George Rebane
How soon they forget - “The accusation that Trump got rid of a pandemic office is among the left’s politicized attacks on the White House since the coronavirus outbreak began. The administration assembled a coronavirus task force run by Vice President Mike Pence to address security and medical issues.” This was echoed in chorus by all of our local leftwing lackies who took their cue from the lamestream. (H/T to reader and more here)
Fauci the Fickle – 3jun20 edition. “Fauci changes tune, now says second COVID-19 wave may never happen — and mask-wearing is symbolic.” (more here and here) How’s that tune go? ‘First you say you do, and then you don’t, …’ Never mind Dr Fauci, Dr Rebane says that unless we miraculously get everyone vaccinated in time, the second wave is inevitable with the high likelihood that it will be a small fraction of the first wave.
Bejing pissing on the Hong Kong parade. (here) Now there’s a puzzle, or maybe not. HK is the acknowledged “cash cow” for the mainland, handling much of the foreign investments into the Chinese economy, and Chinese IPOs placed on foreign exchanges. Screwing with the contracted freedoms of this principality will cripple the cow or even kill it. Is the CCP now so brittle that it is scared of HK’s freedom virus spreading to the mainland when that possibility is added to the lack of progress Beijing has made with reintegrating Taiwan? From my perch, the answer is Yes.
[update] “Donald Trump knows nothing about the strength of Minneapolis,” said the liberal Mayor Jacob Frey in an early news conference this morning. Don’t know what all we need to know about the city after watching understandably justified peaceful protests turn into mobs looting and burning. Am reminded of a Rodney King joke that quoted tongue-in-cheek a white resident of Simi Valley (home of one officer on trial who was involved in the King beating), ‘If they find those police officers guilty, you bet we’re gonna burn down our town!’
Speaking of President Trump and Minneapolis – I think he stuck his foot in it again. Have no idea which of his constituencies he was trying to impress with the tweets that were definitely untimely and off-the-mark. Don’t get me wrong, naming the looting and burning thugs in Minneapolis as “thugs” was not wrong, but it was a sophomoric political error compounded by his threat to send in Minnesota’s National Guard, which under our system of federalism, the state’s governor already has done. All this grandstanding does is give the TDS crowd more fuel to ignite nationwide fires.
All published pandemic data and information is now both wrong and the remainder highly suspect. Here and across the world we continue to receive a torrent of reports about the virus’s death counts, case numbers, recoveries, etc, a couple of days later which turn out to be the stuff that you shovel out of a stall, all disguised as the sober and considered prescriptions and proscriptions from our elected ‘honorables’ and degreed ‘experts’ citing science and medicine. And since most of it comes to us through the media filter of double-dummy and/or agenda-driven reporters (aka ‘journalists’), we have very little idea of what’s really happening, and how we should respond. Your governments in peace and war. [more update] Just received this little tidbit from a reader to underline the above. It now appears that all the bad juju about HCQ that was recently blasted out by the TDS crowd was a bit premature. No less than the NYT had to publish a 'Hold on there' report citing unsettled science.
[31may20 update] Here’s one for the ‘Say whaaat??!’ department. James ‘Forked Tongue’ Clapper has just been appointed to the Executive Board of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania. This announcement bounced off my eyeballs as I opened the most recent copy of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Don’t ask how they came to pick up that major faux pas on the part of CERL (see for yourself here).
Preliminary Autopsy Results For George Floyd Show No Signs of Strangulation
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/05/29/preliminary-autopsy-results-for-george-floyd-show-no-signs-of-strangulation/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 May 2020 at 05:07 PM
TWIN CITIES SITUATION DETERIORATING AS KEITH ELLISON FANS THE FLAMES
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/twin-cities-situation-deteriorating-as-keith-ellison-fans-the-flames.php
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 May 2020 at 05:14 PM
Obama stands by the term 'thugs,' White House says
“Some critics ascribe racial connotations to the word "thug" -- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake walked back the term earlier this week -- but Obama doesn't agree, officials said.
The vast majority of the protesters of a recent police killing acted in a law-abiding way, Earnest said.
"At the same time, we saw a small minority of individuals engaged in other activity that was not responsible that is clearly a crime," Earnest said.
He added: "And when you're looting up a convenience store or you're throwing a cinder block at a police officer, you're engaging in thuggish behavior and that's why the President used that word."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/04/29/obama-white-house-baltimore-stephanie-rawlings-blake/26585143/
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 29 May 2020 at 08:54 PM
BT 8:54 - "Obama stands by the term 'thugs,' White House says"
But that was Obama saying 'thugs'.
When Trump says it - that's different!
Because - dog whistle!
Logic, reason and facts have long flown the coop.
The left is in full derangement mode.
They are happy to burn down the American economy and our cities to boot if it gets rid of the Orange Monster.
Posted by: Scott O | 30 May 2020 at 06:56 AM
As said before, they would burn down civilization itself if they could rule over the ruins.
Posted by: L | 30 May 2020 at 09:28 AM
Gotta love how the LIB city government takes control.
Imposes a curfew, then won't enforce it. As soon as the street vermin show up, they retreat. That's showing them who's boss.
Posted by: Walt | 30 May 2020 at 09:36 AM
A Tale of Two Protests: Minnesota Rioters Vs. Anti-Lockdown Protesters
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2020/05/29/tale-two-protests-minnesota-rioters-vs-lockdown-protesters
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 May 2020 at 11:15 AM
Put the blame where due.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/30/donald-trump-blames-antifa-radical-left-riots/
ANTIFA... Now where have we heard of them before?
