July, 2020, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Virus Ignorance In Atlanta, Nepotism In Minnesota, and Nursing Home Disaster In New York

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) We have previously discussed the stupid and inane things that American politicians did during this virus crisis that were often in direct opposition to what they wanted the rest of us to do:

• The Chicago mayor forced a beauty salon to open for herself during the height of the pandemic in Chicago even though she did not allow any other salon to open or any Chicago resident to have their hair done.
• The Beaumont,Texas mayor forced her nail salon to open to fix her nails even though she prohibited any other salon to open or any of her residents to get their nails done.
• The husband of the Michigan governor tried to get his boat out of storage and on the water over Memorial Day weekend even though his governor wife had ordered no boats to be put on the water.
• The mayor of NYC forced a gym to open in order for him to exercise even though he did not allow any other gyms to open or any resident to get any gym exercise during the NYC lockdown.
• That same mayor went for a walk in a city park even though he had closed all parks to every other New Yorker.
• The governor of Illinois allowed his family to leave the state to go to their Florida ranch even though he restricted every other Illinois family to their homes to be left only to do essential services.

You get the idea, “do as I say, not as I do,” is often the mantra of American politicians. 

All of which brings us to the Atlanta mayor:

• Mayor Keisha Bottoms had acted like many other big city mayors and had ordered and urged her city residents to go out only for essential services, to wear masks when out and about and to maintain social distancing.
• Which seemed like sound advice until she disobeyed her own edicts by participating in mass marches/protests in the wake of the George Floyd murder by Minneapolis police officers.
• News reports also reported that when attending these mass gatherings of protesters she sometimes did NOT wear a protective mask.
• And in a stroke of karma, the mayor recently announced that she had indeed tested positive for the coronavirus.
• And in a moment of true idiocy, she seemed baffled that she had gotten the virus: “It leaves me for a loss of words because I think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is. We’ve taken all the precautions that you can possibly take. I have no idea when and where we were exposed.”

Seriously, Mayor Bottoms? You “have no idea” how you were exposed to the virus? You were in close contact with a horde of people, many of which were not wearing protective masks and in at least one instance of being with the masses you were not wearing a mask. Are you really that ignorant of the situation even though you had been ordering and hounding your own citizens not to do what you did with these dire results? You cannot make up this type of ignorance or insanity.

2) Minnesota Congresswoman Ihmar Omar has been one of the most hateful and despicable members of Congress in recent memory. She has called for the destruction of the American way of life, she is a mortal enemy of Israel, and everyone and everything that does not align with her beliefs is racist in her mind, an attitude which in itself is racist.

She is all these things and quite possibly a criminal also:

• According to the New York Post, she may have been illegally funneling large amounts of campaign money into her husband’s consulting firm.
• Omar married her husband in March and in that same month somehow $189,000 of campaign funds allegedly ended up in her husband’s consulting firm coffers.
• This new financial arrangement comes on the heels of accusations last year when the two were having an affair and ethics complaints alleged that payments to the future husband’s company were used by the couple for personal travel expenses and trips.
• Omar’s husband’s ex-wife has alleged that the husband’s consulting firm is in serious financial shape and this funneling of campaign cash to him and his company was to keep it afloat and keep Omar and her husband financially solvent.

Tough to listen to a politician’s ideas when this type of corruption and self enrichment is allegedly going on by that same politician. This is just another form of do as I say, not as I do. You follow the laws and act ethically but do not look at what I am doing.

3) We have pointed out numerous times how New York state and New York City politicians have done the worst job possible in protecting their citizens from the ravages of the coronavirus. A particularly bad decision making was the governor’s edict that nursing homes accept recovering coronavirus infected patients into their buildings and co-mingle them with healthy nursing home residents. 

We are now able to get a clearer picture on how bad and fatal this decision was:

• The state government admitted that it had sent over 6.300 elderly coronavirus patients from hospitals to nursing homes even though elderly residents were the most susceptible to contracting the virus.
• This policy was initially defended by state government politicians including the governor but the policy has since been scrapped, indicating that those in charge know they botched the problem immensely.
• Of course, the politicians involved, primarily Governor Andrew Cuomo, did not accept responsibility for his decision and its fatal consequences, preferring to blame the people who work in those nursing homes.
• This lack of responsibility is in the face of the reality that more than 6,400 of New York state deaths from the virus occurred in nursing homes where Cuomo sent recovering virus patients.
• Despite the denial of reality and responsibility by Cuomo and his associates, those in the know reached a different conclusion, people like Stephen Hansen who operates an nursing home association, the New York State Health Facilities Association and the New York State Center for Assisted Living: “Bringing in even one instance of COVID to a nursing home is in no one’s best interest.” 

So typical, a politician screws up royally and blames everyone and everything else but himself. Unfortunately, in this case, the screwup and lack of common sense likely cost some people their lives.

So, today we have fatal virus policies in New York, nepotism in Minneapolis and virus ignorance and stupidity in Atlanta. The insanity rolls on.

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