PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Note these two entries, 11 minutes apart, on the San Francisco Chronicle’s blog-style Coronavirus Live Updates page, regarding San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed:
2 p.m. Breed says Pelosi salon visit distracts from important issues: San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Wednesday said the country should focus on more important issues than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to a hair salon as city rules allowed only outside operations for salons. “We basically have a dictator in charge of running the country. We have our speaker working day and night against the challenges we have at the White House. It’s unfortunate this conversation has blown up in the way it has and distracted us from the real issue, Breed said. “We have bigger issues as it relates to this country. That’s what we should be focused on.”
1:49 p.m. Breed calls for holiday observance of virus protocols: Mayor London Breed is asking San Franciscans to follow COVID-19 safety protocols over the three-day Labor Day weekend: “Let’s honor our workers by taking the measures to protect them,” she told a press briefing on Wednesday. Joined by community leaders, Breed said it’s safest to stay home. She urged residents to avoid large groups and social distance if they go out, adding, “Make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drinks.”
“Let’s honor our workers by taking the measures to protect them,” but when one the city’s nationally-known politicians refuses to do so, it “distracts from the important issues.” (And curiously, despite “a dictator in charge of running the country,” the worst that will happen to his arch-enemy is ridicule.) But the rules that politicians like Breed set into place that cripple the city’s businesses, and Pelosi’s flaunting of them are the important issues. Or as Mollie Hemingway responds to NBC’s Democrat stenographer “senior media reporter” Dylan Byers when he plays the same card:
In the New York Post, the Federalist’s David Marcus writes, “Perhaps some good can come of Pelosi’s ignominy. Perhaps seeing her insane hypocrisy, owners will start opening their businesses and daring petty tyrants like Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to shut them down. One of the truly remarkable — and chilling — aspects of the more arbitrary lockdown rules is that, in general, they have been consented to, not enforced. We have given away our rights as much they have been taken from us. Well, if Pelosi doesn’t have to live under these absurd restrictions, then neither should you.”
Related: Speaking of the important issues:
While Nancy Pelosi is breaking the restrictions she put on her own district in order to get her hair done at a fancy salon, This is how her constituents live.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 2, 2020