Today’s dose of political class insanity, ignorance, lying, and corruption:
1)We have often lamented that the American political class always provides us with retreads and returns of old and tired politicians that have never done anything positive in their past but still will not go away. One current example is that reality that former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, is the leader in polls exploring the favorite candidates to win the next election for New York City mayor.
You remember Mr. Cuomo: he was forced out of office for alleged sexual harassment of many, many female government employees. He was responsible for the unnecessary deaths of many state residents when he ordered covid infected people to be sent to nursing homes around the state where they promptly infected other, elderly people living in those homes.
And now another failed politician has decided to get back in the race to get elected:
Pete Buttigieg was Biden’s Transportation Secretary after a less than stellar run as the mayor of Gary, Indiana, a third level city in the middle of the country.
His tenure as the leader of the Transportation Department was equally unfavorable.
Under his tenure there were multiple train derailments which endangered many people’s lives, he was in charge when a boat hit a bridge in Maryland that resulted in fatalities, and his D.E.I emphasis resulted in an acute shortage of air traffic controllers which may have led to the crash in D.C. in January, killing over 60 people.
And yet, rather than just go away, he has decided that the good people of Michigan would want him to be their Senator in Congress.
And Buttigieg is just recently a Michigan resident having moved into the state a few short years ago and thus, it is not like he has a long term appreciation of what Michigan residents want and need from Congress.
Cuomo and members of Congress that hang around for decades and get nothing done except their own self enrichment. And now Buttigieg joins in with the long tradition of recycled and useless politicians.
2)Sometimes, not often, crooked politicians actually have to face the music for their alleged criminal misbehavior:
A Massachusetts politician was recently accused of misusing funds from a local trade association for political and personal expenses and uses.
Christopher Glanagan has been indicted for wire fraud and falsifying records by the Department of Justice.
He was the executive officer at the Home Builders Association in Cape Cod while also serving in the state legislature.
He is accused of illegally transferring $36,000 from the Association to himself.
He then transferred more wire transfers to himself that he allegedly used to settle mortgage bills, reduce his personal debt and even pay for psychic services.
He also spent some of these funds at Best Buy, Macy’s, Target and $Imprint to buy a Bluetooth speaker, t-shirts for his election campaign, and other products.
He could potentially serve decades in prison if convicted for these alleged crimes.
If guilty, it would be a welcome and rare time when a crooked politician actually pays the price for their corruption. But as we have pointed out many times in the past, he is just one of many, many politicians that have gotten rich while in office as have their friends and daily members without any consequences.
3)When politicians are not busy getting rich, they are very often telling great lies to get their way. As we have pointed out so many times, Joe Biden was one of the greatest political liars of all time. We easily cataloged 38 of his greatest lies a while ago and have not yet gotten around to updating his long list of lies:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2023/01/38-times-that-joe-biden-blatantly-lied.html
But he is not the only one throwing out whoppers and lies, as Hillary Clinton recently demonstrated:
The SAVE Act was recently passed by the House of Representatives.
This proposed legislation has a very simple but important focus: make sure that only American citizens can vote in American elections.
Why would anyone not want this safeguard in our election process to help keep our democracy and voting processes free of corruption, prevent ballot stuffing, and make sure that any Americans vote is not diluted by non-citizens voting is beyond me.
But certain liberals and Democrats in this country want none of these safeguards and benefits to citizens, they would allow anyone, citizen and non-citizen, to vote in our elections since they feel that such corruption of our democratisave act, c process would benefit them in their election campaigns.
And the truth does not matter when the blather about voting integrity is discussed, as witnessed by Hilalry Clinton’s comment on the SAVE Act.
She erroneously claimed that the proposed legislation would possibly destroy the voting rights of up to 69 million women in the country.
She claimed that married women who took their husband’s last name when they got married would not be able to prove they were legal to vote since their married name would not match their birth certificate.
But the Save Act does nothing of the sort, it simply says that someone going to register needs to prove they are a citizen.
Congresswoman Kat Cammack called out Hillary for her stupidity: “Stop. You are lying. Read the bill. And for the love of God, stop treating women like they are incapable or idiots.”
Other people who actually read the text of the legislation supported the reality that this bill does not suppress any citizen;s vote.
The reality is that, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports opinion poll, 77% of those polled supported voter integrity measures and laws which would be strengthened by the Save Act while not preventing any citizen the right to vote.
All of which gets us back to that age old philosophy question: are politicians actually that ignorant and stupid when they have an opinion on matters they know little about or do they think we are too stupid to question the lies and fabrications they pronounce? We may never know.
4)After the George Floyd situation, liberals and Democrats across the country got on the “defund the police” bandwagon to atone for what they felt were racist cops harassing innocent people of color. We predicted at that time that their enthusiasm for disrespecting law enforcement officers and dismantling a lot of law enforcement resources would not end well.
And we were right. Police resources and personnel got decimated, crime skyrocketed, people were killed, raped, and robbed because there were not enough police officers to keep order. Cities became war zones of crime which led to residents and businesses fleeing those environs to safer and better quality of life locations.
And believe it or not, one of the cities with the strongest and most inane defund the police approaches has finally realized the errors of their ways:
Seattle’s liberal politicians were some of the most gung ho defund the police politicians in the country.
Their enthusiasm, however, led to police officers quitting the force, retiring early, and holding back on their duties which led to skyrocketing crime and drastic reduction in the number of police officers on the force.
However, a recent resolution from a councilman would be a formal repudiation of those who led the defund the police opinions and actions.
The resolution would also pledge additional budget and resources for city law enforcement.
According to the sponsor of the resolution: “This resolution reverses any prior commitment or pledge by past councils to defund or abolish the police.”
Maybe the reality that the city police force size has dropped from 1,400 officers in 2017 to just 913 in 2024, a drop of over 34%, finally hit home.
The resolution also calls for gratitude and thanks towards Seattle's police officers, firefighters, and EMT people, quite the turnaround from a few years ago when these very same public servants were demonized at the defund the police altar.
At least they finally recognized their stupidity, something that clear thinking logical folks knew years ago: defunding the police was a stupid, shortsighted,, politically driven movement that caused great suffering on police officers’ lives and the lives of the citizens they could no longer adequately protect and serve.
Enough insanity for today: a reversal of insanity in Seattle, Hillary Clinton shows her ignorance, a politician actually faces justice for his alleged corruption, and Pete Buttigieg and his minimal political accomplishments refuse to go away.
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