For 20+ years CTH has been calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Today, Texas Senator John Cornyn provides example #122,755 of why that change is needed.
After meeting with Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, the outgoing senator from Texas, one of Mitch McConnell’s key DeceptiCONS, publicly states he is blackmailing the President of the United States and demanding the DOJ present information to him about the tax filings of the Trump family.
One of the more challenging facets to awakening the general public on the scale of corruption within Washington DC is the need for people to drop party designations.
This is never truer than within the U.S. Senate where the mistaken “us -vs- them” perspective remains a pesky hurdle.
The blue team and red team are mirror images of themselves. They are not opposites, they are mirrored – a big difference.
The policy objective is the same, the business model within DC (K Street) benefits the upper chamber the most.
Now remember…. Democrats want power. Republicans want money. Democrats use money to get power, while Republicans use power to get money. The ideology of Democrats is funded by donors; while the priorities of donors determine the ideology of Republicans.
This is why Republicans shift positions so easily, and this is the essential difference between both wings of the same bird.
You often hear people wonder why the GOP doesn’t push-back against the Democrats. The reason is simple, the GOP are the right wing of the UniParty bird, the Democrats are the left wing. They are mirror images of each other.
Both clubs are attached to the body of big corrupt corporatist government.
Watch the trade front. Watch international trade, economics, banking and multinational corporation influence. That’s the ‘trillions are at stake,’ and that’s where the opposition to everything MAGA comes from.
The system of affluence and influence has been created to self-sustain regardless of party affiliation. The Senate is one club with one ideological perspective. Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member. So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate no-one from within the institution will expose another. This is the code of Omerta within the upper chamber. This is the way of the “my good friend” Senate, and how it operates.
Former Senate Leader Mitch McConnell had a leadership group to carry out the institutional objectives of the upper chamber as a body, they included: Senator John Thune (whip); Senator John Barrasso (conference chair); Roy Blunt (committee chair); Todd Young (NRSC chair); Jodi Ernst (conference vice-chair); and Chuck Grassley (president pro tempore). None of these senators made a move publicly without approval from Leader McConnell.
In August of 2020, before the presidential election, then Senate Whip John Thune rebuked the mail-in ballot concerns expressed by President Trump. Thune took this position because ultimately the objectives of the upper chamber were more favorably aligned if President Trump was removed.
WASHINGTON DC – […] Asked if he agreed with the president’s repeated charges that mailed-in balloting will lead to a “rigged election” and “massive voter fraud,” the Senate majority whip told reporters, “I don’t.”
“Mailed-in voting has been used in a lot of places for a long time and, honestly, we’ve got a lot of folks that, as you know, they’re investing heavily in trying … to win that war. It’s always a war too for mail-in ballots. Both sides compete, and it’s always an area where I think our side, at least in my experience, has done pretty well,” Thune answered, adding: “I think we want to assure people it’s going to work, it’s secure and if they vote that way it’s going to count.” (read more)
The rest, as they say, is history.
I prefer to say Uniparty Republicans and Uniparty Democrats are two cheeks of the same ass.
then who’s the hole in the crevice?
Langley
The media.
Did CorWHINE just admit to a felony.
Last time I heard blackmail is ILLEGAL!
Unless you happen to be a congress critter.
The media’s endless flow of digestive detritus, indeed never stops coming out of the hole, along with the inevitable stench.
The black hole of globalist influence that controls the left and right ass cheeks.
…but…but….. you are not allowed name them….
Sore-ass “Soros” for the Rio Linda crowd that lurks at the edges and ride their bikes at the end of the driveway….
My goodness, RUSH has been gone for too long now to continue to use that RIO LINDA trope. Find something more original.
five brown eyes.
you have to ask comrade? It is us – the stupid consumers and working tax payers.
Us???
Satan
ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT!!!!
Totally stealing this. Not sorry either.
THAT! …
is a great quote. Don’t change. 👊✝️👊
Cornyn is a big hemorrhoid !
I agree with Sundance’s description of how the democrats operate versus the republicans, but that doesn’t quite describe a “unified party”.
We need a new name or names. Yes, after they are motivated they act in congruence, but an ass is technically split down the middle.
Is a dragon. Two wing of the same dragon. They both want gold and power. Smaug anyone? Or some prefer Satan.
