Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two weeks. That’s all the longer the Virtue Signaling crowd can follow a story. After that, they lose interest in the story. And they never really care about the underlying causes or long-term consequences, only today’s headlines. That’s a terrible way to run a polity.
Governor Walz suspended the Constitution for two weeks “to flatten the curve.” Nobody questioned whether a state governor had the power to place the entire state under house arrest in peace time; to overrule the United States Constitution’s guarantees of religious worship and political assembly; to take away businesses owners’ livelihoods unequally – deeming some essential, some not, some owned by important contributors and some jailed for trying to make ends meet. Nobody knows and nobody is asking. The people who lost everything? Forgotten. We changed our Facebook pages then, and now we’ve moved on.
The truckers in Canada were a big deal for two weeks, but now it’s all over. Except it’s not – not for the participants. “While the Emergencies Act has been revoked, Justice Minister David Lametti, who appeared with Trudeau \u2014 said violations of it that occurred while it was in force would continue to be prosecuted in the justice system.” The answer to whether the Emergencies Act should have been invoked at all (and therefore whether violations of an unlawful order are still unlawful) is: Nobody knows and nobody’s asking. The people who lost everything? Forgotten. We changed our Facebook pages then, and now we’ve moved on.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was green-lighted by Lesko Brandon, who admitted his sanctions were never intended to deter invasion. The giant column of back-up troops is not attacking. Nuclear power plants are secure. Civilian casualties are being minimized. The United States is still buying oil from Russia, helping to finance the invasion, even as we contemplating sending Vice President Kamala Harris to Poland to rally the troops that we’re not sending in. The invasion is stalled, Nike isn’t selling shoes (but Coke is selling cola) in Russia, and Apple Pay won’t buy groceries for children in Moscow; what’s next? Nobody knows. The people who are about to lose everything? Not forgotten yet, but we’ve changed our Facebook pages. We’re ready to move on.
What’s next?
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMaybe the effects of inflation on the poor?<\/p>
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No, that\u2019s just crazy talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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