{"id":9127,"date":"2024-08-17T13:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:40:49","slug":"the-gop-crime-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9127","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Crime Syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Election day is getting closer and things are looking a lot brighter for Democrats and fans of democracy these days. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Harris\/Walz ticket is tied or leading in all swing states (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/08\/14\/kamala-harris-swing-states-cook-political-report-election\" target=\"_blank\">Harris\/Walz ticket is tied or leading in all swing states<\/a> and even North Carolina is in play now. There are very optimistic rumors that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Harris even has a chance in Florida (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook-pm\/2024\/08\/13\/could-harris-momentum-put-florida-in-play-00132333\" target=\"_blank\">Harris even has a chance in Florida<\/a>, although we&#8217;re extremely dubious and skeptical that she would carry that deep red state.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while Harris and her human dynamo VP choice Walz are surging, the Republican candidate, twice impeached, convicted felon, megalomaniac man child Donald Trump is repeatedly stumbling and fumbling and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-press-conference-harris_n_66b50967e4b044cc5e991bb3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" acting like an incompetent rambling old buffoon (opens in a new tab)\"> acting like an incompetent rambling old buffoon<\/a> (what else is new!). But does the corporate main stream media say Trump should be replaced like they did with Joe Biden? Of course not! Does the corporate main stream media call TFG on his countless lies and prevarications? Of course not! Because, like we&#8217;ve repeatedly proclaimed before, <strong>the corporate main stream <em>news media<\/em> is conservative and they&#8217;ll do anything possible to tilt the scales toward the Republicans<\/strong>. The media is already trying to swift boat Walz but fortunately veterans, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"like Jesse Ventura (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4822425-jesse-ventura-defends-walz-against-vances-attacks-military-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">like Jesse Ventura<\/a>, are stepping forward and defending him.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Lawrence O'Donnell succinctly and cogently presented the problem with the media (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZD-oTJ49nls\" target=\"_blank\"> Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell succinctly and cogently presented the problem with the media<\/a> last week on his show. It&#8217;s well worth a watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s make no mistake; America is made up of syndicates.  There is the military industrial syndicate. There are the energy, financial, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, mining and manufacturing syndicates. Two of the most powerful syndicates are the political syndicate, which consists of the Democrat and Republican parties (third parties need not apply) and the media syndicate. What&#8217;s the common purpose of all these groups? <strong>Making money and profit at any and all costs!<\/strong> This is the Corporate States of America or if the christian nationalists gain control, the Holy Corporate Empire. Capitalism is king and if you don&#8217;t like it, you must be one of those evil . . . socialists! So it should be no surprise that the media is coordinating with the Democrats and Republicans to make the election cycle interesting. <strong>But with the convicted felon Trump in charge, the Republicans aren&#8217;t a party anymore; they&#8217;re a crime syndicate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We posted a meme back on<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" September 12, 2018 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6198\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>September 12, 2018<\/strong><\/a> which is even more applicable today.  It features Trump and his many cohorts who were convicted of crimes and we&#8217;re reposting it today. What baffles us is why the Republicans just don&#8217;t drop Trump like a bad habit. After election losses, the GOP kicked Ford, George H. W. Bush, Dole, McCain and Romney to the curb like they were rubbish. Does TFG have some kind of kompromat on the GOP which would blow the party to smithereens if the American public found out about it? Like perhaps illegally receiving money from Putin and his Russian oligarch pals? Just saying.  <strong>All we know is that no truth loving American should ever trust the Republicans on anything ever again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanscrimesyndicate.jpg\" alt=\"With so many indictments of Donald Trump associates, twenty-first century Republicans can no longer call themselves a party; they're a crime syndicate.\" class=\"wp-image-6203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanscrimesyndicate.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicanscrimesyndicate-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>With so many indictments of Donald Trump&#8217;s associates, twenty-first century Republicans can no longer call themselves a party; they&#8217;re a crime syndicate.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election day is getting closer and things are looking a lot brighter for Democrats and fans of democracy these days. The Harris\/Walz ticket is tied or leading in all swing states and even North Carolina is in play now. There are very optimistic rumors that Harris even has a chance in Florida, although we&#8217;re extremely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The GOP Crime Syndicate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,2487,60,2320,8,68,85,963,3,2307,198],"tags":[74,73,252,1777,22,20,27,1552,1554,1058,1790,914,915,2522,9,1789,663,2143,2144,199,98,296,2250,19,1787,2332,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}