I am so glad we are finally getting rid of that piece of garbage. TX voters are MAGA. TX politicians will take a while to get rid of the old and replace with the new.
We are soooooooo happy to be rid of Corwhine.
Wish he would get out of Texas!
he ( IT ) will Leave Texas… Just like ie. Obama, Pompeo, and Pence spend MOST of their time in the D.C. cesspool
All I have to say is, “Yours first, Cornyn”.
Remembering immediately after his humiliating dumping by Texans who have had well enough of this Chamber of Commerce self enricher, Cornyn professed he would be taking the “high road”.
One he has never travelled nor would recognize even if he had a moral GPS which directed him there.
Which he doesn’t.
Begone, Cornyn.
We never knew you.
Right Betsy,
He is in a black hole.
Good rule of thumb when you are in a hole
QUIT DIGGING
Can not fix stupid …
It seems he doesn’t understand, BE. But even of he did, it seems he doesn’t care.
(Old advice ages well for those smart enough to follow it.)
❤️🫵(NM)
Yes sir, dear brother.
(He will inflict maximum damage before the door hits him on the way out….always BNM 😘)
And take Dade Phelan with you when you relocate to CA
Please don’t send him here, we are in deep enough poop without the likes of him.
With so much sympathy, Little Dickens 💕
I know. I made my escape about 10 years ago in the dead of night driving EXACTLY the speed limit so as not to attract attention to my “hunting supplies” in the vehicle. I was so happy to reach Nevada.
Note: said hunting supplies were subsequently lost in a horrible boating accident.
I’ll pack his bags 😎
We’ve never voted for him. Always left it blank. He’s a very slimy, nasty human being. I knew when he lost that he would do this. Good Luck to you John Cornyn, your day is coming. I may not see it, but Jesus knows what you’ve done.
Cornyn trying to get one more stab at Trump before he heads home for good.
It seems illegal that Sen. Cornyn desires to get the tax returns of Pres. Trump and the Trump family. Tax returns are supposed to be private.
Perhaps Sen. Cornyn can voluntarily release his tax returns and those of his family.
He can make that public asap.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Now.
I agree! But it would need to go through the states, as I don’t see either House or Senate voting to end their money, power, and privilege.
Tom, I believe there might be a path thru the Supreme Court. The 17th was unconstitutional from the get-go. We are guaranteed a republican form of government. At-large voting for a Federal Senator isn’t. It is Democracy not a republican form. Even the President isn’t voted into office that way. The check and balance is the Electoral College. The way our Founders designed it all was brilliant. Then the 17th Amendment screwed it all up. How did a Senator get recalled before the 17th amendment…the state yanked their rear ends back. How do you recall a Senator after the 17th Amendment…you can’t. Their own club members would have to do it. Odds of that happening..
ZERO.
THE 17TH AMENDMENT IS, ON IT FACE, UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Now figure out how to get standing to sue. Therein lies the problem I think.
It is an amendment to the Constitution – it IS part of the Constitution. It cannot be “unconstitutional”.
The States could restore the Senatorial representation the Founders set up as a time-modifying control of House excesss. With State-oriented appointment and representation by Senators, the lockstep voting under control of the likes of Thuns-McConnel and Schumer would not be possible.
The States should want to regain their influence, but the states are now financially dependent on the congress, IIRC since Nixon curried favor by initiating bigtime financing of states so they did not have to face voters when they raise taxes (as all evil politicians do). State voters historically have been more likely to vote out tax-raisers.
I think a partial ‘repeal’ of the 17th, with one Senator selected in statewide voting, and one selected by the State Legislature., would be a good fix for more local state influence and less boss tweed single-party control of all senators.
That’s how they operate normally – by blackmail, bribes, and payoffs, yes?
Yes. Congress in current from has no redeeming value. Enemy to all American Citizens whether all citizens understand that fact or not.
Yep, the CONmen and CONwomen who make up CONgress only know blackmail, bribes and payoffs…its SOP now for decades.
If it isn’t obvious by now, don’t know what it will take to convince folks that CONgress is a very large organized crime enterprise and We The People fund these clowns.
The govt’ is blackmailing v=everyone via taxes…. it’s time to get rid of the IRS and taxes in general and come up with a new plan.
