There’s a popular saying.  There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  Another saying comes to mind.  Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.  Politicians are fond of using spurious statistics to justify their prevarications.  And so it was this week of skyrocketing oil prices, which have driven the price of regular gasoline above $4.25 a gallon here in New Jersey.  It’s even worse in the People’s Socialist Republic of California.

I love that sign.  I don’t know if it means you need to hit the ATM before filling up, or if the only way to afford a fill up is to hit the Lotto.  When questioned about the Biden Administration’s reluctance to permit U.S. producers to produce more oil, Jen Psaki, Press Secretary to the Mumbler in Chief, offered one statistic and two tried and true lies.  Psaki claimed that U.S. oil production was higher in the first year of the Biden Administration than it was in Year One of the Trump Administration.  That was the statistic.  Here are the lies – 1) Biden’s done nothing to discourage domestic oil production; and 2) It’s all Russia’s fault anyhow.  You’ve really got to hand it to the Democrats.  When they hit on a lie that works for them, they just keep going back to it.  “Russia” has been the Democrats’ go-to excuse for every ill of the past 6 years from the election of Donald Trump to Joe Biden’s hemorrhoids.  The Russians hacked the DNC, elected Trump, and changed votes to fix the election. (That’s the 2016 election.  We now know that, despite counting untold thousands of untraceable mail ballots in 2020, no fraud took place, nothing to see there, just move on!)   Why do Dems constantly blame Russia?  It’s a coping mechanism.  They deflect their misconduct, by  accusing Republicans of doing things they’ve done.  Trump was colluding with Russia?  No, but The DNC paid Russians for the phony Trump dossier,  while Hillary’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, lobbied for Russian companies, including Putin’s bank and Uranium One, the Russian company to which Hillary sold American uranium, and which then coincidentally “donated” $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.  But let’s further explore the lies and the statistic.  Russia is 100% to blame for invading Ukraine.  No one disputes that.  But, is the invasion to blame for the increase in oil prices?  Not so much.  It’s truth time.  On election day 2020, the barrel price of oil was $39, and a gallon of gas a bit over $2.  In December 2020, when the Electoral College confirmed Biden’s victory, oil was $45.  By inauguration day it was $53.  In June 2021, oil hit $70, then $80 in October.  By February 2022, oil was over $90, and the day Russia invaded Ukraine it was $91.59.  So if we’re throwing around statistics, the price of oil increased 133% between Biden’s election and the Russian invasion.  Since the invasion, oil is up 35%.  What about the original Psaki statistic?  It was mathematically correct, as far as that goes, but context is necessary.  In the first year of Trump, economic activity was flat and domestic oil production was depressed by Il Duce Obama’s woke policies.  Which brings to mind a pertinent Trump quotation, “Everything Woke turns to shit.”  How true.  Woketard Democrats oppose fossil fuels.  Trump policies encouraged oil production, made oil leases available on federal lands, and opened the ANWAR Reserve to drilling, industries came back to the U.S., demand for oil increased, and oil production increased to meet that demand.  Before the Wuhan plague, U.S. producers were pumping more than 13 million barrels a day.  Now we’re at 11 million.  