During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Thomas claims to not be talking about “taking the guns from law-abiding citizens, I’m talking about a ban on assault rifles. We are not trying to promote a militia. What war are we going at that we need assault rifles?” But Carlson quotes the bill Thomas herself said she supported, which states, “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation shall seize and take possession of any assault weapon, large capacity magazine, armor piercing bullet or incendiary fifty caliber bullet.” Carlson then asks how that confiscation will be received by hundreds of thousands of law-abiding gun owners in her state and in typical democrat fashion, can’t answer what a “seizure” of guns from law-abiding citizens who don’t want to give up their morally acquired property would look like.
Then the conversation between Carlson and Thomas eventually drifted into gun statistics, and The Daily Caller co-founder wondered why Thomas wasn’t calling for a ban on handguns since they are responsible for the majority of gun deaths in America.
“Don’t demagogue it with me. I am not downplaying the significance of anyone’s death,” Carlson asserted. “Since assault rifles, relatively speaking, cause few deaths, handguns cause the overwhelming majority of deaths, why are you not calling for banning handguns and seizing and taking possession of handguns…if you care so much about gun violence?”
Instead of answering the question, Thomas decided to turn it around on Carlson, insisting, “I would ask you the same question. Would you call for a ban on handguns? No, you wouldn’t!” she exclaimed. “So why can we not put a ban on assault rifles? That is the question. Why not?” This is what gun owners have to deal with almost daily: Overly emotional outburst from those who know next to nothing about guns and the way the work, and even less about the statistics they claim to care about changing.
After several more seconds of the pair talking over one another, Carlson finally cut Thomas’ mic and video feed, stating, “I give up, I’m trying to ask you adult questions and you don’t want to answer them.”
Democrats often wonder why we can’t have a civilized discussion about guns, and this video boldly declares the reason why. There’s little, if any, respect for facts or basic human rights when it comes to a person who wants more gun legislation. One simply cannot have a civilized discussion with anyone who seeks to erode the rights of others based on misinformation and fabricated statistics.
But Carlson presented an interesting question while Thomas was talking. “What if Americans don’t want to give up their guns?” There’s still not been a rational and logical response on how that would be handled from any Democrat; politician or otherwise.
Housing prices in the United States continue to rise at unprecedented rates, forcing many into poverty. This worsening epidemic is explained well in a video by The Money GPS and it’s been engineered this way.
As nations increase taxes and regulations, the price of complying also goes up. Many of these hikes are passed onto to those who are already living paycheck to paycheck forcing them to live in poverty. “You came here for the truth, so let me unveil that for you,” says Money GPS.
Severe damage to the nation’s economy can occur when people don’t have disposable income. “People are spending a larger and larger share of their income on their housing. This is something they can’t avoid. It’s not as if they are buying a home and can be renting instead, we are talking about people who rent their homes. It’s very serious,” The Money GPS says.
“There’s definitely an issue with the amount that people spend on shelter, electricity, food, and other basic essentials…we have a big problem on our hands. It’s not being addressed and the bubble just keeps getting larger…they keep saying there’s a limited supply [of housing options].”
“The median asking rent for vacant rental units is consistently rising. when you rent prices continuously increasing specifically for vacant rental units.” All this is happening as the rate of homeownership declines as well. So perhaps there is some correlation between market saturation and prices, but we fail to account for the fact that property taxes put a heavy burden on homeownership and those taxes are passed on to renters in the form of higher rents.”
But the YouTube channel Bull Boom Bear Bustsays this is all just a part of the global elitist’s plans to force more people into rentals and out of homeownership. According to the description of their video about this issue, it is becoming more and more clear that the central banking fiat currency system was designed to extract wealth from the poor and middle class and further enrich bankers that are creating a nation [sic] of debt servants.
“It’s a global plan,” says the narrator of the video. “These disasters and downturns in the economy are opportunities for the big money and big investors to come in and actually buy these homes.” He then discusses the reasons banks have for not foreclosing on properties right away, and it’s as simple as a wealth transfer from the middle and lower classes to the billionaires and investors:
“A reason why in some cases the banks don’t foreclose on the property right away, not only to keep the home off the market, but it also keeps the financial responsibility of the property onto the previous homeowner. So things like back due property taxes and fines for failure to keep the property up, banks don’t want to take on that responsibility, so technically in many cases, they’ll not take immediate foreclosure proceedings and in some cases, years and then the unpaid debt can come back and destroy the previous homeowner’s credit, and not hurt the bank.”
“This whole system…of the middle class being wiped out and the poor getting poorer, the increase in homelessness, the increase in people going into more and more debt, the shift from home ownership to home occupied to financial companies and institutions and investors owning these homes. This whole system has been engineered from the top down.”
He continues to explain that it all goes back to the Federal Reserve and was designed to break the average family while benefiting those already at the top. We often refer to these people as elitists. They are the politicians who are bought and paid for by corporations who push laws and regulations on the middle class that they themselves are exempt from and can profit immensely by doing. The entire system has been rigged to transfer wealth to the elites in the government and the deep state who pulls the strings.
(The Real Agenda News) Google, remembered for its slogan “don’t be evil” was the one that spent the most in 2017 to try to influence politicians in the United States.
Lobbying is not a crime, but it often comes too close to being such a thing.
Exercising influence to achieve a goal is not wrong, but perhaps, looking at lobbying from that perspective is why people understand trafficking on political influence as being acceptable.
The point of view which should serve as a starting point to assess whether political influence, better known as lobbying, is right or wrong, is the financial advantage multinational corporations have over their direct competitors: the average citizen.
