The Morning Report - 5/20/20

Good morning, kids. Wednesday, and another grim milestone of yet another day of America held hostage.

Despite the justifiably depressing nature of some of the links, I am going to continue my cautiously optimistic mood from yesterday as there are some positive signs that perhaps the state of siege is in the process of lifting, to paraphrase Hemingway, "gradually and then suddenly." After being rebuked by the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, Dem dictator Tony Evers has accepted the defeat and is not going to challenge the decision. His blathering about how people are going to drop dead by the bushel as a result just does not jibe with the reality on the ground in places like Georgia, Texas and Colorado where the lockdowns have been more or less fully lifted, and infections and actual deaths from the Chinese Lung AIDS are either holding steady or falling off. He knows it and people across the country know it.

UPDATE: In Colorado it's only a slight lifting. Consider me chastised.

Unfortunately you still have the deplorable despots, bitterly clinging to their narratives and memes, both because power-tripping is a helluva drug and of course to attempt to strangle the President's reelection chances by destroying the economy. But more and more, that strategy, despite causing untold suffering and misery, is backfiring as Trump's job approval numbers remain at record highs. The President himself, who as Federalism and law dictate left it up to the governors to handle the "crisis" individually, nevertheless fired a warning shot across their bow:

... Trump, whose administration last month revealed guidelines for when states should begin lifting stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures meant to slow the spread of the virus, has vocally pushed for the rapid reopening of the economy. The president said in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo last week that his critics want the economy to remain shuttered until the November election, calling Democrats' reluctance to lift the coronavirus measures "a political thing."

"The governors are making their decisions, and want to make their decisions, and that's the way I want it to, and we will step in if we see something going wrong, or if we disagree, and some people say that's nice, and some people say I shouldn't be doing that, but we're going to do it if we see something wrong..."

The nuts and bolts of how he does this, or even if legally he can take direct action to force the recalcitrant rulers' hands (which invariably will result in immediate lawsuits to tie his hands), is almost beside the point. Where there is one Shelly Luther and Karl Manke there are untold millions who stand in solidarity with them. A political wind the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane is at the President's back, and he knows it, as apparently does Tony Evers. But he may be an outlier, as we now see from the completely idiotic and insane comments from Bill DeBolshevik, who threatened to send in the cops to literally drag bathers out of the ocean if they dare defy him and go for a swim, or schmucks like LA's Eric Garcetti who has all but declared Los Angeles to be imprisoned indefinitely.

It is now clear that a large number of state governments have decided to morph what had originally been called a very temporary lock down and request to social distance into a permanent state of martial law, with their governors retaining the right to rule by edict for as long as they personally deem.

As most states begin to move forward with measures to reopen their economies following strict lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the [Chinese] coronavirus, some governors and big-city mayors are now saying the restrictions will not fully be lifted until a vaccine or treatment for the disease is available - a timeline that could take a year or more.

The leaders' comments indicate Americans could be living with orders restricting personal and economic activity for much longer than many anticipate...

In every single one of these cases, expect the rules to change, once it appears that their stated conditions for lifting their dictatorships might finally arrive. At that time it will suddenly be for other reasons their totalitarian rule must continue, for our safety of course. That is their standard operating procedure, to lie repeatedly for their own benefit...

These are the new fascists, the new brown-shirts, the new political thugs. They are no different than past fascists, brown-shirts, and political thugs. And they are in power because a large percentage of the populations in these [Democrat] states either happily approve their policies of squashing down and destroying those who disagree with them, or are too ignorant and lazy to oppose those policies...

Well, the question is how long can individuals like Noose-'em, Angel-of-Death Cuomo, Sitz-Pritzker, Kate Brown-Shirt, Jay Inbreed and all the others hold out? Again, it raises the question of what can Trump really do to make them cry uncle? Despite its eternal goal of destroying the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, it nevertheless will use them as both a shield and a cudgel when politically expedient. With a corrupt unelected fourth branch of government in the bureaucracy as well as a usually reliable and nearly equally corrupt Judiciary to rubber stamp regulations that could never be passed legislatively nor honestly won at the voting both, this has been their MO at least since the Wilson era, if not before.

It raises the central dilemma that we, the President and decent Americans have faced since almost as long: how are we supposed to counter a now openly anti-American political entity - the Democrat-Media Complex and Party - by relying on the rules, norms and customs that they themselves ignore and subvert in order to maintain their power? The Bush's and RINOs went along with the charade because they were a part of it. The rest of us just threw up our hands in disgust. But the election of Trump truly overturned the tables of the moneychangers. Whatever gossamer-thin illusion of normalcy that for decades maintained the status quo is gone. What we have gone through these past three months, on top of the 5 years of the attempt to take out Trump, and indeed the 8-year Obama Reign of Error made sure of that.

The question I posed, though, still remains. But perhaps the answer doesn't necessarily lie with an honest and decent President, nor reliance on institutions and traditions that, as amply demonstrated by the likes of Comey, Clapper, Brennan, as well as Emmet Sullivan, Amy Berman Jackson and John Roberts, are thoroughly corrupt top to bottom.

If federalism is the legitimate reason for states having the authority to deal independently with crises, real or imagined, federalism as outlined in the 9th and 10th amendment also reserves ultimate authority and rights to the individual citizen. Shelly Luther and Karl Manke, as all of us have, obeyed the emergency decrees and lockdown orders because of assurances that they would be temporary. Yet as time wore on, the more that was revealed, the more the goalposts shifted, and the more onerous and capricious the prohibitions became, despite the disease being nowhere near as deadly to the general population as first believed (or pimped).

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness rest with the individual. That is the essence of what this country was founded on. The only resolution to this crisis - the forcible imprisonment of the people and not the Sino Sinus Syphilis - rests with each of us as individuals to engage in civil disobedience and lift the lockdowns ourselves. As I stated, the Left only recognizes the Constitution in the breach and when it suits their political ends. The fact that we have to engage in civil disobedience to exercise that which G-d gave us and is enumerated in that document is proof enough that we have crossed one big-ass Rubicon:

..."We haven't had any bloodshed yet," one member of a Facebook group called Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine recently wrote.

We hope there is none. But tempers are short. One man has already been charged with making death threats against Whitmer and the state attorney general. And we've seen members of the Michigan Militia swear they aren't going to allow law enforcement to arrest [Karl Manke] an Owosso barber who reopened his business because he had no other income. How long can she hold back demands for freedom - in America?...

The control that politicians and unelected bureaucrats who are advising them have been exerting is clearly slipping away, and they are facing a choice: They can work with the people who feel suffocated and expeditiously restore as much normalcy as possible, or they can remain on their present course, which increases the chances there'll be violence because either a protester or someone in a security line will make a poor decision of out anger or fear, and then pay the price on Election Day...

Lift the lockdowns. Liberate America.

STRUGGLE FOR LOCKDOWN LIBERATION

• Wisconsin Governor Gives Up Efforts to Continue Statewide Lockdown
  
• Trump Tells Governors the Feds Will "Step In" If He Disagrees With Reopening Plans
  
• America Is Reopening Itself: Will Politicians Be Able To Stop It?
  
• Blue State Governors Struggling to Enforce Draconian Lockdown Orders
  
• Key Michigan Court Sides with Gauleiter Whitmer Over Emergency Powers (mass civil disobedience is the only answer - jjs)
  
• The Fascist States Within the United States
  
• Phase Two in the Battle to Reopen America
  
• Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Pennsylvania Government Violated Constitutional Rights When Distributing Chinese Coronavirus Business Waivers
  
• Oregon Gov. Brown-Shirt Decrees Residents in Closed Counties Cannot Shop in Open Counties
  
• Bloated Tick Sitz-Pritzker Announces What Will Happen to Business People Who Defy Restrictions
  
• RIP "Flattening the Curve": Gov. Murphy Sez NJ Won't Return to Normal Until "A Proven Vaccine is Widely Available" (life sentence without parole for Jersey - jjs)
  
• Blue State Governors Move the Goalposts
  
• Billingsley: Barbara Ferrer, Social Welfare Queen of Los Angeles County
  
• We Were Never Asked
  
• Inside the Defiant Mining Town Bar That Won't Shut Down and Die

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, FICTIONS AND FACTS
  Well, looky here! With all the warnings about HCQ coming from the fraudsters and oberchochems in the government and media, it turns out that none other than the NIH itself wrote a rave review of the drug back in 2005. I can hear the grating squawk of Tommy Vietor right now, "Dude! Like that was like 15 like years ago, like!" This plus the VA prescribing the stuff like a candy store dispenses PEZ still doesn't prevent Dick Cheney's doctor from warning that PDT risks death by taking it. Full disclosure - I grew up with the good doctor, and he's a decent guy, but Johnny, please, this is embarrassing.

