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Friday, October 8, 2021

October, 2021, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: A Clueless Congresswoman, A Cynical Congressman, and An Elitist Mayor

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:


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) In our opinion , Bill de Blasio is one of the worst mayors in the country. He led the “defund the police” in New York City, an effort that led to serious increases in violence crimes, murders, and other law breaking activities. He was grossly uneducated when it came to the pandemic, encouraging his citizens to go out and party like normal times because the covid virus is not passed via drinks and food, a position that probably led to the deaths and serious sickness of an untold number of city residents. He shut down all of the gyms in the city because of covid but then forced his gym to open up so he could work out, denying that same function to every other New Yorker.

And his sense of privilege for himself and his contempt for the city taxpayers still goes on:
  • The NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) has issued a report that says the good mayor misused police resources.
  • According to the DOI, de Blasio used police resources to help his daughter move out of Brooklyn in addition to using police resources to transport his campaign staff during his inane Presidential bid.
  • Police officers were used to carry furniture out of the mayor;s daughter’s apartment and then a police van took her furniture to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor.
  • Police detectives also drove the mayor’s son to and from Yale University.
  • A whopping $319,794 of NYC taxpayer money was used to transport personnel around the country when he ran for President.
  • And the sad thing about this whole state of affairs is that de Blasio does not see the problem with having police officers turn themselves into a moving company for his daughter, a taxi service for his son, or a travel company for his failed and ridiculous Presidential campaign.
He attacked the report, claiming that his police detail’s very job is to protect him and his family. This is true but I am pretty sure that the details of that assignment do not include actually moving furniture and such. Another example of an elitist politician who thinks the rules do not apply to him.

2) For almost two years we've had to put up with government officials telling us, ordering us to wear a mask in public, stay six feet apart, do not gather in large groups, etc. But it seems that as soon as a politicians put a covid edict into place, they themselves ended up violating their own orders:
  • The mayor of Chicago shut down all of the hair salons but forced hers to open to get herself a haircut, a function she denied to all other city residents.
  • The mayor of Beaumont, Texas, shut down all of the nails loans but forced hers to open so she could get her nails done, a function she denied to all other city residents.
  • The governor of California ordered his state citizens to always wear a mask, avoid crowds and social distance but was then photographed in a swanking restaurant doing none of those things.
  • As we said above, de Blasio closed down all of the NYC gyms but forced his gym to open up only for him.
You get the idea, with American politicians it is often “do as I say, not as I do.” And a member of Congress recently told how she is following in that sad tradition:
  • Rashida Tlaib is currently a US Congresswoman.
  • She recently admitted, an admission that was caught on video, that she only wears a mask when she goes in front of the cameras.
  • She said that, “No, no, no, I’m just wearing it because I’ve got a Republican tracker here.”
The hypocrisy is so bad. We are suffering with this whole mask thing, being browbeat by local and national politicians to wear a mask and she readily admits that she only does it for show. So who is the idiot: Tlaib for not protecting herself or us for doing what those in power are not doing.

3) Since Biden came into office, the southern border has been a drug cartel, human trafficking, criminal gang, covid, juvenile abuse, and all round humanitarian disaster. Everyday thousands of people are illegally entering the country, endangering all of us from a drug addiction, covid, and terrorism perspective.

Recently over 15,000 illegal immigrants parked out under a bridge, causing a sanitary nightmare before they were shipped to locations around the country to endanger the lives of American citizens. News reports showed a constant stream of people wading across the Rio Grande river to illegally enter the country.

All of which provided a good example of how out of touch Washington politicians are with the rest of the country:
  • We have previously discussed, many times, how Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is so out of touch with reality.
  • She once proclaimed that the Constitution is over 400 years old, it is not.
  • She once proclaimed that South Vietnam and North Vietnam both still existed, with North Vietnam ruling over South Vietnam even though South Vietnam disappeared over 45 years ago.
  • She once asked if one of the Mars rover vehicles would be going past the place where Neil Armstrong landed… on the moon!
  • And not to outdo her ignorance, she recently proclaimed that the southern border is closed and secure, despite the tens of thousands illegal immigrants, drug and criminal gang members, human traffickers and potential terrorists that come over the border every month since Biden took office.
  • In her special world, it is her opinion that “biased and unfair narratives” are being used for political purposes.
  • She is a Democrat and even Democrats in Congress and locally on the Texas/Mexican border are crying out for help to stop the flow of humanity illegally coming into the country and overwhelming Border Patrol and other government entities and services, but in her mind, all is good and fine.
Unbelievable that a member of Congress could be that ignorant of reality. She reminds of the Kevin Bacon ROTC character in the movie “Animal House.” towards the end of the movie, chaos and bedlam are breaking out in the downtown area and he is in the middle of it all shouting, “Remain calm!” His soothing words are so out of tune with the chaotic reality around him and he eventually gets run over by the stampeding crowd. Jackson Lee should put herself down on the border, it would be a hoot to see her Kevin Bacon impersonation trampled by the stampeding illegal immigrants.

A clueless Congresswoman, a hypocritical and cynical Congresswoman, and an entitled mayor, lord help us.

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

August, 2021, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Hypocrisy, Corruption, Economic Ignorance, and $129 Billion Down The Fraud Drain

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) We have shown over the years that the American political class is comprised of some of the biggest hypocrites in the country. During the covid pandemic shutdown, we saw mayors shut down their cities and the businesses within but then insist that hair salons, nail salons, etc. open up just for them but not for their constituents. We have seen politicians insist that their voters inconvenience themselves and wear masks while they flaunt their own mask edicts. We have seen politicians limit the amount of people that could gather in one place and then witness Obama throw himself multiple parties for his 60th birthday attended by hundreds of people.

Hypocrites to the nth degree. But it is not only covid circumstances where we see the hypocrisy:
  • Communist/socialistic members of Congress have come up with the hair brained scheme that landlords should not charge their tenants any rent for the privilege of living in the landlords’ housing units until an undetermined future date, the so-called end of the pandemic.
  • The idiocy of such a proposal is somehow not evident to these folks: if landlords cannot collect rent to cover their expense of the housing units, then they will either abandon the housing units or stop renting them out, resulting in severe housing shortages.
  • But their economic stupidity is not the topic today, it is their hypocrisy of proposing such nonsense.
  • You see, a few of these politicians are actually in the rental unit business today.
  • For example, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a supporter of the free rent movement, and her husband collected up to $15,000 in rental income last year, as reported on her Congressional financial disclosure report.
  • Apparently, her and her husband own rental property in Boston that they have reported income from in multiple years.
  • Another socialistic member of Congress, Tashida Tlaib, is also pushing for this indefinite moratorium on paying your rent until the pandemic.
  • And she also has reported on her disclosure reports that she also has rental property and is continuing to collect rent on that property going back multiple years.
Which is where the blatant hypocrisy comes in: if this is such a wonderful idea, why have these two members of Congress continued to collect rent from their tenants during the pandemic? If they truly believed that forcing every landlord in the country to give up rent collections until the pandemic ends is a great idea, wouldn't that be a great example, cancelling the rent starting with their own tenants? That would certainly set a good example.

But they do not want to set a good example or lose their income stream. They want to get in front of cameras and news people and act like they care for the downtrodden while in reality they are collecting rent from the downtrodden every month. Insane hypocrisy.

2) Oh so many times we have covered the criminal experiences of elected politicians across the country, both in DC and in cities and towns across the country. One would hope that leaders in the communities, the local politicians, would set high standards of integrity and honesty.

