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Now we know…

Well…if you’ve ever wondered why the repubs went from strongly anti Russia to doing putin’s bidding, now we know…it’s money…the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is being paid by 3 Russian oligarchs who are laundering the money through American companies in the wake of the Citizens United ruling that lets companies donate as much as they want to House members and Senators…I will bet that every damn repub is now on Russia’s payroll and they know they have to cut off aid to Ukraine or the money will dry up…and that’s just what they are doing…that’s how unpatriotic the modern repub party is…like Nikki Haley who has said she will pardon the idiot trump if she is elected…someone who is the biggest criminal to ever squat in the WH….and the rest of the candidates are falling in line…so, if you vote for any repub, you are voting for putin…it’s as simple as that…

Now we know why…

Well…and interesting article was out yesterday about the reasons why clarence thomas has been showered with bribes by a group of billionaires over the past 10 years or so…it seems ole clarence was whining about not making enough money and threatening to resign so to keep him on the court and continue to get his right wing business favoring rulings, a group of billionaires started showering him with cash, trips, loans that were forgiven, a motor home and then put his wife on the payroll to the tune of millions of dollars…now this may sound like a bribe…because it is…quite clearly a series of bribes…the week before last, finally, the dems in the senate sent out subpoenas to the billionaires in question to haul their asses in and make them explain how much money, gift, trips, and anything else they’ve give thomas over the years…and the repubs in the senate did everything in their power to quash the subpoenas since that is what they do…after all, without the billionaires funding them, they would never get elected again…the bottom line here is if thomas was in any other court in this country and took these bribes, he would have been arrested and would be sitting in jail right now…as he should be…geez…

But wait, there’s more…

Well…I’m sure you’ve seen and I’ve talked about the almost comically corrupt Clarence Thomas on the supreme court who has been taking millions of dollars in gifts from people who have cases in front of the court…and since there are no rules that apply to him, he hasn’t recused himself from any of those cases and the donors are sure getting what they paid for in rulings…but it has been revealed just today that it hasn’t been just gifts of trips, travel, and vacations…but just raw cash that has been paid to his aide’s Venmo account that I’m sure ended up in Thomas’s pocket….how much more corrupt does he have to be for even one damn repub to call for his resignation? Yeah…he would have to shoot someone and then they still wouldn’t do a damn thing about it…at least Dick Durbin is introducing a bill that sets ethics rules for the SC like full disclosure of any gifts similar to what every other damn federal judge has to comply with…but what really needs to happen is expansion of the court to keep these right wing illegitimate judges from screwing up the country further…geez…

A broad conspiracy…

Well…with the arrest of the FBI traitor Mcgonigal in relation to his getting paid off by the Russians to interfere with the 2016 election and the recent disclosure that Michael Flynn also paid him 28k to lie to James Comey to get him to re-open the investigation into Hillary’s e-mails, we can see that this was a broad conspiracy to install trump in the presidency….and it was all run by the Russians…but the sick part that hasn’t been revealed yet is why the NY Times pushed the e-mail story relentlessly when there was nothing to it…were they being paid by the Russians, too? I think we need an investigation into the reporters and editors who were involved in pushing this story since they are still doing it today by pushing right wing talking points every damn day….and it’s the same cast of characters around trump who were convicted of their crimes that he pardoned and are still stirring up violence even after the January 6th attacks…what the hell does it take to bring criminals to justice in this country? And that goes for Barr and Dunham who lied to the country about the investigation into the Russia interference in the election…if no one is held accountable, all of this crap is going to happen again…or it is happening but they’ve just gotten better at hiding it….geez…

Doesn’t this look like a bribe?

Well…I guess those of us who live in the ethical real world thought this deal was fishy from the start…but repubs were perfectly fine with it…damn, buried the lede again…okay, let’s back up…you remember last year when moscow mitch mcconnell spearheaded the removal of sanctions from the Russian aluminum company Rusal in return for the bribe of Rusal building an aluminum plant in Kentucky? The owner of Rusal, Oleg Derispaska, was under sanctions since he is part of the Russian organized crime families that support Putin in everything he does, including throwing the 2016 election to the idiot trump. So now, Rusal has pulled out of the project and you can guess why…moscow mitch is no longer in charge of the senate and the idiot trump can no longer give Putin everything he wants so this bribe will no longer work…and the Russians have cut their losses in Kentucky and are going home with the sanctions still lifted which is what they wanted anyway….they really had no intention of ever investing 200 million dollars in Kentucky and they either duped ole Mitch or he was in on it and knew that dangling the jobs from this vaporware project would help him get re-elected even if not one of them ever materialized. Now this would be a good time to start an investigation of how this all came about to go along with the investigation of mitch’s wife who used her government position at the Commerce department to help her family shipping company in China…what a damn corrupt family….geez…

