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Monday, May 13, 2024

May, 2024, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Biden Continues To Lie About Everything, Biden's Approval Ratings Continue To Sink, Proof Of Voting Corruption In Georgia 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 Far continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country. 

Even their best efforts are almost always 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)Far too many times we have discussed Joe Biden’s habit, or call  it a sickness, to lie about any and all facets of his life. In fact, in a single blog post alone we documented 38 lies he had told over the years:


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


He recently put forth another pair of lies that are so  easy to disprove that it makes you wonder if he is that delusional to believe the things he says or he thinks we are that stupid to believe the lies he tells:


  • He recently made a speech where he claimed that inflation was 9% when he took over the presidency and through his brilliant economic ability he got it down to just under 4%.

  • In reality, according to official government statistics, inflation was about 1.4% when he took office so he has actually increased the rate of inflation by almost three times.

  • Inflation was never any near 9% when Trump was the President.

  • At another speaking event, he made the following atrociously wrong statement: “On my watch, when we make promises, we keep them. And we leave no one behind.”

  • Except that he did leave people behind, he left Americans behind and stranded in Afghanistan with a thoroughly botched withdrawal.

  • He has left people behind in Russian jails, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and other Americans.

  • He has stranded U.S.  military forces in Niger.

  • He has stranded at least five Americans as hostages of Hamas as a result of the October 7th invasion of Israel.

  • He has stranded U.S. citizen Tigran Gambaryan in Nigeria where he is being held hostage.


Lying or delusional or both? Whatever the case, it is so clear that NOTHING this man  says can be taken as the truth.


2)Back in late 2020  and early 2021 we did a series of posts where we showed that many of the Presidential election results were statistically impossible or statistically improbable along with video and other evidence that convincingly shows that Biden did not get all  of the votes, 81 million, that he supposedly received. 


Now many Trump haters probably do not believe any of the analyses we did, any of the evidence we presented, given their hatred for Trump (complete disclosure: I did not vote for Trump and have never voted for a Republican candidate for President in my life despite having started voting in the 1970s.)


One of the states where a lot of hanky panky and vote total  manipulation apparently went on is in Georgia, specifically the Atlanta area. And recent events now show that the suspicions regarding corrupted voting practices in favor of Biden in that voting district  prove our original conclusions, the voting process was corrupted:


  • News reports report that the Georgia's state Election Board has voted to reprimand the Fulton County voting board and its officials for violations of Georgia voting laws and procedures.

  • Specifically, the findings reprimanded the Fulton County voting officials for “numerous violations of state law.”

  • Furthermore, the Board found  "clear evidence that in 2020 there were numerous violations of regulations and statutes"

  • The county now has to establish procedures  to make sure the violations do not happen again in the November elections.

  • One violation was with regard to the requirement to create and retain ballot images which was not done on a whopping 380,000 ballots.

  • Also, according to one of the state reviewers, voting scanners failed to provide documentation for an audit trail of ballots:"There’s no way that this election or recount should have been certified." 

  • In total there were “over 140 violations of election code laws and rules.”

  • These findings go together with previous reporting by the Georgia Star news that the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia were certified even though the secretary of state did so "without having seen or reviewed the chain of custody documents associated with an estimated 600,000 absentee ballots deposited in 300 drop boxes around the state."

What a mess and an attack on a very basic American freedom and right, clean elections.

3)If a person illegally enters this country by definition, he has violated our laws, he has done something illegal. Pretty simple concept, a concept that the state of Iowa was guided by when they passed a recent immigration law that allows state police officers to arrest illegal immigrants who have been previously deported or barred from legally entering the country.


Pretty straightforward, you break the law multiple times, you are going to be arrested as a law breaker. But apparently this simple, straightforward concept is lost on Biden’s Justice Department since they have sued the state of Iowa over the law. The claim is that arresting lawbreakers violates their rights…even though as non citizens they have no rights. Insanity.


4)Maybe the insanity set forth in the previous point is one reason why Biden’s approval  rating is currently at a meager 38.7% according to a new Gallup poll. This is the lowest level of any President at this point in their first term since 1956, 68 years ago. Trump was at 46.8%, Obama was at 45.9%, and Eisenhower was at a whopping 73.2%.


This should not be a surprise since a quick summary look of Biden’s Presidency shows the following incredible level of incompetence:


  • Inflation reached a 40 year high early in his term and is currently running about 100% higher than what is considered a healthy inflation rate.

  • Everything costs significantly more than when he took office, be it gas, food, utilities, etc.

  • His immigration performance has been horrible with millions of illegal  immigrants flooding into the country and diverting billions and billions of dollars from the needs of taxpaying American citizens to feed, shelter, and medically care for these millions of illegal immigrants.

  • The failed immigration policies of Biden have  also made the drug cartels billions and billions of dollars in additional profits while flooding the country with cheap illegal drugs, a flood that will likely lead to more and more overdose deaths in the country.

  • His foreign policy performance has been abysmal, from the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the failure to end the Ukrainian/Russian war to the  Middle East to Niger to North Korea, the list of failures overseas goes on and on.

  • Crime is rampaging tough liberal cities across the country while Biden's Justice Department focuses on ridiculously unimportant stuff like we just saw in Iowa.


The real question is not why is Biden’s approval rating so low but why does he have any approval rating at all, given his litany of failures.


That will  do it for today: Biden’s approval  levels continue to sink, Biden’s stupid/useless meddling in Iowa, the truth finally comes out about corrupt Georgia

 voting, and the Biden lie machine continues to work non-stop.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The Failing Biden Presidency - Part 10

This is the tenth in a series of posts that document the idiocy and total failure of the Biden Presidency so far. After being in the Oval Office for a few months, the world is in much worse shape both domestically and internationally due to the failed and idiotic leadership and actions of Joe Biden. His approval ratings are sinking faster than the increase in violence and price inflation that he has caused to happen. Today’s discussion does not provide any hope that things will improve under his leadership anytime soon.

To read previous posts and examples of Biden's failures and cognitive decline, just type in “The Failing Biden Presidency” in the search box above.

Note: We keep trying to move on from Biden's almost daily screw ups and sad cognitive state but the idiocy, the sadness, and dangerous behaviors that he and his handlers go through every day make that task of moving on very difficult. That is why we are on the tenth installment chronicling the failure of the Biden Presidency.

1) In a recent post we discussed the reality that Biden’s approval numbers are cratering access to the country. Higher and higher inflation, a humanitarian disaster at the border, an embarrassing showing on the world stage at the G7 conference, the list of Biden failures is becoming epic. A recent poll found that his popularity is fading especially fast in Iowa:
  • The latest poll from the Des Moines Register found that Biden's approval ratings continue to fall in the state.
  • The latest iteration of the poll found that 43% approve of Biden’s job performance while a majority, 52%, already disapprove of his performance just five short months into his term.
  • In March, two short months ago, Biden actually had a higher approval rating, 47%, than a disapproval rating, 44%, in the state.
  • Apparently, his failure on the economy/inflation and immigration are the main causes for his disappearing approval ratings.
  • Only 40% approve of his handling of the economy while 56% disapprove of his behavior.
  • But it gets worse on the immigration disaster at the border with only 29% approving his handling of immigration and a whopping 63% disapproving.
Five months in and things are going south real quick.

2) It has been pretty clear for a while that Joe Biden is in the middle of a pretty steep cognitive decline. As a result, his staff gets up tight every time he goes off of the very strict, detailed process that want him to go through in public because he usually says something stupid.

And at the recent G7 Conference he did just that at the beginning of a press conference. He actually admitted that he had a list of pre-selected reporters that he would only call on, leaving the impression that these “special”/ pre-selected reporters had been screened and prepped by his staff and would not ask him any difficult or controversial questions.

Specifically, he stated: “I’ll take your questions and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on.” How sad and pathetic is this? A President who isn't allowed to field questions from any valid member of the press. A mainstream media that kowtows to his staff and him and sets him up with softball questions as opposed to what real journalists are supposed to do, ask the hard questions that Americans deserve to get an answer to.

The Internet exploded at this abridgment of freedom and stonewalling:
  • John Cooper of the Heritage Foundation thought that one of the biggest tyrants in the world, Russia’sValdimir Putin had a better, more open session with reporters than the leader of the free world did: “It’s frankly embarrassing watching Vladimir Putin take questions from the press for 45 minutes, and then Biden comes out with a preset list of reporters he’s allowed to call on.”
  • Kyle Martinsen of the Republican National Committee: “Someone needs to ask Jen Psaki why they make Biden do this. Do they think he’s incapable of calling on reporters without a list?”
  • “Putin, the leader of a country with some of the greatest restrictions on press, took questions from all reporters,” observed Lesley Fulop Byers, the Communications Director of the House Homeland Security Committee Republican, “The leader of the free world only calls on a handful of reporters from a list his staff pre-approved. Yikes.”

Go to the attached video where Biden explains that he is not cognitive or smart enough to take unscripted questions form the press:


3) In a very freaky show of cognitive decline, in a recent press gathering Biden abandoned his regular speaking voice and started answering questions in dramatic whispers. Seriously creepy. I am pretty old and I've never seen a President act so bizarrely in front of the press and the American people. Judge for yourself, I bet you cannot come off thinking, ``What is wrong with this fellow?”:


4) In that same press conference there was another example of cognitive decline. After it almost wrapped up, with Biden cutting it short to catch a helicopter ride, Kamala Harris had to remind Biden to go back to the podium and say something, anything about the tragedy unfolding in Miami where a condo building had collapsed and likely killed over 150 Americans while they slept.

This is major, international news and Biden completely slipped up in not at least offering support and condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the tragedy. It should have been in his opening remarks in the press conference, not something he haphazardly addresses as an afterthought. No, he had to be reminded to do so. So sad.

Even worse, after Harris reminded him to say something, anything, he returned to the podium with an awkward laugh and the phrase: “Oh yes, I apologize. Yes, thank you.” This is obviously not a laughing matter but somehow he found humor in it. Again, how sad.

The decline of Joe Biden the man and Joe Biden’s Presidency continues unabated despite the best efforts of his staff to make him look strong, intelligent and involved. I feel sorry for his staff since it looks like their efforts will always be a losing battle.

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

December, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Portland Politicians Failing the Homeless, Joe Biden Wants to Fight An American, Biden Supports The Confederacy, and Ocasio-Cortez Goes Delusional....Again

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) Liberals and Democrats always consider themselves as pure of heart and defenders of the disadvantaged. I would say this is a mirage since they are politicians, and in my opinion there are very few of them that are pure of heart and most could care less for anyone that cannot help their careers.

But they are always quick to pounce on anyone that they consider not pure of heart especially if it is politically advantageous to them. Thus, it should be interesting to see how they react to their leading candidate for President, Joe Biden, and some interesting video that has been recently uncovered. 

The Daily Wire website recently discussed that a video clip from 1993 could be quite embarrassing for Joe Biden. In that clip Biden compliments a pro-Confederacy war group, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, saying they were “an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag.” 

I cannot imagine the faux outrage the Democrats and liberals would have worked up if this video clip featured Trump or any other non-liberal politician. Given that many on the left side of the political spectrum these days finds racism everywhere when it does not involve them, I expect that the hypocrisy of Biden and others will be amazing.

The original video of Biden supporting the Confederacy can be viewed at:


2) When politicians have no idea how to resolve a problem or issue they usually come up with “solutions” that make the original issue even worse. This was recently illustrated up in Portland. Portland is one of several major western cities that have allowed the homelessness problem in their city get out of control.

Rather than fixing the problem, the politicians in the city decided that it was a better idea to force private property owners to fix the homeless problem:
  • According to a Daily Wire report, “Portland wants private property owners to add ‘mandatory rest spaces’ for the homeless.”
  • Yes, rather than resolve the issue, force private citizens and private businesses to at least alleviate the problem that they cannot resolve.
  • A Portland city commission wants to change the city’s building codes to force private property owners to build their buildings to accommodate the city’s homeless population.
  • This commission writes and enforces the city’s building codes.
  • The commission wants the construction to have “opportunities to rest and be welcome.”
  • Thus, if the commission gets its way, anyone could loiter, sleep or camp on private property.
  • As it often happens, when a politician cannot resolve a problem they start trying to fool us with different words to take attention. 
  • This is what is happening in Portland since in that city homeless folks are “unhoused” and they are “underserved” by the city’s housing public housing.
I feel so bad for anyone for any reason does not have their own roof over their head, however they define that roof. But forcing private citizens to do the job that the politicians cannot do regarding housing for the homeless is a cop out. Obviously these politicians are not worthy of handling the tax dollars of hard working citizens in finding the root causes of the homeless in their city and then attacking the root causes, i.e. do their job.

3) My perception of a leader is someone who can stay calm and mature under pressure, someone who rises above the trivial and focuses on the big issues and problems, someone who respects others. In a recent encounter Joe Biden had with an ordinary American, he was none of those things:
  • During a campaign stop in Iowa, a regular American citizen asked Biden about his son’s dealings in the Ukraine, a topic that has become quite popular recently.
  • Biden did not take the question graciously.
  • During the exchange, he ended up calling the American citizen a “damn liar” and “fat.”
  • He actually challenged the man, who was a senior citizen, to a push up contest and an IQ test.
  • He ends the exchange by telling the citizen that he is”too old to vote for me [Biden].”
If, God forbid, Biden ever gets elected President, is this the type of juvenile behavior we want in the White House? What happens when Putin or Kim give him grief, is he going to challenge them to a push up contest? What happens when he has to handle a terrorist situation, challenge them to an IQ test or call them fat? Just another example where Biden in particular and politicians in general are not calm, mature, focused on the big issues, or respective of others.

The exchange can be viewed at: 


4) First term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has probably taken up way too much space in this blog with her ignorance and delusions about reality and basic knowledge in a full range of subjects where she has offered her opinion and always been shown to be so out of touch. Her most recent excursion into delusion was recently reported when she insisted that she was right to force Amazon to NOT locate a headquarters in her Congressional district, a move that would have brought great wealth and opportunities to her constituents. That ignorance can be viewed at:


Her latest embarrassment of herself started with a tweet:
  • According to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that HER effort fast tracked the early arrival of an HIV medicine to the market.
  • In reality, a corporate decision to bring such drugs to market was made FOUR YEARS before she was elected to Congress.
  • Yet, she claimed that she “took on Big Pharma” with “colleagues in hearings that brought PrEP generic a year early.” 
  • But Gilead, the drug company behind the HIV drug PrEP, a drug that can reduce HIV transmission by 99%, had reached an agreement with a generic drug maker for the drug back in 2014, a year earlier than would have normally happened. 
As always with these types of political charades, does Ocasio-Cortez actually believe this fable or does she think we are too stupid or too lazy to understand what the real time line and real truth is? It’s a question that may never be answered or it may all of the above: politicians believe their fables and they do think we are stupid and lazy.

Footnote: the Trump administration recently announced that it will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to all uninsured people as part of its plan to reduce new HIV transmissions by 90% over the next 10 years. Thus, while Ocasio-Cortez is fantasizing over non-accomplishments, Trump is actually doing something in the area of HIV prevention.

That will do it for today’s insanity: Ocasio-Cortez’s fables, Joe Biden picking on a U.S. citizen, Joe Biden admiring the Confederacy, and Portland politicians miserably failing the homeless and the citizens in their city.


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Monday, October 21, 2019

California Political Class Insanity and Socialism, Part 3: Bad Government Priorities, Bad Voting Processes and Cities Going Bankrupt

We have done any number of posts strictly focusing on the crises in different California cities, from going broke to large homeless problems to medieval diseases making a comeback. What was once the land of opportunity is now the land of impending disasters on several fronts, fronts we will be exploring in a series of posts.

Before going further, let’s review a few California realities we have covered previously:
  • There are upwards of 30,000 homeless Americans roaming the streets of San Francisco.
  • Without a home to go to, the city has made it legal to defecate, urinate,and shoot up drugs anywhere in the city including in public and on the streets of the city.
  • This has led to a public health hazard and has caused the city to hire five full time government employees who go around the city each day in hazmat gear to pick up human feces and to clean the spot where it was found.
  • Things are so bad that residents can use a city cell phone app to report where they found piles of feces.
  • There are upwards of 60,000 homeless Americans in Los Angeles that is causing some of the same problems that are going down in San Francisco.
Public defecation and urination in LA is causing health problems in that city which has actually led to the outbreak of at least one medieval disease, typhus, and the concern is that the bubonic plague may also make a comeback, given how the exploding rat population has fed off of the garbage that homelessness causes.

The reason we are doing so is to point out that the state that has had the most far reaching intrusions into freedom and citizens’ lives, the state that has put its nose into every aspect of citizens’ lives, the state that has has misspent and overspent its way way down the road of bankruptcy, and the state that has reduced the freedom of its citizens the most is the state of California. The state is by far the most socislistic state in the union and has basically been ruled by a single party for decades, the Democrats. 

And since a number of Democratic candidates for President have basically declared themselves to be socialists, I thought it might be an interesting subject to explore what would happen if socialism took over the whole country. What would it look like if the country took on the aspects of socialism and Democratic rule that has swept up California. Warning: the future is NOT bright if California is the leading edge.

