October, 2021, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Taking Bribes, Shredding the Constitution, Failing to Protect American Lives, and Another Defund the Police Disaster.

Before we get to today’s insanity, please consider the following proposition: as many of you know, the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a historic and fatal endeavor. But the failure did not start just in the past few weeks, it has been a twenty year disaster. It has cost American taxpayers about a trillion dollars, has left thousands of our brave armed forces folks dead, maimed, or wounded and has resulted in an unknown but substantial number of civilian deaths.

Afghanistan has been a collective failure of multiple Presidential administrations and multiple sessions of Congress. Thus, please consider signing the petition below that calls for the immediate resignation of every member of Congress that has at least twenty years of service and the resignation of President Biden, Vice President Harris, and critical, and failed, members of the Biden Administration. They do not deserve to serve any longer given their miserable twenty year track record of death, destruction and waste in Afghanistan.

Also, if you are passionate about this topic and effort, feel free to pass the link along to others who might also feel the same way, i.e. incompetence should not be rewarded:

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Biden and others need to resign for dereliction of duty, incompetence and total lack of empathy. Nothing short of resignation is acceptable. Thank you.

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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.

1) Far too many times we have discussed how pathetically and fatally wrong the whole “defund the police” movement was and still is. Police forces and the respect for police forces was slashed by American politicians over the past year or so, resulting in increased violence, crime and deaths in American cities across the country.

Austin, Texas is just the latest city to be hit by the increased violence as a result of the increased idiocy of the city’s politicians:

• There have been 60 homicides in Austin so far this year.
• This more than any other year out of the 61 years that the police department has kept such records.
• This year’s homicide rate is 6.2 per 100,000 records, up from 5.0 in 2020, a 24% increase, and 4.2 homicides in 2016.
• According to a local news report: "The city's police force is also stretched thin, with officer shortages and a large chunk of the budget being cut."
• City politicians cancelled police department cadet classes and stripped a whopping $150 million out of the department’s $434 million budget, more than a third.
• According to the Austin American-Statesman: "Several acknowledge that the department is now left with a bare-bones patrol staff suffering unprecedented attrition. The council has reinstated cadet classes, but the first graduates won’t hit the streets until spring. The department has about 1,800 officers, roughly the same number it had in 2016."
• As a result of this political insanity, police forces no longer respond to “non-emergency” law breaking like theft, prostitution, burglary, etc.
• In these non-emergency cases, residents have to call 311, the city government number, and in some cases have had to wait weeks to get any help.

Disgusted citizens have launched an action committee, "Save Austin Now,” to get a proposition put on the ballot that would require that the police department in the city be staffed to have at least two police officers for each 100,000 residents.

Despite this common sense approach to the problem, the group has been met with resistance from city leaders, organizations, and activists that somehow put forth the ridiculous argument that increasing the size of the police force would not make the city safer.

There is no cure for stupid, as Austin politicians and their wacky defund the police effort has shown. We have asserted many, many times that a very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of law abiding citizens. If a government entity cannot perform that primary function then it is a failure regardless of how well it does any other city function.

2) And the increase in crime is not restricted to Austin:

• According to the latest FBI crime statistics, murders in the country increased over 29% in 2020 vs. 2019.
• This is one of the largest single year increases in the country’s history.
• There were 21,570 murders in 2020, an increase of 4,901 vs. 2019.

Yeah, the defund the police effort has worked out just fine for the criminals, not so much for the victims.

3) The Obama administration was not a friend of the Constitution:

• It tracked down and killed American citizens around the world that were considered enemies or terrorists without giving those Americans their right to a trial and due process.
• They spied on journalists without court warrants or reasons, disrespecting and ignoring the First Amendment.
• They spied on millions of American citizens without court warrants or reasons, further disrespecting the First Amendment.
• They altered or faked information in warrant submissions to get the wiretapping court approval they needed.
• They used the IRS to harass political opponents, violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights.

And the examples of the lawlessness just keep on coming:

• Carter Page is a former Trump political campaign official.
• His work history included working with the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department.
• Given his work history, it is highly doubtful that he was in cahoots with Russian agents or sources, he probably had to undergo extensive background checks to work at the above agencies.
• But none of this information was provided by Obama’s agents when they applied for secret FISA warrants to spy on Page during Trump’s campaign.
• That warrant was an integral part of the Obama fake conspiracy to make it show that the Trump campaign was involved with Russian spies, a fairy tale that has been shown to be nothing more than a political ploy on Obama’s part.
• According to the Federalist, the FISA court “found violations of the government’s duty of candor in all four applications” and that the government “must temporarily retain, and potentially use and disclose, the information collected, largely in the context of ongoing or anticipated litigation.”
• In other words, Obama and his people broke the law and violated a basic tenet of the Constitution.

