Update: The Politico reporter who wrote yesterday’s story about scientists trading social distancing for social justice offers this chilling follow-up:

Dan Diamond ? @ddiamond
Replying to @ddiamond
4. One other note on the response: I’ve heard, post-publication, from some doctors and Covid experts who say they feel boxed in: that they want to warn about public health risks of the new protests, but are worried they’ll be perceived as attacking the movement or worse.

If another 100,000 of us have to die so that scientists can remain safely politically correct, that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/alex-no-1

Alex Berenson’s booklet on coronavirus, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1,” became the No. 1 best seller in Amazon’s Kindle Store on Saturday.

Berenson, who has been a vocal critic of the government’s reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, took to Twitter to celebrate, “And there it is! “Unreported Truths” is #1 in Kindle. WE DID IT! THANK YOU!”

The booklet became available on Amazon Thursday after the online retailer initially told Berenson it didn’t meet the company’s guidelines.
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The former New York Times reporter quickly launched a protest on Twitter, calling the move “outrageous censorship from a company that gained hugely from lockdown” as millions are forced to shop online. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and other prominent journalists defended Berenson, and Amazon eventually allowed the book to be sold on its platform.

“I didn’t think my protest would do any good, but I also thought I didn’t have a choice,” Berenson told Fox News. “There are a number of journalists who got involved, including Glenn Greenwald, there were people on the left who explicitly said, ‘We think this guy is an idiot and we don’t like him but it’s important that this isn’t censored.’”

Berenson said he’s grateful for everyone who spoke out, but Musk, the tech mogul behind Tesla and SpaceX, probably made the most noise when he called the censoring of the booklet “insane” and called for Amazon to be broken up.

“It was shortly after that that Amazon contacted me and said, ‘We’re going to go ahead and publish this,’” Berenson said.

First we elect a President who owned a stake in WWE wrestling, then we get another dream match between billionaires: Bezos (heel) and Musk (face).
Do we live in a great country or what!!

https://www.wwe.com/superstars/donald-trump

The Donald’s Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, N.J. hosted both WrestleMania IV and WrestleMania V — the only venue to present The Show of Shows two years in a row. Since those unforgettable nights, Trump has remained a familiar face in the front row of WWE events, but it wasn’t until 2007 that the billionaire got in on the action.

In January of that year, The Donald interrupted Mr. McMahon’s “Fan Appreciation Night” on Raw and dropped tens of thousands of dollars from the rafters of the arena onto the WWE fans below. Red-faced that a rival would steal the spotlight from him, Mr. McMahon challenged Trump to a “Battle of the Billionaires” at WrestleMania 23 with the stipulation that the loser of the bout would have his head shaved bald.

A record number of viewers tuned in to watch The Donald back Bobby Lashley to victory over Mr. McMahon’s Umaga and subsequently shave the WWE Chairman’s signature mane in the center of the ring.

The business magnates locked horns again in June 2009 when Trump purchased Monday Night Raw and immediately announced that next week’s show would air commercial-free and that every WWE fan that who purchased a ticket would be given a full refund. The trademark Trump public relations flourish nearly made Mr. McMahon’s head explode and forced him to buy his show back from The Donald for twice the price.

The protest in McAllen, after the dude fired up his chain the snowflake was wailing “somebody call 911.” I thought COPs were the problem. LOL.

In a complete rebuke to lower court activism the supreme court in Michigan has ruled 7-0 to vacate a lower court ruling attempting to close the shop of barber Karl Manke.

Mr. Make’s lawyer, David Kallman, called it the “biggest, most lopsided victory of his career.”
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The ruling by the Michigan supreme court on the topic of COVID madness is particularly timely when contrast with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer defying her own social distancing dictates to permit marches and political protests that she approves.

The hypocrisy and selective enforcement of arbitrary rules/regulations, for ideological and political intents, is beyond stark.

Governor Whitmer has, and continues, to try and destroy the economy and businesses of Michigan residents over a fictitious fear of the COVID virus; but when her political ideology means she needs to break her own dictates, she does so without any regard or concern. A typical progressive politician.

In order for devout leftist ideologues, and their allies in the media, to continue advancing their ideology they must pretend not to know things. Denial of truth allows easier trespass. Never is this more true than in the hoax behind “social distancing.”

We were told we could not bury our lost family members or have funerals or memorial services because the COVID-19 infection spread was based on proximity.

We were told that science and doctors were the experts who would guide the rules and regulations. Those voices would shut down livelihoods; but we were guaranteed only the best science and health advice, not politics, was the reason.
It was all a lie.

“It’s not about the virus, it’s all about control.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/trump-suit-5.jpg

Protesters in McAllen – wasn’t there a movie about this kind of thing a while ago?
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1268990711157972993

What a protest in ranch country looks like.
https://twitter.com/TexsonRancher/status/1268950503754473472

Maybe not from Texas, but the sentiment is the same.
https://twitter.com/coleman_peanut/status/1268847366024630274

Happy birthday! Don’t be gone long, we won’t mess with Texas while you are away. 😉

Have a great Birthday!

I look forward to your return and sharing of your wisdom.

And we all are now undergrads. Now everyone gets to see what is has been like to live on a college campus for the last 5-10 years. The leftists running amok, shaming and bullying everyone who disagrees with them. Continually pushing and prodding the “administrations” to follow their “vision”, and the weak kneed administrations (now the governments, local, state, and federal) caving in and making nice to the mob. Ordinary conservative minions are in fear of speaking (conservative undergrads students). My only hope is that unlike colleges where the mob enjoys a 97/1 ratio in the ring leaders (the faculty) that such is not the case outside the colleges where I see more like a 50/50 ratio, but will it be enough???