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Quick Jots: April 2021


Jim Eagle?
#democrats
Joe Biden, in a news conference, says of Georgia's new voting law that it "makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle." Yikes. I would say keep your day job, but I don't really want that, either. So let me get this straight. He thinks a law that requires early voting to stay open until at least 5pm (not restrict voting day hours to 5pm like he said in the conference), prohibiting handing out water and food to people waiting in line to vote, and voter ID, is worse than Jim Crow laws? So given the choice, he would prefer state-mandated racial segregation, laws forbidding black people from attending public school they pay for via taxes, increased voting requirements like land ownership for black people, over a law that doesn't allow handing out water to people in voting lines but does allow poll workers to set up self-service water stations. Way to trivialize Jim Crow, Joe.

MLB All Star Game moves to Denver
#democrats #wokeism
Stacey Abrams spent a lot of energy condemning the Georgia voting law, also comparing it to Jim Crow (do politicians own a history book or have access to Wikipedia?). She did such a great job that the MLB moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because of it. Whoops. Abrams quickly recommended to the MLB to keep its event in Atlanta. An estimated $100 million in revenue would be lost from Cobb County in Georgia, presumably mostly from Atlanta metro. That is to say, that amount of revenue would be moved from a city that has a 51% black population to a city that has a black population just south of 10%. Good job, everyone. You sure virtue signaled which side of the racial divide you're really on.

Withdrawal from Afghanistan
#democrats #war
After the election, I thought there was no way in hell Biden would keep Trump's deal with the Taliban to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. But it looks like Biden is going to withdraw troops by an eye-rolling date of September 11, a delay from the original May 1st deadline. In other words, he actually extended the war, which would result in more lives lost just so Biden can have a symbolic date for headlines. Further, Biden in 2012 said the US would withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014. So, yeah. I'll believe it when I see it. Either way, it seems likely that the United States Military will continue to conduct operations there, with bombing and covert operations in Afghanistan in an attempt to influence the region as if it has worked so well in the past. Media reporting on this will also likely drop to the wayside. So, war over, but not over.

CNN: Afghanistan withdrawal may reverse women's rights
#media #war #wokeism
CNN invoked wokeist mentality to protest the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, pushing the narrative that being anti-war means that you're anti-women's rights. I can't squint that hard to see it. Have women's rights advanced since the US started the war in 2001? Probably. You know what else happened since the US started the war in 2001? Tens of thousands of civilian deaths, thousands at the hands of the United States. Women should have rights. This includes the right to not get carpet-bombed by US drone strikes. The article claimed that women's rights extended when the Taliban were driven out. I don't dispute this; the Taliban enforce a lot of evil laws. You know what else was against Taliban law? The practice of bacha bazi, the grotesque tradition of dressing young boys in girl's clothing and sexually abusing them. When the Taliban was ejected, this practice escalated. You would think the CNN article would consider this as a counterbalance, but no. It was just a straight-up war propaganda article. If you're a woke leftist, think seriously about what your political epistemology is doing. You are still against wars, right? Stop being played by the military-industrial complex, its state actors, and allies.

COVID Passports
#covid-19
While so far it appears that this is mostly a thing with private businesses, this makes me uneasy. Do we really want to go down a road toward a China-style social credit score? People have legitimate reasons for not getting vaccinated like concerns with long-term effects, pregnancies, and such. What's next after this? Flu shot passports? Criminal background checks to buy groceries? Perhaps suggest COVID Passports should be required to vote at a polling location and watch Democrats' heads explode.

SB663 would reveal the identities of recall petition signatories
#democrats #legislation
It seems like Newsom & Cronies are at it again after the smear campaign against the petition failed to stop the recall petition from hitting the required numbers. SB663 would make the identities and contact information known to government officials who could then harass the signers to see "whether they signed the recall petition and whether they understood the recall petition" and give them information on how to recant their petition signature. That's funny. It's far more likely that the members of the legislature and the executive don't understand the lengthy bills they vote on than members of the public not understanding what a recall petition means. 

Texas COVID-19 cases steadily decline, defying "expert" prognostications
#covid-19
When Texas lifted mask mandates and several lockdown restrictions early March, Democrats and progressives screamed that there would be mass deaths, tantamount to murder. Joe Biden called it "Neanderthal thinking". Fast forward to the end of April: cases in Texas are declining. Yet another predicted disaster that never happened when freedom was expanded. Meanwhile, several states with strict mask mandates and lockdowns have seen cases surge. I expect any day now, those that "follow the science" will start to follow the science and apologies will start flowing forth. I won't hold my breath.

Derek Chauvin convicted of murder; Maxine Waters appeals verdict
#democrats #police
Okay, Maxine Waters didn't really appeal the verdict. But she may have granted the appeal after the judge indicated that her comments may give the defense reason to appeal the jury's ruling. Before the verdict was in, Maxine Waters said, "We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational." More active and more confrontational? Does she not realize that the "mostly peaceful protests" have become a meme unto itself? How was that statement not an incitement to violence? Thanks a lot, Waters. You are why we can't have nice unshitty things.

Oh, yeah, and Chauvin was convicted of second-degree and third-degree murder, along with second-degree manslaughter. I don't think there was a whole lot of doubt that the jury was going to render this verdict, and I think it was the correct one. The argument that Chauvin was trained to do this was a shaky one. There are supposed to be brains inside police officers' heads, right? If you don't know that you shouldn't stand on the neck of a person you're detaining because he tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill, I question your ability to function in public, much less be a police officer. That argument only means that the police department should also be on trial. The other argument that Floyd may have died anyway with fentanyl in his system is an even shakier one. Okay, if Floyd was jaywalking across a busy street, he may have been run over by a car. It doesn't give a police officer license to murder him. Regardless, that's not how he died. He died from Chauvin's knee on his neck. If Chauvin's conviction is ruled a mistrial because of Maxine Waters's idiocy, it will likely be another guilty verdict when it's re-tried.

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