What was once a respected government agency, one the very few, the FBI has devolved into a political hack government entity that has injected intself into the nation’s politics and not in a good, lawful, or Constitutional way.

4) We have shown many times that the corruption and greed of the American political class is not just with the politicians serving in DC, that politicians at all levels of government have a great history of corruption:

• The former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, Jasiel Correia, was recently sentenced to six years in prison after he was found guilty of corruption.
• He was elected mayor at the young age of 23 but his age was not a barrier to his corruption.
• He was found guilty of taking bribes from marijuana companies that wanted to open pot shops in his town.
• The judge in the case found the ex-mayor’s behavior reprehensible: “What I have before me is an absolute lack of remorse,a corrosive crime, it undercuts, it eviscerates a community. If we can’t trust each other, if we can’t trust our government, where are we? This is at the core of who we are...City Hall was for sale,”
• Correia claims he is innocent and although a few charges were eventually reversed and dropped, he is still likely going to prison for the charges that still remain.

The American political class, always putting themselves first rather than the people they represent.

Another day of American political class insanity: taking bribes, shredding the Constitution, failing to protect American lives, and another defund the police disaster.

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September, 2019, Part 6, Political Class Insanity: Corruption In A Massachusetts Town, Stupid Democrat Climate Ideas, and Enabling Drug Addicts

It is 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.

Let’s get started:

1) We have often talked about the corruption at the national level of politics in this country. But political corruption is not restricted to DC, as we see from this recent alleged piece of local government political corruption:

• Jasiel Correia II is the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts.
• He may soon be the former mayor since he was recently arrested for the second time in the past six months, this time charged with extortion, conspiracy, and bribery.
• Apparently, authorities think he was operating a pay-to-play enterprise as it concerned marijuana licenses within the city limits.
• The charges claim that he demanded bribes, cash, and campaign donations from local business owners who wanted to get a license to sell marijuana legally in in the city.
• As an added bonus of slime, he allegedly demanded half of his former chief of staff’s wages in order for her to keep her job.
• But do not feel too bad about the former chief of staff, she and others have also been charged as co-conspirators in the case.
• The mayor has pleaded not guilty.
• Prosecutors think that he gathered in between $100,000 and $200,000 in bribes and kickbacks.

Just another day and another set of indictments for the political class. Of course, the mayor is innocent until proven guilty.

2) The Democrats recently held a seven hour town meeting to discuss the climate. And through those seven hours they came up with some zany ideas and concepts. Keep in mind before reading the following that:

• Global warming stopped about 20 years ago according to the data.
• The polar ice caps have not melded as Al Gore and others predicted.
• There are now more polar bears alive than when Al Gore was born.
• Every major global warming/climate change forecast has been pitifully wrong over the past several decades.
• Killer storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, and wildfire activity has either been steady or declining over the past few decades, a reality that should not have happened if global warming advocates were right.
• The Post Office is inefficient and going bankrupt, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are going bankrupt, and the Federal “Do Not Call List” is a joke in preventing unwanted calls so who thinks that the Washington political class can control the climate when they cannot run current government programs that they have been operating for years, decades, and centuries?

Okay, back to the zany ideas:

• Kamala Harris wants to ban all plastic straws across the country. Yes, over 100,000 Americans are homeless in her home state, public defecation, urination, and illegal drug use is rampant in her state’s major cities, and that public defecation and urination is causing a major environmental problem and she is focused in plastic straws.
• Many candidates want to end fracking and offshore oil drilling which will drive up prices for gas and home heating options, hitting the less economically fortunate really hard, and not make a dent in the world’s carbon footprint because China, India, and the rest of the world will not do the same. 
• These ideas would wipe out sources that give us 65% of our current energy needs and 80% of our energy needs during the winter, energy sources that cannot be replaced with wind and solar and which would leave many Americans freezing in place.
• Some candidates want to make us stop eating meat since cows fart a lot and release methane into the air.
• Elizabeth Warren wants to get rid of nuclear energy altogether even though it may be the cleanest of all energy sources relative to carbon and the climate.
• But the craziest idea of all came from Bernie Sanders who wants to use American taxpayer money to increase abortion rates around the world to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint.
• I would assume that much of his abortion funding would flow to countries in Africa leaving one with the impression of the Nazis culling out those of other races to put forth their vision of the world.
• According to the Daily Caller: “The audience member added that the ‘the planet cannot sustain growth’ and ‘empowering women and educating everyone’ on curbing population seems ‘reasonable.’ Sanders said he supports women being able to ‘control their own bodies’ and have abortions when answering the climate change question."
• Sanders obviously has no concept of history since the theory and fear of over population has been around for centuries and has never materialized into any kind of crisis, especially a crisis where American tax dollars abort babies in third world countries.

