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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

November, 2024, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Biden Gets Us Closer To World War III, Kamala Gets Her Nails Done For $5,000, and Americans Go Hungry While Biden Finances Hamas

 Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country. 


Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.


1)Mostly liberal pundits. politicians, and news media people have been going crazy since Trump got elected, gathering a majority of total votes cast, by accusing Trump voters of being Nazis, garbage, fascists, sexists, racists, low educated, and a myriad of other personal insults to Americans simply exercising their voting and First Amendment rights. 

Most of them do not see the trees for the forest: survey after survey showed that the number one concern of the American voter was the economy: high overall price inflation, higher gas prices, higher food prices, higher energy costs, higher mortgage rates, higher prices for just about everything. And these higher prices have made it harder and harder for the average American to feed and shelter their families. They are not fascists, Nazis, sexists, racists, they are simply people trying to get by.

This reality is ongoing in the food banks around the country:

  • Food banks in all states including the critical swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are seeing record demand for their services.

  • Rising costs of food and other life necessities are forcing more and more families to seek food support help.

  • Things have gotten so dire that some folks are claiming that the country,, the wealthiest country in the world, is in the midst of a “hunger crisis.”

  • Joe Arthur, who heads up the Central  Pennsylvania Food Bank, claims that his organization has seen a 50% growth in food demand from his outfit since 2021, the year Biden became President: “The need we’re seeing today is as high as it was at the peak of the pandemic.”

  • GFG Good pantry worker in Wisconsin, Rochelle Gamauf, claims she is seeing people looking for food help that had “never visited a food pantry in their life,” blaming the sharp increase in rent and utility bills that is driving many families to seek food assistance.

  • Ken Estelle, who heads Feeding America West Michigan, claims his organization is overwhelmed by demand. “We have never seen this level of need in our 43 years of service.” 

  • According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, since Biden was installed as President in  January 2021 until September 2024, electricity prices increased roughly 28 percent, grocery prices increased by 21.6 percent, and rent prices increased by roughly 23 percent.

Americans are not Nazis, fascists, sexists or racists, they are having trouble feeding their families and that is why Kamala Harris is not going to be President. It is a shame that liberal politicians, media types and Hollywood actors and actresses do not get it and would prefer to defame rather than try to understand.

2)And while average Americans by the millions are having trouble feeding their families and coping with other inflation pressures in their lives, consider what Kamala Harris has been doing over the past few months:

  • In our last post, we discussed the obscenity of how she had spent about a billion dollars in three months on her campaign and still lost.

  • We calculated that, theoretically, those one billion dollars could have fed every homeless American three meals a day for six months.

  • And not only did she spend a billion dollars in a very short time, her campaign overspent her resources by $20 million.

  • And it now appears that $5,000 of that billion dollars was wasted by her in the most disgusting way possible.

  • According to the Daily Mail, which went through the Harris campaign financial filings, Harris spent $5,000 to have fingernail  artist, Tahvya Krok, give herself a fingernail manicure.

  • Let me say that again: Harris spent $5,000 of her campaign donations to get a manicure, an expenditure that I would bet her campaign donors did not have in mind when they wrote their check for her campaign.

  • According to the Daily Mail report, that $5,000 could have paid the food bill for a typical American family for five months.

Let’s review: Trump voters are not sexist, Nazis etc. because they are having trouble feeding their families while Harris is spending $5,000 to a fingernail  artist to look pretty. A despicable disconnect of reality and vanities between average Americans and the political  elite.

3)Not only have Biden’s immigration and economic policies been total  failures, but he has no foreign affairs or diplomatic accomplishments to  brag about either. And one of his biggest failures has been in the Ukraine/Russia war:

  • To my knowledge he has not met with or even had a conversation with Putin to try and put an end to the war and its suffering and deaths.

  • To my knowledge, his failure of a Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has met with his equivalent, the Russian foreign minister, a total of one time since the war began.

  • He has sent about $200 billion dollars of taxpayer wealth to the Ukranians to help fight the war, an endless stream of dollars with no end in sight, given his failed or lack of diplomacy on this issue.

And his latest idiocy probably puts us closer to World War III than at any time in history:

  • He recently announced that he has authorized Ukraine to use U.S. supplied,  long range missiles to be fired even deeper into Russia.

  • Up until now, he had required that restrictions be placed on how deeply these missiles could be fired into Russia.

  • This change in authorization could mean that more Russian civilians will be killed by the U.S.  made missiles.

  • Supposedly this is to counter the reality that thousands of North Korean troops are on the way to fight the Ukranians.

What a mess. Biden’s failure at diplomacy has brought more and more nations into the conflict and let’s be clear: firing U.S. missiles deeper into Russia could and likely will force Putin to save face and retaliate and before you know it we are in a death spiral towards war.

Oh, on a side note: the United Nations continues to be nowhere to be found years after the war started, proving again how impotent and useless the organization is when it comes to world peace.

4)Over the years, the U.S., the  U.N. and other countries have sent untold billions and billions of dollars in aid to the Gaza Strip and its rulers, the terrorist group, Hamas. Those dollars and aid could probably have been used to create a modern society of infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and other needs to serve the people of Gaza.

Instead, the terrorist leaders of Gaza have diverted billions of dollars into underground, military tunnels and fortifications, purchased billions of dollars of weapons and ammunition, and spent billions of dollars training its citizens, all with the intention of wiping Israel  off of the map. Meanwhile, most of their citizens live in poverty and fear.

Nevertheless, even  given this history of squandering aid for war:

  • The U.S. Agency for International Development has recently announced it is giving another $230 million to the Palestinians.

  • The agency announced the money is going to “relieve the suffering of Palestinians and be used to support economic recovery development programs in the West Bank and Gaza.”

  • But like every other adi package, you can bet that a huge chunk of that $230 million will be funneled into future terrorism actions.

  • This $230 million is in addition to the $190 million that Hamas got earlier in the year.

  • Michael Doran, a senior fellow and director at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East gets it: “A significant chunk of this money, indirectly if not directly, funds Hamas.”

  • Since October 7, 2023, the day that Hamas launched a horrific attack on Israeli civilians, killing 1,200 and kidnapping hundreds more, the aid agency has given Hamas over $2 billion.

  •  Amy Tohill-Stull, the West Bank and Gaza mission director at USAID claims that:  “This funding demonstrates our resolve to support sustainable development and provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all Palestinians and further reduce the influence of Hamas.”


Thus, while Ms. Tohill-Stull is sending taxpayer wealth over to terror infested organizations in the Middle East to “enhance the quality of life for all Palestinians:”


  • 600,000 Americans are currently homeless.

  • Millions of American families are having challenges in feeding their families, gasing up their cares, and paying their utility bills as Biden’s inflationary policies drive up prices across the board.

  • Well over 100,000 Americans will die of drug overdoses this year because they could not get the drug addiction help they needed.

  • Over 20 million Americans are short changing their families from a healthcare perspective since they cannot afford health insurance.

  • Thousands of American families suffered significant losses as a result of the two most recent hurricanes.


But she brags about how much  money she can  send halfway around the world, much of which will be diverted into terrorism activities. Nice priorities.


That will do it for today: More American taxpayer dollars for terrorists while Americans go hungry, Biden gets us closer and closer to World  War III, and Kamala gets her nails done for $5,000.


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Sunday, March 17, 2024

March, 2024, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Honey Pots Rule Washington, Measles Makes a Comeback, Biden's Ukraine Strategy Continues to Fail and more

Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of operating any level of government in this country.

Even their best efforts are almost always inefficient and ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.

1)We have often made the proposal that a very, very basic tenet of any government entity is to protect the lives and property of those that they govern. Even if politicians and the government they operate accomplish other success, if they fail in this basic tenet then they are a failure.

