The Singalong Thread: We're in the Money!

[buttslinger]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...ell-rand-paul/

I remember when Boehner used to pass out tobacco lobby checks to Republican congressmen on the floor of the House minutes before a vote on Big Tobacco sanctions.
If the Dems win 2020, Trump goes directly to jail, while the truth is released from jail. I don't want a flower child Democrat Prez, I want a former Federal Prosecutor.

There are going to be a lot of 5-4 decisions in the Supreme Court coming soon, including votes on gerrymandering, political funding, etc...
McConnell admitted if he has a shot to put in another Evangelical Judge to the Supreme Court before the 2020 election, he would.
You win some, and you lose some, but these criminals need to be perp walked out in front of the US, the World, and most importantly the people who voted for them.

[Stavros]

Follow the money...a fascinating article on you-know-who and Deutsche Bank...but who owns the loans now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/m...gtype=Homepage

[Stavros]

Can someone confirm that judged on their earnings, the 45th President of the USA is now the most successful golfer in history?

I guess it depends on how much ends up in his pocket -please don't laugh- after he has paid his taxes....

Tiger Woods est, earnings from Golf- $120,698, 445

The 45th President of the USA- $138,000,000

https://trumpgolfcount.com/

[Stavros]

Meanwhile, in the Mother of All Democracies, the Government awards lucrative contracts without tender, but the tendrils of marriage and friendship seem to do the trick instead...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-establishment

[Stavros]

More details on the corruption at the heart of Government, with a new law suit pending for Boris Johnson and, n the context of Brexit, his version of The Last Days of Mankind, or How Rome Fell...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/21/tories-covid-contracts-public-trust-government

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ti-covid-staff

As for The President of the USA, the more golf he plays, the more tax-payer's money pours into his businesses. He was so disinterested in the G20 summit (and who can blame him for that?) he buggered off to the fairways as soon as he had tried to convince them he would be representing the US for some time to come...

[Stavros]

When Owen Paterson MP was found guilty of taking money from commercial firms to lobby the Govt, his natural response at his censure was of indignation, before he decided to quite the 'cruel world of politcs'. One wonders if or when the Government of Boris Johnson will 'pay' for the eye-watering sums of money they have spent on Covid so far, given that many of the firms who won contracts had no previous links to the NHS or the health care business...nice work if you can get it.

Eg,
-Ayanda Capital, a holding company registered in Mauritius that describes its business as "specialising in “currency trading, offshore property, private equity and trade financing”. Contract worth £253 million for face-masks, but even the Govt had to concede-
"In a legal letter to EveryDoctor and the Good Law Project received in August 2020, the government said that 43.5 mn masks supplied by Ayanda Capital were unsuitable as they had ear-loops, rather than head-loops, and cannot be used by the NHS. The letter also made clear that the initial approach to the government was made by Andrew Mills, an adviser to the international trade secretary, Liz Truss."

-Clandeboye Agencies Ltd, " a wholesaler of sweets. There is no evidence that the company has any experience in supplying PPE." Contract for PPE Gowns worth £108 million.

-Medpro Ltd, two contracts worth £122 million and £81 million for PPE -"It won the first contract worth £122 mn just 7 weeks after it was set up. It has also been awarded a second £81 mn contract for PPE. "The company is run by a former business associate of Tory peer Baroness Mone."
https://www.nhsforsale.info/covid-19...rivate-sector/

And more here-
https://www.tussell.com/insights/covid

[Stavros]

Where's the money, Donald? Could this man's only true obsession, other than himself, be the wedge that opens the door into the most corrupt President of the USA?

""Trump's aims as president were totally different from any other president, Republican or Democrat," Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University and expert on fascism, told Insider. "His aims were autocratic in that he wanted to turn public office into a vessel of making money for himself; to have private profit off of public office.""
Trump was 'extremely disciplined in grifting' and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says (yahoo.com)