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) Of all the governors who were in office during the pandemic, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan was probably one of the most ruthless. She implemented draconian lockdowns on her whole state even though the vast majority of infections were in the Detroit area, she put in place silly and ridiculous restrictions on what could be sold in some stores but not other stores, her husband tried to violate her orders regarding her no boating edict and she has kept her state locked down longer than many other states.
And despite her severe lockdowns, the state of Michigan is in a spurt of covid cases that puts it among the worst in the country. To deflect blame from her mismanagement of the crisis in her state, she recently blamed out of state travelers who were, in her mind, bringing the virus into her state and infecting her residents.
Which may be true, I do not know. But in a classic politician act of hypocrisy, the governor herself apparently decided to take a vacation in Florida about a month ago and then returned to Michigan. Thus, it is a classic case of political “do as I say not as I do.” If out of state travelers were infecting her voters, then is she doing exactly what she said was endangering her state residents?
Her office tried to spin the violation of her own doctrine by stating the governor was not in Florida long and she was visiting her sick father. But what if a regular Michigan resident had the same excuse: “I was not out of state long and was visiting a sick relative.” Would the good governor have been compassionate or would that ordinary citizen face the wrath of the governor like so many other Michigan folks have faced?
But this should not surprise us. We have spoken far too many times of politicians across the country, from Chicago to Beaumont, Texas, to California, to New York who locked down their citizens and then flaunted and ignored the very lockdown rules they had set, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Oh, by the way, she did not travel to Florida alone, some of her top staff people went with her, breaking her own edict several times over. This trip is not to be confused with a trip her newly appointed health director took in April to a resort area in Alabama. Unreal the hypocrisy.
2) Congresswoman Maxine Walters made an idiotic and potentially deadly statement a few days ago relative to the trial underway, at that time, regarding the death of George Floyd while in police custody. She publicly incited violence and a riot by saying that if the police officer who allegedly killed Floyd was not found guilty then a violent reaction/confrontation was necessary.
These words never should have been spoken by a public figure in government service for a trial that was still underway. It could have unfairly influenced the jury, it could have caused a mistrial, it could have led to riots and death and destruction and has likely laid solid grounds for an appeal if the verdict is guilty (which it was, on all three counts). She should face penalties, up to and including being removed from office, for such senseless and irresponsible actions as a member of Congress, ridiculous that a member of Congress could be so stupid.
Famous Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowtiz summaries how stupid and dangerous her remarks were quite nicely: “Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury—‘If you will acquit or if you find the charge less than murder, we will burn down your buildings. We will burn down your businesses. We will attack you. We will do what happened to the witness—blood on their door. This was an attempt to intimidate the jury. It’s borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person. And so, efforts to intimidate a jury should result in a mistrial with the judge, of course, wouldn’t grant a mistrial because then he’d be responsible for the riots that would ensue, even though it was Waters who was responsible.”
3) Jasiel Correia is the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts. He is quite young and yet successfully convinced the voters in Fall River to elect him mayor by convincing them he was a successful entrepreneur and putting forth plans to rejuvenate the town.
Apparently he is not going to get a chance to execute those plans since according to Patch.com: “Correia heads to trial this month on charges that he stole more than $230,000 from investors in a smartphone app he created to pay for things like a Mercedes, casino trips and adult entertainment. As mayor, he’s accused of convincing his chief of staff to give him half of her salary in order to keep her city job and extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses seeking to operate there.”
As always, he is innocent until proven guilty but if guilty, he represents another fine upstanding member of the American political class.
4) Of all the bad news and idiocy we talk about regarding the American political class, there is a recent bit of good news. As most people probably know, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has not had a good run over the past year:
- His faulty and fatal covid edict sending covid patients into nursing homes resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths of elderly state residents.
- He then may have lied and committed a crime by lying in sending an intentional underestimate of deaths to the Federal government.
- At last count upwards of ten women have come forward and accused him inappropriate sexual advances.
- Only 40% of those polled in March by Siena College now have a favorable opinion of the governor while a 52% majority see him in an unfavorable light, a 12 point difference.
- This is not a good trend since in March, 43% had a favorable opinion and 45% had an unfavorable opinion.
- Even worse, in February, 56% had a favorable opinion while only 39% had an favorable opinion.
- Thus, his favorable opinion levels have dropped a whopping 16 points in just two months while his unfavorable opinion levels have gone up 13 points in just two months.
That’s enough insanity for today: New Yorkers getting wise, another corrupt American mayor, Maxine Walters gives a convicted police officer a potential life saver appeal possibility, and the Michigan governor is still a train wreck.
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