September, 2021, Part 8, Political Class Insanity: More Afghanistan Failures, More Defund the Police Failures, More Chicago Violence and Politician Hypocrisy

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:

https://www.change.org/p/american-citizens-demand-immediate-congressional-resignations-for-the-twenty-year-afghanistan-debacle

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) Way too many times we have shown the pathetic attitude that American politicians have for everyday Americans with their “do as I say, not as I do attitude.” Politicians are real good passing down strict and anti-freedom rules and regulations relative to the pandemic, lockdowns, masks, etc. but always think that their very own rules do not apply to them:

• The mayor of Chicago shut down most of her city, including hair salons, but forced her hair salon to open just for her to get her hair done, something no other Chicago woman could do.
• The mayor of Beaumont, Texas also shut down her city but forced her favorite nail salon to open only for her to get her nails done, something no other Beaumont woman could do.
• The governor of California drastically shut down most of his state, ordering masks to be worn everywhere but was shown to be out at a dinner with many other guests, none of whom were wearing a mask.
• A New York Congresswoman went to a NYC benefit event dressed in the most hideous dress and not wearing a mask while all of the non-celebrities working the benefit wore a mask as required by the city government and mayor.

And the hypocrisy continues, this time out in Nevada:

• This past September 11, casino billionaire, Steve Wynn, held a Las Vegas costume party in remembrance of the September 11 terror attacks and in honor of his ex-wife.
• Many Democratic Party bigwigs attended the party including a Nevada US Senator and US Congresswoman attended the gala event.
• The day before the event, the Nevada Democratic governor declared that masks had to be worn anytime people were gathered indoors.
• Both the Senator and Congresswoman were photographed partying without any masks.
• Besides the governor’s declaration and mask requirement, the event was held at The Cosmopolitan club, a venue that has a stated policy that “all guests” must wear masks while inside.
• The Senator had been a big supporter of wearing a mask while inside, recently saying that “we can beat this pandemic” by acting “together.”
• And yet, she is partying with the rich folks of Las Vegas, many of which give her campaign funds, without a mask on.

The hypocrisy never ends, and it doesn’t end in Las Vegas:

• Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and he recently ignored a State Department travel warning by traveling to France, where he was seen without a mask at a party thrown by a billionaire.
• Senator Elizabeth Warren was also seen maskless at the indoor wedding of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in New Mexico

Turns out our political class is also an elitist class of hypocritical, condescending useless public servants.

2) One of the most frequently recurring posts in this blog over the years has been the ceaseless and ever escalating violence in the city of Chicago. A very, very basic function of government is to protect the lives and property of the people that the government serves. Thus, current and previous politicians in Chicago have been abject failures in executing that primary government function.

And under the leadership of current mayor, Lori Lightfoot, the violence and fatalities continue to get worse and worse:

• Fifty four Chicago residents were shot during the past weekend in Chicago.
• Nine of those shot died from their wounds.
• Six of those nine fatalities occurred in a short, four hour stretch of time Saturday morning.
• Most, if not all of the six fatalities, happened in the early, early morning hours, not a good time to be on the streets of Chicago.
• Sixty people were shot the previous weekend and over 3,100 have been shot through September of this year.
• Another 56 were shot through Thursday of last week before the weekend started.

And the death beat goes on without a single city politician having a clue to how to at least curtail the violence.

3) The helter-skelter withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a historical debacle. Biden had no clue, no plan, and no awareness of what was needed and what the ramifications would be of his idiocy in this matter. As a result, his hasty, sloppy and fatal withdrawal left an unknown number of Americans trapped behind Taliban roadblocks and barricades, their lives hanging by a thread.

And although Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, and New York Senator Chuck Schumer are trying to minimize the number of Americans left behind, with Schumer actually stated the ridiculous idea that all of the Americans who wanted to get out got out, at a recent Congressional hearing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally admitted what we all knew: there at least about 100 American citizens that Biden left behind and possibly several thousand permanent resident/U.S. green card holders that were also left behind.

