I despise this administration. Just think of what we could do with all the money he is grifting. Healthcare, anyone? Food assistance? Social security solvency? Childcare resources?
David, and with Trump's dementia in full bloom, things are not likely to get better unless Democrats can find ways to curb Republican law and rule-breaking, end voter suppression, and get our courts to actually sentence the regime criminals to jail for their corruption.
This is how I feel : Well- the truth is that it is the fault of both Democrats and Republicans . A LOT of Democrats are conneceted to PAC money just like the GOP are. Trumps dementia is not going to run away from home. frankly I hope he bites the dust before midterms-There are good Democrats ,but there are some really bad ones as well like Fetterman, Manchin, Sinema, and about 12 more- so when votes in Congress come up they screw us because they don't want to loose their money from the PAC!!!.....They screw us because they are getting threatened by 3 bullies : Trump, Miller, and Mikey Johnson-and we all know the truth will eventually come out. They ALL have to go! And then there is the FAR RIGHT NAZI RACIST FACTION that has infiltrated this Government- that are a large part of the REPUBLICAN HOUSE, including Trump-....One of the big banks capitol one I think just flagged Trump for money laundering.............and they shut his many many bank accounts down- do you even think for a moment that old whale is going to get sentenced? That is the biggest issue they keep him going to keep riding the graveyhowever train-- HE should be in jail.........HE is committing crimes that are so in our face , and HE is being allowed by the congress to continue-,and frankly MAGA to sit on his stinky butt and continue to hurt us ALL> and they do not care because they are making hundreds of thousands of dollars while they allow ALL of our hard earned Social security (which is private mandated money for us) and our tax dollars to be drained( which we need and was mandated for just about eerything including our health care-- ,while Trump, M Theil, and the three stooges , (Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk )steal it because well....they just neeed more money-and if 11 million of us die- they can care less. IT IS ALL OF US THAT HAVE TO GET BUSY AND HELP STOP THEM- sure it is scary, sure,they are major donkey butts- Do we really want to just sit and throw up our hands,and let this continue? Look at the numbers : there may be lots of billionaires, but there are 749 million of us- I think that alone should encourage people -yet even through slow but winning processes things are moving very slow- And there are not enough taking place even though some cases are being won. Getting beyond our fears-(where they continue to try to drive that -because they like us to be there) , IF people would just see the light at the end of the tunnel- we could get more done.And frankly it is not going to be pretty getting there- because yes- they are brutal a holes- However OUR sheer numbers over ride them........NOTE: We are not powerless!!!
Do they not think that we will soon run out of money. In fact we have already run out of money, we’re deeply in debt. They seem to think that all of us suckers are an unlimited source of funds for their nefarious plans.
Now we know without a doubt that it is all funny money with the exception of what we citizens pay in taxes. To us, taxes are not funny money but it is to the Treasury. Monetize it all. High ho, high ho, for the lucky it is off to work we go.
I agree Lynne. Money is a big part of it,but what about the CRIME. Trumps and others get a free Epstein pass, a free tax return pass, a free pass on murders of innocent people, a free pass on election cheating and who knows what they are hiding with international deals. We can never go back to the good old days when republicans worried about Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm. What is a get out of jail free card worth?
Swbv, I suspect there are some deals for Tillis and Cornan in the wings: lobbying opportunities that would give them massive access to their fellow senators, buy-ins to Trump's network of cripto bringing those Senators millions of dollars for their service (one expects a lot to betray one's country, you know), and probably a whole lot more. I do wish their fellow senators would realize what is going on with them and that the two of them are as shallow and damaged as the Reflecting Pool.
It's very difficult to fully appreciate how Trump and Citizens United have corrupted our government. At least for me. I think Elon Musk fully appreciates it.
Swbv, oh yes, Musk appreciates it because he has benefited significantly from the corruption and has helped to expand it too. From statistics I have seen, I do believe Musk and his AI, possibly with the help of the pre-DOGE team, used algorithms and connections to tallying machines to "rig" the 2024 election, getting Trump elected by nearly the same margin in every swing state. They put in office nearly unknown candidates in senate races in OH, PA, and possibly other states over really popular candidates. They managed a few other races in those states too to make sure Repubs would hold both the senate and house. Musk is not the brightest bulb in the string, but he knows how to get his minions to use his AI system and his Starlink satellite network to manipulate votes, in the swing states, maybe Texas too. I suspect he/they practiced in the 2022 elections to get things right. Democrats unable to vote for a woman of color for president helped Trump/Musk too. Alas, no Democrats challenged the elections, I think because they didn't want to be seen as whiny brats as Trump and his Klan have been for denying the results of the 2020 election. That was a mistake, but because the voting margins were just above what would have been needed for an automatic recount in several of the states, none happened. Pretty clever, but I suspect once this regime has been removed from office, we will learn the full truth about the whole 2024 campaign. I am so disgusted with the whole thing because I am not a person to go with conspiracy theories, but the actions throughout the 2024 campaign have been so blatant I have had to pay attention. This included the fake "assassination attempts" as well as the voter manipulation.
Tillis,to his somewhat dubious credit, declined to run again out of disgust with and some embarrassment about what the bunch of DC Republican toadies have become. He would probably won another term easily, NC being largely rural and undereducated.
The good news is that Roy Cooper, our ex governor has a good chance of flipping that seat to Dem against the third rate,cheating,pedophile protecting Rethug candidate.
Laurence O'Donnell on MSNOW pointed out that former senators frequently move on to be paid lobbyists after they leave the Senate. They retain the ability to go on the Senate floor to talk with others FOR LIFE. The inference, as I understood it, was that Cornyn and Tillis are covering their proverbial posteriors by not doing anything that could make them potentially toxic in terms of future employment in lobbying. This sound extremely plausible to me.
Of course they are covering their posteriors. Paid lobbyists make lots of money. It is why many of our Representatives run for Congress in the first place.
Government by lobbying is guaranteed to be a huge bribery scheme meant to enrich the ethically deficient and to relieve all the third rate “ representatives” and “ legislators” of any obligation to their constituents.
Yupp - and it isn't as if the GOP legislators have shown any tendency to do a damn thing for their constituents. Their entire allegiance seems to be directed to increasing their bank accounts and keeping Felon47 from saying anything about them that could negatively impact their financial futures. Calling them disgusting worms would be a huge insult to all worms everywhere.
Phil, you are right. I suspect they are working on the next big distraction as we write. Because We the People are paying so many guys whose only job is to find ways to get around our laws and do harm to everyone who gets in their way, we are being hit from every side, multiple times a week. It's too bad DOGE didn't dump the white house toddler pool for being wasteful because they do nothing to help anyone but themselves and their Bully-in-Chief.
This info and analysis you provide is incredibly important!! Every citizen and every Senator & Representative needs to understand this. I can picture one buddy saying to another that this good, “We have what we want. We can move ahead with the appt .” They need to read this alone in a room and digest what is going on here. I know it is crazy of me but, I want at least some of them to find their moral compass. Thanks Joyce!!
Has anybody expressed concern that what Trump is doing here with the Slush Fund is about funding and arming his militia in preparation for '29? Just occurred to me while reading Joyce's piece (and others') how desperate Trump is to get it for his J6 Hooligans.
NAILED IT, STEVEN! I believe there is a core paramilitary group of enforcers that have been threatened by this regime (like Hitler's boys have threatened the Concentration Camp guards) that if they don't do what he says, they will be killed or their families met with "accidents" if they do not comply. I also agree with Ruth Sheets in that conspiracies shud be ignored. But this regime no longer can be ignored as a conspiracy to destroy Democracy in order to install a DICTATORSHIP.
Precisely what came to my mind the instant I first heard of this fund idea - it is really a modus operandi to fund Felon47's personal paramilitary force. He would never use his own money or money from donors he can re-direct to his personal accounts. Get the American People to foot the bill to create a payroll package for the American SS troops so it will be fully funded if Felon47 doesn't like election results.
Not sure how Trump thinks he's going to convince anyone to honor his immunity agreement after he is out of office. One question I do have is will he still owe taxes on his crypto income after the next administration invokes RICO to seize his assets?
Are these men actually born and raised citizens of the United States or am I living in a dream world where men such as Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy are figments of my imagination.
Am I really in the same America that helped win WW2?
When I was young and naive and first started to vote, I was an Independent. Then, when Dukakis was a candidate, the late Lee Atawater came along and stated that he "would strip the bark off the bastard and make Willie Horton his running mate." (See AI blurb below).
At that point, I vowed never to vote Republican, unless an outstanding and honest candidate appeared on the scene."
AI:
Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater has apologized to Michael Dukakis for the "naked cruelty" of a remark he made about the Democratic presidential nominee during the 1988 campaign. Atwater's apology is included in a first-person account in the February issue of Life magazine released Saturday that details his fight against an inoperable brain tumor.
"In 1988," he wrote, "fighting Dukakis, I said that I "would strip the bark off the little bastard' and "make Willie Horton his running mate.'
Precisely. The DoJ is not only untrustworthy … but blatant in its lies and misdirection. For the Teens, and now the Twenties of this new century, “disingenuous” has become the hallmark of a president, a “supreme” court and an entire political party.
your comment that ", “disingenuous” has become the hallmark of a president," is what one of the many things most bothers me. An entire generation of youth have grown up politically and come of age personally with this corruption and "disingenuousness" and some of them, a goodly number I fear, think the Trumplican way is the way to win.
If Democrats do not unite, win, make substantial changes, and hold the corrupt accountable, the current situation will endure. This will be our country.
David, it seems now, with this probable capitulation to Baby Donnie, the former Republican Party should officially be renamed the Trumplican Party; that name more nearly reflects its actual function.
If there's anything worse than Republicans without a spine refusing to stand up to Trump, it's lame-duck Republicans without a spine who have nothing to lose by standing up. We all knew that Cornyn and Tillis would eventually roll over. What's not known is what handshake deal they made with Trump and his cronies, or the Republican Party, for some post-congressional perk. Maybe some pork for their states. A pox on all of them. Soulless and amoral beyond words.
I’ve noted before that back when Franco and his thugs still ruled Spain, I heard a story about a conversation between a Swiss and a Spanish diplomat. The Spaniard said, “ Switzerland is a landlocked country. Why do you have a Ministry of the Marine?” The Swiss replied, “Why, in Spain, do you have a Ministry of Justice?” I never would have believed, back then, that you could tell the same story about the United States.
Caving to Blanche’s fake promises, assures Cornyn and Tillis places as lobbyists after they leave the Senate. They will not be shunned. Lawrence O’ Donnell gave excellent analysis tonight.
On July 29, Joyce’s Civil Discourse post was titled “The Ever Expanding Power Hungry Trump Presidency.”
In a comment to that post, I wrote the following: “It's as though Cornyn and Tillis give us a smidgen of hope that they'll vote against Blanche in Committee, all the while knowing that they will likely cave when it comes time for the vote to happen.”
Sorry to read tonight that I was correct - those two just pulled the rug out from under us AGAIN. I’m sad, but not surprised.
I still don't understand the legal status of this "agreement".
As soon as Todd Blanche is confirmed, can't Trump's DOJ simply revive the Slush Fund?
And similarly, can't a future Democratic Administration simply overturn any "agreement" giving Trump and his kids tax/audit immunity? Where does the power come from for both these clauses to be permanent? A court has already said that the agreement was a fake - so it won't have judicial force.
