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Wanna talk about the enrichment of US politicans? Not just the Trump and the Pelosi but also a serious discussion about the net worth of, say, the Obama, Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris, etc.?

And the argument: "But they only made millions, while Trump made billions" ain't a valid one. It's not "better" if you only manage to steal less: you're still a thief. A less successful thief, but still just a petty thief.

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Careful, your partisanship is showing. Telling that you don't mention Rick Scott, Elaine Chao, Kushner, Wilbur Ross, Tom Price, George Santos, Duncan Hunter, MTG, Mike Kelly, Kelly Loeffler, Chris Collins... but instead hand wave away Trump and say "but look at all these Democratic thieves who are thieves but less successful ones".

And uh, going to need a citation on what exact thievery you're referring to with, say, Obama, whose net worth comes from two book deals after his Presidency for his memoirs, unless you're seriously claiming that Penguin Random House offering advances on what turned out to be best sellers or a Netflix deal is akin to a revolving door to consultancy, let alone the theft you're actually accusing him of here. Meanwhile, all the names I mentioned were people who did commit actual crimes or were believed to have done so (by the DOJ) but either "didn't press charges" after influence from the current administration, were charged, or were convicted and then pardoned or commuted again by the current administration.

But no, let's talk about the Dems.


I was looking at the picture in Reuters of Putin meeting Jared Kushner and my thoughts were that our government is no longer a government of the people for the people but oligarchs for their creepy spawn. Also this Red-Blue nonsense is wearing thin. It's really a spectrum of corruption at this point.



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