February, 2020, Part 2, Politicians Say The Darndest Things: Joe Biden, Maxine Walters and Micheal Bloomberg

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) Whenever we do these types of posts, Joe Biden figures prominently because of his ability to say the most inane, untrue, and ridiculous things. He recently claimed that long ago he was arrested down in South Africa when he was on his way to visit Nelson Mandela. But as often is the case with Biden, his words do not match up with reality:

• This is the first time he has ever mentioned his arrest despite being on the public stage for decades.
• And yet he recently claimed: “This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island.”
• But Biden never mentioned the arrest in his personal memoir published in 2007, an incident that one would think would be important enough to include.
• He never mentioned it while Vice President or up until recently on the campaign trail.
• The New York Times said that a check of its records from the time period showed no reports that a sitting U.S. Senator, Joe Biden, had been arrested in South Africa, an event that certainly would have been newsworthy.

Politicians say the darndest things and most often they are flat out wrong and/or a lie.

2) Maxine Walters is also a favorite quote and gaffe machine. She has been one of the most virulent haters of Trump since he was elected. She recently made the most ridiculous quote heard in a long time: “This guy [Trump] is a street player. He’s a guy that has conned folks. He has flirted with gangsters. I have worked in some of the toughest communities. I’ve worked with gangs, I’ve worked with Crips, I’ve worked with Bloods. And there’s more integrity in many of these young people in the hood than this man has.”

First of all, to say the President of the United States has less integrity than blood thirsty gang members, gang members that would slit your throat in an instance, is ridiculous beyond belief. Second, if you were to Google “the most corrupt members of Congress,” you would see that most of the articles that would show up in your search would have a picture of Maxine Walters. Those that investigate Congressional corruption would probably agree that she is the poster child for corruption and the lack of integrity. 

Thus, for her to call out Trump for lack of integrity when she has spent decades on the most corrupt politicians list is ludicrous.

3) This example will set off a whole string of examples of saying the darndest things as it relates to late entrant into the presidential race, Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg hates Trump and thus, he has decided to use his vast wealth to defeat Trump in November as the Democratic candidate for President. We have already discussed the disgrace of his spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this vanity campaign when that money could have housed and fed millions of needy Americans. 

But this waste of money is a topic for other posts. As he has become more active in his run for the Presidency, quotes from his past have begun surfacing, quotes that usually show him as a mean spirited, condescending, out of touch billionaire. He has managed to insult wide swaths of Americans, from women, to farmers to the elderly. Thus, we will start with his darndest things today but it will likely carry over into other subsequent posts since his history of saying the dumbest and darndest things is quite extensive.

Let’s start off with a racist and anti Fourth Amendment statement that Bloomberg made back in 2015 while speaking at the Aspen Institute, as reported by Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News: 

• Back when Bloomberg was mayor of New York City, he had the police department he continued and supported a program that encouraged police officers to randomly “stop and frisk” anyone they wanted on the streets in the city without probable cause.
• This was obviously a gross abuse of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution but nonetheless, Bloomberg encouraged the program.
• As a result, most of those that were stopped and harassed by the police were young African American and Latino men.
• A newly surface audio tape from 2015 shows he was a full supporter of the program, 
• Specifically he said that, “The way you get guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall.”
• He want on: "Ninety-five percent of murders- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops," he said. "They are male, minorities, 16-25. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city (inaudible). And that's where the real crime is. You've got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed."
• Up until recently Bloomberg has shown no remorse for the program but now that he is running for President he all of a sudden says he is sorry: “Over time I’ve come to understand something that I’ve long struggled to admit to myself. I got something important wrong. I got something important really wrong.”

Note: news reports indicate that Bloomberg’s people contacted the Aspen Institute and tried unsuccessfully to have his quotes suppressed and buried, indicating that they knew how damaging the quotes were.

A little late for remorse. If Trump was quoted as favoring throwing minority kids against the wall to be frisked without cause, the outrage from the left would be deafening even if he admitted it was wrong. To let Bloomberg off the hook for saying these things, in addition to abusing Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens, would be the height of hypocrisy

So we have Joe Biden likely making up an arrest record that never happened, a ridiculous and hypocritical statement by Miss Corruption herself, Maxine Walters, and the first of many outlandish statements by Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Politicians and rich people do say the darndest things. Unfortunately.

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