We have spent a lot of time recently talking about which city or state will go bankrupt first. That race to bankruptcy court seems to be accelerating as politicians in these vulnerable cities and states are starting to realize that their policies and ignorance are causing financial crises across the country.
However, we will step back from that theme for a few days since political class insanity in other areas has continued unabated and needs to be discussed and ridiculed.
1)We do not often talk about the state of Maryland from a political class insanity perspective but that is our lead piece of insanity today. But first, consider:
Maryland has about 7,000 homeless folks in the state.
About 556,000 or 9.1% of the state residents are considered poor.
1,315 state residents died from drug overdoses in 2025.
State residents suffer from the 15th highest crime rate in the country.
The state government is facing a $1.5 billion budget shortfall.
Yes, there are some very important issues and crises facing Maryland residents that involve poverty, crime, and homelessness. But that did not stop state government politicians from devoting time, resources, and what little brain power they have on the following ridiculous issue:
A proposed legislation by Democratic Delegate Terri Hill, and co-sponsored by ten other Democrats, would require EVERY government/public building in the state to stock tampons and feminine hygiene products in public restrooms.
This requirement extends not just to women’s restrooms but also men’s restrooms.
EVERY restroom in every public/government building.
Further idiocy is that the proposed legislation explicitly makes it clear that the stocked tampons would have to be "appropriately sized tampons,” whatever that means.
When pressed, the sponsors of the legislation could not provide an estimate of what it would cost or what an appropriate sized tampon is.
Republican Delegate, Kathy Szeliga, saw the stupidity of this requirement when she questioned the sponsors of the legislation: "What are appropriately sized tampons?" I've never heard of such a thing. What do you consider appropriate?"
Kerr's inane answer: "Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom."
Then why was the language appropriately sized tampons put into the legislation?
But Szeliga was not done ripping this idea apart: "Even if they determine to shift some of the cost to the consumer, this still creates hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of administrative costs to put tampons in men's bathrooms – just for the administrative costs."
So the administrative costs would be hundreds of thousands of dollars which does not account for the cost of the actual tampons.
But Szeliga was not done: "Instead of tackling actual problems like out of control spending and other real problems, electric bills that people cannot afford, they pivot to nonsense like putting tampons in men's bathrooms."
Calling this proposed legislation nonsense is being kind. The state does not have enough tax money to fund its budget but these folks want to divert taxpayer money to put tampons in men’s restrooms. Maryland residents are struggling with high crime, high utility and gas costs, addiction problems, poverty, and homelessness and yet tampons in men’s rooms apparently are a higher priority for some of those sitting in the state government. True insanity.
2)Recently declassified intelligence documents reveal what has to be one of the most disgusting alleged money laundering schemes of the American political class:
During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars were sent to Ukraine, one of the most politically corrupt countries in the world, to help fight back the Russian invasion.
We have previously discussed the likely proof that upwards of half of that money never made it to the intended purposes and was corruptly siphoned off before ever helping to fight back the Russians.
If that was not bad enough, in late 2022, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted messages between Ukrainian officials.
Those messages discussed a scheme to take part of that taxpayer funding that Biden had sent them to fight the Russians and send it back to the United States to help fund Biden’s reelection campaign.
In other words, American taxpayers of all political leanings would be financing the Presidential campaign expenses of Democrat Joe Biden.
Director Of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has opened an investigation into whether the Ukrainian officials ever went through with their plan to redirect funds back to Biden.
According to the released documents: “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose.”
The funds would be funneled back into the Biden campaign using U.S. companies as subcontractors on the bogus infrastructure plan to make the money laundering even more difficult to track: “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”
Given that Biden was very generous in giving American taxpayer money to the Ukrainians, it is not surprising that a plan was discussed to get Biden four more years in office and continue to receive American tax dollars for their own benefit, personally and for the war effort.
Anyone who has followed the Biden crime family should not be surprised by this alleged and potential money laundering scheme. Also, previous work by the DOGE folks found that many times U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to fund NGO projects via USAID all over the world with some of that money eventually finding its way back to Democratic politicians in his country for their use. Disgusting disregard for taxpaying Americans.
3)A continuing theme in our blog is the discussion of what city or state will go bankrupt first. As these vulnerable cities and states constantly raise taxes and business regulation, businesses in these states leave for other states that have lower tax and regulation burdens, taking their taxable assets with them. Some of those recent discussions include the following posts:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-clueless.html
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-hochuls.html
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-seattle-and.html
California is one of those states rapidly heading to bankruptcy court. Many state based companies have already fled the state in total or moved major portions of their companies to other states for better economic and business opportunities: Toyota, Tesla, Chevron, Schwab, Oracle, Twitter/X, Palantir, Public Storage, In-N-Out, Valero, and thousands of other, smaller businesses.
And that out migration of businesses from the state continue:
Yamaha has decided to pull its headquarters out of California.
The company has been in California for almost 50 years.
They are moving across the country to Kennesaw, Georgia.
As reported by the California Globe: “Another large business is leaving California. Yamaha says Sayonara to Governor Gavin Newsom after 50 years in the once-Golden State…” and this exodus “is going to hurt Gov. Newsom who has had a lot of success chasing out hundreds to thousands of California businesses or subsidiaries, which fled to business-friendly red states including Jelly Belly, Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, and Toyota Motor North America.”
According to CBS News: “The company’s headquarters in Cypress, California, had been its home since 1979 after Yamaha acquired the land the year before….ATVs, boat engines, personal watercraft, and other motorized products had already moved its marine business to Kennesaw in 1999 and its motorsports business in 2019.”
How is it possible that California's politicians, and the voters that continually elect them, do not understand basic economic concepts: a company will maximize its profits and thus, will look for ways to minimize its costs, expenses, taxes, and business overregulation. Every company that leaves the state takes employees and their taxable income with them. And it also reduces overall state economic growth since those exiting residents and businesses do not spend money on other state companies’ products and services (e.g. retail stores, pizza shops, movie theaters, etc.), further reducing the state tax base.
Enough insanity for today: more taxable assets leaving California, a possible government/Biden money laundering effort for the ages, and ridiculous Maryland politicians’ priorities.
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https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
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