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I’d never heard of this Shri Thanedar, the Indian-born Michigan congressman who filed impeachment articles against President Trump a few days ago.

Maybe that was the point. In fact, it was almost certainly the point.

A little research into Thanedar will induce a chuckle and a shake of the head. From Wikipedia:

Thanedar borrowed $24 million from Bank of America to finance seven acquisitions, offering the bank a personal guarantee to back the debt. One acquisition, Azopharma, grew rapidly from $1 million in 2003 to $55 million in 2008. Thanedar’s group of companies employed 500 people in 2008. He built a mansion in Ladue, Missouri with an in-home theater to accommodate 150 people.

In 2007, Thanedar was offered $132 million to sell Azopharma. During the 2007–10 recession in the United States, Azopharma’s revenue fell by 70%, triggering bankruptcy proceedings by Bank of America. Azopharma closed and its assets were sold for $2 million. During the bankruptcy proceedings, AniClin, one of Azopharma’s research facilities of which Thanedar was the sole owner, abruptly closed; a 2010 USA Today article claimed that laboratory animals were abandoned at the facility after the company was placed in receivership. According to later reports, employees climbed the fences to care for the animals until animal welfare organizations gained legal access and facilitated the adoption of all animals in the facility. Thanedar denied that any animals were abandoned.

Chemir remained profitable throughout the legal proceedings and was sold on March 31, 2011, for $23 million. That sale plus the combined assets in the firm covered Thanedar’s debt to Bank of America.

And here’s some more:

Thanedar briefly retired in 2010, then came out of retirement later that year to launch Avomeen Analytical Services, an Ann Arbor-based chemical testing laboratory, with his son Neil. Avomeen was named to the INC 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies in 2015 (#673) and 2016 (#1365). In 2016, Thanedar sold a majority stake in the business to private equity firm High Street Capital. He shared $1.5 million of the proceeds with his 50 employees.

Thanedar was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Midwest Region (Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska) in 1999, 2007, and 2016. He maintains 40% ownership of Avomeen.

Hey, that sounds pretty good. But wait:

In November 2017, a buyer of Avomeen Holdings LLC filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Detroit, claiming Thanedar made “fraudulent and misleading representations” of his company’s finances in order to sell the majority stake in November 2016. Thanedar denies the allegations, saying that revenues “are anticipated to significantly exceed” those of past periods. U.S. District Judge Gershwin A. Drain dismissed the case in August 2019, citing a notice from Thanedar and Avomeen Holdings LLC that they had reached an agreement to resolve the matter out of court.

So here we have somebody who managed to build and destroy multiple businesses and left a messy trail of litigation and cruelty before getting into politics.

Where such a record would seem to be par for the course.

And maybe even worse…

Thanedar got elected first to the Michigan state legislature, and then moved on to Congress in a safe Democrat seat in 2022.

But nobody knew much about him until this week, when this happened:

Can we impeach that hair? Can we impeach this guy’s tailor?

No, you are not allowed to call him Brown Jimmy Fallon.

And what can we say about Thanedar’s position on criminal illegal aliens?

Trump wasn’t particularly impressed by Thanedar’s impeachment articles…

…and neither should you be given the circumstances in which they were filed…

…or the antics surrounding the impeachment…

Yes, this is a circus.

And it’s so entertaining that Laura Loomer smoked out why it’s happening…

Sure, go and scoff at Loomer. But then you can explain why Thanedar’s campaign went from a half-million dollars in the black to more than $700,000 in the red based on a $1.2 million payment to Thanedar marked as “investment loss.”

We know members of Congress tend to do awfully well in the market. This would seem to be an anomaly of some size. Not to mention a bit of a stretch of the ethical rules — can you really use campaign funds to indemnify yourself against investment losses?

If so, it would explain the large amounts of money spent on elected offices that pay $170,000 per year.

Now, the defense to this might be that Thanedar put some $5 million of his own money into running for Congress in the first place. Paying back a loan to the campaign, one guesses. You could maybe think this wasn’t prima facie evidence that he’s a crook, if you got an honest explanation from him.

But it wasn’t like Thanedar had anything to say about that subject when he had a chance to:

It’s tempting to just throw your hands up and laugh at this sort of thing.

Shri Thanedar is dead in the water for reelection, as he just picked up a primary challenger very likely to beat him in a district where his identity politics aren’t quite so favorable, and it looks like this happened a little after he raided his campaign war chest for more than a million dollars in the expectation he wouldn’t have a race.

So with his derriere deeply in a crack, it appears Thanedar decided to prove the most fundamental rule of evil organizations, which is that the people who rise in them aren’t the smartest, strongest, or most virtuous but instead are those willing to do what others are not.

And the guy with the most shameless hair in Congress decides to make a play for campaign donations from stupid people to clear that red ink, and perhaps pave the way for his campaign to reimburse him for more “investment losses,” by giving said stupid people the impeachment they want.

Were it not for that hair, you might conclude this would make Thanedar such a hero on the left as to save his chances of reelection.

But I’m going to say this is a gag which by now has whiskers on it, and that we’re so far beyond the point of diminishing returns on Democrats trying to impeach Republican presidents that it’s become a joke.

But Shri Thanedar is a joke. He’s utterly ridiculous.

And, given his record and life story, visibly corrupt.

Here’s hoping Donovan McKinney, the Michigan state legislator who announced a primary challenge to Thanedar, is successful in sending him back to the private sector. McKinney might be every bit as loathsome a leftist as Thanedar, and perhaps even just as corrupt. But there is value in the churn, and in Thanedar we might have found the single most churnable politician in D.C.

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