Pelosi and Schumer apparently think so. Their pals in the media do, too.
The American public can’t be that dumb. I understand some people only hear what they
want to – only stuff that reinforces the views they already hold. Hence, people
who watch The View.
But seriously, if anyone actually believes everything Pelosi
and Schumer say, they are probably only a couple of IQ points above the need to
be watered. If it weren’t for their
involuntary nervous system they’d forget to breathe.
They can’t possibly be holding down real jobs; I can’t
imagine any regular business hiring them, except for some horrifyingly
dangerous job no one with any sense at all would do. Or, perhaps they could get hired in
government or in government-managed social services where common sense
obviously isn’t always a mandatory requirement for employment.
Maybe that’s why so many employed there are Democrats.
I prefer to think the people who claim to agree with
everything said by Pelosi and Schumer realize these two are lying bullshit
artists spouting a constant stream of crap no one could possibly believe. But because they hate Trump just as much as
these two, they’re okay with this nonsense.
However, they know it’s actually all ridiculous blather by these two
buffoons.
I’d rather think that’s the case. I’d hate to think that
anyone could take them seriously.
We are all aware the effects of the latest
coronavirus are being felt across the world. Air travel is down. People are
cancelling trips. Conventions and conferences are being rescheduled or
cancelled. Companies overseas are halting
production sometimes at the request of their governments. This is rippling across global supply chains
and affecting companies here dependent on overseas suppliers. The big banks and large investment firms are predicting
economic contraction.
Hundreds of thousands are known to have been infected with
the virus, with perhaps hundreds of thousands more not documented. A relatively tiny fraction of those known to
be infected have died – less than 1%, in fact; mostly the elderly already with
serious underlying conditions.
Pelosi and Schumer blamed Trump for the deaths. They blamed Trump for the first stock market
slide because he didn’t act soon enough. They blamed him for not having enough
supplies on hand, for not having a vaccine already for a month-old virus, and
for not “showing leadership” in the face of such a crisis, which at that point
had claimed about 11 American lives. Total.
Panic ensued. Stocks slid further. Nice job, Nancy and Chuck.
Then, over this weekend the Saudis and the Russians got into
a pissing match.
The Saudis wanted to curtail production to stabilize prices
in the face of reduced demand from China in particular from the coronavirus
event. The Russians refused to curtail production.
So the Saudis abruptly cut their crude prices by 6-7%. This
caused the world crude market to plummet. Which was okay with the Russians,
because they want prices to fall to curtail fracking in the U.S.; fracking here
– only economic when oil prices are in the $50+ per barrel – has made the U.S.
energy independent and the world less reliant on Russia’s #1 export for
cash.
Russia’s probably regretting blowing off the Saudis right
now since world crude prices dropped to as low as $30 a barrel almost
immediately. And make no mistake, Russia may want to hurt the U.S. fracking
industry, but Russia desperately needs hard currency and oil is their biggest
export. The Russian economy is taking a huge hit when world prices go this
low.
The possibility this might also hurt our own oil companies,
and throw some heavily leveraged fracking companies into bankruptcy, sent our
stock market down more than 2000 points.
Now Pelosi and Schumer are blaming Trump for this slide as
well. Pelosi went on TV midday to say the dramatic market slide was because
nobody had confidence in the Trump administration to handle the coronavirus
outbreak. She said nothing about the
collapse of oil prices as a cause.
That’s despite leading market analysts blaming the most
recent and deepest drop on the cratering oil market on top of jitters over the worldwide
economic slowdown from the coronavirus outbreak. In effect, it’s a perfect
storm of two unfortunate events hitting at the same time.
Trump has nothing to do with either one.
The first started in China; the second in Saudi Arabia and
Russia.
Blaming Trump for the new shortage of masks, medical
supplies, antibiotics, and critical pharmaceutical ingredients is way off base,
too.
The real reason for these shortages is that almost all of
them are now made in China. That’s right – China. Why? Because it’s cheaper and more profitable
to make them there. So we don’t make
them here anymore. That’s made us far
more dependent on China for our own health and safety than we should have ever
allowed to happen.
If anything, Trump has been warning of our dependence on China, and the need to bring back
critical manufacturing industries back to the U.S., for years. The same Democrats now
accusing him of letting the U.S. run short of critical medical supplies
routinely attacked him whenever he spoke of the national security need to bring
manufacturing back to the U.S.
It's impossible to believe anything Nancy and Chuck say –
they are willing to destroy this country if it destroys Trump. That’s why they are blaming Trump for everything
and doing everything in their power to prevent him from succeeding.
If that means encouraging stock market drops that eviscerate
people’s 401(k)s and other retirement savings, so be it. If that means fostering unwarranted fear that
the coronavirus is about to kill thousands of Americans because we are woefully
unprepared to handle, so be it.
The only thing Nancy said I believe is that she prays every
day for the President. I think she does. But she never said what she’s praying
for.
With the coronavirus panic and the stock market crashing, she
most likely believes her prayers have finally been answered.
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