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) Unfortunately, we have had way too any discussion on how Chicago politicians have been utterly unable to reduce the violence that permeates the streets of Chicago. For many years, Chicago has led the country in the number of murders and violent crime.
Even more unfortunate, the situation seems to be getting far worse as the city’s politicians get more and more ineffective and delusional when it comes to protecting the lives and property of the city’s residents, a failure relative to a basic function of government:
- According to the Daily Caller, in July of this year there were 105 murders in the city of Chicago, more than three a day.
- This was a whopping 139% increase over the number of murders in July, 2019.
- There were 406 shootings in the city last month, a 75% increase over the number of shootings in July, 2019.
- The city police have launched a new task force to address this violence but whether the city’s politicians will support their effort or will continue the Insane “defund the police” movement is still to be determined.
In fact, the mayor of Chicago is so delusional that she thinks that Trump is offering Federal government help to clean up the violence because he is sexist: “The president has been on a campaign now for some time against Democratic mayors across the country. Whether it’s me, whether it’s Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta, whether it’s Muriel Bowser in Washington, D.C., whether it’s Jenny Durkan in Seattle – do you see a common theme here?”
Wrong conclusion mayor: he is offering these cities help not because of woman mayors but because these cities are facing unprecedented violence and crime increases. That is the common theme. And this idiocy is why she is refusing help to save her residents’ lives.
A basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of citizens. This is not happening in Chicago and a lot of that failure is at the feet of a clueless, ego driven mayor who is more interested in playing politics than doing her job.
2) Minneapolis has been the location of really bad and violent rioting as a result of the horrific George Floyd murder. This has led an already clueless political class and government officials to call for the defunding of the city's police force and replace it with an unknown successor.
This hatred and defunding of the city’s police force as resulted in disrespecting the concept of law and order within the city:
- According to the Minneapolis Police Department, there have been 2,170 stolen vehicles in the city through July 26 of this year.
- This is up 45% increase over the same period last year when there were 1,485 thefts.
- There were 886 robberies through July 26, a 36% increase over the same period last year.
- Keep in mind that the city politicians that have created this policing void in the city have hired private armed security guards to protect themselves while ordinary city residents are subjected to massive increases in violent crime.
- According to a local area Facebook community page that is moderated by Steve Taylor: “What we’re hearing again and again is people don’t want less public safety, they want better public safety. When the City Council has their own armed security and community members are being robbed at gunpoint often in broad daylight, that just seems unfair.”
- In the city’s south side, robberies are up 100% and car thefts are up 67%.
- Steve Taylor expresses the wishes of ordinary citizens that check in on his Facebook page with the following general reaction of city residents: “I think we need more police. Of course we need reformed police and better police that police all of Minneapolis equally, keep everyone equally safe from violent criminals.”
3) Unfortunately, getting their constituents killed is not confined to allowing lawlessness to run rampant through city streets. As everyone knows, the coronavirus crisis has upended everyone’s life over the past half year. People have gotten sick, lost their jobs and wages, and unfortunately, many have died as a result of the virus.
But according to Michael Brigham, writing for the American Action News website, a lot of elderly American unnecessarily died because of ignorant and stupid virus decisions by four state governors.
Keep in mind that while over 150,000 Americans have supposedly died because of the virus, more than 45% of those deaths (over 70,000) have happened to people who lived in long term care/nursing home facilities even though the number of elderly Americans living in those facilities is only .6% of all Americans.
- New York
- Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, is probably the biggest culprit when it comes to unnecessary virus deaths in nursing homes.
- On March 25 he ordered all New York nursing homes to accept residents into those nursing homes after they had been discharged from hospitals regardless of their virus health status.
- Specifically: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”
- So, nursing homes had to accept residents into their facilities regardless if those residents had the virus or were suspected of having the virus.
- As a result, the state’s long term care and nursing homes suffered 6,588 confirmed and suspected virus deaths, a number that was 20% of the state’s entire virus fatality total.
- Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, was no better than Cuomo when it came to having no common sense relative to long term care/nursing homes in the middle of the virus crisis.
- Newsom put forth a memo that dictated that long term care facilities must readmit residents even if they had suspected or confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
- As a result of this idiocy, that state’ long term care/nursing homes were the site of at least 2,775 virus deaths, a whopping 30% of the entire state’s virus death totals so far.
- On March 18, the state government in Pennsylvania issued instructions on how long term care and nursing homes should behave during the virus crisis.
- The instructions required that long term care facilities and nursing homes must accept both new admissions and re-admissions for current residents who came down with the virus in order to take some pressure off of hospitals ICUs who were overwhelmed by the number of virus cases.
- Thus, the states’ governor and health officials purposely mixed in known virus sufferers with high risk elderly populations.
- This resulted in Pennsylvania’s long term care and nursing home locations generating at least 4,708 virus deaths, an astounding 65% of the state’s entire virus death total.
- The New Jersey state government did the same stupid thing as the other three states according to the following official decree: “No patient/resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the post-acute care setting solely based on a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Persons under investigation for COVID-19 who have undergone testing in the hospital shall not be discharged until results are available. Post-acute care facilities are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized patient/resident who is determined medical stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or re-admission.”
- As a result of this policy, at least 6,608 New Jersey residents died in long term care and nursing home locations which is over 40% of the entire state’s virus death total.
Conclusion: never underestimate the power and incompetence of American politicians to place Americans in harm’s way, whether it is allowing criminals, murderers, and arsonists to run amok in cities across the country or confining healthy people with virus infected people, increasing the chance of death of both groups significantly.
As always, a basic, basic, primary function of any level of government is to protect the lives, well being and property of their constituents. In at least the four states and two cities listed above, the politicians running those government entities have failed miserably.
Please visit the following sites for freedom:
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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Please visit the following sites for freedom:
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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