Biden Bends the Constitution Against Landlords

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Last week, Zhou Bai Den via the CDC issued a new eviction moratorium after the federal ban lapsed.

In Sean Reynolds' latest Summit Properties NW video asked:  Since when does the CDC have the authority to ban anything?

While the Harris-Biden Administration plays Marxist games...

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...the eviction's moratorium 2.0 squeezes small-time landlords.

Crooked Joe even admitted he's just "...buying time...to keep this going..." in order to keep bucking the Supreme Court's July 31st deadline.

In a sane world, China Joe's actions would ignite a firestorm for his impeachment.

But we live in Clownworld.

I chose this topic because, pardon the pun, it hits home with me.

Up until March I rented-out a house I bought back in 2011 after my divorce from my second ex-wife.  In the spring of 2013, I remarried, moved out, hired a property management company, and began renting my house that fall.

In 2015, the property management company was under new ownership and my third tenant moved in.  She was an elderly woman and was receiving funds from Washington State's Section 8 Housing Program for low income & disabled renters.

When I signed my initial landlord contract, I specifically stated I did not want any Section 8 renters.  However, the elderly woman was a friend of the new owner--and she didn't review any of the contracts of her newly acquired business.

Receiving monthly rental checks was nice, but my anxiety increased with each passing year.  The tenant had custody of her grand kids and great grand kids.  Her kids had a sketchy reputation and I'd often see a few never-do-wells hanging out at the house.  Meanwhile, the property manager was getting flakier and flakier, making it harder to schedule any routine maintenance.  (The office assistant confided in me that she was worried her boss had fallen off the wagon).  

Then my rental checks started arriving in an erratic manner, and one month I didn't receive a check at all.  The property manager was "at a loss" as to why I didn't receive that payment. 

But having a tenant under Section 8 turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  While other landlords were hung out to dry, I was still receiving rent money via the county government.

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Two weeks after the 2020 Election, my tenant called me directly to ask if I'd talked to the property manager.  Apparently she was withholding my tenant's security deposit, and ducking her phone calls because my tenant moved out.

My wife and I acted fast.  My wife called a realtor she knew, a young lady that grew up next door to my wife.  Two days later I met with my realtor, and signed the contract.  Within a week the interior was repainted, damaged appliances and carpeting were replaced.  A week later the house was put on the marked and I had a buyer within a few days.

Then things slowed to "glacial speed," and I was anxious to get the deal closed before Inauguration Day.

First, my perspective buyer got laid off, which halted the home loan application until she could prove she had 30 days of continuous work experience.  

This delayed the sale until mid-January, but shortly after Biden was sworn in--interest rates went up, so the buyer had to renegotiate her home loan and asked if I'd give her a $3000 credit to the closing costs.

She had to move out of her apartment by 1 February, so my realtor suggested to have the buyer and her husband move-in and rent my house on a week-by-week basis until the deal was closed.

By mid-March my rental house was officially sold.

Talk about dodging the bullet.

I'm so happy to be out of the Landlord Business with only one missed monthly check.

I was afraid I'd end up like this guy:

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Even though there are alternatives landlords can pursue they all sound like bureaucratic hassles to me.

Best wishes to all you landlords out there, you have my sympathy. 

Woke-Flavored Ice Cream

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Now that we're in the middle summer one often thinks about having a cool and refreshing scoop or three of ice cream.

 However, to leftists, everything's political.  

Sports, movies, comic books, TV shows--and now ice cream--are merely tools for woketards to bludgeon everyone else into "getting woke."

Actually, the owners of Ben & Jerry's have always been leftists.

But recently, the wokey pair announced they will no longer sell their ice cream in the "Occupied Palestinian Territory." 

Of course, this virtue-signal/publicity stunt is the latest in a long list of failed boycotts against Israel. 

I've never had any of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, so I can't ritualistically purge my freezer of any of their whacky flavors, nor can I solemnly swear I'll never buy their stuff again. 

