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Saturday, July 18, 2026

July, 2026, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: Biden and His Minions Illegally Spied On Congress, Yet More Taxes In California, Bad Humane Priorities In Colorado and More

We have spent a lot of our recent posts about which state or city will go bankrupt first and the massive fraud that has been going on relative to government programs. But that does not mean that the potential class has not been up to its traditional incompetence, insanity, and screw ups. So, let’s catch up with the shenanigans that continue to plague the country:

1)Jack Smith is an attorney who was appointed as a Special Counsel to investigate the potential law violations associated with the January 6th riot. Unfortunately, while he was supposed to investigate potential law breaking incidents, it appears that he may have violated the law himself:

According to the RedState website, Smith was accused in late 2025 of violating Congressional members' privacy rights.
He allegedly got their phone records without court authorized search warrants.
Senator Chuck Grassley alleged in July that Smith and his team of investigators violated classified document handling procedures and the privacy of sitting members of Congress without warrants.
According to Grassley: “I received records from DOJ confirming Jack Smith's investigative team reviewed the contents of text msgs sent by 44 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS I’m 1 of the 44. I’m alerting my colleagues who were impacted and will release the records w Sen Johnson so American ppl can see the evidence.”
Pretty bad when the Department of Justice decides that justice is just a word to be ignored and not a guiding tenet.
Smith allegedly bypassed and/or ignored standard Department of Justice protocols in the spying operation, protocols that would have prevented this abuse of power.
More from Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson: “Jack Smith’s criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes.”
Not only did Smith possibly undermine Constitutional rights of members of Congress with his spying, but according to Senator Rand Paul he may have also lied under oath at a Congressional hearing: “December 2025: Jack Smith swore under oath that he didn't spy on text messages belonging to members of Congress. Today: New evidence confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress, myself included. This is a blatant abuse of power, and exactly what our Founders warned.”

The good news is this blatant abuse of government power may have consequences for those that abused their power in the Federal government. But in a sense, this abuse of power is not surprising with regards to the Biden administration. Under Biden and the head of Justice, Merrick Garland, anyone who had a contrasting opinion than Biden was subjected to abusive government power and intimidation including pro lifers, Second Amendment defenders, Catholics, parents attending local board of education meetings, Republicans, etc.

If even members of Congress are not safe from having their Constitutional rights and privacy protected, then anyone can be subjected to people like Smith who bypass the safeguards meant to protect freedom and abuse of that freedom.

2)One would hope that anyone in the political class and serving the American people would be of the highest moral standards and upholders of the law. But a past Florida mayor and candidate to be Florida governor has smashed that hope like many others politicians constantly do:

Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee, Florida and defeated candidate to be Florida governor was recently arrested in Daphne, Alabama.
He is charged with possession of dangerous drugs including marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Back in 2020 Gillum overdosed on meth at a hotel in South Beach, Florida so this is not his first time getting entangled with drugs.
In 2022, Gillum was indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements, charges that were never proven true in court.

Nice, and to think this guy came very close to being governor of my state of Florida. Scary.

3)This next piece of insanity would fit quite nicely into our running discussion on which state or major city government will go bankrupt first. A major component driving these select states and cities to bankruptcy court is that liberal politicians in these locales constantly raise the tax burden on their residents and businesses. Eventually, some residents and businesses flee the city or state to get tax relief.

This out migration of people and businesses reduces the tax base and tax revenue stream. To make up to the smaller tax base these same politicians raise taxes on those remaining to make up the difference. This in turn sends more residents and businesses out of the state,reducing the tax base, and the financial spiral is underway.

As readers of these bankruptcy posts know, California is a prime state candidate to go bankrupt pretty soon. With some of the heaviest and numerous taxes in the country, businesses and residents have been leaving the state in droves for a number of years. Rather than try and ease the tax burden to reduce this out migration of their tax base, apparently these politicians have decided to add even more taxes to the tax burden:

Two brand new taxes will hit businesses and residents of California next year.
There will be a new tax on healthcare premiums and get this, software downloads to your computer.
According to state senator Tony Strickland: “What happened to addressing the affordability crisis that was supposed to be such a priority? These tax increases could be the final straw that drives businesses out of California and harms our economy.”
The increased health insurance premiums will be used to help fund the state’s fraud riddled Medicaid program and you can be sure those taxes on the health insurance companies will be passed down to consumers.
That pass though of the tax could reach hundreds of dollars a month according to the California Association of Health Plans.
When a California person downloads Turbotax or Adobe or any other kind of software to their computer, California will tax them for that action.

