February, 2020, Part 1, Politicians Say The Darndest Things: Joe Biden, Rolanda Hollis, and Peter Buttigieg

Every so often we run a series of posts under the theme, “Politicians say the darndest things.” It is a parody of an old television show, “House Party,” where host Art Linkletter would ask simple questions of young kids and wait for their often funny responses. This segment of his show was called “Kids Say The Darndest Things.” 

Unfortunately when kids say silly or dumb things, it is funny. When politicians say silly or dumb things, there are usually serious ramifications across the land that often involve stupid laws, wasteful spending, self delusion of a politician’s intelligence or abilities, or a continued lack of faith that today’s politicians are smart enough to get anything right.

So let’s take a look at the latest darndest things that American politicians are saying today:

1) Joe Biden has probably been one of the top two politicians to be quoted in this blog for all of the inane, stupid, and off the wall stuff he has said over the years. His only competition is probably Nancy Pelosi for saying the darndest things.

Lately, though, his thoughts and quotes have gone from inane and humorously stupid to a little more evil and darker. A few months ago he called a young woman a liar for asking a reasonable and decent question. And he really got nasty with a young college student when she also asked a reasonable political question.

According to an article on the Freedom Outpost website by Andrew West on February 10, 2020, when a young college co-ed asked him the very reasonable question on how will he rebound from his dismal performance at the Iowa caucuses, he attacked her and her question by calling her “a lying, dog faced pony soldier.” So Many things wrong with this reaction:

• Why verbally attack someone who might be a voter in November for asking an intelligent question?
• Why call her a liar based on a simple question, not an accusation, not a slur, not a verbal attack, a simple reasonable question?
• And finally what does a “a lying dog face pony soldier mean?!?! Makes no sense.

Maybe it is best that Biden just hang up his political spikes. He went from being funny and stupid to mean spirited and irrational. But certainly consistent with our theme of politicians saying the darndest things.

2) Stupid quotes are not restricted to Washington politicians. Alabama State Representative Rolanda Hollis has put together a potential piece of legislation that would mandate that “every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first.” 

Seriously, this is what is important in the political class in Alabama, keeping track of how many kids a resident has fathered and then making sure one way or another that he is sterilized? Certainly one of the most inane and stupid quotes we have ever come across that has come out of a politician’s mouth. The state/government has no right to forcibly sterilize law abiding citizens, this is a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment. But as always with American politicians, rights and the Constitution often are merely suggestions.

3) Peter Buttigieg is running for President. He thinks it would be a good idea to flood rural American with immigrants to build up the population: “I’m proposing what we call “Community Renewal Visas” that when a community that is very much in need of growing its population, recognizes that, and makes a choice to welcome more than its share of new Americans that we create a fast-track, if they apply for an allotment of visas, that goes to those who are willing to be in those areas that maybe are hurting for population but have great potential.”

Of course, businesses love this proposal. It provides more customers and a larger supply of labor which under simple economic principles will drive down wages and improve businesses’ bottom line. But so many problems with this quote and proposal:

• There are reasons why some rural areas are losing population, this quote and proposal does not address the root causes of the population loss, it just plunks down a bunch of foreigners into an area that is losing population.
• What types of skills are these immigrants going to have and how will these skills fit in with the current economic situation? A rural area is unlikely to have a lot of high tech jobs so what good is putting hi tech trained immigrants into an area with no high tech jobs?
• What would keep these immigrants from going elsewhere once they realize the root causes of the population drop had not been fixed and there were no jobs for them? Are we going to put ankle monitors on them to ensure they stay where they are put?
• We have already talked about towns like Lewiston, Maine that Obama had flooded with immigrants and the devastating impact it had on schools and other town services. Teachers had to cope with different languages which ruined the educational processes for all involved, native and immigrants.
• Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are going bankrupt, the national debt is growing so fast, public schools under educate, our infrastructure is crumbling, and there are millions of Americans who are homeless, hungry or drug addicted every day and this clown is working on these types of problems, horrible priorities.

Stupid quote, stupid idea. As always, politicians do not have the brain power or the ability to analyze the root causes of problems and then fix the root causes. Some rural communities are losing population for specific reasons. Find out what those reasons are and then decide what, if any, root cause solutions would fix the problem. Dumping a bunch of foreign speaking immigrants into a community makes no sense if you do not address the root causes of the population decrease. Just ask the folks in Lewiston.

It is an election year so we have a whole set of stupid quotes ready to go in the next few posts as politicians just keep talking without thinking. Today, we just got a beginning taste of stupid quotes and politicians saying the darndest things, from Joe Biden’s temper tantrums and attacks to castrating men in Alabama to dumping foreigners into rural communities, politicians say, and do, the darndest things.

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