We have spent a lot of our recent posts discussing how DOGE and Trump are identifying and eliminating the stupid and wasteful spending of the Federal government. However, that does not mean that the American political class had stopped doing stupid and inane things, be it wasting taxpayer wealth, enriching themselves and family members, implementing stupid government programs, etc.
We usually called these failures “political class insanity.” Thus, let’s catch up on the insanity that American politicians have continued to indulge in:
1)Ilhan Omar is a Congresswoman from Minnesota. She is a legal immigrant who fled the terror in her home country of Somali and obviously America has treated her quite well. She is a member of Congress and is earning about $170,000 a year just in salary, putting her among the top wage earners in the country.
But she is not happy with the Trump administration, which is certainly her right. But she took it a disgusting step further when she recently degraded the entire country and its citizens: “To have a democracy, a beacon of hope, for the world to now be turned into one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets, without any regard for people’s Constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars propping himself up, like a failed dictator with a military parade. It is really shocking.”
“One of the worst countries in the world.” Kinda ungrateful, aren’t we Congresswoman? Sure, no institution is perfect and the real challenge is to fix what is perceived to be broken. But as always, American politicians are great at complaining, not so good at remedying. If this is the worst country in the world and you are not doing anything to fix it, then maybe going back to Somalia would be worthwhile for Ms. Omar.
You see, she is being quite hypocrite talking about losing Constitutional rights when she was silent during the Biden administration:
When the Biden administration weaponized the FBI to go after, infiltrate, and spy on Catholic clergy, Catholic organizations, and Catholic dioceses without cause or warrants, depriving them of their First Amendment rights, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration weaponized the FBI to send SWAT teams and agents to the homes of pro life supporters without cause or warrants, depriving them of their First Amendment rights and trying to intimidate those with a different view than Biden, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration continually tried to intimate, mandate, and legislate away citizens’ Second Amendment rights, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration colluded with the national association of school boards to shut down parental input to school board meetings and stifle parents' First Amendment rights, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration tried to intimate Spotify to dump the Joe Rogan podcast arrangement, depriving him of his First Amendment rights, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration weaponized the judicial system to collude with state and local judicial processes to prosecute Trump without cause, Omar was silent.
When the Biden administration detained suspects in the J6 riot for long periods of time without due process, depriving them of their Constitutional right to a speedy trial, Omar was silent.
Seems Congresswoman Omar was alright with Constitutional rights being extinguished when her political party was in power, trampling on First Amendment, Second Amendment, and due process rights of Americans, but all of a sudden America sucks when her party is not in control.
Oh, and by the way, we do not live in a democracy, we live in a republic form of government. As a member of Congress, she should know the difference. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, which is difficult if you do not even know our form of government.
2)We have spent a lot of time over the past few months talking about how
A) Washington politicians have allowed billions and billions of hard earned American tax dollars to be spent on nonsensical projects around the world, e.g. $20 million for a Sesame Street play in Iraq and B)government employees have used their government positions to defraud the Federal government’s coffers.
In all of these abuses of taxpayer dollars, American taxpayers, Americans in need have seen absolutely no benefit of the programs. And that corruption continues as we see below:
A former contracting officer with the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID), has pleaded guilty to running a decades long bribery scheme.
Roderick Watson admitted to accepting more than $1 million in bribes from 2013 to 2022.
He, in turn, steered 14 prime Federal government contracts to two consulting companies involving $550 million in Federal contracts.
His bribes included such niceties as cash, luxury items, payments for mortgages, tickets to NBA games, and jobs for relatives.
He accomplished this criminal enterprise by setting up shell companies and falsifying documents.
Executives of the companies he colluded with also pleaded guilty to bribery and securities fraud and face jail time and fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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As always the good news is this criminal mishandling of taxpayer wealth has been uncovered and the criminals involved will face penalties. The bad news is that we do not know how many other such schemes are in the high grass, ripping off taxpayers every day.
3)We have often talked about how Biden’s ignoring of the country’s illegal immigration laws allowed well over 10 million illegal immigrants to flood into the country without any background or criminal checks. As a result, Americans have suffered heinous crimes such as rape and murder and hard earned taxpayer dollars were diverted form serving taxpayers to providing free food, shelter, medical care and other benefits to illegal immigrants. Also, drug cartels, human traffickers, and other criminal organizations have grown wealthier and more powerful as a result.
Perhaps one of the most heinous outcomes of the Biden immigration failures has been the reality that the Federal government has lost track of possibly over 300,000 kids that came across the border illegally. The government has no idea where they are, what they are doing and whether they are being exploited from a work or sex perspective.
A recent report by the Senate Judiciary Committee has revealed the latest situation regarding those thousands of kids:
Under Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services ignored over 65,000 reports related to the care and placement of illegal immigrant children.
Almost 7,000 of those cases were suspected of being related to human trafficking and another 2,000 related to fraud.
Thus, many kids may have been given over to potentially dangerous and unvetted “sponsors” and forced into work or sex industries.
Health and Human Services admitted to the placement of minors into unknown situations with little or no background checks done.
So sad that kids have disappeared into who knows what kind of hellish life as a result of Biden’s failure to execute current immigration laws and secure our borders.
Enough political class insanity for today: more hypocrisy from a member of Congress, more criminal fraud from a Federal government employee, and more disgusting illegal immigration results from Biden’s failed immigration policies.
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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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