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) As we have discussed so, so many times, one of the very basic functions of any government entity and the politicians that operate it is to protect the safety and lives of the citizens it represents. Which makes the latest antics from the California political class so ridiculous and dangerous:
- The state government of California has decided to release 76,000 prison inmates, convicted criminals, before their sentences are completely served.
- More than 63,000 of these soon to be released convicts have been convicted of violent crimes.
- They will have their sentences reduced by a third.
- 20,000 of these folks are serving life sentences for the crimes they were convicted of.
- The changes were approved by the bureaucrats in the state office Of Administrative Law with minimal public notice.
- According to a prison spokeswoman, Dana Simas: “The goal is to increase incentives for the incarcerated population to practice good behavior and follow the rules while serving their time, and participate in rehabilitative and educational programs, which will lead to safer prisons.”
Plus the fact that this was done without input from citizens via elected officials makes the deal even shadier, as pointed out by state senator Jim Nielsen: “He’s [California governor, Gavin Newsom] doing it on his own authority, instead of the will of the people through their elected representatives or directly through their own votes. This is what I call Newsom’s time off for bad behavior. He’s putting us all at greater risk and there seems to be no end to the degree to which he wants to do that.”
Another potential failure of government bureaucrats and politicians failing to fulfill their basic job duty protecting the lives and property of innocent civilians and acting without the consent of the people and their elected representatives.
2) Releasing tens of thousands of convicted and possibly violent convicted felons back into society before their prisons sentences are served will probably not help California with this problem, a problem that we have discussed many times before:
- According to the latest Census data, California’s population declined for the first time in the state's recorded history which goes back to 1900.
- The country’s biggest state saw a net population loss of over 180,000 people last year.
- The Public Policy Institute Of California recently released a report that agrees with the Census data: "Much has been made of the California exodus, and rightly so. This migration, over the decades, has the power to reshape the state."
- As a result of 180,000 people fleeing the state, the state will lose a seat in Congress, something else that has never happened before.
- There is a massive homelessness problem in the state.
- The state has the highest poverty rate in the country.
- The state has the highest tax burden, gasoline prices, and some of the highest utility rates in the country.
- The state has the highest housing costs in the country with the median price of a home in the state well over $700,000.
- The state’s public education system severely under educates the state’s kids.
- And we just found out that the state penal system is going to give an early release bonus to tens of thousands of convicted and, in some cases, some criminals.
Given how screwed up recent politicians have performed in California, it makes you wonder if Mark Twain figured out present day state politicians long ago: "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." I go with the imbecile option.
For other discussion on how California is in a death spiral in so many ways, go to:
3) While California politicians were continuing to ruin life in their state, back in Washington DC Joe Biden was continuing his history of bald face lies
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- “Our Constitution opens with the words, as trite as it sounds, ‘We the People’. It’s time we remembered that 'We the People' are the government...” No Joe, the intent of those words and the Constitution was to minimize government, placing power in the hands of citizens not the government. To say “We the People” means “We the government” is a terrifying analogy to Orwell’s “1984.”
but only lying now as President of the United States. Consider this pack of lies that he put forth in a single speech to Congress:
- “Our Constitution opens with the words, as trite as it sounds, ‘We the People’. It’s time we remembered that 'We the People' are the government...” No Joe, the intent of those words and the Constitution was to minimize government, placing power in the hands of citizens not the government. To say “We the People” means “We the government” is a terrifying analogy to Orwell’s “1984.”
- “In the ’90s we passed universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds that can be fired off in seconds. We beat the N.R.A. Mass shootings and gun violence declined, check out the report, over 10 years. … We need a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And don’t tell me it can’t be done. We did it before and it worked.” No Joe, it did not change anything except to strip citizens of Second Amendment rights. Using real data from that era, left leaning ProPublica found that, “A definitive study of the 1994 law – which prohibited the manufacture and sale ProPublica found that of semiautomatic guns with “military-style features” such pistol grips or bayonet mounts as well as magazines holding more than ten rounds of ammunition – found no evidence that it had reduced overall gun crime or made shootings less lethal. “We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence,” the Department of Justice-funded study concluded in 2004. “Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”
- “When I was sworn in, less than 1% of seniors were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. One hundred days later, nearly 70% of seniors are fully protected.”No, Joe, even the left leaning Washington Post saw through this lie when they fact checked you, “When Biden took office, vaccinations had been given for only about a month. Moreover, health-care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, front-line essential workers and people over the age of 75 were in line to be the first to be vaccinated, which is why a relatively small percentage of people over 65 had been fully vaccinated.” In other words, you just happened to be in the right place at the right time when those over 65 were scheduled and able to get the vaccines, it had nothing to do with your actions.
-“Over 11 million undocumented folks, the vast majority of here overstaying visas.” No, Joe, again, the left leaning Washington Post debunked this lie with the analysis that found you were “wrong to say the ‘vast majority’ overstayed their visas.”
-“Over 11 million undocumented folks, the vast majority of here overstaying visas.” No, Joe, again, the left leaning Washington Post debunked this lie with the analysis that found you were “wrong to say the ‘vast majority’ overstayed their visas.”
- “I spent a lot of time with President Xi, traveling over 17,000 miles.” No, Joe, the Washington Post previously called this claim false saying that it “could not get [Biden’s] travel to add up to anything close to 17,000 miles.”
- “I will not impose any tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year.” No, Joe, this campaign promise is already coming apart since if a married couple each is annually making over $200,000 each, earning over $400,000 as a couple, their taxes will increase even though you promised that “people [not households] making less than $400,000 a year” will not see a tax increase. In addition, as you raise business taxes, those businesses will either pass those tax increases unto their customers or take jobs and profits overseas, negatively impacting everyone, not just those earning over $400,000 a year.
- “When I was vice president, the president asked me to focus on providing the help needed to address the root causes of migration. And it helped keep people in their own countries instead of being forced to leave. The plan was working, but the last administration decided it was not worth it.” No, Joe, according to left leaning PolitiFact, “This is exaggerated. The Obama administration in 2014 approved more aid to Central American countries to tackle issues causing people to migrate to the United States.”
- Biden claimed that the January 6th storming of the Capitol building by left and right wing agitators was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” No, Joe, the far worst attacks on our democracy were Pearl Harbor where almost 3,000 service people were killed, the 9-11 attacks which killed almost 3,000 American citizens, and the attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law in this country that you were a part of under the Obama administration:
- Biden claimed that “only government” can make the scientific breakthroughs that take humans to the Moon and Mars. No, Joe, the same week you made this claim the Federal government was using privately developed rockets and technology that was privately developed by Elon Musk’s Space X operation.
One speech, nine major lies, most of which were verified as lies by left leaning news organizations and others. It brings up that historical question: do politicians lie because they think we are too stupid or too lazy to verify their lying claims or do they actually delude themselves into thinking that the lies they put forth are the truth? Given this pack of nine lies in a single speech and Biden’s history of lying, it is probably a safe bet to assume anything that comes out of his mouth going forward is a lie until proven otherwise.
Lies in DC and failures in California, some things never change.
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