Members of the media will make excuses for their own abuse at the hands of rioters, because, after all, these people are correctly "angry."

Corporations will issue statements positing solidarity with the people who are looting their stores. Hollywood will produce content justifying the rage. Schools will shut down in preparation for the fully-expected insurrection.

@allahpundit  This isn't counting the tens of millions who presumably have either natural immunity after earlier covid, or pre-existing resistance which makes them less susceptible to infection. So the number is likely way higher than 40%.

What we are watching isn't an insurrection in the traditional sense -- it's not the violent overthrow of institutions. It is their capture and weaponization against the structures and ideas of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.

Stores begin boarding up, schools pre-emptively cancel, and media justify their own assault based on an unrendered verdict in an individual criminal trial. The soft bigotry of low expectations is a hideous reality.

Fauci saying that vaccinated people can pass covid asymptomatically, and that they must therefore mask, is idiocy. It's contradicted by the CDC itself, which says that if you are vaccinated and EXPOSED TO COVID, you don't have to quarantine unless you are symptomatic.

Fauci says that gun violence is a public health problem. Because when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Fine, only shopping at Home Depot from now on

Regardless of the verdict, the fact that the entire country knows that cities will burn if Chauvin isn't convicted is a deep indictment of the state of the country.