March 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. I had just turned 5 (45 now). https://t.co/4BgMNYYnNZ

— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) April 22, 2020

Same for me! I was 3, just about to turn 4. I’m 43 now. I didn’t really understand what a mountain was, having never seen one, nor how it could explode — but I do remember the idea that the earth or part of it could just go kablooey concerning me greatly.

That’s not my earliest memory, but it’s the first major news event that I recall knowing anything about.

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IS A POLICY CHOICE

In today’s @markets newsletter, I wanted to remind people that none of the economic devastation we’re seeing was inevitable. It’s a political choice that it’s so awful.https://t.co/e5TYtjIuOw pic.twitter.com/R8msLzcos2

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 22, 2020

The plutes/conservatives saw their chance and they took it. The Democrats, had they any spine, could’ve resisted (just as in 2008/9) and did not.

Of course just like last time you’ll have morons coming out of the woodwork screeching, “No one could’ve known!” and that it was “inevitable,” but that’s just cover for them making use of the pillaging and looting opportunity they were waiting for.

What’s happening now is a policy choice. Never been anything but. Anyone who tells you any different is lying to you or is a useful idiot.

When Dem passed phase 3 and 4 without enough strings they gave McConnell all he needed to drive this country into a long sustained depression. Things are going to get bad. Like really bad. Like local governments going bankrupt as hospitals fill up sick patients this fall.

— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) April 22, 2020

I expect mega-depression. I think that has about a 60% probability now. (Two weeks ago, I would’ve said 30%.) By “mega-depression,” I mean GDP decrease by ~30%, sustained long-term, and 30-40% U3 unemployment (and ~50% U6). The “liberals” and “progressives” have done and are doing absolutely nothing to counter this and seem to have no interest in this at all.

The conservatives and plutes saw their opportunity and are taking it. Now we return to feudal world for a few centuries. This has long been their dream and now they can fulfill it. Most of them would rather be at the top of the heap of a garbage dump than just doing ok in a utopia, and they are about to get their fondest wish.

I don’t endorse with all of this, but it is pretty good satire. Though I agree with social distancing and stay-at-home restrictions, like many things this pandemic has become a great excuse for absurd and disgusting “liberal” virtue signaling. So, have a laugh:

is this big dave's rules for the internet https://t.co/6VpwKpHEpX

— ghost wife (@eponawest) April 21, 2020

I see why liberals make everyone puke.

I don’t tweet, but if I did I’d ask myself:

• Is it funny?
• Do I fucking give a fuck? (No.)

Then I’d hit the “do tweet” button or whatever and await my cancellation.

do these people just assume that republicans are as politically inept as they are

— ghost wife (@eponawest) April 22, 2020

I do think liberals think the Republicans accidentally win, somehow, despite being stupid. Libs conceive of themselves as the “smart, educated” ones and they literally cannot imagine that the Repubs have a very well-coordinated and well-orchestrated program of attack, concrete plans, and make great use of strategic and tactical opportunities.

Meanwhile, liberals police pronouns and cancel one another.

A buncha people talking about the price of oil don’t understand how futures contracts work.

And I’m not about to waste time explaining it, but I will laugh at them.

It’s *imperative* in the midst of a public health crisis that we able to question and CONTRADICT “Authoritative Sources” like the WHO when they appear to be lying to us or covering for endangering the public. Google, Facebook & Twitter are expendable.

Freedom & science are not. https://t.co/5kLUirQccR

— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) April 21, 2020

Hey everyone, remember all my warnings over the last two years as the liberals celebrated their censorship “wins?” This is the result. It wasn’t hard to figure out this would happen. It was, after all, the desired goal. (Not of the liberals, who are clueless pawns. But the goal of the people who have real power.)

How many times has the WHO lied recently, at great cost of lives? How many other organizations have as well? In case it’s already memory-holed, the WHO lied about mask wearing and the infectiousness of SARS-Cov-2, among other things. Also, others raced to admonish you for social distancing and not shaking hands, as both those were “racist.” Many other organizations repeated these and other lies.

Now we will be unable to challenge any of this on the largest public platforms.

Liberals got exactly what they wished for. Wonder if they still want it. Turns out de-platforming works, and the real targets all along are being de-platformed now.