...is the wisdom of Lester Freamon.
You follow pundits, you get a bunch of pundits huffing each others farts and calling it wisdom.
But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you.
From Crooks & Liars:
Follow The Money Behind The Arizona Audit
Soon this will be harder and harder to do, thanks to the Supreme Court
By Karoli Kuns
Jane Mayer has once again ripped the veneer off Republican efforts to buy our elections and install their dictators in a new article at The New Yorker where she outlines in fine detail who is paying for the election subversion and voter suppression efforts in the states.
It won't surprise anyone who has followed my work here at Crooks and Liars to know the key players are people and organizations we feature here all the time: Cleta Mitchell, True The Vote, Freedomworks, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, and more. On the funding side, Leonard Leo, The Bradley Foundation, Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne, and a whole bunch of dark, undisclosed money.
Take Italygate, for example...
Without the deep pockets of militant backers, the CyberNinjas would be a Phoenix strip mall PC repair shop.
Without the deep pockets of militant backers, lonely middle-aged virgin Ben Domenech would be getting paid a penny a word to write press releases for two-bit third-world dictators.
Without the deep pockets of militant backers, the Illinois Policy Institute would be a guy on the "El" in Chicago who won't shut the fuck up about Atlas Shrugged.
And without the deep pockets of dedicated backers there will never, ever be an actual Liberal media capable of pushing back against the Right's vast, fanatical, anti-democratic propaganda machine.
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David Brooks trying to post in my comment section as "Anonymous" is funny AF.
The wealthy retaliation after the demise of Hoover.
As Koch Industries own and operate the TEA party. Who were invested in to get elected and become the loud and angry and proud property of the remaining Koch Brother.
That Koch industries could own and operate almost one fourth of the House republican party. There willingness to sell any constitutional product item on the list.
The one the would like erased most of all,
In the Pre Amble.
WE the People. Their SCOTUS seat acquisitions have gotten close with Corporations are people and money is speech.
If money is speech., what is someone saying when they have to use their money to pay for cancer treatment caused from pesticide use?
As in Ancient Egypt, too many Pharaohs and too little slaves to be entombed with.
For they were sure, you can take your slaves and wealth with you when you go.
In the modern age of criminality the criminals, lords of the cartels, et al, would be nowhere without LAWYERS and BANKERS/BANKS, BANKERS/BANKS and LAWYERS.
See recent history of BIG Corporate Banks being hand slapped for laundering Drug Cartel money. I'm of course supposing that very few small banks are in on it, but you never can tell when money by the ton is involved.
How about some real law enforcement of lawyers and bank/bankers who have a history of money laundering and some good ole Crime and Punishment for all the rich.
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