The record unemployment rate reported on Friday captured the pain of a nation where tens of millions of jobs suddenly vanished, devastating the economy and forcing President Donald Trump to overcome historic headwinds to win a second term.
Just a few short months ago, Trump planned to campaign for reelection on the back of a robust economy. That’s a distant memory after more than 20 million jobs were lost in April, leading to an unemployment rate of 14.7%, the highest since the Great Depression.
There’s no parallel in U.S. history for the suddenness or severity of the economic collapse, which is ravaging some states that are crucial to Trump’s victory. The president is now tasked with convincing voters that the catastrophic jobs losses were the result of the pandemic — not his management of the public health crisis. He also argues that he deserves another chance to rebuild what the virus destroyed.
State premiers are mostly to decide about making the trains run on time or which roads to build. They are not designed to deal with plagues and other such disasters, and quite frankly I don’t want them to. And from what I’ve seen so far, when it comes to Daniel Andrews, he has no clue about anything beyond how to create large loss-making projects to employ members of the Construction Unions at excessive rates of pay. He has a great bed-side manner so that in spite of the tragic consequences his premiership will in the long run lead to, he was electable. My guess is that he will never run for premier again since by the time he will need to be re-elected in three years’ time, the disaster he has overseen and led us into will either be fully visible to us all, or certainly visible to everyone within the Labor Government. He will bail out before everything becomes unmistakably clear, leaving it to the Joan Kirner of the time to take the rap while Dan the Man escapes with his reputation intact just the way John Cain Jr had previously done.
So why has he insisted that we do not see our Mothers on Mother’s Day, or allow our children to visit their Mothers and Grandmothers? Because he can. We can tell he is oh so benevolent and kind because he is a socialist which proves he cares about us and wants only the best. To me, however, he is a socialist and therefore is a tyrant who wants to tell us what to do because it is the power he has that gives him pleasure. He hates achievement and success. He hates people who can successfully run a business. He pretends to worry about whether we become ill with the Chinese flu.
But here’s the reality. Anyone who delays by that one single day in allowing us to visit our parents and grandparents until the day after Mother’s Day reveals himself for what he really is. And the same goes for any other premier who has done the same. They are wicked people.
It’s not the hypocrisy, it is that they know everything they say is false. They know they are not in danger and they know they are not endangering anyone else. They laugh at us, and think of us as fools.
And then there is the media to report every word as honestly and as accurately as they possibly can. Here is an excerpt from PDT’s new media person if you want to see true professionalism in action. If you are in a hurry, this is the short-form version.
This is amazing🔥🔥🔥. Watch WH Press Sec @kayleighmcenany torch fake news media outlets on their BS propaganda and fake news “reporting.” https://t.co/TTWQIZswQq
Here’s the whole thing. You can watch from the above excerpt which is right at the end of the press conference and then go back to the beginning.
I vaguely remember her from the campaign. In this role she will be formidable. She understands the issues, the politics and the message she needs to get across. What remains more amazing than anything is that the left can rely on their constituency to vote for them no matter what. They have burned #MeToo to the ground and virtually not a single person among the Democrats, so far as I have been able to tell, has seen this as a reason to change the way they vote.
The point I will be trying to make is that the more you tell a socialist that what they are doing will be very harmful to business, the more they will be encouraged to do whatever it is. Do you really think Daniel Andrews is trying to get the Victorian economy rolling again? He is a member of the Victorian Socialist Left faction. Does that suggest anything at all to you? It should.
Anti–capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. In this sense, anti–capitalists are those who wish to replace capitalism with another type of economic system, usually some form of socialism.
Finally, just what constitutes socialism in the modern world? From Wikipedia and obviously written by one of its fans.
The one common element, that is, is to get rid of the market economy, to get rid of business enterprise, to replace business with state control.
Socialists pretend to care about you but no socialist government in history has ever improved the circumstances of the people over whom they ruled. Not Lenin, not Stalin, not Mao, not Pol Pot, not Castro, not Maduro. They run on hatred and envy.
In Victoria, there has been such a phenomenal increase in waste and debt. Ask about our new train line. Learn about the desal plant. Find out about the metro tunnel.
The $11 billion Metro Tunnel’s independent cost advisers have warned its financial backers the project could face many millions of dollars in extra costs and months of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Socialists only bring ruin in their wake. They cannot manage an economy nor can they deal with a free people. So long as there are viable parties that exist to call them out and a political system that stands in their way. Until then, they show only pretend concern. We are not called Victoriastan for nothing.
And it only works because the majority of people on the left are happy to play along with the lies we are all being told. In their minds it’s all for the greater good since personal freedom is itself seen as the enemy. Is it envy? stupidity? the flock mentality? Whatever it is, it’s not just the politicians, the media and the academic world. It’s the constituency itself. It’s that something like half of the population prefer to be told what to do and have no desire to live freely in a free society. Fascism comes easy because there are far too many who prefer to be told what to do and prefer to have things laid out for them by their leaders. And never forget this:
As used in 1984, the concept of doublethink is the ability to hold two completely contradictory thoughts simultaneously while believing both of them to be true. It also refers to deliberately choosing to forget memories and losing the ability to form independent thoughts.
As in:
You wouldn’t think it’s possible, but there it is.
How irritating to watch media everywhere fawning over NZ Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern, claiming her country leads the world in eliminating the COVID-19 virus.
In fact, Australia is doing a better job, with less shutdowns to destroy the economy. New Zealand has 0.4 deaths per 100,000 population while Australia has 0.3, according to a New Economic Forum analysis. And earlier this week infections were running at 26 cases per 100,000 people here compared to New Zealand’s 30 cases.
No doubt we will hear very little about Ardern’s attempts to hug her tattered economy back to life and her faithful media supporters will neatly avoid comparisons with countries like Sweden which seem to have kept a lid on the virus without causing massive unemployment. Nice to have a captured media ever ready to supply the right spin.
The more I look at the Joe Biden story the more it is clear that our elites laugh at every one of their supporters as the dimwits they take them for. I am not even sure in which order we should look at things, but let’s start with Tara Reade before all evidence for the prosecution disappears.
Let’s just ignore Bill Clinton. Here the left decides to go all moral about male sexuality so they invent the #MeToo movement which was mainly about a number of actresses who seemed to have fallen onto the casting couch and now wish to seek some kind of retribution. It reached its peak during the nomination process for someone this accusation applies to less than possibly any other male I have ever seen in public life. With Brett Kavanaugh we reached the stage where someone could be accused of some kind of impropriety based on an obvious fantasy that was never ever corroborated in even a single element, and indeed there is no evidence that he had ever even met the woman in question. Yet everyone on the left lined up and counted themselves scandalised and shocked at these revelations.
On the other hand, there is now this story about Joe Biden and Tara Reade (who? – why have you seen her name in the paper?). Well there is this kind of news, for example, Timeline shows media, Dems’ different approach to Tara Reade accusation after Kavanaugh free-for-all. I cannot see a different approach myself. If it helps the Democrats, then they’re in. If it helps the Republicans, then they are out. No inconsistency there. Meantime, their supporters turn themselves into pretzels trying to show how different the situations are, while the Democrats and the media laugh at all of these idiot supporters of theirs who end up looking like the jerks they are in trying to evade the obvious. Joe Biden may really be a sexual predator. If that is an issue that matters in selecting a president – and Bill Clinton showed it isn’t – then why can Democrat supporters be counted on to refuse to look at the evidence?
Then there is this business about how important it is for a political leader to be honest and trustworthy, and certainly not use their political position for personal advantage for themselves or their children or anyone else. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has a son appropriately named Hunter. This is what you can find over at Google: The life of Hunter Biden: How Joe Biden’s middle child landed in Trump’s impeachment inquiry and a paternity scandal of his own. Hunter was kicked out of the Marines after a month or so for cocaine possession – do Biden’s supporters know that? – and ended up making an amazing amount of money working for a Ukrainian company knowing neither anything about the business nor Ukrainian. This is what you read at that the link written by some Democrat flunky who seeks to cover everything up:
Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s middle child, is at the centre of a controversy that is being stirred by President Donald Trump’s administration over a possible conflict of interest involving a business he was involved in and the Ukrainian government.
Come on, you stupid Democrat voter. Open wide while the Democrat establishment and its captive media hold you by the nose and make you swallow it whole.
Western consultants, lawyers and investment bankers were hired by Burisma, not for their expertise on Ukraine or the gas sector—which none of them had—but to camouflage its corrupt origins and provide it with a glossier look. In other words, to launder its tattered image. As author Oliver Bullough asked in The Guardian: “Hunter Biden is an undistinguished corporate lawyer, with no previous Ukraine experience. Why would a Ukrainian tycoon hire him?”
You know why. Everyone knows why. The real question is why doesn’t anyone who votes for parties of the left care? Why can the Democrats count on their supporters to ignore this corruption entirely? And then, of course, Hunter also made a pile working in China. This for example is what we now find out about Hunter in China as portrayed by one of the usual Democrat shills.
President Donald Trump this week suggested that Hunter Biden had used his position as then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son to secure a $US1.5 billion deal with the Chinese state bank for a Chinese private equity company where he is a board member.
There is no evidence to this claim.
The $US1.5 billion appears to refer to a sum that BHR, the private equity firm, was trying to raise in 2014 to invest outside China, according to The Wall Street Journal.
But Biden’s lawyer said Biden has never profited from his work at BHR.
Here’s what we know about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China.
No evidence to this claim! So swallow it whole once again, you captive morons, and defend Biden with all you are worth (which is hardly anything at all) as these people swindle their way across the world while laughing at the fools who nevertheless continue to support them.
But perhaps it’s Joe Biden’s deep intellect, policy agenda and sweeping command of facts and events that makes him so attractive.
OK, so he’s out of it, nine-tenths senile, but so what you say. It’s the Democrats in power that will provide the value in making Biden president. All this will be done in his name while he just signs the papers put in front of him. Well there’s this, of course: Biden: Let’s Fix The Economy By Repeating Obama’s Stimulus Fiasco. Worked so well the first time, even while Biden was the VP. Why not do in again?
There’s all that and more. But the point is not that Biden is a cypher, which he is, or that he is a thief and a liar, which is well known, or that the media will cover up, which they will, but that the people who will nevertheless vote for him are being made into fools and accomplices. Why do they put up with it, is the question.
We should stop arguing with the media who are merely left-wing shills. We know they will lie in every instance to protect the party of the left. The focus should no longer be on the media but on those who vote for “progressives” who steal, lie and rob at every opportunity they have. This is what needs to be asked. Why do you vote for them? What is in it for you? What have the parties of the left ever accomplished that has made you even the slightest bit better off? Other than providing a few freebie crumbs while they make your life a mess why would anyone with common sense vote for these people?
When you are with your lefty friends, make them explain why they vote the way they do. Don’t argue, just listen (I know, it’s hard). Then you can also have a laugh at their expense, in the same way that those who run campaigns for the left do themselves when dealing with the people who support them.
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