I feel like, among others, Gavin Newsome thinks his labor lockout is “beautiful, man”, and for the same reason: it gives him a boner.
But just as Tom Cruise’s character had to know it couldn’t last, Newsome SHOULD know that as gratifying and exhilarating as ordering millions of people to live in fear, misery, desperation, and penury might be, it can’t last forever.
He’s just not ready to stop, just yet. Not yet. It’s still too much fun.
His inner dialogue: ‘There are still people saying it’s out there, right? Fauci says we need a vaccine. Let’s wait for a vaccine. Or a CURE, we could wait for a cure, right? Let’s order them off the beaches. Fuck the peasants. God that felt good. What else can we pull back? Oh, let’s make it last all summer. yes, then demand that only mail in ballots be used. Let’s send five to every household (you do have those lists, right? And the people to work them? Good). God it is good to be governor. I long for the days when it can be like this all the time. My job would be so much easier.”
What we are seeing is a foreshadowing of the sort of control and government the Democrats want. A Universal Basic Income basically would make them the Sugar Daddies of a large percentage of the populace. And when Daddy wants some sugar, he gets sugar, you understand?
Here is the thing, though: the people have a say. When you push, people often push back. When you step out of the shadows and people see you are an ugly monster, they never after stop looking for ugly monsters again. When you lie to them, only some of them will accept it forever.
My FEELING is that there is nothing I can or should say right now. The wheels are turning, and with this much pain, and this much stupidity, and this much abuse, either Americans wake the fuck up, or it is simply not possible, which itself is a useful data point as well.