No, not Wiley Coyote – super genius

Smiley Coyote – super moron

On the heels of the passage of the phony, bloated $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, about 1/8 of which will actually go to building and rebuilding projects, the Biden Administration has embarked on a campaign to convince the American public that its $1.75 trillion (really $4 trillion) “Build Back Better” bill, also known as, the Bolshevik Bullshit Blowout, should also be passed.  You see, that noted economist, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, has decided that the cure for runaway inflation, this week pegged at 8.3%, is trillions of dollars of additional deficit spending.  Oh wait, I misspoke.  Having received his doctorate in economics from John Blutarsky University (“Grab a brew, it don’t cost nothing”), Biden has proclaimed that the $4 trillion boondoggle, “Won’t cost anything.”  And if you believe that one, Joe has a bridge he will first rebuild, and then sell you.  Joe Biden and the merry band of Wokesters who run the government clearly think all of us are gullible, stupid, not paying attention, or all of the above.  On top of this, adding the ultimate insult to the chronic injury which is the Biden presidency, is a newly discovered plan to pay a minimum of $450,000 to illegal aliens who were separated from their children when they illegally entered the United States.  Biden seems to like alliteration, ala “Build Back Better,” so lets call this insult, “Wetback Welfare Wonderland.”  Lest I not once again misspeak, while technically it’s not welfare, it is no less an outrage.  It’s necessary to explore details that the lapdog media chooses to omit in order to understand the depth and breadth of this latest fraud on the taxpayer.  Facially, it has to do with what has come to be known as the Flores Settlement Agreement.  In truth, the real impetus behind Biden’s WWW plan is the fact that Republican presidents choose to enforce our immigration laws, while Democrats are content to ignore them.  Back in 1985 (Ronald Reagan was president), several class action lawsuits alleged that illegal alien children were being mistreated by immigration detention policies at the border.  If you search online, most websites will say “two organizations” filed these lawsuits.  I suspect they don’t want to name one of the organizations as the ACLU, for reasons which will become apparent shortly.  The lawsuits dragged on for years, going to the Supreme Court, and culminating in a 1997 settlement in an ACLU lawsuit entitled, Flores v. Reno.  That would be Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno.  Under the agreement, the government is required to release children from immigration detention without unnecessary delay.  It must provide physical care, food, clothing, grooming items,  medical and dental care, immunizations (except for the Wuhan), medication, education services, communication skills, English language training, recreation and leisure time, a social work staff and counseling sessions.  As the agreement has evolved, no minor may be held in detention for more than 20 days.  The Flores Agreement forces the government to either detain illegal alien adults separately from the minors who accompanied them, or to forget about enforcing U.S. immigration laws, and just release all of them into the country.  President Trump chose to enforce the law, which meant that he had to abide by the Flores Agreement.  Trump sought a way to avoid separating children from adults, by changing the Flores Agreement, but a federal court ruled that Flores had to be followed, so Trump obeyed the ruling of the court and abided by the Flores Agreement.  Some 5,600 alleged families were separated by operation of U.S. law.  940 legal claims have been filed by illegal immigrants who claim they suffered lasting psychological distress due to the separations.  Biden’s so-called Justice Department has indicated an intention to settle these lawsuits by paying the illegal aliens $450,000 per person for their distress.  And guess what organization is negotiating the money settlements?  The ACLU!  That’s right, the same ACLU that convinced the court to order that children must be separated from adults, is now brokering massive payments to aliens who put the children in peril in the first place by illegally dragging them across the border.  In other words, because the Trump Administration did what the ACLU and the courts ordered it to do, conduct that Biden calls “outrageous behavior,” the law breakers are now entitled to your money.  One payment per case would add up to $423 million hard-earned tax dollars.  If all 5,600 illegals decide to cash in, we’re talking at least $2.5 billion.  That’s more than enough to finish the wall, which if completed, would put an end to this problem.  But Biden, who is on track to admit 2 million illegals this year alone, has a different plan.  Do nothing.  If you ignore the law and never catch the illegals, then you don’t have to worry about detaining or releasing them.  Ingenious, right?  This plan has several key virtues for the Woke idiot crowd.  It removes money from white supremecist earners, and gives it to poor migrants.  It’s also another slap at Donald Trump, which is the true motivation for every Biden action.  A win, win for the Woke Folk.  What’s more, it bolsters U.S.-Mexican relations, by greatly aiding Mexican coyotes, the criminals who transport illegals over the border.  In essence, it turns Joe Biden into the ultimate coyote, hence, Smiley Coyote.  The $450,000 payment plan, which Biden first called a “garbage accusation,” then later admitted he favored, will only encourage more illegals to cross the border.  It’s financially ruinous.  It’s an insult to all American citizens.  And worst of all, it’s bad law, and a terrible legal precedent.  The cause of action for infliction of emotional distress is what’s called a tort claim.  In order to be entitled to a recovery, you have to prove someone, in this case the government, either intentionally or negligently did something wrong that resulted in your distress.  Biden’s Justice Department clown show skipped over the “did something wrong” part.  What we have here are people who committed illegal acts, willingly involved children in their illegality, were accorded every consideration that the courts have obliged the government to supply since 1997, and now claim you owe them money.  I’ve been a lawyer 41 years, and I don’t understand that one.  And the so-called Justice Department is buying this crap.  I sent hundreds of people to prison as a prosecutor.  No doubt many suffered emotional distress thereby.  The point is, if your distress was caused by the proper operation of the law, you have no legal claim.  Biden’s plan is not justice, it’s madness.

