OK, maybe that’s not fair. It took a bit of looking, but I was able to find a few articles where the MSM showed genuine sympathy for Americans whose lives have been upended by the The Kung Flu Virus and the Boogy-Wuhan Flu. First, we go to NBC:
If the government-mandated shutdown continues through this week – and there is no end in sight – Friday will mark the second paycheck missed by affected workers, whose household budgets have been completely upended.
An estimated 800,000 employees have been caught in the political crossfire of the shutdown, now in its fifth week.
President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen the country, which outraged immigration hard-liners on the left and was instantly rejected by Democrats, is headed for a vote this week in the House, where it will probably fail.
Next, The Washington Post shows its compassion with this heartbreaking personal story:
Donna Kelly dumped a pile of bills on a table at the office of the union that represents low-wage contractors, including janitors, security guards and cafeteria workers, locked out of their jobs by the shutdown.
Kelly, 63, is one of them. For the past four years, she has worked as a security guard. She earns $15.72 an hour, barely enough to pay the rent on her subsidized apartment on Capitol Hill and meet the rest of her monthly expenses. Now she is facing the loss of her paycheck as the partial shutdown enters its third week — a scary prospect.
“We have one more check coming,” said Kelly, a shop steward for the Service Employees International Union. “For me, it’s not a full check. If I don’t work, my bills don’t get paid. The reality is frightening.”
ABC news found another sad angle to our difficult plight:
Lisa Gray was supposed to go on vacation with her family on Thursday, but now it’s up in the air.
Her husband, Thomas, an employee affected by the shutdown. He won’t be getting a paycheck for his work this week, directing aircraft in and out of Oakland International Airport.
But that’s not all. His family won’t be able to go on vacation, either, since he’s unable to receive paid time off for the duration of the shutdown.
“All scheduled paid leave and other paid time off, (including paid holiday time off), are canceled. As a result, Gray’s family vacation may be upended.
“He did have to turn in his vacation week for next week because there’s no guarantee you’d get paid for vacation days,” Lisa Gray told ABC News.
HAHAHAHAHHA!!! I’m kidding, of course! Yes, those links are real, and most of the stories you read are as well. These stories are all from the Acela media lamenting the plight of those long suffering, oppressed workers who support the federal government. Today’s average Americans who don’t live in a stronghold of Leftist extremism? Not so much. A month before Pelosi Antionette’s brilliant “Let them eat chocolate ice cream!” gaffe, she was telling Americans her true feelings toward them – “I don’t care!” Even my local small town paper, whose owner/editor in chief is a late stage Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer, likend Texas’ Lt. Governor Patrick suggestion that some older Americans might choose to go back to work is akin to Hitler’s final solution. Sadly, I’m not exaggerating, but that could be a post of its own.
Another interesting note, some personal happenings have forced me to spend a lot of time on Facebook the last few days (I mostly left FB back in 2018, another topic for another day). In my purely informal and unprofessional of surveying attitudes in the media and individuals, I’ve noticed a common thread among the people who support our near total lockdown and not reopening the country until total ruin has been achieved. Every one of them has at least one paycheck coming into their household. And I don’t see any of them publicly proclaiming and calling on others to donate their next two months of take home pay to households that haven’t gotten paid in months and whose federal aid is being gleefully held up by Pelosi Antoinette.
At the end of the day, I’m seeing a lot of today’s state capitol protests akin to the early days of the Tea Party rallies, but again, this topic can also be a thread of its own. Contrary to that The Radical Left would like to stereotype, these aren’t mobs of violent, dangerous extremists. Yes you get a few loons at every rally that the MSM searches for to report on, but most of us just want a common sense approach to reopening the US, as we’ve seen how well top down central planning works up close and personal here in Northern Virginia. Kurt Schlichter and Jon Eckdahl also weighed in on how differently our media and Leftist leaders are treating our current situation. And as a gentle warning to Lefties, if you didn’t like the Tea Party, you’re only seeing the beginning of a movement you’re truly going to hate.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1251670860424871936
Cross posted from Brother Bob’s Blog
