@CommonDreams (Common Dreams) posted a new topic, subject "At Bannon's Behest, Blackwater Founder and War-Profiteer Erik Prince Mulling Senate Run". It read:

   ## At Bannon's Behest, Blackwater Founder and War-Profiteer Erik Prince Mulling Senate Run
    
    Jake Johnson, staff writer
    
    "I guess Erik Prince figures he can get elected in Wyoming because they elected torture architect Dick Cheney and his spawn."
    
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So @Lorenzo_LaRue (Lorenzo LaRue) replied

    Just another piece of sh*t, billionaire mercenary to run the show…that's all we need…where's the phkn rope?

So @UncleFester (Festus J. Frothjaw) replied

    CommonDreams:
    
    > “ _I guess Erik Prince figures he can get elected in Wyoming because they elected torture architect Dick Cheney and his spawn._ ”
    
    Prince is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in the Senate. But since more than half of “our” current senators are also criminals of one kind or another, what difference does one more make? Mother Nature has punished Texas & Florida for supporting Tweetle-Dumb, and now she's going after the South again. Good thing for Wyoming that she's so far from the Gulf, otherwise Mother Nature would be punishing her for supporting the Cheatin' Cheneys.

@Lorenzo_LaRue (Lorenzo LaRue) replied

    I'll only say that most of the other Senate criminals are not murderers, they're thieves. That's all I'll give them anyway.

@WiseOwl replied

    Last I knew, he was wetting his cammos undies in UAE or Qatar.

So @theoldgoat replied

    I'd vote for this Prince in a Raspberry Beret  
    
    
    Maybe the ban will one day have his head fall out of his @$$. There is always hope that the inversions of the eric will be revealed for what he is… a vile manifestation of privileged delusions of mercenary as “Academi” in the previous mutation. Golly, might that have been to swing the appointment of this, whatever she actually is, proven ignoramus to the office of Sec'y of Ed - so kindly posed as “open to question”?
    
    Feces take flight with this crew. Time to haul out the fans en mass.
    
    These are nothing more than 21st century versions of captains of slave ships and the US government is being fashioned into today's “Middle Passage”.
    
    I really hope that I am wrong - but the similarities serve as a goose to activism.

So @Socratizer replied

    Scum of the earth.

To which @Ditton (Gilbert Satchell) replied

    This bannon is quite a piece of work, ain't he now. It seems to me that he wants the country to look like him. Through out Federalist Paper #10, Madison writes about “factions” and what they will do to the Republic. He knew about bannon beforehand. I am of the opinion that this person is a threat to our Republic and it's democratic institutions. Under this administration we are in a state of collapse and that's what empires do when they become top heavy, they fall apart. We are nothing more than fading ghosts of our former selves. If you read news/opinion pages from over seas they see our dimming light very clearly.

To which @Shantiananda replied

    Erik Prince: Like Cheney, the perfect senator for the Fourth Reich!

To which @fern (fern) replied

    My question is, can he play nice with the other senators? I wouldn't want him on my committee. They should make it a rule that bans low life thugs from office. I guess allowing his sister to oversee the education of American children should be included.
    
    This starts with the least protected. The CHIPS program has few protections, Medicaid has some but needs more. Medicare is a fortress.

After which, @Lorenzo_LaRue (Lorenzo LaRue) added

    “Modern slavers, in drag, as Champions of Freedom”. Bruce Cockburn

After which, @Shantiananda added

    " Scum of the earth."
    
    Well we have to admit that makes Erik the perfect Republican, Senator!

To which @PonyBoy replied

    Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right, here I am stuck in the Middle Ages with a Goof for President.

@ReconFire (Brian Wilson) replied

    Great post, I couldn't have said it as well. I agree, Bannon is a grave threat to our Republic. I wonder what his ( and others like him) end game is.

So @WiseOwl replied

    Great song! For those of you who may not know it:

After which, @Ditton (Gilbert Satchell) added

    I read a piece about a Doctor at Duke who is authority on narrsissism (can't spell) and she said he doesn't have that personality type, he is just plain evil. We are in deeep dooodooo here folks

After which, @PonyBoy added

    Thanks WiseOwl. Great song. Great memory. Those were the days my friend.

@Greenwich (Barbara Briemer) replied

    Lorenzo –
    
    Many lives lost in these wars the Senate isn't stopping — I'd call that murder.  
    US/CIA/MIC have killed 1 million Muslims, at the least.
    
    And how many wars before these – ?
    
    Without doubt, I would put “murder” on their heads.
    
    What about the lives that are lost because of the lack of National Health Care for all?  
    And budget cuts …  
    Our disabled are throwing themselves on the mercy of our Congress and they were arrested for it.
    
    What about 20% of our children living in poverty?

After which, @trosoft added

    _“Stuck in the Middle with You.”_ \- Stealers Wheel.
    
    Kinda reminds me of Beatles' music.
    
    Thanks. Nothing like a bit of refreshing relief in the form of a nostalgic catchy tune.

After which, @Joe_the_Socialist added

    ^^^
    
    Alabama, you've to the rest the Union to help you along. What's going wrong?
    
    * * *
    
    FREE AMERICA
    
    DIRECT DEMOCRACY
    
    * * *

@Lorenzo_LaRue (Lorenzo LaRue) replied

    It would seem the crimes are by degrees ranging from mere crooks to manslaughter and possibly second degree murder. The GOP is a hate group and the DimOcraps are so phkd up it will be wonder if they make a go of it again, some serious management snafus, if not outright skulduggery. We got bad juju in dis land.

After which, @ToniWintroub (Toni Wintroub) added

    How about agreeing that they're thieves AND murderers? Murderers allowing asshats like bush, Cheney, Obama, and dump to be killing people far away in other lands, murderers trying to or allowing dump to curtail medical care for sick people here, murderers for not getting policy or assistance “right” to help hurricane victims, murderers for allowing guns and police to run rampant, murderers for…

So @ToniWintroub (Toni Wintroub) replied

    He's a psychopath. What's the difference between his goals and Paddock's? Only Paddock may “get a walk” if his brain is shown to have a tumor like Charles Whitman's did.

After which, @ToniWintroub (Toni Wintroub) added

    Green, an apology…I responded to the the “thieves but not murderers” before I read your comment. Didn't mean to copy you​:worried: But I can  smart off and say great minds think alike…lol

Then @Blockertoo said

    Prince of Darkness.

To which @Lorenzo_LaRue (Lorenzo LaRue) replied

    I agree that there are thieves and ‘manslaughter-ers'. That is only a technicality. I get it that you want to call them murderers…I call it terrorism and they are traitors. You have to do the killing ‘yourself' for it to be murder…other than that your rant is warranted.

@ToniWintroub (Toni Wintroub) replied

    ok…we'll share the baby.

After which, @Greenwich (Barbara Briemer) added

    Toni –
    
    Missed seeing this comment …
    
    > But I can  smart off and say great minds think alike…lol


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