Seriously, the Republican Party is a Criminal Enterprise.

[Joinfortmill]

When the Democrats take power again, and let's hope we do, we'll need a Congressional Commission to investigate the massive amount of crimes committed. We'll be prosecuting these thugs for years.

VOTE. Our future depends on it, because if we don't win, it done. Our democracy is lost. Resist in any way you can. Stay strong. Remember, they're all COWARDS, especially Donald.

[Emile]

1. Since the insurrection, they've really proven

to be weak on crime.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. Weak on crime, strong on criminality.

[GiqueCee]

2. I have long described the GOP...

... as having metastasized into a terrorist organization. Watch ICE in action and tell me I'm wrong. Der Republican Party is a Titan Arum* that is finally blooming. Here, use this barf bag.

* A giant plant native to Southeast Asia, also know as the Corpse Flower because it stinks that much.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Absolutely co-conspirators in treason.

They can call themselves Republicans, MAGA or Guardians Of Pedophiles: They are accessories, aiding and abetting Trump — Putin’s puppet in his destruction of the U.S. Constitution, history, treasury and People.

[Joinfortmill]

4. I second that.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. TY, Joinfortmill! Must give credit where credit is due:

This brave professor:

The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?

Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University

The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs

During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).

A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).

SNIP...

Prescott Bush: The Yakuza’s Frontman

Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that country’s largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsusho’s purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).

George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces

Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& L’s, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).

CONTINUED...

Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20040504191846/https://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm

Original link (busted): http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm

... and DU, of course! From 2014:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10024939450

[IbogaProject]

28. Another Bush raised the money for Hitler

He raised 50 million Reich Marks which funded Hitler's rise to power. Then Prescot Bush (different than the Yakuza one above) helped launder Nazi assets through a bank in Holland. He got one share in Thyssen worth 750K in 1952 when the assets came out of holding. That got the Bushes started in Texas. Also the GOP brought in about 70 to 80,000 German families right at the start of 1953. I had a teacher frim that cohort who got to be a Senate page that spring at ahe 16, his dad had been admiral of the flag ship of the Nazi German Navy. Of course he wasent a Nazi just a wealthy loyal German, as if that is any difference. Many of those S&L swindles was their spawn loose innthe 80s after they had grown up.

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Big Money to be made in War

John Loftus, a former US Assistant Attorney, wrote the book on the Prescott Bush-NAZI axis of profit:


How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar


Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3743890

[lonely bird]

5. R.I.C.O. Indictment please

Also, I have been calling the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society terrorist groups.

[MayReasonRule]

20. Terrorist Training Grounds - AKA Nazi Officer's Candidate School

[MichMan]

65. Perhaps arrest all Republican elected office holders nationwide for being part of a criminal organization

Followed up by anyone who voted for them.

[oasis]

6. GOP: A multitude of crooks and liars.

[KS Toronado]

8. We need to put a lot of energy into how we safeguard the midterm election

We know they cheat and will in the midterms. So what's the best ways to combat their cheating?
I'm thinking "live exit polls" every minute a polling location is open for voting we have people who will ask
everyone leaving "Did you vote D or R for Senator & Rep?" Any other suggestions?

[Joinfortmill]

27. This. Is. Very. Important.

[wnylib]

31. People will resist saying how they voted.

I would, because you don't know who is asking or why.

[KS Toronado]

45. Thinking that would be easily overcome with a well worded statement

just prior to asking them, could hand them something they could fill out in private and insert
in a ballot type box.

[wnylib]

52. Might work.

[NJCher]

76. I was thinking

The same thing.

A means for a national collection of the data is necessary.

[Fil1957]

9. At least in the old days, there wasn't as much Republican corruption, and the corruption that did occur was low key.

To find it, you had to do some digging, investigative reporting, etc.

Nowadays it's rampant and in your face. And all you have to do to find out about it is read the headlines, since they have no shame or morals and could care less if they break the law in public.

When I was much younger I believed that Republicans believed in the rule of law. Didn't agree much with their policies, but when it came down to it, I believed they were generally law abiding. That may have been true 30 years ago, but it sure ain't true today.

With a few notable exceptions they have become a criminal organization that will stop at nothing to turn the U.S. into a neo feudal theocratic dictatorship,

[Blue Full Moon]

10. Just talking about that.

They have always been. Since the collapse of the Whigs.

[chouchou]

11. The republican party will do ANYTHING to ANYONE to be in power.

That's nothing new. It's always been that way. Look at the dumb/Stupid people they push.
Reagan..Nixon...Trump? Give me a break....Laughable stupid..

[wnylib]

32. Yes, their presidential candidates have been front men who

could get votes while a group of operators ran the show behind the scenes. Now they are in the open somewhat. Most people still don't know who is behind the senile creep in the WH.

[calimary]

59. Power Whores.

If you’re a Republican, that probably describes either who you voted for, or who YOU are.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. Yes, and has been for many years now. It's just all out in the open now.

[popsdenver]

22. Four + Decades actually

People just weren't paying attention........regretfully

THE perfect book title for a book about the past 46+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

[highplainsdem]

14. Agreed. We'll also need an army of accountants and investigators to figure out what they've done with

federal money and other assets.

[Ponietz]

15. The billionaire scam -- they wring Repukes dry for every financial advantage until they're toxic to voters

Next cycle, their “SPEECH”, i.e., money, goes to the Democrat furthest to the right, who claims it’s time to move forward and put the past behind us. We’ve had this shit since Nixon, but it metastasized after Citizen’s United. It won’t end until we’ve reenacted our own version of Bastille day.

[dalton99a]

16. Led by a pedophile rapist felon.

[Clouds Passing]

17. The entire GQP party has its intentions on being the ruling mafia of the world.

[wnylib]

33. Intetnational oligarchs are playing king of the mountain.

Sometimes they cooperate among themselves. Other times, they fight each other like crime family syndicates over their turfs.

[MayReasonRule]

18. 🤬🤬The GOP Used To Be A Wholly Fascist Ongoing Criminal Enterprise🤬🤬

It still is but is used to be too...

[live love laugh]

63. Gang Of Pedophiles and Plunderers (GOP)

[popsdenver]

19. Everyone recall

When Hillary, during the 2016 campaign debate, said: "THERE IS A GIANT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY"

And the fact that even most dems laughed at her????????? They all thought she was just being RADICAL left wing, and off the rails.........You all aren't laughing now, are you?????????

[Joinfortmill]

29. Hillary Clinton is a damn amazing woman, so very underrated...

I watched her Benghazi hearing testimony. They were ruthless, absolutely relentless in their questioning of her. She was magnificent. Be prepared for another amazing testimony.

[wnylib]

34. She said that during the Lewinsky investigation.

[popsdenver]

36. I must have

Mis-remembered,

[wnylib]

40. She might have repeated it in 2016, so maybe

you did not misremember. There were people in 2016 who brought up that comment of hers from the past to say that she was right. Perhaps that is what you recall.

[popsdenver]

41. My mind is going,

but I seem to distinctly remember her saying it on stage during the 2016 debates.

Doesn't really matter.........she had it "WIRED".................

I don't even want to think how much different things would be if she had won, along with the Dems controlling the House and Senate..........(No small wonder why Putin helped the Republicans, immensely, in preventing that)

[wnylib]

42. A pivotal point in history for the US and the world.

The RW crime party would have hounded her mercilessly throughout her term, but with a Dem Congress, she would have had their backing, at least.

[radical noodle]

47. Yes she did

and she was 100% correct, even then.

[slightlv]

61. She stated this during the Lewinsky affair...

and was denigrated THEN for it. People never did wise up. All they saw was a Democratic president having sex... consensual, but still... OMG! He had SEX with a WOMAN!

Face it, if the words come from the mouth of a woman, very few will hear them... let alone give them credence. (dispirited sigh)

[Nixie]

74. She has been saying that since Bill C was governor of Arkansas.

She said that oppo researchers spread out all over Arkansas to dig up anything they could about Bill. I think this was in one of her books, too.

[ffr]

21. Seriously, the Epstein Party is a Criminal Enterprise.

Fixed.

There's part of your answer.

What we need from democratic leadership should we regain majorities is the same intestinal fortitude from them as Mike Johnson has shown. Return the rule of law, no holds barred.

[Blue Owl]

23. Holding America hostage

Binding Lady Liberty while a bunch of thugs and rapists and pedophiles have their way with her

[S/V Loner]

24. None of what is happening could have happened...

without the complicity of the GOP. None of it!

[CaptainTruth]

25. Yes! None of that "looking forward not backward" nonsense when it comes to...

...the crimes of the previous administration.

I absolutely love Obama but I'm still not happy that he & Democrats chose to "look forward" & ignore the crimes (war crimes) of the Bush administration.

I can't help but think that in some way contributed to the mess we're in now, it showed Republicans that they could "get away with it" & Democrats wouldn't hold them responsible.

[wnylib]

35. I do not think that Obama, as just one person, could have done much.

He had his hands full preventing the recession from becoming a depression, and securing health care for Americans.

[popsdenver]

37. AND BESIDES,

Looking forward, not back, happened countless times before Obama..........

1980 election, 2000 election, 2004 election, and 2016 election to name a few...........While The Nation Slept............

[CaptainTruth]

44. Yes, it happened before too, & it was a mistake then too IMHO.

Bush/Cheney was an especially egregious example.

