New Year's Greetings & Wishes!

Happy New Year to my grand and wonderful readers!

Let's shake the dust of 2021 off of our shoes and get

ready to welcome 2022! Great prospects lie ahead on

our political front, and there will be many other beautiful 

blessings awaiting us as well. 

One of my most beautiful blessings is having you all for 

my readers! My health is getting better and this will 

translate into more and better blog posts for you to 

enjoy. 

We shall meet again here after New Year's Day, and 

rigorously examine the news of the day as always.

May you all have a fantastic New Year's Eve and a 

terrific New Year's Day! 

MEM

A Very Merry Christmas!

Your favorite Peasant wishes all of you, my dear, 

wonderful readers, a most Merry Christmas!

May you be able to get together with all of your 

family and friends, have a grand Christmas dinner, 

light a Yule log, sing Christmas carols and 

contemporary Christmas songs, make out under 

the mistletoe, and engage in that most eagerly 

anticipated Christmas activity of all, exchanging

and opening Christmas gifts --- some open them

on Christmas morning, some do so on Christmas 

Eve. 

But let us not be remiss in acknowledging the 

Reason for the Season, the Christ in Christmas!

It is the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, our 

Lord and savior, who had come into our world 

to show us a better way and to live our lives 

thus. And let us never, ever, be ashamed nor

apologetic about proclaiming this day as what

it in fact is: Christmas. Some people may find 

that offensive to their politically correct 

sensibilities; Jesus Christ and the magic of 

the day and the season are stronger and more 

soul nourishing and fulfilling than their 

shriveled, restrictive, dictatorial, and 

narrow political notions. After all, it's Christmas,

for Christ's sake! And Christmas with all its

heavenly brightness has illuminated our oftentimes

dark world long before political correctness and 

"wokeness", its jumped-up version, came into being; 

we must never be reticent about this beautiful, sacred

day nor the man, who was more than mere man, 

for whom the day was named. Neither government

edicts regulating our ability to gather in our houses 

of worship or in our own houses with family and 

friends, nor bands of radical thugs can force us to

abandon our traditions, our practices, nor our faith

in something higher, bigger, brighter, and more

soul nourishing than the realms of government, 

entertainment, or anything else devised by man.

Rest assured that Christmas will be around long 

after this gruesome twosome has died out! 

Something good, so incredibly and indescribably 

good, will come out of what we as a nation are going 

through at present, and nothing will be able to stop it.

And the fetters of authoritarianism, totalitarianism,

and radicalism will crumble into dust.

God bless us, everyone! 

From Tiny Tim, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

MEM

 

Bob Dole, R.I.P.

Ten days ago a statesman who never made it to the presidency

nor the vice presidency yet still left an indelible mark on our

country and our politics passed away; Retired U.S. Senator

Robert J. Dole was 98. 

The native Kansan made service the core of his life. Service in

the Army,  the Kansas state legislature, the House of Represen-

tatives, and the Unites States Senate (where he was at various 

times Senate Majority leader and Senate Minority leader), an

advocate for various charitable causes and organizations, 

and in his political career was an advocate for and practitioner 

of bipartisan cooperation and teamwork. While being highly

critical of his Democrat colleagues, the Republican Senator

Dole made friends with and worked closely together with 

many of them to pass important legislation for, to name but

one effort, an international school lunch program to help

impoverished children around the world, for which Dole 

and Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) were awarded the 

2008 World Food Prize. What made the receiving of this

honor was the fact that Dole was one of the most conservative

members of the Senate when he was a member while

McGovern was one of the most liberal senators (some say 

THE most liberal senator). They bridged the partisan gap 

to do phenomenal work together. 

Dole earned two Purple Hearts for his grievous injuries 

as well as the Bronze Star with a "V" device for valor 

while serving in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in

Italy during WWII. He never regained the full use of his right

arm, but never regretted his efforts to gain victory in battle;

he would later write a war autobiography about his battle 

experiences and his battle to regain as much of the use of 

his wounded areas of his body that he could.

Dole also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by 

President Bill Clinton, to whom he lost the 1996 presidential 

election. Dole made many friends and forged alliances with 

people that held much different politics and political ideas.

Your faithful Peasant knows of no one from either major

political party today who has picked up where Bob Dole left 

off in this regard. 

Farewell to a unique statesman and a great American.

Requiescat in pace.

MEM

Pearl Harbor: Eighty Years On

This week contains the 80th anniversary of the attack

on Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval installation in Hawaii;

the day was yesterday, while today is the 80th anniversary

of the day that the United States formally entered WWII

by declaring war on the Imperial Japan, as it were the 

Japanese planes of their air force and navy that attacked us.

Our military didn't hesitate to respond, and after nearly four

full years of fighting against not only the Japanese but 

Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy we had defeated the Axis

powers to win the war. Our people had the grit, the deter-

mination, and the will to build their fighting forces at a 

breakneck pace to ready to fight our foes. Victory --- 

total and absolute --- was the goal; failure was never 

an option, nothing less than victory no matter how long

it would take.

Fast forward a few decades, and one sees that we had 

walked away from Afghanistan, leaving her army, her

people, and some of our people abandoned and vulnerable

to the Taliban, which quickly blitzed it way over the land

to take control of the beleaguered country. All because 

our current president thought it would be politically popular

to bring the troops home after their being away for so long. 

Never mind the fact that we had beaten back the terrorist 

forces in Afghanistan and were still working with the Afghan

army to get them to be able to fend off their enemies on 

their own; sadly, they were not at that point when our troops

were brought home in a swift exit.

Presently, the Communist Chinese have built up and modernized

their navy and have developed a budding nuclear arsenal. Their 

navy has surpassed the U.S. Navy as the world's largest navy

(they have had for some years, and still have the world's largest army) 

and they are making menacing overtures to Japan, South Korea,

and of course Taiwan. Two survivors of the bombing of the 

USS Arizona, which now serves as a monument and has a chapel

just above the waterline to offer up prayers for the rest of the ship's

crew, entombed below in the submerged wreckage. I have a nagging

question: If we were to soon go to war against China, would we

battle on to victory as we did in WWII, or would we just walk away

and go home like we did in Afghanistan? Would the pair of USS

Arizona survivors see us fight as doggedly as we did in their 

war, or would they see us leave the region and our allies to what

might be a sorry end, thinking nothing of it? Would they have 

a last earthly memory of our being brave and gallant, or would

their final memory in their lives be of their country turning its 

back on its duty and its friends? 

MEM

Climate Change Chicanery

Well over a decade ago former Vice President-turned-climate-
change-huckster Al Gore warned us that we are "true planetary
emergency" and "unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse
gases (were) taken within the next ten years, the world (would)
reach a point of no return." Not unlike the ever-failing gambler
who claims that the next roll of the dice, the next flip of a card,
the next horse race will result in the payoff of his strategy and
the bucks will come rolling in like a tidal wave, global warming
fearmongers never reflect on their past erroneous predictions,
always instead looking toward the future and the validation of
their wild prognostications. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) claimed that "the world was going to end in twelve years
if we don't address climate change." Unlike Gore, she attempted
to do a CYA by following up with claiming that she was engaging
in "dry humor and sarcasm" when she issued her warning.
No go for both Gore and AOC.  

Now comes a bitter-sounding, self-righteous 16-year-old girl from
Sweden, Greta Thunberg, who led a worldwide children's strike,
resulting in many schoolchildren skipping school to join said strike
against inaction on climate change. Her high on emotion, low on
facts and logic speech at the United Nations' Climate Summit
on September 23 was a Tour de Force in public hysteria which
was of course hyped to the heavens by the lamestream media
with their shared hope that governments the world over, including
the United States, would at last "do something". 

Now, climate change is a phenomenon that should certainly be
observed and studied; Mother nature can sometimes be in high
dudgeon with her behavior causing a catastrophe somewhere in
the world (hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, etc.),
but two things should always be remembered: These events
have nothing to do with any actions of humanity, or the lack
thereof, contrary to the dogmatically held beliefs of the
enviro-alarmists, and that the scare-tactics of a child likely
coached and verse-fed by grownups with nefarious intent,
scaring both impressionable youth as well as adults who
should know better. Con artists like our former Vice President
are bad enough; we certainly don't need children programmed
and pimped by malicious mischief-makers pestering us as well. 


MEM

Thanksgiving Through the Tears

Thanksgiving shall be here the day after tomorrow, and it will

be observed with a tinge of sadness. Just the day before yesterday,

Waukesha, my county seat and a Wisconsin city that I have a long

history with, held its Christmas parade --- the biggest Christmas

parade in the state since Milwaukee discontinued theirs. It was 

always a joyous event, but this year it had a tragic twist: 

a driver of an SUV sped through the parade route on Main Street,

and ran into and over many participants and attendees. Five have 

died, while over forty (the count at the present time) are injured,

some severely. As more details regarding this tragedy are made 

known your sorrowful Peasant will update you, my loyal readers.

In the meantime, count yourselves lucky and be thankful that you

are safe and sound wherever you are, and give thanks for being so

as well as for all the good and beautiful things in your lives --- 

your families, your homes, your jobs, your physical, emotional,

financial, career, social, romantic and every kind of health that

a human being can possibly have. For all in this world is fleeting,

and it and we can go at any time. Let us, then, enjoy our many 

blessings while we can, and let's hug our spouses, children, 

brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, parents, grandparents, all our

family members, and our pets, as many of us count our dear

cats, dogs, and other pets as family too (I certainly count my

lovely cat Brownie as family!). For before very long our time

draws to a close, and believe me time zips by before we realize

it's gone. We can depart anytime, anywhere at all. 

Your thankful Peasant is overjoyed about the blessings I have 

been given. And that includes each and every one of you, my

wonderful readers!

MEM

Go For Broke; Make 'em Go Broke!

Saule Omarova is President Biden's nominee for Comptroller

of the Currency. And she has an idea for combating climate 

change.

In a video interview that she gave last February this Cornell 

professor was talking about U.S. national investment authority.

She sounds like someone Biden would nominate for Comptroller

or a similar position. The conversation oddly turned to climate 

change and how it would affect fossil fuel producers. She said

the most breathtaking statement regarding the smaller ones in the 

field: "A lot of the smaller players in that industry are going to,

probably, go bankrupt in short order --- at least, we want them 

to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change.  

Now let Omarova's words sink in. She wants to put some businesses

out of business, chucking heretofore working employees out the 

door, interrupting their means of making a living for their families

and themselves just to enact some crackpot program which will not,

despite its billing, solve climate change. Her attitude is,

I want to get this program to fight climate change up and running,

and if it hurts some workers by depriving them of their paychecks

and benefits, it's no big deal because these peasants, their families

and all, are no big deal. 

Omarova then added that the establishment of a National Capital

Management Corporation would make things better by "becom(ing)

a kind of equity investor at that point, taking over management of

those companies and basically leading them through restructuring 

to a new technological business model". Got that? First, put the

private firms out of business, then get government central planners

working on restructuring them in a way that would suit the political

class' tastes. The peasants in the private sector, you see, are far too

stupid, let alone insensitive to the environment and the climate to

allow them to continue to work and to allow them and their businesses

to keep functioning the way they have always done. Government 

knows everything; the peasants know nothing. 

As Comptroller Omarova would have lots of authority to regulate 

banks. She is signaling that her fondest wish is to refuse capital to the 

companies she despises and wants to see go bankrupt. Par for the  

modern Democrat Party apparatchik. Thanks and praise to the 

Wall Street Journal for their article in their editorial section shining 

light on her power lust and her grandiose scheme. Now We the People 

must contact our senators and tell them to vote her nomination down. 

MEM

Regarding Veterans Day ...

Once again, your humble and grateful Peasant wishes 

to thank our courageous veterans from all our military's

branches, who fought in the most recent wars which our

country was involved in, serving our United States of

America with bravery, dedication, and grit --- making

many sacrifices along the way; all gave some, while 

some gave all. 

As I have paid tribute to all our wonderful vets on this 

blog on Veterans Days past, I ask myself "What more 

can I say?" So I'll just say here today, this Veterans Day:

*If you like speaking your mind, thank a vet!

*If you enjoy the services at your house of worship, 

thank a vet!

*If you like going hunting with your shotgun or rifle,

thank a vet!

*If you appreciate being able to defend yourself, your 

family, your home or your business with same, thank a vet!

