Two powerful movies are coming out before the election, demonstrating how polarized this has become and the shenanigans taking place to rig this election. A grand jury was found even back in 1908, and it was “doubtful if there has been an honest election for years.” When Scotland had its referendum on leaving the UK, the extent of corruption that was used to ensure that the vote would fail was off the charts. The people they wanted to separate from were sent to count the Scottish votes.
We have been fooled for centuries. When people get power, they just never want to give it up. That is human nature. This election is between the Neocons vs We the People. You are not voting for Kamala; you are voting for the established Deep State that runs the place all the time. They wanted Kamala, who is like Biden and will sign whatever they put in front of her. Will there ever be an honest election ever?
While I would like to believe in the Constitution and government will be honest, just for once, I know that is being just a fool denying reality. I also know that there is no talking to 40% of the people on either side of this political divide because there is no chance of changing their minds and a greater chance of me only getting frustrated. As Julius Caesar said over 2000 years ago, people believe what they want to believe. All we can do is stand on the sidelines and understand what is coming.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 29, 2024 | Sundance
RFK Jr did a solid interview with Dr. Phil that deserves some attention for a few reasons. The interview is about a week old and took place immediately following RFK’s announcement to exit.
First, BIG SMILE. Considering the timing, logistical coordination and location analysis of both Trump and RFK Jr’s interview with Dr Phil, CTH can now assert with assurance the rollout of the Kennedy dropout, transition, MAGA endorsement and subsequent public information therein, was in the works for a long time before it became public.
The Trump campaign had this RFK Jr MAGA entry in the works as part of the post DNC-Chicago strategy. Dr Phil was/is a planned and agreed participant in the rollout. The construct and the timeline also align with Corey Lewandowski rejoining the Trump campaign as a senior advisor shortly before the MAGA “unity” merge.
The fact that we can now see this as a long-planned and intentionally organized rollout operation is a good thing, a very good thing. That reality mitigates, but doesn’t eliminate, the IC influence concern.
Additionally, many within our community of CTH Treepers travel the deep weeds of political research, and our collective commentary is read by a wide swath of well-known political analysts and media pundits. The answers given by RFK Jr during the Dr Phil interview provide solid affirmation for positions we eventually took in prior discussions.
Second, within this specific segment, RFK Jr is talking about his decision to exit the race. Kennedy admits from the inception of his campaign he has always pulled more votes from Donald Trump (57%) than he did from the Democrat nominee (Biden or Harris). This is a point that was debated on these pages for quite some time; we can now put the argument away.
In the 2024 election, RFK Jr’s presence hurt President Trump more than Biden/Harris. This is just a datapoint: From the outset Kennedy always knew he was hurting Trump and assisting Biden/Harris through his candidacy. This is not to present anything controversial about his recent decision to exit and endorse Trump, nor is the highlight intended to diminish RFK Jr., this reality is simply just a datapoint to consider. RFK Jr always knew he was hurting President Trump more than helping Joe Biden (or Kamala).
In the final minutes, Kennedy opened up to Dr. Phil about why he not only endorsed President Trump but also decided to actively campaign for him.
His first reason was clear: he’s terrified of a potential Walz-Harris administration, which he believes is on “the wrong side” of… pic.twitter.com/gVewErneYy
Third, if you have followed the Trump campaign and family closely, you will note the MAGA issue of chronic childhood disease; as it relates to the issue “Make America Healthy Again” being at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s thinking as a policy initiative; comes from one place, Melania Trump. President Donald Trump did not have an epiphany on an issue close to the heart of RFK Jr., Melania Trump has been quietly focused on the issues around childhood illnesses and environmental impacts for a long time. With the First Lady as the strong counsellor of record that truly matters, it makes sense for a positive, personal influence.
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If you have time to watch the full interview below, it is well worth the investment. IF you need to shorten it, the first 10 minutes hold the majority of the points that matter. Remember, this interview was one of the first done in the aftermath of RFK Jr suspending his campaign [8/23/24].
The only negative to this interview is the fact that it took place before RFK Jr told Tucker Carlson that President Trump was “reprehensible.”
However, I can somewhat understand how a prideful person like RFK Jr would psychologically be in that mindset, given the inbound hatred Kennedy encountered during the timeframe before the Carlson interview. Indeed, the “reprehensible” comment should be considered a projection statement, a shout into the storm per se’, said more in exasperation and frustration than spite.
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Posted originally on Feb 20, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
A new study has found that widespread voter fraud amid the 2020 US Presidential election tipped the scales in favor of Joe Biden, whereas Trump “almost certainly” would have won if this were not the case.
Around 94% of people said that they would vote in-person if that were the only available option. The study believes that in-person voting WITH an ID is the only way to prevent this from happening again. The study suggests a notary or witness in the case of mail-in ballots, but believes states should limit who is eligible to vote by mail. Ballot harvesting must be outlawed, and unsecured election drop boxes must be forbidden. Moreover, states should implement harsher penalties for election fraud.
Where is the outrage? Look at the outcome of the last election – America is barely recognizable. Our quality of life has declined as the cost of living continues to rise, government is bleeding out money through hefty spending packages, millions of illegals are roaming the nation on tax-payer funds, and we are on the brink of a third world war. There is no reason to permit mail-in voting for the average civilian. Mail-in voting was a gift to the establishment as they were able to manipulate the results with minimal effort.
Posted originally on Feb 10, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
I paid very close attention to Tucker’s interview with Putin. I found Putin honest but curiously restrained. He could have easily gone off on the interference in the Russian 2000 election, his request to interrogate Bill Browder and the fake dossier manufactured for Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirator, the grandfather of the Neocons, John McCain. When Tucker was pressed about talking to American presidents, he explained that they really do not make the decisions – it is the Deep State where he carefully avoids naming anyone.
Then, I have seen people claiming everything Putin said was propaganda. Sorry – he was very honest. I have the declassified documents from the Clinton Administration, and Russia was offered the chance to join NATO. That was why the old hardline Communists, who saw that as Russia’s surrender to America, attempted a coup against Gorbachev. That is when Yeltsin stood on the tank and pleaded with the military not to fire on the people. The military stood down, the coup collapsed, and Yeltsin became the new head of state. These are facts that cannot be disputed. The West has perpetually sought to take over Russia since the days of Napoleon because it is perhaps the richest country on the planet insofar as natural resources are concerned.
People have no idea how they are being manipulated. Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a woman’s activist. She explained that Roe v Wade had NOTHING to do with women’s rights. It was all about reducing the population. Bill Gates’ father was the head of Planned Parenthood, and they were set up in minority areas to reduce the population of predominantly blacks. To hide the racism and reduce popularity, they called it women’s rights, and then all the female groups got behind it when they had no idea they were being played for fools.
Then, take climate change. There is NO WAY we could ever get to Net Zero. This all started by the Neocons to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power, and this was to undermine the Russian economy. McCain did not care about the environment. These people are masters at SWITCHING LABELS TO HIDE THEIR REAL AGENDA. Remember when Obama wanted to invade Syria? He could care less about the people of Syria, it was all about running a pipeline through Syria to cut off the income for Russia on selling fuel to Europe.
The US orchestrated the blowing up of Nordstream, and in return, they promised Germany to keep their mouth shut, and the US taxpayer would pay for a pipeline from Nigeria to Europe. Nigeria would also be the first test for CBDCs, and everything was going well until there was a coup in Niger where the pipeline had to go through. Victoria Nuland jumped on a plane because this was messing up the Neocon scheme to cut off the energy income for Russia again. This has always been an economic war to destroy Russia. Putin was a gentlemen and did not want to get into a blame game.
Mainstream media refused to air the interview with Putin. When I read the review by the Economist, which was unsigned by the author, hate and bias seethed through every line. I thought I was reading Karl Marx. The Economist did not present a review of the interview; it was a typical propaganda piece that did nothing but insult Tucker and Putin and never dealt with any facts.
