'I'm Mad as Hell, and I'm Not
Going to Take This Anymore'
Townhall,
by
Wayne Allyn Root
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/5/2020 4:58:25 AM
"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore."
Remember that line from the famous American movie "Network"? It's time for a rebellion. Every out-of-work American and every out-of-business American business owner needs to open their windows and shout it, shout it so loud it reaches President Donald Trump, Congress and every swamp politician from Washington D.C., to New York to Boston to Beverly Hills, California.
It's time for this madness to stop. Mr. President, do you understand how many suicides of prominent business owners are going to start piling up?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 4/5/2020 5:39:52 AM (No. 369016)
Yes, things are bad and they are going to get worse. People are stuck at home with little income and some millenials have no spare food or weapons because they bought the crap about government loving you. The tension is increasing daily with every news conference and every new unconstitutional restriction. People are scared and frustrated and all that bad stuff.
On the plus side, we as a nation have gone through far worse and far more deadly. Foreign armies are not invading. Bombers are not leveling our cities. Except for the democrats, nobody is trying to destroy us permanently. Unlike people in prison, we can walk outside any time we feel like it. We can get schnockered, have a cigarette, play with our kids, do the horizontal bop or watch tv if we want. We can plant gardens and play with the dog.
If we need help we can call on neighbors, friends and family, and they know they can call on us. This will be temporary. Soon we will be able to go back to whatever petty carping and backstabbing and gossiping we were doing before all this. For now it requires strength and resolve. Hang in there.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/5/2020 6:21:31 AM (No. 369024)
This also should be a must read. We are all social animals and FaceTime does not do it for me. We are meeting friends next week to play a card game we played before this insanity. During our game, we would talk politics, etc. TONS of fun. Now we will meet secretly and bring 3 rolls of toilet paper. Yes, we play for toilet paper now.
The president needs to stop listening to CDC (this agency is beyond incompetent) and his so call medical experts. By the way, Senator Cotton has a hand in this. and he shoulders some blame. He was the one that briefed Pres. Trump on this possibly being a biological incident. Sometimes Senator Cotton gets a little on the wild side and exaggerates.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KatieJo 4/5/2020 6:36:04 AM (No. 369031)
Clever, a real crisis where the "social distancing" edicts prohibit peaceful protests. The American people have few venues to express their rejection of these policies without being arrested. This is very frightening.
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What is life about, after all? Cowering in fear as "politicians" tell us what is good for us? None of them have been right about any of this and I suspect we are being lied to on a daily basis. I refuse to live in fear...of anything or anyone. We can't even worship God anymore as a congregation in Minnesota. Wife is still working and I'm retired... She works for one of the greatest companies with the best CEO in America, Ecolab, Inc.! We are very fortunate. I don't know what will happen in the next two weeks as people have no money and no way to buy food and supplies. We are about there and probably past the point with many people living paycheck to paycheck... Pray for our country. We need God's help now more than anytime in my 66 years!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/5/2020 7:33:33 AM (No. 369073)
It is scary how easily the tyrants have taken away our constitutional rights without even a murmur from us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janjan 4/5/2020 7:58:36 AM (No. 369089)
The dam is cracking as it was bound to. Americans have become fat and complacent. Everyone thinks something should be done but no one wants to step up to do it. State Governors have become despots who have used authority they do not have to cancel our constitutional rights because of a flu virus. I’m calling on business owners across the country to open your businesses. If collectively we determine that this quarantine is over it will be.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/5/2020 8:59:14 AM (No. 369167)
Yes. Just yesterday a close relative of ours with C-virus and other health issues who lived alone and struggled daily with depression succumb not to this miserable virus but to his own depression and anguish in isolation. Before this he owned a business, he hunted, he lifted weights, spent time with friends, and enjoyed life. That and his doctors helped him cope with his mental health issues. Now he is gone and we are left grieving. Suicide is a real issue right now. And we can't even have a real funeral.
Mr. President, stop this now.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JL80863 4/5/2020 10:00:09 AM (No. 369236)
OK folks, and what exactly do you propose we do? Ignore the public health recommendations? Proceed like nothing is going on? This administration did not cause the problem. China did with a lot of help from W.H.O. Yesterday President Trump attempted to prepare the nation for the next two weeks which will likely show the devastating results of the viral spread during the past two weeks. It's probably going to be awful. Weep and moan all you wish about conditions now. You ain't seen nothing yet. Those with strength of character and resolve will get through this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/5/2020 10:00:41 AM (No. 369237)
So we're mad as hell and all we're going to do is shout out the window about it? Really? That's about as helpful as the folks in Venezuela beating their empty pans in the face of a dictator.
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Has anyone noticed that the over all death rate is way down?
No elective surgeries with medical errors, very few vehicles in accidents, fewer regular flu deaths than normal (some of these are being classified as covid19), less drunk driving deaths....
So will we look back and say that the virus saved lives and wrecked our economy?!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/5/2020 10:54:12 AM (No. 369319)
In about 9 months to a year from now, we'll see a resurgence of humanity in the form of tiny bundles. ;-)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/5/2020 10:57:54 AM (No. 369327)
I’m with #6. Anything less is complacency. Governments worldwide have now seen how easy it is to get intelligent, thoughtful, independent, critical thinkers to succumb to fear. Even those who claim to love freedom are parroting the CDC line that if we just do what the government tells us to, it will all be over shortly and life will go back to “normal.” Let me tell you something. Life will never be “normal” again. The consent of the people was given to the government to imprison us for a flu virus that has a 98% survival rate. Think about that. The government knows something about us that it never knew before, and it’s not good news. If you want to make your voice heard, go to the government petition website. There is a petition started for a constitutional amendment prohibiting states from ever doing this to its people again.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 4/5/2020 11:06:07 AM (No. 369343)
Let me go on record as saying I believe the CDC is just another Deep State agency. Flame away.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
gymnast 4/5/2020 11:55:22 AM (No. 369390)
A return to the age of the speak easy in the quarantine cities? Booze, food, entertainment and social interaction behind closed doors of the neighborhood speak easy. Fortunes to be made by the bold. Just say, "charlie sent me".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/5/2020 11:55:42 AM (No. 369392)
I kind of agree with the article in one respect. Trump uses our national outrage at the nonsense that normally congress tries to pull so he can rightfully oppose their garbage. Maybe it is long past time for a national tantrum from us regular folks, loud enough so that Trump can hear it, and stop this destruction in its tracks. Dr. Stephen Smith, an expert who has been in the media, is a far more reasoned doctor than power mad Fauci ever has been.
It is long past time for at least a partial reopening of this nation, and let us who are not in the hot spots like NYC to get back to work and start paying our bills. It is also time for those two globalist ghouls to stop comparing the nation to NYC. We are not NYC, we never have been and never will be. Those two keep comparing apples and oranges and coming up with lemons in their reasoning.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
panther361 4/5/2020 1:25:26 PM (No. 369492)
There's never a need to flame here. Just one question, exactly what would you do? To complain about a situation is always the easy route. To provide a remedy is the tougher of the two.
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As far as movie quotes go, the one that comes to mind is from "The Maltese Falcon", Sam Spade telling Joel Cairo, "When you're slapped you'll take it and like it."
The American public is being slapped around "for its own good", with governments spanning local to Federal acting like benevolent despots, while the hysterics, many of whom consider themselves patriots, cheer the willingness to expropriate property and deny civil/Constitutional rights on specious grounds while calling "Epidemic" emergency. Nonsense, much no more than speculation based on bad, incomplete or contrary information. And one doesn't dare ask questions for fear of being labeled "dangerous"... Rod Serling could make a hell of a movie from our current reality.
There are tests of principles along the way, and Americans fail again.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/5/2020 2:44:38 PM (No. 369566)
I don't know, #13, but didn't the CDC assure us during the 80's that most of us (straights) would be dead of AIDS by now?
Follow the money, whether it's "climate change" or a pandemic. No threats to conduct research on, no funding.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
franq 4/5/2020 3:02:59 PM (No. 369599)
Point taken, #18. That just proves they're greedy and inept too. What would I do, #16. Well, I can tell you what I wouldn't do. Publish wild-eyed, fear mongering lies that shut the country down and put millions out of work. I'd say that would be a contribution.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
agrunt 4/5/2020 4:04:59 PM (No. 369671)
I will not go as far as what I think about the responses to the article. But I will say that for grown Americans to be unable to stay at home for 15 to 30 + days leaves me wondering how thin our blood has become. Our ancestors would have laughed at the shallowness of the response demonstrated to this article. You are bored and can’t go to see your neighbors enliven your lives. Try reading a book Kindle has a program that you can use on your computer or phone and thousands of books for free or just 99 cents. You don’t have 99 cents to spare, your local library will let you read for free. I truly fear for my country where any American can’t gut out a couple of weeks home alone.
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No country was really prepared for this nightmare. What exactly do you expect on demand ? I hear the President and that man is tired. Suck it up buttercup.
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