Coronavirus/SocialSecurity ... Cause And Infect

Titus 1:2  "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began."  

But the best laid plans of futile man 

Divert to convert hope into sand

So trust in God and put your plans 

Not in things but in His great hands 

So when you wake up old, there He stands.

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Coronavirus Could 'Infect' 

Your 2021 Social Security

It appears that the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, could claim a surprising victim: the 2021 cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, from Social Security.

According to official statistics, more than 64 million Americans receive more than $1 trillion in Social Security benefits. It also represents about 33% of total income for the elderly.

So when the "cost-of-living adjustment" comes out each year, a large number of Americans are paying attention. For 2020, that adjustment resulted in an increase of 1.6%. Not a huge increase – and not quite enough to keep pace with the official rate of inflation – but certainly better than nothing.

A number of factors go into figuring out the COLA each year, but the main one is a measure of inflation known as the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).

According to The Motley Fool, "The CPI-W is designed to measure how the price of an identical basket of goods and services changes over time."

The problem is, the method Social Security uses to calculate COLA doesn't keep pace with the CPI-W very well. The same piece from The Motley Fool explains:

According to an analysis from The Senior Citizens League, seniors have seen the purchasing power of their Social Security benefits decline by 34% since the year 2000.

Efforts by the Social Security Administration should maintain or improve buying power, not hurt it. Can you imagine losing more than a third of your buying power?

One possible reason for this decline in purchasing power, says The Motley Fool article, is that "Social Security is basing 'raises' to be given predominantly to seniors on the spending habits of working-age urban and clerical workers, who rarely are receiving Social Security benefits."

Another possible reason could be the rate of price inflation itself. Official sources like the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) report it at 2.5%. But the "real" inflation rate reported with older methods could be anywhere from 6% to 10%, according to ShadowStats.

Inflation eats into Social Security raises every year. That's bad enough. But the coronavirus could also help create the illusion of a higher COLA in 2021.

Energy and Food Inflation Already Affected by COVID-19

It appears that food and energy prices are already on the move, thanks in part to the coronavirus that has spread rapidly since late January.

For example, global crude oil prices are feeling the sting of COVID-19, with West Texas Intermediate crude down 15% year to date. The Motley Fool says that this will "have a negative impact on the energy component within the CPI-W, which made up 8.072% of the CPI-W's total weighting, as of December 2019."

Conversely, the prices of food and household goods are moving in the opposite direction:

We've witnessed a sharp increase in food and household good inflation in China as COVID-19 has spread. China recently reported that its Consumer Price Index in January rose 5.4% from the prior year period, marking the fastest rate of inflation for the country in eight years.

Given the uncertainty caused by coronavirus, it's hard to say what inflation will look like for the year. If the drop in oil offsets the rise in food and household products, then the COLA might be minimal.

Then again, food or energy scarcity caused by shutdowns could cause a rapid spike in prices. In such a case, the COLA for 2021 might go up more than normal.

But don't be fooled by the illusion of a COLA that's better than normal. After all, it hasn't kept pace with official inflation, let alone "real" inflation, so don't expect it to account for a major global issue like COVID-19 and its long-term impact on the economy.

Boost Your Retirement's Defenses Against a Potential Pandemic

The situation surrounding next year's Social Security COLA will continue to develop over the coming year. It appears that media and market attention surrounding COVID-19 won't die down any time soon.

But you don't have to let your retirement suffer the economic consequences caused by the coronavirus. You have options, and the best time to prepare is now.

Having a diversified retirement plan with assets known for their protection during uncertain times is a strategic way to diversify your nest egg.

Precious metals like gold and silver could prevent your retirement savings from being "infected" by the developing media circus surrounding this virus.

Globalists Using Coronavirus As Impetus For Globalization

Bible Prophecy is inscribed in eternal stone.
There will be a One World Government and
a world, digital, money, exchange system. 

