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Monday, March 30, 2026

March, 2026, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Maryland Politicians' Fixation On Tampons, A Potential/Likely Ukrainian Money Laundering Scheme. and Yamaha Escapes From California

 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)We do not often talk about the state of  Maryland from a political class insanity perspective but that is our lead piece of insanity today. But first, consider:


  • Maryland has about 7,000 homeless folks in the state.

  • About 556,000 or 9.1% of the state residents are considered poor.

  • 1,315 state residents died from drug overdoses in 2025.

  • State residents suffer from the 15th highest crime rate in the country.

  • The state government  is facing a  $1.5 billion budget shortfall.


Yes, there are some very important issues and crises facing Maryland residents that involve poverty, crime, and homelessness. But that did not stop state government politicians from  devoting time, resources, and what little brain power they have  on the following ridiculous issue:


  •  A proposed legislation by Democratic Delegate Terri Hill, and  co-sponsored by ten other Democrats, would require EVERY government/public building in the state to stock tampons and feminine hygiene products in  public restrooms.

  • This requirement extends not just to  women’s restrooms but also men’s restrooms.

  • EVERY restroom in every public/government building.

  • Further idiocy is  that the  proposed legislation explicitly makes it clear  that the stocked tampons would have to be  "appropriately  sized tampons,”  whatever that means.

  • When pressed, the sponsors of the legislation could not provide an estimate of  what it would cost or what an appropriate sized tampon is.

  • Republican Delegate, Kathy Szeliga, saw the stupidity of this requirement when she questioned the sponsors of the legislation: "What are appropriately sized tampons?" I've never heard of such a thing. What do you consider appropriate?"

  • Kerr's inane answer: "Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom."

  • Then why was the language appropriately sized tampons put into  the  legislation?

  • But Szeliga was not done  ripping this idea  apart:  "Even if they determine to shift some of the cost to the consumer, this still creates hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of administrative costs to put tampons in men's bathrooms – just for the administrative costs."

  • So the administrative costs would be hundreds of thousands of dollars which does not account for the cost of the actual tampons.

  • But Szeliga was not  done: "Instead of tackling actual problems like out of control spending and other real problems, electric bills that people cannot afford, they pivot to nonsense like putting tampons in men's bathrooms."


Calling this  proposed legislation  nonsense is being kind. The state does not have  enough tax money to  fund  its budget but these folks want to divert taxpayer  money to put tampons in  men’s restrooms. Maryland residents are struggling with high crime, high utility  and gas costs, addiction problems, poverty, and homelessness and yet tampons in men’s rooms apparently are a higher  priority for some of those sitting  in the state government.  True insanity.


2)Recently declassified intelligence documents reveal what has to be one of the most disgusting alleged money laundering schemes of the American political class:


  • During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars were sent to Ukraine,  one of the  most politically corrupt countries in the world, to help fight back the Russian invasion.

  • We have previously discussed the likely proof that upwards of half of that money never  made it to the intended purposes and was corruptly siphoned off before ever helping to fight back the Russians.

  • If that was not bad enough, in late 2022, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted messages between Ukrainian officials.

  • Those  messages discussed a scheme to take part of that taxpayer funding that Biden had  sent them to fight the Russians and send it back to the United States to help fund Biden’s reelection campaign.

  • In other words, American taxpayers of all political leanings would be financing the Presidential  campaign expenses of Democrat Joe Biden.

  • Director  Of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has  opened an investigation into whether the Ukrainian officials ever went through with their plan to  redirect funds back to Biden.

  • According to the released documents:  “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose.”

  • The funds would be funneled back into the Biden campaign using U.S. companies as subcontractors on the bogus infrastructure plan to make the  money laundering even more  difficult to track: “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”

  • Given that Biden was very generous in giving American taxpayer  money to the Ukrainians, it  is  not surprising that a plan was discussed to get Biden four more years in office and continue to receive American tax dollars for their own benefit, personally and for the war effort.


Anyone who has followed the Biden crime family should not be surprised by this alleged and potential money laundering scheme.  Also, previous work by the DOGE folks found that many times U.S.  taxpayer dollars were used to fund NGO projects via USAID all  over the world with some of that money eventually finding its way back to Democratic politicians in his country for their use. Disgusting disregard for taxpaying Americans.


3)A continuing theme in our blog is the  discussion of what city or state will  go  bankrupt first. As these vulnerable  cities and states  constantly raise taxes and business regulation, businesses in these states leave for other states that have lower tax and regulation burdens, taking their taxable  assets with them. Some of those recent discussions include the following posts:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-clueless.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-hochuls.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-seattle-and.html


California is one of those states rapidly heading to bankruptcy court. Many state based  companies have already fled the state in total or moved  major portions of their  companies to other states for better economic and business opportunities: Toyota, Tesla, Chevron, Schwab, Oracle, Twitter/X, Palantir, Public Storage, In-N-Out, Valero,  and thousands of other, smaller businesses.


And that out migration of businesses from the state continue:


  • Yamaha has decided to pull  its headquarters out of California.

  • The company has been in California for almost 50 years.

  • They are moving across the country to Kennesaw, Georgia.

  • As reported by the California Globe:  “Another large business is leaving California. Yamaha says Sayonara to Governor Gavin Newsom after 50 years in the once-Golden State…” and this exodus “is going to hurt Gov. Newsom who has had a lot of success chasing out hundreds to thousands of California businesses or subsidiaries, which fled to business-friendly red states including Jelly Belly, Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, and Toyota Motor North America.”

  • According to CBS News: “The company’s headquarters in Cypress, California, had been its home since 1979 after Yamaha acquired the land the year before….ATVs, boat engines, personal watercraft, and other motorized products had already moved its marine business to Kennesaw in 1999 and its motorsports business in 2019.”


How is it possible that California's politicians, and the  voters that continually elect them, do not understand basic economic concepts: a company will maximize its profits and thus,  will  look  for ways to minimize its costs, expenses, taxes, and business overregulation. Every company that leaves the state takes employees and their taxable income with them. And it also reduces overall state economic growth since those exiting residents and businesses do  not spend money on other state companies’ products and services (e.g.  retail stores, pizza shops, movie theaters, etc.), further reducing the state tax base.


Enough insanity for today: more taxable assets leaving California, a possible government/Biden money laundering effort for the ages, and ridiculous Maryland politicians’ priorities.


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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

November, 2025, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Yet More Corruption In Ukraine, A Congressman Views Porn on a Plane, Biden Pays Off The Federal Workforce and More

 There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, the government shutdown aftermath, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, self enrichment, and ineffective government programs.

1)During the Biden Presidency, he sent untold billions of dollars to the Ukrainians to help fight the Russian invasion. Unfortunately, while he found it easy to send American taxpayer wealth into an endless war, he never made one attempt to try and end the war. And as we have discussed before, we have evidence that much of that taxpayer wealth was siphoned off via corruption:

  • A former colleague of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Tymur Mindich, has been accused of heading up a $100 million embezzlement operation.

  • His alleged scheme was uncovered by the country's anti-corruption watchdogs.

  • He and others were fingered for corruption involving the country’s government run nuclear power company.

  • He allegedly used his government position to pressure contractors to pay kickbacks in order to bypass government requirements and hurdles.

  • However, before he could be  arrested for corruption, he fled the country,  possibly to Israel.

  • While Zelenskyy has not been implicated in the corruption scheme, he apparently is a long term associate of Mindich.

Another day another chapter of Ukrainian government corruption, a government that Biden and the rest of Washington poured billions of dollars into, a country with a reputation of being one of the  most politically corrupt governments in the world.

2)The Federal government shutdown is finally over after 43 days. Millions of Americans suffered, going  without their government paychecks for over a month, from air traffic controllers to members of  the military. They struggled while the clowns in Congress posed and primped and strutted in news broadcasts with empty rhetoric and just plain  idiocy, focusing more on public relations and political  posturing than fixing what they broke.

But one group of Washington employees did  not financially suffer during those 43 shutdown days:

  • Members of Congress, those responsible  for the shutdown, collected  more  than  $20,000 of their salaries during the shutdown.

  • During the shutdown, 1.3 million active-duty service members, over 750,000 Guard and Reserve troops, and roughly 1.4 million Federal workers faced furloughs or worked without pay while lawmakers continued receiving their salaries.

  • While some members of Congress did the right thing, either  declining to accept their salary checks or  donating their wages to charity, the majority of them continued to accept their pay as if nothing else was going on in the country.

  • In fact, one member  of Congress, senator  Ed Markey, actually blocked a bipartisan attempt to suspend Congressional pay during the shutdown.

  • Even the leader of the shutdown,  Chuck Schumer, did not accept a salary but most members of Congress did.

Just another example where the priorities of those in Washington are not on resolving problems, making  life easier for Americans,  or doing anything else positive for the country.  It is always about their self enrichment and their reelection.

3)One  of my favorite pieces of advice goes as follows: “When stuck in a hole, stop digging.” It has so  many real life applications but apparently a California Congressman did not heed this advice when trying to  explain his way out of a wild and pretty disgusting situation:

  • Brad Sherman  is a California Congressman who was recently traveling on a commercial  flight.

  • Unfortunately, other passengers caught the Congressman watching explicit sexual images of scantily clad women on his tablet.

  • And those passengers decided to  take some photos of the Congressman’ indulgence and post them on  the Internet, photos that garnered over 12 million views very quickly

  • Rather than own  up to his perversion, the Congressman’s  office decided, for some unbelievable reason, to  blame Elon Musk and Twitter/X for his viewing and apparently enjoying his indulgence while traveling.

  • The office claimed that the Congressman was just leisurely scrolling his  social media accounts when out of nowhere, Twitter/X forced him to watch the scantily clad women images.

  • It went on  to say that Elon Musk corrupted the platform’s content  delivery system, forcing people to watch material they never requested.

So many problems  with this situation and explanation:

  1. Why was the Congressman so stupid to linger and view these images in an enclosed public situation?

  2. By lingering on  them he  allowed other passengers to see what he was  looking at, make the  connection  he was a member of Congress, and snap multiple  pictures of what he was viewing when that all could have been  avoided if he shut down immediately.

  3. Twitter/X is not  some rogue AI  agent that forces someone to watch something they do not want to see, the  algorithms are apparently built around a user’s browsing history which means this is probably not the  first time that the Congressman viewed this type of material which led to the Twitter/X platform to feed him more of what he probably already viewed.

When you are in a hole, stop  digging.  By  coming up with a ridiculous and  non-viable excuse of what happened he has just dug this embarrassing hole deeper and  deeper and  kept his  name and this disgusting incident in the news.

4)Quite possibly the only issue facing the country today is the ever exploding national debt of the Federal  government, currently over $38,000,000,000,000 (38 trillion dollars). This means that every man,  woman,  and  child in the country would have to pay out over $110,000 each to cover the debt, an impossibility.

Unless this atrocity of wasteful  spending is gotten under control, the economy will crash, hyperinflation will overwhelm every American, and our democracy and freedoms will crash. And the saddest part of this financial  crisis is that the trillions of dollars that Washington spent to get us to this point never fixed anything in the country:

  • Social  Security is going bankrupt.

  • Medicare is going bankrupt.

  • Our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling.

  • Millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, and in need of medical care and  health  insurance.

  • Our schools severely under-educate our kids.

And despite this crisis, apparently no  one ever told Biden about the crisis:

  • From 2020 to 2025, most of which  happened during Biden’s term, the Federal workforce expanded by 5%, from 2.77 million to 2.90 million.

  • And yet despite that only 5% increase in  personnel, the salary costs of the Federal exploded by 24% during the same timeframe according to the Open the Books  organization.

  • The number of Federal  government  workers making over $100,000 a year increased an amazing 49% during the Biden Presidency.

  • Even worse, those Federal  employees making over $200,000 a year increased a whopping 82%.

  • And the ultimate taxpayer  insult, Federal  employees earning  over $300,000 a year increased 85%.

  • Across all 127  Federal government agencies, the AVERAGE salary of everyone in 117 of those agencies was over $100,000, an  average that includes clerks, secretaries,  janitors, etc.

  • In 2024, 31,452 Federal employees earned more than EVERY state governor, all 50 of them.

  • These salaries do not include benefits which on average increase the total compensation of  these outrageous numbers by another 30%.

  • The highest paid Federal worker is the director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Gary Gibbons,  and he somehow saw his salary go from $406,095 in  2021 to $519,246, a ridiculous 28% increase.

  • Although the Small Business Administration  saw its number of employees go down 26% it saw only a 3% decrease in its  payroll expenses.

With the soaring national debt, Biden obviously did not take the crisis seriously. While members of Congress were paid during the government shutdown they created, it is also the Federal  workforce that is being richly financially rewarded while not resolving any major  problems facing Americans. Must be good to work for the government, not so  good to  be a financially stressed taxpayer paying for their salaries.

Enough insanity for today: Government  workers get hefty raises, a Congressman likes pornography, Congress people do not feel the hurt that their shutdown caused, and the Ukrainians are still  corrupt.

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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: