{"id":176891,"date":"2025-12-05T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176891"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:53:45","slug":"hypocrisy-or-idiocy-so-hard-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176891","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrisy? Or idiocy? So hard to tell…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Got a few headshakers today. Kind of a Chesty Puller day, so many targets we’re surrounded. Got ’em right where we want ’em.<\/p>\n

Let’s open up with one of our favorites, Jasmine Crockett. Ms. Crockett likes to talk of her ‘street’ cred, which given her high-dollar upbringing in posh St. Louis schools is a bit of a joke. But she is getting some notice – for stiffing her condo association. Is that ‘street’? Are there ‘street’ condos?<\/p>\n

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A notice of a lien filed on April 11, 2024, which is publicly available on the Dallas County Clerk\u2019s website, shows that Crockett owes the Westside Condominium Association a total of $3,047.79.<\/p>\n

The notice said that Crockett “is in default in her obligation for payment of assessments and has failed and refused and continues to fail and refuse, despite demand upon her, to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

to be fair, maybe she just doesn’t have access to the funds to pay.<\/p>\n

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Crockett recently raised eyebrows over her Federal Election Commission filings that showed she spent nearly $75,000 of donor money on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year in cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n

Crockett\u2019s filings show luxury hotel and transportation expenses in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles,<\/a> among other major cities, despite representing Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which includes Dallas.\u00a0Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nope, she’s just stiffing them.<\/p>\n

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Let’s elevate our sights. President Trump is conducting a campaign sinking suspected drug smuggling boats more or less out of hand. Cocaine to Europe, fentanyl to the US – no matter, they’ll be with the fish tonight, right? ‘Cuz drug smugglers need to go away, and go away in a style which will convince other potential drug smugglers that it just isn’t worth it.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

Trump has\u00a0faced criticism for pardoning former president of Honduras\u00a0Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking. The pardon comes as Trump wages a deadly campaign\u00a0against alleged Venezuelan drug boats \u2014 including\u00a0one strike in which\u00a0the survivors were ordered to be killed.<\/p>\n

The president\u00a0has claimed that Hernandez\u2019s imprisonment was the result of a political prosecution by President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. But the lead investigator on the case that resulted in the conviction, Emil Bove, went on to become Trump\u2019s personal lawyer and then a Trump judicial appointee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems a little odd to pardon a high profile drug smuggler during an anti-smuggling action, right?<\/p>\n

Why are you overshadowing with these other pardons? Why is he pardoning a drug trafficker? Why is he pardoning somebody that his own DOJ just prosecuted? Why is he pardoning somebody who was convicted of $1.7 billion in fraud?\u00a0Mediaite<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Might want to read more about Hernandez here at\u00a0BBC<\/a> or\u00a0Factcheck<\/a> \u00a0. Doesn’t sound much like a candidate for a pardon. Too, many of Trump’s pardon’s don’t.<\/p>\n

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And the investigation over Pete Hegseth’s communications over Signal this spring before and during US military operations has concluded. Mr. Hegseth says he was exonerated.\u00a0CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n

The report, which was dated Dec. 2 and publicly released Thursday, found that Hegseth has the authority to decide whether information should be classified, and he determined the details he shared in a March 15 Signal chat \u201cwere either not classified or that he could safely declassify and use to create an \u2018unclassified summary\u2019 to provide to the Signal chat participants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds relatively benign, right? Let’s go further.<\/p>\n

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In the chat, the IG said, Hegseth disclosed the \u201cquantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory over an unapproved, unsecure network approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives,\u201d the report said.\u00a0\u00a0Air Force Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exonerated?\u00a0 Not sure I would use that description.<\/p>\n

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And we’ll close on a Christmas – well, sorta – note. JD Vance’s office\u00a0 sent out invitations to a Hanukkah celebration at the VP’s place on December 15th.<\/p>\n

The invite states: \u201cThe vice president & the second lady request the pleasure of your company for a Hanukkah reception at the vice president\u2019s residence.\u201d The event is scheduled for December 15.<\/p>\n

Above this, in large cursive lettering, it reads: \u201cGolden Noel,\u201d followed by \u201cCelebrating 50 years of Christmas at the vice president\u2019s residence.\u201dThe Independent<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just for fun, might maybe oughta check this sorta thing before<\/em> it’s sent?\u00a0 \u00a0“Quality control by customer feedback” is not a successful way to do things.<\/p>\n

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