Perhaps they were upset that their former Prime Minister Johnson went to Ukraine to tell Zelensky he was not allowed to sign a peace deal and fight until the last Ukrainian died. That was not fiction. The Ukrainian Press even reported it. Britain was interfering in the politics of Ukraine and had sentenced countless Ukrainians to their death. I was shocked by the Economist’s unprofessional review; there was just hatred in every line. They seemed to be trying to distract their readers from the raw truth about Johnson.
“A Trumpist provocateur and host on Fox News until he was sacked last year, Mr Carlson gave Mr Putin lots of chances to stir up American politics. For a supposed sorcerer of electoral interference, the president did a poor job. Might a different administration in Washington help mend relations with Russia? “It is not about the leader,” Mr Putin said disobligingly. Invited, more than once, to blame nato for the war—a bogus explanation favoured by American isolationists—he repeatedly blathered about history. Mr Carlson looked, now and then, like a man who has drifted into a reverie over whether he left the oven on.”
The response to the interview by the White House and NATO confirms what Putin has said. He is willing to talk, but they refuse. There is no risk to national security by a peace deal and simply honoring the Minak Agreement, and the Russians who have lived in the Donbas for centuries decide their fate.
The West lied about everything. They negotiated the Minsk Agreement in bad faith only to buy time for Ukraine to raise an army and take on Russia directly. We will spend $1 trillion on this war because this is all about destroying Russia from the outset. I was asked to put in $10 billion in 1998 to fund this takeover of Russia. I refused.
The day before, Zelensky stood up and announced he would seek to rearm Ukraine with nuclear weapons pointed at Russia. If I recall, the US had the Cuba Missile Crisis over Kruschev’s attempt to put nukes in Cuba. Putin mentioned that in a speech to the people that night as one of the reasons to justify entering the Donbas.
Zelensky claimed he did not warn the people about an invasion when he knew when it would take place, claiming it would have cost him $7 billion, but he was told not to inform the people. The Neocons wanted as many civilians killed as possible to paint Russia as ruthless. They needed that to sell the war to Congress, which they started.
I have said from the start that Putin was a historian. He rejected the idea that he should conquer Ukraine and take out Kiev, just as the US did to Iraq. When Putin launched the move to protect the Donbas, he told the Ukrainian people not to fight; we are brothers. Ukraine was never a country. They joined Hitler, who promised them he would create a country for them. Ukraine was the first to push for the demise of the Soviet Union. Kruschev assigned Crimea to Ukraine because he grew up there and was in charge of rebuilding Kiev during World War II. His successor, Brezhnev who was born in the Donbas.
Stalin’s right-hand man who proposed and took the food from Ukraine was Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991), a Ukrainian. Even the New York Times reported quoting a Ukrainian woman: “I am from the Ukraine, and I know the ‘order’ Kaganovich enforced there — it was genocide.” He killed millions of Ukrainians and thought it was retaliation for prejudice against Jews.
Even NPR stooped to new low levels. They preferred to slander Tucker and denigrate Putin rather than listen to anything and preferred sending millions of people to die for their propaganda. They wrote:
“The right-wing television provocateur Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an exchange fueling both the Russian president’s anti-Ukrainian rhetoric and Carlson’s drive for renewed relevance in his post-Fox career.”
The New York Times was more restrained than the Economist. Perhaps because there was no American who told the Ukrainians that they should keep fighting until there were no Ukrainians left. Still, those of us who have access behind the curtain know that the US Neocons ordered Johnson to kill the peace deal. The NY Times had a political slant suggesting that Putin was adopting Trump’s talking points. wrote:
“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has worked for decades to win allies in the West, using his spy agencies to interfere in elections and deploying diplomats to build links with Kremlin-friendly politicians.
On Thursday, the world witnessed a new, verbose chapter in those efforts: Mr. Putin’s two-hour interview, taped in a gilded hall at the Kremlin, with one of America’s most prominent and most divisive conservative commentators.
