Ron opines.

Sure quiet out there this mornin. No cars drivin around . . . nobody at the Tom Thumb gettin coffee ‘n’ donuts . . . no joggers . . . no air movin, just some thin clouds and an anemic half moon. Great for thinkin while strollin with Dawg.

Now, I realize that since DJT mentioned the possibility of more people dying by suicide because of the coughing virus than by the disease itself, the mainstream media will pooh-pooh the idea and insist that it won’t happen because . . . well, just because.

What’s happened here is that about 300 million people have been placed on house arrest for lengthy periods which will likely get even longer. Thousands, probably tens of thousands, and maybe even hundreds of thousands of small businesses either have already shut down permanently or will do so later this year.

About 10 million people who were until recently employed and made financial commitments based on that employment now find themselves unemployed without much hope of their jobs coming back any time soon.

Children are out of school and hanging around the house, full of energy but with nothing to do, placing great mental and economic strain on parents, especially single mothers who may still be working but can’t afford child care or babysitting fees.

Hoarders are grabbing merchandise off store shelves before some people can even get TO the stores, and certain food items are beginning to be hard to find along with disinfectant and household sanitation products.

Entertainment diversions, such as sports events, which would relieve some of the angst and tension in people trapped in their homes with nothing to do, have been cancelled, and travel outside the residence for anything other than food and medicine is either restricted or banned.

Yeah . . . that’s the sure-fire formula for anxiety, which is a major factor in the suicide rate. Historically, and using the Great Depression as the best example, a strong and undeniable link between unemployment and suicide is more than obvious.

Pretty clear to me that a whole lotta people are gonna die as a result of the containment efforts rather than from the disease itself, which right now is less than 2% mortality range for anyone under 65 with no serious health problems otherwise.

Some people will see their life savings dry up like spilt milk on a hot sidewalk and their retirement porfolios shrink like men’s boners when they see fotos of Mad Maxine or SanFranShitShow Nan or Her Rotten Heinous.

There’ll be bankruptcies, domestic violence, strokes, coronaries, accidents, and suicides galore. And you can bet that AntiFa, Planned Parenthood, the DNC, Black Lives Matter, and the Screen Actors’ Guild will wind up providing precisely ZERO assistance to blacks, latinos, the unemployed, health-care workers, or anybody else.

We will, however, come out of it with more national debt than even DingleBarry could scrounge up and a whole tax season with virtually no revenues from anyone except the very rich, who will busily buy up all the prime stocks and bonds people will be forced to sell at a loss just to buy food.

We’ll also discover the true color of a lotta people’s hair, except entertainers, of course, and who are our true friends, which WON’T include China or the WHO or the UN or DNC. In fact, the WHO and the UN are already criticizing the Trump administration for incompetent handling of a situation which he got a firm grip on MUCH earlier than his arrogant predecessor would have.

Quid Pro Joe Biden and Kameltoe Harris and Squinty Joe Scarborough and the MadCow and the pie-faced cueball Stelter have been hammering away at DJT for weeks now, offering advice on what he SHOULD have done, almost all of which is precisely what he DID fargin do.

Unsurprisingly, Schiff and Pelosi are forming committees to investigate Trump’s incompetent handling of the situation which allowed it to become a crisis, and to look into his pharmaceutical holdings to see if he’s made any profits from touting the anti-malarial drug cocktail which by all accounts is actually saving lives.

Yeah, I think he’s right . . . we’re gonna see more people die in the US from unintended conditions caused by the virus than by the disease itself, cardiac, manslaughter, and suicide.

Trump being impeached by people such as Nadler and Schiff and Waters and Pelosi and Green is very much like George Washington being called a traitor by a dissolute king deep in third-stage syphilis dementia.

Trump’s problem is not incompetence, or unpreparedness, or unconventional approaches to management . . . it’s just bad luck by being in charge during a year written by Stephen King. Either that or his failure to forward that e-mail to 10 other people.

Sent to me by my sister.

Day 1 – I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month!

Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last!

Day 3 – Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew??

Day 4 – 8:00pm Removed my Day Pajamas and put on my Night Pajamas.

Day 5 – Today, I tried to make Hand Sanitizer. It came out as Jello Shots!!

Day 6 – I get to take the Garbage out. I’m so excited, I can’t decide what to wear.

Day 7 – Laughing way too much at my own jokes!!

Day 8 – Went to a new restaurant called “The Kitchen”. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have No clue how this place is still in business.

Day 9 – I put liquor bottles in every room. Tonight, I’m getting all dressed up and going Bar hopping.

Day 10 – Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer.

Day 11 – Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, “What the hell do you want now?”

