Reel Wamps

The only Council member missing was Rita Pocknett.  The rest sat in there with their heads bowed throughout.

Tribal members walked away from the Sunday meeting more confused than when they came in. There were a lot of members at this in-person meeting. More than have attended in a long long time.

So let’s start with our favorite villain. Tah Tah.  Tah Tah was supposed to present a draft budget.  Course she didn’t present anything.  White man presented an audit that we already knew about.  It covered our $750 m (and a few million) debt to Genting (via the three Genting subsidiaries) through June 2021.  Right.  It was not current or relevant to what we needed to know. On to the budget ” draft.” Very convoluted for anyone who knew about budgets let alone those who don’t. So we all know one damned thing.  When that $15 million is gone, the Tribe has no cash flow.  So when they reviewed the strange categories for payout, a tribal member asked how did they know the Feds would allow them to spend it that way. Tah Tah Deja Vu said, ” Treasury  said we could.” Actually, that’s not true.  Treasury is the enforcement arm of this process.  You know, like when you don’t pay your taxes. Treasury comes for you.

It’s vintage Tah Tah.  She don’t know. The statute has specific guidelines for the expenditures.  You can look at them online. More proof that she cannot do the most basic aspects of her job.  This is why we are taken advantage of on a lot of levels. A lot of levels. Being too embarrassed to admit you’ve been scammed is worse than the scam, know what I mean?

Anyway Tribal members were also having flashbacks of what they thought was a bygone era with the Cromwell regime. The old “stall forever” tactic. Or “run out the clock” during meetings is still being used. Not good. Know what you’re doing then explain it to your people.  Honesty is the best policy.  Tell them why you’re doing what you’re doing, or don’t do it at all.

There was some positive activity generated from the Wednesday meeting. We are moving forward with a badly needed tribal drug rehab/recovery house. The sadness of repeated death caused by drug addiction has risen to crisis proportions.The house should help us help our people.

It’s early but so far Greendeer has been slow on delivering everything but the MIttark back to Paula Peters and a big contract to his friend.

Another positive was the “strategic planning” session with TA David Greendeer set for April 8-9th from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Tribal members have complained that the government has no direction or priorities.  Hopefully, after 3 months on the job, Greendeer’s plan will be more decernable than the bungled 8A plan involving mystery man Alex Rodriquez.

TAH TAH DEJA VU’S ENCORE PERFORMANCES

Tah Tah promised to deliver the tribal budget 2 weeks ago at the Sunday meeting.  Not only did she fail to produce a budget, she didn’t even show up for the meeting. Well, it’s been 9 months coming on her watch and three years under her predecessor “Knees Knocking” Gordon Harris without a tribal budget.  Well, Tah Tah was bumping around right after the Sunday meeting trying to conjure up something to justify her big fat check…..so she decided to implement a paperless deposit system.  Well, she revives Gordon’s outdated program and then hires some consultants out of New Mexico to train staff on it. The trainers accents were so strong no one could understand what they were saying. Her incompetence is played out every day with stupid stuff like this.

True story.

But not funny at all is Tah Tah’s promise Wednesday to have a “draft budget” in two weeks. A draft budget. So 10 months and $80k later, Tah Tah has no tribal budget and still lying her behind off.  She is such a tyrant, the entire Council is numbed into silence by her outrageous rambling and disruptions.

We’re paying for comedy that ain’t funny at all.

Genting is merciless. They punked us for hundreds of millions to build a billion-dollar Las Vegas casino. Nothing to see here!

Social media is lit up with the machinations of the deadbeat cruise line Crystal Serenity owned by Genting Hong Kong.  What was so amazing was the fact that Genting filed bankruptcy to avoid any disruption of cruises, but the feds seized all three ships anyway. Then, the poor employees  were  told over the intercom that “today is your last day at work.” Pretty tacky and sleazy.

This is the entity that is holding us hostage, continues to charge us interest on $800 million we never used. And they front us off to launder money. It’s so horrible you can’t believe it’s still happening.

The lawsuits will continue and we are dependent upon grants because we cannot get our economic development efforts underway.  You know why.

All aboard on the sinking ship.

So last week the Tribal Council went into executive session to talk about the forensic audit. That had to be interesting.  Even though many already knew how bad it was early on, like last  summer.  They are looking at it again. There’s more bad news, but how much worse can it be?

We are enslaved by debt incurred from the loans from Genting.  The forensic audit reveals a process that is pretty bad. So the next question is why are we still dealing with them and trying to get them to reduce the debt on money that was not used to help us in the slightest. Laundering is laundering.

So, why don’t we ask the government for some help.

Genting fights to hold on to a damned cruise ship rather than give the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe a break. We’re still talking to these creeps.

Genting Hong Kong’s Crystal cruise line faced an arrest warrant when it tried to dock at the Port of Miami on Thursday. A federal judge delivered the unusual order because Genting Hong Kong owed a $5 million fuel tab. Had it docked, the federal government would have seized  the ship as payment. So they filed bankruptcy in Hong Kong instead and put the 300 passangers on skiffs and shuttled them back to Fort Lauderdale in bad weather. This is who we are enslaved by.

Needless to say, Kevin Jones, the Genting overseer of the Tribe will write the press release explaining it all away.

STILL CLAPPIN’ IT TO US!

So is Kevin “O” going to do a press release about the monthly  $1 million dollars in

Kevin’s cushy multi million dollar a year job has turned into a career ending nightmare. Where he’s branded the consummate sellout. Surely he’s banked the money.

interest Genting heaps on us? Probably not.  Our enslavement  debt now exceeds $800 million and is growing monthly.  And we are stilll screwing around with these people who won’t pay a lousy fuel bill !

At the same time, you have the abuser communicating on your behalf. Course Genting is probably charging us for that too. We still owe their lawyers $1.2 milion dollars.  No one has the slighest idea of what that was for. La Vegas maybe?

Still no land in trust. We will remain a federally recognized tribe, but until we have an Act of Congress to deal with Carcieri we have no future.

There’s a way out according to experts.  Meanwhile we keep bumping around, listening to people who have destroyed us.

It’s numbing.