The further down the road we get into the Biden presidency, the more it seems to be but another remake of George Orwell’s 1984.  Orwell’s dystopian novel explores the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society.  Sound familiar?  We’re living that Orwell trifecta right now.  We have a Democrat Party that effectively has declared all who dare to challenge its absolute power outlaws, who are to be hounded, prosecuted, and destroyed.  The economy is political.  The military is political.  Justice is political.  Even medicine is political.  There’s only one side to every issue, and if it’s not their side, you’re cancelled.  That’s totalitarianism in a nutshell.  Meanwhile, the same Democrats who denounced government surveillance of suspected terrorists as a violation of privacy, think nothing of subjecting private citizens and elected officials to intensive scrutiny for imagined crimes such as non-existent insurrections.  As this is written, Democrats are trying to get telecommunications and social media company records for hundreds of people who were on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, in addition to the personal communications of Trump family members and members of Congress, whose only crime was communicating with the President of the United States.  Add to this the “cancelling” of unapproved speech by social media companies, and Orwell’s mass surveillance State has arrived.  How about repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society?  Seriously?  When speech and conduct can be labelled politically correct or incorrect, and the entire populace is looking over its shoulder fearing the imminent destruction of career and reputation, we’re there.  Add to that the dictatorial Wuhan virus mask, vaccine and shutdown orders, and we’ve surpassed anything George Orwell ever imagined.  The Biden Administration’s parallels to the world described in 1984 are chilling.  The makeup of society is eerily reminiscent of Orwell’s State of  Oceania.  The population of Oceania was divided into three classifications.  The Inner Party, made up only 1% of the whole population.  The Outer Party, made up of 18% of the population.  The Proles constituting the remaining 81%.  Our 1% live the good life, and the rules made for the Proles don’t apply to them.   Witness the 1% at play.  That’s California.  No masks for them.

The Outer Party 18% is no less prevalent.  18% represents the number of Woke Marxist ideologues who have gained control of the Biden Administration and are running the government – into the ground.  The Proles are the people who do all the work, when the 1% allows them to work.  And nothing is more Orwellian than Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco.  In 1984, Oceania was perpetually at war with Eurasia.  Then without warning, Oceania and Eurasia became allies, and the enemy became Eastasia.  In 1984, State controlled media stirred up hatred for the new enemy.  In Biden’s Oceania, there is but one true enemy, Donald Trump, who is to blame for every fault.   In our version of Oceania, we were engaged in a perpetual war with the Taliban in Afghanistan.  They were the enemy, and we were supposed to hate them.  We sacrificed thousands of lives, maimed  many more thousands of troops, and spent trillions in treasure to destroy this enemy.  When Biden decided to pull out all the troops before making arrangements to remove all of our defenseless civilians, he suddenly declared the Taliban no longer an enemy, but a a partner.  The medieval, brutal, intolerant, murdering Taliban barbarians; the very people from whom our citizens in Afghanistan were hiding, were now going to cooperate to assist our people in leaving the country.  The recent reports of door-to-door Taliban execution squads, and Taliban physical abuse of a pregnant American woman (birthing person?) prove this new alliance is just another Biden lie, but so what?  Oceania practiced Double Think, a willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demanded it.  That discipline included the ability to believe that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.  Have you spoken to a liberal recently?  They recognize no facts and no truths, only beliefs.  In Biden’s Orwellian Ministry of Truth, as in Orwell’s, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”  And thus, Biden can take what even some Democrats admit is an unmitigated Afghanistan debacle and declare it an “Extraordinary Success.”  But the spectacle of Joe Biden as president is perhaps the most chilling Orwellian parallel.  Oceania was ruled by Big Brother, who enjoyed a cult of personality.

By contrast, we have Big Bungler, who enjoys a cult of senility.

Orwell’s Big Brother was watching.  Our Big Bungler is failing.  Big Brother practiced brainwashing.  Big Bungler’s brain was washed long ago, put away wet, and it shrunk when it dried.  We are at the mercy of an imbecile.  We are living Orwell’s nightmare, and we’d better wake up soon, or we’ll wind up in an Orwellian re-education camp to atone for our thought crimes.  Which group is more dangerous, the Taliban, or Biden’s Wokeiban?  If I told you, they’d have to kill me.

August is supposed to be a time when nothing important is going on.  Summer is coming to its end.  People are on vacation.  It’s normally a blessedly quiet time, when even Leftist politicians have taken a few weeks off from their mission to destroy America.  But not this year.  Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden decided that August was the perfect time to withdraw all of our troops from Afghanistan.  As I noted last week, a withdrawal was necessary, whenever it came, it was going to be messy, and the Taliban was bound to have a resurgence.  That reality aside, there was a right way and a wrong way to get out of Afghanistan.  Surprising no one, Joe Biden chose the wrong way.  Forget about who was going to rule Afghanistan after we left.  Whether it was the Taliban, the crooked Ghani government, ISIS, Iran, who cares.  Afghanistan was still going to be a fragmented, violent, poor, backward, useless shithole.  It’s been all those things for hundreds of years.  All Biden had to do to keep the lap dog media on his side was to get our citizens and employees out, avoid giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and avoid taking casualties.  He failed on all counts.  As this is written, Biden is sticking to an August 31st deadline for all troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.  Why not stay till all our people get out?  The Taliban is running Kabul, they told Biden “no extensions,” and Biden caved.  Every day we see shocking images of hoards of people at the airport, trying to get out.  The Taliban is stopping them, beating American citizens, and stealing passports.  Our troops are forbidden to go outside the airport to help get people in.  As this is written, at least two suicide bombs have gone off at the airport gate, over 100, including at least 13 Marines.  Our allies, the British, French and Turks, are conducting operations to get their nationals out.  The Turks, who were supposed to be the last force out, left on Thursday.  Adding insult to injury, our forces pulled out while leaving behind billions of dollars of weapons and equipment.  Joe Biden says there was no better way to do it.  Nancy Pelosi said, “This is what happens when you withdraw.  Some stuff, some equipment is left there.”  Some stuff?  The Taliban now has 208 military aircraft, including Black Hawk helicopters, ranking them the #26 Air Force in the world.  Luckily, they have no pilots.  We left 600,000 assault rifles, and 2,000 armored vehicles.  In the past two years, we gave the Afghans 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers.  There was no better way?  I’m no military planner, but if you couldn’t take our equipment out, how about take it all to Bagram Airbase, lock the gate, and send in bombers with MOAB bombs to reduce it all to dust?  Joe Biden steadfastly maintains that his way was the right way.  He was counting on getting the usual cover from the media – he lies, and they swear to it.  But not so fast.  Biden is taking fire, from the Leftist media and members of his own Party.  His Press Secretary, Jihad Jen Psaki, is still in there pitching, but it’s getting harder even for her.  When Peter Doocy mentioned stranded Americans, Psaki said, “I’m calling you out for saying they’re stranded.”  Note, she didn’t deny they’re stranded.  She simply blasted Doocy for noticing they’ve been stranded.  Why did Biden do this?  Two theories.  My first thought was that the Obama Gang, the crowd that’s really running the government, has decided it’s time for Biden to go.  We’ve assumed that Biden’s not aware of what’s going on, and is just mouthing what his handlers tell him to say.  Anyone who saw Biden squinting to read the teleprompter Tuesday got the strong impression that Biden wasn’t announcing his decision, but was reading crap he was seeing for the first time.  The nagging question is, if the handlers are running things, why would they let Biden do this?  The pull out is an embarrassment.  Biden’s approval rating has crashed.  Only 26% of Americans think Biden’s done a good job on Afghanistan.  That’s disastrous for the Administration.  So why let Biden do it?  They want him to fail, so they can move him aside.  An alternative theory is that what’s going on in Afghanistan is all Biden’s doing.  He is in charge, he’s been warned by the military, the intelligence services and the State Department, and he overruled them all, because this is what he wants to happen.  Newt Gingrich said the Afghanistan debacle is Biden’s attempt to cast himself as a peacemaker, rather than a warrior.  He did this in August because he intended to celebrate the pull out on September 11th.  If so, Biden’s delusional.  If this was Biden’s plan to make his Administration look good, it’s not working.  Our allies aren’t buying it.  It’s not every day that a British Prime Minister applies the term “imbecile” to the actions of an American president.  Tony Blair did just that this week.  Nobody surrenders better than the French.  When the French accuse you of cowardice, you know you’re really in trouble.  That happened this week as well.  So again, if Biden is actually making these decisions, why would they let him do it?  Why didn’t the Cabinet and military people refuse to do it and resign?  They want him out, and they know he’ll soon be gone. One way or the other, Biden is too heavy a drag on the Democrat brand to continue.  Crooked politicians are nothing if not survivors, and there’s no honor among thieves.  The mid-term elections are coming, and Democrats have to reduce the stink of Joe Biden.  Even the Leftist media is turning on him.  He’s being described as an appeaser, in the mold of Neville Chamberlain.  This is an insult, to the memory of Neville Chamberlain.   When Chamberlain returned from his Munich meetings with Adolf Hitler, he at least had a signed agreement “symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.”  Hitler promptly broke his word, and there was war.  Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan.  He got nothing in return, not even an empty promise that wouldn’t be kept.  And worse yet, for all of Chamberlain’s faults, he didn’t surrender Czechoslovakia while simultaneously arming the Nazis.  Joe Biden has worn out his welcome in his own Party.  He soon will be thrown under the Kamala Harris campaign bus.  It put me in mind of the 60’s show, Bye Bye Birdie.

Bye bye, Biden,
We won’t miss you, so;
Bye bye, Biden,
Now it’s time to go.
No more White House,
We’re sending you away;
Don’t cry Biden,
It’s Delaware to stay.
We knew you were senile,
But we gave you a pass;
Trump’s out, your job is done, so;
Don’t let the doorknob hit your ass!
Bye bye, Biden,
It’s awful hard to bear;
Bye bye, Biden,
We know you’re not all there.

You can’t say we weren’t warned.  In fact, we were warned by Il Duce Obama no less, and there is no less.  During the presidential campaign, when things looked like they were going well for the Democrats, the Duce warned, “Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to fuck things up.”  Not enough of us heeded that warning, and Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden was elected president.  If Biden has done nothing else, he’s proven Obama right, because in a remarkably short time, Biden has managed to royally F up practically everything he’s touched.  There’s a term in the military – FUBAR, which stands for Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.  So let me count the FUBARs.  He strangled an economy ready to bust out with at least 10% growth.  Profligate spending has sparked inflation.  The addiction to “free” money has depressed the employment market.  And Biden’s touting a tax policy that’s guaranteed to kill growth and reduce government revenue.  Then there’s the border which is a classic FUBAR.  I mean, lots of things can affect the economy, and many times presidents are victims of economic circumstance, but not on the border.  The border was deliberately FUBARed by Biden.  He had security, and a wall almost in place, and he deliberately destroyed his advantage in favor of chaos, crime, and rampant disease.  And speaking of disease, there’s Biden’s Wuhan virus FUBAR.  He was handed, courtesy of Operation Warp Speed, effective vaccines from day one of his tenure.  All he had to do was to convince people to accept a free cure, and he failed.  Even offering to pay people to take the vaccine failed.  So now, Biden’s back to the mask and lockdown threats that already were proven failures.  Presumably Biden’s acting out that old maxim, “Starve a cold, feed a failure.”  How’s Biden doing on crime?  Just one more FUBAR.  Past presidents at least talked about enforcing the law.  Not Biden.  Murder’s up 40%.  Dozens of people are shot in our cities every week, and not just in Chicago.  This week, just another lazy, crazy, hazy Summer week in New York, featured a Sunday with 17 people shot, and a quiet Tuesday that featured a gunman shooting up the TKTS booth in Times Square, and a maniac who tried to chop up an ATM user with a hatchet.  Yet Biden and company aren’t concerned about crimes that didn’t take place on January 6th.  Then, of course, there’s the Afghanistan debacle.  Truly Biden’s biggest FUBAR of them all.  On one level, after 20 years in Afghanistan, no president was going to make the exit from that Hellhole a clean and simple proposition.  President Trump planned to have us leave Afghanistan, but he imposed conditions, and promised the Taliban swift and furious retribution for any violation.  Trump was an advocate of the Reagan Doctrine’s policy of Peace Through Strength.  The term Peace Through Strength didn’t originate with Reagan, but dates to the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.  Now that I think about it, Hadrian built a wall too.  It’s probably what attracted Trump to Peace Through Strength.  FUBAR Biden practices a different policy – Peace Through Surrender.  When one surrenders, one gets peace, but often it’s the peace of the grave.  And Biden’s precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan has guaranteed that thousands will rest in peace. When Biden announced the withdrawal, he assured us there was little chance that the Taliban would take over the country.  