Bug out, you newsies.

Gone are the glory days of bugging Trump.

The lady is a loser:

• Kristen Clarke, the nominee to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, fell for the false claims made by actor Jussie Smollett that he was the victim of an anti-black and anti-gay hate crime in 2019.
• Clarke also accused the Chicago police department of “demonizing survivors” after investigators requested access to Smollett’s cell phone.
• “Jussie Smollett was subjected to a racist and homophobic attack,” Clarke wrote on Twitter.
• Smollett was later charged with multiple felonies for making the false hate crime report.
  

Chicago’s own fix-is-in classic. Biden, or whoever’s deciding for him, wants to put her in charge of, what? Civil rights? Say it isn’t so, Joe.

He’s the invisible president.

But what did we expect? He hid in a basement campaigning. It got to be a habit.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden will likely hold a press conference “before the end of the month,” although she has not been able to promise that the American people will see him regularly.

Above her pay grade, apparently.

“There are two new social no-no’s: coughing and farting in public. Now you can’t even cough to cover the sound of a fart without social ostracism.”

It’s a shame, this shaming.

When Dr. Fauci speaks, people listens. Makes good reading and table talk. It’s what he recommends, advises, thinks “would be” the thing to do, etc. etc. Good to hear his opinion.

. . . case levels may have to be “considerably less” than 10,000 per day for him to support rolling back mask and social distancing mandates in place in many U.S. cities and states.

. . . he disagreed with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision. “Well, I wouldn’t want to see . . .

“. . . would like to see . . . ”

“I’ll just pick a number. . . but I would say . . . ”

. . . he “would like to see . . . ”

. . . states could “gradually” pull back . . .

“I want us to all start getting back to some degree of normality, but we want to do that gradually and not all of a sudden, abruptly.”

Egad no!

Thanks, Doc. When you put it that way, you’re not such a bad guy after all.

The nation’s doctor!

Dr. Anthony Fauci has impressive credentials and a lengthy tenure as a top-level government health official dating back to 1984. But his performance during the COVID-19 pandemic has been abysmal, with politicized non-science-based edicts and frequently reversed “medical advice” that have confused and frightened Americans.

Oh?

Just a week ago, Fauci made what to some was a stunning admission: “We’ve done worse than most any country” in managing the outbreak, he said. We say “stunning” because Fauci, as head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is the official most responsible for the U.S. response.

And it’s not on him? High-priced, anyhow:

His 2019 pay of $417,608 makes him the nation’s highest paid federal official. As a scientist, he’s held in very high esteem by many, particularly those on the left, who see his sweeping powers – lockdowns, masking, social distancing – as a nifty means of social control. It’s control of 330 million people via social isolation and nonstop browbeating of those who dare to diverge from the oppressive “new normal” we all now experience on a daily basis.

Now that’s what you call a takedown. Details?

The big problem has been Fauci’s pronunciamentos are often nonsensical, not supported by science or contradictory. “These are my principles,” Groucho Marx once said. “If you don’t like these, I have others.” That’s Fauci.

Oh my.

Take masking, for instance. The Daily Wire counted five different mask policies by Fauci as of Feb. 11. Oops! Make that six. After calling masking “largely symbolic” last spring and telling Americans “don’t wear masks,” he now suggests we need to “double mask” and that it might last into 2022.

Follow Fauci? Which one?

more more here . . .

Classic case of telling people, “Nothing to see here, move on.”

BIDEN TEAM IN FULL DENIAL MODE ABOUT BORDER CRISIS. During the campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required.

It was obvious that Biden’s changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants. So during the transition, the president-elect sounded a note of caution. In late December, Biden told reporters he would not throw out the Trump program immediately, lest the United States “end up with two million people on our border.” Instead, Biden said, he would take some time to set up “guardrails” to make sure his new system would work smoothly.

Blah and blah and blah. Read the rest.