But I can at least continue to avoid buying into their wokeness and enjoy the rest of the summer--with another brand of ice cream.

Making Russia's Pipeline Great Again

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 Back in January, and within hours of being sworn-in, Zhou Bai Den, cancelled the Keystone Pipeline. 

This was seen as a harbinger of (bad) things to come.  

Fast-forward to last week, and Zhou Bai Den, cleared the way for Russia to construct its NordStream2 Pipeline.

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While there’s a lot more going on in America, and the world—more than I can currently cover—I find this to be one of the biggest “What the Fuck” moments to date in today’s “New Order.”

Especially since this came hot-on-the-heals of the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack.

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And “...not letting a good crisis go to waste...” Michigan’s governor, Wretched Gretchen, tried (still trying?) to extort Canada’s Enbridge Pipeline or have it shut down...

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...even as gasoline shortages still linger in some areas two weeks after the cyberattack.  

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While most commentators were willing to give “46” a pass on the actual cyberattack, his actions (or more likely, the actions of his handlers), before and since have exacerbated the situation.

In fact, “The New Order” White House approves of the gas shortage—it’s their Green New Deal.

And while numerous states experienced gasoline shortages not seen since the 1973 Oil Crisis during “39’s” watch, the Ministry of Truth minions, New York Times Division, tried gaslighting Americans by claiming there was no fuel shortage.

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Of course, the petty tyrants in today’s New Order can violate their own Lockdown Decrees, like Wretched Gretchen did, so I’m sure if gas shortages do get worse—by accident, or design—they won’t have to deal with the “Fake News” of Out-of-Service fuel pumps. 

By the way, no matter how bad things may get during this New Order:  For the love of God, please don’t put gasoline in random containers.

Smalltime Day Traders' Say "Foxtrot Yankee" to Big Business

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I took both Macro & Micro Economics back in junior college.  About all I currently know about playing the stock market is:  Buy low, sell high.

My skills at high finance involve balancing my checkbook and living within my means.

So it took me some time to digest what's been going on with GameStop. 

Ben Shapiro provides the best explanation in what he calls The Funniest Prank on Wall Street Ever.

Lauren Chen also explains it as GameStop Wars: Wall Street Strikes Back!

Or as I like to call it:  The Big "Foxtrot Yankee" (phonetic alphabet "F," and "Y," for "F*ck You") to Wall Street.

This latest event, along with everything else that's happened since the 2020 Presidential Election--not to mention all of The Year 2020--as people, like Sydney Watson, what is even happening?

While us like-minded folks think it's hilarious that a pack of small-time day traders outsmarted the Big League Hedge Funders, not everyone's happy, especially the minions within Beijing Biden's administration:

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Nor is this the only time that an activity was shut down.  There's been a trend since Election Day 2020 to "close down early."

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Kurt Schlichter observed:  GameStop lets you see the Matrix.

I agree. 

Our Political Ruling Class, or Uniparty, is Hell-bent on subjugating and even destroying the middle class.  We're living in what The Diplomad calls:  Chaos in the time of Biden.

While it doesn't look like things will improve anytime soon, we can at least take a moment to say:

Suck it, Wall Street! (And the Biden Administration, and the Democrats, and, etc....).

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Beijing Biden's First Week In Office

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 Beijing Biden's first week in the Oval Office was a busy one.  He signed 40 executive orders.

The key item on Biden's list was cancelling the Keystone Pipeline on his very first day.

In addition to killing jobs in the energy industry with the stroke of a pen, Biden also opened the US-Mexican Border.

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Next up was demanding schools allow transgender athletes to compete in girls' sports...

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...along with lifting Trump's ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military.

Beijing Biden isn't acting alone.

He has plenty of help in concocting bills, laws and executive orders that will turn America into a workers' paradise hellhole.

