Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain! The Eight-Year Fantasy Reign of Governor Ned Lamont

 The eight years of the fantasy reign of King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable as Governor of the State of Connecticut can best be summed up by this dialogue from the 1939 classic film “The Wizard Of Oz”

The Wizard (booming voice, as the giant head):

“Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz! I said come back tomorrow!”

 

Dorothy:

“If you were really great and powerful, you’d keep your promises!”

The Wizard (still booming):

“Do you presume to criticize the great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I’m giving you audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now!”

(Toto pulls back the green curtain, revealing the ordinary man working the levers and speaking into a microphone.)

The Wizard (startled, still trying to maintain the booming voice):

“Oh! … The great Oz has spoken!”

(He tries to close the curtain.)

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The great Oz has spoken!”

(Dorothy pulls the curtain fully open.)

Dorothy:

“Who are you?”

The Wizard (first booming, then dropping to his normal voice):

“I am the great and powerful… Wizard of Oz.”

Dorothy:

“You are? I don’t believe you!”

The Wizard:

“I’m afraid it’s true. There’s no other Wizard except me.”

Scarecrow:

“You humbug!”

Cowardly Lion:

“Yeah!”

The Wizard:
“Yes, that’s exactly so. I’m a humbug.”

Dorothy:

“Oh, you’re a very bad man!”

The Wizard:

“Oh, no, my dear. I’m a very good man. I’m just a very bad wizard.”

 

 This 90-year old classic snippet of dialogue from "The Wizard Of Oz" describes the reign of King Governor Ned Lamont The Unaccountable perfectly, but for one item: While “Most Popular” Governor Ned Lamont may get an A+ in the categories of wonder and achievement courtesy of his state-run hack media stable, he differs from The Wizard in that in actuality, he is both a bad man and a bad governor.

Pick any sycophantic state-run media outlet or print publication in Connecticut, and you will get the same tale concerning Ned Lamont. There is economic magic in Connecticut! It is due to an amazing run of all sorts of the Democrat Party pulling economic rabbits out of their hats by the one and only, King Ned Lamont, the Unaccountable! In a recent news article that read like a campaign press release written by the Connecticut Democrat Party, somehow there is no longer any unfunded liabilities to the Connecticut State Pension System.  This is due to the magic of King Ned and his over taxation of Connecticut Taxpayers to create fiscal balloon surpluses.

From the article: https://www.courant.com/2026/08/03/a-look-at-cts-recent-fiscal-matters-pensions-debt-revenue-surpluses-taxing-the-wealthy/?lctg=64C6443F951205741532846538&utm_email=64C6443F951205741532846538&active=yesP&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.courant.com%2f2026%2f08%2f03%2fa-look-at-cts-recent-fiscal-matters-pensions-debt-revenue-surpluses-taxing-the-wealthy%2f&utm_campaign=trib-hartford_courant-five_things_you_need_to_know-nl&utm_content=hybrid “Central to Gov. Ned Lamont’s political brand and his run for a rare third term is a fiscal discipline that has contributed to Connecticut’s extraordinary run of budget surpluses. He’s wrapped seven consecutive years in the black, using $11 billion of those unspent funds to wipe out pension debt. No other governor in modern history has made one such payment. And Lamont, a Democrat who has served with strong Democratic legislative majorities, cut state income tax rates in 2023, something done only once before in the 35-year history of the levy, while still building a record-setting budget reserve that tops $4.4 billion.”

This particular version of sycophantic blather was never parroted until the Lamont versus Socialist/Communist Josh Elliott primary. As someone who has studied the and written about the Connecticut State Debt for decades, I am truly amazed by these farcical statements.  When one tries to understand Connecticut State's Debt, one may be overwhelmed by the spider web of deceptions and untruths that have been force fed to Connecticut Taxpayers over the years. For to even get at what the real state debt is truly a challenge.

One thing the sycophants and lackeys will never tell you is that there are many aspects to Connecticut's debt that include long term and short-term bonding of different debts along with billions in unfunded liabilities that state taxpayers are liable for. This chorus of magpies would never tell you that Connecticut has one of the highest ratios of debt functions in the country along with one of the highest local and state tax burdens simultaneously. Few even understand this is happening. Connecticut State workers have one of the highest wage, benefit, and pension structures in the country accounting for over $11 billion dollars this past year out of state budget or roughly $27 billion dollars.  This is roughly 41% of Connecticut's state budget. Other examples include a 17.15% Debt to Gross Domestic Product ratio. This is a ratio calculated by dividing total debt by annual economic output, reflecting Connecticut's ability to pay back what it owes. And business development and economic opportunity? Connecticut has a population of roughly 3.6 million people of which over 380,000 are on Food Stamps which is over 10% of the state's population (https://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-connecticut-debt-clock.html). Of course if you can make your own way, you do not need government food subsidies. But! (but) isn't the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development leading the charge into the Mojo-driven Lamont universe? Roughly two billion dollars has been siphoned from state coffers into varying socialistic scam spending during the Reign of Lamont. But one wonders for what purpose have these funds been allocated for reasons other than serial waste, fraud, nepotism, cronyism, and abuse? https://wp.cga.ct.gov/apa/wp-content/cgacustom/reports/FullReports/Economic%20and%20Community%20Development,%20Department%20of%20FULL_20260729_FY2023,2024.pdf .

