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.
I’ve always been a Republican, and a conservative. I came by it honestly. My grandparents were Republican district leaders in the City of Newark. Yes, there once were Republicans in Newark. Politics is a blood sport. Throughout our history, we’ve had knock-down, drag-out political battles between the various Parties. Since the 1850’s the battle has been between Democrats and Republicans. Though these two Parties have been mortal enemies, until recently there always was a consensus that the government must secure the nation’s welfare and security. The fighting was limited to each Party’s perspective on how to go about doing those things. Sure, Democrats may have favored more government spending, but they wouldn’t advocate reckless spending. Case in point – In 1964, LBJ got the so-called Kennedy Tax Cut through Congress. His Party controlled both Houses, but LBJ had to convince Democrat Senator Harry Byrd that real spending would be cut before Byrd would permit the bill to pass. Simply put, although Democrats controlled everything, they weren’t crazy. Regardless of Party affiliation, sanity reigned. Ah, those were the days, but they are no more. Today, everywhere you look, insanity reigns. It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Let me amend that saying. Insanity is doing anything Progressive Democrats are doing, because all of it is crazy. All of it. Take the border policy. Democrats wanted to increase immigration. Fair enough, but what did they do? Turned the border into a sieve, and brought in more than a million illegals, who they then transported throughout the country to infiltrate every community, and further sap our educational, medical and housing resources. That’s crazy. How about energy policy? Democrats publicly announced that they will destroy our oil and gas industries. They took an energy independent nation, with low fuel prices, and transformed it into a beggar nation. Gasoline $5. Heating oil $6. And a president who is touring the world to beg our enemies to sell us fuel we could produce for ourselves. Democrats first blamed Russia. Now they confessed it’s all part of their plan to transition the U.S. to “renewable energy.” They mean solar and wind power. Only we can’t run our economy on solar and wind. There is no transition. There can’t be. There isn’t enough land area in the U.S. to build enough solar and wind farms to produce enough energy to run even New York City. Democrats know this. They don’t care. That’s crazy. Inflation. Lie as they might, Democrats know that reckless spending causes runaway inflation. We have runaway inflation. The Democrat solution? More spending. That’s crazy. What about crime policy? Violent crime and property crime is up over 40%. Crime on mass transit is up 65%. The Democrat solution? Release criminals from jail, and impose regulations on law abiding citizens that prevent them from defending themselves. Handcuff the police. Refuse to prosecute crimes. That’s crazy. And it’s not just the federal government. Look at New York. The MTA got $15 billion federal “stimulus” money to bail it out of its debt, supposedly due to the Wuhan plague. They’ve burned through that money, are broke again, and are begging for more money. Ridership is barely half what it was pre-Wuhan, for two reasons. Workers don’t want to return to office buildings to work, and those who are going to the City are afraid to ride the subway due to crime. What’s the City planning to do? Raise transit fares, and impose “congestion pricing” on anyone driving below 60th Street. That will only make things worse. It’s crazy. The squeegie men are back threatening motorists. Mayor Adams doesn’t want to use “heavy-handed” police to stop them. He wants to send social workers “to supply the needs” of the squeegies. That’s crazy. And it’s not just New York. In Kalamazoo, Michigan, there’s a law that requires people to clean up after their dogs. But Kalamazoo just decriminalized public urination, defecation and littering by people. So if you walk your dog and he takes a dump on the sidewalk, you have to pick that up, but you can drop trou, crap on the street, and just walk away. Residents and business owners have complained to the City Council. The Mayor’s answer? Just live with it. We can’t arrest the homeless for public defecation because any criminal record may prevent them from getting a job. Huh? That’s what he said. A council-person added that they can’t enforce the law because anyone who craps in the street has to be mentally ill, so they’re not accountable. It’s the Kalamazoo Catch 22. You can’t be held legally liable if you’re crazy, and if you crap in the street you must be crazy, so why have a law at all? The Democrats also have an annoying tendency simply to ignore or deny what Al Gore might call inconvenient truths. When they don’t like reality, they simply deny it. I’m no psychiatrist, but that sounds crazy. Take the Wuhan vaccines. Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci told us if we took the vaccines we couldn’t get the Wuhan. Since telling us that, Fauci has had the Wuhan three times and Biden has it now. Fauci has had to admit that the vaccines didn’t work. Dr. Deborah Birx this week admitted they knew all along they wouldn’t work. Meanwhile our government has hounded those who refused the vaccine, and has fired them from their jobs. They’ve simply ignored the Fauci and Birx confessions. Inflation in excess of 9% is killing Americans. The Dems said it was temporary, and not so bad anyway. Now they say it’s peaked and is going down. Economists don’t agree, predicting even higher inflation to come. Democrats say, “who you gonna believe, us or your lying bank account?” Now economists are predicting a recession. Recession has always been defined as two quarters of negative growth, which we just had. But not so fast. Democrats deny the age-old definition. There’s no recession, because they say so. An individual who has lost touch with reality cries out for an intervention to obtain medical help. A government which has lost touch with reality is a tragedy of biblical proportions. It too calls out for an intervention, not medical, but political. We can disagree on political issues, but crazy is crazy, no matter your political affiliation. November is approaching, and sanity is calling out for our assistance. In November, don’t vote for a Party or a philosophy, vote for a return to sanity.
