  Before that, Miguel wrote a post about Los Angeles filing in a beach skate park with sand because something, something the virus.

As it turns out there are still some Americans left in NYC and LA who will not accept such petty tyrannies.

In New York:

A flood of spam texts causes mayor’s new 311 social distancing text tip line to temporarily go offline

A flood of spam text messages to the city’s new 311 social distancing tip line caused a glitch in the agency’s system, a spokesperson for 311 said.

But on Sunday evening, 311 said it had to temporarily disable the text line for a short period of time to allow 311 to go through the que of photos after “being flooded with spam texts.”

“311 is augmenting staff this week and plans to assign additional headcount to the text queue to better address these conditions in the future,” 311 spokesman William Reda said.

The news doesn’t do the situation justice given this bit of anonymously provided information.

Goddam, do I love this.

When a mayor of an American city asks you to rat out your fellow citizens for exercising just a tiny bit of freedom, you go right ahead and crash his snitch line.

It should be the patriotic duty of all freedom-loving Americans to text the NYC snitch line cat memes and porn GIFs until it never works again.

Over to the other side of the country, in Los Angeles, local youths set about digging out some of the sand and using the skate park in an alternative fashion.

https://twitter.com/JoeySalads/status/1252101549355986945

It is good to see that the spirit of resistance still exists in two of our Bluest bubbles.

The pro-tyranny in the face of the ‘Rona party might have overplayed their hand when they started arresting lone people running on the beach and saying that you can’t buy tomatoes at the Home Depot.

I hope that more and more, as these bite-size Stalins exert their influence, the people push back even harder.

How come when the frigging country has been under lock down inside their homes for weeks, we are experiencing this temperatures almost every day… in April!

And now, another video from J. Kb.’s favorite Youtuber:

Mind you, this guy is a gun owner, but he is now to the point he has ceased to see the world through the eyes of the common people or even common sense.

Dindu Nothing and his cousin Juan “Yono” Izenada do not carry expensive sets of lockpicks or custom made ones or powerful magnets or RFID reader with them to go break into cars so they can scoop the spare change from the cup holders. They are meth heads that would have probably already pawned all that crap for a quick hit.

We know that car burglars spend less than a minute ransacking a car they find unlocked and most of them know that being caught with what cops can tag as burglary tools, may bring you a felony charge depending on the state.

Just because you are really good at cracking locks, it does not me all those locks are useless for the purpose the buyers intend. I am sure he can design a shotgun lock that is almost undefeatable, but it will probably cost so much the police departments will ignore it and keep the ones they have.

Next, unless you’re using medicine, de-escalation is not something you do “to” a person. Non-coercive de-escalation is recognizing, creating, and maintaining conditions that allow someone to de-escalate their own emotions.2 Realistic de-escalation recognizes that not everybody is able or willing to de-escalate.

And, although de-escalation training is aimed at reducing the number of police shootings involving people with mental illness “behaving dangerously,” realistic de-escalation recognizes that de-escalation attempts may be unreasonable precisely because of dangerousness or mental illness.

“Realistic” De-Escalation

Although it is for LEOs, it has information we may very well learn and use.

I know the term has been abused, but the more tools you have in you toolbox, the less probability you’ll end up wearing orange rompers courtesy of the local PD.

Pre COVID-19:

The Left: “Trump is a monster for making economic migrants wait in their home countries while applying for refugee status.  They should be allowed to come here and roam freely while their case is adjudicated.”

Post COVID-19:

The Left: “Trump’s travel ban from China – the one that 15 minutes ago we were calling racist – was useless because it only applied to Chinese nationals.  The US should have abandoned its citizens in a hot zone overseas in February. ”

I’m sorry but this is well beyond the pale.

The same people who wanted open borders for illegals now wanted US citizens denied entry to the US during a crisis.

We do not leave our people behind.  The Left is just fucking evil.

A commentor gave me a great idea.

Hollywood has been critical non-stop of Trump and demanding that the shutdown remain in effect for months.

I propose to help people during the lockdown the Trump administration immediately suspend all copyrights on entertainment and nationalize all TV, movie, and music streaming services, making them free for the American people, for the duration of the shutdown.

Until the lockdown ends you wan watch and download everything you want without paying.

I’m just asking Hollywood to sacrifice their royalties until we can all go back to work.

I guarantee that if Trump did that New York and California would fully reopen by the end of the day.