Continuing from the above news article/press release: “I think people are taking a second look at Connecticut” because of this fiscal dedication, Lamont said this week. “They say, ‘They’ve got their act together.’” 

How did Connecticut ever get its act together with crushingly high state debt and 41% of the budget just going to salaries, benefits, and pensions, coupled with Wizard of Oz-like budget surpluses caused by Democrat Party over taxation?

However, no state-produced lie is ever complete without a benchmark reference to the failed leaders of the past. Here, the reference is to good old Former Governor Dan Malloy, who ran on a platform of “no new taxes. When elected that lie was forgotten about. Again, from the “above news article/press release: “(Malloy) took an issue that was [behind] closed doors … and really put it out there for people to understand the level of the problem,” said Joe Aresimowicz, the House speaker during the last two years of Malloy’s tenure and first two of Lamont’s. “It takes a different kind of human being to stand up in front of hundreds of people night after night, knowing that they disagree with you, knowing that they’re angry, knowing that they’re going to yell at you, and you keep doing it anyway,” said Roy Occhiogrosso, a senior adviser and campaign strategist for Malloy. “And it was because he believed deeply that you cannot fix the massive problems that he inherited unless you educate people about them first.” “In Dan Malloy’s defense, he was the first guy to at least make the current [pension] payments,” the governor said, “and I respect him for that.” Malloy’s tax hikes forced high earners to pay more..."Lamont ultimately closed his deficit by raising some business taxes and by canceling some sales tax exemptions and previously approved tax cuts that hadn’t taken effect yet. He was spared from increasing the state income tax, which carried the biggest political risk."

None of these characters of the state’s storied past will ever tell you that Malloy's legacy was one of making Connecticut's State Income Tax one of the most progressive in the country to fuel much higher state spending under the guise of paying down state debt. For such a destructive reign of fiscal irresponsibility. Malloy's payoff was getting a political nonjob in Maine via his financial glad-handing of Maine-based Jackson Labs. And when the state pays the freight, no news article is complete without painting Lamont as a discernable improvement over the failures of the past.

But wait! Here’s More! More confirmation of the Lamont economic brilliance is a recent report from Reason Foundation (https://reason.org/commentary/cts-pre-k-endowment-diverts-pension-dollars/). From this report,  Connecticut’s Early Childhood Education Endowment (ECEE) was created to further the state’s efforts to subsidize early childhood education. The goal is commendable. Childcare is expensive, and surely many families in Connecticut could benefit from additional support.

But the financing structure of this endowment is troubling. It redirects surplus dollars that would otherwise have gone toward paying down Connecticut’s severely underfunded public pension systems, setting up the state for future problems.

Connecticut already funds early childhood education through its operating budget. The state approved $418 million for fiscal year 2026 and $443 million for fiscal year 2027, separate from the endowment. These funds are part of the regular budget process, where spending is debated, appropriated, and subject to the state’s fiscal guardrails.

The endowment is different. Starting in fiscal year 2026, it is set to receive any unappropriated General Fund surpluses once the Budget Reserve Fund is at its statutory cap. Before the endowment was created, those surpluses would have continued to support additional contributions to pay the state’s massive pension system debt that is owed to public workers.

Connecticut’s State Employees Retirement System and State Teachers’ Retirement System have a combined unfunded liability of $31.5 billion. These are not optional obligations. These are pension benefits already earned by public employees that are legally binding claims on future state revenues.

Unfunded pension obligations are among the state’s most expensive fiscal risks. When pension funding falls short, the state forgoes investment earnings that would have accrued on contributed assets, increasing long-term costs, and shifting a larger burden to future taxpayers. For decades, Connecticut did exactly that, using funding practices that lowered near-term budget pressure while pushing debts and costs into the future.

But didn’t the above news article/press release tell us Lamont wiped out debt? If that is the case, how is it possible that a mere $31 billion dollars plus in unfunded pension liabilities exists in one place alone? Who is telling the truth? Who is lying? I highly doubt it is Democrat Governor Ned Lamont through his state-run media.

True money does not lie. Connecticut, depending on your periscope, still has $100,000,000,000 to $150,000,000,000 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. It has moved billions over dollars off budget over the years  and hidden that from public view and comment. Connecticut gives away your tax dollars freely and without oversight through nontransparent agencies such as the Department of Economic and Community Development, which really should be eliminated and via myriad non-profits that no one in elected government wants to stop funding. Connecticut remains a fiscal mess with high debt, high taxes, and a poor business climate.