So, Democrats wanting to be President want us to pay more for gas and energy, freeze to death in the winter, stop using plastic straws, and pay for abortions around the world in order to fix a likely non-existent problem or a problem that their solutions will have no impact on. As you can see, they have very destructive ideas but no constructive ideas on how they would replace the things they want to get rid of.

In the meantime, our schools continue to under educate, our country’s infrastructure is crumbling, and Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are hurtling towards financial insolvency and these buffoons are focused on straws. Total, total insanity.

3) But Sanders and Warner insanity is not restricted to the myth of climate change. Consider the reality of this government program, another in a long series of government “solutions” that made the original problem even worse:

• There is no doubt that there continues to be a major drug addiction problem in this country.
• Estimates say that over 70,000 American die every year from drug addiction.
• Several decades ago some politicians came up with the bright idea of providing free drug needles and drug exchanges program for addicts, the main reason being that it would help control the AIDS epidemic since many drug users were getting AIDS from sharing drug needles with each other.
• The idea sounds good in theory but in reality there were several flaws in the plan and logic.
• First of all, drug addicts often did not exchange their used needles for used ones so the use of contaminated needles were not eliminated.
• Second, while the spread of AIDS looks like it went down over time, possibly because of the needle exchange effort, the potential reality is that the spread of AIDS went down because drug addicts overdosed and died from their drug habit, enabled by free drug needles, not from AIDS.
• A new research study from Analisa Packham of Vanderbilt University, proved how stupid and lame these free needle and needle exchange programs have been. 
• According to Ms. Packham, these programs “led to greater risk of opioid misuse and overdose.”
• In fact, her study found that these types of programs increased drug overdose death by 12%.
• By not solving the root cause of the problem, addiction, more and more taxpayer wealth is used to buy needles to be freely given away, hospital ER visits go up, crime goes up, and hospital stays are longer.
• Besides endangering addicts by enabling their addictions, cities with drug needle exchanges are faced with cleaning up used and dangerous drug needles that end up everywhere on the streets of their cities.
• San Francisco alone hands out 400,000 free drug needles every MONTH many of which end up used and discarded in the public domain, endangering the general public.
• Ronald Reagan understood the problem of using taxpayer wealth to enable drug users and stopped allowing taxpayer dollars to be used to fund them back in 1998.
• But Obama reversed course and from 2009 until 2016 86 free needle and needle exchange programs were set up across the country.
• If the Packham study is correct, these 86 new needle programs caused hundreds of additional American deaths.
• Just in West Virginia, the number of addicts who overdosed in the state has increased in six years since the needle exchange programs in that state were reinstated.
• Oh, and by the way, it was Bernie Sanders, who pushed Obama to start funding needle exchange programs, his organization claiming that these programs are “an important way to alleviate some of the suffering, reduce public health risks, and provide services to addicts who desperately need them.”
• But not to be outdone for having a bad program idea, Elizabeth Warren actually wants to have taxpayer funded locations where drug addicts can come and shoot up under a roof and not on the street, “facilities where people who use their own drugs can do so safely.” If you are a drug addict, you are not doing it for your own safety regardless of where you shoot up.

How crazy! But it illustrates two traits of American politicians:

1. Their solution made an existing problem worse in that their free needle exchange programs enabled drug addicts even more, making it easier and cheaper for them to feed their addiction which increased their addiction and death by overdose levels besides littering the street and endangering non-addicts with discarded needles.
2. They did not understand the root causes of the problem, this is an addiction problem that should be addressed with programs and efforts that treat the addiction, not enable it.

Thus, just another political solution that makes the problem worse, wastes tax dollars, and does not address the root causes of the problem.

That will do it for today: another busted political/government program, stupid politicians’ ideas on the climate change myth, and more political corruption in a local town. More insanity to follow.

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