1) At any time in this country there are between 500,000-600,000 homeless Americans on the streets. There are millions of Americans who are in danger of being hungry. There are millions of American drug addicts that are in desperate need of drug addiction services.
And yet American politicians and American government officials continue to waste money on nonsense like this:
- In a recent Senate hearing, the U.S. Department of State’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, was questioned by Senator Marco Rubio.
- Specifically, he questioned why American taxpayer money was spent on a film festival, in Portugal of all places, that promoted incest and sex with minors.
- The State Department spent $10,000 promoting the Queer Lisboa film festival.
- According to the Washington Free Beacon:“The festival’s offerings included P.S. Burn This Letter Please, a documentary about drag culture in post-war New York City, Saint-Narcisse, a film about incestuous twins, and Minyan, a movie about a 17-year-old Jewish boy who leaves his parents to explore New York City’s gay scene and eventually has sex with an adult bartender.”
- Rubio asked the obvious question: “How would promoting a drag queen film festival in Portugal advance our national interest? And how much taxpayer money was spent putting on this film festival?”
- Unbelievably, Abercrombie-Winstanley did not have an answer: “Thank you for the question, Senator. I will take it back to get an answer for you. I do not know.”
2) Joe Biden has had a pathological history of lying about himself, his background and his history:
- He said he marched with Nelson Mandela in South Africa and got arrested for doing so….but he did not.
- He said he went to a mostly black university for his undergraduate studies….but he did not.
- He said he drove a large semi tractor trailer truck…but he did not.
- He said he taught Constitutional law for decades…but he did not.
- He said he wrote some original work…but he did not, he plagiarized others' work.
- Biden claimed that he talked about such issues as forced labor and genocide with Xi.
- The official White House summary of the talks support Biden’s assertion that these topics were discussed.
- But the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that those topics never came up during the discussions.
- Specifically according to Fox News: The Chinese MFA denied the alleged conversation entirely, saying, “According to White House Press Secretary, ‘genocide’ & ‘forced labor’ came up in last night’s call between Chinese & US Presidents. That is disinformation. A similar message was pushed separately in which the MFA called the alleged conversation “pure lies” and “false information."
3) Referring back to the millions of Americans who are homeless, hungry, and drug addicted, one would hope that the politicians in Washington would be laser focused on alleviating the suffering of these folks. And as always, that hope would be misplaced, as we see that Washington politicians are focused on a non-issue that occurred over a hundred years ago:
- Members of the House of Representatives are working on an effort to rescind the Medals of Honor given to U.S. soldiers who were involved in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre.
- That incident involved the killing of 250 Native Americans, many of whom were women and children.
- The U.S government was attempting to annex the Great Sioux Reservation, in violation of the 1868 Treaty Of Laramie.
I would bet that if you polled a sample of Americans, this non-issue does not make the top thousand list of issues that we need to address in this country. And yet these are the priorities of Washington politicians, likely because they are not smart enough or focused enough to resolve the real issues facing real Americans.
4) Turns out that American politicians are not only inept with bad priorities but some of them are just flat out criminals:
- A former Georgia mayor, Jason Lary, was recently sentenced to 57 months in a Federal prison and fined almost $120,000.
- He was found guilty of planning to steal almost $925,000 out of $6.2 million in COVID relief funds that were intended for his city.
- The specific charges were wire fraud, Federal program theft, and conspiracy to commit Federal program theft.
- This was what the judge had to say: “What he did was deplorable. Absolutely deplorable. At the time of the greatest medical and economic catastrophe in generations, Mr. Lary, instead of being the honest and respectable mayor that he was elected to be … used that as an opportunity to steal.”
- According to the prosecutor: “Lary betrayed the trust placed in him by the citizens of Stonecrest by stealing the very funds meant to help his constituents weather the COVID-19 pandemic. The people of Stonecrest deserved better, and corrupt officials can expect severe consequences for using their offices to commit crimes.”
Another day, another American politician enriching himself or his friends and family.
That will do it for today’s insanity: wasting taxpayer wealth in Portugal while Americans suffer, a communist regime has more credibility than an American President, Congress works on a 132 year old incident, and another American politician goes to jail for his greed.
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