May, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 1 - Mamdani's Horrible Budget Priorities, Delaware Leaking Corporations, Another Failed Obama Green Boondoggle, and More

 We have spent a lot of recent posts discussing the race  to bankruptcy court that many state and city governments are involved in and the massive and disturbing fraud that has infested just about every  government program, stealing billions and billions of taxpayer dollars. However, the ongoing stupidity, ignorance, and greed of the American political class has continued unabated and we will try to bring readers up-to-date on what they are screwing up now:

1)David Rivera is a former Florida Congressman that is now going to prison:

• He is the son of Cuban exiles who  was elected  to Congress in 2010 but only served one two year term.

• He did not get reelected partly as a result of ethics probes and possibly misusing campaign funds.

• But for another reason altogether, a Miami Federal jury recently convicted him and a political  consultant, Esther Nuhfer  “on  charges of failing to register as foreign agents when they lobbied major politicians in  a scheme to  ‘normalize relations with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after Rivera had signed a $50 million  contract with the American arm of Venezuela's  national  oil  company.”

• The two were guilty of violating Federal foreign agent registration  laws.

• According to the  FBI’s  Miami office A federal jury in Miami found a former U.S. Congressman David Rivera guilty of secretly lobbying on behalf of the Venezuelan government and laundering millions of dollars tied to that work, in violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.”

• He faces  up to 60 years in Federal prison  for his greed.

It is refreshing to finally see one person from the American political class go to  prison for violating the law, hopefully many more will follow, also for their own blatant violation of  the law, always thinking that the laws they pass do  not apply to  them.

2)We  have previously discussed the plight in the state of Delaware regarding the Delaware Court of Chancery:

• For a very long time, many businesses incorporated their business in the state of Delaware because of the Court of Chancery.

• The  reason for favoring Delaware to incorporate was that the Chancery Court had a long  history of being favorable and fair to businesses  when it came to legal matters.

• It was so large that estimates say that 25-30% of the Delaware state government general budget comes from the court’s fees.

• But over the recent past, that reputation for being fair and reasonable for business dealings and lawsuits has become frayed, with many large  and small businesses leaving the state and incorporating in  more friendly business  environments  in other states.

• Obviously the  continued loss of incorporation business in the state is eventually going to cause some severe budget problems for the state government and taxpayers.

The pressure on that state budget revenue line just got a little  more stressed:

• Dell Technologies, they of the personal  computer business, recently left Delaware and re-incorporated in  Texas, a much  more business friendly state these days.

• Dell was founded in 1984 but 42 years later it is moving its incorporation basis to Texas.

• While the company said it was moving to Texas because that is where it was founded, it is part of a troubling trend for Delaware losing  another major, major corporate customer.

• In just the past 24 months, over 60 companies worth over $3 trillion in market value have left and re-incorporated elsewhere.

• Recently, tech firm  Samsara  with a market  cap value of $17 billion also left the Delaware Court of Chancery.

• Others who have left include Tesla, SpaceX, Coinbase, Roblox, Dropbox, Dillard's, and Simon Property Group.

• The court’s reputation for fairness and being business friendly was recently upended when famous lawyer and Harvard professor  emeritus, Alan Dershowitz, called the state’s court "one of the most corrupt in the nation."

While Delaware is not one of our  top states  to go bankrupt pretty soon, this situation  is characteristic of politicians in the  top candidates to  go bankrupt. People and  businesses want to  be free and treated fairly and when that does not happen they move to where they will be treated fairly and be allowed to keep  their hard earned wealth,  it is  not a  complex concept. 

The Court of Chancery is  a case in point and it will  very soon start hurting the average Delaware taxpayer to make up  for the  idiocy of the court and the ever growing shortfall  of revenue it  provides to the  state government  budget.

3)The city government  of New York City  is going broke.  Its current fiscal year budget planning is  over $5 billion short. Businesses and residents are packing up and  taking their  tax revenue with them to other states and cities. The mayor is  going around and insulting the very taxpayers he needs to stay put in the city to fund his  socialist/communist vision.

