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From the New York Post:

‘We should blow up the bridges’ — coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons

Yes, absolutely.  I really don’t need to know more than that, but I am curious.

It’s all-out class warfare in the Hamptons.

Don’t tease me.  It’s not “all-out class warfare” until there is a body count.

The year-round residents, the locals who serve and clean and landscape for the super-rich in the summertime — and put up with all manner of entitlement and terrible behavior in exchange for good money — are silent no more.

“There’s not a vegetable to be found in this town right now,” says one resident of Springs, a working-class pocket of East Hampton. “It’s these elitist people who think they don’t have to follow the rules.”

The elite never follow the rules.  That is the surest sign you’ve made it as an elite. Once you can own your own rape island or have despots funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into your money laundering scheme of a foundation you know you’ve made it.

Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing, bringing along their disdain and disregard for the little people — and in some cases, knowingly bringing coronavirus.

The Springs resident says her friend, a nurse out here, reported that a wealthy Manhattan woman who tested positive called tiny Southampton Hospital to say she was on her way and needed treatment.

The woman was told to stay in Manhattan.

Instead, she allegedly got on public transportation, telling no one of her condition. Then she showed up at Southampton Hospital, demanding admittance.

That’s just evil.  Seriously.  How many people did that woman possibly infect because she decided she was rich enough to bypass the NYC quarantine and bring her disease to her summer resort home hospital.

“We’re at the end of Long Island, the tip, and waves of people are bringing this s–t,” says lifelong Montauker James Katsipis. “We should blow up the bridges. Don’t let them in.”

I highly recommend whistling while you do it.

“That small act reflects a lot of what we deal with in the summer,” he says. “Selfish. Disrespectful. Absolutely horrifying.”

“I’ve seen breathtaking acts of selfishness,” says lifelong East Hamptonite Jason LaGarenne, 42. “I saw one guy walk out [of a grocery store] with a cart full of carrots. Just carrots. Another cart was full of bottles of water and orange anti-microbial dish soap. If you’re a ridiculous person in general, I guess your ridiculousness is amplified by something like this.”

This comes as no shock to me.  The super-rich showing up in what they think of as exclusively their vacation spots and buying up everything depriving the locals of necessities.

The offseason, October through June, is sparsely populated and can be very isolating. During that time, local grocers only stock food and supplies for a severely reduced population. There is no FreshDirect, no Whole Foods, no door-to-door food deliver

I’ve never been to the Hamptons but this is something I’m familiar with this in Florida.  There are areas that are know for their spring break or tourist spots that during the offseason are practically ghost towns.

My grandparents used to own a vacation home in one of these spots on the Gulf Coast.  When we visited them during the offseason the community was very different.  It was just retirees and a city rolled up the sidewalks at 8:00.

If the Hampton locals were not planning for a tourist rush, they are only going to have on hand what they need for their small community.  Having people escape New York City and descend on them as a refuge without warning will drain them of their resources.

The South Hampton hospital is pretty small too.  It’s only a 125-bed hospital with eight ICU beds.  It’s not built to support a huge population year-round, especially during a crisis.

“The biggest problem — what really gets me going — is that they think because they’re all the way out [here], they’re safe,” says Katsipis. “But some of those people are sick, and they’re going out to bars and acting like they’re on vacation. What do these city people think — we have some imaginary, magical bubble?”

I’ve mentioned this before.  I love the book World War Z, and there is one chapter in which a security guard for a celebrity talks about the celebrities who hunkered down with private security in guarded mansions and partied while the zombie apocalypse was occurring.  It was fun until the zombies breached the walls of the compounds and the celebrities were all eaten.

I’m getting a strong whiff of that.

Then there is the famous story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.  The nobles have a party during the plague but the plague shows up and kills them all anyway.

I’m getting a strong whiff of that too.

Still, every local who spoke to The Post said their community has one thing going for it that the rich don’t have: They really look out for each other.

The super-rich believe that they are entitled to break quarantine and consume everything the locals have because of their money.

This is why the royalty always wanted to disarm their serfs.  They know they can only heap this casual abuse and disregard for the lives of those under them for so long before there is a peasant revolt.

One seems like it’s coming in the Hamptons.

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I had heard about the  Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act some time ago and I my first thought was “Why do we need it? How bad are lynchings nowadays that somebody thought it was the utmost importance that we make lynching a Federal crime?

