As President Donald Trump has indicated, liability issues will need to be addressed before any economic reopening gets very far.

What If You Go Back to the Office and Get Covid-19?
"Any plan for reopening is going to have to resolve some sticky liability issues."  

In the absence of clarity on this question, many risk-averse institutions will simply wait, as their lawyers will be reluctant to give them clearance to reopen.Yet the path forward is tricky. The coronavirus relief act passed by Congress last month waives or limits liability for volunteer health-care providers, as well as those providing “pandemic countermeasures.” But how do businesses and other institutions fit into this picture?

 Reopen and get sued? Some small business owners fear exposure to liability issues upon reopening their doors

. . . "The problem for business owners is that they don’t have to lose a lawsuit for it to be crippling — or even catastrophic. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend oneself against a lawsuit that is too flimsy to win yet still strong enough to survive a motion to dismiss without a trial. 

“ 'If you get past the motion to dismiss, then you have discovery and a jury trial and the lawyer bills really start piling up,” said Michael Krauss, a George Mason law professor specializing in tort law and legal ethics. “Some plaintiff lawyers exploit that with what they call nuisance suits intended just to get a settlement. In those cases, the settlement will be cheaper than paying a lawyer to successfully defend the suit.”

"In the past month alone, all sorts of COVID-19-related lawsuits have already popped up. Workers suing employers. Inmates suing the Corrections Department. Passengers suing cruise lines. Businesses suing insurance companies. Heck, even U.S. states suing China."

George W. Bush Spox Says NYT Article Claiming He Won’t Be Voting For Trump ‘Is Completely Made Up’

Daily Caller

"Former President George W. Bush’s spokesman vehemently denied an article from the New York Times that alleged he would not be voting for President Donald Trump in 2020.

"The NYT reported Saturday that a slew of high-profile Republicans do not plan on supporting Trump’s reelection. Included in that list was Bush, and the NYT cited “people familiar with their thinking.”

“ 'This is completely made up,” Bush’s spokesman Freddy Ford said in an email according to the Texas Tribune. “He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote.” (RELATED: Bush Office Thanks Trump For Support Amid State Funeral)" . . .

Other Republicans who reportedly won’t be voting for Trump this year include Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy McCain, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the NYT reported.

Medical Journal Retracts Study Claiming Hydroxychloroquine Is Dangerous

Daily Caller

" 'A widely read study claiming the use of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus leads to an increased risk of death has been retracted, the study’s publisher said Thursday. 

"The Lancet, the medical journal that published the original study in late May, said in a statement that they “can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” and “due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.” 

“We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic,” they said. “We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.” . . .

I'd say the left's legal and political system has dominated the police

Townhall

The Left's Coming War on Cops  

"Newly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: "Defund the Police."
"That new message sits beside the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
"Still, the messages are less ominous than the chants of protesters in New York after the takedown that resulted in the death of Eric Garner.
"Protesters then chanted of the NYPD: "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now!' " . . .

Liberal oppression; America's Kristallnacht (Updated)

Despite recent events, we will not rise in revolt.  We will not act as a catalyst for additional violence.  Instead, we will vote.  We will use the finely honed system that the Founders bequeathed to us to relegate the extremists to the dustbin of history...once gain. James D. Best*

Our society under the harsh thumb of millennial oppression

Take a step back in time to the Holocaust. The night of broken glass was a time when many of the Jews saw the destruction of homes and businesses. Glass littered the streets as windows were broken. This was also a night when many men, women and children were beaten to death.  Night Of Broken Glass

UPDATE: The above post would have got me fired: NPR fires weatherman for comparing Seattle riots to Germany in 1938 on his personal blog

America is too good for Democrats*  "For most of this century, Democrats have tried to start a civil war — a war between themselves and anyone who disagrees with their agenda.
. . . "The primary Democrat weapons are harassment, bullying, and intimidation.  Democrats have nurtured the cancel culture, run conservatives off social media, made higher education an exclusive domain for their viewpoints, ripped up Republican yard signs, threatened canvassers, and fired guns at local Republican offices.  They even shot Republicans at a softball practice.  Some of this violence is of the lone wolf variety, but much of it is highly organized." . . .

Cornell students demand Chemistry Prof. David Collum be fired for tweeting that Buffalo incident was not police brutality
"Campus cancel culture seeks to fire someone with an unpopular view, claiming his presence makes students feel unsafe and runs against a diverse and inclusive campus."
. . . "David Collum is a distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, and former Chair of the department. He self-identifies as libertarian, making him one of a small percentage of openly non-liberal professors on a large campus dominated by far-left social justice dogma.

"Collum also is a sought-after speaker on finance, and the Snowflake Generation, which seems prophetic in light of what’s going on in his life now."  . . .

NY Times Opinion Editor Resigns After Internal Fury Over Op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton  . . ."This resignation is so absurd that I really don’t know what they are thinking at the former gold standard of print journalism.  The lunatics are running the asylum . . . right into the “woke” ground." . . .

82-Year-Old Massachusetts Veteran Assaulted for Holding Trump Sign

IT BEGINS: Rioters Burned Down Minneapolis Manufacturer. Now They’re Relocating, Taking Jobs With Them

. . . The owner of a manufacturing company in Minneapolis that was burned to the ground during last week’s violent riots has announced that he is relocating his company, taking dozens of jobs out of the city, due to the failure of the city’s Democrat leaders to protect businesses.  . . .

. . . “The city’s first survey of property damage shows that nearly 1,000 commercial properties in Minneapolis were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and 30 other locations that sustained severe damage,” The Star Tribune reported.  . . .

 Voting with their feet: Burned-out Minneapolis manufacturer pulls up stakes and vows to rebuild elsewhere

New York mayor calls for end of private property

A city gets the government it deserves

NY Post  "Dear fellow Democrats:
"To judge from the polls and personal experience, many of you are somewhere between lukewarm and ice cold toward Mayor Bill de Blasio. You love that crime keeps falling and that murders are headed for a record low, but worry that the growing disorder on the streets smells like trouble is coming.
"You have never seen so many vagrants, and so many of them looking deranged and dangerous. Why didn’t he tackle the problem in the beginning, instead of denying the obvious — that the numbers were exploding?
"You also don’t like it that the subways are a mess, traffic is pretty much congested everywhere all the time and bicycle riders are treated as privileged characters even as they routinely flaunt safety laws.
"You pay the nation’s highest taxes, but it’s never enough. The cost of living here is out of control, despite what looks and feels like diminished public services.
"Streets are filthy, roads are rutted, yet every time you turn around, City Hall is focused on race, gender and identity politics, as if that’s what working people care about most. Is the mayor really going to take down the Christopher Columbus statue in — of all places — Columbus Circle?
"What would they call it — de Blasio Circle? Al Sharpton Circle?" . . .

The Campus Riot Reaches The Newsroom

The Times bent over backwards to disavow the Cotton op-ed, attaching a shameful disclaimer to the online version, and cowardly blaming its appearance on a young editor who just happens to have worked once for the Weekly Standard (so you can expect he’s toast). Steven Hayward

Power Line  "A while back New York magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote “We All Live on Campus Now,” noting that progressive campus craziness has burst out and now heavily infects big business and the media:

When elite universities shift their entire worldview away from liberal education as we have long known it toward the imperatives of an identity-based “social justice” movement, the broader culture is in danger of drifting away from liberal democracy as well. If elites believe that the core truth of our society is a system of interlocking and oppressive power structures based around immutable characteristics like race or sex or sexual orientation, then sooner rather than later, this will be reflected in our culture at large. What matters most of all in these colleges — your membership in a group that is embedded in a hierarchy of oppression — will soon enough be what matters in the society as a whole.

"Sullivan’s piece has apparently re-emerged and has angered the younger staff at New York. His column this week was canceled.

"But that’s nothing compared to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which has cashiered its editor Stan Wischnowski for the sin of approving a headline reading “Buildings Matter, Too.” "Groveling didn’t work:" . . .

Looney Tunes Isn’t in Need of Rescuing

Gabriella Hoffman

"Which classic is being subjected to revamping now? First it was Disney, now the beloved “Looney Tunes” franchise is getting some semblance of a “make-over.” 

. . . 

"What is notably absent in this reboot, per the show’s creators? Firearms, of course—the convenient and oft-vilified Hollywood scapegoat. 

"Telegraph noted, “In response to US gun violence, the showrunners will not include firearms in Fudd’s arsenal. That is not to say that he has given up hunting Bugs Bunny, though - he just uses a scythe instead.” 

"But wait, there’s more! The New York Times reassures us, “The old “Looney Tunes” violence is here, too: the sticks of dynamite, the intricate booby traps, the anvils and bank safes dropped on unsuspecting heads.” 

"A scythe? Really? How is a scythe any less dangerous than a firearm? Booby traps? Anvils? Bank safes? Also, nobody hunts rabbits with scythes—hunting dogs like beagles, shotguns, and snare traps are commonly used. 

"Remember: This is the same Hollywood that virtue signals about gun safety, yet glorifies violence in many of its films and programs. This is the same Hollywood home to actors and actresses who boast armed security yet loudly clamor for gun control. This is the same Hollywood that lumps law-abiding gun owners with hardened criminals.

"Not surprisingly, this change-up is part of Warner Brothers’ “greater” mission to embark on “a five-alarm rescue effort.” What rescuing is “Looney Tunes” in need of that we are unaware of? Is it in danger of losing popularity, despite how readily available and consumed reruns are? There’s no way the “Looney Toons” is better off with this. " . . . 

There is no longer joy in millennialville. No more of this:

The abasement of America never stops

Abolishing the police; it won't take long for this to get interesting

"May You Live In Interesting Times" went a classic old curse.

Reginald Denny, on the ground knows all about having no police to call on. How did that "white privilege" work out for him? Who has washed his feet in repentence?

Minneapolis City Council President Describes Ability To Call The Police As ‘Privilege’

"CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
"BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege.' " . . . CNN Video

Minneapolis City Council announces veto-proof push to disband police in George Floyd aftermath  . . . "The Minneapolis Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment. NYPD Detectives President Paul DiGiacomo said earlier Sunday that defunding any police departments would be a “recipe for disaster.”

"Mayor Jacob Frey was booed out of a protest Saturday after the Democrat refused to commit to defunding the police himself." . . .

L.A. police object after city partly defunds police for Black Lives Matter: "We're gonna fight"  " 'If it wasn't for [police], this city would be burnt down right now..." says a police union representative speaking to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez. "I promise you this union will go to our grave fighting. Will not let this happen to these officers. It's not right... you're finding $250 million to give to Black Lives Matter? It was because of Black Lives Matter throwing rocks and bottle at these officers cracking their skulls... you guys are listening to them? What about these law abiding citizens... all they want is these officers to protect them. And now you're cutting from families?... We're gonna fight '" Video

The building cold anger throughout America

Peter Skurkiss  "America watches while radical leftists and aggrieved blacks riot, loot, and commit acts of violence up to murder in cities across the country. And more galling than that is the lack of effort by responsible public officials to stem the mayhem. Indeed, more than a few Democrat mayors and governors, when they are not actually encouraging the riots, make excuses for those participating in it. One example comes from New York City where hundreds looters and rioters were arrested only to be released in hours, due to blue-city "bail reform." Americans have see this before and have a gut feeling that few if any of these domestic terrorists will be punished. Other pathetic examples are of the police and some National Guard officers ''taking a knee' in front of protesters to show solidarity with them." . . .
. . . 

"By their words and deeds, the Democrats have demonstrated like never before that they are openly hostile to law-enforcement. Some are calling to abolish, or at the very least, to defund the police. That might be applauded by the radical and anarchists, but it goes over like a lead balloon in middle America and I would suspect in most minority communities as well. 

 

"Donald Trump is not a weakling. In the coming campaign, he will boldly accentuate the record of Democrats making it impossible for the Democrats and media to erase what is transpiring down the memory hole. If the history any guide, the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s led to GOP presidential ascendancy.  If the model holds, I believe it will happen again now --- this cold anger will express itself on election day with not just a Trump victory but also a Republican capture of the House."

Did an aged activist set up the Buffalo police?

Andrea Widburg  "Many Americans understand that the riots aren’t righteous protests but are, instead, leftist activism aimed at destabilizing America and (the activists hope) destroying Trump’s chance at reelection. Still, people found shocking a video showing police in Buffalo pushing an old man to the ground where he lay with blood pouring from his ear. Don’t believe everything you see, though. The old man was a leftist activist looking for trouble and may have staged the whole thing.

"If one views the video in a vacuum, it’s awful. A frail-looking old man standing alone against the Buffalo police is brutally pushed to the ground and left to lie there, bleeding:"

Reuters

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Video shows two police officers in Buffalo, New York, shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground. The sound of a crack is heard and blood trickles from the man’s head https://reut.rs/2Y9eLF0 

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"Almost immediately after the video appeared, the police officers who pushed the man were charged with assault and suspended from the force. This tweet illustrates how effective the man’s fall was in advancing the anti-police narrative:" . . .