Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, the essence of which is that a practitioner should do no harm.  Even if you can’t make the patient better, at least don’t make things any worse.  The first 15 months of the Administration of  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden has revealed a dire need for a similar oath for elected officials.  Let’s call it the Politicratic Oath.  Where our government is concerned, we are the patients and our president is the practitioner.  In every presidential election, one candidate or the other promises that he or she, will makes us better, will cure what ails us.  Implicit in such promises, however, is the notion that, whatever they do, at least they won’t make things worse.  Such an oath would have served Joe Biden and his Party well.  Had Joe Biden, despite all the anti-Trump rhetoric he had to spew to satisfy the wild-eyed zealots who gave him his job, simply left in place many of the policies in effect when he assumed office, he, his Party, and the rest of us would be far better off than we are now.  Biden inherited an economy itching to burst out.  Goldman-Sachs projected 2021 growth of 7%, unheard of since the Reagan years.  Biden’s management reduced growth to 2% in 2021, and negative 1.4% for first quarter 2022.  Trump left Biden an economy with lower taxes, higher wages, energy independence, no inflation, a strong military, a secure border, new beneficial trade agreements, low oil prices, and China, North Korea and Russia under control.  On May 6, 2022, Tucker Carlson summed up the job Biden has done in the first 15 months of his term.  “Joe Biden has turned out to be an unparalleled disaster.  That’s not an overstatement.  In fact, it’s a generous assessment.  Our country has never seen anything like what Joe Biden has done.  Barely 15 months into his first term as president, Joe Biden has crashed the stock market, provoked a food shortage, opened our borders to millions of illegal aliens, presided over historic rises in murder, inflation and drug ODs, as well as a corresponding plunge in overall life expectancy.  And then, because all of that wasn’t punitive enough for a country as racist as ours, he dragged the United States into an entirely pointless war with a nuclear-armed power on behalf of a corrupt foreign government that once bribed his drug-addicted son.  That’s all real.  Joe Biden did all of that and those are the big easy-to-measure crimes he has committed.”  That’s a pretty rough assessment, but indisputably true.  While I’m pleased to see that Democrat rule is an abject failure, just how they managed to make things so bad so fast is a puzzlement to me.  James Clyburn cut the deal that made Joe Biden the Democrat candidate in 2020.  Everybody knew that Old Joe never had been the sharpest tool in the shed, and that his limited intellect had deteriorated to the point where he was functionally null and void between the ears.  Clearly, someone or some group had to be chosen to pull the strings behind the scenes.  That being the case, you would think it would behoove the Democrats to choose controllers who had some understanding of how government works, and enough political savvy to keep Democrats in office.  They didn’t.  Joe Biden could have greatly benefited from a Cabinet that was a collection of knowledgeable men and women capable of managing the massive federal bureaucracy.  He didn’t get that.  As mentioned above, Biden owes his job to James Clyburn and the Progressive cabal of nuts, commies, and addle-brained social engineers.  As a result, we don’t have a Cabinet peopled by accomplished executives in their respective fields.  We have instead an identity politics bazaar, right out of the Star Wars bar scene.  The Cabinet members were chosen, not based on talent or experience, but by race, gender and sexual preference.  Diversity uber alles.   It must be understood that the calamities that have befallen us these past 15 months are not the result of mistakes by Joe Biden, they are deliberate decisions.  It’s as though everything the Biden Administration does is calculated to to do the most damage, and piss off the greatest number of people possible.  This is strictly contrary to the Politicratic Oath.  In fact, it’s contrary to most theories of politics.  George Washington adopted a utilitarian model, “The end of all government ought to be the aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy.”  Making even your own base angry doesn’t promote that goal.  Otto von Bismarck was more practical, “Politics is the art of the possible.”  Biden’s ignoring Bismarck by pursuing policies which seek to mandate the impossible, like mandating electric cars with no infrastructure capable of producing either the vehicles or the energy needed to run them.  