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Oh, and taxes will be increasing in order to pay for all the "Build Back Better" programs that we're being told will benefit the masses.

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And finally, there's the fawning media gushing over Biden. 

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I find the media's adoration of Biden to be more creepy than their love of Obama.  During the Era of HopeandChange, the media's minions truly believed in Obama's well-managed poise and eloquence. 

Now after a mere week in-office, Biden worship strikes me as being hollow.  

He's proved to be a gaff-machine, and almost always seems to be confused during any public appearance.  

 The sycophantic media are merely virtue signaling in an Emperor's New Clothes sort of way, to proclaim their loyalty in the face of today's Cancel Culture acolytes, that are now calling for punishing and degrading Trump supporters. 

Which does nothing to make the sudden calls for "unity" sound more like "conformity," especially since the Dimtards are Hell-bent on pushing police state policies through Congress.

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Christmas In The Year 2020

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 Well, it's Christmas Day in The Year 2020.

I hope you and yours have an enjoyable day, despite the year being hard on all of us in one way or another..

I recently subscribed to Summit Properties NW's YouTube Channel.

The company's owner, Sean Reynolds', videos give a good account of the impact the lockdown and other government decrees have had on local and national businesses.

News that you won't find covered on network news...

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...like:

There's no data to support WA State's restaurant shutdown.

Governor Inslee is forcing small businesses into bankruptcy and that this shutdown is worse than the initial one.

The CHOP/CHAZ is back (Capital Hill Occupation Zone/Capital Hill Autonomous Zone), this time in the form of a homeless encampment in Cal Anderson Park.

And so much more.

Personally, I think there's more behind the Dimtards' collective hard-on against restaurants and gyms than just picking economic winners and losers.  

In addition to being places of business, restaurants and even gyms are places where people go to socialize.  I believe this is part of the Dimtards' plot to isolate each and every one of us from family and friends.

As The Year 2020 winds down, I don't have any confidence that Basement Biden, a.k.a"46*," and his handlers will handle the Chy-Nah Virus Pandemic effectively.  

The Dimtards, and the Ministry of Truth seem to go out of their way to kowtow to the Chinese Politburo, when the People's Republic of China (PRC) should be held accountable for unleashing the Wuhan Flu upon the world.

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We still have the Georgia Runoff Election to face, along with the scheduled inauguration of "Basement Biden."

Let's pray that somehow 2021 will be better for each of us.

In the meantime, Merry Christmas!

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Where We Are At With the Wuhan Flu

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Just before Tax Day 2020, Dennis Prager asked:  Has the lockdown worked?

The short answer:  We don't know.

I’d feel better about this “Martial Law Light,” if the social distancing, essential business/items rules were applied more uniformly, but adjusted for state/local conditions and the number of cases within each state.

Instead, in various parts of the US & UK we have the closet fascists have tipped their hand, and we’re witnessing the slow death of our civil liberties as Democratic governors extend quarantine mandates within their states.

Religious services, specifically Christian services, in at least a couple of states have been subjected to crackdowns.

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Meanwhile, some states have let inmates, even felons, free.  In Florida, one former prisoner was re-arrested on alleged murder charges.

In a sane world, one would think with ex-cons loose, state governments would make it easier for law-abiding citizens to acquire firearms.

Unfortunately, we still live in Clown World.

Governor “Klanrobes Blackface” of Virginia didn’t let this “good crisis go to waste” over Easter Weekend and signed a shit-ton of far-left agenda bills into state law:  Everything from gun control to abolishing voter ID.

Even the denizens from Down Under aren’t immune to ““nasty dobbers,” and authoritarian misfits with delusions of adequacy...who feel entitled to abuse people who are doing nothing wrong.”

The result of this petty, and not-so petty tyranny is causing discontent with the “mass house arrest” to grow as exponentially as the original Wuhan Flu.

Protests are popping up in North Carolina, Michiganders staged Operation Gridlock at the state capital, (even state Democrats accuse Governor Whitmer (D) of overreaching her authority), while citizens of Taneytown, MD, snarked-back at a police order to wear pants while leaving one’s house.

Laura Ingraham and The Diplomad have called into question our reliance on both experts (and “experts").

Meanwhile, no matter how anyone feels about the pandemic pandemonium, we’re approaching a Covid-19 gut-check.

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Fortunately, there’s a couple silver linings.

First, the DOJ filed a “statement of interest” in favor of the Mississippi church-goers.

And hopefully some leftist fetishes—instead of our civil liberties—will disappear in the wake of the “Bat Gobbler Flu.”

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Last Minute Updates:

At the time I'm writing this, Our Grand Nagus is expected to announce guidelines for Opening Up America Again.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force press conference is scheduled to start at 6 PM EST

With 22 million people out of work in the US, and petty tyrants flexing their unconstitutional muscles, America's reopening won't come a moment too soon.

Politicians Too Eager About Edicts

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While the Chicoms action to starve American hospitals of medical equipment is unforgivable, the Dimtards aren't letting a "good crisis go to waste."

Last week, CA Governor, Newscum, proclaimed the Chicom Pandemic is an opportunity to ring-in a "new progressive era."

Tiny Rhode Island has gone Full-Police State, while Governor Blackface of Virginia extended the lockdown until the day after the state primary (10 June 2020).

As Liberty Doll said just over two minutes into her Rhode Island video, we're living in every dystopian novel we've ever read.

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Activists are "...acting like teenage girls..." and trying to reclaim the limelight of their causes--climate change, third-wave feminism, and race reparations being the top three.

The shift to Dystopia isn't just occurring in the U.S.  Down Under, Australians are concerned about governments are curtailing cherished freedoms under the guise of public safety.

In the UK, sunbathing is banned (even while social distancing), many Britons feel like they're sleepwalking in a dystopian police state.

Even if we avoid sliding into a dystopian hellscape, we're going to reach a tipping point where the cure is worse than the disease.

When that tipping point will occur/is occurring is debatable.

Last week, Laura Ingraham asked:  What is the Coronavirus doing to us as a people?

This week, Tucker Carlson asked:  How long will the lockdowns last?  While Laura wondered:  When do we get our country back?

When indeed.

But libtards don't care, and have already adapted to a narrative that anyone who is concerned about the shut-down economy wants to see people die.

Besides, they're too busy falling for the latest Kung Flu hoax.

Just like being for secure borders means one is a racist and a 2nd Amendment advocate means one wants to see school kids slaughtered in their classrooms.

So is there some middle ground?

Unreasonable crackdowns risk eroding respect for law enforcement even further.

As with the foundation of America's government, there's a need for checks and balances in combating the Coronavirus.

Or as Kurt Schlichter warns:  Beware of the creeps who enjoy their new pandemic power.

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Ministry of Truth Still Spouting the OrangeManBad Narrative

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Well, it's been clear to everyone who isn't shilling for the Chicoms that China lied from the get-go about the Covid-19 outbreak.

And Chicom government is still lying.

It's lying about their death toll (which could be as high as 42,000 to 46,000).

It's lying about "flattening the curve" of the infection rate.

And it's lying about the defective medical supplies shipped to various European countries.

Not to mention their on-going disinformation/propaganda campaign that the Kung Flu was cooked-up by the U.S. Army.

Now there's speculation that China's continued lying was more than an attempt at "saving face"/CYA (Cover Your Ass).  It was an attempt deliberately wreck every other countries' attempt at combating the outbreak.

The Chicom government has been ably assisted by the Chinese World Health Organization in perpetuating their lies and continues to praise the PRC (and deny the existence of Taiwan).

Meanwhile, here in America, during the on-going economic shutdown and quarantine edicts, it's still all OrangeManBad all the time.

