You mad, Bro?

I started this email a little over a week ago. The aftermath of the Afghanistan pull out was so terrible that I had to wait and get more perspective. (Plus, it’s been a very busy week.)

A week before that, I predicted in this newsletter that Biden would turn to tyranny in America to cover for his humiliation abroad. The more he alienates his own citizens, the angrier he’ll get at them.

Biden was angry this afternoon. Furious. He’s scapegoating the people who have thus far refused to get vaccinated. The biggest group of unvaccinated Americans? Black people.

Even vaccinated people can spread COVID. The benefit of vaccination seems to be that those who are vaccinated have lighter cases and less risk of dying. Solid benefits – especially for high-risk groups.

Encouraging the vaccine is fine. But mandating it? The mandate, alone, undermines the presumed efficacy of the thing. No one has to mandate a life-saving elixir. It sells itself.

So why the mandate, why the pressure on businesses, why are postal workers exempt if this is for health reasons (they go door to door, after all) and why is President Biden so angry?

President Biden is enraged because his policies are failures and there’s no hiding the failure.

He’s angry that the country has turned on him for how he handled Afghanistan. He can’t have a big 9/11 speech now. Well, he could, if he had any courage. Instead, there will be a video. And the twenty years ends as it began: a terrorist mess.

He’s mad at the governors of Texas and Florida and he’s mad at their citizens. He saw the joyous crowds at college football games and he can see his power over the masses slipping away. So he’s going full tyrant beast mode. Every bit of this is political, not about public health.

Melisa McKenzie American Spectator