Booman posted a fine piece today on his own prescription for the end of the Trump era.
Trump Should Follow Agnew’s Example (<http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/12/17/105020/13>)
As a (perhaps) illuminating sideline to this wonderful remembrance of a totally corrupt Baltimore pol who made it all the way from the crooked streets of post-WWII/Korean War Baltimore to the promised land…a breath away from the presidency and successful corruption beyond belief…please look at the timeline of Nancy Pelosi’s father’s rise in Baltimore politics and how it mirrored Agnew’s own timeline. (<https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro_Jr.>) (<https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew#Criminal_investigation_and_resignation>)
Read on.
Thomas Ludwig John D’Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from Maryland’s 3rd congressional district (1939-47) and subsequently the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland (1947-59). He was the father of former House Speaker and current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
And then look at the political histories of his son and daughter on the same page:
Thomas L. J. D’Alesandro III (born 1929), who also served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971
Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro (born 1940), is a Representative from California, who served as the House of Representatives House Minority Leader between 2003 and 2007 and from 2011 to present, and was the Speaker of the House from January 4, 2007 until January 3, 2011. After the 2018 midterms, Pelosi was again nominated to become Speaker.[8]
Both mayors were hounded by allegations of alliances with the Italian mob that ran the underside of Baltimore…which was also (on extensive personal experience in the late ’60s/early ’70s) without any doubt whatsoever the most racist city in the Boston->Washington DC megalopolis. See here (<http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/san-fran-nan-learned-to-be-a-bully-by-corrupt-father-mafia-dons-and-assorted-criminals/”>) and here (<https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/revealed-jfk-worried-pelosis-dad-associated-organized-crime>) for a primer on her learning years and influences.
Check it out.
This is where some of the current upper levels of the current Democratic Party learned their trade.
Bet on it.
Including Chuck Schumer, whose very position is due to his strong alliances with the now-rogue and racist state Israel and its equally rogue leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. (Netanyahu. Another totally corrupt pol as far as I am concerned.)
Now I am sure I will hear the usual screams of outrage…or at the very least attempts at justification…from the four or five neocentrist posters here who continue attempt to push this supposed “progressive” blog towards the center, but there it is, in black and white. If you are so blind as to think that those D’Alesandros…father, son and daughter…somehow managed to come up clean through the Baltimore sludge that produced Spiro Agnew? I can’t reach you.
I can hear the pleas now.
It was another time!!!
It was just pragmatic politics!!!
I mean…what arrant BULLSHIT this kind of thinking represents!!!
If JFK…whose father was a mob-connected smuggler among many other things and whose very election was made possible by mob influences in West Virginia if not many other places…was “worried” about the D’Alesandro mob connections!!!???
They must have been very heavy.
Think on your party.
Do you want to continue to play patsy with various mobs…including the Saudi and Israel interests and Wall Street among many others…in the name of “pragmatic politics?”
Please!!!
Look at where that game has gotten us over the last 50+ years.
Trump in the White House and the Republican Party busy with redistricting and other hustles…including packing the Supreme Court…so that the eventual popular reaction to Trump’s equally inevitable downfall won’t change a damned thing in terms of the real power structure.
WTFU!!!
We need Bernie Sanders’s Revolution.
NOW!!!
Before it’s too late.
Think on it.
AG
P.S. Gotta hand it to Nancy Pelosi…she beat both her father and her brother in the big-time politics game.
By miles!!!
And no doubt by millions as well.
Probably somewhere well hidden.
She ain’t no dummy!!!
Slick as ice.
Snd just as cold.
P.S. Gotta hand it to Nancy Pelosi…she beat both her father and her brother in the big-time politics game.
By miles!!!
And no doubt by millions as well.
Probably somewhere well hidden.
Actual facts might work out better for you than stabs in the dark.
“Facts.”
1-She grew up in a a high-level Baltimore political family, surrounded by corruption.
2-So did her brother.
3-Her father and brother got…in a sense…busted. Not in court necessarily, but in the eyes of those who controlled their national party at the very least!
and
4-She was smarter than both of them.
So far.
We shall see.
If the so-called Justice Department were to be as thorough in delving into Democratic…or centrist Republican, for that matter…corruption as it has been in going after the people who have surrounded Trump, would Pelosi escape unscathed?
I don’t think so, myself.
I believe that she was…at the very least, considering her stature in the party…a witting conspirator in the robbery of Bernie Sanders’s campaign in the 2016 election.
Was that a crime?
In the United States of Omertica, apparently the only “crimes” committed on that level are those that can be laid at the feet of opponents of the PermaWar/Deep State establishment.
Trump and his gang are without a doubt criminals on multiple levels.
Do you really think that they are the only ones?
Wake the fuck up.
Thank you and good night.
AG
None of which proves your stab in the dark.
. . . And what are they for, again?
Baseless slander: Where’s the problem?
Guilt-by-association character assassination: Sure, why not?!
Groundless insinuation/innuendo: Of course, it’s all the rage!
Well, hell, as long as it’s attacking a Democrat, it’s all good, amirite?