But that hope never seems to materialize. Consider the latest possible corruption coming out of Detroit:
  • Apparently, the FBI had enough evidence to raid the homes and offices of two Detroit city council members.
  • The search warrants for the raids involved dozens of FBI agents as they seized boxes of potential evidence related to corruption possibilities against Janee Ayers and Scott Benson, both members of the Detroit city council.
  • According to Tim Waters, the FBI agent in charge in Michigan: “Why are we doing these search warrants? Because the citizens of Detroit have a right to a city government that is free of corruption. Simply what we’re doing today is collecting evidence, which will be presented to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Michigan, who will make all decisions on charging in this ongoing investigation.”
Of course, these folks are innocent until they are proven guilty. But only last month, another Detroit city council member, Andre Spivey, was actually indicted on a Federal bribery charge for allegedly accepting more than $35,000 in bribes to influence votes the council may need to vote on.

Seems like Detroit politicians are no better from an integrity perspective than those around the country.

3) Let's look at some numbers and see what correlations, causations might be evident relative to regional unemployment rates around the country:
  • As reference, consider that the nationwide unemployment rate right now is about 5.4%.
  • According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada, California, New Mexico, New York, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Illinois have unemployment rates over 7%, well over the national average.
  • Now, these states not only are all traditionally run by Democrats but they have some of the highest across the board tax burdens and regulations for citizens and businesses in the country.
  • More than once we have looked at other data that show citizens and businesses cannot get out of New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois and other high tax states quick enough.
  • The same government report showed that Republican-run states, and states with generally lower tax burdens all had unemployment rates under 3%: Nebraska, Utah, South Dakota, and New Hampshire all have an unemployment rate under 3%.
We have always believed in that old song lyric, “People just want to be free.” That is why people move to places like Nebraska, South Dakota, etc., states with low taxation and regulatory burdens. This migration in turn creates more economic growth, freedom, and opportunities which create lower unemployment rates.

It has always amazed us that politicians in Democratic states and cities do not understand, or do not want to understand the basic concept: economic activity and growth is maximized when taxation is low, “people just want to be free.

4) The other reason why it is a good idea to have low tax burdens is that it seems the more money we give to politicians the more money they seem to waste. Consider:
  • According to the Federal Safety Net, “Improper welfare payments, including welfare fraud, are estimated to be 15.6% of all federal welfare payments made and totaled $129 billion in the fiscal year 2020. This estimate is based on reports from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), The General Accounting Office (GAO), and an Inspector General report.”
  • $129 billion a year is a ridiculous waste of taxpayer wealth, about $900 for each and every taxpayer.
  • That is $900 worth of taxpayer wealth that could not be used to make life better for those 144 million taxpayers, be it more food, entertainment, school tuition, maybe start a business, etc.
  • Instead, the Washington political class flushed it down the drain with fraud.
  • Another example is that $129 billion could have fed every homeless American three daily nutritious meals for over 70 years, that is how much $129 billion is.
What a waste and missed opportunity to give American taxpayers and American homeless souls a better life.

Enough insanity for today: wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer wealth, higher taxes means higher unemployment, hypocrisy in the rental market, and possibly more political corruption in Detroit.

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Saturday, October 12, 2019

October, 2019, Part 3, Political Class Insanity: Caring More About Illegal Immigrants Than Needy Americans, Yes There Were Obama Scandals, and a Racist Michigan Congresswoman

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) It is my personal opinion that the Democratic party now cares more about illegal immigrants than they do about American citizens. A lot of Washington Democrats went down to the border to protest the alleged and false mistreatment of illegal immigrants that got caught illegally entering the country. But none of them appear to have gone to Los Angeles to help out the tens of thousands of homeless Americans wandering the streets. City mayors and some governors go to great lengths and break the law to protect illegal immigrant criminals from the Federal government but care little about helping Americans who are in need. 

