The one thing that totalitarian dictators hate most is any opposition to their iron-fisted decrees. The Democrats who run the nearly evenly divided Congress, in league with Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, and his Administration’s Commie Cabal, currently are up in arms over Georgia’s amendment of its election laws. The Dems hate the Georgia law because it conflicts with their proposed H.R. 1 legislation, which is intended to unconstitutionally repeal Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides that the various State legislatures shall decide the manner in which they hold elections. H.R. 1 would illegally repeal any State law that is in conflict with its attempt to do away with any semblance of ballot security, thus permitting unregistered voters, unqualified voters, convicted voters, and non-citizen voters to decide which Democrat candidate they prefer. H.R. 1 strikes down all voter I.D. laws, so that’s why the Georgia law, which dares to require a vote-by-mail voter to actually prove he or she is at least 18, is a U.S. and Georgia citizen, and is registered, has caused such a stir. The Georgia amendments come in the wake of elections which were tainted by the specter of massive fraud. Democrats responded to the valid act of the Georgia Legislature in the same way they respond to everything they don’t like, they lied about it. Believe it or not, the 2021 amendments do not impose a new requirement of voter I.D. in Georgia. Georgia has required voter I.D. for in- person voting for years. After the enactment of this I.D. requirement, the number of African-American voters increased. In fact, in 2008 and 2012, the percentage of eligible black voters who voted actually was higher than the percentage of eligible white voters who cast votes. That percentage decreased in 2016, not due to white supremacy or voter suppression, as claimed by Stacy Abrams, but simply because Il Duce Barack Obama was not on the ballot. Contrary to Democrat opinion, black voters are neither ignorant nor shy. They know how to come out and vote when they see a candidate they like. The new Georgia law simply extended the existing voter I.D. requirement to mail ballots, and that’s the problem for Democrats. They don’t want voters to have to come out to vote or request a ballot. They’d prefer to print tens of thousands of spurious mail ballots, to be counted as needed, once the in-person vote is disclosed. They agree with something a Jersey City Democrat once told me, “Our voters vote, whether they come out or not.” So Biden and Co. continue to lie about the Georgia law. Don’t take my word for it. That’s the verdict of The Washington Post, which gave Biden “Four Pinnochios” for his lies about the law. The Post concluded that the law did make some changes to early voting, but that the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them. Shocking, huh? Biden calls the law “sick” and “un-American,” claiming it “ends voting hours early.” That’s a lie. The law did not reduce voting hours, and early voting was expanded, not restricted. Biden’s claim that Georgia banned food and water near polling places is also a lie. The law actually works to reduce voting lines, to prevent voters from having to stand in line for hours. And it permits election workers, but not candidates, to provide food and water. But since journalism is dead, Biden’s lies were effective, again proving Mark Twain’s observation that, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Biden appeared at the NCAA championship game in Indiana, where he called Georgia’s law “Jim Crow 2.0,” while praising Indiana, which I guess he forgot was the first State to require photo ID for voters. No matter. When lying Stacy Abrams cried “racism,” cowardly Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, and other castrated corporations demanded Georgia boycotts. Major League Baseball folded immediately, and moved the All-Star Game from heavily black Atlanta to 91% white Denver. The fact that Georgia’s new law guarantees more early voting than does Colorado’s didn’t matter. It’s “Jim Crow 2.0,” so sayeth imbecile Joe. The result? Minority workers and businesses in Atlanta will lose hundreds of millions of dollars, and Atlanta will not be permitted to honor Hank Aaron, as it intended. Imbecile Joe should know all about Jim Crow 2.0, because it was his Party that enacted the so-called “Jim Crow” laws after the Civil War; laws intended to separate the races, to disenfranchise black people, and even to strip them of State citizenship. Progressive Republicans tried to reduce Jim Crow 1.0 segregation, but racist Democrat Woodrow Wilson reimposed segregation in the federal bureaucracy, writing that Reconstruction placed southern white men under “the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes.” When civil rights activists W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter objected, Wilson threw them out of the Oval Office in 1914, telling them, “Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.” Too long ago to blame today’s Democrats? Not so fast. Members of Biden’s Party tried to defy the 1957 Civil Rights Act, causing Republican Dwight Eisenhower to send 1,000 101st Airborne Division troops to Arkansas to force Arkansas Democrats to let black children attend white schools. Biden has called the filibuster, “a remnant of Jim Crow.” But it was Biden’s Democrat buddies who used the filibuster to try to stop the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley writes in his column, Upward Mobility, “By constantly invoking the ghost of Jim Crow, Democrats treat black voters like they were helpless children.” I hate to dwell on the truth in this day and age, but the inconvenient truth is that some 77% of voters, Republican and Democrat alike, are in favor of voter identification requirements, which makes you wonder why the only people who oppose such requirements are elected Democrats, and the far-Left, Woke, Whacko groups who are permitted to run amok by elected Democrats. Jim Crow lies are bad enough, but what should really make you uncomfortable is that Democrats have endorsed the position of Josef Stalin, who said of voting, “The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.” We found out he was right last November.
As the 2020 election approached, we were warned by conservative commentators that, should the Democrats succeed in gaining control of the presidency and the Congress, we would face attacks on our fundamental freedoms. While I fully believed that the Democrats were capable of such a thing, even I thought that some of the warnings were nothing more than election-year hyperbole. I mean, every four years people on both sides tell us, “this is the most important election in our lifetime.” For as long as I can remember, Democrats have been bitching and moaning that, if permitted to do so, Republicans would “turn back the clock.” Though they never spelled it out, what they meant was that Republicans represented a threat to our constitutional rights. I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again. Whatever Democrats accuse Republicans of doing, it’s a cinch that the Dems are doing the same, and far worse, themselves. Just a couple of months into the sham that is the Biden presidency, I have been forced to conclude that the warnings of the dire consequences that would result from Democratic control were not strong enough. The Bill of Rights was designed to strictly limit the power of the federal government, specifying the particular inalienable rights which were beyond the authority of the Congress to cancel or restrict. Article VI of the Constitution explicitly states that “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” Congress cannot simply enact a law that impinges on the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. And since the President’s job is to enforce and administer the legal enactments of the Congress, it follows that no President may simply take executive action which impinges on our inalienable rights. Even if the Democrats controlled the presidency, and both houses of Congress by overwhelming majorities, they have no right to restrict our constitutional guarantees. Democrats once understood this. In the 74th Congress, in 1936, Democrats and Progressives had 332 seats to 122 Republican. The Senate was 74-22 Democrat-Progessive. Yet, when Franklin Roosevelt launched his plan to pack the Supreme Court with new members to help uphold New Deal legislation, his own Party stopped him. They knew it was wrong, then, and the current Democrat leaders surely know that it’s wrong now. The difference is that, today’s Democrats simply don’t care. They have a corrupt, demented President, who won election in the face of voter irregularities in numerous States. Despite dragging Senile Old Joe over the finish line, the Democrats managed to lose enough House seats, that they now have the slimmest majority in that Chamber since 1893. The Senate is tied 50-50, permitting legislation to pass only by the grace of tie-breaking votes by Cackling Kamala Harris. In a sane world, these circumstances would cry out for government by bi-partisan consensus, a long-lost method that is favored by a large majority of the populace, but Democrats long-ago abandoned sanity. They are determined to complete Il Duce Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America from the land of the free to a Third World Socialist Idlers Paradise. (It used to be called Socialist Worker’s Paradise, but today no work is required). Biden has become nothing more than a bumbling, stumbling, incoherent rubber stamp for a Far Left that is bent on destroying America as we have known it. This sounds harsh, I know, but there is no other explanation for what they’re doing. It’s called the Cloward and Piven strategy. These two were Professors (what else?) at the Columbia University School of Social Work. Their plan was to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. They believed that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor, and that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Cloward said poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them.” The plan was for “activists” to work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system. The collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis. Poor people would start a revolution to overthrow capitalism. And here we are, as Democrats push through multi-trillion dollar bills with no Republican support to expand the welfare State. When interest rates rise, as they ultimately must, servicing this added debt will break the system. Admitting millions of illegal aliens to add to the welfare rolls only speeds up the impending crash. Meanwhile, the “activists” of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are in the streets demanding more, but more is never enough. On top of this, Democrats have abandoned energy independence, and are seeking to end the use of cheap, clean fossil fuels. Increased prices for everything add to the strain. Not enough yet? Democrats also are attacking the Bill of Rights. First Amendment free speech and religious freedoms are being denounced as “white supremacy” and “bigotry.” Think you can defend yourself when the revolution comes? Think again. Joe Biden says he will take executive action to restrict Second Amendment rights. Think the Senate Republicans can stop this nonsense with the filibuster? Democrats are trying to end that too. Think Biden and his merry band of Bolsheviks are just “following the science” when they try to impose federal mask and travel restrictions due to the Wuhan virus. I don’t. By all accounts, with the vaccines and virus treatments now available, there is no good reason why the country shouldn’t be totally opened up. This would cause maybe a 10% increase in economic activity, as Americans got back to their lives, went out, and let freedom ring. But that’s the last thing the Leftist whackos want. They prefer Americans at home, afraid, out of work, out of school, and totally beholden to an iron-fisted government Leviathan. I truly wish I was just over-reacting, but I don’t think so. We need to fight back before America is gone forever. To quote the erudite Al Sharpton of all people, “Resist we much!”
We’ve reached an anniversary. Not a “Happy Anniversary,” because there’s really nothing to be happy about. It’s been a year since we were sold the “15 Days to Stop the Spread” plan. On March 16, 2020, President Trump (Miss him yet?) announced the Wuhan Virus Guidelines for America, 15 Days to Slow the Spread. The medical “experts” said we could get the Wuhan under control if we stayed home, avoided gathering in groups, stopped discretionary travel, and eating in restaurants and bars for 15 days. There were seven recommendations: 1) Listen to and follow the directions of your state and local authorities. (Little did we know where that would lead). 2) If you feel sick, stay home. Do not go to work. 3) If your children are sick, keep them at home. Do not send them to school. (This one soon became moot). 4) If someone in your household has tested positive, keep the entire household at home. Do not go to work or school. (See above). 5) If you are an older person, stay home and away from other people. 6) If you are a person with a serious underlying health condition, stay home and away from other people. 7) Even if you are young, or otherwise healthy, you are at risk and your activities can increase the risk for others. (Numbers 1 through 7 cover the entire population, so they just could have said “everybody stay home”). There was more. Avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people. Avoid eating or drinking in bars, restaurants, discretionary travel, shopping trips, and social visits. Don’t visit nursing homes or retirement or long-term care facilities unless to provide critical assistance. (Cuomo and Murphy should have memorized that one) . It didn’t sound too bad, right? We’d all pitch in. We’d stay home for two weeks, and then we’d have this mess under control, right? Not so much. In the 15 days after March 16th, the number of U.S. cases increased from 4,945 to 199,353. After 15 days, the plan was extended to April 30, and many States are still locked down a year later. There are several ways to interpret the increase in cases in the first 15 days. Some say it’s because we began doing more testing, so we got more positive tests. An alternative explanation is that the “stay at home” “no large gathering” plan was absolutely useless, because the “experts” had no clue. The version favored by the government is that the restrictions did work, because if we hadn’t imposed them, it would have been worse. They have no evidence for that, of course, but then again, they have no evidence justifying any of the