An Ode To 2025

Depending on which side you are on politically, socially, and even morally, 2025 was either the best of times or the worst of times.

To me, it is beyond clear that the first year of President Trump's second administration has been a vibrant and energizing time for much of our country. His actions, reactions, and forceful leadership are making major inroads to many of our Nation's ills. President Trump has attacked illegal immigration by closing our borders, arresting criminal aliens, and deporting them. We are looking at energy independence once again, while energy prices in many areas have gone down dramatically. Economically, we are seeing lower taxes for both individuals and businesses, while the President wants our country to become self-sufficient and produce more goods domestically. This new production helps to create new jobs and economic stimulation for our economy. Crime is falling, especially in Washington, D.C. The President is attacking the illegal drug problem head-on with positive results. Law and the rule of order have become priorities, not some fantasy. Internationally, President Trump helped to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire while getting higher defense spending from NATO nations. America is respected once again and there is hope for a new Golden Age.

But sadly, there are a number of Trump-deranged brain addled people that see these positive developments through an entirely different lens. To them, the first year of President Trump’s second administration has been deeply divisive and destabilizing for much of the country. They will say that his impulsive actions, erratic reactions, and confrontational style have exacerbated many of our Nation’s long-standing problems rather than solving them. They will say that his immigration policies have focused on harsh enforcement, family separation, and mass deportations that critics argue undermine human rights and America’s historical role as a nation of immigrants. They will claim that the Trump energy independence policy favoring fossil fuel interests will threaten long-term climate stability and be the death of us all, even as energy costs remain volatile for many households. They will claim that the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” of 2025 only favors corporations and the wealthy regardless of the extremely favorable law changes for modest citizens. They will claim the cities were safe and the Mexican border was secure under Alejandro Mayorkas and Joe Biden, and all should have been left alone. They will claim assaults on narco-terrorists are an unjustified attack on the innocent and the vulnerable. On the international stage, while the administration points to a Gaza ceasefire and increased NATO defense spending as victories, these poor souls will argue that America’s global standing has suffered due to damaged alliances, transactional diplomacy, and diminished moral leadership. They also view the horrific surgical mutilation of children as a human right that should be taxpayer-supported. What is astounding is that these naïve and often deranged individuals cannot grasp the economic, social, and physical destruction that would happen to them and the country if any of their irrational policy concepts were put into effect for any period of time. If this happened, the country would simply accelerate into chaos and upheaval.

Given this additional obstacle of the deranged and the deluded in the United States of America, President Trump and his administration have much more work to do over the next three years in addition to continuing to daily fight the incoherent Democrat Party, non-elected activist judges, and a media who despises all things Trump. It is truly beyond comical to watch some days. Can one imagine how far we could grow as a country, economy and world if President Trump was actually allowed to govern without both hands tied behind his back? What would happen if all of the Democrat outbursts, tantrums, lawsuits, and incoherent gibberish spewed finally stopped, and they actually offered something other than their same failed liberal, socialistic destructive programs and policies that have done little, if anything, to solve the problems in our country? Do we all live in the same country? Because in 2025, it does not seem that way.

And then, 2025 brought about the phenomenon of the recalcitrant Blue state, which zags every time the Presidential administration zigs. One of the biggest examples of this pathetic social and economic regression is Connecticut, as it continued its accelerated decline in 2025. An arrogant and omnipotent ruling Connecticut Democrat Party controlling all state and national offices daily accelerate the economic and social ruin of the state. Elected officials such as U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro, and Attorney General William Tong cannot hate President Trump and things Republican enough for their daily shows of anger. These individuals and others from Connecticut's Democrat Party communicate daily in front of an obedient, state-run and paid media with their disjointed, garbled, muddled, and unclear statements and non-solutions to the disasters of the state. The state is a bottom feeder economically, with high taxes on a local and state level, a poor economic climate hosting a mere $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. Yet "gender affirming care" and horrific child mutilation is the priority of these fools who feel that they are superior to those people they supposedly represent.

Perhaps there is hope on the horizon with an election for Governor upcoming in 2026 that will feature Governor Ned Lamont against, someone. But will that special "someone" finally attack and root out the sickening Lamont and other state corruption that has become a state hallmark? Given the progress to date on this front for years by the State GOP, one cannot be hopeful. Many including myself have written about the lies, fallacies, and theft of the Lamont administration with little result other than a global awareness that many things are horribly amiss. Connecticut taxpayers still do not have any answers with the 2020 COVID-19 debacle, the suspect business in the secret REOPEN-CT Committee meeting in the super-secret ADVANCE CT, Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners), investments in Rapyd, a global fintech-as-a-service provider, and Unqork, both having documented common-investment ties to "Infosys." Nor are any answers forthcoming from associated companies relating to the COVID-19 crisis that include "Thermo Fisher Scientific," "Sema4," "Core Informatics," “Centrellis,” "Ocrulus," "Urjanet," "1Life Healthcare," "Galileo Health," "Castlight Health," "Paladina Health," and "VillageMD," to name several. Nor are there ever any answers to the questions concerning the Lamont-related Cayman Islands partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horesebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation, and other incoherent economic deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as the now-clearly Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations.” It is all a compounded lack of transparency by Ned and company. Perhaps I am in error. Will this be the year that these subjects be throttled upon in the upcoming Governor's race? I can truthfully say that if they are not, the status quo will continue without any resolution whatsoever. This result is totally unacceptable to any law-abiding, right-thinking, decent and taxpaying citizen in the state.

As 2025 draws to a final close, I am optimistic on the direction of our country, but not so for Connecticut. Many are very thankful that we have President Trump, not a President Biden or Harris. Many want a new "real" Governor for Connecticut, not more of the scams, schemes, and “beardings” of the Ned Lamont gang. We still live in the greatest country in the world, contrary to what some misguided individuals want us to believe. We can and will overcome the internal and external forces that wish to destroy our states and country with a failed socialist and communist agenda. We can become self-sufficient in our economy and provide upward economic mobility for all, not just the elite political ruling class that continues to stifle all viewpoints that they do not agree with.

God Bless America today and every day. Happy New Year to all. And let us work and pray that things finally (finally) change, in Connecticut in 2026.

 

 

Incompetence. The Democrat Gold-Standard Of Governance In 2025

 In a review of 2025, let us look at a history of governance and leadership by our best and brightest elected officials, all of whom are Democrats, or were hired by a Democrat.

• January 1, 2025: The New Orleans Bourbon Street massacre unfolded tragically. Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was completely blindsided, unaware of the barriers that should have been in place. This incompetence allowed a truck to plow through the crowd, resulting in fifteen deaths and ISIS flags being waved. The city council demanded her resignation, but Kilpatrick did not care. She even admitted that she was unaware that the barriers even existed. And she continues in her ostensible non-job of police employment to this day.

• January 8, 2025: Los Angeles wildfires raged out of control. Mayor Karen Bass fumbled the response with botched evacuations and delayed aid as she jetted off to Africa. Elon Musk tweeted to millions calling her "utterly incompetent." Homes turned to ash and lives were scorched, while Bass dodged questions and blamed the wind. A negligence lawsuit is now on the horizon. And she continues as Mayor to this day as virtually no damaged homes have been rebuilt in the region.

• August 20, 2025: Rhode Island's "Drunk AG Girl" incident caused a major meltdown. The Assistant Attorney General (Connecticut Native Devon Flannagan Hogan),while heavily intoxicated, trespassed at a fancy restaurant. She berated police officers on Nationally seen body cam footage in a horrific spectacle, demanding, "Do you know who I am?" Despite a zero-tolerance policy, she was only placed on leave and was given an ostensible break by her work colleagues in her sentencing.

• November 29, 2025: Governor Tim Walz's Somali fraud fiasco erupted in Minnesota. Billions in Medicaid funds were swindled under his clueless and hopeless watch, with half potentially fraudulent. Somali refugee programs were implicated in laundering cash. Donald Trump blasted the state as a "fraud hub." Walz downplayed the issue, leaving taxpayers to bear the financial burden. Great public outcry is also leveled at Minnesota Congresswoman Ilian Omar, who continues to smile, take no responsibility for the scandal and somehow attributes this financial and governance rape to Donald Trump.

• December 13, 2025: A Brown University shooting of multiple studying students turned into a nightmare. A gunman went on the loose, with suspected links to other institutions. Security measures failed colossally, and the manhunt was botched. Inane and embarrassing press conferences featuring leaders of questionable qualifications and blatant agendas droned on for days spewing politico-babble as the good people of Providence walked in fear. At last count, all people who participated in this farce remain employed leaving the same good people of Providence and all of Brown University under daily jeopardy.

(Note: “Drunk Girl” Devon Flanagan works under Peter Neronha, the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island. With the suspected shooter found dead this past Tuesday, the good people of Providence are now breathing a sigh of relief )

• December 10, 2025: Waterbury, Connecticut faced a second, larger water main break leaving 60,000 residents without water for days. Healthcare facilities and schools were crippled by the outage.      Waterbury's decrepit infrastructure finally crumbled under neglect, leading to finger-pointing among officials. Residents described the situation as "horrible," with restoration efforts moving slowly amid escalating blame.

 

Of course, if you are a skillful Democrat incompetents, you must be very skillful in deflecting your personal responsibility towards any disaster that you, yourself are responsible for. Waterbury is no exception: “Working together, there is nothing we cannot achieve. Waterbury's best days are ahead of us.” — Democrat Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski, Jr., 47th Mayor of the City of Waterbury.
(https://www.waterburyct.org/administration/mayor)

However, clean water may not be one of those areas that Waterbury can achieve.

“The catastrophic failure of a high-pressure line in Waterbury’s aging water system left Connecticut’s fifth-largest city, and most of two suburbs—Wolcott and Watertown—without water Saturday, forcing a scramble to keep two hospitals open and bring in water by tankers and truckloads of bottles.

City officials said an earlier failure of a 10-inch water line installed in 1901 undermined a 42-inch, 55-year-old transmission main that burst with explosive force late Friday night on Thomaston Avenue by Waterville Park, launching pavement into the air and shattering windows.”
(https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/water-line-failure-waterbury-leaves-about-100000-without-water)

Needless to say, the public water situation in Waterbury will continue to be precarious, at best. You cannot drink the water, nor would most people want to bathe in it. One may also question why a Democrat-run city’s infrastructure for something as critical as water is still relying on a 124-year-old pipe along with a 55-year-old transmission line to supply the city. Of course, no previous Democrats in Waterbury over the past 20 years have ever been proactive about this situation as well. And ostensibly, Waterbury pays employees quite well via tax dollars that are charged with the responsibility of the city water system. Waterbury’s annual budget exceeds $446 million. A closer look shows that employee benefits, including pensions and health insurance, total over $114 million. Pensions and retiree health benefits alone account for more than $86 million. Combined, these costs exceed $200 million annually—almost 45% of the city’s total budget.
(https://www.waterburyct.org/filestorage/103431/104943/2025-2026_Mayor%27s_Proposed_Budget_Presentation.pdf)

The city also receives substantial aid from the State of Connecticut. Waterbury is a Connecticut example of a cash faucet city with no results and incompetence in governing, even though officials claim they are attempting to upgrade the water system. In private business, this type of crisis would not be tolerated and those responsible would be fired, but in government it has somehow become expected and the persons responsible never are removed.

And then we move to Providence and Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island will forever be enshrined in the Hall-of-Fame of political incompetency in its obtuse and fumbling efforts to locate a criminal who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University. University. What went on with Brown truly boggles the mind. A gunman just walks in to set up a killing machine. Security reportedly became lax, with camera monitors turned off, non-functioning or otherwise nonexistent in addition to other security failures. As a result, innocent students studying in a classroom were murdered in cold blood. And many students and their parents are now counting the cost of their woke ideologies and their hatred of police and law and order. For they are now learning a bitter and costly lesson. Neither incompetence, nor being woke, stops a bullet.

Police have been defunded in many parts of the country, while crime, contrary to false statistics presented in places such as Washington, D.C., continues to rise. Consider the daily antisemitic attacks occurring in Democrat-controlled New York City. For what reason? Have we become a lawless society? In many cities and states, it increasingly appears to be so. And what will the cost of this lawlessness be? How will those of a liberal mindset feel about being victimized and attacked? For they too will find out that neither incompetence, nor being woke, can ever stop a bullet.

One must also ask what would happen if a prominent Democrat became the victim of a crime, particularly at the hands of a repeat offender. How quickly would the narrative change? Or would President Trump somehow be blamed—as he seemingly is for everything since the nation’s founding? Regardless, they too as well, will find out that neither incompetence, nor being woke, stops a bullet.

Sadly, political incompetence takes many forms not necessarily dealing with immediate attacks of hostile violence. There is a form of incompetence which is much more subtle (and far more devastating) than any one incident. It is the destruction of an entire state economy leading to confirmation of its defeat as a welfare state. In that connection, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut has now officially given his state the economic last rites by condemning it to perpetual beggar-welfare status as other states are aggressively availing themselves and using the incredible economic provisions of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to create economic opportunity and to empower its citizens.  Lamont and his ilk and minions never seem to ask themselves why their states have so many poor and so many needing help and never try to fix things. They simply hand out more of your tax money and blame Donald Trump more frequently. https://ctmirror.org/2025/12/18/lamont-aid-food-pantries-planned-parenthood/ My friend and colleague Tony De Angelo did a terrific job on his December 18 THIRTY WITH TONY show describing this very subject: https://x.com/TonyDeAngelo7/status/2001746474439426413. It is a sad situation, and in my opinion Republicans do a very poor job in not making this critical point clear and evident for all.

Accountability is in short supply today. Competence is even more scarce. Too many people shrug and look the other way when crimes are committed, whether shoplifting that raises costs for consumers or cold-blooded murder that wastes innocent lives while offering little justice for victims. Even more are silent at gross acts of political malfeasance to where Republicans, especially in Connecticut, never complain about Democrat incompetence such as the economic destruction of the state. Many Americans have had enough of the incompetence of government—elected officials, un-elected officials, and a legal system that often protects criminals over victims—along with the endless nonsensical fixation on President Trump.

Incompetence in governing has become the norm in our country. It must end, or we risk ceasing to be a country at all.

Rip-Offs. They’re Not Just Committed By Criminals, Anymore.

 Why can't people stop ripping off our government at all levels? Because it is too easy. Why can't government at all levels stop ripping people off? Because it is too easy. And this is one of the biggest issues in our country and in many states in 2025 today. It has been a problem for many years, and it is becoming worse.

One can estimate that a great deal of our federal deficit of $38 trillion dollars may be from fraudulent spending. A small contribution in this category is the throwing of $79 billion dollars in Taxpayers monies out the window was echoed by Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst on Wednesday when she stated.; "$79 billion in COVID fraud could have been prevented if four basic questions were asked. Is the Social Security Number valid, does the number match the name, does the birthday match, and is the individual ALIVE?"  (https://x.comSenJoniErnststatus/1998850871757602839ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet ). Obviously, those four questions were too difficult for the dullard bureaucrats who were working on this program to be bothered with. Hey what's another $79 billion dollars of Taxpayers monies anyways? When is my next (vacation, holiday, mental health, or emotional support) day?

Why is this not front-page news?

Most recently, we find that fraud is rampant in Minnesota, where the astounded "deer in the headlights” incompetent Democrat Governor Tim Walz was totally unaware of the massive rip off of Taxpayers by various Somalian groups and individuals. Over $1 billion dollars in fraud has taken place in Minnesota. Examples include: "A group called “Feeding Our Future” spearheaded the theft of $250 million in federal school food aid administered by the state Department of Education. More than 50 people have pleaded guilty to crimes related to receiving government payments for meals not delivered to the claimed groups of children. “...”A new fraud scandal is now rocking Minnesota. Last week, Acting US Attorney Joseph Thompson charged eight people with stealing millions of dollars from a Medicaid program called Housing Stabilization Services. The defendants are alleged to have filed a raft of bogus program claims for clients with disabilities and then pocketed the benefits. This is just the “first wave of charges in a massive fraud in Minnesota’s housing stabilization program,” said Thompson. The Minnesota housing program was originally supposed to cost $2.5 million a year, but the annual cost soared to $104 million by 2024, mainly due to fraud." (https://www.cato.org/blog/minnesota-fraud-illustrates-federal-aid-failure) 

Apparently, this is just the tip of the iceberg there. Why was this allowed? Are there no safeguards in place to prevent this type of fraud?

How about Maine's Medicare fraud with “Gateway Community Services LLC,” which was founded by Abdullahi Ali. Abdullahi Ali was born in Somalia and was recently seeking the the presidency of Jubaland, a region of Somalia bordering Kenya. Whatever “Gateway Community Services LLC” does, it ostensibly does larceny at a very high level. The rip off from this program is estimated to be over $28 million dollars. (https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/us-news/maines-medicaid-program-bilked-out-of-millions-of-dollars-in-somali-fraud-whistleblower-claims/ ).

With so much nonprofit fraud nationwide it has almost taken on a casual connotation to the point where it does not register as a big deal by government and state-run media. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code was specifically written by Congress to allow resources to flow to those in need. But with the larcenous nature of those at the helm of many state-connected nonprofit organizations, charity goes only as far as one’s pocket or purse. 

And nationwide rip-offs are not limited to nonprofits alone. For example. we know in Connecticut massive Democrat Party voter fraud has taken place in Bridgeport for decades. Most recall the infamous Bridgeport State Senator Ernie Newton ballot fraud case. But it goes back much longer than that. In Bridgeport, voter fraud goes back to Mayor John Mandanici’s people submitting ballots for dead people in the 1970s. Look at what happened with the 2023 Bridgeport Democrat Mayoral Primary, and again in 2025 with the stuffed absentee ballot fraud that took place by “The Stuffer” Wanda Geter-Pataky, who in 2023 was charged with "42 counts of possession of ballots and envelopes restricted, two counts of fraudulent voting, 22 counts of misrepresenting eligibility requirements for voting by absentee ballot,17 counts of being present when an absentee ballot applicant executes an absentee ballot, and nine counts of conspiracy to commit possession of ballots and envelopes restricted". (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/fairfield/5-charged-in-bridgeport-absentee-ballot-fraud-to-be-arraigned/ ). This case finally came to trial in March of this year. Curiously, mum is the word on “Wanda the Stuffer.” What did Wanda know? What did Wanda do? For whom? How many losses were miraculously spooled into wins? What if Wanda sings? What about fraud in the election of 2025? (Possibly someday we will find out).

But questions, fraud, concealment, and obfuscation are the Gold Standard parameters of Connecticut governance. Kindly note that Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has successfully avoided any type of transparency nor accountability with his involvement with numerous shady dealings for six years, nor has he been pressured by anyone in the Legislature with respect to the same. Years later, Connecticut Taxpayers  do not have any answers with the 2020 Covid-19 debacle and the suspect business in the secret REOPEN-CT Committee meeting in the super-secret ADVANCE CT nonprofit that is fully exempt from all Freedom of Information and state transparency laws by that very same Legislature. Years later, we still do not have any answers to Ned Lamont's family hedge fund (Oak HC/FT Partners), investments in Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-service provider, and Unqork, both having documented common-investment ties to "Infosys", that same Infosys that received Connecticut taxpayers monies. We have no disclosures as to what happened in the Lamont-Infosys trip to India in February of 2025 completed under that secret cloak of that same ADVANCE CT. Nor are any answers forthcoming 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. Nor are there ever any answers to the questions concerning the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horesebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and other funny-money  deals working through “quasi-public” organizations such as the now-clearly Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”.  There is a massive nonprofit funding  scandal involving alleged malfeasance between Democrat State Senator Douglas McCrory and the malignant and out-of-control Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development ("DECD") This situation is being investigated by a Federal Grand Jury as the state is incapable of policing himself and the entire Legislature refuses to institute meaningful and useful controls and standards for this money throwing agency.  My colleague Tony De Angelo has discussed these ties and issues numerous times over the years, and silence is the result of both elected officials and the state-run media.

The question every Taxpayer must ask is when are we going to be paid back for all these rip-offs? When will taxpayers be allowed access to the books and records of these organizations that these miscreant “leaders” are stealing from? When will we hear one (read that as ONE) legislator of gubernatorial candidate in Connecticut champion the cause of a no-holds-barred Citizen DOGE and meaningful and punitive fiscal controls and penalties for these state-funded nonprofits? Or should Taxpayers just shut up, dig in deeper, and work longer hours to pay more taxes so that these frauds can continue unabated and the leaders and politicians get off scot-free and spend more taxpayer money? Why is justice so slow in its efforts to both find and prosecute these individuals who steal from our government? And why has Connecticut allowed the rampant voter fraud to continue in Bridgeport, Connecticut? Where has been any oversight into the numerous schemes of Ned Lamont and family profiting from the Connecticut Taxpayers’ backs?

Why has this been allowed? Why are legislators and candidates silent about all of this? 

Fraud is embedded in our political system. It is nurtured and encouraged by everyone and anyone in and out of government. It seems to be a big game of theft and fraud and rape of the Taxpayers with no consequences legal or otherwise.And it needs to stop now-today-as soon as someone with ethics stands up in government and ends it once and for all. 

Connecticut, and many other states, cry out for just that special someone.

The Greatest Foe of Affordability Is The Connecticut Government And Its Ruling Elite

 What is the root cause of this American “affordability crisis” we hear so much about these days? The truth lies in something no Democrat wants you to know. The affordability crisis started in the 2020 election of the incompetent and incontinent President Joe Biden in a highly suspect election that laid bare the very integrity of our democratic processes. After this election rigging, decent Americans were horrified by seeing four years of reckless spending sprees, incompetent DEI personnel picks, economic bungling, the shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline and the arrogant and reckless policy of open borders. All these grievous and sickening errors ignited an inflationary inferno that scorched the pockets of everyday families, as groceries, gas, and housing became luxuries only the elite could afford without a second thought. After his 2024 election, President Donald J. Trump set his mind to undo this economic disaster, as the irrational and insane fight bitterly every day against him while he deals with the affordability crisis they themselves created.

But what exactly is this concept of “Affordability”? Affordability is defined as “able to be afforded: having a cost that is not too high.” For Connecticut taxpayers, the definition of affordability seems to be a constantly moving target as interpreted by the delusional ruling elite. Before President Trump was elected in 2024 we listened daily to the nonsensical blather of hopeless functional incompetents such as Karinne Jean-Pierre and Kamala Harris tell us that “Bidenomics is working” or “Inflation is under control” while it is more than evident the affordability conditions then were far worse than now. But as readers of my column know, the rules of fact and common sense do not apply to the delusional ruling elite.

But let’s drill down on Connecticut affordability. Does affordability in Connecticut mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government dictates to its legal and illegal citizens what they can and cannot have? Does affordability mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government builds housing and then dictates how much rent can be charged? Does affordability mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government can control all zoning in the state (as seen in HB 8002), and you, dear citizen, can screw off? Does affordability mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government will start running state-run grocery stores? Does affordability mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government will now insure all drivers in the state, since car insurance has increased dramatically due to the massive amount of car thefts and road takeovers over the past five years, and insurance companies no longer want the risks of insuring a lawless state? Does affordability mean that the Democrat Connecticut state government continues to use Connecticut taxpayers’ money to pick and choose economic winners via its non-transparent and malignant Department of Community and Economic Development ("DECD") or its taxpayer-paid penny stock "boiler room" operation known as "Connecticut Innovations?"

Like their incompetent predecessors in the Biden regime, the concept of Connecticut’s “affordability” is a vague construct by the Connecticut Democrat Party, their state-run media and attendant state-paid media image consultants. Here are some real economic facts showing that Connecticut is not affordable to work and live in: The first problem area is naturally, taxes. The state has one of the highest state and local property taxes in the country. High state sales tax, user and license fees, and excessive business taxes in every way, shape, and form continue to burden Connecticut taxpayers to the point of no return. I have stated numerous times: why does a state as small as Connecticut spend over $26 billion a year in its budget? Needless to say, no one on the state food chain would dare admit that a reduction of state spending would increase affordability for citizens because preservation of their bureaucracy takes precedence over the citizen, (and why has that not sunken in by now?)

But let’s move down the line. Please look at what Connecticut taxpayers pay for state employee salaries, benefits, and pensions, as it should astound any working person in the state. The state spends a mere $6 billion a year in pension payments; that does not consider the future unfunded liabilities of the state pension system. Connecticut already has $100 to $150 billion in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities. What is the plan to pay off this debt? There is none, and never has been one as just about everyone in political land chortles about the need for the “fiscal guardrails”, which “fiscal guardrails” do not take into account this bulbous and unsustainable amount of legacy debts and liabilities.

But what about fuel? The ruling elite does not care. For the sake of all things green energy, Connecticut gets to pay one of the highest electric rates in the country. Part of this high cost of electricity is an economically insane public benefits charge that costs Connecticut electricity consumers a mere $1 billion plus per year. This public benefits charge is a slush fund that is doing little, if anything, to reduce the cost of electricity in the state. The ruling elite runs from cheap and simple fuel options such as natural gas. But the ruling elite has solutions! Like wind power. This pathetic sea mammal and bird killing industry is the biggest con job ever sold to the American taxpayer. After four decades and literally trillions in subsidies, tax credits, and mandates, wind power limped its way to producing a laughable 10.5% of U.S. electricity in 2024, and that’s the cherry-picked “nameplate” fantasy number. In the real world, thanks to its pathetic 35–42% average capacity factor (meaning the blades are spinning uselessly or standing dead still most of the time), wind actually delivered less than 5% of America’s total primary energy needs. Https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/energy-subsi

dies. But who cares? Your elites know better than you.

 

Affordability in Connecticut starts at the state government level. Republican candidates for Governor need to make this their main platform in 2026 in addition to dealing with the malignant Lamont-based corruption. Why is the state spending so much money on salaries, benefits, and pensions? Why is the $100 to $150 billion in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities not being addressed? Why not create a state DOGE to begin clearing out the fraud, inefficiencies, and wasteful spending that take place in a $26 billion budget? And from Day 1 of their term, state that they want all department heads and agencies to cut their budgets by 10-15% in Year One, followed by 5% cuts for the next three years. Couple that with a 1% decrease in the state income and corporate taxes each year for the next four years. Force government officials to find savings in their departments. And do it without the traditional stoic bitching and complaining that it cannot be done—because it can be done and has been done in numerous other states. Connecticut taxpayers want results for a change, not the same stale political rhetoric. And it is quite achievable. My friend and colleague Tony De Angelo did an excellent job discussing the need for candidates to be serious in this regard and to quickly adopt the Gasoline driven Trump Energy Policy on his December 4 THIRTY WITH TONY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyn17QSx-XE . But I have doubts if any standing incumbent or candidate from either party can actualize these fundamental factors, let alone grasp them. These folks cannot even grasp that once fuel prices come down, so do all prices, because everything (everything) is made with fuels.

Connecticut needs to address these issues from the top down- yesterday. Connecticut has a bloated, economically inefficient, and non-transparent state government that needs to be pared down and seen through. Connecticut needs a leader that will reform the consuming mess that has become the state workforce, root out corruption, force the state to take a course in Management-101 and dedicate their loyalty to the taxpayer (the shock of all that is). Because Connecticut taxpayers must stand on their heads to find ways to save money just to survive in the state. Connecticut government and its ruling elites must be no longer permitted to do so.

2026 Is Calling In Connecticut. Who Will Answer?

 In 1687, Connecticut declared a day of Thanksgiving to be November 3rd. They were rebuked by the Royal Governor of the Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, who ruled from his seat in Boston. When he learned of their chosen date during a visit to the colony, he immediately sought to annul the decision on the grounds that only he had the authority to name a day of Thanksgiving. Citizens in Connecticut and other New England colonies disliked being ruled by an Englishman and resented the English laws imposed on their new land. The seeds of the American Revolution were sown.

In 2025, Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, known affectionately by his battered subjects as “King Ned”, “The Unaccountable” , “Ned the Unrecallable”  “The Perpetual Governor” “The Prince of Greenwich” (and a whole lot of other terms and epithets unsuitable for print), arrogantly and disdainfully signed into law a community destroying zoning disaster bill known as HB 8002, a litigious manifesto guaranteeing the destruction of the long-standing character of Connecticut as we know it. Aided by his legislative operators and driven by private-equity interests from by he personally profits and is obligated to perform for, his signing of HB 8002 ushered in the age of the final destruction  of the Nutmeg State. Justifiable hatred and vitriol spouted from citizens in all corners of the state be it in print, online, or on talk radio. Virtually no taxpaying, homeowning, or non-politically connected citizen could arrive at a conclusion as to why the political system intended to destroy all that they had lawfully achieved. Like their antecedents, these poor souls disliked being ruled by an arrogant, disjointed despot and resented the horrific and nonsensical burdens thrown upon them by the incompetent people that were elected to represent them. 

Have the seeds of the Connecticut Revolution finally been sown?

Much to the chagrin of the arrogant political class, it is no longer 1687. Legal citizens wounded by the processes of arrogant government are now demanding transparency and accountability from said government. For in point of fact, the rule of law in Connecticut is decreed with no input from Connecticut taxpayers, no public hearings for new laws mandated on the population, there is never any referendums, and there is no regard for the state Constitution. There is serial disregard for the set of laws that govern the state, either by state judges or state officials. It is now quite clear that Connecticut is ruled in a cruel and oppressive manner by a self-appointed and self-profiting political hierarchy that hates and abuses its ordinary citizens and feasts upon the elimination of personal freedoms, economic freedoms, and personal property rights (as just seen with the enactment of HB 8002 into law).

Due to this rape of government and governance process, many are hopeful that 2026 will see a second revolution taking place in Connecticut. The first will be celebrated 250 years later on July 4, 2026. The second might possibly occur on November 3, 2026, when Connecticut holds its elections. A new Governor could emerge from that election, along with a State Senate and State House that become Republican rather than maintaining the omnipotent, incompetent, and destructive legendary one-party rule of the Connecticut Democrat Party. Starting from now, all sorts of gaming and backroom political deals are being negotiated in both parties. The huge political plum of highly paid state nonjobs is being jockeyed for. Despite the continual failure and malfeasance of the (should-be-abolished-scandal ridden) Connecticut Department of Economic Development (“DECD”), the lure of  free taxpayer money in the form interest-free, forgiven “economic” loans, shady undisclosed loans, and race-based loans are now being discussed in the traditional horse-trading manner using Democrat Party donations, votes, and that are sought after sinecure of being a Commissioner of something-or-other, regardless of personal ability and qualification. And in the executive suite of this putrid boiler-room, the Lamont reign continues its gaming with its neat cloak of Cayman Island accounts, deals hiding in nonprofits such as the UCONN Foundation and ADVANCE CT,  and working through “quasi-public” organizations such as the now-clearly Lamont-connected (and covert) “Connecticut Innovations”, needless to say a subsidiary of that same, failed DECD.  

