OPINION:
It’s laughable, truly, but the Biden administration’s guy in charge of alcohol consumption guidelines — is that really a thing?? — is actually considering a Canada-like recommendation of two beers max per week.
Wait. What? Shouldn’t the recommendation be for more beer, not less?
Under this presidency, it’s one of the great wonders of the world that we’re not all alcohol addicts by now. Biden’s feckless weakening of America, both foreign and domestically, gives new meaning to the phrase “drowning your depression.”
Facts: Under Biden’s leadership, inflation soared and even when it stopped soaring, continued to sneakily soar. Have you checked the price of a box of cereal lately — per ounce? Packaging grows smaller; prices grow higher. Gas prices averaged $2.57 a gallon under President Donald Trump; gas prices average, so far, $3.60 a gallon under Biden. Any questions?
Then there’s foreign policy. There are 13 of America’s finest killed during Biden’s botched withdrawal of Afghanistan — America’s fighting finest whom Biden couldn’t even properly honor as their bodies were ceremoniously taken off the plane at Dover Air Force Base. He kept checking his wristwatch, recall.
There are the dings to the American dollar as the standard of world currency, and growing uneasy signs of other countries not-so-friendly to the Western Way scrambling to become the reserve replacement. There are infiltrations of globalist agendas into America’s political system — so much so that climate change has become a national security issue that dominates our military concerns (whack ‘em with some leaves!) and world health bureaucrats are actually becoming a go-to for advice, nay, guidance, nay dictates for Americans’ health matters. Lock It Down will soon enough be the bumper sticker for the bureaucratic class.
And then there’s the general weakness of this president that has not gone unnoticed by Vladimir Putin, by Xi Jinping, by Hunter’s crack buddies and art buyers. How much corruption can one president and his son bring?
Oh. Boy.
It’s dizzying to list all of Biden’s bungles.
So when Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism George Koob recommends that rather than two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women, Americans ought to instead limit themselves to two a week — as he himself does; but not beer, rather “buttery Californian Chardonnay,” he said — well then, one has to wonder: Just what the heck is this guy smoking?
Herbert Hoover had his soup lines; Jimmy Carter, his cheese lines; Barack Obama, his food stamp and welfare lines.
A much better Biden alcohol czar would recommend beer lines — free beer for the depressed masses.
Public relations message? It’s a memory killer.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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