Musk and Putin

So, it appears that Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin are in "close contact." WTF? The richest man in the world in close contact with arch-villain Putin? So the recent interruption of Ukraine's Starshield makes sense now. As soon as the signals were restricted, Putin launched a bunch of missiles into Ukraine, which went undetected. So how can Americans trust Musk at all? WTF are his motives? WTF is with the stupid "Mars" idea too? I wonder what Musk's rocket-bro cult members would think about Elon's close relationship with Putin? I will be asking that, over and over.

So, let me get this straight: Vladimir Putin, a mass-murdering dictator, war criminal, and enemy of the United States who's been helping Iran target Americans during Donald Trump's war with Iran, publicly admits that he and Elon Musk are in "close contact," praising the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.

This all comes shortly after Ukraine suddenly had its access to Starlink services restricted prior to a massive Russian ballistic missile attack that killed civilians.

Meanwhile, Musk is a private citizen and CEO whose companies have billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts, and he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to influence the outcome of our elections. In fact, he's spent hundreds of millions of dollars between 2024 and 2026 and is essentially trying to buy Ken Paxton a spot in the United States Senate.

Musk is also someone who's going around spending money to meddle in the elections of other nations, most of which are also allies of the United States and targets of Russia and Russian propaganda.

And somehow, none of this is being investigated by anyone at any level of law enforcement, national intelligence, or the U.S. government?

To summarize: The richest man in the world, someone with billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts and a lot of influence over our national security due to those contracts, who's also been the GOP's top political donor over the past two election cycles and held a very high-level role within the Trump administration with access to the personal information of basically every American citizen, is having private meetings with the Russian dictator, who's publicly praising him and boasting about their close, seemingly positive relationship.

Yet, not a single investigation by any entity in this country into any of this.

Nothing to see here, it's all a "Russia hoax" and "fake news," right?

I have an idea: Let's put all of this information inside Hunter Biden's laptop. Then maybe we'll get Republicans in Congress to finally give a sh*t and do something to investigate all of this — because this is a very big deal.

Allen Clifton

Carina Cedrechi

This is a curious case. Over the last month, my Facebook feed has featured multiple videos by a woman named Carina Cedrechi. The videos are quite compelling. They give well-written and well-presented essays on politics and current events delivered by a beautiful woman (allegedly) named Carina Cedrechi. In this AI age, naturally, people are wondering if she is an AI creation. 

This presents somewhat of a conundrum for me. I am not a fan of AI. I don't use it (when I can avoid it) and I am suspicious of anyone who does use it and what they produce with it. If videos are obviously outrageous and funny, I can forgive the use of AI. It makes ridicule and mocking easy and instant. 

But in the case of Carina, what "she" has been saying is very relevant to our political and economic situation, with a tasty sprinkling of profanity mixed in. So, if I LIKE what AI produces, am I OK with it?? I do lean in that direction. If people use AI honestly to try and persuade people to do something without misinformation, lying or deception, is AI A-OK? But if people use AI to deceive and manipulate, AI appears to be a malevolent force that just adds to the stresses of modern life.

Online, I found a "Bio" for Carina:

Biography

Carina Cedrechi — political truth-teller, anti-corruption strategist, trauma-survivor advocate, Christian humanitarian, and creator of high-impact multimedia campaigns exposing systemic abuse, government dysfunction, executive-branch corruption, and the dangers of one-man presidential power. Former refugee, federal specialist, and national resilience analyst fighting for real democracy, collective leadership, mental-health reform, human rights, anti-trafficking protection, and constitutional modernization.

Known for viral political commentary, savage social-justice monologues, Gen Z truth-rap, and cinematic activism, Carina uses strategic storytelling to confront authoritarianism, misogyny, state retaliation, workplace abuse, red-pill extremism, political propaganda, billionaire influence, global conflict manipulation, and manufactured division.

Her work centers on executive-council governance, national accountability, public-sector ethics, civic awakening, American burnout culture, and faith-rooted resistance to corruption. She amplifies voices harmed by broken systems, fights for children affected by war, and champions nonviolent civil resistance, mental-health accessibility, anti-war advocacy, and reform that builds a resilient, compassionate, multi-party America.