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From the top: There was two-time presidential candidate loser Hillary Clinton makes a Wu Flu joke while Americans are suffering and dying, and her media sycophants perpetuated the Narrative.

On top of this, the non-FOX News media want Our Grand Nagus' Coronavirus Press Conferences shut down.  There's even a petition going around to get the press conferences cancelled.

Their attempt at painting Trump with "blood on his hands" is backfiring.

True, Our Grand Nagus was slow on the draw--but so was every other world leader, operating on the premise the Chicom government was being honest (but this hasn't stopped the fake news perpetuated by the media).

Yeah, our "super-smart" elite continues to shine during this crisis (while covering for the Chicom government).

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And it's not just the "super-smart" in the media that are propagating Chicom propaganda.  A group of Congressional Dimtards actually believe the Chicom numbers.

Fortunately, the "internet is forever," as there's Nancy Pelosi encouraging San Franciscans to visit Chinatown and Bill DeBlasio encouraging people to gather for Lunar New Year.

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Despite Dimtards stepping on a rake, and not advocating Social Distancing, the OrangeManBad Narrative not only continues, but has spilled over to anyone actually trying to help--like the My Pillow Guy, Mike Lindell.  Or that Christians in NYC, are building hospitals will "kill gays."

The only curve the Dimtards are interested in flattening is Our Grand Nagus' chance for re-election this November.

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They've already launched another investigation.

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And the bad news continues.

The Dimtard Governor of California is looking at the pandemic as an opportunity to create a "new Progressive Era." In other words:  The Coronavirus Tyranny is already upon us.

The Number One aspect of this New Progressive Era is the current heavy-handed attempt at attempting to curb gun sales along with not responding to a plethora of emergency calls.

But if you have the misfortune of living within the People's Democratic Republic of Seattle, one can get arrested for "hate speech" (translation--saying mean things to someone).

Meanwhile, back in Chicomland, the wet markets have re-opened which is a reckless disregard for global obligations.

Despite all the bad news, there's a few silver linings:

Social Justice seems to be waning.

Fringe, wacko positions held by colleges will be completely exposed.

Celebrity culture is collapsing.

True, they're thin silver linings, but we need all the good news we can get.

And at least people are waking up to the threat posed by Communist China.

In the meantime, while we're all sheltering-in-place, stay healthy and stay positive.

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Update, 0600 hours, 3 April 2020:

Last night WA State governor extended Stay-At-Home order until 4 May.

The growing concern is:  How long can an economic shutdown last?

What's the "New Normal?"

Heroes of the Coronapocalypse

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The Pandemic Pandemonium has brought out the best--and worst--in people.

Libtards love to bash capitalism and even now try to convince us shut-ins that socialism is the answer to our current medical & economic woes.

Really?

Mike Lindell, the "corporate fat cat" of My Pillow, just announced his company will be focusing on producing medical masks, while other companies are making similar contributions.

And it's not just CEOs that are self-mobilizing to pull us through the COVID-19 Pandemic.  The people our loser elite look down upon are saving our bacon.

Heroes--and zeroes--aplenty have emerged from the Coronapocalypse Crisis.

And speaking of zeroes, celebrities demonstrated--once again--they have zero class.

Hollyweird celebrities concocted a cringe-worthy video featuring that insufferable song "Imagine."

The Material Girl tried to provide a philosophical outlook on the Coronavirus from her bathtub.

Larry the Cable Guy gave this entire cringe-fest the "Ricky Gervais Treatment."

MechaRandom42 was even blunter:  She told Hollyweirdoes to get stuffed, while Sargon of Akkad pondered:  Imagine there are no celebrities.

Well, what isn't hard to imagine is how celebrities have been reduced to meme-fodder because of Stay-At-Home edicts.

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Yeah, terrible alright.

Now here's a "No-Lister's" video, along with Sargon of Akkad's light-hearted outlook and Jeff Dunham's wacky alter-ego puppets that are more entertaining than any A-Lister has put out from inside their mansion.

