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The Dutch counter Trump's Greenland push with a tongue-in-cheek petition to raise $1T to buy CA.

“Interest Rates should be lowered, something which would go hand in hand with upcoming Tariffs!!! Lets Rock and Roll, America!!!” the president said in a morning post on Truth Social.

Inflation unexpectedly hot in latest reading.
Goodbye, economy.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:43 am The Dutch counter Trump's Greenland push with a tongue-in-cheek petition to raise $1T to buy CA.

Done.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:59 am

“Interest Rates should be lowered, something which would go hand in hand with upcoming Tariffs!!! Lets Rock and Roll, America!!!” the president said in a morning post on Truth Social.

Inflation unexpectedly hot in latest reading.
Goodbye, economy.

Well we know the rule. Everything bad for the next 4 years is the previous guy's fault.

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:06 am Well we know the rule. Everything bad for the next 4 years is the previous guy's fault.

Trump already claimed that everything good since the election is his, so...

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:10 am

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:06 am Well we know the rule. Everything bad for the next 4 years is the previous guy's fault.

Trump already claimed that everything good since the election is his, so...

Noooooo. Especially now, still in the first month. Biden's fault.

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:15 am

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:10 am

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:06 am Well we know the rule. Everything bad for the next 4 years is the previous guy's fault.

Trump already claimed that everything good since the election is his, so...

Noooooo. Especially now, still in the first month. Biden's fault.

TRUMP CLAIMED IT! NO TAKE-BACKSIES!

Finally...

I and many others have been asking for years why these clearly corrupt assholes enter Congress as paupers and exit multimillionaires. Why do the citizens of the U.S. just accept it as reality? Their personal finances before entering office can be private...ish...fine. However, let's make public servants' finances transparent during their time in office and for a 10 year period after they exit. Want to serve? That's the price.

Let's climb up the asses of all these people with a microscope and see what's what.

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

Elizabeth Warren
Annual salary: $285,000
Net worth: $67 million

J.B. Pritzker
•Annual Salary: $177,412
•Net Worth: $3.4 billion

Doug Burgum
•Annual Salary: $129,096
•Net Worth: $1.1 billion

Darrell Issa
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $460 million

Jim Justice
•Annual Salary: $150,000
•Net Worth: $450 million

Jared Polis
•Annual Salary: $123,193
•Net Worth: $400 million

Glenn Youngkin
•Annual Salary: $175,000
•Net Worth: $400 million

Rick Scott
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $300 million

Mitt Romney
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $300 million

Kevin Hern
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $361 million

Dan Goldman
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $253 million

Mark Warner
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $215 million

Michael McCaul
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $200 million

Scott Peters
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $200 million

Greg Gianforte
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $189.3 million

Paul Mitchell
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $179.6 million

Vernon Buchanan
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $157.2 million

Mike Braun
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $136.8 million

Don Beyer
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $124.9 million

Dean Phillips
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $123.8 million

John Hoeven
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $93.4 million

Suzan DelBene
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $79.4 million

Fred Upton
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $79 million

Ron Johnson
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $78.5 million

Roger Williams
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $67 million

Buddy Carter
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $66.5 million

Rick W. Allen
•Annual Salary: $174,000
•Net Worth: $52.1 million

Not enough. I would bet that bribe money often goes through the accounts of children or family members. Or their kids get no-show jobs in foreign gas fields, or something. Or their college educations paid for.

Or off-shore, numbered, anonymous bank accounts.

There's a million ways to take a payoff that aren't checked.

I don't know what the answer is, aside from "at the end of your public service you are banished to an island where you cannot live in opulence."

GORDON wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:16 pm Not enough. I would bet that bribe money often goes through the accounts of children or family members. Or their kids get no-show jobs in foreign gas fields, or something. Or their college educations paid for.

Only the dumbest of people would see said kid/sibling/spouse being paid millions for nothing and think everything is on the up and up.

Pelosi married a hedge fund manager.

McConnell married rich (Elaine Chao)

The rest, I don't know. Well, except Mitt Romney. He got super rich before politics.

Yeah, I saw some in there who were legit, but it's fair to want to see where all their money was made, particularly if they got rich post-election.

They wanted to see Trump's taxes, let's see theirs, Rs and Ds alike.

Also, I don't care if their money came from legit places or not, people get arrested and convicted of insider trader. Thus, it is NOT ok for them to engage in it. Full stop. No exceptions.

As you know, no idea is a good idea until a man comes up with it.

Remember when Nancy Reagan ran a campaign to get people to not do drugs and got constantly mocked for it? Was it stupid? Yep. Was it the wrong message? Nope. So why mock it? Because the other side is doing it. Our country is run by petty cunts.

But yes, Michelle was right. Vivek was right. Bush Sr was right. Clinton was right. Etc. We need to start teaching healthy habits in the young. Fat lazy kids make fat lazy adults.

That being said, I visited my kid in public grade school lunch for a few years, on his birthday.

And they were always serving super healthy carrot sticks, naan bread, and hummus. And the trash can was full of carrot sticks, naan bread, and hummus.

I think maybe it's more important to get some unhealthy chicken nuggie calories in kids for their afternoon classes, than serve them food they aren't going to eat and spend the afternoon hungry.

Good eating habits start at home, as raising children in general, does.

We need to start requiring licenses to breed.

Veggies should always be on the plate. Fruit, too. Paired with nuggies? Sure.

My kid, unfortunately, grew up with healthy meals at home. So he never liked school lunches, and I was packing a lunch for him 4 days out of 5. It always included fruits and veggies, and usually something hot in a thermos.

Nutrition starts at home. Schools aren't parents. Procreation should require a license and be regulated.

GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:09 am We need to start requiring licenses to breed.

Heinlein?

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:16 am Veggies should always be on the plate. Fruit, too. Paired with nuggies? Sure.

Agree.

My kids will eat junk like any other person, but their favorite go to snacks are fruits.

Two play sports and the other is in dance.

Speaking of Nancy, one of the best anti-drug posters I ever saw was something along the lines of "she can't light up a joint while underwater" and it showed a kid swimming for her school. Two birds one stone, I guess? But yeah, teaching kids to be active is going to make them healthier, happier, and far less vulnerable to the allure of drugs.

The biggest takeaway is that if we ran the world, everyone would be healthy and all the women would be hot. It's kind of a no brainer.