Daily Derp: Derp Lives Matter: Amidst Protests Governments Lose Covid-19 Lockdown Plot And More!

This post is very simple.

Thousands of people protested across North America. Though I'm not entirely sure why Europe is jumping on this bandwagon. That's a continent with racism that would make America blush. You just don't see in North America the sort of overt racism I've witnessed in Europe. They have their own damn problems.

As for Canada, I get it more because we're basically one civilization and we do have some police issues. But our police forces aren't as militarized and don't have the kind of budgets they have in the USA. I understand it's to show 'solidarity' but again not sure what the point is. And the fact Pinko Justin was taking a knee should make one ponder about the spectacle of it all.

The notion of 'systemic racism' is dubious. That's a term the left loves to use to prove racism is real. By the way, if you're white you're part of that 'systemic' calculus whether you like it or not. I, obviously, completely reject it because it's not a thing and raw data and statistics back this up.

Let's keep the criminal riots out of this for now. I will say the normalizing of it under the guise of justice is just about as irresponsible and morally repugnant as it gets. Two wrongs don't make a right and I don't believe this was needed to get the wheels of justice working in this case.

It's true police do get away with a lot thanks, in part, to things like qualified immunity as well as abuse power because of asset forfeiture. I will discuss statistics about how blacks fare in the system (which in many ways is indeed broken) more in another post.

I find it hilarious (in a frightening way) to watch prosecutors like Kamala Harris who while in power made sure the police kept their boot on the necks of the poor, act like she's some kind of civil rights leader. She's an immoral, opportunistic cretin.

If government allowed this then there is NO rationale to keep people from having funerals for loved ones. You can't televise a funeral for George Floyd where nobody social distanced and keep people from doing the same. It's not only preposterous, it's malicious at this point.

There is NO scientific rationale to continue on this ludicrous track. It's a direct attack on people's rights to assemble because the government is deciding for us.

Tell you what. North Americans will have to decide if they want this 'benign communism' or an actual democracy rooted in liberty. That is, do they want to be GOVERNED or RULED?

Note to Canadian politicians: You lost the plot. You have no choice but to open up now. Clinging on to 'super spreader' notion threatens to make you all, already in a precarious state where credibility is concerned, laughing stocks.

Ah but never under estimate the power of leftists to spin things into places any person of sound mind could possibly go.

Rachel Ann Bender Ignacio, MD MPH

@Drbenderignacio

Law enforcement violence is a public health issue. So is #COVID19. Not shocking that they both feed heavily from the systemic racism that costs black lives. Ask instead how can people afford not to protest?

It is in the interest of public health because racism.

Got that?

But people who wanted to go back to work in order to feed their families was not a public health crisis. Neither was the rise in suicides, domestic wife and child abuse and other social ramifications.

Kids in particular have experienced hire levels of anxiety thanks to health hucksters like you.

And these are MEASURABLE trade offs.

Racism less so.

Rachel, take your 'MD' credentials and shove it up your ass.

Actually, people like you who engage in this kind of selective identity politics are a threat to public health.

Boy this pandemic really flushed out into the open what kind of public health officials we have.

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Speaking of the hate group BLM, here's their agenda in their own words.

Outside the true believers, this is who you run of the mill thoughtless useful idiots are kneeling for. 

An organization that basically calls for segregation and communism under some tattered and shattered vision of utopian-unicorned social justice. This is all just gibberish.  They're more Malcolm X than Martin Luther King.

I understand you want to do right. We all do.

But riots and BLM aren't the way to do it.

This is bound to fail. 

Burning down cities only leaves a legacy of destruction. What did it get anyone after Baltimore,  Detroit, Newark, Philadelphia and Los Angeles? Some of these cities never really recovered. And you can add Minneapolis to this list.

In the words of the great Thomas Sowell:

"People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black “leaders” to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn't spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood?"

Malcolm Jenkins cries.

I always find it hilarious to listen to uneducated millionaire athletes call others 'ignorant' through emotional screeds and bullying like Lebron and Jenkins did to Drew Brees.

What was done to Brees was pretty shocking in its stupidity and mob mentality.

Jenkins also misrepresented what he said. It's a shame few - if any - fellow players defended Brees' right to his opinion and free speech. Aaron Rodgers could have stepped up and be a real man but instead chose to play faux-rigthteous cop and piled onto Brees.

These guys are who we thought they were: Just dumb jocks with way too much money who act like they have a brain but little sense of principles and honor. 

All they had to do was say, 'Hey, we disagree with Drew. But he's entitled to his opinion'. That's it. That's respect. 

Instead, hey whined like little bitches engaging in mob rule. But they made him repent and grovel. All that was left to do was to brand him with a letter and make him do a lap of shame.

I'm done with all sports and sports programming. Bunch of lemmings. 

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Earlier this week, Theresa Tam warned there 'could be an explosion in cases if we mishandle reopening'.

Emphasis mine.

Strange word to use, no?

And it's by design. Namely to keep people scared.

She could have conveyed this message without resorting to such words which easily conjure up images of explosions and dynamite. That's what the government was aiming for.

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An actual very good article from Sullum at Reason.

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What a stupid, illogical, illiberal, anti-science,  mess all this is.

It's enough to turn healthy skeptics into cynics.

Consider:

1) Lockdowns based on faulty data. 

2) Cowering in our homes while engaging in hero worshipping, empty slogans and pathetic nationalism.

3) Refusal to shut borders because it would be racist.

4) Idiot politicians sending infected patients into nursing homes and then doubling down on their idiocy making citizens pay for their idiocy.

5) Arbitrary reopening protocols and refusal to change them with evolving data and information. 

6) Mocking of protestors who wanted to end the unconstitutional lockdown and the punitive measures that ridiculously came with it.

7) The price paid by children as we projected our fears onto them.

8) Demands to stay home, social distance and wear masks.....six months too late.

9) But then allow thousands to protest and riot.

10) Terrible understanding of statistics. 

11) Normalizing of rioting and excusing it.

12) Fear of insulting China. 

13) China not informing the world on time while apologists defended them.

14) Rise of the authoritarian leader and the tyranny of public health for the greater good.