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Ever wonder how politicians get rich?
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Ever wonder how politicians get rich?


Jul 8, 2020, 10:56 AM

well, here's one way.
I went into the wrong field
Wasn't she the one that just said we need to dismantle the economy?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-has-paid-878g-to-new-husbands-consulting-firm-data-show-report

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Bad look, even if legal.


Jul 8, 2020, 10:58 AM

It better be on the up-and-up, or she'll pay the price.

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liberal cities dont care. she'll probably win


Jul 8, 2020, 11:07 AM

re-election in a landslide

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oh, and she married her brother to get into this country


Jul 8, 2020, 11:07 AM

they dont care

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That definitely happened.***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:10 AM



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So you’re agreeing it’s true


Jul 8, 2020, 11:40 AM



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What a profoundly stupid argument.


Jul 8, 2020, 11:49 AM

How about this, I'm accusing you of killing Jeffrey Epstein. I have no evidence. Prove you didn't do it!!

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Re: What a profoundly stupid argument.


Jul 8, 2020, 11:58 AM



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She's under no obligation to disprove it.


Jul 8, 2020, 12:14 PM

And I'm under no obligation to disprove it. And you're under no obligation to disprove that you murdered Jeffrey Epstein.

It's an accusation as preposterous as Hillary Clinton running a secret pedophile ring out of a pizza place. This just makes right wingers look like gullible, unhinged clowns. They should stick with disagreeing with her opinions and values instead of making up ridiculous stories. Or not pay any attention to her at all since she's just a freshman Congressman from Minnesota.

Oh, I'm glad the libs at the FBI are on the case, though.

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Re: She's under no obligation to disprove it.


Jul 8, 2020, 12:19 PM



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Like Obama with his birth certificate?***


Jul 8, 2020, 12:26 PM



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Re: Like Obama with his birth certificate?***


Jul 8, 2020, 12:29 PM



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No. His birth certificate still wasn't enough.


Jul 8, 2020, 12:45 PM

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-birth-record-definitely-fraudulent-sheriff-joe-arpaio-says


https://www.newsmax.com/fastfeatures/barack-obama-scandal-citizenship-birth-certificate/2015/01/28/id/621317/

https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/215545-rep-stearns-questions-legitimacy-of-obama-birth-certificate


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Why should any American, even a politician...


Jul 8, 2020, 1:33 PM [ in reply to Re: Like Obama with his birth certificate?*** ]

Have to bend over backwards to prove innocence whenever someone makes an outrageous claim against him or her?

Y'all made the same argument about Trump and Russian accusations, right?

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Dude obviously nobody HAS to


Jul 8, 2020, 1:36 PM



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As it apparently was...


Jul 8, 2020, 4:21 PM

and has gone no where.

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or Trump and his Tax Returns?***


Jul 8, 2020, 1:37 PM [ in reply to Re: Like Obama with his birth certificate?*** ]



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Wait, is this like when Obama finally took the


Jul 8, 2020, 12:49 PM [ in reply to Re: She's under no obligation to disprove it. ]

birth certificate bait, and provided one...and it didn't matter, because half the country who hated him called it fake anyway? Like that? I think it's like that.

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I guess I could have read a little further.***


Jul 8, 2020, 12:49 PM



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Actually, she married him to get him a visa and funding...


Jul 8, 2020, 9:09 PM [ in reply to oh, and she married her brother to get into this country ]

for 'university.' She was married to her first husband at the time and living with another man when she and her brother took their vows.


Message was edited by: ClemsonTiger1988®


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Oh NOW you show up


Jul 8, 2020, 9:14 PM



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I was thinking more in terms of punishment


Jul 8, 2020, 11:08 AM [ in reply to liberal cities dont care. she'll probably win ]

from the government, not election chances.

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supposedly this is not against the law


Jul 8, 2020, 11:09 AM

for politicians lol.

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The article mentioned potential FEC investigation


Jul 8, 2020, 11:10 AM

to make sure it doesn't appear there was special treatment for the firm.

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i wont hold my breath***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:13 AM



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"$878G" is a new way to represent money to me.


Jul 8, 2020, 11:10 AM

Is it an attempt to make people think billion because G is used for gigabyte? The space saving is 3 characters instead of writing "$878,000", so I don't think it's that.

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Why not $878k? Fox News lol***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:12 AM



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^^^this is what libs take away from article. smh***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:14 AM



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You lose your shít on headlines all the time.***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:16 AM



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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


That wasn't my takeaway.***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:17 AM [ in reply to ^^^this is what libs take away from article. smh*** ]



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wrong...it should read '$895k'***


Jul 8, 2020, 11:13 AM [ in reply to "$878G" is a new way to represent money to me. ]



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If she's a hollerer, she'll be a screamer.
If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


So you're saying Fox News is wrong, right?


Jul 8, 2020, 11:15 AM

Your "wrong..." seems to imply I am wrong about something whenever I only provided speculative questions, so the answer to me would be "no".

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Re: "$878G" is a new way to represent money to me.


Jul 8, 2020, 12:01 PM [ in reply to "$878G" is a new way to represent money to me. ]

you are arguing the difference in G's vs. K's......instead of the actual meat of the article. LOL

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It is odd, but your concern that Fox News is trying to make


Jul 8, 2020, 12:12 PM [ in reply to "$878G" is a new way to represent money to me. ]

people think that the Representative paid her husband's consulting firm $878 BILLION...because G is used for Gigabyte...is am impressive stretch.

