The Patriot Post® · The State of the Union, 2021
As of Inauguration Day, gas was at $2.67 (except, of course in California, where it is always at least a dollar more). Interest rates were 2.25% for a 30-year mortgage. The Stock Market closed at 30,829.40 (in spite of a 10-month lockdown). Our GDP growth for the third quarter was 33.1%.
We have not had any new wars or conflicts in the past four years and we were drawing down in Afghanistan. North Korea has not been testing any new missiles and ISIS is a distant memory.
The Housing market is the strongest it’s been in years. And let us not forget the peace deals in the Middle East that the past eight or nine presidents had failed to bring about.
In spite of Covid, unemployment sits at just 6.7%.
Fast on the heels of receiving that email, one of my other correspondents passed along the following scorecard, which sums up the first 50 hours of the Biden-Harris administration:
A loss of 52,000 jobs; an end to energy independence; Canada and Texas are suing over the cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline; Antifa continues to riot in Portland and Seattle; hundreds of National Guard troops had to sleep on the floor of a parking garage in freezing temperatures, with only one bathroom available. (But the White House made them cookies.); created a new glass ceiling for girls, ruining their chances of garnering athletic scholarships by allowing biological males to compete against them; created a new federal property mask mandate, which Biden proceeded to ignore; is allowing illegal immigrants to be counted for representation in Congress; shot down a Trump order to lower the cost of insulin and epinephrine; rescinded Trump’s order banning China’s involvement in the U.S. power grid; $1.6 billion in gross wages lost.
And for good measure, with Trump out of the picture, eight Chinese bombers, four fighter planes and a sub-hunter, just breached Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone, crossing the Taiwan Strait. As a p.s., she added that, thanks to speculation, the price of gas at the pump had jumped 50 cents in two days wherever it is she lives.
The news isn’t any better in Oz, according to one of my two Australian spies. The national broadcasting company, funded with a billion tax payer dollars annually, requires that a Diversity Statement accompany any submission, as well as an agreement that if there is more than one episode produced, it be directed by a woman.
My foreign correspondent wonders who will be hired to direct episodes three, four and five. The mind reels at the possibilities.
It just goes to show that Covid-19 isn’t the only virus capable of jumping from one country to another. All that’s required for a nation to be infected is a faulty immune system brought on by years of caving to various identity groups.
I know that we’re all supposed to be awe-struck by the muscle-bound physiques of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Cuomo. But I always find it a little creepy to see them, sort of like looking at a pig or a chicken with two heads.
The thing is there’s no way to look at such a person and not imagine how many thousands of hours they had to devote to lifting weights. The problem with that is there’s no way to do something else while you’re engaged in lifting those millions of pounds of iron.
You’re not reading a book or carrying on a conversation while doing all that huffing and puffing. You’re not building a house for your family or even a doll house for your daughter.
All you’re doing is lifting a heavy object while ogling yourself in the mirror.
I always wondered how these freaks were able to attract women since the gals must know that the guys could never be as interested in their bodies as they are in their own.
Bob Hunt passed along a meme that read: “25,000 armed troops in Washington, D.C.? Why didn’t they send social workers?”
Karl Rove may finally stop pretending to be a Conservative. Why else would he have declared that Biden’s inauguration was the greatest he’d ever heard?
It has often occurred to me that as architects go, our own home-grown “Architect” may be the least reputable since Albert Speers.
At first it struck me as an odd coincidence, but after I thought about it, it seemed perfectly reasonable that two of the most popular children’s authors, L. Frank Baum and Maurice Sendak, had both worked at designing department store windows long before they wrote “The Wizard of Oz” and “Where the Wild Things Are,” respectively.
It doesn’t seem like such a giant step from creating those phantasmagoric scenes at Christmas, filled with toy trains and Teddy bears, talking dolls and toy soldiers on parade, to creating strange lands where scarecrows speak to tinmen and where a little boy’s bedroom is magically transformed into a jungle filled with ferocious creatures.
After I ridiculed President Biden’s choice to be the Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine (born Richard Levine), I heard from a friend.
She took me to task, as I assumed somebody would. She opened by saying that Dr. Levine is a high qualified and widely respected health professional “who has been getting excellent reviews working for the State of Pennsylvania before being tapped to serve in the new President’s administration.”
After several sentences in which my friend mused on whether Dr. Rachel Levine has gone through hormone treatment or surgical alteration, she continued: “In all likelihood, her long lanky gray hair is not an awful wig, but most likely her own sincere effort to be a feminine person. Please give her a break. There’s no reason to poke fun at her, even if she may be a chick with a dick, as they say. No need for intelligent people to poke fun at those some consider sexually deviant.”
I replied: “I’m sorry, Margaret, but I haven’t reached the stage of spiritual growth where I refrain from making fun of people suffering from sexual derangement.
"Moving on, who is it who’s been giving her such high marks for her work in Pennsylvania? For my part, I assume that nobody working for the state or federal government is among the best and brightest. That’s even more the case since we’ve seen the work being done by Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx on the health front.
"Furthermore, who in the present political climate would dare give Richard/Rachel low marks? I’m serious. These days, that would constitute an act of professional suicide. Also, they would be removed from social media within seconds and be turned into non-persons.
"There are fewer and fewer actual standards of excellence. If you’re a black, Latino, female or any of the various sub-groups of the sexually bewildered, you will be hired first, fired last, and your competence won’t matter in the least.
"The Democrats keep insisting they’re the ones who trust in science and yet they are the ones who insist that biology is merely an unfounded rumor. At last count, the biology deniers have come up with 783 genders, and yet the same people applaud Kamala Harris as the first female vice-president.”
I’ll close with Bob Hunt’s latest pass-along.
One night, a father overheard his little son saying his prayers. “God bless Mommy, Daddy and Grammy. Goodbye, Grampa.” The father thought that was odd.
It was still odder the next day when Grampa died.
About a month later, the father once again overheard his son’s prayers: “God bless Mommy and Daddy. Goodbye, Grammy.”
The next day, they got news that Grammy was gone.
The father began to worry, but he didn’t know what to do about these apparent premonitions.
Two weeks later, the father heard his son say “God bless Mommy. Goodbye, Daddy.”
That alone almost have the father a heart attack.
The next day, the father went to the office, expecting to be struck dead at his desk. At 5:30, he called home and told his wife, he had to work late.
He sat at his desk, sweating it out until midnight. He was still alive!
He finally felt it was safe to go home. As he crawled into bed with his wife, he apologized for being so late. “I’m sorry, honey, I had a really bad day.”
“You had a bad day?! The mailman dropped dead on our porch this morning!”