The Failures of Joe Biden and His Corrupt and Perverted Democrat Empire

Leadership is the most critical tenet within any sort of organization, especially organizations calling themselves political parties. The old Jewish prophets would claim that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Old country preachers would often remark that what we see in the pulpit, we see in the pews. Many people are familiar with the term “like father, like son.” However, I submit to the reader that never in the history of American government has there been an epic failure of management, example, and leadership to the level of the corrupt and perverted Empire of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden
It is my belief that the clear headed and legitimate population of the United States of America are completely fed up with the incoherent and obnoxious administration of Democrat President Joe Biden, despite what we are led to believe by an obedient and compliant state-run media. Over time, I have had many ask me if he has been the worst President in my lifetime, a lifetime that has seen Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and Trump. Unfortunately, Joe Biden has no equal in the negative category. The destruction that Biden, his family, and his incompetent Administration have done over three years is more damage than anything I could have imagined to our country since his regime started.
It is difficult to even begin to sort out the sheer number of failures of this Administration as there are too many to recall. The fully open borders that America must be forced to accept create no benefit for our country. Since the start of the administration in January 2021, well in excess of 6.4 million illegal immigrants have crossed our unprotected border with ease bringing no value and unascertainable dangers to our economy and society. Are the illegal immigrants all employed and self-sufficient? Are they not costing the American Taxpayer billions of dollars to house, feed, clothe and give medical care to? Are they just pawns in the never-ending Democrat Party game of elitism over our society, or a modern-day slave class imported to provide veritable slave labor for the benefit of a ruling elite?
A bigger disaster of the corrupt and perverted Biden regime is foreign affairs. To this end, Biden-esque foreign affairs are a comical game of corruption and lies assisted by the abuses and myriad corruptions of anointed regime son Hunter Biden and company with the President’s approval. Is this an example of a new standard of ethics for our government and Democrat Party members? Is corruption by a Vice President who then becomes President accepted without question and void of any laws that govern those offices? Is the selling of an elected office as Vice- President and President for monetary reward a part of the oath of those offices? Are the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice only in existence now to cover up the ruthless disregard for law exhibited by the Bidens and to persecute private citizens? Meanwhile, the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice spend every available second trying to destroy President Trump and his family who apparently are evil corrupt crooks for the committing of dubious legal infractions while the Biden's are portrayed as approaching Sainthood. It is doubtless that we have a two-tier justice system, being one for the Democrats and one for everyone else that is now presumed guilty and must prove innocence.
It is inarguable that our world itself is now very unsafe under the Biden Administration. Why did President Biden pull United States forces out of Afghanistan and give the Taliban $50 billion dollars' worth of American Taxpayer funded weapons and supplies? Why were innocent service members and service animals left to be murdered, and/or starve to death? Why are we now supporting the Taliban, Hamas, and Iran with American funds, which are all sworn enemies of the United States? Why have we turned our back on Israel, being one of our strongest allies in the world and are choosing to support a hateful violent group that takes pride in the beheading of innocent, defenseless babies to murder them?
Economically speaking, the USA is in grave difficulty. Our economy remains in shambles with the convoluted, debt-creating, irrational, and incoherent "Bideonmics" economic program that places America last is so many categories such as energy with a failed and farcical green energy program and forbidding the use of plentiful fossil fuel energy supplies in our economy. "Bideonmics" ignores the problems of supply chain inventories and the restocking of essential goods needed for our economy. "Bideonmics" picks the winners and losers for our economy. "Bideonmics" chooses winners who have paid their tithes to the Democrat Party machine while disposing of those who disagree with them. "Bideonmics" has pushed our country to a $33 trillion-dollar national debt with no end in sight but bankruptcy and or even more runaway inflation. "Bideonmics" is a degraded and deplorable economic program without rhyme nor reason. Needless to say, you are not better off than you were in November 2020, contrary to what the obedient, state-run media is trying to portray to you.
Want to run for office? Please check with the Biden Administration and their operatives if you are even allowed to run. After all, apparently a small minority of American voters wish for him to go four more years as a feeble part-time President who knows little if anything going on in his own pathetic and corrupted Administration of fools and evil people that are in it. Even well intentioned candidates of the Democrat party wishing to primary Joe Biden are either discouraged or put into grave physical risk.
Regrettably, the poor and pathetic leadership examples of the Biden Democrat Empire have been emulated by states and cities near you. Names like Newsom, Hochul, Murphy, Healey, and Pritzker have brought state governments to new lows featuring rampant homelessness, crime, out-migration, business departures, decaying cities, and illegal uncontrolled immigration. Not to be undone in this genre is Connecticut’s King Ned Lamont, The Unaccountable, presiding in physical presence over a state called Connecticut, now world famous for legal marijuana, corrupted voting, abused finances, and a nationally laughable reputation. Obviously, Connecticut does not want to be left behind in its quest to be the lead acolyte in the Biden corrupt perverted empire.
Unfortunately, one could go on forever with the failures of Joe Biden as a President with his ridiculous policies, unprepared Vice President, and his cast of political wanna be’s, warmed over Communists, and has beens that claim intellectual and real-world superiority and dictate to the over 330 million people in our country what they can and cannot do. Their mannerisms and directives grate at decent Americans daily, along with their condescending commands and dictatorial posture.
In 2024 we have a chance to restore America to greatness, self-sufficiency and to be a world leader for freedom. Or we can keep the Biden-esque losers and Marxist oppressors and become a fully socialistic regime with a failed liberal agenda that hates all things normal in our society. The choice is yours. The choice can't be Joe Biden and his band of Democrat misfits and acolytes.

The Dawn of Connecticut's Coming Stone Age Is Arriving

Last week, we discussed the fantastic incoherent world that King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable and his Omnipotent one-party ruling Democrats have designed Connecticut to be. This week, I would like to examine the grievous realities that Connecticut Taxpayers will be subjected to with the impending Electric vehicle (EV) mandate. You may remember that I previously wrote about this mandate back on 11/25/23.

Kindly be advised that the economically incoherent Electric vehicle (EV) mandate is to be pushed through in a special sham legislative session being called by the same Ned Lamont. The Democrat Party intends to implement the "Advanced Clean Cars II, ACC" initiative (the “Act”) in this special sham session, requiring that all light duty vehicles sold in the state be Zero emission vehicles by 2035 and that medium and heavy-duty trucks reduce their extant "emissions" by 75% by 2035 as well. Truck fleets of 50 vehicles and over will be required to report to the draconian and imperious Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) for "prioritization" of these fleets to electric vehicles. The Act also will create "superior warranty provisions and protections". It still has not been explained to me as to what this particular term means, in addition as to how the Act will work and as to whom will pay for it (https://portal.ct.gov/deep/air/mobile-sources/ct-proposed-emissions-standards-for-cars-and-trucks). Further, there is no public testimony nor pushback permitted in this special sham session, so in fact, these political wonders do not care one bit about what you may think.

The Act will result in a law that will compel citizens to follow California emissions rules and regulations which effectively eliminate gas powered vehicle as we know and use them, and replace it with the unaffordable and unreliable EV that will keep most people home during a cold and long snowy Connecticut winter. Please keep in mind that there still has been no cost analysis to this bill, but it is well-settled by many analyses that the environmental costs and environmental impact of generating mass vehicle E-power is far worse than the supposed benefit from abstention from fossil fuels. There are questions that have yet to have been answered by the untouchable administrative state bureaucracies. For example: Who will be paying for these vehicles, extended warranties, electric charging stations (that apparently will use no fossil fuels?), or EV batteries? Who is liable for damage when there is a fire in an electric vehicle and/or when an EV is in an accident? Will drivers be tracked by the DEEP or Revenue Services as to their travel? Will car electric charges be denied to those to be socially or politically unfavorable? In addition, what are the economic costs of the massive amount of gas/diesel stations/pumps closing, the economic costs of the massive layoff of gasoline/diesel mechanics due to a lack of work, the economic costs of parts supply houses/dealers going out of business since parts for gasoline/diesel vehicles will no longer be able to be sold? These are legitimate questions that need to be asked well before this Connecticut taxpayer funded special legislative session is called upon. As is par for the Connecticut course, all that is received is deafening silence.

Needless to say, there is the inevitable connection as to what (and how much) profit can be made by Ned Lamont's family hedge fund Oak HC/FT and the mandate for EV's in the state. The passage of this law will successfully open up yet another profit stream for Oak HC/FT along the lines of where investors immersed in the glamour of e-cars and the Lamont-connected Saudi-based Saudi Public Investment Fund, will profit once again as the Saudi involvement in E-cars has been covered in multiple recognized news outlets such as Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Jerusalem Post. How this blatant self-dealing by the Lamont family is legal and unquestioned by elected officials of all stripes is simply, beyond belief. Further, why this issue is never questioned by anyone in the state-run media adds to the total disrespect that Lamont and his Democrat Party have for Connecticut taxpayers. As my colleague Tony De Angelo famously says on his weekly segment on the Lee Elci Show (WJJF FM 94.9), Connecticut is the Lamont Hedge Fund disguised as a state. Of course, taxpayer be damned as usual.

In a respectful and fair world, Connecticut Taxpayers should be allowed to make their own decisions whether they wish to purchase an EV, and neither Ned Lamont, the Connecticut Democrat Party nor the failed economic state of California should be making that decision for them. The market laws of supply and demand should be at work for private transportation. Take just one look at the debacle of trying to run and charge EV's in cold weather as seen throughout our country. Better yet, picture a state like Connecticut that mandates EV's for all emergency vehicles, police cars, and food delivery trucks. Picture an ambulance on the way to an emergency call that runs out of battery power or catches fire. Picture an individual who dies because of this situation. Picture a baby that starves to death for want of baby formula. Picture a woman battered to death by her boyfriend because the police are busy charging their car battery and could not arrive on the scene in time. All of the above scenarios are brought to you in the failed vein of green energy, irrational and incoherent bureaucrats, consultants and elected officials, vapid climate change “activists” and the total disregard for common sense when it comes to this utterly ridiculous law and mandate.

This scenario in the opinion of many is the future with the horrific and incoherent "Advanced Clean Cars II, ACC" initiative. Profits over people. Profits over human life in The Unaccountable Ned Lamont's personal hedge fund disguised as the former great state of Connecticut.

 

This Is Connecticut? (Really)

 

On Monday January 8, 2024, Governor Ned Lamont switched into full campaign gear in order to offset the economic and social nightmare that Connecticut has become under his non-transparent and profitable tenure in office. In shifting into this gear, King Ned the Unaccountable wrote a fantasy tale of what Connecticut has become under his iron fisted omnipotent one-party Democrat rule. The article can be found here:(www.wsj.com/articles/connecticut-is-leaving-the-welcome-mat-out-housing-taxes-families-95ae3567?mod=letterstoeditor_article_pos8)

The letter is fascinating to me as the Governor, who last recorded an income from 2021 of $54 million dollars of unknown sources, writes that, "Republican orthodoxy says our migration is all about taxes. We recently enacted the largest tax cut in state history, eliminating the income tax for most working families and taxes on pensions for most seniors. Democratic orthodoxy argues that families are moving to Connecticut because we are a family friendly state, with paid-family leave, expanded daycare and one of the country's best education systems." It is confusing as to how Connecticut is a "family friendly state, with paid-family leave". The Governor does not explain to the reader that the "paid-family leave" is engendered by a tax upon income for non-municipal workers in the state. The tax is levied at .05% of personal income up to $160,200 a year for a maximum of $801 in taxes one must pay to support this program. If you never use this program, you will get zero back from it. Simple high school math (which is out of the range of most local politicians) indicates that the fund cannot sustain itself due to the payout benefits it offers. Therefore, it is inevitable to assume that this tax will increase in the near future. Budgeting, payouts, and revenue for this program seemed locked in constant secrecy but that is normal for Connecticut state programs. It is ironic to note that those who have massive levels of income at the income levels of the Governor only pay $801 a year while an individual who actually works and earns $160,200 or less, pays the same amount for this tax as a high-income earner would.

Connecticut also has had a net migration of people moving out of the state and is ranked by U-Haul as the #42nd state that people are moving to (www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/U-Haul-Announces-Top-Growth-States-Of-2023-30660/). I guess being ranked in the bottom ten states that people are moving to is viewed as a great accomplishment by the Lamont run Democrat Party of Connecticut and somehow inexplicably shows families are "moving into" the state by moving out.

Lamont states also; "For most of our citizens, our income tax is lower than the Sunbelt states. In Connecticut, we have reversed the budget deficits and trends of the past, in part due to the new families and higher-income taxpayers who now call Connecticut home." Lamont seems to be either confused or duplicitous as Connecticut is still burdened by $125 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. There is no plan whatsoever to pay down this debt, nor does one know supposedly how much these "higher-income taxpayers" are paying in taxes to pay down this $125 to $150 billion dollar in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. The taxfoundation.org ranks Connecticut 47th out of 50 states on their 2024 State Business Tax Climate Index. Connecticut is the 4th-worst state in the nation for taxes. Simply put, Connecticut continues to be a bottom feeder in most business and economic categories. I do not see new businesses and industry are flocking to the state unless they have some sort of economic tie to the Lamont's family hedge fund Oak HC/FT. Of course, Connecticut Taxpayers still have no clear answers to many questionable investments and arrangements tied to Lamont through Sema-4, Digital Currency Group, and its affiliates, ADVANCECT, 4-CT, Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US, Mt. Sinai Genomics, “The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, Tidal River Fund, McKinsey, and the Lamont-based Cayman Islands shell companies. Needless to say, it is quite curious as to why Lamont did not mention these connections in his letter.

The fables in the letter continue with Lamont on the environment: "On the regulatory front, I won’t apologize for Connecticut enforcing environmental standards to better protect our air and water, but we’re also making the regulatory review and approval processes more efficient." Lamont fails to state that he is a driving force along with unelected and irrational highly-paid bureaucrats in following California environmental laws to eliminate all gasoline powered vehicles by 2035 forcing people into electric vehicles, nor did he mention how the Saudi Public Investment Fund (an investor of his family’s hedge fund Oak HC/FT) is a major producer and player in the e-car space. I wonder if people moving into the state know this. Further, Lamont travels around the state in a large fossil-fuel vehicle with several state paid attendants in tow. (I wonder as to how many new residents know this fact, as well).

Personal hypocrisies notwithstanding, Lamont and his Democrat Party also wish to eliminate most fossil fuels relying upon nothing in particular in order to generate electricity and heating/cooling sources in the future. If the state regime wishes to protect our air and water, why is there a massive push to complete the hopelessly corrupted marine life-killing New London State Pier project of "clean" wind turbines at a cost of nearly $400 million Taxpayer funded dollars featuring cost overruns of roughly 330% from initial cost estimates? What politically connected individuals made a profit off this economic debacle? (insideinvestigator.org/in-the-wind-the-escalating-cost-of-connecticuts-state-pier/)

In addition, why has the state commandeered local zoning and the building of apartments and housing, thereby eliminating a system that has worked well for years? As is standard for The Unaccountable, his Wall Street Journal letter is economically incoherent and illogical especially while his political operatives push to gain the upper hand in this battle by taking away local zoning laws and regulations from towns and cities and placing them directly in the hands of these same sycophants and operatives. He stated; "As for housing costs, our state gets an incomplete. We have a shortage of housing supply, and more people are trying to move into our state, driving up prices. We are working aggressively to speed up the zoning process and double the state’s investment in housing. We are building multifamily homes in our cities. Parking lots and old commercial buildings will be transformed into livable communities that are a short walk to a train station, park or great restaurants." Sadly, Connecticut residents endure this nonsensical “housing shortage” blather continually, in a state where being a landlord has been made into hell by a shortsighted and incompetent legislature, and a state with decaying cities ranked #42 by the U-Haul hard dollar indicator of net outmigration from the states and fourth worst in national tax policies.

If you are thinking of moving to Connecticut please think twice. The Utopia described by Lamont is much different than the harsh social and economic reality of a state that is in a constant state of economic and social decline and danger. Crime runs rampant in the state, yet we hear little about that since it does not affect the Governor and his ruling elite. We are somehow led to believe that it is "Crime Free Democrat Connecticut" even though the opposite is true especially with car thefts. Since the beginning of the Lamont Administration to today the Lamont ruled Democrat Party places their profits over people especially over Connecticut Taxpayers. I simply puzzle as to how the fine publication known as The Wall Street Journal simply repeated the pap and blatant falsehoods espoused by His Royal Con-Man King Ned Lamont the Unaccountable without any due diligence as to the veracity of his statements.

If you are considering a move, it would behoove you to move to one of those terrible Republican states that actually have a strong business climate, lower taxes, less crime, and a better way of life for you and your family. Sad to say, this is not Connecticut by any means.

Why does Connecticut need the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development? (aka, the “DECD”)

 

One of the best kept secrets of failure in the land of His Royal Con Man King Ned Lamont The Unaccountable is the DECD. According to the current state budget, here is a parsing of the Mission Statement as to what the DECD supposedly does: 

"Agency Purpose" "To develop and implement strategies to increase the state’s economic competitiveness. 

