Showing posts with label grassley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grassley. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2026

The Biden Administration's Disrespecting of American Freedom Principles and Illegal Immigrant Kids

 It is no secret that I feel that the Biden administration was one  of the worst Presidential administrations ever, surpassing the Jimmy Carter failed Presidency. The failures are many:


  • Overall  inflation  that hit 40 year highs at one point.

  • Overall  food inflation rose over 20% during his time in office.

  • Millions and millions of illegal immigrants flooded over the border into the country that resulted in tens of billions of  taxpayer dollars diverted from American citizens to provide free food, free  shelter, free medical  care, and other benefits to illegal immigrants.

  • Many  of those illegal  immigrants  went on to rape, beat, rob, and murder American citizens that were just going  about their ives.

  • He lost track of over 300,000 illegal immigrant kids that came over the border, many of which likely ended up in sweat shops, being  sex trafficked, or killed.

  • The open immigration borders allowed record amounts of illegal drugs from  Mexican drug cartels  to enter the country and poison  Americans.

  • His disastrous withdrawal  plan from Afghanistan resulted in  the unnecessary death of over a dozen of U.S. armed forces personnel and provided the Taliban with a massive amount of weaponry that Biden’s plan left behind.

  • He continued his history  of issuing racist statements with  this selection being just one  of them: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."

  • He called tens millions of Americans “Garbage”  if they voted for Trump.


This is not an exhaustive list but you get the idea, he was a terrible President based on results and the fact that his significant cognitive decline left him likely incapable of making any decisions during a long stretch of his tenure. 


But new information is coming out  about how bad his administration was and  how human beings and our freedoms suffered:


1)Biden let so many illegal immigrants to cross into  this country that illegal immigrants kids suffered  for his inability to control the border:


  • So many illegal and unaccompanied immigrant kids came into the  country so fast that the  Biden  administration  struggled to  find  adequate and humane  shelter for them  according to  recently discovered emails.

  • A Department  of Health and Human Services  inspector general report  in June , 2022 found  that most emergency shelter sites  for unaccompanied illegal immigrant kids did not follow  Covid testing  requirements simply because there were too many kids  to handle.

  • The report shows that there were not enough  beds and structures  to handle the kids.

  • The Administration  for Children and Families (ACF) was the Federal agency desperately trying to  find adequate resources to handle the kids but was overwhelmed:  “At the height of the Biden administration border crisis, 22,000 [unaccompanied alien children] were in [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] care,” ACF’s Office of Communications said in a statement to the DCNF. “These children were then rapidly released to poorly vetted sponsors.”

  • As a result,  the Federal Office of  Refugee Resettlement has been able to locate over 150,000  lost illegal immigrant  kids that Biden released to sponsors and unfortunately, with many of those rescued being “found and rescued from trafficking situations and abuse.”


The incompetence is overwhelming amid  the suffering that thousands of  illegal immigrant kids  were subjected to and many of whom  are still being subjected to.


2)Obviously, a main tenet of freedom in this country is the ability to  safely express an opinion without fear of government  reprisal. Apparently, the  Biden  administration did not understand this basic  liberty:


  • We already know that Jack Smith within Biden’s Justice Department  spied  on Americans  and members  of Congress, illegally, without cause, and  without  judicial  permission, a blatant abuse of power.

  • Government  documents now show that Smith  did not just spy on sitting politicians  or leading conservative pundits and  advocates.

  • The Biden  Justice Department also  collected  American citizens’ personal information if you simply bought a  hat, a coffee mug,  or other memorabilia that had Trump’s signature motto,”Make American  Great Again” on it.

  • That’s right, your taxpayer dollars and government law enforcement resources were being  spent to track Americans who simply bought a hat with a non-aggressive, lawful stitching  on  it while drug cartel  and sex trafficking cartels were running amok at the border.

  • And  apparently this was not just a handful of Americans who had their name and personal information collected by Smith since according to RedState’s Teri Christoph, Smith’s spying and data collection  effort under the code name,  Arctic Frost,  “Hoovered up”  the personal informal  of well of over half a million Americans simply for supporting a legitimate and legal political  candidate.

