Still healthier than margarine:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1233607828239196162

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Byron York @ByronYork

At least two New York Times columnists, Collins and Krugman, now referring to coronavirus as 'Trumpvirus.'

Politics is about building alliances… Bringing people into tent. But for a generation or two, cognitive an financial elites have made enormous distance, social and otherwise, from vast swaths of the electorate. It's not just that they don't know how to communicate with others; they sincerely believe they shouldn't have to.

"Anything that can distinguish your group from the others could work to keep hatreds high and resist merger. Other groups, conveniently, are similarly disposed.These non-hereditary differences between one group and another- even arbitrary differences, only distantly connected with any adaptive advantage, but serving to preserve group independence and coherence- are called, collectively, culture."

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, 1993

(Sure, intelligence itself is enormously heritable, but you don't need a lot of brains to see the world as it is.)

Oh, it Berns!

https://twitter.com/DissidentRabbi/status/1232971125535182850

Civilization is a thin veneer, sometimes.

https://twitter.com/krisvancleave/status/1232048232093622272

Let's all imagine a cataclysm that could remind us, or fail to remind us, that civilization is an enterprise transcending petty boundaries.

The 30 Years War would be an example. Initially fought by people who claimed to be Christian, doing some very unChristian like things to each other. Portions of Germany saw population decreases on the order of 50%.

"Let's all imagine a cataclysm that could remind us, or fail to remind us, that civilization is an enterprise transcending petty boundaries."

Ahh, wisdom. Really.

Confirmation bias is so much fun, though...

If the Utopia some pretend would result from their election was real, surely there would be an example.

Bernie? Elizabeth? Hillary? Anybody?

If your policy is such a sure thing, just show how it works. Worked. Anywhere. And how.

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Meanwhile, the only sure thing about Coronavirus is that the media will make record money selling fear.

Looks like an actual commercial in Dutch.

https://youtu.be/Nr_bizbxTiU

https://twitter.com/Weirddave0/status/1232732509831479296

Oh, Joe.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1233446170460131332

Politics is about building alliances… Bringing people into tent. But for a generation or two, cognitive an financial elites have made enormous distance, social and otherwise, from vast swaths of the electorate. It's not just that they don't know how to communicate with others; they sincerely believe they shouldn't have to.

The thing is, they already have the alliances they need.

As a financially global tribe, it's pointless for them to be friendly with the service.

Any kind of change is likely to come from the self-made new rich people. But that's just wishful thinking, because all is needed to silence opposition is the threat of financial ruin thanks to a hit piece from online "news" outlets.

> they already have the
> alliances they need.

And yet they certainly seem unhappy with their Executive branch of public servants, don't they? And their critiques are often remarkably personal....

From 2013, and perhaps pertinent to today as the response to WuFlu breaks down global supply chains:

How a Good Lent Can Help Fix a Bad Economy

Not big government, but merely big-ISH government?

Conservative Leaders to AG Barr: Big Tech’s Opposition to Free Speech Must End

It's about time that somebody got severe sanction for a tragedy caused by getting behind the wheel loaded.

Drunken driver who killed 3 Las Vegas teens in 'tragedy of epic proportions' begs for forgiveness

Interesting.

I Thought Abortion Restrictions Were a Reasonable Compromise — Until I Needed One at 32 Weeks

Abortion restrictions: this is grandstanding Progressive BS.
Every single law restricting abortions makes just these medical exceptions explicit.

Every.single.one.