Speaking to Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, Mr. Putin called on the United States to “make an agreement” to cede Ukrainian territory to Russia in order to end the war. He sought to appeal directly to American conservatives just as Republican lawmakers are holding up aid to Ukraine on Capitol Hill, echoing the talking points of politicians like former President Donald J. Trump who say that the United States has more pressing priorities than a war thousands of miles away.”
Variety Magazine was at least balanced. They did not degrade themselves by calling Tucker a failed journalist or Putin a madman. CNBC could not help themselves and just had to comment: “Carlson has consistently repeated falsehoods, misinformation and conspiracy theories, and he has been a vocal critic of U.S. support of Ukraine.”
Reuterswas at least professional, which is very hard to find these days. They reported that “Putin devoted a substantial part of the interview to complaining that Ukraine had been on the verge of agreeing a deal to end hostilities at talks in Istanbul in April 2022, but backed away, he said, once Russian troops withdrew from near Kyiv.” I had contacts there in Kyiv, and I was concerned for their safety. There was a column of tanks parked outside the city, and I asked daily, “What are they doing? ” I was told they were just sitting there as a show of force. They reported that he had no interest in invading Poland or Latvia. I have heard that from my sources, and it appears to be propaganda from NATO to keep their funding flowing to remain relevant. Politico was not as biased as many. Still, they tried to paint Putin in a dark light rather than to encourage some negotiation. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dying for a territory grab that Russians have occupied for hundreds of years. If Kiyv had a right to independence from Russians, then why does Donbas, who are Russians, have the same right to freedom?
Aljazeera was the only one who seemed to focus on Russia being invited to join NATO. They reported fairly without calling people names, pointing out Putin’s claims Clinton flip-flopped on Russia joining NATO. Most of the Western Press ignored that because it did not suit their predetermined agenda.
I got my hands on all the declassified documents from the Clinton Administration. NOTHING that Putin said was propaganda or a lie. All of the documents from the Clinton Administration form his version. The Western Media is so intent on putting out the propaganda from the Neocons that they are pushing us into World War III. There is no Western leader who is even interested in peace. They are all pushing for war ASAP because they will (1) get to default on all their debts, at least held by enemies, and (2) they can use a population reduction to reduce the unfunded liabilities. Nobody seems interested anymore in honest investigative journalism.
They see their job to drag the common people into war, telling them they will be attacked any day now. The common people in the US, EU, Canada, China, and Russia do not want war. That is always the scheme of leaders – not the average person who stands nothing to gain and everything to lose. Yet, mainstream media keep the propaganda preaching war with every article they write, often quoting Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law, who runs the Institute for the Study of War.
Posted originally on Jan 24, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling permitting the federal government to stop any attempts to control the crisis at the US-Mexico border. The initial case was in regard to the razor wire Texas implemented at its southern border, which now must be removed based on this ruling. This is an establishment issue that goes far beyond liberal policies.
Justices Roberts and Barrett sided with the liberals, while Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented with no explanation. Our top court owes it to the people of America to explain why they are siding against us and ignoring the Constitution they have sworn to uphold.
The Supreme Court has removed your sovereignty at the state level. States no longer have the right to protect themselves from invasion.
Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott does not seem to be backing down. Why do we have a National Guard in every state if the federal government can come in and tell them to stand down when enforcing state laws? Abbott’s camp explained that the “absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry” and the state “will continue fighting to defend Texas’ property and its constitutional authority to secure the border.”
Then you have videos of the US military escorting illegal migrants over the razor wire.
“The result of Texas’s position would be that States across the country could invoke their laws to impede the federal government’s exercise of its authority,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in court papers. So this goes far beyond even the border crisis. This ruling was meant to show the American public that they are at the mercy of the federal government. Again, we have just lost our sovereignty at the state level. They will look to this ruling in the future when states dare to defy Washington.
Section IV Article 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
The Supreme Court and everyone in Washington has turned Americans against one another. What will happen when the Texas National Guard refuses to back down? The mass invasion should be seen as an act of war. Section IV Article 4 states that the federal government must protect each state against invasion. Numerous states are firmly standing with Texas against the fed — Texas is not alone in this battle. WE THE PEOPLE are infuriated, and there is no way that this can end peacefully. Tensions are rising as we enter an extremely explosive year in politics.
Posted originally on Jan 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
COMMENT:
Marty,
Just like leading the country in election cheating (this isn’t a great site to reference, but it does list some of the “irregularities” https://www.factcheck.org/2009/01/mining-the-minnesota-recount/). It appears Minnesota was also ahead of the con game with the results of the last census where Minnesota kept all its congressional seats even though it should have lost one (ironically to NY) (https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/19/census-overcount-mn-undercount-congressional-seat-federal-funding/). I’d guess the next census will show states like MN & NY will have upwards of ’81 million’ residents and then like the GDP & every other govt number it will be revised down afterwards after having its intended effect.
Keep up the good work.
-JJ
(A woman’s testimony from the 2020 US Presidential Election)
REPLY: “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything,” has often been attributed to Stalin but there is no definite source. Your example highlights how losing political parties will use every dirty trick in the book to sway the results in their favor.
Elections have been rigged for centuries. Pericles was attacked and banished amid the first democracy. During the Senate elections in Rome of 53 BC, only the elite voted. Interest rates DOUBLED because people were borrowing so much to fund bribes to rig the election.
The 2008 US Senate recount in Minnesota that you mentioned was another slap in the face to democracy. Republican incumbent Norm Coleman initially led Democratic challenger Al Franken by more than 200 votes. However, the state Canvassing Board’s certified recount results showed that Franken received 225 more votes than Coleman out of nearly 2.9 million votes.
This incident highlights some of the common tactics such as duplicate ballots, missing ballots, and rejected absentee ballots. The documentary “2000 Mules” explained in-depth how they managed to swing the 2020 US Presidential Election in Biden’s favor through ballot harvesting.
Now this happened before mail-in ballots made rigging an election so easy that even a child could do it. You no longer need to prove who you are to vote, nor do you need to prove you are from this country. In fact, you do not need even to exist.
Biden secured the dead vote during the last election, as thousands of deceased Americans rose from the dead to cast their vote. Mail-in ballots were sent to dead people, stolen by bad actors, and counted as fraudulent votes.
There are videos of election officials blatantly changing the ballots they receive to favor their candidate of choice. There are videos of mail carriers and others discarding mail-in ballots. Hundreds of pounds, not ballots, were found discarded in a junkyard in New Jersey after the last presidential election.
There were instances where people received absentee ballots on behalf of others. In New York, over 100,000 voters received ballots with the wrong names printed on them, and there was no way to track if someone was voting on behalf of someone else. Where did this occur? In Brooklyn, where Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke is positioned and ADMITTED that their plan has been to pack the district with migrants for “redistricting purposes.”
We have all heard of redrawing voting lines to rig elections. DeSantis did this in Florida as well in recent years, and I am not pointing at simply one side. Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party by manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts. This corruption was named after Elbridge Gerry, who had engaged in this corruption from the very start of the United States election process. As they say, where there is a WILL, there is also a WAY to make it happen.
There are corrupt antics in EVERY election, but now the tactics are blatant. This does not mean one should refrain from voting because these politicians deserve to know that their constituents never wanted them in power in the first place.
The United States of America is not a democracy nor a republic. Previously, I stated that at best we lived under a republic since we the people do not have ultimate power. The government has taken over more power in the last few years than ever before. Our elections are completely rigged and the United States is now under the control of a dictatorship led by globalists behind the curtain.
Jailing the top political opponent was not enough for the left, nor was opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants to redistrict areas where they are losing support. California announced the new Remote Accessible Vote-By-Mail (RAVBM) program, which permits voters to PRINT THEIR OWN BALLOT TO MAIL IN.
Sign the envelope (using the envelope provided with the vote-by-mail ballot or the voter’s own envelope)
Return the printed and signed selections either by mail or by dropping it off at a voting location. The selections cannot be returned electronically.
Certain districts in California plan to send everyone vote-by-mail envelopes. As the propaganda video above notes, they are attempting to frame this as an option for voters with disabilities. If that were the case, then why is EVERYONE in the state provided with this option? Unsurprisingly, the guy in the video opted to raise taxes on his imaginary ballot. “Any voter can request to use Remote Accessible Vote-by-Mail (RAVBM),” California’s Secretary of State said in a press release.
You can request a fraudulent ballot up to seven days before the actual election. Citizens overseas may also request RAVBM, nearly ensuring non-citizens will end up voting in US elections. This is also a great way for illegal migrants to vote in our elections, incorporating millions of additional votes into our system.
We simply wanted people to show their identification prior to voting, as is required for any other government interaction. This blows the lid off creative voter fraud as it is so blatantly rigged – unbelievable.
NO ONE WILL ACCEPT THIS ELECTION! The computer has been indicating that the 2024 US Presidential Election will only produce violence.
Posted originally on Jan 10, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
When Trump won in 2016, that is when it all started. Democracy suddenly became evil “populism” for how dare the people try to vote career politicians out of power. They began their hate campaign against Trump because they could not allow an outsider to upset their feeding troff. I was handling many calls back to them because our computer projected a Trump victory, and they wanted to believe something was wrong. I tried to explain that he was legitimately elected, and it was a vote against those who never leave. Trump ran on draining the swamp and argued that term limits were necessary. He failed to realize that the swamp was an ocean that included both camps.
The fake dossier created by Hillary to slander Trump was handed to the FBI’s James Comey by the Republican godfather of the Neocons – John McCain. That proved the fake divide between Republicans and Democrats should get the Oscar for the best performance in a fictional setting.
We are looking at the likelihood of the most corrupt elections around the world in human history. This is not going to go well. I put the odds of a fair election at about 0% on a global scale. I would say the civil unrest projections globally post-2024 are the direct result. As I mentioned, war is a contagion. Well, so is civil unrest. There is way too much at stake for those in power to allow a fair election ANYWHERE.
In Canada, the government has been fully onboard with the World Economic Forum. Chrystia Freeland, Schwab’s star pupil, had a journalist arrested for trying to ask her a question. This is the arrogance of people rolling in power like a pig in mud and who by no means are willing to yield to the great unwashed who are clearly too stupid to even vote. As one reader from Canada emailed in:
This incident clearly shows how far our beloved country of Canada has fallen. This interaction/arrest happened when Chrystia Freeland, unfortunately our Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister (the one who smiled when she announced she was freezing bank accounts without due process) was asked about Iranian terrorists by a reporter from alternative media group which is absolutely despised by Trudeau.
We understand that the reporter was finally released without charges but the damage has been done.
KP
When they created the Euro, Germany refused to allow the people to vote because they knew they would lose. Then there was BREXIT. Again, the great unwashed dared to go against what the ruling class was doing. Electing Trump was the icing on the cake.
These low-life people think they actually have the intelligence to decide what the government should be doing. No matter who, once power is tasted, it becomes addictive. The people are airheads besides being the Great Unwashed scum beneath their feet. It is just outrageous that the public should not have any pretended right to vote. Taking Trump off the ballot is a threat against Democracy in itself. They tell us Biden is far superior, and RFK was kicked off the Democratic ballot. So let the people decide. Oh! That’s right. They are too stupid to allow that. Voting has now become the greatest threat to Democracy – evil populism that cannot be tolerated. Voting is just dangerous to their version of Democracy where we have no right to vote on things like war, peace, taxes, or any regulation anyway.
Posted originally on the CTH on September 17, 2023 | Sundance
I’m going to build out on this in the next several days and weeks. The reason is simple, this is the cornerstone of DC Business; it has nothing to do with legislation, lawmaking, or the other reference points we retain in the illusion of modern politics. It’s going to get ugly!
CTH often describes the background DC motives with the phrase: “There are Trillions at Stake.” Here we take a look at what that really means, and how DC politics is not quite based on the ideas that frame many reference points.