And the answer is: It is not a problem.

I have been assisting doing research for a book that has me going through news articles from the USA through the years. One of the search subjects is the lynching of multiple suspects and I had gained a little insight on the subject. Lynchings, specially after the Civil War and almost through the end of the 19th century, were almost a weekly occurrence in this country. However the numbers are heavily reduced as we approach and enter the 20th century because of 2 things: Sheriffs that stood strong and had no qualms at dropping  people in a lynching mob and a very strong prosecution and trial of those persons engaged in lynching.  The moment that the court started to hand 20 year sentences for the extra-judicial killing of people (murder), the wide fervor of lynching started to disappear. It does not matter if the State only sent 4 or 5 of the 500 lynchers to the pen, the rest got the message loud an clear.

By the first decade of the 20th Century, it is almost impossible to find but one case of a multiple-subject lynching and the organizer and a couple of his friends ended up going to prison.  And yes, single individual lynchings continued, but also in a reduced numbers and not quite in the open as before.

This is the worst lynching in the history of the US. March 1891. It was a watershed moment, to coin a phrase.

You can read the details here: The Grisly Story of America’s Largest Lynching.

A buddy of mine sent me this because I apparently didn’t hit my quota for articles critiquing Leftist Jews last week.

From the San Diego Jewish World:

Are there enough hospital beds for Covid-19 and gun victims?

Yes, yes there are.  Hospitals may be busy but they are not overrun with sick people.  The one cause of the overrun in Italy was from people who did not have Coronavirus and had only mild symptoms but panicked and wanted tests.  This is starting to happen in US emergency rooms too.  If you are not having an emergency, see your primary care physician, don’t just rush over to the ER.

This is very different than the dire image the media is painting for us that the US is having people die in hospital parking lots like it’s some post-apocalyptic nightmare.

But I digress…

Baltimore Mayor Jack Young sounded a curious plea this past Wednesday: “We cannot clog our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we’re going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus.”

Baltimore had a record homicide rate in 2019, of 57 per 100,000 people.  the overwhelming majority of those murders were criminals shooting other criminals over drugs or revenge.

Yet it seemed commendable nearly a month earlier when the House of Representatives passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act which, true to its name, would make lynching a federal hate crime.

It occurred to me that perhaps a century from now the House will vote to make gun violence a federal hate crime – thousands of bullet-ridden bodies later.

And this would accomplish what exactly?  Federal hate crime charges for some gang member killing another gang member because of money owed in a drug deal?

This is just stupid.

The perpetuation of gun violence is horrid enough, but soon gunshot victims could be competing with coronavirus patients for medical care. Not to mention patients for all other health woes served by hospitals.

Who could have predicted that gun control could not be more crucial? Of course, Republicans will likely deny that the coronavirus spread makes gun control compulsory, but it sure does. 

I would contend that Democrats reducing policing and letting criminals go free because of the Coronavirus is justification for expanding gun rights and concealed carry to law-abiding citizens.  Before the Coronavirus, assault and robbery were turned into catch-and-release crimes in New York and California due to things like Prop 47 and bail reform.  Add in the Cronoavirus and criminals can just about get away with murder.

When the massacre occurred at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh 17 months ago, what if the wounded were turned away from hospitals because there were no beds? The medical facilities were too consumed with treating coronavirus patients.

That’s a hell of a what-if.  Especially since that sort of emergency trauma surgery is treated in different rooms with different equipment than people in an ICU for a highly infectious contagion.

I wish [Baltimore’s Mayor Young] had emphasized national gun control legislation, the only means to prevent smuggling guns across state lines. Though gun control is not a panacea, it would cut off the supply of weapons.

Not just is not a panacea, it’s not effective at reducing gun crime at all.

The Republican response to gun control of prayers for the victims, which amounts to an empty gesture. compares to the anti-lynching bill’s impact. As lynchings of mainly black males swept the nation after the Civil War, Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of the House in 1900, proposed a bill to prosecute lynchings at the federal level at a time when such a law probably would have done some good.

I wonder if this idiot has thought his position through because the primary demographic responsible for shooting Baltimore’s black men is other black men.

It is always helpful to “send a strong message” against violence, but must it be limited to lynchings? Lynchings have for decades been nearly unheard of.

Lynchings could still happen today to blacks, Jews and anyone else, but gun violence is now the reality – whether it victimizes Jews at a Jersey City kosher grocery store and synagogues in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Poway, California, or African-Americans in the inner-city. Or anywhere else.

Ask the seven victims of Wednesday’s shooting rampage in Baltimore.

I had to look this up.  There was a shooting in Baltimore last Tuesday.  The suspects are still at large.  The police suspect gang involvement and not a racially motivated shooting.

The author is skipping over that little point and has jumped onto some spurious connection to lynchings and hate crimes.

Also, if he is worried about random violent attacks on Jews, he’s probably going to be surprised that those seem to be carried out mostly by black people in New York City.

Furthermore, given the random nature of those attacks and the way city and state has responded, not to mention the growing anti-Semitism of Federal Democrats, I’d put more faith in encouraging Jews to adopt concealed-carry than I would some punk in Crown Heights being brought up on Federal anti-Lynching law for punching a Rabbi unconscious.

Every single thing about this opinion is wrong, from the effectiveness of gun control, to the facts about most of the shootings in places like Baltimore, to the state of the US emergency medical system, to how he envisions his solution working.

This guy is just a Lefty who wants gun control and will use any excuse to get it and right now the Coronacrisis is the best excuse he has.

I looked for more info on this attack and articles mention Trump and the climate of tension for his use of “Chinese virus” but not a single one mentions the race of the attackers that happened in heavily Anti Trump California.

I wonder why.

“After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks […] be replenished by the stockpile.” The problem is that didn’t happen. According to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Association, about 100 million N95 respirator masks were used up during the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, but, he said was unaware of any “major effort to restore the stockpile to cover that drawdown.”

In short, even though the Obama administration was advised to replenish the national stockpile of the N95 respirator masks, they didn’t. Despite the fact the media traced the cause of the shortage back to 2009, they accuse Trump of poor planning and trying to deflect responsibility.

It’s Barack Obama’s Fault There’s a Shortage of N95 Respirator Masks

The Democrats left us “naked” in facing the virus, the Media knows it and puts the blame on Trump? If I was a very suspicious individual, i would have to say that certain segment of our political ensemble is willing to let people die and reap on the benefits while they are being protected by the “guardians of Truth”  busy trying to cover for their master’s fuck ups or evil intentions.

A few definitions to start with:

First: Merriam-Webster defines empathy as

The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
Also : the capacity for this

Second: what makes a psychopath or sociopath a psychopath or sociopath is a lack of empathy.

Thrid: Generation Z is defined as being born between 1996 and 2012, making them 7 to 22 years old.   I would be inclined to move the start point a little latter to incorporate people up to 25.  Nevertheless, the point is today’s early 20-somethings are not millennials, which technically I am.

It is Generation Z and the younger millennials, the ones who had Facebook when they were in middle and high school, that drive so much of the internet activism we currently see.

A few days ago I wrote a post, intended to be humourous, about an Instagram influencer who licked an airplane toilet seat.  I can’t think of anything more despicably Gen Z than someone being an “Instagram influencer.”

An Instagram influencer is just someone who gets paid to make other people feel bad about themselves for not living impossibly pampered lives in order to sell travel and visiting exotic lands as the newest form of conspicuous consumption.

When this Instagram influencer was asked about the blowback she received from her TikTok and Twitter post, her response showed just the depth of character that she has.

“So I licked a toilet seat on my sugar daddy’s private plane on my way down here to go viral because I fucking hate old people and it’s their fault that we can’t go to the beach and catch a fucking dick!” Ava Louise continued to explain to Marletta.

This is a young woman that has sex with an older man for access to his private plane and wealth, which she uses to travel and post photos online, which got her enough attention to get paid to advertise products in her photos.

She made an internet celebrity career out of having sex with an older man for money.

Also, she hates older people for some indiscernible reason.

She started a trend, the “Coronavirus challenge” which has other people in her age bracket licking airplane toilet seats.

This has resulted in the publishing of a headline that, I swear, was engineered to cause brain damage.

