This week, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden rolled out the Democrat Party line for the upcoming elections.  I’ll get to the details in due time, but for those who want an abbreviated version, this is it – Donald Trump is a dangerous criminal, all Republicans are dangerous criminals, and if you support any of them, then you’re a dangerous criminal too.  I discussed the “threats to democracy” meme last week, and that thread is picked up in the latest Democrat BS fest.  In that same vein, it’s ironic, yet not surprising, that in their zeal to protect what they consider democracy, Democrats are blissfully oblivious to the fact that they continually employ the tactics of totalitarian dictators.  As I’ve often observed – brain damage.  But they’ve truly gone off the rails this time.  Sleepy Joe went to a fundraiser where he said, “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy.  It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the, I’m going to say something: It’s like semi-fascism.”  According to CNN no less, and there is no less, Biden used the presidential bully pulpit to paint Republicans as extremists.  Sounds more like plain old bullshit to me.  It’s inflammatory, it’s insulting, and it’s one of the biggest lies ever uttered by a president whose entire administration is being supported by a tissue of lies, duly sworn to by the lapdogs of the media.  That Biden and his co-conspirators would spew such a perverted version of history is to be expected.  The acceptance of and the perpetuation of such blatant bullcrap by the media, no matter it’s leftward bent, is an abomination.  Even Democrats would agree that Benito Mussolini was a dedicated fascist.  So, once and for all, let me remind the Left of Mussolini’s definition of fascism.  “Everything inside the State.  Nothing outside the State.  And nothing against the State.”  This means that fascists want the government to control every aspect of your life from the cradle to the grave.  They expect the government to dictate what may be done by every industry.  And they will tolerate absolutely no opposition to their policies.  Forgive me, but does this sound more like Ted Cruz or Chuck Schumer?  The Democrats stand for each and every component of fascism as that term was defined by its founder, Benito Mussolini.  Democrats like to warn about the “slippery slope,” but their own descent from painting not only their chief political rival as an extremist criminal, but anyone who dares to associate with or support him as equally guilty, demonstrates that they’re hurtling down that slope at high speed, heading for a cliff.  The Party that’s so concerned about the proper use of pronouns, clearly pays little attention to the nouns and adjectives it employs.  Biden’s latest insult to Republicans is nothing new.  Fox News contributor Nikolas Lanum detailed many other examples in a recent article.  Hillary Clinton said that half of her opponents represented a “basket of deplorables.”  Biden uses MAGA as a pejorative, calling the MAGA agenda “extreme,”and Trump “the MAGA king.”  Since MAGA stands for Make America Great Again, I fail to see how that’s an insult.  Nancy Pelosi  has referred to Republicans as “enemies of the state” and “domestic enemies.”  Tiffany Cross (Who?), told Joy Reid that people need to start calling Trump supporters racist, and compared the MAGA hat to the swastika, or KKK hood.   Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor compared Republicans to jihadists.  MSNBC arsonist Dean Obeidallah said the Republican Party is a “White nationalist movement” and a “fascist threat” to the nation.  MSNBC’s Jason Johnson called Republicans “a dime storefront for a terrorist movement.”  A DNC spokes-assassin added, “The Republican Party is basically a domestic terrorist cell at this point, and they should be treated as such.” MSNBC hitman Fernand Armandi advised, “There is no alternative right now because the Republican Party today is a fascist, authoritarian project.”  But perhaps the most laughable quote came from MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch, who said that Republicans were the party of “knuckleheads, weirdos and freaks.”  Seriously?  This from a member of the Democrat cabal?  Knuckleheads, weirdos and freaks, huh?  Look around your own house

