By Mike Huckabee
July 17, 2020
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HIS PICTURE SHOULD BE IN THE DICTIONARY NEXT TO...
The New York Post reports that America’s worst Mayor, Bill DeBlasio, has finally found an act of vandalism that he cares about. Someone threw red paint on the “Black Lives Matter” mural that he had painted on the street in front of Trump Tower - a blatantly political use of public funds designed to provoke the President during a fiscal crisis when he’s begging Washington for money (see, I told you he was the worst mayor in America. But that’s just the beginning.)
By painting that, he’s created a public space guaranteed to polarize the public and spark conflict, which is continuing between pedestrians every day. Some bystanders who watched it being painted told reporters that they oppose racism but do not support BLM (NOT the same thing, by the way), and as Trump supporters, were angry that their tax money was being used for this.
For whatever reason, someone already vandalized it by throwing a bucket of red paint on it overnight. It was immediately cleaned up, but DeBlasio is declaring that the vandal will be found, arrested and punished. Yes, in the midst of a major spike in violent crime, with shootings up over 130% in one year, homicides at a five-year high, and the NYPD stretched beyond their limits, and while he’s dismantling the police department and slashing their budget, he's also demanding police devote time to tracking down whoever threw some paint that’s already been cleaned away. This, after a number of other public monuments and buildings have been vandalized far worse while he not only did nothing, he cheered it on.
Meanwhile, with his own cops still recuperating from being attacked with a bat by a protester on the Brooklyn Bridge and violent crime at a 25-year high with horrific crimes like this…
...DeBlasio declared that New York City is safer and better because it now has the fewest people in jail since the 1940s. That’s thanks to him releasing inmates due to COVID-19, doing away with bail, tying the hands of the police and condoning criminality in general. Although it should be noted that he still wants anyone who violates his curfew to be arrested along with whoever threw paint on his BLM mural.
He definitely does not deserve to be in the Mayor’s office, but he does deserve a place in the dictionary. There’s “dumb,” then there’s “utterly clueless,” then beyond that, there should be “DeBlasio.”
LOUSY MAYOR NEWS
In further “Lousy Mayor” news, the Mayor of Chicago (an office that’s been in the hands of Democrats since 1931) joined New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio in blaming the rise in violent crime in her city on the coronavirus. Yeah, that must be it. Before that stuck a few months ago, everything was going great in both of those cities!
And let’s not forget that the Mayor of Portland, Oregon, is also challenging the Mayors of New York City, Chicago and Seattle for that coveted “Worst Mayor in America” title.
THE WASHINGTON CODE-TALKERS
The Navajo Nation suggested that if the Washington Redskins want a new name that honors Native Americans, they should call themselves the Washington Code Talkers, in honor of those who used their tribal languages as unbreakable codes to help win World War II.
As much as those heroes deserve to be honored, I doubt the team owners will see “Code Talkers” as fierce or snappy enough to stack up against the Rams, Broncos, Cowboys, Eagles, Seahawks and Vikings. Besides, considering the latest news, Native Americans might not want to be associated with the team, which could end up being known as the Washington Sexist Pigs.
LOST IN TRANSLATION
A Connecticut bar has pulled Yellow Belly Beer, a $40 Swedish beer, after it was served to a black customer who was shocked at how much the bottle looked like a KKK hood. You can see a photo at the link, and yeah, it really does. The packaging is even more shocking than the price.
The brewer claims it was “created to denounce racism… promote open-mindedness… packaged in paper deliberately to denounce organizations like the KKK.” They explained, “Yellow Belly — a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; a coward. To us, one of the most cowardly deeds is to act anonymously, hiding behind a group. A signifying trait of institutionalized racism. This beer is brewed to celebrate all things new, open-minded and progressive. A peanut butter biscuit stout with no biscuits, butter or nuts. Taste, enjoy, and don’t be prejudiced.”
Personally, it sounds kind of heavy on the “nuts” to me. This is a textbook example of “lost in translation.” Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit had the best suggestion: redesign the bottle to look like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. Then nobody will care if it wears a KKK hood.
FAKE NEWS FRIDAY
No, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not imply that we should ignore science and reopen schools. She meant that we should ignore people who say the science demands schools remain closed because “the science is on our side here,” and it shows that children are at far less risk from the coronavirus than from the seasonal flu.
This is one of the rare examples of a misquote that was so egregious, even CNN’s Jake Tapper corrected his own colleagues who were repeating it.
A CONTRARIAN VIEW ON WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
Speaking of the COVID-19 (Chinese) coronavirus, while some places are panicking over a spike in positive tests and demanding we shut down the economy again, here’s a contrarian view.
Citing government statistics and charts, this lengthy article argues that most places are approaching or have reached herd immunity, and the virus is already on its last legs and not coming back. Even as the number of positive tests is rising, the death rate has plummeted. Hospitalizations are up, but the numbers include many patients who are in the hospital for some procedure they put off for months, and who just happen to be positive for the virus but aren’t there because of it. He also quotes a doctor who notes that the CDC used to define a “case” as someone who’s actually sick, but they define a COVID-19 case as anyone who’s carrying the virus, even if there are no symptoms.
Ironically, the author partially credits all those protests for spreading the virus. They spread it mostly among healthy young people who were the least likely to get sick from it, which boosted herd immunity.
I’m not saying I endorse his conclusions, but I thought you might want to see that there are other interpretations besides “The sky is falling and the second wave is going to kill us all!” Anyone who disagrees is more than welcome to offer alternative explanations for the charts that show positive tests rising while the death rate is plummeting.
For all the media figures and politicians were rooting against and trying to block the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients just because President Trump said it might work, take a look at the chart from France in this article. It shows what happened to the case fatality rate between the moment when a bogus study trumpeted by biased media outlets got the drug banned and the moment when the study was retracted and doctors were allowed to prescribe it again.
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE, WHEN DOCTORS BEGAN PRESCRIBING HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AGAIN
For all the media figures and politicians were rooting against and trying to block the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients just because President Trump said it might work, take a look at the chart from France in this article. It shows what happened to the case fatality rate between the moment when a bogus study trumpeted by biased media outlets got the drug banned and the moment when the study was retracted and doctors were allowed to prescribe it again.
I think we can now officially classify Trump Derangement Syndrome as a fatal disease, except it doesn’t kill the carrier, it kills other people.
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
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