In a fully corrupt political system, meaning one where office can be bought, what is the best position for a buyer to be in? It is to have an unlimited amount of money to spend and that is AIPAC.
"The Friends of the IDF" is an American money-raising group. I demonstrated against it at a Chicago fund raiser years ago and watched in awe as one exotic car after another arrived for valet parking. Over $1 million was raised at this one event.
According to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, also a few years back, Friends of the IDF raises so much money that the IDF doesn't know what to do with it all.
Consider that all the money collected for "Friends" could easily be re-directed to AIPAC and yet it need not be since AIPAC is already flush. Consider that Larry Ellison, one of a number of American Zionist billionaires, has money enough to buy not just CBS, but the company that owns CBS, Paramount, and this simply for the purpose of making CBS news a mouthpiece for Israel. One man alone buying a giant corporation for a political purpose, one man.
We the people have only one thing in our favor, our numbers at the voting booth. Let no one reading this think for one second of not voting next week.
By the way, Kat Abughazaleh, running in IL-9, has said there should not be any billionaires. I hope I have made a case for that above.
Reckless gambling must be encoded in the genome of homo not-so-sapiens. When you think about it - all those quasi criminal organizations AIPAC, crypto and big time gambling are themselves reckless gamblers pouring their unlaundered funny money into bets on thoroughly unreliable candidates, willing to sell their integrity for the burnt bowl of pottage of legend and lore. Don't these idiots know that investing in someone hunting for the highest bidder is going to end in catastrophe? I mean really? a POTUS who managed to drive a casino into bankruptcy? Do you really want to associate with such a loser? Sooner or later his criminal empire will collapse. Hope it takes his spawn of the devil kids with it.
This is a judgement call. If we are hurting so much, then how do you have money to gamble? Gambling is for people to throw money away. Paying rent, groceries, utilities, isn’t a fucking game.
I cast my vote on Saturday and I'm relieved to find out that I didn't vote for any of these frauds. Unfortunately I'm in Bill Foster's district and he's running unopposed so I just left that box unchecked. He doesn't deserve my vote or anyone else's. Thank you so much for your detailed analysis. I wish I was in Blaha's district.
This is very helpful. One suggestion for the future..post this just before mail in voting starts. (I believe it started Apr 2nd in IL). I’m happy to say that I walked over my ballot to a blue box at the library and already received my confirmation that my vote was received. I am happy to say I avoided voting for anyone on your
I am very concerned about Krishnamoorthi gaining this seat. He seems to be the only one advertising due to his enormous war chest filled up by AIPAC and other questionable sources. I hope people heed your advice, Qasim, as well as do more of their own research before voting. I did my due diligence before completing my early-voting ballot.
If I can offer a feeble ray of hope it would be the story out of NC Senate District 26 where Phil Berger — who basically has had that seat fitted for him he’s been in it so long — faced Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page in the Republican primary. Berger is practically Republican royalty in the state, and had Trump’s endorsement — which may or may not have helped him, but he spent an eye-watering TEN MILLION dollars (at least) on this PRIMARY race. I can’t say that AIPAC was involved, but it’s likely that the gaming industry was — which is ironic for reasons you’ll understand in a minute.
The hopeful part is that when all the votes were counted on election day, PAge had a lead of TWO votes. After the provisional ballots were tallied that lead grew to 23 votes, with some overseas, military and mail ballots still possible until tomorrow (3/12). The race is well within the margin for an automatic recount, and might end up in litigation before it’s all over, so it would be premature to say Berger lost the race, but the fact that it was even close after all that money was firehosed into it is telling.
But I promised you irony, and here it is. One of the issues that cost Berger his seat — should Page prevail — was that he tried to put a casino in Rockingham County. And it would seem that the voters there were not so keen on the idea. Sports betting (of a legal sort) is fairly new in NC, and the jury is still out on public opinion of it. So if any of that $10M came from FanDuel or Draft Kings they probably aren’t very happy with their ROI.
NC is not IL, to be sure, but it does serve to demonstrate that you can spend as much as 5 Congressional races on a legislative seat and still lose — even if you’re royalty. A $10M war chest for a PRIMARY for a state senate seat is just … gobsmacking. But it wasn’t enough.
I understand he's quite problematic as well. I will see if I can dig up the article or post I came across but I'm given to understand he's just another wolf in sheep's clothing despite his 'aw, shucks' Everyman image.
And if you live in Minnesota, let’s not forget about AIPAC Amy who wants to step into Governor Waltz’s position! Let’s not let that happen! She has blood on her hands, she has been fully supportive of Israel and has been taking AIPAC money and not in small amounts either! She has only now changed her position and only because she wants to be the governor of Minnesota!! Shame on you Amy! Many people mistakenly think she has represented Minnesota well, she absolutely has not! I have never heard much of anything coming from AIPAC Amy until now! What has she done for Minnesota?? All her responses are the same rubber stamped message no matter what you contact her about ! That tells me she really has no opinion and doesn’t care about anything! She needs to be voted out of her current position and should definitely not be Minnesota’s governor !! Please help spread the word..
This is so incredibly well-researched. Thank you for taking the time - AND SHARING IT WITH US ALL.
In a fully corrupt political system, meaning one where office can be bought, what is the best position for a buyer to be in? It is to have an unlimited amount of money to spend and that is AIPAC.
"The Friends of the IDF" is an American money-raising group. I demonstrated against it at a Chicago fund raiser years ago and watched in awe as one exotic car after another arrived for valet parking. Over $1 million was raised at this one event.
