Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed, again, about a week or so ago:
Saint Paul, Minnesota November 21, 2020 For Immediate Release
Dictator-for-Life Walz, Peace Be Upon Him, today announced a new Executive Order intended to save Minnesotan lives from the deadliest virus ever known, Covid-19.
“Shocking new evidence has been discovered which completely changes our strategy for combating this deadly virus,” said Governor Walz. “We have learned that the Jewish ceremony of slaughtering and eating Christian babies takes place without masks, and without social distancing or hand sanitizing measures in place. These super-spreader events put everyone at risk and cannot be allowed to continue. Effective immediately, all Jews must present themselves to local authorities for removal to Permanent and Isolated Relocation Authority camps to be confined for the remainder of the emergency.”
In response to Republican claims that such an order lacked a factual basis and would somehow violate the “Constitution,” a spokesman for Attorney General Hakim X. stated, “The factual basis is clear: Jewish dietary practices are well-documented in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Since the Governor’s order is authorized by statute and has not been overturned by the Legislature, it is presumptively valid. There is ample legal precedent for this measure provided in the Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States. The notion that the Governor lacks the authority to suspend people’s so-called “Constitutional rights” during the time of state-wide emergency is absurd on its face.”
Local rabbis called a press conference to protest the order but were summarily arrested and have not been heard from since. It is believed they are the first Jews to be sent to the Relocation Camps, although that rumor cannot be confirmed.
In Saint Paul, Joe Doakes, reporting.
At some point, if things don’t start to improve, satire becomes journalism.
Squirrels remember where they buried the nut, so they can eat it later to survive the winter. Those that don’t, die.
Children remember burning their finger, so they treat fire respectfully. Those who don’t, burn to death.
Conservatives remember past public policy disasters, so we can avoid repeating them. We use monuments and books to help us remember.
Liberals remember . . . nothing. Nothing ever happened before they were born, except slavery, which was bad and therefore everything that happened before they were born, is bad. So it must all be torn down and thrown out and replaced with something that sounds better. And it must be done right now, because Liberals have no patience for history lessons or experience or hard-gained wisdom. Why would they need any? What could possibly go wrong?
Half the population believes President Trump bungled the Covid response by failing to impose a travel ban and nation-wide lock-down in January, when Covid hit the news. They literally cannot remember that we spent January dealing with impeachment, or the World Health Organization telling us Covid was nothing to worry about, or hand washing and elbow-bumps as sensible precautions, or all the Democrat protests over banned flights from China. They believe 200 million Americans died of Covid because they don’t remember differently.
Loss of memory is an anti-survival trait and half our society is eagerly embracing it. This does not bode well for the continued existence of the nation.
Joe Doakes
I’m not sure it’s entirely fair to say “Progressives” (I’m not gonna continue debasing the term “liberal” – the left did enough of that) have no memory.
Orwell showed us how important controlling history – our “collective” story about ourselves – was to a would-be tyrant. This has been borne out in countless socialist and totalitarian regimes – knowing the wrong history could be a lethal error.
Having the correct memory, the one one is told to have, correctly and punctually, is a survival trait, historically (ahem) on the left.
Chicago major Lori “Walker” Lightfoot shuts down Thanksgiving, but defends going to Biden rallies.
WTH?! The hypocrisy is astonishing. -> The Daily Caller: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to shut down Thanksgiving but defends going to Biden victory celebration as a source of ’relief’ https://t.co/LB9aOQCm2s
Sarah Hoyt makes an interesting observation: the “mostly peaceful” rioters and looters are suffering from Wealthy Heir disease.
You know what she means. She means the kid who got his trust fund money for his 18th birthday, bought a Camero, got drunk and wrapped it around a tree. She means the kid whose parents paid his tuition, room and board so he could drink and whore his way through a degree. She means the kid whose Daddy ran for Vice-President and can pull strings to have the charges dropped.
