Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 29, 2021

I don’t think we’ll ever learn.

…..but they’re everywhere.

I probably should post a comment encouraging y’all to come over to MY political party, but this really isn’t the place for that.

Amen.

well, there ARE other ways, but they’re all criminal…

People get the government they deserve, especially when they elect them.

It’s a game of sheeps and wolves with wolves in a shepherd’s clothing.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” (William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2)

If you stopped putting them on the ballot, there’d be no one to vote for.

But I like my criminals its yours that need to go! or If they take from the bad guys its not stealing, its justice.

…send this to John Deering…

our old friend Gerry would have something to say about that

But we are so stupid we keep electing them over and over. In Texas, we elected one because he already had the road to his house done. Texas also elected a convicted felon to the Supreme Court.

Got that right

Invincible ignorance assures the continuing presence of glad handed scam artistry in the halls of “government”.

Ain’t that the truth!

But they pay you so much money to vote for them.

Open carry. No, wait, Texas already tried that …

All politicians basically work for their own reelection. They may sincerely believe that their being in a position of power helps people they care about, or they may be simply interested in keeping a paying job. The voters need to be informed in order to separate the ones who are interested in helping the middle class from the corporate stooges who can then go get a lobbying job with their contributors. If you really want to know who a candidate will be working for, look at a site called “Open Secrets”. There are others, but this is a good one. It will tell you who is financing their campaign.We all have to do the bidding of who ever is supplying the money to pay our bills. So do politicians. If most of their money is coming from individuals, unions, or other organizations representing the Middle Class, that is who they are going to work for. If most of their money is from banks, etc, they are going to work for the 1%. They don’t really have any choice if they want to win the next election. To vote their conscience against the 1% would be political suicide.

Unfortunately, that’s the entire political system on both sides of the aisle, or as my Dad used to say, “they’re all crooked as a dog’s hind leg.”

White-collar privilege

A hard lesson to learn…

That would be a good start……

And then a bit of tar and feathers and a ride on the rails would be good.

They’re electing themselves at this point.

“The Americans are great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.” — Oscar Wilde

Great idea!

Well… I’ve done what I can. I stopped voting for any rethuglican, at any level, after Reagan bamboozled his way into office. Had I been paying better attention I would have stopped voting for those thugs after Nixon got in, but I was a lot younger in those days and way too naive. At least I was smart enough to register as an independent. I’ve yet to see a party I truly want to be a part of, but some are definitely worse than others and I’d certainly never want to be part of a party as vile as the republicans have become.

everybody gives it a like and a comment – HOWEVER – year after election year everybody continues to elect them saying that the one they didn’t vote for is the crook – amazingly not smart people are!!!

oh ok good adive