According to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, also a few years back, Friends of the IDF raises so much money that the IDF doesn't know what to do with it all.
Consider that all the money collected for "Friends" could easily be re-directed to AIPAC and yet it need not be since AIPAC is already flush. Consider that Larry Ellison, one of a number of American Zionist billionaires, has money enough to buy not just CBS, but the company that owns CBS, Paramount, and this simply for the purpose of making CBS news a mouthpiece for Israel. One man alone buying a giant corporation for a political purpose, one man.
We the people have only one thing in our favor, our numbers at the voting booth. Let no one reading this think for one second of not voting next week.
By the way, Kat Abughazaleh, running in IL-9, has said there should not be any billionaires. I hope I have made a case for that above.
Reckless gambling must be encoded in the genome of homo not-so-sapiens. When you think about it - all those quasi criminal organizations AIPAC, crypto and big time gambling are themselves reckless gamblers pouring their unlaundered funny money into bets on thoroughly unreliable candidates, willing to sell their integrity for the burnt bowl of pottage of legend and lore. Don't these idiots know that investing in someone hunting for the highest bidder is going to end in catastrophe? I mean really? a POTUS who managed to drive a casino into bankruptcy? Do you really want to associate with such a loser? Sooner or later his criminal empire will collapse. Hope it takes his spawn of the devil kids with it.
This canNOT be Good . . .
This is a judgement call. If we are hurting so much, then how do you have money to gamble? Gambling is for people to throw money away. Paying rent, groceries, utilities, isn’t a fucking game.
I cast my vote on Saturday and I'm relieved to find out that I didn't vote for any of these frauds. Unfortunately I'm in Bill Foster's district and he's running unopposed so I just left that box unchecked. He doesn't deserve my vote or anyone else's. Thank you so much for your detailed analysis. I wish I was in Blaha's district.
….ai-ac or Draftking etc list.
This is very helpful. One suggestion for the future..post this just before mail in voting starts. (I believe it started Apr 2nd in IL). I’m happy to say that I walked over my ballot to a blue box at the library and already received my confirmation that my vote was received. I am happy to say I avoided voting for anyone on your
This is excellent. I'm a New Yorker but it scares the stuffing out of me. Everyone needs to sit up and pay attention. Thank you.
I am very concerned about Krishnamoorthi gaining this seat. He seems to be the only one advertising due to his enormous war chest filled up by AIPAC and other questionable sources. I hope people heed your advice, Qasim, as well as do more of their own research before voting. I did my due diligence before completing my early-voting ballot.
I've only seen ads from Krishnamoorthi (and no one else) here in the Chicago suburbs. They make me so mad because I already know that he's full of it
Thank you for sharing Qasim. It is hard to know who you should support. This article helps. ✌🏻
If elections keep getting funded by super PACs, the real primary voters are going to be billionaires and corporate lobbyists.
Every state is next 😫
If not already bought as mine is!!!
If I can offer a feeble ray of hope it would be the story out of NC Senate District 26 where Phil Berger — who basically has had that seat fitted for him he’s been in it so long — faced Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page in the Republican primary. Berger is practically Republican royalty in the state, and had Trump’s endorsement — which may or may not have helped him, but he spent an eye-watering TEN MILLION dollars (at least) on this PRIMARY race. I can’t say that AIPAC was involved, but it’s likely that the gaming industry was — which is ironic for reasons you’ll understand in a minute.
The hopeful part is that when all the votes were counted on election day, PAge had a lead of TWO votes. After the provisional ballots were tallied that lead grew to 23 votes, with some overseas, military and mail ballots still possible until tomorrow (3/12). The race is well within the margin for an automatic recount, and might end up in litigation before it’s all over, so it would be premature to say Berger lost the race, but the fact that it was even close after all that money was firehosed into it is telling.
But I promised you irony, and here it is. One of the issues that cost Berger his seat — should Page prevail — was that he tried to put a casino in Rockingham County. And it would seem that the voters there were not so keen on the idea. Sports betting (of a legal sort) is fairly new in NC, and the jury is still out on public opinion of it. So if any of that $10M came from FanDuel or Draft Kings they probably aren’t very happy with their ROI.
NC is not IL, to be sure, but it does serve to demonstrate that you can spend as much as 5 Congressional races on a legislative seat and still lose — even if you’re royalty. A $10M war chest for a PRIMARY for a state senate seat is just … gobsmacking. But it wasn’t enough.
Pick good candidates similar to James Talarico.
https://christopherbouzy.substack.com/p/james-talarico-is-a-ticking-time
https://substack.com/@truthshewrote/note/c-221486287
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/mess-in-texas-billionaire-backed
I understand he's quite problematic as well. I will see if I can dig up the article or post I came across but I'm given to understand he's just another wolf in sheep's clothing despite his 'aw, shucks' Everyman image.
And if you live in Minnesota, let’s not forget about AIPAC Amy who wants to step into Governor Waltz’s position! Let’s not let that happen! She has blood on her hands, she has been fully supportive of Israel and has been taking AIPAC money and not in small amounts either! She has only now changed her position and only because she wants to be the governor of Minnesota!! Shame on you Amy! Many people mistakenly think she has represented Minnesota well, she absolutely has not! I have never heard much of anything coming from AIPAC Amy until now! What has she done for Minnesota?? All her responses are the same rubber stamped message no matter what you contact her about ! That tells me she really has no opinion and doesn’t care about anything! She needs to be voted out of her current position and should definitely not be Minnesota’s governor !! Please help spread the word..