Tag: graft and corruption

Tom’s World – 30MAR2025 – Human Nature

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Even if we had a total rebirth, and somehow had a new constitutional convention attended by intelligent and principled patriots who would write a new constitution correcting the fault lines that allowed to corruption to enter and begin the rot, how long would it last before constitution 2 was also brought to the brink of collapse?

I’m pretty sure that the founders would have become violently ill at the thought of lifelong congressmen becoming fabulously wealthy and self important and totally divorced from the wishes, needs and physical and moral well being of their constituents.

It seems to me that any enduring political structure must be built around just how self serving and corruptible humans can be. But any system created by humans can and will be corrupted by humans. There has to be some robust self centering feedback system built at the absolute core where it will be hard to get to and corrupt. Maybe, that was supposed to have been the function of the Supreme Court but we all see the result that political appointment has had.

Elections can certainly and are easily subverted.

Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 15FEB2025 – Dirty Politics

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Politics has always been an advance auction of the loots able to be transferred to the victor. Very few are willing to go through the process of getting selected/elected in order to actually serve the common good. More are driven by the actual greed and envy. This becomes more apparent election cycle after election cycle. We willingly as a nation abdicate our personal responsibility and authority to the same people to try and curry their favor. We can not afford them, or more honestly have been out of for them and their “services”. As a nation we need to be more cognizant of where our treasure is allocated, some aspects of government require a veil of secrecy, but for the most part let the disinfectant light of day shine. Our political overclass has demonstrated pure contempt for the very people it claims to represent. Mandating equal outcome regardless of personal input, blatant 2-tier justice for politically preferred actions, sponsorship of NGO actions that are if not outright illegal, just plain shady. Let the sun shine in, if we only save a fraction of what is wasted that is something. The very people who are outraged told us elections have consequences and we need to shut up and stay in our place.

FBI, Bored with Persecuting Trump, Hire Bob Menendez as Sparring Partner

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“Sometimes a politician is so utterly, openly, and shamelessly corrupt, you just have to tip your hat in admiration“

(David Burge
@iowahawkblog)

I guess it was time for the FBI to indict Bob Menendez again.  So they raided his house and found bars of gold and probably myrrh and frankincense too.  They’ll probably put him on trial too.  And, as usual he’ll be released after a mistrial because New Jersey juries are almost as dishonest and DC juries.

You know compared to Merrick Garland or Joe Biden I can feel some sympathy for Menendez.  He’s just a regular crook peddling his influence and voting according to what the bigger crooks tell him to do.  He doesn’t jail Americans for protesting election fraud and he doesn’t start wars to help his cronies make billions.  He’s just a simple ham and egger, stealing a gold bar here and a gold bar there.  Where’s the harm?

How to Understand How the Democrats Work

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For a lot of normal people in this country it’s hard to imagine how someone as loathsome and pathetic as Joe Biden could be allowed to reach the office of President of the United States.  After all, Joe was always just a small timer and no one ever mistook him for a genius.  So how did he get where he is today?

I guess the best way to explain it simply is that Joe Biden has always stayed bought.  Joe has paid his dues all along the path he has trod and everyone always knew that Joe would play his part and always, always stay bought.  Here was a guy that wanted his payoff and I’m sure that he always played ball with the power brokers and never did more than get his fair share.  He was smart enough to let someone else be his bagman and he made sure he scratched all the right backs.

So, when it was finally time for Barack Obama to pay back his godfather in the hierarchy, he was willing to give Slow Joe the boost he needed to enter the big leagues.  Now Joe could skim off the millions and even the billions if he sent his idiot son Hunter to China and Ukraine and wherever the next payday might be.

So now that Dementia Joe is heading for his last roundup with the Big Corn Pop in the Sky he can act as the segue for the next generation of Democrat grifters to enter the Big Leagues too.  That means Kamala and AOC and whatever other misfits are being groomed to move up a rung on the criminal conveyor belt that is our government.

And maybe you think I’m exaggerating.  How could such things exist?  Surely there are honest politicians.  Well, sure there are.  But they are held at arm’s length and mostly just ignored.  The crooks are in charge and they don’t care what you think.  The days of the FBI investigating corruption in the Congress are long gone.  It’s just part of the game.

Of course, I was able to see the local version of this when I was living in Massachusetts.  It was an open secret that for decades that the President of the Massachusetts Senate, Billy Bulger was the brother of the notorious mobster and murderer James “Whitey” Bulger.  Whitey had an accomplice in the person of an FBI field agent who allowed Whitey to use his immunity as a federal stool pigeon to get away with actual murder.  And of course, everyone knew that Billy’s brother was a killer and this actually enhanced his ability to get away with any kind of graft and corruption that he could think up.  Eventually the whole FBI scam blew up and Whitey had to flee into hiding for decades.  But Billie was able to retire from the Senate to an opulent job as the President of the University of Massachusetts.  Now that he’s fully retired, he’s been forced to fall back on his $200,000 a year Massachusetts state pension to avoid the poor house.  But luckily the next generation of Bulgers are hard at work.  One of them is actually working with Hunter Biden on the next generation of Democrat Party grifting.

Not every Democrat has a murderer for a brother.  But they all have friends and family that allow other politicians to have someone to pay off with a no-show job or a judgeship or a lucrative state franchise or you name it.  When contracts get awarded by state and local governments you can bet any amount of money there’s some kind of kick back going on there too.

So that’s how it is.  The Democrats line their pockets as part of their standard operating procedures.  But they make sure that everyone is part of the system and everyone is part of the coverup.  That’s why they aren’t afraid to perpetrate even an obvious election fraud.  Everyone involved in the election in Democrat districts is part of the scam and has a lot to lose if they played it straight.  So, they don’t play it straight.

It’s important that people don’t mistake our problem with Joe Biden as just one dirty politician.  It’s a corrupt system and as it stands there’s no way to reform it from the outside.  At this point the only way to avoid it is to walk away.  Find a state where they aren’t in control and hope the leaders there are smart and strong enough to protect you from the rot.