Professor Paul Krugman on the Customer

For John, BLUF:  He must have done some real research, back in the day, thus earning his Nobel Prize.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Displaying Total Cluelessness, Paul Krugman Mocks People for Buying Guns/Ammo During Wuhan Coronavirus Crisis

From Red State, by Sister Toldjah, 16 March 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

When last we left you with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, he was making wild and unsubstantiated claims about the Wuhan coronavirus threat, President Trump, climate change, and universal healthcare in an unhinged Twitter thread.  Before that, he boiled Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign failures down to “sexism“, even though that is demonstrably false.

To further demonstrate his utter cluelessness, Krugman took to the Twitter machine on Saturday to mock Second Amendment supporters who have stood in long lines in recent days to stock up on guns and ammunition.  He was responding to a snide tweet by Salon writer “Digby”, who wondered if people waiting to make their guns/ammo purchases were “going to shoot the coronavirus”:

When Professir Krugman gets off the path he tends to wander.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff