Police Liftless Fingers, Violent BLM, Greasy Obama, Virus Media, Sniffles

Tucker Outraged as Obama Gets Greasy
Defiling the Eulogy by Connecting John Lewis with Voting Rights
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara explains why socialism is evil after defining it as putting collective good in place of any individual good. Well, that wasn’t hard, was it? Makes it easy to demonize Social Security, any police except for private security forces (who wants socialized police?), any fire departments except those privately created for private purposes (who wants socialized fire departments?). In fact, who wants socialized roads, socialized bridges, or socialized sidewalks? All we need to do is define our terms first. As in “Let’s first define our terms.”
     
  • My long time friend (no lie) Darrell is Unabashedly American, defining terms in a slightly more brazen way. For example, Congressman Jerry Nadler says that BLM protests are “generally peaceful.” Darrell says this really means “any violence being done is by police on peaceful protesters simply exercising their constitutional rights…” That would be any violence. Since that proposition is easily disproven (it only takes one video, right?), it means police are dealing with “mainly snot-nosed white millenial rioters.” So that settles it.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box takes a brief look at one of the less savory methods a few police organizations can use to force unwilling support, and do it without lifting a finger. Literally.
     
  • Frances Langum watches Tucker Carlson, so you don’t have to, where Barack Obama becomes “a greasy politician” for twisting a eulogy into somehow trying to connect John Lewis with voting rights. As Tucker puts it, “What kind of person would do that?”

  • Nan’s Notebook asks why the United States has been hit so much harder by the coronavirus than the rest of the world. One reason has to to with a substantial portion of media ownership. Apparently, networks like Fox and Sinclair are not …ahem… accurately reporting the dangers posed by lack of COVID caution. Really? They’re underplaying the seriousness of the pandemic?
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil hears what most of us hear from occasional conservative friends, family, acquaintances, and some networks. The virus is no worse than a case of the sniffles. And he provides a one sentence refutation.
     
  • Dave Dubya ticktocks through virus chronology, gives a condensed but accurate overview of leadership failure, walks through the final days of Herman Cain, prepares to walk through the last hours of Louie Gohmert, and reminds us of the needlessly final days of 150,000 other Americans. Seems it is getting real even for those who deny science and turn their backs on medical warnings.
     
  • On Herman Cain: PZ Myers has a plea to Republicans. This is dangerous, dangerous stuff. It’s life and death. Maybe your death. Find some other way to prove your point. Please, please don’t screw around with this thing.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson believes conservatives should wear masks because “The number one weapon in fighting a pandemic is human decency.” But he is concerned about the Governor’s emergency order to mask, quoting minor officials about the abusive power grab. After all, this order could lead to a horrible possibility if “Another public health emergency gives the governor all the tools he needs to close schools, mandate virtual learning, issue another safer-at-home order or worse”. Oh my. What could possibly be worse during a pandemic than that?
     
  • nojo takes us to a different reality in which President Hillary Clinton is raked over the coals for one or two thousand deaths. Then we’re back in this universe, with death all around, watching a wonderful nation go bad, go broke, go down.
     
  • Hackwhackers collects opinions about … you know … maybe delaying the election. And Kevin McCarthy gets surprised in the halls of Congress, so now Louis Gohmert has a new nickname.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports as Trump signs an executive order banning the month of November.
     
  • News Corpse says that if Trump really wants to change election day …well… why not make it earlier? Polls are very clear. If the election was held right now, the overwhelming majority of Americans would be very surprised.
     
  • Green Eagle knows it’s small stuff compared to kids in cages, pardons for silence, using government to smear opponents, and on and on. But telling a felon that he’ll go to prison if he writes a book exposing crimes by a president? Really? Prison for a book? In the U S of A?
     
  • We’re all safer because the Department of Homeland Security is carefully tracking terrorists. And, as tengrain points out at Mock Paper Scissors, when they run out of terrorists, my president’s administration has them tracking journalists.
     
    Wait. What?
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson says we’ve become like an abuse victim who denies the abuse. In just 3½ years, a huge part of the United States has come to believe continuing catastrophe is normal.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit looks at the sentences (captions, actually) and lets us draw conclusions about our law and order president.
     
  • How about we let up a little on laughing at my president for endorsing that …um… unusual doctor? John Scalzi at Whatever suggests that we simply take precautions. Check with your own doctor before sex with demons.
     
  • Tommy Christopher tracks twitter reaction as Alan Dershowitz gets reminded of three very important words: statue, tory, rape. No, it’s not funny. Nor is Alan’s history of challenging the legal concept. But these are only accusations, right?
     
  • Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes has learned that the end time of the world can be defined as when its purpose is fulfilled. He seems to be saying the continuation of time is cause for regret. We know this because he concludes that regret is pointless.
     
  • Well, it’s something that has never occurred to me to try. Somehow, The Journal of Improbable Research has discovered a study on the effectiveness of polishing glass with ketchup. All these years wearing lenses, and I never thought of it.

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