San Francisco Mayor London Breed dances the night away maskless in a maskless crowd because she was “feeling the spirit”. She calls her critics the “fun police.” Of course, as Mayor of a California city, she IS the chief of the fun police.
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Zo should just be the full-time 3rd member of Right Angle.
Actually, I do believe I am better than people I see wearing masks. I judge them as spineless rule followers who question nothing. They are ignorant, either willingly or through negligence, or they are virtue signaling sheep needing the protection and/or approval of the herd. A small percentage of them may truly believe they are protected because they have other “real” health problems that render them so vulnerable even an ineffective, poorly worn mask might be better than nothing, however unlikely it is they wore masks prior to Covid. Some mask wearers may believe they are better than me because if for no other reason they are considerate of other’s feelz, while I don’t feel personally responsible for anyone’s feelings unless I am intimately engaging with them.
I’ve refused to wear a mask anywhere except for two visits to the dentist. I refuse to fly until all infringements upon my freedom are lifted. It’s bad enough I have had to endure being stripped of my privacy during TSA screenings. Wearing a useless mask AND proof of vaccination is just one infringement too far. I will not get a “vaccination” as long as illogic and lies and threats are being used to force me.
When entering restaurants, hotels, service stations, grocery stores or most anywhere I conduct myself as I normally would and haven’t suffered any negative consequences because of it. I purposely avoid places where a negative consequence might occur, but that isn’t a problem for me – I wouldn’t choose to be in those places under any circumstances.
I may not think very much of people who slavishly follow lawless state and federal mandates, backed by nothing even closely resembling “the science”, but they are free to make that choice. And I am free to make mine.
Scott, I do not go mask-less because I am superior to anyone, I go mask-less because I choose to do so. I tried in the beginning and found that wearing the mask makes it very hard for me to breath and I had to take it down so often, I said what is the point. Well as a business owner, we have had a policy since 2 or 3 weeks into this. We do not mask shame! Wear one if you choose and don’t if you choose, no-one will say anything either way. Our policy goes on to say we believe in freedom and think that as adults you get to choose what to do about your own health. Same applies for the so called vax. We lost a few employees that wanted to stay home and get paid rather that work to get paid, but people make their choice and most of them go without the mask.
Side note: Oddly enough it is the 2 youngest that always wear their mask.
Yes, yes, YES, Bill! The snarky condescension from these fuckwits absolutely drives me crazy! There’s a beautiful German word that needs to used with these losers: Backpfeifengesicht – a face in need of a fist.
It sounds like getting punched in the face too…nice.
So here I am, on an airplane, listening to Scott, with my mask firmly around my chin. Not because I’m better than everyone else, more deserving, or some similar justification, but because I am fed up with this nonsense.
At some point we will either have to decide whether to obey our self appointed overboard tyrants or resist.
Part of resisting, a small part but a start, is to overtly refuse to comply. So I am maskless because I prefer to be and am setting an example for others to follow; sometimes people need a spark or example to get off their butts and live freely.
Having said that if I’m asked to mask up I will offer some objection but I will comply.
Someone needs to bell the cat and if I can do my small part that’s a start.
Excellent! Be the Free Guy.
Completely agree with the others here on the guy not wearing a mask on the planes: He’s civilly disobeying, not “flouting the rules”. And you should as well.
Ian, please see my comment above.
As a subscriber to Bill & Co. I’m sure you can offer plenty of instances where civil disobedience is justified.
If the Thug Left can burn pillage and kill in the name of civil resistance why can’t us normal people do the same?
if we sit back and do nothing we are doomed.
REALLY?
You can do that too. Then you’ll be a thug too. You won’t be “normal people” ever again but that’s your call. Congratulations, you aspire to the very thing you hate. Then we can all hate you just the same as we do the Thug Left.
That’s quite the trick you’re promoting there. It says a lot about you that you think that’s a good thing.
I’m not going to sit by and keep quite, politely ignoring such nonsense while someone who claims to be on the same side as me becomes indistinguishable from my foes. If you cannot be distinguished from the foe, you are the foe. The ends does not justify the means.
I’m curious, just what is it you intend to burn? Homes and businesses like the Thug Left?
Where is it you think you’re going to pillage? Urban areas that have things you want, like the Thug Left?
… and who is it you’re going to kill “in the name of civil resistance” like the Thug Left?
After all, you did say “do the same”, didn’t you Poindexter?