With people taking notice of DC politics for the first time, and with people not as familiar with the purpose of DC politics, we end up within two different references. Perhaps it is valuable to reset the larger frames of reference and provide clarity.
I’ve been talking about this for well over a decade, and we have had this conversation on these pages for just as long. However, in this video Bill Gurley brings some modern receipts. WATCH:
Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in Congress writing legislation or laws.
In modern politics, not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.
Over the past several decades a system of constructing legislation has taken over Washington DC that more resembles a business operation than a legislative body.
Here’s how it works right now.
Outside groups, often called “special interest groups”, are entities that represent their interests in legislative constructs. These groups are often representing foreign governments, Wall Street multinational corporations, banks, financial groups or businesses, or smaller groups of people with a similar connection who come together and form a larger group under an umbrella of interest specific to their affiliation.
Sometimes the groups are social interest groups, activists, climate groups, environmental interests etc. The social interest groups are usually non-profit constructs who depend on the expenditures of government to sustain their cause or need.
The for-profit groups (mostly business) have a purpose in Washington DC to shape policy, legislation and laws favorable to their interests. They have fully staffed offices just like any business would – only their ‘business‘ is getting legislation for their unique interests.
These groups are filled with highly paid lawyers who represent the interests of the entity and actually write laws and legislation briefs.
In the modern era, this is actually the origination of the laws that we eventually see passed by Congress. Within the walls of these buildings, within Washington DC, is where the ‘sausage’ is actually made.
Again, no elected official is usually part of this law origination process.
Almost all legislation created is not ‘high profile’; they are obscure changes to current laws, regulations or policies that no-one pays attention to. The passage of the general bills within legislation is not covered in media. Ninety-nine percent of legislative activity happens without anyone outside the system even paying any attention to it.
Once the corporation or representative organizational entity has written the law they want to see passed, they hand it off to the lobbyists.
The lobbyists are people who have deep contacts within the political bodies of the legislative branch, usually former House/Senate staff or former House/Senate politicians themselves.
The lobbyist takes the written brief, the legislative construct, and it’s their job to go to Congress and sell it.
“Selling it” means finding politicians who will accept the brief, sponsor their bill and eventually get it to a vote and passage.
The lobbyist does this by visiting the politician in their office, or, most currently familiar, by inviting the politician to an event they are hosting. The event is called a junket when it involves travel.
Often the lobbying “event” might be a weekend trip to a ski resort, or a “conference” that takes place at a resort. The actual sales pitch for the bill is usually not too long and the majority of the time is just like a mini vacation etc.
The size of the indulgence within the event, the amount of money the lobbyist is spending, is customarily related to the scale of benefit within the bill the sponsoring business entity is pushing. If the sponsoring business or interest group can gain a lot of financial benefit from the legislation, they spend a lot on the indulgences.
Recap: Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.
Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial waypoints to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.
The important part to remember is that the origination of the entire process is EXTERNAL to Congress.
Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.
When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator, you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.
While all of this is happening, the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.
This is the way legislation is created.
If your frame of reference is not established in this basic understanding, you can often fall into the trap of viewing a politician, or political vote, through a false prism. The modern origin of all legislative constructs is not within Congress.
“we’ll have to pass the bill to, well, find out what is in the bill” etc. ~ Nancy Pelosi 2009 “We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber 2011, 2012.
Once you understand this process, you can understand how politicians get rich.
When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation, they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.
The legislative construct passes from K-Street into the halls of Congress through congressional committees. The law originates from the committee to the full House or Senate. Committee seats which vote on these bills are therefore more valuable to the lobbyists. Chairs of these committees are exponentially more valuable.
Now, think about this reality against the backdrop of the 2016 Presidential Election. Legislation is passed based on ideology. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, the system within DC was not structurally set up to receive a Donald Trump presidency.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, her oval office desk would be filled with legislation passed by Congress which she would have been signing. Heck, she’d have writer’s cramp from all of the special interest legislation, driven by special interest groups that supported her campaign, that would be flowing to her desk.
Why?
