In our 38th episode of Madness Chronicles, we’ll see the madness we see in the funhouse mirror bouncing around our once-great nation. Remember, insanity is a state of serious mental illness, extremely foolish behavior, and a form of frenzied or chaotic activity. Let’s take a look at the random madhouse that is America 2020.
Our government, hopelessly indebted ourselves, is funding a new effort in Costa Rica to hire more policewomen. Police departments around the world are being defunded to appease leftists. At the same time, we want to help “gender equality” in the Latin American police forces.
Moving on to our nation’s capital, Washington DC, we find some strange occurrences. The District of Columbia’s legal director started a taxpayer-funded public safety program called Cure the Streets. DC’s top cop believes violence is a disease that can be cured. It was announced this week that one of the ‘reformed and rehabilitated’ enrollees in this program has been arrested for murder. Attorney General Karl Racine had no comment.
The Seattle City Council is considering a novel idea to reduce crime now that they have cut their police budget. They are considering legalizing the ‘poverty defense’ for street crimes, robberies and break-ins. Councilwoman Lisa Herbold and Anita Khandelwal, director of the King County Department of Public Defense, introduced the idea of changing the penal code. “Even simple assault could be exempt from prosecution,” Khandelwal said. Does your brain hurt already?
Nasdaq, one of the legal gambling companies on Wall Street, made a bizarre lawsuit last week. It asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to require companies listed on its United States stock exchange to increase board diversity. They require at least one woman and one person who self-identifies as underrepresented or LGBTQ and posts diversity reports on the board. I am sure that investors will join this new strategy of selecting their investment based on the directory of the company that most closely resembles Village People.
In Lansing, Michigan Gov. Heil Whitmer has ordered state police to block Republican voters from entering the capital today. Today, of course, was when the Electoral College met to cast their statewide votes for President. Heil Whitmer did not want votes cast for President Trump. Isn’t it special to have elected officials with the public’s best interest in mind? Wow, I shouldn’t say heart in the same paragraph with Heil Whitmer; she doesn’t have one
I thought it was terrible when I read that a Santa made a child cry when he asked for a Nerf gun for Christmas. Santa read to the boy and made him cry. But the British far outnumbered our Grinch.
For the ‘holidays’ in the UK, the National Health Service produced a video for children showing a fully clothed Santa Claus being taken to the emergency room suffering from COVID and immediately placed on an oxygen mask. That will cheer up those poor British children who have been locked up for nine months. In the end, honoring their medical staff, they restore Santa to health. Of course, no one sees the end because the kids run out of the room, screaming that Santa is dead. Don’t you wish this was made up? Who comes up with something like this?
Perhaps the height of madness came when my wife and I were at the local Safeway. It’s a challenge to go there for their phantom sales. They advertise great deals, and then you go there and of course they don’t have what they advertise. In the pre-COVID days you’d get a rain token and come back burning your savings on gas, but at least you’d get the sale item.
Not now. No, COVID has changed that. We went in for Pepsi on sale; my wife is a Pepsiholic. Of course, they were out as usual. We stopped by the service desk to get our rain check and were told in disgust, “No rain checks due to COVID.” Actually? That was the only explanation they gave. What a strange virus it is.
May we wake up from this madness before it’s too late. I wish you good health and until next time, have fun, enjoy life and beware of the madness among us. It’s 2020 and it’s getting out of hand.