Not all of them, of course. The “mostly peaceful” demonstrators handing clothes out of the smashed window at Sak’s Fifth Avenue didn’t look like trust fund kids. The ones chasing a white kid down the street to beat him to death didn’t look like college students. But the young lawyers arrested for burning a police car were hardly the downtrodden oppressed masses yearning to be free. They’re supposedly the cream-of-the-crop. They’re oppressors-in-training. By historical standards, they’re unimaginably wealthy already – only jealousy and greed motivates them to demand more.
If there’s anyone in the world not entitled to call Jonathan Chait “wound emotionally too tight and intellectually too loose”, it’s David Corn.
Words to live by: Don’t go Full-Bore Sylvia Plath.
Corn:
When Trump was elected, I decided I’d only wear black ties. It was a personal and private act of mourning. I didn’t say anything about it. And almost no one noticed over these past four years.
Macalester students, forced to “study” remotely, get not a dime’s worth of break on their tuition.
Their institutions’ president has other priorities:
Macalester College President Suzanne M. Rivera says the school will reimburse students arrested while participating in civil disobedience who can’t afford to pay the fine. https://t.co/0DUQtkr1TH
In your press conference announcing the Stay Home order, you said the Covid virus would kill 75,000 Minnesotans if we did nothing but only 50,000 if we implemented the strictest lock-down. We needed to do that to ‘flatten the curve’ so ICU rooms wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Two weeks later, you announced we had ramped up ICU rooms from 235 to 3,000 but we still needed ventilators, which were on back-order.
Since then, we’ve been in continuous lock-down and now have the mask mandate but ICU rooms are not overwhelmed with Covid cases; indeed, hospitals are closing their doors for lack of patients.
Your administration gives daily briefings on the spread of Covid cases and daily reported deaths as if these were bad things. But weren’t they part of the plan all along? We locked down to Slow the spread, not to Eliminate the spread. We knew people would die, we just wanted them to die more slowly. Your plan is working perfectly. Why aren’t you happy?
Which brings up the next point: when do you anticipate the lock-down will end? Right now, closings and quarantines seem to be based on case rates, not ICU rates. I understand that in theory, more cases could lead to more ICU admissions which could overwhelm the system; but so far, the statistics show that’s not happening. We have plenty of excess ICU bed capacity.
If all goes according to plan, eventually, everybody in the state will have Covid but most of them will neither display symptoms nor require hospitalization. Is that what you’re waiting for? If so, shouldn’t we speed up the process by lifting all restrictions now?
Joe is mistaking “science” – means of focused questioning, observation and analysis – with “science”, a set of memes and commandments designed to exhort compliance.
I mean, growing up in rural North Dakota back when only Al Gore had access to the Internet, even I knew what “uncle Tom” meant when applied to a black man – so naturally I figured someone in his position, Harvard grad and all, would as well. Clearly, so did many others.
And although I’m an Anglo from the northern Plains, I’ve known what a Coyote – a slang term for a human trafficker who brings people across the border, either as illegal immigrants, sex slaves or mules – was for quite a while now.
But apparently a Harvard education does one no better in this context:
Y’know what’s “sickening”? Having a bunch of people whose opinion is considered above the rest of the world by dint of being a “blue check”, who are given to lecturing the deporables about their cultural illiteracy, who are themselves so culturally illiterate:
Just remember that when Blue America starts talking about getting rid of the electoral college.
But if you don’t, I consider it my mission to make sure that date lives on – dare I say, in infamy.
It was the date that reps from the New York Times and Washington Post newsrooms went on the air and told the nation…
…well, the tiny, self-selecting part of the nation that listens to NPR on the weekend – that it was time for the news media to stop playing by the rules that they always told the nation they played by, the whole “telling people the facts and let them draw their own concusions” thing, and started using their power to “de-normalize” President Trump.
And almost four years later, here we are:
Donald Trump “stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history,” writes the editorial board. Today, we are publishing a special section to remind readers why President Trump is unfit to lead the nation. https://t.co/iTIZMVsG8u
Not Martin Van Buren, the most genuinely corrupt president in history.
