by Noah
Your Saturday Cartoon:
I'm old enough to remember the old Nixon days when, not just Tricky Dick but fellow swine such as Spiro Agnew and John Mitchell, were gleefully carrying around paper grocery bags full of paper currency in the form of $100 bills from the corporate world, and that, of course, was just the iceberg's tip. Running for Congress was then a world of "You get a bag! You get a bag! And you get a bag!" Just look under your desk where the hooker/intern is, no doubt. It's never changed.
Hey, remember more recent times when a drunk asshole named Speaker John Boehner was handing out checks before crucial votes in support of tobacco companies? Yay cancer! Well, now we even have Venmo payments being made to "justices" on the so-called Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts. Just call him Johnny Venmo. Why not? Call it like it is! Thanks again, Chucky! You, too, Joe! Nice to know that at least something in Washington is bipartisan.
Now, wouldn't it be swell if someone actually looked into the when, what, and how much those who voted to send these sleazebags to the court got from whom for their votes, nods, and winks? Nah, ain't gonna happen. That would require at least a modicum of morality.
Enjoy the car wreck.
handing out bags of money or big checks is a proud tradition in a shithole like this.
I remember Molly Ivins writing about it in the TX lege as far back as the '80s?
you don't get shitholier than TX.
it's all shameless because nobody ever votes to stop it. all votes are to affirm it.
who wore it better ?