YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Chinese Lies Update For May 6, 2020. “Time for another roundup of Chinese lies and perfidy!”
Seriously. A much bigger blog.
To be perfectly clear, this is the communist People’s Republic of China on the mainland, and not the finely-run Republic of China on Taiwan.
I’M SURE CNN WILL EXPLAIN TO US WHY KILLING OLD PEOPLE IS GOOD: This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo.
Two weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first asked about his policy that forced nursing homes to admit patients infected with the coronavirus.
“That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
On Tuesday, Cuomo was asked about a report from the Associated Press that his team had added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in nursing homes, bringing the total to at least 4,813.
“I don’t know the details, frankly,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
Sgt. Schultz reporting for duty!
Cuomo is legendary for micromanaging and has been praised for his detailed daily briefings during the pandemic. He has closed schools, religious services and businesses because each human life is “priceless.”
So with known nursing home deaths representing 25 percent of all deaths in the state, it beggars belief that the governor didn’t know anything about his office’s fatal policy two weeks ago or the new death totals now.
As I said earlier, Trump has ruined the prospects of a whole cohort of Democratic governors simply by letting them govern.
LIST: Top-5 U.S. States in Deaths per Million of Population. ” All states under exclusive Republican control come in below the national mean. All 11 states (with DC) above the national mean are under exclusive Democratic control, or have a Democratic legislature, or a Democratic governor.”
Related items here.
DO YOU HAVE YOUR PAPERS, COMRADE? First Gavin Newsom Closed the Beaches. Then His Cops Ticketed Those Who Came to Look at Them.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Professor sues university for defamation, retaliation in response to his pro-Israel views.
A tenured philosophy professor at DePaul University is suing the institution and two senior faculty members for alleged retaliation against him for his pro-Israel views.
In the lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, Jason Hill describes a “hostile work environment” and a “campaign of intimidation and demonization” against him because he “freely spoke his mind.”
Several faculty have “petitioned their own faculty chairs to prohibit Dr. Hill from teaching upper-level classes,” and encouraged students to “boycott his classes,” the suit alleges, claiming defamation and violation of his due process and contractual rights. He has suffered damages such as “Censorship, Financial Loss, and Public Humiliation and Scorn.”
Perhaps most explosively, Hill (above) claims he is being punished for not fitting DePaul’s stereotypes of a homosexual Jamaican immigrant of African descent.
The defendants have targeted Hill because “he has departed from the opinion” that they have “deemed permissible and acceptable for someone of his race and sexual orientation” to hold, the suit argues.
Certainly sounds plausible. Especially at DePaul, which has been a PC cesspit for years.
The Chinese Communist Party knows the COVID-19/Wuhan virus pandemic has exposed its imperial war to conquer the world, so it is frantically engaged in psychological and political damage control.
When former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes says calling the disease “Wuhan virus” is racist, he is blatantly aiding Beijing’s propaganda campaign. Communists of old used to refer to people like Rhodes as “useful idiots.” Is that term still current in Beijing?
SEAL SURF IMMERSION: Navy SEAL candidates participate in surf immersion during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif. Photo taken May 4.
WELL, THE CURVE DID FLATTEN RATHER NICELY: White House considers phasing out coronavirus task force.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Amid the global COVID-19 crisis, the University of Alaska system announced significant furloughs, including its own university president. “In the statement, Johnsen noted that a total of 166 system employees are being furloughed, including himself, the chancellors, senior executives, and top administrators. He also stated that faculty who lead departments and hold other leadership positions will be furloughed for eight days. Designated officers, such as himself, will have a longer ten-day furlough.”
If they’re furloughing administrators, you know that it’s serious.
TITLE IX CRAZINESS: I hate to say it, but this tweet by the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is unhinged. She claims that prior to her birth one could rape students with impunity and asserts that the Department of Education’s new regulations will return us to those bad old days.
There was, of course, never such a time. The traditional penalty for rape was death, but as a result of pressure from progressives many states were drifting away from the death penalty and opting instead for prison sentences by the 1960s. Georgia, however, held firm. In 1977, however, in Coker v. Georgia, the Supreme Court held the death penalty for rape to be unconstitutional. It is worth pointing out that the Court’s conservatives dissented.
How regulations guaranteeing due process to individuals accused of sexual assault under Title IX can take us back to these mythical “bad old days” is beyond me.
.@BetsyDeVosED presides over taking us back to the bad old days, that predate my birth, when it was permissible to rape and sexually harass students with impunity. Today’s students deserve better, including fair protections consistent with law https://t.co/Kxn5teeYnE
— Catherine E. Lhamon (@CatherineLhamon) May 6, 2020
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Twitter Makes Big Move Into Thought Policing. “At times it seems as if Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey are engaged in some sort of personal, perverse billionaire fun and trying to see which one can make his platform more heavy-handed when it comes to the freedom of expression of its users.”
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.
FUNNY, FROM THE NYT YOU’D THINK PEOPLE WERE DYING LIKE FLIES IN DIXIE BECAUSE THOSE DUMB BIBLE-THUMPERS DON’T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE: “When controlling for the differences in population across states, the number of deaths from coronavirus is over three times higher in states with Democratic governors than in states with Republican governors.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard Faces $1.2 Billion Shortfall Due To COVID-19.
THE PROGRESSIVE’S LAMENT: Progressives Mourn Their Failure to Exploit this Crisis.
The sense that this once-in-a-century nightmare is really one big missed opportunity is pervasive among progressives in Washington, too. For those on the farthest end of the liberal spectrum in Congress, the pandemic has provided them with “a sense of hope,” according to Politico. “They see a federal government finally willing to spend massive sums on long-neglected health and social programs, and say it’s time to push for policies that would otherwise never stand a chance of a floor vote,” the report read.
This charitable description of a rather perverse reaction to an event that is responsible for death, precarity, and hardship on an unimaginable scale is the kind of dispensation conservatives can only fantasize about. The right is, however, better off without this kind of encouragement.
The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is informed in this dispatch that, despite their “policy-savvy” senior leadership and the star power exhibited by new members like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “progressives have often struggled to successfully wield their influence to shape legislation.” Thus, the Democrats’ left flank is asked only to ponder why their adversaries are so effective rather than the unthinkable notion that their demands are unrealistic and undesirable.
Meanwhile, everyday American leftists are experiencing their version of Tom Wolfe’s “The Great Relearning” as part of what Steve Hayward calls “The Great Reset:”
Ms. Singer, who prided herself on producing no trash that needed to be landfilled, stocked her kitchen with packaged food that would last for weeks. “I sacrificed my values and bought items in plastic. Lots of it.” She also learned a lesson: “I have many values and sometimes, as circumstances change, one of those values may take priority above another.”
“Funny how that happens when things get real,” Hayward adds.
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