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HOW A POLICE STATE FASCIST AMERICA IS BORN

Orwell’s warning
Orwell’s warning

The United States and much of the western world, by utilizing the most draconian of tactics, is plunging many nations into potential economic and societal chaos as they attempt to stem the tide of the Chinese Coronavirus.

Relying on dubious and error-prone projections, politicians and bureaucrats constitutionally or statutorily limited in their power, are now exercising near-dictatorial authority in their edicts, which are effectively suspending or terminating numerous freedoms under the guise of protecting their respective nations.

When societies lose their freedom, it is not ordinarily because autocrats or tyrants have forcibly taken it away.  It is usually the result of the population willingly surrendering their freedom in return for protection against an external threat.  While the threat is oftentimes real, it is invariably exaggerated.

This is what we in the United States are experiencing.

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SHOULD WE POSTPONE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ONE YEAR?

postpone-electionThe deeper we get into the pandemic, the more our country becomes locked down and socially distant: schools closed, shops closed, restaurants and theaters shut, churches reduced to services in parking lots, sporting events suspended, and recreational venues roped off.

The longer this continues with no real end in sight, only guesses by experts with ever-changing “models,” the more it becomes inevitable we must ask the question… Should we postpone the presidential election?

Or do we want some virtual election that would be so distant from a traditional American election it would more closely resemble a computer game while at the same time being fraught with myriad new possibilities for fraud and manipulation such as we have never seen before?

The Japanese bit the proverbial bullet and weeks ago postponed their Olympics until 2021. Should we do the same with our yet more important event, electing the person who will lead the free world?

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS

this-too-shall-passThankfully as a nation this crisis is causing us to reevaluate our priorities: faith, family, community and freedom.

Journalists are less important than janitors. Our nation’s best athletes are healthcare workers rushing to assist those in need.  The true heroes are not celebrities, but rather farmers, truck drivers, stock clerks, and supermarket cashiers.

Any average hard-working American is worth more today than all those who chase the golden statues of Hollywood; and ultimately if they want to go down the superiority path… well, what they provide is essentially useless.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/27/20

“We have to take care of the cure.  That will make the problem worse no matter what.”  Yes, Dementia Joe actually said that on national television – ABC’s The View on Tuesday (3/24).

You know the ancient proverb’s warning: “Be careful what you ask for – because you might get it.”

The Dems and Libtard Enemedia, after trying every scam they could think of up to a Shampeachment against Orange Man Bad decided on one last desperate Hail Mary – generate a tsunami of Fear Porn over a flu virus from China that would wash away Trump’s economy, blame him for it, and watch his reelection go down in flames.

They got their Hail Mary fully launched into the air, receivers racing downfield for a game-winning TD – when all of a sudden linebacker Trump intercepts the ball and is running full tilt towards the Dem end zone with no one in the way.

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DEMOCRATS AND THEIR MEDIA ARE MORE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH THAN THE CHICOM VIRUS

potus-white-house-press-briefing-march-23
POTUS White House Press Briefing 3/23

ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC didn’t broadcast live the White House briefing Monday (3/23) on the Wuhan Coronavirus. CNN cut its coverage short.

The briefings were attracting Monday Night Football type ratings.

The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings,” Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote Saturday (3/21).

Dangerous to whom?  Not to Americans – only to them and their pathological Hate America-Hate Trump narrative.

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DEMOCRATS ARE REALLY BAD PEOPLE

get-out-of-the-way People tend to come together in moments of crisis, most people anyway.

Then there’s always that selfish jerk in a zombie movie interested in grabbing the wads of cash or something else they’d always wanted but couldn’t get before everything went to hell, and it usually costs them.

Democrats are that selfish jerk.

And while it varies what the cost is in the movies – either his life or the life of someone else – in the case of coronavirus, let it be the political lives of every Democrat, because they truly are bad people.

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THE CORONAVIRUS KILLED THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT

High Water Mark for the Left?
High Water Mark for the Left?

Covid-19 and the Democrat presidential primaries, the two biggest stories of the year so far, reflect a common theme: the death of the progressive Left.

Looking back, historians may well see late 2019 and very early 2020 as a kind of high-water mark for American progressivism.

It wasn’t so long ago that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were commanding most of the attention in the presidential campaign, especially among intellectuals. Right before Super Tuesday, Sanders was a clear favorite in the prediction markets.

Yet the actual voting showed the strength of Joe Biden, a (relative) centrist; Warren attracted very little support, and Sanders failed to reach the same vote totals he achieved four years ago.

And a big comeback for the Left four years from now seems unlikely. Democrat Party success is likely to come from other directions. I am not suggesting that what follows is correct, but here are some guesses:

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IS THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS AS DEADLY AS BELIEVED?

Line at an emergency room in Brooklyn, NY, March 19
Line at an emergency room in Brooklyn, NY, March 19

[Note by JW:  Since the outbreak of the China Virus pandemic, TTP has been maintaining that the actual number of those infected is much higher than the reported/confirmed number – meaning the death rate is much lower than the media claim based on the latter.  Here, two eminent infectious disease physicians and professors of medicine at Stanford’s medical school provide convincing evidence this is true.  Their essay was originally published in this morning’s (3/26) Wall Street Journal.]

If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified.

But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high [i.e., 100 times or even 1000 times too high].  Here is why.

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ITALY’S COMMUNIST RECIPE FOR DISASTER

commie-recipe-for-disasterMontecalvo, Lombardy, Italy. As I sit here in my involuntary isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. (Numbers as of 3/24, 8:30pm in Italy.)

Sixty million of us are in lockdown...it is like a war zone here. We are being held prisoner in our own homes by an unseen enemy that sneaked in unnoticed...by most of us. As you will read in just a few more minutes, there were those who knew something like this was coming... or at least they should have.

So who is to blame? With all this craziness swirling like a whirlpool at our feet, I just had to find the blame answer. And so I have spent my free time (of which I have a lot in these days) digging and researching. I was literally shocked to discover how this has come to be.

It has everything to do with communists. Allow me to explain.

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RED CHINA UNMASKED

Hong Kong Protestors Portray Red China’s Flag Accurately
Hong Kong Protestors Portray Red China’s Flag Accurately

The Chinese communists are afraid. You might not guess it from the invertebrate and borderline anti-national corporate media parroting Chinese state propaganda, but they are.

Beijing is shaken. Their dream of dominating the globe eventually, with the slow overstretch and collapse of the Pax Americana, was considered a matter of destiny.

Then suddenly, it all was shaken. A combination of incompetence, criminal negligence, and totalitarian suppression of a new devastating virus originating from the raw meat and wet markets of interior China let it rage through the globe.

Many media outlets are trying to hush it, but the people are not idiots. Over 60 percent of Americans support President Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and that includes his saber-rattling against Beijing.

And Beijing is afraid. You can feel that in their intersectional tweets, which are indistinguishable from any random western op-ed in Vice or BuzzFeed or CNN, or the tweets of Alyssa Milano or Jenny Yang.

The Chinese state isn’t a race, it’s a regime, and it is not racist to point out that they torched the globe.

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SURVIVING DEADLY VIRAL EPIDEMICS

[Note by JW:  Durk & Sandy have been among my dearest friends for over a half-century.  They wrote this paper for the December 2014 issue Life Enhancement Magazine in response to the Ebola virus panic gripping the country at the time.  Their information is amazingly prescient and relevant to our current ChiCom Wuhan virus panic.

One reason, they tell me, is that both coronaviruses and Ebola virus are enveloped RNA viruses, both can cause lethal cytokine storms, and that the same disinfection methods destroy both.  The Wuhan virus, unlike Ebola, usually has a low morbidity (severity) and mortality in younger people.

That is not the case, however, if you are over 60 or 70 or so, in particular if you have a long list of inflammatory pre-existing complicating conditions which are especially common in the elderly.  If you are over 60, or have a friend or relative who is, taking the advice presented here could save your and/or their life.

On a personal note, I have been taking many of the items recommended here for many years.  Most all of the items can easily be ordered via Amazon. –JW]

Humans have lived with viruses through their entire history because viruses were already here when humans arrived.

Humans and viruses continue to coevolve, leading to the complexities of the human immune response to viruses and viral adaptations to every new attempt by human immune systems to foil viral infections. Viruses have killed hundreds of millions of people in modern times and there is no reason to think this threat will disappear in the foreseeable future.

The subject of this paper is how to be prepared for potentially large numbers of viral epidemics in the near future and beyond.  The focus of this article: what an individual can do to protect himself and his family from before to during a deadly epidemic.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/20/20

©Jack Wheeler
©Jack Wheeler

Welcome to the Springtime HFR!  Yes, when you woke up this morning, Spring or Vernal Equinox had already happened.  From space.com:

“Astronomers can calculate the moment of the vernal equinox right down to the nearest second. This year it will occur on Thursday (March 19) at 11:49:28 p.m. EDT (0349 GMT on March 20). At that moment, the sun will appear directly overhead about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Gorontalo, a province of Indonesia — often referred to as the "Emerald of the Equator" — on the island of Sulawesi.”
That happens to be adjacent to Tana Toraja, the land of the Toraja people who practice one of the most exotic cultures on earth.  They live in extraordinarily dramatic and beautifully decorated thatch homes, and bury their dead in vertical cliff cemeteries, adorned  with painted wooden effigies of those entombed.

Exotic to the max, even macabre – but it sure is a better way to show respect for those passed on than to engage in the greatest global insanity the world has ever known.

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THE MEDIA AND THE DEMS MAY DIE OF THE CHINA VIRUS

covid-19-planAmerica will survive the China Coronavirus. The credibility of the MSM will not.

Fake Newsers have paid no price – yet – for the Russia collusion hoax, the Ukraine impeachment hoax, other gaslighting. But this is a hoax too far.

Thanks chiefly to hysterical “reporting” of wild speculation, rumors, half-truths and outright lies, the panicked response to the China virus has done much more harm than the virus itself.

Leftist attacks will boomerang, because Trump has been doing such a good job that to smear him, journos are reduced to regurgitating Chinese propaganda.

It was easy for the MSM to stampede the herd. But eventually, sheep tire of running. As they catch their breath, more notice the rising disparity between worst case scenarios and what’s actually happening.

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