FTX Boss and Democrat Super Donor Sam Bankman-Fried Cashed Out $300 Million During Funding Spree

"How generous? “Bankman-Fried gave roughly $40 million to Democrats during the 2022 election cycle, making him one of the biggest donors to a fundraising juggernaut that helped stave off a Republican wave in the midterms,” noted the Washington Free Beacon." 

FTX Boss Cashed out

Issues & Insights  "Not only was crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s company, FTX, allegedly a fraud, but it spent huge sums on recent elections to get Democrats into office. Was this a case of massive election fraud? If so, it isn’t just Bankman-Fried who should be punished.

"In case you’re not caught up on all this, FTX, a futures exchange for crypto-currencies including its own, exploded into the public’s attention just after the election. That’s when it was revealed that FTX had questionably transferred or “loaned” some $10 billion to its sister company, Alameda Research, to “fund risky bets,” a highly questionable move seemingly to shore up Alameda’s finances.

"And yes, FTX was a big deal. It’s name is on an NBA arena. Its commercials featured NFL GOAT Tom Brady, as well as “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator Larry David.

"That brought media reports about some of the money, around $1 billion, simply “disappearing.” That was followed by a host of regulatory agencies and prosecutors launching investigations of the company.

"FTX has filed for bankruptcy, and its 30-year-old founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has resigned.". . .

. . ."Americans deserve answers, given the enormous impact this bankrupt company had on recent elections. We hope the new House, now controlled by the Republicans, will add FTX and its political influence to the growing list of things that must be investigated to save our country from becoming a one-party state."(Emphasis mine.TD)

AF Branco 

Kevin McCarthy Vows To Remove Squad Member Ilhan Omar From Committee

 

Kevin McCarthy Vows To Remove Squad Member Ilhan Omar From Committee (townhall.com)

  When Democrats had control of the House in 2021, they removed Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) from her committee after she publicly supported QAnon. In response, McCarthy said that he would retaliate if he becomes elected speaker. 

Kevin McCarthy vows to kick Ilhan Omar OFF the House Foreign Affairs Committee as speaker | Daily Mail Online  . . ."McCarthy could not remove Omar from a committee unless a majority of House members voted in favor of doing so, as a Twitter fact check on his claim points out.  

"McCarthy has also previously promised to reinstate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's committee assignments after Democrats stripped her of them after a number of incendiary statements. Now, Greene is a vocal McCarthy supporter and has promised to whip her Freedom Caucus colleagues in line behind him. 

"Since being elected to Congress in 2018, Omar has been accused of antisemitism after a number of statement she's made. She once said it was 'all about the Benjamins' for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and tweeted, 'We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban,' seeming to equate Israel to Hamas. 

"McCarthy's reference to 'what she said about me' likely points at when Omar called him 'a liar and a coward' after he refused to discipline Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., after she said Omar was a member of the 'jihad squad,' joking that she feared Omar, a Somali-American Muslim, carried a bomb.". . .

Shouldn't the Democrats want her off? 

But can he?

The Speaker does not have the power to remove a member from a standing committee. Foreign Affairs is a standing committee. Each party has their own rules and procedures for assigning committee roles. Only a majority vote by the entire house could remove Rep. Omar. https://www.legbranch.org/2018-8-15-removing-house-members-from-standing-committees/ https://cha.house.gov/member-services/house-rules https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V1/pdf/GPO-HPREC-DESCHLERS-V1-3-3-8.pdf

Breaking: Ariz. AG Takes Action - Ballots Reported in Black Duffle Bags - Officials Broke Election Laws - State Demands Names

A worker carries a tray of mail-in ballots to open and verify at the Maricopa County
Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, 

 Western Journal  "Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright — with the Elections Integrity Unit — wrote a letter to the Maricopa County officials Saturday demanding an accounting for the widespread ballot tabulation and ballot printer problems seen during the general election on Nov. 8.

Among the most troubling issues raised in the letter directed to Thomas Liddy with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office was the apparent co-mingling of ballots in black duffle bags in at least one polling location, which were successfully run through the on-site tabulators with those put in “Door 3” to be sent to the Election Department’s downtown Phoenix tabulation center because they could not be read.

“The Elections Integrity Unit (“Unit”) of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”) has received hundreds of complaints since Election Day pertaining to issues related to the administration of the 2022 General Election in Maricopa County,” Wright opened her letter.

“These complaints go beyond pure speculation, but include first-hand witness accounts that raise concerns regarding Maricopa’s lawful compliance with Arizona election law,” she continued.

"Wright wrote that statements made by Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates and County Recorder Stephen Richer, along with other official communications from the county appear to confirm potential election law violations.". . .

The fatal flaw in our constitutional republic

 Thus, when a major political party has some states blithely flout those basic rules, it can cause irreparable harm to the unity among the various states.  The system isn't set up to deal with a situation like that.  The justice system will be reluctant to make decisions in cases like this, and said political party knows this

D. Parker  "Are there any decent Democrats out there anymore?  Are they sick and tired of what the fascist far left has been doing to this country?  Have they become thoroughly disgusted by the lies, deception, cheating, and gaslighting promulgated by their side in a headlong pursuit of power?

"The election two years ago highlighted the fatal flaw in our constitutional republic — a flaw that only has been made worse this time around.  Our system isn't designed to withstand it if one side loses its moral underpinnings in favor of a lust for power and is willing to do anything to win.

"Many tried to ignore the problem back then, but it didn't help that leftist liberty-deniers jeered about the issue as preparation for using the same tactics in the midterms.

"Now it's happened once again, and the perpetrators have become even more polished in how they've manipulated the system they set up for a long past "emergency."  We can no longer whistle past the graveyard of constitutional republics and pretend that we even have a two-party system.

"There are those who argue that we should at least try to compete along the same lines as the illegitimate left, but whom are we kidding?  Leftists have set up the system to their advantage: a drawn-out election season favors those willing to vote for a living.  Activists who falsely think they are "saving the planet" or other such facile nonsense will always outcompete those who are actually useful to society.". . .

The left wages a sham war on inequality

 

Joseph Frascino  . . ."Democrat policies to achieve equality are outwardly compassionate, but inwardly Machiavellian.  Aside from guilty white liberals, their voting base continues to be those who are, or perceive themselves to be, disadvantaged,  marginalized, or “left out”.  If its base were to actually prosper or to see through its sham policies, its allegiance to the Party would erode, as appears to be happening in the Hispanic and Black communities.  

Opening the border to unskilled, uneducated migrants, under the banner of amnesty, serves to offset such an erosion of its base.  Its disingenuous social construct of oppressors versus oppressed, rooted in identity politics, blaming solely the oppressors for the hardships of the oppressed, serves well to solidify, rally, and anger its base against its political adversaries.  But it is largely tilting with windmills, having no effect on inequality.  The disadvantaged must be kept in place with promises of hope and change and assaults on the oppressive social system for the Party to retain power.

"Inequality is a global phenomenon that is innate in nature.  Equality and a free society are mutually exclusive.  Perhaps equality will be realized when the human race has evolved into a clonal species of autistic hermaphrodites, but even then there will undoubtedly emerge those who harbor a latent alpha gene"….