Showing posts with label segregation. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 16, 2023

December, 2023, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Segregation Makes A Comeback, Sanctuaries Cities Continue to Suffer, 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)For years, many of us had to put up with certain liberal city politicians claiming that they were more sympathetic than the rest of us, that they were more caring, that they were somehow better people because they declared their cities to be  so-called “sanctuary cities.” This means that illegal immigrants were welcome to their cities and would be protected by Federal law from  breaking immigration laws. 

But these city politicians are having big headaches from being so caring vs. the rest of us. Biden’s  failed border policies has allowed millions of unvetted and unvaccinated illegal immigrants from dozens of different countries to illegally enter the country. The illegal immigrants are now flooding into sanctuary cities to the dismay of the same politicians who bragged about being sanctuary cities. 

They are realizing that the ramifications of being a sanctuary city is real when thousands of illegal immigrants show up on your doorstep and these folks need taxpayer funded food, shelter, and medical needs. This has resulted in these same politicians diverting taxpayer dollars away from programs that support their citizens (police, fire, education, sanitation, etc.) to service illegal immigrants and incurring serious budget shortfalls.

And these big city illegal immigrants crises are not restricted just to the big cities like Chicago and New York City:

  • The smallish city of Portland, Maine once declared itself to be a sanctuary city.

  • And now as illegal immigrants flood into their small  city, the city struggles to service their needs with city taxpayer funds.

  • More than 1,000 illegal  immigrants have arrived in the city between January and April of this year.

  • The city has had to pay for setting up an emergency shelter to shelter upwards of 125 illegal immigrants.

  • Portland city  spokesperson has stated that,, “Our staff have been completely  at capacity in  terms of who they’re able to shelter and assist.”

  • A local American  citizen summed up the frustration of local politicians taking better care of illegal  immigrants than American citizens: “People from other countries come here, automatically get housing, get free care, free everything, it’s not right,” Bryce, who said he is homeless in Portland and that he came to the U.S. legally and went through a 10-year citizenship process.

Another day,  another city taking better care of foreigners than  its own citizens. It just isn’t right.

2)We have not talked a lot about Hunter Biden’s dealing with foreign entities and the bribery and kickback schemes he is allegedly involved in, schemes that also allegedly involved his father. To focus on the high number of shady business dealings and self enrichment/self indulgent activities would take us weeks, if not  months, to cover all of the allegations.

But the  latest news of investigations into his bad behavior has taken a very serious turn relative to his father:

  • According to real life bank documents obtained by Congressional investigators, Hunter Biden sent his father  monthly payments from his bank  accounts.

  • These payments usually followed after Hunter Biden received payments from his overseas business associates and partners.

  • Keep in mind that Joe Biden has constantly said that he had nothing to do with his son’s shady business dealings.

  • These payments first went into Hunter Biden’s Owasco Bank  account and then funds were transferred directly to his father on a regular, monthly basis.

  • According to Congressman Comer: “Payments from Hunter’s business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes.”

  • For example, in September, 2017, Joe Biden  received a $40,000 check from his son’s account.

  • This happened shortly after a Chinese company sent Hunter Biden $5 million that went into one of Hunter Biden’s companies.

  • He then moved $400,000 to his Owasco account and more than $130,000 to one of his corporate accounts.

  • Curious  how after receiving $400,000 into his bank  account, he sent EXACTLY 10% to his father.

  • Hunter Biden then sent $150,000 to his uncle’s company and then his uncle sent $50,000 to his own personal bank  account and another $40,000 to Joe Biden.

And this laundering of money is just one scheme that the Biden family had going  on  over the years.  It does not include the whole Burisma episode in Ukraine and  other Chinese shenanigans. What a mess of corruption.

3)Martin Luther King, Jr. was the greatest civil rights advocate this country ever had, maybe one of the greatest Americans this country has ever had. He worked tirelessly to end segregation and help the races co-mingle and respect each other, erasing stereotypes in the process. One would hope that politicians in this country would recognize his greatness and try to be a role model for his dreams of equality.

But as almost always happens with American politicians, hope is a false premise:

  • Michelle Wu is the mayor of Boston.

  • She is not a white American and is obviously not a fan of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • I say that because her Director of City Council relations, Denise DosSantos, recently sent out a party invitation to the “Electeds of Color Party.”

  • In other words,  white people are not invited to a taxpayer funded party,, only people “of color.

  • But she screwed up, rather than keep this obviously racially biased action a secret, she mistakenly sent it out to white members of the city council also who found out that they were NOT invited to this government funded party.

  • DosSantos then sent out a second email when the jig was uncovered, clarifying that the invitation was exclusively for the six councilors “of color, not the seven white councilors”.

  • She then tried to smooth everything out with a stupid attempt at an apology, another affront to Martin Luther King, Jr.:"I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused."

  • So rather than say she was sorry for this racist action, she tried to minimize it by saying you white folks should have never seen the invitation, nor harm no foul, okay?

  • Non-white Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson did not see the racism, segregation aspect of this mishap, saying there was “no need for apologies at all,” the “email should not offend anyone” and saw no issue with a racially segregated party.

So sad that people of color want to return to a sad, sad story of American history, the segregation of the races. And you can be sure that their hypocrisy would come roaring out if the seven white Councilors put out an invitation that said “government funded party for only white people.” I cannot imagine the uproar.

4)The FBI has obviously severely damaged its reputation over the past decade or so. They went from probably one of the few respected and admired government entities to a biased, bad priority, oppressive police force. Over those years:

  • They illegally meddled extensively in the 2020 Presidential election.

  • They have harassed innocent Americans who simply wanted to protect their Second Amendment rights.

  • They have harassed innocent pro-life people who simply wanted to express their concern for the unborn and exercise their First Amendment rights.

  • They have harassed Catholic congregations and innocent Americans who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

  • They have harassed parents who simply wanted to have a say in their childrens’ education.

  • They have spied on innocent Americans, while at the same time lying to the courts, who were simply going about their business, violating Americans’s Fourth Amendment rights. 

All of this has shown that the FBi today not only has bad priorities but also little respect for Americans’ freedoms. And while the FBI has been using taxpayer wealth for these stupid, oppressive activities, the safety of every American is apparently at high risk:

  • In a recent interview, retired FBI assistant director, Chris Swecker, stated that the country is vulnerable to a “catastrophic” terror attack.

  • Specifically: "I worked counterterrorism up close and I've never seen this country so vulnerable to a catastrophic attack. Much of this is caused by the open borders, which seem to me to neutralize all our other counterterrorism efforts. Now we have the holidays when terrorists like to strike." 

  • As a result of Biden’s open borders, Swecker says that Islamic terror cells are already operating inside the country.

  • His comments are similar to comments made by high ranking FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials.

  • FBI Director, Christopher Wray recently testified in front of Congress: “I see blinking lights everywhere I turn. I've never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated all at exactly the same time." 

  • He also warned about the perils of Biden’s open border disaster.

So even the Director of the FBI says we are in dire danger and he allows his FBI resources to go after Americans who are trying to protect their First, Second and Fourth Amendment rights, who have done nothing criminal or suspicious except exercise their rights. If there is a catastrophic terror event, then both the FBI and Biden’s failed border policies are at the top of the list when it comes to explaining massive American citizen casualties.

Another bad day for American politicians: sanctuary cities continue to pay for their stupidity, the Biden crime family marches on, racial segregation makes a comeback and the FBI continues to fail.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

July, 2021, Part 10, Political Class Insanity: Hunter Biden Avoids Criminal Investigation, Inflation Rages, An African American Wants Race Segregation, and San Francisco Deploys Designer Trash Cans

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

Note: this is the tenth installment of Political Class Insanity for this month. We keep trying to move on to other topics but every time we try, another instance of political class insanity, ineptness, or greed pops up that needs to be identified and discussed. Today’s post is no different.

1) It is no secret that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has leveraged his father’s political career to enrich himself and his family to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. He has gotten financial favors from the Ukraine to Russia to China, all because of his father’s positions in the U.S. government.

In addition to the financial windfalls, it now appears that he may have gotten air cover for criminal activities, again, because of his father’s political capital:
  • News reports are coming out that indicate that Delaware’s U.S. Attorney General, David Weiss, may have intentionally avoided taking criminal action against Hunter Biden for potential tax law violations in the months prior to the 2020 Presidential election.
  • Weiss was also looking into Hunter Biden’s shady and possibly illegal dealings with foreign entities.
  • Weiss’s investigation was close to issuing grand jury subpoenas and search warrants but decided not to do so despite the information they had gathered.
  • Despite a reputation and track record for being tough and independent, Weiss backed off doing anything that could influence the election.
  • And since Biden’s election, nothing further has been done with the investigations.
Now, Hunter Biden could be completely innocent of whatever Weiss was looking into. But consider this: Weiss was a Trump appointed attorney general and what usually happens when a new party comes into control of the White House they dump most if not all of the attorney general’s that the other party’s President appointed. However, David Weiss, a Trump appointee, is still the U.S. Attorney General in Delaware. And Hunter Biden has not been investigated or indicted. You can draw your own conclusions.

2) It is no secret that prices on just about everything have gone up since Biden became President. While that is bad, the real problem is that Biden has no plan or ability to fix what is ravaging household budgets. And according to people in the food industry, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better:
  • John Catsimatidis is the owner and CEO of the NYC based grocery chain, Gristedes Foods.
  • In a recent interview he says Americans should expect another 10%-14% increase in food inflation by October.
  • Specifically: “We’re both in the food business, and we’re in the oil business. Food prices are getting higher, and we expect even more increases by October. We’re seeing anywhere from 10% to 14% by October 1. It’s a real number. And oil prices — I know they’re a little bit off today, but I expect even higher numbers. It’s a sine wave — everything just goes up and down. I expect by October you’re gonna have over a 6% annualized rate of inflation.”
  • And of course, he logically concluded that businesses will pass along those increased costs of business to consumers.
  • Of course, Biden disagrees, saying that inflation will be a short term blip, proving again he has no plan to help American consumers.
Who do you believe, an experienced, successful billionaire businessman or Joe Biden? I know where my inflation weakened dollar would be placed.

3) One of the greatest Americans of all time was Martin Luther King, Jr. King fought for equality and the tearing down of the segregation barriers, in whatever form they existed, so that Americans of all races, nationalities, opinions and sexes could live together in peace and harmony. He was quite successful in helping to move the country in that direction, “United States of America,” not “Segregated States of America.”

But now a local, African-America wannabe politician in Washington DC wants to do the exact opposite of King’s unifying vision for America:
  • Addison Sarter, is a former Democrat contender for a DC city council seat.
  • He is expected to unveil an inane ballot effort that would create segregated “autonomous zones” for African Americans living within the DC city limits.
  • These zones would have their own mayor and operate under their own independent legal code.
  • In other words, he wants to reimpose segregation on black Americans, the exact opposite goal of Reverend King.
Sometimes you just shake your head and realize that some harebrained ideas from actual or would-be politicians are just so lame and unbelievable. Take this to the extreme:
  • Let’s say everyone who lives in a Chinatown in the major cities across the country insists that they have their own autonomous zones.
  • Let’s do the same with every Korean neighborhood across the country.
  • There are a lot Somali immigrants living in Minneapolis so let’s give them their own autonomous zones.
  • Of course, white folks are going to want their own autonomous zones to keep out the Chinese, Koreans, Somalis, and Africa Americans (sarcasm).
So who do you believe has a better idea: Martin Luther King, Jr. who detested segregation or some no name local politcian who wants to create segregated cities on purpose? Not a contest.

4) We have often had to discuss the dire straits that San Francisco has put itself into, mainly because of just the utterly ineptness of the local politicians:
  • There is a major homelessness problem in the city.
  • City politicians have made it not a crime to publicly urinate, defecate, or shoot up illegal drugs in the city so naturally people urinate, defecate, and shoot up drugs in public, creating both major sanitary and environmental problems in the city.
  • Housing prices are out of control, making it almost impossible except for the very rich to comfortably live in the city.
  • Like most locations in California, local and state taxes make living in the city very, very expensive.
  • Since many crimes are not followed up on by city police officers, e.g. shoplifting, crime is rampaging in the city.
  • Research by the Policy Education organization estimates the city’s unfunded financial liabilities are about $141 billion, a liability of over $16,000 for every man, woman, and child living in the city.
The city is in a sad state from sanitary, public decency, taxation, criminal, and unfunded financial liabilities perspectives, all because of inane and stupid local politicians. But given all of the problems, city politicians have embarked on another idiotic venture that will fix none of the current city problems but will waste taxpayer dollars that could have been used to actually improve daily life in the city for its residents:
  • The city politicians and bureaucrats have decided to deploy new trash cans throughout the city at a cost, wait for it, as high as $20,000 PER trash can.
  • Yes, given all of the city problems listed above, local political and city leaders think paying up to $20,000 per trash can is a good idea.
  • These trash cans will be in designer shapes and will greet customers when they dump garbage into the trash cans.
  • The city will make and deploy 15 of these designer trash cans in a city wide competition to see what design is most favored...for trash cans.
  • Public Works acting director, Alaric Degrafinried, claimed the cost is so high because the trash cans will have that “rare and precious personal touch,” something everyone wants in their local trash cans (sarcasm).
  • According to a local news report: “The cans will be made of stainless steel and have a handy-dandy sensor measuring how much yuk is in each one “to make sure we are going to send people where the work is needed,” said Degrafinried.”
  • And there is an additional taxpayer cost because a website was created and paid for so that the locals can see, discuss and vote for their favorite designer trash can.
  • Degrafinried went on with more nonsense: “San Francisco is a beautiful city and keeping it clean can be a challenge. Finding the right public trash can to serve our needs at a reasonable cost has driven this design process. All three contending designs meet our requirements conceptually: They are durable, hard to tamper with, easy to service and aesthetically pleasing.”
  • The website says that the “Salt and Pepper” design is “unique and elegant profile [that] stands out from afar.”
  • I will not waste anyone’s time with the stupid descriptions of the other two designs that are described on the website.
Homeless city residents, drug addicted city residents, highly taxed city residents, criminal city residents, etc. and the idiots in the city government, bureaucrats and politicians, are wasting time, energy, and money on designer, expensive trash cans. You cannot make this stupidity up.

That will do it for today’s insanity: inflation out of control, Hunter Biden slides away from criminal investigation because of his father’s political pull, an African American WANTS segregation, and designer trash cans are a priority for the city government in San Francisco.

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Monday, September 9, 2019

September, 2019, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Omar Goes Adulterer, Biden Goes Racist, Walters Goes Nuts

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Democrats and liberals are quick to point out racism, as they see it in their eyes, everywhere around us. The Betsy Ross flag is considered racist even though it flew at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Anything Donald Trump does is considered racist even though until he was elected president, he had never been accused as being racist. The latest and silliest thing designated as racist was outlined in a recent New York Times article where the writer said that suburban front lawns are racist. 

But Democrats and liberals are not so observant or racist sensitive when it comes to their own behavior. Consider some Joe Biden statements that if Trump or any Republican had said them they would immediately have been called racists:

  • According to an article on the Business Insider website, several decades ago Biden had some real difficulties with busing to enforce desegregation.
  • Specifically: "Unless we do something about this [forced busing to force school integration], my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
  • So, by sending his kids to an urban school to help with school integration, his kids will end up in a jungle, clearly a racist connotation of African-Americans origins.
  • Imagine the liberal outrage if Trump had said he did not want to send his kids to an urban school because they would end up in “a racial jungle.”
  • These comments were dug up by “University of Southern California Law School professor and scholar Daria Roithmayr and first reported by The New York Times, which published a lengthy story on Biden's record on busing and school desegregation on Monday morning.”
  • Biden also worked with Senator Jesse Helms to defang Federal rules and abilities to enforce busing for integration purposes.
Look, I happen to agree with Biden to some point. Forced integration did not solve the problem of bad urban schools, it only redistributed kids to bad schools. But if a Republican or conservative had said he was against forced busing, worked to make forced busing harder to do, and said he or she did not want their kids in a “racial jungle,” they would be crucified by liberals and Democrats. 

And yet, Biden, who said and did all of these things, is the leading politician to be the Democrats’ Presidential candidate in 2020 at this point in time. Such hypocrisy, such insanity.

2) We have reviewed the following issues before but let’s do it again real quickly before we get to the latest idiocy and insanity from Congresswoman Maxine Walters:

  • Over half a million Americans are homeless at any time in America, with fully 25% of them residing in Walters home state of California and 60,000 residing in her hometown of Los Angeles.
  • Millions of Americans go hungry everyday in this country.
  • The country sees tens of thousands of American die from drug overdoses every year.
  • The national debt is over $22 TRILLION and threatens to crash our economy and freedoms.
  • Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are hurtling towards bankruptcy.
  • Our roads, bridges, and dams are falling apart.
Given all of these real problems, what is Maxine Walters all excited about? Consider a recent tweet from her Twitter account, keeping in mind that Trump’s campaign in 2016 including the production and distribution of red hats that had his slogan on it, “Make America Great Again”: "These red hats are a symbol of American racism and are encouraging violence and intolerance across our country. They need to be banned!”

So, now not only are green lawns racist, red hats are racist. Congresswoman, don’t you have something better to do with your time and energy than this nonsense? Assaulting the First Amendment rights of Americans to wear a red hat smacks of Orwell’s “1984” repression and is not a good use of your time. Unfortunately, you probably do not get it and will continue along with this tripe and nonsense while real problems go unattended.

3) But Walters was not done with her ranting and raving and hatred. On a recent MSNBC talk show, Walters claimed convicted sex pervert Jeffery Epstein was Trump’s best friend. While Trump may have known Epstein and may actually have been a casual friend, there is not record anywhere that says they were best friends. In fact, Trump had him kicked out of Trump’s Florida golf resort when Epstein made perverted advances to a young female employee of the resort, hardly best friends behavior.

Even Chris Hayes, one of the many MSNBC show hosts that hate anything Trump tried to correct Walters about the matter. Thus, if even MSNBC comes down on Trump’s side, you know the story is total b.s. Plus, we know for a fact that Trump flew on Epstein’s private plane once while Bill Clinton flew on it more than two dozen times and often left his Secret Service detail behind when he took some of those flights.

And yet Walters somehow thinks that talking about the deep Clinton/Epstein connection is a “distraction” relative to Trump. Now we are moving from hatred to being delusional and yet this Congresswoman continues to get reelected time and time again. A symptom of our failed political processes.

4) And let’s finish up today’s insanity with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.The Congresswoman has made quite a name for herself in the one and a half years she has been in office. She is definitely an anti-Semite and hater of Israel and is not ashamed to prove it time and time again. She was found guilty of campaign finance hanky panky back in Minnesota and had to pay fines because of it. 

More recently, she has been named in divorce proceedings by the wife of one of Omar’s political consultants as committing adultery with that political consultant she had hired for her Congressional campaign. That adultery accusation has led to potential evidence that she illegally used campaign funds to fly her married lover around the country to be with her. 

But she is also married and his three kids with her current husband, Ahmed Hirst. But Mr. Hirst is not going quietly into the night, given Omar’s latest escapade. He has now publicly claimed that Omar illegally married her brother several years ago, Ahmed Elmi, for the sole purpose of illegally bypassing our immigration laws, that he will not cover for her and go to jail for her antics and actions, that she has pleaded with him to pretend that all is well with their marriage, and that they are still happily married and that she threatened him that he would not want to cross her in these matters.

Look, her private life is not my business. But obviously she has a committed a lot of what I would consider immoral actions and the law might consider illegal stuff going down and yet she dares to lecture the rest of us on what is wrong with us and America. For once she should be thankful she is in America because if I am not wrong, if she was back in Somalia and under Islamic tenets she would be stoned to death for her adultery. God bless America, Congresswoman, we are not into stoning folks like you if you are indeed an adulterer.

So, what do we have today: historically racist comments by Biden, hateful and bad priorities comments by Walters, delusional comments by Walters, and Omar plays around and yet does not get stoned to death. What a great set of “leaders” our political processes are creating every day.

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