Omicrazy is too right, and I didn’t even realize it when I recorded this episode. Since that time, Chicago and now Washington, DC have reinstated indoor masking and taken the extraordinary step of requiring vaccines to do almost anything related to not being in your home — save grocery shopping and churchgoing — which is itself a lockdown, but only for the unvaccinated. In DC, that mandate starts on Jan. 15, 2022. The vaccine apartheid has begun if Democrats have their way.

And all over a variant that is decidedly less lethal and apparently has a rather short timeframe in which to cause chaos.

But it looks like the reason for the draconian and nonsensical mandates is because the Supreme Court is going to be hearing challenges related to the federal vaccine mandates on Jan. 7, following a request to the Biden administration to file a response to the court by Dec. 30.

NEW: The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the legality of Biden's vaccine mandates on Jan. 7.

— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) December 22, 2021

Odd that the court acted now, as responses were due Dec. 30. I suppose the Court didn't want to wait.

— Kimberly Robinson (@KimberlyRobinsn) December 22, 2021

The punitive feel to the vaccine mandates — after Manchin nuked the Build Back Better legislation and the Biden administration’s popularity can’t seem to do more than hover somewhere just above the toilet bowl water line — hits Americans still reeling from being told by the president that if they choose not to be vaccinated (and there are certainly risks in getting the shot (lots of rare things listed on this page), just as there are risks in not getting it) they will be facing a winter of severe illness and death, and right before Christmas.

An inspiring leader Joe Biden is not.

But SCOTUS moving quickly is a very good sign. Because it has seemed, for some time now, that the lunatic fringe has been running the show. And I mean the real lunatics, not the cool ones. And it’s about time sane people decided to take control of the mic again. It’s been a long couple of years.

I talk about all that on the show today, as well as poke around my brain for thoughts on the rather stunning “The Last Duel” (trailer below). Oh, and Broadway’s proving the arts have truly ceased being the rebels by leaping (gracefully, of course) to comply with every overwrought freak-out that comes down the Great White Way related to covid.

But hang in there, family. We actually are in this together. And we’ll get through it.

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