Here they come again! Another far-right-wing mob, spurred on by Trump, is storming our US Capitol!

Only, these are not uncouth MAGA marauders wearing buffalo horns, breaking in, and attacking Capital police. No, this is a very couth, richly-attired, well-mannered political mob laying siege on Congress. And look: Instead of fighting or fleeing, Republican lawmakers are holding the Capitol’s doors wide open for this incursion! That’s because this is a swarm of always-welcome corporate lobbyists and campaign funders. In particular, they’re an army of global pesticide giants.

Led by Bayer, the multibillion-dollar German biochemical conglomerate, they’re demanding that Congress keep us commoners from interfering with their poisonous profiteering. Bayer reaps billions of dollars selling a killer pesticide named Roundup, which scientists increasingly consider a cause of cancer, especially in children. Thousands of afflicted families have filed major lawsuits holding Bayer responsible.

Of course, Bayer honchos did the honorable thing. Ha! Just kidding. Instead, its lobbyists rushed to Trump and GOP congressional leaders, who – shhhh – quietly tucked a corporate “gotcha” into this month’s must-pass budget bill. It would effectively hand retroactive immunity to chemical manufacturers, quashing all those lawsuits filed by families of Roundup victims. Sneaky, huh? Infuriated, grassroots leaders of MAHA (The “Make America Healthy Again” movement) say the Republican Party is being corrupted by false information from the pesticide companies.

This is Jim Hightower saying… Actually, what’s corrupting the Party’s lawmakers is the gusher of campaign money they take from the poison pushers. For information and action on stopping this capitulation to what a Bayer, go to FoodAndWaterWatch.org.

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