Michael Franzese is a fellow who was a former mobster.

And the story goes that he was enrolled in a pre-med program at Hofstra University,

but was given the opportunity to make some money for his family

and his father had just been sentenced to 50 years in prison for bank robbery.

This was 1967.

And so Franzezi, the story goes, put in place a scheme to defraud the federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 80s.

At the age of 35 in 1986, Fortune Magazine listed Francazi as number 18 on the list of the 50

most wealthy and powerful mafia bosses.

Why do I tell you all of this?

Because he was Bill Maher's guest on a podcast he does called Club Random.

Bill Maher is an interesting cat because he is a classic white liberal. And people will get

angry at me because they fall in love with him because he says

something about Obama mouthing off or Biden being brain dead or Kamala, you know, being whatever.

And people get excited because our side loves it when the other side says something that we agree

with. And you have to be careful with that. That's how you end up with bad

Republicans because they know how to push your button because you get this validation when they

say something with which you agree. But anyway, he was on this podcast with Bill Maher,

and he made a statement, I think it was pretty good. And here's a guy who understands crime.

He was part of a criminal network. And he says that the worst thing

that Biden did as president, of all the things, was to leave the border open. And he's talking about

all of the crimes that filtered into this country that are so bedded down like a tick in our country

today. And I think he speaks from a position of great authority when he says this. I think he's

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