And recent actions by Democrats in the House of Representatives did not nothing to tell me differently:
  • Democrats not only recently passed a piece of legislation that helps out illegal immigrants but they fast tracked its passage.
  • The legislation would set up within 90 days an electronic medical records system that would specifically and only serve illegal immigrants.
  • But you see, American veterans have been seeking the same type of system for years to better serve the medical needs of veterans but the Democrats would rather fast track this process to help illegal immigrants, veterans be damned.
  • The American Military News reported that the legislation was passed mostly along party lines, Democrats voting for it, Republicans voting against it.
  • The legislation requires the Department of Homeland Security to set up an electronic records system within 90 days of passage, if it ever gets enacted which is doubtful, to track and provide information to Congress on the health of illegal immigrants that are caught illegally entering the country.
  • Republican Congressman Mark Walker captured the insanity of helping illegal immigrants and neglecting our veterans: “Earlier this week, I said impeachment was the House Democrats only agenda. I was mistaken. They just passed legislation that will give illegal immigrants better health care records than our veterans and service members. More and more they are making their priorities clear and it’s absolutely shameful. The Veterans Administration (VA) will not have similar electronic health records systems in place for nine years and the Department of Defense (DOD) will not have those systems for another five years.” 
  • A Republican proposal to amend the legislation to provide the same, not better, the same, capacity for veterans was defeated by House Democrats.
  • In an added piece of insanity, the House Democrats did not provide any funding for this effort which means Department of Homeland Security funds that normally would have been used to defend the country and protect Americans will be reduced to fund this effort.
Again, my view that Democrats are more concerned about non-Americans who break our laws than American citizens, in this case our veterans, still stands.

2) Our view is that the Obama administration was one of the most law breaking, scandalous administrations in recent history. Besides not accomplishing anything of consequence, the scandals were many and varied. We documented many of them in the following post:


And yet Joe Biden continues to insist that the Obama administration was “scandal free.” Which brings us to our constant philosophical question: is he that much of a liar that he thinks we are so stupid and believe his lies or does he somehow really think that there were no scandals, is he that much out of touch with reality? Biden recently proclaimed to a New Hampshire voter that, “The thing I’m proudest of with Barack and me is that there were no scandals.”

Hey, Joe, what about:
  • Fast and Furious - an illegal gun running operation that was not only a violation of U.S. and international laws but which used taxpayer money to put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartel members, guns that ultimately ended up killing dozens if not hundreds of Mexican citizens and at least one U.S. Border Patrol agent.
  • The weaponizing of the IRS to shred the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
  • The cover up and lies following the Benghazi terrorist attack where the Obama administration claimed that an obscure YouTube video caused the attack when everyone in the Obama administration knew it was a pre-planned, precision terrorist attack.
  • Allowing Hillary Clinton to maintain and use an unsecured email server in her home, in violation of government guidelines and laws, which allowed foreign interests to gain access to government secrets stored and transmitted through that server.
  • Ignoring Hezbollah’s international drug running operation to placate Iran and get the ill fated and stupid nuclear weapons agreement with Tehran.
  • The Iranian deal itself which was done in secret with likely law breaking concessions made to the most terror prone government in the world.
  • Releasing five high value, dangerous Taliban leaders for a single Army deserter.
  • Shredding the Fourth Amendment by conducting massive data collection and spying on most Americans’ electronic communications.
  • Allowing the rise of ISIS by assuming they were the “JV team” of terrorists when in reality they were the most vicious, heartless terrorist group of all time.
  • Wiretapping and spying on journalists, violating the First Amendment.
  • Allowing the Veterans Administration to operate a totally inefficient health care operation which likely resulted in the deaths of an untold number of veterans due to very long wait times.
Okay, I am getting tired of listing the multitude of Obama scandals, you get the idea. For Biden to say there were no scandals is the height of lying or the height of being so out of touch with reality.

3) Trump and Republicans often get accused of being racist, often when liberals and Democrats do not get their way on an issue. Rather than discuss the pros and cons around an issue and deal with facts when they do not get their way, they revert to name calling tirades and calling their opponents racists. Which is really sad and disgusting since the continual use and misuse of the term “racist” degrades the real racism that minorities have faced over the years. When everything is racist, nothing is racist.

