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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

More Voting Process Fraud and Incompetence - Part 2

After the Presidential election in 2020. It became obvious that there was a lot of incompetence, corruption, and likely criminal activity that tainted and invalidated the Presidential election results. As a result, we were stuck with Joe Biden as President for four years, a Presidency that turned out to be the worst Presidential administration in a long time, knocking the Carter administration out of the first place for the worst Presidency in the past 100 years or so.

Immediately after the election we started a series of posts that documented the dozens and dozens of instances in various forms that corrupted the election:

Videos of election poll workers counting bogus ballots.
Videos of people bringing cases of fake ballots into polling places in the middle of the night.
People confessing to voting more than once in the election.
Non-citizens and non-registered citizens casting votes.
Questionable voting machine shenanigans.
People confessing to corrupting the voting process in various ways.
Statistical analysis that showed there was no way that Biden got the voting volumes that was claimed.

The first post in that series can be accessed at the following link:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2020/11/election-2020-part-1-first-invalid.html

Over the following years we revisited the corruption and criminal abuse of the voting processes many times. Despite the voting problems, the politicians around the country never fixed one of the most important factors in our democracy and a basic tenet of our freedom.

Today is another post in a series of voting problems that prove that our voting processes could be as bad as ever and if true our democracy is in serious danger. The first post in this new series can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/11/more-voting-process-incompetence-and.html

1)Ground zero for the major voting corruption in the 2020 Presidential election was in the state of Michigan. The number of different ways that the state’s election results were corrupted is long and disgusting. But it is looking like we may finally get the details on the voting that took place in Michigan and once and for all either prove that voting crimes were committed or the voting processes were squeaky clean:

A private citizen named Yehuda Miller has successfully fought through the court system via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and was finally able to obtain copies or originals of every piece of voting documentation that exists for the city of Detroit and its host county, Wayne County.
This haul of voting records adds up to almost a million documents.
For years, members of the government and political class blocked access to these documents even though they continually claimed that there was no corruption of the voting process.
The documents include absentee ballots, absentee ballot applications, computer files, voting poll books, and tally tapes.
A team of independent investigators is currently analyzing and going through the nearly one million documents to see, once and for all, if the city and county voting processes were corrupted and tainted.

It took over five years and lots of resistance from the establishment but hopefully the real answers to the election can finally be made public and, if necessary, prosecute those that corrupted the process and violated Michigan citizens’ First Amendment rights.

2)Let’s drop down to Texas from Michigan:

Nine people were recently indicted in a voter fraud case in Texas.
The grand jury indicted these nine for alleged ballot harvesting, an act that is not legal in the state.
The arrest of these nine people brings the total number of arrests in this situation to 15.
Even a sitting judge was arrested for three counts of illegal ballot harvesting related to her 2022 primary campaign.
The judge’s sister was also arrested.

An example that shows voting fraud and corruption is not restricted to Presidential elections.

3)Out to California and we get the following legal battle about voting records and voting corruption:

Apparently the Justice Department has asked for voting records from the Orange County government in California.
This request is within the boundaries of legality within the Voting Rights Act and Help America Vote Act.
The request was triggered by a noncitizen immigrant who received a voter registration in the mail addressed to him which should not have happened since he was a noncitizen.
Despite the laws and despite this obvious voting registration screw up, the county voter registrar is refusing to comply with Federal law.
The Justice Department wants to make sure that this was a one time fluke and not a systematic way to allow noncitizens to vote in California, certainly a reasonable request.

The refusal to comply, of course, raises the issue: was the honest noncitizen who sounded the alarm on this voting irregularity just one of an untold number of non-citizens, and possibly illegal immigrants, that California is inviting to illegally vote? Seems that politicians in Orange County want to keep something a secret, given their non-compliance with the Justice Department request.

4)Okay, back to the tainted 2020 Presidential election:

Kash Patel, the FBI Director, recently announced that the FBI has turned over a report to Congress which alleges that China attempted to interfere in the 2020 Presidential election
According to Patel: “The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP. I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to [Senate Judiciary Committee] Chairman Grassley for further review.”
The concerns involve the Chinese Communist Party creating fake U.S. citizen’s drivers licenses in order to use bogus mail ballots in support of Biden.
These fake licenses were sent to Chinese residents living in thai country so that they could illegally vote.
These FBI files are in direct conflict with the testimony that former FBI Director, Chris Wray, gave to Congress where he testified under oath there were no known plots of foreign interference in the election.
It now appears that five years ago, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency actually intercepted almost 20,000 fake licenses, lending credence to the theory that the Chinese tried to illegally influence the election and the FBI at that time did nothing to verify or nullify the claim.

At one time the FBI was a highly regarded part of the Federal government. That perception has fallen so far down the scale of integrity over the past decade or so and this is just another example of his bias and corruption.

Enough voting shenanigans for today: the Chinese were possibly involved, California says no to Federal voting laws and requests, Texas cracks down on voting fraud, and Michigan finally comes clean with the records they tied so desperately to hide.

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

January, 2025, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: Chicago and Illinois Take The Lead In The Race To Bankruptcy Court

Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country.

Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.

1)So, so many times we have discussed the real possibility that a major city government or a state government will go bankrupt. The city or state politicians in charge spend too much taxpayer wealth, very often on failed programs and projects, which requires them to raise tax rates which drives residents and businesses out of state which reduces the tax base and the financial death spiral is underway.

