In 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson published his novella, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.  We all know the story.  Dr. Jekyll invents a potion that turns him from a mild-mannered man into a homicidal maniac.  Jekyll’s intent was to purify his good side from his bad side.  Of course, what he ends up doing is unleashing the bad side alone, while leaving his former self unchanged.  Jekyll’s dark side (Hyde) is freed from the bonds of conscience, but Jekyll never liberates himself from the darkness.  And what, you may ask, does all this have to do with the here and now?  Sadly, it occurred to me that the horrors of Stevenson’s Victorian melodrama are being reprised by the current Democrat Administration.  Think about it.  Democrats always were “of the Left,” but they weren’t always crazy.  JFK supported the same supply-side economics that Reagan later made famous.  Jimmy Carter preached energy independence.  Bill Clinton tried to control illegal border crossings.  As late as 2006, Hillary Clinton and the detestable Chuck Schumer voted to build a fence on the border to keep illegals out.  Not so very long ago, Democrats at least paid lip service to fiscal responsibility.  And Democrats always, always supported the police.  What happened?  Donald Trump happened.  After Il Duce Obama, they were confident they’d have more time to “fundamentally transform” the country, but Trump intruded.  More than that, he showed up both Parties by actually getting done things they only talked about.  This produced the mental condition among Democrats, and some so-called Republicans, known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.  And, in the throes of their delusions of rectitude (the certainty that they’re always right), Democrats, much like Dr. Jekyll, were desperate for a cure.  Democrats are simple creatures, you see.  Because they see themselves as pure goodness, Trump represented to them pure evil.  Democrats saw the 2020 election as a way to purify the country from the evil of Trump.  Blinded by their psychoses, they concluded that whatever they did to achieve their goal was valid, no matter how deceptive, false, illegal or contradictory it might be.  That’s why they could falsely claim that Trump colluded with Russia, and then be unconcerned when they elected a president whose first official act was to collude with a Russian pipeline company.  It’s why they think they have a right to ignore, unilaterally amend, or destroy the Constitution in order to “save our democracy.” It’s also why they convinced themselves that anything Trump was in favor of was evil, thus compelling them to do the opposite, even if it doesn’t make any sense.  If Democrats were in analysis, these things would make for a great case study.  But sadly, these nuts are running the country – into the ground.  Forget about Party labels for a moment, and consider simple rationality.  Democrats didn’t like Trump’s border wall – fine, but is throwing the border wide open the act of a rational mind?  Democrats blasted Trump’s detention of illegal aliens as a violation of human rights, but hail Biden’s detentions as “humanitarian.”  The ACLU doesn’t think so, they’re suing Biden.  You decide –

Democrat Wokesters oppose fossil fuels, and favor electric cars and “renewable” energy – fine.  Of course, they haven’t figured out yet that, when they plug in their electric Prius, the power needs to come from a source other than windmills or pond scum.  I get it, but does a rational mind close U.S. pipelines, shut down U.S. oil and gas production, destroy U.S. jobs, and then support construction of a Russian pipeline?  Does a rational mind complain about rising gas prices, and then beg OPEC to produce more oil that we have to buy, rather than to have us produce our own oil and gas we can sell?  What about economics?  Right now, there are more than 10 million job openings in the U.S., more than ever before.  Once upon a time, even Democrats considered that a good thing.  They even bragged, usually falsely, about “creating” millions of jobs.  In the wake of the Wuhan shutdowns, any rational person would be celebrating a booming economy.  Democrats aren’t.  Instead, faced with a near $30 trillion debt, spiraling inflation, and a labor market in which employers are begging for help, they want to continue paying people not to work, and they want to add another $6 trillion to the debt.  Are these the policies  of rational minds?  Yet, worse than all of the foregoing, the Democrat mania extends even to public health policy.  It began last year.  Any treatment supported by Trump was no good.  Thousands died because available Wuhan treatments were declared politically incorrect.  