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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1222972)

4/20/2020 7:06:19 PM

From: Brumar89

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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a walking, talking joke?

Ask the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins, who over the weekend—in the midst of a global pandemic that was about to go over the 40,000-dead American mark—used the WSJ's prime real estate to, well, just have a look:

Yup. Gotta get to the bottom of Hillary's emails. Don't let up now, Holman!

And then there's Alex Jones. On Saturday Infowars staged a protest in Austin. About 200 highly-intelligent patriots showed up to demonstrate to America that they will not be . . . cooped up at home? Told to wear masks? Who can say, really. They chanted about firing Fauci and making America free again and I have to assume that these folks must all really hate Donald Trump, since he's the one who asked for a period of national social distancing and has total control over whether or not Fauci gets fired.

They must think that Trump is a total traitor. I bet they were this close to chanting "Lock him up."

Except that someone at the rally then made an announcement. I can't tell from the audio who it is. Maybe it's Jones or one of the other Infowars guys.

Here's what the person says over a bullhorn: "It's now confirmed, AP reporting, that the bioweapon came out of the Chinese Wuhan laboratory."

Big news, if true!

But I'm less interested in fact checking this than in the reaction of the protestors.

They cheer.

Like, they really cheer. Like it's a . . . good thing that 40,000 Americans have now been killed in an act of war by a nefarious Chinese bioweapon? Because that's a better scenario than the virus being a zoonotic accident?

I'll be honest: I'm not following the logic there. I would have thought that if COVID-19 was a Chinese bioweapon then things are a lot worse, because it means we have to get into, like, a shooting war with a country that has a billion people. And we kind of have a lot on our plate right now.

Plus—and I'm not just saying this because I'm trying to cover for President Trump—it would mean that Trump has been really, really derelict in his duties as commander-in-chief.

Boy these Infowars people must really hate him. It's like they're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome or something.

Anyway, there's some inaudible stuff and then the guy on the megaphone says "The Chinese Communists launched the bio attack."

And there's more cheering.

As my buddy Ryan Kinney notes: So we're now at war with a Chinese bioweapon designed to destroy America. But also . . . open up?

thebulwark