Congress

One of the problems with the slush fund is that its purpose is to protect the System, not necessarily the individuals being accused.

The Fund’s purpose is to specifically avoid adjudication, to avoid civil and criminal inquiries and legal processes from constantly disrupting the session. The case is heard behind closed committee, NDA’s are signed, a payment is made.

So we have no way of knowing who has been a sexual criminal, or “just” a sexual harasser, or even just getting a shakedown from someone with an axe to grind – or out for cash – or even a paid agitator from the other side.

One thing is for certain, this sort of behavior is bi-partisan, just like rest of the ways they spend our money for things we do not want or need or even things that directly hurt us.

“We” don’t even have a Federal Budget but then its all good when they just pass another CR, but one that has less pork than the first trial balloon. Instead one CR at 1500 pages we get one at 200, then seven more follow on spending approvals. The lobbyists do more paperwork, we still lose.

These tools, like the exemption from insider trading, are microcosms of the baked-in systemic abuses of our entire system.

The good intentions under the pretense of preserving the integrity and continuity of the System from the burdens that us peons face every day just become codified means to obfuscate the corruption and normalize our interpretation of their bad actions as being anti-democratic, anti-establishment, anti-freedom or any of the other weaponized words they like to use to disenfranchise us.

The primacy of the System is what matters. Even if they disclosed the offenders it would hardly matter.