There has been a lot going on in the world lately: the never ending Ukrainian/Russian war, Middle East battles, Russiagate, Google admitting to censoring conservative posts and websites, a former FBI director getting arrested, etc. But that does not mean the regular political class insanity has stopped, as we see below:
1)We have often discussed the monetary, violence, and housing impacts that have come about because Biden allowed well over ten million illegal immigrants to flood into the country. This required that billions of taxpayer dollars be used to provide free food, free shelter, free medical care, and free cell phones to these illegal immigrants.
Liberals justified this flooding of illegal immigrants by saying that they would do low end jobs that Americans do not want to do, which is a pretty racist position to have. But out in Iowa, an illegal immigrant has been doing a job that most Americans would die for:
The Des Moines School Board appointed Ian Andre Roberts as Superintendent of Schools back in 2023.
On the surface that was no big deal even though it was a very financially lucrative position: $270,000 in annual salary, about five times the amount that many teachers in the state of Iowa earn.
His position also got him a tax free annual annuity that was equal to 14% of his annual salary and a $600 a month car allowance.
But what is disgusting, according to reporting by the Gateway Pundit, Roberts was an illegal immigrant and had a criminal record when he was hired, a criminal record that included a weapons charge back in 2020.
He had overstayed his visa and had received a final deportation order back in 2024, after he had been appointed.
And even with this background baggage, he continued to be in charge of the city’s schools even though the school board was aware of his illegal immigration status and the weapons charges.
The school board justified this nonsense and the wasting of taxpayer money by highlighting his claimed Phd in Urban Education Leadership from St. John’s University.
However, according to the Gateway Pundit, a search of the St. John’s website failed to show such a degree program existed.
It turns out the chairperson of the school board is named Jackie Norris who just happened to be the Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama.
Thus, a politically connected board chairperson helped hire an illegal immigrant with a possibly non-existent degree with a criminal background to a taxpayer funded job that pays over $300,000 a year in salary and benefits. Just another day and another example where certain members of the political class care more about illegal immigrants than they do about Americans. I am sure that an unbiased job search could have turned up a qualified American citizen with a real education degree and no criminal background to serve the kids in Des Moines.
2)Let’s go out to Minnesota for some good old fashioned government fraud, this time fraud perpetrated by an immigrant from Somali:
In Minneapolis,, a 28 year old Somali woman is in Federal legal trouble for allegedly scamming $14 million intended for autism support.
Asha Farhan Hassan managed a company called Smart Therapy LLC.
She has been indicted on Federal wire fraud charges for allegedly submitting false billings to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
This program is supposed to be used to help kids with autism that are younger than 21 years old.
According to Post Millennial reporting, she supposedly hired unqualified individuals, including teenage relatives with only a high school education to run her scam and offered kickbacks exceeding $1,000 to parents keep their kids enrolled in her sham programs.
She also billed taxpayer funded Medicaid for services not performed.
Haassan has also been implicated in the state’s largest Covid fraud case, Feeding Our Future scandal which allegedly got her $465,000.
More taxpayer money down the drain due to the federal government’s inability to run an effective audit process to catch criminals before they get away with billions of dollars in taxpayer wealth.
3)We often discussed the impending financial disaster that is likely to happen if Zohran Mamdani, a Communist running for mayor of New York City is elected:
He wants to raise taxes on wealthy city residents which is likely to drive them out of the city to lower tax locales, reducing the city’s tax base.
He wants to provide free services to city residents such as free bus rides and free child care which will cost a lot of money.
He wants to operate city owned supermarkets which would have lower prices which will drive supermarkets out of the city, turning the city into a food desert.
He wants to replace police work with social workers which will increase the crime, driving more residents and businesses out of town.
His election will unleash negative forces on so many fronts it will not be pretty.
And apparently, Mamdani and the city residents and businesses, are going to have to work themselves out of the disaster he creates since Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently announced that the rest of the country’s taxpayers via the Federal government will not bail Mamdani out of the trouble he creates for the city; "I guarantee you, and there're not a lot of things in life that are sure, but New York City will be coming to the federal government for a bailout if Mamdani’s plans are implemented," and Bessent continued to say that financial rescue funding will not be forthcoming.
Bessent repeated what we have discussed in this blog many, many times: "All the high earners, all the businesses [will leave the city]. If you look back over the past five years, we’ve already seen the greatest transfer of wealth in U.S. history from Manhattan County to Palm Beach County."
The good news is that the rest of the country will not finance Mamdani’s likely failures. The bad news is, a lot of New Yorkers are really going to suffer from his ridiculously stupid ideas and changes.
4)We often contemplate a deep philosophical question: do politicians lie because they actually believe the tripe they spout or do they think we are too stupid to know when they are lying to us, a question for the ages. In this vein, former Vice President and Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, caused this issue to come up again in recent public remarks:
Speaking on a recent airing of “The View,” Harris stated that the 2024 Presidential election that she lost was the "closest" election of the 21st century.
Pretty sure this is more self unawareness or an outright lie, as the numbers point out.
In the election of 2000, Bush edged out Gore by just five electoral votes, 271 to 266 or 50.4% vs. 49.6%.
Trump beat Harris in electoral votes by 86, a margin about 17 times larger than the Bush/Gore margin.
In fact, if you exclude the two elections that involved Obama, EVERY Presidential election in the 21st century was closer than Harris’ loss to Trump.
Harris lost every swing state and lost in the popular vote, the first time that has happened to a Democrat running for President in ages.
This is how she framed this fantasy: “This is unprecedented, think about this. There’s a race for president of the United States, the current sitting president is running for reelection. Three-and-a-half months from the election, he decides not to run. The sitting vice president then takes the mantle, running against a former president of the United States who had been running for ten years with 107 days before the election. And by the way, another piece of what is unprecedented and a bit historical about that race, it is the closest presidential race in the 21st century in terms of the outcome.”
Seriously. Is she just that bad with numbers, is she delusional, or does she think we are too stupid to understand the reality of the election results from the past quarter century? As we said above, a question for the ages.
Enough insanity for now: more word salad idiocy from Harris, NYC is on its own, more criminal fraud of taxpayer wealth in Minnesota, and taking care of an illegal immigrant before taking care of Americans.
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