Rep Anna Paulina Luna comes out and says it. She says the American People hate Congress for how corrupt they are | After both parties blocked disclosing slush funds using tax dollars to pay off their sexual assault charges

This is appalling.

This is one of those “80-20 Issues” that cut across all demographics, races, and parties.

Everyone is for it. But Thune is bound and determined to fight Trump on this.

It is infuriating.

As for the Slush Fund Block...that speaks for itself. Disgusting that we even have a “slush fund” for this, which makes me even angrier.

Just imagine if you will, a private company that had a similar type of slush fund for upper management. It would be a scandal if one even existed.

In Congress, it is codified and well funded.

Not only would it be a scandal, but top execs would go to prison!

What about her UFOs? Didn’t she get some evidence from Russia that was bombshell breaking news last Fall?

BTTT

The American people don’t hate Congress enough.

Not if names of those who did the pay offs were released but it will never happen they run the show.

Only hope for the voter is to know the truth about whos running for office then again pay offs rule.

Media mum but still proud of self.

Thank you for referencing that article ransomnote.

Rep Anna Paulina Luna comes out and says it. She says the American People hate Congress for how corrupt they are | After both parties blocked disclosing slush funds using tax dollars to pay off their sexual assault charges

Respectfully to Rep. Anra Paulina Luna, although Congress deserves a share of the blame for its corruption, the real problem with Congress imo is actually the ordinary qualified citizen voters who evidently don't have a clue about the federal government's constitutional limited powers, who keep reelecting crook career lawmakers who blatantly ignore those limited powers.

More specifically, post-17th Amendment ratification federal lawmakers discovered that they could promise voters who have evidently never really studied the fed's constitutionally limited powers every unconstitutional federal social spending under the sun to get themselves elected. Constitutionally naïve voters eventually took the bait and elected these crooks, and then reelected them!

Then once in office, criminal-minded lawmakers abuse their 16th Amendment powers (16A; direct taxes) by simply fulfilling their campaign promises for unconstitutional federal spending, scandalously ignoring its constitutional Article I, Section 8 spending limits when doing so.

Regarding Congress's limited powers, consider the Madison Test, a presidential federal spending test which all presidents should be using to test the constitutionality of all federal federal spending bills, today's rampant unconstitutional federal spending and funding facilitated by lawmakers' ongoing abuse of Congress's 16A powers.

Consider that the 14th Congress in the time of President James Madison (4th pres.), Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had found some EXISTING tax revenues and got all happy about spending it. So Congress drafted the Bonus Bill of 1817 to use the taxpayer dollars to improve military readiness and commerce by authorizing the construction of roads and canals intended to facilitate moving troops and manufactured goods. But Congress had based the bill solely on the General Welfare Clause (GWC) which turned out to be a BIG mistake.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises [emphasis added], to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

More specifically, while Madison agreed with Congress that the bill would improve transportation, he diplomatically clarified in his veto explanation that while the GWC authorizes Congress to tax and spend, he reminded Congress that the Constitution's drafters, Madison himself a major player, had intended for the clauses that followed it in Section 8 to limit what Congress could spend tax dollars for, no mention of roads and canals for Congress's purpose for the Bonus Bill. Madison also noted that the bonus bill didn't even pass Congress's traditional "wild card" excuse for justifying spending under the infamous "Necessary and Proper Clause."

The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, and it does not appear that the power proposed to be exercised by the bill is among the enumerated powers, or that it falls by any just interpretation within the power to make laws necessary and proper [emphasis added] for carrying into execution those or other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States. —President James Madison, March 3, 1817: Veto Message on the Internal Improvements Bill

Note that the only roads that the Founders expressly gave Congress the specific power to authorize are postal roads.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. (non-FR)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In order to preserve Trump47's legacy of putting a stop to out of control, unconstitutional, vote-buying federal spending and funding, Trump's tsunami of Democratic and Republican supporters, evidenced by his record breaking votes in 2024 elections, need to give Trump his dream Congress in 2026 midterm elections by primarying all incumbent lawmakers who don't publicly promise to support a resolution to repeal 16A in January 2027.

In fact, consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.

The 16th Amendment is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep state Congress, and desperately needs to be repealed imo.

The 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators, needs to disappear too.

Our Congress enabled ‘they spied on my campaign’, two hoax impeachments, Wuhan Coup flu stolen election and targeted lawfare of current President and Commander in Chief.

That’s the kind of long train of abuses in just short of a decade that the Founders would have wanted abolished.

I hate the R Swamp team as much as the Swamp D team, especially any of the current 535 in the wretched hive of scum and villainy that have been around since 2016/2017.

I’d label most clear and present dangers.

But my mileage varies from most

The greatest problem with the R or D party are the clueless voters they take the bait for a I’ll get you money gig.

Without saying waht party your for talk to some who do vote.

Better have a shot glass ready for the results if you don’t drink you soon will on a what the hell does it matter now.

She’s not wrong. I despise them. 95% are either worthless or or have sinister motives.

:)

I don’t know how legit our elections have been, but there are lots of pockets where the stupid is at stuck.

Agree to many it’s what keeps the muck sticky.