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Liberal Media Parrots China’s State-Run Communist Propaganda

Via Townhall.com

It’s very important to the state-run propaganda arm of the Chinese authoritarian regime to accuse President Trump of racism and xenophobia for properly and logically pointing out that the COVID-19 coronavirus began and rapidly spread in the Wuhan Province of mainland China.

So, naturally, liberals in the media and their Democrat partners in politics are doing their best to fulfill the Chinese totalitarians’ needs.

As Andrew McCarthy points out at The Hill, not only is the designation of this coronavirus strain as the “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese virus” rational and factual, it also has an important legal component to back-up the president’s executive actions:

Consequently, the origination of the virus in China and its transcontinental spread across the globe are highly relevant. They rationalize the president’s authority to address the emergency with Washington’s awesome resources. As President Trump put it in his letter this weekend:

“Only the Federal Government can provide the necessary coordination to address a pandemic of this national size and scope caused by a pathogen introduced into our country. It is the preeminent responsibility of the Federal Government to take action to stem a nationwide pandemic that has its origins abroad, which implicates its authority to regulate matters related to interstate matters and foreign commerce and to conduct the foreign relations of the United States.”

Moreover, the president’s letter elaborates, Congress has explicitly authorized the chief executive, in an emergency, “to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.”

In other words, the president can’t engage some of the broad policies he has enacted without the statutory requirements laid out by Congress that there must be a specific international threat facing the nation. If President Trump is to use his awesome power, he must do so within the context of an international threat, and the only legal way to do that is to identify that threat as originating in China. But, if he does that, he is called a racist. And, if he does not engage the power of his office to stop this threat, he is accused of doing nothing.

See how it works?

The fact is, China’s authoritarian communist government is facing an existential threat. If at the end of this global crisis (and yes, it will end) the major countries of the Western world collectively recognize the danger of relying on mainland China for the manufacturing and fabrication of almost everything that drives our economies, the entire Marxist Ponzi scheme constructed by the Maoists in Beijing comes tumbling down.

So, China is doing what China does. It is using misinformation, propaganda and intimidation to try to change peoples’ words and even their thoughts. Don’t blame them for it… they’re communists. This is what they do. This is what they’ve always done.

Read the entire article HERE.

 

The Left Exploits a Pandemic

Via Front Page Magazine

Americans are trying to cope as best they can with the devastating coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on their everyday lives. Some have turned to prayer. Last week, President Trump declared Sunday March 15th a “National Day of Prayer for All Americans Affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic and for our National Response Efforts.” What was Islamist Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s response? She retweeted anti-gun activist David Hogg’s disgusting rant, which said in part: “F**k a National day of prayer.” Then she tried to walk back what she had done with this lame explanation: “My retweet was not to be an attack on prayer. It was to bring attention to the need for meaningful action to combat this public health crisis.” Evidently, in Tlaib’s warped mind, cursing a National Day of Prayer for Americans of all faiths is an effective way of bringing attention to a crisis that all Americans and their elected leaders are facing with all hands on deck.

For leftists, the coronavirus crisis provides them with the perfect opportunity to infect America with their own viruses of radicalization and hate. Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, a self-professed democratic socialist, went so far as to tweet her “solidarity” with another leftist Trump-hater’s twisted post, which said, “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.”

Leftists brand President Trump, and any others who point out the simple fact that the coronavirus COVID-19 originated in Wuhan China, as “racists” and “xenophobes.” According to Democrat Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, people not patronizing Asian restaurants (when restaurants were still open for business) stayed away “because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus.”

Seeking to perpetuate their identity politics to divide Americans even at a time when we should all be uniting against a common enemy, the leftists are mouthing the Chinese government’s talking points. As Rich Lowry wrote in National Review, China “deserves to be connected to the virus it did more than its share to loose on the world, no matter what its foreign ministry or the sensitivity police say.”

Read the entire article HERE.

‘Unprecedented times’: Pennsylvania and Alabama close liquor stores in response to coronavirus

Via The Washington Examiner

Residents of at least two states scrambling to stock up on booze are in for a rude awakening Wednesday morning as the coronavirus shutters nonessential business across the country.

All of the liquor stores in Pennsylvania and Alabama are state-owned, and as people are hunkering down amid the pandemic, their options for hard liquor are quickly drying up.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board board announced this week that all Fine Wine and Good Spirits stores in the state are closed indefinitely, effective last night, in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The online portal to purchase liquor was shuttered on Monday night at 5 p.m. EDT.

“This was a tremendously difficult decision to make, and we understand the disruption our store closures will have on consumers and licensees across the commonwealth,” wrote Pennsylvania Board Chairman Tim Holden in a press release. “But in these uncertain and unprecedented times, the public health crisis and mitigation effort must take priority over the sale of wine and spirits, as the health and safety of our employees and communities is paramount.”

Videos circulating on social media showed massive lines of people attempting to stock up on their favorite brands before the closures on Tuesday.

Read the entire article HERE.

Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Used For Coronavirus Patients

Via CBS Baltimore

Baltimore Mayor Jack Young urged residents to put down their guns and heed orders to stay home after multiple people were shot Tuesday night amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Young said hospital beds are needed to treat positive COVID-19 patients and not for senseless violence. Seven people were shot Tuesday night in the Madison Park neighborhood, as Baltimore reported its fifth positive coronavirus case Wednesday.

“I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is that we have seen recently,” Young said. “We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime.”

“For those of you who want to continue to shoot and kill people of this city, we’re not going to tolerate it,” Young implored. “We’re going to come after you and we’re going to get you.”

He urged people to put down their guns because “we cannot clog up our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we’re going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus. And it could be your mother, your grandmother or one of your relatives. So take that into consideration.”

Commissioner Michael Harrison said the city has seen an uptick in violent crimes since Friday, including a mass shooting Tuesday night — where seven people were shot. Five people were transported to area hospitals via medics and two took private cars to the hospitals for treatment. All seven are in serious but stable condition.

Read the entire article HERE.

Merkel calls coronavirus ‘biggest challenge since WWII

Via Yahoo News

Germany is facing its biggest challenge “since the Second World War” in the fight against the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, in what observers called a “final warning” for citizens to heed sweeping confinement measures.

In a dramatic television appeal, Merkel said everyone played a part in slowing down a pandemic that has raced across the globe and triggered unprecedented peace-time lockdowns.

“The situation is serious. Take it seriously. Not since German reunification, no, not since the Second World War has our country faced a challenge that depends so much on our collective solidarity,” she said.

Although her 15 years in office have been marked by blows like the financial crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis and Brexit, the veteran leader has never taken to the airwaves to address citizens directly outside of traditional New Year’s greetings.

“I truly believe we can succeed in this task, if all citizens truly understand their own tasks,” Merkel said.

Read the entire article HERE.

Communist Party Of China Can’t Believe They’re Getting Such Great Coverage From The American Media For Free

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

BEIJING—According to sources with the Communist Party of China, party members are deeply humbled and incredibly grateful to the American media for running defense for them without even charging for it.

In a speech Wednesday, President Xi Jinpig expressed his bewilderment that the American media will simply repeat his talking points and won’t even charge him a dime.

“You mean we don’t even have to pay for this kind of positive press coverage? Amazing!” said President Xi Jinpig. “Here in China, we threaten the journalists’ families, break their kneecaps, throw them into prison, or just pay them off for great coverage like this. America is truly a great place and a real friend to us commies.”

What kind of favors has the American press done for China? First off, they repeated China’s talking point that they didn’t have anything to do with the virus and that it was probably Trump’s fault. Then, China politely requested that everyone stop calling the virus that definitely came from China the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus,” and the American media ran with it. President Xi suggested that journalists refer to the virus as the “Most Likely American Virus” or the “Precious Gift From Our Dear Friends In China” or even the “Trumpsfault Virus,” and sure enough, several American press outlets were all over it.

“When I say pounce on Trump, they say, ‘How high?’ It’s fantastic,” President Xi added, laughing. “I even offered to pay them, but they all said they’re doing it for the love of spreading propaganda and refused any compensation.”

Check out all of the Bee’s great takes on politics and culture HERE.

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