Posted by: Walt | 30 May 2020 at 11:36 AM
Brother Walt,
I actually watched the MN Governor’s presser last night. It was most enlightening. Went to sleep with a pod cast playing on the phone and woke up to catch his late night presser going on. Learned a lot. The thugs laughed at the curfew, nobody took it seriously and they were so outnumbered, the LE and National Guard had to withdraw for their own safety. Found this part interesting....to the max.
MINNEAPOLIS GOES BAGDHAD
“It is apparent from the overnight press conference that intelligence has revealed the presence of out of state terrorists making credible threats against critical infrastructure. Shots are being fired at Guard soldiers. On top of the economic devastation wrought by Governor Walz’s statewide shutdown orders, we now have incredible physical damage to businesses and buildings throughout the Twin Cities.
Governor Walz has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. We need a leader with the savvy and fortitude to win the war in which we are engaged.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/minneapolis-goes-bagdhad.php
Just as I expected. The radicals and hate America crowd is so organized they can be ready to role anywhere on a short notice. Remember Trump’s temporary 6 month “Muslim Ban” for new vetting policies to be crafted? Hell, within 1-2 hours the Leftinistas had crowds with signs race to airports to demonstrate. Trump was just settling into the Oval Office.
Remember the Kavanaugh screechers? Handmaidens? They had “community organizers” from all 50 states there. And that lady who cornered Flake in the elevator to get him to delay the vote? Come to find out she has never been sexually assaulted in her life and gets paid six figures a year. They gave her a bunch of prestigious awards. Should have face her an Oscar.
Bottomline: Glen Beck was right in 2009. Their goal is to burn it down, overfill and bust the safety net, destroy the economy, and take the fighting to the streets. Then, out of the ashes, a new transformed ‘America’ arises. The Judeo-Christian Western Civilization tradition America haters are organized and out to destroy. Demolition Derby. The combination of events from COVID-19, Nancy’s budget, and the other current events just needed a spark to implement the Revolution. George Floyd provided the match, and the Leftinistas provided the gasoline. Now, flood the zone.
Bonus for you, Walt.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 30 May 2020 at 12:23 PM
RE: Fauci the Fickle – 28may20 edition. “Fauci changes tune, now says second COVID-19 wave may never happen — and mask-wearing is symbolic.” (more here) How’s that tune go?
Masks are becoming the virtue signaling symbol of showing people you care. Sure, now ‘experts’ say that wearing a mask and breathing in your own carbon dioxide and bad exhaust (exhale) is bad for you. Some now say masks do more damage than good, other researchers say it doesn’t do any good.
From a very narrow POV: Finally made it to the Grocery Outlet in Burger Basin after all these weeks. Put on my new in the package N-95 face mask I recently found hidden and forgotten about in a box at home. Everybody was wearing a mask at the Outlet. Boy, my mask was hot and uncomfortable...especially considering the heat wave. But, I wore it.
Then, yesterday it went to the DG in Penn Valley. As I was putting on my mask in the parking lot, I noticed it was dirty and full of dog hair (I was driving the dog car where I had the mask between the seats). A nice lady noticed me shaking off the mask and came up to me and gave me a face mask. She said she made a bunch, and here is one for you, if you would like it. She wasn’t wearing a mask, which I thought kinda odd. Anyway, I put on the mask and it was lighter and cooler than the N-95 face mask.
I went I side the Dollar General a d nobody was wearing a mask. Nobody, not even the employees. I was the only one wearing a mask. Taking to a guy behind me, I told him that the only readon I am wearing a face mask is to virtue signal to the world how great I am,. I even pulled down the mask and shouted out, “Look at me? I am superior to all of you!” Those within hearing distance broke out laughing.
First time I saw no masks anywhere and i notice the social distancing tape on the floor had been removed and replaced with a small sign reminding folks to stay 6’ apart.
Then to the gas station and nobody, but nobody, was wearing a mask. Then to some other place in PV and not one mask seen. Then it hit me. The reason the lady gave me (a stranger) a mask was because they were like Pet Rocks after that Christmas fad one year. Discounted to free. She was trying to get rid of them, ROFLMAO.
So now that face masks are the ‘nose in the air’ virtue signaling tool, I see they do have a purpose. An old PSA came to mind. If you change the words from “Show the world you care by the belt you wear” to “Show the world you care by the mask you wear” it fits perfectly.
As Dr. Rebane asked above, “How’s that tune go?”.....well it goes like this.
“Mask up for safety, mask up. Mask up for safety, always mask up. Show the world you care by the mask you wear, mask up for safety, always mask up”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq3cQVrnaWs
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 May 2020 at 10:26 AM
Consider this a warning. Trump is about to declare ANTIFA a terrorist organization.
Lefties will need to keep their basement dwellers in check.
Posted by: Walt | 31 May 2020 at 10:30 AM
C-19
Funny how governments always react the same way: CYA time. Shoot the messenger, dismiss it out of hand. Reminds me when France and other Western nations (like Sweden) said they do not have No Go Zones concerning the Muslim enclaves in their cities. Well, they had them alright, as documented by the LE there. Just because the governments did no officially call them No Go Zones, did not mean they did not exist and they implemented no go zone polities in practice. It the narrative don’t fit, you must dismiss.
Anyway, cut the commentary and let’s get to the point.
GERMAN REPORT BLASTS SHUTDOWN
Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.
“If you start analyzing papers like that, then pretty soon you’ll be inviting the guys with the tin foil hats to parliamentary hearings.”
This is the reaction of governments pretty much everywhere when their blunders are exposed.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/german-report-blasts-shutdown.php
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 June 2020 at 05:22 PM