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Ginger's avatar

When David Brooks said on the PBS Newshour that he knows Harlan Crow, vacations with him and thinks he's a 'great guy', I lost all respect for him. As I've said before, Clarence Thomas and most likely many other Justices are blackmailed into doing the billionaire oligarchs' bidding. It's really that simple. Thomas has a drinking problem (see Frontline piece on him), he was abused as a child and has all sorts of shall we say, 'predilections' from that. He hates his own people! So does Tim Scott, for that matter. As for Gorsuch, check out the high-end, alpine ski wear company 'Gorsuch' online; the catalog sells skiwear and apre ski wear for $thousands (sorry, don't know how to accent grave on my computer;). Could have sworn Justice Pretty Boy modeled for them.... Maybe he's related. Didn't he sell land in CO to some wealthy billionaire or someone who paid him a fortune for it? Let's start some juicy rumors!

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Here I go again, the old pessimist. I do `not expect any action by the Senate or Biden. I am still trying to ascertain whether it is cowardice, complicity or corruption, the same Biden is showing by refusing to use his Art II and 14th Amendment powers. He could declare an environmental emergency (Art. II) and refuse the petroleum complex of exporting our oil to foreign countries, thus lowering the price of gasoline and inflation, but that would anger the petrochemical donors...so no go. He could with an executive order, raise the debt limit, but that would anger the Republicans, and to hell with the government employees, folks on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNP and other social programs.

I suspect that a good portion of the donors to the DNC (not we the people) are hinging their support for the DNC on killing this programs, so they can be privatized.

My pessimism is based on prior performance, or lack thereof,which is a prediction of future performance.

Optimism and wishful thinking, assuming good faith, are leading us into the state of autocratic rule by a burgeoning neo fascist but growing minority. The neo fascists are a highly motivated 30-35% of the population and that is all that is need to take over the country, And to my estimation, there is not a real, serious, opposition and we have the best government money can buy

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