Governor Lockdown

American Thinker.com ^ | April 29, 2020 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Kaslin]

As I’ve noted before, the politicians and experts telling us to shut up, sit down and stay in our homes under virtual house arrest themselves all have jobs to go to and paychecks to collect. They are essential, we are told, as opposed to you and me and most of America, who are not. Leading the pack is Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, of which it is now being said -- if you can fake it there, you can fake it anywhere. Cuomo has been faking it as a truthful and competent leader of his state.

At a recent press conference, Cuomo showed the elitism and arrogance of so many politicians and their media mouthpieces as they are unmasked by a crisis they have no intention if wasting. Liberals have always dreamed of controlling every aspect of our lives and the Wuhan virus crisis has given them a dream opportunity to do just that.

Cuomo was quizzed by a reporter about the huddled masses who are yearning to breathe free and when the lockdown rules would at least be loosened so the common folk could begin to put their lives together. Cuomo was not amused:

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The Democrats and the media propagandists are the ONES responsible for impending economic collapse. They own this one.

[unixfox]

They own this one.

They own it alright, but the media will blame Trump. Because orange man bad.

[equaviator]

Under Governor Whitmer’s “leadership”, Michigan is now the Great “Fake” State.

[mmichaels1970]

Wow. That was a great article!

Cuomo, like so many others in the elite, ignore the health care costs of crushed lives and dreams, the human costs of lost jobs and careers, of nest eggs broken on the ground, of people who used to provide for their families fighting in stores over rolls of toilet paper. We are being guided by the best infectious disease experts in the world, we are told, experts so smart they didn’t anticipate or consider the lives lost from depression, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction and despair in a land where abortion is considered an essential procedure but heart stint and CT scans not so much.

[polymuser]

“Michiganders Honk for Freedom” — 8pm nightly.

Car horns sounding throughout the state every night at 8pm for a minute, until freedom returns.

[null and void]

Cuomo, like so many others in the elite, ignore the health care costs of crushed lives and dreams, the human costs of lost jobs and careers, of nest eggs broken on the ground, of people who used to provide for their families fighting in stores over rolls of toilet paper.

Cuomo and his ilk are NOT ignoring those costs, they are glorying in them.

they didn’t anticipate or consider the lives lost from depression, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction and despair in a land where abortion is considered an essential procedure but heart stent and CT scans not so much.

I bet they did anticipate and consider.

That's why they did it.

Sociopaths all.

[minnesota_bound]

Cuomo is ordering that infected people go to nursing homes. Plain murder. He gets paid more more from the feds if he has more dead.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Collectivists divide the world into two types of people. Small business owners are the wrong type, and don’t know how to vote correctly, anyway. Any economic pain they are experiencing is due to their own greed. Collectivists care about lives, not money. /s

[kagnew]

‘Under Governor Whitmer’s “leadership”, Michigan is now the Great “Fake” State.’

Couldn’t agree more. What a tyrant. My heart goes out to the people of Michigan. How on earth did she get elected, other than making promises that she knew she would never keep?

[Disambiguator]

“Honk if you love peace and quiet”

(Bumper sticker)

[polymuser]

“How on earth did she get elected...?”

She’s a D’rat in a state with many unionists, welfare takers, college students, women and, a big factor in her election — potheads.

[Svartalfiar]

As I’ve noted before, the politicians and experts telling us to shut up, sit down and stay in our homes under virtual house arrest themselves all have jobs to go to and paychecks to collect.

Um, it's not just that. Let's say as part of this, every single governor went with a $0 paycheck. How long do you think it would take any of them to start missing rent/mortgage payments? A couple years? Decades?

Most of these politicians have no concept of what it's like for the average Joe - can survive maybe a month or two on savings and ramen (oh wait, ramen is empty on the store shelves...), but that's about it, and it's gonna hurt every other plan for life that Joe had. Most politicians could retire tomorrow, be blacklisted from every single employer, and still survive comfortably until they die at the age of 100.

Likewise for all these CEOs and high-ups who are complaining about their 10 or 20% pay cut, while they furlough 75% of their workforce, and put the rest on half pay. Ridiculous.