Not James Buchanan, the inept buffoon who all but sent out engraved invitations to the Civil War.
Not Woodrow Wilson, the Princeton dean who lied about keeping the nation out of war, did more than any other single person to federalize and weaponize Jim Crow and empower the Klan, and launch the bureaucratic state that’s eating the nation alive today.
No. Trump. A coarse populist buffoon who has, nonetheless, pretty much done what he said he’d do (start bringing troops home, revive the economy after the slowest recovery since the Depression, nominate conservative SCOTUS justices), a few nobody expected (roll the ball farther toward peace in the middle east than any president, defeated ISIS), and brought the extreme delusional madness of the left fully out in the open, where (if America is wise) it can be stomped on hard, God willing…
Presidents nominating, and Senates confirming, SCOTUS seats via the the process defined in the Constitution is “packing”
Repealing a working-class tax cut won’t increase taxes on the working class.
Nobody’s coming for your guns.
“Anti”-Fa doesn’t exist.
High density cities, with all their accoutrements (mass transit, densely-packed infranstructure) are more sustainable, livable.
The protests are mostly peaceful.
A decade and a half of demonizing police and running a catch-and-release judicial system, combined with open threats to defund or abolish the police, have no effect on crime rates, silly peasants:
…that there might be some portion of society too inherently based in innate logic and divorces from social subjectivity to get sucked into the madness…
My wife as a 40-year history of low back pain. It’s been good lately, but she stumbled and fell the other day. Now, she’s in intense pain, can barely move. We’ve been icing and heating, ibuprofen and Tylenol, not helping.
Because of the opioid crisis, she cannot get stronger pain medicine without a diagnosis. She can’t get a diagnosis without imaging (MRI). She can’t get imaging without a doctor’s order. She can’t see her doctor because she’s out of town. So today we’re going in at 6:00 p.m. to see some new doctor hoping for an imaging order and some temporary pain relief, a couple of Vicodin, just to get through the night.
It’s insulting, it’s shameful, it’s infuriating that a senior citizen must lie in pain because some bureaucrat is worried about junkies getting high. If I knew where to get black-market Vicodin, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. And don’t even get me thinking about sticking up – I mean, peacefully protesting – my local drugstore. I’ve already got the mask.
Joe Doakes
I had some exposure to this issue during the session – I was involved with some friends, drumming up phone calls to help reform the “Reforms” that led to the situation Joe describes, “reforms” that made it possible for the authorities to destroy the careers of doctors who prescribed painkillers out of line with untrained bureaucrats’ recommendations.
Talking with Representatives on the subject – including my own “representative”, Rena Moran – was a truly horrifying experience. One got the impression that the original “Reforms” had been pure ass-covering for the legislators (and neither party was blameless, not that I’m going to give Moran any slack), and with asses covered, they were done discussing the issue.
I used to joke that for Ron Paul to achieve the goals for which he campaigned in 2008 or 2012, he’s have had to have staged a libertarian coup d’etat, and imposed liberty by force via an absolute libertarian dictatorship.
That’s becoming less and less facetious over time.
Do I have this right? The pandemic has reduced commuter travel as employees and students work from home. The buses all say “essential travel only” and are not allowing the crowds they once had. Honestly, they probably don’t even have the crowds- fewer people are using the bus right now. I haven’t been on a bus lately, but I still get the texts about reduced service. Several times a day, buses aren’t running for all sorts of reasons.
Yet, despite all of this, Metro Transit employees were set to get a 2.5% raise and a $1500 bonus? The hospital where I work cancelled raises, eliminated CEU money, and cancelled the Holiday parties and meals because elective surgeries were cancelled for 2 months. Yet, these transit employees think their bonus and 2.5% raise are “crappy offers” and rejected the offer, voting for a strike?????
I rarely use such language, but seriously, WTF is wrong with these people? I mean, look around- they ought to be happy with being employed, let alone a raise this year.
If Metro Transit struck now, who would know?
Other than the people the DFL and their public employee union enablers want to keep miserable anyway?