Those bastards could have been in the Star Wars bar scene.  But seriously, do these Democrat rabblerousers hear the things that come out of their stupid mouths.  They should consider their own words, and review their own policies.  And it is against this backdrop that Joe Biden gave a national address this week on “the soul of America,” in which he again demonized half the electorate.  He shouldn’t lecture us about a soul until he examines his own, if any.  Simply put, the hands of these Democrat agitators are not clean.  The imaginary crimes of Republicans pale in comparison to the actual crimes of these Democrat blowhards.  Their colossal hypocrisy put me in mind of the chief Russian prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.  Like today’s Democrats, General Roman Rudenko’s tactic was to constantly attack, ending nearly every question with, “Do you now confess yourself to be a fascist beast?” Rudenko argued, “The defendants knew that cynical mockery of the laws and customs of war constituted the gravest of crimes.  And just because the German people were made to participate in these outrages, because, prior to setting packs of dogs and executioners on millions of innocent people, the defendants for years had poisoned the conscience and the mind of an entire generation of Germans by developing in them the conceit of ‘the chosen,’ the morals of cannibals, and the greed of burglars, can it be said on account of these facts that the guilt of the Hitlerite conspirators is any less great or any less grave?”  Curious indeed, coming from the Russians, as Stalin killed as many, if not more than Hitler, and the Russians killed every soldier, raped every woman, and stole entire factories during their invasion of and departure from Germany in 1945.  So here’s some advice for Democrats. You really shouldn’t throw around labels like “fascist” if you don’t know what they mean.  You really shouldn’t use the political system to try to criminalize any opposition to your policies.  And, if you want to see a real fascist, just look in the mirror.

Democrats continually lecture us on things that they claim are “existential threats to democracy.”  It’s as though they think that, because the word “Democrat” has roots in the word “democracy” they’re the final word on what does or doesn’t threaten “our democracy.”  They are wrong on so many fronts.  First of all, the United States isn’t a pure democracy.  According to Merriam-Webster, a pure democracy is a form of government in which the power is exercised directly by the people rather than through representatives.  That’s not our government.  We might forgive Democrats however, as Merriam-Webster also tells us that the word “democracy” is used to describe a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people, and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation, usually involving periodically held free elections.  In other words, a representative democracy, which is much closer to the government we’re supposed to have.  Remember the prophetic words of Benjamin Franklin who, when asked, “what type of government have you given us?” said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”  We managed to keep it for 234 years, but then the Woke Democrat Left took control.  And because to them, facts no longer matter, the truth no longer matters, and reality no longer matters, Democrats have appointed themselves the supreme arbiters of threats to “our democracy.”  I’ll boil it down for you.  To the Woke Imbecile Left, anything that endangers their ability to continue to wield unbridled Fascist-Socialist power is, “a threat to our democracy.”  In this, the Left is as screwed up in the head as on most things, because their premise, as with all things Woke, is false.  Let’s consider some of the things that the Left has labelled “threats to our democracy.”  The greatest “threat to our democracy” according to the Left is, you guessed it, Donald Trump.  They were saying that before he was elected President.  Once again, we might want to cut them some slack on this one, because when they say “our democracy” what they mean is the government into which our republican form of government has evolved, namely, a system in which rich bastards from both major Parties get elected time after time by promising to do the bidding of the voters, while actually ignoring them, feathering their own nests, making money by insider trading, lying, cheating, screwing all political opponents, and then leaving office only to make more money by becoming lobbyists.  You know, “our” democracy.  Think of La Cosa Nostra, “this thing of ours.”  It’s really the same thing.  When Don Corleone mused, “Senator Corleone,  Governor Corleone,” he didn’t know how right he was.  According to the Left, Trump was and is a threat to democracy because he dared to run and further dared to win election.  They now say, should he be reelected, that would be “the greatest threat to democracy.”  Once again, that’s by the Leftist definition of democracy, not the real definition.  One would think that if the American people choose to reelect Donald Trump in a free election, that would be the very essence of democracy, but not for the Left.  Take the recent case of Liz Cheney.  She chose to vote to impeach Trump, twice.  She then chose to sit on the January 6th Kangaroo Court, uh, I mean Committee, and she’s repeatedly denounced Trump as “a threat to our democracy.”  Last week, she lost her Republican primary in Wyoming by 37%.  The result was best summed up by Steve Bannon, who noted that, after all Cheney’s ranting about democracy, she had received “a democracy suppository.”  I couldn’t put it any better.  I guess you have to watch what you ask for.  Democrats also say gerrymandering is a threat to democracy.  But only when they’re not doing it.  When they create a district two blocks wide and 97 miles long it enhances “equity” and strengthens “democracy.”  Any Republican redistricting is, by definition, racist and “undemocratic.”  Of course, they’ve forgotten, if they ever knew, that Elbridge Gerry, the man for whom the practice is named, was a member of the”Democratic-Republican” Party, the ancestor of today’s Democrats.  No matter.  That’s reality, and, I’m sure reality also is a threat to our democracy.  Democrats also say the Supreme Court is a threat to democracy, when it doesn’t agree with them.  Biden spokes-imbecile Karine Jean-Pierre even has said that the Court’s recent abortion decision was “unconstitutional.”  Of course, the Court is in the Constitution, and making those decisions is its job, so I guess that means that the Constitution itself is a threat to democracy.  Don’t laugh, the Left really believes that.  According to the Woke nuts, the electoral college is a threat, and the section of the Constitution that puts State Legislatures in charge of their elections and choosing electors is a threat.  You get that?  Elections conducted in accordance with the supreme law of the land threaten democracy.  Creating and enforcing immigration laws is in the Constitution.  Guess what?  They say that’s also a threat to democracy.  What else?  Oh yes.  Having only two Senators from each State is a threat.  There would be no United States without that provision, but who you gonna believe?  The Founding Fathers, or some Communist professor who’s never had a real job?  Oh right, another major threat is “election deniers.”  These are people who dare to complain after being screwed by voter fraud that results in the elections of Democrats.  How dare they?  Of course, if Bush or Trump wins an election, denying the result isn’t a threat, it’s a virtue.  If you’re getting the impression that Democrats are either grossly ignorant, or else are duplicitous lying bastards, you’re on the right track.  Which is not to suggest that the Republican Party is blameless.  Far from it.  The inconvenient truth is that the true state of our government was neatly summed up more than 50 years ago by the writers Thomas Dye and Harmon Ziegler, in their book, The Irony of Democracy.  In it, Dye and Ziegler revealed the uncomfortable truth.  The U.S. isn’t a democracy.  The little people don’t rule.  It’s not even a classic republic.  Instead, it’s what is sometimes called an oligarchy.  A system run by a small number of the very rich.  Dye and Ziegler concluded that it was a good thing the people don’t rule, for if left to a popular vote, many of our constitutional freedoms would be cancelled.  Better to let the elites lead, to protect the system.  The trouble with their hypothesis today is that too many elites (think Woke billionaires) are committed to the cancellation of our constitutional rights and the destruction of our system.  Maybe it’s time for a new book, The Perils of Oligarchy.  Maybe the populists would do a better job.  It’s not a new debate.  Federalist Alexander Hamilton favored the elites, declaring “the people is a beast.”  In contrast, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson mused, “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”  Which philosophy will prevail?  Only time will tell.                 

By now you’ve all heard about the FBI’s raid on President Trump’s Mar a Lago home and office.  If there was any doubt before the raid that the Deep State will stop at nothing to destroy all things Trump, then no doubt remains.  The persecution of Trump employees and supporters has been a display of unrelenting tyranny.  Trump staffers hounded, prosecuted on trumped up charges, and imprisoned.  January 6th protestors, many of whom were no more than trespassers, jailed for more than a year.  New York is prosecuting the Trump Organization and its CEO for minor tax offenses, despite annual IRS and New York State tax audits which revealed no violations.  The New York Attorney General is trying to sue or prosecute Trump family members on the laughable basis that any time a real estate developer overstates the value of his properties that’s a crime.  If so, they’d all be in jail.  Meanwhile, grand juries in Georgia and Arizona are trying to indict Trump for daring to suggest that there was election fraud in those States.  If that’s a crime, then hook up every Democrat in the Congress, because all of them challenged the legality of the 2016 election, and the 2004 election, and the 2000 election.  The January 6th Kangaroo Court, I mean Committee, continues its reign or terror.  Steve Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress, even though he agreed to testify. (I always thought that was rich – contempt of contemptible lying bastards).  Peter Navarro was handcuffed and shackled by the FBI for failing to submit to the January 6th Inquisition.   Trump lawyer Jeffrey Clark was dragged from his home in his underwear and handcuffed by FBI thugs who raided his house looking for highly dangerous paperwork.  In the spring, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden criticized Attorney General Merritt Garland for acting more like a judge than a prosecutor when dealing with President Trump.  So I guess Garland was trying to save his phony baloney job when he authorized the raid on Mar a Lago.  Oh, by the way, CNN says we can’t call it a raid because the FBI doesn’t use that word.  Screw CNN and screw the FBI.  I was a prosecutor for 25 years, every search warrant execution uses “raid teams.”  They’re twisting the language to make what they did in Florida seem like a routine occurrence.  It wasn’t.  Like everything the wrongly named “Justice” Department has done against Donald Trump, it was unnecessary, excessive, and arguably illegal.  Remember that the Justice Department campaign against Trump didn’t start after the 2020 election.  That’s just the latest insult.  The Mar a Lago raid may have been illegal, but there is no doubt that the activities of Justice, the FBI and CIA both before and after the 2016 election were indisputably illegal.  Media whores who lately dismiss as conspiracy theorists Trump supporters’ who fear the raid may have been based on phony evidence, or an attempt to plant evidence,  ignore the fact that the 2016-2017 Trump witch hunt, pardon me, the FBI doesn’t use that term, they prefer “insurance policy,” was entirely based on Hillary’s bought and paid for false Russian dossier, lies from convicted perjurer Michael Cohen, lies in court affidavits by an FBI agent, and FISA warrants containing false information.  They called it Operation Crossfire Hurricane.  Remember that name.  Against that backdrop, excuse us if we continue to suspect that the Justice Department and the FBI are full of shit.  The Mar a Lago search warrant affidavit was sealed.  That means we can’t see what evidence was used to get the warrant.  We’re told that it related to The Classified Documents Act, which isn’t a criminal law, and the Espionage Act, which deals with persons taking classified materials.  The problem with that is that the Espionage Act doesn’t apply to a president, who can declassify any document for any reason.  Trump lawyers say all documents they had were declassified.  The Espionage Act applies to people like Clinton henchman Sandy Berger, who got caught trying to smuggle classified materials out of the National Archives stuffed in his socks. (He got probation).  But the Mar a Lago raid was even worse.  Trump and the National Archives have been working together to make sure anything sensitive was returned to the Archives.  This is routine, and the FBI had been to the Florida storage area, and had suggested the addition of a lock, which was installed, and which the FBI broke during the raid.  Il Duce Obama left the White House with 30 million pages of presidential documents.  The FBI never raided his house to search through Michele’s underwear drawer.  The Mar a Lago warrant was for all presidential papers from 2017 to 2021.  That’s everything.  Trump had declassified the evidence showing Operation Crossfire Hurricane to be a Justice Department coup attempt.  There’s speculation that the raid was an attempt to recover that evidence.  The agents who ran Crossfire Hurricane also handled the raid in Florida.  Just a coincidence?  Leftist attempts to paint the raid as a routine procedure are bald-faced lies.  This is unprecedented.  The fact is that the FBI has treated Donald Trump, not as a president, but as a criminal target since 2015.  Never forget that James Comey went to his first meeting with President Trump to gather information to be used in Crossfire Hurricane, to remove him from office.  They infiltrated the Trump campaign.  They set up and smeared General Flynn, George Pappadopolis and Carter Page.  They persecuted Paul Manafort.  Every step of the way, the FBI has conducted itself, not as the straight-arrow law enforcement agents they pretend to be, but as jack-booted thugs, reminiscent of the 1940’s Fascists.  People don’t like comparisons to the German Gestapo, so I won’t go there.  Other thugs with badges come to mind.  The Japanese had the Kempeitai, the military Secret Police, sometimes compared to George Orwell’s Thought Police.  The Kempeitai “generally performed the Japanese government’s dirty work with enthusiasm and zeal.” (Sound familiar?)  The Kempeitai’s civilian counterpart, the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (Tokko) was charged with carrying out “high policing,” domestic criminal investigations, and control of political groups and ideologies deemed to threaten the public order of the Empire. (Sound familiar?)  The Tokko were known as the Special Higher Police.  Ah, what was the title of James Comey’s book?  That’s right, A Higher Loyalty.  By the Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the U.S. version of the Special Higher Police.  Just another coincidence, I’m sure.  The Deep State has declared Donald Trump a threat to the order of its Empire, which it calls a “democracy.” The empire of graft, corruption, insider trading, lies and subversion.  Just listen to them, on both sides.  Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, the Bushes, Karl Rove, et al., all say Trump is the greatest threat to “our democracy.”  What he threatens is not “our democracy,” but their opportunities to steal and wield power.

We’re living in confusing times.  Up is down.  Black is white.  Right is wrong, and wrong is right.  We see our society crumbling right before our eyes.  We watch as our God given freedoms are stripped from us by corrupt political hacks who would gladly burn the Constitution for another term in office or another crooked investment deal.  The media, which once prided itself on keeping public officials honest, is even more corrupt than the politicians.  We have a president, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, who by any honest metric is an abject failure.  Yet, in the face of spiking crime, record inflation, and an illegal alien border invasion, the media regularly reports on Biden’s  “successes.”  But even the lying media has to stretch to make that fit.  Last week, the military finally killed a terrorist it had been after for 21 years, and Democrats barely passed a bill designed to piss hundreds of billions more dollars down a “green energy” rathole.  This, the media told us, was Joe Biden’s best week.  Yikes!  Slowly but surely, we’re being conditioned to ignore reality and passively accept the Left-wing crap that’s being peddled for truth.  “Don’t believe your lying eyes, just listen to us.”  It’s surreal, as though it was all part of some movie and not reality.  Crime is rampant.  People don’t want to return to work in the office.  People, by and large don’t want to work at all, now accustomed to the prospect of more “stimulus” money.  They can’t afford to put food on the table or gas in their cars.  The cities are third world hell-holes.  But it’s OK because Joe Biden just had his best week.  It put me in mind of Kevin Bacon in Animal House, in the midst of a riot, repeating, “Remain calm.  All is well.”  And the strange thing is that the Woke Leftists really believe all is well.  It’s part of their psychosis.  By any reasonable standard, crime is out of control.  People are afraid to walk the streets.  The Woke solution to the problem is to defund the police, let all the criminals out of jail, and refuse to prosecute crimes being committed by career criminals.  Those of us who are still in touch with reality have noticed that there has been a steep decline in public safety, what with all the murders, rapes, robberies, and people being thrown in front of subway trains and such.  This onslaught, coupled with the resignations of thousands of police officers who are no longer permitted to do their jobs, has troubled us, but not the Woke Left.  Last week, George Soros, the man who gave us dozens of Prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law, wrote a column, defending his support of what he calls, “reform prosecutors.”  These are the prosecutors like Alvin Bragg in New York, Kim Fox in Chicago, and Chesa Boudin, who was so bad that even San Franciscans removed him from office.  Soros has spent his life undermining capitalism, which he views as an evil, and supporting what he calls a “One World” system, which he calls “an open society.”  Although, like any fascist, Soros talks about “democracy,” his “one world” has nothing to do with national determinism.  Soros’ world is a world in which the government controls everything, and the people just do what they’re told to do.  There is no room for American exceptionalism in Soros’ world.  His plan isn’t to bring the rest of the world up to our level, but to drag America down to the level of the rest of the world, which you may have noticed, is really fucked up.  Of the 8 billion people in the world, about 2 billion have some measure of freedom.  The remaining 6 billion are oppressed.  That’s what Soros has in store for us- Make America North Korea.  But Soros must be feeling the heat, hence his op ed.  In it, Soros resorts to gibberish which makes Joe Biden sound lucid.  He says our system is rife with injustices, and proclaims that, “the idea that we have to choose between justice and safety is false.”  I don’t know anybody who thinks we have to make that choice, but if they do I’m sure that refusing to bring criminals to justice is not a recipe for safety.  Soros says we need to “invest” more (that means spend money) to prevent crime.  He bemoans the fact that we spend $81 billion to keep people incarcerated.  Apparently he missed the fact that, last week, the Senate voted to spend $80 billion for 87,000 more IRS agents, whose job it will be to turn productive citizens into criminals.  Perhaps they’re emptying the prisons of real criminals to make room for the new enemies of the State, decent citizens who fail to fall in line.  Soros recommends education and job training programs.  (We’ve been funding them for 60 years).  Soros claims that the crime wave is not the fault of the prosecutors he got elected, citing “research” that shows no connection, and the fact that crime is up in places where he hasn’t yet bought the DA’s office.  If true, I don’t think emptying the jails and refusing to prosecute career criminals is the remedy.  He cites to a rise in mental illness following Covid lockdowns. (And whose fault is that?).  Soros also said something so convoluted that I had to go back and check that it didn’t come from Biden or Kamala, crime is being caused by “a pull-back in policing in the wake of public criminal justice reform protests.” Huh?  So, it’s not his fault, but he supports pulling back policing, and protesting in support what he considers criminal justice reform, so it is his fault?  Soros promises not to stop buying DA’s offices, and exhibiting the signs of advanced Woke brain damage, he tells us that, “Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.”  I guess he means that portion of the public that hasn’t yet been killed, raped or robbed.  Wow!  The country is on fire, and Soros vows to keep pouring on the coal.  “Remain Calm.  All is well.”  “It’s not me, and the public likes what I’m doing anyway.”  Which puts me in mind of another movie, The Wizard of Oz, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”  But you better pay attention.  Otherwise, when the curtain gets pulled back, everything we’ve worked for all our lives will be gone.

This week, there are a number of things going on in our nation, nearly all of which annoyed me to no end.  Joe Manchin finally caved and is supporting more ruinous spending.  Street crime continues apace.  Teacher’s union president Weingarten is making noises like the union is planning to obstruct in-person learning in the Fall.  However two situations stood out on Frank’s  scale of acida.  Monkeypox, and Nancy Pelosi’s bogus journey to Taiwan.  I’ll start with the monkeypox.  As the Democrats diligently search for a new pandemic to use to corrupt the mid-term elections, they currently are auditioning monkeypox as a possible candidate for the diversion they require to shield their out and out theft.  Now don’t get me wrong, monkeypox is a real problem, and a serious malady that shouldn’t be taken lightly.  What bugs me about this situation is the reluctance of government to identify the group most at risk from the disease, and the reluctance of some of the people in the group most susceptible to monkeypox to make behavioral changes that could reduce their risk of contracting the disease.  According to the WHO, the monkeypox virus, was transmitted to humans from monkeys.  Human monkeypox was first identified in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that glorious land which has given the world potentially fatal gifts like ebola, sleeping sickness, dengue fever, and lassa fever.  According to the CDC, monkeypox spreads through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact with the scabs or bodily fluids of an infected person.  Simply put, monkeypox is mainly a sexually transmitted disease.  Here are two of the CDC’s suggestions to combat monkeypox: “Masturbate together at a distance of at least 6 feet, without touching each other and without touching any rash;” and “Remember to wash your hands, fetish gear, and sex toys.”  Your government at work.  On the local level, New York and San Francisco have declared monkeypox states of emergency.  The mayors of those cities complain that the federal government hasn’t supplied enough monkeypox vaccine.  Joe Biden is on the ball though.  He’s appointed a FEMA administrator the official Monkeypox Coordinator.  Take a nap now Joe.  Democrats and the media (the same thing really) are hard at work stirring up fear of monkeypox, but there’s one important fact they’re not mentioning.  According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 98% of those infected with the monkeypox virus are either gay or bisexual men who acquired the virus through sexual activity.  45% of those infected also have HIV.  Government officials have neglected to mention this.  CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky carefully tipi-toed around it when she addressed the two children who tested positive for monkeypox, “We – have seen now two cases that have occurred in children.  Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community.”  Talk about “don’t say gay.”  Now don’t get me wrong.  The federal government should move heaven and Earth to get a sufficient supply of monkeypox vaccine to the people who need it.  And unlike the Wuhan vaccine, the monkeypox vaccine actually works 85% of the time.  But wouldn’t it be a good idea for the government to identify the community most at risk for the virus, and wouldn’t it be a better idea for people in that community to make behavioral changes to reduce the risk of transmission.  It’s not happening.  Case in point –  Last Sunday, San Francisco hosted a fetish festival for gay men aptly named the Up Your Alley Festival which encourages attendees to “wear your gear, your leather, or your birthday suit.”  Attendees were required to be vaccinated for Covid, but not for monkeypox.  It seems to me that if the entire world was compelled to change its behavior to avoid Covid, a small fraction of our population should be expected to do the same thing to avoid monkeypox.  Bottom line, monkeypox is not a threat to the general population.

Which brings us to my second issue – Nancy Pelosi’s Asian Magical Mystery Tour.  When last seen, Nancy was vacationing on a beach in Italy, with her sagging rack on full display.  She flew back to Washington, then boarded her government plane and set off for a junket to Asia.  No one would have known, much less cared that she was going had not Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden announced that she was bound for Taiwan, despite the fact that the military was against the visit.  This is the same Joe Biden who, last October said the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China attacked, only to have a spokesperson call the remark a “gaffe.”  The U.S. has a law which requires us to help Taiwan defend itself.  It’s a policy called “strategic ambiguity,” and it must be working because nobody knows what the Hell that means.  Because Old Joe spilled the beans in advance, the Chinese warned Nancy not to go, threatening dire consequences, including a threat to shoot down her plane.  Republicans, finally confronted with a group they hate more than Pelosi and her band of Woke maniacs, were forced to support the Speaker.  What Pelosi was doing in Asia in general or in Taiwan in particular is unclear.  Taiwan is a leading center for the manufacture of computer chips.  Two weeks ago, Nancy’s husband, armed with insider information from Nancy, made a big investment in chips.  Maybe Nancy went over there to check on her husband’s investments.  Who knows?  The upshot is that, once again, the Democrats completely mishandled the situation.  Had Joe Biden not announced that his own military was against the trip, the Chinese wouldn’t have had the opportunity to issue warnings.  She would have gone to Taiwan, and they would have bitched afterwards, like they always do.  All Joe did was stir up a potential military conflict with China.  As this is written, China has surrounded Taiwan with warships.  Should China invade Taiwan, Joe Biden will do exactly nothing about it.  He can’t.  Taiwan will swing in the wind because Biden is compromised by China, which has bought and paid for the Biden family.  This sad chapter surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s needless trip to Asia has served only to further convince the Chinese and all our enemies that the U.S. government is divided and weak.  Ronald Reagan’s motto was “Peace through strength.”  Biden’s should be, “Corruption and senility equals surrender.”  Our government should have leaders who radiate the strength and resolve necessary to deter foreign aggression.  The Biden Administration radiates weakness, an open invitation to foreign aggression.  Instead of  Reagan, Kissinger, or George Marshall, we’ve got Blinken, No Blinkin, and Nod.

God help us.