I.R.S. PLAYS A VERY DIRTY GAME

The IRS, filled to the brim with anti-Trump, "establishment" operatives, decided to stick it to the President and to America's senior population by refusing to issue Coronavirus relief checks to anyone who hasn't filed a tax return for 2018 or 2019.  The vast majority of Social Security recipients and other retirees make less than what is required at the filing threshold, and therefore do not file annual tax returns.

This means the nation's most vulnerable population, the elderly, would receive no stimulus checks.  The anticipated vocal response by this disenfranchised seniors would make Trump and his administration look very, very bad in an election year.  Faced with an uproar of criticism, the IRS abruptly changed course yesterday and will go ahead and issue the checks. 

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Democrats, led by affable Joe Biden, are now suggesting that we do away with all of this registration and polling nonsense and simply allow citizens to vote on their computers from home.

Why would China under-report the number of virus cases it has?  To make us think the virus is not as bad as it really is and to lull us into having a less robust response to it, thereby causing more U.S. cases and deaths, as well as making Trump look bad.  One recent report indicated 21 million fewer cellphones were being used in China. 

Why would Joe Biden want to talk with President Trump about the Coronavirus problem?  I thought Bernie Sanders had that all under control.  In any event, Joe will now be able to claim that it was his advice to Trump that saved the nation. 

I feel sorry for cruise passengers who are stuck on a ship, but they surely knew the risks involved long before they boarded.  You can get cruise bookings anywhere in the world right now for rock-bottom prices, but who really is dumb enough to go?

Democrats are now scrambling in a push for passing another huge stimulus bill so that they can slip more pork into the system.

Don't start jumping up and down with glee about hydroxychloroquine.  It may be a cure, but it's a malaria drug and there are not vast quantities of it on pharmacy shelves.   There's a huge demand for the drug right now and it will take some time to manufacture enough of it to meet that demand. 

And last yesterday, charges emerged that 3M has been shipping N-95 masks to foreign countries who bid the highest, as opposed to delivered them to U.S. providers during our nation's critical shortages.  
THEY PROBABLY WISH THEY'D SAID THAT:
"In my previous life nobody messed with me.  I was Napoleon Bonaparte." ~ Adam Schiff