This behavior was demonstrated again by one of the most hateful and profane new members of Congress, Rashida Tlaib:
  • Despite having no authority to do so, Tlaib told the Detroit police department that they have to hire only African Americans in their facial recognition department.
  • Her reasoning is that white people cannot tell the difference when it comes to identifying African American faces, only other African Americans can accurately identify other African Americans.
  • Never mind that computer software does most of the work when it comes to facial recognition, it is not like there is someone holding up two photos to the light to make the recognition.
  • Her reasoning is absurd, especially if you take it to the limit: should there be an Asian on the Detroit police facial recognition unit to recognize only Asian faces, should there be a native American on the staff in case there is a Native American id needed, etc.
  • Which leads us to conclude that this insanity is also likely a violation of the Civil Rights Act since that act made it a crime to discriminate on the basis of race, something she is clearly calling for, thus she is the racist under the Civil Rights Act.
  • And finally, it does not appear that she presented any research, her racist view aside, that would justify such an inherent trait of white people.
Two observations:
  • Can you imagine the liberal and Democratic uproar if Trump had made this distinction, that white people cannot tell the difference among African Americans?
  • Of all the problems in the country, millions of Americans are homeless and/or hungry, tens of thousands of Americans die every year from drug addiction, Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt, our bridges and roads are falling apart, etc., this national politician weighs in on a local, stupid, and incredibly minor non-issue in one city. Talk about bad priorities.
That is enough insanity for today: a racist Congresswoman from Michigan, still in denial when it comes to scandals and the Obama administration, and Democrats still caring more about illegal immigrants than they care about needy Americans.

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Monday, October 7, 2019

October, 2019, Part 1, Political Class Insanity: Lying Politicians, Greedy Politicians, and Clueless Politicians

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) It is our experience that the Washington Post loves anything and everything Democratic and liberal. So it really catches our attention when it says anything negative about Democrats and liberals, as they recently did in the midst of the whole Ukraine/impeachment circus:
  • Adam Schiff is the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives calling for the impeachment of Trump.
  • The whole false basis of Schiff’s impeachment theory is the story of an unknown whistleblower.
  • In order for the whole impeachment fallacy to have any kind of integrity it must be seen that Schiff is just an investigator and not a planner of the whistleblower’s story.
  • In fact Schiff claimed in an MSNBC interview that he and his staff had “not spoken directly with the whistleblower.”
  • But in fact, the Washington Post gave Schiff its highest designation of lying, four Pinochios, since that is not true: "Schiff on 'Morning Joe' clearly made a statement that was false. He now says he was answering the wrong question, but if that was the case, he should have quickly corrected the record. He compounded his falsehood by telling reporters a few days later that if not for the [inspector general's] office, the committee would not have known about the complaint. That again suggested there had been no prior communication. The explanation that Schiff was not sure it was the same whistleblower especially strains credulity. Schiff earns Four Pinocchios."
Again, if the Washington Post thinks you are lying despite being a Democrat, then you must REALLY be lying to get the highest rating of lying. But a Washington politician lying should not come as a surprise, we have shown hundreds of times in this blog the propensity of politicians everywhere to look us in the face and lie directly to us. It is just nice every once in a while to see a liberal piece of the mainstream media actually agree with us.

2) Kamala Harris is a California Senator who is running for President. In a recent public event she violated the first rule of public speaking, “know your audience”:
  • She was recently speaking at a town hall event in Reno, Nevada when she said she wanted to “engage in real talk” about next year’s Presidential race.
  • She addressed a topic that is being asked of every candidate, namely is she or anyone else who is running electable: “In this election, in the last couple- I mean, maybe couple of months, certainly a few weeks, there’s this whole conversation that has been coming up about electability focused on our campaign. Is America ready for that?”
  • When she posed this question to the audience, is the world ready for her to be elected as President, people in the audience shouted out “No!”
  • A little shook, Harris responded to the negativity by saying, “Well, yes they are.” 
Again, Ms. Harris, 1) know your audience and 2) do not ask a question that you may not like the answer to. Not only do the overwhelming number of Democrats not want you to be their candidate (Harris polls in the single digits, well behind several other candidates) you were not smart enough not to ask a loaded question in an open forum. Given you cannot control a small audience in Nevada, it is doubtful you could control the office of the Presidency.

