Posted on 05/13/2020 11:06:56 AM PDT by 11th_VA
I think most people here do not have a full understanding of the economic dislocation going on. For the moment, it is invisible for most people. I'm in one of the best economic areas of the country and I see it. I noticed a hotel that had been in business for decades have a chain link fence put around it and closed for good. I noticed another restaurant whose sign was pulled down and closed for good. This one was open as long as I can remember. Someone said it was open for decades but could not withstand having no revenue for 2 months. Some of the restaurants I talked to said that the to go option at best is break even but they do it to give some work to employees.
Unemployment will go to 20+% easily. Even the White House said they think it is already at 20%. The monthly numbers from the Dept of Labor are two weeks old when released.
There won't be jobs for everyone to go back to when this is over. Something to think about.
Why didn’t they load those buses up with people too!!
Protests by the Left Get a Pass - While Conservatives Get Arrested
All protestors are equal - but some are more equal than others.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/protests-left-get-pass-while-conservatives-are-daniel-greenfield/
“...Just heard on the radio, the bus protest is 10 miles long, circling the National Mall - Reminds me of the truckers during Carter (?)...”
I wonder if we could fill those buses with patriots in November to go vote in Virginia. With no voter ID there, we should swarm them with thousands of patriots from all over the country.
I knew it was happening and heard ZERO media coverage yesterday.
Good. Government has no right to prevent people from working. Time to stop this nonsense.
You are very definitely onto something-—to me, the most fascinating part of this whole Social Control Experiment centers on the dichotomy between essential and non-essential, and the decomposing brains that came up with the “distinctions”.
They want $trillions in bailout funding.
So they can go protest in front of where their Blue governors live and take away their freedoms to kill a virus.
Blue governors are afraid you will not get sick
During these trying and stressful times:
Over Drinking/eating/getting depressed at home alone is condoned by all of the governors of blue states.
If you are lucky enough to live in a red state, then go out and have a good time....
“Before this shutdown, small groups of friends would gather for breakfast at their local diner each morning, or happy hour after work at the local pub, or vets at McDonalds for coffee...”
One of my wife’s younger male siblings in his mid 70’s is a Viet Nam Army Vet, and basically eats breakfast at a local diner or drives 7 miles to eat at a McDonald’s. He is a true independent voter.
His wife tells him, she didn’t marry him to fix his breakfast.
So he was upset about that issue of not eating as a group of vets at McD’s or the local diner. He also, complained to my wife, his older sister and about Covid 19, restrictions on the tennis court. Like only serving your own marked ball, throwing the balls into big basket when they were done. Plus having to wear a mask to and from his vehicle and the tennis court.
My wife told him the same thing his wife told him,”You need to grow a pair!” ,
She told him that, he and his friends should wear their Army, Navy,Marine, Air Force hats and American Flag pins to eat breakfast/lunch wherever and together as 70 year old vets.
Then, wearing no masks from his vehicle, to and from the tennis court and to bring his used tennis balls back to his pickup for the next match.
Good story. Thanks
Throughout history, resistance to government tyranny has always depended on informal gatherings of patriots in public places - pubs, taverns, diners, crowded marketplaces, etc.. - where old farts and young activists gather and bitch about an overreaching government.
Before this shutdown, small groups of friends would gather for breakfast at their local diner each morning, or happy hour after work at the local pub, or vets at McDonalds for coffee...
People seem to be dismissing these venues as “non-essential” - but they are not. Liberty depends on such informal gatherings taking place, and I find it very troubling that they seem to have been specifically targeted in this unconstitutional shutdown.
The Left seems particularly happy with these social venues being shut down for the foreseeable future. I wonder why that is.
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Every now and then, in the early morning hours around 3:00 a.m, I fart repeatedly in bed. Getting ready to face the world seems tough for an older guy.... or just funny
Anyhow, when the Dow Futures roll up on the tv ..... things start to smell even worse at times.
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Nancy Pelosi, the scum of the political world, and the smelliest of them all............. mentions DJT and dog poop in the same sentence. She tore up the pages of the State of The Union Speech.
Nancy Pelosi needs to be executed!
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