Simply because the authors of the legislation, the originating special interest and lobbying groups, were spending millions to fund her campaign. Hillary Clinton would be signing K-Street constructed special interest legislation to repay all of those donors/investors.
Congress would be fast-tracking the passage because the same interest groups also fund the members of Congress.
President Donald Trump winning the election threw a monkey wrench into the entire DC system…. In early 2017 the modern legislative machine was frozen in place.
The “America First” policies, represented by candidate Donald Trump, were not within the legislative constructs coming from the K-Street authors of the legislation.
There were no MAGA lobbyists waiting on Trump ideology to advance legislation based on America First objectives.
As a result of an empty feeder system, in early 2017 congress had no bills to advance because all of the myriad of bills and briefs written were not in line with President Trump policy. There was simply no entity within DC writing legislation that was in line with President Trump’s America First economic and foreign policy agenda.
Exactly the opposite was true. All of the DC legislative briefs and constructs were/are antithetical to Trump policy. There were hundreds of file boxes filled with thousands of legislative constructs that became worthless when Donald Trump won the election.
Those legislative constructs (briefs) representing tens of millions of dollars’ worth of time and influence were just sitting there piled up in boxes under desks and in closets amid K-Street and the congressional offices. Legislation needed to be in-line with an entire new political perspective, and there was no-one, no special interest or lobbying group, currently occupying DC office space with any interest in synergy with Trump policy.
Think about the larger ramifications within that truism. That is also why there was/is so much opposition.
No legislation provided by outside interests means no work for lobbyists who sell it. No work means no money. No money means no expense accounts. No expenses mean politicians paying for their own indulgences etc.
Politicians were not happy without their indulgences, but the issue was actually bigger. No K-Street expenditures also means no personal benefit, and no opportunity to advance financial benefit from the insider trading system.
Without the ability to position personal wealth for benefit, why would a politician stay in office? The income of many long-term politicians on both Republican and Democrat sides of the aisle was completely disrupted by President Trump winning the election. That is one of the key reasons why so many politicians retired immediately thereafter.
When we understand the business of DC, we understand the difference between legislation with a traditional purpose and modern legislation with a financial and political agenda.
Lastly, this is why -when signing legislation- President Trump often says, “They’ve been trying to get this through for a long time” etc. Most of the legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in his first term was older legislative proposals, with little indulgent value, that were shelved in years past.
Example: Criminal justice reform did not carry a financial benefit to the legislative bodies, and there was no financial interest funding the politicians to pass the bill. If you look at most of the bills President Trump signed, with the exception of a few economic bills, they stemmed from congressional construction many years ago.
COMMENT: You are just a Trump supporter. The 2020 election was not rigged. Get over it.
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ANSWER: I’m sorry you refuse to look at it objectively. I was asked to put in $10 billion, and they were rigging the 2000 Russian election. I said no, and I paid the price. Here is a tape of former CIA Chief James Woolsey admitting that the CIA has rigged elections. As he says: “Only for a very good cause. In the interest of democracy.” He also refused to say they no longer interfere in foreign elections. If you think for one second that the 2020 election was fair, you are a fool. The Neocons got rid of Trump and immediately began to wage wars. They took out Kennedy because he, too, was against the war. Johnson took us right into Vietnam.
I will be shocked if Biden does not win in 2024. They Want this War at all costs.
They are attacking RFK as well – this is NOT just about Trump.
The Neocon Robert MacNamara apologized for being WRONG, and 58,000 Americans died then, and how many millions of Vietnamese? He admits it was a civil war, the same as Ukraine. Russia is supporting the Donbas, and we support Kiev. These Neocons have never won a single war since WWII. They have lied about every last war to get us involved. I feel sorry for you. You have been subjected to their brainwashing, and eventually, you will open your eyes and realize this is all about their power and preventing outsiders from coming to Washington to play in their sandbox. I understand when you are part of the herd, you will never listen to others. You have to open your mind and cross that boundary voluntarily. You cannot be forced.
Look at the movie Oppenheimer. You will see what they did to him.
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