I HAVE COME UP WITH AN ANALOGY that I think makes sense of the whole political scene.\u00a0 There’s a circle of events and behaviors that when put together, paint a picture.\u00a0 A surreal picture for sure, but perhaps because it’s so seemingly far-fetched, maybe there’s something to it.<\/p>\n
If we look at politics as if it were a game show, some of the fuzziness clears almost immediately.\u00a0 Let’s start with the candidates:\u00a0 They are the contestants.\u00a0 Like a game show, there can be only one winner.\u00a0 At the primary level, contestants are virtually chosen at random.\u00a0 In politics, this is called throwing one’s hat into the ring.\u00a0 The successful ones make it to the stage and compete against one another to win the big prize.\u00a0 The prize winner moves on to elective office.\u00a0 But that isn’t the real<\/em> prize.<\/p>\n No, the real prize winning is the wealth, luxury and power that comes with the office.\u00a0 For those unaware of how the game is played, the fabulous wealth that accrues is due in large part to two sources:\u00a0 taxpayer money and large donors.<\/p>\n Massive fraud now coming to light indicates how the taxpayer money is funneled to politicians.\u00a0 Reports have surfaced that House members like Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) have increased their personal wealth in exponentially massive ways that simply don’t pass the sniff test of “investing” and the like.\u00a0 This too, is part of the game.<\/p>\n The figure $9 billion is being floated as the amount of fraud perpetrated by the Somalis in Minneapolis.\u00a0 That’s a lot of money!\u00a0 Too much money to go unnoticed by the organizations and agencies responsible for overseeing commercial enterprises.\u00a0 When daycare is at issue, multiple regulatory agencies must inspect, certify, validate and approve operations.\u00a0 There is the question of attendance; health checks, curricula and more.\u00a0 Investigation reveals that no children have been in evidence, yet billings for government subsidies are in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u00a0 So, why haven’t any of these organizations thrown a flag?<\/p>\n Because it’s part of the game.\u00a0 The “daycare” operators grease the palms of the officials.\u00a0 Maybe they don’t hand out cash directly (but maybe sometimes they do) but there are other ways of greasing the skids.\u00a0 Call them “donations.”<\/p>\n On a recent podcast, Cenk Uygur<\/a>, a leftist political activist, stated that only 33 members of the current Congress have not accepted donations from pro-Israel groups.\u00a0 Which raises the question, why do pro-Israel lobbyists donate to nearly every member of Congress, regardless of party?\u00a0 The answer is “leverage.”\u00a0 Uygur said that if a member of Congress who has been “paid” votes against bills favoring Israel, that money is then withdrawn.\u00a0 However a member of Congress spends money, whether it’s on re-election campaigning or “official travel” (the term used instead of “junket”), losing income can cost a politician his office, and thus his gravy train.<\/p>\n Reportedly Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation<\/a> (and a rival with Elon Musk as the world’s richest man), donated $5million to Israel, and then later found it was easier and more discreet to donate $16.6m to the non-profit Friends of the Israel Defense Forces<\/a>.\u00a0 This is not an anti-Israel screed, but merely a way to point out how intertwined and deep the money game goes.\u00a0 Ellison can’t be named and thus be held responsible for the way FIDF spends money.\u00a0 Pontius Pilate was the first in recorded history to “wash his hands” of spilled blood (Matthew 27:24).<\/p>\n “Money laundering” is the term that is used to describe how money from illegal or suspicious sources is passed through seemingly legitimate businesses and banked as actual income.\u00a0 Restaurants, laundries, and perhaps even child care centers can be set up as money laundering “nodes.”\u00a0 A restaurant that serves only 100 customers a week, can deposit the equivalent of 1,000 customer checks.\u00a0 The unraveling of the childcare fiasco in Minnesota and elsewhere is an example.\u00a0 No children seen at these centers, but billing (for remuneration by the government) amasses in the tens of thousands of dollars.\u00a0 This strongly suggests that government officials are taking a “cut of the action” as no irregularities are ever reported.\u00a0 And thus the cycle continues.<\/p>\n When President Trump tasked Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) the result was the ending of the USAID program, which it turns out, had been spending money on frivolous (and quite likely fraudulent programs) programs, which very likely served merely as money laundering operations, which fed money into politicians’ pockets.<\/p>\n In short:<\/p>\n TAXPAYER MONEY –>\u00a0 GOVERNMENT “PROGRAMS”\u00a0 –>\u00a0 KICKBACKS TO POLITICIANS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n or<\/p>\n WEALTHY DONORS –> NON-PROFITS\/LOBBYISTS –> POLITICIANS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Plain” folks like you and me aren’t invited to the party.\u00a0 George Carlin<\/a> said, “It’s a big club, and you ain\u2019t in it. You and I are not in the big club.”\u00a0 There are only two things one can do about this:\u00a0 Ignore the clamor and distraction and focus on making the best life possible, or strive to rise above it, and get invited to the party.\u00a0 Choose the latter, and welcome to the game show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I HAVE COME UP WITH AN ANALOGY that I think makes sense of the whole political scene.\u00a0 There’s a circle of events and behaviors that when put together, paint a picture.\u00a0 A surreal picture for sure, but perhaps because it’s … Continue reading