March 26, 2020

The dismal performance by the political class.

"Dismal performance by the political class" is the author's characterization but it's heartily endorsed by me. Bad as this all is, it is nonetheless gratifying to see the CDC toads and toadettes fall flat on their faces after chasing the will-o'-the-wisps of our indigenous maroon class whose net contribution to the health and security of the nation is exceeded by your average deplorable Zamboni driver. (Thank you for your service, brother!)
President Donald Trump's adversaries blame this [coronavirus] mess on his proposed [imaginary?] cuts in funding at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. But those cuts never happened. Trump must take some of the blame because he was president when the CDC failed us. But it's doubtful more money would have averted this crisis. The CDC was too preoccupied looking into gun control, climate change, and gay and transgender issues.

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How indefensible that in this advanced technological age -- over 50 years after we put a man on the moon and a time when we have cellphones for less than $100 with the computing power of all the computers used during the World War-era -- the central government planners had no contingency plan to deal with a pandemic? So, we have been stuck with a Soviet-style shutdown of the entire American economy with curfews, food rationing and the equivalent of martial law in major cities such as San Francisco.[1]

They were not on the job and, like the entire political class itself, from FDR on, chased after nothings while driving this wonderful country to the brink of disaster, if not beyond. What did all that debt and fiscal diarrhea buy us over the decades except rejectionist, parasitic minorities, 40 million foreigners inside our borders (most of whom hate our guts while laying claim to our wealth), a gutted industrial sector, and a culture that can charitably be called merely lunatic.

Notes
[1] "$5 Trillion Down The Drain." By Stephen Moore, ZeroHedge, 3/25/20.

2 comments:

paul scott said...

A good time to show strength in family values Colonel. My daughter is a Veterinary Surgeon [ as I was ] and at the University of Illinois, Champagne. And a good time to reassess one's own life and direction. For me, it is more likely I would be run over on a Bangkok pedestrian crossing than die looking for a ventilator. I am preaching > to hell with the Police State lockdowns >just take walks with the dog in fresh air. In pathetic New Zealand, they have invented a dob in your neighbour for going outside too often. It's like the hate speech laws they want, I am determined to be the first NZer prosecuted for hate speech. I have it ready. It does "I hate the barbaric violent politic of Isl8m. " It's good getting older Colonel you can do what you want.

Col. B. Bunny said...

Adversity is the jewel in the crown of the toad as Mary Baker Eddy said IIRC. I've long thought that affluence permitted the moron genes in Western man to express too much estrogen and, as night follows day (or is it the other way 'round?), we ended up with a complete flight from common sense. The financial geniuses are determined to jam down on the throttle of yet more lunacy so the casino will stay open for a short while longer. After the flash bulb flashes, however, it will be back to simpler ways.

The feminists, morons and traitors who run things just now have no concept of legitimacy. As the Chinese emperors found out, if you screw up enough the peasants withdraw their acquiescence. When a lot of people stop cooperating and clogging the machinery the machinery of repression and stupidity grinds to a halt very quickly.