So my thanks to all the other "No Lister" Heroes out there who're keeping things functioning for the rest of us.

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Political Posturing During Pandemic

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Earlier this week, Congress attempted to provide a stimulus bill in an attempt to mitigate the financial crisis brought on by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

("COVID19" meaning:  Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease #19).

But of course, the Dimtards didn't want such a monumental crisis to go to waste.  Or to directly quote Reptard James Clyburn:  An opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.

Congress attempted to pass a bi-partisan economic relief package by Sunday (22 March), but the Dimtard Duo of Pelosi & Schumer added more demands, effectively filibustering the bill.

So instead of a single-issue resolution, the Dimtards packed it with a far-left wish list and identity politics.

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Chuckie Schumer tried claiming the bill was a big business bailout, and of course the Ministry of Truth, the NYT-Branch, finagled a fake news headline to cover for the Dimtards.

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But most people see through the Dimtards' stabbing Americans in the back--twice.

Mitch McConnell sounded off against the Dimtards, while The Five shredded the Dimtards' derailing the bill--twice.

Now to be "fair & balanced," ever since the Era of HopeandChange, I'm a bit leary of "stimulus packages."  Especially since our nation is already trillions of dollars in debt.

So the trick is to starve the virus not the economy.

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Either way, the "optics" make the Dimtards look bad--or to us like-minded folks--worse than they already are.

Chances are the Dimtards will be obliterated this November, because they're really bad people.

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And speaking of the 2020 Presidential Election, Our Grand Nagus' rival, Sleepy/Creepy Joe Biden was conspicuously absent from the public for about a full week of this pandemic pandemonium...

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Panic

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I've been off duty from my job at Washington State Emergency Management for the past several days.  So I'm not sure what I'll be "walking into" when I go back to work later this week, especially since our governor declared a state of emergency.  In the meantime, I've been getting a lot of word-of-mouth reports.

During my staycation, one of my close friends informed me of the first Coronavirus death in the US (now up to 9 in WA State), while at lunch on Saturday.

Then as the work-week began, there was a run on various stores in my local area.  Friends at the local gym told me shelves were devoid of all sorts of goods.  Bottled water, bread, cleaning wipes and hand sanitizer were popular--and now scarce--items.

Good thing I learned to have small stockpiles of things for times like this.

While shoppers were stripping the store shelves bare, Our Grand Nagus increased the staffing of the Coronavirus Task Force.

But the Dimtards and their mouthpieces at the Ministry of Truth aren't "...letting a good crisis go to waste."

In the Coronavirus Case--blame Trump.

China isn't the only one lying about the Coronavirus.

 Politico attempted to spread fake news about Our Grand Nagus calling the disease itself a hoax (false).

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 I certainly don't know how widespread the disease will get, but we're certainly going from hysteria to hysteria.

While tens of thousand have fallen ill and thousands have died worldwide, here in the US, Coronavirus causes stupidity to go viral.

As of now, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has had a larger negative impact on our country than the Coronavirus--

--Like the Deep Stater(s) that allowed infected Americans to be flown back to the US.

--Or this Denver councilwoman threatening to attend MAGA rallies if she becomes infected.

--Or in the case of the Seattle Politburo, ignoring how the homeless population could exacerbate the situation.

But like most crises, this didn't occur overnight--or even at the initial outbreak.

Mass immigration from--and offshoring to--Communist China has left us vulnerable on multiple levels.

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And this isn't the first time either: There was SARS in 2003.

We can't trust China to make dog food ingredients that won't sicken our pets, let alone be truthful about the nature an origins of one of their contagions.

Meanwhile, it looks like FEMA is preparing for a nation-wide emergency declaration.

But for those who believe Bolshevik Bernie's campaign promise of Free Healthcare For All, there's this cautionary tale of when the system fails you.

In the meantime, take the usual sensible and typical flu-related health precautions.

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