“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Of course, that’s what Rhett Butler said to Scarlett at the end of Gone With The Wind. And I have come to the conclusion that the sentiment expressed by Clark Gable so many years ago should be our response to the ever-increasing, ever-crazier, and ever-louder demands and rants of the Left. Have you ever noticed that so-called Progressives are never happy, even when they win? Il Duce Obama was not in favor of same-sex marriage when he was elected in 2008. And then he was. The LGBT community kept telling us that it wasn’t demanding the right to marry, but simply the right for partners to visit one another in the hospital. One morning, it all changed. The Left not only favored gay marriage, they demanded it immediately, and they denounced anyone who failed to agree. So they got gay marriage. Were they happy about that? Oh no! That wasn’t enough, so they went on to trans-gender rights. Let trans people change gender on demand, or else. Let naked biological men parade around young girls in Ladies Rooms and female locker rooms, or else. Let male athletes hijack women’s sports, or else. The climate change fanatics are no different. They rant, without evidence of any kind, and indeed in the face of contrary evidence, that the Earth is on fire, and we only have 12, or 10, or 7 years to live. We must “transition” to renewable energy now, or else. Transition means close industries, fire workers, and turn them into penniless wards of the State. See how it works? Shut down coal plants, or else. Shut down oil production, or else. Buy only electric cars, or else. For years we’ve tried to have a dialogue with the people on the Left, but they’re only interested in one opinion – theirs. Your opinion doesn’t count, and more than half of so-called journalists recently admitted that they see no reason even to report the fact that there are differing opinions. Well, I say it’s time to fight fire with fire. It’s time we challenged these crazy bastards, because that’s exactly what they are. It would be one thing if the demands of the Left were based on actual fact, but they’re not. The Left exists in a fantasy world, and its demands are based entirely on lies, mistakes, and deceptions about their real intentions. Simply put, the Progressive movement is a fraud. Systemic racism doesn’t exist, but we have to listen to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, who’s been in the government for 50 years, complain about it. By the same token, the climate change hysteria is based on a tissue of lies. NOAA announces every year as the hottest on record. That would be troubling if true. It’s not, NOAA knows it’s not, and has been caught changing data to fit the agenda. Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science web site says that NOAA changes data to make pre-2000 temperatures cooler, and post-2000 temperatures warmer. This data tampering by NOAA accounts for the claim that temperatures have risen 2.5 degrees since 1895. Climate analyst Paul Homewood cited another example. Actual temperatures in New York State, this past year were 2.7 degrees or more colder than in 1943. NOAA’s phony data claims temperatures this year as 0.9 degrees cooler than the actual data in 1943. Leftists keep claiming that climate change has increased hurricanes and severe weather. People like meteorologist Joe Bastardi from weatherbell.com keep proving them wrong. So the global warming scare is basically a hoax. That doesn’t deter the Leftist loons. Senator Joe Manchin recently spoiled Biden’s plan to spend another trillion dollars we don’t have, much of it to go to “green energy” projects. The plan was a hyper-inflationary boondoggle. Yet here’s the reaction from Hillary henchman John Podesta, “It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity.” If he’s doomed us to live within our means, and in touch with reality, then God bless him. Because that’s the problem with these Leftist wingnuts. As I’ve said many times, it’s brain damage. As Ronald Reagan once observed, “It’s not that they’re bad people, they just know too many things that aren’t so.” That’s only half right. The Progressives in power in the government are using “the green new deal” crap to hide their hidden agenda. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Reds all became Greens. Climate change is just another way for them to pursue their plans for socialist revolution. Don’t doubt me. Pete Buttigieg spilled the beans just this week. Asked about the pain being inflicted by doubled fuel prices Pete said, “the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.” Get that? The government policy is to bankrupt the public to force the green energy hoax down our throats, like it or not. Whether Red or Green, the goal is total government control over every aspect of your life, government run industries, and the end of personal freedom, so Red-Green, what’s the difference? The followers of this Progressive claptrap are simply not in touch with reality. They perceive Russian collusion where it doesn’t exist, and fail to perceive such collusion where it does exist. They tell children the Earth is on fire and the polar bears are dying. In reality, the polar bear population is up 500% since 1970, but that’s a fact, so they can’t accept it. Which brings me back to Clark Gable. When a Leftist tells you to capitulate or else, ask him, “or else what?” You can’t mollify the mentally ill by pretending that they’re sane and everybody else is crazy. So stop encouraging them in their insanity. You shouldn’t care what they think, believe or want because they surely don’t care what you think, believe or want. If they can’t respect your opinion, there’s no reason you should even entertain theirs. So just tell the kook his opinion means nothing to you. You don’t care what he thinks, what he believes, or what he demands. Suggest that he or she seek help. Better yet, just tell him what Rhett told Scarlett, “Frankly my friend, I don’t give a damn.”
