There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, and ineffective government programs.
1)Far too many times we have discussed the corruption that exists in many tentacles of the American political class. In Washington, it has been shown that many members of Congress have gotten quite wealthy doing insider trading on secret government information. It seems that most Washington politicians leave office much wealthier than when they entered office, wealth that cannot be explained by their Congressional salary.
But the political corruption is not restricted to Washington as we see what has been going on in California:
Gavin Newsom is the governor of California and the nephew of former House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
As we have discussed many times, Pelosi is no stranger to the many instances that look like she and her family allegedly profited handsomely from stock trading on insider secret government information.
Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Newsom, operates a number of businesses that employs former aides, friends, and confidants of her husband.
Public records show that she gets hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the state government and lobbyists that lobby her husband and the state government.
She pays herself $150,000 out of her nonprofit, Representation Project, which is a so-called “gender watchdog.”
Also, her film company, Girls Club Entertainment, generated $150,000 in 2024 for services rendered.
Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, a non-partisan watchdog organization, finds her activities very suspicious: "It is no surprise Gavin and Jennifer Newsom have leveraged their business and non-profit endeavors for personal and political gain."
Obviously, financial donors to her efforts increase the suspicions that these donations are shady ways for donors to buy influence with her husband.
Another day, another suspicious self enrichment scheme for America’s political class.
2)It is no secret that Joe Biden was in severe cognitive decline from the first day he became President. Whether it was dementia or something else, his intellectual acuity was horrible, giving the country four years of sub-standard, absentee Presidential attention.
Recently published books and exposed government documents show that his staff went to great lengths to shield Biden’s mental inability from exposure, with people in Congress, the press, and other entities reporting that they rarely saw Biden in action, rarely governing. And we now know how much Biden was hidden from reality and the American people:
Ian Sams was a former spokesperson for Biden during his term.
Sams was the primary administration interface during Robert Hur’s investigation into whether Biden was keeping secret government documents in his garage.
And yet, according to Congressman James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Sams met with Biden face-to-face a grand total of TWO times during the four years of Biden’s term.
And yet, when questioned about Biden’ apparent cognitive decline, Sams told MSNBC: "No, I've gotta say that doesn't look anything like the president that I know. When I deal with him, he's sharp. He's asking tough questions."
So an official spokesperson for the President, who was given the task of defending the President against a special prosecutor, met with Biden only twice in four years and yet claimed that Biden was “sharp.” The worst Presidency, the most secretive Presidency in a very, very long time that shielded both his official spokespeople and the American public from Biden’s horrible cognitive condition.
3)Earlier this year there were terrible wildfires in southern California. Thousands of people suffered great losses in personal poetry, their homes and their lives. Fortunately, a celebrity laced concert called FireAid raised almost $100 million to aid those who suffered such great losses.
That is the good news. But this is California, the land of liberal causes and a very corrupt and inept political class:
Since the concert, virtually no homes have been rebuilt.
Thousands and thousands of folks are still displaced from their homes.
The governor seems more concerned about grooming his image for a 2028 Presidential run that helped his distressed citizens.
It also turns out that the funds are not being distributed directly to the victims to aid their recovery but have been divided up across a multitude of politically connected non-government organizations, NGOs, who are distributing aid according to their needs and agendas, not the needs of those who lost so much to the wildfires.
For example, the Greenline Housing Foundation received $4.8 million in concert proceeds but their mission is to provide housing assistance only to black and Hispanic applicants, white people need not apply, according to their official policy.
The Black Freedom Fund got $7.6 million in disaster relief funding and they plan on distributing that money to groups that are “led and controlled by Black people” and who serve “primarily Black people,” again, white people need not apply.
The Alliance For A Better Community and its sister affiliate, the Fuerza Fund, got $6 million in wildfire funding but their mission is to provide support for “immigrant and undocumented families,” i.e. white American citizens need not apply.
Thus, upwards of 20%, or possibly more, of the money raised at the concert will not be allocated to help a large segment of the population that suffered devastating losses from the wildfires, not because they do not need the funding but because their skin color does not align with the goals of the organizations funding the reconstruction. Blatant, blatant racial discrimination.
I doubt that the donors would have been as generous if they knew that racial profiling was the criteria for using their donated funds, not the needs of fellow Americans. But like just about everything else in California, nothing works efficiently, fairly, or effectively unless you are wired into the state’s political class….or married to the governor.
Enough insanity for today: racial profiling and suffering in California, self enrichment by a governor’s wife, and more proof that Joe Biden had no clue what he was doing, it was his staff, and only a small proportion of his staff, that were the surrogate President during his term.
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