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No chocolate coma for me this year. The only Easter chocolate worth the calories comes from See’s Candies and they are closed. While my pastor conducted a wonderful online service this morning, it hasn’t been quite enough to keep me from noticing the oodles of douchery being willfully committed.
Is there any organized group of human beings more incentivized to commit petty acts of malice than an HOA? Yes, I know, House Democrats would be my first choice, too, but I was thinking on the small scale irritant that never rests. The social equivalent of head lice or scabies. Here we go again …
A borrowed RV in his driveway is home now for Michael Avila-Cabral. It’s where he’s slept for the past two weeks, after working as a physician’s assistant in a San Bernardino emergency room treating patients with coronavirus. […]
“Having to tell our kids that papa is going to stay in the RV, and you can’t go see him, you can’t touch him, you can’t hug him, it’s hard for them to kind of understand,” Gregory said.
Michael and Gregory originally thought the RV, borrowed from Michael’s sister, was a saving grace, until they were told they were violating the rules of their home owners’ association.
The HOA told Gregory that under the current rules, the family could be fined if they don’t move the RV within 10 days.
There are rules that must be obeyed! Which sounds better in the original German, I’m sure. The Red Chinese Bat Soup Flu hasn’t just put people in the hospital, but induced all manner of Emperor God behavior.
VG Nina Bookout earlier wrote about Her Most Exalted Highness Gretchen Whitmer’s orgy of stomping her stilettos on the necks of Michigan citizens. But the irrationality brought on by mainlining undiluted power hasn’t been restricted to her.
Behold Riverside County, California.
Coronavirus watchdogs in Riverside County who come across nonessential businesses still in operation, large gatherings or businesses not complying with health orders can now report scofflaws anonymously through the county’s mobile app. […]
When reporting possible violations, users will be asked to provide an address and specify the type of violation. Users can also attach a photo of the alleged violation.
Oh goody! Now Mrs. Grundy can have her revenge on the neighbors she doesn’t like who let their children play in the front yard. So noisy! Nothing like our politicians to encourage people to indulge their inner Stasi.
Roundup interrupted: A moment of seriousness here. The only way American can function is as a high-trust society where we assume our neighbors are as interested in being responsible citizens as we are. We have no problem with reporting actual crimes and looking out for each other. But the idea of snitching on others to authorities about social behavior isn’t just creepy, it’s unAmerican.
Tear at the social fabric with the destruction of basic trust, you will destroy America. Feature, not bug, of Leftwing use of coronavirus crisis.
Now, this is all the comment I need make here …
Is Rob holding Xi Jinping's jockstrap for fun or money? https://t.co/4Si6WlElW8
— Darleen Click #AB5 & #PROAct are unAmerican (@darleenclick) April 12, 2020
And isn’t Easter just a great time to indulge in some Christian-baiting along with one’s TDS?
Trump says Jesus could have avoided crucifixion by taking hydroxychloroquine.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) April 12, 2020
And OMG, the WRONG PEOPLE are correct about the corruption of WHO!!
A right-wing stunt to pin the blame for Covid-19 on the World Health Organization actually contains a useful notion. There is at least some reason to suspect that WHO knowingly and consequentially misled us.
https://t.co/PwqwW4NG33— WIRED (@WIRED) April 12, 2020
Check out the ratio on that tweet of Leftwing douchery. See, even when deplorables actually are correct, it’s only an accident because Bad Motivations. The Left’s basic premise is that they are all Good so any dissenters are Bad People thinking WrongThoughts.
I use the Roundup to mock them, but we can’t turn our back on them either. Ever.
Stay safe, my friends. This virus will pass, but the Left won’t give up the power they acquired during it without a fight. Be ready.
featured image, original art VG Darleen Click
— The Red Chinese Bat Soup Flu hasn’t just put people in the hospital, but induced all manner of Emperor God behavior. —
Wannabe-tyrants are always looking for an opportunity / excuse to flex their godlike muscles. It’s “for our own good,? don’t y’know. But a more central point is here:
— The only way America can function is as a high-trust society where we assume our neighbors are as interested in being responsible citizens as we are. —
Indeed. But those who desire unbounded power are hostile to that degree of trust. They’ve been working to undermine it for more than a century. Have a quote from a great economist of the 20th Century:
“There is no need in human life so great as that men should trust one another and should trust their government, should believe in promises, and should keep promises in order that future promises may be believed in and in order that confident cooperation may be possible. Good faith — personal, national, and international — is the first prerequisite of decent living, of the steady going on of industry, of governmental financial strength, and of international peace.” — Benjamin M. Anderson, “Economics and the Public Welfare: A Financial and Economic History of the United States, 1914 — 1946”
When individuals trust one another as the default condition, power-mongers are neutered. They cannot implement the old “divide et impera” guideline that historical tyrants proved reliable. So they work to chip away at that trust: by dividing us into races, economic classes, creeds, ethnicities, districts, occupations, and so forth. A century’s worth of that has made “E Pluribus Unum” more of a gag-line than a national motto.
GWB says: But the idea of snitching on others to authorities about social behavior isn’t just creepy, it’s unAmerican.
Yes, but there’s an odd exception: the kids. Funny that in an old-fashioned high trust society, the kids got ratted out regularly. Of course, they got ratted out to the kids’ mom and dad, not to the impersonal goon squad. The finks went straight to those who had actual responsibility for the kids and told them.
Really, it was part of the whole fabric of a neighborhood that you all spoke and communicated as you lived together. Mrs. Grundy was the fly in that ointment even back then – going to someone with authority rather than responsibility.
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