In the 1950’s and 1960’s, there was a Republican Senator from Illinois named Everett Dirksen. Dirksen was the Senate Minority Leader. Perhaps his most famous quote was about the Congressional budget process, which was a disgrace, even in those days. Here it is. “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” Keep in mind that when Dirksen said that, the federal budget was under $100 billion, so a billion here, and a billion there was real money. You have to understand that a trillion is one thousand billion. Think of it this way, $1billion in $100 dollar bills produces a stack of bills 3,326 feet high. $1trillion in $100 dollar bills produces a stack 631 miles high. Now we’re talking about real money. It wouldn’t be so bad if we were talking about money we actually have. This is money that’s being borrowed, from friendly financiers, like the Chinese. Federal spending has exploded in recent years. The $100 billion of 1965 became $200 billion by 1974, $500 billion by 1981, and reached nearly $1 trillion by the time Ronald Reagan left office in 1989. So it took us 200 years to reach $1 trillion in federal spending. There were people who complained about deficits in the Reagan days, Democrats no less. But the difference between those days and these days is that, the Reagan tax cuts nearly doubled federal receipts, from $500 billion to $1 trillion from 1981 to 1989, so the deficits were minor. Anyhow, it took 15 years to get to $2 trillion, and another 13 years to get to $3 trillion, under Trump. Our national debt increased just as alarmingly. It took 192 years to accumulate a $1 trillion national debt, and 5 years to double that. We got to $10 trillion by Obama’s first year, he doubled it to $20 trillion, and for the first time, our debt exceeded our national GDP. If these numbers alarm you, hold on to your hats. Joe Biden inherited a debt of $27 trillion. In 8 months, the debt has reached nearly $29 trillion. 2021 Federal spending was expected to be nearly $7 trillion, with a deficit over $3 trillion. But wait. Democrats aren’t done. There’s the $1.2 trillion, so-called infrastructure bill, only a fraction of which goes to real building projects. And then, there’s the $3.5 trillion bill for what Democrats are calling “human infrastructure.” These lying bastards really have no scruples whatsoever. The Democrats “cut” the first bill to $1.2 trillion to attract Republican support in the Senate. Then, they took every budget busting, Woke, Anti-American, unconstitutional load of bullcrap they could think of, and stuffed it into the $3.5 trillion bill. A classic bait and switch. You see, Bolshevik Bernie Sanders favored a $6 trillion spending bill, but even some Democrats knew that was crazy, so they split it up – $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, with Republican support, and another $3.5 trillion for out and out theft, without any Republican support. They hope to pass the $3.5 trillion bill by budget reconciliation, which would bypass the Senate filibuster, but there are several problems with this plan. First, reconciliation is only for taxing and spending. The $3.5 trillion bill is mostly about social engineering, climate change, free college tuition, federal funding of abortion, universal preschool, etc. The Senate Parliamentarian has to rule on the contents. Secondly, Senate Democrats such as Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema say they won’t vote for a $3.5 trillion package. They need 50 Democrat votes in the Senate, plus Cackling Kamala, to get this ruinous bill through. But there’s more. Speaker of the House, modern day Madame Defarge, Nancy Pelosi, is holding Senate Democrats hostage. She’s threatened not to move the bipartisan infrastructure bill, until the Senate passes the $3.5 trillion theft bill. I actually hope she sticks to her guns on this, resulting in neither of these bills being passed. Putting aside the fact that this spending would further balloon the debt, what’s in these bills is really bad for America. The bills are chock full of Woke bullcrap, like funding for critical race theory, “free” college tuition, without any means testing, continued $300 per child monthly welfare payments, and money for clean energy programs, many of which were cut from the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The bill will create a New Deal-esque Civilian Climate Corps, and has funding for climate justice programs. Whenever Democrats use the word “justice,” you should think “Communist,” because that’s what it is. The basis for Communism/Socialism is “social justice.” What’s climate justice? Never forget that, the day after the Berlin Wall fell, European Reds all became Greens. The goal of European Communists was the destruction of capitalism. The goal of the Green New Deal Woke numb sculls is the same. Don’t doubt me. This from a 2019 blog of the International Communist Party, “Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem.” In 2018, the U.N. produced a report that said “we cannot fight climate change with capitalism.” Here’s the deal. Extreme cold kills far more people than extreme heat, but we’re told, supposed global warming more negatively impacts poor nations, which have lower carbon emissions than the evil capitalist industrial nations. The Greens say examples are Chad, which has droughts and unpredictable rainfall, and Bangladesh, which has cyclones, storm surges, and flooding. And it’s all our fault? Has it occurred to anyone that Chad was in the Sahara Desert long before climate change became an issue? Has it occurred to anyone that Bangladesh is in a region which has had a typhoon season for all of recorded history? But, the Greens say, communities of color are hardest hit because language barriers make it difficult for immigrants to get information about incoming storms or weather disasters, or to communicate with first responders on evacuation orders. I have a less expensive solution. Learn English. Problem solved. But the climate crusaders are appalled that some “indigenous communities” (those are Indians folks), are being forced to relocate to higher ground. Wait! You mean that human beings actually had to adapt? How climatically unjust! Ever heard of the Ice Age? If early humans hadn’t adapted to the changing climate, no one would be here now to complain about the heat. The plans of the climate engineers always bring to mind all those time travel stories, where someone goes back in time, and changes something that affects the future. Imagine a Green New Deal plan to stop the Laurentide Ice Sheet glaciers from melting 15,000 years ago. That was real climate change. Had they succeeded, New York would still be under 1,000 feet of ice. As things turned out, maybe that wouldn’t have been so bad. The point is that climate engineering is impossible, it’s stupid, and the idea that we should go broke to indulge the ravings of Woke imbeciles is the height of insanity. Let’s hope both these ruinous spending bills fail. We’re deep enough in debt already.
The further down the road we get into the Biden presidency, the more it seems to be but another remake of George Orwell’s 1984. Orwell’s dystopian novel explores the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Sound familiar? We’re living that Orwell trifecta right now. We have a Democrat Party that effectively has declared all who dare to challenge its absolute power outlaws, who are to be hounded, prosecuted, and destroyed. The economy is political. The military is political. Justice is political. Even medicine is political. There’s only one side to every issue, and if it’s not their side, you’re cancelled. That’s totalitarianism in a nutshell. Meanwhile, the same Democrats who denounced government surveillance of suspected terrorists as a violation of privacy, think nothing of subjecting private citizens and elected officials to intensive scrutiny for imagined crimes such as non-existent insurrections. As this is written, Democrats are trying to get telecommunications and social media company records for hundreds of people who were on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, in addition to the personal communications of Trump family members and members of Congress, whose only crime was communicating with the President of the United States. Add to this the “cancelling” of unapproved speech by social media companies, and Orwell’s mass surveillance State has arrived. How about repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society? Seriously? When speech and conduct can be labelled politically correct or incorrect, and the entire populace is looking over its shoulder fearing the imminent destruction of career and reputation, we’re there. Add to that the dictatorial Wuhan virus mask, vaccine and shutdown orders, and we’ve surpassed anything George Orwell ever imagined. The Biden Administration’s parallels to the world described in 1984 are chilling. The makeup of society is eerily reminiscent of Orwell’s State of Oceania. The population of Oceania was divided into three classifications. The Inner Party, made up only 1% of the whole population. The Outer Party, made up of 18% of the population. The Proles constituting the remaining 81%. Our 1% live the good life, and the rules made for the Proles don’t apply to them. Witness the 1% at play. That’s California. No masks for them.
The Outer Party 18% is no less prevalent. 18% represents the number of Woke Marxist ideologues who have gained control of the Biden Administration and are running the government – into the ground. The Proles are the people who do all the work, when the 1% allows them to work. And nothing is more Orwellian than Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. In 1984, Oceania was perpetually at war with Eurasia. Then without warning, Oceania and Eurasia became allies, and the enemy became Eastasia. In 1984, State controlled media stirred up hatred for the new enemy. In Biden’s Oceania, there is but one true enemy, Donald Trump, who is to blame for every fault. In our version of Oceania, we were engaged in a perpetual war with the Taliban in Afghanistan. They were the enemy, and we were supposed to hate them. We sacrificed thousands of lives, maimed many more thousands of troops, and spent trillions in treasure to destroy this enemy. When Biden decided to pull out all the troops before making arrangements to remove all of our defenseless civilians, he suddenly declared the Taliban no longer an enemy, but a a partner. The medieval, brutal, intolerant, murdering Taliban barbarians; the very people from whom our citizens in Afghanistan were hiding, were now going to cooperate to assist our people in leaving the country. The recent reports of door-to-door Taliban execution squads, and Taliban physical abuse of a pregnant American woman (birthing person?) prove this new alliance is just another Biden lie, but so what? Oceania practiced Double Think, a willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demanded it. That discipline included the ability to believe that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. Have you spoken to a liberal recently? They recognize no facts and no truths, only beliefs. In Biden’s Orwellian Ministry of Truth, as in Orwell’s, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” And thus, Biden can take what even some Democrats admit is an unmitigated Afghanistan debacle and declare it an “Extraordinary Success.” But the spectacle of Joe Biden as president is perhaps the most chilling Orwellian parallel. Oceania was ruled by Big Brother, who enjoyed a cult of personality.
By contrast, we have Big Bungler, who enjoys a cult of senility.
Orwell’s Big Brother was watching. Our Big Bungler is failing. Big Brother practiced brainwashing. Big Bungler’s brain was washed long ago, put away wet, and it shrunk when it dried. We are at the mercy of an imbecile. We are living Orwell’s nightmare, and we’d better wake up soon, or we’ll wind up in an Orwellian re-education camp to atone for our thought crimes. Which group is more dangerous, the Taliban, or Biden’s Wokeiban? If I told you, they’d have to kill me.
August is supposed to be a time when nothing important is going on. Summer is coming to its end. People are on vacation. It’s normally a blessedly quiet time, when even Leftist politicians have taken a few weeks off from their mission to destroy America. But not this year. Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden decided that August was the perfect time to withdraw all of our troops from Afghanistan. As I noted last week, a withdrawal was necessary, whenever it came, it was going to be messy, and the Taliban was bound to have a resurgence. That reality aside, there was a right way and a wrong way to get out of Afghanistan. Surprising no one, Joe Biden chose the wrong way. Forget about who was going to rule Afghanistan after we left. Whether it was the Taliban, the crooked Ghani government, ISIS, Iran, who cares. Afghanistan was still going to be a fragmented, violent, poor, backward, useless shithole. It’s been all those things for hundreds of years. All Biden had to do to keep the lap dog media on his side was to get our citizens and employees out, avoid giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and avoid taking casualties. He failed on all counts. As this is written, Biden is sticking to an August 31st deadline for all troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Why not stay till all our people get out? The Taliban is running Kabul, they told Biden “no extensions,” and Biden caved. Every day we see shocking images of hoards of people at the airport, trying to get out. The Taliban is stopping them, beating American citizens, and stealing passports. Our troops are forbidden to go outside the airport to help get people in. As this is written, at least two suicide bombs have gone off at the airport gate, over 100, including at least 13 Marines. Our allies, the British, French and Turks, are conducting operations to get their nationals out. The Turks, who were supposed to be the last force out, left on Thursday. Adding insult to injury, our forces pulled out while leaving behind billions of dollars of weapons and equipment. Joe Biden says there was no better way to do it. Nancy Pelosi said, “This is what happens when you withdraw. Some stuff, some equipment is left there.” Some stuff? The Taliban now has 208 military aircraft, including Black Hawk helicopters, ranking them the #26 Air Force in the world. Luckily, they have no pilots. We left 600,000 assault rifles, and 2,000 armored vehicles. In the past two years, we gave the Afghans 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers. There was no better way? I’m no military planner, but if you couldn’t take our equipment out, how about take it all to Bagram Airbase, lock the gate, and send in bombers with MOAB bombs to reduce it all to dust? Joe Biden steadfastly maintains that his way was the right way. He was counting on getting the usual cover from the media – he lies, and they swear to it. But not so fast. Biden is taking fire, from the Leftist media and members of his own Party. His Press Secretary, Jihad Jen Psaki, is still in there pitching, but it’s getting harder even for her. When Peter Doocy mentioned stranded Americans, Psaki said, “I’m calling you out for saying they’re stranded.” Note, she didn’t deny they’re stranded. She simply blasted Doocy for noticing they’ve been stranded. Why did Biden do this? Two theories. My first thought was that the Obama Gang, the crowd that’s really running the government, has decided it’s time for Biden to go. We’ve assumed that Biden’s not aware of what’s going on, and is just mouthing what his handlers tell him to say. Anyone who saw Biden squinting to read the teleprompter Tuesday got the strong impression that Biden wasn’t announcing his decision, but was reading crap he was seeing for the first time. The nagging question is, if the handlers are running things, why would they let Biden do this? The pull out is an embarrassment. Biden’s approval rating has crashed. Only 26% of Americans think Biden’s done a good job on Afghanistan. That’s disastrous for the Administration. So why let Biden do it? They want him to fail, so they can move him aside. An alternative theory is that what’s going on in Afghanistan is all Biden’s doing. He is in charge, he’s been warned by the military, the intelligence services and the State Department, and he overruled them all, because this is what he wants to happen. Newt Gingrich said the Afghanistan debacle is Biden’s attempt to cast himself as a peacemaker, rather than a warrior. He did this in August because he intended to celebrate the pull out on September 11th. If so, Biden’s delusional. If this was Biden’s plan to make his Administration look good, it’s not working. Our allies aren’t buying it. It’s not every day that a British Prime Minister applies the term “imbecile” to the actions of an American president. Tony Blair did just that this week. Nobody surrenders better than the French. When the French accuse you of cowardice, you know you’re really in trouble. That happened this week as well. So again, if Biden is actually making these decisions, why would they let him do it? Why didn’t the Cabinet and military people refuse to do it and resign? They want him out, and they know he’ll soon be gone. One way or the other, Biden is too heavy a drag on the Democrat brand to continue. Crooked politicians are nothing if not survivors, and there’s no honor among thieves. The mid-term elections are coming, and Democrats have to reduce the stink of Joe Biden. Even the Leftist media is turning on him. He’s being described as an appeaser, in the mold of Neville Chamberlain. This is an insult, to the memory of Neville Chamberlain. When Chamberlain returned from his Munich meetings with Adolf Hitler, he at least had a signed agreement “symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.” Hitler promptly broke his word, and there was war. Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan. He got nothing in return, not even an empty promise that wouldn’t be kept. And worse yet, for all of Chamberlain’s faults, he didn’t surrender Czechoslovakia while simultaneously arming the Nazis. Joe Biden has worn out his welcome in his own Party. He soon will be thrown under the Kamala Harris campaign bus. It put me in mind of the 60’s show, Bye Bye Birdie.
Bye bye, Biden,
We won’t miss you, so;
Bye bye, Biden,
Now it’s time to go.
No more White House,
We’re sending you away;
Don’t cry Biden,
It’s Delaware to stay.
We knew you were senile,
But we gave you a pass;
Trump’s out, your job is done, so;
Don’t let the doorknob hit your ass!
Bye bye, Biden,
It’s awful hard to bear;
Bye bye, Biden,
We know you’re not all there.
You can’t say we weren’t warned. In fact, we were warned by Il Duce Obama no less, and there is no less. During the presidential campaign, when things looked like they were going well for the Democrats, the Duce warned, “Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.” Not enough of us heeded that warning, and Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden was elected president. If Biden has done nothing else, he’s proven Obama right, because in a remarkably short time, Biden has managed to royally F up practically everything he’s touched. There’s a term in the military – FUBAR, which stands for Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. So let me count the FUBARs. He strangled an economy ready to bust out with at least 10% growth. Profligate spending has sparked inflation. The addiction to “free” money has depressed the employment market. And Biden’s touting a tax policy that’s guaranteed to kill growth and reduce government revenue. Then there’s the border which is a classic FUBAR. I mean, lots of things can affect the economy, and many times presidents are victims of economic circumstance, but not on the border. The border was deliberately FUBARed by Biden. He had security, and a wall almost in place, and he deliberately destroyed his advantage in favor of chaos, crime, and rampant disease. And speaking of disease, there’s Biden’s Wuhan virus FUBAR. He was handed, courtesy of Operation Warp Speed, effective vaccines from day one of his tenure. All he had to do was to convince people to accept a free cure, and he failed. Even offering to pay people to take the vaccine failed. So now, Biden’s back to the mask and lockdown threats that already were proven failures. Presumably Biden’s acting out that old maxim, “Starve a cold, feed a failure.” How’s Biden doing on crime? Just one more FUBAR. Past presidents at least talked about enforcing the law. Not Biden. Murder’s up 40%. Dozens of people are shot in our cities every week, and not just in Chicago. This week, just another lazy, crazy, hazy Summer week in New York, featured a Sunday with 17 people shot, and a quiet Tuesday that featured a gunman shooting up the TKTS booth in Times Square, and a maniac who tried to chop up an ATM user with a hatchet. Yet Biden and company aren’t concerned about crimes that didn’t take place on January 6th. Then, of course, there’s the Afghanistan debacle. Truly Biden’s biggest FUBAR of them all. On one level, after 20 years in Afghanistan, no president was going to make the exit from that Hellhole a clean and simple proposition. President Trump planned to have us leave Afghanistan, but he imposed conditions, and promised the Taliban swift and furious retribution for any violation. Trump was an advocate of the Reagan Doctrine’s policy of Peace Through Strength. The term Peace Through Strength didn’t originate with Reagan, but dates to the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Now that I think about it, Hadrian built a wall too. It’s probably what attracted Trump to Peace Through Strength. FUBAR Biden practices a different policy – Peace Through Surrender. When one surrenders, one gets peace, but often it’s the peace of the grave. And Biden’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan has guaranteed that thousands will rest in peace. When Biden announced the withdrawal, he assured us there was little chance that the Taliban would take over the country. No sooner had the pull out begun than the Taliban took over in record time. Biden had a perfect excuse though. Wait for it – It’s all Trump’s fault. There was nothing Biden could do, because he was required to follow the Trump plan for withdrawal. Which is strange, because Biden felt no compulsion to carry out Trump’s border policy, tax policy, energy policy, or any other policy, all of which he summarily rejected. The fact is, Biden might have been alright had he followed Trump’s Afghanistan policy, which was to convince the Taliban he’d kill each and every one of them should they misbehave. Biden wouldn’t dream of taking such violent Trump-like action however. His Administration prefers writing “strong letters of objection” to the Neanderthal murdering bastards of the Taliban, and threatening to withhold foreign aid. Biden didn’t explain why we would ever consider sending any money to a bunch of Islamic terrorists, whose only recognizable utterance is, “Death to America.” The optics of the seemingly overnight Taliban takeover of Afghanistan would have been bad enough, but Biden, in true Biden fashion, managed to make it worse. It appears we pulled the military out of Afghanistan, while leaving behind billions of dollars of equipment, including aircraft and shipping containers full of satellite phones, grenades and mortars. But worse than arming the terrorists, the Biden Afghanistan FUBAR put thousands of lives, including those of some 15,000 American citizens, in immediate jeopardy. Somehow, Biden managed to pull our military out, before making arrangements to safely remove American contractors, civilian employees, and thousands upon thousands of Afghans who worked for us, who we swore we’d protect, and who now will be raped and killed. Biden has had to send thousands of troops back to Afghanistan. As this is written, the Biden administration still has no plan for evacuating American citizens safely. A spokesman said some troops are at the airport but, they’re not equipped and able to go out and physically move our people to the airport. When asked what good it does to have troops at an airport our people can’t get to, the spokesman acknowledged the security situation is “not ideal.” You think? By and large the Left, which never met a tyrant it didn’t like, is still trying to cover for Biden, and is actually saying nice things about the Taliban. The Washington Post actually said recent internet posts display “a gentler, more reassuring face of the Taliban,” that were part of a “broader charm offensive.” CNN’s courageous Clarissa Ward displayed scenes of Taliban members holding up weapons and chanting. Ward reported, “They’re chanting “‘Death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.” One media moron actually asked a Taliban spokesman if the Taliban would respect the right of free speech. The Taliban mouthpiece had the perfect comeback, “Ask Facebook if they respect free speech.” Apparently the Taliban has noticed that their online speech is protected, while President Trump’s is not. FUBAR Biden has tried to lie his way out of this mess by claiming no one knew the Afghan government would collapse, but a former CIA agent exposed his lies on MSNBC, telling the public that warnings were ignored. Meanwhile, Cackling Kamala Harris, who kept reminding Mike Pence, “I’m still speaking,” is no longer speaking. Biden’s only ally is California’s, soon to be recalled, Gavin Newsome, which shows how much trouble he must be in. I rarely say this, but Obama was right. Biden is President FUBAR, and the Afghans are S.O.L. Our eventual exit from Afghanistan was always going to be a shit show. It didn’t have to be a clown show too.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Your Body, No Choice
This week leftist hypocrisy reached a new peak. The Leftist mental disorder, delusions of rectitude, the certainty that they’re always right, seems to have physical manifestations. Leftists cannot hear, or don’t comprehend the things they themselves say. Just when the Texas abortion law uproar had leftists marching in the streets, chanting, “My body, my choice,” Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden announced a Wuhan virus vaccine mandate, designed to deny Americans the right to choose what is done to their bodies. As usual, the Left perceived no contradiction. Let’s start with the proviso that I’m not one of the anti-vaccine advocates. I’m not worried that the vaccine will permit the government to track me, or will make me magnetic. As far as ill effects from the vaccine, Hell, I’m from New Jersey. If I survived 66 years breathing the crap we call air and putting up with the aggravation we call normal life, what can a vaccine do to me? I got the vaccine in the vain hope that the government was telling the truth when it said that, once vaccinated, we could go back to our normal lives. They lied. Restrictions and masking continue, and government tyranny is still warming up in the bullpen. Anyhow, last week, Bozo Biden announced a vaccine mandate. Much of his speech was incoherent and contradictory. He said things are not nearly as bad this year as they were last year, and that fully vaccinated people are at incredibly low risk. “Only 1 out of every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans was hospitalized for COVID.” Despite the low risk, he vowed “to protect the vaccinated from unvaccinated co-workers.” As columnist John Podhoretz put it, “Biden was saying that they shouldn’t worry … but if they’re worried, their worries are justified.” Got that? Let’s look at the numbers. The vaccines have been beneficial, but are things much better than they were last year? As this is written, some 208 million Americans have been vaccinated. The CDC confirms more than 42 million Americans have already had the Wuhan. Conservative estimates put the number of Americans who now