Lies, Laws, and Politicians

“What really Burns me”

“LIES”

Politicians lie, and we all know it, Democrat, Republican, independent, red or blue, donkey or elephant, all politicians lie.

And in the politicians mind it may be a justified lie. And many people may agree that it’s justified, but it is still a lie.

Didn’t your parents teach you better than that. Doesn’t the holy book say that that is one of the top 10 rules we are supposed to follow? You remember the commandments don’t you?

As citizens of this country we admit to knowing that politicians lie, yet a large number of us still follow every lie, and spread that same lie, for reasons unknown.

Over the last few years, as far back as President Clinton, I’ve come to notice that the majority of those lies, scandals, cover ups, and downright malicious falsehoods, all seem to be coming from one side of the political spectrum, or at least the majority of them do.

Politicians love to use anything they can to smear and degradate their opponents on the political stage, regardless of whether that is something that has happened in their private life many years ago, or just yesterday. I don’t believe that information about someone’s life, their personal life, should be used in that fashion.

I really don’t care what they have done in the past as long as they do the job, their personal life is theirs.

If you remember President Clinton had relations with a woman outside of his marriage. Bush told a lot of lies during 9/11 Obama had his birth certificate scandal Donald Trump had fake dossiers written about him and the Russia Russia Russia hoax. And of course, Joe Biden. The most recent, and definitely won’t be the last.  But with all the  information coming out it puts him as the worst of all of them. He will sadly go down in history as arguably the worst president ever.

But it always seems to be that the politicians at the top get away with those lies and are never brought to accountability for the lies that they have perpetrated, or the scandals that they cover up.

Some of these lies are so horrendous that if a normal everyday person were to  perpetrate such lies, they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law immediately, and even some of the most minor lies would Garner them a prison sentence.

“LAWS”

The thing that makes these lies so horrible, even more demonstrable than the original horrific nature of some of the lies, is that some of these same politicians who do all of the lying are the ones who also write, debate over, and make our laws.

So the politicians make a law that says there’s certain things that you cannot do but they make those laws to cover up the things that they’ve already done and to prosecute you for doing the same. They use those laws to shift the blame to someone else with a high rate of success.

Let me lay out an example for you. The BLM riots, and yes make no mistake they were riots, they were not protests.

Compared to the January 6th’ers.

Willful destruction of private or government property is illegal. Arson is illegal, assault is illegal, murder is illegal. And yet all of those things happened across multiple cities throughout America during the BLM riots. And only a handful of people were arrested for those crimes and most of them were released.

January 6th’ers a protest that was brought about with permission given to the leaders of the protest, by the so-called precious government who can do no wrong. The protest leaders even had permits given to them by government officials, to have the protests.

These protesters were attacked by Capital police with tear gas rubber bullets and dispersal grenades.

Though I do not condone a lot of the things that happened on that day, the only thing I know for sure is that no officers were killed on that day but over 1500 people were arrested after the fact, put into a prison and treated like the worst criminals on the planet and about 40% of those people arrested, and prosecuted, roughly 600 of them we’re not even at the Capitol that day.

And all of the news outlets failed to tell the citizens that the officers that were killed were not killed on January 6th at the protest as a matter of fact none of them were killed. There were suicides by some officers and a couple who died of natural causes after January 6th in a completely different location.

But there was a person murdered, and one person was accidentally killed, do you recall the name of Ashley Babbitt.

Ashley Babbitt was a citizen of this great country and a veteran. That’s is just an example of lies and politicians committing those lies to cover up all of the things that they do and yet saying that one side or the other, whoever happens to be their opponent at the time, committed those Acts and every one else is lying about it.

It’s like watching two grade schoolers blaming each other for being the one who took the blue crayon.

You have a politician telling their constituents to attack the other side’s constituents and tell them that they’re not welcome here and to push them out.

You have one side telling their constituents that they’re afraid that their opponent is going to weaponize the justice system and arrest them all.

You have these politicians saying those things and telling those lies just 10 minutes after they’ve committed the things that they say the other side is going to do.

Again I say one side over the last many many years are the ones who have been doing, or committing these acts, and lying about them.

They do this to make sure that you still believe them, that you still take their side and vote for them, using the legacy Media to push those same lies out to the population.  Because God forbid we have our own thoughts, and our own beliefs. and God forbid that we vote with our conscience.

I don’t care who is in office, especially when it comes to the president. If the president is in office and he is being lied about or persecuted for nothing I would stand up for that President as well, whether it be Democrat or Republican.

Make no mistake, regardless of my political views or which side I stand on, no one, and I mean no one, should ever be treated the way that this president has been treated. No human being should be put through what he has been put through.

With all of the stuff that’s coming out now about the last administration, from the covid LIES, misrepresentation of party lines, the law, and deflection of responsibility for crimes committed, you would imagine that the population of the United States would see the lies for what they are and not fall so easily into a world of fantasy. where boys can be girls, girls can be boys and no matter what Donald Trump is evil. That world does not exist the fantasies have to end .

I believe that every American wants to have their country be great, and I believe that every American has their own opinion about what makes that country great, but somewhere down the line we have to come together in the middle, work together to make our country, and keep our country great, and to get out of the fantasy world.

Let’s face reality, stand up to the beast that we ourselves created, and remind that monster called government, who they work for.

We need to teach our children and the next generations to come, Old school values. Raise them up to be kind to each other, put in a fear of God and a belief that there’s something more out there then the social media life. We need to stop letting the children be in charge of our country we need to start holding politicians on both sides accountable for lies and corruption and we need to take our country back.

I believe we’re on the right track now I just hope that no matter who is the next president, they carry on with the things that are being done right now because those things are working .

 

That is my opinion and it is

“What really Burns me”

Thomas Domich

 

ADM $12 billion “Wipeout” Probe – CEO Luciano “Must go” – Stock Sinks 29%

An Archer Daniels Midland shareholder called for CEO Juan Luciano (pictured) to leave the company. (Photo and logo courtesy of ADM)
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) — An Archer Daniels Midland shareholder is calling for the company’s CEO Juan Luciano to be removed in light of accounting problems reported by the company including Luciano’s alleged lack of action to stem company losses as a result.

About one year ago ADM announced it was reviewing internal accounting practices and suspended its CFO Vikram Luthar. Luthar resigned his post effective on Sept. 30 and the company hired Monish Patolawala as CFO.

In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into ADM’s finances and issued subpoenas to current and former employees.

ADM stock has taken a big hit since January 2024 when news of accounting irregularities broke. ADM stock closed at $50.15 per share on Tuesday, down from $70.89 on Jan. 2, 2024 — or a 29% drop.

“The fish always stinks from the head,” Hartwig Fuchs, an ADM shareholder, wrote in a Dec. 29, 2024, post to LinkedIn about ADM’s handling of the accounting problems.

“If a highly paid CEO of such an important company cannot manage to provide clarity within a few months — i.e. fully clear up the scandal, communicate with full transparency about what went wrong and what will be done in the future, regain investors’ trust and, above all, protect the company from long-term damage — then he has to go.”

Fuchs is the former chairman of the board at Toepfer International, a German trading company now 100% owned by ADM. Fuchs also previously served as CEO of Nordzucker AG, a European sugar company.

“The ADM company, the people who work at ADM — and they are good people — they must be protected and these negative reports must be stopped,” Fuchs said on LinkedIn.

“And the share price must rise again to levels that properly reflect the company’s true earning power (which, admittingly, would make me smile again).”

For the third quarter of 2024 ADM reported $18 million in profit, down from $821 million one year ago largely as a result of falling grain prices and overcapacity in biofuels production.

A spokesperson for ADM declined comment in response to DTN’s request Tuesday.

Fuchs was critical of how ADM has handled communications regarding the ongoing investigation.

“For almost a full year, we have known about an apparent widening law enforcement investigation into ADM’s internal pricing of inter-company transactions,” Fuchs wrote.

During the company’s earnings call on Dec. 3, ADM’s new CFO Patolawala said the company is focusing on improving internal accounting controls.

“My first priority is the integrity of our financial statements and remediating the material weakness,” Patolawala said.

ADM has said very little about the ongoing investigation. In the latest earnings call Luciano was not asked about nor did he provide any further details.

In the company’s 10-Q form filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission on Sept. 30, 2024, ADM provided the following update on the investigation, in part:

“In response, the company engaged external counsel, assisted by a forensic accounting firm, to conduct an internal investigation, overseen by the audit committee of the company’s board of directors, which is separately advised by external counsel,” ADM said.

The update noted that ADM was “cooperating with the SEC,” and was “unable to predict the final outcome of these investigations with any reasonable degree of certainty.”