I knew this would happen. I’m just surprised it took three days.
We will be killing grandma if we carefully open the country according to the Left. But what ideas do they have?
Even the liberals in California have had enough.
And there is nothing like politicizing the death of a great singer.
That Only Took Three Days
According to Fox News:
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said
“It’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African-American man. My heart goes out to the family. With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House, many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”
I would ask a few questions with this stupid statement.
- How does rhetoric promote murder?
- And what rhetoric did Trump use?
We already know that the “rhetoric” she is referencing is about Charlottesville, which has been already been proven to be edited in a way that changed the speech. Outside of that speech, I am not aware of any rhetoric Trump has said that would support this type of violence against African Americans.
Rev. James Woodall, state president of the Georgia NAACP said:
“The modern-day lynching of Mr. Arbery is yet another reminder of the vile and wicked racism that persists in parts of our country. The slothfulness and inaction of the judicial system, in this case, is a gross testament to the blatant white racial privileges that permeates throughout our country and our institutions.”
So there will be a riot in Georgia. Because people cannot just calm their jets until we find out what’s going on.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atlanta-mayor-calls-ahmaud-arbery-killing-a-lynching-says-trumps-rhetoric-gives-racists-permission
So What’s Your Idea?
This is from Vox.com
But is the public health situation really all that different than when lockdowns began in March? According to epidemiologists, no. Although the situation varies from place to place, now, in general, doesn’t appear to be the best time for Americans to return to close proximity to one another.
There are four main reasons:
Nationally, the outbreak has either peaked or plateaued. But there is a lot of infection still out there.
While the toll of the pandemic has been immense — there have been more than 76,000 recorded deaths in the United States as of May 8 — the vast majority of the population still has not been infected, has no immunity, and is fully susceptible.
This virus is fundamentally very contagious, sneaky, and deadly. That’s as true as ever.
The US has wasted lockdown time: It needs more testing, more contact tracing, targeted isolation of infected people, and the quarantining of their contacts. It also needs more research into social distancing to know what relaxed measures are safe.
This lays out the question: If everyone else’s idea is bad, what is your idea? This is a major thing with the Left, and Vox is as Leftist as it gets. Don’t just point out the problems but bring solutions. Anyone can just regurgitate problems.
Also, the Left’s motives are a bit iffy at best. They seem (sic) to want to keep the economy closed for a boat load of reasons
- The Trump economy was killing the Left and there chances. Keeping the economy closed will ruin the economy and they can blame Trump. This can backfire.
- The Left wants to expand the government. They hope that the “temporary” changes can become permanent.
- The Left wants to change the system. They want the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, universal basic income, free college just to name a few changes.
- The Left wants to replace capitalism, which they see as the cause of this mess, with socialism. This is why the United States has to be the worst while Europe and China are way ahead of us in dealing with this thing (which they are not).
I think articles like this are irresponsible, worthless and dangerous.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/5/9/21251034/covid-19-reopening-economy-plans-missouri-georgia-science
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Even the Liberals in California are Fed Up
Josie and I went to Newport Beach this weekend. We got sick and tired of being at home. It was awesome!
- We had a great conversation while driving.
- There was no traffic. Unheard of on the 5 and 405 on a weekend.
- We couldn’t find parking and never had so much fun with it. We laughed at all the spaces being marked off by the city to limit the number of people there. It didn’t work.
- No one had a mask on but everyone was social distancing. In fact, we got lectured by a guy who told us masks were stupid.
- Cops were everywhere and the beach and boardwalk were packed. Weird because the beach was officially closed.
- Every store was opened but restaurants had no seating.
Of course, this is California. We saw a guy taking a dump in a bag at a bus stop and wiping his butt with his hand then dump the bag in a trash can. There were also a ton of homeless people, which was surprising. This is a very rich area.
But it isn’t just Newport Beach that is flipping out.
According to the DailyWire:
The Professional Beauty Federation of California will file a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in an effort to speed up the reopening timeline for the barber and salon industry, which has been categorized as a phase three high-risk businesses, along with gyms and movie theaters.
“The PBFC has decided to sue Governor Newsom to force him to reopen our salons much sooner than his vowed ‘months not weeks’ timeline,” said the organization in a statement on Thursday, in reference to comments the governor made last month about stage three and four being “months, not weeks” away.
Newsom has since distanced himself, at least partially, from his nail salon comments, observing on Friday that he has a “deep reverence for those entrepreneurs” and that phase three “may not even be a month away,” according to the LA Times.
“We’re trying to do everything we can to accommodate the needs of every industry, including the nail salon industry, to make sure we do it in a safe and responsible way,” said Newsom.
According to The Daily Beast, the federation has already made up its mind about challenging the governor, and plans to file a lawsuit on Monday
“We were 100 percent behind the lockdown, so that we would not overwhelm our hospitals,” Jones told The Daily Beast. “However, after two months of the lockdown, in which, by Gov. Newsom’s own admission, we have succeeded — we have checked the mark, we have flattened the curve.”
“A lot of our stylists are on the brink of starvation in order to make their leases and make ends meet,” said Jones.
The following is courtesy of CNN:
Tesla filed suit Saturday night against Alameda County, California, after local officials there refused to let the company reopen its Fremont factory.
Elon Musk Tweeted:
“Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately.”
The automaker had planned to allow a fraction of its factory workers to return to work by Friday, but was warned by the Alameda County Health Department in a livestreamed town hall on Friday that such a move would be violating the county’s rules.
“This has been a collaborative, good faith effort to develop and implement a safety plan that allows for reopening while protecting the health and well-being of the thousands of employees who travel to and from work at Tesla’s factory,” the Alameda Health Department responded on Saturday in a statement to CNN Business. “The team at Tesla has been responsive to our guidance and recommendations, and we look forward to coming to an agreement on an appropriate safety plan very soon.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued new guidance Thursday allowing manufacturing companies to reopen, which allowed individual counties to enforce stricter rules. Alameda County’s shelter-in-place rule ends on May 31.
Musk Tweeted:
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tweeted Saturday, “Come to Texas! We would welcome Tesla HQ in Texas. We love jobs & Texans very much want to open up & get back to work (while still staying safe & following sound science). We make lots of cars & trucks in Texas, and we’d love more!!”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/tech/elon-musk-tesla-threatens-california/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/time-to-sue-some-of-californias-salons-barbers-prepare-to-challenge-governor
RIP Little Richard
From Tom Scocca at Slate entitled Little Richard’s Music was Dangerous, But So is Freedom
” The contemporary pop charts were extremely queer and extremely closeted, to a degree that’s probably impossible to convey to anyone who grew up on the 21st century—such a degree that even if you were personally oriented toward heterosexuality and cis identity, it was impossible to shake the sense that everything the popular culture was saying about meaning and desire was confounding bullshit, meant to conceal. The story rock and roll tells and retells about itself, in corny self-important tones, is about liberation and rebellion, but by the time I was out of middle school, that story was being told by Kenny Loggins or the retro-counter-appropriationist guitar freakout of a time-traveling Michael J. Fox. The youth culture had grown up to inflict Reaganism and hair metal on the people behind them. The most dangerous thing would have been not to have heard Little Richard.”
“Little Richard had already heard and lived the contradictions everyone was busily trying to ignore. He was joyously black under white tyranny, flamboyantly queer under straight tyranny, deeply God-troubled under the tyranny of secular commercial fame. It all came clattering and swaggering back out in fury and delight, in well under three minutes, if not two. It seemed self-evident, but nothing ever was (I dubbed the LP onto a cassette and tried popping it into the tape deck in a car full of other guys, and it got replaced with U2 in very short order). ”
Wow! Maybe Little Richard was just a great singer and showed passion when singing because he loved what he was doing.
And, if he was gay, so what (he said he was bisexual)? Why does everything have to be made into some political statement? This guy had to worry about civil rights and Dred Scott and things like that. Was being gay even a thing back then?
Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known as Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades.
https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/little-richards-music-was-dangerous-but-so-is-freedom.html