It is another month but the insanity from our politicians continues unabated;
1)We have often discussed the reality that most politicians that serve time in Congress are much wealthier after their service time is over than when they went in. The increased wealth cannot be explained by their Congressional salaries, their gain in wealth is much, much more.
The obvious, and often proven reason, for their gigantic increase in wealth is because they and/or their families execute stock market activities based on insider government information they have access to. When an ordinary American uses insider, secret information to make stock trades, they go to jail. When Washington insiders do the same, they face very little chance of jail time or even giving back their ill gotten gains.
Just a few examples of our discussion on the topic include the following post:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=pelosi+%2B+visa
Fortunately, Senator Josh Hawley has recently reintroduced legislation that would finally put an end to the self enrichment of Washington politicians:
The legislation is named “Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments.”
This legislation would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from owning stocks in individual companies during their time in Congress.
They could only invest in mutual funds, ETF funds, and Treasury bonds.
According to Hawley: “Members of Congress should be fighting for the people they were elected to serve — not day trading at the expense of their constituents. Americans have seen politician after politician turn a profit using information not available to the general public. It’s time we ban all members of Congress from trading and holding stocks and restore Americans’ trust in our nation’s legislative body.”
In a little bit of planned irony, the Preventing Elected Leaders From Owning Securities and Investments, can be abbreviated PELOSI.
As the above post points out and subsequent posts have also shown, the Pelosi husband/wife combination has seemed to have profited greatly from the insider government information that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had access to.
According to a recent analysis by the Investopedia website, Nancy Pelosi is worth more than $230 million. According to the Open Secrets website, in 2008 Nancy Pelosi was worth $31.4 million. So in 17 years, the Pelosi family wealth has increased more than sevenfold.
Of course, she and her family could be some of the best investors in the world. Or the PELOSI legislation that Hawley proposes would have prevented this type of ridiculous accumulation of wealth from a member of Congress, a member that makes under $200,000 a year. Maybe this is one small step to removing the corruption from Congress and get them focused on the needs of Americans, not their wealth bottom line.
2)We once did a post on the violent, childish, and dangerous orations of liberal members of the mainstream media, show business, and the political class. Their calls for violence and antagonism is always dangerous and leads to a divided nation, which only benefits their careers. It also undermines democracy when calls for anger and violence against those that simply have a different opinion, their right under the First Amendment, is very dangerous, personally and for our freedom.
The hatred and call for violence was documented in the following post:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-american-liberals-and-washington.html
And while this post was from several years ago, the current governor of Illinois, a Democrat and liberal, show us that liberal hate and tendency towards violence for others with a different opinion of them is unabated:
The governor of Illinois, J.B.Pritzker, recently spoke at a New Hampshire Democratic Party event.
At that event he called for mass protests, mobilization, and disruption of anything and anyone Republican.
Specifically: “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I have now,” [to make sure Republicans} "cannot know a moment of peace."
This is a call to violence, plain and simple, totally unacceptable in democracy where difference of opinion should be welcomed, not demonized.
But this is not the first time Prtizker made violent references since in his 2024 state of the state message he, as many lame liberals have done, likened Trump and his policies to the Nazis.
And yet it was Pritzker who acted like the Nazis back in 2020 when he shut down the state with dictatorship-like actions, threatening business owners who dared to reopen their gyms, their restaurants, and stores with criminal charges, fines up to $2500, and possibly jail time.
Despicable behavior to threaten the physical safety of those that have a different opinion than himself, just despicable.
3)But it is not just famous liberals in politics, media, and Hollywood that express violence towards other Americans:
According to the Law Enforcement Today website, JoAnna St. Germain is a Waterville, Maine Senior High School teacher.
She apparently recently put a post up on her social media account that called for the military or Secret Service to assassinate President Trump.
Specifically: “The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts. Look at the sycophants and give them what they’re asking for. Every other country sees what’s happening, and they are taking stands. If you step up, we can avoid a civil war,” as reported by the Maine Wire.
More liberal hate, I did not get what I want and I still want it by any means possible, even if it means killing many, many people.
She went on: “Secret Service, you are Americans. My beloved military, you are Americans. We, the people, are counting on you. If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself. I’m making this post public for a reason, I promise you. Don’t waste time wondering if I’m okay. I’m not. If you’re okay, you’re lying to yourself.”
Ridiculous and dangerous notions. What possible good comes from this kind of hate and what precedent does it set: we should just kill elected officials we do not agree with? I do not remember seeing this type of action allowed in the Constitution and obviously this hate has no place in a free country.
She should be fired from teaching and preaching this kind of hate in front of our kids, it has no place in our democracy or system of government.
4)Alright, let’s end today’s violence and hate with some good old fashioned political class insanity:
Apparently Pine City, New York resident, Mark Longo, kept a pet raccoon (“Fred”) and pet squirrel (“Peanut”) in his home.
Since there was a concern about potential rabies in the two pets, TWELVE law enforcement officers showed up at Mark’s home one day and seized Peanut and Fred.
Peanut was decapitated and tested for rabies after a wildlife biologist, who was involved in the seizure, claimed to have been bitten on the thumb.
That is the official, government story.
But a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch found evidence that the government plan was to kill the pets BEFORE the raid took place.
According to Longo, the officers involved in the raid “ransacked my house for five hours.”
Maybe he should not have sheltered these two animals in his home since, according to the investigation, he had no licensing or professional experience to shelter these animals in his home. Neighbors apparently complained about the situation which they had the right to do if it disturbed their lives.
But seriously, the government sent TWELVE law enforcement resources to seize the squirrel and raccoon? They then stayed in the home five hours after taking the squirrel and raccoon away? And then they lied about the execution timing of the squirrel and raccoon?
Such a waste of taxpayer wealth (TWELVE law enforcement officers), not only for the personnel time before, during, and after the raid but the time and resources that government bureaucrats wasted fighting the Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act efforts. Some days you cannot make up more insane wasting of taxpayer wealth.
That will do it for today’s insanity: hate and calls for violence from the powerful and the ordinary, the death of Peanut and Fred and the wasting of government resources to do it, and finally a potential effort to curb the self enrichment of Washington politicians.
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If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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