They’re Putting Stupid Juice in the Fort Worth Water System
COVID-19 cases are still growing exponentially in the US with now over 800,000 cases and 45,000 deaths. That’s not bothering the old Basement Bar in Fort Worth, though. There was quite a flame war going on over on their Facebook page this morning after they announced they were fully opening this weekend to sell their $2 beer in exchange for the public health. Let’s just say that the majority of the comments we’re not very supportive of such idiocy, and the author of the post, who I assume is the owner, got a little chippy with some of the commenters. Here’s an example:
After over 3,200 comments, most not very complimentary of the bar opening right now, the post was removed. What I found amazing, though, were the supportive comments i.e. “This was all exaggerated.” “The government can’t tell us what to do.” “It’s just the flu.” “I don’t know anyone who has it,” etc., etc., so forth and so on. Fort Worth has become the weird mixture of education, sophistication, forward thinking, entrepreneurial vigor, offset by up with mouth breathing stupidity.
I hope they don’t get a bunch more people killed.
The little covidiots cannot stand being in a room alone which speaks to the quality of the company they keep. Social distancing that’s a concept I am liking better by the day. Because if they can’t stand themselves why in hell would they think the rest of us want to be around them?
Meanwhile any bets on which hellhole state will be the first to play host to the second wave of COVID-19?
1I had to look it up to see if The Basement Bar was the same as the old Cellar, partly famous because the Dallas branch was run by some guy named Jack Ruby. And the Cellar in FW had all the class and sophistication that you’d expect from a place run by a quality guy like him.
But while it seems The Basement Bar is the intellectual heir of the Cellar, that’s the only connection.
And please. It was, is, and always will be Fort Worthless. I know this because I was born and reared there.
2What I learned from this is that Amy When can certainly hold her own.
3https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2003/05/21
4I just wonder how many people who left those 3,200 comments will take another look around their community and, once people are out and about again, find another neighborhood hang-out to frequent.
Opening prematurely has LOTS of drawbacks, one of which could be the death of one’s business.
Stupid juice can be deadly in more ways than one.
5Harris County will start a 30 period Monday when anyone outside must wear a mask. If we were to open bars also, we could all look soooo cool!
6The problem is that the people who want bars, etc. to reopen are the very ones who will not social distance or wear masks – and when they are sick (& asymptomatic) they will kill others.
And they do not have the right.
7Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. ( :-{o>
– Gordon Gekko Wall Street 1987
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Edit: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman made headlines on Tuesday and Wednesday as she called the closing of businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic “insanity.” In an interview with Las Vegas’ local NBC affiliate News 3, Goodman wondered aloud whether we stop driving just because we have vehicle accidents.
Asked how and when Las Vegas should “re-open,” Goodman told the news station that she would allow private businesses to open if they wanted to because that would mean those private businesses “had a plan” on how to reopen. “And if your business has too many cockroaches on the floor, then you aren’t going to have any business.”
Yup—the interview continued on exactly as coherently as that. Mayor Goodman brought this conservative no-plan, no-ideas approach to CNN in an interview with Anderson Cooper Tuesday night. Cooper tried to get Goodman to explain what her plan was, and the results were … something to watch.
Cooper acknowledged the devastating economic toll stay-at-home orders are having on Las Vegas’ economy. But what exactly was Mayor Goodman’s plan for keeping people safe while reopening Las GODDAMN Vegas while this pandemic was raging around the country, with no therapeutics or vaccines in sight? Explaining that if she was a hotel or casino owner (“I wish I were!” she chirped), she would “have the cleanest hotel, with six feet figured out for every human being that comes in there.”
Without screaming, Cooper (to his credit) attempted to walk Goodman through the logic of her … idea.
ANDERSON COOPER: So, if you can’t figure out how to do this safely why, as mayor of a city that you are responsible for people’s safety, are you calling for something that you have no plan for how it would be done safely?
Dumb and confident is a toxic mixture, and Goodman seems have gallons of both in her gas tank.
MAYOR CAROLYN GOODMAN: I am not a private a private owner. That’s the competition in this country. The free enterprise. The free enterprise to be able to make sure what you offer the public meets the needs of the public. Right now we are in a crisis, health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That’s their job, not the mayor’s job.
Now, that’s leadership! Cooper then attempted to repeat back to Goodman what she had just said to the world on television. He then asked her about an earlier interview where she said the same thing, but explained that the free market would clear out bad businesses who let people get sick. Cooper asked Goodman if she stood by the statement. She said she did, and then Cooper tried to explain that it would take weeks before it became evident that a specific business and location had “become an epicenter” for the virus—and by then it would obviously be too late for many, many people.
Goodman had a great reply to that: ”I am not going down that road.” Cooper said he was just repeating what she said, to which Goodman said it was Cooper’s “opinion” of what he thought she was saying. You cannot make this up.
At another point in the interview, Goodman explained more clearly that she thinks she knows what she’s asking of her citizens, and that she also doesn’t understand science or how math and the virus work. She explained that while it is sad that people are dying from this virus, there are a lot of people that haven’t gotten sick or died from it yet. Cooper explained that there is a very good chance that the social distancing policies, like those in California and Las Vegas, have been the reason that Las Vegas has yet to see the terrible outbreak that places like New York City have seen. Hold on to your socks because Mayor Carolyn Goodman is full-on crazy pants about her ideas!
MAYOR GOODMAN: How do you know (that social distancing has worked), until you have a control group? We offered to be a control group. Anybody who knows anything about statistics knows—
COOPER: —You’re offering the citizens of Las Vegas to be a control group to see if your theory on social distancing …
GOODMAN: —I did offer. It was turned down.
COOPER:- … works or doesn’t work?
GOODMAN: No no no no no. Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Don’t put words in my mouth.
Goodman went on to explain how placebos work. It was mind-bending. Cooper asked whether or not she would be going to casinos every night if she was successful in getting Vegas reopened. After dancing around the question and then saying it would be silly for her to be at a casino, and why would he ask such a question, Cooper, fed up, explained exactly why it was a valid question.
COOPER: Because it would be putting your money where your mouth is.
Las Vegas native and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was watching the interview, aghast, and tweeted:
The @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman should resign before lunch arrives today. She is an embarrassment to my hometown.
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 22, 2020
Kimmel was joined by Nevada-based journalist Jon Ralston.
I have seen many Nevada officials stumble on national TV. But that was the single most embarrassing thing i have seen by a NV pol in 35 years here. The mayor just showed the country she is unfit for office, and the commentary and shock and disgust here bears that out. My God.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) April 22, 2020
Goodman was on MSNBC with Katy Tur earlier, and gave this fact-free explanation of her worldly opinions.
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Watch: Katie Tur interview with the Mayor.
Mayor Goodman, pushing to reopen Las Vegas, says the city has survived diseases such as E. coli and bird flu.@KatyTurNBC: “Those were not as contagious.” Goodman: “We’ll find out the facts afterwards.”
Tur: “Those are the facts; we have a death toll that proves it.” pic.twitter.com/8iN0EqExJ0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 21, 2020
Here’s a glimpse of the kind of leadership that wants to “reopen” our country.
Las Vegas Mayor says time to reopen the city, let private businesses compete for which business can drive the least viral spread.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/las-vegas-mayor-stuns-anderson-cooper-in-an-incoherent-interview-about-reopening-casinos-in-an-pandemic/
8Considering that Fort Worth and rest of Tarrant County was a haven of intelligence and Liberalism, the only conclusion is that something evil was done to DUMB DOWN the population of that once progressive area of Texas.
9Counter balancing is that Dallas County and City of Dallas shunned its Republican depravity and is now the great city of North Texas!