Our favorite state governments to go bankrupt first include California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. All of these states have seen a steady stream of residents and businesses leaving these states and going to states with lower tax burdens, lower regulatory hassles, and better quality of life.

And our theory of most likely state bankruptcy candidates has not changed given the latest analysis from the Tax Foundation. The analysis puts together the current corporate tax, income tax, sales tax, property tax, and other tax burdens imposed by each state government.

According to the analysis for 2025, three of our states identified above have the highest overall/least desirable tax burden on their residents and businesses: New York (50th), New Jersey (49th) and California (48th). In other words, three of the four states we think are most likely to go bankrupt are the three states with the worst and highest tax burden on their residents and businesses. Only Illinois (37th) was not near the bottom when it comes to highest tax burden.

It is probably not a coincidence that these states are losing many, many residents and businesses according to Census data. And it is not hard to figure out why: why work hard to earn money and then have a whole lot of it go to the state government while other states such as Florida allow you to keep much more of your earnings.

And given that politicians in these states typically do not understand this basic drive to keep what you earn, they rarely reduce state government spending to reflect the smaller tax base. Reduced tax revenue and continued high spending will eventually get a state government into bankruptcy court.

2)But the possibility of government bankruptcy is not restricted to state governments. We often fluctuate on what major U.S, city we think will go bankrupt first and our top candidates include Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and to a lesser extent, Portland or Seattle.

But given the latest budget and financial situation, it looks like Chicago may have taken the lead in the race to bankruptcy court:

Chicago’s politicians in the past have provided municipal employees and their unions with very, very generous retirement benefits, courtesy of the city’s residents and businesses’ high tax burden.
Now according to the Civic Federation, the city is facing a $982.4 million projected budget deficit.
This is not their overall budget, it is the additional funds they need to have their spending match their tax revenue.
The mayor, Brandon Johnson, did what most politicians always do when faced with a budget shortfall, try to raise taxes, rather than get government spending under control.
He wanted to raise city property taxes by $300 million but the city council voided that idea.
A whopping 42% of the city tax revenue stream goes to just funding the city’s retirement benefits and bondholder debt service.
Thus, before a penny is present on serving the citizens of Chicago for better schools, better police and fire protection, better social programs, etc., almost half of the tax revenue is spent on items that do not affect anyone living and working in the city except cit employee retirees and those that loaned money to the city.
On average, city employees retiring after 35 years of service with a final salary of $75,000 retire with an annual pension and health benefits plan worth $77,000 which helps to explain why many, many employees retire before they are 60 years old, it is more lucrative to retire than continue to work.
And while retirees are living very well, and probably no longer living in the city, the city police force has 1,600 fewer officers than it had in 2018 and 49% of 911 calls in the city go unanswered as city services are cut to feed the pension benefits and debt servicing expenses.

Bad, bad financial news for the current budget fiasco in the city government. But things are not going to get much better going forward either:

The pension and debt servicing costs are highly likely to go up over time as more city employees retire and the city continues to try and service its debt load.
The taxpayers and government of Chicago owe bondholders almost $29 billion, there are $35 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, and almost $2 billion in unfunded retiree health benefits.
Oh, and let’s not forget the $14 billion in unfunded benefits promised to Chicago teachers.

Unfunded liabilities in the tens of billions, unfunded debt servicing liabilities in the tens of billions of dollars, current budget shortfalls, deteriorating city services because of not enough funds to properly staff and fund them, is it no surprise that companies and residents are fleeing the city.

Thus, you can see our position that maybe Chicago is now the clear city among the country’s big cities that will get to the bankruptcy courthouse first as their death spiral is clearly underway:

Chicago politicians over time have given lucrative retirement benefits to city employees that they will not have to worry about down the road.
And the city then incurred a load of debt to try to pay for the benefits and city services.
Which required taxes to be raised and city services to be cut.
Which drove off residents and businesses.
Which reduced the tax base.
Which required more tax raises and more cuts to city services and the vicious cycle is now in play.

Nasty stuff and really, bankruptcy might be the only option for the city in order to void its pension and bond problems, much like Detroit had to do.

3)And while the city of Chicago has serious, perhaps fatal financial difficulties, it probably can't expect much help form the Illinois state government or state taxpayers, given their dire financial situation:

According to the Illinois Policy Institute, the Illions state government has a whopping pension debt for state employees of almost $144 billion, up from $142 billion in just one year.
The reasons for the high state debt could be the reality that over 140,000 retired Illinois state workers are getting over $100,000 a year in pension and health benefits.
Back in 1994, the state government pension deficit was $17 billion.
Thus, over the past 30 years the state political class has allowed the pension deficit to grow by over eightfold.

As big companies, e.g. Boeing, Tyson Foods, and Citadel, along with smaller businesses and residents flee the city and the state, it could be that both Illionios and Chicago are the most likely to beat their peers to the steps of the bankruptcy court.

Enough for today, a post that became a referral piece on what state and city will go into bankruptcy first. It is going to happen and the financial pain and quality of life downsides for every citizen in those states and cities will be dramatically bad.

Just ask the residents of Stockton, California and Detroit, cities that have actually gone bankrupt and the sacrifices and hard decisions that had to be made to fix what their politicians broke.

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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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