In sum, I do not trust a word this administration says, especially reading your analysis. MSNOW has been hoodwinked, the battle was a fraud from the beginning.
I hadn't seen them yet when I posted, the original article was favorable on the deal, as were a number of others. Contrarians, and now MSNOW have recognized the farce.
I can see most senators being too stupid to see what's going on here, but I have always had more confidence in their committee staffs. Clearly, I have been wrong.
republicans have NEVER been the party of morality and anyone who drank that kool aid over the years should be taking a long look in the mirror while they wait for the next shiny lie to come along. They have been rabid fascists since at least the 1930s.
I despise this administration. Just think of what we could do with all the money he is grifting. Healthcare, anyone? Food assistance? Social security solvency? Childcare resources?
But a spacious, unsecure aeroplane - and a “gift” - that’s our leader of a “free world” in which everything has a price … and a payment.
David, and with Trump's dementia in full bloom, things are not likely to get better unless Democrats can find ways to curb Republican law and rule-breaking, end voter suppression, and get our courts to actually sentence the regime criminals to jail for their corruption.
This is how I feel : Well- the truth is that it is the fault of both Democrats and Republicans . A LOT of Democrats are conneceted to PAC money just like the GOP are. Trumps dementia is not going to run away from home. frankly I hope he bites the dust before midterms-There are good Democrats ,but there are some really bad ones as well like Fetterman, Manchin, Sinema, and about 12 more- so when votes in Congress come up they screw us because they don't want to loose their money from the PAC!!!.....They screw us because they are getting threatened by 3 bullies : Trump, Miller, and Mikey Johnson-and we all know the truth will eventually come out. They ALL have to go! And then there is the FAR RIGHT NAZI RACIST FACTION that has infiltrated this Government- that are a large part of the REPUBLICAN HOUSE, including Trump-....One of the big banks capitol one I think just flagged Trump for money laundering.............and they shut his many many bank accounts down- do you even think for a moment that old whale is going to get sentenced? That is the biggest issue they keep him going to keep riding the graveyhowever train-- HE should be in jail.........HE is committing crimes that are so in our face , and HE is being allowed by the congress to continue-,and frankly MAGA to sit on his stinky butt and continue to hurt us ALL> and they do not care because they are making hundreds of thousands of dollars while they allow ALL of our hard earned Social security (which is private mandated money for us) and our tax dollars to be drained( which we need and was mandated for just about eerything including our health care-- ,while Trump, M Theil, and the three stooges , (Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk )steal it because well....they just neeed more money-and if 11 million of us die- they can care less. IT IS ALL OF US THAT HAVE TO GET BUSY AND HELP STOP THEM- sure it is scary, sure,they are major donkey butts- Do we really want to just sit and throw up our hands,and let this continue? Look at the numbers : there may be lots of billionaires, but there are 749 million of us- I think that alone should encourage people -yet even through slow but winning processes things are moving very slow- And there are not enough taking place even though some cases are being won. Getting beyond our fears-(where they continue to try to drive that -because they like us to be there) , IF people would just see the light at the end of the tunnel- we could get more done.And frankly it is not going to be pretty getting there- because yes- they are brutal a holes- However OUR sheer numbers over ride them........NOTE: We are not powerless!!!
Help us all. How can we get him out?
Not to mention all the money pouring into political campaigns. I shudder at the thought of all the texts and commercials between now and November.
There are serious advantages to living in a non-swing state!
I hope we wipe out Republican wins.
Do they not think that we will soon run out of money. In fact we have already run out of money, we’re deeply in debt. They seem to think that all of us suckers are an unlimited source of funds for their nefarious plans.
Now we know without a doubt that it is all funny money with the exception of what we citizens pay in taxes. To us, taxes are not funny money but it is to the Treasury. Monetize it all. High ho, high ho, for the lucky it is off to work we go.