If we can imagine the lobbying industry – it has indeed become an industry – as a pyramid, citizens are at the bottom of the structure, whereas multinational corporations, large businesses, and powerful unions are at the top and middle of it.
The activity of pressure groups in the United States and many other countries is legal, is accepted and can achieve favorable results.
They are not public relations and neither is it a strictly legal tool, but the influence is part of the power game in Washington; a big part of it.
In 2017, Google became the company that invested the most in these practices, until now co-opted by other industries or by business associations.
Silicon Valley companies became in recent years the ones that used more money to improve their image and to enter the very fabric of power.
Google has broken its own record, with $18 million in 2017, and has, for the first time, positioned itself as the company that has spent the most to influence legislators.
It thus takes over the position occupied by sectors that traditionally made great pressure efforts, such as the tobacco industry or the food industry.
Google’s Political Influence in Key Issues
The Responsive Policy Center has published the data of the different companies that lobby against the federal government.
The search engine is at the top. It exerted pressure in diverse subjects, from immigration to fiscal reform, diversity, net neutrality and online publicity to cite a few.
This figure is well above what other giants of telecommunications used.
Amazon and Facebook also appear in the list, but at a much lower level, in the 16th and 24th positions respectively.
In the previous year it was the National Association of Realtors, the union of estate brokers, which occupied the first place.
The usual thing is that they are groups, unions or conglomerates that join industries that spend more, but not companies in a private capacity.
Thirty years ago, the Responsive Policy Center began collecting data.
There are no previous records, but since they follow it, this is the first time that a specific company leads the list.
Google Sneaking into positions of Power
Sarah Bryner, director of the research, has explained to the technology portal Gizmodo, that the Mountain View company climbed to first place up from 15th place, overcoming efforts by the groups that traditionally had more interests in obtaining a favorable legal framework, such as AT & T, the largest telecommunications company in the country, and Boeing, involved in defense, electronics, and air transport.
Bryner is not surprised that the new technology leaders are no longer in garages inventing new products but exerting their influence beyond the web.
“There is a very ingrained myth. It is considered that they do not intervene in how their industry is politically supported,” she explains.
The case of Amazon, which spent $13 million, is striking, while Facebook invested $11 million.
The researcher does not believe that these actions have an immediate effect, but they do get their opinions heard and provide different points of view.
“Google maintains its “do not be evil” founding motto and there is nothing wrong with spending money on politics, but it is important that public opinion knows it, that it watches over it”, she argues.
Google is not alone when it comes to Buying Political Influence
Apple is not among the corporations that invest the most in these tasks.
Its investments remain at seven million dollars, but it is striking that the amount dedicated to influencing politics increased 51% in just one year.
Among the interests pushed by the Cupertino-based company are climate change, health-related applications and autonomous cars.
Apple, Google and Facebook did not explain this activity. Only Amazon did it in a brief statement:
“As one of the great job creators in this country, we have expanded our team in Washington D.C. to make sure we can be on top of important legislative issues that affect our employees and our consumers,” Amazon said.
Collectively, they have grouped together in The Internet Association to “proactively monitor everything related to the Internet and the possible “negative effects” of racial or gender biases, so that they are quickly identified and minimized”.
Uber also appears on the list. It exerted pressure so that a regulation of “advances in vertical takeoff and landing” was approved. The company is now looking into offering air transport in the same fashion it offers ground transport.
Due to the inability of elitists to come to a conclusion on how to spend money they don’t have, the United States government “shut down.” But, the hard truth is that during a “government shutdown” only about 25% of the government actually shuts down.
Only “non-essential” functions are actually shut down. Of course, that begs the question: why are there non-essential government functions to begin with? Nonetheless, on the whole, the majority of the government is open.
“Don’t get me wrong, those 25% [of civil servants] who are affected, I’d hate to be in their shoes right now,” Joseph continued. “But I have to say that the majority of Americans that live in this country deal with a measure of instability when it comes to employment that civil servants don’t normally or are not subjected to.” Be that as it may, politicians are the problem here. This isn’t right or left, it’s politics and corruption that is fueling discussions and arguments about how to spend money they don’t have.
“I hate politcians. I just do. I mean, I’m sure some of them are very well intentioned, don’t get me wrong. But on the whole, you’ve gotta be a really shady, sneaky, snake to be a politician. A lot of people wonder why don’t men and women of honor ever run for office. It’s because they don’t wanna be caught dead around that place because of how corrupt and how bad it is and how much of a risk it would be for them to become corrupt if surrounded by a bunch of corrupt crocks and thieves and criminals. And that’s what they are! Let’s be totally and completly clear.”
Joseph also explained that government and civil servants are held to a much lower standard than those who choose to live their lives as freely as possible.
“We get villified, raked over the coals for the smallest things by government and by law enforcement and these people get awat with literal murder. Their decesions have profound effects on the lives of millions of Americans and they just don’t care.”
But to understand the shutdown, one should understand what type of person makes up “the government” and the many different types of money involved. It would take so long to make any sort of impact because funds have already been appropriated. So all the fear mongering is simply that and nothing more.
“This shutdown shouldn’t scare anybody. If anything, this is what’s SUPPOSED to happen when there is disfunctionality within governemnt. This is what’s supposed to happen when you don’t see eye to eye on things. You’ve gotta negotiate. Sometimes it can get nasty. But, I can tell you that this government shutdown and others like it, have been hyped in the past and it takes months before you really start to feel the pinch. Before you really start to feel that burn.”