A few things…

Well…don’t know if I have the attention span today to do a long one on a single topic so I think I’ll do a few short ones…starting with the idiot in chief’s tweet for Memorial day yesterday…have you ever heard anything so self-serving and terrible? Starting with “happy Memorial Day” and then devolving into me, me, me…the tweet has been savaged all across the media since yesterday and it just shows that idiot boy can’t even fake having any human empathy….Memorial Day is not a “happy” day unless you are a psychopath like trump…and stating that the dead would love what he is doing to the country is just a new piece of evidence that he really IS a psychopath and mentally ill….and on Morning Joe this morning, Mika got right to the point in three words..”he’s not well”…and this doesn’t even address the pay for play scandal with China granting Ivanka valuable “trademarks” that she can use to make more money off her sweatshops there…this is a bribe by any other name and, until trump, would never, ever be acceptable..but these grifters just keep on grifting and the repubs do nothing…as usual…impeach…

Here’s the pro quo….

Well…we are living through the most corrupt damn administration in my long lifetime and I am getting sick of my country being sold out by these assholes. As I wrote about the other day, the idiot trump is being bribed by the Chinese by them investing 500 million dollars in a new trump-named resort in Malaysia…that is the quid in this mess, and we now know what the pro quo is…trump and his cronies have stopped levying tariffs on Chinese goods that was the most important thing to them just last week…but now, since the government is being operated only to enrich the idiot boy, tariffs are no longer necessary…and he gets played again on trade….the Chinese invest 500 million and get 100 billion in tariffs lifted. I’ve harped on this before but let’s do a little thought experiment…imagine if you will if Obama or Hillary had ever done anything like this….the repubs couldn’t get the articles of impeachment passed fast enough…but do you hear anything but crickets? Yep, the rot of corruption has taken the repub party and turned it into a criminal enterprise….and I am damn sick of it…so please, everybody…get out and vote so we can start to restore this country to the rule of law….impeach…

Just can’t think…

Well…I really hope you’re not expecting a political one today…I just can’t think of one single thing there is so much going on…there is one article you should go out and read…it’s in the NY Times and reveals new information about how there were more than just the Russians helping the idiot trump get elected…there were the Saudis, the Israelis, and many other countries from the middle east….and the good thing is that Mueller knows all about it and has interviewed all of the parties in question….I think the takeaway from all of this so far is the abject hatred all of these countries had for Hillary since she was tough on them as SoS and called them on their bullshit…but not just that…misogyny is rampant in that region of the world and they just couldn’t live with a competent woman running the show for the US…and, they knew trump could be bought…and has been bought just last week when the Chinese invested 500 million dollars in a trump named resort to bribe him for more favorable treatment of China on trade….so, how many shoes is this? Seems like eleventy million….impeach…oh, I did have a political one in me…imagine that….

Crumbs for the workers…as always…

Well….everyone but the repubs knew that the great tax giveaway of 2018 would benefit corporations and the 1%, and now we see that we knew what was happening…and the first crumbs are being sprinkled on workers starting with the big banks. and manufacturers. The banks have been crowing that the huge tax cuts they have been given is trickling down on their workers as they announced bonuses to some of their workers of up to $1,000 dollars…but, when you look at the comparison of the size of the tax cuts to the banks, the bonuses that are going to SOME workers are equal to less than 2% of the tax cut that the top 1% is going to get…so this huge tax cut that is going to decimate tax receipts is not going to anyone but the rich…or to put it in the words of a repub senator: “We need to reward our donors or they are going to turn off the money taps”…and that is the problem…many manufacturers and banks have used the tax cuts to finance laying off thousands of workers that they would have kept on without the cuts….again, the result of the shoddy bill that no one knew what it contained….but, there is only one thing you really need to know about the cuts…that the day after the tax cuts passed, Koch industries wrote Paul Ryan a check for $500K …talk about “pay for play”….geez…