I am “attacking” mainstream Democrats, Republicans, and the rest of the Deep State/Neocentrist/PermaWar/Uniparty establishment.
Ask yourselves…please!!!
How did we get into this pickle?
Really!!!
Do you truly think that this has only been a one-sided set of movements?
Please look up the many images of HRC cuddling up to the major architect of the Vietnam/SE Asia catastrophe (Henry Kissinger) for all that you need to know on that account.
Murderers all.
And you wonder why this country is in the trouble that it finds itself today?
Wake the fuck up!!!
Bet on it.
AG
Arthur, you are a right wing asshole.
In the Trump era we have no time for your bullshit. You’re not offering good faith critiques of the Democratic Party at all. You favor right wing policies. You want to split this community and depress voter turnout.
Wrong on all counts.
As usual.
Except maybe the asshole part.
I am a fool for caring.
What I “want” is a successful revolution in the Democratic Party.
A party of the people, a party freed of corporate control, a party financed by individual citizens. Beto O’Roarke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed the way this year. Were you even watching?
If not that…and considering the current “leadership,” all of whom are highly skilled political insider hustlers, that’s doesn’t seem likely to happen (although it’s more likely than it has ever been before)…then I want a viable new party that is not encumbered by 50+ years of nasty, corporate-owned, Deep State-controlled compromise. The time for compromises on that level is over.
Why do I say that?
Because the sum total of all of those compromises has brought us to this horrible low point in the history of the United States…a total megalomaniac and career criminal in the White House and a population that quite rightfully no longer trusts either major party or the media that are ostensibly supposed to bring them their information.
You?
Your little helpers here?
And your party as it stands today?
You are all old news…even worse, a great deal of it fake old news.
Stupid or calculatingly dishonest?
Both.
As usual.
Go away.
You’re through; you just don’t know it yet.
2020 will tell the tale.
Watch.
You cannot successfully hustle the future.
Not for long, anyway. It always catches up to you when you least expect it to do so.
They say that hindsight is 20/20, right?
I say that foresight is 20/20, if it’s sharp enough.
WTFU.
You’re over.
AG
You’re lying.
You’re a Ron Paul evangelist. Occasionally you have stopped lying to re-declare your support for Paul’s political views. It’s been refreshing to receive those drops of honesty while we walk through the desert of your dishonesty.
Many of the actions the Trump Administration and the Republican Party have taken in the last two years are in the direction that Ron Paul has pointed. You want the Democratic Party to be kept out of power. That’s why you’re here, trying to get progressives to deny their votes for Democratic Party candidates and the issues their coalition supports.
Stop lying. It’s not working to achieve your goals here anymore.
An additional way you display how careless you are in disguising your bad faith is that you equate Beto O’Rourke with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez here. There is a substantial gulf between their ideologies. Summaries of Rep. O’Rourke’s voting record show that he is on the conservative side of the House Democratic caucus. Ocasio-Cortez is already working to push the caucus on the liberal edge.
You’re worthless to our movement. You mean us and the people in our coalition harm. You’ve proven that over and over again when you slip up and let us know your domestic policy views.
The real “liberal edge” is popular campaign financing instead of corporate financing.
A bought politician is an owned politician.
“Our movement?”
Your “movement” has been in charge of the Democratic Party since the Clinton I years.
The end result?
Move the fuck out of the way so’s we can see if a change like that might be able to save this country.
Please.
AG
Like I said, you’re careless.
And like I have been saying, you are either a shill for the PermaGov, stupid, or…most likely…both.
Great work, centristfield.
50+ years of bipartisan corporate hustle, and here we jolly well are, aren’t we.
Caught between the twin threats of Scylla and Charybdis.
Go away.
Y’bother us.
AG
Nobody could be a better adversary for Mr Trump right now than Nancy Pelosi. By a New York mile. She has his numbers. She has all of his numbers.
The only person who might come close in background is Kellyanne Conway.
Which explains why our resident right-wing crank is so eager to attack Pelosi.
You must be mistaken AG!
Baltimore monument to one of its favorite sons – here.
Perhaps, in those days it were the Russians and investments in the railroad infrastructure – see the purchase by the city of Baltimore of the Crimea Mansion and Estate in Leakin Park in the 1940s. Troublesome indeed, the mayor was in opposition.
“If you’re digging in Leakin Park to bury your body, you’re going to find somebody else’s.”
Key words: Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. | Little Italy on East side | Dead Run Valley | Thomas DeKay Winans | Crimea |
A big smile to you AG 🙂
○ American Pioneers in Russian Railroad Building
○ The Evolution of the American Locomotive
Thank you, Oui!!!
AG
Hey AG … congratulations!
You’ve still got your resident troll … hilarious. The opinion of these trolls happen to coincide with a 4-star general of the 2007 troops surge in Iraq. A strange world we live in. 😉
Doing great across the big pond, a trusted user as I was previously here at BooMan’s pond. Still enjoying life and politics. No surprises though, a bit dull once you got the analysis right.
Hi AG – a Merry Christmas to you.
Jesus and the 3 wise men from Ethiopia carrying gifts fit for royalty: gold, myrrh, and frankincense. Enjoy!