The tariffs replace he income tax!
And if tariffs aren’t accepted, use the Fair Tax.
Fair tax. Yep.
Repeal the 17th. Yep.
Revisit Citizens United v FEC… Yep.
Unless we are reconciled with Public Servants who can barely subsist on a $200k annual salary becoming multimillionaires within the span of a scant few years of, dare one claim, Public Service?
However much we despise these people, it isn’t enough!
One wonders exactly how deep and how ugly the dirt is on every single one of them in order for them to keep their silence…
I had occasion to attend a funeral, many years ago, in which a junior Senator was in attendance. They were not particularly well known at this time but I knew who they were and watched their face during the service, which was for someone they had once dated, who had ended the relationship because of their incessant desire for political power. I saw in the Senator’s eyes that day some stirring of sadness and regret that they had sold their soul and knew it.
I have never forgotten it, because whatever they have gained in this life will mean absolutely nothing in the next and I think that’s why they so desperately hold on, because they know it too, and are terrified!
Exactly VikingMom! I truly wonder how many really know that.
Amen!
All they’ve stolen, every red cent they’ve taken from lobbyists in payment for their favouring votes, all the wealth they’ve accumulated from the insider trading they’ve engaged in (a perk for them, a prison sentence for everyone else)….
ALL of it will avail them nothing as they will leave this live as they entered it…sans everything.
It’s sobering to reach an age where we have to face our mortality, Mom.
Something tells me these over privileged grifters may believe the same caché they’ve exchanged their oaths for will guarantee them passage through the narrow gate ahead…
If they think of it at all.
(Observing faces can tell us much…especially if the people wearing them think nobody is watching them.)
Dearest Betsy, To me, the only thing you can take into the next world, is what you give in this one! What goes around, comes around. Karma! I try my best to make that, love. Sometimes I stumble and fall, but I get up and try to do better.
Bless you, Pa. The core of my belief also, my dear friend…that, and hope.
We walk in faith, and yet find ourselves tripping constantly, asking forgiveness for our human frailties. Trying to understand (and failing) because of the depth of love He has for us, God knows the very worst about each one of us, and still wants us anyway. Humbling in a way I find is impossible to contemplate or reconcile.
Perhaps one day, Cornyn will come to understand that the cost of doing unto others (as now) is higher than he can at present imagine.
But regardless of such an awakening for him, I can’t tell you how much your words mean to me. I thank you for them…with affection, Bet 💕
And Cornyn wonders why the voters of Texas rejected him? Not that he cares about the voters, of course. As Johnny Carson used to say and I embellished, ‘May the gnats of a thousand camels nest in your armpits,’ Cornyn you has-been.
“May the fleas of a thousand mangy camels infest his scrotum, and may his arms be too short to reach!”
picturing that … lol
🙂 MAGA
I know his sister. Not even she can stand him.
That wasn’t Carson…it was Carnac the Magnificent…
Cornyn Khan
TRUMP!!
Go on, git, Rinotor Cornyn.
Your kind is not wanted.
Enough of your dirty deeds!
Cornyn is the same scum trash that would have taxes our ancestors…. before the American Revolution.
He was coming after our guns in Texas!
He did not have a clue.
“Asked if he agreed with the president’s repeated charges that mailed-in balloting will lead to a “rigged election” and “massive voter fraud,” the Senate majority whip told reporters, “I don’t.”
Any elected official that says mail-in ballots are a secure and competent manner in which to run an election are knowingly benefitting from rigged elections. Any Congressperson that doesn’t vote for the SAVE America Act is benefitting from rigged elections. They are committing felonies and belong in prison.
And most certainly, those criminal politicians must be removed from office with extreme prejudice.
Based on something I read many years ago — unfortunately I don’t remember where — I have come to believe that McConnell is controlled by the CCP through his Chinese wife, Elaine Chao… and Thune is controlled by McConnell. Do the math.
I’ve read that too but nobody mentions the fact that she is Taiwanese. Born in Taipei.
True.
But the family shipping business does most of it’s business with China -70% in some years. And China banks finance the construction of a lot of their ships.
SHIPPING Financed THRU China –
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/24/trump-is-right-mitch-mcconnell-and-elaine-chao-spent-decades-getting-rich-on-china/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/06/10/million-will-sheds-light-on-shipping-fortune-connected-to-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell/
I immediately thought of Sanballat in the book of Nehemiah.
