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Monday, March 30, 2026

March, 2026, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Maryland Politicians' Fixation On Tampons, A Potential/Likely Ukrainian Money Laundering Scheme. and Yamaha Escapes From California

 We have  spent a lot of time recently talking about which city or state will go bankrupt first. That race to  bankruptcy court seems to be accelerating as politicians in these vulnerable cities and states are starting to realize that their policies and ignorance are causing financial crises across the country.


However, we will step back from that theme for a few days since political class insanity in other areas has continued unabated and needs to  be discussed and ridiculed.


1)We do not often talk about the state of  Maryland from a political class insanity perspective but that is our lead piece of insanity today. But first, consider:


  • Maryland has about 7,000 homeless folks in the state.

  • About 556,000 or 9.1% of the state residents are considered poor.

  • 1,315 state residents died from drug overdoses in 2025.

  • State residents suffer from the 15th highest crime rate in the country.

  • The state government  is facing a  $1.5 billion budget shortfall.


Yes, there are some very important issues and crises facing Maryland residents that involve poverty, crime, and homelessness. But that did not stop state government politicians from  devoting time, resources, and what little brain power they have  on the following ridiculous issue:


  •  A proposed legislation by Democratic Delegate Terri Hill, and  co-sponsored by ten other Democrats, would require EVERY government/public building in the state to stock tampons and feminine hygiene products in  public restrooms.

  • This requirement extends not just to  women’s restrooms but also men’s restrooms.

  • EVERY restroom in every public/government building.

  • Further idiocy is  that the  proposed legislation explicitly makes it clear  that the stocked tampons would have to be  "appropriately  sized tampons,”  whatever that means.

  • When pressed, the sponsors of the legislation could not provide an estimate of  what it would cost or what an appropriate sized tampon is.

  • Republican Delegate, Kathy Szeliga, saw the stupidity of this requirement when she questioned the sponsors of the legislation: "What are appropriately sized tampons?" I've never heard of such a thing. What do you consider appropriate?"

  • Kerr's inane answer: "Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom."

  • Then why was the language appropriately sized tampons put into  the  legislation?

  • But Szeliga was not done  ripping this idea  apart:  "Even if they determine to shift some of the cost to the consumer, this still creates hundreds-of-thousands of dollars worth of administrative costs to put tampons in men's bathrooms – just for the administrative costs."

  • So the administrative costs would be hundreds of thousands of dollars which does not account for the cost of the actual tampons.

  • But Szeliga was not  done: "Instead of tackling actual problems like out of control spending and other real problems, electric bills that people cannot afford, they pivot to nonsense like putting tampons in men's bathrooms."


Calling this  proposed legislation  nonsense is being kind. The state does not have  enough tax money to  fund  its budget but these folks want to divert taxpayer  money to put tampons in  men’s restrooms. Maryland residents are struggling with high crime, high utility  and gas costs, addiction problems, poverty, and homelessness and yet tampons in men’s rooms apparently are a higher  priority for some of those sitting  in the state government.  True insanity.


2)Recently declassified intelligence documents reveal what has to be one of the most disgusting alleged money laundering schemes of the American political class:


  • During the Biden administration, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars were sent to Ukraine,  one of the  most politically corrupt countries in the world, to help fight back the Russian invasion.

  • We have previously discussed the likely proof that upwards of half of that money never  made it to the intended purposes and was corruptly siphoned off before ever helping to fight back the Russians.

  • If that was not bad enough, in late 2022, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted messages between Ukrainian officials.

  • Those  messages discussed a scheme to take part of that taxpayer funding that Biden had  sent them to fight the Russians and send it back to the United States to help fund Biden’s reelection campaign.

  • In other words, American taxpayers of all political leanings would be financing the Presidential  campaign expenses of Democrat Joe Biden.

  • Director  Of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has  opened an investigation into whether the Ukrainian officials ever went through with their plan to  redirect funds back to Biden.

  • According to the released documents:  “The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose.”

  • The funds would be funneled back into the Biden campaign using U.S. companies as subcontractors on the bogus infrastructure plan to make the  money laundering even more  difficult to track: “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from.”

  • Given that Biden was very generous in giving American taxpayer  money to the Ukrainians, it  is  not surprising that a plan was discussed to get Biden four more years in office and continue to receive American tax dollars for their own benefit, personally and for the war effort.


Anyone who has followed the Biden crime family should not be surprised by this alleged and potential money laundering scheme.  Also, previous work by the DOGE folks found that many times U.S.  taxpayer dollars were used to fund NGO projects via USAID all  over the world with some of that money eventually finding its way back to Democratic politicians in his country for their use. Disgusting disregard for taxpaying Americans.


3)A continuing theme in our blog is the  discussion of what city or state will  go  bankrupt first. As these vulnerable  cities and states  constantly raise taxes and business regulation, businesses in these states leave for other states that have lower tax and regulation burdens, taking their taxable  assets with them. Some of those recent discussions include the following posts:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-clueless.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-court-hochuls.html


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-race-to-bankruptcy-seattle-and.html


California is one of those states rapidly heading to bankruptcy court. Many state based  companies have already fled the state in total or moved  major portions of their  companies to other states for better economic and business opportunities: Toyota, Tesla, Chevron, Schwab, Oracle, Twitter/X, Palantir, Public Storage, In-N-Out, Valero,  and thousands of other, smaller businesses.


And that out migration of businesses from the state continue:


  • Yamaha has decided to pull  its headquarters out of California.

  • The company has been in California for almost 50 years.

  • They are moving across the country to Kennesaw, Georgia.

  • As reported by the California Globe:  “Another large business is leaving California. Yamaha says Sayonara to Governor Gavin Newsom after 50 years in the once-Golden State…” and this exodus “is going to hurt Gov. Newsom who has had a lot of success chasing out hundreds to thousands of California businesses or subsidiaries, which fled to business-friendly red states including Jelly Belly, Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab, and Toyota Motor North America.”

  • According to CBS News: “The company’s headquarters in Cypress, California, had been its home since 1979 after Yamaha acquired the land the year before….ATVs, boat engines, personal watercraft, and other motorized products had already moved its marine business to Kennesaw in 1999 and its motorsports business in 2019.”


How is it possible that California's politicians, and the  voters that continually elect them, do not understand basic economic concepts: a company will maximize its profits and thus,  will  look  for ways to minimize its costs, expenses, taxes, and business overregulation. Every company that leaves the state takes employees and their taxable income with them. And it also reduces overall state economic growth since those exiting residents and businesses do  not spend money on other state companies’ products and services (e.g.  retail stores, pizza shops, movie theaters, etc.), further reducing the state tax base.


Enough insanity for today: more taxable assets leaving California, a possible government/Biden money laundering effort for the ages, and ridiculous Maryland politicians’ priorities.


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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

December, 2023, Part 9, Political Class Insanity: American Taxpayers Pay For Hamas Terror Tunnels and Indian Writers, Free Tampons In Canada, and More

 A few last notes on American political class insanity for this month and this year:


1)In America today, millions of Americans are suffering:


  • At any time there are about 600,000 homeless Americans living on the streets with tens of thousands of them being our armed services  veterans.

  • It is  estimated that about 17 million Americans are in a food crisis because of high inflation and high food prices.

  • Millions and  millions of Americans are without medical  insurance or adequate medical care.

  • Millions and millions of Americans are in need of drug addiction treatment especially since Biden's border policies have allowed an unheard of amount of illegal drugs to flood into the country.


One would hope that American politicians would be focused on helping these Americans in need. But as always with our politicians, hope is never present.

Consider:


  • Douglas Murray is a reporter for the New York Post and he was recently allowed to visit the Hamas terror tunnels that the terrorist group Hamas has constructed under the Gaza Strip.

  • The sole purpose of these tunnels has been to build an underground network that could be used to attack and kill innocent Israeli citizens.

  • And these are not just simple crawl spaces, these are sophisticated tunnels that are big enough to drive vehicles in.

  • To  build such tunnels, it has to have taken billions of dollars, dollars that were intended for the poor citizens of Gaza but which were hijacked by Hamas leaders for their own enrichment and their desire to kill Israelis.

  • And to probably no one’s surprise, Murray reports that over the past 16 years or so, the American taxpayers have donated about $400,000,000 to these heinous individuals.


An incredible waste of our tax dollars which help finance the fatal consequences for over 1,400 innocent Israeli citizens. Think how that $400 million could have been used to help Americans in need:


  • That money could have provided about 230 nutritious meals to everyone of those 600,000 homeless Americans.

  • That money could have provided drug addiction treatment to over 60,000 struggling Americans over a year’s time.


And yet the Washington political class decided it was better off to fund a terror organization halfway around the world than to help struggling American citizens. Disgusting.


2)But the stupid wasting of American taxpayer wealth does not end in Gaza:


  • The U.S. State Department has provided American taxpayer dollars to a “queer” Muslim organization in India to provide “LGBTQWI” people in the region with a online platform to write.

  • Yes, a platform to write for people half a world away, funded with U.S. taxpayer money.

  • The money was funneled through a George Soros organization, “Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action.”

  • It eventually went to the Queer Muslim Project which is an “online platform for queer, Muslim and allied voices.”

  • Somehow this idiocy is supposed to “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security,” which is obviously boilerplate nonsense.

  • Output from this effort will be presented at a “leading Mumbai literature festival.”

  • This idiocy follows on the heels of another State Department program that partnered with the Queer Muslim Project which paid for a 10-week “creative incubator” for young LGBTQIA writers which resulted in, wait for it, a magazine.


This has nothing to do with queer or LGBTQWI issues or biases. Our reaction would have been the same if it involved sending money to straight, white writers in Ireland. Americans are hungry, homeless and in need of medical care and  sending money overseas for writing projects, wherever it is going for whatever group, alleviates none of their suffering. It is an insult to American taxpayers and an affront to those citizens in need.


3)But American politicians do not have a monopoly on stupid political acts, as witnessed by some insanity that happened up in Canada recently:


  • In an act of stupidity that has the full support of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian government now requires that free tampons and other products for female periods be placed in men’s restrooms in government buildings, airports, and military places.

  • A Twitter account, @HoCVStaffer, posted the official tampon policy online, a policy that asserts that tampons are really important basic needs and by giving them away for free in bathrooms the hope is that people will feel less embarrassed or awkward about menstruation, a normal part of life.

  • Somehow someone in the government including the prime minister thought this was a good idea and a good use of taxpayer wealth.


So much wrong and stupid with this policy:


  • How is witnessing a tampon in a men’s room going to make anyone “less embarrassed?” 

  • Was market research done to verify this policy or did someone in the government have too much free time  on their hands and  needed to justify their job?

  • Since when is it the job of any government function to provide free tampons, or other personal health products, to anyone who walks by?

  • As a guy, I am pretty sure that men will either ignore this policy or the smart ones will simply just scoop up all of the free feminine hygiene products and bring them home to their wives and other females in their lives, saving themselves expenses while ripping off the Canadian taxpayer.

  • And keep in mind that it is not just the expense of the products that the taxpayers are paying for, there is a labor cost involved in stocking and restocking the supplies after they have been hoarded and taken home.

  • I assume that Canada also has homeless, hungry, and medical needs  for their citizens which would have been much better served with this funding.

  • I would also assume that if you polled every Canadian that “the need for free, taxpayer subsidized tampons in men's rooms” would not make the top 100 list of citizen concerns.


It constantly blows one’s mind that politicians and government bureaucrats can  waste so much taxpayer wealth on such stupidity.


4)One area that politicians excel at is their ignorance of basic economic principles. This is playing out again in California:


  • California state politicians have enacted legislation to raise the minimum wage to $20 in the state.

  • State politician Chris Holden introduced the law and claims that it will help fast food workers feed their families and improve their quality of life.

  • Nice sentiment that is completely devoid of economic understanding.

  • Two things are going to happen because of this law, the first of which is that fast food restaurant owners will have to increase their product prices to pay for their increased salary costs which is going to increase food costs which will wipe out at least some of the benefit of the pay increase.

  • Secondly, fast food restaurant owners will find ways to reduce their now increased salary costs by any way possible such as replacing human workers with machines.

  • Or they will do what many in-state Pizza Hut owners have already said they are going to do, which is to fire over 1,200 delivery drivers, thus, reducing their labor costs.

  • These Pizza Hut restaurants will rely on companies like DoorDash, GrubHub, and others to make deliveries, relieving them of the costs of paying 1,200 employees to deliver.

  • These 1,200 were from just a small geographic area, it is expected that Pizza Huts in other areas will also cut out their delivery staff.


So here is the result of this faulty economic reasoning by Holden and his cohorts in state government: “The good news is that you are now making $20 an hour. The bad news is that you no longer have a job.”  So much for these 1,200 employees having an easier time feeding their families and improving their quality of life


But we could have predicted this outcome of higher wages leading to  high unemployment. Consider what happened out in the Washington state area a few years ago:


https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/03/economically-ignorant-in-seattleand.html


Wages were raised and people lost their jobs because of it, a precursor to the “Good news is that you are making more money, the bad news is that you no longer have a job.” 


It happened in the Seattle area in 2015 and it is going to happen again in California in 2024 simply because most American politicians have no understanding of basic economic principles. As a result, their actions result in higher inflation and more unemployment. The exact opposite of what they wanted.


That will be it for today: economic ignorance in California, tampon idiocy in Canada, wasting money on writing projects in India, and funding terrorism in Gaza. Never underestimate the ability of today’s politicians to waste money on bad priorities that usually have minimal impacts on society but if they do have impacts. it is usually negative, be it death in Israel  or unemployment in California.


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