Absolutely! The GOP jumped into the barrel of rotten apples. Some are sliding out like the juice and others will be made into sauce. Some can stew in prison and others thrown out and executed. Treasonous money laundering. They are traitors to the U.S. Taxpayers who pay their salaries, benefits and expenses.
Everything Thom mentions as corruption rings true to all but the MAGAs who think all MSM news is an anti-Trump lie - at least that is what they tell me when rejecting facts. While corruption as a campaign theme is a terrific strategy, how does the DNC get the MSM (and themselves) unified and on board? They barely raise concerns about Trump's illicit insider stock trading, which he boasted about, while sitting with his PC on the Throne Room desk.
Trump has more than doubled his wealth since taking office on a $400K/year salary; not $1BN/year. I have yet to see an article that goes into deep fact-finding about how Trump is getting so rich. In contrast, instead of the usual 12 to 18% gains my ETF investments used to make under Biden, I am at 3.5% this year. My bank CD yield is higher than that!
How about a review of MAGA laws and Trump regulation cuts that have bulldozed national parks, workplace and product safety regulations, as well as pollution control laws and regulations? This is all corruption. Meanwhile, states are running out of water, watching forests burn down (often taking small towns with them), and then there is the US invading foreign countries that is draining our treasury while tripling the price of fuel for our gas-guzzling cars because Trump has embargoed affordable EVs from China to protect his buddy's domestic richguy's unaffordable EVs.
Nonsense. The Republican Party has not been properly recognized for it's achievement in turning the United States of America into the world's largest Banana Republic. I suggest we correct this terrible slight by henceforth only referring to them as the Banana Republilcan Party. It's only fair. (Long live the BRP)
Corruption both creates and maintains a regime of economic extremes, resulting in the masses having a voice in public policy that amounts to tape hiss on a recording. A great deal of the world's problems could be solved with a massive redistribution of wealth to the lower 50%, but that would require an abandonment of the current way of thinking that excuses capitalist exploitation and imperialist colonization as God's intended order of things.
I do not want to complicate things, but I would expand the message a little to identify Trump's 3 C's and to say let's end corruption, crime, and chaos.
Looking past this election, I think that one hot-button issue which should be at the top of the list and which must be pinned solely on the Republicans is privatization. The privatization of public schooling touches a lot of people and is about power and increasing inequality. Most people are aware of that conflict and come down on the side of keeping religion, business, and politics out of schools and avoiding the monetization of education. Many also understand intuitively that government has a role to play in protecting the public's interests.
Yes, and you have to hit at least a good number of people right where it hurts to activate them. Unfortunately, although education is the sine qua non of elevating our lives, it's hard to even get parents to show up for parent's night at the beginning of each year. I know because I tried. So let's stick with pocketbook and fairness issues that resonate, for now.
Boss Tweed died in 1878, so the paragraph starting with T.R. is a little confusing, but the idea is sound. Nast's cartoons showing him as a fat greedy thug, a vulture or a Roman emperor got his corruption across to the people. Today we really need a meme showing Trump like that. It won't affect the true believers, except maybe to drive them crazy, but it will stick in the minds of the undecided. Does anyone have a contribution to set loose?
Cute, but what an artistic genius needs is to make a simple image with a good tag line that could go viral. Sort of in the style of a smiley face with, "Have a nice day". His grouchy face right off the dollar coin with, "Don't believe your eyes, believe my lies" is a start. But it could be much better.
The corruption is not just about what this current government is or is doing it’s also about those who have contributed billions upon billions to bring this all about. This is the culmination of 40+ years of plotting and planning and huge amounts of cash.
We need to investigate the roots of this operation and its funding and look to our present laws: RICO, Ricocheting.
This is what all this is about like a big drain that our whole country’s people have been sucked down.
I always said the Dems focus too much on Trump, not that ist is wrong but they ignore the GOP who is 100% responsible for letting Trump run wild. It is insane that the elections are tight.
