Of Me, By Me, and For Me: Conclusion

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Professor Taboo

Having left off at #1— Former Illinois Governor (D) Rod Blagojevich in the previous blog-post, I will pickup at the next section now. Thank you all for your patience and understanding with my deceased mother who suffered from Early Alzheimer’s Disease and her daily care during those last weeks. Meanwhile, her affairs have limited my free-time to blog, but are now receding as my wife and I return to a more normal life together. Without further adieu I pick up where I left off in October 2025…

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Just how pervasive is corrupt money in our 21^st-century U.S. politics? It is much worse than you might imagine. Let’s take a close look at Ohio’s political corruption between 2017–2020.

#2 – Borges, Householder, Clark, Cespedes, Longstreth, & FirstEnergy Corp.

U.S. Federal Marshals cuffed up conservative politician Matt Borges, the former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, soon after being arrested for the largest corruption scandal in Ohio’s history. A day earlier a U.S. District Judge dealt out to Ohio House Speaker, Larry Householder, a 20-year sentence for organizing the scheme known as the FirstEnergy Corp. and Ohio utilities scandal or HB-6 scandal. Using FirstEnergy Corp. they funneled $38-million into dark money groups, i.e. anonymous, secret Super PAC’s, that funded Republican election campaigns and legislation. In other words, bribes. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Singer who prosecuted the racketeering conspiracy further said, “It’s interesting that some people are piling on (Householder) after the fact,” he said. “So many knew what was happening in real time and did nothing about it. Not only did they do nothing about it, they helped facilitate it.”

**FirstEnergy public corruption trial begins**, *Jan. 27, 2026 — Chuck Jones, left, and Michael Dowling, right. (Photos by WEWS.)*

It is worthy to note that this one scandal in Ohio’s Congress and the dark money corporations funding legislatures while company CEOs, CFOs, etc., take kickbacks from “favorable” state laws, is a nationwide problem reaching an epidemic far worse than it was in the Gilded Age of the 1800’s.

Neil Clark was an Ohio political lobbyist and a mule, for lack of a better word, a broker for hyper-wealthy donors, corporations, and executives, and their state legislative counter-parts. Clark was more than willing to commit illegal bribes, payoffs, buy legislation, or give kickbacks if it meant “everyone” wins and everyone gets filthy rich (see above image of Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling). But Clark was facing charges of major federal crimes and briberies investigated by the FBI. Days later Clark was found dead by suicide March 15, 2021, by the Collier County Sheriff’s department wearing a “DeWine for Governor” t-shirt.

Ohio Governor, Mike DeWine, was never indicted of illegal activity in the scandal, however, he was heavily associated with FirstEnergy’s scandal through shady relationships and secret backroom deals. The Ohio Capitol Journal writes about DeWine’s political-corporate relationships as “Big Money, Big Favors” in an April 2024 article found here. He and Neil Clark met frequently during election campaigns and specific legislative bills. Clark apparently had lost control and saw no way out (see image below).

Why does someone take their own life? To escape punishment and shame? What did Neil Clark leave behind after his suicide? Well, as a matter of fact Clark’s memoir, “What Do I Know? I’m Just A Lobbyist,” sheds light on Ohio corruption and the events leading to his suicide. Consider another similar situation with no way out that ended the same for another rich, powerful man. It’s the question equally valid being asked today, Why did the two guards on duty fall asleep that night and did not check on Jeffrey Epstein at regular intervals? Why did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail and why were the two surveillance cameras in his cell the night of August 9^th, 2019, malfunctioning? Lots of “coincidences” and similarities between Clark and Epstein falling perfectly in line on one single night.

*Neil Clark’s crime or suicide scene and body in a remote lawn near Naples, Florida.*

In his memoirs Neil Clark writes that he had a slew of ugly nicknames like “Prince of Darkness” and “Prick” to name just two. Is it a coincidence that Clark was proud of his deep Sicilian background? He goes on to write:

“I was willing to push the envelope, bend the rules, play unfair and make sure anyone who got in my way received disproportionate punishment.”

— Neil Clark, Conservative Ohio Lobbyist Memoirs

The FBI had many phone taps and body wires/mics recording Clark and his lobbying tactics that he arrogantly, brazenly boasted about freely in wealthy Columbus, Ohio restaurant meetings with government clients or potential slush-fund clients:

“Every politician’s got to have somebody that is the “hitman.” Everybody’s got to have that person that will go out there and do the dirty shit.”

— Neil Clark, Conservative Ohio Lobbyist Memoirs

Neil Clark was swept up into unlimited money-waves where he could no longer recognize what was Constitutional (right) and what was Un-Constitutional (wrong and very illegal) nor how egregiously he was breaking the laws. But like a gambling addict, he didn’t care. Clark power-brokered Super PACs that soon made the highly controversial Pro-choice or Anti-abortion acts in Ohio by unprecedented, small wealthy minority groups—i.e. abortions were now illegal in Ohio even if the mother’s life was at serious risk of death—get passed into law. As a result, the untempered colossal amounts of slush money bought off those Ohio legislators ushering in the state laws whether the majority of Ohioans wanted them or not. How did this happen against the Ohio majority that didn’t want abortions banned?

Simple. It was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United vs. FEC landmark decision to allow mega-wealthy American corporations to spend unlimited amounts of political money in anonymous donations to special interest campaigns and government officials, most often through a power-broker like Neil Clark. That SCOTUS decision January 21, 2010, threw open the flood-gates for rampant, massive, unfettered, indirect government and corporate corruption schemes and they did not care about The People’s democracy, voice, or votes. Worse still SCOTUS suggested to Americans that these limitless amounts of money donations would be transparent for public viewing. Unfortunately for the ordinary American voter, that did not happen. Enter stage Right the IRC 501(c)(4) organizations.

Unlike 501(c)(3)’s, 501(c)(4)’s have no limits on how much money is donated for “social welfare organizations and the organization’s purposes” of massive political money bags and “must be intended to benefit a community or the public at large, not a private group.” Yet again, this did not happen. It happened only for very small interest groups and mega-wealthy individuals, all of whom in the minority of public opinion. Worse still is that these millions and billions of donated dollars are totally anonymous, or dark. Untraceable for the most part. And this secrecy is deliberately intentional, to cover up corrupt motives and/or ideologies and their backroom activities. Neil Clark was so swept up into the power-funding that when he was being caught red-handed, it cost him his mental health and life.

*Ohio lobbyist Juan Cespedes, image by The Columbus Dispatch*

Juan Cespedes, a Columbus-area lobbyist like Neil Clark, was part of the HB-6 bribery scandal with Borges, Householder, Jeffrey Longstreth, another corrupt Ohio lobbyist, and Neil Clark. They all used dark money briberies and “anonymous” donations to build up Householder’s political power in Ohio’s Congress while also enriching their own private lives. National Public Radio (NPR) reported in July 2021:

Longstreth and Cespedes pleaded guilty to racketeering in October 2020. Generation Now pleaded guilty in February to one count of participating in a more than $60 million racketeering conspiracy.

Before his death in March, Clark pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing. Borges also pleaded not guilty to charges and continues to dispute the allegations against him.

Following revelations that alleged House Bill 6 passed using bribery and other illegal means, lawmakers worked to repeal two major pieces of the legislation. A separate bill removed the more than $1 billion financial bailout.

In June of [2021], the Ohio House expelled Householder from the state legislature.

Jeffrey Longstreth was the other power-broker in the Ohio FirstEnergy Corp. and HB-6 scandal. Along with Cespedes they pleaded guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving more than $60-million paid to again, a 501(c)(4) entity (that Citizens United and SCOTUS allowed) to pass and uphold a billion-dollar nuclear plant bailout. Indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2020 they were all charged with confiscated documents alleging Larry Householder, of Glenford, Ohio, Matthew Borges, of Bexley, Ohio, Neil Clark, of Columbus, Jeffrey Longstreth and Juan Cespesdes of whom conspired to violate the racketeering statute through honest services wire fraud, receipt of millions of dollars in bribes and money laundering. The 501(c)(4) entity Generation Now was also charged. According to the U.S. Attorneys Office of the Southern District of Ohio’s website:

“The defendants [Cespedes and Longstreth] then also allegedly worked to corruptly ensure that HB 6 went into effect by defeating a ballot initiative to overturn the legislation. The Enterprise received nearly $61 million into Generation Now from an energy company and its affiliates during the relevant period.

In his plea, Longstreth admits to organizing Generation Now for Householder, knowing the entity would be used to receive bribe money to further Householder’s bid for Speaker of the House. Longstreth managed Generation Now bank accounts and engaged in financial transactions designed to conceal that the energy company was a source of funding to Generation Now.”

*Jeff Longstreth, then the campaign manager for Ohioans for Health Care Reform, in an appearance on “The State of Ohio” in July 2011.*

Cespedes and Longstreth both made plea deals to avoid prison in return for cooperation with prosecutors and federal government investigators.

Tragically for 20^th and 21^st-century U.S. state and federal lobbyists, the politics and government puppets controlled or bought by mega-wealthy corporations and their executives, no thanks to Citizens United, and the rampant immorality, dark money, and depraved ethics… doesn’t stop in Ohio. This cancer, if you will, has reached even the highest court in the land: the U.S. Supreme Court bench.

#3 – Clarence Thomas and Brett Cavanaugh

It is an often employed legal-political defense tactic by attorneys and their wealthy, powerful male clients caught in, or accused of degrees of sexual misconduct, to assault, or to raping a woman. The tactic? It is to humiliate, to marginalize, to demean, or to verbally assault the character of a female victim or victims. The current Jeffrey Epstein files, Epstein and Maxwell’s illicit illegal sex-trafficking and pedophile crime-ring, and the cover-up and/or divert facts and events that allow very powerful men (such as President Trump) to repeatedly escape prison sentences and convictions. Blame the victim and rip up the (absent? indifferent? mentally-ill?) parents because big-money buys unaccountability and avoids real justice, especially for the victim(s), family, and close friends. There are two prime examples of this defense tactic: Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh.

*Associate Justices Clarence Thomas (left) and Brett Kavanaugh (right) of the U.S. Supreme Court*

The date is October 6, 1991 and soon after conservative lawyer Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by then President George H.W. Bush – (R), debate proceedings were to take a sordid, ugly turn.

Anita Hill, of Oklahoma and a graduate of Oklahoma State University (Bachelor’s Science) and Yale University (Doctorate of Law) and later admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980, Hill had a successful law career to look forward to and the opportunities to go far in the U.S. Justice courts. She had everything ahead of her and as a result had no ulterior motives to risk that bright future. None at all. Why do that?

But Hill was subpoenaed by Congress to testify publicly in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding her FBI interview about sexual harassment done to her by Clarence Thomas, also of Yale University, and her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC.

Hill endured over 8-hours of grueling questions by an all white-male judiciary committee, some of which were ridiculous and not relevant to the accusations at hand on Clarence Thomas’ misconduct. The October 1991 Thomas scandal turned out not to be about the details of his behavior, but the real scandal was all the evidence that America did not get to hear and witness. Why not? The Senate judiciary committee—again all white males—worked to change and to redirect the conversation away from the character and background of Clarence Thomas, a potential justice in our land’s highest court. Instead, the committee made it about the victim. The hearing devolved into a he-said-she-said spat or squabble. Americans watching didn’t know what was true and what was fabricated. And keep in mind, Senator Joe Biden (D) was the chairman of that hearing.

For the sake of argument, if it were only one woman bringing the accusations against Clarence Thomas, then perhaps it was a bad misunderstanding, a squabble between coworkers. That is the oversimplified view that can overlook human errors, as is often done with powerful men and the American public soon loses interest and forgives and forgets any wrong-doing. After all, Americans have a long, long history of romancing our famous or infamous bad boys and/or girls, almost a weird love-hate affair for deviant bad boys and girls like Bonny and Clyde, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, or Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid to name three duos. But that was not the case with Clarence Thomas.

When at least two other women (and perhaps more) corroborate and support Anita Hill’s testimony of Clarence Thomas, that is different than one woman; very different. And after the televised treatment of Anita Hill by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the nation, any other corroborating women with similar stories of Thomas’ sexual misconduct at work in 1991 would understandably think twice and fear for their public image and careers. Furthermore, it begs the question again, Why would Anita Hill risk all in doing this alone publicly and also damaging her reputation in the field of law as a successful lawyer? What did she have to gain other than her conscience, that felt it her duty to the American people to testify about Clarence Thomas’ integrity, character, and inappropriate sexism against women in the workplace?

Notably the other women were Angela Wright, Sukari Hardnett, Rose Jourdain, and Moira Smith, perhaps others who were too afraid to risk all from a pro-misogynist Senate Judiciary Committee in front of the world. This alleged behavior of Thomas indicates or suggests a trend of sexual misconduct that goes unreported, and maybe unpunished, repeatedly, but also not examined or investigated by authorities. If anything, this clearly shows very questionable patterns in Thomas’ views or beliefs about women, particularly a certain type of woman (not all women) that tempt or drive Clarence Thomas to inappropriate, unprofessional words, innuendos, and actions in secret without possible witnesses. Otherwise, Clarence Thomas wouldn’t have multiple women in his past accusing him of rude, vile, sexual misconduct in the workplace. If he were beyond reproach, there would be no women coming forward risking their public image, careers, and dignity in front of the nation.

What has America learned from the Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas hearings? As Cornell University grad, Harvard Law School grad, and University of Wisconsin Law School, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw states, “Very little,” and we certainly haven’t progressed enough in stopping the abuse of women and holding abusers accountable as she writes in her report on Civil Rights and Discriminations against women entitled, “We Still Have Not Learned from Anita Hill’s Testimony.”

Why haven’t we learned something? Continue reading.

Brett Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court bench on July 9, 2018, by then first-term President Donald Trump. Almost as if the American people were reliving the interrogation and spectacle that was the 1991 Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings from Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas, once again another associate justice nominee seemed to have a checkered past with women, Brett Kavanaugh.

The question once again, as it was 27-years ago with Clarence Thomas, was about Cavanaugh’s past behavior, ‘is there more than one woman accusing Cavanaugh of sexual assault or misconduct unbecoming of a Supreme Court justice?‘ And once again there was more than just one woman; there was at least three other women, perhaps more.

Christine Blasey Ford stated to the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh’s nomination hearings in September 2018 that a very drunk Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982, along with Brett’s friend Mark Judge watching, at a party in Bethesda, Maryland, and had “corralled” her in a closed bedroom at the house pinning her on the bed, groped her, and tried to remove her clothes. But both Kavanaugh and Judge were too drunk to rape her and she escaped. It is interesting to note that Judge, today a journalist and author, suffered from alcoholism growing up in the D.C. suburbs, recovered from alcohol abuse and later wrote about that rehab and recovery in his book, Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk. The Washington Post did a 7-minute fact-checking video that determined Brett Kavanaugh’s veracity about the questions the Senate Judiciary Committee asked him under oath and his rebuttals of Ford’s testimony with regard to the other three accusers named. The video fact-check paints a very bad picture of Kavanaugh’s ability to be a real justice on the U.S. Supreme Court bench. Watch below…

Ironically, or not, on September 29, 2018, other individuals who spoke to the FBI who knew Brett Kavanaugh at Yale University and Mark Judge in his teens and young adult years, detailed claims of violent drunken behavior by Kavanaugh at Georgetown Preparatory School and in college, and that he lied about the full extent of his heavy drinking at the Senate hearings. This was reported by Charles Ludington, a Yale classmate, to the FBI. For some unknown reason the Judiciary Committee never had Ludington testify or pursue the investigation of his claim.

The details of the other women accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault or witnessing the drunken assaults by Kavanaugh were soon muddled up, redirected to defending Kavanaugh, and shut out by the Judiciary Committee members. They are well documented and easy to research today. The FBI investigations into the allegations against Kavanaugh were ignored or blocked by White House Counsel and never given the go-ahead authority “to unilaterally investigate the 4,500 tips it received without first receiving further approval from the White House Counsel” and the President. Five years later after Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the bench, “the FBI confirmed that it didn’t investigate many of those tips. When it actually followed up on some relating to Kavanaugh, the White House curtailed the scope of the investigations and let them fizzle out and fade into history.”

Retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy administers the Judicial Oath to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh in the Justices’ Conference Room, Supreme Court Building. Mrs. Ashley Kavanaugh holds the Bible – image: Fred Schilling / Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

In my mind, whether or not these allegations against Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh—from multiple women ready to talk to authorities at the FBI about these two men’s behavior toward them and other untold numbers of women—isn’t so much the the real issue. What it does represent is a still pervasive abuse or harassment culture on women in this nation by wealthy, powerful men and likewise their male and female accomplices, partners, or protectors in their “Good Ole Boys Club” circles. Felony crimes or not, many rich, powerful men get away with it time and time again because of said American patriarchal culture. Furthermore, it is actually more telling, more damning of the men and those perverted patterns they are still insulated from that are the crushing realities in this country. Women in the U.S. are still vulnerable and unprotected by our law-enforcement, justice system and investigators from (male dominated) local areas to the (male dominated) top federal or corporate sectors by these free-range sexual male predators. Trends tell a story, patterns and track-records tell a more whole story, and where there is smoke or multiple smoke plumes over time, there is almost always fire and more fires.

This abuse has to be stopped. It has to be punished appropriately with thorough investigation, due process, and the current “Boys Club mentality” in this country must be exposed for what it is and how they get away with it over and over with repeated cover-ups and victim shaming by their power, authority, and money. Is that what America stands for, discriminating justice for some, and less so for others?

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Has America increasingly become a safe-haven for wealthy, powerful ~~white~~ men and their unspoken backroom “Good Ole Boys Club” shelters? If so, then we are no better than those evil, undemocratic, lawless, drug-cartel countries of authoritarian rule and male domination at the expense of the unprotected and victims of misogyny, or racism, or religious persecutions by men who take and do whatever they want.

By the way, is this honestly the United States of America today?:

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.“

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always

Dust, Adaptation, and Commotions

Posted on January 29, 2026 by Professor Taboo

Now that my life, and Sandy’s too, are beginning to return to some semblance of normal, dust settling, adaptations employed, and everything that are after-effects of a death, I thought I’d post this short update regarding the completion of Part 2: Of Me, By Me, and For Me. No, I have not forgotten about this post, I have a bit of time to return to it now. I’ve just had to deal with, manage, and put out multiple fires since my mother’s passing November 3^rd, 2025, my sister’s evil antics toward me and Mom between October 2024 and Mom’s death, Sandy’s fall and fracture of her hip followed by her long rehab, the torturous delays that the holidays caused in our legal paperwork and very slow progress, and finally sorting out Mom’s life insurance benefits—one to her estate (probate?), another to her beneficiary, me and all that legal paperwork—and still trying to manage, juggle Sandy’s business and legal transitions from Chattanooga, TN, to Kerrville, TX, which includes her driver’s license change, health insurance transition, her name change, etc., etc. It has been quite exhausting and are all the reasons why I’ve been absent of late on WordPress. Woof, breathe Dwain.

You know, if there is one thing I’ve learned in my life, it is the fact of just how enormously expensive it is to live in the USA, and just as expensive (if not more) to die in the USA. There are always unexpected turns and twists when a loved one or immediate family member passes. Period. Always. It seems unavoidable, and yet my Mom had her Last Will & Testament done in 1995, a Durable Power of Attorney (me), Medical Power of Attorney (me again), and other legal financial matters already documented and executed/applied. Imagine what it would’ve been like for me if she hadn’t done any of those things beforehand!

That said, I did want to mention a few things about the unspeakable things going on in our country and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and that will likely continue given this administration’s track record and M.O. of never backing down, never admitting mistakes and bad policy, and their sheer inhumane and indecent behavior by our Commander-in-Chief (initials DJT) and his cult sycophants and ass-kissers such as Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, and everyone else brainwashed by Trump-Gestapo ideology against perceived opponents (enemies?). Retributions and punishment seems to be the only recourse DJT has against those who disagree with him and all his childish whims he invents!

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
— Lord Acton, letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton

A Whole Lotta Flaky Flip-Flopping & Diverting

After the murders of protestors Renée Nicole Good, January 7, 2026, and protestor Alex Jeffrey Pretti, January 24, 2026, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents fatally shot multiple times Good and Pretti respectively (that’s overkill to the hilt) , as both were demonstrating no lethal or imminent threat to those agents, president Donald J. Trump and his appointed directors Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino as well as Homeland Security Advisor (HSA), Stephen Miller and many other Trump-MAGA federal cult followers and MAGA media personalities prematurely described the murders against two legal U.S. citizens as ‘necessary and warranted.’ Yet, the reality was that the entire nation watched cell phone videos from multiple viewpoints of both incidents and seeing everything completely unequivocally different and contradictory to the Trump Administration’s back-peddling rhetoric and blatant lies to Americans. It quickly became one of the most despicable, disgraceful showing of Trump’s second term to-date. And over the following days Trump and his ass-kissing sycophants made it much worse on themselves by continually lying and diverting from the facts of both incidents.

In one interview with reporters Trump called Alex Pretti “stupid” for bringing a gun to a protest. This was from Jan. 27, 2026 outside the White House:

Yes, actually stupid on his part. But the President went even further by incriminating himself and being a bonified hypocrite as well as insulted gun-rights activists and Second Amendment rights he supposedly supports. And worse still he contradicted himself regarding what (his) protestors (or insurrectionists) did January 6, 2021, at the Capitol building:

According to Reuters and all the exhaustive video evidence of the Jan. 6th attack on Capitol Police Officers, Congress members and their assistants, incited by President Dumb-Rump and his radical MAGA supporters, many guns and weapons were present by the insurrectionists (protestors). By the way, the federal government under dictator Trump have removed many of the below links of the evidence supporting this article:

WEAPONS PRESENT

Firearms, tasers and knives were some of the types of weapons used and carried on or around Capitol grounds by rioters, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia, which published the status of prosecutions, related to the Capitol attack as of Jan. 3, 2025 on its website.

For example, police found a loaded handgun on Christopher Alberts, who was dressed in body armor and carried a gas mask, Reuters reported.

A corresponding indictment for Alberts on the “Capitol Breach Cases,” page of the USAO-DC website states that he had carried a semi-automatic handgun on Capitol grounds.

Reuters also reported that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had suspended an agent, Mark Ibrahim, who was off duty but carrying his service weapon outside the Capitol during the attack, according to his lawyer.

A criminal complaint, for Ibrahim includes as evidence a photograph that allegedly shows him near the steps of the Senate and displaying his DEA firearm and badge (page 11).

A search for the word “firearms” on the Capitol Breach Cases page with the list of defendants returns five results, including for Alberts and Ibrahim, while the word “weapon” returns 79 results (one case could include multiple defendants).

Rioters also used “makeshift weapons” including destroyed office furniture, fencing and stolen riot shields, according to the USAO-DC page on the status of prosecutions related to the attack.

One such indictment alleged that two defendants, Isaac Westbury and Aaron James, used and carried a law enforcement shield during the attack. Another indictment, for defendant Shane Jenkins alleged he used multiple weapons, including a tomahawk axe, a flag pole, a desk drawer and “stick-like objects” during the Capitol attack.

During the 2022 congressional hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows, also contradicted the claim that rioters were not armed.

Hutchinson testified that both Meadows and Trump knew about people who had attended Trump’s rally at the Ellipse and later marched to the Capitol armed with AR-15 rifles, handguns, brass knuckles and batons, Reuters reported.

— This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work.

Furthermore, it is indeed a crime to destroy or damage federal property according to the U.S. Department of Justice, Article Code 18, paragraph 1666, Section 1361 which essentially reads:

[Protection of] “any property” of the United States or an agency or department thereof, or any property being manufactured or constructed for the United States or an agency or department thereof, from willful depredation or attempted depredation. “Depredation” has been characterized as the act of plundering, robbing, pillaging or laying waste. United States v. Jenkins, 554 F.2d 783, 786 (6th Cir. 1977); cf. Deal v. United States, 274 U.S. 277, 283 (1927) (“depredation” defined in context of postal statute). This section prohibits actual physical damage or destruction of both real and personal property.”

By the way, this federal law absolutely includes the U.S. Capitol building and its property, not to mention the lives of the Capitol Police protecting it! I mean, DUH people!

President Trump called the violent events that day by his cult supporters as “A Day of Love” and “wonderful people.” Why has he never condemned those “protestors,” as they are always called by MAGA, stupid for bringing a gun/weapon to the protest? Why? And why did he pardon and release all of them? Why?

There is no other way that day’s events reads or interprets, period. It is a hypocritical double-standard Trump-MAGA cultist. Period. No debate.

And the diverting that Trump, MAGA, and all his federally appointed directors have always done: attack the actual victims, attack their character, attack their families, and attack their perceived political viewpoints whether it is justified or not… is indecent and wreaks of Mafia-style tactics and rhetoric. On the contrary, most of us law-abiding sane, reasonable American citizens know we are by far and away a much greater nation with diverse viewpoints, diverse opinions and arguments, and diverse cultures and populations for the simple fact that our Core Founding Fathers said so: All men (and women and children) are equal, have rights and liberties, especially if they are born here.

It is easy to conclude from these last several days in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that 1) either Trump and his ass-kissing sycophants do not know the difference between Whack-a-Mole, diverting justified criticism by incessantly moving the goal-posts in a ridiculous jig/dance, and using hypocritical double-standards… and their own anal rectums—because the Baby Orange Orangutan (Trump) has pushed their heads so far up their colons—that they are incapable of recognizing facts and reality, or 2) they are so audacious in appearing “right” that they intentionally ignore the obvious facts and rewrite a contradictory new narrative as quickly as possible. Or perhaps it is both #1 and #2. I will call it the way I see it and not mince any words…

Bottom-line, Trump and all his administration are a repugnant sack of feces; they are pathological liars. They are destroying this country both domestically and around the globe with our allies.

Nevertheless America, if the writing on the wall isn’t in bright enough neon-lights for you sane, reasonable, decent Americans right now and in the coming months and remaining years of President Trump’s second term debacle, then I seriously doubt anything else imbecilic and un-American, un-democratic Trump and his MAGA cult followers do will ever dissuade you from your sheer insanity and childish gullibility. If the latter is the case, then all of you belong in an asylum with real lunatics.

Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Don’t Be Stupid Like Trump!

