President Trump To Introduce New Coronavirus Guidelines

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[Guest post by Dana]  "Working toward his goal of having the economy up and running by Easter (April 12), President Trump is proposing new guidelines based on geographic risk:

President Trump said in a letter to U.S. governors on Thursday that his administration is working to publish new guidelines for state and local governments to use when making decisions about “maintaining, increasing or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures” for the coronavirus epidemic.

Trump said officials are gathering testing data that will suggest guidelines categorizing counties as “high risk, medium risk or low risk” for the virus. The data will drive “the next phase” of the response, he said.

"Here is the critical part of his letter:

This is what we envision: Our expanding testing capabilities will quickly enable us to publish criteria, developed in close coordination with the Nation’s public health officials and scientists, to help classify counties with respect to continued risk posed by the virus. This will incorporate robust surveillance testing, which allows us to monitor the spread of the virus throughout the country. Under these data-driven criteria, we will suggest guidelines categorizing counties as high-risk, medium-risk, or low-risk.

With each passing day, our increasingly extensive testing capabilities are giving us a better understanding of the virus and its path. As testing gives us more information about who has been infected, we are tracking the virus and isolating it to prevent further spread. This new information will drive the next phase in our war against this invisible enemy.

This comes one day after Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned about setting any sort of timetable:

"You’ve got to understand that you don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline. So you’ve got to respond in what you see happen. And if you keep seeing this acceleration, it doesn’t matter what you say. One week, two weeks, three weeks — you’ve got to go with what the situation on the ground is. . . .

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Seen Joe Biden lately? What about the Joe Biden who debated Paul Ryan in 2012?

Tony Branco

Just remember Joe brought his A-game to the last debate.

2012: Vice President Joe Biden's smiles and laughter during the vice presidential debate made him look bullying and deranged.  "WHAT WAS THAT ALL about?  "The inappropriate smiles, the aggressive laughs, the all but unhinged finger-pumping raging at moderator Martha Raddatz--I suppose Vice President Joe Biden could have come in with a less appropriate performance last night. I just don't know how.
"Then there was the substance. The vice president's charges that Rep. Paul Ryan was lying were totally predictable and effectively answered.   Joe had "gravitas"?

Naturally, Democrats loved Biden's rudeness but Republicans seemed to be arguing in the wind

Way Back In 2019, Questions About Joe Biden’s Mental Fitness Creep Into Mainstream . . . Biden sparked questions about himself with a bizarre reference to record players while answering a question about the legacy of slavery." . . . 

Biden said.
Zack Beauchamp, a writer with left-wing website Vox, argued that Biden’s strange answer “has to raise questions about Biden’s mental fitness for office, especially given his age.”  . . .

Biden’s Debate Performances Raise the Question: What???   "The hits just keep on coming for Joe Biden at the Democratic debates. By hits, of course, I mean weird, off-putting moments that haunt the mind long after one has been released from the brightly lit prison of the cable news debate stage." . . .

Even SNL had fun with Biden and the debate:  

The UK Guardian gave Biden points  . . . "Biden is an incorrigible ham. On the split-screen, while Ryan spoke, he could be seen grinning, chuckling, shaking his head, throwing his hands to the skies or hanging his head in exaggerated disbelief, a widely varying sequence of gestures that all amounted to "can you believe this guy?" When the questioning turned to religious faith, Biden simply adopted a completely different voice, husky and several tones lower. With exuberant disingenuousness, he referred to Ryan as "my friend" more than a dozen times. But it all seemed to work. It worked much better, certainly, than Obama's decision to act as if the split-screen wasn't there." . . .

Joe "yelled a lot"

Here It Goes – DNC Says Joe Biden Needs Chair and Desk for Next Debate…   . . . "The Club knows Biden does best in debate formats when sitting down at a desk; just like the 2012 debate between Biden and Paul Ryan. 
"CNN is hosting the debate, and CNN is the most friendly control operation for the needs of the Club.  So what happens… CNN and The Club agree to a small venue town hall format where Joe Biden will be sitting down at a desk to debate Bernie Sanders.