Fox and other rightwing outlets don't talk about corruption so most people who vote for the GOP have no clue. The Dems don't mention corruption much either.
Rightwing news focusses on destroying the Dems with lies and disinformation. I work with a woman who only watches Fox, she is convinced that Trump is only deporting criminals and may be some mistakes are made. She is terrified of communism and socialism. I have tried to talk to her about it but she thinks I am being brainwashed, she hates Bernie Sanders.
Ofcourse there is also a lot of racism in this country stimulated by Trump. I read that 14 black men have been hanged in the south since Trump's reelection (all declared suicides), the media ignores it, It is hard to know what is real anymore, A.I scares me to dead.
THEFT---another simple word that goes along with CORRUPTION. These psychos and sickos are stealing people's life, liberty. and their pursuit of happiness. All corruption is theft. They are stealing our future.
NO KINGS NO CORRUPTION has a nice ring to it, Thom. Thank you for another spot-on Report that we can pass on. See you in the streets.
Brilliant. Let's also remind people that current day corruption has echoes down through the ages, as tyrants and their lickspittle enablers have used their positions of power to grift from the citizens of their countries, kingdoms, even cities and villages. Nothing new, here. We are at an inflection point which could allow us to start down a road to real reform, which was at least one aim of some of our more enlightened founding fathers in 1776.
HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!! WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE!!! NO ONE WANTS TO BELIEVE IT!!! WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!! OUR COUNTRY WILL SUFFER LIKE PALESTINE!!! (is) ray+all wants our land too!!! WE ARE ALREADY OCCUPIED!!! CHECK THE Pentagon!!! Check the capital!!!! WE ARE FOOLS!!! WE’VE BEEN CONNED!!!!! To help others, we must save ourselves first!!! Put on your oxygen mask!!!! GET TO WORK!!!!
The high corrupted court is responsible for this!!! They deliberately delayed the cases, so they could claim it was too close to an election!!! The immunity was a scam!!! They had NO authority to grant ANYONE immunity!!! They lied, and we fell for it!! We still believe the high court is above the law, because they told us so!!! Lifetime appointment!! They believe they will just carry on no matter who wins!!! WAKE UP AMERICANS!!! I believe some of them are in the files, why else would they do EVERYTHING runt says???? 6-3???!!! Curious; not so much; men against women!!! They give us a win, two or three weeks later, it’s suddenly in the Shadow (secret) Docket, and they reverse the win, to favor runt!!! No one has to say how they voted, no one has to sign, no one has to give any reason!!!!
PLEASE READ, short summary!!! Everything you need to know, without reading ALL of the evidence!!!
This is right on the money (pun intended). I've asked several pols to make corruption their core platform. But the centrists and corporate dems, as well as many progressives even, believe that they should not distract from the key anger about prices and housing and unemployment. These should not be in opposition. The left should focus aggressively on the FACT that most of our personal issues can be tied directly to the corruption in the political establishment. We can never solve our kitchen-table issues if we don't get corruption under control first.
Absolutely! The GOP jumped into the barrel of rotten apples. Some are sliding out like the juice and others will be made into sauce. Some can stew in prison and others thrown out and executed. Treasonous money laundering. They are traitors to the U.S. Taxpayers who pay their salaries, benefits and expenses.
Everything Thom mentions as corruption rings true to all but the MAGAs who think all MSM news is an anti-Trump lie - at least that is what they tell me when rejecting facts. While corruption as a campaign theme is a terrific strategy, how does the DNC get the MSM (and themselves) unified and on board? They barely raise concerns about Trump's illicit insider stock trading, which he boasted about, while sitting with his PC on the Throne Room desk.
Trump has more than doubled his wealth since taking office on a $400K/year salary; not $1BN/year. I have yet to see an article that goes into deep fact-finding about how Trump is getting so rich. In contrast, instead of the usual 12 to 18% gains my ETF investments used to make under Biden, I am at 3.5% this year. My bank CD yield is higher than that!