have natural immunity at more than 100 million. All great right? And all due to Biden’s steadying hand. After all, 429,080 people died of the Wuhan while Trump was president, and their deaths are his fault. Democrats told us so, so it must be true. Keep in mind several things. Trump was confronted by a novel virus about which the Chinese lied and hid the details. No one knew how to treat it, or who was most likely to be affected. And without Trump there would be no vaccines. But it’s Trump’s fault 39,000 people per month died during his presidency. Biden inherited vaccines ready to go, effective treatments for the Wuhan, and a much greater understanding of the workings of the virus, yet we still have 28,000 Wuhan deaths every month. 257,535 people have died of the Wuhan while Biden has been president, but it’s not his fault. It’s your fault, if you’re not vaccinated. Fear not. Biden’s got a plan to fix it, and for once, he actually said something that’s undeniably true, “This is not about freedom or personal choice.” Amen. This has nothing to do with freedom. Biden made that abundantly clear by announcing that he would be disregarding the Constitution from now on. He demonized the unvaccinated. There he has a point. 99% of the hospitalizations and more than 99% of deaths from the Wuhan are among the unvaccinated. However, while the Left routinely blames low vaccine rates on Red State policies, the fact is most of the vaccine hesitancy exists in minority communities. For instance, 73% of black Americans are unvaccinated. Biden lost any credibility he might have had when he blamed Republican governors for the spread of the virus. The governors aren’t mandating the masks that don’t work, and they aren’t requiring vaccine passports. Biden threatened, “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.” Indeed? When I went to school, public health was the province of the States, and presidents don’t get to dictate State policy. Biden’s about to find that out. His speech was nothing more than the usual Biden B.S., huffing and puffing, acting all big and bad, and signifying nothing. Democrats are hyping Wuhan hysteria for several reasons. What you need to understand is that the virus is no longer a medical issue, it’s political, financial, and in some sense, religious. Dr. Oz, no conservative he, opposes the vaccine mandate, and compares the risk of death for vaccinated people to that of dying in a motor vehicle accident. So why announce the mandate now? Biden needed to change the subject from his Afghanistan debacle and images of Marines killed by his ineptitude, back to evil Republicans. The vaccine mandate served that purpose, and so what if it makes no sense medically? This isn’t about medicine. It’s about politics and money. Democrats have to make it look like they’re doing something to keep their phony-baloney jobs. So vaccines for everyone! You heard Pharaoh Biden, “So let it be written. So let it be done.” But what about the 100 million plus Americans with natural immunity from having had the virus? Don’t bother us with details. The CDC relied on an Israeli study to support booster shots for vaccinated Americans. However, the CDC ignored another part of the same Israeli study that found that having natural immunity is 27 times more effective than having vaccine immunity. This made perfect financial sense, as it put billions of dollars in the coffers of the big Pharma companies producing vaccines. Money that will make its way into the hands of politicians. Will somebody please check Hunter Biden’s bank account? As Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins points out, the decision to mandate vaccines for those with natural immunity flies in the face of proper medical practice. The chicken pox vaccine specifies that it shouldn’t be given to someone who already had the disease. Why is Wuhan different? Follow the money. Then there’s the religious angle. Leftists worship government, and a government that imposes illegal, unconstitutional, draconian mandates whips them into a religious fervor. I think that the mask wearing and distancing fanaticism of the Left is a necessary outlet for people who really hate America, yet struggle to appear patriotic. They’ve traded the flag for the mask as the true sign of patriotism. The mask also makes it harder to identify the Antifa assholes, so it’s a win win. Wuhan virus hysteria is being used as a diversion. We get regular pronouncements from the CDC such as, “Cruising has resumed, but it’s not a risk free activity.” Name me one activity that is risk free. When it comes time to fire unvaccinated minority and union employees who refuse vaccinations, Biden’s mandate will fail.