The Other McCain points the finger.

After the shrieking tantrum Rep. Haley Stevens threw on the floor of the House of Representatives today, I would have thought that congressional Democrats — you know, the ones who wasted a week delaying passage of this emergency legislation — could not do worse. But of course, I had forgotten about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez….

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a bad person, and everyone who voted Democrat in 2018 is responsible for the influence this idiot has in Congress. That’s how political parties function, you see — every vote for any political party helps to empower the worst elements of that party. There are Republicans I find obnoxious, and deplore their influence in our public affairs, but when you compare the two parties, why does it seem the Democrats have a monopoly on dangerous idiots like the arm-waving, finger-pointing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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No shit, Sherlock.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats  run your city.

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Coronavirus deaths leveled off in South Korea.

That’s because people in Korea could easily find out if they had the disease. There are hundreds of testing locations—even pop-up drive-thru testing centers.

Because Koreans got tested, Korean doctors knew who needed to be isolated and who didn’t. As a result, Korea limited the disease without mass quarantines and shortages.

Not in America. In America, a shortage of COVID-19 tests has made it hard for people to get tested. Even those who show all the symptoms have a difficult time.

Why weren’t there enough tests?

Because our government insists on control of medical innovation.

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Bernie Sanders is threatening to hold up the coronavirus relief bill unless Senate Republicans drop their amendment to cap unemployment benefits at an employee’s full salary.

I wish somebody would take him into a cloakroom and beat him to death. I don’t hate a lot of people but Bernie is squeezing himself into that select company.

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He’s pissed, not because NY businesses would suffer, but because government revenues wouldn’t be topped up far enough. Slimeball.

Maybe he ought to have thought about that before he shut the entire state down.

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Wouldn’t he look silly if they had a well and a generator.

If I were in California, I’d have off-grid backups for all basic systems, just in case.

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“You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel said during the country’s last major emergency. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing this noxious idea back as she uses the coronavirus pandemic to permanently stamp identity politics on corporate America.

Pelosi’s coronavirus relief bill is a veritable pork barrel for programs that would force corporations receiving government aid to implement “diversity and inclusion” initiatives that have nothing to do with combating COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and preventing its spread.

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Congressional Democrats apparently count on the media to conceal the reason for the failure of the relief package on the floor of the Senate this week. The absurdly irrelevant provisions that Dems seek to incorporate to further the progressive takeover of the United States are meant to remain a deep secret. The current crisis — it’s not meant to go to waste, in the usual reckoning of the thought leaders of the Democratic Party.

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The Democrats seem intent on using this opportunity to push everything they ever wanted into a 1,119-page bill.

The problem with the coronavirus situation has two parts:

1. The people who are making the decisions to effectively shut down the economy are not the people who are going to most suffer the effects of those decisions. Politicians will still receive their paychecks, academics will still receive their paychecks, ‘journalists’ will still receive their paychecks, highly-computerized professionals who can work from home will still receive their paychecks, so it’s very easy for them to say HEY, EVERYBODY, STAY IN YOUR HOUSE FOR A MONTH because they can do that and it’s no more than an inconvenience.
2. The incentives for elected officials are all going the wrong way. If they overreact and overreach and things turn out not to be as bad as they are predicting, nobody (besides people like me) will blame them, but if they underreact, and people get the disease and die, it lays them open to accusations of Not Doing Enough — and don’t think they don’t know that. So there is no downside for them in overreacting and shutting everything down, even if it hurts people that didn’t actually need to get hurt.

Please call your local politicians and plead with them not to overreact. The future you save may be your own.

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Steve has already commented on this, but I want to amplify the point. Yesterday Senate Democrats filibustered the Trump administration’s economic bailout bill. The key vote was 47-47, with every Democrat voting for the filibuster. You’ve got to hand it to the Democrats: when they decide to jump off a cliff, they do it together.

The $1 trillion+ bailout was the sort of bill the Democrats would normally love. So, what was their problem? It didn’t include enough of their pet hobby horses.

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They note the French study which prompted all this optimism consisted of only 20 people given the chrloroquinine/azrithromycin combination. (Another 20, I think, served as a control group who were not given that combination.)

That’s obviously a small sample, but still, as anecdotes accumulate they do become data.

Meanwhile, it turns out that Orange Man Bad was not responsible for the delay in coronavirus testing.

The FDA refused to expedite approvals for the test, despite a national health emergency having been declared.

‘We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.’

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UPDATE: MSNBC Spins for Democrats: It’s ‘Politically Safer’ for Them to Stall Aid to Americans

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More Blue state fascism.

It’s not enough to destroy the economy, you have to make sure that it never comes back.

Ace of Spades leads the charge.

The New York Times first reported that the Democrats “blocked” the bill but then, realizing that the Democrats could be damaged by noting that they “blocked” the bill, successively rewrote their headline until the words “Democrats” and “blocked” were completely ommited.

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Leaders from the White House and both parties of the Senate spent days negotiating a $1.4 trillion “Phase Three” stimulus package to alleviate the economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew in from her vacation to scuttle the entire agreement Sunday.

“The build-up to this is that we had a high level of bipartisanship over the last 48 hours,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. “And then, all of a sudden, the Democratic leader and the speaker of the House shows up … and we’re back to square one,” he said, referring to Schumer and Pelosi.

UPDATE: Nancy Pelosi Blocks $1.8 Trillion #Coronavirus Bill. Why? Abortion!

The Other McCain is on the case.

New York City is now the U.S. epicenter of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, with more than 8,000 cases and 60 deaths from the disease. The most shocking fact is how deeply the city’s school system is implicated in this outbreak.

And then, on top of this idiocy, the Democrat governor shuts the who damned state down, which was not really necessary.

THIS is why we don’t want politicians and bureaucrats in charge of our health care, and why we need to get them out of education and other essential activities.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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A Democrat, of course. Democrats never met a Communist government they didn’t like.

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Much money is made in Washington D.C. just just by politicians but also staffers who get ‘inside information’ through government briefings and access to classified information.

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Uh, no, Bernie, Trump is dealing with the global crisis. You’re only dealing with a campaign that’s running into the ground.

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Oh, I’ll just bet she does.

I guess she thinks she’s already President.

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The totalitarian instinct is strong in the ‘Democrat’ party.

Fortunately, Trump doesn’t listen to Cuomo.

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‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ The coronavirus has nothing to do with guns, but statists never pass up an opportunity to invade people’s rights under color of any emergency.

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I hope it lasts long enough for him to get primaried in four years.

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This will not eld well.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that the Obama administration’s Acting Homeland Security Inspector General and his former subordinate were indicted on 16 counts of theft and fraud.

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Prediction: It won’t go anywhere.

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It’s a war.

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Yet Another Crooked Black Democrat Politician winds up in the slammer.

She could always run for Congress once she gets out — it worked for Alcee Hastings.

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A new unit within the Justice Department is being established to deal with the process of stripping citizenship from foreign-born individuals who fraudulently obtained citizenship by not revealing past convictions for serious crimes, Fox News is reporting.

I’m disappointed that they didn’t already have one.

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Any excuse to spend more money. “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

How about we give that money to the Navy and buy some more ships?

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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That would be entertaining.

Democrats: Putting the Duh in Duhmocracy for, oh, a long time now.

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Last year, Alabama passed into law a ban on abortion, except when the mother’s life is in danger. Democratic state Representative Rolanda Hollis wasn’t too happy about her state seeking to protect life, even though the law was blocked by a federal judge. In response, she’s introduced a bill requiring men to pay for their own vasectomy a month before turning 50, or after their third child, whichever comes first.

I would all ‘upon their second felony conviction’, but that would be raaaaaaacist.

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U.S. immigration agents arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, flouting a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities.

Let’s see California get into a pissing contest with the Feds. That would be entertaining.

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She fits perfectly in the modern Democrat party.

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City councilors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to prohibit police officers from arresting illegal aliens if they are caught operating a vehicle without a license.

Under a newly passed city ordinance in Cambridge, residents are still legally required to carry a driver’s license if they are operating a vehicle, but local law enforcement has been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens caught driving without identification, Boston 25 News first reported.

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I don’t think that’s the way it’s supposed to work.

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Okay. Of the two, I’d rather they nail Hillary than McCabe.

Audacious Epigone points out a few inconsistencies.

Sometimes the campaign ads write themselves. Gather clips of top Democrats superciliously asserting that “in America, no one is above the law!” in the context of the failed impeachment coup. Follow with clips of top Democrats voicing support for issuing drivers licenses to people who are in the country in violation of the law….

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a nationwide fracking ban Wednesday as Democratic presidential candidates work to paint themselves as moderates ahead of the 2020 election.

She is obviously offended by U.S. energy independence and low gas prices. The Trump booming economy might also have something to do with it.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Apparently the people who are addicted to government benefits elected people like themselves to Congress to make sure that they goodies kept flowing.

Your tax dollars at work.

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Declaring that law enforcement officers are being “put in harm’s way by these ideologically driven policies,” Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration is suing the state of New Jersey and the county that is home to Seattle over immigration policies that offer protections to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

The Justice Department said New Jersey is violating federal law by prohibiting state and local law enforcement from sharing information about inmates in the U.S. illegally. Washington state’s King County was hit with a lawsuit over a policy that prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from using the King County International Airport-Boeing Field for deportation flights.

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On Friday, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib participated in a “radical democracy” event at Howard University in Washington. The YouTube video below shows Omar’s four-minute riff on the theme that everything that goes wrong in the world is America’s fault. Thanks to the Washington Free Beacon for bringing it to light.

She’s always free to go back to where she came from.