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) It has always been our contention, especially as it applies to long term Washington politicians, that for most of them, self enrichment is their primary priority, not helping the country. One of the most frequently discussed politicians we have discussed relative to this concept is Nancy Pelosi:
- She once postponed credit card industry regulation legislation until after VISA issued its IPO which resulted in her family profiting by about half a million dollars.
- In one of the first economic support programs that Pelosi put together for the pandemic she made sure that one of her husband’s companies. EDI, received about a million dollars in taxpayer support even though the Pelosi family is worth tens of millions of dollars.
- The Pelosis invested over $1 million in the electric car maker Tesla just a few weeks BEFORE Biden announced he was going to switch the entire fleet of Federal government owned vehicles to electric powered vehicles.
- Just before the economy imploded as a result of the pandemic, Paul Pelosi made some very substantial investments that came right after Congressional Hearings were conducted regarding the pandemic emergency.
- Paul Pelosi made some huge investments in technology companies a few weeks before there was a major antitrust vote in Congressional committees.
- The antitrust action was directed at tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google.
- In addition, these investments in Amazon were made a little before the Pentagon backed out of an agreement with an Amazon competitor (Microsoft) for a huge cloud computing project that would likely have big upsides for Amazon.
- He invoked call options to acquire 4,000 shares of Google at a price of $1,200, giving him an immediate net profit of just under five million dollars.
- The transactions were completed a week before the House Judiciary Committee vote on antitrust.
What was even more insulting was a statement from Nancy Pelosi’s office which stated: “The speaker has no involvement or prior knowledge of these transactions,” and “in fact does not own any stocks herself.” Right, he never told her that he was investing over a million dollars to get millions more in profit. Insane to believe that was what actually happened.
2) Gas and food prices are rising dramatically. There is a drug cartel, human trafficking, humanitarian, and juvenile abuse crisis on the southern border. Russia, China, and Iran, sensing Biden’s incompetence, are running wild overseas. Crime and violence in Democratically controlled cities is increasing every day.
Yes, there are a lot of issues facing American today that one would hope that government employees and Washington politicians would be working on to resolve. But, alas, any kind of hope from them never seems to come true. They usually end up working on and wasting time and resources on trivial, nonsensical issues and topics, as was recently demonstrated at a Senate hearing:
- Apparently, the Biden administration, via Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, have decided that using the word “mother” is somehow inappropriate and that “birthing people” should now be used in all Federal documents.
- Yes, these discussions that led to this inane conclusion actually took place among government employees using taxpayer money to fund their salaries to come up with this idiocy.
- At a Senate hearing, Senator James Lankford confronted Becerra on this waste of time and effort by Federal employees.
- Somewhat sarcastically, the Senator asked: “I also noticed you changed a term in your budget work. You shifted from using the term ‘mother’ to ‘birthing people’ rather than mother. Can you help me get a good definition of ‘birthing people?’”
- Although a relatively straightforward question for Becerra since the word came out of his organization, he fumbled his response completely: “But I think if we’re talking about those who give birth, I think we’re talking about . . . I don’t know how else to explain it to you other than [that].”
- The Senator kept pressing: “Would you at least admit that calling a mom a ‘birthing person’ could be offensive . . . that they don’t want to get a ‘Happy birthing person card’ in May? Can you at least admit that term itself could be offensive to some moms?”
- This waste of time discussion came after another Biden official, at yet another Congressional hearing, said that Biden’s budget proposal’s use of the words “birthing people” is more inclusive and equitable: “There are certain people who do not have gender identities that apply to female and male, so we think our language needs to be more inclusive on how we deal with complex issues. Our official policy is to make sure that when people get service from their government that they feel included, and we’re trying to use inclusive language.”
My gosh, to use a well known cliche, these people, from government bureaucrats to Congress people in Congressional hearings are rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic as the boat sinks. Given all of the crises going on in the world today, this is what is taking up time and resources in Washington. Who knows what their next inane adventure might be, outlaw Mother’s Day and replace it with “Birthing People Day?”
3) One of the most basic, basic functions of any government entity should be to protect the lives and property of the citizens that the entity governs. If a government entity cannot do that well it is immaterial whatever else it does well if it cannot protect citizens lives.
For some crazy reason, mostly Democratically run cities decided that it was a good idea to take funding away from the city police departments and replace some police functions with “counselors” to defuse and control crime. Not surprisingly, the cities that executed such nonsense, e.g. Minneapolis, NYC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, etc., have seen a dramatic rise in violent crime in their cities.
Now, recent research has shown how stupid the politicians in those cities were in actually knee jerk reacting to radical elements in their cities and reduced the funding and strength of their police departments:
- A justification for defunding the police is that young, minority citizens were being slaughtered by out of control police departments.
- But research by Ronald J. Allen, a law professor at Northwestern University, has proven how wrong and how deadly that false assumption is.
- Specifically: “there is indeed a slaughter going on, but not at the hands of the police.”
- Allen found that about 1,000 people are killed by police forces each year, a number that has stayed basically constant over the years, not gotten any better or worse.
- In reality and in contrast to the defund the police rhetoric, more white people are killed by police every year despite having much fewer interactions with police.
- In addition, the total number of homicides in the country varied between 15,000 and 17,000 from 2015 to 2019 but jumped over 20,000 in 2020, the beginning of the defund the police movement.
- Allen found data that shows that any reduction in police enforcement results in an almost immediate increase in violent crimes: “For example, the number of murders [in Chicago] increased from 480 in 2015 to 754 in 2016. Controlling for numerous variables, they determined: ‘Because of fewer stops in 2016, it appears that (conservatively calculating) approximately 245 additional victims were killed and 1,108 additional shootings occurred in that year alone.’”
That will do it for today: more conflict of interest and self greed from Pelosi, the Biden administration plays semantics while other crises go unattended, and defund the police means more violence and death.
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