Casualties Of Pestilence

Thousands of people have died of Covid19. Thousands more will likely die.

Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, snuffing out a human life of incalculable worth and immense potential.

Well, all of them but one.

One of the casualties is the “Green New Deal”, says Kevin Williamson, as people life with previews of the Green New Deal:

What we are seeing right now is what it looks like when Washington tries to steer the economy. There are times when that is necessary, and this is one of those times. But emergencies do not last forever, and emergency measures should be, by nature, temporary. The attraction of the climate-change crusade is that it creates a permanent state of emergency. The Left wants very much to convince Americans that climate change presents an emergency of the same kind requiring the same “moral equivalent of war” worldwide mobilization.107

One suspects that the people who are missing their paychecks right now, and the ones who worry that they may be missing them soon, are going to need some convincing. The adverse effects of climate change are likely to be significant and may prove severe — as noted, many of our progressive friends insist that they already are. But we have a new point of comparison, and those challenges feel relatively manageable if the alternative is an extended version of the coronavirus shutdown — and no amount of marketing will change the fact that that is precisely what is being advocated.

A couple of months of this is going to be very hard to take. Nobody is signing up for a lifetime of it.

And two trillion dollars of bailout is bad. The Green New Deal is going to cost an order of magnitude and change more. And unlike Covid, it’ll never end.

12 thoughts on “Casualties Of Pestilence

  1. America’s first experience with a fed-directed economy came in 1917 with entry into World War One. Corruption in government purchasing was endemic, and criticism of the war effort could get you thrown in jail. To mention just one of the clusterfargs, the feds determined that a huge amount of coal would be needed for supply & transport ships, so they ordered coal to be stockpiled on the East Coast. When the winter of 1917-1918 proved to be far colder than expected, there was a shortage of coal used to heat homes. The feds decided to disperse the coal back to storage yards around the country, but they hadn’t accounted for the extra rail traffic required to send the coal back from the East Coast, and guess what trains used for fuel in 1917?
    And the troops and supplies were just trickling out of the US at that point, despite the best efforts of the war planners, so the coal was not needed for transport ships after all.

  2. The hilarity is the idea that we don’t live in the world’s largest socialist economy. Without the Fed and bailout capitalism, most of our companies can’t survive. Now Republicans are nickel and diming the poorest American workers while they lavish bailouts on airlines that paid out 100% of free cash flow since the GFC in dividends and repurchases.

    A trillion dollars of cure saves a million dollars of prevention, for the second time in 12 years.

  3. The hilarity is the idea that we don’t live in the world’s largest soci@list economy. Without the Fed and bailout capitalism, most of our companies can’t survive. Now Republicans are nickel and diming the poorest American workers while they lavish bailouts on airlines that paid out 100% of free cash flow since the GFC in dividends and repurchases.
    2 trillion dollars of cure saves a million dollars of prevention, for the second time in 12 years.

    (Apologies for the duplicate post — moderation purgatory)

  4. Really, Emery?
    What about the $900 million in slush that the Democrats put into the bail out? As if the death toll from COVID-19 isn’t enough, the dip shit Dems decided this was the perfect time to kill more people by funding Planned Infanticide, giving $50 million to the Kennedy Center. Of course, you are most likely a gubmint employee that won’t get laid off under any circumstances, so you really don’t care about whether someone loading bags on to and off of planes or some waiter at The Loon does. For hypocritical people like you, it’s always the Republicans fault. Open your eyes or get your head out of your backside, whichever the case may be. And pay attention. Piglosi is already talking about another round of payoffs to rich Democrat donors.

  5. The hilarity is the idea that we don’t live in the world’s largest soci@list economy. Without the Fed and bailout capitalism, most of our companies can’t survive.

    This seems confused. I guess that’s from where the hilarity comes.

  6. BH429: The Republicans must have been nuts if they thought the Democrats were ever going to sign off on a $500 billion secret slush fund to be doled out by Mnuchin (effectively Trump) and used to reward donors.

  7. “We’re gonna give $500 billion in basically a slush fund to help industries controlled by Mnuchin with very little transparency? Is that what we ought to be doing?” asked Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii.).
    Mazie voted for porculus back in 2009.
    If you are going to oppose a thing on principle, you have to have principles. You have to have integrity.
    Amazing that people can’t see this. Trump derangement syndrome, I suppose.

  8. A video on how a woman recognized her TDS and came to reject it: https://youtu.be/JWJytCPHUS4
    She uses text from The Coddling of the American Mind to illustrate the delusions that lead people to hate. She applies the examples to her TDS, but it really describes all varieties of political hate, either of individuals or groups of people. They can only do wrong, they can never do right, they are blamed for problems they had nothing to do with, or were out of their control. The ultimate cause is emotional reasoning. The hater feels bad. He identifies the hated person with his feeling bad. The hater does not to take responsibility for his emotions, so he tells himself “I would feel fine, if it were not for this hated person, so the only way I can feel better is for this person to be destroyed.”
    Pelosi, in her fading mental state, has fallen victim to TDS. The Pelosi of even a decade ago would not have fallen into TDS.
    People who have TDS — or hate any person they do not actually know, or a group of people — are emotionally immature.

  9. “People who have TDS – or hate any person they do not actually know, or a group of people – are emotionally immature.”

    Personal hatred, maybe. But hating a person you know through actions that are consistently against one’s best interests is perfectly reasonable.

    Drumpf is turning over tables. He’s seated conservative judges. He’s dragged degenerate leftists around by the nose. I understand why they hate him. But I also know their hatred drives everything they say and do.

  10. There is hatred as in “I hate Trump because he broke my rice bowl!” and there is “I hate Trump because he is responsible for my car getting a flat.”
    Jonah Goldberg is in the TDS camp. If you are discussing, say, China’s occupation of Tibet, Goldberg will blame China’s actions on Trump’s business bankruptcies. It is tiresome.
    If you believe that Trump is a germophobe who also has extramarital sex with random hookers, you have TDS.

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  12. I see what you’re saying, MP. Leftist degenerates suffering TDS hate the guy, but their hatred is visceral and inchoate. They can’t put their finger on it, so they assign it to everything that they come across.

    It’s like a child who is frustrated with a puzzle crying “Stupid puzzle”.

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