A redeeming quality of Joe Biden has been discovered at last. He provides his own comic relief from the misery he causes:

That was hilarious when he said it, considering the source — and funnier still in light of the horrific Afghanistan debacle he needlessly caused.

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Even in China — which succumbed to totalitarianism 72 years ago — people have had enough Covid tyranny. From the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times:

Police in Jiaozuo, Central China’s Henan Province, are investigating into a case in which a woman slapped an anti-epidemic worker after she was asked to register her health code.

The woman, around 60 years old, was shown in the video posted on Monday trying to hit the enforcer with her purse several times after he asked her to scan a health code, a common process that allows authorities to easily track cases and close contacts, when entering a building.

She did more than try. Go for it, Chinese lady:

She isn’t the only one fed up:

Also on Monday, a Beijing resident surnamed Li refused to scan a health code when entering a building. Li insulted and pushed around worker. Beijing Dongcheng district police station said on Wednesday that they have detained Li for causing bad social influence.

Uh oh. That doesn’t sound good.

If people dare to push back in China, where there are zero civil liberties thanks to Bernie Sanders types having taken control and everyone is at the absolute mercy of Big Government, we have no excuse for not resisting in the West, where some vestigial freedom still exists.

On a tip from Anonymous.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Biden’s handlers may be pushing their malevolent agenda too fast even for the moonbats at CNN, who appear to care a little bit about credibility after all. Biden says that the Afghanistan debacle is not a failure. But a CNN reporter in Afghanistan wants to know, “If this isn’t failure, what does failure look like?”

Hey, isn’t that the same Clarissa Ward who the other day chirped that Taliban goons seem friendly, even if they do chant, “Death to America”?

The USS Biden is taking on water faster than its media enablers can bail it out. Not even CNN wants to go down with the ship. This could be what saves America: the arrogant anti-American Marxists controlling Biden pushing their disastrous agenda so fast that people wake up to what is being done to their country, and even the liberals running the media back away.

On a tip from Anonymous.

As Lara Logan has explained, the Afghanistan debacle was deliberate. Even if the demented puppet Biden has no idea what he is doing, his string-pullers do. The question is why they are doing it.

To find the answer, Christopher Skeet looks to Barack Obama, whom Biden served as a witless sidekick. Obama was elected on a platform of openly despising the nation he promised to “fundamentally transform” into a totally different country.

Via American Thinker:

Every time he could, Obama favored strict Islamist regimes over Western-friendly governments. Whenever overseas pro-democracy demonstrators flew American flags, Obama reflexively sided with their oppressors. He removed sanctions from Cuba and Iran and asked for nothing in return. The JCPOA, the Paris Accords, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership were specifically designed to weaken American power behind the flimsy guise of noble causes.

Anti-American Obamunists are among Biden’s puppeteers. Their policy of deliberately undermining America and its allies continues.

We just let the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, Cuba, and Iran know that they don’t have our support, other than the occasional week-too-late hashtag. We just let our allies in Taiwan, Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel know that we folded like wet paper to illiterate pedophiles in pickup trucks, so good luck against the million-man professional armies who are busy reassessing the futility of your current ceasefires.

Biden’s handlers have stressed the symbolism of a disorderly retreat from Afghanistan, the 9/11 staging ground strategically located between our three most threatening adversaries, China, Iran, and Russia:

We abandoned Bagram Air Base on July 4, 2021. Biden originally planned to complete the withdraw on September 11th. These aren’t flukes, nor the clockwork stupidity of our government’s well-credentialed experts. These were specifically designed as symbolic humiliations of America, by people who hate America, who are being paid six figure salaries to do so by America.

Biden invited the entire Third World to pour into America and enjoy lavish benefits. Then he opened the border and it remains open, with devastating consequences that have only begun to unfold. This cannot be explained by incompetence, but only by treason. The same is true of Democrats’ unfunded, multi-$trillion frivolous spending spree that will crush the country with debt and inflate our savings to worthlessness. The same is true of Afghanistan.

The left, including its swamp bureaucrats who administer our wars, has no qualms with what happened in Kabul. They support Biden’s grotesque withdraw not in spite of its consequences for America, but because of them.

Local police and the military have been among the last institutions to hold out against leftist subversion. They remain pillars of Americanism and resistance to the progressive agenda. Democrats and their media have employed Black Lives Matter as a sledgehammer to smash the police. The military is being eaten from within by tapeworms like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley. Like demonized and defunded local police, the armed forces are undergoing strategic demoralization, so as make it impossible to obtain quality recruits:

What young, idealistic American would enlist to defend a country that doesn’t let them win wars, forces them to retreat from 7th century quadrupeds, all the while having one’s own patriotism questioned and slandered by woke Pentagon careerists who blather about “white rage” and who remove Mahan and Clausewitz from the reading lists in favor of Ibram X. Kendi?

Not merely losing in Afghanistan but running away in disgrace, abandoning thousands of Americans as well as vast stores of weapons in the hands of terrorists sworn to our destruction, serves well to advance an Obama-style foreign policy by making it clear that the USA cannot be counted on to defend its allies from the aggression of tyrants.

Amplified across the world, the message of the left is: If America will sell you out to the Taliban, they won’t even think about lifting a finger to the Iranians and North Koreans, much less the Chinese and Russians.

It isn’t only the Taiwanese and Ukrainians who will suffer:

Our kids’ grandkids will be fighting the wars that result from this and will likely do it alone. Far from being a tragedy, our abandonment of Afghanistan was one of the left’s biggest foreign policy successes.

That may be overoptimistic. At the current pace of the decline Democrats are imposing, America won’t last that many generations.

Abraham Lincoln had it right:

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Well into the second year of Covid, the tyranny continues to escalate. French authorities are trying to starve the public into submission by refusing access to grocery stores to those who don’t have their Covid papers in order.

Via Summit News:

A video out of France shows irate shoppers being blocked from entering a supermarket by police because they don’t have COVID passports.

Many of the would-be shoppers wore masks, but masks alone aren’t good enough. First, they were blocked by security; then the gendarmes came into it.

A number of police officers then begin manhandling the frustrated shoppers, presumably not too concerned in that moment about social distancing.

Not exactly the Storming of the Bastille, but it’s a start:

It is unclear why the shoppers were not allowed in the store:

Although France’s COVID passport law mandates proof of vaccination to enter larger shopping malls, those with a surface area of less than 20,000 square meters are supposed to be exempt.

Under the draconian law, people in France who enter a bar or restaurant without a COVID pass face 6 months in jail, while business owners who fail to check their status face a 1 year prison sentence and a €45,000 fine.

Many stores, needing customers to stay in business, have been ignoring the requirement to check for vaccine passports, despite the penalties. But sometimes Big Government is there to make a show of force.

In the moonbat dystopia that was once New York City, you are required to show proof of vaccination to get served in a restaurant, as if Covid tyrants had not already made survival difficult enough for small businesses.

Unless pushback begins, it won’t be long before only the vaccinated are allowed to buy food. Then it will be only those who have been vaccinated three times, then four times…

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In the olden days, tyranny came at you directly, through the front door, imposed by the government. These days, it comes through the front door, back door, and all the windows, as well as up the basement stairs. As mentioned earlier, it comes not only from the government but directly from the education establishment that is the main source of authoritarian ideology. Here’s how Texas educrats help impose the progressive version of the Mark of the Beast, vaccine passports:

Texas A&M and the University of North Texas have issued policies ahead of the 2021-2022 academic year requiring all students to participate in COVID-19 testing programs, under threat of suspension or expulsion, unless the student produces proof of having had one of the COVID jabs.

In Austin (a.k.a. Moscow on the Colorado), educrats are not as libertarian:

Meanwhile, the University of Texas is not providing an “out” from its mandatory testing for students who have had one of the COVID-19 shots. According to an FAQ on their COVID-19 procedures, UT states: “Being fully vaccinated does not exempt you from testing due to the possibility of breakthrough cases among vaccinated individuals.”

Why college students should take a vaccine that still has not been fully approved by the FDA, the long-term effects of which are totally unknown, when few young people are at serious risk from Covid remains a mystery.

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Covid tyranny introduces a problem. After we have submitted to obliterating our individual identity by wearing unhealthy obedience masks, how are our rulers to track our every movement with facial recognition software the way the ChiComs do? No worries; the Davos globalists of the World Economic Forum have a solution. They can use technology developed by the subverted and increasingly sinister US government to fire lasers at us that map our unique cardiac signature.

The Great Reset that the Biden Administration has promised to impose was apparently inspired by dystopian science fiction movies like Minority Report:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

The apparent incompetence of the Democrats running our government is so extreme as to beggar belief. Biden couldn’t get his shoes on the right feet without assistance, but are the people who installed him in power and do his thinking for him really as inept as recent events suggest? Alarmingly, maybe not.

Lara Logan makes the case that the disastrous outcome in Afghanistan — complete with thousands of Americans left behind for the Taliban to take hostage — must have been intended:

“The United States government could change this even today. And they don’t do it.”

Why not? Logan doesn’t exactly have the answer, but her insightful questions might put curious journalists on the right track:

Incompetence or treason? Take them to Democrat extremes and they become nearly indistinguishable.

The Trump Administration had a plan in place to evacuate our people and our military equipment in the event of a sudden collapse into Taliban rule. The Biden Administration canceled it. Consequently, Americans are in extreme peril with no help on the way and a massive quantity of US military equipment has fallen into terrorist hands. This argues for deliberate malice over incompetence. It is inconceivable that no one in the White House knew this would happen.

As Andrea Widburg puts it,

It appears that [the USA] is being led by an incompetent moron, but it’s probably worse than that: she is led by people who wish to “fundamentally transform” America and place purported global goals above American well-being, and who don’t care how many people die to achieve their goals.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and Varla.

It isn’t easy to keep up with events in Australia as the country goes off the rails into abject Covid tyranny, but since the rest of the West is following close behind, we have to try our best.

It is now forbidden in Victoria to remove your mask to take a sip of your drink outdoors. Premier Daniel Andrews of the Labor Party cracks down hard:

Presumably Australians are expected to waterboard themselves by pouring the drink through the mask. Never mind that there is a negligible risk of spreading Covid outdoors.

More Aussie Covid tyranny, presented by New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott:

Elliott’s focus is on preventing protests against Covid tyranny, because such protests are “putting lives in danger.” He has no reservations about “going harder” if that’s what the bureaucrats above him think they can get away with. He encourages Australians to, as he puts it himself, “snitch on their neighbors” so that the police can crack down on people visiting each other. All too many are willing to rat others out, a human failing East Germany’s communist Stasi was famous for exploiting.

Elliott wants us to think of submitting to totalitarian restrictions as “guaranteeing freedom earlier than we expected.” If people do whatever the government tells them, no matter how outrageously repressive, they will get a pat on the head and be given their freedom back — later, when there are no crises real, imagined, or absurdly exaggerated.

For earlier examples of Covid tyranny Down Under, see the following stories:

• Australia Degenerates Into Biosecurity Police State

• Australian Covid Dissident Locked in Lunatic Asylum

• Australian Covid Police Apparently Induce Heart Attack

• Continuing Covid Tyranny Down Under

• COVID-19 Tyranny Tightens in Australia

• No Compassion From Australia’s Covid Cops

In the race to absolute tyranny, Australia may soon surpass even communist regimes such as Cuba, North Korea, and the source of the virus, China itself.

Australians are doing the world a service by demonstrating how outrageously intolerable the situation will become if authoritarians are allowed to exploit Covid hysteria to their heart’s content. Don’t let their sacrifice be wasted.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and seaoh.

Until parents manage to overcome teachers’ unions and the allied Democrat Party to get cameras installed in public schools, they will have to make due with videos taken by the kids themselves. These offer alarming glimpses of what goes on behind closed classroom doors. Presenting Leah Kinyon of Lehi High School in Lehi, Utah:

Highlights from the lesson on the first day of school:

“I hate Donald Trump. I’m gonna say it. I don’t care what y’all think. Trump sucks. He’s a sexual predator. He’s a literal moron. Go tattle on me to the friggin’ admin. They don’t give a crap.”

At least, not unless video goes public.

“Turn off the Fox News. Do your parents listen to Fox News?”

Parents who watch Fox News instead of approved liberal propaganda outlets are to be despised.