And this protection takes various forms. And one form is one that could get worse as Biden’s failed immigration policies continue to allow millions of un-vaccinated and unvetted illegal immigrants to enter the country:
  • Chicago has been the final destination of thousands and thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants of all ages.
  • And quite possibly that is the reason why Chicago has been hit with multiple cases of measles.
  • The outbreak, while small, is important enough for the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) to send out expert teams to look into the outbreak.
  • The total number of outbreaks in the city has been eight cases so far.
  • Three of the infected persons were kids staying in the same illegal immigrants shelter in the city.
  • These are the first cases reported in the city since 2019, five years ago, and yet this past month has seen 8 cases break out.
  • The city’s health commissioner, Dr. Olusimbo Ige, expects other cases to arise in the city.
  • But Chicago is not the only place seeing measles cases crop up.
  • In the past month alone, 41 cases have been reported in 16 different states.
  • 41 cases in the past month while only 58 cases were reported for the entire year of 2023.
This may be nothing, this could just be a statistical anomaly and the number of cases will soon reduce to near zero. But it also could be the beginning of something much more deadly, all because Washington and Biden have decided not to secure the border, allowing unvetted and un-vaccinated millions to enter the country, risking the lives of Americans in so many different ways. And thus, a failure at providing the very basic government service of protection.

2)There are millions of Americans in need right now:

  • There are about 600,000 homeless Americans today.
  • Surveys indicate that as many as 17 million Americans are often having difficulty feeding themselves and their families given the high inflation rate of the Biden administration.
  • Millions of Americans are in need of drug addiction help and well over 100,000 will die this year from their addiction.
  • Millions of American families are without health insurance because they cannot afford it and thus, may be endangering the health of themselves and their families.
And yet, Washington via the Biden administration, continues to fail at foreign policy and continues to ship tens of billions of dollars overseas to help the Ukrainians fight the Russians:
  • Biden wants to send yet another $300 million worth of American taxpayer funded weapons to the Ukrainians in the latest military package for the conflict.
  • The $300 million will be used to make and ship Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, rocket ammunition, demolitions munitions and other military supplies.
  • This would unbelievably be the 55th taxpayer funded aid package for the Ukranians.
  • This latest aid package means the American taxpayer has financed almost $40 billion in military aid for the war.
The frustrating part of this wasteful spending of taxpayer wealth is that Biden and his State Department have apparently not even tried to diplomatically end the conflict:
  • Biden has not talked or met with Putin directly.
  • It is believed that in the two years since the war began, Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has met with Russia's foreign ministry exactly one time.
  • Biden has not tried to force at least a truce, if not a peaceful settlement, though the United Nations.
As a result, the American taxpayer gets constantly hit for Ukrainian aid because Biden is a failure in the international affairs arena.

3)One of the basic tenets of our book, “Love My Country, Loathe My Government” was that no American taxpayer money should be spent on any project or program unless it significantly and positively affects the residents of at least five states. With annual spending deficits of trillions of dollars and a national debt of over $34,000,000,000,000, the need for fiscal sanity is imperative before the dollar, the Federal government, and our democracy crash because of the debt load.

If a state needs a road built that will not materially and positively affect any other state, then let that state pay for it. If sending billions of dollars to Ukraine does not materially and positively affect the residents of at least five states then do not do it [Note: obviously this would shut down just about all foreign aid which would be a good thing.]

Washington should be doing far less, i.e. spending far less money, and doing fewer things much better. Right now, they do a lot of things and do them all poorly, ineffectively, and expensively. This five state rule would allow them to focus only on a limited set of important national issues.

