One amusing positive about propaganda in the US is that it’s so transparently stupid, anyone with a functioning brainstem* can see right through it.

*Prezinazi AntiChrist’s voters/dumFux Nooz viewers flunk yet another of life’s little tests. Even a one year-old baby would sit up and scream “I can’t take another second of this lying asshole’s bullshit!”

I often look up at the moon, and take what satisfaction I can, that no matter how much we fuck up the Earth, the moon will be up there, silent and undisturbed.
Maybe the supreme irony in this Covid crisis, is the fact that nature still had something to say when mankind is not around.

"Although I'm sure #BlueNoMatterWho Dems will find a way to blame Sanders supporters if Biden loses in November. "

Quite the sanctimoniously pre-emptive sense of persecution Chase. Fitting for a Bernie supporter. He lost. Again. Get over it and move on.

@3 Wow. Once a month or so you post something worthwhile. It's today.

@6 For which I am ever so grateful.

Newsom, Brown and Inslee just declared they're seceding, pretty much. Yay Cascadia!

Look at all those happy, thriving wild animals at Yosemite, whose lives are no longer endangered by humans. The coyote looks stunned, as if expecting to be hit by an Acme beer truck or an anvil at any second. Thank you for sharing the video, Chase. It made me think of the 1971 Stanley Kramer film, Bless the Beasts and Children, based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout.
@1 Original Andrew, @2 pat L, and @3 GermanSausage for the WIN!
@9 roiginalcinner: Agreed and seconded. Hooray for Cascadia!

The video is a salve. It's nice to think that, if we can manage not to wipe out the dwindling wild species before we wipe ourselves out (not great odds), they can come back.

i bet most people’s reactions to the Yosemite footage is: “I wish I could see the park right now” or “i wish i posted that to youtube.” Not “that is a great thing” or “we should keep more people away all the time.”

We humans are and have always been a far greater threat to life, including our own, than COVID-19 will ever be. Anyone notice how warm it is this April? Yeah, we have created way bigger problems than rat poop pangolin steak flu, and they’ll be waiting for us when we are done unemploying everyone.

@13 Yeah, maybe people should stop eating dwindling wild species.

oh NOW his family wants you take the virus seriously, now that he's dead, he's wife is sick, and who knows how many nutjobs in his church got sick, too.

“I am essential,” he said, according to the Post. “I’m a preacher — I talk to God.”

Virginia Bishop Who Defied State Social Distancing Warnings Dies Of COVID-19
Gerald O. Glenn, founder and pastor of New Deliverance Evangelical Church, had vowed to continue preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” (oops dude, you're in the ground now)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/virginia-bishop-gerald-glenn-coronavirus-dead_n_5e955c7dc5b6cc788eae79bc

@15 - Sure, stop eating dwindling wild species, there's barely any left... but what about the absolutely massive amount of 'domesticated' species we have allowed to dominate the land we control? Cows practically outnumber us 2:1. We could do with fewer cows. Fewer pigs too. Jus' sayin'

Land Mammals -- https://xkcd.com/1338/

@17 -- Yeah, wild species aren't being wiped out because people are eating them. OK, a handful are, but that is rare. Eating deer or elk, for example, is fairly benign compared to eating beef.

There is some poaching here and there (trophy hunters, and idiots thinking the animals are medicine) but wild species are being wiped out mostly due to habitat loss. Domesticated species are a huge reason for that.

Yosemite isn't usually very crowded this time of year. Even though the valley might be melted out (it looks melted out) there is still lots of snow in the high country. That cuts down on the numbers. I've cross country skied up there in late March, and it was a blast. You can find solitude in places that are usually mobbed three months later.

I confess I've been sneaking past the gates onto DNR land for mym daily dog-walks.
The silence is palpable. I would not have guessed it to be so, but without plane noise and the background hum of distant traffic there is a dead stillness.
You get a sense of serenity when your brain is not tasked with assessing and filtering out all of the background chatter that is usually there even in natural areas.

@18 - I don't disagree that habitat loss is a (the) major cause for wild species' decimation... But people are doing several more things than eating critters to drive them to the edge of extinction...

"Singapore has seized 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales found in a shipping container destined for Vietnam, the biggest seizure of its kind globally in five years, authorities said on Thursday.
"The scales of pangolin, the world’s most poached animal, were found on Wednesday packed in 230 bags in the container along with 177 kg (390 lb) of elephant ivory.
"About 100,000 pangolins are poached from the wild each year."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-wildlife-trafficking/singapore-seizes-record-haul-of-pangolin-scales-enroute-to-vietnam-idUSKCN1RG17X

But hey, no worries, at least there's now the massive insect collapse to worry about instead.

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As has been noted in the past: NATURE BATS LAST
And Nature bats hardest...

NASCAR so white? You could have knocked me over with a feather after I read that.