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2020-06-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
You can't rally. We can riot. The staggering hypocrisy of the Democrats over COVID-19
[Spectator] Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19 infections, we’re told red-state governors ’opened too soon’. The next outbreak, we can be sure, will be something to do with the fact the President decided to resume his political rallies, approximately two weeks from now.

What nobody says is that individual or social behavior is the cause. It can’t possibly be the thousands of people closely together marching down city streets yelling and chanting, some with masks, some not. The guidelines fell completely by the wayside for the Democrats and much of network cable news.

In the middle of May, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser extended her lockdown order through to the June 8. Two days prior to her own lockdown order was to be reviewed, on June 6, she encouraged mass gatherings of protests, in a tweet saying ’Let’s all meet here soon #BlackLivesMatter’, with a photo showing off her big block yellow letters painted down a DC street. In a press release about a possible spike in coronavirus cases in her city, after two weeks of protests she encouraged herself, Bowser announced that ’DC Health has confirmed that a new peak was detected in the data, resetting the Districts Phase One count to nine days of sustained decrease.’

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Florida congressswoman Val Demings, who features on the shortlist to be Joe Biden’s VP nominee, tweeted on June 8 that she had joined a ’Healing and Hope Rally last night to speak with our community as America grieves.’ Two days later she scolded the President: planning to hold ’mass rallies in Florida and elsewhere as we experience a resurgence in COVID cases is irresponsible and selfish’.

If there’s a gaping lack of curiosity about this blatantly hypocritical behavior from Democratic officials, it’s because members of the media are not only purposely ignoring it, but partaking in the same double-standard.

Showtime host Alex Wagner, in response to the Trump campaign’s rally announcement in Oklahoma tweeted, ’Someone should tell him there’s a pandemic spreading across the United States.’ Several days earlier, she had praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren for joining protests in DC. ’Can’t stop won’t stop,’ she trilled.

Politico’s Jake Sherman finger-wagged Vice President Pence for visiting a campaign office without social distancing, but he himself joined in protests at the Capitol.

Democratic strategist and former Hillary Clinton cheerleader Adam Parkhomenko helped organize supplies such as lunch and water stands for a DC protest where he encouraged ’a million’ people to come join. That didn’t stop him from tweeting ’A thousand Americans are dying a day from the pandemic, and the president of the United States is ignoring it.’

Either the funniest or most egregious behavior came from the Grim Reaper himself. Remember Daniel Uhlfelder? He is the Florida attorney who donned a Grim Reaper costume and harassed Florida beach goers with body bags, he secured through funds raised from Act Blue. Daniel was so serious about the deadly virus spreading through a state run by a Republican governor that he turned his novelty act into a traveling show. But those plans were apparently put on hold as he himself joined in and encouraged protests, as he tweeted on June 7, ‘We are here in the Florida panhandle in Deep South where hundreds have turned out for peaceful protest. No peace. No justice.' Also, no virus, it seems.

These people want you to believe that this pandemic is caused by some magical woke virus, one which somehow skips those who have the right politics. What it actually does is raise the suspicion that Democrats and progressives have wanted to keep the economy shut down and people at home as long as possible to affect the outcome of the November election. Your job and your family or your church (also protected by the First Amendment) are not important. Our joining in large crowds to protest is.

There is almost assuredly going to be a spike in COVID cases and it will also almost assuredly be put on red-state governors and the President holding rallies. But Democratic activists and politicians themselves created this situation. They encouraged the world to disregard lockdown and people will now follow their lead, no matter how much they are scolded by the media. These people think we're all stupid. We're not.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 It's not hypocrisy.

It's the entirely predictable exercise of power.

They're rubbing everyone's face in how they can do what they want and you can't.

To show you who's boss...and for the laughs.

Posted by charger 2020-06-15 00:19||   2020-06-15 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 fuck em
Posted by Chris 2020-06-15 00:31||   2020-06-15 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll say again - you need a massive amount of prolonged unfairness and harassment of the anti-nationalists in America. That means KGBing those Dem bastards, framing, incarcerating, humiliating and offing some of them. If tyranny is going to be the normal, better a tyranny of the majority leadership.

Being ruled by a guerilla government of thugs and unions is not acceptable.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-06-15 03:21||   2020-06-15 03:21|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no hypocrisy in power. Power is self rationalized and self justified.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-15 06:28||   2020-06-15 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I’m guessing the left is looking for volunteers to get sick and go to Trump events right now.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2020-06-15 08:37||   2020-06-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 In fact I hope they are screening ushers and ticket takers and such carefully.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2020-06-15 08:40||   2020-06-15 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 If the virus really is that deadly why wouldn't they want big Trump rallies (with lots of old people) - lots of Trump voters would get sick and die and switch to being Biden voters.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-06-15 10:42||   2020-06-15 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 It's always the same with the Left: their violence is free speech - our free speech is violence.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-06-15 10:53||   2020-06-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 -- The power of a bullet is indisputable.

#8 -- As long as we do nothing, they'll continue. That's why the only solution is to break as many heads as necessary, and pour in some intelligence. It probably won't take, but it's worth a try.
Posted by Old Patriot 2020-06-15 18:56||   2020-06-15 18:56|| Front Page Top

#10 OP: yep, unfortunately. I am not optimistic.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-06-15 21:44||   2020-06-15 21:44|| Front Page Top

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