Day 12 – I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel.

Day 13 – If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidentally touch your face.

Day 14 – Watched the birds fight over a worm. The Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3–1.

Day 15 – Anybody else feel like they’ve cooked dinner about 395 times this month?”

Abrams Tank the governor (in her mind) of Georgia wants to be VP. Check out the photo on this fluff piece.

Experienced politicians know there is a right way to answer questions about pursuing higher office. Be demure. Redirect. Convey vague interest while insisting never to have given it serious consideration. But Stacey Abrams does not give the expected answer when I ask if she would accept an offer from former vice president Joe Biden to serve as his 2020 running mate. “Yes. I would be honored,” Abrams says. “I would be an excellent running mate. I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating typically ignored communities. I have a strong history of executive and management experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. I’ve spent 25 years in independent study of foreign policy. I am ready to help advance an agenda of restoring America’s place in the world. If I am selected, I am prepared and excited to serve.”

Of course she would have to give up her role as the fake governor of Georgia.

Abrams’s direct response betrays ambition, makes verifiable claims, and establishes outcomes to which she could later be held accountable. By normal political rules, it is the wrong answer. But as Abrams and I talk in March in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it is clear that normal political rules no longer apply. I’m asking her about an unknown political future even as the future itself is frighteningly unknowable: schools closing, businesses shuttering, and Americans sheltering against a raging virus we can barely fathom. Amid this chaotic unpredictability, Abrams’s candor is disarming and comforting.

“Disarming and comforting” all at the same time.

In the March 15 televised debate, Biden committed to choosing a woman as his running mate. Less than a week later, the progressive strategy network Way to Win released survey data indicating Stacey Abrams was Biden’s strongest potential lieutenant. A graduate of Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin, and Yale Law School, Abrams made history as the first woman to lead a political party in Georgia’s General Assembly and the first African American to lead the Georgia House of Representatives. In 2018, she pursued history again, mounting an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to become America’s first black woman governor. Her defeat came amid election irregularities and allegations of voter suppression. Abrams refused to concede the close race to her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp. “I’m supposed to say nice things and accept my fate,” Abrams writes in the preface to her New York Times best-seller, Lead From the Outside. “I refused to be gaslighted into throwing away my power, diminishing my voice.”

Losing by 50,000 votes was a close election. Yeah. In her mind.

Most of the time being a Veep is a nothing job, but when the guy at the top of the ticket is senile and would have to be removed during his term of office, this would be the chance for ol’ Stacey to waddle into the Oval Office. Lord help us if that would happen.

My friend Richard is sending out puns again. Must be the stay at home BS.

Back to Bach with Tatyana.

From Don H. (more…)

This week’s coveted award goes to Speaker Blinky. While she is holding up funding for a bill to help America’s small business owners, she went on late night television eating $13 a pint ice cream. Speaker Antoinette.

Patriot Retort did a better take down than I could.

And didja hear that the House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the House wouldn’t return until May 4 unless there was an emergency? WTF is happening in this country Steny? Can you believe these Dimocrats? I can’t believe how much I hate them. There are some lamp posts in DC that could be put to good use. Tar and feathers would be appropriate as well.

The Danes know what’s important.

COPENHAGEN – Sales of sex toys in Denmark have more than doubled after Danes were told to stay at home to limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to the country’s biggest retailer of the merchandise.

“It makes me happy that we are doing something good during this difficult time when people feel vulnerable,” said Mathilde Mackowski, co-owner of Sinful, the biggest sex toy seller in the Nordics.

Gotta have your priorities in order and do what’s important.

In the first week of April, sales at Sinful rose 110 percent in Denmark, where it estimates it commands three-quarters of the total market.

The country’s biggest sex toy review website Eroti.dk said traffic has more than tripled during the lockdown compared with the same period last year.

At least some companies are doing well during the Moo Goo Gai Panic.

In particular demand for sex games and toys for couples has spiked. Sinful said sales of a 10-day love challenge for couples rose more than four-fold since mid-March compared with the same period before the lockdown.

“I think it’s only natural that when we spend more time together we want to have a little extra fun,” said Mackowski.

“We take better care of each other in this difficult time and that also reflects on our sex lives,” she said.

In nine months we’re gonna have a baby boom that will prolly exceed the number of people who died during this pandemic.

Way to go Denmark!

We English speakers have a lot to be thankful for from the Danes. When they were raping and pillaging England, many of them wound up settling there. The Danes raped and pillaged the English language and got rid of gender. Unlike most European languages we don’t have to worry about our articles and adjectives having to agree with the genders of our nouns. None of the Die, das, le, la, les, las, los bullshit. All that is replaced in English with “the”. “The” is both singular and plural. Thank you Danes!

