• Maybe it will kinda blow over.

• "They did not resign from the police department, only from their roles on the team."

Epidemiology touches every part of our lives. This, from months ago, awaits further explication:

I have a bunch of veils from my bellydancing days, thought about using them when I run out of masks....

NicoleK at March 15, 2020 11:10 PM

Is there anything that would make Trump voters feel they'd been hoodwinked?

Both the silly old men seem to be doing everything they can to avoid winning the election.

You guys seen the 2020 quarter?

They're transparent, so you can either wear them over your head, or, better, wrap them around your face several times.

You guys seen the 2020 quarter?

Seems oddly appropriate.

Oh. I would simply say "you owe me a replacement".

Florida-based C8 owner Jake Anthony recently brought his car in for service and clearly, the dealership did not know the proper way to put it on the lift. The new mid-engined Vette has a different weight distribution that the dealer was apparently oblivious to, resulting in the car falling off the lift.

https://carbuzz.com/news/owner-furious-after-dealership-drops-c8-corvette-from-lift

Is there anything that would make Trump voters feel they'd been hoodwinked? ~ Crid at June 8, 2020 12:51 AM

Probably not. The sane ones, who voted for him over Hillary, knew what they were getting but felt it was better than the alternative. The fan-boys voted for him to upset the status quo and to piss off Democrats. These were the folks who resented that the TEA Party was treated as an unruly bunch of racists by the media and the establishment, but BLM, Occupy, and Antifa are treasured. They wanted payback and Trump gives them that every time they see the media and the Democrats go nuts over him.

Same with the hardcore leftists. Antifa could brutally murder a police officer on a public street and the leftists would fall all over themselves to explain it as an understandable response to the systemic racism at the core of America. That those organizations are daily giving Republicans and Trumpistas apoplexy only reaffirms leftist support for them and forgiveness for any actions committed by them.

The US Civil War was preceded by a decade of hostility and bloodshed - Bloody Kansas, Harpers Ferry, fistfights in Congress, Nat Turner's Rebellion, et al. Is history repeating? Have we become that divided?

I worry for the future of the republic. We are the heirs of the greatest experiment in individual liberty in the history of the human race; and we're throwing it all away in a fit of petulance. At least the Civil War was about something. The current unrest is just a childish temper tantrum writ large.

If Trump is elected, the country will tear itself apart on inauguration day. If Biden is elected, it will take a few weeks longer.

Here's an op-ed that nobody at the New York Times had any problem publishing

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1268681976044797956

SJWs always project:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ADHD_Extreme/status/1270010119502233601

The reality is more of an eye-roller: Lowrey is known for being open about her non-politically correct opinions on sex and gender, which is known as “gender-critical.” In a nutshell, she doesn’t believe that sex/gender is a “social construct.”

Lowrey was asked to resign back in March but refused, telling the university it “would need to put its reasons for [dismissing her] in writing.” Shortly thereafter, she received a letter from Dean of Arts Lesley Cormack merely stating that “it is not in the best interests of the students or the University” for her to continue in her position.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/canadian-professor-canned-for-opinion-that-biological-sex-is-a-real-thing/

When they say "silence is violence" but also tell you STFU.

https://twitter.com/RantyAmyCurtis/status/1270033960735780867

Ben David, I looked up the word, just to be sure. As I suspected, the definition is about feelings, NOT actions, criminal or otherwise.

OK, I didn't read the op-ed just yet, so maybe the title is misleading.

At any rate, I can only hope that if someone with a CLEAN record is somehow revealed to have those feelings (likely because of some unethical blabbermouth) that person would still be legally allowed to go to any public park.

Not to mention that when we have no compassion for people's feelings, whether they're based on anger or not, that makes it all the harder for the subjects to repress their bad actions. Take, for example, the five year old who is bitterly jealous of the new baby but who gets no sympathy or attention. Such a child is more likely to hit the baby or worse, right?

When momma finds out you've been up to no good. An oldie, but a goodie.

https://twitter.com/mel_faith1/status/1163422333371072512

Lenona, that's not the problem. The problem comes somewhere down the line when an op-ed runs with

"Time to Decriminalize Pedophilia?"

Is that 6 months from now? two years from now? at some point, a line must be drawn of "This far. No further. Or else."