I agree Lynne. Money is a big part of it,but what about the CRIME. Trumps and others get a free Epstein pass, a free tax return pass, a free pass on murders of innocent people, a free pass on election cheating and who knows what they are hiding with international deals. We can never go back to the good old days when republicans worried about Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm. What is a get out of jail free card worth?
I am so with you. I am turning in to a raging old bitch.
But that might mean that "those people" would get benefits, and MAGA hates that.
As outrageous as this is, it's just another Monday in Trumpland. Something even worse will probably happen by Friday.
Republican senators will never really stand up to him. The only hope is to kick them out of office.
Yes. Every. One. Of. Them.
But he kicked out Cornyn and Tills. How can their support be explained?
Swbv, I suspect there are some deals for Tillis and Cornan in the wings: lobbying opportunities that would give them massive access to their fellow senators, buy-ins to Trump's network of cripto bringing those Senators millions of dollars for their service (one expects a lot to betray one's country, you know), and probably a whole lot more. I do wish their fellow senators would realize what is going on with them and that the two of them are as shallow and damaged as the Reflecting Pool.
It's very difficult to fully appreciate how Trump and Citizens United have corrupted our government. At least for me. I think Elon Musk fully appreciates it.
Swbv, oh yes, Musk appreciates it because he has benefited significantly from the corruption and has helped to expand it too. From statistics I have seen, I do believe Musk and his AI, possibly with the help of the pre-DOGE team, used algorithms and connections to tallying machines to "rig" the 2024 election, getting Trump elected by nearly the same margin in every swing state. They put in office nearly unknown candidates in senate races in OH, PA, and possibly other states over really popular candidates. They managed a few other races in those states too to make sure Repubs would hold both the senate and house. Musk is not the brightest bulb in the string, but he knows how to get his minions to use his AI system and his Starlink satellite network to manipulate votes, in the swing states, maybe Texas too. I suspect he/they practiced in the 2022 elections to get things right. Democrats unable to vote for a woman of color for president helped Trump/Musk too. Alas, no Democrats challenged the elections, I think because they didn't want to be seen as whiny brats as Trump and his Klan have been for denying the results of the 2020 election. That was a mistake, but because the voting margins were just above what would have been needed for an automatic recount in several of the states, none happened. Pretty clever, but I suspect once this regime has been removed from office, we will learn the full truth about the whole 2024 campaign. I am so disgusted with the whole thing because I am not a person to go with conspiracy theories, but the actions throughout the 2024 campaign have been so blatant I have had to pay attention. This included the fake "assassination attempts" as well as the voter manipulation.
"I suspect there are some deals for Tillis and Cornan in the wings: "
Ruth: you have hit that proverbial nail on the head!!l
Tillis,to his somewhat dubious credit, declined to run again out of disgust with and some embarrassment about what the bunch of DC Republican toadies have become. He would probably won another term easily, NC being largely rural and undereducated.
The good news is that Roy Cooper, our ex governor has a good chance of flipping that seat to Dem against the third rate,cheating,pedophile protecting Rethug candidate.
Laurence O'Donnell on MSNOW pointed out that former senators frequently move on to be paid lobbyists after they leave the Senate. They retain the ability to go on the Senate floor to talk with others FOR LIFE. The inference, as I understood it, was that Cornyn and Tillis are covering their proverbial posteriors by not doing anything that could make them potentially toxic in terms of future employment in lobbying. This sound extremely plausible to me.
Of course they are covering their posteriors. Paid lobbyists make lots of money. It is why many of our Representatives run for Congress in the first place.
Government by lobbying is guaranteed to be a huge bribery scheme meant to enrich the ethically deficient and to relieve all the third rate “ representatives” and “ legislators” of any obligation to their constituents.
Yupp - and it isn't as if the GOP legislators have shown any tendency to do a damn thing for their constituents. Their entire allegiance seems to be directed to increasing their bank accounts and keeping Felon47 from saying anything about them that could negatively impact their financial futures. Calling them disgusting worms would be a huge insult to all worms everywhere.
Phil, you are right. I suspect they are working on the next big distraction as we write. Because We the People are paying so many guys whose only job is to find ways to get around our laws and do harm to everyone who gets in their way, we are being hit from every side, multiple times a week. It's too bad DOGE didn't dump the white house toddler pool for being wasteful because they do nothing to help anyone but themselves and their Bully-in-Chief.
If this outrageous, craven debacle doesn't get people off their asses to go vote, I don't know what will.
This info and analysis you provide is incredibly important!! Every citizen and every Senator & Representative needs to understand this. I can picture one buddy saying to another that this good, “We have what we want. We can move ahead with the appt .” They need to read this alone in a room and digest what is going on here. I know it is crazy of me but, I want at least some of them to find their moral compass. Thanks Joyce!!
They have found their moral compass, it points due Corrupt.
Has anybody expressed concern that what Trump is doing here with the Slush Fund is about funding and arming his militia in preparation for '29? Just occurred to me while reading Joyce's piece (and others') how desperate Trump is to get it for his J6 Hooligans.
Proud Boys (and Oath Keepers), stand back and stand by. Your payoffs are coming.
And with it, their armories will now be overstocked, for the next time “dear leader” calls them forth.
Exactly, but they might already be behind ICE masks for all we know.
I expect that is the case.
NAILED IT, STEVEN! I believe there is a core paramilitary group of enforcers that have been threatened by this regime (like Hitler's boys have threatened the Concentration Camp guards) that if they don't do what he says, they will be killed or their families met with "accidents" if they do not comply. I also agree with Ruth Sheets in that conspiracies shud be ignored. But this regime no longer can be ignored as a conspiracy to destroy Democracy in order to install a DICTATORSHIP.
Precisely what came to my mind the instant I first heard of this fund idea - it is really a modus operandi to fund Felon47's personal paramilitary force. He would never use his own money or money from donors he can re-direct to his personal accounts. Get the American People to foot the bill to create a payroll package for the American SS troops so it will be fully funded if Felon47 doesn't like election results.
Not sure how Trump thinks he's going to convince anyone to honor his immunity agreement after he is out of office. One question I do have is will he still owe taxes on his crypto income after the next administration invokes RICO to seize his assets?
Excellent questions.
Are these men actually born and raised citizens of the United States or am I living in a dream world where men such as Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy are figments of my imagination.
Am I really in the same America that helped win WW2?
Where are the Republicans? The Democrats?
Tell me this is a bad dream.
Wake me up from this nightmare.
republicans have always been this way. With the possible exception of Eisenhower, they lie like they breathe.
A nightmare is the only explanation of what is happening, yet we have become so desensitized to what we see and hear that we are numb!
old Native curse
Ian:
When I was young and naive and first started to vote, I was an Independent. Then, when Dukakis was a candidate, the late Lee Atawater came along and stated that he "would strip the bark off the bastard and make Willie Horton his running mate." (See AI blurb below).
At that point, I vowed never to vote Republican, unless an outstanding and honest candidate appeared on the scene."
AI:
Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater has apologized to Michael Dukakis for the "naked cruelty" of a remark he made about the Democratic presidential nominee during the 1988 campaign. Atwater's apology is included in a first-person account in the February issue of Life magazine released Saturday that details his fight against an inoperable brain tumor.
"In 1988," he wrote, "fighting Dukakis, I said that I "would strip the bark off the little bastard' and "make Willie Horton his running mate.'
Precisely. The DoJ is not only untrustworthy … but blatant in its lies and misdirection. For the Teens, and now the Twenties of this new century, “disingenuous” has become the hallmark of a president, a “supreme” court and an entire political party.