Rahm Israel Emanuel was once a member of Congress, then Obama's Chief Of Staff, then Mayor of Chicago. If anyone fits the globalist modus operandi, it is him. His most revealing comment was, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that ... it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." 

The first sentence of the secular article below could well read, "Once you understand Bible Prophecy, almost everything the globalist mindset does becomes rather robotic and predictable." RB

Originally published in The Activist Post

Globalists Look To Exploit Coronavirus In Push For Global Government

Once you understand the globalist mindset, almost everything they do becomes rather robotic and predictable.  It should not be surprising that the World Health Organization (WHO), a branch of the United Nations, has been so aggressive in cheerleading for the Chinese government and its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

After all, China's communist surveillance state model is a beta test for the type of centralization that the UN wants for the entire planet. They certainly aren't going to point out that it was China's totalitarian system that allowed the outbreak to spread from the very beginning.

Even now Xi Jinping is trying to rewrite history, claiming that he had been swift in responding to the crisis more than a month before he actually did.  The lie that the coronavirus mutated naturally in a food and animal market in Wuhan continues to be peddled by the mainstream media even though no evidence supporting this claim exists.  

And China is still releasing rigged death and infection numbers while they have over 600 million people under martial law lockdown and their crematoriums continue pumping out the fumes of the dead 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Brave health workers like Li Wenliang, who was punished by the government for warning about the virus in December, have died in the process of trying to fight against the centralized behemoth just to get vital information to the world, but that never happened, right? 

It was actually president Xi and the CPC that saved the day. The WHO and the CPC say so. You'll never hear the UN praise the efforts of Li Wenliang; they want his name to disappear down the memory hole as much as the Chinese government does.

The developing narrative is a familiar one - Local officials "stifled" the response to the outbreak while the centralized national leadership put things back on track with extreme control measures that have turned the Hubei province into a veritable internment camp. 

Whatever you do, don't point out that it was the national government's habit of imprisoning health officials that release "false information" that led to the delayed reaction on the coronavirus. 

Also, don't point out that ground zero for the outbreak is just down the road from the largest Level 4 Biohazard Lab in Asia, because that would make you a "conspiracy theorist".

The message being pounded into the public consciousness is clear: "Shut up and accept that Centralization works". Even when it fails miserably, it is still the answer to all our problems. All we have to do is "adjust" the historical record a little bit every time the system breaks and then institute even MORE centralization in response.

In other words, if the interdependent and draconian top-down structure of the globalist state leads to crisis, then it is because it was not centralized ENOUGH. Centralization always begets more centralization.

The financial fascist system of central banking and corporate oligarchy leads to the socialist welfare state, and the socialist welfare state leads to the surveillance state, the surveillance state leads to the martial law state, and the martial law state leads to full-on global governance; an endless elitist empire.

The failings of centralization have caused numerous problems long before it led to a potential pandemic. The pandemic simply clarifies the issue. For example, the breakdown in the global supply chain is becoming a bigger threat by the day.  The Baltic Dry Index a measure of shipping rates as well as global demand for goods, has essentially collapsed.  

This should have been the first warning sign that the supply chain was in trouble, but the mainstream doesn't pay attention to the fundamentals, only stock markets.  Enter Apple, one of the largest companies in the world, which has now abandoned its projections for 2020 and finally admitted that the shutdown of Chinese factories may just be a problem. 

Some mentally challenged people out there are scoffing sarcastically at this issue, saying "Oh no, whatever will we do without iPhones...?".  They don't grasp the wider implications.  If Apple's production is going down because of the supply chain disruption then this is a signal that multiple companies and most of the economy are also going down because of supply chain disruptions. It's not about iPhones, it's about the bigger picture.

Globalism has led to interdependent economies and nation states that no longer have redundancies in production. We have been forced to rely on production centers on the other side of the world for a vast majority of our goods.

When China shuts down, the US economy loses almost 20% of its supply chain. When Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam shut down from the virus, you can add another 10% to 15% on top of that. Retailers in the US represent around 70% of GDP. Cut off the supply chain in Asia and retailers lose a vast array of goods to sell. The US economy eventually shuts down also, even if the virus never spreads here.

Some people will argue that we don't need all the "cheap plastic crap" from Asia anyway, and this situation is a "good thing". Sorry to break it to you, but America's economy is built on the selling of cheap plastic crap (along with the selling of the fiat dollar as the world reserve currency). 

Walmart (Chinamart if you discount agricultural products) is the largest employer in the US and the world, after all. Right or wrong, our economic system is so globalized that the fall of the Chinese dominoes will eventually knock down our own dominoes.

But when this disaster occurs and numerous national economies suffer from enforced globalist integration, guess what will happen next? The globalists will ride to our "rescue" with even greater centralization. This was their agenda all along.

Many people in the liberty movement are now aware of the Event 201 simulation, a war game run by globalists in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum on a "theoretical" coronavirus pandemic that kills 65 million people. 

This simulation took place only a couple of months before the real thing exploded in China in December. But hey, maybe that's all just amazing coincidence. 

What concerns me even more is the solution that was presented at the end of Event 201 - the creation of a centralized global financial body that would manage the international response to the outbreak.

Isn't it amazing how every major catastrophe caused by globalism seems to lead to more globalism? One might start to wonder if some of these events were triggered by incompetence, or if they were deliberately engineered. 

At the very least, crisis events have been allowed to fester unchecked by organizations like the WHO as they continue to write off the coronavirus as a non-issue that is "well under control" by a Chinese government that caused it to spread in the first place.

So here is what is going to happen next:

Best case scenario is that the Western world is mostly unscathed by the virus itself but the economic supply chain suffers major setbacks. The global economy, which was already crashing over the past year due to historic levels of corporate and consumer debt, not to mention faltering exports and freight, is finally tipped over the edge. 

The massive Everything Bubble, fueled by a decade of inflationary central bank stimulus, implodes. Governments respond with totalitarian measures in the name of "protecting the public".

Globalist institutions like the IMF step in and suggest that frail national monetary systems come under the management of their Special Drawing Rights basket in order to mitigate the debt crisis. Essentially, this is the first step to global governance.

Worst case scenario, the virus spreads throughout the US and Europe and governments respond the same way China's government has; martial law and full-blown concentration camp culture. This would lead to civil war in the US because we are armed and many people will shoot anyone trying to put us into quarantine camps. Europe is mostly screwed.

The establishment then suggests that paper money be removed from the system because it is a viral spreader. China is already pushing this solution now. Magically, we find ourselves in a cashless society in a matter of a year or two; which is what the globalists have been demanding for years. Everything goes digital, and thus even local economies become completely centralized as private trade dies.          (RB - See my blog of 2/17/20 entitled "The Real Reason Money Is Called Filthy Lucre" RB)

Again, this might be an engineered event, or it might simply be that the globalists are exploiting a natural outbreak. Either way, they are not going to let a good crisis go to waste.  (Quote from Rahm Emanuel).  Whether or not they succeed is dependent on several factors, but mostly, its dependent on us. 

How many people will buy into the notion that centralization is the answer to our problems? How many people will realize that centralization is the CAUSE of our problems? And how many people will fight to prevent ultimate centralization under a psychopathic globalist cult?

A viral outbreak is a significant danger to us all, but an even greater threat is the supposed cure. Trading our economic and social freedom in the name of stopping the coronavirus?  No matter how deadly the bug, it's just not worth it.
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I agree with this article, in general, and though I will stand against and fight globalization, it is going to happen and will begin with the more sanitary, and efficient, means of financial exchange, digital.  80% of the Chinese already use digital to buy or sell and only 20% use paper currency. A global, digital, common currency solves a lot of problems but will put everyone's money in the control of Antichrist.

".... No man might buy or sell, except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev.13:17.

