I second the notion: “The words ‘Republican corruption' should be continuously on Democrats’ lips.” But they need pick ONLY a few ultra-ultra-simple talking points and repeat them until they’re blue in the face.
I think it requires a dumbing-down that comes naturally to Republicans, and is eaten up just as naturally by their base, none of whom are splitting the atom. It’s the illusory truth effect, and DJT is a master: say the same bullshit over, and over, and over, and over… and eventually it sticks – and like clockwork you’ll hear your racist uncle parroting the phrases like gospel at Thanksgiving.
Facts are not important here. Exhibits one through four: Drain the Swamp, Lock Her Up, Make America Great Again, They Want to Open the Borders. This is Propaganda 101.
I hope that every single person running a DEM campaign this fall (and next year) has a prepared script written by DNC that includes every single item you've written about!! Starting w/the infamous tax deal that says donald and his sons and daughters and their families will never have to pay taxes or even sit for an audit!!! And that the $100 million that trump currently owes has just been 'erased!'!!!' That so totally honks me off!! and it should do the same to every tax paying DEM, IND, and GOP!! He's made $billions on his presidency -- much through not exactly legal means and he doesn't have to pay taxes. He started a war and is building gold stuff -- using our tax $$ when he isn't paying the first penny!!!
It seems that many people think that, to get ahead, it is necessary to cheat the system in some way. The problem is that when enough people cheat, the system no longer works for anyone. We're getting close to that point.
Amazing isn't it Tom, that the corruption is so out in the open, no longer hidden behind doors or in smoke filled rooms. The Republican party will do nothing of course, but sadly neither will the Democratic party, because those in the know and inside the beltway, slop at the same trough.
Open a vein on TRump and anyone in his family or syndicate and corruption is what will pour out. Other than decadent decor and retribution, it is all that he cares about. It must be the primary message of the impeachment.
These criminals are doomed. England and Norway got some of the Epstein perpetrators. Albania got Ivanka and Jared. Time for clean-up on Aisle 47! As usual, Democrats are expected to right the wrongs, provide services, and protect consumers. It sucks to be us. It sucks to be an American right now. Let's change that! See you in the streets with a CORRUPTION sign in my hands.
Thom, you have identified the issue that connects so many of the crises confronting our country: corruption thrives in darkness.
But I would add one essential point. If elections are how the American people peacefully defeat corruption, then the public must be able to verify the elections themselves.
I have spent twenty-two years examining election systems, records, court cases, recounts, and audits. I have also helped develop a program that compares cast-vote records with ballot images so ordinary citizens, working in bipartisan teams, can independently check the counts done by precinct.
That experience has taught me how vulnerable public confidence becomes when election results are produced by complex computerized systems, but the evidence needed to verify those results is withheld from the public. I am not alleging that a particular election was stolen. I am saying that no election system should require blind trust when it can provide verifiable evidence.
Results should be publicly committed before audit samples are selected. Ballot images and cast-vote records should be preserved and made available with appropriate safeguards. Genuine random audits should compare the electronic record with the voter-verified paper ballots.
The ballot must remain secret—but the counting must be public.
We will not defeat corruption merely by asking people to trust a different group of politicians. We defeat it by building systems in which no politician, party, corporation, or election vendor has to be trusted blindly.
Trust should never require blindness. Verification is what makes trust possible.
The SAVE act and an executive order, has no effect on national elections, because according to the Constitution, the conduct of elections, including who is eligible to vote is left up to the states, and it took Constitution Amendements,namely th 15th,m 17th, 19th and 26th to change that.
My question is why is those responsible for informing the public, llie Aaron, the print and internet media, and even MSNOW, not informing the media, but are perpetuating this scam by Trump.
Is it because of clicks?
Red states can and probably will adopt in part or in while, the provisions of the SAVE act, as that is their prerogative, Just like Georgia and Kentucky allowed 18year olds to vote before the 26th Amendment.
Wyoming, NJ and Utah allowed women to vote before the 19th Amendment.
In 1792 New Hampshire was the first state to enfranchise all men to vote, the rest of the states required them to be property owners.
Until around 1807 in Pennsylvania and NJ all men, so long as they owned property, including black men, could vote
The only way that the SAVE act affect elections is if the several states independently adopt it, otherise it is in defiance of the constitution and has to be ignored.
