Sort Of A Good News / Bad News Situation

As I discussed on my show on Saturday, I see potential good and potential immense bad coming from the Covid19 epidemic. It’s almost like one of those cartoon characters, with an angel sitting on one shoulder and a devil on the other, trying to convince the character of their next action.

Good Angel

On the one hand:

The Bad Angel

  • Progressive politicians are seeing an opportunity to exercise the Emanuel Commandment (“Never Waste a Crisis”), and they’re running with it
  • For a brief moment, it seemed like identity politics might fall ill with coronavirus.  But not so much.  

Let’s all give the good angel a boost, shall we? 

58 thoughts on “Sort Of A Good News / Bad News Situation

  1. “The Mueller Report alone outlines several cases of obstruction of justice.”
    No, it does not.
    You are in fantasy land again, Emery.

  2. ‘If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’ ~ Robert Mueller

    Mueller also said he was legally unable to charge the president with a crime, emphasizing it’s against Justice Department policy and describing it as “unconstitutional.”

  3. I feel that these two sentences from Volume II of the Mueller Report have not gotten anything like the attention they deserve.

    “As described in Volume I, the evidence uncovered in the investigation did not establish that the President or those close to him were involved in the charged Russian computer-hacking or active measure conspiracies, or that the President otherwise had any unlawful relationship with any Russian official. But the evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to personal or political concerns.”
    Volume II, p. 76

  4. Good lord, you are around the bend, Emery. The fact that Mueller said he could not exonerate Trump is the same as outlining several good cases for obstruction of justice? Do you understand that a prosecutor’s job is to prove guilt, and not a defendant’s job to prove his innocence? By Mueller’s standard (actually Andrew Weisman’s) I could be found guilty of obstruction of justice. Jesus, you have gone mad.
    You have no idea how crazy you sound to a person without TDS. You are like Captain Queeg rolling the bearings in his hand talking about the conspiracy to steal strawberry ice cream.

  5. ““As described in Volume I, the evidence uncovered in the investigation did not establish that the President or those close to him were involved in the charged Russian computer-hacking or active measure conspiracies, or that the President otherwise had any unlawful relationship with any Russian official. But the evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to personal or political concerns.”

    Lunacy. No person could be convicted on Mueller’s vague noises about how he found no crime, but might have if there had been a crime.

  6. Are we living on the same planet? If anything, Trump’s mishandling of this crisis has ensured that he won’t be re- elected. Thousands more will die and America is on track to fare worse than any other developed country. It’s a shambles. The red states will be next, geography will protect them for only so long and the poor healthcare systems in those states won’t cope when the deluge hits them. He can spin it so long as it hasn’t hit his voters, but it’s coming for them too, especially since their governors have been in denial and slow to respond. Preventative measures could have been put in place but there are still states without lockdowns. There is no way that the virus somehow acts differently for them. His antics have not endeared him to any of the independents or swing voters that are needed to win elections and the reputation of the US abroad is in tatters. Biden doesn’t have to be anywhere at the moment, Trump is a walking Democratic campaign advertisement. By November it won’t be about Democrats vs. Republicans, it will solely be about getting Trump out of office.

  7. Geez, E, posting the same comment to multiple threads? Not even phoning it in anymore.

    I refuted your inanity elsewhere.

  8. If anything, Trump’s mishandling of this crisis has ensured that he won’t be re- elected. Thousands more will die

    If HRC had been elected, the result would be the same, except perhaps those thousands might have committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head. Twice.

    and America is on track to fare worse than any other developed country.

    Based upon models that keep getting revised downward. And really, worse than Spain? Italy? France? The UK?

    the red states will be next, geography will protect them for only so long and the poor healthcare systems in those states won’t cope when the deluge hits them.

    What are we defining as red states, Emery? Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, and Florida went for Trump in 2016, and they’re each already dealing with 5000+ cases of COVID-19. The virus doesn’t make this political, even if you do. Iowa is on par with Minnesota, seeing infection numbers around 1000, weeks after New York, with its much-higher population density and crowded public transit in NYC, passed 10 times that amount. The IDPH site states that are around 104 people currently hospitalized across the state, 89 discharged and recovering, and 646 positive cases that have never been hospitalized.

    Preventative measures could have been put in place but there are still states without lockdowns.

    Oh, FFS, I’ve been working from home here in Des Moines since 16 March. It’s not like we’re going about our normal lives here. Gov. Reynolds’ administration has closed schools, churches, movie theaters, etc. Restaurants have been to-go-only since mid-March. Reynolds and Dr. Fauci had a phone call and separately said they’re “on the same page.” (You must have missed that) Setting aside the question of constitutionality of a mandatory stay-home order, what do you define as a lockdown? Is the government supposed to air-drop supplies in everybody’s backyard, or is going to the grocery store an acceptable risk for people who are uncertain how long the lockdown will persist?

    Biden doesn’t have to be anywhere at the moment

    Except in the long-term memory-care facility at Shady Pines Retirement Home.

    Trump is a walking Democratic campaign advertisement.
    As Bernie Sanders suspends his campaign, and as Trump’s approval rating sits at 49%. Don’t count your chickens just yet, Emery.

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