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Not really an "impressive stretch", but neat.


Jul 8, 2020, 12:22 PM

Reading quickly I double took on the number because I initially thought it was an outrageous number. But hey, "impressive stretch", got it buddy.

Glad we've sorted this out with all the defense, lol, you guys are fun sometimes.

As far as the meat, don't think you'll find a single person okay with it, and I've made it quite clear I don't think politics should be a career.

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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


Okay, sorry Soccer. Didn't mean to offend. Just thought


Jul 8, 2020, 12:31 PM

the idea was pretty crazy. "G" for "Gigabite"...which apparently is a billion bites (I didn't know that)...which then would mean people think she's paying her husband hundreds of billions of dollars.

I don't know if there should be a law against it, but paying your hubby a half billion to advise on your digital marketing campaign seems ridiculously inappropriate. I guess the voters can decide.

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Lol. Half million.


Jul 8, 2020, 1:36 PM

Hmm...kind of undermined my own argument there. :)

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Re: Okay, sorry Soccer. Didn't mean to offend. Just thought


Jul 8, 2020, 9:24 PM [ in reply to Okay, sorry Soccer. Didn't mean to offend. Just thought ]

A Japanese gigabyte (GiB) is 1 billion bytes. A real gigabyte is more.

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False. GiB is a Gibibyte and is 2^30 bytes


Jul 8, 2020, 9:35 PM

A GB is 10^9 bytes

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Thanks, that was news to me


Jul 9, 2020, 12:07 AM

I went to check my hard drive on this computer, and sure enough a GB in OSX is equal to 10^9 bytes. Before 2009, it was 2^30 bytes like it still is in Windows. Ubuntu now also uses the 10^9 definition. Unix flavors for Cray, Sun, and SGI definitely used the 2^30 definition at least before 2000.

So GiB is a new term for what we used to call "real" gigabytes. It was the GB label on IDE/SATA drives that we called "Japanese" gigabytes and the GB on SCSI/SAS drives we called "real" gigabytes. The IDE/SATA would always format less than the size on the label and the SCSI/SAS would always format the same. nI threw the box away, but I could have sworn the 4TB drive I recently bought was labeled 4 TiB. The capacity is 4,000,768,323,584 bytes (3.63 TB according to windows, but 4 TB according to Ubuntu thru WSL)

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Re: Ever wonder how politicians get rich?


Jul 8, 2020, 11:15 AM

If the only people studying Sociology were not leftists, I honestly believe it could be shown that there is some mental/environmental condition that prevents leftists from logical, rational thinking.

What is it?

I am serious...is there some combination of childhood events, low self-esteem, chemical imbalance in the brain, jealousy of the Jones' Porsche, lack of schooling in critical thinking skills, etc. that links all this together?

We know propaganda works based on historical events. Is that the simple answer? The MSM has done all this? Maybe there is a subset of people more susceptible to propaganda influence.

It would be interesting to study this.

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You’re not exactly a shining example of logical, rational thinking


Jul 8, 2020, 4:19 PM

yourself, so I’d leave the judgement to others.

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One of my best friends is a social worker


Jul 8, 2020, 4:41 PM [ in reply to Re: Ever wonder how politicians get rich? ]

he went into the field because of some drug possession felonies when he was 18 and 20. He ended up with a master's degree and is doing well for a 501c3 company. He had 30k of student loans wiped out after he took the job and didn't even know he would qualify.

Anyway, he figured that was one profession where people would not look down on him because of some stupid felonies. He was right. He is definitely not liberal.

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Absolutely a problem


Jul 8, 2020, 11:28 AM

except she never said "dismantle the economy" stop spreading LIES!

Isn't it easy enough to go after a wackadoodle without rearranging the words to make them say something else?

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Wouldn’t it be great if Americans were infected with the


Jul 8, 2020, 11:32 AM

idea that scammy politicians and other low moral people, who employ a “win at all cost” mentality, shouldn’t be voted for or supported in any way?

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Solutions?


Jul 8, 2020, 11:32 AM

Because I think this is a big problem with politics, but under the current system it is probably 100% legal.

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well, they make the laws sooooo, us citizens


Jul 8, 2020, 11:36 AM

have no recourse i dont think.

elections over and over haven't fixed this over the past 100 yrs.

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Re: well, they make the laws sooooo, us citizens


Jul 8, 2020, 5:29 PM



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Re: Ever wonder how politicians get rich?


Jul 8, 2020, 11:45 AM

granted the laws were different but check the wealth LBJ accumulated on the side while in politics. At one point he owned one or more tv stations

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No question...


Jul 8, 2020, 11:50 AM

that and everyone of them selling and shorting stocks right before the pandemic hit and then being cleared of wrongdoing by themselves.

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Could get richer being a mistress to the Prez***


Jul 8, 2020, 1:40 PM



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Re: Ever wonder how politicians get rich?


Jul 8, 2020, 3:36 PM

Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. Frankly, both the right and the left are being betrayed by it's leadership. They all need to go!

https://time.com/5863616/trump-ppp-bailout-loans/

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-friends-and-family-cleared-for-millions-in-small-business-bailout

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