Carina’s brand blends psychology, geopolitics, culture, faith, and activism, delivering bold, emotionally charged content designed to awaken critical thinking, challenge broken power structures, and inspire a generation to demand integrity, accountability, justice, and national renewal.

Sounds good, right? At least to us lefties who do not trust corporate power or repressive government coercions. 

What follows is an example of Carina's writings. I wish I could post one of her videos here, but Blogger has crippled that functionality. (Or maybe I am just getting too fucking old.) I think it might be time to find a new platform. You can find her online using her name.

This pic is a screenshot.

The System Is Terrified of Millions of Americans Who Finally Stop Acting Like NPCs

You know what absolutely kills me? Every time I open my mouth there's always some intellectually malnourished jackass in the comments going, "all you do is yap. Where's the action?"

Sweetheart, the action is you. What part of that is so difficult to comprehend?

What exactly did you expect me to do? Personally knock on 300 million doors, reorganize the federal government, fix the economy, dismantle corruption, and make everybody a sandwich before dinner? I'm one person. I'm not a one-woman federal emergency management agency for a country suffering from a collective intellectual stroke.

I need you to participate in your own damn existence.

Some of you are walking around like non-playable characters in a video game, waiting for somebody else to finish the mission while you stand in a corner repeating the same three lines about how everything is rigged. Yes, we know it's rigged, Gerald. Now, would you mind developing a fourth sentence?

Here's what people fundamentally do not understand about societal change. This country is enormous. It's a melting pot of cultures, religions, political beliefs, generations, and people who cannot even agree on whether the Earth is round without somebody opening a podcast. You think we're going to bring everybody together by Thursday? This isn't a damn group project where I can threaten to tell the teacher you didn't participate.

Changing the direction of an entire civilization requires patience, repetition, education, and an extraordinary amount of talking. Yes, talking — because talking is how ideas spread. Talking is how people start questioning what they've been taught. Talking is how the person who was completely convinced of something yesterday wakes up tomorrow and realizes they've been defending an absolute pile of horseshit.

And that's why I keep yapping. But here's the part where I need you to start yapping too.

I want ordinary people occupying every corner of the information landscape. TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, podcasts, local newspapers, community meetings, everywhere. Not spreading conspiratorial sewage or inventing nonsense because it gets views — actual information, verifiable truths, difficult conversations, moral principles, things that force people to think beyond the three inches of skull currently being rented out to political propaganda.

And while we're at it, can we discuss this bizarre international political brothel we've constructed? Because I am absolutely fascinated by Americans who have somehow developed more emotional loyalty to foreign governments than to their own fellow citizens. Some of you are standing with Russia, some are standing with Israel, some are defending whichever foreign politician has most recently crawled into your algorithm wearing the ideology equivalent of lingerie. Meanwhile your own country is struggling. What the hell is wrong with you?

In my opinion, political propaganda tied to both Russian and Israeli interests has helped poison American discourse, encouraging division and grotesque caricatures of Americans as dysfunctional, drug-addicted idiots incapable of governing ourselves. And too many Americans have enthusiastically helped amplify that garbage.

I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe this country consists entirely of fentanyl zombies practicing flamingo yoga in gas station parking lots. I've traveled this country. I've lived among these people. I know better. And I refuse to confuse the interests of a foreign government with the worth of its people, just as I refuse to confuse our corrupt politicians with the American people. My loyalty is to my country and my fellow Americans. That shouldn't be a controversial concept.

But here's the bigger picture. I don't simply want corrupt people removed from positions of power so we can replace them with the next generation of professionally groomed sociopaths. I want corruption to become culturally unacceptable. I want society to reach a point where someone offers a public official a suitcase full of money, and instead of negotiating the price of their soul, that official calls the authorities.

Imagine that. A politician with a functioning conscience. I realize I'm describing something so rare that scientists might have to classify it as a new species.

But that's the goal. A society where exploiting children, abusing vulnerable people, enriching yourself through public office, and selling out your neighbors are not treated like unfortunate occupational hazards of being powerful. They're treated as moral disqualifications. Where people who expose abuse are protected. Where victims are believed enough to be heard and evidence is taken seriously. Where justice doesn't come with a separate entrance for billionaires. Where integrity becomes so deeply embedded in our culture that money stops being an effective substitute for character.