And despite this dire budget outlook:

• The Mamdani administration has set aside $500,000 to  support “community discussions” on  reparations for black New Yorkers.

• Not $500,000 to pay reparations, $500,000 just to discuss them despite the fact that no black  American living in the city has ever worked as a slave and no taxpayer in the city has ever owned slaves or a plantation.

• More than 24 organizations will each receive thousands and thousands of dollars to hold  "conversations to  discuss the  development of a reparations study”  and to  collect “input on the early development of  the  citywide,  Truth, Healing and  reconciliation  plan.”

• Refreshments will be served at  these discussions  and paid for by city taxpayers.

Talk  about political class insanity; first, pushing these types of non-essential expenses and  efforts while being short billions of dollars for the budget is financially  irresponsible. Mamadani  has refused to hire 5,000  additional  police officers that are needed to keep  citizens safe,  a basic function of any government  entity but will be serving tea and  crumpets to hold these nonsensical  discussions.

Second, if there really  is money  laying around  and nothing to  spend the money on  besides reparations,  why not take  that excess money and improve  the  education of black kids in the city?  That would be  a far better investment for the  black community,  helping  raise the education level and living standard of black families and their  kids as  opposed to a one  time payment of reparation for phantom slavery  affronts.

Third, it is a racist and probably illegal approach to the use  of taxpayer funds, you cannot do this type  of  race specific stuff without violating the Civil Rights Act.

But Mamdani’s insanity and  fixation on race is much more expensive than this $500,000. Budget wise, he wants $4.6 million for the Commission on  Racial Equity and another $5.6 million for the Office of Racial Equity. Over $10 million for something that never happened in the city:  slaves and plantations. Pathetic waste of taxpayer wealth  and  such bad priorities.

4)We have  always contended  and often proven  that man  made  climate change, or  its predecessor global warming, was a  myth. That did not stop people  like Obama from  spending billions upon billions of  dollars on  failed  global  warming initiatives (e.g. remember the Solyndra and Fisker debacles?).  Fortunately cooler  heads have finally prevailed  and  curtailed failed  and  ignorant global warming projects from  being paid for  by the taxpayers.

But, unfortunately, a global-warming  failure from the Obama era is still causing havoc with nature and environmental destruction:

• A taxpayer  backed “clean energy” solar plant was built out during the Obama era.

• The so-called Ivanpah Solar Power plant  was  designed to  use thousands of mirrors  to reflect  sunlight onto three towers, causing the reflected  sunlight to produce heat and electricity.

• The plant cost $2.2  billion of taxpayer wealth.

•  But newer technology almost immediately  made this solar farm  mirror technology obsolete and  both the Biden and Trump  administration tried to shut it down.

• However, California government  folks said no to shutting  it down, no matter how outdated  and inefficient  it is, since they still needed electricity.

• Even the Sierra Club, a fighter for the  environment, says the  project is both a "financial boondoggle and environment disaster” since it  kills "thousands of birds  and  tortoises” and  proves that “not all  renewable  technologies are created equal.”

• The mirrors  concentrate  so much  sunlight into beams that birds caught in the reflected  beams  catch  fire mid-flight, with  the  number of  birds  killed  every year totaling  in  the thousands.

• The construction  of the project bulldozed  a  whopping 4,000 acres of pristine  desert  land,  killing unknown  numbers of native tortoises.

• And yet this  "green" project still  needs  natural gas  to  boot up  every  morning,  and uses 60% more natural gas every day than originally forecast.

• Thus, this natural  energy project burns up to  30,000 metric tons of carbon  every year to get the plant started everyday, not a very eco-friendly situation.

Obama left office long  ago. Yet, his green energy legacy is  a disaster with this  solar project just one prime example; obsolete  technology, killing of birds and tortoises and  who  knows what other  living things, using dreaded carbon  based fuel to get the whole operation  going  everyday, and cost over $2 billion.  Another  disaster  from the  American  political  class.

Enough  insanity for today: a  felon of an ex-politician in Florida, now Delaware is  leaking business tax dollars,  Mamdani’s  horrible priorities in the face  of a $5 billion  budget deficit, and the Obama green agenda continues to be a disaster.

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Lies, Lies, Lies - From Covid To Global Warming To Iraq To Monica Lewinsky To Obama Care, Politicians Never Stop

 One topic we often  revisit is the age-old question: do  politicians lie because they actually think we are that stupid and believe their lies or do they actually believe their lies because they have no  concept  of reality and the real world?  I am afraid  it  is a question that likely cannot and will not ever be definitively answered.

However, one thing is certain: politicians lie. Which brings us to today’s discussion. We will review some of the  latest lies to come  out of politicians’ mouths and  government employees’ mouths but before we get to the latest lies, misgivings, and gaslighting, let’s quickly review some of the  classic politicians’ lies through the years:

1)One of the biggest government and political lie of all  times was the Warren Commission Report that asserted that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassinaiton of President John Kennedy. That a single gunman out foxed the entire Secret Service to assassinate the President. That the CIA was not involved even  though they were upset that Kennedy withdrew support from  their Bay of Pigs invasion. That the Mafia was not involved even  though the failure of the Bay of Pigs meant they could not reopen their lucrative Cuban casinos. That Jack Ruby was just an aggrieved citizen wanting to avenge Kenney’s death but that he had no mob tie-ins. 

2)George W. Bush justified the full  fledged invasion of Iraq because Sadaaam  Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. Despite the invasion, the billions of dollars in military costs, and the thousands and  thousands of  American  casualties, it turns out that Iraq had no functioning or viable weapons of mass destruction at its disposal. A big lie or totally incompetent intelligence gathering?  You decide.

3)One of the all time favorite political  lies that blew up pretty quickly was Bill Clinton’s assertion that: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," followed by "I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never". But he did have sexual  intercourse and he did lie about it.

4)Al Gore has always been a good source of  lies and or misinformation. A favorite self serving quote from him was, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” What a guy, full time job as a Senator while still  finding time to invent the Internet. And of course, we could probably do  days reviewing his global warming baloney such as the time in 2009 when he predicted that the North Pole may totally disappear in summertime and that this could begin within 5-7 years. 17 years later the North Pole is still pretty chill.

For a more comprehensive list of global warming/climate change  lies over the years from a bunch of "experts" and politicians,  go to the following link:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/10/some-more-major-government-and.html

5)Over a decade after it was implemented, Obama and his signature legislation failure, Obama Care, had a whole package of  lies for us:

• “If you like your current insurance plan, you can keep it.” A lie, 9.3 million Americans  lost access to their preferred health insurance plan and Politifact, a leftist fact checking organization, even named this lie as the “Lie of the Year” in  2013.

• “You can keep your doctor.” A lie, about 214,000 doctors opted out of accepting Obama Care insurance plans, probably forcing millions of Americans to find new doctors. Even CNN, a leftist “news” organization, called it a  lie. The Obama Care website eventually revised the wording,  dropping the “you can keep your doctor” misinformation.

• “Your insurance premiums will go down by $2,500.” A  lie, on average health insurance premiums  rose 60% in the  first four years of  the  program.

• “You will have more access to care.” A lie, with over 200,000 health  care providers opting out of Obama Care policies, hospital  emergency rooms continued to serve millions  of Americans in need.

• “Those with pre-existing conditions will be protected.” A lie, those that had  Obama Care policies were no more likely to  be  helped with pre-existing medical  costs or were more  likely to not die from pre-existing conditions.

Apparently, Obama Care was the  lie machine that just kept on giving.

6)One  of the kings when it comes to political  liars has been Joe Biden. During his recent administration he had more than a few whoppers  including these two big ones:

• “Look, folks, you know how many billionaires we have in America today? One thousand. You know what their average rate — tax rate — federal tax rate is? Federal tax rate is 8.5 percent. Raise your hand if you’d trade your tax rate for 8.5 percent. I’m serious. Think about this. There’d be $40 billion raised if they even pay 25 percent.” A lie, the wealthy on average pay at about a  25% rate on  average. In order to get to the 8% or so,  Biden had to  invent a new  and  incorrect way of assessing taxable levels.

• “Today, we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July [2022]  — 0%,”  A lie  or stupidity. In  fact,  the rate of  inflation had not changed  from June to July, it was the same in both  months but it was NOT zero in July. The year over year inflation rate was still very high.

In fact, Biden lied so much that we have  a dedicated post which outlined 38 of his biggest lies over time which can be accessed at:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2023/01/38-times-that-joe-biden-blatantly-lied.html

Okay  let’s take a look at some newest lies that our political processes and government agencies have  thrown at us over the recent past:

1)One of the more contemporary lies was from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the  mastermind for the shutdown of the country during Covid. First he told us that wearing a mask  would not make any difference relative to the virus. Then he said we should wear a mask and eventually he  said we should wear two masks to  combat the virus. From no masks to two masks,  and he was the so-called expert.

He also said that we should get the vaccine and if we did, the virus would stop with us, we would not get sick,  and that it would curtail the spread of the virus.  Well, it is pretty clear now that the virus did not stop with anyone.  Everyone who I know who got the vaccine and also the boosters got sick  multiple times. So much for the virus protecting us and stopping the spread.  

But new information is coming out that shows his whole schick with the virus was garbage  or one big lie:

• Reports have recently come out that Fauci privately agreed that “impressive data”  showed natural immunity, i.e. getting the virus and  recovering was better than getting the  vaccine shots that, as we  said  above, were quite ineffective in  preventing a  person from getting the  virus multiple  times.

• A huge and credible study from Israel showed stronger immunity from getting the infection than mandating everyone get vaccine shots.

• This  information, which  became public from a Freedom of Information Act action by the Protect the Public’s Trust, shows that supporting that everyone get a vaccine shot was  not justified  for millions  of healthy Americans.

• Specifically: “What does it say about our own institutions that, despite billions spent every year, Americans had to rely on Israeli research for their health information, and that our own officials tried to bury what didn’t fit their preferred narrative?” Protect the Public’s Trust, Director Michael Chamberlain told the DCNF. “There’s been a lot of handwringing about reforms and personnel actions by the new leadership at HHS, but this is just more evidence that the public health bureaucracy was ripe for a thorough housecleaning.”

• Furthermore: “This is the evidence right here showing that our nation’s scientific leaders were not acting scientifically, and there needs to be accountability,” said Stephanie Edewaard Weidle, executive director of Feds For Freedom, to the DCNF. “We in the medical freedom fighting world, we already knew this, but to see it spelled out in these FOIA documents just makes it worse. People lost their jobs, and their lives were turned upside down based on the argument that natural immunity was not enough.”

• Number wise, the Israeli study found  that those that had the virus and did not have a vaccine were a whopping 13 times more protected from a recurrence of the virus.

• And Fauci admitted the validity of the study and yet forced everyone to get vaccinated: “The data [in the Israeli study] as reported in the news article look rather impressive . . . . but I would imagine that it is more complicated than we think . . . . [I]t is conceivable and possibly likely that those who have had a serious systemic infection develop a high level of immunity that even surpasses that of full vaccination.”

• Other studies supported the Israeli findings with one study showing  that Covid antibodies  deteriorated at a far faster rate in those that had taken the vaccine vs  those that had  developed natural  immunity by  contracting the disease, 40% vs. less than 5%.

Thus, they lied. They had a very valid study that showed  most people were better  off getting Covid  immunity and  creating  natural immunity vs. getting the vaccine.  They sat on the  information and it was never made public for discussion and policy formulation. Not providing information is a form of lying and this is a prime example.

Keep in mind that people died as a result of getting the unnecessary vaccine, which caused heart problems under thousands of situations. Thus, those folks might be alive today if this information had been shared and debated.

Makes you wonder: why was this information not shared and debated and was

 Is it related to drug company lobbyists and money?

2)One persistent warning that Democrats  and liberals have  voiced for several decades now (see Al  Gore above) is that humanity was doomed by global warming unless drastic, expensive,  and  freedom shredding actions were taken. Those that disagreed with them  or pointed to studies that showed they were wrong, were branded as anti-science and ignorant fools.

But over time, it became clear that the global warming hysteria and predictions were not  going  to come true. Thus, the global warming movement  rebranded itself as  climate change  so that no matter  what happened, cooling or warming, they would be right.

But the global warming warnings of these politicians ran counter to what their  personal actions were:

• Barack  Obama owns a  multi-million dollar estate on the island of  Martha's  Vineyard  in the Atlantic Ocean. He has  been  a longtime advocate of  global  warming which would raise ocean  levels, flooding islands and  parts of the mainland United States.  If he really believed that then why would he own such an  expensive home and property that would be one of the  first  pieces of dry land to go under water if he really believed his global  warming hype?

• Same  thing with Al Gore,  the  supreme  global warming guru who owns beach front property in California,  property that would also get flooded if the ocean rose from global  warming..

• And to this list of alleged hypocrites is the former Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.

• She and her husband recently purchased an  $8 million mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in  Malibu, California, a town that sits right on the ocean.

• For years, according to a Washington Free Beacon article, Harris has preached about the danger of the “climate crisis” and how it  would raise the  levels of the oceans of the  world,  likely flooding Malibu.

• During the Biden/Harris administration, they issued a report and analysis that  predicted that Point Dune State Beach, a beach  very near the new Harris estate, would be severely damaged by sea level rises.

• As a Senator, she sponsored legislation that put aside $50 million a year to  combat ocean level rises which supposedly threatened "thousands of coastal  communities and economies.”

• Harris stated in 2019: “Our oceans are warming. Sea levels  are rising.”

• And yet she  bought a home  that was listed in the real estate listing as  being in a "prime coastal location.”

Are Obama, Gore, and Harris that stupid to buy expensive homes in areas that they claimed for decades  would be  overwhelmed with rising ocean  levels due to global  warming? Or was it all  just one big lie  to gain control  over our wealth, our freedom, and our lives.? Their actions speak for themselves, it was one of the biggest political lies of the  modern era.

3)But it is  not just politicians who lie, it is also the mainstream corporate news media that lies in  support  of  their favorite politicians and political  slants. The CBS news show, “60 Minutes,” was once a true journalism show. They would research issues, investigate those issues, and then report their findings and  reality in an  unbiased matter. 

But those days are long  gone. They are now just another corporate news media public relations  effort in support  of liberal and Democratic causes. This was blatantly illustrated when they interviewed Florida governor Ron Desantis during the Covid crisis. The “60 Minutes” "journalists" tried to paint Desantis as a political  hack  who prioritized Covid resources to the Publix supermarket  chain solely because that company had  contributed to his election campaign. 

The whole interview was sliced and diced to make it appear that way.  However,  when the  entire interview is watched,  it is obvious that this was not the case. Publix did not get preferential  treatment. But the objective of the CBS interviewer and CBS was to lie and paint a picture via creative editing that smeared a Republican governor.  Even local Democrats sided with Desantis and  said the edited interview that was shown on national TV was a sham.

And no matter how you cut it, editing reality to solely support your political leanings is a political lie. The  whole sham can be reviewed at the  following link:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-60-minutes-deceptively-edited-182555754.html

5)And  to conclude this post on political lies and  coverups, let’s revisit a previous post where we listed out 38 lies that spewed from Biden's mouth over the years. These covered a wide variety of topics and were easily verified as being untrue, a reality that never stopped Biden from putting out his next lie. All of which  brings back to the question we posed above: do politicians really believe the lies they spew or do  they think we are too stupid to see through them?

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2023/01/38-times-that-joe-biden-blatantly-lied.html

There you have it. Lies through the years about many topics, including global  warming,  climate change, Covid, vaccines, Obama Care, deceptive news footage editing, Biden’s athletic prowess, foreign affairs, sex scandals, etc. Lies that cost us  money, our health, and  many times  our lives.

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