It's all about optics, money and networking. Rich powerful families with global ties to other rich powerful people working together to enrich themselves at everyone elses expense.
I know a guy who knows a guy. It's all about the connections and networking. You can't get anything done unless you have the right contacts to achieve whatever corrupt game you want to play. Everyone wants a cut.
Corruption is the same no matter the period in time or location. Nothing new under the sun. It's all about money and power. Always has been.
Posted this late last night but no baker around apparently. Reposting.
So I did a quick look at the FBI vault and noticed that there was a recent addition about Scalia. Interesting read. Investigated and found to be clean as a whistle it seems. On the other hand, the liberals did not like him because they felt he was inflexible. Some notable names popped up in the records. Biden and Podesta were two of them.
I also noticed that the liberals seemed to be using the same kind of playbook with him and his nomination as they did with Kavanah.
Some other information I gleaned from it was the names of some organizations that I was unaware of.
Here is one of them that apparently Scalia was involved with.
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called the Federalist Society, is an organization of conservatives and libertarians that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. Founded in 1982, it is one of the nation's most influential legal organizations.[5][6]
In January 2019, The Washington Post Magazine wrote that the Federalist Society had reached an "unprecedented peak of power and influence." Of the nine members of the Supreme Court of the United States, five (Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito) are current or former members of the organization.[2] Politico Magazine wrote that the Federalist Society "has become one of the most influential legal organizations in history—not only shaping law students' thinking but changing American society itself by deliberately, diligently shifting the country's judiciary to the right."[7]
The organization, whose ideals include "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning",[2] plays a central role in networking and mentoring young conservative lawyers.[8] According to Amanda Hollis-Brusky, the author of Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution, the Federalist Society "has evolved into the de facto gatekeeper for right-of-center lawyers aspiring to government jobs and federal judgeships under Republican presidents."[5] According to William & Mary Law School professor Neil Devins and Ohio State University professor Lawrence Baum, the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush "aimed to nominate conservative judges, and membership in the Federalist Society was a proxy for adherence to conservative ideology."[9] The Federalist Society has played a key role in suggesting judicial nominees to President Donald Trump; it vetted President Trump's list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees and, as of January 2019, 25 out of 30 of President Trump's appellate court nominees were current or former members of the society.[2]
The society's initial 1982 conference was funded, at a cost of $25,000, by the Institute for Educational Affairs.[7] Later funding of $5.5 million came from the Olin Foundation. Other early donors included the Scaife Foundation and the Koch family foundations. Donors to the Federalist Society have included Google, Chevron, Charles G. and David H. Koch; the family foundation of Richard Mellon Scaife; and the Mercer family.[13] By 2017, the Federalist Society had $20 million in annual revenue.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society
In seeming opposition to the Federalist Society there is…
People for the American Way
People For the American Way (PFAW (/'pfɑː/)) is a liberal advocacy group in the United States.[4] Organized as a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, PFAW was registered in 1981 by the television producer Norman Lear[5] who founded the organization in 1980 to challenge the Christian right agenda of the Moral Majority.
PFAW was founded by the television producer Norman Lear in opposition to the publicized agenda of the Moral Majority, a prominent and influential American political organization associated with the Christian right.[6] Officially incorporated on September 4, 1980,[1] its co-founders included Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Time Inc. chairman and CEO Andrew Heiskell.[7] PFAW began as a project of the Tides Foundation,[8] a donor-advised fund that directs money to politically liberal causes.[9]
Former presidents of PFAW include Tony Podesta[10] and Ralph Neas.[11]
Soon after its founding, PFAW launched an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization, People for the American Way Foundation, for the purpose of conducting more extensive educational and research activities for liberal causes.[12] Later, the People for the American Way Voters Alliance was launched as a political action committee.[13]
PFAW has been active in battles over judicial nominations, opposing U.S. Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Brett Kavanaugh and supporting the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.[5][14] PFAW is also active in federal elections, donating $339,874 to oppose Republican candidates in the 2014 election cycle,[15] and $351,075 to oppose Republican candidates in the 2016 election cycle.[16]
PFAW monitors what it considers right-wing activities by sponsoring a website called Right Wing Watch that showcases video footage of groups and individuals who take conservative stances on social issues.[17] The web site was founded in 2007, expanding on PFAW's earlier practice of VHS recording controversial clips from conservative television programs, such as Pat Robertson's 700 Club, for distribution to news media.[18] In 2013, evangelist and politician Gordon Klingenschmitt sent DMCA takedown notices for Right Wing Watch's using clips of his program, in which Right Wing Watch was defended by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[19]
In 2014, Jason and David Benham lost the opportunity to host their own HGTV television show after Right Wing Watch labeled the brothers as "anti-gay, anti-choice extremists" because of their statements at various events about homosexuality.[20][21]
In 2018, Jared Holt, a Right Wing Watch researcher, was credited for getting conservative radio show host Alex Jones's InfoWars program removed from multiple content distribution sites, including Apple, Inc, YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify.[22][23] Afterwards Holt says he received death threats.[24]
Right Wing Watch has been used as a source on the American right wing by NPR, Fortune, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and Fox News.[25][26][27][28][29]
Michael Keegan is the organization's president. Past and present members of the group's board of directors include John Hall Buchanan, Jr., Alec Baldwin, Seth MacFarlane, Mary Frances Berry, Julian Bond, Bertis Downs IV, James Hormel, Dolores Huerta, Jane Lynch, Josh Sapan, Dennis Van Roekel, Howie Klein and Reg Weaver.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_American_Way
Notice any familiar names there? Podesta for one?
This group, in essence, sees itself as a self elected hall monitor for all our well being apparently, and silences (censors) anyone they disagree with. How very fascist of them. Silence the moral majority. Think about that for a second. The moral MAJORITY. That means a few, are dictating to the many. Certainly not what the founding fathers had in mind I'm sure.
Funny, if Israel wants a war, why did they give up so much land trying to avoid a war? Why do they keep trying to play nice with people whose avowed goal is to wipe them off the face of the planet?