Thank you for this important documentation. Sadly, we as a nation may have to experience a complete breakdown or "downfall" before any real solutions are at hand. But we cannot rely on today's Democratic Party alone to do the fixing. There will have to be mobilization of unaffiliated voters, and of people eligible to vote but who do not. And there will have to be a recognition that Trump is the symptom and enabler, but not the cause, of our current predicament that this article describes, and an idea that is so well founded in your 2022 book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism.
"At every level, ever since the Reagan Revolution, the heart of Republican policies has been the naked corruption of our American political and economic systems by billionaires and giant corporations. Since the 1980s, Republicans have sold their corruption with slogans like, “Government is the problem, not the solution,” and “Let the market decide,” but their real message is, “Turn it all over to billionaires and their corporations.”
I would add to that the observation that Republicans have convinced ordinary people that great wealth is a demonstration of superiority and that right-wing attitudes and beliefs, especially religious beliefs, give one greater moral credibility or character. The mythology has great appeal.
Damn both duopolistic parties as they are two sides of the same old wooden nickel (literally). Smitty (Trump) has requested a trillion and a half dollar military budget; and he'll get it. Now, query thyself this: what IF half that amount were allocated towards public healthcare, infrastructure or education?
The whole campaign should be naming the candidate (republican or Democrat) as an enabler of Trumpican Corruption.
Trump is not on trial -- the enablers have to be on trial in the 2026 and then 2028 elections. Keep it local , keep it specific to laws supported by the losers who support the regime.
Dem pols should get right on it, as soon as they secure the approval of AIPAC, the rest of their donor class, and the genius consultants who’ve facilitated the New Deal’s demise.
I second the notion: “The words ‘Republican corruption' should be continuously on Democrats’ lips.” But they need pick ONLY a few ultra-ultra-simple talking points and repeat them until they’re blue in the face.
I think it requires a dumbing-down that comes naturally to Republicans, and is eaten up just as naturally by their base, none of whom are splitting the atom. It’s the illusory truth effect, and DJT is a master: say the same bullshit over, and over, and over, and over… and eventually it sticks – and like clockwork you’ll hear your racist uncle parroting the phrases like gospel at Thanksgiving.
Facts are not important here. Exhibits one through four: Drain the Swamp, Lock Her Up, Make America Great Again, They Want to Open the Borders. This is Propaganda 101.
I hope that every single person running a DEM campaign this fall (and next year) has a prepared script written by DNC that includes every single item you've written about!! Starting w/the infamous tax deal that says donald and his sons and daughters and their families will never have to pay taxes or even sit for an audit!!! And that the $100 million that trump currently owes has just been 'erased!'!!!' That so totally honks me off!! and it should do the same to every tax paying DEM, IND, and GOP!! He's made $billions on his presidency -- much through not exactly legal means and he doesn't have to pay taxes. He started a war and is building gold stuff -- using our tax $$ when he isn't paying the first penny!!!
It seems that many people think that, to get ahead, it is necessary to cheat the system in some way. The problem is that when enough people cheat, the system no longer works for anyone. We're getting close to that point.
The corruption never stops:
Earlier today I ran across this: "Trump’s Truth Social to charge Wall Street $1.2M a year for early access to posts." That is paying for "Early Access" aka Insider trading. The billionaires get richer while we can only watch. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-media-truth-social-api-mcgurn-b3030851.html
Later I read: More than 10 firms pay up to $100,000 a month for fast access to Truth Social posts - This is CORE-ruption! I wonder of GOP legislators get early access for free to ensure they will not impeach Trump. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/trump-media-reports-238m-loss-011216541.html
Amazing isn't it Tom, that the corruption is so out in the open, no longer hidden behind doors or in smoke filled rooms. The Republican party will do nothing of course, but sadly neither will the Democratic party, because those in the know and inside the beltway, slop at the same trough.
GRIFTER-IN-CHIEF: Trump's top 22 grift schemes
https://embed.kumu.io/a14442199a8fb058052b7df678dd8886
Open a vein on TRump and anyone in his family or syndicate and corruption is what will pour out. Other than decadent decor and retribution, it is all that he cares about. It must be the primary message of the impeachment.
These criminals are doomed. England and Norway got some of the Epstein perpetrators. Albania got Ivanka and Jared. Time for clean-up on Aisle 47! As usual, Democrats are expected to right the wrongs, provide services, and protect consumers. It sucks to be us. It sucks to be an American right now. Let's change that! See you in the streets with a CORRUPTION sign in my hands.
