COMES THE DAWN

This is interesting.  Seems that both British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, no relation (as far as I know except that both our families may have been Scots Borderers at some point back along the line and we're related that way) and CNN reporter Jake Tapper think that it's entirely possible that China may have been...you know...lying about the Chinese Flu.

Imagine that.  Communists lying.

The PM's reaction over at the Home Office combined with the considerable anger already evident over here suggest that once this does all blow over, China will have a considerably more difficult time getting back in the world's good graces than it thinks it will have.  As for Jake, I wonder if his contract with TDS-TV is coming up and he'd like to begin to put distance between himself and Jeff Zucker's Funtime Playhouse so that he can become a real journalist again.

Send @SharylAttkisson a DM, Jake.  She might be able to hook you up.

UPDATE: DOWN GOES BLOOMBERG!!  DOWN GOES BLOOMBERG!!

HERE'S AN IDEA, BERNIE

Maybe we first get the "Palestinians" to stop indiscriminately lobbing rockets into Israel.

GOT THAT RIGHT

Sure would be great if America actually had some, Chris.

TREACHER 2024

Read this.

You might think you have problems right now. Perhaps you imagine the coronavirus is having an adverse effect on your life. Maybe you've lost your job, or you're worried it will happen soon. Maybe you're sick, or your loved ones are sick. Maybe you've been cooped up in the house for weeks, terrified that you might be infected and dreading the idea of spreading this disease. Maybe you're confused about what happens next, and you've given up on finding any answers. Maybe this whole crisis has left you sleepless and scattered and filled with despair.

 

Well, stop whining. You lack perspective.

Now read the rest of it.

UPDATE: Read this too.  Only take you a second.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

They're something you can use to buy your soup.

SCHADENFREUDE

Maybe it's just me but I can't read this tweet without thinking that Gam-Gam currently feels something very much like...delight.  Even hard-left Democrats like California governor Gavin Newsom or New York governor Andrew Cuomo can find good words to say about the effort Donald Trump is putting in to stopping the Chinese Flu and I'd like to think that if the Trump Administration found a way through this morass, two of the most delighted people in the world would be Governors Cuomo and Newsom.

Hillary, on the other hand, does nothing but snark.  Anything Trump or anyone in his administration says or doesn't say is wrong whereas the Chinese are always right and always believed.  I get the distinct impression that a couple hundred thousand dead Americans wouldn't bother the old fraud that much.  Not only did the United States refuse to automatically grant her the presidency that was obviously and rightfully hers but it actually made her...shudder...campaign for the position among the...shudder...deplorables who not only wouldn't vote for her (still don't feel like walking back that remark, H?) but made her lose to...shudder...Donald Trump.

Serves 'em right.

Kind of why I supported Trump last time even though I passionately hated the idea (I was a Cruz man until Trump's nomination back in '16).  Not only were her policies leftist cartoons but Hillary Clinton was and remains one of the most vile and repulsive political figures either party has ever put forward for office in this country's history.  She has no accomplishments of her own, the only thing that got her the Senate seat from New York was who she was married to and books describing her "thought" are completely worthless, useful only to start a fire in your fireplace.

As previously mentioned, not all Democrats hate Donald Trump with the psychotic hatred Hillary can effortlessly work up.  A hatred that revolts against any sort of approval of Donald Trump, can make dead Americans serve its evil purpose and will quite happily back an obviously and relentlessly lying government in preference to her own.

"Traitor" is a smidge too harsh of a term.  But "useful idiot" fits.

UPDATE: Gam-Gam's not the only Democratic leftist positively giddy about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans just to own Trump. #MeetBeijingJenny

NEVER MIND

Know who else is lying about the Chinese Flu?

BACK TO YOU, EDWARD R.

Parody "news network" CNN gets a little "serious journalism" in.

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

And Democratic Party Money-Laundering.

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

Joe's looking at one of these.

"You're nothing to me." A former Joe Biden aide says those words are still ringing in her ears after he allegedly sexually assaulted her in 1993, the Huffington Post reports. The accuser, Tara Reade, went on a podcast this week and said Biden kissed her, thrust his fingers inside her, and got upset when she pushed him off: "Come on, man!" he supposedly said. "I heard you liked me." Reade claims he then jabbed a finger at her and said she was nothing: "And he was right. That's how people treated me ... I have no platform, I am no one and to him I'm nothing." Reade was among eight women who accused Biden in April of inappropriate touching, but says she kept quiet about the rest after enduring a wave of online harassment.

Anything to it?  Since I refuse to play Kavanaugh Rules, it's too early to tell either way.  But I would love for Kammi, Mazie, all the rest of the Democratic Congress, American "professional journalism," too many Twitter idiots to count and the rest of the Democratic Kavanaugh lynch mob to explain to me why this young woman shouldn't be believed.  #MeToo?  #BelieveAllWomen? Care to weigh in here?

How will the media handle it, assuming they do?  If past performance is indicative of future results, America's "professional journalists" will tweet that they're investigating the story, sit on it for a month and then declare that there's nothing there which one prominent Democrat used to think would be a horrible idea that would send a horrible message.

Former vice president Joe Biden, who was scrutinized for his handling of sexual harassment allegations made in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Senate confirmation hearings, said Monday night that any woman’s public claims of assault should be presumed to be true.

 

Asked for his thoughts on the allegations of sexual assault made Sunday against federal judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Biden said the episode “brings back all of the complicated issues that were there” nearly three decades ago.

 

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden presided over the confirmation hearings for Thomas during which Anita Hill alleged the nominee had sexually harassed her while he was her boss. Biden allowed personal questioning of Hill from the all-male Senate panel, and though he voted not to confirm Thomas and later apologized for his handling of the hearings.

 

Biden, who is considered a possible 2020 presidential candidate, was asked by reporters Monday night whether he believed Hill’s claims.

 

“Oh, I thought she was telling the truth at the beginning,” Biden said. “I really did.”

 

Speaking generally, Biden added, “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time. But nobody fails to understand that this is like jumping into a cauldron.”

 

End of the day, will this affect the November election?  Probably not.  A party that couldn't be bothered by Bill Clinton's rapes isn't going to lose any sleep over this. Although I can think of one scenario where the Democrats might want to keep this story alive.  If they decide that Biden's going to get massacred in the fall, this would be a handy excuse to dump him and nominate the Communist, Cigar Store or Andrew Cuomo.

UPDATE: Two years ago, Alyssa Milano tweeted herself into a rhetorical corner.