And by they I mean those select few, all-knowing, all-powerful, we’ll tell you what to think and what’s best for you and you’ll like it, elected betters. And I sincerely hope you are as tired of them as I am. The act is seriously getting old.

But it’s beginning to appear it’s the only way they know how to act.

How else can you explain what’s going on in Washington D.C.? It’s as if they don’t care what they are doing if whatever they are doing continues to drive a wedge among the people. And why should they care? Unless your name ends in Trump, you never have to face the consequences of your actions, or worse, things you never did.

I know, it’s a little confusing, but sometimes that’s how I write. And for some reason, that seems to work for me. After all, it’s my main hope that my writing makes you think on the topic, not to tell you how to think on the topic. So, let’s have at some stuff that’s bothering me. Or more appropriately, I find mildly, frighteningly or amusingly ironic.

Let’s start with everyone’s favorite, possibly illegal, immigrant serving in Congress, Ilhan Omar. Tell me you don’t find it humorous that she overstated her assets on official, legal forms (like Trump allegedly did) and then claimed it was from accounting entry errors (like Trump did), and yet nothing is being done about it. And nothing will. That’s exactly why she and her husband are doing what they are doing, which is money laundering via quasi-government agencies that they place into bogus entities to hide the money they are taking from said entities.

Trump didn’t launder money. He borrowed it and paid it back. And the bank was OK with what Trump put on the forms, yet a judge wasn’t, and folks were OK with prosecuting Trump for it even though the bank was good with the entire transaction and did its due diligence. For Omar, I think the entries on her net worth were done so out of pride before realizing they showed her illegal activities plain as day. I mean, how many nonexistent day-care centers do you need to see to convince you Omar is playing a con game?

Yet nothing has happened, and Omar is more emboldened then ever when confronted.

How about this one? The Department of Government Efficiency (ever hear a peep from it anymore?) allegedly found BILLIONS of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. And some kid, citizen journalist is running around our democrat-run cities finding billions more handed out to entities that don’t even exist. Yet, have you heard of any action taken by Congress outside of stopping the cash flow for a week here, a month there? All I’ve seen is constant pontificating about it on the floor of Congress, select talk shows and radio interviews from members. And that only results in more of the citizens fighting and hating and pointing fingers.

Because that’s what this is about, how to continue the gravy train. Do you really think they are going to reign in their behavior that’s giving them more power or making themselves richer when all they need to do is divide us more on one hand to get away with it on the other? Of course, this is what they choose. They have us fighting over a billion here or a few billion “we” allegedly can’t afford as they spend $7 TRILLION or more every year. All while having tax confiscation (and creating $$$$ out of thin air) increase year after year while making us think one side gives tax breaks to billionaires and the other side writes laws where almost half the taxpayers don’t pay any tax yet think they are overtaxed.

We don’t need to go overseas to find evil in our time. It’s right here in the good old USofA, in a little district one side would like to make a state to end democracy, all while telling you the other side wants to end our democracy. I believe both sides would willingly end our representative republic if it meant they’d always be in power. Heck, the democrats are so conniving they say it out loud, while the republicans are too stupid to realize they’re doing it, too.

How about the sex scandals? Both sides were fine with using taxpayer money to silence victims of sexual abuse. And both sides are just as defensive in not letting us know which select senators and congresspeople needed the payoffs. I mean, the only ones we know about lately is the guy accused of rape and the one whose staffer committed suicide. At least we know where congress finally draws the line on sexual-abuse payments.

And you wonder why the government sat on the Epstein files for decades?

Let’s do one more. Let’s go to president’s kids. Yes, the ol’ crackpipe provocateur himself, Hunter, and those rambunctious sons of Trump, Junior and Eric. We all know the payoffs Hunter received (heck let’s forget about the little stuff like the gun charge and the drugs – and the hookers) in the name of his father. But now we hear about the businesses Trump’s kids are involved in just in time for Donald’s version of “What did you do in the war, daddy?”

No one does insider trading better than our “leaders” in D.C.

But back to my point. They now do this right in our face, because they know there are no ramifications for their actions. Sure, they may get called out in front of the feckless Congressional Ethics Committee, but to what end? Personally, I think those hearings are more of a learing (see what I did there?) opportunity on how to launder taxpayer dollars and incubators for ideas on the latest scams. Heck, we can’t even get a censure out of Congress when we know exactly what these folks have done, right Congressman Hurd?

So here we sit, with gerrymandering ongoing (and no, it didn’t just start in Texas this past year; it’s been going on for decades), government growing larger than ever without eliminating a dollar of waste, fraud and abuse and more congressional ethics and criminal violations than ever in our history. And Washington D.C. is just fine with all of it. That’s because when there are no consequences for actions, the actions always get worse. It’s almost as if the federal government is all about money and power and control. And you don’t have to believe me, your congress critter will soon be telling you how the other side is all about power, money and control any second now. Both sides.

The only thing missing in D.C. is the huge tent with some fat cat preaching and wiping their sweaty jowls with a hankie while preaching at you to buy the snake oil elixir they’re selling as the plate is passed again and again among the throngs who are weeping and gnashing and genuflecting at the altar of, “That one over thar is the reason you can’t have nice things, and you gotsta rise up agin ‘em!” But that’s what Washington has become. A den of iniquity.

And they’re all in on the revival. Problem is, no one is getting saved.

In truth and freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com