[popsdenver]

46. Yup

"And the band played on"

[questionseverything]

51. He was elected to clean it up and he chose not to

At my house, the standard joke is, “ maybe they showed him the aliens “, when a politician abruptly changes policy or breaks his promises

[wnylib]

54. I guess I see it more realistically.

To me, Obama was elected because the people preferred him over McCain.

Obama was elected president, not appointed to be an omnipotent god.

[questionseverything]

55. The legislative branch makes the law

The judicial branch interprets the law

The executive branch enforces the law

[wnylib]

56. Which we all learned in grade school.

So what is your point?

[questionseverything]

57. Just reminding you what a president is elected to do

[wnylib]

58. Makes no sense in the context

unless you think that Obama was supposed to single-handedly overhaul the entire financial system when he only had 2 years of a Dem Congress to back him up for a project that would take years of investigations and hearings, followed up by a cooperative Congress to pass laws to close up loopholes.

I'd take Obama any day over the disaster in the WH today if Obama weren't barred from running again.

[questionseverything]

60. To execute the law means prosecuting criminals, not " looking forward " past their criminal activities

[wnylib]

67. The president does not prosecute criminals.

The AG does that. Regardless of the AG being part of the executive branch, he or she operates independently of the president and works fir the people, not under orders from the president. That's part of the present beef over Bondi.

What criminals should Obama's AG have prosecuted?

[the_liberal_grandpa]

26. I think you mean the Epstein Party or the Pedo Party

The republican party is dead.

[Joinfortmill]

30. That, too.

[popsdenver]

38. IKE was the end

of the Old Guard Republican Party, before it got hijacked......IKE even warned the nation...........

[Tesha]

43. Going high is what got us here

Punish the bad guys and there will be fewer bad guys to fight

[Lonestarblue]

48. The FBI and all of DOJ will need some serious purging.

The FBI has always had a Republican dominance, but of them and others have resigned rather than be a part of Bondi's protection rackets and fake prosecutions of Trump's enemies. New recruits are required to swear a loyalty oath to Trump, not tge Constitution, which means they are prepared to ignore the law and do whatever Trump wants. In fact, most government t will need serious purging to get rid of the Project 2025 nuts. The FDA may have to be recreated from scratch because Kennedy has replaced all the legitimate scientists and medical staff with conspiracy theorists.

[LiberalLovinLug]

49. Even if most Democrat reps think the well financed backlash will lose them future elections

They MUST do it right this time. No more "we must move forward" before dealing with the past crimes. I don't care if Bill Clinton and Gates, and anyone else gets indicted. Face it, Biden and Garland dropped the ball, probably also to protect large donors and politicians. And Obama dropped the ball on Bushes war crimes.

This time it HAS to be different. There has to be a Nuremberg level tribunal if and when Democrats seize the majority and Presidency in 2028. With some of it started already if Democrats take the House this year

[angrychair]

50. I agree...but

You will never get anyone to agree to that. You could catch every person in this administration on live TV, eating live babies and absolutely nothing would happen to anyone.

It has to do with partisanship. They will point to literally what is happening right now as as they would not do anything because they would worry that if they ever got to back in power they would do everything in their power to get revenge.

Everything that has happened since he took office has been 100% about revenge for his impeachments.

I'm not saying it's right but they just will not do it.

[BlueTsunami2018]

53. The entire government has been.

We need a hard reset.

[lastlib]

62. I have frequently quoted a slogan from WW2, and it's worth quoting again:

"It takes millions to win a war; to LOSE one takes everything you've got."

This election is going to be a war, like this country hasn't seen since 1865. If we lose it, we lose everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! We have to win it at whatever cost to ourselves. ALL HANDS, Battle Stations!

[Evolve Dammit]

64. spot on

[poli-junkie]

66. I've been saying that for years.

[hay rick]

68. This has been one of my themes for a while.

[Montauk6]

69. We'll need our version of Ken Starr on crack-strength steroids

[debsy]

70. They are not republicans. They are the Epstein party; a bunch of pedophile fascist nazis.

[samsingh]

71. yes

[Jack Valentino]

72. a TERRORIST TRAITOROUS pedophile-loving Criminal Enterprise---

there, FIXED it for you!

[blue_jay]

73. Have felt the government had been infiltrated for years

I was just thinking it was foreign agents and there couldn't be that many of them...hadn't fully tracked the amount of mob and criminal energy in their midst, at least not until Manafort loped across the stage to become t Rump's campaign manager. Too many years watching the Godfather to miss that even before learning his history. Even then didn't suspect the depth of depravity. Don't know how we'll ever weed them out.

[GoodRaisin]

75. I don't know why we still call them Republicans. They are trying to dismantle

Republican form of government. They have abdicated their authority as representatives of the voters that elected them, ceding all their authority to Krasnov. They behave as fascists. They are the Fascist Party, clear and simple.