Tim Pool talks God and comedienne collapse

It feels like this might be Tim Pool blog day. Tim zeroes in on the blasphemy angle of the story about comedienne Heather McDonald collapsing after her bit on vaccinations and the religious implications.  He refers back to the George Floyd mural being struck by lightning on a sunny day.

Canada has statue issues too

 Statues are evil.  Unless you are George Floyd.  And Canada is not immune.

Why this, why now?

With the slow deterioration of COVID-19 as all-consuming front page news, something else would need to occupy the headlines and the news cycle eventually.  The pointless death of an African American man at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis began to take center stage.  While George Floyd's death was unnecessary, and allegedly criminal ('allegedly' because it still requires it's day in court) it was not any more important than other deaths at the hands of police.  It is not more important than black-on-black crime. George Floyd did not deserve to die, it was horrible.  But why was it something that became so huge?  Why didn't the death of Ahmaud Arbery cause the same level of global outcry.

Why this? Why now?

It certainly seems like the outcry has a mixture of grassroots concern mixed with possible astroturf seeding.

Maybe it's because this is starting to gain momentum:

Democrats and the media are determined to keep this out of the headlines.  There is a lot to unpack in what happened to the Trump campaign and presidency in 2016, 2017 and 2018.  Most importantly that it went all the way to the top.  It's going to be shocking to hear for a lot of people who wholeheartedly expected a different outcome from the Mueller investigation.  They have yet to be exposed to this.  Democrats and the media are determined to ensure that they don't.

Calls to defund the police are absurd beyond comprehension, but it certainly is keeping yet more illegal Democrat and governmental activity off the front page of newspapers.

But maybe it doesn't even matter at this point:

Arguing with socialists, COVID-19 and George Floyd

Last week on Facebook I got into a bit of an exchange with an uncle of mine who had drifted towards socialism over the years.  He posted a meme congratulating New Zealand on successfully eradicating cases of COVID-19 and claiming that that was real winning.  

I of course came at his meme with facts and pointed out a number of false comparisons in which he was participating - the isolated nature of New Zealand compared to the United States, the minuscule population as compared to the United States and the fact that they achieved it in large part due to closing their borders - something president Trump was derided for doing early on in the pandemic's spread.

It didn't matter, despite the facts he kept coming back.  He blamed Trump supporters for ignoring recommendations.  I pointed out that (1) you cannot blame a leader in a free country for his supporters' actions if they contravene his recommendation to continue to social distance and more egregiously, (2) those people out protesting and even rioting and looting in the name of George Floyd's death as a result of poor policing were  most definitely not Trump supporters.

That was followed by - silence.

If they cannot refute the facts, they go away and come back on another issue because facts don't matter to the ideological left.  All that matters is the ability to rant and throw blame.

By the way, with all these protests and riots, what happened to social distancing?