When Trump touted vaccines, Democrats scoffed.  Now in charge, Democrats want to mandate vaccinations.  They perceive no contradiction in these positions.  Which brings us to Dr. Anthony Fauci, or as I like to call him, Dr. Fascist.  Fauci is a lifelong public health advocate.  He’s the guy, recall, who told us the Wuhan was no threat to the U.S., and not to wear masks.  Now, faced with the Delta variant, Dr. Fascist has branched out from medicine into politics, for our own good, of course.  He said this week, “I’m sorry I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something, but I think that we’re in such a serious situation now, that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done.”  He’s talking about vaccines and masks.  Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.  Sure, Fauci may be blind to law and reality, but assume that his motives are pure, and that he’s acting for the public good.  I’ll give him that.  Unfortunately however, like Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Fauci is opposed by his own Mr. Hyde, in the guise of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, because the evil Mr. Biden’s every move is calculated to undo whatever good might be done by the mild-mannered doctor.  Dr. Fascist has concluded that Thomas Jefferson was wrong.  Our freedoms weren’t “endowed by the Creator,” they come instead from him.  The Good Doctor would cancel our individual freedoms, for health’s sake.  Only, Dr. Fascist’s alter-ego, the evil Mr. Biden, isn’t cooperating.  He’s touting masks and restrictions for U.S. citizens, and strangling schools and businesses, while at the same time admitting hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, 40% of whom are infected with the Wuhan, and shipping them all over America to infect others.  It’s clear that Democrat irrationality stems from drinking the anti-Trump potion, which they thought would remove all evil.  But like Dr. Jekyll, they can’t control the unconscionable acts of their Mr. Hyde, who daily must stoke the delusions of the Woke.  In July, 212,000 illegals were caught entering the U.S.  80,000 or more are infected with Wuhan.  One need look no further to understand why virus cases are up.  Dr. Jekyll never found the antidote and was destroyed.  If he could remember anything, Mr. Biden would do well to remember that.

Return with us now to 2020.  The Wuhan pandemic was raging across the land.  Hospitals were overwhelmed.  Here in New Jersey, we reached a high of 8,200 patients hospitalized for the Wuhan.  There was an election campaign.  President Trump traveled far and wide, promising to “Make America Great Again.”  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden traveled from his crapper to his basement, incoherently blaming Trump for a disease.  Trump moved heaven and Earth to produce Wuhan vaccines.  Mumbly Joe and Cackling Kamala said, if Trump made them, they wouldn’t take them.  Strangely, the Chinese plague intensified just before the election.  Between October 2020 and January 2021, deaths attributed to the Wuhan rose from 900 a day to a high of 4,400 in one day.  Mumbly Joe blamed Trump for 400,000 deaths during the last year of his presidency.  There have been 200,000 deaths in the six months that Biden has been in office, but they’re not his fault.  Then, a miracle.  The day after Biden beat Trump, Moderna and Pfizer announced their vaccines were ready.  Vaccinations began in mid-December.  Hospitalizations fell 90%.  Deaths fell 95%.  Restrictions went away.  Masks came off.  States began to amend their voting laws, to do away with Wuhan-induced innovations like drive-through voting and universal mail balloting, which led to unprecedented irregularities in 2020.  Democrats declared any voter security law to be racist, arguing both that it was minorities who took advantage of drive-through voting, and that those same minorities were unable to travel to get  identification.  Meanwhile, inflation raged.  The economy stalled.  Biden’s popularity dipped, and Cackling Kamala’s approval crashed.  On the Wuhan front, Biden promised that 70% of the population would have the Trump vaccines by July 4th, hinting that he might then permit us to live our lives without government interference.  He failed.  The budget process is a shambles.  Democrats are now attacking one another.  Something had to be done.  No doubt recalling Biden advisor Anita Dunn’s observation that the Wuhan virus was “the best thing that ever happened to” Biden, Democrats have hit on a new slogan.  “Make America Scared Again.”  The Wuhan virus, like all viruses, is subject to mutation.  Variants arise.  The first Wuhan virus was Alpha.  I guess the Beta and Gamma variants weren’t scary enough, because we heard nothing of them.  Likewise the Epsilon through Kappa variants.  Then there’s the Lambda, from Peru.  But, ah, the Delta variant.  Now we’ve got something.  This one came from India, not from the airline, and it’s tailor-made for the Left.  It’s more contagious than the Alpha variety.  It’s also far less deadly, but that’s not helpful, so forget that.  For the past 18 months, the CDC has given us mixed signals on the subject of masks, to wit:  masks don’t work; don’t wear masks; do wear masks; you must wear masks; wear two masks; if you’re vaccinated you don’t need masks; and, even if vaccinated, wear a mask.  It’s no wonder we’re all doing the CDC hokey-pokey –