"It is all predictable in the extreme:" . . .
. . . 
"The “audience members” who ask questions will all be plants by the Club and CNN; and the Biden campaign will be provided all of the topics and questions well in advance to assist their rehearsal efforts just like they did for Hillary in 2016.   Wash-Rinse-Repeat."

Wars, terrorism, famine, disease...and no toilet paper!

Townhall

The Worst Time for Congressional Partisanship

"The Senate Democrats just engaged in one of the most cynical displays of partisanship I have ever seen in the U.S. Senate," said Riedl. "They let Pelosi blow up a bipartisan agreement."

 

David Limbaugh  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attempted partisan sabotage of the coronavirus relief bill might mark a new low for her. That the bill finally passed the Senate doesn't excuse her reckless gamesmanship.
Republican and Democratic Senate leaders were close to an agreement when Pelosi parked her partisan broomstick and poured poison into the congressional punchbowl.
" 'Talking to some Senate GOP sources," Townhall political editor Guy Benson tweeted. "They seem stunned and angry. I'm told there was lots of bipartisan input into the legislative outline & emerging specifics -- including an agreement in principle on broad strokes. Then Pelosi showed up and threw a partisan grenade." Sources said the Democratic leadership moved to exploit the crisis by attaching its socialist wish list to the bill.
"Manhattan Institute senior fellow Brian Riedl, a conservative known more for his scholarship than partisanship, had strong words. "The Senate Democrats just engaged in one of the most cynical displays of partisanship I have ever seen in the U.S. Senate," said Riedl. "They let Pelosi blow up a bipartisan agreement." . . .

Other Democratic add-ons included aid for Planned Parenthood, millions for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour for all businesses receiving stimulus funds.

Eyes wide shut about Feeler Joe and the Predator Party

Richard Jack Rail  "In this era when it seems every male Democrat is a sexual predator, a woman named Tara Reade tells about the time in 1993 when Joe Biden, alone with her in his office, pushed her against the wall, shoved his hand into her skirt, and his finger into her. She objected, and he said something like, “Come on, man, I thought you liked me.”
"Being a good Democrat, the estimable Ms. Reade kept her mouth shut these 27 years. But as others began telling similar stories about Biden misbehavior, she finally said something.
"This should never have happened, but it's hard to sympathize with Tara Reade. She had her eyes wide shut. Joe Biden's been a liar, exaggerator, big talker, and BSer forever. He's been famous for 40 years for putting his hands all over women and little girls. This woman chose not to see, and after Feeler Joe did what he did, chose not to talk about it. Given the propensity of Democrats to savage women who come forward with such experiences, one can understand that; but the rest of the story doesn’t dispose one to feel badly for poor Ms. Tara.
"She’s a Sanders gal today, almost certainly voted for Bill Clinton even after the Monica revelations, and stood by HRC even after the revelations of Hillary slut-shaming a woman in court and then laughing about it, and saying of other women that they should get over it.

"Frankly, her continued support for any Democrat is a shocker. That she didn’t run from the party after the Biden experience and then the Clinton thing tells us some unflattering truths about the lady. She says she decided to go public now in support of other women who had similar experiences with Biden, but her actions say something else. By sticking with the Predator Party, she in effect says that Democrat men can do as they please to other women, just not to her. But feel sorry for her anyway.

"Tara Reade’s tears and feelings of betrayal are entirely believable, but her woes are self-inflicted." 

President Trump: polarizing, abrasive, bombastic, and loved by many

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

How a strong anti-Trump Democrat newspaper sees this President: As the coronavirus rages, Americans’ views of President Trump have risen slightly to reach record highs, polls show. But he remains polarizing.
The left publishes anti-Trump screeds against this President and they say he's "polarizing"?
When we hear the term "fake news". this is what such forms of "journalism" are like:
'Morning Joe' repeatedly plays anti-Trump ad with claim rated false by fact-checkers

MSNBC anchor surprised by Trump's high approval ratings: People see him as a leader 'no matter what he says'   "MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell seemed surprised on Wednesday that Americans are viewing President Trump as a leader given the way he has handled the coronavirus pandemic." . . .

