DOGE Is Now Investigating How So Many Congressmen Become "Strangely Wealthy"

[SeaMajor7]

Musk knows the answer. Buy a judge.

Boasberg isn't available.
You Marxists overbooked him, and he's been busy for YEARS.

 

[JustAGuy1]

If any DOGE investigation uncovers fraud or corruption by a Republican then I'll be the first to call for jail time. Happy?

And let me be quite clear...I'd be shocked if there WASN'T fraud or corruption by the GOP! It's been a happy little club getting fabulously wealthy and it's been going on for decades! Enough.

Both sides of the Club are dirty as hell. The problem is that the Left doesn't care about theirs.

 

[Man With A Plan]

I don't think Pelosi was convicted, but HCA was when Scott was at the head.

gee man, I dunno. could it be

MSN

or

prolly a coincidence if those exist

Elon Musk’s Open Corruption Revealed in New FAA Plans

The Federal Aviation Administration is now going after one of Starlink’s main competitors.

newrepublic.com

orrrrr

Trump and Musk Hunt for Corruption, Very Selectively

Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon Musk.

www.nytimes.com

orrr maybe

MSN

JESUS ******* CHIRST, READ. Is Trump even more corrupt than say .... Biden? Well, the stakes are lower for democrats from what I've seen, in that they can be purchased for less. But there was no musk in the WH till Trumpy, and he's got tiny klepto hands too.

Read? What...those articles? Like The New Republic and The New York Times started telling the truth again? Don't even waste your time posting that crap because nobody is buying what they're selling anymore! You can only lie so many times before people stop paying attention.

You're comparing Trump to Biden on corruption, Ben? I hate to break this to you but Joe Biden is by FAR the most corrupt President we've ever had! You don't have to issue pardons for your entire family if you're on the up and up. You on the left have been trying to nail Trump for something going on eight plus years...so far all you've got are some lower court wins that we both know will be tossed on appeal. You can call Trump a lot of things but "corrupt" is not one of them! Sorry...

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Nope. An EVIL REALITY.
They're robbing you too, stumblebum.

They've been robbing us my whole life. Only the severely naive believe the world's dumbest rich guy is going to change that.

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[Man With A Plan]

They've been robbing us my whole life. Only the severely naive believe the world's dumbest rich guy is going to change that.

You seriously think that Elon Musk is dumb? I hate to break this to you, TT but he's inventing things like a modern day Thomas Edison!

 

[JustAGuy1]

Musk knows the answer. Buy a judge.

Maybe, maybe not. We do know that Soro's is funding Lefty judges.

 

[task0778]

I stole this directly from Ace of Spades HQ. Good site. Worth visiting.

But he found this and I thought it might make a good topic for conversation. Because, we all wonder how Politicians can get so stinking RICH making what is, in DC, a very modest Income..... In a very high Cost-Of-Living area. At least, I do.

I mean, we all know how they do it but we aren't exactly sure of the mechanisms they use.

This is why dems HATE Musk and HATE, HATE, HATE Trump. Because they're trying to stop the grift. To be clear, it isn't JUST dems that are knee-deep in the grift, it's just -- Mostly. Some Republicans are as dirty as it gets. (there's a stink about SCOTUS about to hit -- 'nother thread for another time)

Musk certainly doesn't need any money from DC. In fact, when they offer it to him (Rockets, AI, etc) he refuses it. Trump doesn't need the money. He is also a billionaire that isn't dependent on crooking bucks from The People.

So.......


He says that the US government gives billions to NGOs, who then transfer it to other NGOs, who then transfer it to other NGOs -- you know, like a criminal mafia organization laundering money through shell companies -- before that money is ultimately paid into the accounts of congressmen.


The world's richest man is dying to figure out how lawmakers on Capitol Hill got "strangely wealthy" despite their comparatively modest public salaries.
Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will investigate how certain members of Congress have achieved generational wealth.

One attendee at the town hall had asked Musk if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

"They'll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they'll go through a bunch of them, and then I'm highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned," Musk replied.


"But it is a circuitous route. It doesn't go directly, but let's just say that there's a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress where I'm trying to connect the dots of, 'How do they become rich?'"

...

Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually. Last year, Musk -- whose net worth is pegged at $330 billion by Bloomberg -- helped kill legislation to raise congressional pay, then later supported an increase as a means of fighting corruption.

Scores of lawmakers who have spent decades in Congress are millionaires.

Two of the wealthiest include former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has a net worth of about $250 million, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose personal fortune hovers around $552 million.

Pelosi's wealth largely comes from her and her venture capitalist husband Paul's lucrative investments in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Netflix.

Scott's personal fortunes largely stem from his work co-founding HCA Healthcare, a company that runs hospitals and other medical facilities around Florida, and Solantic, an urgent-care clinic chain. His work on both of those companies predates his time in the Senate.

"How do they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year?" Musk further pondered. "We're going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening"

This sounds more like a job for the DOJ than DOGE.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

You seriously think that Elon Musk is dumb? I hate to break this to you, TT but he's inventing things like a modern day Thomas Edison!

No. He's not.

 

[MarcATL]

Who's getting paid by lobbyists? Sitting members of Congress?

Yes, specifically, they get lobbied by lobbyists, who get sent to them by the corporations.

They get kick backs and/or high paying do-nothing jobs whenever they leave Congress for doing their bidding.

Am I incorrect w/this?

 

[MarcATL]

They work for us and it's in our best interests to know if they're using the power of their positions to enrich themselves. You may not want to know, so best to look the other way while the rest of us learn.

Give one or two examples of how these people enrich themselves by being in Congress?

 

[MarcATL]

Why? It isn't the fault of the lobbyists that politicians are corrupt.

Wait, what is it you think lobbyists do?

 

[buttercup]

Hey The Breeze, why is it that you never post but instead only use the reaction feature, constantly? Or at least I almost never see you post. And you always do the reactions in the most blindly partisan, spiteful way.

Don't be a coward. If I said anything that you think is false, refute it or show why you disagree... like a normal person, instead of 14 year old coward.

 

[Polishprince]

Wait, what is it you think lobbyists do?

Protecting congressgoobers from lobbyists is a key IMHO.

Have Congress remain in their districts during their entire term, only meet in the Capitol for an occasional ceremony like the SOTU address.

They can do all of their meetings and votes from their district offices through a ZOOM call, or even from home.

As long as they remember not to pull it out and start self abusing themselves like that fellow at CNN did.

 

[hadit]

Give one or two examples of how these people enrich themselves by being in Congress?

Nancy Pelosi and AOC. Pelosi is obscenely wealthy from her trading stocks right before something happens to them (almost as if she knowledge that those not on the inside would not have) while AOC went from too broke to afford an apartment to being worth millions in just a few years. Neither of these would have happened to someone not in Congress and were impossible on a Congressional salary.

 

[SeaMajor7]

They've been robbing us my whole life. Only the severely naive believe the world's dumbest rich guy is going to change that.

So, somehow you thought that post was logical.
Two points are stunning.
I "The world's dumbest rich guy"
a. Trump or Musk?
b. How do dumb people become billionaires?
II You're willingly accepting corruption.

This is where you demented avengers leave the rails sanity.
All can say is keep up the insanity and shout it out loud.

 

[MarcATL]

Nancy Pelosi and AOC. Pelosi is obscenely wealthy from her trading stocks right before something happens to them (almost as if she knowledge that those not on the inside would not have) while AOC went from too broke to afford an apartment to being worth millions in just a few years. Neither of these would have happened to someone not in Congress and were impossible on a Congressional salary.

Nancy Pelosi's father was wealthy, so try again.

As for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, post a link stating her wealth.

 

[toobfreak]

DOGE Is Now Investigating How So Many Congressmen Become "Strangely Wealthy"​

It goes far beyond just mere congress people. But if you really want to just limit yourself to that and ignore the strange wealth of the Bidens, the Obummas and the Clintons, (not to mention many others in the deep state agencies) there are the Pelosis, the Schumers, the Waters, the Raskins, the Nadlers, the Al Greens, the Crocketts, the Durbins, the Klobuchars, the Warrens, the Schiffs, the Kaines, and the McConnells. All worth DOGE checking out.

 

[skye]

 

[Edgetho]

We'll have to agree to disagree. It wasn't even that long ago that he was tweeting out references to the NWO. In a positive, not negative way.

And I haven't seen him renounce any of the WEF positions he has openly supported. Again, this isn't even all of them...

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He used to be a dimocrap.

Then he grew up. Same with Trump. Same with a lot of people including moi.

When will you grow up?

It helps to be open-minded but not so open minded that your brain falls out