Were Our Founders Right? Are All Men Created Equal?

Is the Declaration Of Independence Accurate?

Our U.S. founding fathers were not gods but men like us, in human form, thoughts and actions. They, like us, were born into this world with gifts, talents, callings and purposes. They were subject to greatness and ignominy, genius and ignorance, success and failure .... God knew which and what of each. One of, if not their greatest accomplishment, was the Declaration Of Independence. In it they asserted, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." 

In that one sentence, these men, placed there by God, confessed the absolute reality of certain truths which are "self-evident" to the honest mind. Their declaration continued to opine that "all men are created equal" which words had been analyzed and chosen after months of consideration and prayer and, indeed, included "all men", meaning all humanity. Today, with Left-wing identity politics squabbling over trivia, many so called "progressives" would riot and burn cars and buildings if Congress were writing the words "all men are created equal" and not include "women". But the Founders were simply using the syntax of the New Testament. Under the Old Testament order, the term "all men" always meant men only, except in a couple of cases. But the New Testament raises the status of women, and all 61 N.T. uses of the term "all men" includes women and all humanity.  It is also significant that the Founders continued to acknowledge God, as "Creator" of all humanity, and His "endowment" upon them all, "with certain unalienable rights", including, among others, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Not happiness itself but the pursuit of it.

Though we are all created equal, it is my opinion that we do not remain "equal" in anything except in the love of God ("for God so loved the world").  God created us equal, but what we think and do, and yield to God, and make of ourselves, by our own choices, and actions, is another matter.  Those things can cost us our Liberty, even our Life, and certainly our Happiness. Prisons, jails, mental institutions and hospitals are full of people who are still loved of God, but who have lost their Liberty, Happiness, and some will lose their Lives there.  They may still have some "other" rights. alluded to above as "among others", and may still "pursue Happiness", and may even catch it, but have still lost their "Liberty" or, if in the cemetery, .... their "Life".  And when our life is lost, that is the Border Fence no illegal alien can climb or dig under. That border fence separates temporal human life, and liberty to choose good or bad, from our eternal destiny in Happiness or Horror, Heaven or Hell.  We are, indeed, created equal, but the death of the our flesh ends equal rights in the Declaration Of Independence or the Constitutional Bill of Rights.  For then, men's rules mean nothing. Only God rules. Truth reigns. Faith lives on. Biblical promises are all kept. Believers live on. God is, and we are ... forever alive, free and happy.

The Real Reason Money Is Called "Filthy Lucre" ?

Nothing is passed as often from dirty hand to hand

The Apostle Paul listed the qualifications for leaders of Christ's churches in 1 Timothy3:3 & 8. One of those was that they should not be "greedy of filthy lucre".  The emphasis here is on the word "greedy" which becomes even more egregious when it applies to something that becomes nasty dirty and carries diseases as it is passed, hundreds of times, from germ ridden hand to hand. RB

Chinese Banks Quarantining Cash, Destroying 'Dirty' Money

Authored by Mitchell Blatt via NationalInterest.org, 

China’s widespread quarantine policy thanks to the coronavirus had been expanded from the city of Wuhan to a dozen other cities in Hubei province, to community quarantines for people returning from holiday, and now even inanimate objects must be quarantined. Paper currency, that is. 



People’s Bank of China representatives said at a press conference on February 15 that currency deposited at banks must be disinfected with ultraviolet light and then held for a week or longer before being released back into the wilds of the economy. The Chinese central bank will provide new bills worth 600 billion yuan to banks. (Some of the currency will be destroyed.) 

Those who work closely with cash are keenly aware of how filthy money is. 

“When I’m at work, I realize cash is the dirtiest thing in the world,” Wang Zeyaun, a bank teller in Hangzhou, says. 

It’s true. A 2002 study of American $1 bills found bacteria on over 90 percent, and a Swiss study found that the flu virus can survive from between a few days and two weeks on francs. (Metal coins are not as dirty as fabric bills.) Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, hopes that paper currency will disappear. 