American gender-fluid sex worker shocks Twitter by filming themself licking an airplane toilet seat

The gender-fluid/non-binary movement really seems to be an outgrowth of identity politics and narcissism.  It’s for people who want to be called “brave” for “coming out” but without the work or lifestyle change of being trans.  The Left, Right, and even Boy George have said this.  There is nothing so self-centered as “nobody can define how special I feel, and you must call me something unique because of it.”

This overlaps with my post about narcissistic trans people who are angry that Coronavirus victims, people with aggressive metastatic cancer, and people with serious heart conditions get priority in surgery over their having dicks cut off or fabricated out of some extra thigh skin.

Furthermore, this just adds more fuel to my fire against the normalization of sex work by the Left.  In the modern, Western world, prostitution was a sign that an area had a tenuous grasp on civilization.  Brothels existed in the dangerous port cities, logging camps, and frontier towns, not in places where families were raised.  There is a reason “red light district” and “skid row” are synonymous with bad and seedy areas.  Even in Europe, which is supposed to be so enlightened, the brothels are not adjacent to the cultural centers.

Prostitution also affirms narcissism.  It allows a person to say “I can have an orgasm without having to worry about the feelings of the other individual.”  It takes something that is a unique human connection and turns it into a commodity.

Among those who could not believe their eyes were The Good Place-actress Jameela Jamil, who simply commented: ‘What…is…this…?’

‘Grimiestt’ responded to the British actress themself, writing: ‘a sex worker, working’.

If a sex worker, working is a person licking a toilet seat, then this is a ringing endorsement to make sex work a capital offense.

This narcissist desire for internet fame from an obscene internet challenge has turned her into a grotesque vector for infection.  particularly, since I assume she will go back to sex work where she will let men put their penises into the same mouth she just touched to a toilet seat.

The Instagram influencer’s quote also overlaps with another trend that I’ve been seeing.

Morbid ‘boomer remover’ coronavirus meme only makes millennials seem more awful

Spawned in the underbelly of Reddit, the nihilistic catchphrase has gained traction on all social media platforms, especially among savvy millennials who picked up on the fact that the COVID-19 virus seems to take aim at baby boomers, or those aged between 55 and 75.

Hence, “boomer remover” is now officially a trending meme.

Point of order, it is NOT millennials (at least older millennials) who are trending boomer remover.  It is Gen Z and the under 30’s that don’t have kids.

The popularity of Boomer Remover stems from the worst of Leftist politics.

Boomer Remover has since become a battleground for generational warfare on social media, frequently couched as a natural consequence of how the Baby Boomer generation has treated the planet or approached politics—either an unfortunate outgrowth of the more conservative brand of politics suggested by Baby Boomer voting demographics relative to Millennials and Generation Z, or a deserved comeuppance for damage done to the environment and/or social fabric.

Boomers are also more likely, or perceived to be more likely, to be Trump voters.

That Boomers support Trump, are not inclined to hand the world over the Socialism justified by panic over climate change, and good old fashioned envy, are justifications for the young Leftists’ hatred of Boomers.

The fact is that Generation Z has lived, by and large, the easiest life of any human beings that have ever lived since the Homo Sapien evolved as a species.

While I will not deny that every generation has its problems, and I have spent much time (especially recently) calling out the problems created by the McKinseying of the American economy, by and large, these young people know lower crime and more prosperity than any previous generation.

For literally their entire adult lives, they have had access to the entire knowledge base of humanity as their fingertips and they could have ordered just about whatever they wanted and had it delivered in 2 days or less.

Not to mention that most of the young people making this trend are from the more privileged class of young people.

This is little more than “me, me, me” narcissism.  The kids given everything are mad that their whims and unrealistic ideas are not kowtowed to so they want their parents and/or grandparents to die.

I don’t agree with my mother or mother-in-law on everything but I most desperately do not want to deprive my children of the time they spend with their boomer grandmothers, who they love.

It is as though a generation of young people, raised on social media and given everything their hearts’ desire, have ended up without functional empathy.

They lick toilet seats for fame, bully other people online over their desire to have special pronouns, demand that the medical community serve their feelings over the actual life-threatening medical conditions of others, have their political whims waited on hand and foot, and wish death on everyone who dares to disagree with them.

In some ways, the Coronavirus has brought out the best in people.

In other ways, it’s brought out the worst.

Among the under 25 age bracket, it only seems to be the worst.

I fear for the future of this nation when it falls into the hands of a generation of narcissistic sociopaths.