Are Dems Finally Waking Up–or Are They Just Scared?<\/a>” then even an idiot knows the jig is up.\u00a0 But COVID true believers aren’t regular idiots they are zealots.\u00a0 They are gonna howl and spit and throw a fit.<\/p>\nAny day now Dementia Joe is going to discover that the pandemic is over and the great pivot will occur.\u00a0 Suddenly he’ll be responsible for freeing the COVID slaves.\u00a0 Never mind that he fought tooth and claw to institute vax mandates and passports.\u00a0 He will be our savior.\u00a0 He’ll probably declare a day of Thanksgiving, “Thank Heaven for Dopey Joe” Day.\u00a0 Parades will wind between the barbed wire walls of DC and bureaucrats will line the streets (still wearing their masks by the way) and cheering the conquering hero standing tall in his Depends.<\/p>\n
The question is will it be enough to get the country to forgive the Dems for ripping a couple of years out of our lives and especially the lives of our children and grandchildren?\u00a0 I’m guessing not.\u00a0 The midterms are very close and masked or unmasked, America still “looks like Yucca Flats after the blast.”\u00a0 Empty store shelves food and fuel at double the price of a year ago. \u00a0The surveillance state investigating our every move.\u00a0 No, I don’t think the people will be in the mood to forgive and forget.<\/p>\n
But Joe will give us one of his stuttering stem-winders that goes on for an hour about how great he is and how lucky we are to have him around.\u00a0 Probably they’ll start another round of arm-twisting Manchin and Sinema into supporting Build Back Better and kill the filibuster and the Steal Elections Bill.\u00a0 They’re not very original but they are persistent.<\/p>\n
So, the Democrats can learn.\u00a0 It only takes six months of ghastly poll numbers for them to completely reverse “the science.”\u00a0 They’ll replace the old lies with new lies and turn on a dime.\u00a0 Fine, I guess if they’re also willing to unleash petroleum drilling and allow us to have reasonably priced fuel then the economy would revive.\u00a0 But that’s a bridge too far.\u00a0 They really believe in the Green Economy.\u00a0 It probably would be a leap of faith to believe that battery cars and solar panels are the cause of all their problems.<\/p>\n
Good.\u00a0 That blind spot is perfectly positioned to lose them the mid-terms and with any luck well beyond that.\u00a0 But for today I’ll just enjoy the fact that the COVID madness is finally being called off.\u00a0 The stupidity and dishonesty have been maddening but even the Democrats finally recognized that they were holding back the ocean with a butterfly net.\u00a0 I’ll start making my plans for summer.\u00a0 I’ve been invited to go up to Yellowstone.\u00a0 It’s a bit of a stretch but I can only imagine the great photos I’ll take, unless I get eaten by a grizzly on day one. Well, that would be exciting!<\/p>\n
Enjoy the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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