*If you enjoy your liberty, your very freedom which is

yours by virtue of being a citizen of this great and magnificent

country, birthed in bloodshed and nourished in trials and

soul-trying circumstances, springing up through the soil

of shifting fortunes and human machinations like a bright

and beautiful flower with generations of veterans the gardeners

helping the flower along, THANK A VET! 

Remember, as The Peasant says: Freedom isn't free; freedom costs.

But freedom isn't a luxury, it's a necessity! And our vets have 

always paid the price without counting the cost.

MEM

Big Brother's Kid Sister

The negotiations over the $3.5 trillion (more likely $4 trillion)

so-called Infrastructure Bill of President Biden's and his fellow

Democrats are foremost on the minds of many in Washington

but Biden has another bee in his bonnet: Supercharging the 

regulatory state. Toward that end, he has nominated progressive

(read: radical left-winger) Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communi-

cations Commission. Biden and his White House crew have 

praised Sohn as "one of the nation's leading public advocates

for open, affordable, and democratic communication networks."

Translated into truth-speak, this statement of enthusiastic 

support means Sohn is in favor of utilizing the FCC's regulatory

power to handcuff broadband providers and to diminish 

the First Amendment rights of conservatives. 

Sohn founded Public Knowledge, a lefty group that has long 

worked for increased government control of the internet as 

well as the media in general. She was a major force in the 

battle to enact the "net neutrality" regulation which classified

broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the

Communications Act of 1934, as well as the Wheeler rule, 

created by Obama FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler (to whom 

Sohn was a counselor) which banned broadband carriers 

from charging heavy-bandwidth using websites. i.e. Facebook

higher prices to carry their content. You know the lefties' rule

regarding a company making a profit; profits must be punished

and restrained in the name of economic justice. Broadband 

investment declined, before making a comeback when then-

President Trump's FCC tossed out the Wheeler rule. 

Progressives want the government to regulate broadband rates

like electricity prices, and Sohn is rather warm to the idea.

Furthermore, Sohn is certainly no friend of the First Amendment

as she is very keen on using the FCC's regulatory power to 

censor conservative media and revive a version of its antiquated

and outmoded Fairness Doctrine which made sense in the days of 

far fewer television and radio stations and the internet was not 

yet invented, but not today now that there are dozens of internet

sites, more television networks, and more radio networks as well.

Sohn especially has it in for Fox News: "For all my concerns

about #Facebook, I believe that Fox News has the most negative

impact on our democracy." Could Sohn be concerned about more

American TV audience members turning conservative, therefore

eschewing the Liberal Establishment media and their dreck?

Horrors! 

Additionally, Sohn has suggested using the FCC's power over 

broadcast licenses to censor conservative outlets, such as Fox

News. She claims to be a supporter of "a diversity of voices in

the media" but doesn't want to extend that diversity to conservatives.

That's the left-wingers' idea of diversity: everyone, regardless of

racial, gender, gender-preference, and other classifications make

a mighty chorus, but no righty voices are welcome and no one 

in the chorus is allowed to sing from the conservative songbook.

The FCC is currently evenly divided, 2-2, and if Sohn is confirmed

(and she definitely should NOT be!) the Dems will make a 

blitzkrieg to enact the progressive agenda in the agency. Biden 

will be all too happy to do this favor for the predominant progressive

wing of the Democrat Party, as they helped him to get elected,

reasoning that at least Biden is not anything at all like Trump. 

If these people get their way, the First Amendment will be on 

its deathbed.

Sohn clearly cannot be placed on the FCC. Furthermore, Biden may

make her Chairwoman as soon as she is safely aboard the FCC

ship. He's done something like this before, nominating and getting

far left-wing Lina Khan on the Federal Trade Commission, then

making her the FTC's Chairwoman. 

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing

next week. All senators on the committee should ask her some tough,

probing questions, regardless of their party affiliations, for this is not a 

matter of political loyalties; this is a matter of adherence to and 

preservation of constitutional law. 

MEM

Captain Kirk Gives a Royal A**whooping

A follow-up to the story of William Shatner's trip

to outer space: the actor who played Captain Kirk

on Star Trek has gotten into a shootout with Prince

William of Great Britain, who recently made some 

pointed remarks about Shatner's record-setting trip.

In an interview with a BBC reporter, Prince William

Stated "We need some of the world's greatest brains

and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not

trying to find the next place to go and live." He then

followed his missive with a crack about Shatner's 

spaceship having created a carbon footprint while

making a flight for the purpose of leisure. Really?

To begin with, there are precisely no inhabitants of 

our planet seeking to move to another planet. Zero,

zip, nada. As for the alleged carbon footprint, the rocket

carrying Shatner and a few other passengers was  

powered by liquid hydrogen and oxygen. 

An atmospheric scientist told LiveScience.com just last

July that "The main emissions will be water and some 

minor combustion products, and virtually no CO2."

So much for carbon footprints. Now, building the 

rocket and sending it into space does create some 

carbon emissions, but not to the degree that Prince

William and other like-minded people claim.

Besides, putting on a royal wedding with a bunch of

guests from around the world and a military flyover

produces much more carbon emissions, Billy Boy.

So what was William Shatner's response to Prince 

William? In an interview with Entertainment Tonight,

Shatner remarked "He's a lovely, gentle, educated man,

but he's got the wrong idea, the idea here is not to go, 

'Yeah, look at me, I'm in space!' " Shatner also said that 

the Blue Origin flight was just another "baby step" into

the heavens. And your favorite Peasant would like to add

that the aforementioned space flight, along with all of 

those that took place before, let alone all of the earthly 

journeys to see what is on other continents and on the 

other side of our world raises human ambitions, including

helping its human inhabitants to increase their knowledge 

and understanding of the world. Does Prince William 

believe that this is a bad thing, or didn't he consider 

this truth? Pity he didn't do the latter before flapping

his royal yap.

In closing, isn't it better to have American billionaires 

competing with NASA and with other nation's

governments for the business of space travel, much like

air travel in airplanes? And to have other billionaires from

other countries such as Richard Branson in this field of

endeavor as well? I always thought that competition 

between providers of goods and services was a good thing.

What say you, Prince William? 