things they tell us we have to do. They don’t need evidence, only opinions. Remember the definition of an “expert.” An expert is a person who learns more and more about less and less until finally, he knows everything about nothing. The medical experts were wrong every step of the way, and whenever they got caught they fell back on, “It could have been worse,” which is cold comfort indeed. Many times, they suggested that, without the restrictions, it could have been as bad as the 1918 Spanish Flu. Just an aside. The notion that calling Covid the Wuhan or China virus is somehow racist or xenophobic is a function of Woke Idiot cancel culture. Disease pathogens traditionally have been named for the places where they were first encountered. Hence, the Hong Kong Flu, Ebola Zaire, and West Nile Virus. Think the names are only places outside the U.S.? Think again. Lyme Disease comes from Connecticut. It’s Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, although it exists throughout the Western Hemisphere. How about Ebola Reston? This Ebola strain came from Philippine monkeys, but was identified in a Virginia research facility. I rest my case. It’s the Wuhan, whether they like it or not. The Spanish really have a better argument, because the Spanish Flu started elsewhere. Canadian historian Mark Humphries found records tracing what came to be called the 1918 Spanish Flu to a 1917 virus outbreak in Northern China. So, nothing really has changed in a hundred years. But I digress. The Wuhan has been bad enough, but it was never going to be as bad as the Spanish Flu, which was 4 times more deadly, and was more deadly for young healthy people than for older people. The experts at that well known medical institution, CNBC, claim the two largest failings of the 15 Days To Stop the Spread guidance were that it didn’t acknowledge that people without symptoms can spread the virus, and didn’t say anything about wearing masks. The masks. Always the masks. What about this? Well, in March 2020, nobody knew how many non-symptomatic Wuhan cases there were, much less whether such people could spread the virus. Even now, the CDC says they’re not sure. And masks? Give me a break. The very same restrictions the experts ordered last year (closings, distancing, masks) were ordered in 1918, with similar dismal results. In any case, harping on the masks is the most hypocritical of all the Wuhan restriction hypocrisies. In March 2020, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Dr. Deborah Birx, and the all-knowing Dr. Fauci told us not to wear masks, because they weren’t effective to protect the public from the virus. This might have been the only thing they got right. But after Fascist Blue State Governors whipped the public into a fear of Wuhan hysteria, aided and abetted by Congressional Democrats, a year later, schools and businesses are still closed, and they recommend wearing two masks. When Joe Biden promised a return to “normal,” he meant post-Trump normal, not pre-Wuhan normal. When they told us it wouldn’t be “normal” till we got the vaccine we thought they were nuts. Now, the health Fascists say, even after the vaccine, the restrictions won’t be ended. Biden blames it all on Trump, and claims his “plan” will save us. This is the biggest lie of all the many lies. Biden takes credit for more Americans be vaccinated, when he had absolutely nothing to do with making the vaccines available. If you got a vaccine, you have one person to thank for it, Donald Trump. Without Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which forced the government to get off its ass and move, there would be no vaccine. Biden has replaced Operation Warp Speed with Operation Warped Stooge. If you’re an American citizen, you must wear 2 masks, stay home, no school, no sports, no restaurants, no groups, no work, and no life. Spring breakers and sports fans are super-spreaders, but infected illegal aliens are welcomed guests. It’s sickening, but maybe it’s all a part of Biden’s Warped Stooge plan. Biden is strategically planting Wuhan infected “migrants” all over the country to spread the virus, thereby getting us to Mexican Herd Immunity. And, when we’re as broke and helpless, and as corrupt as Mexico and the Biden family, we’ll be back to “normal.”
Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is President for two reasons. The first reason is the Wuhan virus. The virus damaged Trump and provided an excuse for election changes that permitted unchecked fraud. You may have noticed that the Wuhan is a convenient excuse for for every failure and deficiency we encounter. During the Great Depression, the stigma of unemployment disappeared, because so many people were out of work that it became normal. Today, we have the Covid excuse. I’ve been at my desk, in my office, every day for the past year. Most people haven’t been. Tried to call a government office in the past year? Don’t bother. They’re not answering. Covid. They’re working from home. Strangely, they also take 2 weeks to answer emails. Covid. Doing business by mail? One of my Christmas cards took 8 weeks to get there. Covid. Mailed your bill payment on time? The companies aren’t opening mail right away, so you’re late. Covid. Why send ballots to non-citizens, non-residents, the dead, permit ballot harvesting, and eliminate ballot security? Covid. The second reason Biden is President is because he’s not Donald Trump. Democrats spent 4 years demonizing Trump. Biden was the anti-Trump. He was marketed as a “moderate.” He’d lower the temperature, and bring “unity.” The Covid excuse permitted Biden to hide, while a compliant media lied. And it worked. The problem is, Joe Biden’s not a moderate, and the Left’s definition of “unity” is, “one Party rule.” You know, “unity,” just like in North Korea. Biden took office January 20th, and immediately went to work on his “legacy.” The popular notion is that Biden is a vegetable who doesn’t even know what he’s signing. The upshot of this theory is that, were Biden lucid, he wouldn’t be issuing the Socialist edicts he’s been signing since day one. I have a different view. Like Il Duce Obama, if he was so disposed, Joe Biden could be a unifying President. Obama squandered his opportunity. Biden had a better chance to unify. People really want the Parties to work together. Biden could cross the aisle if he sought to unite, but he won’t. His Party is in the hands of Leftist nuts, and Biden doesn’t aspire to be a uniter. He aspires to out-Obama Obama. Joe Biden played second fiddle to Il Duce for 8 years. It’s the sad role of Vice-Presidents to be shunted aside, ignored, and ridiculed. John Adams called the vice-presidency “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” John Nance Garner put it more succinctly, declaring the vice-presidency, “not worth a warm bucket of spit.” LBJ found that out. Now Biden can step out of Il Duce’s shadow and fulfill the Leftist wish-list that Obama failed to supply. That’s the legacy he wants. Democrats have long favored open borders. Biden vowed to undo the Trump border security policies on day one. He kept his promise. Stopped border wall construction, scrapped the Trump asylum restrictions, and invited “migrants” to cross the border. He didn’t have to do all that. Biden easily could have mollified the Left-wing nuts without encouraging a flood of illegals, but he went full anti-Trump, and now we have a crisis on the border, which Biden’s lackeys call, “not a crisis, just a problem.” Two years ago, when a few hundred unaccompanied minors a day crossed the border, Democrats called that “a humanitarian disaster,” and accused Trump of keeping kids in cages. Of course, Il Duce Obama built the enclosures, and now that thousands minors are crossing every day, and the same detention facilities are 729% over capacity, they’re not cages, and it’s not an emergency. Oh, that’s because they’re not detention centers, they’re now “reception centers.”
Biden has the Federal Emergency Management Administration at the border, but he says it’s not an emergency. And anyway, if there is a problem, Nancy Pelosi says it’s all Trump’s fault because he left them “a broken immigration system.” Of course, the Democrats broke it, and then turned down Trump’s 2018 offer to fix it. But, following crazy Nancy’s Leftist logic, what she says sort of makes sense. Trump foiled their plans by actually securing the border. Through her loony lens, it’s Trump’s fault because Biden is getting the backlog of the thousands of invaders who were unable to enter for the past several years. Biden just forgot he invited the invaders to come to the border. Plus, he’s so busy with the Wuhan crisis, he just didn’t notice the problem.
Lately, Biden has had to acknowledge the influx of desperate, poor people, all of whom have somehow acquired and are wearing “Biden, Let Us In” T-shirts that sell on Etsy for $18.00 each, plus shipping.
As a result, Biden is now pleading with “migrants” not to come to the border. Biden may even go on the border to see for himself.
