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  been a while since we had a good caning on the congressional floor
context: After a week of achieving nothing it’s on to the business of achieving nothing. >
  
  mccarthy is going to be pulling 223,500 usd as speaker, all those other reps that accomplish nothing and refuse to govern are pulling down 174,000 USD.
  And thats just their base salaries. After their term they are magically worth many millions of dollars >
  
  Insider trading is the real gig >
  
  Insider trading, legalized bribes, illegal but unenforced bribes, “speaker fees”, corporate boardship, oh and don’t forget sex trafficking and BitCoin for a certain Florida Rep. >
  
  Or changing the aviation routes of CIA-funded contra cocaine onto your father-in-laws shipping business for the next 30 years, and baselessly installing his daughter as transportation secretary to make sure it never gets into the news after 1987 except when 60 pounds of cocaine is found by international investigators which still barely makes it to the news and you have to hope no one asks why they call you Cocaine Mitch... >
  
  WHAT THE FUCK? Any sources on this you recommend? >
  
  There was a really great 1987 and 1989 two part investigative news piece  and  then a different one that is another ancillary story with a bit more detail of the investigation/trial by some channel 3 something or other that interviews the pilots flying the cocaine in through miami, paid directly by the cia. In the news pieces, they show mitch joining and leading the investigating body, then the pilots discuss how everythings starts going by boat instead after the fbi/atf arrested each of the pilots for "unrelated drug crimes" (likely possession in the gray period between the deliveries and payment (in drugs) and the time the individuals sold or used it. Then folllow the trail of that shipping company: The Foremost Group, the lineage of john and elaine chao, the marriage timeline, the move to speaker of the house,  the drug discovery on the FG ship, the appointment of chai to transportation secretary, etc. It was unrelated research into contras via ChatGPT that actually pieced it together yet it seems to be hiding in plain site (and in plain memory for people deep in the GOP and recently leaked by Don Blankenship in his run against cocaine mitch). Just waiting for a modern investigative journalist to report it since this seems to be one of many US corruption scandals/schemes that didn't make it to the internet when it was created.
  Edit- found the video posted 2 months ago on reddit but had been on YT for a while
  Edit 2- this might not actually be the specific 2 part investigative segment I was talking about but includes a lot of the same information. The one I'm referencing has a lot of direct interviews with the pilots themselves a well as the miami speedboat racer drug kingpin once he got out of jail. Flipped through the one I linked and it looks right, but I'll have to rewatch a bit to be sure. It was a woman reporting.
  Edit 3- checked my yt watch history,  here you go . Fixed the top link but left in the [wrong] second link just because it's another decent collaboration of detail.  Gotta love them AI robots lifting the veil of corruption lol.  Time for another CoffeeZilla piece about something not-crypto haha >
  
  There's reporting that at one point McCarthy approached Gaetz on the floor for a conversation, and a voice rang out, "On your knees, Kevin!" >
  
  There is video of it, you can hear it. >
  
  Got a link? I saw the video but didn't hear anything >
  
  I hate how it sounds like a high school assembly. Someone says something funny during the silence and then the wave of other people shushing. >
  
  I was joking with my wife when I said that the House has officially turned into a clown convention. Then I realized that clowns are probably decent people who actually care about their job and comparing them to Congress is a huge insult to clowns. >
  
  It's actually the likes of Gaetz that'll lure a kid with a balloon. Clowns get all the bad PR. They can barely grasp the workings of magnets, let alone set up a lure. >
  
  That's insane >
  
  I wish the fight had broken out