November, 2019, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: Tlaib May Have Broken The Law, The Bidens and Kerrys Are Knee Deep in the Ukraine Muck, and Elizabeth Warren Goes All Stupid

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) Rashida Tlaib is a freshman Congresswoman from Michigan. She has made quite a name for herself in a short time by being vehemently anti-Israel, calling Trump a Motherf****, spouting socialistic ideals, and generally being crude and rude. And she now be in deep trouble for abusing campaign finance laws:

• According to Ryan Saavedra, writing for the Daily Wire website, she may have asked for campaign money for use for her personal expenses.
• As a result of messages that have surfaced from her, the House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation.
• These messages including asking her campaign manager for the use of campaign money which could be a criminal violation of campaign finance laws.
• The Office of Congressional Ethics alleges: “Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes. If Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use, or if Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes, then Rep. Tlaib may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law….“because there is substantial reason to believe that Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use or Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes.”
• Keep in mind that Democrats control the House so Tlaib cannot claim that Republican racists are out to get her as she is wont to do
• Text and emails show that Tlaib was frantic to get financial support from members of her staff and from her campaign and there were copies found of checks made out to her from her campaign.
• The campaign checks totaled thousands of dollars.
• In her own words, requesting money from her campaign coffers: “I am just not going to make it through the campaign without a stipend. With the loss of a second income to lean back on, I am requesting $2,000 per two weeks but not exceeding $12,000. The cost of living stipend is going towards much needed expenses due to campaigning that includes car maintenance, child care and other necessities.”

The case for unethical behavior seems pretty strong and again, the House is controlled by Democrats, those of the same political party as her. The good news is that she may have gotten caught illegally getting rich, as it is alleged. The bad news is that while she got caught, there are probably hundreds of other politicians who did not get caught.

2) Following up on that previous comment, it appears that Ms Tlaib may not be the only political operatives dealing in corruption:

• Documents recently released from the Ukranian General Prosecutor’s office show that complicated money transfers from foreign sources went into a slush fund that was controlled by Devon Archer, John Kerry, Sr., John Kerry, Jr. and Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son.
• The Latvian Department of Financial Monitoring tracked many of these financial shenanigans that involved the Urkanian energy company, Busima. 
• Recall that Burisma appointed Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to its board of directors even though he was a foreign national and had no experience in the energy industry.
• Burisma also has strong ties to David Leiter, John Kerry’s former Senate chief of staff.
• As Time Magazine reports: “Leiter’s involvement in the firm rounds out a power-packed team of politically-connected Americans that also includes a second new board member, Devon Archer, a Democratic bundler and former adviser to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Both Archer and Hunter Biden have worked as business partners with Kerry’s son-in-law, Christopher Heinz, the founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a private-equity company.”

Seems like a lot of Democrats have a lot of explaining to do relative to the Ukraine and yet, House Democrats remain focused Trump and stuff he never did relative to the Ukraine.

3) We have often covered the reality of how politicians often say the darndest, and most stupid things. But Democratic candidate for President Elizabeth Warren may have recently said one of the dumbest things to ever come out of a politician’s mouth. 

The liberal organization group Black Womxn For (which bills itself as “focused on creating intentional meeting spaces for Black Trans Women, Cis women and gender-nonconforming community leaders and activists to talk with each other about the Democratic primary and our impact on 2020 elections”) endorsed Warren for President: “There is one leader who has shown, through action, deed, and word, that a future of economic prosperity, racial justice, gender justice, and social and political equity is possible. She is a partner with a deep understanding of how racism and gender discrimination don't just compound income inequality but are actually central to maintaining the status quo.” 

It’s a free country and this group certainly has the right to endorse and support any candidate that they want. But it was Warren’s response that was so nonsensical: “Thank you, @BlackWomxnFor! Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy and I don’t take this endorsement lightly. I'm committed to fighting alongside you for the big, structural change our country needs.”

So a group of people that represent an infinitesimally small portion of the Americans in this country are “the backbone of our democracy?” I guess that means that the following people are NOT the backbone of this country:

• Our armed forces that protect the country and our democracy are not the backbone of our country.
• Our police officers who protect us every day are not the backbone of this country.
• People who go to work and pay taxes everyday are not the backbone of this country.
• Teachers who educate our kids to be productive members of society are not the backbone of this country.

Talk about pandering. Twitter user Quadratus summed up this nonsense quite nicely: “No - the backbone of our society are all those who get up each day and work, pay their taxes, take care of their families, and in their exhaustion at night wonder how irrational leaders like you [Warren] can possibly believe you can lead us to anything but emotional hysteria and anarchy.”

There you have today’s insanity: A Congresswoman who allegedly used campaign finance funds for her personal use, Ukrainian corruption that does not involve Trump but involves making political operatives and their sons rich, and just an insane comment from an out of touch politician which insulted most of America.

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