MEM

Life Imitating Science Fiction

William Shatner, the actor best known for his role 

as Captain James T. Kirk, skipper of the Enterprise

in the original Star Trek TV series and movies, has

ventured into outer space many times in this renown 

franchise. Now, at the age of 90 (!) no less, Shatner

has taken a trip into that boundless place of legends 

and unforgettable tales for real, becoming quite the

legend himself as among other things being the oldest

man in space.

Shatner made the trip in conjunction with Jeff Bezos,

founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, the latter a private 

space company that planned and arranged the trip.

A deeply moved and very grateful Shatner told the

multi-billionaire entrepreneur "What you have given 

me is the most profound experience ... I'm so filled 

with emotion about what just happened ... it's extra-

ordinary, extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this."

This adventure may never have happened for the veteran 

actor if all space exploration were still being run by the

government via NASA; now such efforts are being 

accomplished by private entrepreneurs such as Bezos

(who also happens to be one of the wealthiest people on 

the planet), along with Richard Branson and Elon Musk.

Less hurdles to clear this way. And get this, Bezos says

that he was partly inspired to found Blue Origin by 

"Star Trek", which he enthusiastically watched as a boy.

This monumental venture made two journeys: a private

sector originated flight from Earth into outer space,

and a flight from science fiction adventure into real life.

These people have proved beyond all doubt that dreams 

really can and do come true. Especially when one lives 

in a country where you can be whatever you want to be, 

do whatever you want to do, and accomplish whatever 

you want to accomplish provided that you have the dream,

the desire, the courage and the will. Congratulations to

William Shatner, his shipmates, and to Jeff Bezos.

MEM

Colin Powell, R.I.P.

This past weekend we lost a great soldier, statesman and 

diplomat; Gen. Colin Powell, leader of our military forces 

in the Gulf War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 

National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, 

as well as a member of three Republican presidential 

administrations, passed away after battling

Parkinson's disease, cancer and coronavirus. 

Eighty-four years of age at the time of his death, Powell

led a full life not merely in terms of longevity but of

accomplishment. He was the first black Secretary of State

as well as the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 

of Staff, a double record. Respected by members of both

the Republicans and Democrats, Powell was also known 

for his modesty, optimism and sense of humor. He never

let his considerable career success go to his head. 

With the late Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as his executive 

officer, the two field leaders created the battle plan which

helped the United States and her allies win the Gulf War 

in just six weeks. American forces captured and marched 

off the surviving members of Iraq's Elite Army forces,

right after Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein promised that 

his elite soldiers would bring about "The Mother of all

battles" and that his forces would produce a huge 

surrender by the U.S. and allied forces. Although Saddam 

was right about the battle and the surrender, he was wrong 

about which side would give up. 

In addition to his work regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, 

Powell involved himself in other aspects of U.S. foreign

policy, including improving bilateral relations with China 

and Russia. Powell also worked to withdraw the U.S. 

from the U.S.-Russian Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Furthermore, Powell also pushed for international cooperation

for North Korea and Iran to end their nuclear weapons program.

He successfully helped bring about Libya's nonproliferation

of nuclear weaponry in 2003, a feather in both his and President

George W. Bush's hats. While in the Second Bush cabinet, 

Powell also urged President Bush to increase his commitment

to the international fight against AIDS.

Born In Harlem, New York to Jamaican parents and joining 

his college's ROTC program, graduating at the top of his class 

at the City College of New York and achieving the top rank of

cadet colonel, Powell was a decorated soldier in the Vietnam 

War, earning a Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and the Soldier's 

Medal. From his military career he began a career as a diplomat

and an indispensable member of three administrations. His life

is a sterling example of how one can achieve success in the 

United States through hard work and relentless effort. In his

own way, Colin Powell achieved the American Dream. 

Sir, you have done your country proud. You have been a model

to be emulated by the current and coming generations of

Americans. Rest in Peace. 

MEM

Being Educated by the Uneducated

Here is a little news item which brilliantly illustrates
why celebrities, especially those who politically tack
left, are not very good moral arbiters, nor are they good
teachers of recognizing and exposing abuses of human
rights in the world. Although the story began two years ago, 

things have not improved, for the players in this 

morality play not only haven't grown wiser, they have 

gone off on other far-left tangents. 

First, the backstory: in recent years, the National Basketball
Association and China have formed sports and commercial
ties; some Chinese basketball stars were signed by NBA
teams, the most famous player from the Land of the Hidden
Empire being Yao Ming, the imposing center who played
several seasons for the Houston Rockets. Soon, some of
the Chinese stars playing in the U.S. were signed to endorse-
ment deals for athletic wear and other things. Chinese teams
came over to play exhibition games with American teams.
And both countries made loads and loads of money all
the while. 

On October 4, 2019, Daryl Morey --- general manager of the 
Houston Rockets --- tweeted an image with the caption
"Fight for Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong." The reference
was to the battles raging in the streets of Hong Kong between
the brave citizens of the former British territory and the
Communist government who have been tightening its
control over the once-autonomous city-state, whose
autonomy the Chinese communists promised to respect
and not interfere with (a "pie crust promise", if ever there
was one). When the Chi-Coms heard about the tweet they
pitched a royal one all the way from Beijing, retaliating
against the Houston Rockets and the NBA, both of which
have considerable commercial interests in China, and have
had such for quite a while. The Rockets, the other teams
 and their owners, and the league bigwigs themselves all
came down not on the side of Mr. Morey, but on top of him,
figuratively stomping him into the ground for his tweet,
which he soon afterward deleted. Then the Los Angeles
Lakers' LeBron James, one of the league's biggest stars,
put in his two cents (and your infuriated Peasant wouldn't
give two cents for James' two cents!) with these comments:
"We all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are
ramifications for the negative that can happen when you're
not thinking about others and you're only thinking about
yourself," and followed that up with "I don't want to get
into a word- or sentence-feud with Daryl Morey, but I
believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and
he spoke."

So, if your inquisitive Peasant understands LeBron James'
missive, if Morey spoke out in favor of the Chinese
communist government, voicing support for the Chi-Coms'
crackdown on the Hong Kong protesters regardless of
their chosen tactics and their brutality, James would then
think Morey to be well-informed and truly "educated" on
the situation there. And, James has a problem with anyone
publicly uttering any statement of support for the brave
Hong Kong freedom activists being gassed, clubbed,
tased, maced, and arrested for standing up to one of the
world's most totalitarian governments. The totalitarians
in Beijing certainly have a problem with such statements
spoken about them, as they cannot abide the truth about
themselves. So, they put pressure on the whole of the NBA
to bring Morey to heel, to shut him up about the Chinese
and how they are conducting themselves in Hong Kong.