But in the meantime, this is how Washington plans to spend your tax dollars:
  • $4 million for a "waterfront walkway" in New Jersey;
  • $3.5 million for "Detroit’s Thanksgiving Parade float maker’s new headquarters";
  • $1.75 million for the Met (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) located in New York City;
  • $1 million for an "environmental justice center" in New York City,
  • $500,000 to be put toward gardens in San Francisco;
  • $1 million to a non-profit organization in Minnesota to "build a coffee shop and a greenhouse for refugees";
  • $1 million in assistance for San Francisco organic dairy farmers;
  • $500,000 in funding for a "cybercrime vehicle" in the Honolulu police department;
  • $1.2 million for "bike path resurfacing in Rhode Island"; and
  • $209,000 for "HVAC replacement for the Charles Town Opera House" in West Virginia."
This is just one way that those in Washington run up a debt load of $34 trillion. If Minnesota wants a coffee shop and greenhouse for refugees, let Minnesota taxpayers pay for it themselves. If San Francisco wants to build gardens, taxpayers in Iowa should not help pay for them.

Another way to look at this insanity is to realize that millions and millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, drug addicted and lack health insurance. And yet, Washington politicians divert taxpayer wealth and money to pay for gardens, coffee shops, bike paths, parade floats and thousands of other stupid programs that accomplish nothing but ignore those in need.

4)Maybe those in Washington spend money on stupid projects and wasteful programs because they have to from a blackmail perspective:

  • Tennessee Congressman, Tim Burchett, recently said some pretty candid and unexpected things about those inhabiting seats of power in Washington.
  • He believes that money is wasted on stupid projects foreign wars, and other wasteful spending efforts because members of Congress are being blackmailed for their sexual escapades.
  • According to Burchett, moneyed interests set up so-called “honey pots” which are women who are paid to seduce members of Congress and sleep with them, knowing that the women’s handlers are documenting the encounters.
  • These documented encounters can then be used for blackmail purposes and to divert taxpayer wealth to seemingly wasteful projects and programs.
  • According to Burchett: “And they protect it and they protect the people that, that do that. And by doing so, you know, the old honey pot — the Russians do that — and I’m sure members of Congress have been caught up. Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress? Here’s how it works. You’re visiting, you’re out of the country or out of town or you’re in a motel or at a bar in DC and, whatever you’re into – women, men, whatever — comes up and they’re very attractive and they’re laughing at your jokes. And you’re buying them a drink. Next thing you know, you’re in the motel room with them naked. And next thing you know, you know you’re about to make a key vote. And what happens? Some well-dressed person comes out and whispers in your ear, ‘Hey, man, there’s tapes out on you.’ Or, ‘Were you in a motel room or whatever with whoever?’ And then you’re like, ‘Oh,’ and [they] said, ‘you really ought not be voting for this thing.’”
  • Burchett went on to say that based on his experience at all levels of government, these things are not restricted to Washington, that they happen in state capitals and town halls.
I think most of us thought these things did happen but it was certainly refreshing for someone from the inside of the corruption to actually say it out loud. Our political processes have become so corrupted in this country that this is the type of individuals that handle our money and safety every day, people who cannot keep it in their pants.

That will do it for today: confirmation that honey pots rule the country, politicians cannot help but spend our wealth on stupid projects both domestic and foreign, the Ukraine/Russia war continues to suck down taxpayer money with no end in sight, and measles makes a comeback.

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Politicians Say The Darndest Things....And Usually They Are Wrong and Ignorant



In some past posts I have made references to an old television show from the fifties which was called "Art Linkletter's House Party." A favorite segment on every episode of the show was called "Kids Say The Darndest Things." Mr. Linkletter would ask questions of some children, usually aged between three and eight, and some of their responses were hilarious. This segment was spun off later into a show unto itself and was hosted by Bill Cosby.


This recollection reminds me of our present day politicians and how they also say the darndest things. Unfortunately, they are not as cute, cuddly, or funny as the kids that Linkletter and Cosby elicited answers from. In fact, they are down right depressing to think that these people are actually in control of the country and our lives and there is nothing funny about what they sometimes say:

1)Ihan Omar is a U.S. Congresswoman from Minnesota. She is an  immigrant from  Somalia who has experienced the American dream: a poor immigrant who becomes a member of Congress, earning well over $170,000 every year. Given her wonderful American experience, you would expect and hope that she would appreciate her success story and protect the interests of American citizens. 