If he goes, I recommend the chimichangas. To add yet another insult to yet another injury, while good old moderate Joe is telling American citizens that he may, may mind you, permit some of us to celebrate July 4th, in small groups, properly masked and appropriately socially distanced, these same strictures don’t apply to his migrant invitees. They’re not being tested for the Wuhan, they’re not being vaccinated, and thousands upon thousands of highly infected Wuhan Wilbertos, or if you prefer, Covid Carmelitas, are being released into America, to roam at will, spreading Covid, and every other disease they may have acquired in their homelands, or in Mexico, where last year, they actually stopped testing for Covid because the positivity rate was over 50%, making testing counter-productive. Listen to the science, Joe? The CDC still warns Americans to avoid all travel to Mexico due to Covid, while Joe Biden is admitting untested and highly contagious illegal aliens from Mexico. I do have to agree with the Democrats about one thing, though. What’s going on at the border isn’t a crisis, it’s a voter registration drive. If the media told the truth, and permitted Americans to learn what’s really going on, I suspect the outcry would force changes to open-border Biden’s policies. They don’t, so I’m afraid it will take needless American deaths caused by migrant induced disease and criminal violence before this insanity can be stopped. This could have been avoided. The blood is on Joe Biden’s hands.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Cuba Si’, Atlanta No!
Any devotee of Frank on Friday knows that what bugs me most of all is the blatant hypocrisy of the Left. So-called progressives display a stunning ability to denounce the actions and positions of conservatives, while they, themselves do things, and espouse positions that they would roundly condemn, if they came from a conservative. In the past week, The Wall Street Journal published columns by Daniel Henninger and Anastasia O’Grady that examined the decision by Major League Baseball (MLB) to move its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, as a result of the enactment of voting reforms by the Georgia Legislature. Last week’s F on F, explored the Georgia law, which even The Washington Post admits, expands the ability to vote, rather than restricting it. The Leftist, Woke mob, having decided that it can’t win in Georgia unless it cheats, denounced the Georgia law as racist. The magpies of the media dutifully repeated the lies, and corporate castrati, that is, companies that fear social media calls for boycotts, jumped in to punish Georgia. I say “social media calls” because these boycott campaigns typically are launched, not by mass public opinion, but by a handful of internet trolls who create “bots” that make it appear that complaints are coming from thousands of people, instead of from 12 lazy slobs living in their parents’ basements. When Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden was asked whether MLB should move the All-Star Game, he said, “I would strongly support them doing that.” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred obliged, moving the game to Denver. Manfred said he had to do it, because MLB has to uphold “values.” Manfred didn’t elaborate, but it’s safe to assume that by “values” he meant the right to vote for the candidate of your choice, or perhaps, just good, old-fashioned Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet, American notions of decency and fair play. But, as Henninger and O’Grady noted, Manfred’s sanctimonious “values” motivation doesn’t pass the smell test. Due to his “values,” Manfred abandoned Atlanta over a law that gives Georgians more opportunity for early voting than voters get in New York or Colorado, and Manfred finds nothing wrong with doing business with communist Cuba. It’s all about values, you see. MLB values money, and fears criticism. Greed and fear are a bad combination when constitutional rights, and even human rights, are at stake. The fight over the Georgia law is political, not humanitarian. The Democrat goal in calling everything racist is to get HR 1 passed, which would nationalize elections. If Rob Manfred was concerned about American values, he would be opposed to HR 1, as it violates the text of the Constitution and the 10th Amendment. Powers not delegated to the federal government or prohibited to it are reserved to the States. The Constitution does not delegate authority to control elections to the federal government, it explicitly prohibits that, and reserves that power to the States. But Manfred has a peculiar set of values, as he can denounce a law which was the valid enactment of a State legislature elected by the people of Georgia, while at the same time, pursuing an agreement with Raul Castro to permit Cuban ballplayers to play for MLB, and have their salaries paid, not to them or their families, but instead to the murdering communist bastards who control Cuba, a country where there are no elections, and gross violations of human rights are routine. So much for Manfred’s “values” bullcrap. President Trump cancelled Manfred’s plan to enrich Castro’s Cuba, but don’t expect Biden to stand in the way. Democrats have a history of placating Cuban dictators in the name of baseball.
Don’t take me out to the ball game,
Don’t make me sit in a crowd;
Buy me a mask and a Covid test,
Require vaccines for ev-er-y guest.
You may root, root, root for the home team,
If their opinion’s the same.
Or it’s move, strike, boycott, you’re out,
At the old ball game.