Enjoy your sex toys!

Ron rants.

Politics – once a person commits himself to either major party, either progressive or conservative, he automatically refocuses his mental energy on hating the other.

The hatred then becomes the raison d’etre, and according to many philosophers, it is strongest and most vicious in those with the thinnest veneer of wisdom and culture.

In essence it’s simply unresolved anger allowed to simmer until nothing remains except the bitter, indigestible residue threatening to eat the bottom out of the skillet and make the floor all slippery.

Les Leftistes have been thus far completely incapable of accepting the reality of Hillary’s loss resulting from her snotty attitude toward anyone disagreeing with her.

They can’t accept that loss, or the instant evaporation of all the benefits and entitlements her reign would have showered upon them.

Hatred is all they have to distract their minds from the pain . . . like a stoner who knows intellectually that his addiction is slowly killing him. The never-Trumper is willing to suffer the inevitable hangover for those moments of adrenaline euphoria his hatred brings him.

Losers mired in the rut of hating the person who beat them fail to see that the sooner they get over it and return to mature adult status, the sooner they can feel like winners again.

In the meantime, it’s disappointing to me how few journalists are pilloried, banished, or hung these days. Talk about “non-essential” personnel.

CNN has lost so much viewership that it’s become totally dependent upon “Gotcha!” games, totally abandoning all pretense to journalism and news reporting.

With only a few exceptions, the news media prefer to overhype gossip and out-of-context misquote anyone and everyone involved in this virus situation, which itself has been overinflated by false or faulty testing procedures.

Virtually any death in any coastal megalopolis – stroke, heart attack, COPD, asthma, tuberculosis, opioid overdose, and acid indigestion – is logged under COVID-19 statistics.

The mortality rate for healthy people under Social Security eligibility age is under 1%, and there’s simply no effort being given to identify the actual cause of death for elderly people who might have died anyway if they’d never left their homes since Groundhog’s Day.

Acosta, Reade, Stelter, Blitzer . . . those types are interested only in rumor, innuendo, exaggeration, spin, and any other propaganda tactic which will discredit or diminish the DJT administration.

At its best, the modus operandi of ABCNNBCBS et al. is seditious. It is deliberate sabotage designed to undermine Trump’s credibility so thoroughly as to prevent his winning a second term.

At its worst, it’s dangerously close to treason, this concerted and relentless attack on leadership during a time of national crisis with millions out of work who were happily employed 60 days ago when China decided to save face by covering its bat-shit soup and withholding information crucial to preventing the spread and developing a remedy for the disease, which it very likely created in the first place.

Yes, of course Fauci is full of himself now that his prophecy from a couple of years ago has become eerily true and he gets to talk on national TV in a prime-power conclave every friggin day.

And yes, Trump is perhaps a bit too eager to wad up the crime-scene tape and allow people to go back to what’s left of their jobs, their lives, their futures.

But for the media to protect and promote the crazy uncle, Hidin Biden, in his basement babbling endorsed by his communist “friend” and his America-hating magic negro makes about as much sense as the NFL developing an Over-60 league for out-of-shape decrepit concussion victims.

America is growing more weary every day of the restrictions on their freedom of choice and movement and beginning to believe that it’s all been some sort of conspiracy by Soros and the “I’m-With-Her” radicals to simply get rid of Trump.

They’re tired of governors and agitprops banning or limiting medications known to reduce or eliminate the respiratory symptoms of COVID-19, medications whose side effects have been known for ¾ of a century, medications which MIGHT cause certain patients problems, just as penicillin causes problems for certain people . . . and all because Donald Trump expressed enthusiasm over them.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is more dangerous to the health of this nation than the Wuhoo flu. As I suggested a couple days ago, the cure will be worse than the disease, and the publish-or-perish rush to attack DJT because they see his daily pressers as campaign rallies is more crippling to the repair efforts and the national morale than the attack on the Twin Towers.

The press were at least kinda sorta on our side when that happened . . . . at least for a few days, ‘til they figured out a way to blame it on Dubya.

“OrangeMan Bad, Red Chinese Good” my ass! Bitter, angry, and ignorant is no way to go through an election year.

We’d be better off shutting down 24/7 news operations and going back to weather, farm, and traffic reports at breakfast, what’s on fire or being threatened by rising rivers at lunchtime, and a condensed FACTS-ONLY report on national and international activities at suppertime, with the “analysis” and punditry relegated to the TV wasteland of Sunday afternoon panel discussion shows. AND NO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING BY ANYBODY UNTIL 90 DAYS BEFORE THE GENELEC!