Washington Governor Jay Inslee took to Twitter to warn his followers that they have a mere 59 days to save children from global warming. The Tweet, which was posted yesterday, is meant to scare readers and the Washington legislature into enacting a carbon tax.
According to the Daily Caller, the state legislature’s session ends in 59 days, on March 8. Democrats have a slim majority in both state legislative chambers. Inslee wants lawmakers to pass a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities.
We have just 59 days to do our part to save our children from an endless cycle of crop-killing droughts one year, and rivers spilling their banks the next. To save salmon from dying in ever warming rivers, and our forests from being reduced to plumes of ash.
Inslee’s planwould tax carbon dioxide emissions at $20 a ton in 2019, that would gradually rise at 3.5 percent above inflation each following year. Inslee’s office estimates it will raise $3.3 billion over the next four years.
About $950 million would go toward education programs. The rest would go toward green energy programs and research, water infrastructure, wildfire mitigation. Some money would offset taxes or go to poor families, but the bill isn’t clear on this particularly murky additive to it. The plan could raise household electricity prices five percent, and gas prices by about 10 percent, according to official estimates
Half of the money from the tax (which would be paid by power plants and fuel importers but would ultimately be passed onto the consumers) would go into efforts to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
“So, yes there will be impacts on fuel and energy prices, but we expect these to be modest and fully within the range of what would be expected by normal price fluctuation,” said Lauren McCloy, a senior energy policy advisor in Inslee’s office who is trying to ease people into accepting more extortion and theft.
At least some people have actually read the “science” behind “climate change.”
The 19th-Century junk science regarding the so-called atmospheric "Greenhouse effect" has been turned into a political propaganda and a "moral" religion with no relevance to the physical reality! Climate is INDEPENDENT of atmospheric composition, see: https://t.co/SgWzeWz5WE
What Inslee is proposing is simply a tax on his own constituents no matter how any politician spins it. It will affect the consumer. It won’t actually help reduce the global warming he claims they only have 59 days to stop. And it really is too bad most Americans cannot see through this charade. Inslee wants a tax. That’s it. Politicians don’t care about “global warming.” If they did, it would have been over by now – but they can’t exploit the issue for more money either.
Even if Inslee’s carbon tax plan passes, the legislation would have no measurable impact on projected future global warming. In fact, even if the United States as a whole stopped emitting all greenhouse gases, the impact would be extremely small, based on the government’s own climate models.
Once again the august and noble governmental careerists reveal their nature. Let no man or woman ever be disappointed. The aristocracy of public policy always has a way of reaching down and deep to pull off the pants of naked exposure. Nothing has changed in this pattern of conduct. Only the methods of fusing perversion with favors vary with the excess of the billionaire moguls who fashion the popular culture. Washington DC has an insatiable appetite for projecting power dominance that may only be exceeded for the lust of campaign donations. The perfect storm of celebrity debauchery streams directly into the corridors of legislation and agency administration. Such behavior is well known, even though most practices are ignored as a matter of course.
“The blowback quickly reached Washington, where a number of Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, said they would forward their campaign donations from Weinstein to charities supporting women.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala D. Harris of California donated $5,000 and $10,000, respectively, to women’s organizations. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut gave $2,700 to the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence, and Sen. Kristin Gillibrand of New York gave $11,800 to RAINN, the national sexual assault hotline, according to their press offices.”
Pray tell just how many party favorites were oblivious to the widely known habits that permeate the producer power relationships both on and off the silver screen. Even the tarnish to the Camelot image of the Kennedy era, from mixing the celebrity mystic with the brute force of Federal authority, seldom shock the adoring fan base. So what is the entire hullabaloo really about?
Well, the hubbub has very little to do with a moral awakening by the general public. By those standards, engaging in an occasional groping by an alumnus of Saturday Night Live seems forgivable as long as one is a professor of obscene conduct. Nothing is funny about this comedy of errors. So what is the punch line?
When stuck for a laugh, dip down into the well of routing out the closest conservative Christian within reach, especially one who defends the Ten Commandments. Again, nothing new about this in the Babylonian Talmud cult that rules the MTV society.
“Between 2001 to 2003, Clinton and Epstein traveled together on extended trips around the world, according to flight records released in 2015 .
Accompanying Clinton aboard the private jet was Doug Band, his “body man” and president of Teneo Holdings, a company that arranged speaking engagements and lucrative business deals for the former president.
On one trip Clinton also traveled with , who is now of have sex with an underage boy.”
For those who have been on Clinton overload for decades the capricious New York Times can always be counted upon to muddy up the waters. Their latest, After Weinstein: The Fallout for 34 Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct, From Lewd Texts to Rape acknowledges “Here is a list of such cases, which we will update periodically. The list does not include accusations against men for whom there has been no or minimal fallout.”
“Our political institutions are in danger of gaining a reputation as a toxic workplace for women.
“Let me make my position plain – we need to throw open the doors on what has gone on in the past.
“We need to flood the dark corners of Parliament – and politics in general – with the disinfectant of sunshine.”We ask our political representatives to do a professional job; the very least they should expect is a professional workplace with decent HR practices in which to function.
“We need to address those misdeeds because we cannot let them put off the next generation of lawmakers.”
How nice that the home of so many closet queens can take a back seat to the deviants who molest women can take the heat.
“The Weinstein scandal has sparked a national conversation about sexual misconduct and prompted others to come forward with accusations ranging from groping to rape against prominent men, including former Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick, House of Cards star Kevin Spacey, actor Ben Affleck and former President George H. W. Bush.
These are the men who have been accused of sexual misconduct after the Harvey Weinstein allegations.”
HELLO !!! Where do you find a list of female perps?
What is the message coming out of this never-ending featured cinematograph script to unclothe all those Harveywood sickos and their crony politicians who double in their buddy flicks? Obviously, better to shift your gender preference so your Lilith kinkiness can take down your own Adam.
So the lesson to take away from the power trip that targets male dominated scandals is not to be a teacher and use the authority of the class room to inflict preeminence over all those innocent children. Sorry, Mary Kay Letourneau is not eligible to run with the political bulls. THE 50 MOST INFAMOUS FEMALE TEACHER SEX SCANDALS is the other side of the coin.
“We seem to have reached a general social conclusion after a remarkably brief and one-sided debate: sexual exploitation of vulnerable women by powerful men has been a vast hidden epidemic in our society and must now be halted once and for all. But how?
That’s not difficult to answer. George MacDonald, the Scottish religious novelist (who inspired CS Lewis), once wrote that it was the duty of a man to protect women against all men, starting with himself. If all men were to act consistently on that principle, there would be no problem of sexual harassment to solve.
But as every man must concede (including the author of this column), only a small minority of men (generally with names prefixed by “St”), consistently live up to this standard. We should be encouraged to do so by our moral upbringing and by the general messages of our culture. But since both sexes are composed of fallen creatures, we will always fall well below 100 per cent success in this endeavour even in a high-minded society. An additional problem is that we don’t live in a high-minded society but in a liberated one. And the liberation of manners, in alliance with the law of unintended consequences, has had effects that the reformers didn’t expect.”
Ask yourself, how many rehab programs will Harveywood need to attend to get across this lesson of self-control? For the power elites, this formula is gender neutral. That legendary Baroness of Corporatist feminism, Leona Helmsley stated in the Nov. 1990 issue of Playboy.
“There is definitely a double standard for men and women: When a man loses his temper, he is aggressive; I’m a pushy bitch. A man is confident and authoritative; I’m conceited and power-mad. Men don’t want women getting to the top. Period.”
Employing the Weinstein model, the political class exemplifies the proven substitute to viagra; namely, no term limits. When John Conyers robed in mere underwear provides ample qualifications for re-election, you know the House is a brothel of disrepute.
These signs of deviance are just symptoms of the core factor that perpetuates the revolving door of political bribery. Achieving influence by perverting the popular narrative corrupts both the public and the power brokers, who seek to buy politicians and the government that ostensibly, administer the rules.
The general society is mostly a non-participant factor in the great game of delusion that conditions the populace to accept the psychopathic culture that devalues all human life and degrades each individual. The consequences of a debasement of moral principles are demonstrated all around us.
If women are serious about earning the respect of men, their best step forward is to adopt a pro-life value system. If men want to earn the respect of females they should treat women as if each were their mother. Finally, for those who are confused as to their natural sexual gender, grow up and accept reality.
Have you ever sat through a very long political speech and realized at the end of it that nothing of any real substance was said the entire time? This is what professional politicians have been trained to do. They have been trained to sound good without every really getting very specific about anything. I am running for Congress in Idaho’s first congressional district, and I could be just like the other professional politicians if I wanted to be, because I know all of their tricks. But I would never do that, because I believe that we need to get rid of the corrupt career politicians that are absolutely ruining this country.
The people that run political campaigns all across America are constantly trying to get their candidates to be as vague as possible. The reason why this is done is so that the candidates will offend as few potential voters as possible. So if you go to most candidate websites, you will find a lot of flowery language but very few specific policy proposals. Instead, you will read lots of fluff about “improving education” and “fixing the healthcare system”, but if the political people have done their job correctly there will be very little in there that could possibly upset someone.
In the end, they want to make you feel good about the candidate, and they want you to be won over by the candidate’s personality.
Of course if you are able to pull a candidate aside and talk with him privately, it will be a completely different story entirely. In a private conversation, a candidate will spend the first few moments trying to figure out what you want to hear, and then the rest of the conversation will be spent telling you exactly that. Perhaps you have even experienced this at some point. The professional politician will go to great lengths to convince you that he knows exactly where you are coming from, that he feels the same way that you do, and that he wants to do something about your particular issue. It is the same conversation that he has had with a thousand other people, and of course the professional politician never actually intends to follow through on any of those conversations.
And once the professional politician gets into office, he conveniently forgets all of those promises that he privately made. He knows that a few people will get upset, but he also knows that 99 percent of the population will not keep track of what he does after he is elected.
Buzzwords are another key tool that professional politicians like to use. For example, Idaho is one of the most “conservative” states in the country, and so every politician up here uses that label to attract voters. One member of the state legislature that won ten elections in a row would always portray herself as a “conservative” during election season, but the truth is that she was actually extremely liberal. Year after year she has had a voting record that is worse than many of the Democrats in the state legislature, but she kept getting away with it because she knew how to be a professional politician. Fortunately she is retiring from politics now, but she made an entire career out of conning the voters.
Another buzzword that is commonly used in political circles here in Idaho is “pro-gun”. Everyone up here wants to be “pro-gun”, and yet if you really start digging into what many of these politicians actually believe, you will find out that they actually support “common sense restrictions” on the 2nd Amendment.
But if they say they are “pro-gun”, you may be tempted to believe that they see things the same way that you do. That is why we really need to start getting professional politicians to define exactly what they mean when they use these terms.