We have said this so many times that “when you are stuck in a hole, stop digging the hole deeper.” California is in a hole, people and businesses leaving because of the high tax burden. The most logical thing to do is to try and reduce the existing tax burden, not add to it. But Californai politicians keep digging that tax hole deeper and keep piling on those taxes higher and higher.

4)Consider some Colorado realities:

Almost 19,000 state citizens are homeless.
About 1,700 state citizens die from a drug overdose every year.
About 745,000 state citizens, including 172,500 Colorado kids, struggle with food insecurity.
About 27,000 state citizens are diagnosed with cancer every year.

There are a lot of citizens in Colorado dealing with serious problems that should be a priority of the state’s political class as far as addressing and reducing that suffering. But what is a priority of some state politicians:

These state politicians support using millions of taxpayer dollars for “transgender healthcare” for convicted criminals.
Part of this healthcare budget would be using taxpayer wealth to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, state government budgets over the past three years have included a dedicated line item cost line for transgender health care of prisoners.
The budget line was $5.3 million in 2024 and $5.3 million in 2025.

Talk about bad priorities. How many homeless Colorado folks could have gotten shelter with the $10.7 million? How many hungry Colorado kids could have been fed with the $10.7 million? How many drug overdose deaths could have been avoided with drug addiction support with that $10.7 million? How many cancer patients could have gotten better care with that $10.7 million?

Instead, prisoners that committed acts of aggression against those paying the taxes get to have their sex changed operations while in prison. Insanity.

Okay, enough foolishness for today: bad priorities for Coloradans in need, even more taxes in California, a Florida politician gets drug busted, and Biden and his lackey Jack Smith allegedly spied on members of Congress without cause or warrants.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

April, 2026, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Obama Fesses Up On Obama Care Failures, Voting Irregularities In Colorado, and A Governor's Approval Rating Tanks Quickly

We have been spending a lot of time lately dissecting the race to bankruptcy court, i.e. what state government or city government will go bankrupt first. Many Democratic states and cities have already entered into financial death spirals as their taxpayer base erodes but the politicians running these cities and states cannot or will not reduce government spending or make government operations more efficient to cope with the shrinking tax base.

The last two posts on this topic can be found at the following links:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-proof-that.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-california.html

However, we will take a break from this bankruptcy race and discuss some good old fashioned political class insanity for the next few posts.

1)Long ago we had extensive discussion on how flawed and stupid the Obama Care legislation and process was and still is. Those supporting Obama Care tenets were trying to solve a public health problem with economic solutions and, of course, that all failed. Americans are overweight, they do not exercise enough, they eat too much of the wrong kind of food and their addictions (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) are the public health causes of high health care and high health insurance costs.

If you do not address those underlying causes, any solution is doomed to failure. If Americans lost weight, exercised more, stopped smoking, and ate better, there would be no need for economic voodoo solutions to try and tame rising health care costs.

But that did not stop Obama from making many grandiose proclamations on how Obama Care was going to cure the ills of the American health system:

EVERY American would be able to afford and be covered by affordable health insurance under Obama Care.
You would not have to give up your current doctors under Obama Care.
Obama Care would “bend the health care cost curve" to reduce the growth in health insurance and health care costs.

Of course none of this came true:

Millions of people lost access to their favorite doctors.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care advocacy organization, almost 27 million Americans still do not have health insurance coverage.
Almost 62% of those uninsured told Kaiser that they could not afford the coverage.
And total cost of health care in the country rose about 41% from 2010, the year Obama Care took effect, until 2023, hardly bending the cost curve since this increase in healthcare costs was higher than the increase in overall inflation over those years which was under 40%.

Not surprisingly, Obama Care flopped and did not deliver any results close to what was promised. But that did not stop Obama from trying to dress up the Obama Care pig in a recent interview when he proclaimed that Obama Care was a “first step” toward expanding and improving affordability of health care and health care insurance in the country. He cited protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, allowing kids to stay on their parents’ health plans longer, and expanding Medicaid.

However, absent from his remarks was his promise to get every American affordable health insurance (27 million Americans today do not have health insurance with cost being the major factor), was his promise to bend the cost curve (Obama Care did not bend any curves), and Americans are just as unhealthy today as they were in 2010 since the economic solution to the problem did not reduce obesity, improve exercise habits, improve eating habits or break addictions.

And it seems Obama knows it was a flop since he went from grandstanding promises in 2010 to this is a good “first step.” We said it would be ineffective and a financial disaster 13-14 years ago and we were correct.

2)One of the most important functions in a free country is the principle of “one person, one vote.” Every citizen of a country should be able to express their opinions at the voting booth and know that their vote will be treated with integrity and that the process is an accurate reflection of what voters want.

Obviously, the 2020 Presidential campaign was anything but that, as we have discussed dozens of times. That election was corrupt, out of integrity, and an insult to democracy and the voters who honestly thought their votes would be fairly counted and treated. We will not go into the dozens of instances where we showed how the voting process was stolen and corrupted and as a result, Joe Biden got an amazing 81,000,000 votes, the largest, and most corrupted vote total by far, from a historical basis. Go back to our posts in late 2020 and early 2021 for the many ways we proved voting corruption.

But over time more and more evidence has come out showing how shady and corrupt that election was with the following just the latest news about shady dealings in the voting counting areas:

We recently reported on how a Georgia audit of the 2020 voting for President in that state found over 300,000 votes that should have never been counted in the election results given how shady and illegally counted they were.
And now we have a similar situation out in Colorado.
A lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch has forced the state government of Colorado to remove 372,000 ineligible voter registrations from its voting rolls.
The lawsuit showed how the Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, and other state voting officials, violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by allowing voter registration rates to exceed the number of eligible voters actually living in various state counties, incurred delays in identifying and scrubbing out of state moves by voters, and identified thousands of inactive voters in eight counties.

Operating incompetence relative to voting registration and monitoring processes does not mean that elections were rigged and biased because of voting improprieties. However, the potential for voter fraud, especially via mail-in voting, is huge when hundreds of thousands of people are on the voting rolls who should not be. Another example of political class and government bureaucrat incompetence that endangers a very basic tenet of freedom, clean and honest elections and election processes.

3)After a politician is elected to office their favorability approval ratings almost always start to slide slowly downward since they usually cannot fulfill their campaign promises. However, the recently elected governor of Virginia has possibly set the record for the quickest slip in approval ratings by any politician…ever:

Abigail Spanberger was recently elected as Virginia governor.
Keep in mind that she campaigned on a number of voter friendly issues like making the cost of living in the state more affordable, being against extreme gerrymandering of Congressional districts, and other generally centrist issues.
Shortly after taking office, she and her cronies in the legislature proposed a whole slew of new taxes that will make living in the state much more expensive and supported a radical gerrymandering plan that is likely un-Constitutional.
Her flip flop on illegal immigration control has led to a series of recent murders in the state, the majority of which likely were committed by illegal immigrants.
Thus, within a few months her approval rating did not slip a little, her favorability rating dropped to 47%, a level that is 13% lower than the average of all new Virginia governors going back to the 1990s.
Her favorability rating is a whopping nine points below what her predecessor Glenn Youngkin, was pulling at the same time in his term.

Again, a newly installed politician usually sees a drop in popularity shortly after taking office. But her bait and switch effort from her nice sounding campaign issues to her real actions while in office show that the people in Virginia have quickly realized they may have made a big mistake in their voting preference. And it is going to cost them from a tax, cost of living, crime rate, and gerrymandering perspective.

It will be interesting to see how far and how fast her approval rating falls, she certainly has done a great job destroying her credibility in a very short time already. Wait until those many, many new taxes take effect. Gonna be a fun, downward ride to watch.

That will do it for today: a record-setting decline in popularity in Virginia, more voting incompetence and/or shenanigans , this time in Colorado, and Obama tries to hedge his bet when it comes to the disaster that is Obama Care.

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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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Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at: