POLITICAL FERVOR

 Covid-19 has brought about a new normal.  So has the current resident of the White House.  He is modeling for us that lying and outrageous behavior has no consequences.  At the moment, it appears he is mostly correct.  But what has set off this post is the leaked video of Nancy Pelosi getting her hair blown out (I have no knowledge of this term, I'm sure it is in the hair-stylist lexicon).  So I will re-phrase what has happened.

Mrs. Pelosi has crushed her opponents in her district (12th Congressional), garnering 86% of the vote in 2018.  In my mind, that makes her very popular in her district.  She has used the salon for years.  Did the owner think she could trash Pelosi without getting any blow back from the area residents?

Sure, Pelosi has taken a hit, but has counter-punched.  She acknowledges "the buck stops here," but also says she was set up.  Apparently she was, in a manner of speaking.  It turns out, the salon owner has been operating in violation of the health order since April, requiring her stylists to work.  Pelosi was assured by her stylist that they could take one person at a time in the salon.  That is correct is some parts of California, but not San Francisco.

So the owner is getting some heavy criticism.  I'm wondering why her license hasn't been lifted yet.  Maybe a large fine.  Certainly a loss of customers, and probably some stylists.  Given the ways news cycles work, we'll probably not be updated.

On another note, I see scurrilous Steve Scalise doctored a video of a man with ALS and must use an artificial voice to make it sound like he was in favor of defunding the police.  When called out on it, he didn't apologize, didn't remove the video, and managed to blame the democrats.  He won his district with 74% of the vote, so the voters won't turn him out.  Perhaps the House Ethics Committee might look into it.

In any case, if politics is getting you to do something immoral or illegal, perhaps you should step back a little.