  Elsewere, seems as if Jersey Dems don't want to talk about Phil Murphy doing what Angel-of-Death Cuomo did in the state next door, while Cuck Schemer has no qualms at all about Nipsy causing more deaths than the 9/11 hijackers, the timeline the media will not cover, City Journal with an essay by a doctor who favors tracking, oh happy day; the TSA will really give you the Biden treatment, San Diego mayor blasts Gavin Noose-'em, monkey business with Georgia's numbers, "there's a lot more to Rick Bright's testimony before a Democrat committee and appearance on 60 Minutes than his "whistleblower" posture would suggest," Larry Elder on the deaths by despair, and tennis with balls. Really.

• Flashback to 2005 NIH Report: Chloroquine is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread
  
• VA Secretary: On Any Given Day, the VA Uses 42,000 Doses of Hydroxychloriquine
  
• Dick Cheney's Former Cardiologist: Trump Has 15-20% Risk of Dying if He Catches Chinese Coronavirus (I went to school with the good doctor, but I think he's mistaken - jjs)
  
• New Jersey Democrats Silent on Phil Murphy Putting Chinese Coronavirus Patients in Nursing Homes
  
• Cuck Schemer Defends Angel-of-Death Cuomo Ordering Nursing Homes to Accept Chinese Coronavirus Patients Despite Reversal
  
• The Chinese Coronavirus Timeline Liberals Don't Want You To See
  
• Tracking Transmission
  
• Uh Oh: TSA to be Placed in Charge of Screening Air Passengers For Chinese Coronavirus
  
• San Diego Mayor Blasts Noose-'em for Saying First Responders Would Be Laid Off First Without Federal Aid
  
• Georgia Backtracks: "Math Error" Showed Steep Chinese Coronavirus Decline, Cases Actually Remain Steady
  
• Hydroxychloroquine and This Guy Bright
  
• Elder: Chinese Coronavirus Deaths and Lockdown
  
• Official Tries to Explain New Tennis Rules But Things Go Hilariously South at the Ball Handling Part

  ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE LUNG MARCH
  Democrats can't even take away private property rights competently, Steve Mncuhin with common sense, Trump makes ranchers jolly, restaurant with blatant gouging, Sherrod Brown-Note's tired old specious straw-man argument, and welfare by any other name would not be as destructive.

• Report: California Struggles To Fill Hotel Rooms It Booked For Homeless People
  
• Steve Mnuchin: Employees Who Reject Offer to Resume Work Ineligible for Unemployment
  
• Trump Announces $19 Billion Relief Package for US Farmers and Ranchers
  
• Restaurant Adds 26% "[Chinese] COVID Fee" to Bills Claiming Increase in Food Costs, Then Quickly Drops Surcharge
  
• Sherrod Brown-Note: "How Many Workers Should Give Their Lives" to "Juice" GDP or the Stock Market?
  
• Liberals' Direct Cash Payments Promise to Do to Main Street What They've Done to the Black Community: Crush It

  JOE BIDEN RAPE ACCUSATION
  The hypocrisy here is typical if not radiant.

• Democrats Employ Character Defense of Biden After Attempted Assassination of Kavanaugh's

  DON'T FORGET UKRAINE... AND CHINA
  "Listen, borscht! Drop the charges or you don't get the dough-ray-me. Ka-peesh?"

• Joe Biden's Quid Pro Quo Call With Ukraine President Leaked; MSM Narrative About Shokin's Ouster Destroyed

  SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION,
  The Cover-Obama's-Ass e-mail as the clock wound down on the Obama regime confirms what we always knew, Flynn seeks writ of mandamus against hack-in-black Sullivan, GOP senators expanding the probe and think surveillance may have started way before 2016. I would not be surprised if we learn they were spying on at least a few other candidates if not all of them. So if the leak did not come from an unmasking, where did it originate (cough-CIA!-cough), Trump not thrilled with Barr not going after Obama and Biden, Teh Ted lays out how unprecedented this crime was, Jim Jordan wants Christopher Wray's scalp, and Rick Grenell means business. The fact that he's homosexual is irrelevant and the headline annoys me. But this guy is the real thing.