Of course “pro-life” is another big one. For years, “pro-life politicians” have been winning our votes but then betraying our values once they get into office. On the national level, many “pro-life politicians” vote to fund Planned Parenthood year after year after year, but then they expect us to keep on voting for them every time election season rolls around.
No.
You cannot be pro-life and vote to fund Planned Parenthood. This is why I am making an unbreakable pledge on this issue. I will never, ever, ever vote for any bill that contains any funding for Planned Parenthood, and I am asking every other Republican all across the nation to make the same pledge.
But professional politicians never like to boxed into a corner like that. They want the “flexibility” to vote in favor of a really important budget bill even if it funds Planned Parenthood for another six months. It is this kind of hypocrisy that is destroying this nation.
Here is another way that you can spot a professional politician – a professional politician will be extremely, extremely hesitant to ever criticize a fellow member of his own party. The only real exception to this rule is if there is a tightly contested race during election season. When political careers are on the line, that is when the claws come out. Otherwise, the goal is to play nice and move up the ladder.
For example, just look at what is going on in Congress right now. Evidence of horrific sexual misconduct is coming out about members of both parties, and yet mostly what we see are Democrats trying to protect fellow Democrats and Republicans trying to protect fellow Republicans.
But I haven’t heard any of my fellow Republicans call for his resignation yet. Apparently they believe that what Barton did is acceptable behavior for a sitting member of Congress.
It is time to drain the swamp, and as a member of Congress I am going to do all that I can to start cleaning up the corruption. It is going to take a team effort to win this race, and I would love to have you on the team.
Our founders never intended for a permanent ruling class of corrupt career politicians to rule over us. It is time to take our country back, because our children and our grandchildren deserve far better than this.
(INTELLIHUB) — Fox News host Judge Jeanine laid her plan to tax the “deviants” in Washington for what their scandals have cost the American people on her Saturday broadcast of “Justice.”
According to the judge, it’s simple, just take it out of their pay.
Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things. For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political parties. That is why nothing has ever seemed to change very much no matter which party has been in power. The agenda of the elite has always seemed to march forward, and ordinary people like us have always been frustrated that we can’t seem to make a difference. But now a shift seems to be taking place. Donald Trump took on the establishment in both major parties, and he miraculously won the presidency. Down in Alabama, the elite spent more than 30 million dollars to defeat Roy Moore, and he still defeated Luther Strange. A political awakening is taking place, and I can’t wait to see what happens during the mid-term elections in 2018.
In Part I and Part II of this series, I talked about how the elite use debt as a tool of enslavement. In Part III, I went over how the elite use the colossal media corporations they own to control what we think. Today, I want to talk about their influence in the realm of politics.
In Washington D.C., it is well understood that the game of politics is all about the money. If I win my election, and online polling suggests that there is a ton of enthusiasm for my campaign, I will be expected to spend most of my time on the phone raising money. As a freshman member of Congress, at orientation it will be explained to me that I am supposed to spend approximately four hours a day doing fundraising, and that is why the House and Senate floors are so empty most of the time.
By law, members of Congress cannot make fundraising calls from their offices, and so both parties have huge call centers just across from the Capitol. Especially around lunch and dinner times (because those are some of the best times to reach people), those call centers are packed as members of the House and Senate run through lists of potential donors.
And it isn’t just about raising money for their own campaigns. As a freshman member of Congress I would be expected to raise at least $200,000 for the NRCC (the National Republican Congressional Committee). If I don’t pay my dues, I would get into big trouble with party leadership.
But you know what? I have already pledged that I am not going to participate in this very corrupt system. If I am sent to Congress, I am going to spend my time doing the job that the people of Idaho sent me there to do.
So will Paul Ryan and the others in leadership get very upset with me for not “paying my dues”?
Of course.
But it is time for some of us to take a stand and do what is right. Congress has become a cesspool of filth and corruption, and it is time to flush the toilet.
Because if we don’t fight this corrupt system, the influence of money in politics will just get worse and worse. Today, the elite pour millions upon millions of dollars even into small campaigns, and in 2016 it took an average of more than 10 million dollars to win a U.S. Senate seat…
While the White House may not have gone to the biggest spender, an awful lot of House and Senate seats did — as usual. And it was pricier than ever to win them.
This election cycle, an average winning Senate candidate had spent $10.4 million through Oct. 19 (reflecting the latest reports filed with the Federal Election Commission). That’s a $1.8 million increase over the same period in the 2014 cycle. By the end of last cycle, the number rose to $10.6 million, and a similar uptick is expected this time once post-election and year-end reports are filed.
Once you win, the pressure to raise money for your next campaign never ends.
The elite know this, and they use this pressure to influence votes. Prior to a big vote, lobbyists will make it abundantly clear how they want certain members of Congress to vote, and if they vote the “right way” those members of Congress will be rewarded.
Just across from the U.S. Capitol there are clubs where fancy receptions are regularly held. If you vote the “right way” on a particular bill, you may be invited to one of these receptions, and there will be big, fat donation checks waiting there for you.
Of course most members of Congress have learned how to play the game, and this is why it is nearly impossible to defeat incumbents. Over the past six decades, the re-election rate for members of the House of Representatives has consistently been well over 80 percent, and according to the UVA Center for Politics incumbents actually did far better than that in 2016…
This election cycle, 393 of 435 House representatives, 29 of 34 senators, and five of 12 governors sought reelection (several of the governors were prohibited from seeking another term). Of those, 380 of 393 House members (97%), 27 of 29 senators (93%), and four of five governors (80%) won another term. These members of Congress and governors not only won renomination, but also won in November.
