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.
Thank you, Sundance.
Withdraw the DNI nomination until Blanche is approved.
Or just move Bill Pulte over there as Acting AG until Blanche is a confirmed 😁
Awe, heck, just make a Christmas list of alllll the stuff to hang on the DNI nomination.
They are desperate.
PDJT: “Wonderful news to report: Pulte has agreed to move on over to Just-us after his DNI stint.”
Both “wings” need to go. We are no longer a republic. Passing laws and exempting themselves? That is a grifter and a thief,, nothing more.
The Curious Cat asks — and possibly more?
If we had a functioning Judiciary that prosecuted Political criminality virtually none of this Corruption would be happening… and that’s the bottom-line….
Here is the elephant in the room and the detriment to our Republic no one speaks about…It’s actually bizarre….Even on the TCTH it’s rarely if ever mentioned…
There are 47 current U.S. Senators who hold law degrees, according to the official profile data published by the Congressional Research Service
This accounts for 47% of the entire 100-member Senate chamber. Law remains the most well-represented professional educational background within the upper house of Congress.
Now think about this……
Approximately 0.4% of the U.S. population are active, licensed lawyers. [1]
This figure is derived by comparing the roughly 1,374,720 active attorneys tracked by the American Bar Association to the estimated total U.S. population of 345 million to 349 million residents.
See the problem and what’s destroying our Country….???? The Corrupt Bar Association and the corrupt Judiciary is the Cancer that allows the Corrupt Politician Lawyer to operate unabated…..
Cue the lawyer jokes, here.
Why do sharks never touch an attorney, paling around in the water?
Y S E T R U O C L A N O I S S E F O R P
I hope to God he had secret military around him every minute of everyday. Remember he took off to Cheyenne Mountain in March 2020, and brought secret docs he memorized with him. They were the codes, no one could terminate him because he memorized all of it. We’ve been told he has a super human memory and I believe it
Who does, Cornyn?
So what does he hope to find? Why not Biden or Obama much more there.
Biden or Obama didn’t endorse Paxton.
Yes. He really is that much of a petty jacka**.
“Omerta.”
Most of us watched that movie … better yet, read the novels.
“Novels.” No, wait: NON-fiction, after all.
it was president washington who warned against forming factions (political parties) in his farewell address. said they were divisive as we now all know and can see. too late now.
madison discussed factions as well in the federalist papers.
The point is to understand that there are no “factions”. That is all pretense, political theater to keep WE THE PEOPLE from taking up the 2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence once again.
As long as there are parties that people believe are in opposition there is false hope. This hope is all that keeps the “quiet people” from rising up once again.
The House had Paul Ryan. The Senate has the Royal line of McConnell and Thune.
Corny, give it up. You are dissing your voters not Trump.
A system highjacked in 1913 for the benefit of the bankers in control, incentivized for people who tend to the corrupt, and against people who tend to an earnest desire to represent the best interests of their state, operated for over a century, will likely consist of only corrupt people.
If you want to change human behavior you first must change incentives, or as characterized in a simple construction contractor witticism, “People do what’s inspected, not what’s expected.”
REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT!!
I thought blackmail is a crime?
Some people are more equal than others.
Cornyn is making a mistake if he tries this.
I’m sick of it all. Useless efforts get tiresome.
Frankly, President Trump and THIS administration, had the best, last hope for overturning the cabal. Their speed and cunning won out in the earliest months of this Presidency. They took the pukes by surprise, and kept their foot on the gas. Sadly, this hellish Uniparty found their sea legs, got the courts in action quickly, and slowed momentum. The gutting of DOGE after its early successes was the first tree felled. They’ve played rope a dope ever since, deflecting every effort, getting hit (thank goodness) by some continued successes, but now they’re pushing the envelope hard. Defeating Tulsi was a HUGE crippling blow. These efforts by POS loser Cornyn and his cronies is the LAYING OF SEED CORN FOR THE IMPEACHMENT TO COME.
Unfortunately you are correct. One of our last chances are the midterms but that’s a fourth quarter Hail Mary.
Mitch McConnell married to The Foremost Group. Asian based shipbuilding and shipping bidness. Yeah…
Bad behavior will continue if it’s not met with severe and, in some cases, crushing consequences.
President Trump is either incapable or simply unwilling to impose consequences on his/our adversaries.
I so this is what Cornyn meant when he said the next two and half years are going to be the worst years of President Trump’s life.
This is the first time I have heard anything about President Trump’s taxes. Thune and his gang were hiding it all of the time and goodness knows what else they have up their sleeve. I am so glad President Trump did not endorse this Creep!
If I were President Trump I would immediately withdraw both nominations for new DNI and Blanche. Most definitely leave Pulte as acting DNI. Nominate someone else as acting AG that I could trust. Pronto!
Oh, oh, oh. No, no, no Mr Cornyn – you are playing with white hot fire. In the coming months, you will no longer have the protections of the Senate.
There is nothing nefarious about real estate ownership utilizing scheduled depreciation tables for buildings and Equipment depreciation.
For that manner, deducting the cost doing business and payroll of employed personnel are also deductions.
So sure. President Trump likely paid very little in income taxes.
I wonder if Senator Cornyn made his remarks on the Senate Floor where he enjoys immunity. He had better been accurate in his description of President Trump’s taxes in public. He does not enjoy immunity for disclosing contents of tax returns in public.
The fellow who initially leaked the Trump’s Tax Forms is currently serving five years. So, there’s that.