There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, and ineffective government programs.
1)We recently ran two posts on the many failures of the Biden administration that continue to unfold, listing the following as a sample of his failures:
The disastrous and fatal withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Inflation that hit 40 year highs during his term.
Food prices that in total rose over 20% during his four year tenure.
The totally failed immigration policies that allowed millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to enter the country including criminal gang members, drug cartel members, sex traffickers, and ordinary criminals, all of whom endangered the lives and property of every American.
Losing the location of untold hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant kids that many likely ended up in the sex trade or sweatshops.
Adding trillions and trillions of dollars to the national debt with no improvement in the lives of ordinary Americans as a result of this out of control government spending.
Failure to even try to engage with Russia to end the Russian/Ukrainian war.
The first of those two consecutive posts can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ever-growing-list-of-biden-failures.html
But it seems he is facing another shortfall failure even though he is an ex-President and has been out of office for over eight months:
After leaving office, most former Presidents go on a fund raising speech tour to raise money to build their Presidential library, which in my opinion, is a total waste of money.
As the Obama library takes form in Chicago, we have discussed the fact that it will cost over $800 million to build his monstrosity, money that could have been much better used to improve society rather than improve a former President’s ego and self worth.
At least Obama was able to raise the money for his library, Biden is having a very difficult time in raising a fraction of that amount.
Wealthy Democratic donors have so far mostly shunned requests for funding of Biden’s library even though he is hoping for a fraction of Obama’s library cost, hoping for only $200 to $300 million.
Despite a 13 person fund raising board, the money is just not flowing in.
One heavy Democratic donor and supporter told NBC the following: “No way. I just don’t see that’s where I’m going to spend my money.”
John Morgan, a Florida lawyer who apparently has a history of generous donations to Democrats, having donated $800,000 to the Biden reelection campaign, was much crueler in his assessment of the Biden library effort according to NBC News: “I want an $800,000 refund. I don’t believe a library will ever be built unless it’s a bookmobile from the old days.”
Bookmobile? Wow, that is heartless. But apparently that is where a lot of former Biden backers and Democratic backers are, disappointed that they supported a President whose staff shielded the donors and the voters from the failing cognitive state of Biden, someone who did not accomplish what his donors were promised.
Thus, to the many other failures of the Biden administration, we can add failure to generate any kind of momentum and funding for his Presidential library, a symbolic rendering of his failed time in office.
2)There have been a lot of public protests over the past number of years where Americans were supposedly exercising their First Amendment rights. And fortunately, many of those protesting were legitimately exercising their Constitutional rights, rights that make America great and free.
But a troubling trend has developed which questions the intentions of those doing the protests:
Adam Scott is the CEO of a company called “Crowds On Demand.”
As you would expect from the name, his company hires people to show up at your protest who will wave signs, chant slogans, and do whatever else is necessary to ensure a good turnout and a good protest.
And apparently, business is good since according to Mr. Adams, recent business is up a whopping 400% lately.
Fake protesters can earn from $100 to $300 depending on weather, time of day, and where the protest is going down.
Adams claims his events are all “peaceful and persuasive” and “light hearted events.”
It's a free country and this is a legal, legitimate business function and enterprise. However, it makes you wonder about those people down on the corner: are they exercising their First Amendment rights for a cause they are passionate about or is it just another payday?
Given that the mainstream press are guilty of lies and false stories, no surprise that this might be just another take on the lies and false story political narrative.
3)The following story, as reported by CWBChicago and the Western Journal, proves once again that you can never underestimate the stupidity and dysfunction of many members of the American political class, with this story being both hysterical in its incompetence and the tragic ending this incompetence caused:
J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois.
Obviously, Chicago, Illinois is within his realm of responsibility and as we all know, Chicago has for a long time been the murder capital of the country with hundreds and hundreds of murders within the city every year.
Trump has offered/threatened to send National Guard troops into the city to try and get the lawlessness, violence, and murders under control, a move that Pritzker is vehemently against.
One suspects that if Trump is able to tame the violence that Pritzker cannot than Pritzker’s pipe dream of becoming President takes a major hit of ineptness and he would rather expose his citizens to violence than look weak on the national stage.
In place of help from D.C., he has hyped his so-called “Peacekeeper” program where non-law enforcement people would be deployed to defuse criminal situations rather than actually trained police officers.
To support his program, Pritzker was recently photographed with a number of Peacekeeper personnel including a gentleman named Kellen McMillan, a Peacekeeper who was supposed to be part of a program hyped to be “an innovation incubator for the field of gun violence prevention.”
Specifically: “It’s folks like these that we need more of doing the hard work of community violence prevention, not troops on the ground to undermine efforts fighting crime,” Pritzker said in a post on the social media platform X.
However, just days after the one-on-one picture was taken with the governor and pasted on the governor’s social media sources, Mr. Kellen McMillan was arrested and was allegedly part of a seven man criminal operation.
This criminal enterprise rammed a truck into a Louis Vuitton storefront in Chicago, made off with a stash of high priced goods from the store, and escaped in different vehicles, one of which had an accident and killed an innocent Chicago resident, Mark Arceta.
It was Mr. Arceta’s last day of work before going on paternity leave.
His son was born the day after his death at the hands of this criminal action.
McMillan and others were charged with forcible felony, burglary, and felony theft.
The picture of the governor and McMillan was quickly taken off of his social media accounts.
To make matters even more embarrassing, McMillan allegedly had active criminal warrants out for his arrest in Florida, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
So let’s review: the governor does not want to take free help from the Federal government to help control crime and save lives in one of his cities. He hires a person to be part of his “Peacekeeper” program, a program that he thinks will reduce crime and violence in the city in a peaceful manner without the help of trained police officers. One of his first recruits to become a Peacekeeper is actually part of a violent criminal gang that violently robs a high end store, gets in a police chase which ends up killing another innocent Chicago resident.
Oh, and for good measure, this Peacekeeper is allegedly wanted for criminal activity in three other states. Just when you thought an American politician could not get any worse or any more inept, this scenario comes along, a tragic scenario that resulted in another unjust Chicago resident death.
Did Pritzker’s staff not screen this guy via a background check? If you go for a job in just about any industry anywhere they will do a background check. But apparently that was not done in this case for the Peacekeeper mission. Or if it was done, it was a failure.
Enough for today” total and fatal incompetence in the Illinois governor mansion, fake protesters are now an industry, and Joe cannot find any friends to help him out.
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If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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