No one said you have to do that either. You are acting like the only options are two extremes. It’s not an “either/or” thing. It’s not either you become a thug or you do nothing. That’s absurd.
Why am I making a big deal out of this? Because I’m not “normal people” and I won’t ever be quite normal again. I served in a combat unit with the U.S. Marine Corps. I’ve seen some burning and killing in my day …
We were not thugs …
We did not kill or maim little girls because they put on makeup instead of a burkha.
We did not hide in hospitals and schools. Creating human shields so that we could weep in front of the press about the horrible deaths of innocents perpetrated by our enemies. When they came after us for firing on them. From schools and hospitals.
We did not kill people horribly with burning oil or gasoline because someone in their family was working for the other side.
We did not shoot women or children just to infuriate our enemies so they would expose their positions.
We did not put an RPG-7 in the hands of a little boy and send him to attack a military transport vehicle. When he was unsuccessful there were troops pulling wet globs and strips of little boy off their issue gear … I was there. Are you having fun yet? Ready to do a little burning and killing?
We did not give a kid a satchel explosive and send him onto a helicopter landing area to either destroy a ‘chopper full of troops or get greased by a door gunner. Turned out the kid getting lit up is what happened. On the order of the aircraft commander. Whose only choice was to drop that kid or let the kid get close, blow himself up and send a bunch of Americans home in pieces. That the kid would die either way didn’t make it any easier or more fun. How would YOU like to be that door gunner or that aircraft commander, Hot Shot? Think that won’t screw up your head a little bit?
Spoiler alert — My kid was that aircraft commander and it didn’t do a single good thing for his mind. How would you like to look at your son and know that kind of thing will live inside him as long as he is alive? How would you like to try to share the things that you did which finally gave you some measure of peace — with your own kid? Knowing exactly what he’s going to live with for the rest of his life?
So … Ready to get yourself some burning and killing in yet, Rambo?
Oh, sorry, I forgot … Yeah, you’re real brave. Crazy brave. You are so astoundingly brave you pulled your mask down and then had the unmitigated, unimaginable valor to tell us you’d put it back on if anyone asked you to. You didn’t even claim you’d muster the balls to say “No thank you, I’m fine” if someone told you to do so. Wow, you’re a real “hero”, as long as it costs you nothing to be a “hero”. So of course emboldened by your taste of conflict your next move is to start burning and killing. Somehow you think that’s a reasonable progression, a logical relationship and now you’re so pumped up as a veteran mask drooper you’re ready to step up to burning and killing.
Wow, what a man.
Wanna trade places? It took me years to tolerate the smell of cooking pork on a charcoal barbecue. Know why? Because it smells like people burning. Yet here you are talking about doing just that — Because the only other thing you can think of is to do nothing …
Think harder, Roger Ramjet. Think a lot harder.
We did not use the tactics of our mortal enemies. We still waxed the crap out of the bad guys even so. There’s this thing called “honor”, maybe you’ve heard of it? Doubtful.
You have to pick your battles. You have to consider your tactics and how far you’re willing to go and then go no further, even if it kills you. I’ve done that and I’ve known good men and true who have done it too, some unto their own deaths. Some of them got lucky and didn’t die. Now they are walking around on clockwork struts and leaf springs where their legs used to be. None of us came away unscathed and completely whole. I’m not telling you to do anything I wouldn’t do and have not done myself. I wouldn’t dream of doing that.
I’m just trying to help you understand the utterly asinine thing you said.
You have to be righteous or else you’re just making excuses for your animal urge to be thug. Any coward can be a thug. It’s easy. That’s why the Left has so many cowardly thugs. No experience necessary.
You don’t have to enjoy doing vile things even though you may be forced to, you should not be so jealous of the tactics of your enemies that you become the same thing as they are. Then you’re the enemy too.
Oh yeah, you most definitely triggered me, Gunga Din. You didn’t ask for this, you begged for it when you brought up burning and killing like it was something you think is a good idea.
Grow a pair and grow up. And by God in Heaven don’t you even think of daring to “thank me for my service”. I’d run your chin masked sagging butt out on the street in a firefight at gunpoint and consider it a favor to the human race. With “burners and killers” like you there’s no need for other enemies.
I cannot on my best day imagine what is wrong with people like you. The only answer I can come up with is that you have no idea what you’re saying. Well now you do, so don’t do that again.
People like me, who understand what’s involved, will let you know when you can start burning and killing instead of just pulling your mask to your chin. Your judgement in the matter is clearly unreliable.