Of Me, By Me, and For Me

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Professor Taboo

In the wake of what has happened here September 10th, 2025, in Orem, Utah, USA, where severe, violent extremism rose another notch, I am begging all Americans, every single one of you to please, please, please, PLEASE prove me wrong with the obvious direction this country is being led. Please prove me wrong! Speak up, do not stay silent… sadly, at the risk of your own life, like Charlie Kirk had the political right to do, whether his world-view, his political persuasion was right or wrong, fascist or American, SPEAK THA EFFIN UP and get active in your governmental process! I cannot emphasize this dire NEED enough, never.

Therefore, let me show all of you Americans the very poor state, the decaying cancer that has become the United States of America due to the apathy and non-participating American public standing up with their citizens of power to the unscrupulous authority, corrupt government, and persuasive mega-wealthy Dark Money into a Constitutional revamp that has been bringing down this republic democracy in which our 18th-century Founding Fathers fought so hard with their own blood, toil, tears, and sons.

Also, on a sidenote I do not mind one bit the length at which I examine and write about this subject of the decaying, cancerous condition and health of American democracy today and of the severe apathy and willful ignorance of American voters/citizens. Thus, if this blog publication becomes 3,000 or 5,000 or 20,000 words long, so be it. This understanding of the scummy, swampy, cesspool that is our nation’s current politics and corrupt wealth in it… is far, far, FAR too important for me to worry needlessly about reader’s short attention spans and shallow comprehension, or more to the point, their shameful laziness to read intently and earnestly what I’ve written here. So grin and bear it if you care about the terminal illness of your country, my country, our country as true Americans.

Let’s get started!

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There is a juxtaposed personality, or a duel and conflicting personality, or personalities in American politics. Not that that is big news, but the reality is that it has been present in our nation (and other nations) since the first cries of our 18th-century independence from Great Britain. 21st-century Americans must wake up and accept the state and condition of their dying nation! The fight to keep this democracy functioning is a DAILY responsibility. Period. Always has been, always will be.

This begs the question: where is the problem? Where is the cancer? I will tell you.

Our politicians and government no longer fear the American public or the American voters. Why? Because the “average American,” the masses of this country can no longer hurt those in positions of power and wealth, or they do not know how. The American public, the ordinary American voter/citizen has allowed this impunity to manifest inside U.S. government and its puppeteers. How? How has this been allowed to happen?

Our Lust for In-Your-Face Entertainment Value

Americans have always embraced affectionally their evil-doers, their entertaining criminals, e.g. D.B. Cooper, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, Anna Delvy, etc., and the long list goes on. Americans LOVE their defiant icons of cultish personality. Power, wealth, authority, defiance, and fear are extremely intoxicating, addicting to American politicians and the American public. Most of Americans are endlessly tempted and they fall from grace because of the severe pressures that go with a “public image,” celebrity status, and many of us worship them by our obsessive following of them like love-sick puppy dogs.

This too often permeates into our national and state governing as well. There is no exception either as a politician “Of the People, By the People, and For the People,” probably much more than all American voters could possibly imagine that goes on in Washington D.C., or those of us who become addicted roadies, followers, worshipers of them. And those officials/criminals in government roles must live up to a 24/7, 365-days a year, certain public image until they resign or retire from public service whether they like it or not, or whether they can demonstrate the moral fiber, character, and willpower to just say no… repeatedly. They must fake it publicly in order to generate campaign funding to stay in office and maintain their constituent’s support at the polls. Many fail, many are outright hypocrites whether intentional or not, and yet sadly the American people are duped over and over by these sketchy types of political personalities still to this day! This is and always has been the overly glamorized American culture by Hollywood. How? What are they really feeding it?

The Conscious, Preconscious, and Unconscious

Why is this lust for power, authority, and enormous wealth such a regular occurrence past and present with our American political officials? How do they keep getting appointed or voted into office? What is the psychology behind these public figures, and equally as much, with is the psychology behind their constituents and supporters that make them their elected governing officials?

*Sigmund Freud’s model of the human psyche* – *Image from The Living Philosophy, Oct. 2021*

The father of psychology Sigmund Freud, theorized in his 1915 paper that the human psyche had three distinct levels of consciousness, preconsciousness, and unconsciousness using a metaphorical diagram of an iceberg. I personally like Freud’s theory of the human psyche. In several ways I think there is much truth in its content and it is demonstrated every day and night by our human species, particularly in times of crisis. What exactly was Dr. Freud explaining to us?

Freud’s iceberg model was a metaphor for the structure or makeup of the human mind. Above the water was our awake, conscious mind of thoughts and perception that the general public around us witness. Everything below the waterline was the preconscious and unconscious, i.e. memory stored knowledge learned from life experiences and deeper below the waterline our instincts, fears, dark defiant inclinations, and selfish motives of the Me we usually hide from the general public. I believe this blueprint is a very true representation of all human psyches around the world; in all of us like it or not.

More precisely though the “Id” or ‘the It’ and the Ego and the Superego are all in conflict with each other for dominance and according to Freud are the driving forces of all human internal conflict with the bad, good, or neutrally egalitarian human decisions we make throughout our lifetimes.

The Id is the genetic, hormonal, and transgenerational part of the psyche we are born with. The Ego and Superego develop after and from the Id. In other words, the former is all formed from nature and genetics. The Ego and Superego are formed from our immediate family (parents, siblings, etc.), extended family, and our communal environment. There is no nurturing in the Id, but over time more and more nurturing is impacted upon the Ego and Superego. Below the waterline are all of our basic instincts, physiology, primal urges (libido) and impulses running wild inside our bodies, heads or perhaps sometimes manifested in actual behaviors. The Id is not organized or managed by logic and reasoning. According to Dr. Freud the Pleasure Principle rules the Id—it is energized by self-satisfaction and not by what society and others dictate. In my lifetime, I have found this principle, this Freudian theory to be mostly true.

The Superego can be thought of as the counter-balance to the Id and what we have individually learned throughout our own social life experiences. In short, the Id is the For Me, By Me, Of me, and the Superego is the bigger than me and my wants, or the ‘Of the People, By the People, For the People‘ manifestation. Within this third are two subparts: the full conscience and the Ego ideal. The conscience is the summation of what our culture, our parents, family, and community have taught to us and everyone what is right and what is wrong morally and ethically. When we do not live up to that standard or code, we feel shame and guilt, not only from society and family, but the Superego as well. The Ego ideal therefore would be the best internal version of one’s self that family, society and culture approves. And this approval has benefits: accomplishment, pride, and value to name just three.

The Superego also has the ability of forethought. It has the long-term in mind rather than the immediate primal urges and self-satisfaction. It is more altruistic in nature/role than self-gratifying and narcissistic, the angel on your shoulder so to speak, rather than the devil.

The Ego, according to Freud and in the proper German translation, is nothing more or less than the ‘I’ of your existence, the literal awake part of you. It has a very difficult role to play. It serves three domains, three masters. It must fairly manage the impulses of the ‘Id‘ and the Superego as well as reality or your societal/cultural world. This struggle is demonstrated daily by our individual actions 24/7, 365-days and nights a year. When your Superego and your Id are aligned and balanced with reality, then all seems to be happy, content, peaceful, and hopeful.

“There is nothing in the id that could be compared with negation… nothing in the id which corresponds to the idea of time”⁠
—Sigmund Freud

Whether one agrees wholly with Freud’s model, partly, or not at all in any way, I find much truth to his theory of all human psyches—it can be found one way or another in every single human being on the planet.

Applying Psychology and the Human Psyche to Our Nation

How our better self, the Ego as Freud puts it, manages the conflicts within us and without us between the Id and the Superego. It is of course the ultimate and never-ending debate of what’s best and what is not best in the timeline of human endeavors. I want to show how poorly, how dismally America is doing today on a psychological, societal, and political level both domestically (locally) and internationally.

Never before in the whole history of the United States has the wealth of one nation, in nearly two and half centuries, been so atmospheric, so high, so abundant among so few citizens than in the 21st-century United States. The USA is currently the 10th richest country in the world by GDP per capita constant prices. That might be a surprise to many, but when compared to 196 designated official nations, that is remarkably outstanding. That leaves in the dust all of our perceived “enemy” nations like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. But underneath this outer shell of glitz, bling, and power is a fragile, decaying illness inside. The biggest growing, cancerous tumors inside the U.S. are its economic model (hyper-capitalism) fed by mega-corporations, as well as its bribed, corrupt, scandalous government officials by those wealthiest individuals, their corporations, and their Super PACs. American history has shown adequately that it isn’t just one political party either. It is now the 21st-century millions, billions, and trillions that has infested our entire political and judicial systems. What and/or who is specifically responsible for this metastasized cancer inside the United States? Many well-educated, well-informed, secular Americans who know inside and out this country’s Charters of Freedom, as a whole, and their Core Founding Fathers who designed them will say two things or two people:

Citizens United and James Bopp in 2010, and…
Leonard Leo and Robert Schenck.

Pick your poison, any of those four in conjunction with each other and backed secretly, anonymously by a few extremely wealthy Super PACs and donors are the cancer, the power players that now rule or ruled this country straight to the ER. Let’s look at the consequences of these four entities since before 2010 and the Supreme Court’s eventual Landmark decisions of Citizens United vs FEC, followed by Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022.

The Root of All Evil

It is the popular pop cliche that “Money is the root of all evil.” Yes, it probably is given how human behavior around it, with it, and using it too often leads to many sins and evil. But this cliche is actually a misquote and misinterpretation of 1 Timothy 6:10 which actually states:

“For the love of money is a root of all ^[a]sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” — NASB 1995

In this passage’s correct exegetical meaning the author(s) intends that the love of or affection for or obsession with money and/or power is a root, a pathway to all sorts of evil, corruption, scandal, bad moral judgement, and destruction of not only marriages, families, and careers, but also of one’s public image… but only temporarily in 21st-century America.

How many people, friends, family members, celebrities, sports stars do you know or can think of that clearly change in their behavior toward others (you?) and change their personality when enormous fortunes fall upon them? Think about it. Who can you list? Abnormal wealth, usually in large degrees, changes a person’s life sometimes for the better other times for the worst. Some can handle the change, others fail miserably.

Personally, I have almost always found in my experience, about 90% of the time, people, family, or friends who have come upon vast amounts of money and with it inevitable socioeconomic status, they definitely change. More often than not, the change is quite unhealthy for them and everyone around them. All of us see this in our lifetimes and learn about its corrupting nature throughout human history. We have learned about the Seven Deadly Sins, that too often distract us from a virtuous altruistic life of healthy inclusion. Of the seven deadly sins, the ones always associated with massive wealth are greed, gluttony, and implicitly, sloth. The many temptations, distractions from true life as Henry David Thoreau alludes in Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, and the slippery slopes of falling into the other four deadly sins are more often than not irresistible to most. This is why personally I am and always will be a Minimalist. As a result, I would never in a million years make a popular, quid pro quo American politician or lobbyist; not ever. I do not have the stomach for, much less the Machiavellian traits required today for either Washington D.C., or Austin, Texas, careers. As the saying goes, my soul or integrity are not for sale.

Does Money Equal Free Speech?

Beginning in 2008 a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization called Citizens United led initially by Floyd Brown and later David N. Bossie, both very Right Conservatives and well connected to extremely wealthy conservative donors and the corporate sector of campaign donors who all share the same ideology, won the Landmark Supreme Court Decision in January 2010 Citizens United vs FEC. With the legal assistance of Indiana attorney James Bopp, Jr., specializing in anti-abortion legislation, election laws, American campaign finance, and a staunch Republican activist, Citizens United, Brown, Bossie, Bopp, and several other extremely wealthy donors and organizations successfully pushed the argument of Money Equals Free Speech past the Supreme Court and into law. This SCOTUS decision would change the landscape of American politics, true democracy, campaign finance and donations entirely upside down for untold decades, possibly centuries given the new floodgates of enormous, ungodly amounts of money everywhere in our government and its elections. Worse still would be the start of the United Oligarchs of America where the wealthiest govern and control all aspects of American freedom and liberties.

And the numbers above have only skyrocketed since 2020 into stratospheric amounts to 2024. Since Nixon and Watergate lobbyist spending exploded to the Bush administrations from a $100-million dollar industry to a $2.5-billion dollar industry by 2009. It has only gotten gluttonous and hideously obese through 2024. Why now is our election process so vulnerable to the most heinous of corruption and bribery?

The arguments for and against money = free speech came down to basically two opposed positions: 1) the hiding and disguising (misleading) of unlimited amounts of campaign donations from the wealthiest donors, albeit individuals or corporations, or 2) the insane amounts of temptations that unlimited money favorably influences actual legislation for special interests groups, minority beliefs, and minority ideologies, and thus literally screw over the greater common American, whether they are in the majority or not. In other words, a few richest entities and individuals of our nation can dictate what sort of life the vast and ordinary Americans from coast to coast can have or not have despite their votes at the ballot boxes.

Fortunately, for the Living Evolving Constitutionalist of which I advocate, the poster boy for the deplorable corruptions, briberies, and deceit in our money-loaded repulsive elections was nurtured and manifested by Citizens United and James Bopp, Jr. Who is the caught, criminal poster boy? It is Jack Abramoff. Jack Abramoff has served two prison terms because he always wanted to circumvent the Law of Our Land. And there are many others that could be listed. But just in Abramoff’s investigation-scandal twenty-four (24) others were convicted of corruption or bribery directly nurtured by Citizens United, James Bopp, Jr. and two other key accomplices: Leonard Leo and Robert Schenk. I highly recommend that Rev. Schenk’s link be thoroughly read and comprehended! Why? Because Schenk later realized, far too late, that all the Christian Nationalism he had fought for and gone to jail for previously was a huge, huge regrettable mistake.