The World Series wrapped up this week.  Even though I’m a Mets fan, I was delighted to see that the Atlanta Braves won the championship, requiring feckless baseball Commissioner Manfred to present the trophy to the team from the State from which he removed the All-Star Game for illegitimate political purposes.  Even better, he had to give the trophy to the team named “Braves,” whose fans insist on performing the, admittedly annoying, and thoroughly anti-P.C., tomahawk chop.  Delightful.  People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) used the occasion of the World Series to make another attempt to impose a speech code on America.  We have a First Amendment, you see, which is supposed to confer upon each and every American the right to speak his or her mind, regardless of whether somebody out there in the public doesn’t like it, doesn’t agree with it, or is made uncomfortable by it.  The Supreme Court has repeatedly reminded us that we don’t have speech codes in America.  The Court’s advice, “Avert your ears.”  As long as what you say isn’t a crime, a true threat to another, or likely to motivate a reasonable person to violence, it’s protected by the Constitution.  However, PETA doesn’t agree with the law.  PETA has tried to censor our language before.  They’ve previously “suggested” other language restrictions.  For instance, don’t say “kill two birds with one stone,” say, “feed two birds with one scone.”  (I guess PETA condones feeding birds fattening pastry).  Don’t say, “bring home the bacon,” say “bring home the bagels.” (I thought bagels had too many carbs).  Don’t say, “take the bull by the horns,” say “take the flower by the thorns.” (Sounds kind of masochistic to me).  Now, to coincide with the Fall Classic, PETA is tilting at a new windmill.  The latest addition to the PETA speech code would do away with the term “bullpen.”  They suggest “Arm Barn” as an alternative.  Apparently, PETA finds it unacceptable to refer to the place where baseball pitchers prepare to enter a game as “the bullpen.”  Somehow the name “bullpen” must be hurtful to bulls.  Of course, this presupposes that PETA somehow knows what bulls think.  Bull whisperers?  More like bullshitters.  So, what about bullpens?  On the website Mental Floss, David K. Israel explored the origin of the term “bullpen,” and came up with six possibilities.  1) Fans in the cheapest part of the ballpark were herded into a roped-off area that resembled a cattle pen.  2) The pitchers warmed up in front of Bull Durham tobacco signs.  3) (This one could have triggered PETA) – The incoming pitcher was being led to the slaughter.  4) Casey Stengel’s theory –  “bullpen” came from the place where extra pitchers sat “shooting the bull” until called upon. (I’m sure PETA would object to the notion of shooting any bull, but this bolsters the bullshit theory).  5) The rodeo theory – bulls were kept in pens before entering the contest.  6) The New York Giants theory – The Giants played at the Polo Grounds, which actually had a bull pen, next to which pitchers warmed up.  As the simplest possibility, this one is likely correct, but the point is, who cares?  Do the animal rights people actually expect Joe Buck to replace “bullpen” with “Arm Barn?”  For what?  To protect bulls?  From what?  There once was bullfighting, which was horribly barbaric, but not so much anymore.  Bullfighting is widely considered to be inhumane, and has been outlawed in most places.  Even in Spain, where bullfighting originated, the practice is discouraged.