I feel sorry for people who are attracted to children. They have a tough road to walk if they wish to stay out of prison. And if they falter and end up in prison, that road got just that much tougher.

That said, these aren't 5 year olds with jealousy issues.

If you had "snailien" on your 2020 ShitStorm bingo card, you might be a winner!

https://www.facebook.com/papajimsecola/photos/a.2147885092127350/2527196050862917/?type=3

When everybody already knows what the truth is, who needs a paper of record?

Well, actually, the people annoyed by the resignation presumably understand that there are new things to learn every morning.

BTW, duzzinibuddy remember that time muscular mooks were issued fraudulent LEO badges by the Chicago Department of Aviation and then dispatched by a contractor for United Airlines to walk onto an airliner, crush the face of a paying passenger, and drag his semi-conscious ass back out to into the terminal at O'Hare?

You do? Good. BOLO.

Might be seeing more of that, and not just in the City of the Broad Shoulders.

> you can either wear them
> over your head, or

Got it.

Was amused by the concept of Belly Dancing Days, and how they came to an end.

Crazy ways are evident in the way you're wearing your clothes....

Of course legal lines have to be drawn - and kept.

Did you mean that hypothetical title to say "Time to Decriminalize Pedophilic Behavior"? (I trust just having those feelings is not a crime.)

Unfortunately for me, I was too hasty. (Never look up just ONE source, online!) I looked up "pedophilia" again, and Psychology Today said:

"Pedophilia is defined as recurrent and intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children—generally age 13 years or younger—over a period of at least six months."

So it would help if we had separate words for feelings and actions in that case.

The fact is, we simply can't have "thought crime." We very much need to learn to distinguish between feelings and behaviors - and work to UNDERSTAND where feelings come from and how to deal with them, whether in ourselves or other people, to prevent worse things from happening. (Yes, one could argue that most of the time, controlling feelings - whether they're dangerous or not - is more important than expressing those feelings, if only because the odds are too high that some gossip will distort your expressions, in the retelling, to all the wrong people.)

Btw, small jealous children are no laughing matter. Even non-jealous ones. Just a few years ago, there was a father who left his daughter - younger than 6, maybe - in the back seat of a car with her baby brother while he went shopping for at least an hour. The baby's constant crying made her so angry, she accidentally strangled him with the seat belt. (She was crying when the father got back - she had thought the baby was sleeping, but soon realized what had happened. The father got charged, of course.)

While of course there are often laws against letting small children "babysit" in empty houses or cars, that doesn't change the fact that most people don't really expect THAT type of violence to happen, because they don't really understand or anticipate how angry kids can get. They only anticipate innocent accidents that happen out of neglect, not anger.

Here it is - it's from 2018.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-girl-6-accused-strangling-baby-brother-seat-belt-dad-shopped-1223827

Might be seeing more of that, and not just in the City of the Broad Shoulders.

IowaHawk figured that works out to $12K each individual. I didn't check his math to see if that includes cuts of the vig from elected and un-elected officials, the company itself, union dues, taxes, withholding and so on, so forth and et cetera.

Oh, from the fine article:

“The new guards are unarmed and solely in place to monitor activity on commercial corridors and notify the Chicago Police Department if any illegal activity occurs,” Lightfoot’s office said in a statement.

Also according to the article, the $12K per figure is gross. So, if they walk with $4K that won't be too terrible. For them. They'll probably shake down the looters, too.

Lifelock was way ahead of things: https://youtu.be/x8FNVsbnwWE

> I feel sorry for people who
> are attracted to children.

Years ago I used to listen to Carolla & Pinsky on Loveline (radio). (Radio was a popular form of electronic communication, point-to-multipoint.) Even then I was decades beyond their target demo, but human nature was exposed with humor and tremendous clarity… Nothing helps you see the outlines like a child making a mistake.

It had been a rough night, with several tragic phone calls from kids needing advice, each for some manifestation of childhood sexual abuse: An incompetent parent who'd been twisted into alcoholism and mental illness by Grandpa in the Old Country, a girl tormented by stepbrothers, on and on.

And before starting a commercial break, Carolla (the *comedian*!) boiled over with frustration and addressed his whole audience, paraphrasing— 'Listen, if you're an adult and you're sexually attracted to kids, just kill yourself, okay? I'm sorry. But IT'S NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER. So just go ahead an take a bullet for the team.'