If you do not mind being ripped off daily, by all means keep voting for incompetent Democrats who are running in November. If you do not mind living in an economic and unaffordable economic sewer where there are few places you can grow and advance, keep voting for incompetent Democrats who are running in November. If you like busting your rear-end to feed the masses, illegal aliens and the entitled, keep voting for incompetent Democrats who are running in November. If you like all the daycare opportunities in-state but have no idea as to how much grift and fraud you are supporting since no politician anywhere cares, keep voting for incompetent Democrats who are running in November. If you want a genuine growing economy that attracts winners rather than a state-supported morass that attracts only politicians, keep voting for incompetent Democrats that are running in November. If you like serial crime and mere lip-service by police agencies to stop the crime as lip-service is all that is allowed, keep voting for incompetent Democrats who are running in November.

 

Maybe, just maybe this election could finally be different if voters see the economic light of darkness that is Ned Lamont and his political hacks who rule Connecticut with an iron fist.

 

Connecticut: Where The Biggest Criminal Is The Government

It is staggering to me and to many others how mired Connecticut participates in various forms of crime of all types, where little to nothing is ever done to cause the perpetrators to account. Moreover, several types of activity such as gambling, weed, and abusive practices with children in educational settings have been made “legal”, regardless of their deleterious effects on the citizenry. Sophisticated patterns of self-dealing, larceny, and financial fraud from high-ranking government officials are as much of a hallmark of the Great Nutmeg State as New Haven Pizza. 

But as the crimes mount and the nationwide shock grows at yet another Connecticut crime, scam, or embarrassment, one thing is for sure:

Crime is simply a way of life in Connecticut, and the biggest criminal, is the state government.

Let’s start with something we are all familiar with. Death. Death is an everyday occurrence in the state of Connecticut. Some deaths are caused by criminals and crime. One such example, which could have been avoided was the senseless death of off-duty Bridgeport Police Officer Cooper Whiteside,  who was only 38, years old  and passenger Brittany Islami, only 34 years old. Ms. Islami had three children who now have no mother. They were killed by a Melissa Ramirez, who allegedly had a had a blood alcohol content almost twice the legal limit (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/fairfield/womans-bac-almost-twice-the-legal-limit-in-crash-that-killed-bridgeport-police-officer-girlfriend-in-danbury-warrant/). What was not reported in this state-run media article, (nor, as of the time of this writing was even mentioned by ANY candidate or elected official),  was that Ramirez, was an illegal alien. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in a statement to The New York Post that Ramirez was in the country illegally. (https://nypost.com/2026/07/29/us-news/illegal-migrant-allegedly-killed-connecticut-cop-and-his-girlfriend-in-dui-crash/). This a person who was here illegally, did not have a Connecticut driver’s license according to the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, and a substance issue. It is interesting to note that there was little mention in Connecticut's mainstream state-run media as to Ramirez being in our country illegally, because in Connecticut crime is a way of life, and Connecticut is the paterfamilias Criminal.

Would you like a cherry for your sundae? In Plantsville CT, on July 20, a motorcyclist was surrounded during a "Rideout". A "Rideout" is where hundreds of riders of all ages join in, often coordinated through social media and the riders will usually block out public streets and roads from legal users. It is extremely popular in Connecticut and law enforcement officials somehow are never proactive in stopping Rideout’s.  In this “Rideout,” a 58-year-old man on motorcycle was blocked in, was robbed of his cellphone, and was stabbed in the back with screwdrivers allegedly with Kevin Manuel Rodriguez, 20, of Waterbury, and a 13-year-old juvenile from Cheshire being the assailants.  

Rodriguez was charged with:

• Criminal attempt to commit first-degree assault.
• Conspiracy to commit first-degree assault.
• Second-degree assault
• Conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.
• Second-degree riot
• Unlawful assembly
• Second-degree threatening
• Second-degree breach of peace

Police said Rodriguez was held on a $500,000 cash/surety bond and was scheduled to appear in New Britain Superior Court on Tuesday, July 21.

The juvenile was charged with:

• First-degree robbery
• Conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.
• Fourth-degree larceny
• Third-degree assault
• Second-degree riot
• Unlawful assembly
• Two counts of second-degree breach of peace

The juvenile was transported to the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center under an "Order to Detain." (https://patch.com/connecticut/southington/2-arrested-after-southington-rideout-ends-assault-robbery-stabbing-police). I attempted to find his July 21 court appearance but was unable to. There is little follow up information to this case and or to the health status of the man stabbed in the back with screwdrivers.

Two additional questions immediately come to mind for many and remain unanswered. They are Why are "Rideout’s" not being dealt with more aggressively by local Police and State Police as in one of their biggest priorities? And why was bail offered to Rodriguez in the first place for his despicable actions that almost killed an innocent man?

Of course, in Connecticut, such questions become redundant. Get over it, folks. Crime is simply a way of life in Connecticut, and the biggest criminal and enabler, is the state government.

Let us move on to what Connecticut is world-renown for. Voter Fraud! Voter fraud is rampant in Connecticut. Just look at Bridgeport, especially in their absentee ballots/mayor elections as being the model city for these crimes in the number of arrests that have taken place. Bridgeport as we know has a convicted felon as their mayor in "honest" Joe Ganim. Sadly, most arrested never do prison time but are granted probation for their crimes except for Ganim and his wholesale rape of the city. World-famous “ballot stuffer” Wanda Geter-Pataky, and Alfredo Castillo have until August 25th to accept a plea deal from their part in ballot tampering. Many are nervous as to what Wanda may tell (and on whom) on her way to copping a plea.

"Two suspects charged with hundreds of ballot tampering charges in Bridgeport now have four weeks to decide whether to take a plea deal, a judge decided on Tuesday. Former Democratic Town Committee vice chair Wanda Geter-Pataky and current city councilman Alfredo Castillo must decide by August 25 whether to accept an offer from prosecutors or go to trial. They are two of the most prominent faces of the sweeping scandal that made national headlines and forced a re-do of the 2023 mayoral election." (https://connecticut.news12.com/judge-gives-top-bridgeport-ballot-suspects-four-weeks-to-accept-plea-deal)   Castillo: “The lead bosses tell us to do the work, and we do and then we get criminalized. And it’s just not fair.”

Reporter: “Alfredo, when you say the ‘lead bosses,’ who is telling you to do this?”

Castillo: “The [Sen. Chris] Murphys. Everybody, all the Democrats.”

Reporter: “What about Joe Ganim?”

Castillo: “Yeah, he's our mayor.”  

Can it be possible that these two Democrat Party operatives were being told what to do by Joe Ganim and other Democrat Party operatives? Isn't this evidence conclusive that Democrat Party voter fraud is a major issue in the state and just never gets resolved? How can voters have confidence that their vote counts given this constant fraud including people in the state here illegally and voting in unascertainable numbers?

Of course, in Connecticut, such questions become redundant. Get over it, folks. Crime is simply a way of life in Connecticut, and the biggest criminal, is the state government that enables all of this.

But why stop there.

Remember 2020? Remember Covid-19? Remember Dr. Anthony Fauci? Remember Ned and Annie Lamont selling Covid tests of uncertain accuracy to the state via family equity Sema4? Remember the “pump” of Sema4 stock leading up to a large cash-out by the Lamont family group fueled by $48,000,000 granted or borrowed at a 2% rate from the (should-be-abolished) Department of Economic Development, followed by a huge “dump” of Sema4 stock and subsequent flying lawsuits? Remember Ned Lamont’s close partnership with the modern-day Dr. Josef Mengele (Fauci)? Well, my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo remembers quite well, and covered this on his July 30, 2026, episode of THIRTY WITH TONY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnhkB2qwJc&t=2760s

But in Connecticut, such questions become redundant. Get over it, folks. Crime is simply a way of life in Connecticut, and the biggest criminal, is the state government, which enables all of this.

In the upcoming election in November, maybe just maybe voters  will realize that Connecticut has reached a breaking point. It has massive crime, massive voter fraud, massive local and state taxes, a crumbling infrastructure, a public educational system that no longer prepares students with functional life and work skills. It has a failed and arrogant state government and administrative state reeking of political nepotism and complete disregard for the Taxpayers who support this quagmire. It has elected officials robbing the state treasury by ostensible outright larcenists like Doug McCrory and Erin Stewart, or sophisticated criminals like those enabling Ned Lamont. It is a truly a Democrat Party controlled Kingdom enabled by a weak form of Republicanism, where the legal working class are the serfs supporting this self-appointed Monarchy of corruption and decline.

But let us be entirely clear, while many hands have made this debacle, the system is truly broken. And the ownership of this mess falls entirely upon the Democrat Party. Get ready for even more of the same in 2026 unless something drastically changes.

 

The Pharisee And The Publican- The Connecticut Democrat Version of 2026

Most people are familiar with the Biblical tale of the Pharisee and the Publican.

It goes something like this: Two men went up to the temple to pray: one a Pharisee (a member of a Jewish religious group known for strict observance of the Law) and the other a publican/tax collector (a figure often viewed as a sinner and collaborator with Roman authorities, despised).

 

• The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.”
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• The tax collector (publican) stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

In the Bible, two men came before God seeking him and one was able to approach God for mercy, being of a sincere heart. In the political theater of Connecticut, two men came before members of their party seeking primary votes. Sadly, both failed miserably as both projected no sense of sincerity whatsoever.

 

Welcome to the 2026 Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. 

 One, Josh Elliott wants to be the Governor of Connecticut so badly he can taste it. He demands your vote as any good Communist/Socialist Young Democrat demands. He confronted the Taxpayer funded Capitalist evil, enemy Governor Ned Lamont in a 45-minute debate held on July 22 on WTNH News 8 for all to see (https://www.wtnh.com/news/elections/lamont-elliott-spar-over-taxes-utility-costs-and-ice-mask-policy-in-news-8-debate/). And what a stale, scripted debate it was.  The same old, same old, tired failed Democrat policies echoed repeatedly. The agreed-to, (or network prepared?) questions were out of central casting.   No new ideas or logical thought provided.

Here are some interesting and as expected quotes from this fight between two Democrat Party brothers in corruption. (https://ctmirror.org/2026/07/22/lamont-and-elliott-clash-politely-in-only-tv-debate-before-primary/)

 Elliott:  “We’re the second-most reliant state on the property tax, which is deeply regressive,” Elliott said Wednesday. “The only way we can fix this is through a fair tax structure, asking the wealthy to pay a commensurate amount, a fair amount.”  Hey Josh! how much are you going to charge the wealthy in taxes?  100%? 200%?  At what point do you think they will move out of your state and thus pay zero in Connecticut taxes as they have done in every other state except your own?  Have you seen anyone and or any business move into state to pay Connecticut taxes in your ten years of damaging public service as a State Representative? In fact, what businesses have moved in state, excepting those receiving 2% taxpayer-funded sweetheart loans from our should-be-abolished Department of Economic and Community Development? What experience do you have with said loans? Why don’t you ask your opponent Mr. Lamont about this type of 2% forgivable economic assistance as he is well familiar with multi-million-dollar fundings advanced to his wife’s investors via Sema-4 and the Digital Currency Group?  What have you done about any of this?  

Not much as your record of accomplishments in unrecognizable.

Elliott also stated: “When I see that I’m up against somebody who takes my message and does the Temu version of it, I find it deeply frustrating,” “The fact is, I’m glad we’re rowing the same direction, but not quite the same, and not quite the same velocity. We could do so much more here in Connecticut, and the fact is, we have to fight for fairness up and down the board.”  What is this fairness he is talking about? Political nepotism for Connecticut Democrat Party operatives as in Bridgeport? More low-income jobs, multi-unit housing, and supporting dependency on the backs of the remaining legitimate taxpayers in the state? More gender-affirming care for innocent children?

Lamont:  “He (Elliott) doesn’t have much of a track record to talk about,” Lamont said. “I could talk about minimum wage. I could talk about economic growth. I could talk about the money we got for education and what we’re doing for health care. So, it gave me a lot of material to work with.”  Corrupted Capitalist Lamont could answer questions on how much did his family's hedge fund profit from Infosys Limited, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, "ADVANCECT", Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US (CT), Mt. Sinai Genomics, "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Informatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", "4-CT", and "VillageMD ““The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey, “CT Next”, and the Tidal River Fund, 'Baby Bonds portfolio, the UCONN Foundation, to name a few?  I wonder why the moderators of the debate nor Elliott did not bring these areas up. Also, why does the Boiler Room of Connecticut ("Connecticut Innovations") steadfastly refuse to release any information whatsoever on their portfolio holding “Yuma Asset Management?” Is it because it is directly related to that same Digital Currency Group, and neither you nor your wife ever really “got out” of that deal and you lied to the citizens as you are wont to do?

Or how about both candidates disclosing their Income tax returns? (Hey Josh! Be sure to ask for Annie’s separate return, especially the part of Schedule “B” that asks for locations of foreign investments such as the tax-free and secret Cayman Islands, an integral part of the Sema-4 debacle).

Lamont also added: “We’re getting our fiscal house in order, and we had some surpluses to allow us to pay down some of the pension debt,” Lamont said. “Now we have the resources we need to make some of the big investments to really make a difference in people’s lives.” But what are exactly these investments? More 2% loans? More throwing money in exchange for votes and gimmees? More picking of winners and losers? But who cares about Connecticut and its  $100 and $150 billion dollars in short and term debt along with unfunded liabilities? What is the plan to pay that off? Why are so many legal and illegal citizens on state taxpayer funded social aid? Why do you never seem to care about any of that?

 You could have predicted the rest of debate. More rhetoric, more theatrics, and more spins on one of the worst performing states economically in the country.  Are you excited about either Democrat Party candidate? I would venture to say no as both will end up increasing state spending, increasing taxes, do less to try to combat crime and take away more of your personal freedoms. It’s the same garbage force fed to you by the Connecticut Democrat Party and its state-run media since time immemorial. It is the same rhetoric and the same lies over and over again. And most insultingly, they believe that no one sees (or cares).

Yes, both candidates are "insincere" about representing Connecticut. Both candidates represent the powerful economic and social self-interests that have made them career politicians with zero accomplishments. One candidate desperately wants to be important and be a good socialist helping to tear apart our country and its very fabric of being. The current Governor is desperately trying to keep his family's Connecticut Taxpayer funded increase in wealth, through the biggest bunch of shell companies with zero transparency and the stock deer-in-the-headlights look whenever he is confronted with a question of self-dealing or leveraging the state for personal gain. Both are inept and both are unfit to serve the Connecticut Taxpayer. 

It is the 2026 Connecticut Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. The difference, is, neither Elliott or Lamont promises to repent, straighten up, and fly right.

 

Democrat Mission Statement 2026: Hide The Red Jackass

How much more progressive can the new Communist/Socialist Democrat Party veer to in 2026?  As we see a daily assault on traditional American values peppered by the lies of progressive Democrats, any people of common decency wonder why there has not been a greater outcry against this attempted governmental overthrow, especially by the remaining moderate Democrats in the party, followed by establishment Republicans who mistakenly are treating this concentrated evil as a flukey joke at most?  Why is there a great delight by a small minority in our political system to hate Jewish people, hate the police, defund the police, hate free-enterprise, eliminate our sovereign borders, eliminate the rule of law, eliminate prisons, eliminate personal freedoms, eliminate personal and real property, hate religion and hate God? And how do those in this twisted minority feel they have the lawful right to force their sickening views on the rest of us Americans who vehemently disagree with them?  Do they understand how many millions of Americans lost their lives defending freedom so these radicals within the failed Democrat Party can bellow their hatred of our country on a daily basis?  Are those lives lost in vain?  Do they understand that they are functionally nonproductive for any purpose, and that the only way these people can exist from day to day is by relying on the largesse of others? It is ostensible that they understand very little about anything whatsoever other than the psychobabble that has been drilled into their heads by evil adults and authority figures having twisted Communist agendas.

It is no secret these truly evil of the left wing wish to clean house of all of the rich, fossilized career establishment Democrats populating Congress. Perhaps it may be the personal wealth of the Frozen Chosen that irritates these evil people.  The decrepit anti-wealth Bernie Sanders is worth $4,000,000 plus.  Nancy Pelosi tips the scales at a mere $245,000,000.  Vietnam Veteran Dick Blumenthal, a warrior to the core, sports a modest $85,000,000.  Mark Warner, another assailant of wealthy billionaires, shows he is not one of them,at $206,000,000.  Barack Obama, a poor community organizer from Chicago is now worth $70,000,000.  Rosa De Lauro is a relative piker at $5,000,000, which certainly is enough to provide for purple hair dye.  Ilhan Omar is alleged to be worth $30,000,000, and she has yet to prove otherwise. (Open Secrets.org) Do a search on Democrat politicians’ wealth and it might surprise you to see these same multi-millionaires decrying our free market system and capitalism while they profit off it.    Why aren't these same Socialist Democrat multi-millionaires  giving away their money to help to right of all the supposed social wrongs that they bitch about on a daily basis? Why aren’t they funding this new cadre of renegade Communists to assail America with more energy, vim, and vigor? The answer is that the established group of Democrat fossils sees this new Demo-communist as a threat to their position, power and financial endowment.  In fact, the old guard hates these Communists more than you and I might. What a sickening example of hypocrisy this is. 

I wonder how many more examples of socialism and communism failure must be discussed to counter the rose colored glasses view of these horrific ideologies? It would be a wonderful world if these same communists/socialists were forced to study the following atrocities; (the) Bolshevik Revolution, Bataan Death March, Chinese Communist Revolution, Pol Pot's Communist Party of Kampuchea, (resulting in the Cambodian genocide) and the Holocaust.  How did any of these atrocities against humanity benefit freedom?  Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea have all changed for the worse under Communist influence, yet they are glorified by this generation of deranged idealists.  

 

Through it all, we are thankful that President Trump realizes this assault on our freedoms and stated in his July 3rd speech at Mount Rushmore; “There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11. We're not gonna let this happen to us. Believe me, we're not letting it happen. Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works. It's the enemy of the Constitution.  Above all, it's the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It is the enemy indeed. Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked. Thousands of years, if you look at it under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried. It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions and a pro- -- and to really propose what's good. They don't want good. They don't love God and they don't want God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion, and they won't have it, but we will not let them win. They have no chance against us. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It's an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder...You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who pedal Marx's lies about our heritage, who tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors." (https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-mount-rushmore-250th-birthday-semiquincentennial-july-3-2026/)

I highly recommend all sides of the aisle to read this speech, and to watch it again, several times over.  Please digest and truly understand what President Trump is actually saying.  And if you are a Republican running for public office at any level, you must quote from it in your pro American/Freedom/anti-Communism/Socialism speeches if you are called upon.  It is unquestionable that our free country and our personal freedoms are worth fighting for once again, as they were in 1776.  