2021 domestic production was higher that production in 2017 because the Trump energy policies hadn’t happened yet.  No other reason.  The claim that Biden has done nothing to decrease domestic energy production is a lie so big that Joe Goebbel’s would be proud.  Donald Trump had U.S. producers providing more than enough oil and natural gas to satisfy 100% of our energy needs.  So much, in fact, that the U.S. was selling oil and gas to other countries.  On January 20, 2021, all that changed.  Biden announced he was unilaterally stopping construction on the Keystone Pipeline, which had been approved by Congress.  His Executive Order was illegal, and that’s now in court.  Biden threatened other pipelines.  He illegally cancelled current leases to drill on federal lands, and he banned all future leases.  This was a big deal.  Keep in mind, drilling on federal land doesn’t mean oil rigs in Yellowstone and Yosemite.  The Feds own 28% (640 million acres) of all U.S. land, including 80% of Nevada, 63% of Utah, 61% of Alaska, and nearly half of Wyoming.  The Biden Administration badmouthed fossil fuels at every opportunity.  They have a nutty plan to require all cars and trucks to be electric within 30 years.  It hasn’t occurred to them yet that the electricity doesn’t just leak out of the socket, but has to be produced by some source.  Wind, sun and pond scum won’t cut it.  Germany tried it and almost went broke.  On top of this, Biden is trying to install on the Federal Reserve some Commie witch whose stated plan is to refuse to permit banks and other financial institutions to grant loans to oil producers.  So, after taking away the leases, the financing and a means of transporting the product, Biden’s claim that he hasn’t caused the decrease in production is a colossal lie.  Instead of exporting oil, in the course of a year we are importing it.  Most imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico.  Biden increased importation from Russia, which supplied 8% of our oil.  Now, Biden has finally agreed to stop buying Russian oil (since Russia is using our money to destroy Ukraine).  But he still won’t replace the Russian oil with U.S. crude, which is here right now, is cheaper, is cleaner, will benefit Americans by providing high-paying jobs, and will decrease the strain on American consumers.  The Biden Administration’s position is “Americans be damned.”  Transportation Secretary Marie Antoinette Buttigieg said, “Let them drive Teslas.”  Great solution!  Just get an electric car.  No solace to the 97% of us who still need gas.  Cackling Kamala Harris also chimed in, “Imagine a future with all electric vehicles.”  That’s assuming we have a future.  As FDR advisor Harry Hopkins once noted, “people don’t eat in the long run, they’re hungry now.”  And, as usual, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden had nothing to offer.  Two days after announcing he’d do everything he can to reduce gas prices, he flew to Texas and announced, “They’re going to go up.  Can’t do much right now … Russia is responsible.”  I least he tried, he called Communist Venezuela and terrorist Iran looking for oil.  He called Saudi Arabia, but they hung up on him.  Biden could have saved the roaming fees and just called North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who says his State alone is operating at 400,000 barrels per day below the pre-Wuhan production numbers, and “that can easily be turned back on again.”  That would replace all the Russian oil, and we wouldn’t have to beg Commies, terrorist Mullahs and the thieves in OPEC for anything.  Biden won’t do it. It’s madness.

At the beginning of World War II, in September 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland with armored divisions that swept across the country.  This came to be known as blitzkrieg, the lightening war.  In the wake of the fall of Poland, although the major European powers had declared war on Germany, and indeed were at war, not very much happened until the Spring of 1940.  This period of relative inactivity came to be known as sitzkrieg, the sitting, or phony war.  Recent events in Ukraine have brought to mind a modern day parallel.  There is nothing phony about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  They have come in with armored columns, artillery, paratroopers, and aerial bombardment.  No doubt the Russian attack is a blitzkrieg.   Since the Russian invasion, and in the State of the Union speech, Joe Biden has expressed our opposition to the incursion, has ordered a variety of diplomatic and financial sanctions, and has vowed to stop the invasion, noting “an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny.”  Strong words, but in the end only words.  For all his bravado, Biden’s actions have amounted to no more than a sitzkrieg against Putin and his forces.  Not that I’m advocating that U.S. forces go to war with Russia in Ukraine, mind you.  Nobody wants that.  The point is, if all we’re going to do is jawbone the Russians and impose sanctions on them, then shouldn’t those sanctions be focused on the most vulnerable part of the Russian economy?  Love him or hate him, John McCain got one thing right.  Russia is not really a country.  It’s a gas station that happens to possess nuclear weapons.  Oil and gas are not just crucial to the Russian economy, they are the Russian economy.  Other than vodka, can you name one product Russia exports?  So while Biden is busy threatening to confiscate Russian oligarch’s yachts, and banning Russian airline flights, and threatening to exclude Russia from the banking system, he has yet to strike at the one area that actually could serve to deter Putin from continuing his attack.  The sanctions don’t apply to Russian oil and gas.  There are two reasons for this.  First, the Russian attack was made possible because and only because of the actions of Joe Biden.  And secondly, Joe Biden is funding the continuing Russian war even as this is written.  It has been oft repeated in recent days that “if Donald Trump was still president, Putin wouldn’t have done what he did.”  We’ve heard stories of Trump having warned Putin that, if he attacked Ukraine, Trump would hit Moscow.  I have my doubts about this story because, had Trump done that, it would have been leaked, and he would have been bashed for it, and I don’t remember that happening.  In any event, I think we can take for a given that Putin recognized that Trump was strong, and that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is the weakest excuse for a president since James Buchanan.  The truth is that it wasn’t necessary for Trump to threaten an attack on Russia, because he understood that Russia’s ability to threaten its neighbors is directly tied to the price of oil.  Trump didn’t have to threaten military action because he undertook an energy policy that drove down oil prices.  Russia can only do mischief when oil prices are near or over $100 a barrel.  When prices are low, Russia can’t afford a war.  When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, oil averaged $100, and went as high as $145.  In 2014, when they invaded Crimea, oil went as high as $108.  During the years of the Trump presidency oil prices averaged between $40 and $65.  At the end of 2019 oil was $57.  When Trump left office, due to pandemic depression, oil was under $40.  Trump created these conditions by opening up federal lands to oil and gas production, granting new leases, and encouraging American producers to produce enough oil and gas to reduce prices, to supply 100% of American energy needs and permit energy exports.  When Trump left office, the U.S. was not importing any foreign oil.  We were selling it to others, in competition with Russia.  On day one of the Biden Administration, that all changed.  To satisfy the new green deal Woketards in his Party, Biden cancelled the Keystone pipeline, he (illegally) cancelled existing leases on federal lands, banned new leases, threatened other pipelines, and is in the process of trying to force lenders to deny any new funding to oil and gas companies.  Our oil and gas production was greatly reduced, and as a result oil prices have risen from $40 to $110 in one year.  The high price of oil permitted Putin to invade Ukraine, which would be bad enough, but it’s worse.  Biden is buying some 595,000 barrels of oil a day – from Russia!  That’s right.  The country we’ve sanctioned, that we are threatening, and condemning as a rogue nation which is engaged in war crimes, our supposed enemy.  People go to jail for trading with the enemy.  Mumbly Joe is not only trading with the enemy, the U.S. is financing Putin’s war with Ukraine.  At currrent prices, while we’re sending weapons to Ukraine, we’re paying Russia nearly half a billion dollars a week.  Germany and the rest of the EU are also sending Ukraine weapons, while simultaneously buying a third of their oil and gas from Russia.  It makes you wonder how serious the EU and the U.S. are about opposing Russia.  Think about it, if you were Putin, and thought they were serious,  wouldn’t you cut off the oil and gas in mid-Winter?  He hasn’t.  That either means Putin knows it’s not serious, or he can’t afford to stop selling his oil and gas.  In either case, our actions don’t make any sense.  Even Nancy Pelosi understands this, as she has announced she’s in favor of ending our purchases of Russian oil.  Of course, she doesn’t want us to produce more oil either.  Mustn’t anger the Woketards.  Pelosi advocates the worst of both worlds.  Remove 595,000 barrels of oil a day from our supplies, don’t replace it with domestic oil, and see gasoline prices go from $4 to $7 a gallon.  Progressive, right?  The bottom line is, Biden’s weakness, his family’s corrupt ties to oil interests, and his single-handed destruction of our domestic energy industries have handed Putin the motive, means and opportunity to carry out his invasion of Ukraine.  Mumbly Joe can rant and posture all he wants, but he’s a phony warrior, waging a phony war.