How about a review of MAGA laws and Trump regulation cuts that have bulldozed national parks, workplace and product safety regulations, as well as pollution control laws and regulations? This is all corruption. Meanwhile, states are running out of water, watching forests burn down (often taking small towns with them), and then there is the US invading foreign countries that is draining our treasury while tripling the price of fuel for our gas-guzzling cars because Trump has embargoed affordable EVs from China to protect his buddy's domestic richguy's unaffordable EVs.
More than tripled, actually.
Nonsense. The Republican Party has not been properly recognized for it's achievement in turning the United States of America into the world's largest Banana Republic. I suggest we correct this terrible slight by henceforth only referring to them as the Banana Republilcan Party. It's only fair. (Long live the BRP)
Hee hee hee!
I love it, BRP, it is from now on!!
Corruption both creates and maintains a regime of economic extremes, resulting in the masses having a voice in public policy that amounts to tape hiss on a recording. A great deal of the world's problems could be solved with a massive redistribution of wealth to the lower 50%, but that would require an abandonment of the current way of thinking that excuses capitalist exploitation and imperialist colonization as God's intended order of things.
Amen.
You nailed it. Corruption is particularly painful when it's crystal clear whose money is making his friends rich. It's a study in contrast.
Thx Thom
I do not want to complicate things, but I would expand the message a little to identify Trump's 3 C's and to say let's end corruption, crime, and chaos.
Looking past this election, I think that one hot-button issue which should be at the top of the list and which must be pinned solely on the Republicans is privatization. The privatization of public schooling touches a lot of people and is about power and increasing inequality. Most people are aware of that conflict and come down on the side of keeping religion, business, and politics out of schools and avoiding the monetization of education. Many also understand intuitively that government has a role to play in protecting the public's interests.
Yes, and you have to hit at least a good number of people right where it hurts to activate them. Unfortunately, although education is the sine qua non of elevating our lives, it's hard to even get parents to show up for parent's night at the beginning of each year. I know because I tried. So let's stick with pocketbook and fairness issues that resonate, for now.
Boss Tweed died in 1878, so the paragraph starting with T.R. is a little confusing, but the idea is sound. Nast's cartoons showing him as a fat greedy thug, a vulture or a Roman emperor got his corruption across to the people. Today we really need a meme showing Trump like that. It won't affect the true believers, except maybe to drive them crazy, but it will stick in the minds of the undecided. Does anyone have a contribution to set loose?
Whoppers of Boss Tweet…
A thief
a thug
Clown in a rug
A tweet
deceit
A lie
a cheat—
Embellish, embroider:
a lying disorder…
A myth
a fable
a bit unstable
Flimflam, claptrap
bunkum—bull crap!
An empty wagon
a puffed up dragon…
A whopper
a fib
You peeped
from your crib!
A sham
a fake
a major ‘mistake—’
Pathological lying
false-flag flying…
A grope
a trope
Bad jokes
breaststrokes
A grope of the crotch—
another ‘man notch’
where they debauch
over water and scotch…
A trumped up story—
cock-and-bull glory
A foot in the mouth
for strategy south
Pie in the sky—
a barefaced lie
A pig in disguise
fooling some eyes…
Playing fast and loose
with Jim Jones Juice
A masquerade—
a Nazi parade
A fake ‘great nation’
same plantation
A bug in the hall
a fly on the wall
A great big whale
an ongoing tale
A parade in July
another big lie
A wink of an eye—
enough outcry?
A thief
a thug
Clown in a rug
A tweet
deceit
A lie
a cheat—
Time for feet
in the street
Sustaining…
…street heat!!
Poet’s note: Inspired by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Waters of March”
© 2017. Raymond Nat Turner,The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
Cute, but what an artistic genius needs is to make a simple image with a good tag line that could go viral. Sort of in the style of a smiley face with, "Have a nice day". His grouchy face right off the dollar coin with, "Don't believe your eyes, believe my lies" is a start. But it could be much better.