The political pap and crap that is force fed to us by an out of touch with reality Socialist Democrat Party embracing this communism/socialism is continually enabled by an obedient docile, and inept media. This toxic mess needs to be confronted once and for all.  The time and money we have to invest in this fight defies logic as we do live in the freest and greatest country in the world.  If this small minority of Communists/Socialists do not like living here, then please get the hell out of America once and for all.  Your system has never worked and will never work, contrary to your lies. Better communists than you have failed miserably in this endeavor and you are not equipped to succeed. Most of you cannot even explain the difference between Pol Pot and a Coffee Pot.  Stop infringing upon my and millions of other Americans economic, personal and religious freedoms.  We are the majority, and your sickening doctrine you are trying to shove down our throats is best left ignored.

In closing, may the complacent and comfortable elected members of the political system take this situation to heart with urgency, and not with the usual stubbornness and incompetence. If this class of individuals fights Communism at least half as hard as ordinary citizens are, this fight will be over very quickly.

May God Save The United States Of America from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

 

Connecticut: The Land Of Steady Failures

 What should be the caption title of the State of Connecticut? In the past, we have seen “The Constitution State,” “The Land of Steady Habits,” and “The Nutmeg State” used to describe a relatively small state bordered by three other ones. However, I submit unto you that a much more apt and descriptive name for the state of Connecticut would be “The Perpetual Debtor State” as politicians of all stripes have done little but spend and bond the way to Connecticut’s economic oblivion for the past thirty-five years.

Does more state governmental spending of taxpayers’ dollars solve social problems? A simple look around will tell you that Connecticut does not solve anything, nor offer any resolutions to the state's social problems with the vast sums of cash being spent by its state government. Kindly note that Connecticut spends $28.1 billion dollars yearly, with the adoption of its new budget and spends over $11 billion dollars on social welfare programs. So why do conditions perpetually worsen?

As we examine more closely, we see that Connecticut being a state of roughly 3.3 million people, spends 40% of its budget on social welfare programs. If one reads even slanted state-run media reports regarding all the social welfare problems the state has in 2026, one could logically assume that the state is throwing away this money with no positive results in solving all these issues. As just one example from a recent article by the left-leaning, oft-quoted, and Democrat friendly nonprofit “Connecticut Voices For Children,” it is stated that, “Connecticut ranked 29th in the nation for the percentage of children living in high-poverty areas. At 7 percent, Connecticut reports a higher share of children living in concentrated poverty than most New England states." (https://ctvoices.org/press_releases/connecticut-ranks-7th-in-the-nation-for-child-well-being-but-economic-inequities-continue-to-hold-too-many-families-back/). Many wonder if the state is spending over 40% of its budget on social welfare programs, how could poverty increase? yet it does.

As much as it wants to spend, Connecticut never rids itself of the social problems of illegal drug use, deaths due to these same illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum-like living conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by numerous food banks throughout the state and increases in child poverty. If one multiplies the ever-increasing state spending on social welfare since the 1991 implementation of the Utopian State Income tax, billions of dollars, (many matched by Federal funding), have been spent in the last 37 years with little or any positive result. It becomes more evident daily that Connecticut has refined a state perpetually financed with taxpayer-paid spending on welfare, poverty, crime, illegal drug use, hopelessness, hopelessness, and penury. And again, one must realize that Connecticut still is a top five highest taxed state in the country having a poor economic and business climate with $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities, and massive industry and corporate losses. Where has all the money gone to produce such poor results? Or is this the intended consequences of attempting to strip a productive economy of its past vibrancy. and replace it with failed socialism and control of its youth?

Much to the chagrin and to the resistance of just about every Connecticut state office holder and candidate being afflicted with the debilitating disease of Trump Derangement Syndrome, there have been several plans and provisions under the Trump Administration to change this way of welfare life. My colleague Tony De Angelo has talked numerous times about the economic benefits for young people of the 530A Trump accounts, and is now in the process of challenging (if not, embarrassing) these same politicians asking why they wish for children in their districts to remain in perpetual poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXoj4oZgvW8&t=2132s) However, and in fairness, this program is doubly despised by Democrats in liberal states such as Connecticut. The same “Connecticut Voices For Children” (funded by angry, older,wealthy Liberals) also condemns them; "Proponents frame these as “freedom-based” fiscal tools. While all of this sounds good—for clarity, there can be value in these types of accounts—this policy may exacerbate racial inequality. Unlike Baby Bonds, a policy we’ve been championing, Trump accounts are not equity-based by design. What’s more, Trump accounts are private, market based investment vehicles intended as a diverted payroll tax
alternative to traditional Social Security." (https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Candidate-Briefing-Book-2026-6.23.pdf). How could the revered lunatics in this Liberal “Think Tank” ever arrive at such nonsensical conclusions? How is this investment intended to a baby or a child who is 5 years old or less be tabbed as a “Social Security” alternative? Are these children working a job paying contributions under FICA? Do the “Voices” (along with the equally mentally bereft Connecticut Treasurer Erick Russell) feel that “Trump Accounts” are for “white kids only?”  Why is it wrong with teaching young people the value of savings (tax free), and creating the desire to build wealth and economic freedom? With all that Connecticut spends on child welfare, why are so many kids in poverty? I will note that the Executive Director of Connecticut Voices For Children, Emily Byrne received $160,776 in Compensation in 2024 along with "Other" Compensation of $17,486. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61435280). That is an awful lot of money to pay to someone who has no concept whatsoever of how economics really work.

Maybe before one more Connecticut Taxpayer dollar is spent, a complete punitive audit/review of all these $11 billion dollars in social welfare spending is in order. because it is obvious to many that the funds are not correcting these various social atrocities found in Connecticut. Maybe candidates running for state office this year could actually offer real solutions rather than just spending even more money to get even poorer results, year in and year out. If there were any political courage whatsoever, illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum like livings conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by enormous food banks throughout the state and increase in child poverty can be alleviated through major changes in the state-run bureaucracy that embraces it. Maybe candidates can take Tony’s hint and while they are out door knocking, take a moment to explain how a Republican-designed Trump Account can provide more than enough money for their children’s education at Age 18 rather than their precious child becoming a welfare recipient or a lifelong debtor at that juncture, irrespective of the color of their skin. Or, conversely, will the brainless perceptions and prejudices of ignorant adults operate again to snatch failure from the jaws of success in what we now understand to be "The Connecticut Way?" Connecticut Taxpayers quickly need to see solutions from their failed government. They are tired of supporting this litany of failure. 

Will 2026 finally be the year of boldness and change that taxpayers have waited to see? It must be so, for there will be no other opportunity.

Today is the first day of our 250th year of American Freedom and Exceptionalism

 

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be … the signal of arousing men to burst the chains … and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. …For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” –

Thomas Jefferson, June 24, 1826, Monticello

 

Freedom is not free, nor ever has it been free. I guess that difficult to understand for some in our country today. Socialism has been a failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Communism also has been a miserable failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Why are some in our country embracing the losses of personal and economic freedoms along with reverting back to tyrannical type of government? Do they not understand the consequences of the dictatorial actions of murderous leaders such as  Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Chairman Mao and Saddam Hussein to name a few?  It would be educational for those paid protestors and Democrat Socialists of America members,  who have a hatred for our country to read over what these socialist/communist dictators did to their countries that they ruled with no regard for the sanctity for human life let alone personal and economic freedoms. Is this what the younger generation wants for their future because of all of the "free" things that are being promised to them that in reality they never will receive?

Today's Communist/Socialist Democrat Party shows itself to embrace the dismantling of personal and economic freedoms at all costs.  It sickens many Americans to have watched the wretched turmoil of non-stop rioting and destruction of personal property go unchecked. It sickens many Americans to have watched the blatant lies of an obedient state run  media echo all the failed talking points of failed socialistic and communistic government mandated programs in lock step. It sickens many Americans to have watched a mass of illegal immigrants just walk into our country and do whatever they wanted to for four years. It sickens many Americans to have watched the constant condemnation, personal attacks, assassination attempts and impeachment attempts of President Trump since 2016. It sickens many Americans to have watched Police and Law Enforcement officials be told not to enforce the laws of our country, or if they did there would be consequences for their actions. It sickens many Americans to have watched a small minority of our country attempt to force fed us their incoherent socialistic gibberish while hiding under masks. It sickens many Americans to have activists Judges create laws out of rhetoric to fit their political agenda. Americans are tired of the  Democrat Party encouraging these failed ideologies and their disgust for our country to go unchecked.

Today's Democrat Party represents the hypocrisy and double-dealing to enrich themselves and those politically connected to them. If they are so worried about people in "need" then why is avowed Socialist  Bernie Sanders net worth over $4 million dollars? Yet he bellows about how bad capitalism is? But it is fine for him to be worth that much. I wonder how many "homeless" people does he living in his two homes that he owns?  Look at how much "wealth" many local, state, and federal Democrat elected officials have and then wonder why they hate economic freedom so much?

President John Adams stated, "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."  I grew up watching the Vietnam War protestors with their burning of the American flag, illegal drug use and hatred of our country. And I now watch history repeating itself 60 years later now with paid protestors who protest about anything and everything with no clue as to their consequences of their actions. I despised the disparaging of America back then; I despise it now and I know many of you reading this do also. We as a country need to strive for excellence and self-sufficiency once again. Today, let us all start working on this first day of our 250th year of American freedom and exceptionalism to make sure Liberty and Freedom live on for the next 250 years and eliminate for the last time the fetid tentacles of socialism and communism entrapping America in 2026.   

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  It has to be fought for and defended by each generation." President Ronald Reagan July 6, 1987 

God Bless America and let Freedom ring today, tomorrow, and forever for the United States of America.

250 Years of Freedom July 4,1776 - July 4, 2026

 IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated  Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton