Both Joe Biden and Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre indicated that the government isn’t opposed to another lockdown. More mask theater has been announced on Federal properties. Meanwhile, Covid positive illegal immigrants are bused and flown all over our Nation. If hypocrisy and mendacity were Olympic sports, the Biden team would be gold medalists.

The late Burl Ives played Big Daddy in the film version of Tennessee Williams’ great “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. My favorite lines, delivered as only Ives could, are:

“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.

The death stink in the White House today must have been mighty powerful indeed. First, Karine Jean-Pierre refused to rule out another lockdown:

BREAKING: The Biden administration indicates they are open to returning to lockdowns. pic.twitter.com/lcj66Fggkz

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) July 29, 2021

Jean-Pierre has a much more pleasant affect than Jen Psaki. She dissembles so sweetly. Yes, there might be another lockdown in your future, but we are doing it to protect you. Like the last lockdown worked so well. Our children lost a year of education (or indoctrination), businesses and livelihoods were destroyed, and depression and suicide were rampant. So, let’s do the lockdown two-step again.

Then, Grandpa Badfinger Biden shambled into the East Room, took off his mask and continued the Covid Fear Porn theater:

Don’t bother watching that. Let’s look at the WhiteHouse.gov read out. They clean up his syntax. First, the mask theater:

Q How long do you think people might have to wear a mask again?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, if you notice, a lot of places, people don’t have to wear masks. Let’s get that straight. The places where people have gotten vaccinated, where we have a high vaccination rate, people do not have to wear a mask at all.

Like some of you were with me yesterday when I was up in Lehigh Valley. Didn’t have to wear a mask there. Don’t have to mask if you come home to Delaware with me — I know you love doing that. But you don’t have to wear a mask. The places people are probably going to have to wear masks: in those communities where the high rate of unvaccinated stays high and they don’t move — they don’t move to getting vaccinated.

But I think you’re going to find the patience of businesses and the patience of a lot of other people running thin. Because the fact is, if you had high vaccination rates, you — we wouldn’t be in the spot right now.

When Joe shambled into the East Room, he had his mask on. When Joe shambled out, he forgot his mask and no handlers were there to remind him. He left his drool filled mask on the podium. Gross! By the way, Nina wrote a great post about the mask mandates in March, you can read it here.

When asked about another lockdown, Biden didn’t rule it out:

Q Mr. President, you said, earlier this week, that we are not headed back towards lockdowns. But if the science is evolving, how can you be so confident in that? You heard — we heard you saying, weeks ago, that “the virus [was] on the run,” but Dr. Fauci has also indicated that we are headed in the wrong direction.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, you’re take — you’re literally correct on everything you said, but it doesn’t make — come to the conclusion you’re implying.

It is clear that if everybody is vaccinated, the existing vaccines work to prevent death, serious illness, hospitalization. Okay? If every — so, if tomorrow I can wave a wand and every American was vaccinated, then in fact we’d be out of the woods.

Now, can something else happen a year from now? Can there be a different virus? Can there be something? It’s possible. But I’m talking about COVID and the existing variants that have come forward so far.

You got that? Something might come up and another lockdown would be necessary.

Here is where the stink of mendacity is really strong. Some illegal aliens are refusing the Covid vaccination. Catholic Charities is putting Covid positive illegal immigrants in hotels and not monitoring them. From Valley Central.com:

On Tuesday, the La Joya Police Department addressed a migrant family they spoke with at a Whataburger in La Joya that told police they were COVID-19 positive.

“They told the officer that they all had the COVID-19,” said Sargent Manuel Casas with La Joya police at a press conference at city hall.

Someone waved down police alerting them that there was a family coughing, sneezing and not wearing masks, according to police. Police also said the family told them they were recently released by Border Patrol.

“They produced a paper to the officer and said we are here because we crossed the river, but we have proper documentation to be here,” said Casas.

That paper was the I-385 Form that Casas says gives them 60 days to reach their destinations in the United States and report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

And more:

In this case, the family unit told police that they were released by Border Patrol to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, and were places by the Catholic Charities in the Texas Inn and Suites in La Joya.

“And it was verified that they were staying there and not only that but there were other family units that had the same form,” said Casas. “We did not know this, no one told the city of La Joya, no one told the police department.”

Approximately 180,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the United States last month. The government wants you to mask up and may lock you down again, but the illegal immigrants are super spreaders with no limits. You may be in lockdown, but they will be freely moving about the country.

That mendacity smells like the skunk that sprayed MacDuff last month. The stank doesn’t go away for a long time.

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