The entire GOP is compromised

[SHRED]

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Mike Levin
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@MikeLevinCA
Why isn’t it a bigger deal that Michael Cohen was the deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee while he was being paid by Russian oligarchs and big corporations? This is on the whole Republican Party.

7:16 AM - May 9, 2018 · San Juan Capistrano, CA

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yet another reason to not vote for Repubs...

any Repubs.

[Iliyah]

2. Been saying that for several years now.

Confirmation's door cracking and something will throw it open widely. And surprise surprise, it ain't Mueller yet but a porn star and her attorney that might crack it wide open.

Go figure. And I assume, Nunes and the three stooges can't touch that.

[DownriverDem]

29. Why?

Because during all those elections when the country moved right and voted repub, the repubs were busy taking over everything. repubs control the media (tv & radio) and the government. So repubs control the message 24/7. Folks who complain about the Dems, do not realize just how much control the repubs have. Get Dem electoral wins and see how things will be on the road for change. It won't happen overnight. We got in this mess going back decades.

[OhNo-Really]

39. 80 years ago, to be precise. The second the New Deal was signed. Greed never sleeps

[annabanana]

59. yep . . .n/t

[dalton99a]

3. Clearly and without a doubt.

[bluestarone]

12. My thoughts as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HipChick]

4. Where are the dems shouting from the rooftops about this?

[SHRED]

5. Levin is

Mike Levin is running for Issa's seat.

[Ligyron]

6. We defiantly need louder, more consistent Dem voices.

If this had happened to one of ours the Pugs would be screaming at the top of their lungs on every media appearance (and they'd make sure there were plenty of them).

[PaulX2]

23. We've Been Too Nice Since Reagan

Sorry, but it's true.

[HipChick]

32. Being nice does not cut it anymore...

[raven mad]

33. Amen, PaulX2. n/t

[lastlib]

38. We have given the GOPhers enough rope to hang themselves, and....

...now they are hanging themselves. Time for us to pull the ropes tighter.

Eric Swalwell just said on Ari's show that every tree you shake in tRumpland, a Russian falls out. How much more f&ucking evidence do we need to convince those who are so blind they refuse to see??

[certainot]

52. they can't, they've been trained, don't even try. the cons have 1500 coordinated radio stations

shouting over them - the real political correctness cops. but because it can't be read it is ignored while it kicks our ass. dems think there's a huge popular regressive con movement against them, motivated by racism and economic anxiety and anti immigration sentiment and much of it is based in bullshit alternate reality created with 300 ignorant think tank-scripted liars on 1500 radio stations.

[Hortensis]

56. WHAT? Everyone on this thread know about it.

And what happens? Half of them are responding not by being mad as hell about the Republicans but instead twisting it into defeatist complaints about Democrats.

I suggest those people go complain in front of a mirror. Republicans don't behave like this. Right wing radio works because its listeners are eager to soak it up, grab forks and go after Democrats.

On our side, though, Democratic messages only make this type go deaf and start jabbing forks at themselves.

And left-wing radio usually fails. Those who listen to radio at all tend to like their information honest and objective, which is why carefully factual, informative NPR is where most liberals who tune in go.

Except of course the types drawn to RT and RT-type venues, where psych op warriors sing exactly the same kind of defeatist complaints about Democrats being chorused here.

Our messengers are hard at work and always have been. The failure is in a kind of recipient you just don't see on the right, or on the left listening to NPR while they slice veggies for dinner either.

[spanone]

7. K&R...

[DemocracyMouse]

54. K&R? Kangaroos & rabbits? We're drowning in acronyms, people. A little more effort to spell it out?

[phylny]

55. At times I might agree with you. This is not one of those times.

This is accepted, common practice here for "kick and recommend" when you want to keep the thread high on the page, and when you recommend it as well

[DemocracyMouse]

62. Two questions then:

1) Are you aware of how clubby that notion of "get used to it" is to a Democrat and born-in-the-wool progressive? It's not kindly, inclusive and movement building.

2) Does (K)angaroo & (R)abbit bestow digital spells above and beyond just writing "great comment" or "Nice! Thank you!"

3) Please don't take offense at my humor. Much about this forum is quite wonderful and other elements seem like it needs a good rabbit. No organization can survive without jesters poking around the edges and taking the air out of its pretenses.

[phylny]

63. Not offended.

I think it’s like anything on the Internet - people use abbreviations and we figure it out eventually, either by asking, by experience, or by looking it up. Much like Phil Dunphy did on Modeen Family years ago when he figured out what WTF meant: Why The Face?

[Ilsa]

58. This is one you need to get used to. You'll come to appreciate it

if you hang around long enough.

[cynatnite]

8. They're not compromised at all...

They're complicit.

[KPN]

9. K&R.

[Achilleaze]

10. republicans sold out America for $$$$$$

lock up traitors

[world wide wally]

11. Why aren't the Dems flooding the cable news shows with surrogates right now?

Trump would be doing exactly that...and it works.

[Duppers]

18. EXACTLY!!

I am furious with the lack of coverage (as I posted below).

[OhNo-Really]

40. Maybe the corporate media isn't inviting them.

Ever wonder why the McCain & Graham show was on most Sundays?

Corporate media is too complicit as well. Advertisers or something like that

[Hassler]

51. +1

[TNNurse]

13. They were compromised the moment they made Trump their candidate.

[wiggs]

14. it's why McConnell knew he could get a SCOTUS pick if he denied Obama the pick for a year, and

why on the whole GOP is silent on Trump....they know there's a plan to get them out of this.

This is not just about D vs R in America. The world's oligarchs and crime families are exerting their power in this and trillions are on the line. And for the first time, one of their own is president of the most powerful, richest country in the world.

What if WWIII is not a war between countries but a legal and media war between a few hundred families and corporations (that own most of the world's wealth) and the rest of us? More than half of the world's biggest economies is not countries, it's corporations.

[Duppers]

19. 👍👍 Nailed it.

Great post!

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. It is pretty easy to identify the minority who may not be

For the most part those are the "Never Trumpers". I accept the fact that there are some Republicans who I often disagree with strongly regarding policy who none the less for the most part respect the rule of law. It is becoming clear that they are in a distinct minority in their party.

[Duppers]

16. A.FUCKIN.MEN!!!

I am furious this morning that too few sites are covering the tremendous explosions revealed last night.

MSNBC did their job well last night but this morning, the press is not covering the bombshells and their deep, far-reaching implications to the extent that they should be.

What the F gives? Am I missing something?

[OhNo-Really]

42. MSNBC is the corporate mollycoddler. A few great hosts.

Could do so much more.

The deplorables don't care about facts. Where's positive propaganda supporting responsible social policies?

News this week is overload!

[oasis]

17. Republican National Committee cozy with Russian oligarchs. Inexcusable. nt

[kentuck]

20. He is still a deputy finance chair of the RNC..

He never resigned.

[gademocrat7]

21. Treasonous bastards

These rethugs care only about enriching themselves. Our country be damned.

[BSdetect]

22. Absolutely, they are.

[Initech]

24. I've been saying this since day one!

Who hasn't taken Russian money or been in on the conspiracy? This is madness!!!

[infullview]

25. RNC complicit withpout a doubt.

That secret tape made in 2016 where Paul Ryan is talking about who is on Putin's payroll should have been a HUGE red flag. Somehow the media just refused to take it seriously.

[Le Gaucher]

26. And Republicans don't give a flying fuck!!

[Garrett78]

27. All 3 former co-chairs under criminal investigation.

That about says it all.

[kimbutgar]

28. But how are we going to get this truth to the brainwashed cult members of maga?

This will not be reported on Fox or the right wing media industrial complex.

Our country is going down the toilet because of rethugs. And Russia has taken over.

[matt819]

30. Also. . .

Remember that trump has thousands of LLCs. So these kinds of transfers could be happening in thousands of these shell companies.

And it now seems likely that the primary reason that trump would not release his returns is because they would show that he didn't have the cash to make all those cash purchases from 2011 onward. Money "magically" appeared.

This should be on the front pages everywhere.

And yet, he'll polls will remain at 39%. Talk about a cult! He could start clubbing people to death in the oval office, a la mobsters and dictators, and absolutely nothing will change in that 39% following. How do you deprogram 60 million Americans?

[SHRED]

31. A cult is an accurate description

[Fritz Walter]

34. Anybody know where pitchforks are on sale?

Torches can be hand-made, but a good pitchfork needs to be bought ahead of time. Borrowing one may be an option, but I wouldn’t count on it, and a leaf-rake just doesn’t get the same points across.

[SunSeeker]

35. K & R

[OhNo-Really]

43. Be a twitter warrior. This is war of words. Takes a dose of dare.

[kentuck]

36. Kick

Important info

[BigmanPigman]

37. I just reminded my neighbor about this important fact

after reading tje DU post earlier...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210595088

This is more important than just about anything facing the Dems right now. We won't be able to impeach him in the Senate, he won't resign due to his ego, he can't get indicted (what a stupid rule) so we are stuck with him and the GOP unless he has a major stroke or heart attack ASAP!

[OhNo-Really]

44. Vote.

[BigmanPigman]

46. Oh, I DO!

We need to get everyone to VOTE!

I even taught my former first graders to vote and they loved it. We did it all the time with THEIR issues. They used privacy boards and anonymous ballots (blank slips of paper) and they were tallied by them in front of the class. This taught civics, math and reading/writing. I really gave them The I VOTED stickers that the people volunteering at the polls in the school library gave to me when I would take the kids there for a "field trip" as a mini lesson. They were printed in 4 languages too.

[3Hotdogs]

57. -- unless he has a major stroke or heart attack. Then we get Pence and Mother.

[BigmanPigman]

64. Mueller will get Pence too.

Manafort chose him and his brother is involved with Russia and another with politics...they must have a few crimes under their belts.

[Kirk Lover]

41. When Avenatti was rifling off all the things that Cohen did this is the ONE THING I keep

noticing is not being mentioned...and I've seen him on quite a few appearances. Hmmmm wonder why.

[Mr. Ected]

45. Right now there's only circumstantial evidence - LOTS of circumstantial evidence

I think the next Avenatti revelation will be solid gold. We know where some of the money came from. Soon, we will see incontrovertible evidence that funds were funneled from Cohen's slush fund to the Trump organization AND to the RNC.

That's only the tip of the iceberg. The NRA had a hand in this as well.

This conspiracy encompasses everyone from Trump down.

Does anyone, including Mueller, have the stomach to release the truth to the American people?

[greymattermom]

47. We know that Michael Cohen speaks Russian

Someone, like a reporter, should say something to him in Russian that he would probably answer. For most folks, actually seeing him speak Russian may be educational.

[kentuck]

49. His wife is from the Ukraine.

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/laura-cohen-michael-cohen-wife-trump-lawyer-photos/

[catbyte]

48. I know the fix was in. Why was McConnell so dead set on not giving Merrick Garland a

fair hearing and to wait for "the next president?" I'm convinced it's because he KNEW the next POTUS would be a Republican--no matter which one it turned out to be.

[Tatiana]

50. And we should be running strategic ads across this country making this point.

If the media refuses to do so....

[Cha]

53. The Freaking derelict M$M Needs to Make it a

Bigger DEAL.. like they would if something like this was in the Dem party.. but her emails.

[Orsino]

60. Imagine all our national parks, monuments and public lands auctioned off...

...to mining and oil companies. That is what Citizens United is doing to democracy...and the actual auctioning off of the Commons is only one tragic result.

Yeah, the GOP gave in first, but our side is having a lot of trouble retaining its innocence.

The GOP isn't the problem so much as it was a conspicuous early casualty. And now the weapon of choice of the oligarchs.

[getagrip_already]

61. Was? Isn't he STILL on it? n/t

[eleny]

65. Shhhhh, you might wake the corporate media!

It isn't a bigger deal because the corp media isn't airing it. This fact doesn't attract the advertisers.