But it is LeBron James and the servile, money-chasing wimps
of the NBA that are the uneducated ones, they are the ones
who are thinking only of themselves here. Do they know,
and if so do they even care, that China is employing violence
to arrest and punish the Hong Kong protesters who only want
China to keep its promise of autonomy for 50 years through
2047, as stipulated in the transfer of governance of Hong Kong
from Great Britain to China. And for that the Chinese
communists behave as communists the world over behave,
all too typically and predictably.  But this is not something
for "woke" self-proclaimed avatars such as LeBron James
to trouble themselves with. And this isn't the first time that
James has spoken out regarding political matters, especially
when he sees an opportunity to castigate the United States
for its supposed social injustices. In 2018 James made a
tweet of his own in which he proclaimed "Injustice Anywhere
Is A Threat to Justice Everywhere --- Our Lives Begin To
End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter."
So, employing clear and simple logic, LeBron James and
friends don't think that the plight of the Hong Kongers
matters? Why would this be so? Is it because the Hong 
Kongers are fighting a communist regime, heaven forbid?

LeBron James and other lefties, both those who are serious
advocates for their poisonous politics and those like James
who are merely radical-chic dilettantes, fancy themselves
as being intellectually and morally superior to the people
who don't share their views. They think themselves to be
at the head of the class, because they think themselves
educated and aware, or in their silly parlance, "woke".
These people are only fooling themselves, with their
utter ignorance of the true threats to human rights and
the thugs which pose them, and are therefore flunking
out. Meanwhile, sports fans who are sick and tired of
the purveyors of leftism injecting their favorite sports
broadcasts with left-wing political propaganda will
rightfully rethink watching the NBA's games this
season, and maybe for many seasons yet to come.

And here, in 2021, the overall situation has not at

all improved, so as a result an increasing number of pro

sports fans are becoming ex-pro sports fans as they boycott

pro sports in general, not just pro basketball. And the lefty

millionaire professional athletes and the empty-headed billionaire 

team owners along with the league bigwigs haven't a clue as to

why. 


MEM

Welfare for the Wealthy (Courtesy of the Democrats)

Our president loves to play the class card when it comes

to economic matters. President Biden is trying mightily

to keep alive his record-breaking (and bank-breaking) 

budget, at the core of which is his $3.5 trillion tax and

spend plan which he swears will help "working people"

to pay their bills. The truth is that Biden's program 

is really a government subsidy gift-giving device which

will give subsidies to everyone, including the well-off.

Yes, you read that right my fantastic readers. Biden and

the Dems want to hook even the upper-middle class 

on the government teat. In the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden-

Nancy Pelosi bill the goodies include:

*The expanded child tax credit which has become a 

monthly check from Uncle Sam that transfers lots of

money to financially secure middle-class families (!).

Currently, the allowance is now $3,600 per child 

under six years of age, and $3,000 for ages 6 through

17. A married couple earning $150,000 a year with four 

children (two under six years of age, two above) would

qualify for $13,200 annually.

*A new entitlement caps costs for child-care at 7% of 

income and was at first limited to parents making up to 

200% of their state's median income. But the hard-core

lefties that call themselves "progressives" got rid of the 

cap in committee so it would cover the upper-middle class

and the outright wealthy, making the entitlement universal.

*Democrats also want, and have long wanted paid 

family leave --- about two-thirds of average wages for up

to 12 weeks per year for any family care. This would apply

to full-time AND part-time employees, and in the case of 

newborn babies both parents would be entitled to have leave.

So a married couple with a newborn, each earning $200,000

could each collect more than $1,000 in weekly benefits,

extrapolating to $24,000 of paid leave in one year. A couple

with an income of $100,000 each would be eligible for 

approximately the same amount (!!).

*The legislation also includes a gigantic $12,500 electric 

vehicle tax credit. Since EVs cost considerably more than

similar gas-powered vehicles, this money will go largely

to fat-cat coastal residents. This means that a couple can

make as much as $800,000 annually and STILL qualify

for at least some of the credit (!!!). 

*And saving the best for last: the return of the state and local

tax deduction. Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised her bunch in

the House "meaningful" relief above the current $10,000 cap.

Most of those who would have anything to gain are --- you 

guessed it --- the well-to-do. 

The Dems figure that subsidizing the upper middle-class this

way would make President Biden's program safer. They reason 

that if they can't get Mohammad to come to the mountain, then

they'll make the mountain come to Mohammad. Thus, they'll 

entice the swells to bite the bait. One thing must be noted,

however: those that will get the benefits will also get the bill

(higher taxes). And the Dems will bill their recipients when the

entitlements are too entrenched to repeal. Uncle Sam giveth and

Uncle Sam taketh away, blessed be the name of Uncle Sam.

Say, boys and girls, can you say "screwed"?

MEM

California (Nightmare) Dreamin'

Those Californians who had finally had enough of the infamous

loopy-lefty governance of their home state which produced 

runaway taxes (in terms of both quantity and cost), huge, 

intrusive government micromanaging their lives, increasing

crime in the cities, and outrageous behavior and activity 

including but not at all limited to public urination and defecation,

attempted to recall and remove the head of the khakistocracy,

Gov. Gavin Newsom. A most left-wing Democrat, Newsom 

himself had ordered California's beaches, famous for their beauty

and splendor, closed during the early weeks of the Coronavirus 

pandemic. He also failed to adequately address the homelessness

problem plaguing many of the state's major cities, ditto the 

drought and its (and Sacramento's) effects on available water, 

frequent power failures, sweeping fires destroying neighborhoods 

and entire towns, and his hypocrisy regarding his mask mandate

--- he attended a big gala at a toney French restaurant sans a mask.

Newsom also ordered a ban on large gatherings such as this one!

Republicans, so few as a percentage of California's electorate, 

initiated the recall effort after Newsome's 2018 election. They 

thought that not only could they unseat Newsome but that they 

could also reverse their long-sagging political fortunes by thus

taking out the head of the cabal, then going after the rest in

the capitol and break up the Dem's near-monopoly on the 

Golden State's government. Sadly, this didn't come to pass.