“When religion is placed at the service of a political party, it corrupts both. To claim that one political figure uniquely represents God’s will is a form of anti-Christian idolatry.” — Reverend Robert Schenk

Rev. Robert Schenk would be a second poster boy of what Citizens United and attorney James Bopp, Jr. have irreparably created—pure, unadulterated corruption and bribery at the highest levels of our federal government. Period, including our Supreme Court. No ifs, ands, or buts. Period. James B. Mintz founder of the Mintz Group, a research and financial investigation group and a former adjunct professor at Columbia University Journalism School, finds six components of how corrupt politicians and lobbyists launder the “gratuity gifts” that buy-off and bribe our federal officials. His example is Paul Manafort and his indictment as Trump’s 2016-17 campaign chairman:

And this sort of corrupt underhanded dealing and influence on elections happens all the time in various forms. What Citizens United and its champion, Bopp created was nothing short of legalized bribery of Washington D.C. In fact, this is a direct quote straight from James Bopp, Jr.’s mouth:

“I have found that being rich is always an advantage. It’s always an advantage to have money. You get a nicer house, a nicer car, you know, steak every night, whatever it is you are into, okay… and fine wine, and you can pay for speech if you want to. Okay? So there is always an advantage to have money and people with money will always have an advantage. Always.”

Boy howdy, if that isn’t rich, superior, snub-your-nose, white-man arrogance, then I have land on the Moon to sell you. That is the most undemocratic, uncouth, audacious hubris stuff to say to a nation, his nation founded upon the People, the ordinary, hard working People of America who are not the upper 10% or 15% of the most wealthy in the nation. They are average Americans who absolutely have a voice, as equally as anyone else has a voice Of the People, By the People, and For the People whether they are filthy rich or not! Man, James Bopp, Jr. chaps my ass royally with that level of blatant pomposity! And readers, he is the reason Citizens United succeeded in 2010 and directly corrupted this supposedly fair democratic republic nation. No debate whatsoever; he and the ramrodded Supreme Court Justice appointments by the last six (6) Republican administrations going back to Richard Nixon to deliberately ideologically fix our highest court in the land.

Though there are many Jack Abramoffs to list as incapable of resisting corruption, deceit, and bribes in our nation’s capitol due directly to Citizens United, James Bopp, and several other big money players, Abramoff is one of the few who was caught and who could never learn his lesson even after two lengthy prison sentences. What does that say about unlimited money flooding into our politics and government the last 15-20 years? How many excuses will be made to keep unlimited big money inside our elections and government?

Before moving on I want to address the heavy power and influence “campaign finance” via Citizens United now has inside Washington D.C. with Leonard Leo, the puppeteer, and come back to Robert Schenk’s part in it as the puppet.

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Who is Leonard Leo the man? What has shaped his life and character? Well, describing Leonard Anthony Leo is not at all difficult. Why? Because he has single handedly reshaped our nation’s Supreme Court. The highest of all courts in our country. That’s right, one man, not several presidents, not the People of the United States—that is to say, not ALL the People—but one single man created the line of dominos then tipped the first one forward and the domino effect is still happening today.

*Federalist Society co-chairman and former Executive Vice President Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York, Nov. 16, 2016. Carolyn Kaster/AP*

Leo’s biggest accolade to date was his engineering of the Republican supermajority of our current Supreme Court Justices via his Federalist Society and several/many players and donors. Soon after SCOTUS followed HIS personal agenda and rolled back a woman’s right to an abortion, especially in critical or emergency situations. Does Leo’s version of Catholicism represent all the People of the United States? Is this a true republic when fringe minorities rule the land? He thinks it does. Leonard Leo, let me remind you of two Scriptural passages:

“Therefore ^[a]whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. ³ For rulers are not a cause of fear for ^[b] good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; ⁴for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.”
— Romans 13: 2-7 (NASB 1995)

“Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, ¹⁴or to governors as sent ^[a] by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.”
— 1 Peter 2:13-14 (NASB 1995)

On the contrary though, Holy Scripture does not always apply to the whole, but only to the individual interpretation or belief of that Scripture’s exegesis (Opus Dei). Often one person or one tiny group believes their ideology applies to the world, not just themselves. This was and still is Leonard Leo.

Personally, Leo has been deeply shaped by his radical religious faith of ultra-conservative Catholicism, and the death of his daughter by complications of her spinal bifida at 14-years old. Yet, somehow (and who knows) that tragedy caused him to attack abortion rights for American women and to go relentlessly after the Roe v Wade’s repeal. It was purely a personal vendetta on our country and he succeeded with the aid of the Federalist Society… very sadly though at the expense of a much higher mortality rate for American pregnant women and their unborn or infants in 14 states with new abortion bans, including one of the highest ones, my native state of Texas. That is horribly and grossly disproportionate for one 14-year old girl named Margaret Leo, his daughter, for all the deaths due to inaccessible emergency medical care. Really? One girl for 100’s and 1,000’s of other women and infants? WTF Leonard! But I assure you 100% that Leo would say something like, ‘That’s God’s domain and only His domain, not man’s.’ I’ve heard that over and over and over ad infinitum from religious fanatics. In the end, Leonard Leo received in particular a $1.6-BILLION dollar donation that he used for slush funds to buy off near hundreds of activist leaders, including one that violently marched upon our Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in an insurrection on our federal government killing several people and Capitol Police sworn to defend the very institution Leo, Trump, his Federalist Society, and his crony politicians were attacking!

However, when so many powerful, well-connected, wealthy men in Washington D.C. serve only themselves, they will turn on you in a heart beat. Has Leo learned this painful lesson of who he serves or uses as a puppet? From Politico.com, May 2025:

Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over court ruling

“The president, in a post on his social media platform, slammed Leonard Leo, the former chair of the Federalist Society, calling him a “sleazebag” who “probably hates America.”

[…]

Trump’s attack came after the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday struck down his tariffs, a massive blow to the primary pillar of the administration’s economic agenda. The ruling was temporarily stayed by an appellate court on Thursday. One of the judges on the three-person panel that blocked the tariffs is Timothy Reif, who was appointed by Trump in his first term.

The blame, Trump said, lay with the Federalist Society.

“I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations,” he wrote. “This is something that cannot be forgotten!”

[…]

And at a time when much of Trump’s agenda is facing tests at the Supreme Court, Trump’s vitriolic attack on Leo has the potential to further distance the president from the court’s conservative justices. All three of Trump’s high court nominees, as well as Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, are known to be close to Leo.”

What lessons has Leonard Leo and his closest associates really learned from their Supreme Leader in the White House? Dealing with fringe special interests and greedy megalomaniacs has a risky, high cost. When the proverbial feces hits the fan, historically it has always been “every man for himself; everyone will go down with me” mentality.

