Corruption unveiled

Joe Biden's unqualified son got a lot of money to work at a Ukrainian oil company: he even bragged about how he got the investigation of corruption about this dismissed....and how dare you imply it might suggest he was trying to shut down a corruption investigation that would implicate his son...it was for the good of the USA.

But how many more congressional people have families getting rich by their connections?

Yet this article on "corruption" in congress mainly posts about minor stuff (asking staff to help in the reelection campaign) not about deals that helped the families of those in Congress to the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

is this why Pelosi jumped into suggesting impeachment, after hearing there was a "hearsay" complaint about trying to get Biden by Trump?

Because maybe the key to the Russian faux collusion charge had lots of ties with the corruption in the Ukraine? Or maybe because this is only one aspect of a full court press about how the CIA/FBI was weaponized to destroy a political candidate for political reason?

I'm old enough to remember the 1975 Church committee report on CIA abuse, one aspect that was uncovered was that military intelligence was spying on Americans.

from Wikipedia:

According to recently declassified documents by the National Security Archive, the Church Committee also helped to uncover the NSA's Watch List. The information for the list was compiled into the so-called "Rhyming Dictionary" of biographical information, which at its peak held millions of names - thousands of which were US citizens. Some prominent members of this list were Joanne Woodward, Thomas Watson, Walter Mondale, Art Buchwald, Arthur F. Burns, Gregory Peck, Otis G. Pike, Tom Wicker, Whitney Young, Howard Baker, Frank Church, David Dellinger, Ralph Abernathy, and others.^[11]

I'm old enough to remember when it was the left who got upset about the government spying on ordinary Americans.

And I'm old enough to remember when it was the left who condemned the corruption of congress by big business.  

Now it's ignored: because the corruption is deep and on both sides of the Congressional aisle.

here is John Bachelor discussing impeachment on his radio show:



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notice, the Ukraine phone call was not about getting Biden out of the 2020 race, but about investigating corruption in the Ukraine that had an impact on the USA: including the connection of Ukraine with Crowdstrike and the now known to be false Russian collusion investigation (Crowdstrike said the leak of the DNC was Russian; the fast download speeds and wikileak hints suggest an insider did it. Yet the FBI etc. took Crowdstrike's word for it, and used this to invent the Russian collusion narrative).

But of course, bribery is not limited to Biden, nor limited to the Ukraine. Can you say "China" anyone?

This article says who cares: After all Trumpie boy's business also had connections with China.

But this overlooks that Trump was a businessman at the time, not a president. Unlike Biden's son, who essentially got a lot of business deals despite the fact he was not qualified for them, Trump and family had a track record in doing deals.

all of this brings to mind the question: Where did Jeffrey Epstein get all of his money, and why did the story disappear after he committed suicide? Would an open trial mean that a lot of this skulduggery in government officials would have been made public?

I don't know: I'm just a lowly retired physician, but it sounds like stories about the corrupt oligarchy here in the Philippines.

this is why I don't know if Feinstein's husband's deals with China are bribery, or are they legitimate.

but the connection between the spy in Feinstein's office and Hillary's unsecure server (which was hacked by China) is another story that is rarely noted in the MSM.

and where did all those emails about national security that were found on Anthony Weiner's computer go? Just wondering....

but of course, corruption goes much deeper, and we mere peons are never sure how much is "business as usual" and how much is "bribery is business as usual" when things go wrong.

John Bachelor has a couple of podcasts about a book discussing all the fraud of the Banking industry in 2008



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An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials-from both parties-served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public.

there is a lot of money out there and the average person knows little of what is going on.

But it does look like the Pope is finally trying to get the Vatican Bank scandal under control (this was the real reason Pope Benedict resigned: He saw the coverups etc and didn't feel he was up to the clean up).

and if Trumpieboy is going after corruption, maybe it's because he knows how bribery and corruption works,  because he was deep into the system: From NR (nevertrump republican site):

“I was a businessman,” Trump smarmed at a debate earlier this year. He was being pressed about the piles of dough he has deposited in Democratic coffers through the years — for his pals the Clintons (including the Clinton Ca-ching Foundation), Schumer, Reid, Pelosi, Cuomo, Rahm, and the rest of the gang. “I give to everybody. When they call, I give.” Yup, although more to the progressives, to implement the very policies he now complains are destroying the country. And why? Trump’s allocution continued: “You know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me. . . . And that’s a broken system.”

the NR article suggests it was Trumpieboy who broke the system, but like the "grab the pussie" comment, he was only observing how things work:

When I worked on the Indian Reservation in Minnesota, a tribal representative said they gave money to both parties or else they knew they would not get their benefits. 

a few years later, I was told the Mescalero IHS hospital was so inferior, because the tribe spent their money building a casino etc. for local jobs instead of using it to pressure Washington to upgrade the facility (i.e. pay lobbyists with connections).

so yes, even we apolitical docs know the system is rotten, and that includes my experience in how we were pressured to play the game of being loyal to the bureaucratic establishment instead of the patients. That gives me insight on why so few FBI agents etc. became whistle blowers on the plot to use the FBI etc. for political reasons against Trump. But that's another story for another time.

Trump is not exactly a pristine guy when it comes to business, but then: what is that saying: Set a thief to catch a thief?

the best person to recognize bribery and corruption is a businessman who had to swim through the sharks to run a business, and knows all the tricks.

Let an expert (fast forward to minute 2) explain it for you.