MSNBC Host Reveals Her Biggest Fear About the Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic

. . . "But even with all of this, the response from the Trump White House has been favorable, with 60 percent of Independents and over a quarter of Democrats giving this administration props for their guidelines in fighting the disease and containing the spread. And yes, this was MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s biggest fear—not the butcher’s bill from the Wuhan virus; the spike in Trump’s approval ratings. Newsbusters has more:" . . .

Lifelong Democrat Has Change of Heart After Pelosi’s Handling of the Stimulus Bill

After Lifelong Dem Attends NH Trump Rally She Declares “Democrats Have an A**-Kicking Coming in November”  . . . "I want to introduce you to a really brave and amazing lady.
"Her name is Dr. Karlyn Borysenko and she’s a young New Hampshire psychologist who, up until a few nights ago, was a rabid member of the anti-Trump #Resistance:

You see, I was one of those Democrats who considered anyone who voted for Trump a racist. I thought they were horrible (yes, even deplorable) and worked very hard to eliminate their voices from my spaces by unfriending or blocking people who spoke about their support of him, however minor their comments. I watched a lot of MSNBC, was convinced that everything he had done was horrible, that he hated anyone who wasn’t a straight white man, and that he had no redeeming qualities.

"But after attending a New Hampshire Trump rally, she has a whole new outlook." . . .
Let's hope she can stand up under what the left has coming for her.

Analyzing America  "Dr. Karlyn Borysenko said, “I have never voted for someone who was not a democrat in my life.”
"She continued, “That streak will end in November.”
"“The Senate Republicans’ bill put corporations first, not workers & families,” she said in a tweet Monday.
" “Today, @HouseDemocrats will unveil a bill that takes responsibility for the health, wages & well-being of America’s workers: the Take Responsibility for Workers & Families Act.”
"She continued, “I’m beyond angry about what they are doing. This is not about the well-being of workers. This is taking advantage of a crisis. It’s unconscionable. I can’t wait for them to lose.”
“I think the Democrats have an a—kicking coming to them in November, and I think most of them will be utterly shocked when it happens, because they’re existing in an echo chamber that is not reflective of the broader reality,” wrote Borysenko.
"“I hope it’s a wake-up call that causes them to take a long look in the mirror and really ask themselves how they got here. Maybe then they’ll start listening. I tend to doubt it, but I can hope.' ” . . .

Dr. Karlyn Borysenko

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Trump’s Coronavirus Response Is Foiling His Enemies

Conrad Black

The president is already unlimbering the economic guns and starting to spike the dreams of those who hope that the economic consequences of the anti-coronavirus measures will lose the administration its reelection.

"The political aspect of the coronavirus crisis is developing in a familiar way. The president’s enemies in the media have led the propagation of panic in the country, and have been given enough encouragement to do that from the scientific community, some of whose members are enjoying their 15 minutes of world fame a little more than is seemly.

"Trump’s opponents are thus able to swaddle themselves in the legitimacy of science as they hurl their brickbats at the president. As is his custom, the president has given his opponents plenty of ammunition by speaking constantly, leaving a rich trove of contradictory, and in some cases, it turns out after a few days, absurd reflections on the medical and related problems as they unfold.

"As is also the well-established custom, his enemies cannot resist embellishing and fabricating. The claim he had disbanded the pandemic response section of the National Security Council is false, as are suggestions that he has ignored or overruled scientific opinion.

"The assault on the president’s credibility as an enunciator of facts has had some success, partly because there is some reason to question his attention to facts and partly because he is routinely smeared by his media enemies.

"Meantime, the dishonesty of the media is reaffirmed almost daily. The president has made an effort to avoid partisanship and has worked well with Democratic governors, even those with whom he enjoys a relationship of intense reciprocal dislike, including Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gavin Newsom of California, and Jay Inslee of Washington. He has also made a reasonable effort to conduct daily press briefings with civility; those efforts are not always requited, and some of the journalists routinely withhold the respect due the office." . . .

Trump’s Strategic Foresight Is Being Put to the Test

Victor Davis Hanson

Such foresight can also remind the nation never again to outsource key industries to China, and not to listen to those who always predict catastrophe in bleak times, only to later take credit for others’ victories.

