The only possible explanation.

Except for outright bribery.

Thank you Roberts' SCOTUS, for the Citizens United decision.

Gibbs' rules.

refer back to Rule 39.

Need to scream this from the rooftops!

Turtle is a Russian agent protecting Russia’s interests over The us and Kentucky’s. He needs to be sent packing in November 2020.

Per New York Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/29/us/politics/steven-mnuchin-russia-sanctions.html

"He did not donate to Mr. Trump’s campaign or the “super PACs” that supported it, but family members gave $243,000 to the Republican National Committee during the campaign. And two of Mr. Blavatnik’s companies, including his main United States-based company, Access Industries, donated $2.5 million to the super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidates in 2016, plus another $1 million in 2017, according to Federal Election Commission records.

After Election Day, Access Industries donated $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inaugural committee, and Mr. Blavatnik attended inaugural events.

The questions from Democrats about a possible conflict of interest stem from an acquisition, announced in April 2017, by an arm of Access Industries, of a stake in a movie production company called RatPac Entertainment. The deal gave Access “a piece of” a joint film deal venture that RatPac had formed in 2013 with one of Mr. Mnuchin’s companies, Dune Entertainment, to finance Warner Bros. films, according to an article by the Hollywood Reporter posted on Access’s website."

if Mitch was part of the Russian government, what would Putin do?

Asking congress and senators if they need "help" with their elections...
Now a days if 1/2 your time in Washington is sitting on the phone trying to get money for re election, getting a bucket load of money from "other sources" is a real help. Fuck it if it's Russian money..right? These guys who take russian money and turn their backs on this country should be put up against the wall....
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"These guys who take russian money" - - - NRA

We've been taken over from within for a while, I guess...

This is why democracies have failed.

Khrushchev said that very thing...
Nikita Khrushchev's chilling prediction in 1956: 'We will take America ... We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.
spooky shit..
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yesterday on this subject. Rachel Maddow just discussed the lifting of sanctions too. Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio and the turtle are all guilty.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11745218

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/1/28/1830431/-Mitch-McConnell-now-tied-to-Putin-Oleg-Deripaska-and-Russian-companies-after-lifting-sanctions

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

Guilty as crap. Karma baby. We all knew he was way over his head, he's going to drown another one bites the dust.

The other two big ones are at the state level (Kasich in Ohio and Walker in Wisconsin), and one's dead (John McCain).

is that he has dual citizenship which makes his donations legal?

The problem is who do you get to investigate it. Republicans in the Senate? The justice department? Maybe the house Democrats, but what do they do after they investigate?

I honestly don't know how these republican "criminals" get prosecuted as long as trump is in the WH.

and he is up to his nose through his wife in China interests as well.

Those words sound good, right?

Unfortunately, they generally mean something different to Mitch and his ilk, and their applications are a bit different depending on where one finds oneself in the American caste system.

Nothing but a fucking traitor.

Move along.....


Edit to add a question:

Which 2020 candidate supports getting money out of politics as a serious campaign position?

…I remember back in 2015 as the things were beginning to heat up within the Democratic Party & one basically had to make a choice “Clinton or Sanders”! Despite the fact neither one was being honest with the American people ESPECIALLY the Democratic base!! People do like to be lied to.

However, there was this Harvard Law Professor named Lawrence Lessig who at first was trying to work with the Sanders campaign to get them to center their entire campaign around campaign finance reform, expand voting access, reform (re)districting laws/guidelines, etc. IF ELECTED, nothing gets done until these reforms are implemented!

...It became obvious Bernie Sanders wasn’t at all interested in making such reforms be the core to his campaign should he end up getting elected he would have a MEGA-MANDATE from the voters to kick Congress in the ASS! Understanding the Sanders Campaign would rather continue to sale high grade BS to folks for votes Bernie knows NEVER have a chance of ever becoming a reality...Lawrence Lessig tried to start his own campaign. Unlike Bernie, who simply lost to Hillary he was not cheated, Lawrence Lessig was SCREWED HARD! They changed the rules on the fly to prevent Lawrence Lessig from participating in the debates with Hillary & Bernie!! Sucked.

We’re about to do it all over again, watch!!! …There will NEVER EVER BE REAL CHANGE in America until these multi billion dollar elections are gone, voting is easy & lobbyist don’t have the power to force my Congressional Representatives to ignore me!

From Lawrence Lessig Campaign in 2015:
“Citizen Equality Act”
The act was the centerpiece of Lessig's campaign platform, encompassing his plans for campaign finance reform, expansion of voting access, and revised districting laws. Lessig had stated that if elected, he would make these reforms the first priority of his presidency.

This is a fairly recent article by Lawrence Lessig in The Guardian just after the 2018 Midterms.


[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/11/beto-orourke-billie-sutton-democrat-strategy-midterms|

From January 11th -

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211657130

SPREAD it, guys! SPREAD IT AROUND!

Mnuchin insists it was only ONE such party ... Remember the last time we heard about this?

Rachel Maddow did quite a piece on it, over a couple of days, following this pretty young model who said she had tapes of meetings between I believe Deripaska or Len Blavatnik - ON a yacht, with what she thought were Americans because they spoke fluent English.

She was taken into custody at an airport by a bunch of Russian security guys, physically pushed onto a wheelchair and bound, and taken away. Then the next time we saw her she was apologizing to Deripaska for saying anything bad about him and swore she would never say a word again.

Do you suppose Mnuchin was on that yacht meeting with those skeevy dudes when that young woman was present?

Was it THAT yacht? And THAT bunch of dirty guys?

Deripaska's pal, Blavatnik being the guy who's invested A TON of bucks on Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Scott Walker, AND the most money by far - on Mitch McConnell?

We need campaign finance laws to close the loophole of Citizens United.

Money, I suppose. But history will mark the republicans forever as traitors to America.

What happened between the GOP leadership and the Russian Spy master at the 2016 GOP convention? Mmmmmmmm?

They really had there bases covered! Mueller has LOTS of uncovering to do! Gonna be a MESS for awhile, BUT gotta have faith in Mueller, especially now that WE control the HOUSE! Thank God for that.

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