December, 2023, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Segregation Makes A Comeback, Sanctuaries Cities Continue to Suffer, and More

 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 operating any level of government in this country. 

Even their best efforts are almost always inefficient and 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)For years, many of us had to put up with certain liberal city politicians claiming that they were more sympathetic than the rest of us, that they were more caring, that they were somehow better people because they declared their cities to be  so-called “sanctuary cities.” This means that illegal immigrants were welcome to their cities and would be protected by Federal law from  breaking immigration laws. 

But these city politicians are having big headaches from being so caring vs. the rest of us. Biden’s  failed border policies has allowed millions of unvetted and unvaccinated illegal immigrants from dozens of different countries to illegally enter the country. The illegal immigrants are now flooding into sanctuary cities to the dismay of the same politicians who bragged about being sanctuary cities. 

They are realizing that the ramifications of being a sanctuary city is real when thousands of illegal immigrants show up on your doorstep and these folks need taxpayer funded food, shelter, and medical needs. This has resulted in these same politicians diverting taxpayer dollars away from programs that support their citizens (police, fire, education, sanitation, etc.) to service illegal immigrants and incurring serious budget shortfalls.

And these big city illegal immigrants crises are not restricted just to the big cities like Chicago and New York City:

• The smallish city of Portland, Maine once declared itself to be a sanctuary city.

• And now as illegal immigrants flood into their small  city, the city struggles to service their needs with city taxpayer funds.

• More than 1,000 illegal  immigrants have arrived in the city between January and April of this year.

• The city has had to pay for setting up an emergency shelter to shelter upwards of 125 illegal immigrants.

• Portland city  spokesperson has stated that,, “Our staff have been completely  at capacity in  terms of who they’re able to shelter and assist.”

• A local American  citizen summed up the frustration of local politicians taking better care of illegal  immigrants than American citizens: “People from other countries come here, automatically get housing, get free care, free everything, it’s not right,” Bryce, who said he is homeless in Portland and that he came to the U.S. legally and went through a 10-year citizenship process.

Another day,  another city taking better care of foreigners than  its own citizens. It just isn’t right.

2)We have not talked a lot about Hunter Biden’s dealing with foreign entities and the bribery and kickback schemes he is allegedly involved in, schemes that also allegedly involved his father. To focus on the high number of shady business dealings and self enrichment/self indulgent activities would take us weeks, if not  months, to cover all of the allegations.

But the  latest news of investigations into his bad behavior has taken a very serious turn relative to his father:

• According to real life bank documents obtained by Congressional investigators, Hunter Biden sent his father  monthly payments from his bank  accounts.

• These payments usually followed after Hunter Biden received payments from his overseas business associates and partners.

• Keep in mind that Joe Biden has constantly said that he had nothing to do with his son’s shady business dealings.

• These payments first went into Hunter Biden’s Owasco Bank  account and then funds were transferred directly to his father on a regular, monthly basis.

• According to Congressman Comer: “Payments from Hunter’s business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes.”

• For example, in September, 2017, Joe Biden  received a $40,000 check from his son’s account.

• This happened shortly after a Chinese company sent Hunter Biden $5 million that went into one of Hunter Biden’s companies.

• He then moved $400,000 to his Owasco account and more than $130,000 to one of his corporate accounts.

• Curious  how after receiving $400,000 into his bank  account, he sent EXACTLY 10% to his father.

• Hunter Biden then sent $150,000 to his uncle’s company and then his uncle sent $50,000 to his own personal bank  account and another $40,000 to Joe Biden.

And this laundering of money is just one scheme that the Biden family had going  on  over the years.  It does not include the whole Burisma episode in Ukraine and  other Chinese shenanigans. What a mess of corruption.

3)Martin Luther King, Jr. was the greatest civil rights advocate this country ever had, maybe one of the greatest Americans this country has ever had. He worked tirelessly to end segregation and help the races co-mingle and respect each other, erasing stereotypes in the process. One would hope that politicians in this country would recognize his greatness and try to be a role model for his dreams of equality.

But as almost always happens with American politicians, hope is a false premise:

• Michelle Wu is the mayor of Boston.

• She is not a white American and is obviously not a fan of Martin Luther King Jr.

• I say that because her Director of City Council relations, Denise DosSantos, recently sent out a party invitation to the “Electeds of Color Party.”

• In other words,  white people are not invited to a taxpayer funded party,, only people “of color.”

• But she screwed up, rather than keep this obviously racially biased action a secret, she mistakenly sent it out to white members of the city council also who found out that they were NOT invited to this government funded party.

• DosSantos then sent out a second email when the jig was uncovered, clarifying that the invitation was exclusively for the six councilors “of color, not the seven white councilors”.

• She then tried to smooth everything out with a stupid attempt at an apology, another affront to Martin Luther King, Jr.:"I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused."

• So rather than say she was sorry for this racist action, she tried to minimize it by saying you white folks should have never seen the invitation, nor harm no foul, okay?

• Non-white Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson did not see the racism, segregation aspect of this mishap, saying there was “no need for apologies at all,” the “email should not offend anyone” and saw no issue with a racially segregated party.