It was coarse and simpleminded, and after those calls, it felt perfectly correct. Pinsky — the doctor, and usually a law & order guy with professional enthusiasm for psychotherapeutic solutions — let Carolla's rant spool out without challenging or interrupting. And it didn't seem like he was too appalled to speak, it sounded like the horrors he'd just heard about from young sufferers had put him in a similar mood.

Of course legal lines have to be drawn - and kept.

Did you mean that hypothetical title to say "Time to Decriminalize Pedophilic Behavior"?

Agree with the first, and the second is what I meant. NAMBLA has been pushing that for decades. Most people think of them as screwballs and nuts, but they keep pushing for legalization of the behavior.

We certainly don't need a Bureau of Pre-Crime. Let's not give them ideas. Minority Report was supposed to be fiction, both entertaining and potentially thought provoking.

> If Trump is elected, the country
> will tear itself apart on
> inauguration day. If Biden is
> elected, it will take a few
> weeks longer.

Sounds about right. I regard all this madness as liberalism morphed into carcinoma. We knew it when talking about "political correctness" almost thirty years ago. But the presumption and the naivete of the lefties are mutually accelerating in a non-linear curve. Their energy is nakedly religious and cannibalistic.

But the time frame of greater interest are on closer approach. Events are moving with insane speed: Within the span of days if not hours, twitchingly brittle corporations have begun furiously slamming millions (billions soon) of dollars into social services enterprises which are in no way prepared, ethically or administratively, to deploy them. A week ago, talk of dismantling police departments seemed like moonbarking madness, but enthusiasm is churning with almost literal blindness.

If there ISN'T a Covid spike by the 20th, people will be enraged, but if there IS, people will be enraged.

Also, there probably won't be political conventions. Also, voting will be tallied by mail or electronics, and many will doubt there's enough social cohesion to trust the degraded procedures.

Also, the candidates are ancient men, but not the wizened kind: One's a narcissist who's presumed to be a speedfreak, and the other's a famously poor-spoken figure whose plainly drifting into senility if not dementia. As interactions are stressed, these men do not betoken resilience.

Every 37 hours feels like two weeks… Governance in January is unimaginable.

But IT'S NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER.

Truth.

This sheriff is apparently controversial for other reasons.

Wanting to believe it's true, but it's also from WHO.

Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html

corporations have begun furiously slamming millions (billions soon) of dollars into social services enterprises which are in no way prepared, ethically or administratively, to deploy them

I'm sure they'll be able to spend the money. It just won't be particularly wise, or effective, or useful. But the NGOs will be able to afford to give themselves 6 figure salaries, and to hire their best buddy's businesses to push forward certain initiatives. Hopefully, they aren't harmful to the people they're supposed to help.

The corporations don't care about actual results. It's about what they say they've done, and what they say they're going to do.

Whoa. From 2012:

Peter’s work suggests that peaks of violence in the US work on a 50-year cycle, with the next state of upheaval set to hit humanity in 2020. It’s sort of like that 2012 Mayan-apocalypse nonsense, except Peter’s theory is the result of the hard work of a modern, living, and well-respected scientist rather than something hippies like to talk about while taking heavy psychedelic drugs. We spoke to Peter to find out what’s supposedly going to make the US descend into a horrifying, dystopian pit of violence in eight years’ time.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gvbg5/2012-is-bullshit-2020-is-when-well-really-be-in-trouble-fob-0003000-v19n10

How difficult to find "a modern, living, and well-respected scientists" of similar confidence regarding 2023, or 2017?

Conan:

The sane ones, who voted for him over Hillary, knew what they were getting but felt it was better than the alternative.

Which describes my reasons for voting for him in the first place. Hillary would have opened the doors for Middle Eastern refugees.

And as a veteran of Desert Storm, I can assure you that the typical Middle Easterner is not ready for Western culture.

I will not say this is true of all of them, but the prevailing attitude toward women isn't just archaic; it's barbaric.

They don't regard women as second-class citizens; that would be an improvement. They regard women as a public incidental to be used however they see fit. Much like a tin can that someone might kick down the street as they walk. To them, it is utterly incomprehensible that a woman has rights, can vote, and can dress however she wants. Any unaccompanied woman not covered from head -to-toe in anything more form-fitting than a garbage bag is fair game. It is their God-given to assault such women freely.

Much like Angela Merkle, Hillary is utterly incapable of grasping this concept. And the blinking Bambi-eyed liberals insist, "Oh, they're just like us..."

Oh, no, they're not.

His vehemence is his own, but still— The human beings of any given generation are not infinitely adaptable. He's got his eyes on the ball.

✔ Patrick at June 8, 2020 3:55 PM

Y'know, if you said that Tom Hanks was secretly Justin Bieber and that Nancy Pelosi was actually Jessica Alba, you'd only have to wait two hours for someone on Twitter to agree. Still—

> Wanting to believe it's true,
> but it's also from WHO.

Via McArdle, your doubts are affirmed—

Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt

NEW: The WHO made a surprising announcement that asymptomatic people w COVID rarely spread it.

I’ve talked to 4 reputable scientists, the White House, and the WHO.

I believe this was an irresponsible statement even though it was based on legitimate observations. Thread here. 1/

Oh, no, they're not. ~ Patrick at June 8, 2020 3:55 PM

I'm not arguing they are. I voted for Trump with my eyes wide open. I knew I was getting a narcissistic ass, but one at least grounded in some form of reality. The people who would have been empowered by a Hillary election frightened me - both in their naiveté and their lust for power.

BLM and Antifa have spent the last week proving my concerns valid.

BLM and Antifa have spent the last week proving my concerns valid.

Conan the Grammarian at June 8, 2020 8:17 PM

Just the last week?

Interesting, Patrick, that wasn't my experience at all in the Palestinian territories in the 90s (similar time frame to you). Most people I met, particularly in the West Bank (Gaza was more conservative), were pretty modern. The guys as a group were a little sleazy, but in a Latin kind of way, in fact, my time in Italy was worse.

I even hitch hiked with no problems. (Yes, I now know how stupid that was and how lucky I ended up being, I was 19 so I was immortal).

If you offered a better choice something like 70% of Trump supporters would switch. There really isn't much of a cult of personality around the guy. At least not among his voters.

That said you have to actually offer a better choice. No Mitt Romney doesn't count. No Gary Johnson either. The closest real alternative I can think of is Ted Cruz. But we will have to see who is available in 2024.

The 2024 shoo-in is Nikki Haley.

"If Trump is elected, the country will tear itself apart on inauguration day. "

Nope. Faster with Biden, whose running mate COUNTS and has not been announced yet, though it is widely assumed it will be some suppurating pustule claiming victim status, used to wiping her feet on the Constitution, having never read it. Trump's people have nearly all firearms in personal hands, though there is doubt about how readily they will be used if necessary.

You can already see hints at what the nation thinks of blue-state thinking by the number of Sheriffs simply not enforcing executive orders.

There is a fundamental difference in who "the enemy" of liberty is in each case. For unrest under Trump? Deranged individuals. For unrest under Biden? A grasping State.

Perspective.

I'd vote for Nikki Haley. I'd vote for Cruz, but a lot of people find him unlikable. I'd vote for Greg Abbott, but he doesn't have a national profile and hasn't shown any interest in a presidential run.

Cruz has calmed down a lot since 2016. Though someone does need to talk to him about grooming. His current hair cut and beard thing just makes him look old and redneck. It may be silly but that alone can cost him the nomination.

I'm flexible on Haley. I don't really know enough about where she stands on issues I'm focused on. But that will all come out in a primary. Some have raised the issue of her being a Sikh. Well, the evangelicals don't have much pull anymore. And even where they do have pull they are also more interested in getting policy they favor passed than having the same faith as their representative, so I don't see that holding her back much. Certainly Trump with his 'favorite part of the bible' being 'those two Corinthian guys' was painful comedy but it didn't hold him back any with evangelical voters.

I agree with you on Abbott.

“Certainly Trump with his 'favorite part of the bible' being 'those two Corinthian guys' was painful comedy but it didn't hold him back any with evangelical voters.”

Evangelicals are not the sort to be one issue voters, or to be hoodwinked into voting for who the Christian hating news media defines as the “better Christian”.