Coronavirus Lockdown Journal Day 73 -- San Francisco: bars, retail and censorship


More on central planning's nimble effort to keep the bar industry alive. 

(In case you want to know what bar owners really think.)



File under: who needs a chip implant?


It's early in the summer. Usually the anti-protest playbook relies on winter weather to quiet things down.


Add to that massive unemployment.


Plus a component that is clearly thinking of killing people. (Why else do you carry an AR-15?)

If you don't see anything messed up in the picture above, learn how to count white faces.




Meanwhile, dear leader got fact checked on Twitter, now he's going after social media. In all honesty, if any of the major players allow in censors, it's game over. It's one thing to know that the govt is spying on us (they are), it's another thing to know that FBetc is censoring us (they are), but when the govt has top down control over our messaging, we are riding off into the dark night. And watch, this censorship/takeover will be framed as preserving freedom of speech.


Wrote that, then later in the day, read this.


One of dear leader's favorite tools for preserving his perfect track record of winning is a little psychological trick called "projection." Projection is the grown up version of "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you." It's when you accuse everyone else of doing the thing you're really doing.


So how do we read this? "When I censor opinions with which I disagree, I exercise a dangerous power."

Plus, I want all the same data on you they have.


Giselle is a former coworker. She bravely stepped into the world of retail a decade ago, and was doing fabulously, until...


File under: #SingularityNow
Whatever we think we're protesting, the goal is actually shutting down car traffic.


It's in our poo.

Um, Pennsylvania GOP, it sounds like this guy has a pretty good reason to be upset.

Still experimenting with platforms. This Blogger seems a bit more stable, but has several old-school drawbacks (manual formatting, very limited options to "make it pretty"). You can find the rest of the series here.

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