And no, we don't accomplish that by screaming for five minutes and expecting a miracle. We accomplish it by slowly changing what society tolerates, rewards, celebrates, and condemns. We make decency fashionable again. We make accountability unavoidable. We make public service mean actual service, instead of an elaborate retirement plan for ethically bankrupt narcissists.

And the beautiful thing about communication: you don't need a billionaire's advertising budget to tell the truth. You need courage, consistency, facts, and enough people refusing to shut up. One person speaks, someone listens, that person starts asking questions, then they speak. Eventually, the propaganda machine finds itself competing with the people it spent decades trying to keep ignorant.

That's when the conversation becomes something much more substantial. People organize. They vote. They volunteer. They demand. They protect their neighbors. They stop rewarding corruption with applause and start demanding consequences through the law. That's action. Talking isn't the opposite of action. It's often the thing that makes coordinated action possible.

So yes, I'm going to keep yapping. And I want you to yap too. Not because I need an audience. Because this country needs participants.

I'm not trying to build a fan club of spectators waiting for their daily dose of political outrage like it's a prescription medication. I'm trying to encourage people to develop enough intellectual independence and moral backbone that they no longer need some millionaire with a podcast to tell them what to think.

Because the end goal isn't for everybody to agree with me. The end goal is for everybody to start thinking, caring, and participating again. And if enough of us accomplish that, these corrupt bastards won't know what hit their business model.

Because the most dangerous thing to a system that profits from public ignorance isn't one loud woman with a camera. It's millions of ordinary people who finally understand they were never supposed to remain spectators in their own lives.

That's why I yap. Now it's your turn.

What's more is that there is some music under the same name of Carina Cedechi. Rebellious stuff. Look her up on Pandora or Spotify.

Finally, here is a link to her dot com site: https://www.carinacedrechi.com/

James Nichols, Jr.

It's a cult alright. I saw one female cult member being interviewed recently and she claimed that Trump made good on every promise he made. She claimed he did everything he said he would do. Then, the interviewer asks, well, what about the Ukraine/Russia war? Trump said he would end that on Day One of his presidency. First, the Trumper claims that she never heard Trump say that, so she thinks that gives him an out. But then, even stranger, she said she doesn't believe there IS a war between Russia and Ukraine. "But what about all the video we see, and all the lives lost?" to which she simply replied "Fake news." She doesn't believe there is a war going on. This is how deeply lost the cult is. If they are confronted with a fact, they claim they never heard that. As a last resort, the answer to just about everything else is "fake news." 

I had no idea there were so many people that are so stupid in America. All the resources at your fingertips, and you get "Fake news." I wonder where she heard that phrase? Case closed.

When I see the happiness and excitement on the faces of a crowd in this Guardian photo taken at a campaign rally in Lubbock, Texas yesterday, I can only wonder if we have lost our minds as a nation and our sense of decency as human beings. Do these folks not know of the profound dishonesty and corruption engaged in by this disreputable slob standing in front of them as he spews the same old incoherence, filth and lies about his broken promises and his disgusting behavior as their President? Or are they so dumb and foolish they will cheer for and believe even the most bald-faced foulness and nonsense that pour out of his lying mouth?

If that is what the people of America have become by this my 75th year, I no longer want them near me, my kids, grandkids or friends as neighbors or in any other capacity. The stink and lies that Trump exude have transformed these otherwise surely fine folks into the equivalent of walking dead, unthinking cultists in the sickest, most depraved cult called MAGA. They have no real love or appreciation for America and what our nation once upon a time stood for in this world: honesty, honor, decency, courage, compassion and respected leadership. Trump and MAGA have turned our nation into a hideous joke. These MAGA yahoos laugh like demented fools even when Trump acts like he's attracted to a man's firm ass. Or MAGA folks sit in abject, mindless silence when he says we should force Canadians to become Americans, when he knows damn well Canadians want no part of our idiocies, bullying, lies, and the rest of his grotesquely failed leadership, or that of cowardly Republican sycophants and toxic toadies like Vance.

