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While you were focused on the firestorm of Democrat-enabled Leftwing violence this weekend, CA Gov. Newsom declared himself King and instituted new covid rules. Rules both contrary to science and that will keep California on a semi-permanent lockdown well into next year … and beyond.
King Newsom’s Friday press conference included announcing NEW!! IMPROVED!!! and MORE STRINGENT!!! requirements before he will allow counties to reopen.
“COVID-19 will be with us for a long time and we need to adapt,” he said.
Notice the Imperial “we”? Newsom just loves to makes rules he won’t follow and promises to share the pain he won’t fulfill. Our new monarch is in charge and He.Will.Be.Obeyed.
“We need to live differently,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday after moving the state re-opening goalposts once again.
If anyone is still unclear about the governor’s actual goals: a county can average one “case” per 100,000 for three weeks and still not be fully open.
It just can’t be overstated how much our King @GavinNewsom moved the goalposts today. A county can average ONE CASE per 100,000 for 3 WEEKS and STILL not be fully “open.”
To be clear, Newsom absurdly told us that 56,000 out of 100,000 people in CA would get this in just 8 weeks! https://t.co/Kn6XTs2rJc
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) August 29, 2020
65% of CA counties are still in the “purple tier” where about 87% of Californians live (approximately 34 MILLION people) and those counties are will have to have less than 7 cases per 100K per day and a positivity rate of less than 8%, for 21 straight days until they are allowed to move into the next restrictive tier. How crazy is Mad King Newsom’s new normal? Two counties, Modoc and Alpine, have ZERO positive cases and ZERO positivity rate, yet have to force their restaurants to adhere to 50% capacity.
It doesn’t matter to the King that thousands of restaurants have permanently closed, or that his Imperial Edicts are destroying the businesses, livelihoods and personal wealth of untold numbers of Californians. Newsom will not be deterred from fundamentally transforming California into a neo-feudal state. The Mad King has his own experts (imaginary or “owned”, who knows?) even science will not stand in his way.
However, while the Democrat ruling class is crushing churches, they also ignore so-called protests.
This wasn’t widely reported. On Wednesday night, around 700 black bloc militants and their supporters rampaged through Oakland, Cal. They chanted “death to America” while starting fires and smashing cars and buildings. pic.twitter.com/A5512gCBzU
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 30, 2020
Indications are that the speakeasy economy is growing in defiance of The King. Whether it is a knock on the backdoor of a “closed” barbershop for a clandestine haircut or women huddling in living rooms with a rogue manicurist, there are Californians who reject being turned into dependent serfs.
It only remains to be seen if the cheat-by-mail scam goes forward and cements Newsom’s monarchy for the foreseeable future.
UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit readers!
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Scott says: At east the thugs in the video are being honest about the dems true goals…
Taylor says: Californians wake up! Elections have consequences.
F.D.R. in Hell says: By the time “The Big One” hits, everyone will have safely emigrated to other states. Win-Win.
GWB says: Uh, not a win for those of us who have to put up with the Californication of their states/locales.
Ann in L.A. says: Pretty much all you need to know is the membership of Newsom’s Reopening Task Force. It’s full of failed politicians (he dragged Gray Davis out!), union bosses, environmental activists, and major corporation and tech industry heads. Every single one of them probably has had a steady paycheck every day, has an annual household income well over $300k and a net worth well over $2mil.
There is not one waitress, small business owner, farmer, blue collar laborer, working doctor, food stamp recipient, bus driver, or anyone whose life has become a financial disaster during lockdowns. There probably aren’t even people from state’s interior, only those from the coastal cities. There is also probably not a single person on the list who sends their kids to their neighborhood public school.
It’s just lots of privileged lords telling the surfs what to do.
GWB says: It’s just lots of privileged lords telling the surfs what to do.
DING!
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Henry says: “…we’re influenced by those who are experts in the field who feel very differently.”
Translation: We found someone who would give us the “science” we wanted. Why are you anti-science?
Editor says: If they’re counting antigen tests as positive results, as my state does, that means anyone who has recovered and has no viruses in his body still counts as a positive result. So lockdowns are forever.
Billy Jack says: What do Newsom and his crew expect to gain from this charade and abuse? What’s the game?
InterestedBystander says: Good question. The money isn’t coming in to fund all their Marxist redistributionist schemes. I don’t get it. More commerce equals more graft to spread around.
Scott says: You’re assuming that Newsome and his cronies are intelligent enough to figure that out, vs. money just falling from the sky, like a unicorn shitting skittles…
In a court of law, they would call that “assuming facts not in evidence”.. Newsome has never done anything to indicate he has the slightest bit of understanding how economics works.
Dave's Not Here says: I think the game is to drive the last few bothersome middle class Republicans out of the state so the Boy King can reign unopposed.
steveH says: Moar power
Taylor says: Yes and California is still going to vote Democratic. What does he have to gain in punishing the very people who elected him?
InterestedBystander says: I went into a “closed” hair salon just this past Saturday. OOOHHHH, it made me feel like a rebel!
Ann in L.A. says: You and Fancy Spumoni.
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