The embarrassing exchange can be seen at:


3) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is a freshman Congresswoman from Michigan. She has been a very vocal, crude, and profane enemy of Trump, Israel, and anyone who does not agree with her socialistic views. She is quick to criticize, often in profane terms, but provides no positive energy, ideas, or programs to fix anything that needs fixing in this country.

But there may be some karma coming to the forefront as she may have gotten herself into some serious illegal activity:
  • According to Politico, the House Ethics Committee is reviewing a potential campaign financing issue incurred by Tlaib.
  • This happened during her 2018 campaign for Congress.
  • The committee has recommended that a preliminary investigation be done with the alleged violation being that Tlaib took money from her campaign financial funds after the election was over, a violation of campaign financing laws and regulations.
  • She allegedly took $17,500 from her campaign funds after the election on November 6, 2018.
  • The payments of the $17,500 took place on November 16 and December 1.
  • Her office denied that any violations occurred.
Although innocent until proven guilty, it is interesting that three of the four freshman Congresswomen of “The Squad,” who have spouted off nonsense and hatred since being elected, Tlaib, Omar, and Ocasio-Cortez, have all been accused or proven to have violated financial guidelines when it comes to personal financial gain. 

Seems that it did not take the newbies long to figure out how to get rich while accomplishing nothing in a do nothing Congress. It is just their bad luck not to be good at skimming funds, they all may have been caught and are guilty of financial misdeeds for personal gain.

That is a good start to this month’s insanity: politicians skimming money for personal gain, politicians lying, and politicians too stupid to know their audience. More insanity to follow.


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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

September, 2019, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: More Ocasio-Cortez Insanity, Pelosi Incites Violence, and More

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) It has always been my hope that in an ideal world politicians are leaders and people of outstanding integrity. That view of course is nothing more than a pipe dream as we have proven thousands of times in this blog over the years. For the most part, we have proven that American politicians are greedy, selfish, inept, and useless in resolving problems facing Americans.

To this dubious lists of traits, we recently have had to add inciting violence. Apparently, if an American does not agree with your political view, than politicians have decided it is okay to encourage and condone violence against those Americans that simply have a different opinion. Maxine Walters encouraged her supporters to get in the face of her political opponents. Democratic Senator from Montana Jon Tester stated that he wants to punch Donald Trump in the face. 

We could go on with many other examples of liberals and Democrats inciting violence against others but you get the idea. This is hardly the attitude and hatred that someone with leadership and integrity traits would be showing.

To this list we now add our favorite inane politician, Nancy Pelosi. She recently stated the following call to violence: “So you have to be ready to take a punch. You’ve got to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch, for the children! Throw a punch for the children.” Seriously, inciting people to punch out those that have a different opinion is the lowest of the low. 

And this lady is the Speaker of the House, someone who you would expect and hope would have some class, elegance, and leadership skills. But calling on people to throw punches is just plain childish and dangerous since there are some very unstable people across this country that will actually take this advice to heart and start throwing punches. This approach to problem solving will never be productive.

2) Radical and childish Congresswomen, Ihan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, were recently denied entrance to Israel and the Gaza Strip since it was pretty obvious they wanted to use their trip as a PR stunt to bash Israel. Even when Israel relented and said Tlaib could go to Gaza to visit her elderly grandmother if she promised not to politicize the visit and keep it contained to family issues, Tlaib want ballistic and blew off the invitation. This proved that the PR stunt was more important to her than visiting her grandmother.

It is so clear that both Tlaib and Omar hate Israel and would like to see it wiped out of existence. The have a cohort in their hate, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Readers of this blog know that we have dedicated a lot of posts to the insane, stupid, false, and inept statements that Ocasio-Cortez has spewed over time. Much of her babbling has been severely anti-Israel.

In a display of self importance that is so bad it is comical, she recently pledged that she would not go to Israel until Omar and Tlabi are allowed to go also: “Netanyahu’s discriminatory decision to ban members of Congress from Israel harms int’l diplomacy. Visiting Israel & Palestine are key experiences towards a path to peace. Sadly, I cannot move forward w scheduling any visits to Israel until all members of Congress are allowed.”

Congresswoman, I am pretty sure that Israel would not let you into the country to begin with, given all of your anti-Israel hateful rhetoric. To think that this threat has any validity and will pressure Israel is beyond idiocy, it is beyond comprehension that they care what you threaten or say. Your sense of self importance is pathetic.

3) We have often talked about the criminal violence problem in Chicago. Despite having some of the strongest gun control laws in the country at both the city and state level, no amount of gun control has reduced the carnage over the years in the city. This is the latest score card of violence from over the Labor Day weekend: through just the first part of the weekend, 7 city residents were killed and 25 others were shot in Chicago.

But this should not surprise anyone, these types of numbers occur every week in Chicago with the vast majority of this violence and these wounding and killings happening in predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Which leads to three interesting observations:

  • How come liberals and Democrats never seem to mention these mass shootings that happen every week in Chicago? Is it the fact that these are black Americans getting killed and maimed and thus, would the lack of interest mean that Democrats and liberals are racists?
  • This violence has been going on for years which leads one to wonder whether the local politicians do not want to stop the violence or have no idea how to stop the violence since for years the violence has gone unabated. In either case their total ineptness in resolving this problem is a disgrace.
  • And why should we believe the Democratic candidates for President who are calling of all kinds of gun control when gun control in Chicago has been a total failure? These are violent criminals committing these acts of murder and maiming, only an idiot, like most Presidential candidates, would believe that criminals would turn over their guns, submit to background checks, etc. They are CRIMINALS for goodness sakes.

Until we determine the root causes of this violence, gun control and other useless solutions will fail to stop the carnage despite what Presidential candidates proclaim, and their racism relative to African-Americans in Chicago will go on and on.

4) I try, and often fail, to live up to the adage: “the reason that people swear is because at that moment they are either too stupid or too uncreative not to swear.”As a golfer this is very difficult advice to follow but for the most part I try to live by this sage advice. Swearing and cursing to me is a person out of control and childish, again, too stupid to too uncreative not to swear.

Which is how I would define Beto O’Rourke, Democratic contender for the Presidency. In a recent live interview on CNN, he actually dropped the F-bomb during the interview: "To protect our kids, our families, our fellow Americans in public places. At a Walmart in El Paso where 22 were killed. In Sutherland Springs, in a Church. One or two a day all over this country. A hundred killed daily in the United States of America. We’re averaging about 300 mass shootings a year. No other country comes close. So yes, this is f$$$ed up." Note: he actually dropped the f-bomb, I cleaned it up with $$$.

Nice toilet mouth O’Rourke. A leader is someone who inspires with rhetoric and elegance, not potty mouth. By finishing of your thought with the f-bomb you discredit everything you said beforehand.

Oh, and by the way, I doubt some of your statistics to begin with:

  • “300 mass shootings a year” means that every day of the week except for Sunday there is a mass shooting in this country. 
  • How do you define “mass shooting” because I doubt that my definition would agree that just about every day there is a mass shooting in this country.
  • And while 100 people might die on average every day in this country from guns, most do not die from mass shootings: how many of these are suicides (a bad thing), how many of these are criminals shot during the commission of a crime (likely a good thing), how many of these are criminals and gang bangers killing each other (a very good thing).


Thus, clean up your mouth and clean up your statistics and maybe then we can have an adult conversation about gun violence.


That will do it for today’s insanity: a potty mouthed Texas politician, the Chicago carnage continues despite strong gun control laws, Ocasio-Cortex continues to grossly overestimate her value and significance, and Nancy Pelosi continues the liberals’ support for violence against anyone who dares to have a different opinion. More insanity to follow.


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