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File this post under the category of history repeats itself, all life is cyclical and eventually all things come full circle.

Brutal crackdowns by Australian authorities on those who would dare to exercise freedom and oppose mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns have taken on the look of authoritarian oppression. Treatment of the protesters has been violent.

It has all the earmarks of a police state, bringing to mind the historical fact that Australia originally was populated as a penal colony for criminals from Great Britain.

Someone forgot to tell the current government that this no longer is the case.

We are seeing similar protesting pushback in the United States, from those who would argue that the government branding them as lepers, losers and criminals for refusing the questionable COVID-19 vaccinations is not in keeping with minor concepts of freedom such as those promoted in our Constitution.

Historians will note that this country was born in revolution over governmental repression from England that pales in comparison to what we now must endure if we opt not to join the flocks of sheep with their blind obedience to the government needle.

Could history repeat with another revolution? Or, more correctly, could we have another civil war? That possibility, once remote, gains credence with each additional governmental overreach.

Still on the subject of history repeating, with each passing day the Biden regime is looking more and more like the same exercise in incompetence on daily display as when Jimmy Carter bumbled his way through a single term as president.

Biden, who has been branded the Kabul Fool for his ham-handed Afghanistan pullout, seems to be attempting to emulate Carter.

Carter presided over a period of national and military embarrassment (recall the embassy hostages in Iran and our failed attempt to rescue them).

Carter’s term was marked by ramping inflation (have you bought anything lately that hasn’t gone up in price?)

Carter also saw the economy break into recession on his watch, gold and silver prices skyrocket along with interest rates, and the public mood turn into one of despair.

Carter’s administration was remarkable for its lack of polished professionals, which fully describes the Biden regime with its vacations-during-crises staffers and general inability to coordinate messages to push the same propaganda agenda.

The good news is the U.S. recovered quite nicely from the Carter debacle when a God-fearing conservative, Ronald Reagan, was swept into office by a tidal wave of revulsion from those in Middle America for Carter and the political left.

It’s arguable that such a potent political base that reveres traditional values might no longer exist in this Balkanized nation. More to the point, even if it does still exist, can it count on electing its candidates considering the bastardized election system we now have?

Yes, I still think Trump won the past election if you strip out all the fraudulent ballots.

Ideally, the nation could be put back on course with ballots. If that fails, the alternatives are not pretty, either way.

Media members are beginning to ask bumbling Joe Biden tough questions and he’s not holding his composure well under the unaccustomed heat from formerly fawning sycophants.

Where were these kinds of questions during his presidential campaign, when he hid out and said virtually nothing and it all was accepted?

Rifts within the regime, such as unhappiness in the Biden-Kamala Harris marriage of convenience, are being aired publicly.

Why now?

Polls are being published that a majority of Americans question Biden’s mental ability to be president, doubt he’s actually making the decisions, and don’t see Harris as qualified to step into the position.

Where were these people during the election, when these two lightweights allegedly won with record vote totals?

Some see these recent happenings as shocking. They’re actually fairly predictable if you’ve applied critical reasoning to the whole Biden ascent to the Oval Office.

It began when a foundering Biden campaign had life breathed into it from an unholy alliance of lamestream media, social media power brokers and others who made the determination that Biden, for all his shortcomings and ethical baggage, was the only hope of preventing Donald Trump from a second term as president.

The de facto coup attempts from the media and intelligence agencies had failed to remove Trump from office. Biden, if only he could be kept under blankets for much of the campaign, could win if the usual Democratic vote-enhancing apparatus could be magnified to heretofore unseen levels. And it was.

Harris, who had shown herself to be an empty suit during her brief presidential campaign, was viewed as key to swinging women and minorities into the Biden camp, or at least presenting a plausible explanation for any outsized gains Biden might realize in those demographics.

Biden was the beard to enable social justice warriors to get their backup dream, that being a woman of color in a position where she was but a heartbeat from the presidency. Now she wouldn’t need to win an election heading the ticket, just wait like a vulture for Biden’s physical and mental decline to reach a death spiral.

When the time came, and that time seems to be now, the pretense that Biden is capable could be dropped. Throw him to the wolves in the media who have new marching orders. Watch him fumble and bumble under the pressure of the office, and collapse predictably into a puddle of incoherent babble.

All of a sudden the egomaniacal DR. JILL BIDEN would have no helpers in keeping the reality of Joe Biden hidden behind the curtain.

That’s why Biden has continued to be trotted out in public to duck blame and rationalize the chaotic Afghanistan pullout by blaming Trump, gutless Afghan political leadership and military, and any other number of patsies for the debacle.

This isn’t playing well with a skeptical public and Biden’s handlers know it.

If the Biden puppeteers had wanted to keep Joe viable as president, they would have cut off his media exposure after his address to the nation in which he noted – correctly – that it was time to get out of Afghanistan.

It’s the details, and Biden’s consistently pathetic and contradictory rationalizations for the continuing horror stories about that Afghanistan pullout, that are undermining any faith that his acolytes among the public had in him.

Expect Biden to be allowed to continue to twist in the wind as more and more sad tales from Afghanistan get full-blown media coverage from people who formerly asked Biden “hard-hitting” questions about his preferences in ice cream or socks.

When the time is right, Biden’s handlers will leak some damning story to the media, or provide video of him sitting under his desk sucking his thumb, or reveal some Hunter Biden baggage that can’t be explained away.

Or maybe it will be something else, like Biden taking himself out of the picture, citing physical and/or mental problems. But if Biden doesn’t take advantage of that possible out, make no mistake he is being walked to the gallows and one or more of his former allies have their hands on the lever that will open the trapdoor.

All that’s left to be determined is the timing.

Let me tell you about my experience with COVID-19 protocols for visitors at my mother’s long-term care facility, a mishmash microcosm of the misguided and superficial policies being practiced across the nation and around the world.

Mostly, these alleged safety measures are a mixture of the dog and pony show, Potemkin village and kabuki theater.

The phrase all hat and no cattle comes to mind.

First, some history, although one official at the facility at which my mother resides once told me that we have to forget history and look ahead. The fact that we were discussing her facility’s poor history in delivering quality care to my mother on many fronts – in this case, specifically food – probably had a lot to do with her dismissal of history and its relevance.

No visits were allowed at this facility over a sustained period in the recent past to prevent, as we were told at the time, visitors exposing residents to COVID-19. We were assured that the visitation ban would not last long.

I begged to differ and offered the two supervisory types who were telling this to me and my brother that I’d bet them $1,000 each at 10-1 odds it would last longer than a month. I also offered to let them go up and down the hall to get others to bet against me, giving the same 10-1 odds.

There were no takers. Too bad, because I’d have booked a lot of profit.

But my mother did test positive for COVID-19 during the visitation closure. Presumably a staffer had infected her, which was just as I had predicted at the time of the bet offerings.

This is what the odds dictated. If you ever visit a long-term care facility, take note of how few visitors there are. Most of the residents are warehoused — forgotten and/or ignored by friends and family. Staff vastly outnumbers visitors.

My mother, despite being 84 years of age and possessing many pre-conditions that were said to make COVID-19 particularly deadly, fortunately came through without problems.

When the facility re-opened to visitors, it was mandated that masks must be worn to enter the facility and while one is inside the doors. Visits are limited to two visitors at a time in the resident’s room. Visiting hours are only 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There is a sign-in procedure in which names of the visitor and resident, time of entry, and temperature of the visitor are logged. Also various questions are asked. Upon departure, time and temperature again are entered into the log.

The temperature scanning device is suspect, registering me most of the time at 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit. My brother once clocked in at 92.4 or thereabouts, well below the hypothermia threshold of 95 degrees. I’m guessing that was an error.

The temperatures are a running joke with the people who sit at the nearby reception desk. Just today, when my brother and I checked out, me at 97.9 (again) and him with a similarly suspect reading, he remarked that he doesn’t really trust the results and the woman at the desk replied that she doesn’t either.

Then why do them?

There also is a column on the log sheet in which visits are recorded either as accepted or denied. I have seen the column filled out many lines deep beforehand, giving acceptances to people yet to arrive, sign in, or test their temperatures.

Similarly, I have come and gone with no determination of whether the visit I already had made had been approved.

I tell you all this because I am reasonably certain this sort of bureaucratic nonsense is being repeated locally, nationally and worldwide.

Think of how the authorities have flip-flopped on details of whether or not wearing masks helps prevent spread of the virus. Think of the conflicting reports on the effectiveness of vaccines. Think about microscopic percentages of deaths from COVID-19 infections and how we now have headlines blaring numbers of new infections instead of deaths.

Above all, think of how any reports that question the dire assessments of COVID-19, or tell of promising treatments, are censored.

Much of the COVID-19 narrative bears the stench of a psychological operation to keep the citizenry scared and, most of all, compliant.

Against that backdrop, I dutifully don my mask and fill out the log upon each visit to my mother. But I see it for what it is, that being a triumph of style over substance and nothing more.

So much is happening, and there’s so little time to process it all.

The need is real for another installment of news and views.

NEWS: Reports are coming out indicating that the long-running, almost forgotten John Durham investigation into the false Russian dossier regarding Donald Trump may be near to naming names of FBI agents and others who acted improperly in the sham attempt to discredit Trump.

VIEWS: Wake me when something actually comes of this long-running farce, which was supposed to be reported last year. The Hillary Clinton link to the false dossier already has been well-documented, as have assorted misdeeds by our so-called “intelligence community,” that being the same group who assured all that Afghanistan was not going to collapse quickly, but it did. Maybe a little public shaming of these arrogant types would be good for the nation’s collective soul, but somehow that doesn’t seem to be enough.

NEWS: Now that the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan, it is sending people door-to-door to confiscate guns from the citizens because, in the words of one Taliban official as quoted by Reuters “People no longer need them for personal protection.”

VIEWS: That Taliban official sounds a lot like our left-wing radicals here in the good, old USA, who want to ignore the Second Amendment and seize the guns owned by the public because we don’t really need them. Just ask the people in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, or even the Moxham section of tiny Johnstown about the need for law-abiding citizens to own guns despite what progressive socialists maintain. And Joe Biden, who in one gun-control screed during June noted there was no sense in the public being armed here to protect from overzealous government because we in the public don’t possess F-15 fighter jets or nuclear weapons. Neither did the Taliban, but it kicked our collective butts. Take notes, Joe.

NEWS: New Zealand has gone on full lockdown because a single case of COVID-19 has been detected. One, in the entire country.

VIEWS: Just when you thought the likes of California and New York were the best examples of Covidiocy, along comes New Zealand to compete for the crown. Australia, which has been over-reacting longer than New Zealand, is finding lockdowns aren’t working. But just ignore that, stay home, wear five masks, and keep your distance from your friends and family.

NEWS: Crude oil prices have been falling lately, yet gasoline prices don’t seem to be following the trend.

VIEWS: It’s a common occurrence. The purveyors of retail gasoline note that the oil refined to make the gasoline was bought weeks earlier, so oil price declines have a lag before impacting gasoline prices. Fair enough, so why when oil shoots up quickly, within hours gasoline prices are being raised at the pump? You can’t have it both ways, people.

NEWS: Those forward-thinking Taliban types are warning that unless the thousands of American soldiers rushed to Afghanistan to cover the retreat of staff and civilians must be out of the country by Sept. 11 (a date no doubt just arbitrarily picked and not meant to convey any extra meaning).

VIEWS: There’s nothing wrong with Afghanistan that couldn’t be cured by some well-delivered neutron bombs, the kind of lower-yield nuclear devices designed to eliminate the people but spare the buildings and other infrastructure.

The ongoing debacle in Afghanistan is a bi-partisan issue, with plenty of blame to be distributed on both sides of the political isle.

Simply put, Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for the wasted lives, wasted dollars, wasted time, spent, as Joe Biden succinctly put it today, to fight another country’s civil war.

Four U.S. presidents have spent 20 years presiding over the Afghanistan experience.

The lesson learned, one we should have learned long ago, is you don’t fight a war unless you are willing to do whatever it takes to win it unconditionally.

The concept of “limited war” began in Korea. All these years later, that country still is divided into North and South.

Vietnam was another limited war with pathetic outcomes considering the costs in lives and national treasure.

We started out OK in Iraq, but quickly lost our way there. Afghanistan has been Korea and Vietnam rolled up into one seemingly never-ending example of how not to accomplish a goal.

I’m often critical of Joe Biden, but he was clear and concise in this livestream today on the internet that the United States no longer should fight in wars the country’s residents aren’t willing to fight for themselves.

Let us return to a combination of isolationism and Monroe Doctrine. Unless the threats are in this hemisphere, we ignore them.

The situation in Afghanistan is the equivalent of the police officers’ no-win domestic disturbance call. You show up to protect one side and, before you know it, both sides are fighting you.

Afghans are giving the French a run for their “Retreat. We Give Up” crown, earned through military misadventures from Napoleon onward.

Our intelligence services come away looking ridiculous, too, with their time estimates of how long it would take Afghanistan to collapse once Americans no longer were doing the fighting. The promised months disintegrated to hours.

“We could not provide them with the will to fight,” a wistful Biden noted after recounting a list of training, support and payroll the U.S. had invested in a 300,000 man army that collapsed like a tent in a windstorm.

Biden said he won’t be adventurous militarily going forward. Hopefully he can recall saying that in the future, when the cries will go out – as they always do – to intervene in some God-forsaken patch of real estate elsewhere.

It’s time American leadership learns from the lessons of Korea, Vietnam and now Afghanistan. Go big, or stay home.

The left-wing radicals love to toss out any objective measure of a matter, which is why they’ve added the math-is-racist crusade to their progressive wish list.

Much better to argue feelings, emotions, all manner of other intangibles than to be pinned down and required to cite honest statistics. When a numerical measure of a situation is readily available, their default solution too often seems to be to make up some number.

Enter the Centers for Disease Control (And Prevention), our federal propaganda wing that might as well be re-christened Centers for Disseminating Crap (And Prevarication).

The CDC was caught with its hand in the metaphorical cookie jar this week, overstating COVID-19 numbers for Florida, that state being under hard federal attack for failing to bow to virus dictates.

CDC reported COVID-19 case numbers for Florida that had to be reduced by 50 percent (that’s one-half for you people who believe math is racist) after state officials cried foul. How was such an error made?

Good question.

Better question: Why do these errors always seem to be made in the direction that advances the Biden administration narrative?

Recall the guy who died in a motorcycle accident, but tested positive post-mortem for COVID-19 and so was lumped into that category to help bolster the case? That’s become a template.

Second better question: Will we see an avalanche of lamestream media corrections on the matter of this CDC distortion of the Florida numbers?

Don’t hold your breath.

To reiterate, if you don’t like the numbers, make up some that favor your position and hope no one calls you on them.

Because, after all, math is racist.

Clueless Joe Biden got off his script today and reinforced the argument of those who question the soundness of his mind.

Biden was looking to take a victory lap for his half-passed stimulus/infrastructure legislation (getting it through the Senate is only half the battle), but Clueless Joe was asked about his political pal Andrew Cuomo announcing that he will resign – in due time – as governor of New York.

Cuomo has mounting allegations of sexual misconduct against him, some of which have been investigated and substantiated. He also is being investigated for the way he handled the nursing homes in his state during the original COVID-19 crisis and whether death numbers were fudged.

That’s a lot of baggage being carried by a guy who Biden said today did, “a hell of a job” as governor.

Give credit to some of the media on hand who found this incredulous.

Biden was asked how he could say a man with the taint that Cuomo now has did a “hell of a job” as governor? The accusations against Cuomo are interwoven with him carrying out governor duties.

Biden’s handlers, led by the Ginger Mouthpiece, were quick to clarify that Biden was praising Cuomo only for infrastructure gains. But Biden himself threw in “access to voting” and a “whole range of things” in his “hell of a job” statement.

For all we know, Biden believes Cuomo handled the nursing home matter well, too, within that “whole range of things” blanket endorsement.

Clueless Joe sounds like those who were willing to look past the atrocities committed by former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and note that at least “he made the trains run on time.”

To borrow a pet phrase of Biden, Come on, man!

Imagine Biden at a press conference after Nazi war criminal Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

Breathless media questioner: Mr. Biden, how would you rate Hitler’s performance overall in Germany?

Biden: You mean aside from all the stuff he did to the Jews, the millions of innocent civilians whose deaths he had a hand in, the carnage he wrought in Europe? And leaving out any personal foibles?

Breathless media questioner: Yes.

Biden: Well, Hitler did have a hand in the birthing of the Volkswagen Beetle and who among our generation hasn’t owned or ridden in one of those great vehicles?

Ginger Mouthpiece: Of course the president was not endorsing any of Hitler’s atrocities. But I would remind you that, like Mussolini, President Biden is making sure the trains of COVID-carrying illegal immigrants are getting to their United States destinations on time.

Shhhhhhhhh. I’m listening for all the mea culpas, the abject apologies from media, politicians and moronic members of the general populace who were pushing Andrew Cuomo for sainthood.

