Nobody is really paying attention anymore.
That's driving Democrats and the bureaucrats in DC stark raving mad. The mainstream media can’t help them because
the American public has largely tuned them out, too.
The propaganda is falling on deaf ears.
Much of the reason is that the public is focused on other
things. Like being unemployed. Like being forced by power-mad state officials
to put their normal lives on indefinite hold.
The public is worried about their health, their family’s
health, and whether they’ll ever be able to go back to school or back to work. Or whether their school or workplace will even
exist when or if this ever ends. They’ve
endured this shutdown for months and they’ve listened to the various “experts”
telling them they should expect it to last for a long time to come.
They’ve heard so many different things from the experts they
don’t know what or who to believe. Every
day brings new and often conflicting information. The virus wasn’t a big deal, said health experts
initially. No need to panic, said talking head doctors on the news – it’s no more
dangerous than the seasonal flu. Just
wash your hands a lot and don’t get near sick people.
You’ll be fine. Go and celebrate the Chinese New Year by
going to the parade in San Francisco, said Nancy Pelosi. Go out to dinner and a
play, said the Mayor of NYC; his heath official also suggested everybody go out
to their Chinese New Year parade – nothing to be afraid of.
They said this even as the deaths from the virus started to
mount.
Dr. Tony Fauci agreed, and as one of the most “respected”
experts on contagious diseases in the world, his word was like the voice of God to
the media. We had nothing to fear, we
were safe.
And then we weren’t. They were all – all of the so-called
experts and public officials – completely wrong about everything. Everything. Their advice was useless. More people died.
Rather than admit they’d blown it, they decided to blame
Trump. I know, it doesn’t make any sense
to do that, but that’s what many governors, state and local officials, and the
media did. They denied having any responsibility for what was happening. It had
to be Trump’s fault.
Except it wasn’t. That was crystal clear from the beginning.
The public recognized that.
The public knew the virus came from China. That the Chinese
hid the severity of the outbreak there. That the Chinese destroyed records and
disappeared doctors to cover their tracks. That the Chinese withheld critical
data from the world that could have largely prevented the spread of the virus
worldwide. That the WHO allowed China to
lie to the world and covered for China.
None of that was Trump’s fault. Never was.
But … wasn’t he at fault for not being prepared? For not
acting quicker? Isn’t he at fault for
not listening to the science, and to the experts?
That’s all complete bullshit.
Trump made decisions – such as shutting down air
travel from China – for which he was widely criticized for being a racist, while
everyone else dithered. That was about the only time he didn’t listen to the experts:
they didn’t want him to do that. They thought he was overreacting. In 20/20 hindsight,
which seems to be what everyone claims to have today, it was a great decision. He took a lot of heat for it, nonetheless. But
he never backed away from what he did.
Unlike almost all the other weasels among the media and the
Democrats now constantly questioning his every move. We know what they did. We know exactly what they said and when. We have the video clips showing the
bad advice they. not Trump, gave that cost so many lives unnecessarily. They
actually caused more people to die. He didn’t.
Perhaps the most disingenuous thing Democrats and the media
claim is that Trump ignores the experts.
He ignores the science, they say.
But of course he doesn’t.
There’s ample proof.
For weeks he went on live TV virtually every day and briefed
the public about what the administration and his coronavirus task force was
doing, and what progress was being made against the virus. He gave over the mic
to Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx to explain their plans. He accepted their
recommendations almost entirely without reservation. The media and the Democrats
ignored all this.
Drs. Fauci and Birx
said he listened to them and took their advice.
That wasn’t good enough.
The media and Democrats wanted those doctors to answer whether
they’d been intimidated and strong armed into saying what they did. When they
both denied any pressure from Trump, the media and Democrats tried to pull them
aside individually and trick them into saying they were afraid to go against
Trump – that Trump somehow bullied them into agreeing with him.
Reporters at the briefings
asked Trump – on the rare occasion Dr. Fauci wasn’t present – why Dr. Fauci he
wasn’t there. When Dr. Fauci did show up
in a subsequent briefing, they asked him why he had missed that earlier briefing
– was he having issues with Trump? Was there a problem between Trump and Dr.
Fauci? Was Trump hiding something?
The American public saw all this. Despite the media’s best efforts, and the
constant attacks by Democrats on his response to virus, Trump’s approval
ratings are the highest they've ever been since he took office. Imagine that.
The midst of a pandemic and his approval ratings are up.
Trump does something Democrats and the media can’t: he talks
directly to the public in words they understand, about things that are
important to them. Not climate change, not the plight of illegal immigrants, not
racism or any other isms right now. He’s
focused on overcoming the virus, safely reopening schools and businesses, and
getting people back to work and the economy back roaring again. The rest, as a friend of mine would say, is
mouse nuts.
When the media are clearly harassing him and trying to trip
him up in briefings, the public sees it for what it is. When Nancy Pelosi dismisses Trump as out of
touch with the American workers and their families, the public knows that if
anyone is out of touch it’s her.
When Democrats put forth bills to address the effects of the
coronavirus on the economy, but hide millions in those bills for the Kennedy Center,
PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts, Planned Parenthood, and other liberal favorites, the
public sees what’s really going on.
And when Democrat governors shut down practically everything
they deem nonessential in their states, throwing millions of people out of work, but not public employees, their priorities are obvious. When those same governors ensure that marijuana dispensaries and liquor stores – but not bars or restaurants – remain
open, order police to arrest groups attending church services, but keep Planned
Parenthood open to perform abortions, the public knows what’s up.
The public is not that stupid. There’s an election coming up. The public knows why the Democrats and the
media are so worried right now. Why
every day brings new attacks on Trump. Even
over crap they tried before and couldn’t gain traction with, like the new
attack for possibly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
The public doesn’t care about the freaking Emoluments Clause.
They don’t care about what a horndog Trump may have been, or may still be. Or who or how much he paid to keep quiet about consensual sex. They don’t care that he’s rude. They don’t
care that he makes fun of his adversaries.
That he considers the media mostly jerks and bozos. Or that he hasn’t any fear whatsoever of the media.
They didn’t vote for him because they wanted a nice guy in
office to look up to. They voted him in
because they wanted him to do a job.
Right now, he’s doing that. Nothing else matters. The rest
is all background noise.
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