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@joe pockets

 It’s just that the same current crop (of course including Judge Thomas) have been increasingly uncaring of any effort to keep up appearances, especially when their own do not hold them accountable in ANY way.

Yes, maybe so.  But that applies to all polticians on both sides.

@joe pockets

 And let’s say Russia is happy to help them secure both (for favors, but more likely to just sow chaos), but certainly isn’t the only one…..Wouldn’t you love to know who has the lion share 6 billion of investment in DJT stock that he just pulled 4 billion out to put in trust with Junior in charge of it?….DJT as has never been profitable ? Why don’t the GOP investigate that? Let’s talk about Dark Money!

Huh?  How did you get onto Russia?

Huh? Trump already said he had no plans to sell the stock.  He did this before when he was in office.

In fact, some have argued everyone in Congress should do this when they go in office.

What is there to investigate?  People would be more upset if it looked like he was doing things in his own business interests while in office.

@joe pockets

 To me this is the point I think it’s safe to say that for the current crop of Republicans/MAGA in power, they’re entirely in it for money and/or power.

And...?  What do you base this on that differentiates them from others?

This is different than others how?

@joe pockets

 Soros is small potato’s

Absolutely he is not.  Look into his involvement and now his son's. 

Soros has a multipronged plan to “heal” America of her supposed sins. His medicine includes “nonpartisan” redistricting, stacking federal courts with left-wing judges, and a “properly conducted” 2020 Census.

All told, between 2000 and 2018 Soros’ foundations spent nearly $8.9 billion, and this year he’s already announced he’ll push $220 million towards “racial justice.”

 And:

• George Soros’ backed nonprofit invested at least $140 million into politically charged nonprofits just one year before the midterm elections.
• Those donations are on top of the more than $170 million Soros personally contributed during the 2022 midterm election cycle to help Democratic campaigns and political action committees.
• The Soros nonprofit separately donated approximately $60 million to charitable 501(c)(3)s which are prohibited from participating in politics.

And:

Soros, who personally donated $170 million during the 2022 midterms to Democratic candidates and campaigns on top of that, spread the additional largess through the Open Society Policy Center — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that falls under the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations network, according to a copy of its 2021 tax filing, which was obtained by CNBC and is the most recent data available. The Open Society Policy Center also doled out $138 million to advocacy groups and causes in 2020. Two of Soros’ children sit on its board, the tax filings and its website show.

He is far from 'small potatoes'!  And he has been doing it far longer than many others.

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@joe pockets

 George is not in Musks league, Musk is in his own universe regarding wealth

That is not the point people have with it.

It is NOT who is the RICHEST; it is the fact that it is being done.

BEFORE Musk was it a problem IF Soros had been the RICHEST?

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@joe pockets

How big is $708 million a year in American politics? Well, the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee combined took two years, 2017 and 2018, to raise $502 million. Or compare Soros’s $708 million to the giving done in 2018 by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch’s namesake foundation: $128 million.

George Soros is the most prominent among American billionaires who have injected a record $880 million on the US midterm elections. While the majority of their donations favour the Republicans, Soros has contributed $128 million to Democrats.

There is never pushback from Leftists when it is being done on their side.  It has been going on on both sides for a while.  It has gotten out of hand and there should be something done.  I agree about that.

But look at the tremendous money that came in for Biden and Harris.  The overwhelming number of those richer folks want their 'agenda' followed I would imagine.

There was a good idea the other day on a guy suggested it be government spending and limited for elections, etc.  That way each candidate has a certain amoutnof election money to use and when it is spent, it is spent, etc.  More detailed than that.

But maybe something to consider, maybe.

@joe pockets

 Musk gave million's to Trump’s campaign (no doubt in exchange for for tax cuts for billionaires)

I also have concerns when people say this.

What is the 'tax cuts for billionaires' they think they are talking about?

Also, when you say 'no doubt' it implies something solid to back it up -- what is there to back this up?

@joe pockets 

Musk gave million's to Trump’s campaign (no doubt in exchange for for tax cuts for billionaires) and has threatened elected Republicans.
In case you haven’t noticed, Republicans who disagree with Trump find a MAGA candidate running against them in the next Primary!

Musk can afford to be so brazen because no Republican political figure is going to speak against him, and even if he were violating FEC regulations Musk regularly thumbs his nose at regulatory agencies (even going so far as to engage in a campaign of vengeful persecution against individual lawyers even after they have left federal service) and gets his way, at most paying a comparatively tiny fine to get away with rule breaking.

This is, of course, the way that autocrats and their boosters subvert democratic societies in a perfectly ‘legitimate’ way to take over absolute political control. That an odious, deceitful, petty, mercurial, thin-skinned, shithead person like Elon Musk can engage in this and not only get away with it but still be fêted by his legions of fawning voteries absolutely convinced of his self-professed genius (he is not) and boosted by the President-Elect as his “Best Buddy” and given control over an as-yet non-existent executive agency for which he has already been formulating nonsensical and ill-informed policy, and very few people in the media are either willing or sufficiently uneducated to object that this is exactly the way fascist regimes take power is as alarming as anything Trump himself has said or done. This is anti-democratic to the core. But…not illegal, which, in the minds of some people, means that there is nothing to be done about openly hijacking the democratic electoral process by (legal) intimidation and bullying.

This is a direct quote.  I would put it in quotations or boldface so folks do not think it is from you.

But did you see the question that this was 'addressing'?  Do you really think this was a good answer to that question?

The guy just went on a rant and called Musk all sorts of invectives. 

The issue became more his issue with 'wealth inequality.

His reply could have been much more streamlined on the point without all of that.

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