Where’s lightweight brother “Fredo” Chris Cuomo, the CNN shill for his brother, now that Andrew has announced he will resign – finally – as governor of New York? Fredo is on vacation, a bit of convenient timing.

But what of the other Andrew Cuomo apologists who ignored his misguided COVID-19 nursing home policy, and gave similar short shrift to a lengthy list of females who had accused Andrew of creepy sexual harassment?

How about the cretins who broke tradition (read rules) and got him an Emmy for COVID-19 briefings that were mostly exercises in self-congratulation and blame shifting?

This tinpot dictator can’t even exit the stage without giving himself a 14-day curtain call. His resignation announcement was short on taking responsibility and long on blowing his own horn.

It wasn’t that long ago that a poll found that more than 50 percent of Hollywood types identified themselves as Cuomosexuals, a fawning tribute to a man with feet of clay.

There was talk of Cuomo hopping into the presidential fray in the next election cycle since it’s obvious current officeholder Joe Biden is unlikely even to remember who he is by then, not that this isn’t already a problem.

The only negative to this day is that there aren’t a lot of other prominent Democrats — or Republicans for that matter — with glaring shortcomings similar to Andrew Cuomo’s also being shoved out of the public spotlight.

No doubt Cuomo will land on his feed. Is that CNN on line 2? Maybe MSNBC? There will be other books to be written, corporate boards to be served upon. Maybe he will start up one of those questionable foundations to keep his name in the spotlight.

Bottom line, Andrew Cuomo’s shortcomings appear to go well beyond his admitted penchant for kissing and hugging, which he took great pains to document with an 86-page response to an investigation into his behavior. Only 26 of those pages were text. The rest were collages of Cuomo kissing and hugging men and women.

As some have noted, it’s an interesting defense to sexual harassment allegations for a person to say, in effect, that it’s just something that he does, a lot.

Now that Cuomo no longer will be burdened by those pesky governor duties, he’s free to devote full time to his favorite avocation.

Good luck with that, Andrew. Say hi to Fredo for us.

This just in, we’re all going to die – eventually.

Come to grips with this and life becomes less scary. Then you don’t become obsessed with prolonging your time spent on this spinning ball of chaos, at the expense of enjoying said time.

I’m not advocating diving out of airplanes sans parachute or jumping in front of buses. I also am not advocating sitting at home, cocooned in shrink wrap, wearing a face mask and inhaling vitamin supplements between jabs of the vaccine of the moment.

Somewhere in between is the sweet spot that few seem able to find.

The topic sprang to mind as I sat waiting for a NASCAR truck race at Watkins Glen to finish Saturday afternoon. It sits in a red-flag delay as I type due to lightning in the area.

The odds of any of the vehicles or crew members being struck by lightning should the race continue are infinitesimal. Similarly, odds are good no spectators will take a hit, presuming they do not stand in an open area holding a flagpole and wearing the metal spikes that help turn golfers into lightning rods.

But, in an abundance of caution, a phrase we hear a lot in these litigious and fear-mongering times, the vehicles sit waiting for Mother Nature to move on to other parts.

It wasn’t always this way, and I can speak from personal experience. Four or more decades back, a cousin and I used to make periodic pilgrimages to Watkins Glen to watch racing that sometimes involved a guy we both knew running in the Trans Am series.

On one of those occasions, we were watching a Formula 5000 race – think Indy-style open-wheel cars powered by domestic V-8 engines with a 305-cubic inch limit. These class cars ran from 1968 through 1982.

It began to rain – hard. There was thunder and lightning. The racers’ response was to pit for rain tires, the grooved examples that road racers use to run in the wet. The event continued.

Meanwhile, my cousin and I sat at the top of ALUMINUM !!! bleachers, maybe 50 rows high, situated on a hill, and watched the race.

If you are familiar at all with the Watkins Glen track, we were at the end of the uphill stretch that leads to the Esses, the back straight, and the bus stop (interloop) that slows cars ahead of the sweeping carousel turn.

Al Unser Sr. was leading the race and was clocked at 180 mph in the traps near the end of the back straight. This at a time when due to the rain and the rooster tails of spray shot into the air by the open wheels, you could only the see the front of the lead car and nothing of the trailing vehicles.

As for my cousin and I, we sat on the potential mass electric chair and thought little of personal danger. Only afterward did we give it any notice.

