A Dream Remembered, A Civilization Gone With The Virus

This is the story of a woman and a civilization going through a war with an unseen enemy that will leave no one unchanged in its aftermath.

Scarlett O’Hara is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, selfish bastards carrying off everything from disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer, comfort food and yes, toilet paper to hoard for themselves without any regard for their fellow man.

What will she have to do to survive?

The store shelves are barren.  Amazon can’t keep anything in stock.  Lawdy, whatever will she do?

Much like the scene in Gone With The Wind where a starving Scarlett hungrily pulls up a tiny radish to eat, our heroine can be heard to say, “As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be without toilet paper again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be paperless again.”

In the final scene, with tear-stained eyes uplifted in a sudden, curious burst of hope beneath all the turmoil of the Great Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020 we hear her say, “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Somebody Get The Butterfly Net Quick!

House Democrats and the White House fell short of sealing a deal providing economic help to the victims of the devastating coronavirus.

Nancy Pelosi said Thursday night an agreement is all but assured today.

"It's fair to say we're close to an agreement, subject to the exchange of paper, and hope to have an agreement tomorrow," she told reporters just outside her office in the Capitol.

Honest to God, listening to this stuttering clusterfuck should cement in any rational mind this old crone should sit down and shut the eff up.  She reminds me of the old cartoons of Porky Pig  saying, “Tha, tha, that’s all folks!”

Tell me I’m wrong.

Just Wait Until November

In his historic Oval Office address to the nation on the coronavirus outbreak President Trump said, “We are responding with great speed and professionalism. To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.”

The President also announced he will take “emergency action” to give financial relief to impacted workers.

“Using emergency authority, I will be instructing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments without interest or penalty for certain individuals or businesses negatively impacted,” he said. “Finally, I am calling on Congress to provide Americans with immediate payroll tax relief.”

That, however, was not the story on CNN when Jim “Dear Diary” Acosta and Fredo Cuomo were worried about how the President worded his statement.

On CNN, Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta says President @realDonaldTrump referring to the coronavirus as a "foreign virus" "smacks of xenophobia." pic.twitter.com/1aibFjZp5R

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 12, 2020

Even before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus a pandemic on Wednesday, the Democrat Media Complex discovered “Wuhan virus” and “Chinese coronavirus” served as racist dog whistles just in time to attack Republicans during the 2020 election cycle.

COVID-19 originated in China, in Wuhan specifically.  That’s an indisputable FACT.  It spread across the globe due to the Chinese Communist Party's ridiculous, self-serving reluctance to admit error, provide other nations with the DNA and RNA codes to help develop an effective vaccine as well as its seemingly bottomless capacity for arrogance, incompetence and opacity.  Those are FACTS as well.

It is unfathomable to think, in a moment of crisis, the douchebags at CNN are more concerned with something sounding xenophobic than they are about what the President actually said.

I thought it only fitting to have Acosta pictured in a Communist Chinese jersey with his trusty microphone while policing the President’s very somber address to a justifiably worried nation.

Later on in the Fake News evening lineup at CNN, the meltdown continued unabated.  See for yourself. 

Oh man!

You gotta check out this back-and-forth between Don Lemon and John Kasich in which Lemon straight-up admonishes Kasich for thinking Trump's address was fine.

"Can I finish now?"

"No, you can't, John!" pic.twitter.com/a4TaAN0qcX

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 12, 2020

If you think this shit was just a teensy bit unhinged, just wait until November when Orange Man Bad wins in a landslide. 

CNN Is Full Of Yapping Turds

DISCLAIMER:  This blog makes abundant use of Photoshop®.  It is incumbent upon me to stress the above graphic has NOT been photoshopped.  It was taken from a published report from Daily Mail UK titled “CNN's Michael Smerconish is slammed for comparing Senator Bernie Sanders to the CORONAVIRUS, asking if either can be 'stopped'”

CNN is in hot water with supporters of Bernie Sanders after Michael Smerconish compared the Democratic frontrunner to the coronavirus that has killed just under 3,000 people worldwide and devastated financial markets across the globe on his early morning show.

Twitter lit up to slam the host as well as the cable news outfit noting "the network decided to get rid of the chyron" when sharing the host’s segment on Twitter.

#FireSmerconish even started trending as various users demanded action be taken against the host.

Let me be crystal clear.  I do not support Comrade Bernie.  I torch him regularly on this blog.  I vehemently denounce his Marxist leanings, criticize his unkempt appearance, the way he says “Cuber” and “Chiner” and his so-called “revolution”.

I would never equate the man to a deadly virus no matter how much I detest him.

Democratic presidential candidates have been describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s an egregiously distorted picture, so says The Associated Press.

Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.

The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.

“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.

Last night, the President was speaking at a campaign rally in Charleston, SC and brought up the coronavirus and Democrats’ attempts to politicize the issue calling it their new hoax.

His comment was referring to Democrats claiming his administration is not doing a good job containing the virus. He never said the coronavirus itself is a hoax, just Democrats’ claims that the Trump Administration is failing to protect the country.

A POLITICO headline after the rally read: “Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax.’”

No, he did not!

Quit playing god-damned politics. It is beyond shameful the way the press and Democrats have been spreading false information that undermines the nation’s efforts to face a potential pandemic.

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