Posted on 05/22/2020 6:18:55 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
As the Democrat governors lose the narrative of the China Virus—and also lose control of their states, they have ratcheted up the panic-porn to new levels. Hoax News reporters harangue President Donald Trump about not wearing a mask, then about taking hydroxychloroquine, then about whether he would shut down the country if the China Virus numbers suddenly rise again.
His answers? “No, I won’t wear a mask,” “I’ve been taking hydroxycholoroquine for two weeks,” and “No, I won’t shut the country down again.”
VDO.AI Bravo.
It’s clear none of this has anything whatsoever to do with a flu and everything to do with damaging the U.S. economy enough to keep Trump from getting massively reelected. After all, they did it once before . . . sort of. In early October, 2016, as Joel Pollak and I revealed in our book How Trump Won, the Trump team was circulating internal polls that were shockingly good for The Donald. How good? They had him within the margin of error in Illinois, Rhode Island, and Oregon. They had him even in Minnesota (which, as it turned out, was the case).
I am convinced that Hillary Clinton’s team was reading the same tea leaves, and had to do anything to stop the momentum. I believe that is why they rolled out the “Access Hollywood” tape so early. It did have a damaging, but quite temporary, effect on the Trump team. But by election day, the impact had faded, and while Trump did not carry Oregon, or Rhode Island, or Illinois, he did shock the pundits by winning perennial teaser states for the GOP like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and came reasonably close to winning Virginia and within a hair of winning New Hampshire. This suggests that early internal polling had some merit.
The point is, “Access Hollywood” was a last-minute, desperate brake on Trump’s momentum. While the Democrats didn’t introduce the China Virus to the U.S.—China did—they reveled in an opportunity to again put a brake on Trumpmentum. One can look at polls from the same Hoax Pollsters who gave us a Hillary landslide in 2016, or who missed Wisconsin by an average of six points, or who missed the Ron DeSantis/Rick Scott/Josh Hawley/Mike Braun elections in 2018. Those same Hoax Pollsters say that Joe (I’m hidin’) Biden, who hasn’t appeared in public at a live event in nearly two months, is somehow leading President Trump.
If you buy that, then you likely have the Las Vegas Raiders winning the Super Bowl this year, too. What the draconian lockdowns by the blue-state governors, particularly Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, J. B. Pritzker in Illinois, Gavin Newsom in California, and Andrew Cuomo in New York have done is to finally . . . finally . . . chip away at the remaining Democrat base. Already—and the Democrats, deep in their evil hovels of voter analysis know this—Trump has been eroding the black vote and has been actually building quite a bit of Hispanic support. Most polls put Trump’s black approval at between 16% and 22%.
Blacks, and even black conservatives, are quick to insist that Trump won’t get that much of the actual black vote, and they are right. He doesn’t need to. He’ll get between 12-13% actual vote, but add to that another 3-5% of black voters who will stay home. That is a death sentence for the Democrats. That alone would put Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina in Trump’s column. But when you add that to his up to 47% (in some polls) Hispanic support, and combine that with the outrage in the suburban areas of Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, and other states enduring a lockdown, Trump’s electoral college numbers are poised to soar.
These last two weeks we had two good tests of the public mood on the lockdowns. A Republican held the WI7 seat largely on the basis of winning mail-in ballots, and not just absentees! In California, Mike Garcia flipped the seat previously held by Katie (The Fuller Brush Girl) Hill, who had resigned. Garcia won by nine, and most surprising of all, continued to break even in the days after the election when Democrat “vote harvesting” often produces surprises. Then, in Staughton, Virginia, Republicans flipped three out of three city assembly seats in a district that went for Barack Obama twice. The issues? Guns and the lockdown.
When you add to this the fact that Governor Cuomo literally sentenced old people to death by sending China-Virus-infected old people back to nursing homes, I think you’ll start to see a serious boil here by election time. The last hope was to somehow perpetuate the panic through the virtue-signaling wearing of masks (of dubious effectiveness, as admitted even by St. Fauci). It ain’t happenin’. The red states that opened, such as Georgia and Florida, have lower rates of the China Virus now. Remarkable what sunlight and herd immunity will do to the flu.
As for Trump? He will be the beneficiary of not only creating one, but two great economies by election time, while simultaneously overcoming the China Virus. The Democrats couldn’t help themselves. They pushed the Panic Porn Button too soon.
Larry Schweikart is the co-author with Michael Allen of A Patriot’s History of the United States, with Joel Pollak of How Trump Won, and the sole author of Reagan: The American President. His history website features full history curricula for homeschoolers and educators, grades 8-12 at www.wildworldofhistory.com.
> “I’ve been taking hydroxycholoroquine for two weeks,”
How is he still alive?! Doesn’t he know that it instantly kills anyone within 300 feet?
Propoganda news every evening. That’s all they cover. Hysteria news.
I’ve yet to see Benito Coomo wear a mask. Or Wretched Whitmer, or Gavin Nuisance, or (insert name of demonicRAT command and control freak here).
Courtesy ping
All of this lockdown nonsense has soured my view of my fellow citizens. A view that was already pretty sour.
This all makes sense and I am cautiously optimistic.
TDS may prove to be lethal to those on the left that can not separate their imaginary world from the real world.
November is going to be very interesting.
I feel the exact same way. It didn't help my outlook when I saw a headline this morning from MSNBC: "Americans are freedom-obsessed".
Bump
BUMP! For later.
Thanks. HOORAY Larry! Optimism BUMP!
The polls generally had Nelson and Gillum winning in FL, but IIRC the Hawley and Braun races were considered tossups or leaning GOP just before the election.
“All of this lockdown nonsense has soured my view of my fellow citizens. A view that was already pretty sour”.
That’s how I feel except I would say “many” of my fellow citizens.
Not all by any means.
The PANdemic will turn into a DEMpanic.
There will be no economy if they follow the CDC guidelines...
Their propaganda is so obvious it’s ridiculous.
He owns them!
I'm just sick of the whole damn thing ... especially as I continue to see grown men -- dads and so-called leaders of men -- to be so frightened and so submissive toward what amounts to nothing more than a bunch of power-obsessed political hacks -- in front of their wives and children no less! It's disgraceful ... it's disgusting ... and it's pure cowardice.
Well, I may not capable of beating the guys and gals with the guns, but I am commmitted to disregarding -- outright ignoring everything and anything more to do with the Chines virus. That's it! I've had it! This soul-crushing lockdown of America should have ended a month ago after, according to "The Experts", this thing "peaked". Furthermore, I will continue to ignore anyone who wishes to speak to me who hides their identity behind a dehumanizing, totally ineffective and anti-social face covering ... Screw 'em!
President Trump, honor your oath to defend the Constitution and do your job to open up America and put an end to this sh*t ... Do it now!
Panic-porn is even pushed here, which tells you how insidious it is.
Scalia argued his view on “textualism” was the ultimate defense of the First Amendment. In March 2012, an Associated Press report said he told an audience at Wesleyan University that the Court’s early justices would be “astonished that the notion of the Constitution changes to mean whatever each successive generation would like it to mean. … In fact, it would be not much use to have a First Amendment, for example, if the freedom of speech included only what some future generation wanted it to include. That would guarantee nothing at all.”To understand why libel (and pornography) laws were untouched by the First Amendment, you have to understand the meaning, not of “is,” but of “the.” In both the First and Second Amendments, “the” has similar import. “The” RKBA was simply the right as it existed and was limited in 1788. It would strike anyone as ridiculous if I were to suggest that RKBA allows assault with a deadly weapon. Likewise “the” freedom of the press was freedom as it was enjoyed and as it was limited in 1788. You can’t legally threaten bodily harm with a deadly weapon, and you can’t legally assault someone’s reputation with a (reputationally) deadly weapon, either.That opinion didn’t prevent Scalia from harsh criticism of what is widely viewed as one of the essential court rulings protecting free speech and a free press — the 1964 decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.
At the Newseum in the Aspen Institute 2011 Washington Ideas Forum, Scalia said the landmark ruling meant “you can libel public figures without liability so long as you are relying on some statement from a reliable source, whether it’s true or not.
“Now the old libel law used to be (that) you’re responsible, you say something false that harms somebody’s reputation, we don’t care if it was told to you by nine bishops, you are liable,” Scalia said. “New York Times v. Sullivan just cast that aside because the Court thought in modern society, it’d be a good idea if the press could say a lot of stuff about public figures without having to worry. And that may be correct, that may be right, but if it was right it should have been adopted by the people. It should have been debated in the New York Legislature and the New York Legislature could have said, ‘Yes, we’re going to change our libel law.’”
But in Times v. Sullivan, Scalia said the Supreme Court, under Justice Earl Warren, “… simply decided, ‘Yes, it used to be that … George Washington could sue somebody that libeled him, but we don’t think that’s a good idea anymore.’”
JUSTICE SCALIA: THE 45 WORDS — AND ORIGINAL MEANING — OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT
The right to physical safety and reputational safety are nowhere addressed explicitly in the Constitution, but the Ninth Amendment enshrines the Federalist position on the “enumeration” of rights:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.That is, the first eight amendments make explicit rights which had historically been abused by tyrants, but “enumerating” them in a bill of rights was not actually necessary. The Ninth Amendment would have covered any one of them even had they not been enumerated. The fact that those first eight amendments were unnecessary in principle did not chance the fact that politically they were necessary - and psychologically they are an ornament. They do that very well, but the real lawyer work of common law is the nuts and bolts of liberty.But notice
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment” - New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, 1964how easily the Warren Court was able to manipulate our love for freedom of expression to suppress our freedom from the tyranny of journalists united under the banner of the wire services.
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