May 26, 2023Liked by Chris J. Karr, David Thornton
Hoping the Texas legislature does impeach this bad dude. Woke to clips from mini me’s talks yesterday. Weaponization of the DOJ, pardons to follow election. Ugh. Personally I was smiling yesterday at the sentence handed down to the head of the oath keepers. It felt like justice. I am still stuck on Ron saying all the needless deaths in Florida weren’t human beings but “ excess mortality “. I hope now people will start paying attention to this little fascist/ authoritarian and see him as a threat to our Republic.
What are needless deaths? Those that can be prevented by drastic (dare we say authoritarian) measures? In the USA, several hundred people die each year in aviation accidents. Tens of thousands die each year in motor vehicle accidents. Several thousand die each year in water related accidents. I don't believe we can prevent people from entering the water but nearly all motor vehicle and aviation (except military) related deaths can be prevented by simple authoritarian measures. Yet we allow these activities to continue because they are expressions of personal freedom.
I’m glad the guy is getting impeached. He probably deserves it. What I take exception to are your political slant and biases that overtly flow throughout the article. Can’t you just call him a Republican? Why preface everything with MAGA REPUBLICAN? Why disparage Trump in an article that is written about someone else? You cheapen the article and your credibility.
I think the distinction is real: MAGA Republican is a thing and distinguishable from other Republicans. The evidence of Paxton’s devotion to being a MAGA Republican is bright as moonlight on a mid September harvest night at high tide, when the werewolves run with blood-crazed passion. That’s about as purple as my prose gets.
We will see if money translates into votes. I'm hoping Governor DeSantis will gain support as his campaign progresses and his message gets to a broader audience.
I disagree with those who accuse DeSantis of authoritarianism. There is no way to govern without exerting some controls that restrict individual behavior. Compare DeSantis policies in Florida with vaccination requirements, limiting attendance at family gatherings including funerals and weddings, school closings doing severe damage to student progress and dozens of other rules imposed in more liberal states.
Kim complains about the term "excess mortality". It is a valid concept that shows Covid deaths might be considerably more than those formally attributed to the pandemic.
I know personally some human beings that died and several suffering from long covid. It’s inhumane, imho, to refer to them as “ excess mortality “. These were wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, fathers, you know….human beings. They deserved to live.
How would you have saved them? Really? Other governing agencies and politicians tried extremely authoritarian measures and failed miserably. It's now becoming obvious that those measures did plenty of harm and limited good. That is being shown by excess mortality studies. No one said they were not human beings. The Governor was just responding to questions about Covid in Florida.
My wife's brother-in-law (not in Florida) was kept in isolation when the pandemic first began and still died from Covid complications within 30 months. Jack Niclaus (my age) and his wife both had Covid and did not even know it. I haven't even had a headache or been ill (except for bladder cancer) and I had to do all the shopping in my family because my wife would not leave the house. She still will not eat in a restaurant.
I think the vaccines helped lessen the effects of Covid among the elderly, but my physician told me he would not have taken the vaccine if he had been 25 instead of 52. If one's immune system is not up to the challenge, he can expect serious problems with an airborne virus that presents no symptoms for several weeks.
This is great news for Texas!
Hoping the Texas legislature does impeach this bad dude. Woke to clips from mini me’s talks yesterday. Weaponization of the DOJ, pardons to follow election. Ugh. Personally I was smiling yesterday at the sentence handed down to the head of the oath keepers. It felt like justice. I am still stuck on Ron saying all the needless deaths in Florida weren’t human beings but “ excess mortality “. I hope now people will start paying attention to this little fascist/ authoritarian and see him as a threat to our Republic.
What are needless deaths? Those that can be prevented by drastic (dare we say authoritarian) measures? In the USA, several hundred people die each year in aviation accidents. Tens of thousands die each year in motor vehicle accidents. Several thousand die each year in water related accidents. I don't believe we can prevent people from entering the water but nearly all motor vehicle and aviation (except military) related deaths can be prevented by simple authoritarian measures. Yet we allow these activities to continue because they are expressions of personal freedom.
"Paxton is the very image of a modern MAGA general."
Soooooo close to a Pirates of Penzance reference...
Oh you caught that! 😃
That is a great line.
It is.
I think more would have caught it if "image" was "model".
Also, I associate the song with Picard, Worf, and Data.
'Insurrection' definitely has multiple references! 😉
I’m glad the guy is getting impeached. He probably deserves it. What I take exception to are your political slant and biases that overtly flow throughout the article. Can’t you just call him a Republican? Why preface everything with MAGA REPUBLICAN? Why disparage Trump in an article that is written about someone else? You cheapen the article and your credibility.
I think the distinction is real: MAGA Republican is a thing and distinguishable from other Republicans. The evidence of Paxton’s devotion to being a MAGA Republican is bright as moonlight on a mid September harvest night at high tide, when the werewolves run with blood-crazed passion. That’s about as purple as my prose gets.
That’s not bad. I’d describe it as “Purple Haze”. I appreciate your honesty.
We will see if money translates into votes. I'm hoping Governor DeSantis will gain support as his campaign progresses and his message gets to a broader audience.
I disagree with those who accuse DeSantis of authoritarianism. There is no way to govern without exerting some controls that restrict individual behavior. Compare DeSantis policies in Florida with vaccination requirements, limiting attendance at family gatherings including funerals and weddings, school closings doing severe damage to student progress and dozens of other rules imposed in more liberal states.
Kim complains about the term "excess mortality". It is a valid concept that shows Covid deaths might be considerably more than those formally attributed to the pandemic.
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
The following link is to a John Stossel interview with Governor DeSantis. John is very libertarian.
https://reason.com/2023/05/24/the-two-faces-of-ron-desantis/
I know personally some human beings that died and several suffering from long covid. It’s inhumane, imho, to refer to them as “ excess mortality “. These were wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, brothers, fathers, you know….human beings. They deserved to live.
How would you have saved them? Really? Other governing agencies and politicians tried extremely authoritarian measures and failed miserably. It's now becoming obvious that those measures did plenty of harm and limited good. That is being shown by excess mortality studies. No one said they were not human beings. The Governor was just responding to questions about Covid in Florida.
My wife's brother-in-law (not in Florida) was kept in isolation when the pandemic first began and still died from Covid complications within 30 months. Jack Niclaus (my age) and his wife both had Covid and did not even know it. I haven't even had a headache or been ill (except for bladder cancer) and I had to do all the shopping in my family because my wife would not leave the house. She still will not eat in a restaurant.
I think the vaccines helped lessen the effects of Covid among the elderly, but my physician told me he would not have taken the vaccine if he had been 25 instead of 52. If one's immune system is not up to the challenge, he can expect serious problems with an airborne virus that presents no symptoms for several weeks.
Read the Stossel interview yesterday. Best quote : I also worry that he's an authoritarian.
Best quote: In any case, he's definitely smarter than both Trump and Biden.
I read that. It's why I said John is very libertarian. He wants almost no government. I lean that way but I respect the need for order.