WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: It’s Time for Conscious Uncoupling With China.

TOO BAD: New Chinese Assault Carrier Catches Fire.

THIS IS INTERESTING: 66-point partisan divide on Trump, but near unity on anti-virus tactics. “People in the United States can’t get over their differences on President Trump despite near unity on the social distancing demands his team and those in states, cities, and towns have made to slow the spread of the coronavirus.”

I think the intensity of the partisan divide is the fault of our toxic media.

HAPPY EASTER FROM GOV. COONMAN: Ralph Northam Makes It Easier to Kill Babies Amid Coronavirus Pandemic.

BREAKING THE CARDINAL RULE:  A disturbing miscarriage of justice is finally righted by the High Court of Australia.  But what does it say about Australia’s judicial system that it took the High Court’s intervention?

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The coronavirus crisis has exposed the truth about the EU: it’s not a real union. “The northern European nations within the eurozone still do not trust the hard-pressed southern ones to spend money wisely and pay back their debts. It was the same reticence that governed the slow reaction to the 2008 financial crisis. In other words, the EU is not a true political union, like the United States or Russia or even the United Kingdom. When one EU country hits trouble, as Greece and Italy have done over Mediterranean migrants since 2015, the EU itself is silent. It turns its back and hopes trouble will go away.”

NEVER LET A PANDEMIC GO TO WASTE. “Progressive” Destruction: The Pandemic is the Perfect Time to Abolish the Family.

THE FDA AND CDC HAVE NOT MADE BIG GOVERNMENT LOOK GOOD: The COVID-19 Crisis Is the Result of Decades of FDA Misrule.

OF COURSE SHE DID: AOC Remained in Posh D.C. Apartment as Coronavirus Ravaged Her District.

JOEL KOTKIN: OLIGARCHY AND PESTILENCE. “When he takes office – or some other more sentient figure like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – the new President will inherit a governmental apparatus committed to the expansion of its own power. It will enjoy the support of Wall Street grandees and high-tech oligarchs seeking both social status and easy profits from an “energy transition.” Unless carefully controlled and monitored, the response to the current pandemic could end up leaving us with a system more akin to China’s authoritarian order, dominated by a narrow class of Mandarins and billionaires.”

Well, China has been the model for our ruling class for a while now. This is why it’s important to re-elect the ruling class’s enemy, and give him both houses of Congress.

THE LATEST IN L. JAGI LAMPLIGHTER’S SERIES (KIND OF HARRY POTTER FOR GIRLS, AND QUITE GOOD IN THAT NICHE):  The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering (Books of Unexpected Enlightenment Book 5).

…She has discovered she has an older sister named Amber, who was stolen-away as a baby. Nobody but Rachel remembers her—not even their parents. Rachel is determined to find Amber and restore her to the family. But how?

She doubts it will be as easy as overhearing the name Rumpelstiltskin.

Meanwhile, Rachel has bigger problems. Wild fey have invaded the campus. If they so much as bewitch even one more student, Roanoke Academy will be forced to close its doors. Rachel and her friends must solve this menace before the academy cancels more classes or, worse, the Year of the Dragon Ball!

But she has hope—if she can keep the school open—because, as Rachel’s late grandmother told her, Masquerade balls are a time of wonder… when anything is possible.

MOSTLY, I BET THE ARTIST IS AFRAID PEOPLE WILL FIND OUT WHERE HE CAME FROM. THIS IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY — OR EVEN PARTICULARLY — A NEW YORK THING, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THEY HAVE MORE OF THESE SORTS. OUR ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT REQUIRES THIS KIND OF ATTITUDE IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD. BECAUSE IT’S A CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT LACKING IN IMAGINATION:  Judgement.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT:  Proactive to Punishment.

Note that in the comments, someone I remember as being a whole lot saner says something about my “selling out” to the idea this is no big deal or some such nonsense.
Yeah. I sold out. I sold out to the idea that destroying the economy will cost us a lot more in lives, ultimately, than this will, even if we’d lost double the number of lives we’ve lost so far. We’ll lose them to poverty, despair, government take over of insolvent hospitals (because they were ordered to stop performing medicine while waiting for COVID-19 patients who never came.) But mostly we’ll lose them to starvation and sheer inability to get what’s needed when it’s needed. Because the state sucks at doing that. No planned economy EVER has managed to keep its entire population well fed, let alone comfortable, let alone happy.  The free market manages the first routinely.  But sure, let’s kill millions to save 100k. Or because 100k MIGHT die. Or something.
You know what, I am rather nostalgic for the days in which I was merely accused of being in the pay of the patriarchy, the Zionists or the vast right wing conspiracy.

IT’S JUST A DRESS REHEARSAL RAG:  The Green New Nose Under the Tent.

SURE. WHY NOT. FREDO’S BROTHER HAS LOTS OF MEMORABLE MOMENTS FOR CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS, AFTER ALL.  TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN, THAT IS:  Poll: Majority of Democrats Want to Replace Biden With Andrew Cuomo.

GOOD BECAUSE IT WAS INSANE TO BEGIN WITH:  Federal Court Prohibits Louisville Mayor from Banning Easter Sunday Drive-in Church Service.

YEP. TURNS OUT THE APOCALYPSE COS-PLAY CAN BRING ABOUT DEATH AND PAIN. WORSE, IT CAN TURNS INTO IDIOTS BEFORE KILLING US:  Fear: The Mind-Killer.

CALL IT WHAT IT IS: THIS IS A GREEN NEW DEAL DRESS REHEARSAL.  ONLY THAT EXPLAINS THE THINGS THEY ARE DOING.  EVERY CONTRADICTION HE HIGHLIGHTS MAKES PERFECT SENSE IF YOU THINK OF THIS AS DISCOURAGING FUEL CONSUMPTION, DISCOURAGING BIRTH, ENCOURAGING THE CUTTING DOWN OF THE POPULATION. THAT’S ALL THIS IS. THE GREEN NEW DEAL BY OTHER MEANS.  AND IF MILLIONS DIE OF STARVATION — AND MILLIONS WILL DIE OF STARVATION ALL OVER THE WORLD — THIS WINTER?  HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT THE GREENS THINK OF HUMANS? THEY’LL BE VERY GLAD TO RID THE EARTH OF THIS PLAGUE. US:  Horowitz: It’s time to end the great American COVID-19 police state.

BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED MY SHOCKED FACE IS:  It has started: Convict let out on coronavirus concerns arrested for assault and robbery.

YEP. THIS IS THE GREEN CAMEL’S NOSE UNDER THE TENT. ONLY THAT EXPLAINS WHY SUBWAYS ARE OPEN, BUT PEOPLE GET ARRESTED FOR GOING FOR A DRIVE IN THEIR CARS:  If You Like WuFlu Confinement, You’ll Love Biden’s Promised Green Prison.

PRECISELY THIS:  Where’s the coronavirus plan for recovery?

And worse, it will deliver us into the hands of a democrat keen to implement all of this bs writ large.

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