We might have died from a lightning strike, but we didn’t. I might die from COVID-19, but I like my odds there, too.

The hysteria of the pro-vaccine crowd and Orwellian governments only strengthens my resolve.

Their rush to censor anyone who would cite counter opinion smacks of desperation.

Just this past Friday Joe Rogan, speaking on his wildly popular Spotify podcast, mentioned getting feedback from doctors citing concerns that ineffective vaccines, such as the ones we are encouraged to take, can spawn super bugs.

Rogan mentioned a 2015 peer-reviewed study that raised the specter of this in general, not regarding COVID-19, which was a few years in our future.

And the cries are out to cancel Rogan and deny him his platform. He must be punished for being – in a word — correct.

You can’t be allowed to pass on correct information when it differs from the government approved narrative.

The nanny state purports to want to save us from ourselves with vaccines that don’t prevent infection or its spread, don’t kill the disease and now seem to be in need of a nonstop amount of boosters to maintain that ineffectiveness.

Had my cousin and I been at Watkins Glen today, NASCAR would have played the governmental role by saving us from ourselves. First, NASCAR halted the race with a red flag due to lightning, then it called it off 11 laps short of the scheduled distance.

Whether NASCAR was looking to protect the spectators, avoid lawsuits, just clear the decks for the upcoming race at the same track in the more popular Xfinity series, or vacate the cable channel for scheduled Major League Baseball, is open to debate.

What is not open to debate is you and I will die at some future time. Try ignoring the fear merchants along the way and living a little while you wait.

Times get curioser and curioser, producing a crying need for analysis.

Dry those tears, we have yet another edition of news and views.

NEWS: New York City has upped the ante for vaccination discrimination, closing gyms and restaurants to the unwashed, AKA unvaccinated. Expect other liberal citadels to follow and even get more draconian on the people unwilling to take the jab like good little sheep.

VIEWS: There is a mounting pushback movement regarding such governmental over-reaches. A favorite point that is being made more and more is the hypocrisy of requiring vaccination “papers” to go out and eat at a restaurant, while screaming that anyone suggesting voters should provide ID is a racist pig trying to discriminate against people. By the way, non-whites are disproportionately not vaccinated. Similar hypocrisy is opening the southern border and forbidding anyone even to ask an illegal alien about vaccinations.

NEWS: Bigwigs in the Democratic party, including figurehead president Joe Biden, are calling on tainted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign as his alleged sexual misconduct continues to be documented. Cuomo, the one-time hero of the left for his ridiculous handling of the COVID-19 panic in the early days, won’t leave voluntarily.

VIEWS: Just one question: Is Andrew still getting unbiased guidance from little brother Fredo, I mean Chris, the CNN shill masquerading as a journalist?

NEWS: Tamyra Mensah-Stock is getting a lot of positive publicity, and deservedly so, for becoming the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling for the United States, then enthusiastically praising her home country and literally wrapping herself in the U.S. Flag afterward.

VIEWS: This is an athlete a country can cheer for, unlike so many of the virtue-signaling political activists who have sought to use any success in these Games as a political platform. Fortunately, U.S. women’s hammer thrower Gwen Berry embarrassed herself in competition by finishing 11^th of 12 participants in her event, thereby denying her a medal win and chance to embarrass herself further with pathetic symbolic protests such as turning her back on the national anthem.

NEWS: Former president Barack Obama has gotten criticism of late, even from some of his lapdog media members, for a planned 60^th birthday party at a Martha’s Vineyard mansion that would have had upwards of 700 people including guests and staff, even as we are being told to avoid gatherings in yet another COVID-19 scare campaign. Also there has been pushback against Obama for a social media effort by one of his sycophants to raise money for a look-at-me presidential center to fawn over Obama.

VIEWS: I’m surprised (sarcasm) that Obama’s party is at a mansion on the east coast and not being hosted in the South Side of his beloved Chicago, where dodging stray gunfire might have livened up the occasion. The Obama folks have pared the invite list in a bit of virtue signaling to the critics, but haven’t given specifics on the new numbers. I think Obama should be able to invite thousands to his party, but I also think the little people such as me shouldn’t have to walk around with face diapers and listening to threats if we continue to opt not to take the jabs that still are unapproved by the FDA, have proven to be ineffective, and are possibly dangerous as measured by the ongoing protection of manufacturers from legal action in the event of adverse reactions suffered by those who get the vaccines.