Every federal government candidate has rich sponsor(s) because our political system is a massive cash laundering machine, as it has been since “we” (not the voters) decided that corporations are people and money is free speech.

They will always win, because they have much more money than the voters themselves. These multi-generational constructs control our rotting political system.

There is no legal solution, unfortunately. Our “representatives” aren’t going to wake up tomorrow and say "you know what? I have so much money that I actually feel guilty. Let’s throw a bone to the proles ( i.e. raise minimum wage, universal healthcare, term limits).

With our legal bribery system, there’s no longer any need for backroom cash deals, it’s very efficient. Their only limit is their discretion, for appearances sake.

If someone gets busted for bribery or similar, that only means that they have displeased someone else with a bigger pile of money. That’s it. So we get the appearance of the rule of law without any actual rule of law.

At this point, the only thing that will drag down this decrepit empire is the inevitable economic collapse that is our heritage. The unbridled greed becomes unsustainable.

But please vote, I did! Every good comedy routine needs a “straight man”, the “foil”, and that is our role as voters. Just be in on the joke.

If you appear to be “alternative” in any way, do not drive through Texas.

I have driven through Texas three times, and I have gotten pulled over and searched every time. The cops would love to have any excuse to seize your car and cash, they hate you.

If you absolutely must drive through Texas, at least remove your Darwin fish and any political stickers, get a hair cut, remove your face piercings, and wear a cowboy hat or baseball cap or something.

I’m not exaggerating and this is not a joke.

Humans will always find some other bullshit excuse and narrative… but only the religious get tax-free status over and above any non-profit.

We certainly shouldn’t be passing their tax burdens onto everybody else, for any religion. They are all unfathomably wealthy already, no need to add to their gigantic pile of gold.

They are all infested with a smug superiority and have proven willing and able to murder all who won’t submit to their rule.

They are dissimilar in some ways, but the most important thing is that they are all murderous and all have scriptural support to be murderous.

But yes, one of the big three is not like the others. For example, there are no PRIDE parades in any Islamic state.

You know, when you say the same shit for 50 years, it starts to lose efficacy somewhat. Every two years.

“This is the most important election ever”

“Martial law they will load us into trains Jade Helm”

“Fascist coup, save us from the fascists”

This is known as “misdirection”, they do it because it works. They want you to think it’s a battle of good vs. evil. They bOtH use the other party, they want to distract your attention from the puppeteer to the hand puppets.

“This puppet on the right hand is evil! Stop the evil puppet!!! Save me from the right hand puppet oh my God please save me” says the left hand puppet.

“No! God says that I am the good puppet, left hand puppet wants to drag you into Hell! We must stop the lying left hand puppet to save our civilization!” says the right hand puppet.

The puppeteer is JP Morgan; if you look closely, you’ll see his lips are moving, and the puppets aren’t actually doing the talking.

They are the show. Enjoy the show.

Vote! I vote every election. Because it’s funny.

Ha, Zionists hate everybody. They are the Chosen People.

And Islam hates everybody, they are God’s select. So there’s a wee bit of conflict there. A thousand years of this clown show.

Chuck knows what she’s done and has cut ties. The writing is on the wall, she got too greedy and stole such a gigantic pile of money that not even Schumer can defend her.

She’s been in office for eight years and is now a multi-millionaire on less than 200k a year. Fancy that. Not even Chuck can ignore that level of corruption. And that’s saying something.

Ha, thanks for the laugh to start my day. Reporter is confused… only the vast majority of voters want the Iran War to end, nobody wants us fighting in Iran, Democrat, Republican, and Independent voters all agree.

Not the representatives.

Like Medicaid for all, higher minimum wage, billionaire taxation, weed legalization, term limits, age limits, and so forth, only voters want those things.

Not “Dems” in office, nor “Reps”. Their job is to continue to make excuses to voters as to why they can’t have what the want.

If you want to know what Ds and Rs in office find important, it’s imperative that you don’t listen to what they say. That’s silly.

Look at what they do. Look at what the results of their actions are.

What do they find important? Union membership should drop. Wages should stay low. Healthcare should be as expensive as possible. Corporate profits should go up. Taxes on the wealthy should be laughably low.

These are the things our reps want… the things that are as they are are that way because the reps have decided that it should be so.

They could fix any of these issues that are popular with voters virtually overnight. All they need is a simple majority vote (not a super majority; that’s a joke and not the law, parliamentary rules are not law and can be changed at will).

They choose not to give the voters what they want.

Oh look, two people that know absolutely nothing about history teachers are gibbering about history teachers. Will wonders never cease?

When they’re the majority party they are also glacial at best.

Couldn’t even pass minimum wage increase. Twenty years. Come on now

Don’t stop with her.

We have many corrupt, thieving politicians that blatantly flaunt their mysteriously acquired wealth on comparatively low salaries, bOtH pArTiEs. Some have done so for decades and are senior members that seem untouchable.

A member of her staff is serving a federal sentence in prison for a reason. There have been over 50 convictions in connection with this fraud of the Minnesota welfare system. This is all publicly available information.

If this was any of us, we’d already be serving hard time. Her “congressional plot armor” isn’t impregnable, is it? We’ll see.

She shouldn’t be deported, she should be in prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/three-more-plead-guilty-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme

I’ve lost track, is this number four?

This is the Trump administration. Just have an AI Super American Eagle do the press releases. He can have catchy phrases and wear a red-white-and-blue top hat. And a monocle!

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No, Israel doesn’t have enough money to buy the USA.

However, they are very important to the USA’s strategic goals, which include control of the Middle East. So, they have a lot of leverage.

USA is JP Morgan’s, Vanguard’s, and BlackRock’s bitch. Israel is small potatoes.

UFC and sports betting is not “decadent”.

They’re fundamentally human activities that people enjoy (as they always have for all time).

The Saudi Royal family is decadent, not betting 20 bucks on your favorite team.

No, that’s how we’ll look at the drug war and normalizing throwing people in dungeons over drugs (and gambling).

A free society is a gambling and drug-using society. Your viewpoint is conservative, and an unfortunate side effect of our fundamentalist religious roots.

I don’t agree with her at all (I am pro sports betting and other betting), but I do admire her for standing up for what she believes in. Rare today

Please be advised that in this example Jayapal is crying “whataboutism”, not the Trump admin.

Although they are more than happy to do so. Democrats or Republicans, we can always count on whataboutery.

p.s. bOtH sIdEs, yes, yes, you got me, how dare I be observant

No, they should put Omar in prison where she belongs.

After you take the majority, Jaypal, then you can put Homan in prison if you can make a case. Because we all know that you aren’t concerned about Omar becoming fabulously wealthy in a few years off of taxpayer dollars, you’re cool with that.

We can’t count on you to “look at yourself”, obviously… as you very well know. .

I think we’ll find that it’s due to her thievery of millions of dollars from Minnesota’s welfare program. People are already serving hard time in federal prison. We know for a fact that her staffers are knee deep in fraud.

Which is, in itself, sickening, don’t you agree? She’s stealing from the very people who need her help the most.

If the judge signed a search warrant over her immigration paperwork, I will stand corrected. We’ll know soon enough.

What is horrible? Knowing the religious and cultural habits of others is horrible now? Why do you think it’s horrible?

Oh, I know why. It’s a rhetorical question. It’s because you’re horrible, and you only know horror, so you project it on all around you.