Joe Biden, needing to lay blame, declared the current Wuhan Delta flareup “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” calling those who don’t get vaccinated “stupid.” (And he ought to know).  Two problems there.  First, it’s no longer a pandemic.  Today, instead of 8,200 Wuhan hospitalizations in NJ, there are 400.  Secondly, what’s the point of Joe insulting his own voters?  The current media meme is that Republicans and Fox News are responsible for vaccine hesitancy.  This is, for want of a better word, a lie.  Here in NJ, these are the towns with the lowest vaccine rates – Newark, Irvington, Orange, East Orange, New Brunswick, Trenton, Camden, Passaic, and Lakewood.  Getting the picture?  There are precious few Republicans in those places, and I dare say few who even know what channel Fox News is on.  In California, the vaccine rate in Berkeley, is 36%.  No Republicans there.  The media decries Washington County, Missouri’s 23% rate, leaving some 18,000 unvaccinated.  Apparently, the 143,000 unvaccinated folks in St. Louis aren’t a risk.  I wonder why?  In fact, only about a third of African-Americans have been vaccinated.  In Arkansas and Louisiana, there’s a persistent rumor that the vaccine will make a person magnetic.  One doctor goes around with a magnet to disprove this.  I shit you not.  Maybe it’s a pandemic of the truly stupid.  Backtracking on its “vaccines will make you free” meme, the CDC now wants vaccinated people to wear masks indoors.  Vaccine shaming has become popular.  The ever annoying Dr. Fauci says the decision whether to mask is not up to us.  I guess it’s up to him.  The excuse we’re being given is “breakthrough infections;” fully vaccinated people who test positive.  We’re told it’s a serious problem.  It’s not.  For those still hung up on facts, here they are – of the 160 million or so vaccinated Americans, 99.923% remain uninfected.  Breakthrough infections amount to 0.077%, or about 77 positive tests per million people.  Of these, 4 will be hospitalized, and less than one will die.  I’m not minimizing the Delta flareup, understand.  If your doctor gives you no medical reason not to get the vaccine, then go get it.  In New York, and other places, they’re offering $100 if you get vaccinated.  Picture that.  You get free medical treatment and $100 to boot.  It didn’t work.  Hence the CDC mask message.  Once again, the government has chosen to punish those of us who follow the rules, because of those among us who choose to ignore them.  They said get vaccinated, and we complied.  But now, we’re supposed to put on a mask, allegedly to protect those who don’t have the sense to take something that’s free that may save their lives.  The website Axios told an inconvenient truth, “Here’s the Delta dilemma for government and the media.  Reassuring most vaccinated Americans they don’t need to freak out could backfire if it causes those who are at risk to let down their guard.”  So there it is, Make America Scared Again.  We’re not being told to wear masks because we need masks, or even because masks work, and they don’t.  We should wear masks to convince the unvaccinated that they should get vaccinated.  Watching 600,000 of their fellow Americans die didn’t convince them.  Lockdowns didn’t convince them. School and business closings didn’t convince them.   But, if the jackasses who follow the rules and who are paying these stupid bastards not to work will just wear a mask, they’ll get the point.  Sure.  Bill Maher came closer to the truth, “We have to cover our faces so others can cover their asses.”  On one hand, Biden doesn’t want to admit he’s failed to distribute the vaccine.  On the other hand, Democrats  desperately hope the Wuhan never goes away, to extend Covid vote fraud into 2022.  Enough!  If politicians can order us into masks one day, then flaunt their own rules the next, then screw the masks.  If the government warns us to avoid large crowds, while Il Duce Obama throws himself a birthday party for 475 guests and 200 staff on his Martha’s Vineyard estate, then screw him too.  Make America Free Again.

