It’s Monday, March 22nd, 2021…but before we begin, while we may not agree with every position he takes, we’re firmly with Rand Paul on this one:

Let us state for the record Dr. Faux Chi is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; this does NOT make him the nation’s leading expert in infectious diseases, he’s simply been anointed as such by those who use his personal thoughts and opinions as justification for their destructive, ineffective and unconstitutional seizures of power.

Meanwhile, yet another Wuhan restriction has been modified, as the CDC revises the minimum safe distance we were heretofore assured was absolutely necessary for our very survival.  As TLJ observed, isn’t 3′ about the distance kids sat apart in schools pre-scamdemic?  Which tells us, nothing having really changed regarding COVID and children in the past year, closing schools was utterly unnecessary from the start.

Thus almost everything we’ve heard from the supposed “experts” to date has been so much…

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: For Dr. Faux Chi, so many of the other so-called “experts” and power-hungry, would-be dictators and bureaucrats at every level of government, it’s never been about controlling a virus, rather it’s been all about controlling US!!!

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, courtesy of the New York Post, Matthew Hennessey offers a must-read call to arms, concluding the…

Cancel culture is out of control — and Gen X is our only hope

 

“First it was Huck Finn. Then it was JK Rowling. Last week it was “The Muppet Show.” This week it’s Dumbo. It’s only a matter of time before “Star Wars” gets canceled and you know it. 

Will Gen X please stand up? I have something I want to say to you — to us. 

We grew up in a country that didn’t ban books. We all agreed that witch hunts and blacklists were bad. Censorship was an outrage. The 1980s were not that long ago. Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about. 

So obviously we’ve got a problem here. Everybody can see it. Everybody knows where it’s heading. What we don’t have — yet — is a group of people who are willing to do something about it. 

I nominate us.

…Gen X needs to realize something: Nobody is going to ride to the rescue. Harrison Ford isn’t going to show up in the final act to save the day. No politician or celebrity is capable of turning back the woke millennial tide with a sharp tweet or a snappy speech. 

The cavalry is us. We are the ones who have to fight the cancel culture (rhetorically, of course). We will have to engage in a thousand tiny battles every day and it will be terribly uncomfortable. It’ll be hard standing up to school administrators pushing an “anti-racist” curriculum on your kids. It’ll take real courage to refuse to call yourself a bigot and to denounce the people who raised you. 

If we can’t find the guts to do this dirty job, the second half of our lives is going to look very different than the first half did. We will taste life in Siberia. Our children and our children’s children will be forced to navigate a miserable, paranoid world of lies and deception. They will be asked to spy on their own parents. They will denounce their friends. 

Don’t let it happen. We are a generation with a certain set of skills. We can read a map. We can tell time on an analog clock. We can get along just fine without social media. And we know deep down that sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you.

The most important thing about us is that we remember how things used to be. How it was not to be afraid to speak your mind. As the Shawshank man said, you either get busy living, or get busy dying.“

What we included above is just the introduction and the conclusion: There’s so much more in between.

Unlike what lies betwixt the ears of the subject of this next video, which you’ve undoubtedly already viewed multiple times:

Here’s the juice: If 46* weren’t the very personification of evil, we might be tempted to feel sorry for him.  But as he is…

…we’ll save our sympathy for the country.  BTW, the White House blamed The Groper’s stumbling and bumbling on the wind…which was howling at a slightly-less-than-hurricane force of 14 mph.  Yeah…

Next, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty suggests…

Ron DeSantis is Getting Closer to Receiving His Apology

 

“Rich Lowry, May 20, 2020: “Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology?”

Politico, apparently. Its evening newsletter, last night:

…after 12 months in which he was pilloried as a reckless executive driven more by ideology than science, dogged by images of crowded beaches and bars and derided as “DuhSantis,” “DeathSantis” and “DeSatan,” Florida has fared no worse, and in some ways better, than many other states — including its big-state peers.

The most controversial policies DeSantis enacted — locking down later and opening up earlier, keeping nursing homes closed to visitation while insisting schools needed to be open to students, resisting intense pressure to issue a mask mandate — have ended up being, on balance, short of or even the opposite of ruinous.

Now…will anyone in the national media learn anything from this experience?“

Though, were we Governor DeSantis, we wouldn’t be holding our breath waiting for apologies from anyone on The Left.

Speaking of those owed apologies by all concerned, when should Texas governor Greg Abbott expect his?

And in International News of Note, Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa reports…

In First Big China Test, Team Biden Got Rolled…And It’s Painful to Watch

 

We’re thinkin’ Wynken or Nod should have gotten the call over Blinken.

Meanwhile, in a forward from Balls Cotton, The Babylon Bee details how, given the emphasis of 46*’s modern military…

Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops

 

Since we’re on the subject of Asia, via FOX, the AP informs us how, tragically,…

Asian Americans grieve, organize in wake of Atlanta attacks

6 of the women killed at three Atlanta-area massage parlors were Asian

 

“Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks (WHAT “pandemic-fueled racist attacks”?!?) when a White gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.

