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I had not been out of the house for maybe 10 day. Nothing unusual. Between my back and me being an ornery SOB working at home, I have no business out there.

I had to do a semi urgent visit so I finally got out. You can tell by the traffic that there is less people on the streets, but there are still too many screwing around.  Lots of restaurants with the PICK UP ONLY signs out front which I like, but I am not clear about the bunch of people at the Best Buy.

After the chore, I went over Publix to buy powdered milk they said they had (Liars) and instead I got Parmalat’s Milk in a Box which lasts till March next year. It is not the best tasting milk out there, but it will do it in a pinch for the coffee.

I did get the stink out on a regular basis in the store. I was the only one without face mask or gloves. Mind you, I was also the only one observing the darned 6 feet and carrying disinfectant wipes for when I got back to my truck.

Here is the hilarious thing: A lot of the stink-eye people were doing a Michael Jackson:

One glove. Kid-You-Not.

They would pick up the item from the shelf and place it in the cart with the gloved hand. The bare hand would be pushing the (Disinfected? Yeah right) cart and maybe move items inside the car if they needed more space.  HUH? That is not how it works!

There was only one person with both gloved that I saw but not wearing a mask. And nobody respected the 6 feet rule.  I started using the shopping cart as distancing tool.  I do believe we are going to do more Public Awareness on these things.  And if you really do not need to go out, please don’t. Amazing how many stores deliver nowadays.

I will have to shave my beard at one point even though I don’t have a N95 mask or anything like that. My wife has one reusable with microbiological countermeasures plus gloves, but she is the one that goes out. I wish this future would not come, but I know better and Reality mainlines Karma if you are not prepared.

From Twitter:

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says God put Trump in the White House and tells people to read the Bible while standing behind a presidential seal on government property in a clear violation of the separation of church and state. pic.twitter.com/ND7onUwQZk

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 30, 2020

No.  No, it’s not.

This is why you don’t take legal advice from a journalist.

The First Amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

Some Dude standing at the podium in the White House Rose Garden saying “read the bible” isn’t a First Amendment violation.

Mike Lindell is an interesting guy.  A serial failed entrepreneur, he was an addict, found Jesus, got clean, and turned My Pillow into a multi-million dollar company, with their products made in the USA, in his home state of Minnesota.  He is now worth more than $300 million.

He runs a foundation that helps other recovering addicts and donates pillows to homeless shelters.

He decided not to fire people but instead converted his American factory over to making 50,000 masks per day during the Coronavirus crisis.

This is a story of redemption and doing good that could really only happen in America.

And this useless “journalist” just shits all over it with an argument that would be tossed out of a middle school debate tournament.

Today’s press pool amounts to little more than the asshole comedy club hecklers of politics.

This is retconning.  They are trying to retroactively make themselves in the right, no matter how wrong they once were.  I do not doubt my sanity.  I see that they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes and I refuse to let them get away with it.

The anti-Trump media retconning the Coronacrisis is pure ChiCom boot licking evil

We are about to start seeing the worse of the pandemic. If anybody paid attention to the President’s Sunday press conference and did not recoiled at the 100,000 possible deaths coming, you haven’t been paying attention.

Yes, it is better than the expected 2 million deaths by “doing nothing, let it ride” strategy proposed by some or “ignore it, it is just racism” politically applauded by Anti Trump politicians, but still means that 100,000 fellow Americans will not be alive to see Christmas this year because we were lied by the Chinese Government and the threat washed down by the Media.

We went on a decade-long war against those who killed 3,000 of our own in 9-11. What do you think the American People will demand 100,000 corpses because of Wuhan Virus? Nuking the Chinese Politburo is going to be one of the petitions and I cannot say I don’t understand it, but the responsible bastards will simply hide away. China will require a long term internal destabilizing operation till this government falls and they are executed in the most gruesome and public manner.

But then the targeting will be aimed inside our borders and we are going to look for those who strayed us wrong. Have you notice nobody even remembers we had a little thing called Impeachment Proceedings?  From December 18, 2019 to February 5 and after, there was nothing more important in the world than getting Trump out while the Chinese virus was making its way across Wuhan and then the world.  And of course, the use of the Race Card could not be forgotten.

Eric Carter, associate professor of geography and global health at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has previously cautioned against “targeting foreign nationals for increased scrutiny in the name of public health,” arguing in a 2016 article for the Migration Policy Institute that while public health concerns have historically been used to justify discriminatory immigration policies, evidence shows that travel restrictions “tend to have little impact on the spread of infectious disease.”
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Still, he warned that “it wouldn’t be surprising if the effect of this new policy was somewhat discriminatory.” 

“We live in a time where there is rising xenophobia and nationalism, and governments might feel more comfortable taking extreme measures to exclude foreigners under the pretext of a public health emergency,” Carter said.  (bold are mine)

As coronavirus epidemic spreads, Trump administration’s new travel ban hits China and beyond, prompting worries

So what we have is a bunch of members of the Opposition, Intelligentsa and Media who are scared shitless and fear there will be a humongous backslash because their partisanship may have helped cause 100,000 deaths so they need to do a full MinTruth and change the Narrative so they do not end up in front of a firing squad (virtual or otherwise) and Trump is defeated in November.

And let’s face it: When it comes to assign blame, it is easier to say “Trump” than “The treasonous fucks on the Left and the Media.”

It is up to us to challenge them.

Covering the truth about China’s Coronavirus outbreak and how the media have reported on it has been a theme of some of my recent posts.

Every day I am more and more disgusted how the media has tried to retcon the last few months in regards to Trump and China’s handling of the Coronacrisis.

People often call this gaslighting.  I hate that term because true gaslighting is a form of mental abuse that makes someone doubt their own sanity.

This is retconning.  They are trying to retroactively make themselves in the right, no matter how wrong they once were.  I do not doubt my sanity.  I see that they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes and I refuse to let them get away with it.

Previously I covered how the Chinese Government has stopped reporting new cases of Coronavirus, claiming that the outbreak is contained.  Reality indicates that the Chinese have stopped testing people, which cuts down on the numbers of “confirmed cases,” and has taken to welding people into their apartments, making sick people disappear, and possibly even cremating the sick alive.

Then there was the fact that some 21 million Chinese cellphone accounts disappeared.  I’m not suggesting that all these people died of the disease, but that China deleted their accounts to keep people from reporting on the real numbers of sick and dead, and the totalitarian methods China is using to contain the.

Then there is this news:

#Wuhan residents estimate, based on calculations of cremations and urns now being returned to families, that between 42k-46k (!!) died in city + surrounding areas in the 2.5 months of lockdown. Far more than official figure of 2535 deaths. #COVID19 https://t.co/L1OsFv0VEf

— Eileen Guo (@eileenguo) March 29, 2020

This definitely adds to the mountain of evidence that the outbreak in China is much, much worse than the government is reporting.  Which, as a matter of common sense, makes sense.  How could a nation with huge, high population cities like Wuhan (11.3 million people) not have that many cases?

The media in the United States have absolutely ignored this to dump on Trump.

We are quite literally doing a worse job of containing the virus than any other country on earth.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 27, 2020

America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, for the job 1/ pic.twitter.com/sGZuFUukgr

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1244608510073147392

Who's the shithole country now? https://t.co/7NL4aHbyHq

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 26, 2020

NBC published this headline:

As U.S. struggles to stem coronavirus, China asserts itself as global leader

It’s just too bad that they didn’t report the truth which is that the Dutch are having to scrap the masks they bought from China because they do not work to protect people and 70-80% of the Coronavirus tests China sold to Spain and the Czech Republic fail.

NBC’s new “global leader” ships medical supplies that are as well made as their dollar store brand garbage.

And while these same pundits have reported on the mask and ventilator shortage, they failed to mention in any great detail that internal government reports mentioned ten times in thirteen years that the government was short on ventilators or talked about Obama’s drawdown of masks during the H1N1 outbreak.

Apparently what Trump did wrong was not immediately fix every mistake that Obama made before him.

Furthermore, while there have been reports about the ventilator shortage in New York, as it turns out, Governor Cuomo is sitting on a stockpile of ventilators that they are waiting until the shit hits the fan to deploy.

All of this has gotten Lefties on Twitter to push the infuriating hashtag #TrumpGenocide trying to make this all and exclusively Trump’s fault.

It is grotesque and obscene.

CNN had on the mayor of New Orleans to explain why it was Trump’s fault that she did not cancel Marti Gras, which is the cause of the Louisiana hotspot.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell blames Trump for her not canceling Mardi Gras: "When it’s not taken seriously at the federal level. It’s very difficult to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions." pic.twitter.com/JF1VgNsJHB

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 26, 2020

Unhappy with trying to pin the Coronacrisis on Trump alone, they are trying to stick to Fox News, which they believe is his proxy.  Going to the ridiculous extreme of saying that they are culpable for any Coronavirus deaths in the US.

"…I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled. " —@gabrielsherman https://t.co/KOsSEQvILl

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 29, 2020

Tucker Carlson did an entire segment refuting this attack.

If you haven’t seen, Tucker bodied the media over their early coverage of  coronavirus pic.twitter.com/E7uwrmtoun

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) March 24, 2020

This is the same media that told us for a solid month that any reference to the Coronavirus as “Chinese” was racist.

When Trump tried to take this seriously, the mocked him and called him a xenophobe.

When the outbreak happened, they attacked Trump for not doing enough and told you to forget what they had just said in the prior weeks.

Yes, we know that in their minds Trump can do no right, however in their pushing that narrative they have completely obscured the truth about what is going in in China and have broadcast the Chinese Government’s propaganda with alacrity.

I deeply believe in the First Amendment and the right to a free press, but this doing damage to our country and bolstering our geopolitical rival’s attempts to shirk responsibility for this pandemic.

They need to be held accountable for this.

From the party that brought you gun free zones, comes the newest iteration, “just chill.”

He did it guys…

Democrat Mayor of Houston has put an end to all crime by simply telling criminals to “take a break” and “chill”

A truly amazing approach

Hopefully you can all sleep better knowing the great actions Mayor Sylvester Turner is taking ? pic.twitter.com/hjBB6Ae5L3

— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) March 30, 2020

My first question is, if this works why did he not tell criminals to “chill” permanently?  Think of how great a mayor he could be if he reduced crime to zero without any extra policing.

Of course this won’t work.

What will work in the absence of police is the large number of Texas gun owners who will defend themselves.

Rachel Maddow – 3/20/20

Ten days later

Few times you get to see an imbecilic Cable News Talking Head being slapped by a ship and the greatness of this country.

From WGXA:

Putnam County Sheriff says ‘these hoodlums make me sick’ after homeowner shoots burlgar

Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills says a homeowner on Thomas Dr. called 911 dispatch around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday about a man armed with a knife up a tree making a disturbance.

Deputies were dispatched to the home, but before they could arrive a second call came in from a next door neighbor alleging the suspect was attempting to break into their home.

Sills says Harrison picked up a dumbbell on the porch, threw it through the glass door, and made entrance to the home.

But the homeowner, armed with a .45 semi-automatic pistol, shot the suspect once in the arm. Harrison hit the kitchen floor and the owner held him their until deputies arrived.

A man armed with a knife smashes in a sliding glass door and enters a house after the homeowner called the cops.  Seems like a good shoot to me.

The deputies then attempted to detain Harrison and place him in cuffs, but Sills says the suspect battled with the deputies, splattering blood across the kitchen, breaking free, cussing at the officers, and running towards a door that he believed was an exit.

But Sills says Harrison didn’t realize the home was currently under construction and that the door no longer led to a back deck, causing Harrison to fall nine feet to the ground where deputies arrested him.

The officers had to use pepper spray to subdue Harrison and keep his feet in shackles to keep him from running.

Shot, fell nine feet, and still fought the cops enough to earn a face full of mace and leg shackles.  Hot damn, that boy had some fight in him.

“These hoodlums make me sick. He’s got a twenty-page raps heet and he’s over at the hospital, taking up a bed where someone more important, who might have coronavirus, might need it,” Sills said Wednesday.

Sometimes I really love a Southern sheriff.  Seems he’d much rather the homeowner had finished this career punk off and saved the hospital a lot of resources.

Blue states are disarming the citizenry so they can’t shoot the criminals taking advantage of the Coronacrisis to cause havoc.  Red state Sheriffs are implying that if you have to shoot the miscreant, make sure they can drag the body straight off to the morgue and spare the need for a hospital bed.