Yes, I know that Dr. John just covered this topic, but this post is here to flesh it out a bit more and to take it a step further. The headline here may seem over the top, but it’s not. We start with a quote from James Enos “You’re a Dipstick” Clyburn
“This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
If you’re reading this you already know that Nancy Pelosi held up protecting Americans from the Chinese Coronavirus for insanely partisan purposes. Click the link – what you probably didn’t know is that the story I linked is from three weeks ago. But more recently, the House & Senate were ready to vote on bipartisan support for Americans hurt by the epidemic, but again, San Fran Nan felt that the Amerian people hadn’t suffered quite enough yet.
To quickly sum up the current situation: Americans don’t like bailouts. Most of us still remember 2008, and we weren’t too crazy about companies getting bailed out for behaving irresponsibly. Granted, this would not have happened without encouragement by our government, but the banks themeselves had responsibility for this too. That said, the small businesses, as well as medium to large businesses being crippled by this disease’s spread did nothing wrong. And if they go under, well, America will probably look like the end point of The Green New Deal, but that’s a point for another day. The bottom line is that American businesses need relief to keep themeselves afloat and their workers paid.
Democrats have made the argument that in the GOP’s version the bill would have been nothing more than a slush fund for the Trump administration. Fair argument on its surface, until you look at what the Dems tried to shove in to force this bill onto the American people:
– A student loan bailout
– Publication of corporate pay statistics by race and race statistics for all corporate boards
– Federally mandated corporate board diversity
– 1/3 of Corporate Boards selected by employees
-A bail out on all current debt at the Postal Service
-Required early voting
-Required same day voter registration
-Provisions on official time for federal union collective bargaining. Note that this only applies to Feds.
-Full offset of airline emissions by 2025
-Publication and reporting of greenhouse gas statistics for individual flights
-Retirement plans for community newspaper employees
-Federal $15 minimum wage
-Permanent paid leave
-Study on climate change mitigation efforts
How exactly does any of this help your small business owner, emplyee, or anyone working for a large company who got laid off? None of this addresses the oversight they claim to want. “But Bob”, you may be saying, “Aside from giving a more complete listing of Pelosi’s wish list and a high level take on bailouts, how is this anything more than little more than a copy and paste of Doctor John’s writeup to pretend you provided new content?” Fair question, and great observation, astute reader! The simple answer is that this was supposed to be a short two part series, with the first part being mostly what you just read. And having had my hands full with basically becoming a home school teacher for Little Bob over the last two days, I forgot to check back on Flopping Aces’s home page for new articles. I also didn’t feel like just dumping what I had already written, so thanks you for your patience – here is what would have been part two:
Since apparently the rotten apple didn’t fall from the tree, let’s also look at Pelosi’s daughter, who in showing typical Democrat compassion, when learning that Sen. Rand Paul had contracted the Kung Flu, praised his neighbor whose physical assault last year send Paul to the hospital. How could anyone say such an idiotic thing? This also goes back to Pelosi not learning her lesson after her petty, childish premeditated stunt to tear apart President Trump’ SOTUS speech spectacularly blew up in her face. Deciding she hadn’t embarassed herself enough, Pelosi decided to double down on that bit of stupid and tried to demand that the political ad she basically wrote herself be taken down for being “doctored”.
This is a phenomena I never wrote a post on, but commeneted on in a few forums at the time. You no doubt remember Kathy Griffin’s brilliant publicity stunt of holding up what was supposed to be our president’s bloody, decapitated head. This of course, basically ended her already talentless career. This was too much even for the far left propaganda outlet known as CNN, and she was fired from her part time gig there. What is it that ties all of these incidents together? It’s the lack of a fair, objective media. The Pelosis and Griffin live in these sheltered bubbles where they have been unchallanged in their radical views for so long that it never even entered any of their thought processes that there was something wrong with what they were saying. It also shows how out of touch elitist Leftitsts have become. I’m also aware that anecdotes don’t equate research, but be sure to read through the thread in the first embedded tweet below. It gives a good picture as to how antics like these appear in the eyes on non-urban coastal lifelong Democrats.
The New York Times did Pelosi no favors by first surprisingly accurately reporting that Democrats had blocked the relief bill, to watering down the headline to the fourth version that claimed… wait for it… it was Cocaine Mitch’s fault. These are the same people who decided that a phrase that they had used for months suddenly became racist when those words were uttered by their latest Emmanuel Goldstein. Having a press that will hold Democrats accountable only after the most egregious offenses does nothing more than enable their bad behavior. The purpose of the press is supposed to be to report and inform the public, not push an extremist agenda designed to slowly but surely destroy this country. This diseased symboisis between the Democratic Party and the Mainstream Media is showing how far up the rot has gone. And when America gets clear of this virus, which we will, it will be time to take a hard look at what our society truly needs. And more importantly, what it doesn’t need, or want. Maybe the Pelosis, Griffins, and “journalists” of the world can all learn to code.
Half of you are not going to believe my next story…but it is true.
So the wife and I were out of food, so we went to our local pickup place. The owner has become a friend of ours, and we wanted to support him during these tough times.
He then started on politics…
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Not as good as Kung flu fighting
Something you can hum when you go to the grocery.
Just a thought with all the eateries shut down shouldnt the price of prime beef cuts be going down,? Burger should be cheap.
Price of eggs 2 weeks ago 79 cents per dozen yesterday 3 bucks limit 1, my thought Kluck Flu price gouger, no laying hens have been diagnosed.
Nancy will be loud in saying the senate version must be passed quickly for the children.
The Democrats are all part of the Globalists who want to create the New World Order and the One World Government all under the UN control one or more reasons to never ever vote for a Democrat
@kitt: Still, a good parody!
And I meant the song, not Pelosi…
I’ve railed about the corrupt liberal media before… in case no one noticed. I believe this is the primary cause for much of our problems. Democrats could not pull some of the things they pull if they didn’t expect to get away with it and they wouldn’t expect to get away with it without a media that works to cover up for their failures, lies and corruption.
Perhaps Republicans appear more righteous because they get all the scrutiny, but imagine if BOTH sides were scrutinized as harshly how much better government would be?
Just a taste:
Tapper lets AOC lie about Trump, admits he KNEW she was lying, doesn’t correct her
Question: why is Sandy EVER on television?
If you can remember back to 2011 there was a conservative group Citizens Against Government Waste that created this ad:
But then coronavirus happened.
Beijing is shaken. The Chinese communists’ dream of dominating the globe eventually, with the slow overstretch and collapse of the Pax Americana, was considered a matter of destiny.
Then suddenly, it all was over. A combination of incompetence, criminal negligence, and totalitarian suppression of a new devastating virus originating from the raw meat and wet markets of interior China let it rage through the globe.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/24/china-is-lashing-out-because-wuhan-flu-has-unmasked-it-to-the-world/
Yes, as the Federalist article points out, those Chicoms are blustering, trying to fake their way thru.
But look, Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, is suing China for $20 Trillion! https://zeenews.india.com/world/usd-20-trillion-lawsuit-filed-against-china-for-creation-release-of-coronavirus-2271362.html
Damages for all the dead, the sick, the treatments, the materials, the losses of jobs, etc.
And thru most all of this, the media has sided with China and against the USA or even any of those few countries whose borders have been tight enough to slow the spread of Covid-19 in their lands.
Globalists stick together, that includes Pelosi, Mitt Romney, the media and China’s commies.
Watch that ad I posted on the top.
They all want us to be wage slaves or worse, gov’t dependent, forever to oppressive communists.
They forget how those commies, in every instance where they got power, rooted out and executed all the elites they think they are.
They think they would be exceptions, immune.
They would be wrong.
@Deplorable Me: With the rise of social & new media, this is starting to backfire on them. The first great example was how everyone on The Left tried to dismiss Hillary’s growing health problems, and iit blew up on them when on 9/11 a non-credentialed cictizen did the job that journalists wouldn’t do, and a Sack of Potatoes was born.
Now that they’ve cast their lot with Sundown Joe, years of covering for his verbal diharrhea can no longer be dismissed, as now for attack ads all that President Trump will need to do is run unedited footage. Watching Sundown Joe mumble incoherently when he’s not outright confrontational with friendly crowds is more damning than any slick production/voiceover ad could ever be.
@Nan G:
Ambulance chasing taken to a new level! They can just wipe out our debt to them and we’ll call it even.
@Brother Bob: I would be VERY shocked if Biden is the candidate. They CAN’T believe they can go the distance with him. They CAN’T.
but they just might.
@Nan G: This is part of the reckoning that will be coming about when the smoke clears. I’m not a protectionist, but I’m also not one for unlimted “free” trade either. To channel Kurt Schlichter, for all that our garbage “Elites” look down on us Normals, this may be their biggest failure yet.
bar fly nancy had intimate contacts with the Chinese in business and the selling of state intelligence. slut hillary recently praised the chinese government-whore dog billy made billions selling US satellite and missile intelligence to the chinese. he has banks in hong kong, shanghai, and beijing. activists very seldom read, research or review history. Dostoevsky, recall his work, The Brothers Karamazov, probably not: “Beauty is the battlefield where God and the devil war for the soul of man.” current similarities?
Herman Kahn’s book On Escalations: Metaphors and Scenarios is an excellent review of things to come. especially his chapter “The importance of crises concepts” .
@Brother Bob:
Some things just need to be made here at home, like our drugs.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/communist-quality-control-beijing-sends-150000-wuhan-virus-testing-kits-to-prague-80-fail/
@Deplorable Me:
It’s too late to turn back. My guess is that Plan B for the media will be to try to annoint Stacy Abrams, Kamala, Mayor Pete, or whichever other woman Biden selects as his Veep as the next historic savior. Good luck with that
@MOS #8541: Let’s also not forget about the spy who Feibstein emplyed as her driver for two decades
@retire05: I’ve been a van of The Vodkapundit for years, and was lucky enough to have a few beers with him at two CPACs about a decade apart.
Great close to the post – absolutely nails it.
@Brother Bob: And then 25th him?
@Brother Bob:
What we have been experiencing for decades is the “long march thru the institutions.” But with the advent of conservative internet news services, people like Comrade Greggie are all in a twitter. Just look at how the legacy media attacks the one channel that doesn’t (always) toe the liberal line. One channel out of how many and the left is apoplectic over it.
Americans need to wake up. We didn’t become the engine of world finance because we offshored our jobs. We made things at home but China was smart enough to know that they could make us into a throw-away society with cheap goods made by slave labor. We need to return to what we know works; making, building and creating in the U.S. by Americans. So what if that shirt costs $6.00 more if it will last five years and not fall apart the first time you wash it? And for the green weenies like Comrade Greggie, think of all the crap that will NOT be going into landfills.
@retire05: We are the greener generation, we will wait til we can afford better quality. My set of stainless steel pans are 20 years old, I will confess I got a super deal on them at a Tuesday Mornings. My kitchen table from the 60s came back in style, the knock offs are crap. I am always on the search for bargain quality.
@Deplorable Me: Too contovertial. Biden would simply announce that he has a condition that everyone else knew he had for the past year and step down until he’s “treated” (spoiler – he wouldn’t be back). Which would be a perfect way for the Dems to backdoor one of their hand picked radicals into the presidency
@retire05: Great point on less going to the landfills. Use their own arguments against them
So now Democrats are holding the aid up because they are afraid some of Trump’s businesses (the employees) might benefit from the aid. That’s like making provisions to keep his businesses from doing well in a booming economy. Aren’t they Americans, too?
This guy has level 7 TDS human filth voters can just suffocate without hope. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nevada-governor-bars-use-of-malaria-drug-for-coronavirus/
There are 69 already approved by the FDA drugs that could maybe perhaps help if the politicians wont yank a medical license for them trying the off label use.
And yes some doctors are adding to treatments large doses of vitamin C.
Come on Democrats take it on the chin let Trump win this one.
Is this true? https://liveitbadass.com/joe-rogan-passes-away-after-accidental-overdose-of-marijuana/
@Deplorable Me:
It’s remarkably hard to vision what planet you Trumpster/enablers/cultist/Russian assets live on.
Group Of GOP Holding up Stimulus.
Senators Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham Stall Stimulus.
Senate Republicans Are Blocking Coronavirus Stimulus Because They Think It’s Too Good For Laid Off People
@Ronald J. Ward:
From your CBS article:
“The bill increases the maximum unemployment insurance payment by $600 per week and extends the period for which workers are eligible to four months. Four Republican senators — Senators Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Ben Sasse and Lindsey Graham — raised concerns about what they called a “drafting error” in the bill, arguing that the expansion could incentivize workers to lose their jobs if the totality of state and federal unemployment benefits exceeds their current income.
The GOP senators proposed capping total unemployment insurance at 100% of income, and said they were preparing an amendment to that effect. That prompted Senator Bernie Sanders to threaten to place a “hold” on the bill unless Scott, Sasse and Graham dropped their objections.
“In my view, it would be an outrage to prevent working-class Americans to receive the emergency unemployment assistance included in this legislation. Unless these Republican senators drop their objections, I am prepared to put a hold on this bill until stronger conditions are imposed on the $500 billion corporate welfare fund,”
Why should anyone be paid unemployment benefits that exceed their pay?
You Bernie Bros are nuts.
@kitt: He will be in a pickle if he has people die and the treatment is proven effective. But… Democrat… immune… protected… blame Trump.
@Ronald J. Ward: So, since Trump and his family might breathe some clean air, we should not spend money to keep the air clean? They might drink some water… better cut all funding for keeping water clean. In fact, we should not have ANY relief efforts because Trump has businesses that would, like everyone else, do well in a booming economy. Right? Is that what makes sense in the Stupid World of Trump Hate? Let’s just destroy the entire economy because Trump might benefit from a good economy. How’s that?
@retire05: Democrats have been paying people not to work for decades. OF COURSE this makes perfect sense to AJ.
Sad to see that the Democrats held up the stimulus for so long.
It will be on their heads, and it will be remembered.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/bernie-sanders-threatens-to-hold-up-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-over-gop-anti-worker-objections/
Seems there’s a big difference between “warning” about a bill, and to tweak it, than to openly vow to block it…as on Dem Senator has..and Dem Sentators have for awhile.
At least the Reps seem to understand the gravity of the situation. Glad they aren’t letting people die, like the Democrats.
@retire05:
I actually, believe it or not, agree, to an extent (the extent being that $30K a year ain’t exactly living high on the hog). I really don’t agree with much of this socialist nonsense to begin with (yes, this is me).
This is a different animal than 2009 when the trickle down from the auto industry and housing crash were putting millions upon millions out of work, only choking more mom and pops and such as it continued to crash. In this case, I still can’t take my $1200 or whatever to my local pub or restaurant or barber or take the wife out for a night on the town or take the grandkids to Chucky Cheese (or whoever in the hell they are) or go see a movie. It ain’t the same so there’s just a waste here. Everything should be weighed on it’s merits.
But unfortunately this is a partisan grab from both sides in a highly partisan world with Rs wanting to give the keys of the treasury Dept to the mega donors and Ds wanting to appeal to their base and supporters.
Thing is, throwing this generous bone to poorer workers really doesn’t matter because they’ll immediately put it back into the economy anyway. This slush fund for the mega wealthy will only be used for stock buyback and foreign investment with an insurance of more super PAC $ for their GOP enablers.
Finished watching todays presser, the media still asking same questions getting same answers, can they please ask well formed new questions? Masks masks ventilators masks ventilators masks, can they rewind the footage of yesterdays presser and the day before and listen to the answers.
Giving everyone money is insane there is no where to spend it, only those that are unemployed need help, only those that businesses were shut down need zero interest loans or grants. 6 trillion dollars maybe a portion of it to be repaid.
Yes fill the food banks to the rafters, float the small businesses and some larger ones. Congress get a grip!
@Ronald J. Ward:
Perhaps you could link us to the bill you say is a slush fund for the mega wealthy? Give us the section that upholds your claim.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/corporate-airline-contributions-favored-democrats-over-republicans-recent
@retire05:
I suppose I could but that would make you dependent.
We wouldn’t want that now would we?
@Ronald J. Ward:
IOW, you don’t have a link. Got it.
@Ronald J. Ward:
When it comes to anything you post there is only one thing we depend on.
@Brother Bob:
Chuckle, I just have to laugh at that!
@retire05:
You asked me why low wage earners should receive above pay in the stimulus package.
I gave my opinion.
You now want me to search the internet to inform you of the “slush fund”, something that’s been hashed out for days.
Confuse yourself with Deplorable much?
@Ronald J. Ward: So, like everything else, it’s not that it is based on fact, but just something you heard someone say and it sounded good. No surprise there; what we’ve come to expect.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Actually, here is what I asked you:
You’re either drunk or stoned. Or perhaps both.
I think back to the waste and fraud from Katrina relief, should those in Prison also get a check? That must include pedophiles murderers and rapists behind bars.
Can this be paid to the accounts that employers pay the payroll taxes all the information on the business is already there, the system must be secure already.
@retire05:
I’m plenty sober enough to read comments 21, 22, 26, 28, 29 & 30.
What’s your problem?
@Ronald J. Ward:
OK, so you have cognitive dissonance disorder.
At least you didn’t deny you’re stoned.
Glad we have that settled.
Wow!!! You can never make the claim that those who work for CNN are smart.
Twitter post from Joe Lockhart:
“Another day and another day @realDonaldTrump has not left the White House to see first hand what’s going on in the country. No visit to see first responders or ER docs or nurses. No visit to a small business that’s repurposing to help the cause. King in an ivory tower.”
This is what CNN pays for what they consider to be a “political analyst.” Joe Lockhart couldn’t figure his way out of a paper sack.
My fav headline of the day Andrew Cuomo Crushes Joe Biden Rumor That He’d Be the Ward Orderly in a Biden White House (He would look so adorable in a nurse Ratchet costume.)
So that’s what Nancy’s week-long delay in voting on the relief bill was about; so she could make a few minor tweaks and take full credit for it. She’s a drunk.
@Brother Bob:
i remember but the media does not want to. so whatever happened to the dude?
@retire05: Ron/AJ’s style of “debate” is like a game of chess he’s playing, but losing. Just as his opponent (anyone of us) is about to declare “check mate”, he just get’s up and sh*ts on the board, and say’s he “won”.
There’s not much for the Dem trolls like him to spin these days. It’s costing them too much.
@Nathan Blue: Or, despite having no pieces left on the board he just declares “I won” and when you ask him how he arrived at that conclusion, he calls you a racist.
@Deplorable Me: Hahaha…I like that one better…
Notice that when Trump signed the bill, he thanked everyone, Republican and Democrat. Nancy only thanked Democrats and pretended she organized the entire effort. More evidence of her low character.