I skipped Joe Biden’s farewell address Wednesday night. Face it, he’s been checked out for months if not years.
Taking a victory lap after presiding over four miserable years is just further indication the guy has taken complete leave of his senses.
Based on Biden’s history attempting to exit stages or rooms, I’m not sure he’s going to be able to find the White House door without the help of his handlers and maybe some Trump acolytes to boot Scranton Joe in the butt to help him leave.
In a curious bit of timing, Biden is just about gone even as a self-important, largely ineffective group should be heading into the dustbin of history. I refer to Myopia 2025, the group of Johnstown elitists determined to help us heathens too stupid to realize we need their help.
I kick myself for not having broached this subject already. After all, these people did include a year and theoretically a use-by date for themselves.
Yet, although I’ve been making the conscious effort to put 2025 on all checks for weeks now, fully aware it is a new year, I failed to link this to Myopia and that 2025. It took a text exchange with a friend and former co-worker to change that.
There is a bromide about making predictions on such things as investments – if you give a price, don’t give a date. The Myopia types did a good job of keeping promises and goals vague, but they slipped up with the date.
I’m sure Myopia 2025 can and will take credit for many successes. I associate them with failure, like trying to flood the area with Afghan refugees, something that failed under the light of public disclosure, or trying to run one of their own for the state House, yet another failure.
Greater Johnstown remains an area long on crime, but short on economic vitality, presumably things some group like Myopia 2025 would address. Our income levels are pathetic.
But those seem to be a good things when you are fishing around for government grants to pave Central Park or figuratively gild lilies.
I confess to being curious over whether that 2025 part of Myopia 2025 is relevant, so I took the time to check the organization web site.
Under the FAQ (frequently asked questions) area I found it all got started in 2014 or was it 2025. The goals included some of what I presumed earlier.
But, the chilling part is that, despite that 2025 year being included in the group name, this creature plans to live on indefinitely. The words, taken from the web site, are: “There is no end point, per se.”
Imagine if Biden had stumbled to the microphone and said, “Hey, you dog-faced pony soldiers, no joke, I’m not leaving. My term has no end point, per se.”
It seems Myopia 2025 is our equivalent of those Soviet five-year plans of my youth, that accomplished little, other than to spawn more five-year plans.
Maybe there will be new names for the same old stuff down the line? Cataracts 2030? Glaucoma 2035? Astigmatism 2040? Amblyopia 2045?
The underlying mission seems to be unchanged – keeping unelected elites pulling the strings of local power from a base in nonprofits, not for profits, foundations and charities.
Yes, Myopia 2025 is a nonprofit. Surprise.
If we raise a big enough donation, do you think they just might disband?
Better yet, let’s suggest they take their community help elsewhere.
From California to Ukraine, Canada to Mexico, Greenland to Panama, the possible landing places are many.
Anywhere beyond Cambria County would be nice.
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