As they contend with near record low approval numbers, and near record high inflation numbers, the predicament faced by the Democrats evokes any number of familiar sayings, such as, “between a rock and a hard place,” and “pick your poison.” By all accounts, the Dems could suffer crippling losses in the upcoming mid-term elections. They deserve their fate. Democrats who now are complaining about twin failures – Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But they should remember that this is precisely what they signed up for in 2020. Biden sold what was left of his soul to the Woke Wingnut faction of the Party in return for the nomination. James Clyburn and Il Duce Barack Obama created this monster. Once in office, Biden signed on to every Woke fever dream fantasy. Open borders. Unlimited spending. Ruinous Green New Deal insanity. Unlimited abortions. Gender changes on demand. The result has been deeper debt, rising interest rates, ruinous inflation, a plague of violent crime, record high gasoline prices, and empty store shelves. The Administration has proven itself incapable of solving any of these problems. It has proposed no rational plans to combat these problems. All it has offered is more spending, higher taxes, and the repeal of the Second Amendment, thus leaving the law-abiding citizen helpless to defend himself against armed criminals, whose guns the Democrats are not interested in taking away. These calamities have turned the electorate against Democrats in general and Biden in particular. It’s gotten so bad that, this week, even The New York Times noticed that Joe Biden may possibly be too old, too dumb, too slow, and too senile to be President. What a revelation. Who else knows this? More than 70% of Democrats have said they don’t want Biden to run for reelection. These numbers have prompted Biden to conclude that 92% of Democrats would vote for him again. Maybe The Times is right. Democrats are openly debating getting rid of Biden, either in 2024, or sooner. But remember the old sayings above: Rocks and hard places; picking poison. The Dems are on a spot. Joe Biden may be null and void, but what comes next is even worse. Cackling Kamala, whose continual streams of gibberish and non sequiturs have earned her the title, the Word Salad Queen. Old Joe may be a senescent mumbler, but what’s Kamala’s excuse? I mean, the very least you can expect from a politician is the ability to to put together a complete sentence. Not to actually answer a question, mind you, but to at least spew enough pleasant sounding bullshit to get by. But she’s brutal. Here are some examples. On abortion – I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled. And that’s why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.” On guns – “We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously.” On aid to Jamaica – “We will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica.” On rural internet access – “We were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to passage of time. There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children.” On cooperation – “We must, together, work together to see where we are, where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be, but also see it as a moment, yes, to, together, address the challenges.” And Kamala’s grasp of foreign affairs is second to none. “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine so, basically, that’s wrong.” They couldn’t have explained that any better on Sesame Street. Forget about rocks and hard places. Kamala Harris is poison. This means that Democrats have narrowed their choices down to Arsenic or Old Face. That’s their dilemma. They don’t want Biden and they don’t want Kamala. If they stick with Biden, by 2024 their Party will be in wreckage. If they push him out sooner, they get President Kamala, after which, denying her the 2024 nomination will destroy whatever is left of their Party. But the Democrats deserve everything they get. As a Senator, Joe Biden was widely considered to be the dumbest member of the Senate. When he became Vice-President, Kamala succeeded to that position. These two truly are Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. And the fact that the Democrats promoted both these dunces to the Vice-Presidency tells you all you need to know about their judgment. It would be funny if we didn’t have to try to survive this poor excuse for a government until 2025. Biden mumbles, Kamala rambles, and America burns.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Pay No Attention …
