Christopher Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal gives it to the world’s dumbest billionaire, J.B. Pritzker, by the stupidity of the people, Governor of Illinois:
Like I said about Gauleiter de Blasio. Do a mosque and see what happens. Or be prepared for a whole lot of people coming to the conclusion that sending Illinois cops into a church to arrest some poor Illinois sap caught standing 5.998567 feet away from some other poor Illinois sap is about a lot of things but the public health most certainly isn’t one of them.
Plus, the electoral optics couldn’t possibly be worse.
We’re talking about people’s livelihoods here, lard-a–. Assuming, if you ever do open the state up again, that they’ll even have jobs to go back to. As somebody who’s had more than his share of experience with it, prolonged unemployment is the easiest thing in the world to expect somebody else to go through. I wouldn’t begin to understand what it must be like to have to impotently watch the business you spent your life building shatter into a million pieces for reasons that you no longer understand, never mind agree with.
And don’t even get me started on telling people when, where and under what conditions they can worship their God.
Glenn Reynolds puts it like this.
The shutdowns were sold as “two weeks to slow the spread,” and “flattening the curve,” and so on, and lots of people thought that was sensible, and it was. A two-month (or longer) shutdown is a different animal, and nobody consented to that. So now people are, mostly silently, withdrawing their consent from the state.
Explain things to people. Explain in great detail why folks really need to take a couple of weeks or even a month off and they’ll happily do it as long as they fully understand why. But if that period just keeps getting longer and longer for vaguer and vaguer “reasons” or if people are told not to ask questions, that the government knows what’s best, expect more than a little pushback.
Fact is, there are probably nowhere near enough jails in the state, fat boy. Not to mention how many times we’ll all get to relive all those moments during the campaign commercials.
Go here to comment. Of course what the governor is doing is completely illegal, as his emergency powers vanish after thirty days:
(20 ILCS 3305/7) (from Ch. 127, par. 1057)
Sec. 7. Emergency Powers of the Governor. In the event
of a disaster, as defined in Section 4, the Governor may, by proclamation
declare that a disaster exists. Upon such proclamation,
the Governor shall have and may exercise for a period not to exceed 30
days the following emergency powers;
His mechanism of making an additional disaster proclamation in order to extend his emergency powers flies in the face of the plain reading of the statute that emergency powers may not exceed a period of 30 days. This is tyranny, pure and simple, and his edicts should be ignored by the people of Illinois.
When will he be sued? When will we revolt. I’m getting tired of his bigoted crap, tacitly supported by Cupich the Effete. Cupich will use this as the opportunity to close schools and consolidate parishes. Hopefully Paprocki has the backbone to challenge this.
Reminiscent of Obama’s war in Libya. He flagrantly ignored even the far too generous war powers act. At any point he could have asked for authorization from congress, and he almost certainly would have received it (since congress was full of democrats ready to sign off on anything dear leader did and many establishment warhawk republicans willing to rubber stamp any invasion). But he didn’t even bother to try. Similarly there’s no way that a majority of today’s politicians wouldn’t extend emergency powers.
The only reason I can think for why politicians wouldn’t ask for authorization that will be easily granted is that they enjoy being dictators. It’s no fun if you actually have the proper authority.
The War Powers Act is probably unconstitutional, since it is in effect a Congressional veto.
I would think a statesman would want the legislature on board for the additional veneer of legitimacy. Politicians on the other hand would rather wait until the outcome was known before attempting to take credit or assign blame.
Question: When will Democrat voters begin to understand that impoverishment is not a cure for the virus? Remains to be seen.
Rulers rule at the consent of the governed, and there are a lot of people consenting to this.
Not the people I talk to. I have no confidence that stacked polls reflect public opinion.
I just got a decision from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals granting an injunction against Kentucky Governor Beshear from enforcing his ban on in-person church attendance. The case is Roberts et al. v. Neace et al., Case No. 20-5465 (6th Cir. May 9,2020).. The Court stated that “while the law may take periodic naps during a pandemic, we will not let it sleep through one.” I think the tide will turn on this. Governor Pritzker needs to be challenged on his unconstitutional overreach.—Tom Bruns
Way to go F7. That is great news!
Why can someone safely walk down a grocery store aisle but not a pew? And why can someone safely interact with a brave deliverywoman but not with a stoic minister? The Commonwealth has no good answers. While the law may take periodic naps during a pandemic, we will not let it sleep through one.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/050220MaryvilleBaptistIPA.pdf
Here’s a story about it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.14news.com/2020/05/08/federal-judge-ky-churches-can-resume-in-person-services-sun/%3foutputType=amp
I’m glad to see the order shot down, but sad to see that it was the baptists who forced the issues.
Looking around online, all the diocese of Kentucky are of the “masses cancelled indefinitely” variety.
Joke of the Day.
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Other joke of the day:
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Grateful to you.
It really is amazing how well the budget balances when you can kill or strip of property and exile a significant portion of the population, isn’t it?
The Nazis may have looted Europe’s art treasures, but they did it with a curator’s eye!