Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.

One was 1/ called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.

The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", 2/

Trump is either a tax fraud or the world’s worst businessman.

But given how much revenue Trump generates — according to the Times report — from his resorts and other businesses, for him to make the math work one of two things has to be true: If these 1/
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0… tax documents are real and Trump is telling the truth in them, then they show that the president is a real estate failure of epic proportions. The alternative would seem to be that he’s defrauded the government — and maybe even broken federal tax laws. Trump is unlikely to be 2/

The Repubs care nothing for the rule of law or the Constitution as they gleefully flaunt their hypocrisy. The Repubs established the standard what they did in 2016 and if they proceed to do a 180 within 60 days of the election, then the unfortunate consequence of McConnell’s 1/ unconstitutional action in 2016 refusing to do the Senate’s duty of advice and consent should justify the constitutional right of a new 2021 Congress to add 4 new Supreme Court Judges. McConnell lowered the Court to 8 and now the Dems should make that move.

The Supreme 2/

Chanting MAGA protestors block entrance to polls at Virginia early voting site. Taking their cue from the UnAmerican & dangerous statements made by Trump in the last few weeks, early voting started & chanting MAGA protestors illegally blocked entrance 1/
washingtonpress.com/2020/09/19/cha… to polls at Virginia early voting site trying to intimidate & illegally interfere in the electoral process by blocking access to the polling place. This is going to happen across the country thanks to Trump’s dangerous messages to his supporters. In California, an 2/

The Repubs held without a meeting, hearing or vote for 9 months before the election the nomination of Merrick Garland, claiming the American people deserve to chose who decides in 2016.

“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court 1/ Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

— Mitch McConnell, March 2016.

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say 2/

Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump’s ‘flat out disregard for human life’ during pandemic.

President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic showed a “flat out disregard for human life” because his “main concern was the 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/olivi… economy and his reelection,” according to a senior adviser on the White House coronavirus task force who left the White House in August.

Olivia Troye, who worked as homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus adviser to Vice President Pence for two years, said that 2/

Biden Creates Legal War Room, Preparing for a Big Fight Over Voting. i have joined the Biden legal protection team to assist to protect our vote against the voter suppression and lies being disseminated by Trump. The group was organized by those who 1/
nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/… worked in the Obama campaign and know what to do to try and prevent election fraud. This election will be worse.

”Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign is establishing a major new legal operation, bringing in two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers in what the 2/

On Khashoggi slaying, Trump boasted about 'saving' MBS ass.

It's one thing to see the world through a morally bankrupt lens; it's something else for a leader to effectively brag about it on tape.

”Woodward pressed the president about the gruesome 1/ msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-… gruesome murder of Khashoggi. Khashoggi, 59, a longtime Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of the Saudi kingdom, was assassinated & dismembered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, after going there to get paperwork for his upcoming marriage. 2/

Court-appointed adviser blasts 'corrupt' DOJ move to drop Flynn case. ”Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lies to the FBI are so clear — and their effect on the FBI’s Russia probe so obvious -that the Justice Department’s decision to drop 1/
politico.com/news/2020/09/1… the case can only be a pretext to help an ally of President Donald Trump, a court-appointed adviser to Judge Emmet Sullivan argued Friday.

“In an unsparing, 30-page brief, the case is for a corrupt John Gleeson, tapped by Sullivan to argue against the dismissal of the case, 2/

We cannot cower from the power of the President knowingly lying causing untoward deaths of nearly 200,000+ and over 6.4 million infected while his lies, deflection, attacks on science destroyed our economy. If a doctor acted as Trump he/she would be fired and sued for medical 1/ malpractice. What is the consequence of Trump’s criminal political malpractice? Vote.

I remember Nixon resigned on my birthday and after he was pardoned by Ford that cost Ford his election, there was anger and relief. Since Nixon knew his presidency was doomed he did the 2/

Bob Woodward book: In Trump interviews for 'Rage,' president says he downplayed coronavirus threat. Trump says he downplayed coronavirus threat after he knew otherwise that it was DEADLY and lied. Trump admits he got the Intel, knew the severity of the 1/
washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w… crisis and then he lied over and over to the public, intentionally deceived US, failing to act leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of infections and the destruction of our economy. Trump cannot blame this on fake news or unnamed sources. This is from the 2/

Trump is shouting his racism. He must be stopped. Excellent OpEd by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Eugene Robinson:

“For more than five decades, the rule in U.S. politics has been that you’re supposed to whisper the racism, not shout it at the top 1/
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump… of your lungs. But President Trump is running the most openly racist national campaign since that of George Wallace in 1968 — a repellent ploy that will do great damage to the nation even if Trump loses.

I hope —and believe — that the most unfit president in our long history 2/

With the most members of his administration indicted than any other in history, one could certainly say that Trump is consistent in choosing bad people. Besides these “losers” and the many he fired or forced out, still with him is his Grifter DNA and DNA in law who have made 1/ millions grifting from public and private monies.

How much did Ivanka take from the grotesque Inauguration fund still under investigation? Jared, how much money did the Saudi’s and UAE loan you to bail out your failing business so that you would make sure to muzzle any 2/

CORRUPTION:
Donald Trump Jr.’s Hunting Trip To Kill Endangered Sheep In Mongolia Cost Taxpayers More Than $75,000. The trip Donald Trump Jr. made to Mongolia to hunt endangered argali sheep last August cost taxpayers nearly $60,000 more than the government previously 1/ disclosed, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Ivanka and Jerad made $36,000,000 last year while on our payroll and did not put their business interests in a blind trust or divested. Ivanka received 18 2/

Trump’s Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, Probable Money Laundering. “A new report from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence offers a damning portrait of the people Donald Trump chose as his partners 1/
forbes.com/sites/danalexa… for potential projects in Russia. They include individuals with alleged connections to the mob, to Vladimir Putin and to human trafficking.

The group would comprise an extraordinary list of associates for any international businessman, let alone for the sitting president of 2/

Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group.

“The deceptive operation on Facebook, drawing on tactics used by Russian actors in 2016, is promoted by FreedomWorks, which helped 1/
washingtonpost.com/politics/disin… tea-party protests a decade ago.

Protect My Vote, warns baselessly that mail balloting results in “lost votes and lost rights.” An associated page on Facebook has purchased more than 150 ads, which have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times this month. They appear 2/

Marjorie Taylor Greene: QAnon Supporter Who Made Bigoted Videos Wins Ga. Primary. Followers of "Q" often believe that the world is controlled by elite members of a secretive satanic child sex-trafficking ring.

"Q is a patriot, we know that for sure," 1/
npr.org/2020/08/12/901… Greene said in a video from 2017, in which she recapped some of Q's predictions and why she supports them.

"There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it," she said, referring 2/

Great job, Trump. He joins w/the great leaders of Russia and Brazil as the worst handling of the pandemic health crisis in the world. Nice company with Putin and Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is again coming under fire after being caught on camera chatting 1/ with cleaners on the grounds of his official residence without a mask - despite testing positive for the coronavirus only yesterday.

The far-right populist, friend of Trump’s who has been decimating the Amazon & killing indigenous and poor people in Brazil, whose dismissive 2/

U.S. Homeland Security confirms three units sent paramilitary officers to Portland. Protest is inherently an American value to be protected by all those who understand our Freedom. The para-military forces brought in by Trump to quell protests are 1/
reuters.com/article/us-glo… UnAmerican. The attacks on peaceful protestors in DC and now Portland, with more cities coming up, are illegal and violate the Constitution.

As legal scholar and Constitutional Law professor has said:

“The Supremacy Clause of Article VI provides only a limited shield for 2/

Portland Protests: Local Leaders Urging Feds to Leave. Fed agents are patrolling the streets of Portland, firing tear gas, wearing camouflage without identification as part of an effort to protect ...statues. They are taking people off the street 1/
nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/… kidnapping them in unmarked vans not near any Federal building, taking them to unknown Fed buildings without probable cause and terrorizing them. Those exercising their rights are then let go.

Governor Kate Brown has asked the agents to leave. The federal government has 2/

Trump's push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him. ”Although amplifying racism and stoking culture wars have been mainstays of Trump’s public identity for decades, they have been particularly pronounced this summer as the 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/trump… president has reacted to the national reckoning over systemic discrimination by seeking to weaponize the anger and resentment of some white Americans for his own political gain. Trump has left little doubt through his utterances the past few weeks that he sees himself not only 2/