(P.S. – After this was written, Il Duce Obama bowed to pressure and cancelled his party.  George Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Oprah now have to buy their own dinners tomorrow.)

In a desperate attempt to breathe life into their brain-dead Party, House Democrats this week began their farcical January 6th investigation.  They had to do something.  They’ve got a corrupt demented imbecile President.  Instead of leading the nation, Old Joe’s being led from appearance to appearance, embarrassing himself and the country at every stop.   Joe’s son Hunter Biden is back in the news, where there’s been actual coverage of his laptop scandal, which was ignored during the election campaign.  The recent attention no doubt stems from Hunter’s latest antics.  I mean, if there are photos of you smoking crack, recordings where you admit to paying kickbacks to a public official (that would be Sleepy Joe, a/k/a “the Big Guy”), evidence of bribes from foreign officials (remember Ukraine anyone?), evidence of illegal gun possession, and you’re still being paid by a Ukranian company to do nothing, it might not be the best time to dabble in the art world.  But being a Democrat means never having to say you’re crooked, so Hunter has embarked on a new career, painting pictures, which he then sells to anonymous buyers for $75,000 to $500,000 apiece.  No, they’re not anonymous to him, the public’s just not allowed to know who’s paying all that money. It’s a fair bet they’re not art aficionados, as a Maryland art professor pegs the true value of the works at no more than $3,000.  Now, a suspicious person might think that, after being caught on tape admitting that he has to split his income with his father, who just happens to be the President of the United States, and because he won’t reveal who’s paying the money, and because the prices are exorbitant, there ought to be an investigation into what looks like a massive payoff scheme.  After all, Democrats leave no stone unturned to ferret out crime –  they just indicted a guy who worked for Trump because he had a company car.  But Hunter has nothing to fear.  Some pigs are more equal than others.  Hunter Biden aside, we have a lagging economy, run-away inflation, a resurgent Wuhan strain, the prospect of new lockdowns, parents fighting critical race theory, a broken Southern border, continual cyber-hacking which has caused Joe Biden to threaten “a real shooting war” with Russia, and a new poll showing voter optimism down 20%.  So this is the perfect time for Democrat Theater of the Absurd, via the House January 6th committee.  This is the committee that we were told was to be bipartisan, and it is, by Democrat standards.  Remember, the Democrat definition of “bipartisan” is “We tell Republicans what to do, and they do it.”  See?  Bipartisan.

There are 13 members on the committee.  The original plan for 7 Democrats and 6 Republicans didn’t work out, so it wound up 11 Democrats and 2 psuedo-Democrats.  Republicans Jim  Jordan and Jim Banks were rejected by Nancy Pelosi because they threatened to investigate the entire January 6th incident, including the failures of Speaker Pelosi.  Nancy had other ideas –

No problem though, Nancy replaced Jordan and Banks with the perfect substitutes, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, a couple of RINOs from the Quisling wing of the Republican Party, both of whom voted to impeach Donald Trump.  Don’t you just love a fair trial?  The whole committee is a sad joke.  It’s tasked to investigate an “insurrection” that never took place.  According to actual case law, insurrection means “a violent uprising by a group or movement acting for the specific purpose of overthrowing the constituted government and seizing its powers.  An insurrection occurs where a movement acts to overthrow the constituted government and to take possession of its inherent powers.”  There have been recent examples of insurrection.  In Seattle, violent revolutionaries seized part of the city and set up their own government in the “CHOP” zone.  In Portland, police stations were burned and the federal courthouse was attacked.  Democrats were unconcerned.  None of that sort of thing happened on January 6th.  What happened at the Capitol wasn’t even much of a riot, as measured against the 2020 BLM and Antifa riots, featuring looting, arson an assaults with deadly weapons, which the media told us were “mostly peaceful.”  Crimes were committed on January 6th, to be sure.  There was some trespassing and petty theft.  It’s right that these activities should be prosecuted.  It’s not right that petty criminal suspects have been held in jail for seven months without trial.  None has been charged with insurrection because no insurrection took place.  Try them, fine them, and move on.  But wait, you say there’s a two tiered system of justice, that permits a nation-wide search for and persecution of trespassers, while violent BLM and Antifa criminals go unpunished?  You say it’s unfair that trespassers, none of whom was armed, and who did no violence, are held in solitary confinement, while looters and arsonists who showered police officers with bricks walk free.  You say the only violence perpetrated on January 6th was by an unidentified police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman?  What are you, a white supremecist?  Really, if you’ve just noticed that Democrats are a bunch of lying, cheating, stealing, hypocritical bastards, then you haven’t been paying attention.  But the January 6th committee is vital.  It’s going to discover what happened, so that it never happens again.  Let me save them the trouble.  When, a week before the incident, the President of the United States warns you that a big crowd of protesters could be trouble, and offers you 10,000 armed troops to make sure the peace will be kept, just say “thank you, send them over.”  When the Chief of the Capitol Police tells Speaker of the House, Polident Princess Pelosi, he didn’t have enough officers on January 6th, after refusing offers of help from the Pentagon and the FBI, maybe that’s what Kamala Harris might call “the root cause” of the problem.  We live in a world run by a schizophrenic Democrat Party.  It opposes pre-trial detention for violent criminals, yet condones the jailing of political protesters it doesn’t like.  It supports laws decriminalizing shoplifting, yet is silent when stores are forced to close, and clerks are fired and even killed for daring to stop thefts.  It hails socialist/Marxist riots as mostly peaceful exercises of First Amendment rights, yet condemns conservative protest as insurrection.  And worst of all, it weaponizes law enforcement to destroy its political opponents. The January 6th committee farce is nothing more than a dishonest attempt by dishonest people to prove you can fool all of the people all of the time.  Just say no.

I have to congratulate the Biden Administration for adding one more inane talking point to the chronically pointless Democrat mantra.  For 50 years or more, the Democrat Party has existed without any real plan or program, but by constantly repeating the same three lies: “It’s the worst economy since the great depression;” “It’ll be another Vietnam;” and last but certainly least, “It’s time the rich pay their fair share.”  These slogans have enabled even the dumbest of dumb bastard Democrats (Biden comes to mind), to masquerade as public servants.  They simply stand up, mutter one or more of the lies, and the lap dog media pretends that they’ve exposed some profound truth.  Of course, the truth lies elsewhere.  The Democrats inherited a two year old depression in 1932, and their programs extended it to 1942, when a world war brought full employment.  As for Vietnam, two Democrats sent 2.7 million troops to Vietnam.  In 1968, the last year Democrats were in charge, 16,899 men were killed.  Richard Nixon reduced the casualties to 69 deaths in 1973, and Democrats smeared him as a war-monger.  As for fair shares, people making over $550,000 (top 1%) pay 27% of all taxes; those making $150,000 and up (top 10%) pay 71% of all taxes.  People with taxable incomes of $87,000 or less pay less than 3% of all taxes.  Case closed.  But back to Biden, because right now, there’s no place else to go.  The latest Democrat talking point (a/k/a “lie”) comes from Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe, by way of the actual President of the United States, Susan Rice.  Any State law which tries to ensure vote security, say by ensuring that the voter is a citizen, or at least a resident of the voting district is, get ready for it – “the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War.”  And it must be true, because after Old Joe slurred it out, the head of his Ministry of Truth, Jen Psaki, repeated it.  What’s more, after she said it, Facebook and Twitter didn’t cancel her, so it must be true.  Permitting weeks of early voting, increasing the number of polling stations, counting ballots that arrive after election day, permitting “no excuse” mail voting only after checking to see that the voter actually exists and lives in the district, is a threat right up there with the civil war.  That’s pretty bad.  Of course, after the Civil War, Democrats terrorized, beat and murdered black folks in the South who wanted to vote, but this is worse than that.  Democrats enacted and enforced all the Jim Crow laws they now complain about, but this is worse.  The threat posed by Fascism in the 1940’s might have resulted in millions of dead Americans, but this is worse.  After WWII, black veterans who tried to vote in the South were murdered by Democrats who wanted to discourage that sort of thing, but this is worse.  All I can say is, while I try not to underestimate how low Democrats are willing to stoop to stay in power, this is worse.  And sadly, while I used to think that Americans couldn’t be stupid enough to believe such bullcrap, now I’m not so sure.  Maybe the Progressive brainwashing academies we call schools are having an effect.  How else to explain how often Democrats are willing to pretend that nearly everything they oppose is an “existential threat to democracy?” Millions fought for basic civil rights, and Dr. Martin Luther King gave his life to bring about a day when we would teach, and when Americans would embrace, the principle that no one race was superior to another.  We got there, but now Democrats say failing to teach Critical Race Theory, which teaches that the races are not equal, is an existential threat to democracy.  I guess, to paraphrase Slick Willie Clinton, it depends what your definition of “democracy” is.  Maybe it’s because we don’t have a pure democracy, but a representative democracy.  We send our representatives to the Legislatures where they vote.  Only that can’t be right, because when the Texas Democrats deserted their offices to prevent a democratic vote, Democrats told us they only did it to protect “democracy.”  Curiouser and curiouser.  There’s no real evidence that Man is causing temperatures to increase, but the Left swears that “climate change” is an “existential threat,” the only solution for which is more government.  More than 8,000 African-Americans are killed each year by other African-Americans.  Gun play is all too common in our cities, but the Left tells us no one should be arrested or held on bail, theft is no longer a crime, drug use should be legalized, and the police, who wrongfully kill less than 10 African-Americans a year, are an existential threat to democracy.  I can think of some real existential threats.  Jen Psaki admitted this week that the Administration notifies platforms like Facebook and Twitter of what it considers “misinformation” in postings, so the platforms can remove it.  When any government representative, from any Party is permitted to dictate the content of acceptable speech, that violates the First Amendment, and really is an existential threat to democracy.  When the content of speech is dictated by a Fascist Democrat, it spells the death of democracy.  When our representatives are Hell-bent on spending us into oblivion by appropriating trillions of non-existent dollars to be pissed away, that’s an existential threat to democracy.  Consider what we’ve come to.  In the 1960’s,  Democrats in the U.S. Senate would not permit Democrat Lyndon Johnson to have a tax cut until he proved to them that government spending would be cut.  During the 2008 financial crisis, the Treasury didn’t dare ask Congress for $1 trillion in bail-out money because that figure was too outrageous to be considered.  Right now, Democrats in the Senate say a $1.2 trillion infra-structure plan Republicans will support is much too small, but they’re anxious to pass it, because it’s holding up the $3.6 trillion Bill they’re planning to pass next.  I’ll close with this.  There was a time when elected officials from both Parties put the long-term welfare of America above petty politics.  When our representatives are unable to perceive anything beyond the date of the next election, that’s an existential threat to our nation.  If they don’t smarten up, we’ll have no nation.

Well, it’s finally happened.  The Biden Administration finally has found a group of foreigners that it doesn’t want to let into our country.  These are people who really are at risk of starvation, imprisonment or death at the hands of their government, all risks which would make them legitimate candidates for political asylum.  But the Biden crowd wants no part of them.  These people aren’t looking for a handout.  They love America so much they even proudly wave American flags.  They don’t want to come here to tell us America sucks and we have change to suit them.  Indeed, they really don’t want to come here at all.  All they want from their government are the things we take for granted.  A little liberty, an opportunity to make a living, and the freedom to speak their minds.  But now that I think about it, those things are becoming harder to get right here.  I’m speaking, of course, of the courageous Cubans who took to the streets this week to protest their government’s repression.  Last Sunday, Cuban protestors all over the island, some carrying American flags, marched through the streets chanting  “freedom,” “liberty,” “no tenemos miedo,” meaning “we are not afraid,” and “Down with Communism!” They also chanted, “Patria y Vida” – “Homeland and Life,”  a variation on murdering S.O.B. Che Guevara’s  revolutionary slogan, “Homeland or Death.”  The marchers protested severe food and medicine shortages. “Our people are dying of hunger.  We are dying of hunger,” one protestor cried.  The marchers called for the resignation of President Miguel Díaz-Canel.  Diaz-Canel reacted as any communist dictator would, or now that I think about it, as Maxine Waters, Facebook and Twitter would, by cutting off all internet access, calling for civil war, and urging civilians to violently attack anyone participating in protests.  “This is why we are calling all the revolutionaries of our country, all the communists, to go to the streets anywhere that these provocations are happening today.”  Putting aside the wisdom of a government, which has been in power for 62 years, calling for a civil war in its own country, this once again proves Mao’s maxim, that Communist political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.  Diaz-Canel’s hit men didn’t disappoint.  Cuban “state security agents” fired live rounds into crowds and beat protesters with baseball bats.  According to the Cuban pro-democracy group “Cuba Decide,” more than 100 people connected to the protests have disappeared since they began. Catholic priest, Father Castor José Álvarez Devesa, who advocates for the end of authoritarianism in Cuba, and who authored a 2018 letter to Raúl Castro seeking free elections, was beaten bloody, dragged through the streets, and his whereabouts are unknown.  One protester told a journalist, “In my neighborhood they have already taken away two young people and I am waiting for them to come get me since I was at the protests.”  Sounds like one of the January 6th trespassers waiting for the arrival of the FBI.  Cuban police also attacked journalists.  The face of Associated Press photographer Ramón Espinosa was broken and bloodied.  Other international photographers documented Espinosa’s gang beating.  One would think such blatant police brutality might induce a journalistic reaction.  It has.  CBS News has laid the blame right where it belongs, on Donald Trump.  Parroting the propaganda of Diaz-Canel, CBS blamed the U.S., and Trump in particular, because of the embargo that has existed since 1962.  Democrats regularly call for an end to all Cuban sanctions.  In its excuse for communism, The New York Times, characterized protesters’ calls for “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,” as “anti-government slogans.”  One would think that, having concluded that the Cuban government opposes freedom, liberty and democracy, The Times might lend support to the protests.  It won’t.  Maybe that’s because they object to Cuban protesters who respect the American flag, instead of burning it, like any good progressive.  After all, it was Times editorial board member Mara Gay who claimed that seeing American flags on pickup trucks ‘disturbed’ her. Gay blamed ‘whiteness’ for the flags, and said Americans would continue to observe such uncouth behavior until whites were ready to surrender to black radicals.  She said that those who fly the flag have a racist message, and that white people need to separate whiteness from Americanism.  Huh?  Gay isn’t alone.  The Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter said, “When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around; we know the person flying it is a racist; we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do.  When we see this flag, we question your intelligence.  We know to avoid you.  It is a symbol of hatred.”  President Diaz-Canel would be so proud.  It’s not surprising though, BLM leaders are Marxists, just like he is.  The response from the Biden Administration was equally inane.  A Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden spokeswoman said, the protests weren’t over political oppression, but rather “concern about rising COVID cases, deaths, and medicine shortages.”  Kamala Harris is always looking for the root cause of problems, maybe Biden should send her and Fauci down there with a box of masks.   A State Department spokesperson named Chung said that the Cuban people were “exercising their right to peaceful assembly.”  Senator Ted Cruz had to remind Chung that communist governments don’t permit  such a right.  The Cuban protests are clear and convincing evidence that too many Americans simply don’t appreciate the freedoms that exist in America, and nowhere else in the world.  What’s more, morons like socialist celebrities, and young people who advocate for socialism and communism in America, simply don’t understand how quickly the freedoms they take for granted may disappear forever.  And we can’t blame the kids, when they see examples like the entire Democrat delegation of the Texas Assembly abandon their offices to avoid having to vote on an election reform bill.  They took a private plane (maskless) to Washington, D.C. to hide out with their Leftist comrades.  I’m waiting for Quasi-Pelosi to ring a bell in the Capitol Dome, and start yelling, “Sanctuary!”  I don’t ever want to hear another Democrat lecture us on threats to democracy, after Texas Democrats abandoned their democracy.  Kids, you don”t have to listen to me.  Heed the words of Joni Mitchell, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?”  Cubans understand this principle all too well.

For decades, they have risked their lives to escape the very system that our Left has embraced.  We should be aiding the protesters.  Cuban President Diaz-Canel has pledged that the protesters will destroy the revolution “over our dead body.”  From his lips to God’s ears.