No sooner had the pull out begun than the Taliban took over in record time.  Biden had a perfect excuse though.  Wait for it – It’s all Trump’s fault.  There was nothing Biden could do, because he was required to follow the Trump plan for withdrawal.  Which is strange, because Biden felt no compulsion to carry out Trump’s border policy, tax policy, energy policy, or any other policy, all of which he summarily rejected.  The fact is, Biden might have been alright had he followed Trump’s Afghanistan policy, which was to convince the Taliban he’d kill each and every one of them should they misbehave.  Biden wouldn’t dream of taking such violent Trump-like action however.  His Administration prefers writing “strong letters of objection” to the Neanderthal murdering bastards of the Taliban, and threatening to withhold foreign aid.  Biden didn’t explain why we would ever consider sending any money to a bunch of Islamic terrorists, whose only recognizable utterance is, “Death to America.”  The optics of the seemingly overnight Taliban takeover of Afghanistan would have been bad enough, but Biden, in true Biden fashion, managed to make it worse.  It appears we pulled the military out of Afghanistan, while leaving behind billions of dollars of equipment, including aircraft and shipping containers full of satellite phones, grenades and mortars.  But worse than arming the terrorists, the Biden Afghanistan FUBAR put thousands of lives, including those of some 15,000 American citizens, in immediate jeopardy.  Somehow, Biden managed to pull our military out, before making arrangements to safely remove American contractors,  civilian employees, and thousands upon thousands of Afghans who worked for us, who we swore we’d protect, and who now will be raped and killed.  Biden has had to send thousands of troops back to Afghanistan.  As this is written, the Biden administration still has no plan for  evacuating American citizens safely.  A spokesman said some troops are at the airport but,  they’re not equipped and able to go out and physically move our people to the airport.  When asked what good it does to have troops at an airport our people can’t get to, the spokesman acknowledged the security situation is “not ideal.”  You think?  By and large the Left, which never met a tyrant it didn’t like, is still trying to cover for Biden, and is actually saying nice things about the Taliban. The Washington Post actually said recent internet posts display “a gentler, more reassuring face of the Taliban,” that were part of a “broader charm offensive.”  CNN’s courageous Clarissa Ward displayed scenes of Taliban members holding up weapons and chanting.  Ward reported, “They’re chanting “‘Death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time.”  One media moron actually asked a Taliban spokesman if the Taliban would respect the right of free speech.  The Taliban mouthpiece had the perfect comeback, “Ask Facebook if they respect free speech.”  Apparently the Taliban has noticed that their online speech is protected, while President Trump’s is not.  FUBAR Biden has tried to lie his way out of this mess by claiming no one knew the Afghan government would collapse, but a former CIA agent exposed his lies on MSNBC, telling the public that warnings were ignored.  Meanwhile, Cackling Kamala Harris, who kept reminding Mike Pence, “I’m still speaking,” is no longer speaking.  Biden’s only ally is California’s, soon to be recalled, Gavin Newsome, which shows how much trouble he must be in.  I rarely say this, but Obama was right.  Biden is President FUBAR, and the Afghans are S.O.L.  Our eventual exit from Afghanistan was always going to be a shit show.  It didn’t have to be a clown show too.

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.)