December, 2019, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Hillary Sees Russians Everywhere, Elizabeth Warren's Failed Math Skills, and CNN Continues to Commit Integrity Suicide

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) First, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats accused Trump of being a secret Russian agent. The country spent about $30 million on the Robert Mueller investigation and found out that Trump was not a Russian agent. Then Clinton accused fellow Democrat and Democratic Presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, of being a Russian agent without providing any evidence to support this accusation. Gabbard rebutted and admonished Clinton for making this baseless accusation.

Clinton is still at it, apparently seeing Russians behind every tree. In a recent Howard Stern interview she asserted that the Russians have said, “let’s do everything we can to elect Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.” Again, I am not aware that she provided any proof that the Russians were colluding with Sanders, I guess we are supposed to take her word for it.

But later on in the interview you get why she is slandering Sanders. She complains that Sanders “hurt her.” She followed that up with, “I hope he doesn’t do it again to whoever gets the nomination.” It seems that she is still bitter about losing not only to Trump but she blames Sanders for undercutting her. And thus, she brands him as a Russian agent as revenge for him daring to oppose her.

As far as Gabbard is concerned, maybe Clinton is envious of another Democratic woman besides herself becoming the first woman President. Whatever the case, her infatuation with branding everyone a Russian agent is sad and dangerous since if there ever is an American politician who is actually a Russian agent, we probably will not believe it since Hillary played the Chicken Little/Russian agent card too often based on nothing.

2) We have often shown examples of the many skills that most politicians lack: logic, economic training, project management, etc. Elizabeth Warren recently illustrated another skill that politicians lack, basic math skills:

• Warren has been running around the country promising a lot of free stuff to voters and vowing to enact a whole slew of government operated programs and processes in an attempt to appeal to liberals and socialists in this country, most socialists.
• This free stuff includes Medicare For All, the New Green Deal, forgiving college debt, free college tuition, etc. 
• The obvious question is how Warren would pay for all of these socialism goodies since nothing is free in life.
• Most estimates of the Medicare for All idea would be an increment $3.2 TRILLION a year in government spending, the cost of forgiving college debt would be $1.6, and the cost of the New Green Deal could be another $1 TRILLION a year bringing just these three promises to about $44 TRILLION over ten years.
• Keep those numbers in mind when you consider what Warren recently said at a National Education Association meeting when questioned how she would fund additional educational programs.
• She answered by flippantly and ignorantly stating that “there’s always money. It’s there.”
• She seems to think that she owns all of our wealth and it is at her disposal to do as she pleases.
• She also seems to think that there is no end to the amount of wealth there is in this country, a completely ignorant economic position.
• She went on to say that she would change budget priorities to fund her pipe dreams including reducing the defense budget.
• Now, while the defense budget should probably be reduced, given how much money the Pentagon wastes every year, let’s do some math to show how out of touch Warren is with mathematics reality.
• The annual Pentagon budget is about $700 billion every year.
• If she reduced the Pentagon budget by 100%, something that is impossible and stupid to do, she would free up about $7 TRILLION for her freebies and other socialism projects over the next ten years.
• But we just showed how over ten years she would need $44 TRILLION to fund just three of her pet programs.
• Thus, reducing the Defense Department budget to $0 would still leave her $37 TRILLION short of her needed funding or about 84% short of her funding needs.
• To fill this $37 TRILLION hole every American citizen, men, women, and kids would have to pay about $115,000 EACH to get the funding she needs or about $11,5000 a year for ten year per person. 
• Thus, a family of four would have to pay $46,000 a year.
• And this would leave us without any armed forces at all.
• If she reduced the Pentagon budget by 10%, a more realistic assumption, she would be over $43 TRILLION short of her needed funding.

As you can see, we are in the ridiculous arena of math calculations. But that is because her program ideas and the needed funding are ridiculous. Do none of these people have any logic or math skills? And even if they do not have these basic skills, is there no one on their staffs that can point out how stupid these ideas are? Scary that these types of people are trying to run the country.

3) We have often pointed out how important a free, unbiased press is in a democracy and for liberty of a nation’s citizens. And we have also lamented how the free press and the journalism profession in this country has failed miserably in this important responsibility. Most mainstream news outlets in this country lean heavily in favor of the left side of the spectrum, so much so that poll after poll show that the American public realize how biased and dangerous such bias is:

• Recent Pew Research found that respondents felt that journalists behave unethically almost always or sometimes 66% of the time.
• Recent Gallup research shows that only 23% of respondents felt that they only had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers.

Which shows that we really do not trust the people/”journalists” that are bringing us the news today. But that is also a good news story in that we at least know we are not being fed the truth in an unbiased way and that good news has manifested itself in the recent crash of CNN ratings, a news institution that was once felt to be trustworthy, a time that has long passed:

• CNN’s TV ratings have recently hit a multi-year low.
• Over Thanksgiving weekend, in the important 25-64 demographic, CNN hit a three year new low in ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research.
• In total, CNN averaged only 620,000 viewers every night over that weekend.
• This put their performance below other cable networks including AMC, the Food Network, and the Hallmark Channel.
• Thus, there is a very good chance that the biased reporting of CNN often lost out to Cupcake Wars on the Food Channel or they fell below a hokey Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel.
• At the same time, Fox News had more than three times as many viewers, two million, and MSNBC had more than twice as many than CNN.

Again, this is a double edged sword. On one hand, CNN and other mainstream news outlets have failed the American people and their own industry’s integrity and trust standards with their biased and skewed news reporting. This has endangered our democracy and freedoms since a free, unbiased press has always been an anti-tyranny bastion. 

The good news is that a good many Americans have realized that CNN and others are not really journalism outlets anymore as much as they are biased ratings machines, truth be damned. We can only hope that at some point in time real journalism returns to this country as opposed to what the likes of CNN is now propagating.

That will do it for today: in Hillary’s world everyone is a Russian agent, In Elizabeth Warren’s world basic math laws math are suspended, and in the news world, CNN’s integrity and trust continue to plummet as their reporting becomes more and more skewed.

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