The corruption that we actually do see is just a fraction of what is going on in the government.

I often have said to my son: We don't know a thousandth of what goes on, nor do we want to.......LOL

See this article in Washington Monthly:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/19/trumps-enablers-launch-an-attack-on-reporter-natasha-bertrand/

She is not only beautiful but so smart and good at what she does. I love to hear her during interviews, she is one of those people who can be eloquent, tell her story without pausing with an "ahh", or whatever most of us do.

I am sure she is in an enemy's list, the chimp is an ignorant but he is not stupid, I bet he knows how good Natasha is.

She's just highlighting her colleague's report on it. It's the judge, Reggie Walton, who'll get the Orange Rage directed at him. FWIW, it says he was an appointee of George W. Bush.

An article I read a while back made a case for factors that indicate the banana republic is already in progress.

One of the problems we have with assessing the real condition of this country is not just the complexity of it, but the flavored simulation of it that the media, overall, depicts for us. We are not in the age of serious, journalistic reporting right now and sources for that are far and few between, though they exist outside the main stream, and I am referring to good, solid reporting on vital issues, sans agendas and conspiracy theory nonsense.

The medium is still the massage and that should be taken into account because it remains a truism. In other words, you are seeing the media AS the message and the constant flow of contents in an ever-churning news cycle are in that media. The analogy is that the dryer is about drying clothes, any clothes, but the clothes don't do the drying and any clothes will do, if that makes sense.

What is interesting is that Trump's blurting of FAKE NEWS plays into all this well. It deflects attention from the above rather well, and it seems that is directed on our side, (because we should question corporate media and its intentions, but not because Trump is using that mistrust as a ploy) while his manipulation of the other side is the implication that he has and tells the real truth and any facts or criticism about him is phony so you can always trust the authoritarian dictator in a situation like that.

Caveat Emptor!

as in a raving fucking lunatic

We need a massive work strike that brings these swamp dwellers to their knees. ENOUGH!

I remember when Judge Walton was going to hear the Scooter Libby case, some forum members were concerned that he would allow Libby to slide, because Walton is conservative. I said then that he was the perfect judge to oversee the case, because he is fair. Strict, for sure. And serious as the day is long.

He's a serious man, who speaks his mind. And he definitely doesn't excuse government corruption.

now that they own all the bananas.

They haven't quite realized that isn't enough. Dictators of all kinds are more beholden to the military than they are to rich men who put them into office.

She's no fool and she has her ear to the ground.

she's showing some journalistic chops the last year or so.

Later apologized because it didn't meet the legal criteria. We need a nonwar definition for treasonous behavior.

evidence. He is a big boogeyman on the right, they were whipped into a frenzy awaiting his arrest.