Every time a new Senator is elected, I think of Satan and the temptation of Christ. Walking him around the world and promising everything… just deny Him (your voters in my analogy). 40 days in, even the the few who had promise, cave to the Uniparty payment system or fear of revelations (six days to Sunday).
Ernst, Rubio, & Cory Gardner wasted no time wh0ring themselves out!
Sanballat the Whoronite…
For 20+ years CTH has been calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment
can never understand why Pres Trump doesn’t ever speak about this. He has nothing to lose, he’s not running again, and all he has now is the bully pulpit. Short of toppling the establishment there’s nothing trump could do that would be more helpful in reforming the corrupt US govt than repeal the 17th. Yet, he’s silent.
(actually, repealing the 19th would fix all of our problems instantly but that’s a tougher haul)
Do you even understand how much of the REALLY EFFECTIVE heavy lifting in the GOP/MAGA movement is done by THE WOMEN??
While the preening, pansy-ass, pussilanimous “men” strut about, expecting praise, affirmation, ad nauseum, to feed their silly egos, so they feel “important”?
I saw it for the 35 years I spent in GOP politics. The REAL, sacrificial, time-consuming work was done by the women. The men were mostly like Cornyn.
Too broad of a brush. I volunteered in my local senate district as a precinct chair, delegate, Bylaws member, officer nominating committee, and general precinct communication. All this just to be ejected by MNGOP who threatened to sue our leadership if they didn’t resign. Why? Because some people were offended by comments made, and we were trying to change things so that republicans actually won elections.
One of the accusations was we didn’t have a pizza party. Really.
Probably because repeal means that all the grift and money needed to get “appointed” will create a whole different problem that when combined with media, social media, NGO’s and the internet, wasn’t there when the 17th was added.
The worthless Republican Party in n.j. Constantly texts my phone asking if I am voting Republican this election. non stop harassment in a deceptive attempt to shame me to give them a donation.
I hope that they don’t read my not replying to them ,ever, as my being too busy.
The fact of the matter is that I can’t stand those phonies.
last election they ran the worst looser for governor. There was a constant barrage of adds from the Dems. Non stop. Not until the last minute did the clown chosen by the establishment run any adds.
Chatterelli actually thought he was a shoe in.
What a looser.
All the party wants is money to fund their ineffective organization so they can keep their cushy positions.
They don’t need money to tell me what I have to hear.
Their lack of effective action speak louder than words.
If anyone ever figures out how to get off the GOP call list please let me know. Donated to Herman Caine and my number has been misused ever since.
Talk about a sore loser. Sheesh John, just go away please; you are behaving like a two year old.
Don’t insult two-year olds! If they have reasonably good parents, they’ll grow up!!!
These guys!!!
Trump is getting asshats like this out of politics.
Al arabiya claims to have received a leaked copy of the MOU. Don’t know if this is legit
the alleged agreement below:
Wrong thread my friend.
“14. The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.”
Not worth the paper it would be printed on !
That statement alone causes me to think this a fake .
So is Blanche playing along or is he going to provide the receipts? SMDH
“Stuck in the middle with you”
Hopefully, Acting AG Blanche has set up a sting operation and will arrest Cornyn on charges of extortion and blackmail on the Senate floor during a televised hearing.
Todd Blanche can be “Acting” AG until October 29, 2026, then:
If a nomination for the position is pending in the Senate, the acting official may continue to serve until the nomination is confirmed or rejected.
If the first nomination is rejected, withdrawn, or returned, the acting official can serve for an additional 210 days after that event.
Corrupt RINO Cornyn will be out of office on January 2, 2027, at which time “Acting” AG Blanche can tell Cornyn to go pound sand!
The problem is that the liberal establishment controls both wings. The bird itself was always foul fowl.
Soon, soon you will be irrelevant. And, that is what you fear the most.
You can simply look at any of their actions during what they all knew was a Fake Pandemic and subsequent Fake Election to know what lies just below the conservative veneer. Doesnt have to be anymore complicated then that really. You dont have to be a so called expert, a popular influencer with a million followers, a scholar of history, or a well connected Washington insider with lots of anonymous sources. You only need to trust your gut and use common sense.
This is actually a picture of Cornyn Unmasked…
Fine, then as President put him to task with his colleagues by launching investigations on them all. And let them know to thank him for it. Two can play that game.
Repeal of the 17th Amendment is crucial to saving the Republic; going hand-in-glove with cleaning out the institution of public education, providing sound candidates and proceeding with active civil management.
What a jerk. That’s all I have to say about the man.
“Mailed-in voting has been used in a lot of places for a long time and, honestly, we’ve got a lot of folks that, as you know, they’re investing heavily in trying … to win that war. It’s always a war too for mail-in ballots. Both sides compete, and it’s always an area where I think our side, at least in my experience, has done pretty well,” Thune answered, adding: “I think we want to assure people it’s going to work, it’s secure and if they vote that way it’s going to count.”
What We The People can do is repeal the Constitution’s 17th Amendment.
The 17th allowed Senators to be elected by popular vote. This removed power from the States IOW it stopped the States from controlling one branch of the Federal govt – The Senate. The Senate was the collective voice of the States.
Prior to the 17th, the individual States, either the Governor or State House and/or State Senate selected your 2 Senators AND the State’s had immediate RECALL authority as outlined in the State’s Constitution. Today a Senator is accountable to no one but their next election. 17th Amendment has no RECALL provision for Senators. That was no accident!!! Adding, changing or repealing a Constitutional Amendment is a long torturous path to success.
Especially one affecting any CongressCritters bec Senators and US House Reps alike will feel threatened by the loss of power. But Senators need to be accountable to someone other than themselves – but IMHO the repeal of the 17th is an absolute necessity.
Also, I’ve never actually checked, but I’ve read that every State still has the language in their State Constitution for Senator selection and recall should the 17th get repealed.
No one should have to reveal tax returns. I have never liked pressuring presidential candidates to do it. No one should have to do it, regardless of financial status or political affiliation.
They want his kids’ tax returns. They are threatening his kids.
Sweet Baby Jesus…what country am I living in?
RINO Cornyn shows his colors….how much damage has he done?
May as well be john mccain…or mitch…or newsome
Good question,
How much damage has he done?
Hold him responsible for any damage done.
Once they get in no control.
We really can’t hate these politicians on both sides enough! May most of them eventually find themselves looking up from the bottom of an elevator shaft!
There was never a doubt of whom I would vote for…Paxton…in the recent election.
Was glad to see Cornyn get his clock cleaned in the election…this action…along with the pic of him cozying up to Z man…confirms what a corrupt, selfish A-Hole he really is…
He cares nothing about the R party…only what NGO he can grift off of…
Thune, Collins, Murkowski, Graham…are all POS’s…Cut from the same cloth…
Well. They the uniparty gets back dark money funded by NGOs that was originally funded by taxpayers. So there’s that.
It is so much worse than that. The spending has little to no bearing on what revenue comes in as there’s so much more money spent into existence then would otherwise be in the till.
We all get robbed again when the inevitable inflation works through the financial systems.
I hope every Texan whoever voted for John Cornyn is regretful.
I think both of them are. 😜
“… big corrupt (also corpulent) corporatist government.”
It’s akin to observing hogs at a trough —
🐖 🐖🐖🐖🐖
Slurp, slurp….
Belch, snort…
Disgusting vermin with feces for brains!
I had a pot belly pig for 16 years. Her current residence is in hog heaven.
I sincerely hope I did not offend you, Priscilla! Sorry! 🐷💕
He’s just bitter because he got Cornyn-holed.
Cornyn’s kick to the curb apparently slid his cheese clear off the cracker.
He obviously fails to see how truly loathed he and his treacherous Bush Republican comrades have become in real Texas.
The Texas full of remote arroyos. And feral hogs. Which will even eat the tennis shoes.
Or dress shoes.
Don’t you have to wonder what exactly he wants to do with the Trump taxes? Is he trying to find a rationale to set up another impeachment, or just something he can twist to drag President Trump’s name through the mud some more?
What is his goal?
There just aren’t words to describe these OligarchWhores.
thank God and Greyhound he’s gone…
Cornyn—— SPIT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
what a weasel good ridance, YA FILTHY ANIMAL