• Declassified Susan Rice E-Mail Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted in Oval Office Meeting
  
• Michael Flynn Asks DC Circuit to Dismiss Case, Replace Judge
  
• Senators "Dramatically Expanding" Probe Into Obama-Era Scandal, Think Surveillance May Have Started "Even Earlier" Than 2016
  
• Classified Leak Against Michael Flynn Didn't Come From an "Unmasking" Request, Analysis Suggests
  
• Trump Targets Barr: "I'm a Little Surprised" AG Won't Investigate Obama or Biden
  
• Ted Cruz Puts Into Perspective How Unprecedented It Is That Obama Spied on Trump Campaign
  
• Obama's De Facto Russian Collusion Co-Conspirators
  
• Jim Jordan: FBI Dir. Wray "Doesn't Seem to Care" About Attempted Coup, So "We're Going Around Him"
  
• America's Gay Hero: The Rise and Rise of Richard Grenell

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
  Poor man's Rachel Maddow puts foot in mouth.

• Megan Rapinoe Says Trump a "White Nationalist"... Forgets Her Brother is In a White Supremacist Prison Gang (D-block fluffer - jjs)

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM
  Bill DeBolshevik is just a flat-out Jew-hater. Period. Joe Biden clueless, tone-deaf and projecting, and Daniel Greenfield says "the Saudis stopped hating Israel. Wouldn't it be nice if liberal Jews did too?"

• NYPD Shuts Down Brooklyn Yeshiva, DeBolshevik Announces "Cease and Desist Order"
  
• Joe Biden Falsely Accuses Trump of Ignoring Anti-Semitism
  
• Greenfield: Liberal Jewish Opposition to Israel's Sovereignty is Cowardly

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION
  Huge decision puts a pretty big torpedo in the drive for vote-by-mail, Pennsylvania pulls a Mammy McMengele move in postponing the primary there, Salena Zito on Joey Sex-knuckles and his mush brain, Wretched Whitler sez Biden campaign talked to her about the veep slot, Biden attacks Don Jr. but dings his own son instead, Sandersnista is right, petulant, petty Obama will not attend White House portrait ceremony; good, it took too long to air the building out after eight long years of weed and flop sweat. Also, "Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for voluntarism and mutual aid - as if these were new traditions in our history," hopefully the second term will have a dream team of Total-Trumpers, and finally David Catron asserts about Trump, "there is no one else in American politics who can bring the economy back to life."

• Appeals Court Rules New York Must Hold Democrat Primary in June
  
• Political Skullduggery in PA: Was the Primary Postponement Really Just About Public Safety?
  
• Zito: "Joe Has Absolutely No Idea What's Happening"
  
• Whitmer Confirms Conversation With Biden Campaign About Vice Presidency
  
• "His Father's Son": Joe Biden's Attack on Don Jr. Backfires as Hunter's Baggage Retakes Center Stage
  
• Bernardo Sandersnista: Trump Is Painting Democrats As the "Namby-Pamby" Party of "No"s
  
• Obama Will Reportedly Skip His White House Presidential Portrait Ceremony as Long as Trump is in Office (good, keep that bipedal shit-stain away - jjs)
  
• Donkey-Chompers AOC Discovers America
  
• The New Team Trump: The Best People at the Worst Time
  
• Trump Will Survive the Chinese COVID-19 Economy

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
  Tom Cotton has the right idea, and the administration to go after India and Chi-Coms for refusing to repatriate back infected citizens.

• Tom Cotton: Defund States Giving Chinese Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
  
• White House Eyes Sanctions on India, China for Illegal Migration

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH
  Agitprop media rivals go to bat for Fox against Leftist front group's attempt to muzzle them, Jeffrey Lord on the National Laughingstock's complete abrogation of any semblance of a news organization in embargoing ObamaGate, Fredo Cuomo is a joke, and two essays, including Michael Goodwin, on the anti-American American media as traitors.

• Owners of XiNN, NBXi, Other Major Legacy Outlets Come Together in Support of Fox News Amid Lawsuit
  
• Lord: : The Washington Post Covers Up Obamagate
  
• Fredo Cuomo Bizarrely Theorizes Trump Talked About HCQ to Distract from News of Pensacola Islamic Terrorist Shooter
  
• The American Media Has Betrayed America (that's its job - jjs)
  
• Goodwin: American Media Undercutting Trump's Tense Battle with China

  ABORTION
  Pro-lifers push back against Jane Roe's alleged deathbed confession that she was paid by them to lie about becoming pro-life, and the government wants $80 million back that Planned Parenthood affiliates swindled them out of.

• "Jane Roe" of Roe V. Wade Said She Was Paid to Lie About Being Pro-Life in "Deathbed Confession," New Doc Claims; Pro-Lifers Who Knew Her Push Back
  
• Report: Planned Parenthood Affiliates Improperly Applied For and Received $80 Million; Now Government Wants it Back

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
  House GOPers move to defend medical supply chain, "if China's actions in the [Chinese] coronavirus catastrophe offer any window into this communist regime, it is that the threat they represent is unlike anything America has faced," screw MBS and cut off the KSA, "besides Australia's call for an independent inquiry into the Wuhan virus outbreak, another issue at the center of this week's WHO meeting is Taiwan's membership," and ancient, ugly Ukrainian anti-Semitism rears its ugly head once again.

• House GOP Leader Lays Out Steps US Needs to Take to Protect Medical Supply Chain From China
  
• What US National Strategy Should Look Like in the Wake of Chinese Coronavirus
  
• Time to Cut Off Saudi Arabia
  
• Two Big China Decisions This Week May Determine WHO's Fate
  
• Ukraine Police Official Asks For List of All Orthodox Jews in Kolomiya (33,000 are in Kiev... in Babi Yar ravine, shot dead - jjs)

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
  "The Golden State's record-breaking deficit owes as much to its progressive politics as to the virus lockdown."

• California's Budget Bust-Up

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  Another great campaign platform for the Democrats to run on, and air travel slowly seems to be bouncing back, but still at record lows.

• Biden Pledge to Dump Keystone Pipeline Would Kill Thousands of Jobs, Analysis Says
  
• Air Travel Ticking Upwards in May, Remains Near Record Lows

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
  More analysis of the Ahmaud Arbery incident, the world turned upside down thanks to Peking Pox and progressive politics, and man arrested after posting on Facebook that he killed a pedophile.

• The Case of Ahmaud Arbery Calls for Nuanced Reflection, Not Race-Baiting
  
• Chinese COVID-1984: The Criminal is the Victim and the Victim is the Criminal
  
• Public School Employee Allegedly Kills Pedophile, Confesses On Facebook, Gets Arrested

  HEALTHCARE
  More like this please across all sectors, DoJ wants transparency on health costs, and drug and alcohol abuse is going to kill many more people than the General Tso's Sicken ever will.

• Trump Administration Awards Contract to Shift Drug Manufacturing to the United States
  
• Justice Department Makes a Strong Case for Health Care Price Transparency
  
• "Relapses Are Through the Roof, Overdoses Are Through the Roof": How the Pandemic is Upping Substance Abuse

  EDUCATION
  At least the kids won't have to sit through brainwashing in NYC, and that scares the crap out of the unionized indoctrinators.

• DeBolshevik's Flat Earth "Science" Behind Shutting Schools
  
• Teachers' Union Nightmare Poll: Parents "More Likely" to Keep Up Homeschooling After Lockdown

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
  Just because they assimilated them doesn't mean they shelved their ideas and plans, and another fiasco in the land of Mammy McMengele.

• How the Democrat Establishment Assimilated the Enviro-Radicals
  
• Clean Energy Via Legislative Diktat

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  A two-fer from our intrepid science reporter, first on an abrupt ankling for a NASA honcho, as well as more Martian geology, or a description of Hillary Clinton's sex life. And speaking of alternate realities, NASA scientists believe they've found hair clippings from Spock's beard.

• NASA Head of Manned Space Abruptly Resigns
  
• A Shadowed Ice Patch on Mars
  
• Bizzaro World: NASA Scientists Detect Evidence of Parallel Universe... Where Time Runs Backward

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
  Maybe so, but you will still be made to care and praise Ba'al.

• The Tide is Turning Back to Biological Definitions of Gender
  
• Homo Activist Groups Pressure Government to Coerce Acceptance from People of Faith

  CULTURE WARS, HITHER & YON
  Are the scales really falling from Elon Musk's eyes?, New Black Panthers can't be racist because Black, and New, and Panther. Also, Christian Toto with a "meh" review and finally, Annie Glenn, the widow of Senator and astronaut John Glenn has passed away at 100. RIP

• Elon Musk: "Cancel Cancel Culture"
  
• New Black Panther Party Launches Boycott of "Chinese Merchants" to Protest Racism
  
• The Theater and the Pandemic
  
• Toto: Union Bridge Asks Too Much of Its Audience
  
• Annie Glenn, Widow of Senator and Astronaut John Glenn, Dies at 100

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