There’s a story going around the Internet that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s recent trip to China was such a disaster because she was spotted eating a dish in a local restaurant that contains mushrooms that can be hallucinogenic. But that’s only the case if they’re not fully cooked, which the restaurant says they were.

https://www.westernjournal.com/janet-yellen-four-orders-potentially-hallucinogenic-dish-explain-strange-behavior/

So I think we can safely file this under “urban legend.” The Treasury Secretary was not “trippin’ on ‘shrums.” She just that bad at her job naturally. But I’d like to withhold judgement on the rest of Biden’s Cabinet until we can get them to take a drug test.

Speaking of people who sound like they're high on mushrooms, the White House helpfully released a transcript of a recent speech by Vice President Kamala Harris, “correcting” her claim that we need to reduce the population to fight climate change. They altered “population” to “pollution.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-transcript-edit-turns-kamala-harris-depopulation-statement-something-else-entirely/

This drew a lot of attention as a “letting the cat out of the bag” moment, an admission that the radical green agenda includes reducing the human population. While that certainly does fit with what we know about them, I always tend to cut people slack on slips of the tongue. As someone who’s had to give the same campaign speech over and over while dead tired, I know how easy it is to fumble your words.

Of course, that didn’t apply to Kamala, who was well rested and reading off a prompter. But if she were capable of stating what she really thinks, even inadvertently, I’m sure she would have done it at some other time before now.