So sad that people of color want to return to a sad, sad story of American history, the segregation of the races. And you can be sure that their hypocrisy would come roaring out if the seven white Councilors put out an invitation that said “government funded party for only white people.” I cannot imagine the uproar.

4)The FBI has obviously severely damaged its reputation over the past decade or so. They went from probably one of the few respected and admired government entities to a biased, bad priority, oppressive police force. Over those years:

• They illegally meddled extensively in the 2020 Presidential election.

• They have harassed innocent Americans who simply wanted to protect their Second Amendment rights.

• They have harassed innocent pro-life people who simply wanted to express their concern for the unborn and exercise their First Amendment rights.

• They have harassed Catholic congregations and innocent Americans who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights.

• They have harassed parents who simply wanted to have a say in their childrens’ education.

• They have spied on innocent Americans, while at the same time lying to the courts, who were simply going about their business, violating Americans’s Fourth Amendment rights. 

All of this has shown that the FBi today not only has bad priorities but also little respect for Americans’ freedoms. And while the FBI has been using taxpayer wealth for these stupid, oppressive activities, the safety of every American is apparently at high risk:

• In a recent interview, retired FBI assistant director, Chris Swecker, stated that the country is vulnerable to a “catastrophic” terror attack.

• Specifically: "I worked counterterrorism up close and I've never seen this country so vulnerable to a catastrophic attack. Much of this is caused by the open borders, which seem to me to neutralize all our other counterterrorism efforts. Now we have the holidays when terrorists like to strike." 

• As a result of Biden’s open borders, Swecker says that Islamic terror cells are already operating inside the country.

• His comments are similar to comments made by high ranking FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials.

• FBI Director, Christopher Wray recently testified in front of Congress: “I see blinking lights everywhere I turn. I've never seen a time where all the threats, or so many of the threats, are all elevated all at exactly the same time." 

• He also warned about the perils of Biden’s open border disaster.

So even the Director of the FBI says we are in dire danger and he allows his FBI resources to go after Americans who are trying to protect their First, Second and Fourth Amendment rights, who have done nothing criminal or suspicious except exercise their rights. If there is a catastrophic terror event, then both the FBI and Biden’s failed border policies are at the top of the list when it comes to explaining massive American citizen casualties.

Another bad day for American politicians: sanctuary cities continue to pay for their stupidity, the Biden crime family marches on, racial segregation makes a comeback and the FBI continues to fail.

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February, 2015, Part 5,Political Class Insanity: Chewing Gum Embarrassments, Foreign P)licy Failure In Yemen, and More

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again for the our monthly review of political class insanity. We believe that the nation is living through the worst set of politicians to ever hold office in this country, from the President down to the local mayors. Our current politicians never resolve any problems facing Americans, waste untold billions of dollars every year, and operate government programs that never deliver what they promise, always miss their deadlines, always go over budget, and often make the original problem even worse. And these shortcomings do not include outright criminal activity, a topic that will be an integral part of this month’s insanity review.

Over the past week, we did an in-depth, multi-day analysis of how the Obama administration has failed in an epic way across five dimensions. As you will see over the next week or so, it is not only the President that is an epic fail in the American political sphere today. So, let’s get started, it is going to be a long trek as the political class came out of the holiday season with more incompetence than ever before.

This is the fifth post in this month’s insanity series, the first post can be accessed at:

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1) The Federal government is supposed to equally represent all states and citizens equally, it is above the individual state governments, in theory. But when the President of the country and boss of the Federal government comes from the thugocracy of Chicago politics, that is apparently a concept that does not apply. 

A recent study by Reuters and the Brookings Institute found that between 2009 and 2013, the first term of the Obama Presidency, solid Republican voting states saw their share of Federal government funding for various programs drop by as much as 40%. Solid Democrat states and swing states saw only a 25% drop in Federal funding for the same programs.

For example, Texas Republican Congressman John Culberson claims that he has had an unbelievably hard time securing Federal funding for legitimate purposes for use in Republican dominated Texas such as border control, harbor dredging, and basic aid for a chemical plant explosion aftermath: “The Obama administration approaches the federal government the same way the Chicago machine politicians approach the Chicago public treasury: it’s to be used for their own benefit.” 

John Hudak of the Brookings Institute supported the Congressman’s conclusions: “In the context of the Obama administration, swing states and blue states are doing better than red states. I would suggest these numbers would tell us there is politicization going on.”

In the White House response to the allegations, they did not even use spell check in a long and rambling defense that said nothing important and never addressed what apparently is a real abuse of taxpayer tax funding: “The administration supports allocating federal grants based on objecitng (sic) criteria that will help protect taxpayer dollars and ensure that lawmakers are responsible and accountable to the American people.” Blah, blah, blah, a lot of words saying nothing.

This is how fall we have fallen relative to the integrity and righteousness of the politicians in this country: they use our own tax dollars as political weapons based on how we vote, a serious disregard for our First Amendment rights of free speech and freedom. But when the President is a Chicago city community organizer, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that he has elevated Chicago style mob politics to the national stage.

2) The Taliban used to rule Afghanistan. They would kill and torture people for having different political, sexual, and religious views than theirs. They sheltered Bin Laden as he made the plans for the terrorist attacks on 9-11. They recently marched into a school of kids in Pakistan and slaughtered over a hundred of them in cold blood. If any group fits the definition of a terrorist group, it is the Taliban.

Unless it is the Obama administration doing the defining. It recently declared via a White House spokesperson that the Taliban were not terrorists, they are an “armed insurrection.” Really? In my view, an armed resurrection goes out and fights the armed forces of a foe. They do not suppress the freedom and lives of their own citizens, they do not attack civilian populations with the intent to spread fear and terror, and they certainly do not invade a school to slaughter innocent kids.

This is why more and more people see the insanity and stupidity of the Obama administration and why the level of trust in this administration is at a very low level. After all of the lies about Obama Care, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the politicalization of the IRS, etc., no way we should believe this word play that the Taliban are not terrorists.

The following comic kind of summarizes the contortions the Obama administration is going through to avoid stating the obvious(from the www.youngcons.com website):

Read more at http://www.youngcons.com/white-house-releases-official-terrorist-identification-chart/#iMAi37C0UD5rKO8O.99

We have truly fallen down the Orwellian rabbit hole with this administration, recalling what George Orwell wrote in his novel, 1984: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” As many of us suspected all along, this administration’s foreign policy is pure wind and this position on the Taliban and misunderstanding of reality is the worst insanity yet.

3) During the state of the union address, the President proposed there be “free” community college funding for students that maintained certain standards. We have already covered the reality that 1) this is a stupid idea, given how few people actually get a college degree via community college and 2) it is really not free, taxpayers would be paying an expense that motivated students should be paying.

The President had the hairbrained idea of paying for this “free” program by taxing the earnings that American families earned on what was supposed to be tax free college savings programs. If this tax idea got implemented. families would be paying taxes twice, once by investing for their kids’ college with post tax dollars and then having their earnings taxed again even though the original idea of the savings program was that by using post tax dollars, savers would not have to pay taxes on those invested dollars ever again.

The scary thing about this program is that it would not take long for families to figure out that their college savings programs were useless due to the double taxation, would have pulled their money out of the accounts, and then Obama would not have had any funding for his free program. A ten year old could figured out that logic reality but apparently no one in the White House has a clue how the real world works.

When the rest of the world, both Democrats and Republicans and regular citizens pointed out how stupid this funding idea was, the White House did an abrupt u-turn and decided not to tax the earnings on college savings accounts. Mark Horne, writing for the Political Outcast website, summed up the stupidity and embarrassment quite nicely: “The Obama team is really getting incompetent. I don’t want to go too far with this because, for all we know, the entire program was a distraction from another agenda the President really cares about. But still, even if it was only PR, it was a public loss. It is a humiliation. From now on, if he attempts to do anything more with “middle class economics,” people will snicker.”

Snickering, humiliation, public loss, incompetent, he sums up this administration and the larger Washington political class quite nicely.

4) Speaking of humiliation and incompetence, let’s go overseas for the latest examples of such from the Obama administration. The President recently visited India on a state visit during which he appeared with the Indian Prime Minister at a major, public parade. 

During the ceremonies and parade, the President was seen obviously chomping on a wad of gum, insulting both his host and the entire country of India. The Times Of India called the gum chomping an “ungainly sight.” Other criticisms flowed in from both India and the United States.

But this type of obnoxious behavior should be expected. During a trip to China, the President was observed chewing gum during a major international leader reception. Chinese critics were outspoken in their disgust: “...Chinese Internet users, accustomed to the highly formal standards of their stiff party leadership, quickly characterized the leader of the world’s most powerful nation as an impolite ‘idler’ and careless ‘rapper.’”

But it get’s worse. A few months before the China trip, the President was criticized for chewing gum during a solemn D-Day ceremony in France as Queen Elizabeth was being introduced.












Is it too much to ask for the President to know enough about common decency and political protocol to do the right thing? Apparently not and he continues to embarrass both himself and more importantly, the nation he is in charge of?

5) Let’s wrap up this month’s series on political class insanity with a little bit of foreign relations insanity and failure. Back in September, 2014, the President bragged about his successful anti-terrorism strategy that he had deployed in Yemen and Somalia: “This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort … using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.”

His strategy has been so successful that the government he was in partnership with recently was overthrown and replaced with terrorists supported by Iran. The horrific terrorist attacks in the center of Paris were planned, supported and executed by Islamic terrorists operating out of Yemen. If this is what the President considers a success, I cannot imagine what his definition of a failure would be.

That will do it for the insanity of the political class this month. Wasteful spending, stupid quotes, embarrassing incidents, failed foreign policies, indictments of politicians, lousy government service, etc., the insanity of our politicians and the government operations they oversee is truly bad and getting worse.

We will move on to other topics starting tomorrow but rest assured that early next month we will be back with more political class insanity incidents and embarrassments.

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