{"id":73758,"date":"2020-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73758"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:11:07","slug":"sort-of-a-good-news-bad-news-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73758","title":{"rendered":"Sort Of A Good News \/ Bad News Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I discussed on my show on Saturday, I see potential good and potential immense bad coming from the Covid19 epidemic. It&#8217;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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clevangelist.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/god-prompts-you-to-be-a-blessing-to-someone-you-dont-like.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"379\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Good Angel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the one hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/genesiustimes.com\/poll-most-people-unimpressed-with-their-30-day-free-trial-of-communism\/\">tired of their thirty-day trial of communism<\/a>. Yes, it&#8217;s a fake story from a poor copy of&nbsp;<em>Babylon Bee<\/em>, but they&#8217;re not wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Maybe, just maybe, Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrotimes.com\/news-hits\/archives\/2020\/03\/31\/gov-whitmer-reverses-course-on-coronavirus-drugs-is-now-asking-feds-for-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine\">starting to bristle<\/a> at blunt-force government power <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/03\/11\/how-government-red-tape-stymied-testing-and-made-the-coronavirus-epidemic-worse\/\">backed with epic incompetence<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-china-trail-leading-back-to-wuhan-labs\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=featured-content-trending&amp;utm_term=first\">realizing the depravity of the Chicom government<\/a>.&nbsp; WIth a little luck that&#8217;ll lead to a lot of&nbsp; manufacturing coming home, or at least moving to better places.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Some liberals &#8211; the smart ones, anyway &#8211; are <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2020\/03\/16\/gun-sales-are-on-the-rise-in-california-amid-the-coronavirus-outbreaks-n2565045\">realizing the Second Amendment isn&#8217;t about hunting, that it&#8217;s not just for &#8220;fat angry old white men&#8221;<\/a> (as a certain zaftig angry old white and lifetime-banned female commenter referred to them), and that pr<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswars.com\/coronavirus-update-liberals-find-out-they-cant-purchase-guns-online\/\">etty much everything their &#8220;leadership&#8221; is telling them about guns, and gun laws, is baked wind<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad Angel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Progressive politicians are seeing an opportunity to exercise the Emanuel Commandment (&#8220;Never Waste a Crisis&#8221;), and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/clyburn-defends-calling-coronavirus-an-opportunity-to-restructure-government\/\">they&#8217;re running with it<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>For a brief moment, it seemed like identity politics might fall ill with coronavirus.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/484940-aoc-demands-reparations-coronavirus-minorities\/\">But not so much<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all give the good angel a boost, shall we?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I discussed on my show on Saturday, I see potential good and potential immense bad coming from the Covid19 epidemic. It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16,416,30,51],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-conservatism","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73767,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73758\/revisions\/73767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}