Since World War II, the overall success rate for Senate incumbents has been 84 percent, and the overall success rate for House incumbents has been 94 percent.
Incumbents are almost always armed with huge war chests and most of them have tremendous name recognition, and so toppling them is not easy.
Fortunately, there is no incumbent in my race because Raul Labrador is running for governor. So the race is completely wide open, and right now my campaign has the most enthusiasm by far. If you would like to help me flush the toilet in Washington, I would encourage you to visit MichaelSnyderForCongress.com.
If we don’t fight back, we will never break the stranglehold that the elite have on our political system.
Every generation of Americans has had to stand up and fight for liberty and freedom, and now it is our turn. This particular battle will not be fought with guns and bullets, but rather with ideas, values and principles.
We are part of a movement that is sweeping the nation. Good men and women are rising up to run in federal, state and local races all across the country, and it is absolutely imperative that we all get behind them and support them.
Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things. For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political parties. That is why nothing has ever seemed to change very much no matter which party has been in power. The agenda of the elite has always seemed to march forward, and ordinary people like us have always been frustrated that we can’t seem to make a difference. But now a shift seems to be taking place. Donald Trump took on the establishment in both major parties, and he miraculously won the presidency. Down in Alabama, the elite spent more than 30 million dollars to defeat Roy Moore, and he still defeated Luther Strange. A political awakening is taking place, and I can’t wait to see what happens during the mid-term elections in 2018.
In Part I and Part II of this series, I talked about how the elite use debt as a tool of enslavement. In Part III, I went over how the elite use the colossal media corporations they own to control what we think. Today, I want to talk about their influence in the realm of politics.
In Washington D.C., it is well understood that the game of politics is all about the money. If I win my election, and online polling suggests that there is a ton of enthusiasm for my campaign, I will be expected to spend most of my time on the phone raising money. As a freshman member of Congress, at orientation it will be explained to me that I am supposed to spend approximately four hours a day doing fundraising, and that is why the House and Senate floors are so empty most of the time.
By law, members of Congress cannot make fundraising calls from their offices, and so both parties have huge call centers just across from the Capitol. Especially around lunch and dinner times (because those are some of the best times to reach people), those call centers are packed as members of the House and Senate run through lists of potential donors.
And it isn’t just about raising money for their own campaigns. As a freshman member of Congress I would be expected to raise at least $200,000 for the NRCC (the National Republican Congressional Committee). If I don’t pay my dues, I would get into big trouble with party leadership.
But you know what? I have already pledged that I am not going to participate in this very corrupt system. If I am sent to Congress, I am going to spend my time doing the job that the people of Idaho sent me there to do.
So will Paul Ryan and the others in leadership get very upset with me for not “paying my dues”?
Of course.
But it is time for some of us to take a stand and do what is right. Congress has become a cesspool of filth and corruption, and it is time to flush the toilet.
Because if we don’t fight this corrupt system, the influence of money in politics will just get worse and worse. Today, the elite pour millions upon millions of dollars even into small campaigns, and in 2016 it took an average of more than 10 million dollars to win a U.S. Senate seat…
While the White House may not have gone to the biggest spender, an awful lot of House and Senate seats did — as usual. And it was pricier than ever to win them.
This election cycle, an average winning Senate candidate had spent $10.4 million through Oct. 19 (reflecting the latest reports filed with the Federal Election Commission). That’s a $1.8 million increase over the same period in the 2014 cycle. By the end of last cycle, the number rose to $10.6 million, and a similar uptick is expected this time once post-election and year-end reports are filed.
Once you win, the pressure to raise money for your next campaign never ends.
The elite know this, and they use this pressure to influence votes. Prior to a big vote, lobbyists will make it abundantly clear how they want certain members of Congress to vote, and if they vote the “right way” those members of Congress will be rewarded.
Just across from the U.S. Capitol there are clubs where fancy receptions are regularly held. If you vote the “right way” on a particular bill, you may be invited to one of these receptions, and there will be big, fat donation checks waiting there for you.
Of course most members of Congress have learned how to play the game, and this is why it is nearly impossible to defeat incumbents. Over the past six decades, the re-election rate for members of the House of Representatives has consistently been well over 80 percent, and according to the UVA Center for Politics incumbents actually did far better than that in 2016…
This election cycle, 393 of 435 House representatives, 29 of 34 senators, and five of 12 governors sought reelection (several of the governors were prohibited from seeking another term). Of those, 380 of 393 House members (97%), 27 of 29 senators (93%), and four of five governors (80%) won another term. These members of Congress and governors not only won renomination, but also won in November.
Since World War II, the overall success rate for Senate incumbents has been 84 percent, and the overall success rate for House incumbents has been 94 percent.
Incumbents are almost always armed with huge war chests and most of them have tremendous name recognition, and so toppling them is not easy.
Fortunately, there is no incumbent in my race because Raul Labrador is running for governor. So the race is completely wide open, and right now my campaign has the most enthusiasm by far. If you would like to help me flush the toilet in Washington, I would encourage you to visit MichaelSnyderForCongress.com.
If we don’t fight back, we will never break the stranglehold that the elite have on our political system.
Every generation of Americans has had to stand up and fight for liberty and freedom, and now it is our turn. This particular battle will not be fought with guns and bullets, but rather with ideas, values and principles.
We are part of a movement that is sweeping the nation. Good men and women are rising up to run in federal, state and local races all across the country, and it is absolutely imperative that we all get behind them and support them.
Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years.Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream.
