When the Legislature controls what can be bought and what can be sold, the first thing to be bought and sold are the legislators themselves.
- Elizabeth Warren Annual Salary: $285,000 Net Worth: $67 million
- Nancy Pelosi Annual salary: $223,000 Net worth: $202 million
- Mitch McConnell Annual salary: $200,000 Net worth: $95 million
- Chuck Schumer Annual salary: $210,000 Net worth: $75 million
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Don W Curton · December 12, 2023 at 8:42 am
And yet they want to audit Trump’s tax returns!
Every single one (R and D) should be tarred, feathered, hung, then shot, and all their wealth confiscated and returned to the taxpayer (note, not a single fucking penny to welfare recipients – only to actual tax payers!!!!!).
And they wonder why we’re angry.
Joe Blow · December 12, 2023 at 11:12 am
I find it rather humorous they forced Trump to divest all his business interests while continuing to trade on insider information.
Honestly, if you’re an active investor on a longer-time-frame, lookup the twitter accounts that track this shit. There’s a website, too. You need some cake in your account, and they’re usually trading long-dated options, but… I’ve followed along on some of dear Nancy’s, uncanny how she always wins…
Divemedic · December 12, 2023 at 3:03 pm
The one I watch is found at this link. It’s somewhat left leaning, because the owners are too short sighted to see that a controlled economy is what allows this sort of thing, but they do a pretty good job of following the trades of the powers that be.
jackrabbitblack · December 12, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Could someone please explain to me the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe? Particularly in the case of an organization, like a corporation or a union.
Divemedic · December 12, 2023 at 6:20 pm
Campaign contributions are never given to the politician. They are supposed to be used to get the politician (re)elected. Campaign contributions aren’t the issue. HRC is a great example of that. She setup a “nonprofit” that people made donations to. The donations were thus tax deductible, and were siphoned off. Then there was the cattle futures fiasco. The way that scam works is:
Let’s say that you want to bribe a politician. You go long on cattle futures. The politician shorts them, using the same (crooked, complicit) broker. No matter what, one account will make a profit, one will lose nearly the same amount. (That’s because commodity futures are pretty close to zero sum) Then the broker swaps the accounts if needed to ensure that the politician is the one that turns a profit.
Then there is the Biden method, where you use intermediaries to accept the money, take a cut, and forward it to you in a relatively hard to trace way. That’s why Hunter is selling talentless paintings for top dollar and finds himself on the boards of companies for which he is unqualified.
since they all do it, not one person in Congress is going to seriously investigate.
tfourier · December 13, 2023 at 5:12 am
Well the Nancy Pelosi story is pretty simple. She got rich the same way her father did – by being a mafia / organized crime front politician. Literally. Read the story of her fathers time as mayor of Baltimore. Very interesting “business associates” . And she was working in the family business from a young age. Mid teens.
Her father was so well known as a mafia controlled mayor (who creamed off a lot of money for his family) that it just got a throwaway mention in this book about DC political corruption written in the early 1950’s.
https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Confidential-Jack-Lait/dp/1163820792
Can be found here
https://archive.org/details/washingtonconfid0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up
The authors are very old school muck racking journalists but are mostly legit. Never got sued. And had a few unsuccessful hits put out on them. Their books on New York and Chicago are equally interesting. The New York book squares with stories I heard from someone who was a big name in NY city politics in the late 1930’s
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