The saying, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” is attributed to  Samuel Johnson.  Johnson didn’t mean to vilify those who expressed actual love of country.   He was criticizing the pretended use of patriotism by unscrupulous politicians.  George Washington understood this, “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” Mark Twain was more blunt, “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”  In other words, true love of country must be separated from the ravings of politicians who threaten that, “unless you do what I say, you’re unpatriotic.”  Sound familiar?  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is just the latest scoundrel to use pretended patriotism as a shield for his incompetence.  Biden’s most recent resort to patriotism concerned vaccine mandates.  Asked about court rulings striking down mandates, Biden mumbled,  “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.   Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated.  That’s the problem. Everybody talks about freedom about not to have a shot or have a test.  Well guess what?  How about patriotism?  How about you make sure you’re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anyone else.”  “What about that?” Biden added. “What’s the big deal?”  Much as I hate to disagree with Mumbly Joe, the big deal is the ease with which he is willing to cancel the freedoms that he was elected to protect.  This wasn’t the first time Biden told us the protection of freedom is not his priority.  Biden refuses to say a bad word about Xi Jinping.  “I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uyghurs in the Western mountains of China.”  If China’s detaining, torturing, and enslaving millions, and has murdered about one million Uyghurs, what’s the big deal, right?  Biden minimized these atrocities, ascribing them to “different norms.”  “Culturally, there are different norms of each country and the leaders are expected to follow.”  So sayeth the Big Guy, the alleged leader of the free world.  Where did Biden get the idea that freedom “is no big deal?”  One very real possibility is that Biden’s being blackmailed by the Chinese.  Noted contemporary artist and crackhead Hunter Biden was involved in a  number of shady business deals in China, involving billions of dollars from people connected to Chinese intelligence.  According to Hunter’s own emails, the Biden family was paid some $31 million, and a 2.8 carat diamond.  One of the Chinese partners was Che Feng, who paid Biden $20 million.  Che Feng, known as “the super chairman,” is vice-minister for State Security.  He runs Bureau No. 8, specializing in the compromise of foreigners.  Che sure landed a big one.  Another Hunter partner, Patrick Ho, was arrested by the FBI, and is in prison.  Is Hunter simply a bad judge of character?  No.  When he went to China, he left his Secret Service details at home.  No witnesses.  Another explanation for Old Joe’s distaste for freedom is that he’s just following the science.  You know, the science – Dr. Anthony Fauci.  Fauci has no use for your freedom either.  He said that, if you think the government response to the Wuhan virus was mishandled, blame President Trump.  “We put together a good plan for how we were going to try to dampen down the spread of infection early on, thinking that was accepted by everyone, then the next day the President is saying ‘Free Michigan, Free Virginia’.  I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was except to put this misplaced perception about peoples individual rights that supersedes societal safety. That to me is one of the things that went awry in all of this.”  No Tony, what went awry was that we permitted a fascist runt like you to go on TV and tell us when we can and cannot go to work, go to school, go to church, and see our loved ones.  The truth is that Joe Biden, and the rest of that ageing, moldering, wild-eyed, side-show known as the Democrat Party have decided that they really have no use for personal freedom.  Never forget, whenever a politician uses the word “societal,” you’re about to get screwed.  Biden and his henchmen want to cancel your freedoms.  As we saw last week, it was Mumbly Joe who prompted Justin Trudeau to crack down on the truckers.  And Biden is worse than Trudeau because he’s been crooked much longer.  If you think Trudeau got away with his atrocities only because Canada lacks our Bill of Rights, think again.  U.S. truckers are said to be planning a truck protest for Washington, D.C.  Nothing has happened yet, but the Secretary of Defense has already called up 700 National Guardsmen to protect D.C.  Here in New Jersey, the State Police are getting heavy-duty tow trucks ready to remove protestor’s trucks.  Another Biden incursion on your personal freedom is his National Roadway Safety Strategy; part of the so-called “infrastructure” bill.  The goal of the plan is to reduce traffic fatalities- to zero.  Finally, government mandated immortality.  Transportation Secretary Buttigieg has a 42 point plan.  As former French Premier Clemenceau said of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points, “God Almighty had only 10.”  But Pothole Pete has a cunning plan that cannot fail.  The Feds will work with States to build and maintain safer roads by updating to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, and providing technical assistance to communities of all sizes on speed limits.  Permit me to translate.  This means by requiring States to install speed and red light cameras, and by dictating the speed limit on every road, or else the State gets no federal highway money.  If you think this is farfetched, think again.  The 1970’s national 55 MPH speed limit was forced through the same way.  And Pete’s got $14 billion of your money to do it.  The government has offered two justifications for this freedom grab, both of them bogus.  First, they say road fatalities were up 7% from 2019 to 2020.  While mathematically correct, this does not represent a trend.  More likely, lack of traffic on the roads during the pandemic, coupled with a decreased police presence, provided reckless speed maniacs more opportunities to kill themselves.  In fact, since 1972, road deaths are down nearly by 18,000 annually, and deaths per 100,000 population are down 44%.  This isn’t about safety, it’s about control.  So take a page from Mark Twain.  Support your county all the time.  If the government ever deserves support – well, I’ll get back to you.

Canadians are really nice people.  They’re highly educated, bilingual, clean, reasonable, and polite to a fault.  When Canadians get angry enough to engage in a large-scale protest, you know something is seriously wrong.  Since late January, truckers all across Canada, have been protesting Canada’s Wuhan virus restrictions.  The biggest protest found thousands of truckers descending on Ottawa, where they blocked streets, and for a time, a bridge linking Ontario with Michigan.   The popular story is that the truckers are protesting against the Canadian and U.S. vaccine mandates for crossing the U.S.-Canada border.  That’s part of it, but there’s a lot more to it.  As more than 90% of Canadian truckers already are vaccinated, this is not simply anti-vaccine griping.  It’s more elemental.  What the truckers are protesting against is the extent of and absurdity of the myriad Wuhan restrictions.  They’re not against reasonable restrictions to protect health, just the really arbitrary and stupid ones.  As an example of arbitrary stupidity, think of the restaurant rules we had in New Jersey, and which are still in place in many cities.  A mask is required when entering the restaurant.  Once seated, while talking and eating, no mask is required, a mask is then required to exit.  Canadian truckers face this absurdity on a national scale.  Truckers don’t have to be vaccinated while driving within Canada.  Truckers entering the country have to show proof of vaccine status.  Unvaccinated foreign truckers aren’t allowed to enter the country, while unvaccinated Canadian truckers re-entering the country after a U.S. stop are subject to testing and a 14-day quarantine.  Now, that’s dumb enough, but it’s not the whole story.  The testing and quarantine requirements don’t kick in immediately after crossing the border.  A trucker could enter Canada from New York, drive across the continent to British Columbia, more than 2,100 miles away, make his delivery, then drive home for a test and 14 day quarantine.  If the government is concerned about drivers transmitting the virus, why does that concern arise only after the delivery is made, days or weeks after entry?  If this nonsense makes you smell a rat, you’re very perceptive, and that rat resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, because this is a concerted action.  The U.S. also mandates vaccination of foreign truckers entering the country, only our mandate is even more absurd, because Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is perfectly willing to verify that the driver of the truck entering from Mexico has been vaccinated, but is not at all concerned that the 80 illegal aliens being carried in the truck are unvaccinated; such being the extent of our homegrown absurd stupidity.  But back to Canada.  The truckers are justifiably upset.   They asked only that the government listen to their complaints, but instead of listening, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau chose to vilify them as racist, white supremecist terrorists.  There is no evidence for this claim.  The truckers have committed no violence and have displayed no racist motivations.  In truth, the protesting truckers are of all races and backgrounds.

  Trudeau ordered the truckers to disperse.  When they refused, he invoked the Emergencies Act, which allows Trudeau to order various measures that could include banning people from gathering in certain areas as well as restricting their travel across the country.  These powers were not invoked after 9-11, nor were they invoked in 2020 when BLM and Antifa blocked roads and actually did violence.  In fact, these extraordinary powers had been used only once before, by Trudeau’s father Pierre, in 1970, when members of the terrorist Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte.  I guess the fascist apple didn’t fall far from the tree.  But Justin is worse than his father because horn-honking  pales in comparison to kidnapping and murder.  As this is written, Trudeau the younger has promised to seize bank accounts of the truckers, cancel their licenses and insurance, and he could order military action against the protestors.  The prevailing consensus, even in Canada, is that this action is a major political miscalculation by Trudeau.  The leaders in Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba want nothing to do with it.  What Trudeau’s actions amount to is a decision to kill the protests to settle a personal score, as many of the protestors have voiced their strong opposition to the Trudeau government.

The truckers even have gone so far as to paint Trudeau as the offspring of another well-known dictator –

Trudeau’s mistake is much more than a simple dispute with truck drivers.  What he has decided to do is to tolerate and even support violent protests by BLM and Antifa, despite their criminal activities, while brutally suppressing the peaceful truckers.  This is madness, as it represents Trudeau’s choice to stand with the factions of society that contribute the least while demanding the most, and to punish the very people who, throughout the pandemic, worked tirelessly without complaint, despite the risks to their health.  Simply put, Trudeau has chosen to back the malcontent takers, most likely to bring about the end of civilization, at the expense of the hard-working truckers who labor to deliver the goods that make civilization possible.  “If you’ve got it, a truck brought it” is not just a facile Teamsters slogan, it’s the absolute truth.  When the Canadian government takes away the vehicles, licenses, insurance and operating capital of the truckers, who will drive the trucks and make the deliveries?  My brother, also a trucker, put it best, “They should just park their trucks, and then nobody eats.”  Once again, Trudeau’s response to this problem is madness.  All the truckers want are the freedoms promised to them by the Canadian national anthem,  “God keep our land glorious and free!  O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.”  And where did Castreau get such a nutty idea?  From the worst place possible.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden called Trudeau and urged him to “exercise his federal powers.”  These two were made for each another.  Both are dangerous.  They’re working together to cancel freedom on both sides of the border.  We must put a political end to this tyranny.

The Lone Ranger TV show ran from 1949 to 1957.  At the end of most episodes, once the Lone Ranger had defeated the bad guys, someone would ask, “Who was that masked man?”  As each day passes, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is becoming The Lone Masker.  Instead of asking, “Who was that masked man?” the pertinent question is fast becoming, “Why is that man masked?”  That’s because a dramatic drop in Wuhan omicron infections, coupled with two years of being bullied and lied to by the government, has convinced the vast majority of the populace that enough is enough.  We’ve navigated conflicting Fauci decrees – “don’t mask;” wear a mask;” wear two masks;” “cloth masks good;” “cloth masks bad.”  We’ve masked school children, who never were at serious risk from the virus.  We stole two years of their youth, retarded their educations, stunted their development, sparked increases in drug use and suicide, and merely managed to imbue these poor kids with fear, suspicion and despair.  The kids are exhausted.  Their parents, having been treated to “virtual” education, finally have realized what their children are being taught, resulting in angry confrontations at School Board meetings.  The kids, parents and most thinking Americans simply have had enough, and are ready to return to normal life.  Randi Weingarten, head of the Teacher’s Union, still doesn’t get it.  She announced this week, her union will “require” masking until there are “zero Covid cases.”  Memo to Randi, there will never be zero cases, and here’s a bulletin – your union doesn’t get to make that decision.  It’s high time that teachers are ordered either to teach by the rules established by the School Board or find another job.  The upshot of all this strife is that it seems that the era of the mask may be coming to a close, but Joe Biden simply hasn’t gotten the message.  Democrat governors of California, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Oregon all have announced plans to lift mask mandates indoors and/or in schools in the near future.  All are hailing the recent drop in Wuhan cases, and extolling their own efforts to push vaccines, lockdowns and masks.  These are positive developments, but in true Democrat fashion, they can never do something beneficial without first lying about it.  Hence the following from Democrat pollster, Brian Stryker, “Democratic voters have run out of empathy for unvaccinated people dying of Covid.  They are ready to live their lives.”  Better late than never numb-nuts.  The rest of us have been trying to live our lives the past two years, beset by elected Democrat dictators, and Krazy Karens, whipped into heightened states of psychosis by Covid hysteria.  The real reason the Democrats are easing up is far more elemental.  They want to protect their phony-baloney jobs.  The Republican victory in Virginia and near-victory in New Jersey have put these would-be tyrants on notice that there’s only so much the people are willing to take.  And not just the smelly Walmart people.  Independents and many Democrat voters are ready to bolt, with the Mid-term elections growing ever closer.  They also had to get rid of masks because too many Democrats were being photographed without masks, while the mere peons they represent were required to mask up, or else.  Photos of Governor Newsome and Mayor Garcetti maskless at an NFL game didn’t sit well.  But the heifer that broke the camel’s back was Stacy Abrams, maskless, sitting on a schoolroom floor, surrounded by kids she required to wear masks, presumably to protect her fat ass.  Democrats are hoping against hope that voters will believe their Georgia voter suppression bullshit, so they had to come to the aid of Abrams, who’s still laboring under the delusion that she won the 2018 gubernatorial election.  So, how better to make the maskless Democrat politician hypocrisy go away than by announcing we don’t need masks anymore.  Except nobody remembered to tell Joe Biden.  Or else, they did tell him and he just doesn’t remember.  Because even Saint Anthony Fauci, the patron Saint of fascism, has taken notice.  Fauci said this week the United States is exiting the “full-blown pandemic phase of Covid-19.”  And he ought to know because he blew most of it.  Fauci further noted that decisions related to Covid-19 “will increasingly be made on a local level rather than centrally decided or mandated.  There will also be more people making their own decisions on how they want to deal with the virus.”  Fauci warned, however, that the door was open to decisions changing if outbreaks occur.  I worked for the government for 25 years, so I speak Bullshitese.  Let me translate.  “Since the Constitution provides that public health is a local, and not a federal responsibility, we will increasingly obey the supreme law of the land.  You may now be permitted to make your own decisions, since we never had any right to do what we did in the first place.  But, we won’t hesitate to steal your freedom again if we feel like it.”  Your government at work.  Only Joe Biden’s not on board yet.  Maybe he just enjoys mask-wearing too much.  You’ve gotta admit that Joe Biden has worn his masks in a variety of interesting and entertaining ways.  First there was face-toucher Joe –

Then we had chin-warmer Joe –

Then there was ever-vigilant double-mask Joe –

Of course, ever-resourceful, Joe adapted his mask to permit hair sniffing –

Who could ever forget the Biden peek-a-boo mask? –

And finally, the famous ear mask –

It’s been a wild ride.  No telling if the Feds will get on the mask cancelling bandwagon, but we may learn soon, as the federal “masks on transportation” mandate is due to expire on March 18th.  Will Biden acknowledge reality, or will he side with our neighbor to the North, Justin Trudeau, who’s busy arresting protesting truckers who dare to blow their horns within Ottawa’s city limits.  Trudeau and Biden do have a lot in common.  They even sound alike.  This week Justin Trudeau explained that Covid “mandates are the way to avoid further restrictions.”  Huh?  Restricting the public is the only way to avoid restricting the public?  Can’t you just hear Jen Psaki saying that?  For two years, Democrats have gotten away with trampling our rights by giving us the “Covid” excuse.  Samuel Johnson is quoted as saying, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”  For my money, crying “Covid” is the last refuge of a tyrant.