  • According  to  Senate Oversight Committee  Chairman,  Chuck  Grassley:  “The documents also show that Jack Smith’s SCO and Biden’s Justice Department obtained information on sales of red MAGA hats, including individual buyers, their purchases and their shipping addresses for home delivery. This is in addition to collecting a catalogue of Trump campaign products including these red hats, t-shirts, mugs, and door mats. This further illustrates the extensive scope of irrelevant and personally invasive records obtained by Smith which were shared with FBI agents.”

  • Furthermore:  “Thru my oversight I’ve uncovered Jack Smith & the Biden DOJ targeted Americans for the simple act of buying a MAGA hat Jack Smith had an enemies list and at least 639,000 innocent Americans were on it INDEFENSIBLE.”


It is  hilarious and so hypocritical that  liberals and  Democrats were supportive of the “No Kings” protests and concept once Trump  got into office but stood idly by when  Biden and Jack Smith were  taking  tactics out of George Orwell’s “1984” playbook to undermine the basic American  right to  express an opinion….and  to buy a hat.


3)Speaking of attacking freedom:


  • According  to a recent report  from  the Federal Office of the Comptroller,  nine of the country's largest banks blocked financial services to conservatives, Republicans,  religious organizations, and law abiding companies because of their stated political beliefs or activities.

  • This blackballing ran from 2020 to 2025, the Biden  years.

  • The banks accused  of blackballing include JP Morgan, Bank Of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank Capital One, PNC,  TD Bank, and BMO Bank.

  • According to Comptroller Jonathan Gould: "Today's report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation's largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses," 

  • The report  reviewed almost 100,000 complaints from those turned away from banking services along with 420,000 pages of bank documents.

  • Example: JP Morgan Chase  closed accounts that belonged to merchants selling  Trump  “Make America Great” merchandise, as reported by the NY  Post.

  • Built into the bank’s information  systems were lookouts for phrases  including “MAGA.” “Make  America Great,” and “American First.”

  • Example: PNC denied a line of credit to  a  media company associated with  conservative owners.

  • Example: Wells Fargo pressured a payment processor to drop a religious non-profit because of its position on same-sex marriage.

  • Wells Frago also denied loans for firearms businesses, fearing pressure from the  Biden administration.


So, Biden harassed Americans who had differing views, illegally and immorally spying on them, and advocated for denying financial services by pressing banks to discriminate against those they viewed as political opponents. Kind  of a “No Kings” type attitude and philosophy, don’t you think?


4)But Jack Smith was not  content spying  on thousands  of MAGA hat wearers  or  Republican members of  Congress:


  • He spied on Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.

  • He spied on Melania Trump, the President's wife.

  • He  spied on Barron Trump, the President's teenage  son.

  • Smith oversaw  the  tracking of their  traveling  and  cellphone usage.

  • None of those three posed any danger  to public  safety, criminal activity, or terrorism and yet Department of Justice and FBI resources were used to spy on them while real violent crime rampaged through many  U.S.cities  .

  • Government documents show that:  “Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on the [Wiles] wiretaps on the advice of then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who sent Garland a memo in May 2022 warning the sensitive investigation could encompass top figures from the 45th president’s administration and ‘could potentially be disruptive to the democratic process if publicly disclosed prior to an election.’”


So, Biden’s people knew that their spying actions could be "disruptive  to the democratic process” and yet they went ahead with the spying anyway. One  would think that doing  something disruptive to  the  democratic process is another  way to  describe  treason. And yet, so far, no  one has been  put in jail for disrupting the democratic process.


5)One last Biden anti-democratic and  anti-American  action:


  • Mark  Zuckerberg  is  one of  the  founders  of  Facebook/Meta  and  its current  top  executive.

  • In a recent letter sent to a Congressional committee, he  claims he regrets bowing  to Biden  administration pressure to censor  Facebook content during the Covid years.

  • He claimed  the Biden  interference was "wrong" and he would not  allow the censorship  to happen  again:  “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”


So it wasn't only banks, it wasn’t  only the President's son and wife, it was also  at least one social media  company that  Biden  pressured to suppress alternative views, individual  rights, freedom,  and  democracy.


**********************

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



**********************


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:

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.


**********************

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



**********************


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: