JUSTICE: Mad Maxine Libeled Navy Vet As ‘Dishonorably Discharged’ Now She’s Losing In Court.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Who Is Doing Dementia Joe’s Thinking for Him?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: If every puppet needs a puppetmaster, then whose hand is making Joe Biden’s mouth function?

Answer: If that’s his mouth functioning, then America is being run by the worst puppeteer in history. But as you’ll see, our Mystery Puppeteer was bad at most everything else, too.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Zuckerberg millions “helped” the vote in Michigan
• Riots come to Georgia over voter ID
• How to properly wear and use two masks at the same time: A handy video guide for newbies

Bonus Sanity: LinkedIn backtracks on anti-white propaganda training materials.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

TURNABOUT: Joe Biden is a China patsy.

Look at his recent statement in which he suggested that ‘cultural differences’ might explain why the Chinese thought it was OK to brutally oppress Uighurs. An unnamed source within the intelligence community has revealed that Biden could not unequivocally condemn China’s human rights abuses because Xi Jinping has ‘has something’ on him. The 46th President therefore cannot be trusted to stand up to Xi on the world stage.

‘The Russians deploy kompromat as leverage over foreign assets,’ says my source. ‘Chinese agencies use something called “black materials” to extort western authority figures into doing what they want.’

I’m making this stuff up. Rather, I’m blending truths with half-truths; hearsay with nonsense. I’m concocting a grandiose conspiracy theory that an authoritarian state is now controlling the leader of the free world. If that sounds familiar it is because that is exactly what a lot of supposedly serious journalists spent the first two years of the Trump administration doing.

Read the whole thing.

AND THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT TRUMP’S EGO? Jerry Nadler on Equality Act: ‘God’s Will Is No Concern of This Congress.’

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: NC Lt. Governor Mark Robinson Demonstrates Punching Back Twice as Hard. “After being elected Lt. Governor, here he is fighting about the media’s ‘insurrection’ bullshit on January 6, and slamming a newspaper for depicting him, a black man, as a member of the Klu Klux Klan.”

CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: SUNY student suspended for Instagram post saying, ‘A Man Is A Man, A Woman Is A Woman.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. This Administration Is Already a Failure.

What has this desiccated, old weirdo achieved in his six weeks of semiconsciousness in the Oval Office? Well, there’s putting tens of thousands of Americans out of jobs, including union guys who voted for him. There’s telling the American people that their kids can’t go to school because public school teachers take priority over children because of science or something. There’s another war in the Middle East. Those are kind of accomplishments, but not really good ones.

His administration had someone named “Ducklo” who was mean to women. He had another who wants to be a woman and who wants to let your little boys be surgically turned into women. And Neera Tanden’s confirmation was blocked because she was a woman and totally not because she was an inept loudmouth.

If this is normalcy, what’s a freak show look like?

Kurt Schlichter, so read the whole thing.

THAT ’70S SHOW WITH A DIGITAL TWIST: COVID Stimulus Spending May Lead to Inflation. Are Cryptocurrencies and Gold Viable Hedges?

BEING UNPREPARED WAS THE PLAN: The Border Surge Is Underway, And The Biden Administration Is Unprepared. “Since November, the number of minors in federal custody has tripled to 7,000 after the Biden administration decided it would stop expelling minors and teenagers apprehended at the border without their parents. One official from the Department of Health and Human Services told Axios on Thursday, ‘We’re seeing the highest February numbers than we’ve ever seen in the history of the [Unaccompanied Alien Child] program’.”

MATT MARGOLIS: Stick a Fork in Andrew Cuomo… He’s Done.

THEIR CREEP FACTOR GOES UP TO 11: Facebook is ‘looking at’ facial recognition technology for upcoming smart glasses, executive confirms.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Trump Comeback Has Begun. “If you thought the Left went ape-stuff crazy the first time Trump did this, by 2024 the bat-guano is really gonna hit the fan.”

THE LAW SO NICE THEY HAD TO FIX IT TWICE: At Last, Democrats Get Chance to Engineer Obamacare 2.0.

I was especially fond of the “at last” in the headline to a purportedly straight news item.

THE ‘REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY’ STRIKES AGAIN: Leftists Cook Up Crazed Fever Dream to See Nazi Symbolism at CPAC.

KEEP PORTLAND RIOTOUS: Hellhole Portland: Defunded Police Were Too Busy With Shootings to Stop Antifa Rioters.

GOOD LORD: Missouri Judge Sends 14-Year-Old Girl to Live With Allegedly Abusive Dad While Jailing Her Mom.

LOSIN’ IT: Biden’s Latest Verbal Slip Might Be His Most Disturbing Yet.

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Remember Curling Up With Your Kids to Read Dr. Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Black Fish, Jew Fish? No? Me Neither.

I don’t usually promote two PJ Media VIP pieces in a single day, but this one was so much fun to write that I just had to share it.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): This Is Not Normal and I Refuse to Pretend It Is. “Can we stop for a minute and recognize the absurdity of what we witnessed in a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday?”

Paul Bolyard’s latest is just for our VIP members if you’ve been considering joining.

A MILLION HERE AND A MILLION THERE AND PRETTY SOON YOU’RE TALKING REAL CORRUPTION: COVID Bill Gives $570 Million Gift To The Teacher’s Unions.

HIGHER EDUCATION: Smith College fails to defend their own employees after false accusations of racism. “The university released a report on the incident which found zero evidence of racial bias on the part of Blair or the janitor. McCartney, however, still refused to rule out that they were motivated by racism.”

Because it’s virtuous to fight racism, even if you have to invent it and destroy a life or two in the process.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 6 Reasons to Oppose the Orwellian ‘Equality Act.’

HOLLYWOOD: The Rise and Fall of Joss Whedon, and the Myth of the Hollywood Feminist Hero.

As good as Whedon’s Buffy and Firefly were, they serve as excellent reminders that the more you want to enjoy art, the less you want to know about the artist.

BACKPEDALING AS QUICKLY AS HE CAN: Mitch McConnell Makes Surprise Announcement on Trump’s Potential 2024 Presidential Bid.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Many heartland states have outperformed more prominent counterparts in the fight against Covid-19.

Gretchen Garofoli, a local pharmacist in Morgantown, West Virginia, administered one of her state’s first Covid-19 vaccinations—a jab in the arm of a nursing-home patient— on December 15, weeks before any other state could do the same. “It was a beacon of hope,” Garofoli later told NPR. West Virginia is the only state in the country to use independent pharmacies to deliver shots; pharmacists in these communities often know their patients by name. “The more the state collaborates with those at the local, community level, the greater the vaccine uptake,” concluded Christopher Martin, a professor at the West Virginia University School of Public Health. As of mid-February, West Virginians have received more than 400,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine, and some 8 percent of the population has received at least two jabs (a rate second only to Alaska’s 9 percent).

Smaller, redder states have been more successful than media coverage would suggest. Look at the rankings for Covid-19 vaccine doses given and you’ll see West Virginia, Alaska, North and South Dakota, and Utah ranking high. These states benefit from having fewer people to vaccinate—and only a few large health systems operate in North and South Dakota, allowing for easier logistics and nimbler vaccination plans— but they aren’t without geographical difficulties. Yet many of their governors have been pilloried in the press. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, a common target, began planning her state’s vaccine rollout in mid-summer, well before the federal government gave its own guidance. Noem’s team held daily coordination meetings with local partners, who, in turn, led the distribution and shared lessons learned along the way.

The success of heartland states compares favorably with the performance of New York and California.

To be fair, it’s difficult to even imagine worse performances than Andrew Cuomo’s or Gavin Newsom’s.