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We are witnessing the death throes of a global crime organization. (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 OP
And, Big Orange Swamp Blob is Cha Nov 2020 #1
Can blame him for feeling that way. Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #8
Yes, he's guilty on all counts & we've Cha Nov 2020 #19
It is surreal to witness his total demise, but very satisfying! Blue Owl Nov 2020 #9
It Is Surreal After 4 years of wanting Cha Nov 2020 #21
I posted below. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #10
Oh.. :( I remember that pic now that Cha Nov 2020 #25
Seems SCOTUS let it ride. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #28
We're going to appreciate Biden's Cha Nov 2020 #29
That was the best. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #30
Yes, I look at John speaking Cha Nov 2020 #32
That one Man True Blue American Nov 2020 #36
It's Surreal, TBA.. But it actually Cha Nov 2020 #37
President Elect Biden True Blue American Nov 2020 #40
Right in the middle, laughing is Steve Scalise True Blue American Nov 2020 #35
There's always another boss waiting to take over. House of Roberts Nov 2020 #2
Tom Cotton is one NAZI to watch. Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #11
It won't be "death throes" unless they woodsprite Nov 2020 #3
Yeah. Begrudgingly, yeah. dchill Nov 2020 #4
Maybe. Thing is we got to try. Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #13
*Absolutely* - it's a Mob (in the Mafia sense), cartel, oligarchic - RICO crummy little ahole outfit UTUSN Nov 2020 #5
Consider their aims... Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #15
Am wit-ya all the way, KB!!!!!! UTUSN Nov 2020 #17
I am sorry. I hate that picture. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #6
Me too. I found it looking for the tax repeal celebration. Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #18
I hear you, Kid. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #20
57 years ago today. Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #23
*sigh* sheshe2 Nov 2020 #27
Damn straight. N/t ZZenith Nov 2020 #33
I saw one woman in True Blue American Nov 2020 #38
Very diverse bunch they are lilmamba Nov 2020 #7
LOL sheshe2 Nov 2020 #12
Thank you sheshe! lilmamba Nov 2020 #14
I lurked forever before I joined. sheshe2 Nov 2020 #16
So did I! True Blue American Nov 2020 #39
How else could they know who's who at the country club? Kid Berwyn Nov 2020 #22
Harding owned a small newspaper in Marion, Ohio True Blue American Nov 2020 #41
It's only actually the death throes if we get an AG and DOJ determined to prosecute them and RockRaven Nov 2020 #24
Agree 1,000,000% LeftInTX Nov 2020 #26
Goodfellas. n/t ClusterFreak Nov 2020 #31
As buffoonish as the corrupt GOP are, & though they've lost i don't believe the crime syndicate onetexan Nov 2020 #34
Hopefully so Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #42

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
8. Can blame him for feeling that way.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:55 AM
Nov 2020

That bastard knows he’s guilty of criminal dereliction of duty, mass murder, corruption in office, election fraud, and treason.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
19. Yes, he's guilty on all counts & we've
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:12 AM
Nov 2020

had to put up with his Shite for 4 years.. no thanks to a corrupt senate & barr.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
21. It Is Surreal After 4 years of wanting
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:17 AM
Nov 2020

this So Badly! I have to pinch myself sometimes to make sure this is really happening.. slowly but it's happening!

Aloha to you, Blue Owl.. and Mahalo!

sheshe2

(83,739 posts)
10. I posted below.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:56 AM
Nov 2020

That was the day they repealed parts of ACA and took women's rights away. They were celebrating, Cha. All those men laughing and celebrating.

2017 and they said they were going to replace ACA....it is now 2020. Nada.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
25. Oh.. :( I remember that pic now that
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:28 AM
Nov 2020

you said it.

Vicious heinous assholes.. trump's gone.. and ACA is still hanging on.. Hopefully Biden can build on ACA.. that's one issue he campaigned on.

Maggots weren't going to do anything about health care.. too busy trampling on everyone's right to vote, healthcare, and they were going to take away Social Security.

These are some of the reasons why 80 Million people voted Joe Biden & Kamala Harris.

sheshe2

(83,739 posts)
28. Seems SCOTUS let it ride.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:39 AM
Nov 2020

ACA will be one of Biden/Kamala top priorities. He also is going to have a mound of shit to clean up when he reaches office so I hope people will give him time to wade through.

I will say his team will be the best of the best and they will be on top of things.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
29. We're going to appreciate Biden's
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:53 AM
Nov 2020

time in Office.. just like we did Pres Obama's. We knew an extraordinary part of history while we were in it.

John McCain had something to do with Saving Obamacare.. he voted Against Repealing it!.. & he got his revenge for trump constantly insulting him.. with Arizona BLUE!





Cha

(297,137 posts)
32. Yes, I look at John speaking
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 04:16 AM
Nov 2020

out through his Wife, Cindy, Endorsing Joe Biden! & it was on the front page of the AZ Republic Above the fold with her picture!

In your face trump..



Boom!

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
36. That one Man
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:19 AM
Nov 2020

In his last vote in the Senate saved the ACA! A Hero many times over! One of the last decent Republicans.

Now, his Widow endorsed Joe Biden, John’s true good friend!

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
40. President Elect Biden
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:27 AM
Nov 2020

( I had to type that), is choosing the very best people for each position. I am anxious to see who he picks for SOS and AG.

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
35. Right in the middle, laughing is Steve Scalise
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:16 AM
Nov 2020

Whose life was saved by the best Medical Care in the world laughing about taking Health Care away from millions. Bragging that God saved him.

House of Roberts

(5,168 posts)
2. There's always another boss waiting to take over.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:41 AM
Nov 2020

The footsoldiers just need a new head thug to look to for orders.

woodsprite

(11,911 posts)
3. It won't be "death throes" unless they
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:43 AM
Nov 2020

Are prosecuted and thrown in jail. I’d be very surprised if any of them see the inside of a jail cell.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
13. Maybe. Thing is we got to try.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:59 AM
Nov 2020

The assault on the Constitution demands it.
The deaths of 250,000 require it.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
15. Consider their aims...
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:02 AM
Nov 2020

...Money for power. Power to protect money. And all costs are passed on to the mopes. Er, I mean, People.

sheshe2

(83,739 posts)
6. I am sorry. I hate that picture.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:52 AM
Nov 2020

DOCUMENT DATE:
May 04, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) gathers with Vice President Mike Pence (R) and Congressional Republicans in the Rose Garden of the White House after the House of Representatives approved the American Healthcare Act, to repeal major parts of Obamacare and replace it with the Republican healthcare plan, in Washington, U.S., May 4, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

https://pictures.reuters.com/archive/USA-HEALTHCARE-TRUMP-HP1ED541J400W.html

They were celebrating the repeal of ACA/Obamacare in the Rose Garden. All those men celebrating taking away women's rights to their bodies. Not one woman was on that panel.

Everyone of those M*****F***ers are laughing. Each and everyone of them.

This was 2017 and the said they were going to replace it with the Republican healthcare plan. That was three years ago and they have nothing!

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
18. Me too. I found it looking for the tax repeal celebration.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:06 AM
Nov 2020

Googled Trump GOP laughing White House.

This image repealing Obamacare - laughing at the idea of taking away a person’s right to life — seems to really illustrate their evil NAZI gangster nature.

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
38. I saw one woman in
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:22 AM
Nov 2020

The picture. She had her head down. Looked like Marsha Blackburn. One evil woman with a pretty face.

Kid Berwyn

(14,876 posts)
22. How else could they know who's who at the country club?
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:21 AM
Nov 2020

From a 2016 profile:



Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?

I've spent years investigating, and here's what's known.


By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON May 22, 2016

Excerpt...

No other candidate for the White House this year has anything close to Trump’s record of repeated social and business dealings with mobsters, swindlers, and other crooks. Professor Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said the closest historical example would be President Warren G. Harding and Teapot Dome, a bribery and bid-rigging scandal in which the interior secretary went to prison. But even that has a key difference: Harding’s associates were corrupt but otherwise legitimate businessmen, not mobsters and drug dealers.

This is part of the Donald Trump story that few know. As Barrett wrote in his book, Trump didn’t just do business with mobbed-up concrete companies: he also probably met personally with Salerno at the townhouse of notorious New York fixer Roy Cohn, in a meeting recounted by a Cohn staffer who told Barrett she was present. This came at a time when other developers in New York were pleading with the FBI to free them of mob control of the concrete business.

From the public record and published accounts like that one, it’s possible to assemble a clear picture of what we do know. The picture shows that Trump’s career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service.

Continues...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910



PS: Most importantly: Like the great sheshe2 said, welcome to DU, lilmamba!

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
41. Harding owned a small newspaper in Marion, Ohio
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:34 AM
Nov 2020

My Mother and Stepfather lived there. He was well respected. His problems were not even close to Trump’s former life. Trumpdealt with the MAFIA. He was a crook.

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
24. It's only actually the death throes if we get an AG and DOJ determined to prosecute them and
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:26 AM
Nov 2020

a SecState and State Dept determined to make their international comrades sanctioned-to-the-nth-degree pariahs.

We ought to get them. We may get them. It's not a done deal just because Biden has won. He still has to choose to appoint such people, and they have to choose to stick to their principles. There are no guarantees.

onetexan

(13,036 posts)
34. As buffoonish as the corrupt GOP are, & though they've lost i don't believe the crime syndicate
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:05 AM
Nov 2020

is going away anytime soon. It's evident the US is a 60/40 nation. The disinformation, lying, distortion of truth, tolerance of corruption, white nationalism, discrimination against minorities, racism & subversion of the legal system, voter suppression...all of this will continue at least for the next generation.
What worries me is the nazi Cotton & other racist members are angling for 2024. Don't forget though Biden's win is the most votes ever, the Con is second in highest votes counts - he got ~72M. Unfortunately not enough conscientious eligible voters participate in elections. If the good sensible citizens do not turn out in future elections, the corrupt party may again win elections and reverse changes made by Dems administrations.

We need to remain vigilant and work our butts off to get sensible voters to the polls as in this election, to ensure our democracy remains intact and fascism never takes control as it did the past 4 years.

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