Thursday, December 12, 2019

December, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Portland Politicians Failing the Homeless, Joe Biden Wants to Fight An American, Biden Supports The Confederacy, and Ocasio-Cortez Goes Delusional....Again

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) Liberals and Democrats always consider themselves as pure of heart and defenders of the disadvantaged. I would say this is a mirage since they are politicians, and in my opinion there are very few of them that are pure of heart and most could care less for anyone that cannot help their careers.

But they are always quick to pounce on anyone that they consider not pure of heart especially if it is politically advantageous to them. Thus, it should be interesting to see how they react to their leading candidate for President, Joe Biden, and some interesting video that has been recently uncovered. 

The Daily Wire website recently discussed that a video clip from 1993 could be quite embarrassing for Joe Biden. In that clip Biden compliments a pro-Confederacy war group, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, saying they were “an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag.” 

I cannot imagine the faux outrage the Democrats and liberals would have worked up if this video clip featured Trump or any other non-liberal politician. Given that many on the left side of the political spectrum these days finds racism everywhere when it does not involve them, I expect that the hypocrisy of Biden and others will be amazing.

The original video of Biden supporting the Confederacy can be viewed at:


2) When politicians have no idea how to resolve a problem or issue they usually come up with “solutions” that make the original issue even worse. This was recently illustrated up in Portland. Portland is one of several major western cities that have allowed the homelessness problem in their city get out of control.

Rather than fixing the problem, the politicians in the city decided that it was a better idea to force private property owners to fix the homeless problem:
  • According to a Daily Wire report, “Portland wants private property owners to add ‘mandatory rest spaces’ for the homeless.”
  • Yes, rather than resolve the issue, force private citizens and private businesses to at least alleviate the problem that they cannot resolve.
  • A Portland city commission wants to change the city’s building codes to force private property owners to build their buildings to accommodate the city’s homeless population.
  • This commission writes and enforces the city’s building codes.
  • The commission wants the construction to have “opportunities to rest and be welcome.”
  • Thus, if the commission gets its way, anyone could loiter, sleep or camp on private property.
  • As it often happens, when a politician cannot resolve a problem they start trying to fool us with different words to take attention. 
  • This is what is happening in Portland since in that city homeless folks are “unhoused” and they are “underserved” by the city’s housing public housing.
I feel so bad for anyone for any reason does not have their own roof over their head, however they define that roof. But forcing private citizens to do the job that the politicians cannot do regarding housing for the homeless is a cop out. Obviously these politicians are not worthy of handling the tax dollars of hard working citizens in finding the root causes of the homeless in their city and then attacking the root causes, i.e. do their job.

3) My perception of a leader is someone who can stay calm and mature under pressure, someone who rises above the trivial and focuses on the big issues and problems, someone who respects others. In a recent encounter Joe Biden had with an ordinary American, he was none of those things:
  • During a campaign stop in Iowa, a regular American citizen asked Biden about his son’s dealings in the Ukraine, a topic that has become quite popular recently.
  • Biden did not take the question graciously.
  • During the exchange, he ended up calling the American citizen a “damn liar” and “fat.”
  • He actually challenged the man, who was a senior citizen, to a push up contest and an IQ test.
  • He ends the exchange by telling the citizen that he is”too old to vote for me [Biden].”
If, God forbid, Biden ever gets elected President, is this the type of juvenile behavior we want in the White House? What happens when Putin or Kim give him grief, is he going to challenge them to a push up contest? What happens when he has to handle a terrorist situation, challenge them to an IQ test or call them fat? Just another example where Biden in particular and politicians in general are not calm, mature, focused on the big issues, or respective of others.

The exchange can be viewed at: 


4) First term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has probably taken up way too much space in this blog with her ignorance and delusions about reality and basic knowledge in a full range of subjects where she has offered her opinion and always been shown to be so out of touch. Her most recent excursion into delusion was recently reported when she insisted that she was right to force Amazon to NOT locate a headquarters in her Congressional district, a move that would have brought great wealth and opportunities to her constituents. That ignorance can be viewed at:


Her latest embarrassment of herself started with a tweet:
  • According to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that HER effort fast tracked the early arrival of an HIV medicine to the market.
  • In reality, a corporate decision to bring such drugs to market was made FOUR YEARS before she was elected to Congress.
  • Yet, she claimed that she “took on Big Pharma” with “colleagues in hearings that brought PrEP generic a year early.” 
  • But Gilead, the drug company behind the HIV drug PrEP, a drug that can reduce HIV transmission by 99%, had reached an agreement with a generic drug maker for the drug back in 2014, a year earlier than would have normally happened. 
As always with these types of political charades, does Ocasio-Cortez actually believe this fable or does she think we are too stupid or too lazy to understand what the real time line and real truth is? It’s a question that may never be answered or it may all of the above: politicians believe their fables and they do think we are stupid and lazy.

Footnote: the Trump administration recently announced that it will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to all uninsured people as part of its plan to reduce new HIV transmissions by 90% over the next 10 years. Thus, while Ocasio-Cortez is fantasizing over non-accomplishments, Trump is actually doing something in the area of HIV prevention.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Ocasio-Cortez’s fables, Joe Biden picking on a U.S. citizen, Joe Biden admiring the Confederacy, and Portland politicians miserably failing the homeless and the citizens in their city.
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