In our first two posts we discovered six current characteristics of living in California:
  • The rate of sexually transmitted diseases is skyrocketing.
  • Gas prices are about twice as much as the average price across the country.
  • Citizens are enduring rolling electricity blackouts.
  • Medieval diseases are making a comeback in Los Angeles.
  • Solar panels do nothing for you when the electric company blacks out your area on purpose.
  • San Francisco no longer feels like America.
  • The state government financial situation is very bleak.
Let’s find out what other “adventures” Californians are living through:

1) America has been and should always be the land of the free where respecting others’ opinions is a given. But according to a recent article by Mairead McArdle, writing for the National Review website, California politicians not only force their control and ideas on California residents but they are trying to do the same with people outside of California:
  • California politicians now have banned state sponsored travel to 11 states because they disagree with some aspect of those states’ laws and priorities.
  • Iowa is the latest state to feel the “wrath” of California politicians.
  • Apparently Iowa politicians do not want to use scarce Medicaid funds to pay for gender transition surgeries, preferring to use their limited funds for real sicknesses and real illnesses Iowans are suffering with.
  • This ticked off California’s politicians so they put forth a ban that prohibits California state employees and college students to travel to Iowa using California state government money.
So, we know from previous discussions that there is a massive homeless problem in California, the state is going bankrupt, the state has seen the rise of Medieval diseases and the skyrocketing of STD disease rates, sky high gas prices and they are worried about what is going on in another state 1,500 miles away relative to tiny, tiny portion of the population in that other tiny, tiny state. Talk about bad priorities.

2)A recent report from KTLA discussed a voter registration study in California and the results were not good:
  • Auditors found that in just a five month period that there were 84,000 duplicate voter registration records put on the voting books of California.
  • In Los Angeles county there are 1.6 million more registered voters than there are eligible voters living in the county which is equivalent to having another city the size of Philadelphia in the state.
  • Almost 20% of all counties in California have more registered voters than eligible voters.
It goes without saying that the potential for voter fraud and the destruction of one’s right to vote and their First Amendment rights is very high when the error range of your voting processes are so screwed up.

3) In our last California post we discussed the reality that the state of California has far more unfunded future liabilities than it has assets and tax revenue streams to pay for those liabilities. In fact, according to the Truth In Accounting organization, every California taxpayer would have to write a check to the state government for about $21,800 just to cover the debt shortfall, assuming that the shortfall does not get any larger, a highly unlikely event in that state.

The $21,800 is not the only check Californians would have to write from a debt perspective, seems that local government politicians have also dug their voters and constituents a deep debt hole at the city level:
  • While Truth in Accounting gave the state government of California an “F” rating relative to its financial situation, it gives the city of Los Angeles a “D” rating, not much better.
  • Every taxpayer in the city of Los Angeles would have to write a check for $6,000 to eliminate the unfunded debt liability of the city, meaning that a Los Angeles resident would have to spend $27,800 to keep their city and state governments from going bankrupt.
  • But LA residents get off easy since if they lived in San Francisco they would have to write a check for $22,800 to help eliminate the deep debt hole that their city politicians have dug for their city, bringing their total debt burden to a whopping $44,600 to keep their city and state governments from going bankrupt.
  • And the city debt burden per taxpayer is also bad in other California cities, $21,100 in Oakland, $4,000 in Sacramento, and $7,200 in Anaheim.
Thus, state politicians have created giant holes of unfunded liabilities at both the state AND local levels, holes that can only be filled by large increases in taxes or eventual bankruptcy.

So, what did we learn today about California politicians:
  1. They have really bad priorities, worrying about a nit of an issue over a thousand miles away when major issues in their own state go unresolved.
  2. Local California governments still do not know how to run an efficient and effective voter registration program.
  3. It is not only the California state government that is likely headed towards bankruptcy because of its pathetic handling of the state’s financial obligations but local city politicians have also dug major debt holes for their city residents.
Combining the past three posts we see that the state of California, a laboratory for socialism and intrusive politicians, has resulted in: high rates of sexually transmitted diseases and the comeback of Medieval maladies, financial ruin, rolling electricity blackouts, bad priorities of politicians, high taxation, high homelessness rates, high gas prices, and a voting registration process that is out of control and open to massive fraud.

If California is a leading edge for the rest of the country, then this is the world we can expect.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


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