When one gazes at the faces of these Trump supporters, it is clear they are not serious people who are aware of the rot Trump and Republicans have infected our nation with or the damage he and they have done to out standing in the world after his failed war in Iran and his betrayal of the Ukrainian people at the behest of his little creepy sicko friend and fellow autocrat Putin. These smiling and laughing fools depicted in this photo appear to be willing to continue their idiotic support of the most corrupt, dishonest and incompetent president and government in US History because they either don't care about the welfare and future of America and are happy to continue enriching the corrupt Trump, his family and oligarchic friends like the slime ball Musk. Or they are unable to comprehend the magnitude of Trump's corruption and his incompetence in starting wars and mismanaging a large economy (like the casinos and other businesses he bankrupted). Nor do they care Trump is also now bankrupting America with his outrageous war and defense spending!

I apologize for rambling on so long, but I am so damn disappointed by and angry at people like those laughing fools in Lubbock who seem to find the shitshow Trump has inflicted on my family and friends and the rest of America to be anything but horrific. The uncaring, selfish and frankly stupidity of those who continue to worship Trump instead of treating him as a malignant cancer on the body politic and governance of our country have brought me to this angry and forlorn state of protest.

James Nichols, Jr.

conservatism->fascism

Thom Hartmann is always an interesting read. Sometimes he even pops up on DU and The Smirking Chimp, among others.

Does Conservatism Always Lead to Fascism?

by Thom Hartmann 

What happens when “conservatives” would rather destroy their democracy than surrender power? History shows us how that road leads straight to fascism, and Trump is taking America down it.

When I was a kid I once asked my dad, who called himself an Eisenhower conservative, what “conservative” meant. He told me it wasn’t that different from liberalism but instead of favoring drastic or radical change in a society believed that such change should come gradually as the result of careful thought, debate, and incremental processes to minimize disruption to society. He quoted William F. Buckley saying, “A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’”

My dad was a naive idealist who missed entirely the direction his “conservative” movement was heading. Conservatism has always, throughout history and in every country where it’s seized a strong foothold, been the precursor to the destruction of social cohesion (look at “conservative” Macron’s France after 45 years of neoliberalism) and eventually violent fascism.

Today’s American conservative movement began at our nation’s founding with the people who opposed our Revolutionary War, grew through the Old South as the plantation owners rose up and turned that region into a brutal oligarchy and declared war on our democracy, reappeared as Jim Crow and the 1940s’ America First movement, popped up again with Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, and is now full-blown with MAGA Trumpism and its billionaire backers.

It thrives on fear and resentment while it embraces violence, authoritarianism, and great wealth, the basic hallmarks of fascism.

Consider how when Abdul El-Sayed was challenged by a paid heckler he turned it into a thoughtful discussion, while in two of Trump’s rallies in the past week he’s encouraged his mob as they beat senseless people who dared challenge him or call for the release of the Epstein files.

Or how Trump’s masked, armed ICE thugs have beaten, imprisoned, and even murdered American citizens with impunity while using terror tactics against dark-skinned non-citizens.

In a 1957 editorial titled Why the South Must Prevail, Buckley laid out explicitly what the foundation of his then-reawakening conservative movement must be.

“Again, let us speak frankly,” Buckley wrote: “The South does not want to deprive the Negro of a vote for the sake of depriving him of the vote. … In some parts of the South, the White community merely intends to prevail — that is all. It means to prevail on any issue on which there is corporate disagreement between Negro and White. The White community will take whatever measures are necessary to make certain that it has its way.”

He asked, rhetorically, if white people in the South are “entitled” to “prevail” over nonwhites even in rural areas of the country or large cities with majority Black populations.

“The sobering answer,” Buckley, the acknowledged godfather of today’s conservative movement, wrote, “is Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”

Arguably, following up in April of 2021 the National Review published an article headlined: Why Not Fewer Voters? justifying Republican voter suppression.

While conservativism in all its incarnations around the world has always embraced racism (look at what Modi is doing now in India, for example), it typically ends with iron-fisted fascism.

And it’s here, now, in America.

The Free Press (the original one, not Bari Weiss’ knock-off) just published a report titled Enemies of the State that analyses Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo 7 (NSPM-7). 

It orders the FBI, DHS, Treasury, and the IRS to aim every counterterrorism, tax, and surveillance tool they have at a target defined by nothing more than ideology, which the memo spells out as “anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, and anti-capitalism.” Yes, the thought police are now here.

Then-AG Bondi’s follow-up memos told federal prosecutors to go after protestors with the highest provable charges, build list of “Antifa-aligned entities,” open a tip line with cash rewards (Trump rolled this out last week under the rubric of “fraud”), and use terrorism as the excuse for the most severe punishments possible.

Its first real test was a July 4th noisy demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE facility in Texas that did about $4,400 in property damage. One of the protestors, Benjamin Song, shot and wounded a police officer he claimed was aiming at an unarmed protestor, and he got 100 years in prison for his offense. Protestor Maricela Rueda got a 70 year sentence for being there and “conspiring” with Song, five others got 50 years in federal prison each, and Rueda’s husband — who wasn’t even at the protest — got a 30 year sentence for helping hide a box of zines.

But the report’s real warning is what’s coming up next. The FBI now runs a multi-agency NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center drawing on staffers from roughly ten federal agencies looking for people whose opinions may be “anti-American.” The DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April, and in August arrested Heidi Beirich, the woman who spent two decades tracking the Klan and neo-Nazis for them.

Treasury Secretary Bessent is reportedly drafting a plan to strip the tax exemptions of Open Society, SPLC and CAIR, and Homeland Security has investigated more than 150 nonprofits that register voters, claiming they’re nailing these groups to protect “election integrity.” As the authors, Shilpa Jindia and Nora Benavidez, put it plainly:

“It treats speaking out, protesting and civic-engagement activities as ‘evidence of terrorism.’”

— Richard Nixon was the first Republican in the modern era to openly dance with the fascists, welcoming southern white supremacist Democrats into the GOP after LBJ signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. His right-hand man John Ehrlichman laid it out plainly, describing the explicitly fascist intent behind Nixon’s so-called War On Drugs. 

— Reagan brought in the morbidly rich and Heritage and laid the foundation for the explosion of rightwing billionaires and their acquisition of our media and social media. He sent surplus military equipment to our police departments, turning them into something that more resembles an occupying army than a “serve and protect” group that Andy Griffiths would recognize.

The reality is they’re not “conserving” anything. They’re instead echoing the thousands of years of modern history of kings and kingdoms where the ruler had absolute, life-or-death power over a nation’s subjects, and citizenship and freedom were both dependent on his whim.

Hierarchy, patriarchy, and a few hundred billionaire families drive today’s Republican effort to defeat our Founders’ liberal democracy and replace it with a Russia-style authoritarian oligarchy and fascism.

There’s no moral core to this so-called “patriotic” movement; just look at Ramaswamy’s despicable attacks on Dr. Amy Acton, Trump sayingthat “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine; they haven’t been doing much” as the missiles murder civilians, and the GOP’s slanders questioning both Talarico’s sexuality and El-Sayed’s loyalty to America.

It’s all about power and the money associated with it. Corruption is fine, so long as you don’t get caught. We now have more concentration camps in America than Hitler did at the end of his first year, and our wealth disparities are greater than any time in American history.

For hundreds of thousands of years, as I document in The Hidden History of American Democracy, tribal people around the world mostly lived in egalitarian societies (there were exceptions, of course) where the “chief” was actually the servant of the tribe rather than its dictator.

They were the archetype and model for the Founders of our republic and the Framers of our Constitution, a worldview and governing philosophy today being openly challenged by rightwing billionaires from the Trump family on down.

The damage they’ve done to our republic and working class people — from Reagan’s Mandate for Leadership to Trump’s Project 2025 and alliances with Putin — is extraordinary. It’ll take a generation to undo, if America is to recover and become Lincoln’s “more perfect union.”

But there’s considerable reason for hope; change is in the wind worldwide. 

The people of Hungary said “no” to fascism in April and turned out Putin’s puppet and Trump’s friend Orbán. The people of Serbia yesterday said “no” to fascism and turned out Putin’s toady and Trump’s friend Vučić. As did Brazilians when they rejected Trump/Putin friend Flavio Bolsonaro.

Will we also say “no” to fascism and turn out the Republican lickspittles who revel in sucking up to Putin’s toady Trump?

That effort begins with us, finally coming down to this week and early next, showing up to vote and continuing to speak out. 

Tag, we’re it!

Thom Hartmann at Smirking Chimp

Vote Rude

Gotta keep up with the Rude Pundit. It's been too long. We voted early. Everyone I know voted early. 

Viktor Orban was voted out this past April. After Brazil and Serbia, optimism is in the air. Netanyahu might not win outright, but his main challenger sounds like Benjamin. Not much of a change there. The only way the GOP keeps control of the House and Senate will be if there was some cheating going on. As much as Trump always talks  rigged elections, he'll try it if he can.

Vote Because It's Your One Chance to Make Some Billionaires Sad

My father fucking hated rich people. I mean, he despised the hell out of them as a group for simply existing. Some of this was born of his hardscrabble upbringing on the streets of Brooklyn in the 1950s. He went from struggling working-class kid to lower middle-class family man by the time he died at age 46, with some stops along the way to solidly middle class and to food stamps-needing poverty. But it wasn't simple resentment. He didn't aspire to be rich. He aspired to not have to worry all the time about money, a far more humble dream. Rich people were pricks, see, because of their material indulgences and their seeming freedom from consequences for their actions. He took great joy whenever a rich person suffered some fall from grace. Seriously, few things made him happier than seeing a rich man sad. This midterm election would thrill him.

If you look at a list of the 10 biggest individual/family donors to political campaigns this year, it's pretty fucking clear who the billionaires, as a whole, support. There is exactly one, George Soros, who gives primarily (or exclusively) to Democrats. The other nine give primarily (or exclusively) to Republicans, including sad, ranting pestilence Elon Musk, movie villains the Winklevi, and legit nutzoid cockscab Paul Singer, along with assorted investors, shipping magnates, and other assmites. They all desperately want the GOP to keep the majority in at least the Senate because they can slap down the House's subpoenas and investigations. But if the entire Congress is Democratic, then some shit is more likely to go through the fan and actually land on these pampered and powdered pussies. It's easier to defund Starlink contracts if you have both houses.

Early voting has gotten and is getting and will be getting under way across the country, and if you need to motivate someone to fucking vote, for fuck's sake, and vote for Democrats, then tell them that this is a rare chance to make some billionaires sad. I mean, really, how many chances do you, average Joe or Jane or  Jordan (to include a nonbinary name), get in this life to do something that might cause Elon Musk to cry? They are precious few, and not buying a Tesla isn't really one of them. This is like walking onto a yacht and kicking Jeff Bezos in the nuts. "Yeah, even rich balls can feel pain," you might yell.

Musk is going to end up dumping around a half-billion dollars into this election, if his current donation rate holds, to try to buy his way out of congressional oversight. The sad part is that this amount of money doesn't affect his wealth at all. He'll have made it back by the end of November, probably more. The sadder part is that our post-Citizens United campaign cash orgy has gotten so out of hand that the safe words have been abandoned and the billionaires are just fucking democracy to death with fistfuls of cash and laughing that no one is doing a goddamn thing to stop them. 

But what Musk can't buy is your ability to walk into a voting booth or a little voting cubby and click the machine or mark your ballot for Democrats. Even if he gave you a thousand bucks before you went to polls or filled in your mail-in ballot, you can still do what you want once it's you and a list of candidates. Musk can't stop what I hope is coming if Democrats get investigative power. Hell, Musk himself has even "joked" that if Democrats look into how he dicked over the world with his DOGE bullshit, including the mass murder of millions through his actions, he'd go to prison. 

It's not just Musk. All of those crypto dicks and AI douches, who are going in big for Republicans, would be looking at the potential (and, goddamn, they better not fuck it up) for genuine oversight from a Congress that actually acts like a co-equal branch of the fucking government and not Trump's ass wipe dispenser, cleaning him up after he shits all over himself and everyone else. All those clips of "Ruben Gallego Destroys Some Asshole at a Hearing" are functionally meaningless beyond making you feel good. However, if Gallego is part of a Democratic-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he has the power to genuinely fuck up the shit of, say, Open AI's Sam Altman, who simply declined to go to a recent hearing. 

Maybe I'm just my father's son, but, goddamn, I wanna ruin the days of some rich fucks who think they're untouchable. Maybe they'll prove to be. Maybe Democrats are so corrupted by their billionaires' funds that they'll choke on taking a few down. But if you wanna at least try to put the ultra-wealthy on notice that their days of being above or beyond the law are over, you gotta be willing to make them cry. And with one simple action, you can can make that happen. Get out there and do it. You'll feel really good about yourself if we succeed.

Rude Pundit