In China, it is already on its way to extinction. According to eMarketer, a NYC-based online commerce research firm, China leads the world by far in mobile payment with 81 percent adoption by its smartphone users in 2020. Measured as a proportion of total population, China also leads the world, with 35 percent in 2019, according to Statista Digital Market Outlook. 

Those who do not use smart phones, or, if they do, are less likely to use advanced features, are disproportionately the elderly. The elderly are also more likely to have compromised immune systems and less likely to survive serious illness. So many news articles in Chinese media point to their use of cash as an important reason to clean currency. During the Spring Festival period, the elders also customarily give cash in red packets to young children, who also are at greater risk from sickness.
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My Comment:
It is a most interesting fact that paper/cloth currency contains several perfect capabilities to carry and transfer germs and viruses from one person to another. But silver coins have a natural, built-in antibiotic power put there by its Creator, which kills bacteria. The pioneers, traveling at walking speed across the west, hid their silver coins in their water barrels and found that the water slowly removed the coin's tarnish which purified their often impure water. RB

This from Wikipedia:

The medical uses of silver include its use in wound dressings, creams, and as an antibiotic coating on medical devices.^[1][2][3] Wound dressings containing silver sulfadiazine or silver nanomaterials may be used on external infections.^[4][5][6] The limited evidence available shows that silver coatings on endotracheal breathing tubes may reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.^[7] There is tentative evidence that using silver-alloy indwelling catheters for short-term catheterizing will reduce the risk of catheter acquired urinary tract infections.^[8][9][10]

Silver generally has low toxicity, and minimal risk is expected when silver is used in approved medical applications.

Silver, used as a topical antiseptic, is incorporated by bacteria it kills. Thus dead bacteria may be the source of silver which may kill additional bacteria.^[19

There Are Only Two Paths To Follow, Truth To Mercy, Error To Death

 Many equally false ways ... Just one true way ...

There are only two ways to go, the way of error and death, or the way of mercy and truth, the wrong way and the right way.  It is the Lord's business to lead all, who will follow Him, in the right way, the way of truth which is therefore the way of mercy. That narrow way is also called "the way of life".  Jesus said,     "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt.7:14.     And so it was with Abraham's Steward, when Abraham was dying, he commissioned his steward to follow the Lord in that narrow way of truth, mercy and life, that he might find God's choice of a wife for his son Isaac.  Important business requires God's leadership into the one true way, the right way, the way of truth, which leads to God's will, mercy and life.

"And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren." Gen.24:27.     

Absent God's truth and mercy is to be "destitute" on the way of error and death.

Please first read the story to understand my further comments:

1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: (The custom for contracts).

3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

12 And he said O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?

24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.

25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.

27 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren. Gen.24:27.

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Truth is indispensable in knowing the will of God and in doing it with success, and peace of mind. Truth is vital in our children that they too know God's will, obey it and live their lives to the fullest assisted by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We must, therefore obey God's will in teaching them the truths of God, where the mercies of God abide.

1. Teach Truth as a Templet guide built early into a child's life.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deut.6:5-7.

2. Teach Truth to be Recognized by the child amidst a world full of error. 

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim.2:15. 

3. Set and example of Unction for Truth, seek it, love it, share it.

I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 3 John 1:3.   

4. Be ready to Transmit your faith and truth to every person.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 3:15

5. All Scripture Harmonizes and confliction is misinterpretation.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."  2 Peter 1:20.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.  2 Tim. 3:16

Templet, Recognize, Unction, Transmit, Harmony

Truth is the way to mercy and life

Then Jesus came and revealed the summit of TRUTH.

"I am the way the truth and the life...." 
John 14:6

The Strange Democrat Parade Of Circus Freaks For President

The Parade is long, and entertaining, but

The best of the bad are way out front, led by Bernie Sanders who was cheated out of the last race by his friend Hillary.  Bernie, an old, angry Communist who hates everything about America and admired Castro and Stalin, was married and spent his honeymoon in Moscow. I've been there.  Its a fun place ... for freaks.  Next in line is the interestingly named, Peter Butti gieg, a young male wife and mayor of a smallish town in Indiana who, if elected, will be the "First Lady" president and his spouse the "First Husband". Peter wants to be President because the citizens of South Bend don't want him any more and are quick to tell it. Things have gone south in South Bend under Peter's queer methods of administration.  Just behind Peter is the infamous Hunter Biden's father, Joe. Hunter's dad is well known among con-artists, DC Swamp creatures, and corrupt politicians around the world. Joe's speciality, though, is Quid Pro Quo. He has three mansions full of Quid Pro Quo trophys and all his family members and relatives have their own, thanks to Joe. Then, stepping on Joe's heels and climbing up on his back, is the hyper, jumpy, but at least a real female, is among the front 5 of the parade, Elizabeth Warren, who is not a real Cherokee, though she swore by God she was, which makes her a thief as well as a liar for all the "minority" benefits she has reaped over many years. Liz takes the blue ribbon for the biggest liar in the Senate, but is out-distanced by several in the Democrat House Of Representatives. I don't have to name them, you know their names, faces and crimes.  Finally, avoiding the parade, and all the debates, Mikie Bloomberg, is somewhere, under his 6.5 $billion fortune.  Though almost invisible, this RepubDemRepubDem, circus dwarf, threw his hat into the main circus ring ... with a $billion in it, to buy the circus, animals, clowns, trapeze act, tent, train and all.  As we all know, a man with a $bazillion$ plus an international news network, can buy the Presidency of any nation on earth and do his little "god's work" .... Socialism.   Try to vizualize a U.S. Napoleon, Multi-Billionaire, dictating how large a coke you can drink, ruling all the equally poor population, from the Oval Office ... raising taxes, inventing regulations, appointing Left-wing judges and bureaucrats, citizenizing millions of alien voters, and finishing the wall to keep tax payers in.

So, there you have it, The Democrat Parade Of Circus Freaks For President. There they are, among the monkeys, hyenas, and donkeys ... but no elephants,  some of the most interesting care actors you will ever see. But they scare the dickens out of sane people.  Even Bill Clinton's lead strategist, James Carville, the Ragin Cajun, declared last week that these Democrat candidates scare the devil out of him and said, "We (Democrats) are losing our ____ minds. 

This from Market Watch

James Carville Is Scared To Death Of The Democrat Hopefuls

James Carville’s famed Clinton-era catch phrase “It’s the economy, stupid,” was meant to serve as a constant reminder to the 1992 presidential campaign he managed to center its appeal to voters on the premise that widespread economic dissatisfaction would be remedied under the leadership of Bill Clinton.

Twenty-eight years later, with Carville again issuing impassioned appeals to Democratic hopefuls and their teams — notably, this week, in fiery interviews with MSNBC and Vox, capped at week’s end by an op-ed in the Financial Times — the word stupid is back on the tip of his tongue.

That’s because Democrats, he suggested, are on the verge of squandering — through poorly run campaigns or an ill-chosen candidate but, even more so, through the issues they opt to discuss and not discuss — a strong chance to knock off an incumbent who is historically unpopular outside his own party. “I am scared to death,” Carville confessed on MSNBC, decked out in the regalia of two institutions of which he is an alumnus, LSU and the Marine Corps.

Here’s why he imbues the prospective goof-ups with so such significance, even though he himself has no role with any of the 11 currently active Democratic presidential campaigns (though he has endorsed Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado):

‘We have one moral imperative, and that’s to beat Donald Trump.’

“We’re losing our damned minds,” he went on to aver in his conversation with Vox, recalling that the Democrats just over a year ago prevailed, with notably high turnout producing wide winning margins, in the 2018 midterms by talking “about everything we needed to talk about, and we won,” as in the “It’s the economy, stupid,” days.