But that hope would not be a good one, given her recent comments: 


  • During a recent speech, she claimed that she and others are, “Somalians first, Muslims second.” There was no mention of where Americans were on her list of priorities.

  • In that same speech she proclaimed that her “No. 1 Job” is to look out for Somalia and that one day, Somalia will go after other countries to “unify all Somalia-speaking people.”


So she was elected to represent American citizens in her Minnesota Congressional district but Americnas do not make her top two priorities. Her district probably is facing a number of problems including crime, homelessness, drug addiction, and other scourges negatively affecting her  constituents but her  No.1 job and priority is to unify people from her homeland that live halfway around the world from her Congressional district. Disgusting priorities.


2)Recently, a Twitter user posted a tweet that listed out the states that had the highest gun ownership rates. Turns out these ten states are dominated by Republican and conservative politicians whose policies are probably in line with most Texan politicians. 


Rather than respect the opinions and views of those Americans  living in those ten  states, Texas Democrat state representative Gene Wu responded to the tweet with a picture of an American Air Force bomber dropping bombs. His obvious but silent comment is that Americans that have a different view than him need to be bombed into oblivion for simply exercising their Constitutional rights. 


This is an elected official in America that would like to see those with a different view to die, a disgustingly violent attitude. How can anyone in this country, never mind an elected official, call for the violent death of other innocent Americans?


3)It is not just politicians that say stupid things, those on politicians' staffs also do a good job saying stupid stuff.  In late September, Biden’s National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, said: “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”


These words were found to be really ignorant about a week later when Hamas launched a brutal and inhumane attack on Israeli citizens, killing about 1,200 Israeli civilians in a very short amount of time. It is amazing how far off reality a Presidential administration can  be.


And just recently, Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, had this quote: “I think it’s very important to note that this is an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East. I would argue that we’ve not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across the region since at least 1973, and arguably even before that.”


So in only three  months or so, the Biden administration went from “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades” to “We’ve not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across the region since at least 1973.” This immense miscalculation of reality certainly does not give one a sense that Biden and his staff have a clue of what is really going on.


4)But confusion in the Biden regime is not just around the Middle East:


  • Keep  in mind that overall inflation is up about 17% since Biden became President three short years ago and some costs, e.g. food and gas, are up more than this average jump up  in prices.

  • And yet Biden recently had his economic ignorance shine through with this  statement: “Inflation is coming down, it’s now lower in America than any other major economy in the world. The cost of eggs, milk, chicken, gas, and so many other essential items have  come down.”

  • His ignorance is that while the rate of inflation has come down, inflation itself is still rising every month, just not as quickly as earlier in his term.

  • And yes, the prices of some things may have come down recently, but not as far as down to where they were three years ago and as we just said, prices on many daily products are still going up, just not as quickly.

  • Biden has confused a lowering of the inflation rate with the lowering of prices, a simple economic principle that he still cannot grasp.

  • But a member  of his administration, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, correctly contradicted Biden’s ignorance with this comment: “I think  most Americans know that prices are not  likely to fall.”


Yellen gets simple economics: prices have risen under Biden and are not likely to fall.  This is a direct rebuttal to  Biden’s quote and economic understanding that the prices of “so many essential items have come down.” No, they have not come down, they are just not rising as quickly. 


Thus, it is no surprise that Biden’s staff cannot understand reality today, i.e. Sullivan’s view of the Middle East vs. Blinken’s view of the Middle  East, since Biden  himself says ignorant things, in direct opposition to what his Secretary of the Treasury is correctly saying, when it comes to the dire economic situation his policies have created for everyday Americans. 


Yes, politicians and their associates do say the darndest things: whether it is caring more about non-Americans than Americans, having no problem threatening Americans with violent death for simply having a different opinion, or completely misreading the reality of the world, be it Middle East violence of economic hardships. 


Unfortunately when they say these darndest things it makes us realize that they are clueless when it comes to resolving the problems facing the country today.



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