For months, we’ve been consumed by lockdowns due to the Wuhan virus.  We flattened the curve.  Daily deaths in NJ went from a high of 458 to 21 as of June 1.  Businesses were to reopen.  There was a light at the end of the tunnel.  Then we found out that light was a freight train coming at us.  The spark was the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.  It caused justifiable protests against brutality.  This police incident was different though, because there’s universal agreement that the cops committed crimes and should be prosecuted.  Under those circumstances, one wouldn’t reasonably expect the situation to devolve into nationwide rioting, but reason has nothing to do with this.  As this is written we’ve had a week of rioting, looting, violence and arson all over the country.  The lying media wants you to believe that these are spontaneous acts of civil disobedience caused by the Floyd killing.  They’re not.  Tempers are running hot, sure.  The Black Lives Matter crew is fanning the flames with their white supremecist rhetoric.  But the riots are not about George Floyd.  They’re the acts of urban terrorists using the Floyd killing as the excuse to unleash the revolution they’ve been planning for years.  Their timing is impeccable.  People have been locked up for 3 months, during which time they have seen their jobs, their savings and their prospects for the future disappear before their very eyes.  Add to this a presidential election, widespread despair, high unemployment, and a supply of young thugs with nothing better to do, and it’s a recipe tailor made for the organized anarchists of Antifa.  The larger goal of these latter day Brown Shirts is to attack the foundations of American law and culture, especially the Constitution itself.  Here are the “principles” of Antifa’s hooded bastards: 1) Liberation by any means necessary (violence is acceptable); 2) Destroy the State, the police, and the military (no resistance); 3) Live in dignity in a world without prisons; 4) Abolish systems of punishment (all laws); 5) Revolutionary justice will be determined by those who are repressed (end capitalism); 6) No government or group will have power over others (anarchy); 7) Communities will make sure everyone has what he needs (it’s all free); 8) All land is communal (no property rights); 9) Destroy all borders; and 10) militant forces will defend our revolutionary communities.  “Liberation begins where America ends.”  The President has declared Antifa a terrorist organization.  Imbeciles on CNN call this Trump’s attack on free speech, but Antifa has no use for free speech, or any other individual right.  They seek to bring about the violent overthrow of the United States, and they’re responsible for starting and supporting these riots, which aren’t truly riots.  A riot is a tumultuous, chaotic situation where people engage in uncontrolled violence.  The current rioting across the country has been carefully planned.  Don’t doubt me.  Throwing bricks and rocks during a riot is nothing new, but this time it’s different, as caches of bricks and rocks have mysteriously appeared at the sites of “protests” in Kansas City, New York, Dallas, Raleigh, Boston, Minneapolis, Fayetteville and Los Angeles, and not near construction sites.  See for yourself.

Here’s a woman handing out bricks –

The story on the street is that police in each city put them there to provoke the crowds to violence.  Since they’d be thrown at the police, and since the police aren’t arresting many people anyway, that seems unlikely.  Somebody paid for and pre-positioned these bricks in places where they could be used.  We should find out who.  Remember Antifa’s 10 Commandments above.  Destroy all police, military and laws, and declare property rights null and void, and here we are.  Cities all over the country have been looted and burned.  Downtown Manhattan is an empty shell.  The looters move from area to area, avoiding the police.  The Antifa hooded bastards smash the windows, then crowds of young thugs storm in to plunder.  Unsurprisingly, stores that sell sneakers have been hardest hit, but also banks and electronics stores.  Over $2 million of Rolex watches disappeared from one store. Even Macy’s on 34th Street was a target.  And once again, these are not random smash and grab attacks on targets of opportunity.  It’s carefully planned.  Rioters ordinarily don’t arrive on the scene equipped with crowbars and hammers to remove plywood from boarded up windows.  That’s going on now.  The Molotov cocktails being thrown at the police were supplied by the screwy white pajama boys and girls who only come out of their parents’ basements when it’s time to riot.  Here’s one from Illinois, arrested for handing out explosives in Minnesota.

Now you know why they wear masks.  Their goal is to make America “ungovernable.”  And they have help.  Rich imbeciles in Hollywood are paying bail money to secure the releases of Antifa bastards.  They drank the Kool-Aid long ago.  They actually believe the white supremecist, institutionalized racism crap.  And it is crap.  Institutionalized racism in the justice system?  I worked in the justice system in Essex County, NJ.  When the Chief of Police, the Prosecutor, many of the judges and a majority of the jurors are people of color, who’s doing the oppression?  People of color don’t want anarchy, they want the same things all people want.  Safety for their families, and a chance to make a living.  I ran a narcotics task force.  When my phone rang, it wasn’t rich white folks calling to complain that their streets were so infested with drug dealers that their children couldn’t go outside.  That’s what these Hollywood A-holes don’t grasp.  Once all the laws, the police and the military are gone, and the vermin start climbing over their gates to confiscate their property, who will save them?  The Revolutionary Guards?  But it’s worse.  The first duty of government is to protect people on the streets and in their homes.  “Progressives” don’t agree.  The Raleigh Chief of Police won’t put her officers at risk “just to defend property.”  Goodbye Raleigh.  Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan Boyle’s office  was ransacked and robbed.  He thinks it’s “cool.” A Seattle Councilwoman can’t understand “why looting bothers people so much more” than black people “dying every day” at the hands of police.  The Seattle Mayor says “What I don’t want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary (she may mean revolutionary), to be told that looting doesn’t solve anything, because the violence and destruction, both here in Seattle and across the country has been instigated and perpetuated by white men.”  The revolution is upon us.  We either stop this now, or we lose it all.

There are plenty of people who believe that the Blue State governors are purposely delaying the reopening of their States  to tank the economy, thus forcing Congress to bail them out for past mismanagement, and of course, to defeat President Trump. While I have no doubt that the Blue State Govs are bent on defeating Trump, I’m not convinced there’s a leftist conspiracy afoot.  Their actions, or inactions, may bring about the result they all crave, the end of Trump, but that’s not what’s going on.  Let’s face it, these governors (Cuomo, Murphy, Pritzker, Whitmer, Newsome, Kate Brown in Oregon, etc.) aren’t bright enough to run a conspiracy.  They can’t even run their own States. In March, there was a lot we didn’t know about the Wuhan virus.  The one thing we knew for certain though, was that it was particularly deadly for the elderly and those with co-morbidities (underlying health risks).  Despite this, Blue State geniuses Cuomo, Murphy and Whitmer, ordered infected Wuhan patients sent to nursing homes; facilities filled 100% with elderly people with co-morbidities.  These governors had access to thousands of hospital beds at  field hospitals supplied by Trump.  These facilities were barely used.  The result?  NY and NJ each have had some 6,000 deaths in nursing homes and other extended care facilities.  In NJ, 1 of every 13 people in such facilities died.  Michigan, so far, has refused to report their numbers.  The Blue State governors kept everybody locked up, although 66% of new cases affected people locked up at home.  They locked up people of all ages, although we now know that more people over age 100 died, than those under 45.  In March, the lock downs were reasonable.  All we had were Chinese lies, and the (consistently wrong) experts said the death rate was 3-4%.  We now know that the death rate is closer to 0.2%, and wouldn’t be that high had governors not infected the nursing homes, which account for some 50% of the deaths.  The hospital crisis has passed, and new case numbers are down.  So given that it’s almost June, why are we still locked up?  Why is the media still preaching doom?  Why are we wearing masks?  And when are we going to take the advice of Fox’s Dan Bongino,  “Get your ass up, go to work”?  Because Blue State governors won’t release us.  When Georgia and Florida opened up, they compared it to a human sacrifice, and predicted outbreaks.  They were wrong.  Meanwhile, Oregon Governor Brown, in a State with almost no Wuhan cases, has extended stay at home orders into July.  It’s not just incompetence or mindless fear.  Under pressure, leftists expose their true nature. They’re fascists.  Remember the principles of fascism: everything in the State; nothing outside the State; and nothing against the State.  Do what you’re told, or else.  They want to transform a land of  free citizens into a land of compliant subjects.  Don’t doubt me.  Leftists like Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsome and  major “stunod,” Joe Biden, have called the pandemic a perfect excuse for the government to nationalize healthcare, cure climate change, and impose the entire leftist agenda.  It’s an all-out assault on our constitutional rights.  Not convinced?  Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule suggests using the pandemic as an excuse to establish a new interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, implementing policies that do away with concepts such as “free speech ideology” (1st Amendment) and “property rights” (5th Amendment, and 1,000 years of English common law), the U.S. constitution having “now outlived its utility.”  Instead of individual rights, the nutty professor supports “common good constitutionalism.”  Individual rights are “selfish.”  We should promote “good rule.”  In other words, fascism.  The governors are off to a flying start.  The first part of the 1st Amendment guarantees religious freedom, but that didn’t stop governors from closing churches.  The first couple of weeks, maybe it was justified.  But now?  “Well, follow the science.”  What science?  The science from Fauci that said, the virus isn’t a threat, and we should go on a cruise?  The science that said 2 million would die?  The science that said the virus lived on surfaces for days, last weeks’ science that said it doesn’t, or this weeks’ science that says yes it does?  The infringement of constitutional rights requires the State to meet a high standard.  The Minnesota Catholic Archdiocese understands this.  “We are blessed to live in a nation that guarantees the free exercise of religion.  This right can only be abridged for a compelling governmental interest, and only in a way that is narrowly tailored to be the least restrictive means of achieving the desired end.”  According to Justice Scalia, “narrow tailoring” must be like the tailoring of Versace, not Omar the Tentmaker.  Many of the State restrictions can’t meet this test.  Many are not even rational.  Last week 3,500 people lined up at a Brooklyn church to get food.  They’re allowed to stand in the breadline, but are not allowed to pray.  In Michigan, Governor Whitmer arbitrarily decided what was “essential” and what was “non-essential.”  Food is essential, but you can’t buy seeds or plants to grow your own food.  You can buy marijuana and liquor, but not paint.  All the governors have made like decisions without any apparent authority to do so.  In California, you can walk on the beach, but can’t you sit on it.  Big stores with hundreds of customers are essential and open.  Small businesses selling the same goods are non-essential and closed.  Today, people convicted of crimes are being released, and people who are just trying to work are being jailed.  Why?  Because the fascists said so.  Same for the mask crap.  Fauci, (the science) told us not to wear masks one day, and to wear them the next.  They never said what changed.  Nothing changed.  The masks engender and perpetuate fear, and people who are desperate and afraid are more likely to submit.  Judges have reversed some orders.  One of the most eloquent is Illinois Judge Michael McHaney, “When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled.  Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws.  They are royal decrees.  Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled.  The last time I checked Illinois citizens are also Americans and Americans don’t get ruled.  The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world.  That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the constitution will always win.”  Bravo.  A government’s legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed.  I don’t consent.   Thomas Jefferson advised that “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”  It’s now or never.

In my youth I was a prosecutor, working for the New Jersey Attorney General in the newly constructed Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton.  In the ridiculously oversized and largely empty lobby of the building, there stand a couple of 20 or 30 foot high modern sculptures that, more than anything else, resemble the tips of screwdrivers.  No one ever explained their supposed meaning, but I long ago christened them “The Screws of Justice.”  Justice, and the prospect of a good screwing, recently came to mind in light of developments in the Michael Flynn case.  Flynn worked in the Obama Administration.  He disagreed with Obama on Iran, and Il Duce fired him.  Obama advised Trump not to hire Flynn.  Trump hired him as National Security Advisor.  And so it came to pass that, in December 2016, Il Duce Obama, and his crime family, a/k/a, the CIA, FBI and Justice Department, knew they had to take Flynn out, for several reasons.  As Obama’s DNI, Flynn knew the intelligence community was abusing the FISA warrant procedure, illegally surveilling Americans.  This is not a conspiracy theory.  Justice Dept. Inspector General Horowitz reported that, in a sample of 25 of more than 700 FISA applications, all 25 contained serious legal errors.  Flynn wanted to clean house.  