“We didn’t get distracted, and we didn’t get deflected.”

Of concern to Carville is not only the fate of the Oval Office but that a highly progressive Democratic presidential nominee — say Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent — would, even if successful in winning the White House, foreclose, to Carville’s mind, any hope of taking the Senate and breaking legislative stasis under Sen. Mitch McConnell’s control of that chamber. (McConnell has characterized himself as the Grim Reaper vis-à-vis Democratic legislative priorities.)

“[T]here’s no chance in hell we’ll ever win the Senate with Sanders at the top of the party defining it for the public,” Carville said, citing some of the ambitious if largely aspirational policy proposals put forth by Sanders and the party’s more progressive lawmakers.

His prescription? “We have got to be more relevant.”

Rather than getting into the weeds of student-loan forgiveness or free college or decriminalizing illegal immigration or banning fracking — “running some rat race to the furthest reaches of leftwing zombie land,” he called it in his FT piece — Democrats should be addressing concerns of common interest across their broad coalition: “Most of the people aren’t into all this distracting sh— about open borders and letting prisoners vote. They don’t care. They have lives to lead. They have kids. They have parents that are sick. That’s what we have to talk about. That’s all we should talk about.”

The 2020 presidential field, he continued, has “got to develop some skill.”

Plague Impels President To Declare "National Health Emergency"

Another Crisis opportunity for Dems to find fault with Trump and stir up trouble against Constitutionalists, Conservatives, Christians,  and Congressional Republicans.

Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief Of Staff, who later oversaw the Murder Capital of America, Chicago, for eight years, as Mayor, revealed one of the Dem's most deadly political weapons against Constitutional Patriots.  He said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And  what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."  'We have just witnessed three years of that tactic being used, not really against Trump, but behind the curtain, against America's Constitutional Patriots who elected him.  Now, the Dems have a new  donkey to ride roughshod over U.S. Constitutionalists, for the next five years, the China Corona virus.  Anything our President does will be an opportunity for the Left-Wing Dems and their News Media to criticize and condemn until voters don't know what to believe and will be led astray like sheep to the slaughter. Do not be deceived, the Dems will use this "serious crisis" to their advantage without consideration of the obstacles they create in resolving this sickness and death crisis.

Some nations, mostly near China, have closed their borders. And the time may shortly come when Trump should close ours, if this highly contagious virus spreads in Mexico or Canada. And where do you think Mexicans and "slow medical appointment" Canadians will want to be if that happens?  Not in Mexico or "slow socialism" Canada.

But, like every other decision he has made, the Democrats will damn him if he does or if he doesn't. We shall see, and very soon. RB

The President may declare a state of emergency only when "the life of the nation is threatened by war, invasion, general insurrection, disorder, natural disaster or other public emergency" and if the ordinary laws and government powers are not sufficient to restore peace and order.  (Wikipedia)

In the mean time, the WHO (World Health Organization) recommends everyone to follow these precautions:

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public

WHO’s standard recommendations for the general public to reduce exposure to and transmission of a range of illnesses are as follows, which include hand and respiratory hygiene, and safe food practices:

• Frequently clean hands by using alcohol-based 
• hand rub or soap and water;
• When coughing and sneezing cover mouth and 
• nose with flexed elbow or tissue – throw tissue 
• away immediately and wash hands;
• Avoid close contact with anyone who has fever 
• and cough;
• If you have fever, cough and difficulty breathing 
• seek medical care early and share previous 
• travel history with your health care provider;
• When visiting live markets in areas currently 
• experiencing cases of novel coronavirus, avoid 
• direct unprotected contact with live animals and 
• surfaces in contact with animals;
• The consumption of raw or undercooked animal 
• products should be avoided. Raw meat, milk or 
• animal organs should be handled with care, to 
• avoid cross-contamination with uncooked foods, 
• as per good food safety practices.