A cluster of candidates, mostly Republicans, ran in the race

to topple Newsom. Radio talk show host and author Larry 

Elder emerged as the front runner and the leading opposing 

candidate in the first stage of the balloting. Among his

fellow candidates were Caitlin Jenner (formerly Bruce Jenner,

'70s Olympic Track and Field champion), Assemblyman

Kevin Kiley, businessman John Cox, and former San Diego

Mayor Kevin Faulconer. There were 46 candidates in all (!).

Recall elections historically haven't been successful for 

those initiating them in California; out of 55 leading up to 

this campaign, only one had been successful --- the one 

in which bodybuilder and action movie star Arnold Schwarz-

enneger, a moderately liberal Republican defeated incumbent

Gray Davis for the governorship. And this recall flopped like

the other 54. 

Anyone who had been following the recall effort from its inception

would have thought that it would have been a certainty that 

the power-mad Gov. Newsom would have been shown the door

by the voters. The final straw for many Californians was his 

draconian shutdown of practically the entire state, affecting

schools, businesses, houses of worship, beaches, and parks

both big and small. A great economic hardship resulted for 

people who couldn't work at their jobs and for people who

couldn't run their businesses. Many residents packed up and

moved to lesser-taxed, less-regulated, not-so-tightly-locked-

down states stating that they had to make a living, that their 

children missed too much school, and their freedom of move-

ment was severely restricted. Newsom's violating his own edicts

were another reason many gave as to why they moved.

But many Californians stayed and fought via the recall campaign.

However, many more Californians, those that the state has had

the misfortune to become known for --- the flakes, nuts, weirdos,

the hopelessly vapid, the sort of people that comedian Jay Leno

would feature in his chats with them in his "Jaywalking" segment

on the Tonight show when he was its host. And of course the 

Hollywood set, with their well-loaded checkbooks and their 

lefty-chic politics (refer to the aforementioned phrase "hopelessly

vapid"; they fit quite neatly under that heading) --- won the day 

by winning the recall election with their campaign contributions,

their rallies, and their votes that came in droves. 

And now there is just one thing left for the defeated citizens of this

woeful state to do, if they see no reason to remain and to somehow 

fight on: to vote one more time, this time with their feet. They 

can take a page from the book by their fellow Californians who 

had already removed to more politically and economically 

favorable states to start anew. I admire the spirit and pride that

the recall activists showed, and I would have even more admiration

for those who would choose to stay and fight on in the face of 

daunting odds. For what it's worth, though, your doubtful Peasant

does not see the situation improving to the point where the state

will no longer be written off as a combination of backwater and 

insane asylum, at least not in the near future. In the final analysis,

only time will tell, and believe me it's going to be quite a long time.

MEM

A Belated 12th Anniversary Thank You to My Readers

Friends, your faithful but hurried, harried Peasant 

forgot all about my --- our --- anniversary yesterday;

it was the 12th anniversary of the day I began 

publishing my blog, and you my faithful readers

coming to visit me, with the aim of getting 

acquainted with me and my blog. And a wonderful

friendship was born! A thousand pardons for failing

to mark those twelve magnificent years in a timely

way!

You are the reason why your faithful Peasant has had

this blog for these past twelve years! I look forward

to every week and our weekly get-togethers with great

eagerness and anticipation! May we have twelve more 

years together right here, analyzing the political and

economic news of the day while praising the good,

castigating the bad, and encouraging the ugly to act

in a less ugly manner. You're all the greatest readers 

a blogger could ever ask for!

God bless!

MEM

 

Biden's War on Profits

President Biden's programs and their fiscal ramifications

have inflationary tones; indeed, economists are saying that

inflation is currently making a comeback. 

But our president, in order to shore up support for his 

economic agenda, is looking for scapegoats for to palm

off the blame onto. He has found such a choice in the

pharmaceutical industry. Now, your faithful Peasant has

his own criticisms of that particular industry, but here I 

find Biden's accusations to be quite meritless. Claiming

that the pharma firms are "jacking up prices", he is 

castigating the very companies that have produced the 

vaccines and treatments (in record time yet!) that are

saving people the world over from the Coronovirus

pandemic. Making a pitch for his drug price controls,

he claims that we Americans "... pay the highest pre-

scription drug costs of any developed nation in the 

world." While he is right on this point, he must realize

that we also get access to more and better treatments 

sooner than in the other developed countries. And 

his fiscal initiatives will certainly have an adverse effect

on drug prices, among other goods and services. 

The profits that the pharma firms make make research 

and development into new treatments possible. In the 

meantime, drug prices have been declining thanks to

increased competition. Prescription drug prices have 

dropped 2.6% over 2020 while the consumer-price 

index increased 5.4%. Also keep in mind (a pity that

Biden doesn't) that Medicare already negotiates over 

prescription drug prices, which is why some consumers

aren't seeing the price cuts.

Private insurers that manage Medicare Part D plans demand

rebates from the pharma folks to place their medicines on 

formularies. Then the insurers use the rebates to reduce 

premiums for all beneficiaries. The result of all this:

drug makers raise their list prices, making some beneficiaries

with higher deductibles and coinsurance pay more out of

pocket for some drugs. 

However, a recent study by IQVIA discovered that net prices

after rebates for brand medicines declined 2.9% in 2020. 

Per capita-wise, real net spending on drugs in the U.S. 

increased by a mere 0.5% annually over the past decade 

even as higher-cost treatments have been approved.

President Biden wants to get rid of the profits that make 

possible the incentive to innovate. Large pharmaceutical 

firms invested $91 billion in new treatments in 2020.

The Coronovirus pandemic proved that the benefits in 

lives saved are a magnificent profit in another, more 

dear currency. Pity all this is lost on our president.

MEM

A Tragic Way to Celebrate a Tragic Anniversary

We are coming up on the twentieth anniversary of 

9-11, the date when terror paid us a call in three 

different locations in our country, killing many 

of our fellow Americans in the ghastly process.

And the events in Afghanistan, beginning with

President Biden's quick and massive withdrawal

of our troops which enabled the Taliban to take 

the country in a blitzkrieg not unlike the one 

which the Germans rode to complete domination

of Poland in 1939, is how we will be 

commemorating this tragic anniversary. 

Biden made up a withdrawal date loaded with 

symbolism to make him look fiercely determined

on this anniversary, never mind the consequences

of his action. We left our major air base in the 

middle of the night (!) no less, without first informing

the Afghan military. We left many of our weapons 

behind and the Taliban happily took possession of 

them. We didn't tell our allies what we were doing 

and how we were doing it; they followed us there 

and paid dearly for doing so. Worst of all, we 

removed our military personnel before removing 

U.S. citizens, particularly those employed at our 

embassy, and our friends --- those brave Afghans 

who helped us materially and in other ways as 

well. They were left without protection from the 

onrushing Taliban, and many were captured or 

killed on the spot. Women were forced out of their 

workplaces and their classrooms and into burkas.

Many Afghans sped to the Karzai International Airport

to get a commercial flight, or really ANY flight, out of

Afghanistan. The remaining Americans did 

likewise. Many of both were waiting in vain for flights 

to help them escape. And ponder this: the Taliban and

their pals in Al-Qaeda will get a base from where they 

can plan and launch terror attacks like 9-11 on our allied

countries and on us. Want something more to make you

roll your eyes and your jaw drop? President Biden 

thinks he has a firm deal with the Taliban to have 

them provide safe passage out of Afghanistan to 

the Americans and the Afghanis who worked with 

them (?!?!?!?!?!). Biden's dippy Secretary of State

Antony Blinken (where's Winkin' and Nod?) pro-

claimed "The Taliban has committed to let anyone

with proper documents leave the country in a safe

and orderly manner. They've said this privately and 

publicly many times." Your quizzical Peasant wonders,

what color is the sky in the world in which Biden 

and Blinken reside? With the withdrawal of our

military people from Afghanistan the Taliban has 

the leverage to block anyone they want from 

leaving the country for as long as they want. 

And these two nimrods don't know this? 

Response or comments from the president and his

regime? They think that it will all go away, just like

a bad dream and always try to change the subject

when anyone asks about Afghanistan. However, 

the aftermath will play out over the course of many

years, like Vietnam. And President Biden showed

himself to be a man without kindness or an interest 

in the well-being of others. This episode caused severe

damage to his presidency and to his personal reputation

which may not be at all reparable. He has even given

the perception that he doesn't listen to advice from 

many people, if anyone. His military and political

advisors urged him not to go the route he has taken

on Afghanistan; he paid them no mind and listened 

to his own counsel.

Can you imagine the thoughts and emotions running

through the minds of our military veterans who 

served tours of duties in Afghanistan, being seriously

wounded or even maimed? They must be thinking that 

they sacrificed so grievously for what --- a quickie

exit which was no more than an abandonment of an

ally who needed our help desperately? An ally which

instead got the shaft as a result? That they gave up a leg,

an arm, more, for what? That friends in their units died

for what? And the families of those who were among 

the casualties, some of whom are now bitterly opposed

to Biden's actions and his even occupying the White

House? One mother of a marine killed in action 

spoke recently on Sean Hannity's radio show and 

ripped into the president, even using strong language.

Although these words were bleeped out, Hannity 

expressed his sympathy to her and her family. 

And who could blame her? Who would begrudge her

emotions? After all, her son died a completely 

senseless, avoidable death, and she has not heard any 

words of sympathy nor condolences from her son's

commander-in-chief, whose careless actions put her 

son in the crosshairs of lethal danger.

The way we ended our involvement in Vietnam was 

terrible. But the way President Biden ended our 

involvement in Afghanistan could prove to be far,

far worse, for the reverberations from it will be 

sounding in our ears and those of our allies for 

perhaps years. Then there's the rest of the conse-

quences which have yet to manifest. Let's hope

that we can give President Biden as ignominious 

an ending to his presidency as he has given our

commitment to Afghanistan and her people.

MEM

Biden & Bernie vs. the Billionaires

Everyone by now has heard about the behemoth budget

that President Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (Ind.-VT) 

have collaborated on, along with its focus on "infrastructure"

(I placed this word in quotation marks because Biden and 

Sanders have expanded it to mean things which are not and 

never were meant to be defined as infrastructure). The tab

for it all are astronomical to the point of record-setting; 

Sanders made a budget proposal of $3.5 trillion (!),

dwarfing Biden's proposal of $1 trillion (?!). The free-

spending pair defended their break-the-bank budgetary

plans with the usual class-warfare rhetoric: both of 

these turbo-charged spendthrifts called upon the 

"billionaire class" to "pay their fair share of taxes".

"We are living in a nation where the people on top are

doing phenomenally well," Sen. Sanders bellowed to 

a crowd at a rally for this Marxist monstrosity in Iowa

recently. "They have so much money, they don't even 

know what to do with it, and now some of them are off 

in outer space spending their billions. Well, we think 

maybe it might be a good idea , before you go off to 

outer space, to start paying attention to the struggles

of working families on the ground." Indeed, let's get

working families hooked on more and more financial

handouts from Uncle Sam rather than allow the biggest,

and other big income earners to keep more of their

money so that they can expand their businesses, which

would mean more jobs, some of which would be held 

by members of the aforementioned working families.

When the peasantry work for their subsistence they

gain independence and a sense of accomplishment

rather than languishing at home watching TV knowing

that the government will take care of them to the point 

of their not trying to do for themselves what left-wing 

politicians have soft-soaped them into giving over to 

the government to do for them; to feed, shelter, clothe,

and to medically treat them on the dime of those who

do work, and have achieved various levels of considerable

success. When these hard-working businesspeople see 

what their taxes will be under a Biden-Sanders "infra-

structure" funding scheme many of them will either 

simply not continue to build and grow their businesses,

or they will pack up everything and move their operations

to countries with lower corporate and individual income

taxes. Either way, American workers will be out of work

and non-working Americans will not even try to find

work, and presto! A massive welfare state will spring up 

and the national economy will stagnate and shrivel.

Furthermore, the left-wing gruesome twosome will run out

of billionaires to drain for their spending binge. According

to the 2021 Forbes billionaires list, there are currently 724

billionaires in the United States with a collective net worth 

of $4.4 trillion. President Biden's own infrastructure plan 

includes approximately $550 billion in new spending, but 

the total bill is nearly $1 trillion on the nose. Bernie's budget?

A cool $3.5 trillion. If Sen. Sanders were to tax away every

asset of every U.S. billionaire --- that includes (but is certainly

not limited to Elon Musk's bitcoin holdings, Larry Ellison's 

boats, Oprah Winfrey's houses, and Ted Turner's ranches,

or the classic car collections of Jay Leno and Jay-Z

--- it STILL wouldn't cover the cost of the Democrats' next

two legislative plans. Think of that! Many thanks, by the way,

to the Wall Street Journal for publishing these facts in their

Aug. 31 edition's Review and Outlook section.

And then there's the funding of the federal government's 

operations, roughly $4 trillion per annum. And Bernie 

still harbors his dream of Medicare for All, a socialized

medicine scheme which would make Obama's so-called

Affordable Health Care Act look like a little child's 

birthday party. Bernie keeps pumping his "us versus them"

message, but he doesn't realize that there aren't enough of 

"them" to sink his teeth into --- meaning that he, Biden,

and the government will have to go after the millionaires,

then the upper-middle class, then the middle class. Their 

taxes will need to go on a rocket ride too, much more 

dramatic than that taken by Jeff Bezos, currently the 

biggest American billionaire and the wealthiest person

on the planet. After plundering "them", the socialistic

Democrats will look hungrily at "us". Then what would

we do? And unlike how he ended our war in Afghanistan,

President Biden will prosecute this war, his and Bernie's 

War on Wealth, fighting to the last billionaire. Then the last 

millionaire. Then ... you get the idea.

MEM

George Schultz, R.I.P.

Some months ago Your favorite Peasant posted birthday greetings 

for retired Secretary of State George Schultz on the occasion of 

his 100th birthday. Now I have the sorrowful duty of announcing 

his passing to you, my fantastic readers. The economist, diplomat,

and businessman who served in several presidential administrations

with distinction passed away February 6; I sincerely apologize for

not having reported his death until now, as I had my health challenges

which nearly rendered me deceased as well. I now have gotten 

caught up on all the very important news stories which took place

during my illness and convalescence. 

George Schultz was the kind of public servant that our government 

at all levels should have more of. Our country would be so much 

better off for such a blessing. 

Rest well, Mr. Schultz. Well done, sir. Requiescat in pace. 

MEM

Afghanistan in Abandonment

So as to curry favor with the American people, especially those 

with relatives or friends serving in the military and deployed to 

Afghanistan, President Biden announced that he would bring home

our military personnel who had been stationed in that country, 

some for several tours of duty. In fact, American military and

civilian personnel are presently being flown out and are on

their way home. Now, who wouldn't want to have family and 

friends come home, alive and healthy, from a trouble spot in

a far-flung part of the world? It is so sweet to see one's loved

ones and treasured friends again after months or years, with one

wondering during that time if one would ever see them again.

But consider the consequences in not that they are being

brought home, but how; that is, having a quick and sizeable

drawdown of our troops without providing any protection

for the Afghanis in the wake of the U.S. turning over the 

war against the Taliban, merely turning over everything to

the Afghanis be they ready or not.

On Saturday August 14 Biden delivered a statement cutting 

off critical help for Afghanistan. The shameful act will surely

go down in history as the biggest retreat by the U.S. since

the Vietnam War when we pulled out and left the South

Vietnamese helpless in the face of the rapidly advancing

communist forces from the northern part of that country.

Afghanistan's military's last resistance collapsed, the 

Taliban quickly overran the country, and just days ago 

took Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. President Ashraf Ghani,

the Afghan head of state, fled while remaining forces 

worked frantically to evacuate Americans from the doomed 

capital. Just twenty years after the U.S. toppled the jihadists

for sheltering Osama bin Laden, a reversal of fortune came

about with those same jihadists flying their flag over the 

U.S. Embassy building. Happy Anniversary, America.

To their credit, President Biden's advisers offered an alternative

for troop removal, as did the Afghanistan Study Group. President

Biden let what they had to say go in one ear and out the other.

Biden gave his self-justification for his fateful drawdown 

method thus: "One more year, or five more years, of U.S. 

military presence would not have made a difference if the 

Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country."

But the Afghans were willing to fight and absorb casualties

with U.S. support, especially air power. Some military experts 

contend that all that was needed were a few thousand troops 

and contractors to do the job.

But Biden wasn't through yet; he is trying to pin the blame for

his rotten decisions on his immediate predecessor, President 

Trump. Quote: "When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut 

by (Mr. Trump) --- which he invited the Taliban to discuss at

Camp David on the eve of 9/11 of 2019 --- that left the Taliban

in the strongest military position since 2001 and imposed a 

May 1, 2021 deadline on U.S. forces. Shortly before he left 

office, he also drew U.S. forces down to a bare minimum of 

2,500. Therefore, when I became President, I faced a choice 

--- follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our

forces and our allies' forces out safely, or ramp up our presence 

and send more American troops to fight once again," This was 

after his beyond insulting remarks about the Afghans for not 

fighting harder and more fiercely and signaling the most 

terrible ingratitude to those who had helped us in both military

and non-military ways! Can you imagine such a thing?

Biden was more critical of Trump than he was of the Taliban

in his statement. Mr. Trump's withdrawal deadline could have

been better planned out, but Biden, even though his military 

and foreign policy advisors suggested otherwise, pig-

headedly ordered a rapid and total withdrawal in time for

the symbolic target date of 9/11. Of course the lamestream 

media praised Biden's decision as courageous (!). 

This event was the worst humiliation suffered by the U.S. 

since the fall of Saigon in 1975, right down to the haste 

to destroy classified documents, the helicopters evacuating

American diplomats, other American civilian personnel 

scrambling to find commercial airplanes to fly them out 

of Afghanistan, and the abandonment of valuable U.S. 

military equipment into Taliban possession. A most

terrible redux. But the Afghans who trusted the U.S. 

and assisted the Americans for over twenty years now 

face certain death at the hands of the Taliban. Biden was

much too slow in getting them out of the country despite 

urgent warnings, which of course he neglected to act 

swiftly upon. Their deaths will make a large red stain 

on Biden's presidency and legacy, one that all of the 

detergent in the world will never wash away. 

Have we learned nothing from the ending of the Vietnam

War? Apparently President Biden has not. And he appears

not to care. 

MEM