Covid tyranny includes browbeating children into succumbing to hysteria, in hopes they will pressure their parents:

“I don’t have to be happy about the fact that there’s kids coming in here with their variants that could possibly get me or my family sick.”

Now back to turning kids against their parents, who along with other taxpayers pay teachers’ salaries:

“Most of y’all parents are dumber than you. My parents are frickin’ dumb, okay? And the minute I figured that out, the world opens up. You don’t have to do everything your parents say, and you don’t have to believe everything your parents believe. Because most likely you’re smarter than them.”

As for kids who don’t believe everything their teacher believes,

“You can believe what you want to believe but keep it quiet in here, because I’m probably going to make fun of you.”

Specifically, students are required to believe in the global warming hoax:

“If you don’t believe in climate change, get the hell out.”

Getting the hell out would be the most sensible option. But students can’t do that on their own.

Teacher has harsh words for students who think some skepticism is called for regarding progressive plans to remake society on a coercive basis so as to perfect the weather:

“That’s pathetic that you think that. You’re the problem with the world.”

Kids are also required to toe the line regarding the LGBT agenda:

“If you’re a homophobe, get out. Because I am the GSA [gay–straight alliance] faculty advisor. I love gay people. All LGBTQIA+ motherf*ckers. If you don’t like it, get out.”

Here’s what she will do if a child says “a damned word” that she deems antagonistic to the LGBT crowd:

“I will make your life a living hell.”

Exposure and pushback sometimes still work, at least in Utah. Kinyon is out of a job following parent Judy Storms taking the video public via FOX 13.

On tips from Jack Bauer and KirklesWorth.

Government-owned CGTN (China Global Television Network) is an international English-language cable TV news service under the control of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party — a ChiCom version of Voice of America. It conducts information warfare against the United States by spewing critical race theory propaganda indistinguishable from what America’s internal enemies excrete through the liberal establishment media and schools. The only difference is that with the Chinese it is even more obvious that the purpose is to weaken our country. What other motive would they have?

This could be compared to infecting us with Covid, except that they created Covid themselves (albeit with likely financial assistance from Fauci et al.). Political correctness is a disease that was created in the West. The rest of the world is largely immune.

On a tip from Anonymous.

The Democrat policy is still communism by increments, same as it has been for years. The difference now is that the increments are huge:

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is increasing benefits by an average of 27% over pre-pandemic levels under the guise of updating its Thrifty Food Plan. This is the basket of foods that the government uses to determine benefit size, which averaged $130 per person monthly before the pandemic. Benefits are adjusted annually for food inflation.

Thanks to Democrats, inflation is shooting toward the stars. Most of us have to pay more for less. Not welfare recipients. Their benefits keep pace with the inflation that Democrats are deliberately creating as part of their war on the middle class.

Liberals argue that healthy food costs more; therefore, we must give welfare spongers more of our money, as if there were some chance they would spend it on healthy food instead of toxic garbage. In reality, more food stamp loot is spent on sweetened beverages than vegetables.

A lurch deeper into socialism, supposedly justified by the pandemic, will be made permanent by Biden’s Marxist handlers.

Congress increased benefits by 15% during the pandemic, though this fillip is set to end in September. The Administration’s regulatory expansion will be permanent. A family of four will get up to $835 per month after adjusting for inflation. The average four-person household in the U.S. spent only $537 per month on food at home in 2019.

Why should toiling slaves eat as well as their masters, who vote instead of work for a living?

This is obviously not about need. It is about affixing ever more greedy mouths to the government teat, the better to reduce us to a nation of farm animals and to reenact the Soviet Union in North America.

Neither is it about health, despite the laughable rhetoric from our rulers:

A 2018 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined diet quality of food-stamp beneficiaries and similar low-income individuals who didn’t receive the handouts from 2003 to 2014, a period in which average benefits increased more than 50%. Low-income food-stamp non-beneficiaries ate more healthily than beneficiaries, and their diets also improved more over time.

Welfare is bad for you. Who would have guessed?

Like other Great Society programs, food stamps have done nothing to reduce poverty and little to improve public health.

However, they have achieved their purpose by moving the ratchet several notches closer to Stalin territory by encouraging dependence on the government and degrading the indispensable concepts of personal responsibility and private property.

On a tip from Varla.