Profiles in Covid Hypocrisy: Piers Morgan

Like many other members of our sneeringly condescending ruling class, anti-gun rights zealot Piers Morgan favors rigid authoritarianism regarding Covid precautions — but only for the little people, not for himself:

Add Piers Morgan to the list, along with Matt Hancock, Neil Ferguson, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Sheila Kuehl, Michael Hancock, Steve Adler, London Breed, Sam Liccardo, and the rest of the sanctimonious authoritarians of the Covid DAISNAID club.

Maybe if the list gets long enough, people will get sick of having their lives ruined by an effete, degenerate ruling class that makes no secret of its contempt for the arbitrary rules it inflicts on those below.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Profiles in Covid Hypocrisy: Matt Hancock

Britain’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock is prominent among the army of bureauweenies who have been ruining other people’s lives with pointless and tyrannical Covid lockdowns. A typical Do As I Say Not As I Do statist in the Neil Ferguson/Nancy Pelosi/Gavin Newsom/Andrew Cuomo/Gretchen Whitmer/John Kerry/Joe Biden/Sheila Kuehl/Michael Hancock/Steve Adler/London Breed/Sam Liccardo/et al. mold, he has carried on a steamy extramarital affair with an advisor he used public money to hire while denying others human contact.

Matt Hancock is an MP for the Conservative Party. With conservatives like this, what does anyone need liberals for?

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Biden’s Mask Theater Gets Even Phonier

Joe Biden’s handlers have finally located someone who makes Sleepy Joe look like less of a liberal dinosaur by comparison. It made for a great photo op — or maybe not:

Where are the masks? If Biden needs to wear one to a virtual summit of world leaders, surely he should have at least two masks on his face to meet with the 96-year-old Jimmy Carter and 93-year-old Rosalyn, for whom the ChiCom virus would likely be a death sentence.

All four have been vaccinated, but even so, Biden says it is our “patriotic responsibility for God’s sake” to wear a mask even when it is patently ridiculous to do so.

Speaking of patently ridiculous, after cozying up maskless to the Carters, the Bidens put on their masks to go outside, where there is minimal risk of spreading the virus.

As John Nolte observes,

If he’s awake yet, His Fraudulency must be furious at the Carters for releasing a photograph that exposes every word of his mask talk as a hypocritical lie.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

John Kerry Flies Commercial — Maskless

Biden’s frequent flier Climate Czar John Kerry, who recently took a private jet all the way to Iceland to collect a reward for perfecting the weather by preventing other people from consuming energy, has apparently been shamed into flying first class commercial. However, getting him to wear a mask like the rest of us have to do is another matter:

Via Daily Mail:

Kerry has defended himself after he was … spotted without a mask on a flight from Boston to Washington D.C., dismissing concerns over a maskless photo of him onboard the plane as ‘malarkey’.

So much for Biden’s lame “No more malarkey” campaign slogan.

Having been caught red-handed ignoring a decree his fellow liberal elitists impose on everyone else, Kerry claimed that not wearing a mask on the flight was “momentary.” However,

An anonymous passenger who shared the image with Fox News and the Tennessee Star told the outlets that they saw Kerry wearing his mask before boarding but he took it off shortly after getting on the flight before other passengers.

Kerry quickly retreated into his characteristic sanctimony, barking,

‘I wear my mask because it saves lives and stops the spread. It’s what the science tells us to do.’

He could have just said, “Hey, I couldn’t breathe.” People might think of him as human, instead of some freakish alien arrived from an evil planet to inflict the Great Reset.

Masks are required on flights, according to a directive from the Transportation Security Administration – and those who are found in violation can face fines ranging from $250 for the first offense up to $1,500 for repeat offenders. …

The TSA said its mask mandates will remain in effect until May 11, 2021.

The little people might also dislike him slightly less if he would pay his fine like we would have to do.

But then, why should the great John F. Kerry care what the little people think? He’s the one who tells us what to think.

On tips from Jack D, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket.

Watch Teachers’ Union President Drop Kid Off at Open Private Preschool

If anyone could more perfectly personify teachers’ unions than Sarah Chambers, who defended pointless school closures from a beach in San Juan while indulging in “yummy seafood mofongo,” it would be Berkeley Federation of Teachers President and coronavirus hypocrite Matt Meyer, who has been caught on video dropping his 2-year-old off at a private preschool for the in-person instruction that public school students have been denied, thanks to unions and the Democrats who are owned by them.

Compliments of guerillaMomz:

Can’t a white guy in dreadlocks and a hoodie be brought up on charges of cultural appropriation?

Fox News reports:

The Berkeley Unified School District reached a tentative agreement with the Berkeley Federation of Teachers earlier this month to reopen public schools in March and April, contingent upon staff members receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

By March, they mean March 29. Most grades would not open until mid-April at the soonest.

Meanwhile, teachers identified as high-risk individuals who document that they have condition’s [sic] on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s high risk list, who live with someone who has those conditions, or who is a caretaker as defined by a medical professional for someone with these conditions, will be allowed to continue to work remotely.

The CDC list is extensive. Is someone in your household obese (almost half the population supposedly is)? If not, does someone smoke, or have high blood pressure? Then you shouldn’t have to come to work.

These schools never should have closed. The only reason they are not already open is that powerful unions prefer teachers to do a minimum of work for a maximum of pay.

On a tip from Henry. Hat tip: College Fix.

John Stossel on COVID-19 Hypocrites

Now that John Brennan has fingered libertarians as potential Enemies of the State who should be investigated by federal intelligence agencies, we had better listen to what John Stossel has to say before people like him start disappearing. Here he sounds off on COVID-19 hypocrites displaying the Do As I Say Not As I Do mentality characteristic of authoritarian liberals:

The bigger Big Government gets, the more unjust the tyranny will be.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Free From His Own Proscriptions, Ted Wheeler Applies Some Pepper Spray

Portland has been subjected to well over 100 riots over the past year. Mayor Ted Wheeler has forbidden the police to use tear gas to keep them under control. From September:

Wheeler, who was also gassed during a protest earlier this year, made the announcement saying “we need something different” to quell more than three months of nightly unrest in Portland following the May 25 police custody death [probably from overindulging in fentanyl] of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

However, chemical agents are okay if brandished by liberal politicians, as Wheeler did Sunday night:

Robert King, Senior Policy Advisor on Public Safety for Wheeler … notified the [Portland Police Bureau] that Wheeler had been involved in an incident in which “WHEELER used pepper spray against an unknown person.” …

According to Wheeler’s statement, he was leaving the Hillsdale McMenamin’s pub, and was confronted by a middle-aged male, who was taking video of Wheeler with a cell phone.

The male suggested he “had been photographing” Wheeler while he was inside the restaurant. The male accused Wheeler of not wearing a mask.

Presumably a constituent, the guy followed him to his car and would not get out of his face, so Wheeler “pulled out my pepper spray and I sprayed him in the eyes.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if police could do the same to rioters? Civil order might be restored.

Neither Wheeler nor [his companion former Portland mayor Sam] Adams indicated that the man who was sprayed posed an imminent threat or had physically threatened him, only that he was “in close proximity.”

But Wheeler fretted that he could have caught COVID-19 from him.

Let that be a lesson to the public. Even Ted Wheeler can be pushed only so far!

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.