Crime scene.

[hay rick]

From Heather Cox Richardson this morning (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2025):

“This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is a rotten racket. This bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the least deserving people you could imagine. When I first got here, this chamber filled me with awe and wonderment. Today, I feel disgust.”

[The Wizard]

1. The Bribing Class

writes the laws.

[hay rick]

5. Trump's tariffs are creating a framework for international bribery.

[Glaisne]

25. Remember the Golden Rule,

those with the gold write the rules.

[Timewas]

2. Has been

Pretty bad for some time now, these people are slow learners

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is TOPS!

Ask Crooked Clarence Thomas. He knows.

[et tu]

4. and alito nt

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Sammy the Crook

Know your BFEE: Alito is just another word for Mussolini

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=266685

Of course, it’s worse than most imagine…

Know your BFEE: John Roberts earned his Sgt. Pepper stripes as an Iran-Contra cover-up artiste.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002281926

And on down to when Putin’s Puppet packed the court with three picks.

[et tu]

15. lordy i feel sick now! nt

[calimary]

30. EEEEEEUWWWWWW!

Hard to say what's the most disgusting part of that image. The whole thing is barf-worthy. Even moreso because of the despicable people pictured in it.

[Glaisne]

26. What does the "nt" mean?

I see it a lot on posts but I don't know what it means. Thanks.

[Conjuay]

27. I believe e it means 'no text'

N/T

[Bluetus]

16. Yep. And we really aren't asking THAT much of our elected officials

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Really, it would be a great first step if they would speak plainly, in language that average people understand. Whitehouse's description of the "crime scene" is a great example. And we should build on that with crime scene tape everywhere symbolizing this bill.

Obviously Bernie, AOC, Warren and a few others have been strong on plain talk. Newsom is pretty good about that too. But far too many Dems are either completely silent, or talk in such riddles or such wimpy language as to be nauseating.

We could even launch an advertising theme, CSI: DC Heck, at this stage, maybe even Musk would help fund that. Strange bedfellows.

[hay rick]

17. Crime or "Official Act" scene tape? It is clearly Trump's bill.

[calimary]

29. Cute.

[Martin68]

7. Yup.

[mdbl]

8. I've been feeling that disgust since Ronnie Raygun.

[wolfie001]

13. BOOM!!! YES!!!

I graduated college in 1982 during the rayguns recession. 1st thing he cut was the moderate tax deductions for folks who rented apartments. Al Franken did a SNL bit on that very topic during the late '70s: "Send all your receipts to me, Al Franken." It really helped me because I was young and poor. MF'ing rayguns was sh6tting his Depends to give the wealthy all the $ just like the fat orange imbecile.

[patphil]

9. Best description of the Republican Congress and the "big ugly bill" I've heard yet.

Thank you Senator Whitehouse.

[rubbersole]

10. Ouch.

Truth hurts.

[Joinfortmill]

11. 'Houston, we have a problem.'

[wolfie001]

12. The most brilliant and strongest Democratic Senator we have!

We are at war with the sick mf'ing christo-fascists!

[soldierant]

22. I agree

and he is still in his sixties - won't be 70 until October.

[BurnDoubt]

14. Basket of Deplorables.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. that was very kind in retrospect.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

18. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been speaking

the unvarnished truth about the Rogue Reich Regime. He's so smart & such a good speaker. If only the truth mattered anymore...

[Hekate]

19. KnR

[Evolve Dammit]

20. K&R x 1000

[Jack Valentino]

23. And the majority 'party' is merely a criminal organization...

[joshdawg]

24. When I first saw the title,

the White House came to mind almost immediately. The biggest criminal ever is infecting that house.

[calimary]

28. Hard not to agree completely.