That was once the bullring in Barcelona.  When bullfighting was outlawed in Catalonia, they turned it into a shopping mall.  I’m not sure which use is the more repugnant.  Anyhow, what’s the obsession with bulls?  PETA never complained about “bull in a china shop.”  Other animal terms are actually flattering.  Wise as an owl.  Sly as a fox.  Okay, so “bird brain” and “going batty” may not be so positive, but “strong like bull” is pretty good.  “Mess with the bull and you get the horns” is good advice.  So what’s so bad about a bullpen?  Maybe PETA only approves of free range bulls.  Or maybe it’s just bullshit.  Maybe, just maybe, PETA, and every other Woke, goody-goody, well-meaning, holier than thou, interest group wants to occupy us with worrying about mere words, so we’ll be too busy to notice that our freedoms are being pulled from us one by one.  We used to say, “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  In Woke Snowflake Land, it’s more like, “picking up sticks and stones is work Americans won’t do, and we don’t do any meaningful work, so words are all we’ve got.”  In First Amendment law there’s a concept known as “fighting words,” words which by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.  For Woke imbeciles, any words they hear that don’t square 100% with what they want are fighting words.  If you’re triggered by the word “bullpen,” you’re the one with the problem, and you should seek help.  And what’s with Leftists and “triggers.”  I thought they didn’t like guns.  So “Arm Barns” instead of “bullpens?”  I think not.  How about Ass Hats.         

During the 2020 election, Il Duce Barrack Obama was famously quoted for his observation, “Don’t underestimate the ability of Joe Biden to f**k things up.”  That may be the only thing that Il Duce ever said that I agreed with.  You have to admit that Obama had it right.  In a remarkably short period of time, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden has F’d up everything he’s touched.  Think about it.  Courtesy of President Trump, we had full employment, rising incomes, lower taxes, and an expanding economy, in which companies that had fled the U.S. were returning.  Our trade policies were revamped.  China, North Korea and Iran were under control.  Our troops were coming home – alive.  Our NATO allies were paying what they owed.  Our military was strong.  We had energy independence, no longer at the mercy of the oil policies of Middle East bandits.  The southern border was secure.  Biden turned all that into a stagnant economy, run-away inflation, the promise of higher taxes, and an open border, through which 2 million illegal aliens will come this year alone.  Biden’s alienated our allies.  His bumbling has killed troops in Afghanistan, and left Americans at the mercy of the Taliban.  When even the French accuse you of cowardice, it’s bad.  China is threatening to invade Taiwan, which could be catastrophic, as many believe Taiwan has tactical nuclear weapons.  North Korea’s Little Rocketman has started firing his rockets again, and Iran is on its way to nuclear weapons.  With the stroke of a pen, Biden shut down a U.S. oil pipeline, green-lighted a Russian pipeline in Europe, and impeded fracking, which has seen energy prices surge by 50%.  Two years ago, we had so much natural gas, they ran out of places to store it.  Now, we’re being warned to expect a cold winter.  What’s more, the Biden Administration seems unwilling even to pretend that it cares about the opinions of a majority of the public.  Witness the recent School Board meetings fiasco.  The last year or so has seen an uptick in stories about parents at School Board meetings complaining about critical race theory and idiotic Woke gender policies.  This came to a head when a Virginia father rightfully protested the sexual assault of his daughter in a school bathroom by what is termed “a gender fluid” person, a/k/a, a male in a dress, who by School Board policy, was permitted to use the girl’s restroom.  When, instead of exhibiting compassion, the School Board denied the attack ever happened, and had the father arrested, all Hell broke loose.  The Biden Administration’s solution?  Send the FBI counter-terrorism unit in to investigate people who dare to protest against the government.  All these debacles have cratered Biden’s approval ratings, raising red flags for Democrats.  Many have been comparing the Biden presidency to that of Jimmy Carter.  There are many parallels, but there are important differences as well.  Both Carter and Biden were weak, ineffective presidents.  Both were confronted by energy crises.  Carter’s response was what became known as “the Malaise Speech.”  Carter sought to rally the public by lecturing Americans about what was wrong – with them.  “All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America … The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.  It is a crisis of confidence.  It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.  We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.  The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.”  Since Americans typically don’t like being told their problems are their fault, Carter was voted out the next year.  