"The ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in a crisis came down to what they called pronoia — the Greek word for “strategic foresight.”
. . . 
“Foresight” in crisis means sizing up a nation’s assets and debits, then maximizing advantages and minimizing liabilities. The leader with foresight, especially in times of irrational despair, then charts a rational pathway to victory.
“Foresight” in crisis means sizing up a nation’s assets and debits, then maximizing advantages and minimizing liabilities. The leader with foresight, especially in times of irrational despair, then charts a rational pathway to victory." . . .
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"During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln knew the overwhelming advantages of the Union could eventually defeat the South, but only if he could hold the nation together through disasters such as the battles of Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and only once he found brilliant generals such as Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant.
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"Such foresight can also remind the nation never again to outsource key industries to China, and not to listen to those who always predict catastrophe in bleak times, only to later take credit for others’ victories." . . .

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns She May Singlehandedly Delay Coronavirus Relief, Force In-Person Vote

Any member who decides not to participate in that voice vote could — as Ocasio-Cortez seems to be planning — force the dreaded, in-person roll call vote.

 Daily Wire  "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Twitter Wednesday to chastize the Senate for a proposed plan to recess immediately after voting to pass a massive, $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, but privately, CNN reports, the Democratic socialist threatened to hold up coronavirus relief herself by forcing her House colleagues to return to Washington, D.C., to vote on the measure in person.
“ 'The Senate might ADJOURN FOR A MONTH after this bill?” Ocasio-Cortez whined on social media, after discovering, from CNN, that the Senate plans to adjourn after passing coronavirus relief Wednesday. “This is completely dangerous and unacceptable. We HAVE to be able to respond to people’s needs. People don’t have this time. Even IF the Senate can even return on the 20th (big IF) that may not be enough time to solve May.” . . .

AOC's handlers are giving this girl a lot to do.

The Atlantic raises eyebrows after urging Biden to simply 'stay alive' to defeat Trump

Fox News  "A piece published in The Atlantic made the argument this week that the "idea" of former Vice President Joe Biden is enough to defeat President Trump in November and that in order to do so, Biden would simply have to "stay alive."
" 'Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence," Atlantic contributing writer Alex Wagner wrote on Tuesday in a piece titled "Stay Alive, Joe Biden."
"Wagner suggested that Democratic voters are so eager to oust Trump that Biden's ongoing campaign has less weight than his decades-old familiarity.
" 'Voters seem to have coalesced around Biden for his past -- who they have known him to be for the past four decades in American politics -- rather than for anything in his present. It’s as if Biden exists primarily as an idea, rather than an actual candidate," Wagner wrote. "Democrats have chosen Biden as their vessel for Trump’s defeat, and that choice is the entire point: The vanquishing matters more than anything else."
"She went on to make the case that the coronavirus effect on the 2020 election shouldn't weaken Biden's campaign as long as his team keeps the former vice president "alive in the American imagination.' "

Costco Just Told Hoarders What They Can Do With All Their Excess Toilet Paper

Well, that was their plan all along.

Victoria Taft

. . . "Mocking toilet paper hoarders was encouraged by the likes of Twitter user Jeannie Warner, who said, "Let us all keep up the mockery and ridicule of toilet paper hoarders."

"Behold those amazing toilet paper wigs worn by "post coronavirus males displaying their hunter-gatherer prowess in order to attract mates."

Silver linings in meme form. Let us all keep up the mockery and ridicule of toilet paper hoarders. pic.twitter.com/bwXip7s5co

— Jeannie Warner (@thetsmorgan) March 23, 2020

"It actually got a little creepy. "Propagandopolis" noted that it reminded him of the scolds who went after hoarders during WWII using posters like this that said, "Hoarder — shame on you!"

“Hoarder - shame on you!” – ???? German poster from the Second World War (1942) discouraging the hoarding of goods. pic.twitter.com/PNnUvgpY2P

— Propagandopolis (@propagandopolis) March 22, 2020

"People publicly mocked others. This person, "Methy Anne," noted that not only the back of this pick up was loaded with toilet paper but it was also driven by a Trump supporter. Someone with the name "Methy" probably should stay in her lane. Just a thought." . . .

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