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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

Was it not Lady Macbeth who scrubbed and scrubbed and said, "Out damned bank accounts! Out damned podcasts! Out damned websites!"

Not sure that's exactly what Shakespeare wrote, but close enough for the year of our lord 2023.

Where do these people COME from? Oh, I know--1531 more or less. Time travel is alive and well.

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LMAO! I just came here to quote Lady Macbeth after reading about all their scrubbing!

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Thanks for the digging. I’m always creeped out when dudes like this spend so much time on their knees using god as a cudgel. He smells smarmy and sickeningly slimy.

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The GOP House members, exhausted and in a hurry to end the debacle in which they were embroiled, "pinned the tail on the donkey" and chose their new Speaker without exercising anything faintly resembling due diligence. You wouldn't buy a car or send your child to a college without doing a GREAT DEAL more research than House Republicans did in choosing Mike Johnson.

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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

I've done more research choosing undergarments than these Rethuglicsn bozos did.

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I’ve done more research choosing toilet paper. I settled on “Who Gives A Crap”. Yes, this is the company’s name. https://us.whogivesacrap.org/pages/about-us

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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

That's what happens when you let Matt Gaetz throw a firebomb without having a plan. Usually, the candidates for speaker have been vetted for months if not years, and there usually also is a fairly deep bench of candidates.

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I will never again write that man's name without an addendum: he is henceforth to be known as "Matt Gaetz' punchable face."

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I just refer to his nickname Butt head (after the cartoon)

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I identify him as "the weirdly oversized head of Matt Gaetz". (Edited to add - or "Great Value Robbie Rotten".)

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LOL! That works too. I'm just not sure I could resist the punch if it ever came up...

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or perhaps they got exactly what they wanted and shoved it through before anyone could derail it. Seems exactly the type of speaker they want going into 2024 elections. You know, one who won't honor anything the voters choose unless it's what he would choose.

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It is not impossible that you are correct. In general though, I find that "Hanlon's razor" is adequate in explaining human failings of this sort. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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Republicans doing due diligence? Has that ever happened?

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Republicans > due diligence

Oxy > moron

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Or his constituents who got him there. I’d like to view his campaign ads

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Once again, we need independent press to reveal the truth so we can have a democracy. Popular Opinion Substack today is discussing why the Mainstream press is spreading Mike Johnson's lies. https://popular.info/p/why-reporters-play-dumb/comments?reaction=%E2%9D%A4

We need a free and independent press. Thanks for pointing us in the direction of the truth!

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Not until they aren’t controlled by Wall Street

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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

“What’s with right-wing leaders and male sexual abuse?” INDEED.

The Pig $hits pointing fingers have AT LEAST three fingers pointing back at them.

Just remember: THIS RNC is operated as an organized crime syndicate of puppets under the control of neonazi, fascist billionaires.

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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

Unless Congress is paying him in cash, he exceeds the $1000 threshold on his accounts every single payday.

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No, no, don't you get it. He wants to feel close to the unbanked poor in the country, and takes his pay check to a payday lender to pay off last month's debt. (/s in case that wasn't clear).

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I know! I know! He gives it all to The Church.

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Hmmm...don’t drug lords have a cash only business model? If you tear down the drywall in his house, will you find stacks of $$$$$$$$?

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We’ll soon see the real reason I hope!

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And Al Capone never kept anything in his name either, although he probably needed a better bookkeeper to keep double books since the Feds finally got him on tax evasion. I more likely scenario is similar to some of these 1-800 evangelical preachers that funnel the dollars into religious, tax exempt, organizations and LLC’s. Start digging into Delaware corporations and Cayman Islands accounts. Mike’s a smart lawyer, not a megaphone Molotov cocktail throwing egomaniac like TFG and Jordon.

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Or a Manchurian candidate?

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And no matter what they find, no matter how bad it is; maga-republicans will not care. Even if what they find is criminal, they simply won't care.

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No. They’ll get angry and be victims.

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Nov 2, 2023Liked by Jay Kuo

My head is exploding! These people are like termites, and they continue to come out of the woodwork. The infestation continues to get worse instead of better☹️ I have truly given up on them having or growing a conscience. Sigh....

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Is this why he is hellbent on defunding the IRS, to avoid paying over due taxes??

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No, this is completely innocent. He just believes that the ill-gotten gains of tax cheats will naturally trickle down to the little people. It's all about helping them!

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Nope. ALL the GQP wants this, because the donors to their super PACs don't wanna pay taxes. Every single Republican president from Reagan onward has gotten through a tax cut for the wealthy - it's a permanent fixture in the party's platform. And even when Bush I was forced to levy new taxes, it was not on the rich. They have been trying to destroy the IRS and the tax system for decades. They're so close they can taste it.

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This is a perfect example of why we should financially support independent journalists. Uncovering this stuff and presenting it for the rest of us takes a lot of time. Thank you, Jay, and thanks to the organizations stopping the info scrubbing.

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Like the journalists that worked on the Panama Papers. We need these journalists

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Like cats in a litter box, the Johnson’s sure have been busy covering their 💩 when there’s this much to hide there is surely something to discover. And I’m quite sure we’ll learn about it. Gross. These people and their dictatorial beliefs scare me to death.

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I hear litter boxes are in short supply, due to so many installed in elementary schools./s

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🙀😹😹

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🥹🙃😂😂😂😂

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Since the federal government apparently pays by direct deposit, the matter of bank accounts ought to be easy to figure out. The rest is, I would guess cynically, offshore.

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Nah, he seems like the type of guy to be a gold bug. I bet he's got a stash of gold bars/coins somewhere for the End Times.

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I had a cousin happy to trade greenback American dollars in for bright shinny gold which he buried in his yard. After his untimely death by a gun toting roommate, someone later used a metal detector and apparently found the stash. My question to him was why are these people so willing to take good ol' American dollars for gold--why aren't the people selling gold keeping the gold?

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My first thought after reading this story!

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The one part of Johnson's (or his staff's) explanations that rings true: "At the time of the Speaker’s election to Congress, Michael was an adult with a family of his own. He asked not to be involved in their new public life." It tracks that a now grown-up Michael would not want to be associated with "dad."

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Wow! I can’t wait until the unearthed truth of this shit show of a family! 😂

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"I'm not a racist. Some of my best sons are black!"

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Best sons and grandchildren (as was mentioned he has a "family of his own") that never appear in any family photos.

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Pretty hard to believe they have a “good relationship”.

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Very hard to believe

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If you were this Ssssspeaker's kid – foster, adopted, or biological – would you admit it? I sure wouldn't...

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