Blinken claimed that his State Department is in “constant contact” with those thousands who are still stranded within the clutches of the terroristic and cut-throat Taliban. He claimed each citizen has been assigned a “case management team” to provide instructions on how to get out of the country, for whatever that is worth, given there are no U.S. diplomatic or military assets left in the country.

When pressed on how many green card holders were trapped, he admitted that he did not have a good estimate, another aspect of failure for Biden’s withdrawal debacle.

What a mess. When Fox News White House reporter, Peter Doocy, asked press secretary Psaki whose fault it was that so many hundreds, if not thousands, were left behind, she walked away and claimed “it was not about fault.” It was somebody’s fault, Jen, even if you will not stand up and answer a very legitimate and possibly fatal question for those left behind.

4) One last piece of insanity for today. We have often cited the idiocy that many liberal city politicians followed when they defunded their police departments in the face of the George Floyd murder and riots. We have also talked about the fatal fallout and failure such actions were, with crime, violence and deaths rising significantly as fewer police resources were deployed to contain crime.

The center of the insanity was the city of Minneapolis, the city where Floyd was murdered. Consider watching the following video clip where you find out that the fallout from defunding the city police department, in addition to demeaning and discrediting the police, resulted in more crime, more violence, more deaths, and law abiding citizens forming their own militia to protect their lives and property:

https://rumble.com/vmpnin-a-look-at-life-in-minneapolis-after-the-george-floyd-incident.html?mref=23gga&mc=8uxj1&fbclid=IwAR2e7wAHVTZ-2ha8L5vgt6w7gBR7qnVMhYur56hapd1f3DCsXCdyyqyd01Y

That will do it for today: more defund the police failures, more Afghanistan withdrawal debacles, more Chicago street violence, and more politician hypocrisy.

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:

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Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com

http://www.cato.org

http://www.openthebooks.com

http://www.conventionofstates.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w

 

 

March, 2021, Political Class Insanity, Part 2: More Middle East Insanity From Biden, More Wasteful Spending Disguised as Pandemic Relief, and More Sexual Harassment Complaints about Cuomo

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) One of the most puzzling, dangerous, and expensive habits American politicians have is to constantly stick our noses into the mess that is the Middle East. We have lost thousands of soldiers, spent trillions of dollars, and wasted an incredible amount of time and energy in the region with nothing to show for it.

And yet, as the Biden administration takes over, it is more of the same with a strong dose of hypocrisy mixed in:

• Out of the blue, with no warning, Biden recently authorized US military action and bombing in Syria under the excuse to take out militias that are supposedly supported by Iran.
• As is always the case, these militias posed absolutely no danger to Americans or our armed forces and yet Biden attacked them, costing the American taxpayer who knows how much in bombs dropped and endangered the lives of our pilots.
• And yet before he was elected, Biden took the absolute opposite stance when he criticized Trump for taking out a high ranking Iraniain official and possibly the world’s worst terrorist leader, Qasem Soleimani.
• Biden claimed that Trump's Middle East bombing was “a hugely escalatory move in an already dangerous region” and yet he did basically the same thing in the same region.
• At least Trump’s bombing took out a terrorist leader, not a bunch of foot soldiers half a world away like Biden did.
• Vice President Kamala Harris was also critical of Trump’s Middle East bombings when it was discovered that the Syrian regime was still using chemical weapons on its own people but she was silent when Biden bombed the militia in Syria.
• And to complete the hypocrisy, Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, also criticized Trump’s Syrian bombing attacks, questioning whether those attacks were even legal but she supported Biden’s attacks.

Thus, more useless and dangerous military game playing in the Middle East with a heavy dose of Bidenesque hypocrisy thrown in. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

2) Speaking of “meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” the pandemic relief bill that is trying to get approved and is being driven by Nancy Pelosi continues to get panned for the many unnecessary and wasteful spending programs that the Democrats in Washington are trying to sneak into it that have nothing to do with pandemic relief or helping needy Americans.

We have already discussed the reality that of the $1.9 TRILLION proposed spending in the proposed legislation, over half of that number, about $1 TRILLION, has NOTHING to do with pandemic relief. That $1 TRILLION is just a late Christmas present to Democrats’ campaign donors, themselves, their political allies, and likely their family members. The latest wasteful pending items uncovered include the following:

• $112 million for San Francisco Bay Area Transit expansion, which has nothing to do with pandemic relief, and just so happens to benefit only Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional district.
• $135 million for the National Endowment of the Arts, on top of their annual budget allocation, which had nothing to do with pandemic relief.
• We have already discussed the $1l5 million for the Seaway Bridge for New York state to Canada, a bridge that had nothing to do with pandemic relief, but it gets some money into Chuck Schumer’s state with the pandemic being air cover for an unnecessary expenditure by the Federal government taxpayer.
• It has been estimated that only 10% of the total $1.9 TRILLION is going to vaccine aid and distribution.
• You know a wasteful spending package is really bad when even a Demcoratic Congressman has problems with, since according to New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat: "The answer, no, I'm not comfortable [with it]."
• $10 billion of the $1.9 TRILLION as going overseas for various purposes including but not limited to funding overseas abortions, an action that has nothing to do with pandemic relief.
• There is an amazing $1 billion included in the $1.9 TRILLION for racial justice for black farmers, which has nothing to do with pandemic relief.
• There is also $40 million for “native American language preservation” and $50 million for an undefined “environmental justice” fund, both of which have nothing to do with pandemic relief.

Unbelievable on two fronts: first, that the people writing this bill think we are too stupid to realize they are stuffing this bill with their favorite, wasteful projects that they probably could not get approved under any other circumstances.

Second, given the millions of people that have suffered because of the pandemic, the politicians in Washington would rather waste a trillion dollars on idiocy rather than put some of that money to better use and help those in this country who are in need. Just the half a dozen wasteful proposed spending above comes to $11.352 billion. For that $11.352 billion:

• Based on previous research we have done, that money could have fed every homeless American three good meals a day, every day for just under six and a half years.
• About 114,000 restaurant owners could have gotten a grant of $100,000 to keep their businesses afloat and keep their employees hired until we got through the pandemic.
• Since on average it costs about $6,522 a year to help a drug addicted American to get the support they need, that $11.352 billion could have gotten a year’s worth of drug addiction treatment for about 1.7 million Americans.

Thus, when you compare what that $11.352 billion could have been used to help those in need in this country and compare it to what Washington thinks is a better use of taxpayer wealth, you begin to see how out of touch and insensitive Washington politicians are to the rest of the country.

3) We have spoken a lot about how the governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, has been a walking disaster for the residents of that state over the past year:

• First, at the beginning of the pandemic, he forced nursing homes to take in elderly patients who had been exposed to the covid virus and co-mingle those folks with healthy, but vulnerable, nursing home patients which quickly resulted in a rapid and unnecessary increase in nursing deaths because of the virus.
• Also, early on in the pandemic he stated: “So, when you’re saying, what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries,” which obviously resulted in his taking late and fatal action to contain the virus.
• In the middle of his bumbling in the handling of the pandemic he wrote a book that praised his handling of his self inflicted disaster using time and resources that probably could have been better used to save lives.
• There are now accusations from a number of government sources that he intentionally undercounted the number of state nursing home deaths to make himself look better than he performed, an action that may have broken laws and for which he is now under investigation at the state and Federal level.
• As this has been unfolding, two women have come forward with strong accusations that he inappropriately sexually touched, molested, or spoke to them while in his presence.

Obviously, the governor is innocent until proven guilty but really, he is not having a good year. And it just got a little worse as a third woman has come forward to accuse him of sexually inappropriate behavior. According to The New York Times, a lady named Anna Ruch now claims that Cuomo tried to kiss her at a wedding and put his hand on her bare lower back. Definitely not a good year for the good governor.

That will do it for today: a governor self destructs on every front with fatal and harassment consequences, Washington cares more about themselves and the rest of the world than needy Americans and more of the same failed Middle East foreign policy from Biden with a topping of hypocrisy.

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:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-My-Country-Loathe-Government/dp/1604942789/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=love+my+country%2C+loathe+my+government&qid=1607716020&sr=8-1

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com

http://www.cato.org

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org

http://www.conventionofstates.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w