December, 2019, Part 3, Another Politician Steals From Charity, Ocasio-Cortez Spouts More Idiocy, and More

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Warner Todd Huston, writing for the Godfather Politics website on December 7, 2019, reported on a nasty situation in Pennsylvania:

• Movita Johnson-Harrell is a Muslim woman who was elected to the state legislature in Pennsylvania.
• She caused quite a commotion back at her swearing in ceremony this past March when she went nuts because the session was opened with a Christian prayer, a long running tradition and the religion of most people in the legislature, the state and the country.
• Rather than respect the tradition and the religion of choice of her peers, she called her legislature colleagues racists and Muslim haters.
• She then went way off the deep end by insisting that no Christian ever be allowed to pray in the state capital ever again.
• She finished up this childish rant by stating the prayer was an explicit attack on her personally.

Talk about being immature and selfish. Rather than sit quietly and respectfully allow other human beings to have their moment of peace and exercise their First Amendment rights, she goes off on a selfish and mean spirited rant.

But karma can be a bitch since she turned out to probably be just another greedy self serving, self enriching politician like so many others in the American political class:

• She has been arrested and charged with theft, perjury, and tampering.
• Seems she ripped off a kids’ charity she had founded for about $500,000.
• According to the article: “Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has said that an investigation has found that the Muslim politician spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars of the charity’s money on “vacations, designer clothing, luxury car payments, real estate purchases, past-due mortgage payments, and other personal expenses. Her theft knew no bounds.” 
• She has denied many charges of wrongdoing but not all of them.

Just another example of the low integrity, low life people that somehow continually get themselves elected and yet commit crimes of larceny and disrespect.

2) Amazon originally had planned to build a major headquarters facility in the Congressional district of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Besides bringing tens of thousands of high paying jobs to the district, resulting in a once in a lifetime bonanza of economic growth, the company vowed to the following:

• Amazon would invest $2.5 billion in developing the location for their headquarters location.
• This $2.5 billion would result in a load of high paying construction jobs and ancillary jobs and economic benefit to the area, e.g. food trucks to service the construction workers.
• Eventually Amazon would station 25,000 employees at the location, highly paid employees that would buy and renovate housing in the area, eat in local restaurants, go to local movie theaters, buy clothes from local merchants, buy furniture to furnish their new homes, spend money on local transportation, etc.
• Amazon promised to provide computer science course to 130 area high schools.
• Amazon promised to hire at least 30 people from a nearby housing complex to work in its call center.
• Amazon would help fund local infrastructure improvements.
• Amazon would help fund a new 600 seat public school
• Amazon would create a 3.5 acre waterfront park open to the public.
• Amazon would set aside 25,000 square feet for a“community facility use/artist workspace.”
• Amazon would set aside 10,000 square feet for an art and tech accelerator.
• Amazon would set aside 263,000 square feet for light manufacturing space.
• Amazon would set aside 10,000 square feet for workforce development and training space.
• Amazon would set up internships for high school students.
• Amazon, starting in 2020, would host semi-annual job fairs and resume workshops at the local housing complex for at least three years.

Again, a once in a lifetime economic gift was waiting for the people of Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional district if she could just keep her mouth shut.

But alas, she could not. Her bad mouthing and stupid economic rationale ended up prompting Aazon to cancel their plans for her district and take the potential wealth machine elsewhere in the country including Nashville and the greater DC area.

But Amazon did recently announce that they would be renting office space in Manhattan, NOT Ocasio-Cortez’s district, for about 1,500 employees. This was a far cry from the 25,000 employees that would have come into her district along with the other perks listed above, none of which are going to happen in her district.

And yet somehow in her twisted and idiotic economic reasoning, she viewed this as a win and something she is proud of: “Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway – *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways.” She went on to tweet: “Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions”:

So she smugly thinks that she won the battle with Amazon? How is that type of reasoning even possible:

• Amazon is bringing 1,500 jobs to NYC rather than the 25,000 that were originally planned, i.e. only 6% of could have happened is happening.
• And these jobs are not in her district.
• Amazon is NOT bringing job training centers, construction jobs, call center jobs, parks, manufacturing, and a whole host of other benefits to her district.
• Amazon is not bringing the untold millions of dollars in economic development wealth and increases income, sales, and property taxes to her district.

And yet she thinks she won?! How do you even begin arguing with such perverted and nonsensical logic like this? Twitter users, as usual, were brutally honest and correct in tearing up:

• “I’m thanking her! Amazon is going up in my town instead. We need the jobs!”
• “You realize you still cost your own district tens of thousands of jobs, right? And since Amazon isn’t building you also cost the city billions in revenue.” 
• “This is such an odd and sad victory lap. Lol.”
• “She caused a 25,000 job expansion in NY to go to 1,500 jobs in a rented space.” 

And she votes on legislation that affects us all. Idiocy.

3) Speaking of idiocy Democratic candidate Peter Buttigieg was throwing around some nonsensical words also:

• Some pastor, William Barber, was recently preaching that American citizens should not hold a grudge against illegal immigrants since these illegal immigrants were simply returning to their original homeland, land that the U.S. long ago stole from Mexico.
• Specifically: “We call people illegal aliens. Why can’t we just own in America that some of the people that are trying to come from Mexico here are coming back to land we stole? And the reason we took the land is because people wanted to keep their slaves?”
• Obviously the pastor is free to have and spout his own opinion, no one is disputing that.
• But to try and tie western expansion to the retention of slavery and to say that reason from over 150 years ago justifies unimpeded immigration into this country today is ridiculous on all levels.

Stupid stuff but according to news reports, Buttigieg sat in on the sermon and continually nodded in agreement, that “stolen land” from the 1800s justifies unrestricted immigration into this country today and even proposes that these illegal immigrants are somehow entitled to the this land within our boundaries.

This inspired applause from the congregation and agreement from Buttigieg. Which is stupid on many fronts for him as a national candidate. I doubt that the majority of Americans agree with this position of the pastor and Buttigieg, something you do not want to do if you are running for President. I think most would agree that Buttigieg wouid be seen as pandering to a vocal and very small minority audience that would be overwhelmed by others outside of this minority in an election. These views were voiced by some vocal Twitter users:

• “Oh great. First reparations, now return land (states) to Mexico? Which ones, LA and Texas ? Maybe LA won’t mind but I think Texans will have something to say about that,” said one user.
• “Let’s give away America in the name of tolerance.” 
• “So Spanish Empire descendants leaving land they conquered from Aztecs in Mexico and coming to California illegally are justified in that they are reclaiming land they stole from the Native Americans before it was stolen from them by descendants of British colonists. Seems legit.” 

Bitching and moaning about what happened hundreds of years ago is an exercise in futility since it does not matter today. Rather than have a mature, adult discussion and action plan of how to fix immigration today that protects our borders, protects Americans’ safety, but is humane and reason to outsiders is not going to happen when politicians like Buttigieg pander to every minority faction with a gripe without proposing real solutions.

That will do it for today: more pandering by a politician, more alleged criminal actions by a politician and more stupidity from our favorite gaffe machine from Queens, New York.

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