Thom, you have identified the issue that connects so many of the crises confronting our country: corruption thrives in darkness.
But I would add one essential point. If elections are how the American people peacefully defeat corruption, then the public must be able to verify the elections themselves.
I have spent twenty-two years examining election systems, records, court cases, recounts, and audits. I have also helped develop a program that compares cast-vote records with ballot images so ordinary citizens, working in bipartisan teams, can independently check the counts done by precinct.
That experience has taught me how vulnerable public confidence becomes when election results are produced by complex computerized systems, but the evidence needed to verify those results is withheld from the public. I am not alleging that a particular election was stolen. I am saying that no election system should require blind trust when it can provide verifiable evidence.
Results should be publicly committed before audit samples are selected. Ballot images and cast-vote records should be preserved and made available with appropriate safeguards. Genuine random audits should compare the electronic record with the voter-verified paper ballots.
The ballot must remain secret—but the counting must be public.
We will not defeat corruption merely by asking people to trust a different group of politicians. We defeat it by building systems in which no politician, party, corporation, or election vendor has to be trusted blindly.
Trust should never require blindness. Verification is what makes trust possible.
Read Thom Hartmann’s article: How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution: https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-democrats-can-turn-trumps-corruption-9e1
Learn more about our work for transparent, trackable, and publicly verifiable elections: AUDIT USA’s or Cassandra Series link: https://johnrbrakey.substack.com/p/the-cassandra-series-breaking-apollos
Voting is secret. Counting is public. No verification, no trust.
The SAVE act and an executive order, has no effect on national elections, because according to the Constitution, the conduct of elections, including who is eligible to vote is left up to the states, and it took Constitution Amendements,namely th 15th,m 17th, 19th and 26th to change that.
My question is why is those responsible for informing the public, llie Aaron, the print and internet media, and even MSNOW, not informing the media, but are perpetuating this scam by Trump.
Is it because of clicks?
Red states can and probably will adopt in part or in while, the provisions of the SAVE act, as that is their prerogative, Just like Georgia and Kentucky allowed 18year olds to vote before the 26th Amendment.
Wyoming, NJ and Utah allowed women to vote before the 19th Amendment.
In 1792 New Hampshire was the first state to enfranchise all men to vote, the rest of the states required them to be property owners.
Until around 1807 in Pennsylvania and NJ all men, so long as they owned property, including black men, could vote
The only way that the SAVE act affect elections is if the several states independently adopt it, otherise it is in defiance of the constitution and has to be ignored.
Source: 10th Amendment
The SAVE act has no legs and don't give it any.
Thank you for this important documentation. Sadly, we as a nation may have to experience a complete breakdown or "downfall" before any real solutions are at hand. But we cannot rely on today's Democratic Party alone to do the fixing. There will have to be mobilization of unaffiliated voters, and of people eligible to vote but who do not. And there will have to be a recognition that Trump is the symptom and enabler, but not the cause, of our current predicament that this article describes, and an idea that is so well founded in your 2022 book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism.
"At every level, ever since the Reagan Revolution, the heart of Republican policies has been the naked corruption of our American political and economic systems by billionaires and giant corporations. Since the 1980s, Republicans have sold their corruption with slogans like, “Government is the problem, not the solution,” and “Let the market decide,” but their real message is, “Turn it all over to billionaires and their corporations.”
I would add to that the observation that Republicans have convinced ordinary people that great wealth is a demonstration of superiority and that right-wing attitudes and beliefs, especially religious beliefs, give one greater moral credibility or character. The mythology has great appeal.
Damn both duopolistic parties as they are two sides of the same old wooden nickel (literally). Smitty (Trump) has requested a trillion and a half dollar military budget; and he'll get it. Now, query thyself this: what IF half that amount were allocated towards public healthcare, infrastructure or education?
The whole campaign should be naming the candidate (republican or Democrat) as an enabler of Trumpican Corruption.
Trump is not on trial -- the enablers have to be on trial in the 2026 and then 2028 elections. Keep it local , keep it specific to laws supported by the losers who support the regime.
Dem pols should get right on it, as soon as they secure the approval of AIPAC, the rest of their donor class, and the genius consultants who’ve facilitated the New Deal’s demise.