Biden also faces an energy crisis.  The difference is Biden is the one who created it.  Carter’s point was that we had to reach energy independence, so as not to have to rely on Middle East oil.  The promise of energy independence was repeated by presidents Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43, but they never delivered.  Donald Trump gave us the energy independence that was promised for 40 years.  His reward?  The Democrats impeached him – twice.  Biden’s crisis is the Democrats’ plan, a Woke fever dream, in which all coal, oil, and gas use is ended and you light and heat your homes and run your cars on wind, sunshine and pond scum.  Good luck with that.  Carter and Biden both are beset by Americans held hostage.  The difference is Carter’s hostages were the result of an Iranian invasion of the U.S. Embassy, while Biden’s hostages are at risk only because he abandoned them in Afghanistan.   Jimmy Carter told Americans they had to make sacrifices by turning down thermostats to conserve energy.  This led directly to Carter’s sacrifice at the polls in 1980.  Joe Biden, who’s confronted with a supply chain problem, with hundreds of ships that can’t be unloaded, is similarly advising sacrifice, his Administration telling Americans to “lower your expectations,” especially for the holidays.  Such a dismissive attitude is bound to piss people off.  The difference here is that Carter suffered from a lack of products, and Biden has everything we need sitting just out of reach of the consumer, but can’t figure out how get it to the shelves.  Once again, don’t assume the reason for Biden’s woes is ineptitude.  More than anything else, he’s a victim of the Faustian bargain he made with the Democrat far-Left.  The Woke nuts threw their support to Biden when his nomination was far from assured.  The price they extracted was a nutty, extreme, far-Left Cabinet, and Biden’s support for every ruinous policy on the Marxist wish list.  That’s the main difference between Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter.  Carter was ineffective, but he wasn’t senile.  Carter wasted time trying to micro-manage everything down to the schedule on the White House tennis court.  Biden rarely knows where he is, more than once asking, “What am I doing here?  The point is Jimmy Carter at least meant well.  Joe Biden doesn’t.  Carter wanted to restore respect for America as the leader of the world, and Biden wants to punish America, diminish its role in world affairs, destroy our form of government, and transform us into a socialist worker’s paradise, the likes of the Soviet Union, where people used to say of the government, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”  Simply put, Joe Biden seeks to ensure the very malaise that Jimmy Carter tried, in vain, to avoid.  Here’s all you need to know.  Jimmy Carter said, “I’ll never lie to you.”  Joe Biden’s attitude is, “What makes you think you have the right to hear the truth?”

It must be great to be a Woke imbecile, because being Woke means never having to experience reality.  No matter how bad things get, they can pretend it’s all good.  Since they suffer from delusions of rectitude (the certainty that whatever they believe is right), their lives are easy.  They don’t have to know anything.  They just feel things.  They only listen to one another, so there’s only one opinion to worry about.  In fact, in their world, there’s only one opinion – theirs.  Life is truly a breeze when there’s only one side to every story.  It’s not so easy for the rest of us, as we have to carry the heavy burden of perceiving what’s actually going on in the world.  The Woke folk don’t have to experience reality because they have a unique ability to suspend disbelief.  Once you understand this, you can understand how the Woke folk can have a positive view of what the rest of us perceive to be chaos, tyranny, ruin, and stupidity.  Part of the equation is the Left’s visceral aversion to Donald Trump.  These are simple-minded people, you see, so it all boiled down to “Orange Man bad!”  That was the lap dog media’s message for 5 years.  The constant media drumbeat put me in mind of Aldous Huxley’s classic, Brave New World.  Written in the 1930’s, Huxley’s dystopian novel sadly has come true.  In Huxley’s fictional world, recordings were played for children as they slept, to inculcate government rules, and to enforce class distinctions.  And as most of the Left is composed of Delta minus types and Epsilon semi-morons (read the book, you’ll understand), the message was, “Orange Man bad!  I’m so glad I don’t have to think.  Making decisions is too hard.” (Again, read the book).  The only difference between Huxley’s world and ours is that, instead of being played only during sleep, our Brave New Media repeats the same crap 24 hours a day.  The effect that has on the simple-minded is palpable.  It’s the only explanation for how those on the Left, and those of us in the real world can look at the same landscape and see two totally different pictures.  It’s the only way the Left can conclude that wrong is right, up is down, out is in, and bad is good.  Think of the contrasts.  