He also knew about misuse of billions of dollars by the CIA, and according to his lawyer, was about to conduct an audit.  Most importantly, the Obama gang had its fingerprints on the four illegal FISA warrants used to conduct spying on Carter Page, George Papadopolous, and other Trump campaign associates.  If Flynn was permitted to stay in his job, the jig was up, the dirt comes out, and people go to jail.  So they framed Flynn.  They ambushed him without a lawyer, changed the police report to make him look guilty, got him fired, and then prosecuted him for lying to the FBI.  His first lawyers charged Flynn $6 million.  Imagine that.  And then, the Feds coerced him to plead guilty by threatening his son.  This is not justice, it’s a screw job.  With a new lawyer, Flynn moved to withdraw his plea.  He made a plausible case that the government withheld exculpatory evidence from him, like the January 4, 2017 FBI report saying, after months of investigation, they found “no derogatory information,” and the January 24, 2017 FBI report that said the interviewers found he did not lie to them.  Evidence that Flynn was framed was released in recent weeks.  Oh yes, and it seems the law firm that charged Flynn $6 million to plead guilty, withheld thousands of pages of discovery from him.  Think there’s no Deep State?  Ask yourself how and why, with Donald Trump as the president, and Bill Barr as Attorney General, it took three years for us to see evidence that should have been released to Flynn, to Barr, to Congress, and to the public ten minutes after it was ordered to be produced.  They hid it because they had something to hide.  Not convinced yet that there’s a Deep State?  Okay.  Flynn moved to dismiss the charges, Barr sent the case to a US Attorney in Missouri, and after his review, the government told the court it’s dismissing the charges.  Game over, right?  Wrong!  Because the Deep State resides not just in the Executive and Legislative branches, but also in the Judiciary.  The judge on the Flynn case, one Emmet Sullivan, won’t dismiss the case.  We know why the Democrats and the media condemned the decision to drop the case, they’re all covering up their own dirty dealing.  The Obama FBI, CIA, and Justice Dept. illegally spied on the Trump campaign, illegally unmasked Americans, illegally leaked information to the media, railroaded people into prison, and lied about everything.  The media swore to the lies.  But what about this judge?  Aren’t judges supposed to be impartial?  Sure.  Alan Dershowitz has written that, “judges are umpires, not ringmasters.”  Emmet Sullivan doesn’t agree, and he now looks more like Emmet Kelly the clown than Emmet Sullivan the judge.  This is not a complicated issue.  It’s fundamental, first week of law school stuff.  The Constitution permits courts to adjudicate “cases” or “controversies.”  In other words, judges are not allowed to roam about looking for things to do.  A case or controversy is brought to the court because the parties have a disagreement, the court decides the issue, and justice is done.  But when the parties agree, when there’s no controversy, the case is over.  Emmet Kelly Sullivan ignored this, and appointed a former judge (Gleeson), and certified Trump hater, as amicus curiae, friend of the court, to argue whether the court should reject the request to dismiss, and perhaps whether Flynn can be prosecuted for perjury.  Huh?  First of all, there’s no precedent for an amicus in a trial level criminal case.  You have the government and the defendant.  No one else has standing (the right to appear and argue).  Secondly, once the government decides to drop charges, the court has no recourse but to dismiss.  Judge Sullivan’s boss, the D.C. Circuit Court, says that, and Sullivan is bound to follow their decision.  Even Judge Gleeson knows that.  In 2012, Gleeson himself wrote that “the government has absolute discretion to decide not to prosecute, and that it would be an abuse of discretion for the court not to allow the government to drop a prosecution.”  Now Gleeson’s going to tell Sullivan he has such discretion?  And prosecute Flynn for perjury?  Please!  Two small problems with that.  First, people withdraw their guilty pleas every day, and none ever are charged with perjury.  They can’t be.  Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, permits pleas to be withdrawn when “the defendant can show a fair and just reason for requesting the withdrawal.”  Being framed by a government, which withheld exculpatory evidence, and receiving ineffective assistance from your $6 million lawyers are fair and just reasons.  Moreover, even Emmet Kelly Sullivan knows that judges can’t prosecute people.  Only the executive can bring criminal charges.  Sullivan’s taken off his judge’s robe and put on his big red nose.  He’s not running a court.  It’s a circus, and Mike Flynn isn’t in the center ring.  He’s just a sideshow.  The Deep State needs to discredit the president to keep the heat off the Obama crime family.  The screws of justice are tightening.

Taking a respite from our Wuhan virus obsession, and our never-ending “stay at home” lives, some things that really matter happened this week.  Return with me now to those days of yore when we were pondering the nature and extent of Il Duce Obama’s interference in the election of 2016.  To recap, before he left office in January 2017, Il Duce took a number of actions designed to hamper or derail the Trump Administration.  In early January, Obama changed a 30 year old policy that restricted the release of raw intelligence data, permitting unverified intelligence information to be released to 17 different agencies, and thereupon leaked with impunity.  Prior to that, during the 2016 campaign, we know that the CIA, FBI and Justice Department were spying on the Trump campaign, by means of FISA surveillance warrants.  Thanks to the tireless efforts of Devin Nunes, John Solomon, Sara Carter and others, we now know that the Democrats used the unverified and unverifiable Steele dossier to get the warrants, misrepresenting the information to the Court as “verified.”  This is what lawyers call false swearing, what judges call contempt of court, and is the kind of thing that ordinarily tends to get one fined, disbarred and/or prosecuted and imprisoned.  It’s the last thing that the U.S. Justice Department should be doing to any American, much less to a presidential candidate in the heat of a campaign.  We now know that Il Duce Obama was involved in the spying up to his scrawny neck and outsized ears.  Of course, those of you who read Frank on Friday were not surprised.  As Casey Stengel might say, “You could look it up.”  On 3/10/17, I wrote, “Obama’s fingerprints are on the Flynn leaks.”  On 2/9/18,  “Obama and Lynch approved everything.”  On 6/1/18, in  Spy vs Spy, on Susan Rice’s 1/20/17 self-serving Memo, “President Obama began the conversation by  stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’.  “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”  The Rice Memo is tantamount to an admission that Obama was part of the conspiracy.  The fish does stink from the head.”  Remember  Obama’s words, “as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”  In other words, “after I’m gone, keep information from the new president.”  Comey obeyed, purposely refusing to brief Attorney General Sessions about the investigations.  And the FBI did much worse.  After Trump won, his incoming National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, was targeted by the FBI for investigation, was fired, and later prosecuted by Bob Mueller for allegedly lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview.  Bankrupted by his lawyers (Covington & Burling – perhaps not coincidentally the firm of former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder), Flynn had to sell his home, and after the “Justice” Department threatened to imprison his son, agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI.  The Democrat world was so pleased that a good man’s life’s work was ruined.  Thankfully, Flynn fired his lawyers, hired Sydney Powell, and she dug into the steaming turd pile at the FBI.  Despite the best efforts of the FBI to hide the information, we now have gotten revelations that have caused the Justice Department to move to dismiss Flynn’s pending case.  Flynn had worked for, and was fired by, Obama.  Obama hated Flynn, who had dared to suggest that Il Duce was wrong for paying the Iranians hundreds of billions of dollars.  Obama advised Trump not to hire Flynn, and when he did, Flynn became a target of the FBI.  The FBI completed their investigation by January 4, 2017, finding no wrongdoing, and the case was to be closed.  But not so fast, FBI agent, and well-known adulterer, Peter Strozk intervened on January 4, and ordered the case kept open.  The next day, Obama met in the Oval Office with Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Comey, Susan Rice and Joe Biden (who no doubt doesn’t remember).   Obama told Yates and Comey, who were staying after January 20, he knew about Flynn’s (perfectly legal) phone call to the Russian Ambassador, and said he wanted information on whether the White House “should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information.”  That Obama was in control of the investigation was also confirmed in the Strozk/Page text messages, “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing.”  On January 23, the FBI leaked word that its investigation of Flynn found he’d done nothing wrong.  The next day, they ambushed Flynn, sending agents to question him, telling him he didn’t need a lawyer.  The agents reported Flynn told the truth.  Someone in the FBI later changed the incident report, and Mueller later prosecuted him.  The FBI, and Flynn’s own former lawyers, hid the truth from Flynn, and from the court.  Attorney General Barr found out and blew the whistle, deciding to dismiss Flynn’s case.  Democrats are outraged, chief among them, Il Duce Obama.  In a “leaked” (what else) phone call, Il Duce warned that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of the unprecedented move by the Justice Department to drop the Flynn charges.  Uh, Duce, when there’s no credible evidence of wrongdoing, and the government has a better criminal case against its own employees than the defendant, a dismissal is not only precedented, it’s requierd.  The rule of law isn’t at risk, the Democrat reign of terror is at risk.  Back to the Duce, “And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free.”  Uh, Duce, two things.  First, Flynn was never charged with perjury.  Lying to FBI agents who later lie in their reports, lie to the court, and then railroad you isn’t perjury.  (So much for Harvard Law School).  Obama’s leaked call proves two things.  Obama was never much of a lawyer, and his real concern is that “the rule of law” is coming for him and his cronies.  The “I was just following orders” defense didn’t work at Nuremberg.  Some people need to go to jail.

After watching and hearing the recent mumbles, stumbles and gibberish emanating from presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, I was reminded of a quote from heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.  In 1941, Louis was to fight a lighter and faster opponent, Billy Conn.  The challenger announced he would use a “hit and run” strategy.  Louis’ famous response was,”He can run, but he can’t hide.”  Conn’s tactic worked for almost 13 rounds, before Louis knocked him out.  Given Biden’s current condition, I have come to the conclusion that he can hide, but he can’t run.  In the wake of the Wuhan virus, Joe Biden took to heart Delaware’s March “stay at home” order, and has been locked in his basement ever since.  I always suspected that Democrat governors were playing “follow the Leftist leader” with their repressive orders.  Delaware Governor Carney has admitted as much, “Neighboring states have taken similar actions, and we don’t want Delaware to become a destination for residents of other states seeking a more permissive environment.”  Translation – “We can’t permit people to escape to a State where the Bill of Rights is still in effect.”  It’s nice that Governor Carney considers Delaware “a destination” rather than just a toll road lying between New Jersey and Maryland.  Anyhow, Joe Biden remains locked in his basement.  On April 7th he even realized it, noting, “I know I’m locked in the basement.”  This prompted the Trump campaign to wonder, “Are they worried he will wander off and get lost?”  That seems to be a real possibility, because, during his infrequent video “basement-side chats,” Biden has repeatedly given the distinct impression that his elevator no longer goes to the top floor.  Biden conducted a disastrous virtual town hall meeting on March  20.  Forgetting that he called Trump’s January 31 China travel ban “xenophobic,” he claimed Trump didn’t act fast enough.  Pitching a nationwide shutdown, Biden explained, “Here is the point.  You don’t know who doesn’t have the virus.  So, a lot of people walking around looking like they’re pretty healthy and they may very well have the virus and transmit it.”  Huh?  On the air, Biden has made a series of blurt-outs, followed by disclaimers of his own words.  Of President Trump, he asked, “Why doesn’t he just act like a president?”  Quickly adding,  “That’s a stupid way to say it.”  When asked to elaborate, Biden decided, “No, probably best that I don’t.”  I guess he lost his place.  Again, Biden on Trump, “It’s like watching a yo-yo.  I shouldn’t have said it that way.”  Must have misplaced the cue cards.  Harkening back to the campaign trail, where he repeatedly told people he was running for the Senate, Biden explained his position on the Wuhan virus, “I insisted … well I didn’t insist, I suggested when it all started in Luhan province.”  Clear?  Biden is so confused that sometimes he slips and lets the truth come out.  Told that Trump’s approval rating had risen to 49%, Biden responded, “Well I hope that he’s so strong that he’s up way above that.”  Biden’s commentary often transforms into word salad, “And, in addition to that, in addition to that we have to make sure that we, we are in a position that we are, well let me go the second thing, I’ve spoken enough on that.”  Is it the first thing or the second thing, Joe?  While hosting Hillary Clinton on the basement-cam, Biden appeared to fall asleep.  Biden has confused Massachusetts governor Baker with Charlie Parker.  In the friendly confines of The View,  Biden reasoned, “We have to take care of the cure, that will make the problem worse, no matter what.”  Huh?  And Joe’s a constitutional scholar.  Here he is on the preamble to the constitution,“We hold these truths to be selfel-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”  A far cry from the Gettysburg Address.  Apparently forgetting his recent pronouncement that China is not a risk to the U.S., and that his son is in business with the Chinese government, Biden warned, “We need to get tough with China.  China poses a serious challenge to us, and in some areas a real threat.”  Criticism of Biden’s mental state is coming from unexpected quarters.  Anti-Trump writer Ted Rall warns, that Democrats are “engineering the presidential election of a man clearly suffering from dementia.” Biden’s gaffes have prompted CNN and NBC journalist Steve Krakauer to write, “Look, I think we as a society should respect our elders.  But there’s just something wrong with Joe Biden.” After Biden’s Super Tuesday victories, Tucker Carlson noted, “As a smart friend said last night, Joe Biden has spent his entire life trying to succeed in presidential politics, and now he has:  Too bad he’s not there to enjoy it.”  Britt Hume has been even more blunt, “recently we have seen cases in which he didn’t know where he was.  Those are more disturbing because they suggest he may be non compos mentis.  Biden’s message doesn’t play well with millennial voters, “His social media presence is pathetic.”  A NY millennial said, “Vote for me to get rid of Trump” doesn’t resonate with him or his friends.  An ABC and Washington Post survey shows 53% of Trump supporters are very enthusiastic, while only 24% of Biden supporters are enthused.  That spells trouble.  On top of all this, pile the Tara Reade sexual assault accusation.  Biden denies it, but either can’t or won’t remember where Reade’s official Complaint was filed or has been stored.   Biden said it never happened, but then suggested that any records should not be released while he is running for office because, “they could be taken out of context … they could be fodder.”  Context?  Fodder?  This latest scandal has convinced more than 25% of Democrats that they need a new presidential candidate.   Joe Biden has shown a proven ability to hide in the basement, but he can’t run a presidential campaign in the light of day.  For my part, I hope Uncle Joe hangs on.  Once he gets in the ring with the current heavyweight champ, he won’t last 13 rounds.  He can hide, but he can’t run.