But is there hope for improvement? As of now, It is now clear that two young candidates have emerged in the race for Governor on the Republican ticket: former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart and Greenwich State Senator Ryan Fazio. Stewart chose to run for Governor rather than seek re-election as Mayor after 12 years. The question on many minds is: if Stewart was such a good Mayor, why did a Democrat liberal named Bobby Sanchez become elected as the new Mayor rather than the Republican candidate replacing Erin Stewart? Does this lack of momentum carry over into her run for Governor as a Republican? As questions abound on social media as to her real commitment to Republican principles, or sometimes any principles that could be clearly ascertained.

It is my opinion that State Senator Ryan Fazio seems to have more to offer in his candidacy for Governor, as he demonstrates conceptual conservatism in several of his ideas and has been active in the Connecticut State Senate. Will this be enough to satisfy the Republican Party and its members? There are a great many voters who supported President Trump, contrary to what the Republican Party elites believed or gave credit for. Can they be given a candidate they can endorse and support both financially and in getting out the conservative message and vote, especially in the inner cities and among young voters? These are the same young voters who are accepting without question the horrors and lies of both socialism and communism.

However, both of these young candidates  have either not grasped, (or have ignored) the brutal destruction of Connecticut largely at the hand of the Lamont administration and of the Connecticut administrative state, to date. Will either candidate stand up to corruption? Will either candidate have the temerity and the intestinal fortitude to rail Ned Lamont (and where necessary, Ann Lamont) for the myriad and well-documented history of profiting from the state? Will either candidate have the ability and leadership skills to appoint competent Commissioners that will dismantle and revamp malignant bureaucracies such as the DECD? And this is a short list of critical tasks, but all are so critically needed to fix the wreckage called Connecticut. Ignoring these issues is an insult to every legitimate taxpaying citizen.

You see regardless of what you may be told, Connecticut is not in good shape financially or socially. The state has massive short- and long-term debt between 100 and 150 Billion dollars, an illegal immigrant problem, a massive crime problem, a huge corruption problem, a horrific illegal drug problem, an infrastructure problem, and a critical crisis in the ethics, honesty, information sharing, and transparency of its state government, all of which are funded by Connecticut taxpayers. It is an abysmal failure going somewhere to happen.

And as I have mentioned earlier, the fix-it list above is a short one. While Republicans are deciding, Connecticut’s Democrat Party continues its push toward more stringent socialist/communist means and methods: to eliminate opposition, eliminate public comments, eliminate options, and eliminate all transparency. Creation of an all-powerful, centralized, state-controlled government mindset is Job Number 1. The government can do no wrong, and you, as a Connecticut taxpayer, can do no right. For the "elephant" in the Republican living room is a question: Does either young candidate have the temerity and the personal and professional skill and running gear to deal with this oncoming train as well? Given present conditions, no, is an unacceptable answer.

Sadly, Connecticut is in such bad shape that the characteristics mentioned above are no longer nice to have, but are now critical requirements. It is your choice as a Connecticut voter in 2026 to break these atrocious chains of indentured chattel slavery that the Connecticut Democrat Party has wrapped around you. Its up to you to insist that your candidate has all of the necessary tools to fix the mess, once and for all. If a person that checks all of those boxes is elected as a Republican governor, rest assured that the Second revolution of Connecticut will soon be in the offing. 

For the humble, taxpaying citizens of Connecticut now know what the issues are, and frankly want and need to see a complete housecleaning of the Royal Castle and its associated Court Jesters. 

It is now 2025 and no longer 1687.

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, And Your Private Equity Investors

 For many years, the poor beleaguered Connecticut taxpayer has been lectured to by their morally-superior Connecticut politicians and representatives as to how the poor beleaguered Connecticut economy is stagnant because there is not enough “workforce housing” or “affordable  housing” in order to house workers that are needed to make businesses grow.  Lapdog and pandering “business leader” organizations such as the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (“CBIA”) that are influenced heavily by state directives and paid lobbyists, parrot these “economic assessments” giving them a false air of objectivity and technical soundness. If all of that is not bad enough, “white guilt”- manufacturing assemblies of uncertain form such as “Desegregate CT” and the “Open Communities Alliance” shame and berate innocent homeowners in fine and clean communities for “living on all of that space that they do not need.” It has been nothing but an incessant barrage from all state-connected sources telling you, the citizen, that citizen that never asked for anything from Connecticut government other than the basics it cannot deliver, that you are the enemy, and politics are the solution.

First, in my decades of observation of Connecticut and in being a Professor of Economics and a financial professional, no one has yet to see this burgeoning demand for housing. If there truly was an economic energy in Connecticut with a lack of housing, we would see state motels continually full. We would see campers and vans parked in lines on our avenues with people “camping out” waiting for that next elusive home or apartment to appear. We would see four our five young people routinely crammed in one-bedroom apartments in Hartford. But strangely we see none of that. As a pure matter of fact, we are seeing exactly the opposite. We see our unsafe and decrepit cities continually exhibiting new levels of decay. We see an exodus from the cities due to an economic hardening of the arteries. https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/major-hartford-real-estate-investor-faces-third-office-building-foreclosure/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Hartford%20investor%20faces%20third%20office%20foreclosure%20%7C%20Medical%20Billing%20firm%20moves%20HQ%20to%20CT&utm_campaign=HBJ%20Today%20112125 We see major business depart for serious states run by adults: https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/edgewell-to-close-milford-schick-plant-cut-293-jobs-as-part-of-broad-restructuring/ We see continual crime in what I call “Crime-Free Democrat Connecticut”. We see a corrupt and inept Department of Economic and Community Development wasting millions of dollars, now under Federal investigation. But yet, we never hear of any champion of “workforce housing” ever successfully explain why destroying neighborhoods and turning that part of suburban and rural-residential Connecticut into a steroidal version of “Father Panik Village-The Sequel” will generate organic economic growth and make things wonderful for all.

We realize that cars cannot run without fuel and people cannot build muscle on starvation diets, yet somehow with the Magical-Mystical Connecticut Plan Of "Economic Diversity” this will all take care of itself.Unfortunately, nothing could ever be farther from the truth. First, let us examine the concept of “Economic Diversity” that every Connecticut Democrat wishes to slam down your throat.

Unfortunately, there is and can never be no diversity in “economic diversity.” This is evident when one reads the monstrous and economically irrational Connecticut Bill (“Bill,” HB 8002) that was recently passed by the economically illiterate Connecticut State Legislature. There is not much to like—if anything—about this Bill, which is somehow named “AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING GROWTH” (https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-08002-R00-HB.PDF) with said Bill forcing Connecticut’s 169 towns to achieve this nebulous concept of “economic diversity.” The Bill was forced down Connecticut taxpayers’ throats with no public hearing, no public input, and in many cases without even being read by members of the legislature. It essentially creates a false narrative that Connecticut’s 169 towns and cities must follow. The language of the Bill is a garbled mess of potentially litigious rhetoric but it is quite evident that its real effect is to eliminate local planning and zoning commissions from ruling over their own cities and towns and remove people from the very property that they worked so hard to own. Local dominion has been stripped from communities by the state with the creation of “Priority Housing Development Zones” allowing higher population densities by decree. These zones allow four units per acre for single-family homes, six units for duplexes and townhouses, and ten or more for multifamily properties. Projects of this size will no longer require local hearings, meaning local property owners near these projects will no longer have any real say over what happens around their own properties. In brief, one day a homeowner will open his front door and see a housing monstrosity going up across the street, and he will be powerless to stop it or raise an objection.

But recall: This Bill is engendered by those dear souls that think it is best for you to not own the vehicle of your choice, let alone own any vehicle at all. That said, these dear souls wish to provide public transit for you, wherever you may be. The Bill leans on the cure-all of “transit-oriented districts” that must be approved by the state. These districts are clustered around taxpayer-subsidized transit, such as near-empty buses running around the clock and “reliable” trains that will transport workers to jobs in parts unknown at this time. This costly exercise will provide the same results as the illustrious CTfastrak to nowhere from New Britain to Hartford—a huge waste of taxpayers’ money and, many argue, unsafe to ride. But when it comes to another union project, these dear souls cater to their largest voting bloc and continually roll over and play dead, (and you as usual, can be damned).

Some of the evident problems with the Bill that impact many towns and cities in the state are laid out in legislative analysis (https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/BA/PDF/2025HB-08002-R00SS1-BA.PDF), but even that state-manufactured source raises more questions than answers. For example, who runs a “Fair Rent Commission”? Is it an elected commission? What exactly is a “fair” rent? Is it free monthly rent? Ten dollars a month? Or a state-approved number pulled from the sky that, as usual, completely disregards the real costs of rental property such as property taxes, maintenance, and insurance? Who pays for the costs of this Fair Rent Commission? Will landlords be forced to foreclose and walk away from their properties as they cannot support them through choking legislation? Who cares? Your state Legislature is working diligently with you in mind! Look forward to higher taxes, increased crime, and an added social service burden, because it is your taxpayer duty to support whom your Legislature deems you must.

Then we see the concept of a “Municipal Goal.” What is it, and how is it derived? Who has the final say on it? Are all Municipal Goals effectively the same thing as “economic diversity”? How can Municipal Goals be achieved if there is none of this magical “economic diversity” taking place in that municipality? Again, look forward to higher taxes, increased crime, and an added social service burden, because it is your taxpayer duty to support whom your Legislature deems you must.

Beyond that, there are the inevitable downstream costs that are never  honestly addressed. Who pays for the additional costs of public education when all these supposedly new families with children move into a town? Class sizes, staffing, school buildings, special education needs—none of this is free. How many of the people coming in are legal? Who cares? The Legislature knows better than you, anyway. Who pays for the additional costs of road infrastructure and the increased traffic with all these supposedly new residents? Or will these new people be told they cannot own personal vehicles and must rely solely on public transportation? Again, look forward to higher taxes, increased crime, and an added social service burden, because it is your taxpayer duty to support whom your Legislature deems you must.

This Bill is a massive power grab and will be yet another force pushing Connecticut taxpayers to move out of the state, since they will no longer have meaningful control over their own property. It helps create a new layer of state bureaucracy where unelected, Democrat Party–connected individuals and businesses once again make decisions for Connecticut taxpayers. More failed state-run "somethingCT" programs with no transparency and no accountability are on the way. Again, look forward to higher taxes, increased crime, and an added social service burden, because it is your taxpayer duty to support whom your Legislature deems you must.

But finally, we are seeing the real reasons for this dastardly and nonsensical plan to destroy the last remnants of life as we know it in the State of Connecticut: That reason is, The Lamont Family. On the 11/20 edition of THIRTY WITH TONY, my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo, a weekly contributor to the Lee Elci Show on WJJF 94.9FM produced a riveting and documented show with extensive exhibits clearly walking us through the real reason behind why the fabric of the state is being ripped asunder purely by the real mission of Ned and Ann Lamont which is to capitalize Connecticut for their benefit using a sophisticated structure of nonprofit organizations and offshore tax havens. We all know that Tony has documented this situation for years. However we find on this show that the Republican Party admits they have known of this situation as well, but have never mentioned anything about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNWCrtUXAog

But always keep in mind that it is not too late to fight back. The Republican Party, along with ordinary citizens, needs to challenge this in the legal and court system and question the legality of stripping local control over private property from lawful property owners. Whosoever the Republican candidate of Governor is, must finally call out the blatant and sickening Lamont corruption and finally assume the role of an adult, otherwise please save our time and energy and do not even bother to run. Whosoever the Republican candidate for Governor must declare he or she will sign an Executive Order on Day 1 symbolically setting the lead to obliterate HB 8002, for once and for all, unions be damned. 

This is the reality of HB 8002: a Bill that will continue the rape of personal freedoms of those lawful citizens who remain. The Connecticut Democrat Party owns this new economic nightmare and the economic pain it will inflict on Connecticut taxpayers while trying to achieve its absurd, pointless, and unachievable vision of “economic diversity.” Meanwhile, the Republicans are in the “Last Chance Saloon” to right the wrongs by being bold and forthright which is uncharted territory for them.

For any meaningful change to the horrific, putrid, wreckage HB 8002 will cause, all of this must happen. It is either a beginning, or an end, and it is entirely up to the people who are there at this moment.

 

The Anti-Societal Side of Socialism

Some of us are old enough to remember a large cartoon bear telling us not to play with fire, and that only you can prevent forest fires. We also learned we could be badly hurt or killed if we crossed the street between cars or played with blasting caps at construction sites. Lessons like these, learned in our formative years, go a long way in shaping common sense and a value system for life to this day. I grew up with a strong sense of right versus wrong, applying many simple lessons to lead a caring and productive life. However, today, common sense and traditional life lessons, particularly those rooted in religion and the Bible, are often dismissed or discouraged, if not viciously attacked.

Fast forward to a state like Connecticut in 2025. Young people are often born in single-parent households and raised without a value system. There is no going out to play or physical activity unless it is a programmed activity. Children born as one gender are told by trusted adults that God made a mistake, and they really are something else. Discipline and mental focus are nonexistent. Reading levels are pitiful. Gutter racism is a school subject cloaked as DEI or Social-Emotional Learning. And these innocent children are led to a virtual scrapheap, courtesy of your Democrat political system and enabling so-called educators. This is the educational state of the union in 2025.

But this type of upbringing leads many young people to become fascinated with the warm and fuzzy side of socialism. With this in mind, we now see many young people on high school and college campuses embracing the idea that an authoritarian, communistic, state-dependent, or socialistic system of government and economy would somehow create a utopian society. Unfortunately, the belief that one all-powerful ruling authority that crushes dissent and makes lives better defies both logic and history. They are taught that living under a ruthless dictator and his politically connected henchmen controlling all aspects of life would be an improvement. They believe that silencing opposing thoughts by any means is acceptable, even violence. They are often visited on campus by lie-spewing Democrat politicians and candidates reinforcing these socialist and demonic tenets of faith, and who are known to hand over a pizza or a fast-food voucher affixed to a paper ballot when an election race gets tight. (For after all, Governor Ned Lamont is fond of saying "Connecticut, we got your back").

Predictably, this irrational and dastardly political philosophy of socialism is gaining strength among young people, particularly in liberal and socialistic enclaves such as New York City. Yet this ideology has been a catastrophic failure throughout history often enslaving populations through torture, starvation, and mass murder. Succinctly put, socialism has never worked, anywhere. Consider the death and suffering of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Consider Nazi Germany and the undeniable horrors of the Holocaust. Consider the bloody repression in Cuba under Fidel Castro. Consider the insanity of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who killed three million Cambodians. There are countless other examples throughout the long, savage history of socialism and communism.

What is even more dangerous and despicable is that politicians such as Gov. Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz, both with dubious (if any) experience and success in the world of economic reality, cheerily tell young naïve state college students of the brave new world of opportunity coming to Connecticut. They further describe vague and nebulous state-supported concepts in fields such as Quantum Computing start-ups and Venture Capital (interestingly both Lamont staple family industries). They will further say that the state will be "partnering with" these endeavors (which is nice work for the Lamont family). However, even state-supported capital endeavors are doomed to failure as affinity and political-correctness override production and innovation. If you do not believe me, read about “Fordlandia,” socialist Henry Ford’s great social experiment to make car tires and support culture at the same time in the 1930s. Fordlandia failed miserably and violently. Why would it not? Why is it different this time? The sad fact of the matter is, socialism does not work in business, either.

 So, given the litany of abject failures and the corpses littered throughout history, why is socialism so attractive to some of today’s youth? Why are young people drawn to Democrat Socialist/Communist politicians? For many, their public schooling and college years have become an indoctrination, one that limits ideas and teaches that only a single ideology is acceptable. That ideology demands hatred of freedom, hatred of the truths that expose socialism and communism as failures, hatred of the Jewish faith and religion in general (as seen in the attacks on Charlie Kirk), hatred of nations that value personal and economic liberty, and hatred of individuals who question their political beliefs. On top of this is the lure of “free” food, “free” transportation, “free” housing, “free” medical care, and freedom from personal responsibility of any kind. This looks attractive at first. However, it invariably leads to a siren song of personal and financial disaster.

But it is the usual “what-me-worry” posture of the Connecticut government that rules the airwaves as it continues its descent to state-run stupidity. Connecticut is now in deep economic decline even as it continues promising “free” benefits to many. The much-touted state budget surplus created through excessive taxation is fool’s gold. Massive and unchecked unfunded mandates of 125 to 150 Billion dollars are never discussed by anyone in the political sphere and the amount of any "surplus" could not cause a ripple in that bucket. Yet the illusion of a surplus serves as an open invitation for the Connecticut Democrat Party to give it away to its politically connected allies and to buy votes from the weak- minded and ignorant that they, themselves, have manufactured. Socialism always encourages giving away other people’s money to those in the inner circle and to the plebian class, never ever directing these funds to the folks that earned them in the first place. Its your job to just turn the hamster wheel to create the energy that everyone else gets to benefit from.

So, what can be done to reverse this horrific and irrational trend to the radical Democrat Party left? Are we powerless to educate a generation that seems so lost and so pressured into embracing communism and socialism? Perhaps a good start would be for these misguided youths to read unbiased histories documenting the suffering these regimes inflicted as a condition of their middle and high school graduations. They should learn how ordinary people were brutalized while their dictators lived in luxury. Better yet, they should travel to these supposed socialist “paradises” and see firsthand the suffering and horrific conditions people endure, then visit the prisons where dissenters are held under brutal totalitarian rule. Possibly Ned and Annie Lamont can scrounge a few seats on the plane for young scholars to experience Cuba up close and personal while they depart for the second leg of the trip to the Cayman Islands to check on their holdings. As funny (or as ridiculous) as that scenario seems, it describes the operations of a socialistic society of the haves and the have-nots, almost perfectly.

It is time for America to wake up before our freedoms are stolen from us by what appears to be a lost generation steeped in wokeness and hostility toward free thought. It is safe to predict that the new Mayor of New York City will be an abysmal, hopeless, and incompetent failure in leading the city. And it is long past time to speak the real truths about communism and socialism. Let the voices of those who escaped these systems finally be heard loud and clear.

 

The Election Of Failure Over Success

 The Democrat Party means business — do not forget it. Opposition to their regime will not be tolerated any time. The Democrat Party is always right, even when they are wrong, and the Republican Party is always wrong, even when they are right. If a Democrat screws up, threatens death, avows Communism, commits fraud, or threatens the murder of children, we are supposed to ignore that. If a Republican makes an error, there is no Statute of Limitations. Thus, yet another election filled with massive amounts of money, time, and effort has produced the results seen in the off-year election of 2025.

Understanding the mindset of the American voter is difficult and complex. Understanding the results of the November 4, 2025, elections is even more complex. Yet the motivations of the Democrat Party since the election of President Trump in 2016 have been relatively straightforward. According to the modern Democrat Party, President Trump is evil — a king, a dictator — or, according to California Democrat Representative Nancy Pelosi, “just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”
(RealClearPolitics link)

I am still wondering: why is President Trump considered so bad, and what secret information does he possess that causes Democrats to despise him so completely? He has not threatened to put bullets in children. He has not avowed Communism. He has killed no one using Fentanyl or illegal immigrants. He has not even dyed his hair purple. Here is a President who, in the opinion of many has done more in ten months while enduring daily negative onslaughts than the incoherent and incontinent Democrat Joe Biden and his functionally incompetent staff did in four whole years. So why hate this man who has no bad intentions towards you?

One may wonder whether these mischaracterizations of President Trump had a profound influence on voters on election day. Could the daily chaos, negative news stories, and constant belittlement of all things Trump have persuaded some to vote Democrat rather than Republican? Could the constant nattering of empty-headed Democrat politicians and their handmaiden state-run media finally have penetrated the reason of well-meaning Americans?

Consider the case of newly elected Virginia Democrat Attorney General Jay Jones: (As reported):

“Jones did not deny reports that he sent messages fantasizing about shooting Todd Gilbert, the Republican former speaker of the House of Delegates. He said he would rather shoot Gilbert twice than kill Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot. He later said he wished Gilbert’s young children would die in their mother’s arms, after warning that Gilbert and his wife were ‘breeding little fascists.’ He sent these messages to a Republican and, when she asked him to stop, he sought to justify these violent thoughts with one sentence: ‘Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.’”
(Daily Signal link)

Apparently, these statements had negligible impact on voters. Jones, despite this history, will now claim to represent all Virginians — except, it seems, anyone who is Republican or who disagrees with him. (And if you believe in God, please say special prayers for Virginia Conservatives with small children).

Tied once again to President Trump and the Virginia gubernatorial race was the vile, racially engendered hatred directed at Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears during her campaign against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, now the state’s new governor. Earle-Sears faced overt racism, including one sign that read:

“Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”  The sign received millions of views on social media. Over the weekend, a Vice Chair of the Virginia Democratic Party blamed the incident on “the climate Winsome Sears is creating.”
(Winsome for Governor link)

This is Virginia in 2025 — a bastion of progressivism that has become a hotbed of hatred toward a Black woman running for governor. (Shame on her, truly)

Meanwhile, New York City, with its daily pro-Palestine, anti-Israel paid protests and constant condemnations of President Trump, has elected its first Muslim/Communist/Socialist/Democrat/Impending Incompetent mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is an avowed socialist with no management, business, or economic experience. He has previously called to defund the police, declared his anti-Israel/pro-Palestine stance, and vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York City. His proposals include free public transit, city-run grocery stores, expanded rent controls, and other economically unrealistic, if not fantastic, programs.

How Mamdani will govern New York City is anyone’s guess. What will happen if police and firefighters resign en masse? Can anyone name a country where Communism or Socialism has worked? Cuba? Russia? North Korea? Hamas-controlled Palestine? Where is this so-called “promised land” Mamdani and his supporters envision? Will we watch the venerable statue of Christopher Columbus be torn from its moorings at Columbus Circle to be replaced by a statue of Eugene Debs? Will we see Muslim prayer interfering with rush hour traffic? Will Curtis Sliwa be arrested on the subways for bogus and attributed crimes? Will an “exit tax” be levied on New Yorkers fleeing the city to preserve their hard work? And will Jews face daily pogroms and beatings? (As the great Frank Sinatra sang, Its up to you, New York, New York)

But let us add a dash of Nutmeg to this toxic stew. Connecticut is no exception to the daily hatred of all things Trump, led by socialist Democrat Senator Chris Murphy. Murphy’s constant, incoherent anti-Trump  nonsensical babbling has helped solidify the Democrat Party’s stranglehold over the state. In the 128 towns and cities holding elections, 27 flipped from Republican to Democrat leadership, while only two flipped the other way. The Connecticut Democrat Party now holds every statewide office, enjoys a supermajority in both legislative chambers, and controls all congressional seats. One-party rule is alive and well in Connecticut along with its attendant lack of sound policy and sense, and the daily Trump-bashing continues full steam ahead.

And once again, we must turn to the author of Democrat confusion, Governor Ned Lamont. As of right now, the only thing keeping him from another term as Governor is if his own far-left wing of his party decides to do away with him. Having no serious, policy driven opposition we can look forward to more of the myriad questionable and shady deal history  of 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. Also, we can be certain that no Republican challenger to his office will ever challenge him on any one of the above questionable deals, because of no explicable reason.

But to another major question, after this election, one must ask: what exactly are the Democrat Party’s policies? Can they define them? Are they built solely around the condemnation of Donald Trump? Do they have a plan to pay down the national debt? Will America continue down the road toward more socialist, government-funded programs and fewer personal economic freedoms? Will the Democrat Party maintain its hostility toward Israel and other free nations? Will it continue to allow the flow of illegal drugs that fuel addiction and death across the country? How much worse could Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland Oregon, and Hartford get? Who ever imagined what we are seeing now? And do Democrats have any real solution for the skyrocketing cost of healthcare caused by their so-called Affordable Care Act?

As of this hour, the federal government is shut down because Democrat Senators refuse to vote for a continuing resolution to maintain spending levels established by the Biden administration. Yet Americans continue paying federal taxes — automatically withheld from every paycheck — while the government they fund remains closed. Once again, the Democrat Party places itself above the people it supposedly represents. In my opinion, this shutdown influenced the election — and the Democrats played it perfectly, particularly in Virginia.

Yes, the election of failure over success continues into 2026. Everything Republican, Conservative, or Judeo-Christian will be mocked, tarred, and feathered, while Democrat falsehoods are embraced and celebrated. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for a complete overhaul of our political system — with term limits, performance-based pay, dilution of the Administrative State and the elimination of all campaign fundraising.

As America approaches its 250th year, perhaps it is time for a new Declaration of Independence — one freeing us from the filth, muck, and corruption that our government and political system have become.

We, the American people, have had enough.

 

"SNAP" Goes The Government

For many years, I have written about the tax, spend, borrow, and waste death spiral of government, particularly evident in poorly run states such as Connecticut. For many years regardless of sound admonition, government has proceeded in taxing more, spending more, and creating more useless and redundant programs and non-jobs for the politically connected. Meanwhile, legitimate tax-paying businesses asking for no aid but wishing only for low taxes, friendly government and safe and clean communities are driven out of states like Connecticut by experiencing exactly the opposite of that.  When the rate of legitimate business departures increases as the governmental and administrative state monster metastasizes, jobs become scarce, and welfare and dependency need increase. When joblessness continues for a protracted period, people become skillfully obsolete and unemployable. Rather than seeing the problems and righting the ship, visionless politicians with no sense or clue of what is necessary to fix a bad state and a bad economy cry and scream and pound the table concerning man’s inhumanity to man due to some intelligent men and women questioning this constant giant sucking mess that has effectively become the government. But the real man’s inhumanity to man factually rests with these same politicians complaining. Even a high-school graduate in his first apartment knows that he or she must generate enough inflow to exceed outflow. But this lesson is lost on about every politician, especially in places like Connecticut. So, what is the inevitable result? The dire situation becomes worse and continues to mushroom and then, something snaps.

And this is where we are on November 1, 2025. Our stupid and inept government, has finally, “snapped.”Apropos of this great “snap” it is time to bring up a discussion of the national nutritional assistance program. 

The “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” better known as “SNAP,” has apparently snapped as of this writing of this column for this week. To show the sick and decrepit state of the American economy, over 42 million people in America use this program, or roughly 12% of the population of our country. This program provides additional benefits to those individuals and families in the form of EBT payments for certain "healthy" food items in stores. "SNAP households are expected to spend about 30 percent of their own resources on food, and your allotment is calculated by multiplying your household’s net monthly income by 0.3, and subtracting the result from the maximum monthly allotment for your household size." Therefore, a family of four can receive up to $994 a month maximum. (https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/recipient/eligibility). For Fiscal Year 2024 Taxpayers spent over $100 billion dollars on SNAP benefits. This accounts for over 1.5% of US Federal spending. It is expected to go up over the next few years. (https://usafacts.org). 

To add to the pitiful nature of the Connecticut economy having  over 25% of its population on Medicaid, over 360,000 Connecticut residents receive SNAP benefits (or roughly 11% of the state’s population). But if you read and believe the state-run propaganda that passes for reporting you are led to believe that President Donald J. Trump is cruel and inhumane for insisting that government finally clean itself out of waste, fraud, inefficiency and fiscal abuse, and that Connecticut is a state with a heart for the poor and downtrodden that its own political system has created. As one example, Governor Ned Lamont recently gave “Connecticut Foodshare” $3 million dollars to help offset the loss of SNAP benefits as cries of Trumpian cruelty reverberated across social media in the background. “This $3 million investment will make a real difference for families across Connecticut who are facing an impossible choice between paying rent and putting food on the table,” Connecticut Foodshare CEO Jason Jakubowski said. “While we recognize this funding cannot replace the full scale of federal SNAP benefits, it will help us to buy more food for agency partners and mobile pantries across the state over the next two weeks. We are grateful for the state’s leadership and commitment to protecting Connecticut’s most vulnerable residents.”  (https://portal.ct.gov/governor/news/press-releases/2025/10-2025/governor-lamont-announces-emergency-funding-for-connecticut-foodshare?language=en_US).

Such a gesture on its face seems selfless and noble until one digs more at the ugly backside of the tax and spend economy, being multiple highly compensated and redundant nonprofit managers sitting in well-paid state-supported non-jobs consuming the resources intended for the poor. So, let’s examine Mr. Jason Jakubowski, a politically-connected former Barack Obama delegate and a man with no particular experience in either the private sector nor in the food industry. For Fiscal Year 2024, Jason Jakubowski received Compensation of $292,739 and Other Compensation of $53,514 for a total of $346,253 a year. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61063025). This is inexplicably double his first-year salary as covered by my friend Tony De Angelo on his October 30 THIRTY WITH TONY show. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERBrM_zue1A)   Due to the circulation of truthful information, many have asked if Jacob Jakubowski would refuse his pay so that money would go to feeding these hungry people during this crisis? But charity need not end at home! How about Ned and Annie Lamont picking up the tab for these benefits as a charitable donation? Forbes magazine has recently estimated their net family worth as $650 million dollars. Or in going National, Senator Richard Blumenthal and his family's net worth of a mere $85 million cam certainly kick in a few shekels. (https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/richard-blumenthal-net-worth/) . Actually, many liberal Democrat politicians could start to compassion for their treasured poor folk by giving their money to help fund this cause until their party would vote for either a budget and or a continuing resolution to reopen Washington. They could also refuse their salaries since many people in government are working without pay and what better way to show your solidarity with the unwashed masses?

But even so, more questions come to mind regarding SNAP benefits. Why are so many individuals in need of these benefits costing our country over $100 billion dollars- plus a year? Is there fraud and non-legal citizens receiving these benefits? In a country as wealthy as the United States why are so many individuals this much in need?

But once again, the poor slob taxpayer in places like Connecticut has no luxuries such as a shutdown. Please note that we are still paying Federal Taxes to our unopened government during this crisis but are not getting all the services we are paying for. That is fine with the minority Democrat Party in Congress and pitiful and ineffective bodies such as the Democrat-controlled Connecticut State Legislature. We are still hearing the daily bashing of all things President Trump by the state-run media. And we still see waste and fraud going unchecked at all levels of government as it arrogantly continues as a God-given right. Maybe those truly in need should continue to receive these benefits via a tougher litmus test while those using them fraudulently should flush out. Maybe nonprofit organizations feeding hungry people should not have paid employees nor politically connected executives. Maybe charities falling above the 25% of operating expenses-to-income ratio benchmark of “Charity Navigator” should not be able to bid for funding until they get their fiscal houses in order. Maybe charities that perform well should be expanded while others failing to meet the mark be disbanded. But the biggest “maybe” in enacting reforms would be to find politicians with enough courage to suggest even one such improvement and reform. Hope is not great in that regard, regardless of party label.

However, it is now November 1, 2025. The Government has snapped. And SNAP has snapped. It is yet another excellent example as to why a complete overhaul of our Federal Government from top to bottom is necessary as DOGE attempted to accomplish and must now complete in DOGE 2.0.  But then if this mission were successful, it would reduce the unskilled Democrat-controlled political class to turn into the supplicants that they now pretend to care so much about. Because, people need skills and trades to work in a genuine and true society and economy.