The situation we're all in right now and Joe Biden is president.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Here's something you don't see everyday
Trump slams 'third rate grandstander' Thomas Massie who plans to vote AGAINST $2trillion bailout and hold up checks-for-all, as President demands 'throw him out of Republican Party' and John Kerry says 'he's tested positive for being a Masshole'
Not one dime for the wall in 2 trillion stimulus package
Certainly, the possibility exists people who have Coronavirus entering this country illegally could infect thousands of Americans. But that seems to be of no concern. 6 billion is 0.3% of 2,000,000,000,000. Small price to pay for our security in the scheme of things. When this eventually gets out of the House wait to you see the 'pork' in the final version that has nothing to do with Coronavirus... but they turn a blind eye to the wall.
The bitch did jiu jitsu over the Coronavirus Stimulus Package
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This is one example of the jiu jitsu those no-good bastards put in the stimulus:
Require states to allow same-day voter registration and no longer request the last four digits of social security numbers.
In other words, the Dems are saying...
We want illegals to vote because we know they'll vote for us.
How people stand for this shit I'll never know!
From The Daily Fail
Notice the 'tone' of the article?
If this was Trump and his family they would be tearing them to shreds.
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Michelle Obama reveals her family's daily quarantine routine
Michelle Obama has revealed that her family is keeping busy with conference calls, online classes, and Netflix as they work to keep a routine while quarantined at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The 56-year-old former first lady shared what she has been up to in recent weeks while chatting on the phone on Monday with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who shared a video of their conversation on social media.
'We're just trying to structure our days,' she said of her husband, Barack, and daughters, Malia and Sasha. 'Everybody's home — the girls are back because colleges are online, so they're off in their respective rooms doing their online classes.'
All together: Michelle Obama has revealed that she and her family have been keeping busy with online classes, conference calls, and Netflix while quarantined together
Gotta say their youngest daughter is looking hot.
Residence: Michelle, 56, and Barack, 58, are likely hunkering down with their daughters Malia, 21, and Sasha, 18, in their Washington, D.C. home (pictured)
'I think Barack is — I don't know where he is. He was on the phone on a conference call; I just got finished with a conference call,' she added. 'We're just trying to keep a routine going, but we've also got a little Netflix and chilling happening.'
The Obamas are likely self-quarantining at their Washington, D.C. home, which is located just a few blocks away from Ivanka Trump's residence in the ritzy Kalorama neighborhood.
Ellen couldn't resist ribbing Michelle about having both of her daughters back under her roof after enjoying an empty nest for just seven months.
'My condolences that the kids are home, because you were expressing how happy you were that they were gone,' the talk show host said.
'I know! I shouldn’t have boasted about that,' Michelle joked. 'The gods were getting me back.'
Malia, 21, is a junior at Harvard University, where both her parents studied law, and Sasha, 18, is believed to be a freshman at the University of Michigan, though the family has never confirmed what college she is attending.
Ellen calls Michelle Obama for guidance amid social distancing
Old pal: Michelle shared what she has been up to in recent weeks while chatting on the phone with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who posted a video of their conversation on social media
The youngest Obama was reportedly seen taken freshman orientation classes at the school over the summer.
Jokes aside, Ellen noted that this is a time to reflect on what's important, and Michelle wholeheartedly agreed.
'This is like no other time in history, particularly for our kids who are so used to being occupied and stimulated all the time,' she said. 'There is some good and bad that goes with it.
'I feel for all the folks who are going to suffer because of what's going to happen to the economy,' she added. 'We have to be mindful about what we're going to do to support these folks when this quarantine is over and people are looking at what's left of their businesses and their lives.'
However, she explained that there is a 'positive side' to hunkering down at home with loved ones during the global crisis.
Staying positive: Ellen noted that this is a time to reflect on what's important, and Michelle wholeheartedly agreed. Michelle is pictured on Ellen's talk show in 2018
New routine: Michelle said the one positive is that the quarantine has forced her family to sit down together and have real conversations
'I know for us, it's forced us to continue to sit down with each other, have real conversations, really ask questions and figure out how to keep ourselves occupied without just TV or computers,' she said. 'It's a good exercise in reminding us that we just don't need a lot of the stuff that we have.'
Michelle stressed that when times are bad, it's a reminder that 'having each other' and 'having your health' are what's most important.
'We can do with a lot less. I think that's an important lesson I want my kids to understand as they get out there the world,' she said. 'Be grateful for what you have and be ready to share it when the time comes because that's really what it's all about.
'Now, we're just happy that we're together and everybody is healthy and safe,' she added. 'Who cares about the other stuff?'
Michelle and Ellen also revealed that they have both been working out daily while cooped up at home.
The comedian challenged the former first lady to a plank-holding contest, saying they could do as a charity event to raise money, but Michelle told her to not get ahead of herself.
'We'll cross that bridge when you feel like you're in shape,' she said.
Thursday, March 26, 2020
The Coronavirus May Make Trump Stronger
On a tip from Phil McCafferty
Gallup finds 60% of voters approve of his handling of the crisis. As usual, the establishment is clueless.
Walter Russell Mead March 25, 2020 11:23 am ET
President Trump speaks about the coronavirus in Washington, March 24.Photo: Oliver Contreras/Zuma Press
This is not what his critics expected. At 49% overall job approval in the latest Gallup poll, and with 60% approval of the way he is handling the coronavirus epidemic, President Trump’s standing with voters has improved even as the country closed down and the stock market underwent a historic meltdown. That may change as this unpredictable crisis develops, but bitter and often justified criticism of Mr. Trump’s decision making in the early months of the pandemic has so far failed to break the bond between the 45th president and his political base.
One reason Mr. Trump’s opponents have had such a hard time damaging his connection with voters is that they still don’t understand why so many Americans want a wrecking-ball presidency. Beyond attributing Mr. Trump’s support to a mix of racism, religious fundamentalism and profound ignorance, the president’s establishment opponents in both parties have yet to grasp the depth and intensity of the populist energy that animates his base and the Bernie Sanders movement.
The sheer number of voters in open political rebellion against centrist politics is remarkable. Adding the Sanders base (36% of the Democratic vote in the latest Real Clear Politics poll average, or roughly 13% of the national vote considering that about 45%of voters lean Democratic) to the core Trump base of roughly 42%, and around 55% of U.S. voters now support politicians who openly despise the central assumptions of the political establishment.
That a majority of the electorate is this deeply alienated from the establishment can’t be dismissed as bigotry and ignorance. There are solid and serious grounds for doubting the competence and wisdom of America’s self-proclaimed expert class. What is so intelligent and enlightened, populists ask, about a foreign-policy establishment that failed to perceive that U.S. trade policies were promoting the rise of a hostile Communist superpower with the ability to disrupt supplies of essential goods in a national emergency? What competence have the military and political establishments shown in almost two decades of tactical success and strategic impotence in Afghanistan? What came of that intervention in Libya? What was the net result of all the fine talk in the Bush and Obama administrations about building democracy in the Middle East?
On domestic policy, the criticism is equally trenchant and deeply felt. Many voters believe that the U.S. establishment has produced a health-care system that is neither affordable nor universal. Higher education saddles students with increasing debt while leaving many graduates woefully unprepared for good jobs in the real world. The centrist establishment has amassed unprecedented deficits without keeping roads, bridges and pipes in good repair. It has weighed down cities and states with unmanageable levels of pension debt.
The culture of social promotion and participation trophies is not, populists feel, confined to U.S. kindergartens and elementary schools. Judging by performance, they conclude that people rise in the American establishment by relentless virtue-signaling; by going along with conventional wisdom, however foolish; and by forgiving the failures of others and having their own overlooked in return.
The blame game playing out over how the president has handled the coronavirus epidemic reflects the dynamics of this struggle. Mr. Trump’s establishment critics want a narrow fight over the dismal trail of bluster, evasions, missed opportunities and failed predictions that marked the president’s approach to the virus earlier in the year. Like many criticisms of Mr. Trump, these arguments against him are by and large correct and significant and it is part of the proper job of a free press to make them.
However, Mr. Trump’s supporters are not comparing him with an omniscient leader who always does the right thing, but with the establishment—including the bulk of the mainstream media—that largely backed a policy of engagement with China long after its pitfalls became clear. For Americans who lost their jobs to Chinese competition or who fear the possibility of a new cold war against an economically potent and technologically advanced power, Mr. Trump’s errors pale before those of the bipartisan American foreign-policy consensus.
The establishment’s massive, decadeslong failure to think through the consequences of empowering Communist China and creating a trading relationship that, among other things, left the U.S. dependent on Beijing for pharmaceuticals is a much less excusable and more consequential error than anything Donald Trump has done in 2020—and it has a direct bearing on the mess we are in.
Attacks on the establishment aren’t always rational or fair. They can be one-sided and fail to do justice to the accomplishments the U.S. has made in the recent past. Populism on both the left and the right always attracts its share of snake-oil salesmen, and America’s current antiestablishment surge is no exception. But the U.S. establishment won’t prosper again until it comes to grip with a central political fact: Populism rises when establishment leadership fails. If conventional U.S. political leaders had been properly doing their jobs, Donald Trump would still be hosting a television show.
Unless the president’s opponents take the full measure of this public discontent, they will be continually surprised by his resilience against media attacks. And until the establishment undertakes a searching and honest inventory of the tangled legacy of American foreign and domestic policy since the end of the Cold War, expect populism to remain a potent part of the political scene.
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