David:
your comment that ", “disingenuous” has become the hallmark of a president," is what one of the many things most bothers me. An entire generation of youth have grown up politically and come of age personally with this corruption and "disingenuousness" and some of them, a goodly number I fear, think the Trumplican way is the way to win.
If Democrats do not unite, win, make substantial changes, and hold the corrupt accountable, the current situation will endure. This will be our country.
The dangers of complacency and complicity … and sheer laziness. Did 1930s Germany deserve Nazism?
David, it seems now, with this probable capitulation to Baby Donnie, the former Republican Party should officially be renamed the Trumplican Party; that name more nearly reflects its actual function.
Or The New Confederacy.
If there's anything worse than Republicans without a spine refusing to stand up to Trump, it's lame-duck Republicans without a spine who have nothing to lose by standing up. We all knew that Cornyn and Tillis would eventually roll over. What's not known is what handshake deal they made with Trump and his cronies, or the Republican Party, for some post-congressional perk. Maybe some pork for their states. A pox on all of them. Soulless and amoral beyond words.
You’re very kind to think they’re caving for pork for their state. It’s obvious they only care about themselves.
I am even more curious about the names in the Epstein files.....
I’ve noted before that back when Franco and his thugs still ruled Spain, I heard a story about a conversation between a Swiss and a Spanish diplomat. The Spaniard said, “ Switzerland is a landlocked country. Why do you have a Ministry of the Marine?” The Swiss replied, “Why, in Spain, do you have a Ministry of Justice?” I never would have believed, back then, that you could tell the same story about the United States.
Caving to Blanche’s fake promises, assures Cornyn and Tillis places as lobbyists after they leave the Senate. They will not be shunned. Lawrence O’ Donnell gave excellent analysis tonight.
I, too, assumed this bait was in play.
On July 29, Joyce’s Civil Discourse post was titled “The Ever Expanding Power Hungry Trump Presidency.”
In a comment to that post, I wrote the following: “It's as though Cornyn and Tillis give us a smidgen of hope that they'll vote against Blanche in Committee, all the while knowing that they will likely cave when it comes time for the vote to happen.”
Sorry to read tonight that I was correct - those two just pulled the rug out from under us AGAIN. I’m sad, but not surprised.
Not truly surprised, were you?
The primary rule on today's GOP congressional members is obviously "KNOW WHAT TO KISS AND WHEN" and the "WHAT" part is whatever makes Felon47 happy.
Wow, Cornyn and Tillis really fought the good fight. Good f*cking riddance, the both of you pieces of sh*t.
I still don't understand the legal status of this "agreement".
As soon as Todd Blanche is confirmed, can't Trump's DOJ simply revive the Slush Fund?
And similarly, can't a future Democratic Administration simply overturn any "agreement" giving Trump and his kids tax/audit immunity? Where does the power come from for both these clauses to be permanent? A court has already said that the agreement was a fake - so it won't have judicial force.
I've asked this question before, but neither Joyce nor any of the legal-eagles on here have ever provided an answer.
Anyway - I think the outrage is that this slime creature will now be confirmed. Are there NO depths of depravity that Republicans won't support?
In sum, I do not trust a word this administration says, especially reading your analysis. MSNOW has been hoodwinked, the battle was a fraud from the beginning.
MSNOW has been hoodwinked??? Did you watch Maddow, Hayes, or O’Donnell last evening? Apparently not.
I hadn't seen them yet when I posted, the original article was favorable on the deal, as were a number of others. Contrarians, and now MSNOW have recognized the farce.
I can see most senators being too stupid to see what's going on here, but I have always had more confidence in their committee staffs. Clearly, I have been wrong.
The great tragedy is they understand all too well.
Don’t kid yourself. This grift, like all the others in this administration, is intentional. The senate staffers are in on the gravy train, too.
republicans have NEVER been the party of morality and anyone who drank that kool aid over the years should be taking a long look in the mirror while they wait for the next shiny lie to come along. They have been rabid fascists since at least the 1930s.