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

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

God help us.