We’re living in confusing times. Up is down. Black is white. Right is wrong, and wrong is right. We see our society crumbling right before our eyes. We watch as our God given freedoms are stripped from us by corrupt political hacks who would gladly burn the Constitution for another term in office or another crooked investment deal. The media, which once prided itself on keeping public officials honest, is even more corrupt than the politicians. We have a president, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, who by any honest metric is an abject failure. Yet, in the face of spiking crime, record inflation, and an illegal alien border invasion, the media regularly reports on Biden’s “successes.” But even the lying media has to stretch to make that fit. Last week, the military finally killed a terrorist it had been after for 21 years, and Democrats barely passed a bill designed to piss hundreds of billions more dollars down a “green energy” rathole. This, the media told us, was Joe Biden’s best week. Yikes! Slowly but surely, we’re being conditioned to ignore reality and passively accept the Left-wing crap that’s being peddled for truth. “Don’t believe your lying eyes, just listen to us.” It’s surreal, as though it was all part of some movie and not reality. Crime is rampant. People don’t want to return to work in the office. People, by and large don’t want to work at all, now accustomed to the prospect of more “stimulus” money. They can’t afford to put food on the table or gas in their cars. The cities are third world hell-holes. But it’s OK because Joe Biden just had his best week. It put me in mind of Kevin Bacon in Animal House, in the midst of a riot, repeating, “Remain calm. All is well.” And the strange thing is that the Woke Leftists really believe all is well. It’s part of their psychosis. By any reasonable standard, crime is out of control. People are afraid to walk the streets. The Woke solution to the problem is to defund the police, let all the criminals out of jail, and refuse to prosecute crimes being committed by career criminals. Those of us who are still in touch with reality have noticed that there has been a steep decline in public safety, what with all the murders, rapes, robberies, and people being thrown in front of subway trains and such. This onslaught, coupled with the resignations of thousands of police officers who are no longer permitted to do their jobs, has troubled us, but not the Woke Left. Last week, George Soros, the man who gave us dozens of Prosecutors who refuse to enforce the law, wrote a column, defending his support of what he calls, “reform prosecutors.” These are the prosecutors like Alvin Bragg in New York, Kim Fox in Chicago, and Chesa Boudin, who was so bad that even San Franciscans removed him from office. Soros has spent his life undermining capitalism, which he views as an evil, and supporting what he calls a “One World” system, which he calls “an open society.” Although, like any fascist, Soros talks about “democracy,” his “one world” has nothing to do with national determinism. Soros’ world is a world in which the government controls everything, and the people just do what they’re told to do. There is no room for American exceptionalism in Soros’ world. His plan isn’t to bring the rest of the world up to our level, but to drag America down to the level of the rest of the world, which you may have noticed, is really fucked up. Of the 8 billion people in the world, about 2 billion have some measure of freedom. The remaining 6 billion are oppressed. That’s what Soros has in store for us- Make America North Korea. But Soros must be feeling the heat, hence his op ed. In it, Soros resorts to gibberish which makes Joe Biden sound lucid. He says our system is rife with injustices, and proclaims that, “the idea that we have to choose between justice and safety is false.” I don’t know anybody who thinks we have to make that choice, but if they do I’m sure that refusing to bring criminals to justice is not a recipe for safety. Soros says we need to “invest” more (that means spend money) to prevent crime. He bemoans the fact that we spend $81 billion to keep people incarcerated. Apparently he missed the fact that, last week, the Senate voted to spend $80 billion for 87,000 more IRS agents, whose job it will be to turn productive citizens into criminals. Perhaps they’re emptying the prisons of real criminals to make room for the new enemies of the State, decent citizens who fail to fall in line. Soros recommends education and job training programs. (We’ve been funding them for 60 years). Soros claims that the crime wave is not the fault of the prosecutors he got elected, citing “research” that shows no connection, and the fact that crime is up in places where he hasn’t yet bought the DA’s office. If true, I don’t think emptying the jails and refusing to prosecute career criminals is the remedy. He cites to a rise in mental illness following Covid lockdowns. (And whose fault is that?). Soros also said something so convoluted that I had to go back and check that it didn’t come from Biden or Kamala, crime is being caused by “a pull-back in policing in the wake of public criminal justice reform protests.” Huh? So, it’s not his fault, but he supports pulling back policing, and protesting in support what he considers criminal justice reform, so it is his fault? Soros promises not to stop buying DA’s offices, and exhibiting the signs of advanced Woke brain damage, he tells us that, “Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.” I guess he means that portion of the public that hasn’t yet been killed, raped or robbed. Wow! The country is on fire, and Soros vows to keep pouring on the coal. “Remain Calm. All is well.” “It’s not me, and the public likes what I’m doing anyway.” Which puts me in mind of another movie, The Wizard of Oz, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” But you better pay attention. Otherwise, when the curtain gets pulled back, everything we’ve worked for all our lives will be gone.