Friday, March 20, 2020

'Toontime: The Rudderless Ship of State

credit: Steve Sack
The perps at the helm are good at one thing only: self-serving enrichment at everyone else"s expense.  Il Douche is collecting millions for his golf outings and VIP stays at his hotel chain.  The Repugnant chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold million of dollars in stock before the market nose dived thirty percent using briefing information about the severity of the pandemic and its likely economic impact, while publicly belittling the pandemic's severity. He gave the same month he dumped his stocks a speech to a group of “well-connected players” where he compared the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic, while Trump was telling the American public that they had nothing to worry about. Burr was one of only three senators to vote against the 2012 STOCK Act, which banned insider trading by members of Congress.

Airlines, which spent about $47 billion buying back their own stock will get another $58 billion in subsidies from the 'free market' lunatics in charge of the Senate. The graft never stops.

credti: Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News