Right now, a major cover-up is going on in the media and among leftists all over the country. Many Democrats are involved in separate and equally disturbing sex scandals, but they are all being swept under the rug.
According to the Daily Wire, the DemocraticMayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, resigned Tuesday after more allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced. Murray’s resignation, which was effective 5 p.m. on Wednesday, comes after the fifth allegation of child sexual abuse surfaced on Tuesday. This time, the accusations came from a family member. But Murray isn’t the only Democrat neck deep in scandals of this magnitude, in what is becoming a disturbing pattern of Democrats politicians involved in crimes and allegations of child sexual abuse. These scandals are horrifying and largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Several major Democrats are facing charges or received convictions regarding sexual crimes related to children over the past year. Perhaps the most well-known example is that of Anthony Weiner, soon to be ex-husband to Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin. Weiner, the disgusting and disgraced Democrat has a long history of sexual misconduct which most recently landed him in legal trouble when he became involved in an online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor and faces up to ten years in prison. He also must now register as a sex offender.
The Daily Wirealso compiled a list of Democrats that the website backpage.com has donated to. The website is allegedly directly linked to child prostitution and trafficking and the co-owners gave a lot of money to Democrats recently, including donations to:
If that isn’t enough to make this horiffingly cringe-worthy already, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is currently on trial facing federal corruption charges, which started in 2012 over allegations that he and another man were having sex with underage prostitutes. But not to be outdone, Jacob Schwartz, a 29-year-old up-and-coming young Democrat who worked on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s staff was arrested in May. Schwartz is accused of child pornography charges in which he allegedly kept more than 3,000 images and 89 videos of pornographic acts committed by children.
It seems a little more than convenient that the media is willing to look the other way when Democrats are caught doing disgusting things.
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Right now, a major cover-up is going on in the media and among leftists all over the country. Many Democrats are involved in separate and equally disturbing sex scandals, but they are all being swept under the rug.
According to the Daily Wire, the DemocraticMayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, resigned Tuesday after more allegations of child sexual abuse surfaced. Murray’s resignation, which was effective 5 p.m. on Wednesday, comes after the fifth allegation of child sexual abuse surfaced on Tuesday. This time, the accusations came from a family member. But Murray isn’t the only Democrat neck deep in scandals of this magnitude, in what is becoming a disturbing pattern of Democrats politicians involved in crimes and allegations of child sexual abuse. These scandals are horrifying and largely ignored by the mainstream media.
Several major Democrats are facing charges or received convictions regarding sexual crimes related to children over the past year. Perhaps the most well-known example is that of Anthony Weiner, soon to be ex-husband to Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin. Weiner, the disgusting and disgraced Democrat has a long history of sexual misconduct which most recently landed him in legal trouble when he became involved in an online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor and faces up to ten years in prison. He also must now register as a sex offender.
The Daily Wirealso compiled a list of Democrats that the website backpage.com has donated to. The website is allegedly directly linked to child prostitution and trafficking and the co-owners gave a lot of money to Democrats recently, including donations to:
If that isn’t enough to make this horiffingly cringe-worthy already, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is currently on trial facing federal corruption charges, which started in 2012 over allegations that he and another man were having sex with underage prostitutes. But not to be outdone, Jacob Schwartz, a 29-year-old up-and-coming young Democrat who worked on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s staff was arrested in May. Schwartz is accused of child pornography charges in which he allegedly kept more than 3,000 images and 89 videos of pornographic acts committed by children.
It seems a little more than convenient that the media is willing to look the other way when Democrats are caught doing disgusting things.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster 1834
This past week, I received an email from a radio show listener in response to what President Donald Trump promised that he would do and what it is that he has actually done. This listener simply was telling me not to “bear false witness” with the President’s accomplishments, which in fact, have not been fulfilled.
I thought that Americans were raised to know that actions speak a lot louder than words (1 John 3:18).
Apparently not!
If you remember right, President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to bring forth the “rule of law,” as well as promised to ask his Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton’s long list of crimes.
However, immediately after winning the White House, he tells the American people that they owe Hillary Clinton a major debt of gratitude for her service to this country. That is the opposite of what he promised to do if he were to win office.
We continue to watch the crimes of the Clinton crime family come to the surface (Luke 12:2).
Mr. “It is going to be soooo easy” acts as if he does not have the power to enforce the law?
Now, the neutered President is acting as if he did not have the power to prosecute corruption when it comes to the Clintons, or any other corrupt politician. He recently stated:
“Hillary Clinton can illegally get the questions to the debate and delete 33,000 emails, but my son is being scorned by the Fake News media?”
Really?
Here is the kicker. The second part of this email that was sent to me stated that secularist and radio show host Mark Levin said last week on his show that President Trump cannot force the DOJ to prosecute Hillary.
I’m humored at the willful ignorance of the American people that forsake their own mercies (Jonah 2:4) by straining at the gnat and swallowing the big camel.
It reminds me of Marcus Cicero who said,
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have rejoiced in their loss of freedom who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.”
Our Forefathers countered this ignorance with statements like:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams
Maybe Mark Levin just happened to overlook The United States Constitution where it clearly states:
Article 2, Section 4
The President, Vice President and ALL civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Or maybe Mark Levin didn’t take the time to seek out the definition of the word treason?
TREASON is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Its signification is different in different countries. In general, it is the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. –Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
When you look again to the founding documents, namely the Constitution, you will find that treason is a highlighted crime.
They are doing such a good job prosecuting corruption within their own ranks that we still have Harry Reid, Barrack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Diane Feinstein, Loretta Lynch, Maxine Waters, Susan Rice, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton and list goes on and on and on and on (Exodus 23:8).
The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again expecting to reap a different result (Galatians 6:7).
Don’t forget that the likes of Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc. feed the unconstitutional narrative of the liberals vs. conservatives, left vs. the right, the Democrats vs. Republicans. The way they get away with this and hang on to their jobs is to simply omit reference to God, His moral Law and the Constitution of the United States (Mark 3:25).
Instead of taking responsibility and educating the American people, they simply play the self-elevated professors of Herod’s corrupt governmental indoctrination (Mark 8:15).
They are simply getting you to ask the wrong questions without giving you the right answers, making void the commandments of God through the tradition of carnal and reprobate men (Mark 7:13).
Maybe those who have not taken the time to look to history need to start looking and understanding that Republics (Rule of Law not of men or of the opinions of men) have been destroyed for the lack of impeachment and consequence within when it comes to representatives in their governments.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison
With that said, how did our Forefathers deal with corruption within?
Benedict Arnold was thought to be a patriot. Yet, when exposed, he was found to be a man that committed high treason against his own country.
In July 1780, Arnold sought and obtained command of the fort at West Point. He had already begun a year-long correspondence with General Henry Clinton (Of all the names) in New York through Major Andre and was closely involved with Beverley Robinson, a prominent loyalist (Loyal to the British crown) in command of a loyalist regiment. Arnold offered to hand the fort over to the British for close to $3 million dollars in 2017 dollars and a brigadier’s commission.
He chose West Point for its strategic importance. The Americans had been using its position to prevent British ships from moving Northward from New York City up the Hudson and connecting British forces in Canada-a move that would have split the north from the south. His plans were thwarted when Andre was captured September 23, 1780 with a pass signed by Arnold. Andre was carrying documents that disclosed the plot and which incriminated Arnold. Andre was later hanged as a spy.
America, do as The Lord commands!
“Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:” -Amos 5:15
If Americans truly want their country back, they are going to have to teach evil people to fear the consequences of their actions!
“Our boys were sent off to die with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die.” General Smedley Butler
Did you ever notice that the politicians that talk much of war are those who have never been to war.
Or have you noticed that those who are to serve “We the People” in Congress are so apt to send your men and women to fight unconstitutional wars, but for some reason or another it does not apply to their own (Matthew 23:3).
As a matter of fact, it has been said that the Vietnam War ended when the children of those who represented us were pulled up for the draft.
Furthermore, to add insult to injury, it seems that trees take precedent over human life. When you go to Washington D.C., you see trees with fences around them that state “Tree protection: KEEP OUT! Do Not Enter. The enclosed area is a tree root protection zone. Fence must remain closed at all times.” They are simply protecting trees from the people (Romans 1:28).
What you do not see is the Vietnam Wall (my cousin was killed in Vietnam) 20 yards behind this sign. Fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and eighteen were killed (Amos 4:10).
With the last 100 years of exposing the corruption of the American politician, you would think that Americans would understand that they CANNOT trust the Judases who they are led to believe actually work for the people of this country (Luke 22:48). Especially, when it comes to war.
In contrast, how was it that during the Revolutionary War, the Forefathers thought it their duty to fight the wars in which they believed were worth fighting, which established our Constitutional Republic.
It was said of George Washington, “First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Why first in the hearts of his countrymen? Because he led by example. He did not expect others to take his place for such a worthy cause.
Remember, there is The Lord’s Wars and that of man’s wars. One is righteous and the other is not (Numbers 21:14).
A post recently popped up that will make the next point,
“Before complaining about the fact the American government is involved with another campaign to plunder another country that does not go along with the plans of the new world order.
You would not have to worry about other countries hating you if you stopped corrupt politicians from inciting America to attack their countries.
Bombing other countries, Launching coups, installing expendable puppet dictators only to send in American forces to establish a military presence.”
Another one read,
“In today’s distorted media landscape, when the U.S. Government calls another nation’s leader a dictator, what they really mean to say is that they’re not a complete pro-USA puppet.”
Just think of this, 94% of Americans do not believe the lying media, Congress has an 11% approval rating, and yet, when they are told what some drummed up foreign country is going to do to us, the people somehow latch onto the fact that they are now telling them the truth. This is the pinnacle of hypocrisy (Romans 1:18).
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said of the United States government back in 1957:
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. …”
You would think that this is what America was told by the president on Sept. 11, 2001. It was.
Of course, war is never sold to you in truth. Remember, the truth is always the first casualty of war (John 8:44).
“By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” Mossad slogan
What of the military–industrial complex (MIC), which is an informal alliance between a nation’s military and the arms industry which supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.
A driving factor behind this relationship between the government and defense-minded corporations is that both sides benefit—one side from obtaining war weapons, and the other from being paid to supply them. The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it is most prevalent and gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961. In 2011, the United States spent more (in absolute numbers) on its military than the next 13 nations combined.
I suggest that next time a war is being sold to the American people that those who are calling for the war, like our Forefathers, are the first ones to lead the way.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. –Herman Goering
And to think that 222 years out of 241 years since 1776, Americans have been at war.
And Americans still haven’t figured this out.
Henry Kissinger said of our veterans:
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
The fact is, the American military are not dumb and stupid. They just need to recognize who the enemies are, and that comes by knowing what the Law states (Hosea 4:6; 2 Timothy 2:15).
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights! -General Smedley Butler
So, the next time you hear the politicians clamoring for war, if it’s a worthy cause, they should be the first ones to go.