Biden’s philosophy is closer to that of Mao Tse-Tung, “Politics is war without bloodshed,” only not a perfect match as today’s Democrats are perfectly willing to sanction violence to get what they want.  George Orwell’s vision of politics is a closer match, “All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”  Now we’re talking Biden.  The Biden policies have been a wrecking ball, with a big middle finger on it.  And remember, it’s all deliberate.  We have runaway inflation.  Excessive government spending makes inflation worse.  Biden wants to spend trillions more.  Oil has gone from $60 a barrel to $109, the price of gasoline has nearly doubled, in some States reaching $7 a gallon.  It’s an economic disaster, especially for the “underserved communities” that Democrats keep telling us they’re worried about.  Joe Biden’s response, “Don’t blame me.  Nothing I can do.”  Insulting?  Sure.  Weak?  Definitely.  But not the result of a mistaken Biden policy.  It’s purely intentional.  Our Energy Secretary knows nothing about energy.  She is on record saying “oil should be left in the ground.”  They want a high price to discourage fossil fuel usage.  The alternative?  Uh, they didn’t think about that.  Biden’s cancelled enforcement of immigration laws, allowing more than 500,000 illegals to enter each month, to be housed, fed and cared for, while they take the jobs of people who normally vote for Democrats.  Violent crime is rampant.  People are afraid to walk the streets.  Biden’s Attorney General is on the job though.  His priorities?  Tracking non-existent white supremecist terrorists, investigating parents who dare to criticize school boards, and pursuing “environmental justice,” while the cities burn.  This is suicidal for a Party trying to stay in power.  The only explanation I can think of is that the Democrat mind has been narrowed  to the point where it recognizes only what’s currently trending on Twitter.  They really believe the prevailing opinions on Twitter represent the beliefs of most of America, but have overlooked the fact that Twitter only permits Leftist opinions.  That’s why the prospect of free speech terrifies them.  The Democrats are pushing their Party towards oblivion.  I hope they keep up the good work.

In 1934, Cole Porter wrote the song, Anything Goes.  The lyrics went like this:

“In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But Heaven knows, Anything goes.

If he only knew where we would be less than 90 years later.  Once upon a time, it was an accepted fact that there were two sides to every story.  In our government, we had the ruling Party, and what used to be known as “the loyal opposition.”  The opposition was dead set against the policies of the Party in power, but it remained loyal – to the United States of America, to the Constitution, and to the the notion of majority rule.  People actually used to say things like, “I oppose what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”  We haven’t heard anything like that lately.  Instead, our society has become increasingly polarized.  A smart man who used to be on the radio in New York liked to say, “there’s nothing less liberal than a liberal,” he was right.  In my experience, when confronted by an inconvenient fact, a Leftist will give one of two stock answers: 1) “that’s not true” even though it is; or 2) “both sides do it,” as though, even if true, that was a valid excuse.  The most alarming development, however, is the increasing tendency of the Left to demand that its beliefs be blindly accepted and endorsed, and that the resort to violence is justified in response to any dissent.  The Left doesn’t subscribe to “if you don’t succeed, try, try again.”  Instead, their philosophy is, “if we don’t win, we’ll burn it all down.”  This mindset stems, of course, from the liberal mental disorder known as delusions of rectitude, the unshakable belief that they’re always right.  This fact was proven again in recent days in the wake of the leak of a draft opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson.  The Dobbs case is a challenge to a Mississippi law that prohibits abortions after the 15th week of a pregnancy.  Now, lest I be pigeonholed as a wild-eyed pro-lifer, I’m anything but.  I respect people who have strict pro-life opinions, but I’ve always been on the other side, to an extent.  Simply put, I’m probably the only person who thought Roe v. Wade was an imperfect, but sensible compromise to an intractable issue.  In Roe, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right to abortion by declaring the existence of a non-existent right to personal privacy in what Justice Blackmun termed “the penumbras and emanations” of the Fourteenth Amendment.  A penumbra is the shadow outside of a shadow.  Translation – it really doesn’t exist.  