• Gunrigger@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Does conflict of interest not exist in the US, or is it encouraged to get yourself elected and just be openly corrupt?

      Why not just declare yourself a massive wage straight from the budget?

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      7 months ago

      Is this not a conflict of interest? String this motherfucker up in the gallows. It is downright corrupt to write laws that benefit your franchise. Fuck this asshole with a rusted spoon. Take all this online anger and shove it in his smoothie king lobbies.

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        7 months ago

        Surely the voters will punish pols who brazenly help themselves at the expense of the public.

        Any day now.

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          7 months ago

          That won’t happen until you can’t buy food at the grocers. Because the threat of imprisonment outweighs the perceived threat of these actions. Even though, at the end of the day, this law is just as damaging to individuals as an actual prison.