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) Possibly at some distant point in the past, Washington politicians and bureaucrats were focused on honestly doing their jobs and helping Americans. Seems like a long time ago, given today’s poisonous political atmosphere and the reality another Senate staffer has been found guilty of crimes:
- A second member on the staff of Senator Maggie Hassan has been found guilty of hacking government computers for political gain.
- The staffer, Samantha DeForest-Dave, assisted another Senate staffer, Jackson Cosko, in breaking into the Senator’s office where they hacked Congressional computers.
- The result of that hack was to download the addresses of Republican Senators and then make that information public, endangering the lives of those Senators and their families.
- Jackson has already pleaded guilty and is serving four years in a Federal prison.
- Apparently, he was angry because Brett Kavanaugh was being confirmed to the Supreme Court so, of course, endangering the lives of others was a rational reaction.
- DeForest-Dave initially lied to police investigators about providing keys to Cosko to get access to the Senator’s offices.
- According to Courthouse News: “After Hassan fired him in May 2018, Cosko lent Deforest-Davis money for her rent but requested a favor in return. That summer, spurred by anger over Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation hearings, Cosko repeatedly used Deforest-Davis’ keys to access the senator’s office after hours and hack the congressional computers.”
- He then published addresses and phone numbers of Congressional Republicans on Wikipedia and Twitter.
2) As we have pointed out so many times in this blog, politicians talk a good game but often fall short of their own espoused ideals and goals:
- Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot shut down almost all small businesses in Chicago during the pandemic but forced her own hair salon to open to get her hair done while the rest of the city residents could not get that luxury.
- The Beaumont, Texas mayor did a similar antic, forcing her nail salon to open to get her nails done while forcing the rest of the city to stay shut down, the need for nails to be done by ordinary citizens be damned.
- The governor of California forced all of his millions of residents to wear masks during the pandemic while he partied and frolicked at a high end French restaurant with friends and supporters who did not wear masks.
- The governor of Michigan restricted travel in and out of her state during the pandemic but treated herself to a private vacation in Florida, to the tune of a $26,000 airfare cost, while her residents were stuck back at home.
- Rochester, New York mayor, Lovely Warren, has a history of wanting to get guns off of the streets of her city.
- She has supported state laws that probably violate citizens’ Second Amendment rights and was all excited about a gun buyback plan her police force executed.
- She recently claimed that “getting guns off our streets must be a priority.”
- Specifically: "That’s why I’m glad our police department is partnering with the Attorney General’s Office and our churches to host a gun buy-back event next week. I know Chief Herriott-Sullivan and her team are working with their partners in law enforcement to stop the flow of illegal guns into our city. We must continue working together with our citizens to take these guns off our streets so our residents can feel safe in their neighborhoods and live the lives they deserve.”
- Certainly her right to have this opinion and the position it would help protect her citizens, a primary function of her office.
- But while she was out pontificating about getting illegal guns off of the street, it turns out she has illegal guns in her own home.
- When the New York State Police recently raided her home they found her husband, Timothy Granison, in possession of 31 grams of cocaine and in possession of a firearm.
- The firearm was illegally in his possession because of a conviction he received for armed robbery 24 years ago, a conviction that voided his right to be in possession of a weapon, which makes it an illegal gun, the kind his wife is campaigning against.
- He was arrested with seven other folks as part of an ongoing illegal drug investigation.
- The investigation executed seven searches including the Mayor’s home where, in total, they found two kilos of powder and crack cocaine, four guns including a semi-automatic rifle, and over $100,000 in cash.
- The rifle was found at the mayor's home.
Looks like the mayor should have cleaned up her own illegal gun act before trying to clean up the city’s gun population. The Zerohedge website summed up the mayor’s predicament quite nicely: “Well, I suppose the good news for Warren is that there are two fewer guns in Rochester today. Too bad for her that they were seized from her own home. I wonder if Warren is still big on ensuring that there are consequences for possessing a gun illegally in the city she oversees, or if she’s suddenly had a change of heart over the past 24 hours.”
Karma can be a bitch.
3) Warner Tood Huston recently did an online article about how many of the policies and lockdowns that the American political class forced on us all made the super rich even richer, helped make the politically connected richer, and had dire consequences for the rest of us, consequences that in many cases were worse than anything the virus could have done:
- According to Huston, the pandemic saw a bunch of power and money end up with the “overclass” of politicians, corporate managers, and government bureaucrats.
- Small businesses were forced to shut down, many never to reopen again, while big, corporate businesses got themselves deemed “essential” and thrived.
- High paid white collar workers got to work at home while others were forced into low paying delivery jobs, think Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc.
- The national debt exploded which will force EVERYONE to pay higher taxes down the road, hitting the lower economic strata especially hard.
- Politicians often exceeded and abused their lawful duties and responsibilities.
- While the Chinese Communist Party used the cover of the pandemic and lockdowns to crush a righteous rebellion in Hong Kong, American politicians took similar actions.
- Americans who protested the draconian and often illegal lockdowns and other political orders were called granny killers while others, whose political leanings were in line with sitting politicians, were allowed to do anything they wanted without consequences.
- For example, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio allowed a massive Black Lives Matter protest while ensuring that the gates to a Jewish playground were welded shut.
- States with draconian lockdowns and dictatorial political leaders were not healthier, and in many cases were less healthy, than states and cities that used more common sense in their pandemic reactions.
- But that reality, realized early on, did nothing to change the often heartless and senseless lockdown rules of the stricter states and cities.
- According to an analysis by the American Institute for Economic research, the lockdowns did more public health harm than good: businesses died, causing economic hardship and stress on individuals and families, mental health problems cases exploded, people opted out of routine and elective medical procedures such as cancer screenings with the obvious long term negative consequences yet to be realized, child and spousal abuse rates climbed and kids basically lost a year of schooling, with, again, long term consequences yet to be realized.
- And while the country suffered, no politician, no government bureaucrat, no teacher union member lost a dollar in salary or compensation.
At the same time, there were those local and state politicians that just went on a power ego trip and acted like the Chinese Communist party in Hong Kong: do it our way or else there would be dire consequences regardless of how stupid, and hypocritical our policies and ourselves are. As a result, economic disasters, business disasters and closures, unneeded alternative health issues, both physical and mental, and so much more.
As always, most American politicians approach every problem with a hammer when maybe a little more precision and elegance could be used to not make life so hard for regular Americans. And in the process protect our freedom to live our life as we see fit, not as some dictatorial governor or mayor sees fit.
That will do it for today: ego driven, power hungry politicians whose decisions were not optimal, a Rochester politician gets a brutal dose of karma, and another Washington lawbreaker gets off with basically no penalty.
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