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“How Do They Get $20 Million?”: Elon Vows DOGE Investigation of “Strangely Wealthy” Democrats Suspected of “Massive Amount of Corruption”
American Tribune ^ | April 01, 2025 | Will Tanner

Posted on 04/01/2025 9:54:55 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/01/2025 9:54:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

How do they get the money? is is skimmed from their campaign contributions...

Just pure graft from supporting bills going directly into their bank accounts?

Gifts of stock from companies or telling them insider trading information?

to buy stocks they have to have some money to put into the purchase or they can’t buy them?


2 posted on 04/01/2025 9:58:52 AM PDT by ncfool (we are witnessing the rebirth of American greatness 🇺🇸)
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To: Red Badger

And just like that, Democrat voters will now be in favor of corruption among Democrat politicians. The legacy media will tout such corruption as a virtue.


3 posted on 04/01/2025 9:59:00 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Red Badger
Elon Musk vowed that his department will launch an investigation into how so many Democrats amassed huge personal fortunes on the $200,000 or so they earn a year.

It's not just the dems, a bunch of our reps are also in on the big scam.

4 posted on 04/01/2025 9:59:12 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Red Badger

He should be “party blind” in this quest.


5 posted on 04/01/2025 10:03:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Who actually fool enough to believe this only a Democrat problem? Just about every Republican up there is doing the very same thing.


6 posted on 04/01/2025 10:03:44 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: ncfool
Something else DOGE ought to be looking into is the ongoing funding for the ISS. The ISS is approximately 27 years old and after hosting many astronaut scientists is might be time to consider ending or winding down funding for this project.

The United States contributes significantly to the maintenance and operation of the International Space Station (ISS). The total cost of the ISS, including development, assembly, and running costs over 10 years, comes to approximately $160 billion, with the United States providing nearly $100 billion of that amount.

The annual operating cost for the U.S. is estimated to be between $3 billion and $4 billion.

Just as in weapons research much can be done with smaller, unmanned autonomous drones, and it's conceivable that the science of outer-space could be continued with a far small economic footprint in the future.
7 posted on 04/01/2025 10:08:57 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: Red Badger

I love this. Those investigating will need to keep their heads low. There will be pushback. The corrupt need to be outed.

In contrast, I’m reminded of the late great Senator Tom Coburn. He slept in his office every night, and he went back home to Oklahoma every weekend and provided free surgical care to his constituents. The Senate subsequently outlawed that, saying that it was bribery or something. Unbelievable.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 10:09:08 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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Don’t dodge the DOGE Dog’s disquisition to de-fund Democrats!


9 posted on 04/01/2025 10:11:03 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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How did Nancy Pelosi amass $250,000,000.00?


10 posted on 04/01/2025 10:14:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Islam’s Strategy is Effective: Out-breed and murder everyone else. What to do?)
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To: ncfool

The Cantillon Effect describes the uneven distribution of newly created money within an economy. When central banks print money, it doesn’t immediately circulate evenly throughout the system.

Instead, the first recipients of this new money – typically banks, financial institutions, and well-connected individuals – benefit from increased purchasing power before the money trickles down to the rest of the population.

By the time the newly printed money reaches the average consumer, prices for goods and services may have already increased, effectively reducing the purchasing power of those at the bottom of the economic ladder.


11 posted on 04/01/2025 10:14:41 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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“The United States contributes significantly to the maintenance and operation of the International Space Station (ISS). The total cost of the ISS, including development, assembly, and running costs over 10 years, comes to approximately $160 billion, with the United States providing nearly $100 billion of that amount.”

Yes, we need to instead give that money to Musk to go to Mars for no productive or practical reason...

I think both ideas need to be put to rest. We have much more important practical priorities.


12 posted on 04/01/2025 10:14:43 AM PDT by Openurmind
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Bribery is such an ugly word.


13 posted on 04/01/2025 10:15:27 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Red Badger; bitt; Kathy in Alaska; Jane Long; rodguy911; LS; fieldmarshaldj; Tilted Irish Kilt

Political Crooks and Traitors Incorporated need to be heading to Gitmo for life.


14 posted on 04/01/2025 10:16:38 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Vermont Lt
He should be “party blind” in this quest.

I agree. Party blindness is important or else it is hypocrisy.

15 posted on 04/01/2025 10:17:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: ncfool

The insider trading is from being aware of government contracts BEFORE they are announced. The other form of insider trading is being informed on rules and laws that are about to be announced.

The final kind is just being immersed in the minutiae of a specific industry. You get used to the rhythms and players.

The first two are illegal. The last one isn’t.


16 posted on 04/01/2025 10:17:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Openurmind

You’re right.

They all come to DC with modest professional incomes in 6 figures. After that 6 figures would be the annual interest earned on any one of their twenty investments and offshore bank accounts thanks to favors and obligations to syndicates and “friends” from foreign countries.

Laundering bribes through “bestseller” books and other scams helps keep the secrets.


17 posted on 04/01/2025 10:23:59 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Red Badger

Not a party affiliated phenomenon. Go git-em all, regardless of party or connections.


18 posted on 04/01/2025 10:24:29 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Vermont Lt

He has said that he is. I would look at RINOs first.


19 posted on 04/01/2025 10:27:28 AM PDT by dforest
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They know things we don’t and use that information to profit from the stock market. If we did that we’d be in jail for insider trading.


20 posted on 04/01/2025 10:27:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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