Roe specifically stated that the Court wasn’t sanctioning abortion on demand.  The Court created time restrictions.  Since 1973, the Democrat position on abortion has evolved, or is it devolved, from “abortions should be legal, safe and rare” to, enter Cole Porter – “anything goes.”  And by anything goes, I mean anything, up to and including partial birth abortion and post-birth abortion, also known as infanticide.  On the other side of the issue are the pro-life purists, many of whom would outlaw abortion at any time and for any reason, even the life of the mother.  The extremist positions on both sides are undefendable.  That’s why I thought Roe v. Wade was a reasonable compromise.  Roe was flawed for two reasons.  First, it declared a constitutional right that doesn’t exist in order to give the Court jurisdiction.  Public health is a State concern.  Secondly, it injected the judiciary into an area on which the courts should not tread.  The various State legislatures, and the individual voters in each State who elect them are the ones who must make these decisions.  The Roe Court denied that power to the States and their citizens by federalizing abortion law.  And since abortion rights and climate change have become the only religions recognized by the Left, the protection of and expansion of abortion rights has become a holy crusade for Leftists.  The right to kill the unborn, or even the recently born, is an article of faith that the Left believes must be protected by any means necessary, including, and for some, preferably by violence.  The Dobbs opinion was expected in June.  Then, this week, a draft opinion, allegedly written by Justice Samuel Alito was illicitly leaked to the press, and Leftist Loony Tunes World went nuts.  The opinion reportedly overturns Roe v. Wade, not by outlawing abortion, which the Court correctly states it has no right to do, but by returning the issue to where it belongs, the various State legislatures.  The leak has spawned a federal investigation to discover the leaker, who likely has violated several federal laws by disclosing information designed to corruptly influence members of the Court before the official opinion is filed.  Law professor Johnathan Turley has declared that the leak cheapens the institutions of our government, observing that, “The fact that some are praising this leak shows how utterly craven we have become in our politics.  There appears no ethical rule or institutional interest that can withstand this age of rage.”  He’s right.  The leak has galvanized the Left and sent it into a frenzy of indignation, revulsion, threats, vows of violence, and dare I say it, even insurrection.  Let me count the nuts.  Democrat Senator Whitehouse doesn’t want a leak investigation.  He says it really wasn’t a leak,  it wasn’t done out of some patriotic duty.  Democrat Rep. Cori Bush said, abolish the filibuster and force pro-life Americans to fund abortions for “pregnant people.”  A Vox.com senior correspondent tweeted “Seriously, shout out to whoever the hero was within the Supreme Court who said ‘f*ck it!  Let’s burn this place down.” “Progressive pastor” John Pavlovitz wrote “This is war.” (I think Bugs Bunny once said that too).  Daniel Uhlfelder, a Democrat candidate for Florida Attorney General proclaimed, “It’s time for a revolution.”   There were calls to abolish the filibuster, to codify Roe, to expand the Supreme Court, and there were calls for violence.  Democrats who several weeks ago claimed not to known the definition of a “woman” suddenly remembered.  Joe Biden – “I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental.”  Hillary Clinton –  “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.”   Maria Shriver tweeted in favor of revolution.  Something called Freedom Road Socialist Organization declared, “These people have no right to rule. This country needs a revolution.”  You can’t argue with that.  Duly appointed Justices have no right to decide legal cases, that’s a job for socialist revolutionaries.   Joe Biden actually bumbled into the truth by accident.  “And the idea we’re letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions would be a fundamental shift in what we’ve done.”  Right Joe, it’s a shift away from federal usurpation of a State responsibility, and a return of the authority to where it belongs.  The people will make the decisions, and that’s what they’re afraid of.  As this is written, the Supreme Court is on a war footing, with riot fences surrounding its building.  Leftists have promised to threaten the Justices in the Court and in their homes.  For them, anything goes, so let’s join in.  The Democrat Congressional majorities have to go, the rioters have to go to jail, and the Woke movement needs to go on the ash heap of history.

The last edition of F on F mentioned the Biden Administration’s establishment of a Disinformation Governance Board under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, and led by Nina Jankowicz.   On April 27, DHS Secretary Mayorkas was asked by a left-wing Congressperson what DHS was doing to combat the targeting of minorities in disinformation campaigns.  Mayorkas announced the Board.  Reportedly, the Board, which immediately brought to mind George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, will focus on “misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.” Translation- we’re going to censor any speech that criticizes our disastrous border policies, and any speech that suggests it was Obama and Hillary Clinton who spied on Trump and not the Russians.  Remember a few weeks ago, when Democrats were saying, “you can’t stop social media platforms from censoring messages, because it’s private, not government action?  Now all pretense is gone, and the Left has gone all out fascist.  Might the fact that Elon Musk just bought Twitter have something to do with it?  What’s amazes me is not that Republicans immediately blasted the Board as a Ministry of Truth, but that they did so for the wrong reasons.  We’ve been hearing that DHS isn’t the right place to put the Board, and that Jankowicz isn’t the right person to run it.  Screw all that!  There is no right place to put it or right person to run it.  It’s God-damned unconstitutional and it’s not even a close call.  Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institute, has said, “having a Disinformation Governance Board operating out of the Department of Homeland Security is not exactly a reassuring thought.  How is this even up for debate?  The government should not be involved in deciding what is true and false.”  Bravo, Mr. Hamid, with one correction.  It’s not the government “should not censor the content of speech, it’s “it may not” do so.  The U.S. Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, by prohibiting the government from restricting expression because of its message, ideas, subject matter or content.  Such restrictions are presumed to be invalid, and the burden is on the government to prove their validity. There are very limited exceptions, for speech which constitutes defamation, obscenity, fraud, fighting words, speech which incites or encourages the commission of a crime, true threats, and speech which is integral to criminal conduct.  No law or government agency may censor the content of speech on grounds that it’s “hate speech,” which is a term that has no meaning in the law, or because it’s alleged to be false.  If it could, every political candidate who ever ran for office would be in prison.  Moreover, the notion that any government employee, from any political Party should become the arbiter of truth for the purpose of censoring the content of speech is outrageous.  And that fact that Mistress of Truth Jankowicz works for Mayorkas, who recently was called a pathological liar, and that Mayorkas works for Joe Biden,  another pathological liar, is one of the greatest insults ever inflicted upon an unsuspecting American public.  So just who is High Priestess of Truth Jankowicz?  No one seems entirely sure.  Her boss, Secretary Mayorkas said, he had no idea Jankowicz had suggested Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” was Russian disinformation.  So I guess her evaluation of that “truth” conflicts with the opinion of The New York Times.   Then again, maybe Mayorkas didn’t pick her.  So who did?  Biden Spokes-liar Jen Psaki says she  doesn’t know who Jankowicz is.  “It sounds like the objective of the Board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities,” Psaki said. “I’m not sure who opposes that effort.”  Ooh, ooh!  Pick Me!  Psaki added, the White House supports the Board, citing disinformation that has circulated about COVID-19 and elections.  Curious.  I thought the focus was “irregular migrants” and Russia.  Here’s who Nina Jankowicz is.  She was a “disinformation Fellow” at the Wilson Center, and a former Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.  Isn’t that rich?  Most people study to discover the the true meaning of life.  Jankowicz studied to discover disinformation.  That makes her perfect for the Biden Administration.  The Wilson Center claims it provides a strictly nonpartisan space for the worlds of policy-making and scholarship to interact.  If so, their hiring of Jankowicz was a failure.  In 2019, she said, “By all means, let’s regulate social media.  But let’s do it with proper thought and consultation, with the nation’s best interests at heart, not with the sweep of a sharpie in response to a specter of ‘political censorship’ that doesn’t exist.”  A year later she orchestrated the political censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter laptop story for partisan purposes.  So I guess she can be trusted to decide when “the nation’s best interests” are at heart.  In May 2020, Jankowicz was horrified at the idea of the Trump Administration having any say in what is true or false.  Now she’s been ordained as the arbiter of truth, so that’s her job.  Jankowicz also suggested that former President Donald Trump incited “homegrown fascism,” and alleged the U.S. is a systemically racist nation.  Strictly nonpartisan, right?    Here she goes again, “one of the key reasons the Board was established, is to maintain the Dept’s commitment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, & civil liberties.”  So we have to censor speech to keep speech free?  Is it any wonder her Board was compared to Orwell’s Ministry of Truth?  The sad thing is these people really believe their own crap.  And the weirdest thing of all was the Tik Tok video of her Holiness Jankowicz, singing about the dangers of “information laundering” to the tune of a familiar Mary Poppins song.  You want to sing Mary Poppins?  Here’s a tune for you

A lie! A spree! It’s very clear to see, that a …
Carload of bullshit keeps the Bidens in Town,
The Bidens in Town-own
Bidens in Town
Just a Carload of bullshit keeps the Bidens in Town,
In the most illegal way

Don’t like that one, how about this –

Let’s go spread a lie
Up to the highest high!
Let’s go spread a lie and send it soaring
Poison the atmosphere
No chance to record clear
Oh, let’s go spread a lie!

One more for the road –

Crim criminal, crim criminal
Crim crim cheree!
Joe Biden is lucky that he hired me
Crim criminal, crim criminal
Crim crim cheroo!
Your speech stands no chance after I censor you!

The Disinformation Governance Board is an unconstitutional insult, and Nina Jankowicz is a sick joke.

We seem to be living in the world visualized by George Orwell in his novel 1984.  The parallels are eerie and a bit frightening.  In 1984, the ruling Party was made up of iron-fisted socialists who controlled every aspect of life.  Sound familiar?  The Democrats currently running 100% of the federal government appear to be using 1984 as their playbook.  Instead of “Make America Great Again” the Dem slogan seems to be “Make America Oceania.”  We now live in an Orwellian world.  The only difference is that, instead of having Big Brother watching us, we’ve got the Big Bungler, stumbling, mumbling, and trying to shake hands with invisible people.  Our leader doesn’t have to watch us himself.  He’s got help.  We’re all being watched all the time by the NSA, the FBI, Google, MSN, Firefox, Chrome, your iPhone (which means the Chinese), Siri and Alexa.  So it’s all Oceania all the time.  The Left practices Orwell’s double-think.  If you’ve ever listened to Jen Psaki or MSNBC, which I guess is redundant, you’ve heard double-speak, the habit of claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts.  Democrats exhibit a willingness to say that black is white when the Party line requires it.  And if you’ve ever spoken to a regressive Democrat, you know they have the ability to believe that black is white, and and to be certain that no one has ever believed otherwise.  As in Oceania, leftists also hear an opponent say “black” when what he really said was “white.”  The world in 1984 was a world of perpetual war.  We’ve got people in both Parties trying to push us into military actions all over the world.  They thrive on perpetual war, and as in 1984, they tailor our supposed enemies to fit their current agendas.  In WWII, Russia was our ally, then they were the Evil Empire, then allies again, and now, according to Democrats, they are responsible for all the world’s ills.  That’s just one example.  Sadam Hussein?  Ally, Villain, Enemy, and then Outlaw.  In 1984, the government practiced Newspeak, constantly changing what was considered “acceptable” language to make the expression of “heretical” thoughts impossible.  In our world, the Left seeks to cancel and ruin anyone who dares to believe “all lives matter,” when the “acceptable” belief is that only “black lives matter.”  And dare you utter the wrong pronoun to the wrong person, you’re fired.  And as in 1984, the Left seeks to prosecute “thought crimes,” a person’s politically unorthodox thoughts, such as unspoken beliefs and doubts that contradict political orthodoxy.  Oceania had a Ministry of Truth, whose job it was to lie, and to rewrite history to make it coincide with the lie of the day.  Ever seen a Biden press event?  The 1984 Ministry of Plenty actually managed rationing of scarce resources.  We have a Secretary of Energy who is on the record as saying that oil should be left in the ground, so we can use nonexistent renewable energy sources.  Just this week, it was announced that the economy contracted by 1.4%.  Sleepy Joe celebrated the expansion.  Oceania relied on censorship, surveillance and the perpetuation of inequality, but told the people they were being given truth, freedom, and equality.  That sounds like any MSNBC host.  To our leaders, dissent is insurrection, and democracy can only be saved by canceling our freedoms.  George Orwell would be proud.  My comparisons to 1984 should not be doubted.  If you need evidence, just consider the current flap over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.  Picture it.  The Left controls all three branches of government, and nearly all of the media companies on Earth.  If the Left’s delusion that they alone are speaking the truth and  protecting democracy was real, ask yourself why they would be so afraid that the opportunity for free speech might return to Twitter.  In other words, if they’re right, then how can a differing opinion hurt them? Not convinced?  The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a Disinformation Governance Board in an attempt to combat “misinformation” online.  So now, they not only claim “silence is violence,” but speech is violence too.  Such a Disinformation Board is , of course, wildly unconstitutional.  The Left has transformed America from a nation of laws that protected minorities, into a land where the law is no more than a distraction, and where the entire country is being forced to hop from one foot to another while pretending that there are an unlimited number of genders, men can be women and vice versa, and where the least particle of dissent triggers the useless college-educated class, people we for some reason call “influencers,” to run for their safe spaces.  Biden’s State of New-Oceania paints America as a land of weakness, senility, and impotence.  The poster-boy for Biden’s America is Uncle Sucker, who handcuffs the police, encourages criminals to run amok, permits illegal aliens to enter at will and then subsidizes their crimes, while at the same time telling its own citizens nothing can be done about inflation, so they will just have to sacrifice their rights, their livelihoods, and the futures of their children.  Is it any wonder that Russia is threatening nuclear war, the Chinese are poised to take over the world, and America’s a laughing stock all over the world?  Power abhors a vacuum.  If a strong America is unable or unwilling to lead the world, then the totalitarian tyrants will fill the void.  Then, God help us.  All this may sound bleak, but I’m barely warming up.  We are fast approaching a point of no return.  If we don’t soon turn America back from the brink of insanity, it will be too late.  Abraham Lincoln understood this, “America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”  Nikita Khrushchev agreed, “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”  Unless we stop the insanity, America will decay from the inside out, will collapse into irrelevancy, and darkness will envelop the world.  Forget about Party labels.  Urge your friends and neighbors to vote for sanity, not for Republicans or conservatives, but simply to protect themselves.  A sane America isn’t the land of racism, white supremacy, or intolerance, it’s just America.

On Monday April 18th, I woke to a Wall Street Journal article which proclaimed that the Biden Administration had a new  Wuhan policy.  Individuals would henceforth be responsible for their own health decisions.  Shocking.  Adult Americans permitted to make their own decisions?  This meant that the Biden pandemic strategy, assuming that Biden actually has a strategy on any issue, had been changed to permit personal choice on vaccine boosters and the wearing of masks.  Later that same day, to quote Ilhan Omar, “somebody did something” that exposed the supposed new policy as just the latest Biden Administration bullshit story.  Federal District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, in Tampa Florida, issued an opinion which struck down the Biden Administration’s mask mandate for transportation.  On February 2, 2021, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden ordered, via the Centers for Disease Control, that face masks be worn on all transportation.  Judge Mizelle ruled that the CDC had exceeded its authority in ordering the wearing of masks on public transportation, because the authority of the CDC is limited to ordering “sanitation” measures in cases where a known or suspected infection is introduced into the country.  The CDC rules extended to transportation within the country, which is the province of the States, as an exercise of their police powers.  Judge Mizelle reasoned that if the government’s interpretation of “sanitation and other measures” extended to a mask mandate, it easily could be extended to require vaccines, the installation of air filtering systems, plexiglass dividers or practically any other mandate, no matter how onerous or damaging to the economy.  So the mask mandate was struck down.  Coming as it did on the heels of the announcement that personal health decisions were now going to be permitted (as though the government ever had the authority to restrict such decisions) you’d think that Judge Mizelle’s decision might have been a welcome development that let the Biden Administration off the hook.  The last thing the government wants to do is make a decision that it might get blamed for.  The Court decision was the perfect dodge, especially for Joe Biden, whose motto seems to be, “Not much I can do about it.”  This one was tailor-made.  “Sorry.  I’d like to help, but the Court ordered it.”  But no such luck.  Proving once and for all that it had no real intention to restore personal freedoms it had no right to infringe in the first place, the Biden Administration contemplated an appeal of the Court’s decision.  This development simply proves the old adage that, if Democrats didn’t stand for hypocrisy, they’d stand for nothing at all.  The Court’s decision was met with celebration in many circles.  When airline pilots announced that the masks could be removed, passengers cheered.  They no longer had to pretend they were eating for five hours to permit maskless breathing on flights.  But there was no joy in Leftville.  The fascist regressives sensed a disturbance in “The Force,” the mass delusions of rectitude which permit no suggestion that their actions are wrong.  Wasting no time, they went into duck and cover mode, the Biden defense system, which consists of lies, deception, idiocy, and delay.  Hours after the Court’s decision, Biden’s B.S. Secretary, Jen Psaki, was unable or unwilling to answer multiple questions about whether travelers must still wear masks.  She called the ruling a “disappointing decision.” Instead of a “mandate,” Psaki referred to the CDC’s “recommendation,” which was to continue masking on public transportation.  Note to Jen – when they can fine you $2,000 for violating it, it’s not a “recommendation.”  When asked  why the White House Press Corps could sit in a crowded room without masks while White House still recommended masks for travelers, Psaki responded, “I’m not a doctor.”  This is fitting, because her boss is not really a president.  The CDC mask on planes mandate has never made sense, medically, or logically.  It never made sense that people were required to wear masks on airplanes, but could congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks.  Months ago, airline executives told Congress that the planes are equipped with High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters.  These filters are considered the “gold standard” of air filtration systems, which trap 99.97 percent of particles 0.3 microns in diameter.  For context, a human hair is 50 microns across.  About 40% of air on planes is filtered through the HEPA system, and the remaining 60% comes in fresh from outside the cabin.  Simply put, the airplane filters do what masks fail to do; trap particles as small as viruses.  The CDC mandate was due to expire in 15 days.  But predictably, the Left went nuts at hearing that a Trump appointed judge had struck down their power-grab.  They bashed the decision and the judge personally.  They predicted doom.  Forgetting that they once revered judges who blocked Trump policies, they decried a “power-drunk juristocracy,” which they claimed proves our “system” – of checks and balances — “is badly broken.”  Actually, all it proves is that you can’t fix stupid.  Only a wild-eyed Leftist imbecile could describe the exercise of unlimited dictatorial executive power as “a check and balance.”  The Administration immediately bent to the Leftist will, but only after Sleepy Joe once again uttered an unapproved opinion.  Asked whether people should continue wearing masks, Joe said, “It’s up to them.”  Psaki then contradicted her boss, saying the policy was to keep recommending masks.  The Justice Department then said it was considering an appeal.  Then, abrogating its own authority, the Justice Department said it would appeal if the CDC told them to do so.  Now, this was really stupid, as Justice put the legal decision in the hands of the very agency which had just been declared by the Court to be unauthorized to make such a decision.  Since then, the CDC has told Justice to appeal “to protect CDC’s public health authority beyond the ongoing assessment.”  Translation – “if we let a court do this, who knows where it may stop.  We might have to obey the law.”  Whatever happens, the Leftist Karen Brigades are vowing to keep wearing masks no matter what.  I think they got the idea from watching their Antifa friends burning buildings.  I’ve seen some of those bastards, and I recommend they wear masks at all times, virus or no virus.  In short, the Florida court decision struck a blow for sanity, but the Biden Administration wants no part of sanity, and its supporters are beyond reason.  The bottom line – you want to wear a mask, wear a mask.  Just leave me alone.  If your mask is effective you have nothing to fear from me.  If your mask doesn’t work, then forcing me to wear one too isn’t going to make you any safer.