Posted on 03/20/2020 12:50:27 PM PDT by Politically Correct
I’d hate it to be said I’m being ambiguous about what I’m arguing. I’ll be plain: I believe the Left worked to help cause a crisis, worked to maximize the psychological impact of the crisis, and now have been given the means to determine the extent of the crisis. And if we do nothing, they may do tremendous harm to the country. For years I’ve written that the Left has at least passively been programmed to hate the country and works against its interests. I’ve detailed at length how the well-intentioned rank-and-file Democrats contribute to this, and speculated extensively about the mindset that might justify, drive, and predict their behaviors. Yet even for someone as relatively jaded as me, I am shocked at what I have seen in the last few weeks.
So step back and ignore CCP virus for a moment. It’s not that it’s not important and it’s not that it’s not dangerous. But pay careful attention to what it’s being used to justify.
Let’s go back to before CCP virus made landfall—I seem to recall the Leftist media licking its chops at the prospect. In the context of which, repatriating people from the Diamond Princess cruise ship explicitly against Donald Trump’s instructions struck me as an interesting move. By interesting I mean “a move intentionally calculated to maximize risk to one’s fellow citizens”. In the last few weeks it was one of the more brazen and sickening things I’ve seen the Deep State do. Raising blue Hell because Donald Trump ended flights from places most affected by the pandemic was likewise a fairly interesting move—again using the above definition. I was especially amused to read the coverage saying that most of the new infections are community-based transmission, as if this demonstrated that minimizing the infective individuals starting those transmission chains was therefore irrelevant. This school of thought was brought to you by the same sages, one assumes, who would not bother to turn off the water to the leaking pipes if their basement flooded, because after all, the thousands of gallons of water that have already come out of the pipes are the priority.
Well aren’t you the little fascist?
Without a shot.
I also get the impression that you think you know my position on the seriousness of the virus.
I'm taking this seriously. If we do nothing we will be like Italy. But, I also believe that we will push the curve way down like South Korea and then once it's defeated the Left will want to leave all the draconian controls on for 6 months to a year based on nothing more than the ginned up possibility that it might come back.
We need to be ready to jump back to work at the earliest possible moment.
This has been SO EASY for the LEFT to take away ALL our FREEDOMS in a matter of DAYS! And EVERYONE IS FOLLOWING IN LINE!
The Left have started something they cannot control. They don’t think and plan, they react, viciously, savagely. This Corona, not really different than N1H1, dropped into their lap and they built it into this utterly ludicrous EVERYONE RUN AND HIDE response apparently in the hope of somehow damaging EVERYTHING Trump included. They now have a tiger by the tail. In no more than 1 week from today the Tiger will be focusing on this whole fake exaggerated threat and how utterly STUPID it is.
And you guys call us crazy.
Yes, millions locked down, thousands dead, the world economy in the crapper.
Just to get Trump.
He’s about to send everyone checks. Not sure how the left is going to spin that.
“DJT will MAGA...soon!”
Trump is encouraging the communists to declare martial law. They have in some States already. Trump isn’t MAGA. He’a a phony with a cute slogan.
We were JUST discussing this at our house minutes ago!
I went to the grocery store for a couple items. Picked up my cholesterol medicine at the pharmacy. Then picked up a pizza from my favorite pizzeria for dinner.
Internet is still up for our freedom of speech. So I think that you may be just a little overwrought on "all our freedoms" being gone just yet.
Still the Left will try and take them if we give them the chance.
Joe Biden: “China’s going to eat our lunch?” he asked a crowd in Iowa City. “C’mon, man!”
GET REAL!!! THREE PUNY LITTLE THINGS THEY ALLOWED YOU TO DO!!! OMG!! ENOUGH!
"It was our idea, and Trump only did it because it's an election year"
That photo should be shown far and wide.
Just think if Obama was president right now. The US as we know it would be history.
Unfortunately, thousands of gullible feeble minded sheeple saw that broadcast and used it as a basis to declare that martial law is needed.
Just to get Trump.
No, the left wants the world. Trump just happens to be in the way.
Fascist? Ha.
My relatives in China and my friends in Berlin would heartily disagree with you. So would my coworkers here in the US. But ignorant FReepers who want to believe the FluBros not so much.
I spent 10 years in the US Infantry fighting ignorant communists and Islam with a rifle, with a few numbers on my rifle stock. How about you, keyboard warrior? SoCal?
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