Heads up, if that time ever does come you’re not going to like it one bit. We’ll see how much of a hero you are then. Here’s a final spoiler alert — Rabbit hunting isn’t nearly so much fun when the rabbits shoot back.
So you’d better pray you never have to find out what it is you’re talking about in an up close and personal manner. Even worse, you better pray that other nincompoops don’t listen to and agree with your burning and killing ideas.
Try engaging your brain before you pull down that mask and then make out like you’ve struck a decisive blow for liberty.
Scott revealed to live in “write only” mode — not bothering with say watching the clips Bill posts.
Just a few days ago we had that “be THE guy” who calls the emperor nude, or at least stops playing the others’ game of admiring the clothes.
That one guy happens to fly along with Scott, and gets scorn from him. MEH.
In the first minutes Bill mentioned something like ‘we’re approaching the point we’ll just stop doing it’. Nice wishful thinking against all the evidence to the contrary. Just this week people confirmed newsom 2:1 and canada voted 9:1 to the tyrants. And as we see Bill failed to convince even the folks sitting around him.
At this pace the approach will take centuries.
When I went to school Henry David Thoreau’s essay entitled “Civil Disobedience” was required reading.
Is that not the case anymore?
I assume it is not. It was not required reading where I went to elementary/high school in the 1970s and 1980s. Neither was I exposed to it in college engineering programs. I shall assume it to be recommended, and read it now: https://www.thoreau-online.org/civil-disobedience.html.
Meh, “semi-recommended”. The reason it was required reading was so that we could discuss Thoreau’s points and formulate our own opinions. Agreeing or disagreeing as we exercised what Thoreau himself call “the greatest right I have is doing what I consider to be right”.
The essay makes a lot of good points relevant still today but a few stinkers in logic are thrown in.
It’s important when reading that to maintain an awareness of the context in which it was written. Which is antebellum America in, I think 1849 or so. Slavery was extant at that time and much hyperbole, some of it in this essay, was popular at that time.
Ah … so nothing has changed with the human condition. The status quo is maintained.
That’s always true, it’s a “given”. The quantity of available knowledge might change but human nature does not significantly. Of course “human nature” is a pretty broad subject and there are major differences in the human condition depending on the ratio in which the components of human nature are mixed.
That said, Thoreau made many points very relevant across the span of time. Especially regarding America. It’s well worth reading the essay, it’s not terribly long and it provides some interesting opportunities in critical thinking.
What Scott was talking about with the guy on the airplane is a common social phenomena. It’s not individualism and civil disobedience, it’s disregard for other people because someone thinks something they don’t like shouldn’t apply to them. There’s nothing lofty and noble about it. There’s a big difference between self-serving convenience and making a political statement. Considering what we all know about Scott Ott I’m not going to accept that he doesn’t know that difference. Scott’s neither stupid nor lacking in awareness.
I doubt the guy who wore his face diaper on his chin was making any sort of statement at all. If that was his intent then why have his mask on his chin where he could pull it up the instant any objection was encountered? If he wanted to make a “follow me” statement the way to do it would be to hang the mask on the air and light panel over his head so everyone could see what he was doing instead of a very few people in his immediate vicinity.
Seriously, if you’re going to make a statement, make a damn statement. Don’t pull your mask down like a coward ready to yank it back up the instant a stewardess walks by and asks you “Sir, will you please replace your mask? It’s required.” That’s not an heroic rejection of the mask mandate and an act of civil disobedience, it’s the act of a chickensh!t who is ready to comply at the first sign of disapproval by authority. Don’t kid yourself either. Don’t tell yourself you’re some kind of rebel. You’re not, you’re just getting away with something as long as it costs you nothing. You’re not a hero standing up for what’s right, you’re a sneaky little POS ready to jump back in line the moment you’re spotted. Because it’s obvious to everyone else that when the going gets tough, you’ll yank that mask back up like a good little worm. So try not to break your arm patting yourself on the back …
I don’t travel much anymore but I used to fly a lot. I cannot count the number of times I’ve seen a person, usually a teen age girl, yakking away or texting furiously on her cell phone even though the captain has announced that phones needs to be turned off from this point on*.
I get fairly irked at such people too. It’s a rule, the rest of us are following it whether we like it or not, what makes her think she’s so special that the rules do not apply to her? This isn’t some sort of “good ol’ America civil disobedience”, it’s a snotty kid who thinks her alimentary ejecta has a pleasantly distinct floral quality.