Hundreds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders turned to social media to air their anger, sadness, fear and hopelessness. The hashtag #StopAsianHate was a top trending topic on Twitter hours after the shootings that happened Tuesday evening.

“I think the reason why people are feeling so hopeless is because Asian Americans have been ringing the bell on this issue for so long…We’ve been raising the red flag,” said Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood, executive director of the Atlanta-based Asian American Advocacy Fund, which does political and advocacy work across Georgia.

Many were also outraged that the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, was not immediately charged with hate crimes. Authorities said Long told police the attack was not racially motivated, and he claimed that he targeted the spas because of a “sex addiction.” Six of the seven slain women were identified as Asian. (The eighth was an Hispanic male.)

Law enforcement needs “some training understanding what a hate crime is. This man identified targets owned by Asians,” said Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. The gunman “was very clearly going after a targeted group of people.”…”

You’re right: Yes, Long was “very clearly” targeting a group of people: MASSAGE PARLOR WORKERS!!!  Besides, if Long were after businesses owned or staffed by Americans of Asian heritage, he’d have targeted nail salons and dry cleaners.

And Terry McAuliffe’s bizarre expression of sympathy to the “AAPI community” aside…

…Considering, as Tucker points out in our Video of the Day (accessible through link #2 immediately below our Quote of the Day at the top of the page), two of those shot were of neither Asian nor Pacific Islander heritage, so why would anyone but massage parlor workers be seriously affected by the shootings?

Moving on, submitted for your perusal, eight items specifically selected for the inquiring mind:

(1). Michael Knowles warns of what’s coming soon to city, county, state and country very near to you!

(2). Courtesy of James Nichols, this video from Kansas senator Roger Marshall shows just how easy it is to illegally enter America., leaving us to wonder why the Border Patrol isn’t waiting on the other side to detain and return them after confiscating or destroying their boats.

(3). Apparently, you can’t work in Joe Biden’s White House if you’ve smoked marijuana.  Soooo…who’s gonna to tell him about Kommielaa?

(4). In response to Oregon’s Sedona Prince complaining online about disparities between the men’s and women’s NCAA tournament weight rooms, long-time reader, contributor and Oregonian Bill Meisen insightfully observed, “Congratulations: Now more people will have seen your weight room than one of your games.”

(5). In what is surely a coincidence, just as his recall battle intensifies, Gavin Newsom is finally admitting some coronavirus ‘communication’ errors.

(6). G. Trevor informs us how the FBI used a SWAT team, armored vehicles and automatic weapons to arrest a man involved in the Capitol riot.  As The Last Refuge noted:

“Essentially the FBI continues to send a message to the larger electorate. They use these aggressive tactics against people based on their politics. There are no honorable “rank and file” in the modern FBI; the entire institution is compromised.”

To which G. Trevor added:

“Burn down Portland? Conspire to take over part of the city? Attack federal buildings? Meh. Attend the Jan 6 Trump rally and dare to enter The Capitol? No-knock, early am, door-bash SWAT team entry and arrest with multiple vehicles and automatic weapons. Seems fair.“

Not to mention eminently equitable…provided one lives in…

(7). In a rare instance of contemporary judicial sanity, the D.C. superior court granted National Review’s motion to dismiss climate scammer Michael Mann’s long-running defamation suit.  

(8). We don’t know which is the worst: (i) The CBP, evidently unaware of the critical climate crisis, seeking to fly illegal immigrants to the Canadian border for processing amid “the Surge”; (ii) the same organization, inexplicably ignorant of the COVID crisis, catching and releasing anyone claiming to be seeking asylum into the general population without as much as a Notice to Appear OR a negative Wuhan test; or, (iii) their boss, obviously overlooking the fact the country’s broke, authorizing some $86 million for hotel rooms to house illegals while millions of supposed “homeless” citizens sleep on the street.

Reports illegals will be flown Business Class and receive complementary room service remain unconfirmed.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Balls Cotton…

…along with one from Speed…

…this total truism from Geoff Griffith…

…as well as this string of Conservative consciousness courtesy of Ed Hickey:

And last, but certainly not least, we’ll call it a wrap with The Transgender Song, courtesy of Marcus Aurelius:

We’ll be in an all-day concealed carry refresher course on Tuesday, so while we’ll try to get out a Wednesday edition, we may not publish again before Friday.  Either way, ’til then…

Magoo

Video of the Day

We respectfully disagree with Tucker on one point: CHINA didn’t destroy our economy; AMERICAN POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS destroyed our economy.

Tales of The Darkside

Since we’re on the subject of the menacing mindset of government, John Stossel nails it with this exposé of bureaucratic bumbling at its worst.

On the Lighter Side

Minus the music, this is our favorite version of what really made Groper Joe stumble on the steps of Air Farce 46*.