Did Murphy forget that Biden closed the border with Mexico because of COVID?

By Rubashov

“Tin-foil hat”?

Phil Murphy must have a tin-foil bunghole that he’s talking out of.

Earlier today, the Governor tried to chastise Senator Diane Allen, GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli’s running mate, for suggesting that COVID-19 could be brought over the border by undocumented immigration. That’s undocumented – as in nobody got their names, let alone tested them for anything from STDs to COVID!

Murphy said that the idea that unmasked, unvaccinated people, kept in close confinement before being shepherded in tightly packed groups across the border, might pick up the virus along the way was “conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact”. He went on to suggest that even being concerned about the possibility of such a thing was “making people less healthy and putting their lives at risk”.

Murphy did not explain how, but his words do remind us of Murphy’s histrionics back when he was trying to cover up the rape of one of his staffers. He gets a little nuts, all emotional, and goes overboard – like a Wall Street pitchman trying to explain the benefits of paying young Asian women less than 20 cents an hour to work in unsafe conditions – and then locking them in after work in “dormitories” that make today’s women’s prisons seem like hotels.

In any case, Murphy’s statements today place him in direct conflict with the administration of President Joe Biden. Maybe Murphy missed those press reports last month announcing that the Biden administration was extending the closure of the borders with Mexico and Canada due to concerns over cross-border transmission of coronavirus. The ban on all non-essential travel will continue to at least August 21st, the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security announced. The restriction on non-essential travel began in March 2020 “due to the coronavirus pandemic” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

President Biden shares the same concerns as Senator Allen about cross-border transmission of COVID-19. Of course, being able to test those crossing the border is essential to containing the spread of coronavirus and its variants. Illegal border-crossings by undocumented immigrants totally defeats the ability to test, treat, and contain the virus.

Only a complete festered bunghole would fail to recognize this. Governor, we hate having to say this, but it appears you is it. And to compound this bungholery further, the Governor juiced up his crazy hyperbole…

“It’s just fantasyland. Folks are saying stuff and believing stuff that’s just not true. Irresponsible behavior, irresponsible words – actions or words that are not based on fact have to be called out.”

Hey Governor, stop dumping on President Biden. Old Joe is taking prudent and cautious steps to keep us safe. Senator Allen gets it. God only knows what you are up to.

“The entire business model of the Democratic Party is to avoid dealing with its own populists’ concerns, so they’ve never seen the Sanders wing of the party as anything but a threat to what they do for a living, which is basically take corporate money and then sell themselves as socially progressive. That’s what they do for a living. That’s their business.”

Matt Taibbi
Journalist and author of Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another.