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Saturday, July 18, 2026

July, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: Biden and His Minions Illegally Spied On Congress, Yet More Taxes In California, Bad Humane Priorities In Colorado and More

We have spent a lot of our recent posts about which state or city will go bankrupt first and the massive fraud that has been going on relative to government programs. But that does not mean that the potential class has not been up to its traditional incompetence, insanity, and screw ups. So, let’s catch up with the shenanigans that continue to plague the country:

1)Jack Smith is an attorney who was appointed as a Special Counsel to investigate the potential law violations associated with the January 6th riot. Unfortunately, while he was supposed to investigate potential law breaking incidents, it appears that he may have violated the law himself:

According to the RedState website, Smith was accused in late 2025 of violating Congressional members' privacy rights.
He allegedly got their phone records without court authorized search warrants.
Senator Chuck Grassley alleged in July that Smith and his team of investigators violated classified document handling procedures and the privacy of sitting members of Congress without warrants.
According to Grassley: “I received records from DOJ confirming Jack Smith's investigative team reviewed the contents of text msgs sent by 44 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS I’m 1 of the 44. I’m alerting my colleagues who were impacted and will release the records w Sen Johnson so American ppl can see the evidence.”
Pretty bad when the Department of Justice decides that justice is just a word to be ignored and not a guiding tenet.
Smith allegedly bypassed and/or ignored standard Department of Justice protocols in the spying operation, protocols that would have prevented this abuse of power.
More from Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson: “Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes.”
Not only did Smith possibly undermine Constitutional rights of members of Congress with his spying, but according to Senator Rand Paul he may have also lied under oath at a Congressional hearing: “December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn't spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress. Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included. This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned.”

The good news is this blatant abuse of government power may have consequences for those that abused their power in the Federal government. But in a sense, this abuse of power is not surprising with regards to the Biden administration. Under Biden and the head of Justice, Merrick Garland, anyone who had a contrasting opinion than Biden was subjected to abusive government power and intimidation including pro lifers, Second Amendment defenders, Catholics, parents attending local board of education meetings, Republicans, etc.

If even members of Congress are not safe from having their Constitutional rights and privacy protected, then anyone can be subjected to people like Smith who bypass the safeguards meant to protect freedom and abuse of that freedom.

2)One would hope that anyone in the political class and serving the American people would be of the highest moral standards and upholders of the law. But a past Florida mayor and candidate to be Florida governor has smashed that hope like many others politicians constantly do:

Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee, Florida and defeated candidate to be Florida governor was recently arrested in Daphne, Alabama.
He is charged with possession of dangerous drugs including marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Back in 2020 Gillum overdosed on meth at a hotel in South Beach, Florida so this is not his first time getting entangled with drugs.
In 2022, Gillum was indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements, charges that were never proven true in court.

Nice, and to think this guy came very close to being governor of my state of Florida. Scary.

3)This next piece of insanity would fit quite nicely into our running discussion on which state or major city government will go bankrupt first. A major component driving these select states and cities to bankruptcy court is that liberal politicians in these locales constantly raise the tax burden on their residents and businesses. Eventually, some residents and businesses flee the city or state to get tax relief.

This out migration of people and businesses reduces the tax base and tax revenue stream. To make up to the smaller tax base these same politicians raise taxes on those remaining to make up the difference. This in turn sends more residents and businesses out of the state,reducing the tax base, and the financial spiral is underway.

As readers of these bankruptcy posts know, California is a prime state candidate to go bankrupt pretty soon. With some of the heaviest and numerous taxes in the country, businesses and residents have been leaving the state in droves for a number of years. Rather than try and ease the tax burden to reduce this out migration of their tax base, apparently these politicians have decided to add even more taxes to the tax burden:

Two brand new taxes will hit businesses and residents of California next year.
There will be a new tax on healthcare premiums and get this, software downloads to your computer.
According to state senator Tony Strickland: “What happened to addressing the affordability crisis that was supposed to be such a priority? These tax increases could be the final straw that drives businesses out of California and harms our economy.”
The increased health insurance premiums will be used to help fund the state’s fraud riddled Medicaid program and you can be sure those taxes on the health insurance companies will be passed down to consumers.
That pass though of the tax could reach hundreds of dollars a month according to the California Association of Health Plans.
When a California person downloads Turbotax or Adobe or any other kind of software to their computer, California will tax them for that action.

We have said this so many times that “when you are stuck in a hole, stop digging the hole deeper.” California is in a hole, people and businesses leaving because of the high tax burden. The most logical thing to do is to try and reduce the existing tax burden, not add to it. But Californai politicians keep digging that tax hole deeper and keep piling on those taxes higher and higher.

4)Consider some Colorado realities:

Almost 19,000 state citizens are homeless.
About 1,700 state citizens die from a drug overdose every year.
About 745,000 state citizens, including 172,500 Colorado kids, struggle with food insecurity.
About 27,000 state citizens are diagnosed with cancer every year.

There are a lot of citizens in Colorado dealing with serious problems that should be a priority of the state’s political class as far as addressing and reducing that suffering. But what is a priority of some state politicians:

These state politicians support using millions of taxpayer dollars for “transgender healthcare” for convicted criminals.
Part of this healthcare budget would be using taxpayer wealth to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, state government budgets over the past three years have included a dedicated line item cost line for transgender health care of prisoners.
The budget line was $5.3 million in 2024 and $5.3 million in 2025.

Talk about bad priorities. How many homeless Colorado folks could have gotten shelter with the $10.7 million? How many hungry Colorado kids could have been fed with the $10.7 million? How many drug overdose deaths could have been avoided with drug addiction support with that $10.7 million? How many cancer patients could have gotten better care with that $10.7 million?

Instead, prisoners that committed acts of aggression against those paying the taxes get to have their sex changed operations while in prison. Insanity.

Okay, enough foolishness for today: bad priorities for Coloradans in need, even more taxes in California, a Florida politician gets drug busted, and Biden and his lackey Jack Smith allegedly spied on members of Congress without cause or warrants.

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Monday, March 23, 2026

March, 2026, Part 1 - Political Class Insanity: California Still Screws Up, Biden's Horrible Spending Priorities, and Politicians' Perks

We have spent a lot of time recently talking about which city or state will go bankrupt first. That race to bankruptcy court seems to be accelerating as politicians in these vulnerable cities and states are starting to realize that their policies and ignorance are causing financial crises across the country.

However, we will step back from that theme for a few days since political class insanity in other areas has continued unabated and needs to be discussed and ridiculed.

1)Traveling these days can be a real pain and inconvenience. Long lines to get through TSA checking, pat downs by TSA agents, etc. This is especially true these days as Democrats in Congress refuse to pass common sense legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA, causing even more delays in traveling while at the same time endangering the safety of those traveling. Air travel is not nearly as glamorous and easy as it once was.

But apparently those days of easy traveling are still available to the political class in this country:

Apparently, it has been the custom and law that members of Congress do not have to go through TSA screening and long waiting lines like the common folks do when traveling through the nation’s airports.
Yes, as they often do, politicians in Congress voted themselves special privileges unavailable to us.
However, Senator John Cornyn of Texas is proposing the “End Special Treatment for Congress SAirports Act’ that would force Congressional members to suffer TSA screening like the rest of us.
According to the Senator: “Maybe, just maybe, if Congress has to live under the same laws that everybody else does, it will motivate us to get our work done. In other words to fund the [DHS]. So no American, no air traveler will have to suffer the disruption and tribulations that many, many travelers are having to experience now. It’s not too much to expect that Congress will be subject to the rules as everybody else.”
Viral videos have popped on social media showing Congressional members strolling past long TSA lines to get to their gates and flights much sooner and easier than regular flying citizens.
Especially disgusting is that these Congressional members that are getting special access are the same ones preventing the TSA agents serving them from getting paid.

So, politicians in Congress continue to get handsomely paid, they get special and easy access to travel accommodations while stressed out and overworked TSA agents go unpaid and non-members of Congress wait in long lines, some of which reportedly stretch outside of airport terminals in order to get to their flights. Political elitism at its finest.

2)We have often discussed the bad quality of life that residents and businesses must endure in California:

Highest gasoline prices in the country.
Some of the highest utility costs in the country.
The highest tax burden in the country.
The highest business regulation in the country.
The most homeless residents in the country.
Some of the worst education attainment levels in the country.
Some of the highest crime rates in the country.
The highest unfunded future financial liability levels in the country.
Two cities that could possibly go bankrupt quite soon, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Some of the most generous food, shelter, and medical care programs for illegal immigrants in the country.

The place is a mess. And a lot of the mess is the result of the leadership of its current governor, Gavin Newsom. Besides the above sour quality of life issues, he also presided over one of the worst budget nightmares anywhere when he mismanaged the much hyped high speed rail line that is now years over schedule and way over budget.

But his latest failure and inability to manage even a simple project is now coming to light:

U.S. 101 Freeway is a 10 lane highway in Los Angeles.
Four years ago the state government under Newsom hyped the idea of building the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing that would allow animals to safely cross over the 10 lane highway.
The original cost of the project was a whopping $54 million.
Yes, in a state going bankrupt, in a state with major education and homeless problems, in a state with the highest tax burden in the country, Newsom decided to spend $54 million for an animal highway bypass.
But state government bureaucrats misjudged the cost and asked the state government for an additional $10 million to complete the project.
But four years after the beginning of the project, it is now way past due and could end up costing around $114 million, more than double the original estimate.

But this should not surprise us given that the much hyped California high speed rail line is already likely to be three times more expensive than originally estimated and is also many years behind schedule. The incompetence of the state's political class and current governor is quite unbelievable, given the list of ongoing failures above and the failure to build a simple bridge or a complex rail line.

3)Let’s go over to DC, a place and a political class that have made a science out of wasting taxpayer wealth:

The Biden administration gave two different college professors $60,000 each to write books about LGBTQ cartoonists and “multiethnic graphic literature.”
Yes, the country’s homeless population grew by about 25% under Biden to about 770,000 homeless Americans and his administration decided $120,000 should be spent on gay cartoonists.
Another $60,000 went to an English professor at the University of Florida.
Her writing project, “Comics In Movement,” was described as examining “how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics through grassroots formats in 1970-90s.”
Another $60,000 went to an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at San José State University.
Her wiring project as titled: “Seeing Citizenship: Picturing Political Belonging in Multiethnic Graphic Literature, planned to "analyze 20th- and 21st-century graphic literature by Asian American, African American, Arab American, and Latinx authors" to "underscore how these texts reveal and critique citizenship's inconsistencies, inequalities, and exclusions."

Now $120,0000 is not even a rounding error in the Federal government budget. But it is a total waste of money when millions of Americans are hungry, homeless, in need of medical attention, and cannot afford health insurance. It shows a complete disrespect of taxpayer wealth and Americans in need and is probably just one of thousands and thousands of other, similar wasteful Washington projects that eventually waste billions of taxpayer dollars.

Note: The Trump administration cancelled these projects before they were paid out.

4)And yes, these two LGBTQ programs were not the only two wasteful spending sprees of the Biden years:

The DOGE effort found other wasteful National Endowment for the ARTs (NEH) besides the two NEH $60,000 projects listed above.
In fact, DOGE found $163 million worth of useless NEH projects funded under Biden by the American taxpayer.
$350,000 was spent for “interactive gay travel guides.”
$247,000 was spent to digitize “stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest.”
$75,000 to study “the relationship between Internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities.”
Another 1,435 cancelled NEH projects worth over $427 million have been identified and dealt with.
But it is not just the NEH that wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
The National Science Foundation spent $290 million under Biden for DEI grants in just 2024.
In 2021, when Biden took office the annual amount of money spent on this DEI nonsense was just $14 million, which was still too much.
Thus, in three short years Biden exploded this NSF DEI money by twenty fold.

Horrible waste of taxpayer wealth that has absolutely non-sustainable benefit, or any benefit at all, to society and Americans. The above numbers just from these useless NEH and NSf projects total $880,000,000. To give you an idea of what better use could be made of these numbers consider:

That money could have fed almost 390 meals for every homeless American in the country.
That money could have provided about 132,000 Americans without health insurance an average annual Obama Care insurance policy for medical coverage.
It would fund the employment of over 12,000 teachers to help better educate the country’s kids.

You get the idea. The money could have been much better utilized to serve millions of American taxpayers rather than write comic books for the LGBTQ+ community.

Enough political class insanity for today: Biden’s horrible spending priorities, California politicians continue to waste money and fail at just about everything, and politicians continue to treat themselves better than they treat us.

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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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Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at: