THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD:  Our COVID Future: The Establishment Strikes Back.

WELL… THAT WOULD BE …. INTERESTING.
I’M NOT ANTI-VACCINE. I EVEN TAKE THE FLU VACCINE ON POOR FIT YEARS, BECAUSE MY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM SUCKS (IN GENERAL)
BUT MY FANS WHO ARE MDs HAVE ADVISED ME NEVER EVER EVER TO THAT THE FIRST ITERATION OF A VACCINE. PROBLEMS ALWAYS SHOW UP:  Will We All Be Forced to Get COVID Vaccines?

Also? My body my choice. Sauce. Gander.

HUBRIS AND MISCALCULATIONS ARE A GIVEN WITH THE LEFT. BUT EVEN I DIDN’T REALIZE THEY’D BE SO STUPID AND EVIL AS TO WANT TO DESTROY ALL OF ECONOMY AND STARVE PEOPLE JUST TO GET ORANGE MAN BAD:  Hubris and miscalculation: The left’s bid to exploit the virus to defeat Trump.

IF ANYTHING DEMANDS A SOCIALIST SOLUTION, IT MUST BE A PRETTY STUPID PROBLEM. LIKE, SAY, TOO MUCH TOILET PAPER:  Human Problems Demand Human Solutions, Not Socialist Ones.

OH, HECK:  Perfect Choice – Gretchen Whitmer Negotiating With Biden Team for Vice President Position…

TAKE VITAMIN D, IGNORE THE KARENS, AND REFUSE TO BE LOCKED DOWN ANYMORE. OLLY, OLLY OXEN FREE:  COVID19 update, May 19, 2020: scaling up drug production; super-spreading events; reopening churches and synagogues; Matt Ridley on vitamin D.

THIS — ALL OF THIS — WILL END BADLY… FOR THE LEFT:  J’Accuse: Judge Sullivan marches on and invents his own judicial procedures.

OH, DEAR LORD, REALLY? THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO RUN WITH?  Impeachment 2.0 The Schiff Hits The Fan.

WE’RE NOT PRECISELY RURAL, BUT I’VE BEEN PRACTICING MY REBEL YELL:  Rural America Rebels Against the Madness.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEIR COLLEGE PROFESSORS TOLD LIBERALS THAT CAPITALISM CAUSES POVERTY. AND THESE SHEEP BELIEVED IT:  Back to the Future on Crime.

FOUND ON THE INTERNET — STACEY ABRAMS COMEBACK:

DO YOU GUYS EVER WONDER IF THEY LOCKED US UP TO DISTRACT FROM THIS SEWER BEING OPENED?  Explosive Rice Memo Declassified.

EDENVILLE DAM BREAKS, SPARKING IMMEDIATE EVACUATIONS IN MICHIGAN.

UPDATE: 10,000 People Evacuated After Two Michigan Dams Fail, Governor Gretchen Whitmer Declares State Of Emergency For County.

(Updated and bumped.)

NO. POSING IS THEIR LIFESTYLE. Ann Althouse: Do people who want Trump to fail ever get tired of posing as if they’re offering to help him avoid failure?

AT AMAZON, HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop Core i5-9400F, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD+2TB SSHD, Hexa-Core up to 4.10 GHz, RJ-45 LAN, USB-C, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, DVD-RW, Win 10.

IRISH DEMOCRACY: ‘In a Word, Ludicrous.’ Entrepreneur Leads Revolt Against Whitmer’s Lockdown Orders.

OPEN THREAD: Pull up the weeds before they’re too damn big.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE. IT USED TO BE THAT ONLY THE LEFT COULD GET PROTESTERS TO TRAVEL LIKE THIS: Out-of-town Trump backers rally outside Williamsburg barber shop looking to reopen businesses. Now Trump supporters are invading the left’s safe spaces.

TEXAS’ ‘GO TOPLESS JEEP WEEKEND’ NEWS REPORT BECOMES INSTANT CLASSIC:

Exit quote: “The cops are doing their job, [and] as long as they don’t be mean to people who are actually being innocent, then I’m all gravy, baby!”

EXPLOSIVE RICE MEMO DECLASSIFIED:

We have known for more than two years that, on the day of President Trump’s inauguration and just minutes before she left the White House for the last time, Susan Rice, then President Obama’s National Security Adviser, wrote a memo to herself about “Russia.” Specifically, she documented the fact, presumably for her later protection should the matter become public, that on January 5, 2017, President Obama had directed her to lie to her incoming counterpart, General Michael Flynn, about the Russia investigation that was then ongoing, in which General Flynn himself was, unbeknownst to him, one of the targets. This deception violated all historic norms, but it was vital if the Obama holdovers (James Comey et al.) were to be able to continue their “Russia investigation,” a bare pretext for unraveling Trump’s presidency, post-inauguration.

Read the whole thing.

Flashbacks:

“I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today. And let’s back up and recall where we have been. The president of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred, and we have heard that confirmed by the director of the FBI, who also pointed out that no president, no White House can order the surveillance of another American citizen.”

—“Susan Rice: The world wonders and worries if the White House can be trusted,” PBS News Hour, March 22, 2017.

“Rick Grenell is one of the most nasty, dishonest people I’ve ever encountered.” Fmr. National Security Adviser Susan Rice slams President Trump’s pick as acting DNI Richard Grenell, calling him a “hack and a shill.”

—MSNBC, February 21st, 2020.

SO WE BASICALLY REALLY ARE LIVING IN FALLEN ANGELS, WITH HUMAN EMISSIONS OFFSETTING A NEW ICE AGE: The sun is experiencing a less active phase called ‘solar minimum,’ but it won’t cause an ice age. “But this solar minimum won’t spark another ice age, they say. And that’s likely due to [anthropogenic] climate change.”

Related, from last year: Big U-turn: Key melting Greenland glacier is growing again. “A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) and thinning nearly 130 feet (almost 40 meters) annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience . Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.”

Temporary, eh? Well, so was the shrinkage before, as it turned out.

SPACE: SpaceX’s 1st Dragon capsule for astronauts arrives at launch site for historic mission.

JOE BIDEN: PRO-TRAIN WRECK PUTIN PUPPET. Biden Pledge to Dump Keystone Pipeline Would Kill Thousands of Jobs, Analysis Says.

As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

Flashbacks:

● The Opaque Dangers of Oil-by-Rail.

● Senior Obama Energy Official: ‘I Think the Keystone XL Pipeline Should Have Been Built.’

SO IF YOU’VE EVER WANTED TO SEE ONE OF MY CLASSES, WELL HERE’S YOUR CHANCE, SORT OF. C-SPAN broadcast one of my Constitutional Law classes last weekend, but it was a pandemic Zoom class so it’s a pale shadow of the real class, where I tend to move around a lot, engage one-on-one with students, and climb on furniture. Still, here you go.

SMOG MEANS JOBS AND JOBS MEAN SMOG: Car Crashes, DUI Arrests Plummet During California’s Lockdown.

(Classical reference in headline.)