Wednesday, February 5, 2020

February, 2020, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Bloomberg Lies, San Francisco Corruption, and A Senate Democrat Says Screw The Constitution

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) Over the recent past we have posted way too many posts on how screwed up San Francisco is. This is a city where it is now not against the law to defecate, urinate, or shoot up illegal drugs on the streets of the city. This is a city where they had to put together a five person hazmat cleanup team whose sole purpose is to go around the city daily and clean up human defecation and urination on the streets. They even have a phone app where citizens can notify them of locations where they need to come and clean up.

Well, it seems the guy in charge of this operation has gotten himself in a bit of a jam:
  • The Public Works director of the city, Mohammed Nuru, has been arrested and is being held on a whopping $2 million bail.
  • His arrest is a result of an FBI investigation.
  • He named himself “Mr.CleanSF” on Twitter but apparently got his hands a little dirty when he first agreed to help the FBI in their investigation and then backed out of the agreement.
  • He is being accused of accepting expensive gifts from a developer, offering up a bribe, and slipping a friend insider information.
  • Given he was in charge of an annual $312 million budget, he was probably making some good money from a salary perspective but apparently that was not good enough.
  • His alleged transgressions were enough to get multiple FBI agents involved who sought and got wiretaps, all of which resulted in a large bail figure so there is likely something foul smelling in this city, both literally and figuratively.
Another crooked government official in a crooked political system.

2) Mike Bloomberg is really, really rich. As a result he has decided that if he spends hundreds of millions of dollars, he may be able to buy his way to the Presidency. He has already spent almost $300 million of his own money with little results in the Democratic race for President. We have lamented how many hungry and homeless Americans that $300 million could have fed but that is a discussion for another day.

But Bloomberg is also a regular politician, having been mayor of New York City for three terms, besides being very rich and is certainly not below outright lies when it comes to political campaigning. In a recent ad he admonished Trump for putting illegal immigrants that sneak into this country in cages and how horrible Trump is. 

But there is a small problem. The video he used in the ad to prove Trump is inhumane turns out to be AP video footage from 2014 when Trump was not President, Obama was. Now, is Bloomberg that devious that he would lie to us or is he and his staff so inept that they did not check the vintage and date of the video footage? In either case, not a trait one wants for President, a pathetic liar or just plain incompetent.

Of the following two pictures comes from the 2014 AP story and the other is from the Bloomberg ad, see any similarities:



Another comparison:


3) We do not talk a lot about Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono, she is one of the quieter members of the Senate. But when she does talk, she almost always puts her foot in her mouth. We once reported that when she was asked how to increase voter turnout, she went into a detailed explanation that asserted that Democrats were smarter than the rest of us: “I wish I had the answer to that because one of the things that we, Democrats, have a really hard time is connecting to people’s hearts instead of [their heads]. We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here [pointing to her head] but not here [pointing to her heart]. We have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons, it was told to me at one of our retreats, was that we Democrats know so much. That is true. And we kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain.”Yeah, Senator, you Democrats are so smart. As I write this, Democrats in Iowa are trying to figure out how to add since they still don't know who won the Iowa caucuses last night. So smart. If you want other examples of her ineptness, just enter her last name in the search box above.But according to a recent article on the Freedom Outpost website by Alicia Luke, she apparently doesn't understand the Constitution and the rule of law or doesn’t care about either. According to the article, “Sen. Mazie Hirono said that she does not “care” about the “legal” and “constitutional defenses” that President Trump’s legal defense used during his Senate impeachment trial.So according to the Senator, if we do not like someone or someone is a political opponent we can just discard their legal and Constitutional protections and principles: “I don’t care what kind of nice, little, legal, Constitutional defenses that they came up with.” This is a sitting U.S. Senator saying screw the Constitution, we need to get rid of Trump despite his legal protections as a U.S. citizen and throw him out of office regardless of his defense or facts of the case.If this type of dangerous and stupid thinking does not smack of Orwell’s “1984” I do not know what does.So “Mr. Clean”in San Francisco gets his hands dirty, Bloomberg lies about illegal immigration, and a sitting U.S. Senator does not care about the principles of the Constitution. Insanity.

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