It’s Always the Money That Gets Them |
It’s Always the Money That Gets Them
It makes perfect sense that Democrats freaked out when DOGE started following the money. Look at what they’ve been up to all these years.
John Green | April 12, 2026
There’s a reason Al Capone spent a few years in Alcatraz for tax evasion: Money is harder to hide than bodies. Any thug can take a few bucks from someone weaker. But when used, money leaves a trail. The key to criminal success is making ill gotten booty look as though it’s not ill gotten. That’s way easier said than done.
This brings me to the Democrat party’s current woes. It is a political organization in the same sense that Tony Soprano was a garbage collector. In both cases, their organizations are or were merely tools to fleece the public. But as noted above, stolen money must be laundered to be useful. One can’t attract the attention of the taxman while spending money one shouldn’t have without acquiring an unwashed roommate with “flexible” sexual preferences, that is. The cash from a criminal enterprise must appear legit, or it’s worthless.
In the Netflix series Ozark, white-collar criminal Marty Byrde solves that problem by maintaining the appearance of middle-class normalcy, while methodically laundering money for a vicious drug enterprise, the Navarro Cartel. In the program, Marty funnels truckloads of cash through front companies, casinos, and foreign accounts, until its origin is a complete mystery — as in, can’t be tied to drug-trafficking. Only then can the cartel use it for boats, planes, mansions, and payoffs without attracting the unwanted attention of law enforcement.
If you substitute “Democrat party” for “Navarro Cartel,” Ozark could be the story of the donkey party’s approach to financial solvency.
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