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

[Lesh]

You don't know how many members of Congress there are?

Somewhere right around 550… ya fucking knob

 

[Man With A Plan]

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?

They definitely get put on boards and things like that when they leave office. That's not illegal. If they are taking "kick backs" (which is what DOGE is going to be looking at?) then that's a criminal act and they should be indicted for it!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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.

McConnell got rich because he married money. Just like John Kerry.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No, I really don't. Say it or skulk away.

You don't seem to want anyone looking a people's activities that warrant investigation as to how they acquired their wealth. That leads one to believe you may have something to hide as well, because you do not want transparency. That is all.

 

[Lesh]

McConnell got rich because he married money. Just like John Kerry.

Just like Nancy Pelosi

 

[Lesh]

You don't seem to want anyone looking a people's activities that warrant investigation as to how they acquired their wealth. That leads one to believe you may have something to hide as well, because you do not want transparency. That is all.

Investigations are intrusive.

How about we hire our own investigators and investigate every aspect of Elmo’s life?

 

[buttercup]

Why not Democrat's trust, I guess it's okay if they don't trust him, the 'powers that be' feel like they only need the R's on their side for some reason? Once you start asking logical questions about the rabbit holes that you conspiracy theorists go down, they really don't make much sense.

With all due respect, I don't think you've thought this through. Because it actually does make sense when you think about it logically. The WEF crowd doesn't need to sell (or soften) Democrats on issues like mRNA vaccines, Universal Basic Income, a carbon tax, EVs, autonomous transportation, transhumanism, and a move toward an entirely new economic system. For the most part Democrats already agree with those ideas.

From the standpoint of the WEF crowd, it's the right who needs to "accept" those ideas. Or at least have their guard down when it comes to direction the world is going in.

Here's a question for you, and please be honest when you answer it. If a Democrat had been elected instead of Trump, and if that Democrat administration advocated all those issues I just posted above ....how do you think the right would have reacted to it? I think it's safe to say that conservatives and liberty-minded people would have absolutely opposed those ideas, if presented by a Democrat. And they would be much more vigilant about protecting our liberties if a Democrat was in power.

Why, because those aren't conservative or libertarian ideas. And because Republicans don't trust Democrats, of course.

You have to remember, the enemy operates through deception. They're not going to move us toward the "Great Reset" by using someone who is openly and obviously a globalist. Why because conservatives and all patriots would oppose the hell out of it. This is why they use "controlled opposition" and other deceptive tactics.

I'm going to post a quote by Whitney Webb. In this quote she's talking about "Q".... but what she's saying here also applies to what I was just talking about. It's about placating the very people who normally would have been the strongest and most vigilant opposition.

If you have faith in Jesus, then you shouldn't be worrying about anything else.

I'm not worried. But I also can't just sit back and say nothing when I truly believe that Americans are being sold down the river and we're slowly but surely losing our republic, because the whole system is a corrupt sham. And it's been that way for years.

 

[Stryder50]

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"

1) "Consultation Fees"; can vary from 5 figure to 7 plus depending upon 'what' is being consulted on and perceived value of the "consultation".
2) "Speaker's Fees"; As featured speaker at a $100s to $1,000s per plate dinner event paid to make an appearance and as speaker for 10-30 minutes on topic of "interest".
3) "Book Royalty" - Even if 'book' barely sells many copies, can earn huge "royalties" per publisher's subjective value of copies of book "sold".

Just a few of ways to dress up 'payola' as a legitimate "income".

 

[dblack]

You don't seem to want anyone looking a people's activities that warrant investigation as to how they acquired their wealth. That leads one to believe you may have something to hide as well, because you do not want transparency. That is all.

What do you think I have to hide, dipshit? You think I'm a Congressman? Or are you just being a dick because you've got nothing better to do?

 

[Edgetho]

Well, you are already wrong on this point! Both Republicans won in Florida.

Yup, 2 out of 3 wrong is a failing grade. But this is one case where I'm glad I was wrong.

 

[Edgetho]

1) "Consultation Fees"; can vary from 5 figure to 7 plus depending upon 'what' is being consulted on and perceived value of the "consultation".
2) "Speaker's Fees"; As featured speaker at a $100s to $1,000s per plate dinner event paid to make an appearance and as speaker for 10-30 minutes on topic of "interest".
3) "Book Royalty" - Even if 'book' barely sells many copies, can earn huge "royalties" per publisher's subjective value of copies of book "sold".

Just a few of ways to dress up 'payola' as a legitimate "income".

How about selling art for 10,000 times its value?

If someone were a Congresscritter and knew that we were going to stop Oil Leases and drilling on the CONSHELF and goobermints land, I'd be buying Oil Futures like crazy.

Conversely, if that someone knew that a Big, BIG Contract were about to be taken away from say, Boeing or Lockheed etc, that someone might be shorting that stock like crazy.

Get rich, literally, overnight.

We're all aware of that happening. It isn't illegal per se, but it isn't right either. Should it be illegal? Oh, HELL YES!

The thing we can stop is the outright theft, the blatant bribes by government agencies through dimocrap scum. We know it's happening. We know how it's happening. The problem lies in an unwilling DoJ and Corrupt Judges.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What do you think I have to hide, dipshit? You think I'm a Congressman? Or are you just being a dick because you've got nothing better to do?

I think you are afraid that some of your favorite people are crooks.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yup, 2 out of 3 wrong is a failing grade. But this is one case where I'm glad I was wrong.

I agree! Good job at being wrong this time!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

1) "Consultation Fees"; can vary from 5 figure to 7 plus depending upon 'what' is being consulted on and perceived value of the "consultation".
2) "Speaker's Fees"; As featured speaker at a $100s to $1,000s per plate dinner event paid to make an appearance and as speaker for 10-30 minutes on topic of "interest".
3) "Book Royalty" - Even if 'book' barely sells many copies, can earn huge "royalties" per publisher's subjective value of copies of book "sold".

Just a few of ways to dress up 'payola' as a legitimate "income".

Did they pay taxes on that income? I am betting "no".

 

[dblack]

I think you are afraid that some of your favorite people are crooks.

Who would that be? You're stuck on your dumb partisan presumptions.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Who would that be? You're stuck on your dumb partisan presumptions.

You are stuck on stupid, so there you go!

 

[dblack]

You are stuck on stupid, so there you go!

Good answer, good answer!

 

[OldFlame]

With all due respect, I don't think you've thought this through. Because it actually does make sense when you think about it logically. The WEF crowd doesn't need to sell (or soften) Democrats on issues like mRNA vaccines, Universal Basic Income, a carbon tax, EVs, autonomous transportation, transhumanism, and a move toward an entirely new economic system. For the most part Democrats already agree with those ideas.

From the standpoint of the WEF crowd, it's the right who needs to "accept" those ideas. Or at least have their guard down when it comes to direction the world is going in.

Here's a question for you, and please be honest when you answer it. If a Democrat had been elected instead of Trump, and if that Democrat administration advocated all those issues I just posted above ....how do you think the right would have reacted to it? I think it's safe to say that conservatives and liberty-minded people would have absolutely opposed those ideas, if presented by a Democrat. And they would be much more vigilant about protecting our liberties if a Democrat was in power.

Why, because those aren't conservative or libertarian ideas. And because Republicans don't trust Democrats, of course.

You have to remember, the enemy operates through deception. They're not going to move us toward the "Great Reset" by using someone who is openly and obviously a globalist. Why because conservatives and all patriots would oppose the hell out of it. This is why they use "controlled opposition" and other deceptive tactics.

I'm going to post a quote by Whitney Webb. In this quote she's talking about "Q".... but what she's saying here also applies to what I was just talking about. It's about placating the very people who normally would have been the strongest and most vigilant opposition.

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I'm not worried. But I also can't just sit back and say nothing when I truly believe that Americans are being sold down the river and we're slowly but surely losing our republic, because the whole system is a corrupt sham. And it's been that way for years.

Who on the right is trying to push the things you listed, shown below? You said conservatives would oppose them if a democrat was pushing them, of course they would. They'd also oppose them if a republican tried to push them, however I don't see that happening anywhere? Where is Musk or anyone else in the Trump admin currently trying to push any of them? Trump supported the covid shots back in 2020, how many on the right went out and got them because of that?

The WEF crowd doesn't need to sell (or soften) Democrats on issues like mRNA vaccines, Universal Basic Income, a carbon tax, EVs, autonomous transportation, transhumanism, and a move toward an entirely new economic system. For the most part Democrats already agree with those ideas.

As for the Qanon BS, it's pure conspiracy theory bullshit, and if truly followed by anyone, it's a very small amount of people. And they have no influence on anyone.

And if you have faith and trust in Jesus Christ, then you know that anything that will happen is according to His will, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. God always uses tough times to bring people close to Him, it's a repeated theme throughout the entire Bible. So if that is in His plan, then we have to have faith that somehow it will make us better people and move closer to Him. There's no point in worry, it's not going to solve anything.