π§΅π§ We seem be witnessing a Trump family member walk away with billions after selling out Yemen, Khashoggi, armaments deals, and the US to KSA -- with virtually NO questions from Congress or the mainstream media.
π§΅That MBS who the Wall Street Journal reports is now moving his country closer to Russia and China in order to harm our democracy and Democratic administration.
π§΅That MBS who is today hoarding oil in order to lower the Administration's approval ratings in order to make Biden a one-term President and put his Trump cronies back in our Presidency.
π§΅That MBS who handed Jared Kushner a $2 billion payday from Saudi Arabia. Which is a crime.
Our Constitution contains two emoluments clauses, both forbidding officials from taking gifts from foreign governments.
π§΅What is on #KushnersLaptop, since the Trump clan all used private servers and email to conduct White House business ... (besides Trump stealing and destroying official classified documents).
Itβs damn hard to not see the $2 billion investment as either a payoff for official services rendered and a preemptive bribe should Trump manage to regain the White House.
1/Since 1917, the Senate has drilled several holes in the filibuster. Itβs time to drill another.
2/Anything that can permanently block the Senate from doing constitutionally-mandated business is in violation of the spirit, if not the text, of the Constitution itself.
3/The filibuster was made possible by a senate rule change in 1806. It did not actually get used as a serious way to block debate on legislation until 1837. From then until 1917, it was mostly used to block discussion of civil rights legislation.
1/During the 2020 election cycle, wealthy rightwingers paid infiltrators to sabotage the Democratic Party in Wyoming and across the western United States.
2/An undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected officials occurred.
3/Using large campaign donations and cover stories, the operatives aimed to gather dirt that could sabotage the reputations of people and organizations considered threats to a hard-right agenda advanced by President Donald J. Trump.
1/If Democrats are serious about their programs now, and a win in 2022, theyβll do what McConnell did in 2018 when he controlled the Senate.
2/In 2018, McConnell wanted to get radical rightwing Supreme Court judges on the bench for lifetime appointments. He simply had all his Republicans vote to alter the filibuster. Brett Kavanaugh couldnβt be filibustered.
3/The GOPβs message, heard straight from Fox and Republican officials is:
Evil baby-killing White-hating corrupt thieving Democrats stole the 2020 election and plan to keep doing it. Republicans must massively roll back voter eligibility and remove those "fraudulent" voters.
1/To get drinking water, citizens of this W VA county have to collect contaminated runoff from the rock face of a mountain or buy bottled water.
2/Is this emerging third-world hell-hole really America? This is the road the corporations and libertarians like Charles Koch and his well-funded activist network are leading us down. How do you like it?
3/Our Founders said American government is a system where government is the servant. It is "of the people, by the people and for the people". When Reagan said in sweeping fashion that "government is the problem" he was saying the problem = the American people.
1/The silent filibuster is not a procedural rule but a change in the enactment of law by majority vote neither permitted by Article I nor with the consent of the House.
2/The failure to surmount a Senate filibuster and pass a bill to create a bipartisan committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection is a gut check for Democrats who should no longer treat the procedural relic as a mere potential or imaginary threat to their governing agenda.
3/Their inability to unite against the filibuster and end this sorry practice is on their shoulders. They should be moving heaven and earth to dislodge this infernal practice from the upper body. Allies in this mission are, unfortunately, in too short supply in their own caucus.
H.R.1, the For the People Act of 2021, passed by the House on Wednesday, has been described as the most sweeping pro-democracy bill in decades, improving voter registration and access to voting, ...
2/... ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, forcing the disclosure of dark money donors, increasing public funding for candidates, and imposing strict ethical and reporting standards on members of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
3/Youβd think a pro-democracy bill would be popular in the worldβs oldest democracy. Yet not one Republican voted for it.