May, 2020, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: The Sad, Sad Decline Of Joe Biden and How Dangerous That Is For The Country

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

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.

Today’s insanity is completely attributed to Joe Biden. As we have said in the past, everyone stumbles over their words once in a while, saying stuff that they did not mean. However, Biden has made an art of saying insane, stupid, and inappropriate things at inappropriate times. 

We have also said we feel sorry for him. Given his cognitive decline due to whatever causes, the fact that Democratic Party powers continue to put him up front in their bid to take over the White House is a form of elder abuse. It is our non-medical opinion, based on experiences with our family, that he needs medical help and support and to put him out there continuously where he constantly makes a fool of himself is sad and despicable.

1) There is little doubt that the leaders of the Palestinian government will not rest until Israel is wiped off the face of the Earth. In the past couple of years we have seen them divert humanitarian aid from their own people to make underground tunnels that they had hoped to use to invade Israel and bring death and destruction to Israelis. We have seen them launch extensive fire bombing attacks to try to burn Israel to the ground. Any rational person can see that the future of Israel and the health of its citizens is under attack by the Palestinian leadership and terror groups.

But apparently none of that bothers Biden:

• Speaking to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency recently, Biden promised that if elected president, he would start sending financial aid to the Palestinians.
• This would reverse a Trump policy which correctly identified the Palestinian leadership as terrorists and cut off aid, aid that was used to attack Israel.
• Specifically: “A priority now for the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace should be resuming our dialogue with the Palestinians and pressing Israel not to take actions that make a two-state solution impossible. I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, find a way to reopen the PLO’s diplomatic mission in Washington, and resume the decades-long economic and security assistance efforts to the Palestinians that the Trump Administration stopped.”
• These funds were withheld under the Taylor Force Act, named after a U.S. citizen that was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in March, 2016.
• But Biden’s distaste for Israel goes back decades including the time he threatened to cut off aid to Israel if they keep building settlements.

Even if you agree with Biden, consider this reality: Millions of Americans have lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus crisis, millions of Americans are homeless, hungry or drug addicted in this country, millions of American kids go to substandard schools, etc. But Biden would rather send U.S. taxpayer wealth to a terror organization halfway around the world than use that money to help Americans in need. Insane.

2) And it is not like Biden has a huge success record in foreign affairs, be it in the Middle East or elsewhere:

• Robert Gates was a Secretary of Defense during the Obama/Biden years.
• In a recent TV interview Gates said that while Biden was a nice guy, he was usually wrong when it came to foreign policy.
• When asked if Biden would be a good President, he said “I don't know,” hardly a ringing endorsement from a fellow Obama administration peer.
• In fact, he said Biden has been wrong for decades in the foreign affairs arena.
• The best he could offer is that he knew he could lean on Biden if he was experiencing a personal crisis, hardly a trait critical to managing foreign policy.

A weak assessment of a former peer, not one to build confidence for a Presidency.

3) We have often pointed out how important a free press and journalistic integrity is in a democracy. A free, aggressive, and unbiased press is critical to protect our liberties and expose corruption of all sorts by those in power.

Unfortunately, those in the journalism profession today for the most part have lost their integrity, unbiasedness, and morals when it comes to truthful reporting. They are almost always slanting the truth, distorting reality, ignoring facts that run counter to their personal or corporate positions, and generally propagating fake news, be it for career advancement or TV ratings.

This unfortunate and dangerous trend was recently demonstrated by a leader within the journalism industry in this country:

• Politico is an online news source that has a long history of favoring liberals and Democrats regardless of the need to be unbiased.
• This observation was further confirmed when Politico founder, Martin Tolchin, recently proclaimed in a letter to the New York Times that the sexual accusation of Tara Reade against Joe Biden needs to be ignored since it may endanger Biden’s run for the Presidency.
• This position was taken despite liberals and Democrats view during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings that the very same type of charges need to be thoroughly investigated, that Kavanaugh should be held guilty until he proves his innocence, in the light of what turned out to be false and fairy tale accusations of sexual assault.
• Rather than not be a liberal hypocrite, he said he wants the Reade charges totally ignored in order to support a “coronation” of Joe Biden as President.
• He goes so far to say that Biden would never be a great President, that he would be “good enough.”
• As long as Trump was not reelected, Tolchin, is fine with a subpar President (Biden) even if it means being a hypocrite to the nth degree and ignoring Tara Reade’s very credible sexual assault accusations.

The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Screw the potential reality that a woman was sexually assaulted, we need to throw out our principles in order to prevent a Trump election win. You know for sure that if Reade had accused Trump, Tolchin would be one of the first people in line calling for an extensive investigation of that accusation. 

But Reade’s alleged experience is so inconvenient for liberals like him, that he is willing to throw away the precedent people like him set with Kavanaugh for purely political reasons. Certainly a lack of morals, integrity, and unbiasedness, all of which is the pervading mindset in the news and journalism industry today.

4) To add to the untold number of other gaffes and missteps he has taken over the past few months, consider what Biden said during a recent interview regarding America's place in the world: “I would get much more engaged in the world, we can’t step back. If in fact, for example, we solve the problem in the United States of America and you don’t solve it in other parts of the world, you know what’s going to happen? You’re going to have travel bans, you’re going to not be able to do, have economic intercourse [my emphasis] around the world. There’s a lot, look, when America goes alone, when America is first, it’s America alone.”

In total, the statement is kind of garbled and says nothing. But what in the world is “economic intercourse?” Again, an occasional misspeak is only human. But he continues to misspeak in just about every interview with “economic intercourse” either a Freudian slip or a concept that no one in the world knows what he is talking about, probably including himself.

5) See if you can figure out his response when during a CBS interview he was asked if his son’s dealing with China would be dangerous to his campaign: "My son's business dealings [in China] were not anything what everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one." Huh? Nonsensical.

6) One last Biden bit for today and this one is quite sad, it reinforces our opinion that putting him up in front of the press and the country is a form of elder abuse. During a recent morning interview on MSNBC by Mika Brzezinski, he was asked about Tara Reade’s accusations that he digitally penetrated her when she worked in his Senate office and whether he would release any of his government records to see if there was any validity to her claims:

• Brzezinski asked: “Are you certain there was nothing about Tara Reade in those records? … Why not approve a search of her name in those records?” 
• Biden said that there is nothing in those records and that they did not contain personnel files.
• She then asked if Biden would allow a much more focused and narrow search of the records, searching only for Reade’s name to which he replied…. Nothing, simply 15 seconds of silent, dead air in which he looked confused, befuddled and totally out of touch with reality.

It was a sad, sad sight, an elderly man being put on the spot with a fair question and he completely loses any sense where he was or what to say. The exchange can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-left-dumbfounded-15-disastrously-awkward-seconds-unable-answer-tara-reade-question/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=flagandcross-newsletter&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=firefly

It is so sad that his cognitive abilities have deteriorated so much, that he has trouble forming coherent sentences and responding to quite straightforward questions. That he has reacted violently and aggressively to those that have a different opinion than his. 

And again, it is a form of elder abuse to keep putting him through the ringer of running for President. He should be getting help and support to get him through his troubles, not paraded around as a placeholder because liberals hate Trump so much.

But I don't want someone in the White House who is as clueless and out of touch as Biden has presented himself to be regardless of what I think of Trump. Biden is too dangerous to be President and make Presidential decisions or be President and have unknown sources behind the scenes make decisions for him, not accountable to the American voter.

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March, 2017, Political Class Insanity, Part 1: Chelsea Is Out Of Touch, Starving In Venezuela, Another Social Security Scandal and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us. 

Today and for all of the insanity posts this month, let’s start off with a welcome piece of honest political dialog. It comes from a State Department spokesperson. Mark Toner, who is about to start the daily State Department press briefing. In a joking matter, he makes the following quote: "Welcome to the State Department. I think we have some interns in the back. Welcome. Good to see you in this exercise in transparency and democracy." 

He then burst out laughing at his own quote, indicating he also knew what a joke the Obama administration has been, especially Mr. Toner’s State Department, when it comes to cover ups, lack of transparency, denial of Freedom of Information Act requests, the prosecution of whistleblowers, etc. But at least it was a little refreshing to finally hear some actual honesty out of Washington as we see from the actual clip of the news conference:

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2016/08/when-even-the-state-department-spokesperson-cant-keep-a-straight-face-about-things-anymore-video/

With that context of honesty, let’s see what other insanity has been going down:

1) Over the past couple of days we discussed the situation that government debt, at all levels of government in this country, is growing dangerously high. As we discussed many times in this blog, one reason for the runaway spending is the massive amount of fraud, crime, and inefficiencies of the Federal government spending programs. That bad reality was again demonstrated by a recent article by Elizabeth Harrington, writing for the Washington Free Beacon on February 22, 2017:

• According to the inspector general of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the SSA incorrectly paid out $1 billion to people who did not have a Social Security number.
• Let that sink in for a few minutes: people without a Social Security number actually got payments totalling $1 billion from the SSA, insane.
• The $1 billion improperly went to 22,426 of people without Social Security numbers.
• The inspector general concluded that: “Furthermore, unless it takes corrective action, we estimate SSA will pay about $182.5 million in benefits, annually, to representative payees who do not have an SSN or paper application supporting their selection.” 
• These payments were made to people who served as representatives of people who did not have the ability to apply for SSA disability benefits on their own but the inspector general found that the SSA paid $853.1 million in benefits since 2004 to individuals who had been terminated as representative payees by the SSA.
• SSA benefits were also paid to illegal immigrants through this representative system.

$1 billion paid out for no reason, just a small brick in the $20 TRILLION national debt.

2) According to an ongoing Gallup poll, the credibility of the mainstream press has been deteriorating for a long time,with currently only about one in three Americans trusting the mainstream press. I would bet that recent comments by Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC is not going to turn that trend around any time soon. On a recent episode of her morning news show she claimed that controlling “exactly what people think” is the job of the media. 

I always thought it was the job of the media to present facts and reality as honestly as possible and let citizens make their own assessment and develop their own thoughts and positions based on unbiased news reports. I never thought, and I would bet that most Americans do not want their thoughts controlled by large mass media corporations. Specifically her words were: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he [Trump] is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he [Trump] could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job." 

She sounds a little jealous, doesn’t she, “that is our job.” How dare the President try to get his message out to the people, i.e. explain his reasons for his actions. In her mind, it is the job of the media to tell you what you need to know and how to think. In the Soviet Union, with its Tass news agency and Pravda, maybe she would be right, but in America the purpose of the press should be to inform people, not form opinions for people. How insulting and how typical.

The video of her remarks can be seen at:

https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think

3) Liberals and Democrats are constantly looking for ways to expand government’s involvement and interference in our lives “for our own good.” This results in higher taxes and less freedom, an extreme example of which is playing out in Venezuela. There, a socialist government has taken over most aspects of citizens lives with dire, dire consequences, of which the following details from an Associated Press report show:

• The government in that country has screwed things up so bad that the basic necessity of basic food is now difficult to obtain.
• A new nationwide study across Venezuela has found that 75% of the population has lost an average of 19 pounds over the past year due to the lack of food.
• And the poorer you are, the more weight you are likely to have lost.
• The 2016 Living Conditions Survey was conducted with 6,500 families.
• The study also found that 32.5% of those surveyed eat meals only one to two times a day, up threefold from the same survey results done last year when that figure was only 11.3%.
• Despite having the potential for high living conditions, given the country’s access to vast oil reserves, 82% of the country lives in poverty.
• Government interference in the market has also caused shortages of all consumer goods, vital medicines, and the currency as lost 80% of its value in just the past year.
• 93.3% of those surveyed said that their family income is not enough to cover their food needs, resulting in far less meat being eaten which has been replaced by food types like potatoes.
• 65% admitted keeping children at home because of food-related reasons — including filling in for their parents in the long food lines.
• Government policies has caused inflation to be about 700% in the past year.

The wonders of socialism and allowing politicians to dictate all aspects of your life, you know they will screw it up and Venezuela is an extreme but instructive case.

4) Washington politicians have shown time and time again how out of touch they are with reality. They live among themselves, rarely dealing with real live constituents outside of the Beltway, they are almost always rich, earning more than three times the median household income so they are able to send their kids to private schools with other rich politicians' kids and hang out with other rich people, both inside and outside of politics, so they never really get to experience reality. From George Bush long ago not knowing that bar scanners rang up your groceries in a supermarket to Hillary Clinton having no idea that should would lose states in the past Presidential election that she was positive she would win, being out of touch is a politician trademark.

And apparently politicians’ kids are not much better dealing with reality. Consider the recent idiocy spouted by Chelsea Clinton. She recently stated that it was “horrifying” that U.S. customs agents had recently deported an illegal immigrant that had been arrested seven times. This illegal immigrant’s background included the following aspects, as reported by Brian Anderson of the Downtrend website on February 16, 2017:

• The female illegal immigrant had been deported six times previously and had returned to Mexico once voluntarily.
• Customs agents received information that the female was back in the country and was someone who had recently been sentenced to 12 months in jail for possession of stolen mail and illegal entry into the country.
• In addition, the female had an alleged criminal history that includes convictions for false imprisonment and probation violations in 2013, assault, probation violation and domestic violence in 2011 and false imprisonment-minor-parental in 2010.
• So for at least six years, the U.S. taxpayer has been paying for law enforcement, court, and prison costs for this illegal immigrant who has left and illegally reentered the country at least seven times.
• If this is not a logical, common sense, textbook case of someone that we do not want or need in this country, this is the example. Unless you are Chelsea Clinton, who tweeted out the following message of her personal disgust with this situation: “I need a thesaurus. What’s another word for horrifying? Sick? Awful? Running out of adjectives these days that mean unconscionably terrible.” 
• Is it because this illegal immigrant is a transexual individual that Chelsea thinks she should be exempt from current laws? That this person’s criminal history, which includes the serious crime of false imprisonment, does not matter and our immigration laws should not apply because she is a transsexual? That we should spend limited taxpayer money on handling this illegal individual, depriving Americans who are homeless, hungry, and drug addicted the extra care and extra support they need and could get if we did not have to spend so many resources deporting or imprisoning a criminal so many times, even if she was a transexual? So out of touch, so insane.

That will do it for today’s insanity, we are just getting warmed up, much more political class insanity to follow.

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