Not so very long ago, it was almost universally accepted that laws must be obeyed, that law enforcement personnel should be respected, that violence was wrong, that sovereign nations require secure borders, that reckless government spending was dangerous, and that it was the form of government given to us by our Founders that made the United States the envy of the world.  All those things changed for the worse.  I should say, about 75% of us have noticed that all those things have changed for the worse.  The 25% Woke imbecile segment hasn’t noticed.  That’s how they can look at a border that has been thrown open to a 1.7 million illegal aliens in the past 9 months, see pictures of babies being tossed over a wall, and abandoned toddlers wandering aimlessly in the wilderness, and conclude that the border is “secure.”  It’s how the Woke can call weeks of riots, complete with burning buildings, gunfire, and aggravated assaults “mostly peaceful protest,” and two hours of unarmed trespassing “an insurrection.”    It’s how run-away inflation and a military debacle in Afghanistan, leaving Americans dead and stranded doesn’t concern them.   It’s how they can consider  a 50% increase in gasoline prices, and a 40 to 50% increase in home heating costs preferable to the low prices and energy independence given to us by evil Orange Man.  It’s how they can pretend that men really can become pregnant if they think they can.  Suspending disbelief allows the Woke to support firing healthcare workers, police firemen and Navy Seals for not taking a vaccine, while welcoming hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated illegal aliens.  And most alarming, it’s how the Left can look at a mumbling, senile buffoon and see an effective President.   In Woke world, tyranny is democracy, government mandates are freedom, illegal executive orders are laws, and the Constitution is nothing more than an impediment.  Every day  Spokes-witch Jen Psaki, mouthpiece for Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, our National Controller (read the book), is confronted with glaring problems, crises, and blunders, yet she tells us, “Nothing to see here, move on.”  She knows that Biden’s mind-numbed followers will believe anything, and she isn’t concerned with the rest of us, so she can be asked about illegal aliens being flown to U.S. cities “in the middle of the night” and end the discussion by saying, “4 a.m. isn’t the middle of the night.”  That clears things up.  Psaki can dismiss a question about a new Chinese hypersonic nuclear missile that threatens the entire world by saying, “We welcome competition.”  No, we don’t want a fair fight.  We want Ronald Reagan’s formula, “We win.  They lose.”  Jen Psaki’s mother, the infamous Colonel Klebb, would never take an enemy so lightly.

But they think the rest of us are just as stupid and docile as their brainwashed adherents.  It’s either that, or they simply don’t care if we know they’re lying because they think elections don’t matter anymore.  How else to explain Biden’s Chief of Staff, Ron Klain’s dismissal of the supply chain crisis as “a    high class problem?”  I guess only the high class people need toilet paper.  Don’t for a moment think that these things are mistakes by the Biden Administration.  This is the Democrat plan.  Higher prices, higher taxes, more government mandates, and less freedom.  More illegal aliens and fewer Americans.  In fact, soon, the only reference to an “American” that will be permitted is the idea that anyone born in any part of North or South America is entitled to a U.S. welfare check and a voter ID card.  It’s only fair, right?  It’s all about equity, right?  On the contrary, it’s all about tyranny and mind control.  These people don’t permit debate or opposition of any kind.  They cannot be reasoned with, but must be removed.  While they’re still permitting us to vote, we’d better get that job done.

Joe Biden was chosen as the candidate most likely to dethrone Donald Trump.  This is undeniable.  Remember how it all went down.  28 Democrats ran for President in 2020.  They came from everywhere.  There were Senators, former Senators, House members, Governors, former Governors, Mayors, former Mayors, industrialists, even a self-described spiritualist.  They spanned the alphabet from Bennett to Yang.  Eric Swallwell was the first to quit, in July 2019.  Kamala Harris hung in there till December 2019.  Others hung on into 2020, but Kamala, who didn’t make it to the first primary, got to be Vice-President.  Some made it to March 2020.  Bernie Sanders, the oldest candidate, made it all the way to April.  But the old age runner-up, Joe Biden, was the chosen one.  Biden didn’t get the most votes in the first three contests Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.  This once was thought to be the kiss of death, but not for Sleepy Joe.  Biden also lost California and Colorado, two solid Democrat States.  But he won in South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas, all States he could not win in November, so Democrats declared Biden the winner.  The chosen one.  The antidote to the toxic Donald Trump.  Democrats hid Biden from the public during the campaign.  They had to hide him.  He’s an imbecile.

