Plywood Thursday

Steyn On-line ^ | June 4, 2020 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

Tuesday was #BlackoutTuesday, when high-end emporia and fashionable brands all blacked out their logos in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. I'm thinking of starting #PlywoodThursday, when SteynOnline covers up its logo with a sheet of plywood in solidarity with all those convenience stores and all-night pharmacies trying to ward off the looters. Perhaps we'll get a hashtag - #FunctioningSocietyMatters, if only to a few of us.

The New Normal and the Old Normal operate simultaneously: it's illegal to barbecue a steak in your backyard but feel free to barbecue the entire supermarket you got it from. The internal contradictions of Lockdownistan holding state-approved riots are no problem for a skilled commissar like New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy:

He addressed the apparent disconnect between his own executive order shutting down nonessential businesses and his support for the protests, which concentrated populations in violation of social distancing.

'It's one thing to protest – I don't want to make light of this and I'll probably get lit up by everybody who owns a nail salon in the state, but it's one thing to protest what day nail salons are opening and it's another to come out in peaceful protest overwhelmingly about somebody who was murdered right before our eyes.'

...In the new America, business is non-essential but riots are essential. Don't take it from a mere politician; ask an expert - like Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at Yale. Only a couple of weeks back he was raging against the utter irresponsibility of these deranged nail-salon habitués:

How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy..?

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting...Steyn at his finest, here.

Loved every great one-liner....and, there are many!!

[moovova]

“Plywood Thursday”

Only Mark Steyn could think of something like that.

[Thommas]

Mark is spot on. Sadly, spot on..

And now, all of this kerfuffle has become international.

How does a supposed local issue of police malfeasance become a caus celeb with international commiseration? Is this issue of 'black genocide' something that is currently prevalent in France, Germany, or England (where the Bobbies are unarmed?)

[Dr. Sivana]

This is confusing. Skittles already blacked out some packaging on behalf of the pervert caucus. Do they black them out again, or maybe add the colors back?

In the words of Simon and Garfunkel,

And after it rains there’s a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It’s not that the colors aren’t there
It’s just imagination they lack

[caww]

He writes.....”In the new America, business is ‘non-essential’ but riots are ‘essential’...and ...It’s ‘illegal’ to barbecue a steak in your backyard but feel ‘free’ to barbecue the entire supermarket you got it from”.......

...and this goes on and on and on....

[KJC1]

It’s ‘illegal’ to barbecue a steak in your backyard but feel ‘free’ to barbecue the entire supermarket you got it from”

I laughed out loud at this. So sickly, sadly, unbelievably true.

[caww]

So did I....but I’ll just say I have zero regard for whatever they thought their cause was .....nada....and when they complain because of police unfairness they can just consider the score even for all these thugs and rioters who got away with theft, violence, attacks and murder these nights...

[Rummyfan]

It's my mother's funeral in 12 days time. We can't have the church service she wanted and only 10 mourners are allowed. Would anyone mind explaining why?