The corruption is not just about what this current government is or is doing it’s also about those who have contributed billions upon billions to bring this all about. This is the culmination of 40+ years of plotting and planning and huge amounts of cash.
We need to investigate the roots of this operation and its funding and look to our present laws: RICO, Ricocheting.
This is what all this is about like a big drain that our whole country’s people have been sucked down.
I always said the Dems focus too much on Trump, not that ist is wrong but they ignore the GOP who is 100% responsible for letting Trump run wild. It is insane that the elections are tight.
Fox and other rightwing outlets don't talk about corruption so most people who vote for the GOP have no clue. The Dems don't mention corruption much either.
Rightwing news focusses on destroying the Dems with lies and disinformation. I work with a woman who only watches Fox, she is convinced that Trump is only deporting criminals and may be some mistakes are made. She is terrified of communism and socialism. I have tried to talk to her about it but she thinks I am being brainwashed, she hates Bernie Sanders.
Ofcourse there is also a lot of racism in this country stimulated by Trump. I read that 14 black men have been hanged in the south since Trump's reelection (all declared suicides), the media ignores it, It is hard to know what is real anymore, A.I scares me to dead.
THEFT---another simple word that goes along with CORRUPTION. These psychos and sickos are stealing people's life, liberty. and their pursuit of happiness. All corruption is theft. They are stealing our future.
NO KINGS NO CORRUPTION has a nice ring to it, Thom. Thank you for another spot-on Report that we can pass on. See you in the streets.
Brilliant. Let's also remind people that current day corruption has echoes down through the ages, as tyrants and their lickspittle enablers have used their positions of power to grift from the citizens of their countries, kingdoms, even cities and villages. Nothing new, here. We are at an inflection point which could allow us to start down a road to real reform, which was at least one aim of some of our more enlightened founding fathers in 1776.
Democrats don't use corruption, because they will be charged with hypocrisy
HE DID NOT WIN!!! WE DID VOTE!!! WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE!!! NO ONE WANTS TO BELIEVE IT!!! WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!! OUR COUNTRY WILL SUFFER LIKE PALESTINE!!! (is) ray+all wants our land too!!! WE ARE ALREADY OCCUPIED!!! CHECK THE Pentagon!!! Check the capital!!!! WE ARE FOOLS!!! WE’VE BEEN CONNED!!!!! To help others, we must save ourselves first!!! Put on your oxygen mask!!!! GET TO WORK!!!!
The high corrupted court is responsible for this!!! They deliberately delayed the cases, so they could claim it was too close to an election!!! The immunity was a scam!!! They had NO authority to grant ANYONE immunity!!! They lied, and we fell for it!! We still believe the high court is above the law, because they told us so!!! Lifetime appointment!! They believe they will just carry on no matter who wins!!! WAKE UP AMERICANS!!! I believe some of them are in the files, why else would they do EVERYTHING runt says???? 6-3???!!! Curious; not so much; men against women!!! They give us a win, two or three weeks later, it’s suddenly in the Shadow (secret) Docket, and they reverse the win, to favor runt!!! No one has to say how they voted, no one has to sign, no one has to give any reason!!!!
PLEASE READ, short summary!!! Everything you need to know, without reading ALL of the evidence!!!
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct?r=58ocfg&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD THOM.
CORRUPTION, THY NAMEIS TRUMP.
JUST USE THE OLD, OLD TACTIC; FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Ultimately, it's theft. For him, it has always been theft of other people's money, wives, or kids.
I wouldn’t trade places with Donald Trump right now for all the race-hate in America.
[Race-hate being as good as gold, and what fueled his rise.]
This is right on the money (pun intended). I've asked several pols to make corruption their core platform. But the centrists and corporate dems, as well as many progressives even, believe that they should not distract from the key anger about prices and housing and unemployment. These should not be in opposition. The left should focus aggressively on the FACT that most of our personal issues can be tied directly to the corruption in the political establishment. We can never solve our kitchen-table issues if we don't get corruption under control first.