Democrats had the lap dog media in their pockets, so they kept telling voters that Joe was a moderate.  Possibly they even believed this, because compared to the stated policies of the likes of Bolshevik Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas Liz Warren, and the Nieman Marxist, AOC, what was left of Joe Biden was moderate.  So let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.  They considered Biden to be moderate, compared to themselves.  What they lied about was the notion that, once elected, Biden would govern as a moderate.  That is, Biden would be a moderating force, who would temper the wild-eyed Leftist ravings of the out-and-out nuts who make up the Democrat brand.  Let’s give the Devil his due.  In his prime, whenever that was, Joe Biden might have been able to do just that.  But there were three glaring problems.  Number one, Joe Biden is well past his prime.  His elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top.  He’s a couple of jokers shy of a full deck, with precious few marbles rolling around in his head.  When I was a Teamster, a co-worker used to say, the longer you did that sort of work your brain would turn into chicken soup.  First gumbo, then noodle, and so on.  Well, old Joe’s brain is now a very weak broth.  The second problem was that the Democrats are not the same Party that Biden represented in the Senate.  20th Century Democrats supported fiscal responsibility, secure borders, and law enforcement.  Today’s Democrats want no part of those things, and they didn’t choose Biden to allow him to support those things.  They have their own agenda.  Problem three is tied to problem two.  Joe’s corrupt.  He took kickbacks, via his family, notably son Hunter, as Senator and as Vice-President.  The people who chose him to be President knew this.  What it means is that, even if Joe had a lucid interval, and wanted to stop the Woke insanity, he can’t.  He’s  subject to blackmail by the Russians, the Chinese, and most notably, by the Leftists who picked him to be the front man for their Socialist takeover of America.  Biden’s like a crooked cop.  If he blows the whistle, he goes down first.  The result?  Just look around.  We have no borders.  It’s estimated 2 million illegals will enter the U.S. this year.  Inflation is soaring, and Democrats plan to spend much more, and to raise your taxes to pay for it.  Biden bungled the withdrawal from Afghanistan, got Americans killed and left Americans behind.  Biden got elected by blaming the Wuhan virus on Trump.  But even with vaccines that Trump didn’t have, almost as many people have died in Biden’s 9 months, as under Trump.  The economy has stalled, chiefly because Biden is paying people not to work, and is trying to punish States that want to put people back to work.  Biden has a solution though.  Mandate vaccines, and fire anyone who objects.  Biden will increase the roles of the unemployed, adding police, firemen, and healthcare workers to the list.  If you can figure out how this solves any problem, you’re smarter than I am.  Democrats are seemingly satisfied with open borders, runaway inflation, an increase in violent crime, a laughing-stock military, angry allies, fewer people working, and endless Wuhan virus restrictions.  In truth, these things seem to be the Woke Democrat plan. Voters, however, are not pleased.  Biden’s approval ratings have crashed.  No sporting event is complete these days without the chant of “F**k Joe Biden.”  Biden’s latest problem is the supply-chain crisis.  First it was a computer chip shortage.  New cars are scarce.  Need a new dishwasher?  You might get one by next Summer.  You could wash the dishes by hand, but you’ll have to air-dry them.  Seems there’s a shortage of paper products like paper towels and toilet paper.  There’s no shortage of paper.  And producers are making these products, but they’re stuck on ships at ports, waiting to be unloaded.  There aren’t enough longshoremen to unload them or truckers to transport them.  We’re being warned that things will only get worse, and many will have to do without little things like toilet paper and Christmas presents.  Biden has no plan to fix this.  Sadly, Biden has no clue about anything.  There are plenty of available workers.  We could be coordinating the unloading of the ships.  We’re not.  We could be incentivizing the hiring of truck drivers.  We’re not.  Two things are certain.  If the products ever get off the ships and onto the shelves, everything will cost a lot more.  And, if Joe Biden continues to mumble and bungle, if ship doesn’t happen, if we have to ration toilet paper, and your presents are delayed till Christmas in July, the ship will really hit the fan.  So repeat after me, “Let’s go Brandon!”