To foster a productive business environment that enables businesses to grow in the state and compete in the global economy. 

To advance job creation and retention. 

To set and execute strategies that will create a talent ecosystem that attracts and motivates students, career builders, and companies alike. 

To support the quality of life and economic sustainability of our local communities. 

To promote, encourage, and implement responsible growth principles and practices through brownfield redevelopment and other local initiatives. 

To brand and market Connecticut to bolster its reputation as an innovative business location and tourism destination. 

To preserve and promote Connecticut’s cultural and tourism assets in order to enhance the quality of life and economic vitality of the state. 

To coordinate the activities of all state agencies in advancing economic development opportunities."(https://portal.ct.gov/- /media/OPM/Budget/2024_2025_Biennial_Budget/Budg et_WebPage/GovBudget_2024-25_Final-WebVersion.pdf p.B-40,41) 

To show how perspicacious the DECD is in innovative future business trends, the new FY 24-25 budget provides a mere $10.5 million dollars of Connecticut Taxpayers monies to "Provide Funding for Regulation of Recreational Use of Cannabis by Adults”. Since the regulatory costs of cannabis legalization were previously omitted by this top-flight organization, this proposal explicitly provides funding to ensure implementation of this meaningful “policy initiative.” 

In addition, this expenditure of taxpayer funds is allocated to “provide positions and funding to support the “Social Equity Council” (SEC) as well as to make the Cannabis Social Equity and Innovation Fund an appropriated fund. The amount available to the SEC is based upon projected revenue." (https://portal.ct.gov/- /media/OPM/Budget/2024_2025_Biennial_Budget/Budget_WebPage/GovBudget_2024-25_Final-WebVersion.pdf p.B-40,41) That is a lot of money spent on supposed "social equity" from legal drugs. 

Leaving aside any semblance of economic realities or morality as Connecticut is often wont to do, one queries as to why the state is involved in the Cannabis business in the first instance. The long-established illegal market, unburdened by taxation and regulation, as much nimble as the state is inept, and further enabled by diluted law enforcement continues to flourish as the state Cannabis industry flounders and bears the increasing burdens of new union contracts and added costs. Any reasonably sane person wonders why this fool’s errand, continues. 

Moreover, the DECD spends a mere $825,000,000 to $900,000,000 million dollars of your taxpayer dollars (depending on how one interprets the astounding accounting methods of the state), while employing 94 people. Further as my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo has reported for many years now on 94.9’s Lee Elci Show, taxpayers have no idea how much money has been lost by the DECD in bad loan write offs and "free" money grants monies since the inception of this agency. Just the known trashing of taxpayer funds (such as by Sema4, Digital Currency Group, and UniteUs) are staggering. Never forget that Connecticut is a state that is a continual bottom feeder in all economic and business categories with $100-$150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. On many segments, Tony has pointed out the Lamont family hedge fund ties, waste, auditable offenses not resolved, “backdoor” rackets with state vendors and questionable grants this agency has contributed to over the past several years. I have discussed the horrific grants given to "Infosys" over the past two weeks. And for four years starting with the 2020 Covid-19 debacle, we still do not have any answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners) from associated companies relating to the Covid-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD" to name several that appear to have received cash or other like favors via the DECD and its cohorts. 

Why does Connecticut need the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development? I and many others wonder why also, but one apparent purpose for it is to be a slush fund for the myriad family deals of The Unaccountable. If Connecticut could lower the horrendous regulatory burdens and excessive taxation on businesses and perhaps provide something close to a semblance of public safety, maybe, (just maybe), businesses would want to move into the state rather than move out. But then what would happen to the cash gravy train that flows between the DECD and the Lamont family? The state could actually spend $1 billion dollars less each fiscal year and see greater economic growth without the DECD just by that money saved alone. 

The elimination of the DECD would be a dream come true for many thus it will never happen. Connecticut Taxpayers must continue to toil as indentured servants to support monolithic and economically incoherent agencies such as the DECD so that other politically aligned giants can profit. It is just more of the same failures economically that define the vast economic wasteland know as One-Party Democrat Rule Connecticut. 

In closing, I propose that the new motto for Connecticut should now be the "unconstitutional" state (or the “waste management state”) as a much more accurate reflection as to how business is done in 2023.