Robert Schenk was one of Leonard Leo’s, James Bopp’s, and David Bossie’s puppets from the Evangelical activist circles to help galvanize the nation’s Conservative Right behind Citizens United, ironically very much a minority group in our country. As many corrupt lobbyists and D.C. politicians say, “Money talks, bullshit walks,” even when you are a fringe minority money dictates the minority’s ideology upon the majority, as attorney James Bopp, Jr. boasts above in his direct quote of ‘being rich.’ Today, Rev. Robert Schenk has done a complete 180-degree turnaround on his beliefs; listen/watch closely:

Rev. Robert Schenck, one of the first to abandon the Far Right Conservative’s extremist movement on Pro-life abortion laws (Roe v Wade) after years of being a radical activist in that same movement.

Bottom-line? Easy, there is just a corrosive, obese amount of buy-off money (bribery) everywhere in Washington D.C. and Citizens United, James Bopp, Jr., Leonard Leo and their created culture in the money schemes/scams are simply too predominate in our modern politics. Period, full stop. And unless Citizens United v FEC is overturned, repealed… it will never stop; it will only get worse every year, two years, and four years until American democracy completely collapses precisely like the Roman Empire in the 4th- and 5th-centuries CE. Guaranteed.

#1 – Former Illinois Governor (D) Rod Blagojevich

Though indicted and sentenced, former Democratic Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was just two years prior to the SCOTUS Landmark decision of Citizens United vs FEC, he is still one of the best known victims, or rather criminal felons who got caught, who fell victim(?) in the 21st-century to ungodly, obese amounts of money in U.S. state or federal politics and legislation thanks to the lead-up of Citizens United.

Every day across the United States, in every single state, our political system is bankrolled by an onslaught of armies of wealthy fund raisers and their associate donors throwing in millions and millions of campaign dollars to their own special interests and puppet candidates. When those super wealthy donors front $50k, $200k, or $1-million dollars, they demand favors, paybacks, or kickbacks.

And no thanks to Citizens United in 2010, Brown and Bossie, attorney James Bopp, Jr. Leonard Leo, and our Republican supermajority Supreme Court, a wink and a nod that borders ever so thinly on bribery, U.S. politics has been and is as corrupt as it ever has been. Before it was cool to be filthy corrupt, soliciting bribes, wire fraud, and attempting extortion prior to 2010, Rod Blagojevich was the poster boy forerunner and first major consequence of too much money in state-federal politics.

#2 – Borges, Householder, Clark, Cespedes, Longstreth, & FirstEnergy Corp.

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#3 – Clarence Thomas and Brett Cavanaugh

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Temporary note — I am trying to finish this post while dealing with my Mom’s soon and eventual death from severe dementia/Early Alzheimer’s and other medical complications. I am handling a LOT at the moment. Please bear with me and thank you so much for your patience and understanding.

To be continued…

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Whining Too Much Too Late

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Professor Taboo

I am beginning to get quite tired of Americans bitching and moaning about how horribly Donny J. Trump is ruining this country, both domestically and in foreign affairs. It is getting annoying and nauseating to keep listening to and reading about American voters getting angry, publicly protesting, and just giving lip-service to what SHOULD have been voiced and acted upon back in October–November 2024.

The fact is, that bitching, protesting, fighting HAD to be waged back in April 2023 when Project 2025: The Conservative Mandate was published for ALL American voters to read… precisely what Trump and his MAGA sycophants said they were going to do to our entire federal government and our Constitution. Surprise! No… no surprise.

But how many Americans actually read the MAGA Republican’s 790-page blueprint to trash the country? No one. Did anyone prepare for their overhaul of our Charters of Freedom and trashing of our Constitution? No one. And NOW they are starting to bitch, moan, and whine far too late? WTF people!

I am getting very tired of listening today to Americans complain to what Trump and his MAGA sycophants said they would do if he got voted back into office. He and the MAGA-eots are doing it. And how many lazy ass, indifferent, apathetic, non-patriotic Americans did NOT vote last October–November? I’ll tell you, almost 90-million Americans did not vote last autumn. That was more than enough American voters to keep Trump out of the White House! Plenty of No-Votes against Trump!

Quit your bitching, moaning, and whining Americans, THIS is what YOU allowed to happen by not participating in protecting our democracy, our Charters of Freedom, and letting a fascist dictator back into the White House! 😡🤬 So shut tha hell up with non-stop whining about what the Orange Orangutan is doing to this nation. Yes, he is ruining it, he is trashing it, and he is indeed a shameful 4th-grader embarrassment that behaves like an immature spoiled, bullying brat! But voting Americans… YOU let him back into the White House. So show some accountability, belly-up, and STOP your god damn effing whining already!

We deserve this. Period.

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A Parody of U.S. Absurdity

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Professor Taboo

It is November 5th, 2024 and American voters are out in droves to vote for the future survival of true democracy. About half of American voters, approximately 167.5-million, are voting for the two Republican candidates. The other half are voting for the other two Democratic candidates. Who are the Republican candidates? Here are their portrait-photos:

*Presidential candidate Bernie Madoff and Vice-Presidential running mate, Ted Bundy*

What are Bernie Madoff’s qualities? First and foremost is Madoff’s financial genius and empire he created through his Fonzi-Ponzi Fund. He promises Americans millions in economic returns. Second, he is an expert in wall constructions. In fact, he will soon be on the cutting edge of small cell-like confinements for any criminals that try and cross his Madoff Wall system! And third, Bernie Madoff promises his mega-wealthy investors Carte Blanche in environmental change opportunities on unprecedented scales, done in less than 20-years that Earth won’t be recognizable to even the most astute observers. I mean, who can’t vote for this fine gentleman and future leader of the world?

Bernie Madoff’s Vice-Presidential running mate is the one and only Ted Bundy of Burlington, Vermont. Bundy is best known for his diplomatic prowess and quirky charm so much so that his foreign and domestic guests would die for more time with him! Another top quality Bundy possesses for role of Vice-President is his family values, especially women’s rights, or rather no rights. Finally, VP candidate Bundy has vast experience in presidential campaigns; he worked for Nelson Rockefeller’s unsuccessful presidential run as well as Arthur Fletcher’s state and federal career and campaigns for, yes, you guessed it, Affirmative Action as the Revised Philadelphia Plan for more equality across genders and social equity, primarily for women since Bundy’s natural gift was diplomacy with women.

These Republican candidates are a very strong ticket for the Party which is exactly why about half of American voters are casting their precious voice with these two fine, upstanding men. If the Madoff-Bundy Republican ticket wins this presidential race, our country will be in very good hands with a fabulous future in store that the rest of the world will envy! No doubt about it.

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