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John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court
(www.theguardian.com)
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Just fundraise like 100 mil to get trump out of the race. Totally worth it and hes gonna take it with both hands.
He'd take the money and stay in the race
Yeah. He'd just fight the suit in court for years. And then when ordered to repay her could and have lived off they interest if they didn't somehow seize it into escrow.
You put it in an escrow account with the condition being that he drops out to get it.
Heres an idea. We give trump and others like elon literally all the money in the world, every single cent.
The economy would collapse in an instant and we can take of our own neighborhoods and communities without needing a money insensitive while the rich can drown in their valueless wealth.
/non-literal
This is very interesting. With all the crowd funding methods, would it be theoretically possible to put something like this together? Granted, the person has to accept, but imagine being able to pay a politician to just disappear.
If it were to actually happen, it'll just open up a trend of people joining politics and being major asswipes with the sole intention that people buy them out
You speak as if this isn't already happening. Rich corporations hire former US reps and regulators to be "lobbyists" for huge paychecks, but they aren't really asked to do anything--the real job happens before the big paycheck while the rep is still in office greasing the wheels, knowing retirement will be easy street.
Meanwhile scoundrels at every level are being loud public fuckheads so they can make a big name and sell books, or merch. They're getting paid too.
And these aren't even the real monsters. The real monsters are the ones who aren't doing it for money but for more political power.
Honestly, we should be so lucky as to have a way to buy the political fortunes of these pieces of shit before they have any political influence.
Good point
Yes, but Trump isn't the only problem we're facing. And a lot of the other problems have a path through the supreme court. Let's do both.
I bet nations will also donate to the cause with millions. Fuck it, Ukraine could hand in all that money themselves and itll be worth it for them.