If she’s sitting next to me I’ll quietly and politely point out that not only is she breaking a law she apparently doesn’t care about — There’s a good possibility that there’s a Federal Sky Marshal in plain clothes aboard. She can be forced to deplane, her flight denied without refund all the while delaying the rest of us in the time it takes to haul her silly ass off the aircraft and get another takeoff slot from the control tower — For breaking that law.
You know, “I fly a lot sweetie, maybe you’re not aware of these things. Just sayin'”.
Same goes for the guy on Scott’s plane. He knows the rules, he agreed to them in order to board the plane. If you don’t agree, don’t board the aircraft. In an aircraft at high altitude is no place to suddenly get an attack of civil disobedience and scratch your itch for rebelliousness. The people on the ground in the above video are welcome to all the civil disobedience they can dish out. I’d gladly join them and do my best to shame the hell out of the cops hauling me to lockup. But that’s on the ground. People on aircraft need to sit down, be quiet and follow ALL the rules and lawful instructions of the flight crew or else not get on the aircraft in the first place. Accidents tend to happen due to the weird, sometimes very improbable convergences of concatenations all unforeseen. 35,000 feet AGL is not the place to tempt fate and show everyone your mule headedness.
I practice what I preach. I refuse to fly if I have to wear a mask. I missed my granddaughter’s wedding** last summer because I can’t stand wearing those damnable useless face diapers. They make me feel like I can’t breath and I’m just not doing it, period. I also will not patronize any business on the ground that requires them. If, on the ground I saw a bunch of people refusing to wear masks when they entered a business I’d go in there too and make them kick me out with the rest.
There’s a difference between civil disobedience and obstinate, empty acts of stupidity. There’s an even bigger difference between doing something decisive and virtue signalling what a great person you are … Until you’re told to pull that mask back up and you meekly comply.
(*There are reasons for this rule. While I’ve never heard of an airplane crashing because someone onboard was using a cell phone, it is a law enforced by the FCC. Because a sky full of passenger aircraft crammed full of people each with an active cell phone that can line-of-sight reach dozens of cell towers simultaneously plays real havoc with the cellular phone system on the ground. Whether they’re using those phones or not.
There’s also the unlikely outside possibility of interference with the aircraft’s avionics, though modern electronic devices and especially the very expensive avionics equipment in aircraft are pretty good at ignoring spurious and unwanted radio signals. But … The force of those spurious signals is multiplied if a hundred or two hundred people on board that plane, in a metal tube bouncing radio waves around and any sort of harmonic potentiation and cancellation can and will occur — all have their phones trying to connect to cell towers at the same time.
It’s not about just you and just your phone.)
(**It was a big wedding and I don’t think she missed me terribly. Especially since I added the price I would have paid for a flight to the cost of the wedding gift I sent her. The grandbabies all know Grandpa is a bit eccentric.)
Sorry Scott, No. The guy on the flight is practicing the long held American tradition of civil disobedience of stupid and illegal rules. That guy would be flouting the rule if the guy simply didn’t wear a mask cause he’s an important person who didn’t have to follow the rules. Unlike you proles. Like a king or a duke. Or a mayor.
The lesson all of the mindless “rule” followers must take from people like the hypothetical man on the flight is two-fold:
Just because everyone else is doing it does not justify mindlessly following such ridiculous, and capricious rules. Fortunately, with some localized exceptions, we still live in a country that won’t generally incarcerate or kill folks for such civil disobedience; however, it is unclear how much longer that will last without the civil disobedience becoming uncivil.
we still live in a country that won’t generally incarcerate or kill folks for such civil disobedience
Dude, how about the 1/6 Reichstag Fire?
Are you claiming that the unconscionable incarceration of the ~400 people to be a generally occurring event in this country? If so, then you and I have radically different definitions of that word. When the Biden Administration’s Gestapo/KGB equivalent begins to regularly arrive on the doorsteps of citizens, then we can reassess my usage of such words. Meanwhile, I hope we can avoid conflating such language with the still rare incarceration like that of those January 6th protesters; otherwise, we risk demeaning their plight.
I think we’re close enough, sounds like at this point we’re arguing whether to say potato or pohtahto
Scott, the guy you see on your flight isn’t trying to flout the rules in your face. He’s trying to show you that you don’t need to be afraid and is hoping that the rest of you will have the courage to follow.
It’s seeing John Kerry travelling maskless on his private jet that is flouting the rules and shoving it in our faces.
Or those Texas state reps fleeing to DC.