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Herman: Go ahead, tell me this is about a virus

May 27, 2020, 10:31 AM | Updated: 10:47 am

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(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

As you watch, the world is being flipped. Go ahead, tell me this is about a virus.

If the governments of Washington, Oregon, and California wanted their major cities to be run by criminals and the mentally ill, what would they do differently?

On Wednesday morning, on my radio show, I addressed this in vivid detail. I compared a man allowed to run around Seattle spitting on people, throwing things at them and calling them racist names–a man almost certainly mentally ill, almost certainly with a long lost of priors — to a woman who owns a salon. Listen to this segment of my program, then, go ahead, tell me this is about a virus.

If the governments of Washington, Oregon, and California wanted their major cities to be run by criminals and the mentally ill, they would accelerate their existing policies of refusal to jail repeat offenders, of allowing people who are both mentally ill and drug addicted to walk their streets as VIPs, impervious to arrest. The governors of those states will release violent felons. The governments of Washington, Oregon, and California must want that outcome, because, hiding behind a virus that will never seriously sicken 99% of us, that is just what they are doing.

Violent felons released from prison to go ply their trades. Stylists threatened with the government removal of her kid if she dares style hair.

Orders to not arrest property criminals. State L&I given the power to levy fines of up to $10,000 because a business owner must feed his family.

Renters given government permission to steal services from property owners. Those same property owners forced to pay property taxes for schools that are not providing teaching services.

Lowes is safe; car washes are deadly.

Abortionist’s offices are Covid-fee zones; a barber shop is a super-spreader.

The world is being flipped upside down as you watch. Good is evil; evil is good. Criminals are free; free people are under house arrest. Prison doors are unlocked, school doors are locked down. Earning a living is illegal, stealing one is legalized. This is the stuff of revolution.

Oh, sorry, we aren’t to speak of such things: no one on the left would want a revolution.

Listen to the Todd Herman Show weekday mornings from 6 – 9 a.m. on KTTH 770 AM (or HD Radio 97.3 FM HD-Channel 3). Subscribe to the podcast here.

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