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This Modern World—week of June 4
by Tom Tomorrow, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 3, 2020
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1. Iran has been remarkably quiet since Qasem Soleimani received his just reward.
2. Whatever evidence the corrupt House democrats thought they had to impeach Trump wasn’t enough to convince 2/3 of the Senate. That’s the way it worked with Bill Clinton. Win some, lose some.
3. Trump banned travel from China in January ten days after the first traveler from Wuhan landed in Seattle. At the same time, democrats were encouraging tourists to Chinatowns in NYC and San Francisco to celebrate Chinese New Year and blocking all legislation while they impeached Trump. What exactly did democrat governors do? Oh, yes….
4. Blame your governor for knee-capping Oregon’s economy. Florida and S. Dakota, to name but two, stayed reasonably open and incurred a low Covid19 mortality rate, nowhere near that of NY, NJ and Pennsylvania. Does anyone really think those three states’ governors would’ve issued lockdown orders if the epicenter of the Covid19 virus had been Salem, Oregon? BTW, our vaunted WHO scientists lauded Sweden’s long-term approach to Covid19 response at the end of April. Only one US news outlet reported that.
5. Peaceful protestors have been met with respect as they should. Antifa and its sponsors have been met with level of response that lawbreakers deserve. 10% of all US murders since 1980 have been interracial (fact, look it up). 2/3 of those have involved white victims (look it up). Do you recall all the police brutality and lawlessness that followed policeman Mohammed Noor’s shooting of innocent Justine Damond in Minneapolis two years ago? Hmmm, no one else does either….