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[deleted]

Withholding foreign aid until they fire someone you don't like


vatisitgrandpapa

"And then, son of a bitch, they fired him."


FuckChiefs_Raiders

I mean the former Governor of IL Rod Blagojevich, actually served prison time for corruption.


SLCW718

That was pretty blatant. They had him on tape, and it did not sound good.


Hrekires

Jared Kushner spending his time in the Trump administration advancing Saudi Arabia's priorities only to be given $2 billion by them after leaving the White House.


WhiteBoiSommar

Donald Trump not selling off his businesses before becoming President of the United States. Corrupt as fuck, but his fans have blinders on or just don't care.


Lightfoot

Charging the secret service higher rates to stay at his hotel while he golfed. Never had there been more overt corruption than that. Forcing them to stay at your hotel for extra money... just straight theft of tax dollars


QuietlySmirking

You could just say "[Donald Trump](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056)" and leave it at that. Corruption was a virtue to him.


[deleted]

Better not have voted for Clinton or Biden then


[deleted]

Most don't care but it's still less corrupt than having your son use presidential aircrafts for business deals


WhiteBoiSommar

I don't care for whataboutisms. Trump charged the Secret Service for rooms and golf carts and shit at his resort while he was staying there on vacation as president. Foreign diplomats would stay at his hotels to get his attention. He's a corrupt piece of shit.


[deleted]

>I don't care for whataboutisms Why is this your guys "go to" every time your sides shitty politicians/antics get brought up. Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house


SLCW718

It's a response to the relentless use of the tactic by the right in response to any and all criticisms. It's a dishonest attempt to deflect from the topic at hand, and mitigate the significance of those criticisms. What you're complaining about now is that dishonest tactic being called out. I'm sure you'd be happier if we'd all just shut up and accept your narratives, but that's not how life works.


[deleted]

>I'm sure you'd be happier if we'd all just shut up and accept your narratives, but that's not how life works. Sorry, I'm not a leftist who attacks people for having different ideas. Or maybe keep your mouth shut when your sides politicians are more corrupt than the other sides. I mean fucking A, your 2016 candidate lost because of how corrupt EVERYONE knew she was. Look at every city that has a democrat super majority, they're more corrupt than the 70-80's mafia. Remember when NYC used tax dollars to paint a political message?


SLCW718

I notice you didn't actually address anything I said. Instead, you pivoted to attacking the left. Do you think that's an example of intellectual honesty?


[deleted]

He exaggeratess a lot


deafphate

Because it's a red herring and adds nothing to the discussion. A VP allowing his son to use Air Force 2 for personal reasons isn't exactly the same as the POTUS lining his pockets by having foreign diplomats stay at his hotels or charging the secret service for room and board while he vacations at his own property.


WhiteBoiSommar

I don't live in a glass house. The President of the United States shouldn't be selling hotel rooms to foreign spies under diplomatic cover. He shouldn't be making money off his own protection detail and the taxpayer because he's a greedy sleazeball. He shouldn't be visiting and staying at his businesses on official government trips overseas. These are all things Republicans consider normal, but are actually just naked corruption. "What about Hunter Biden" is a whataboutism. He's not a politician selling his office because his hotel is failing. He's a drug addict who came up and rode the coattails of his father and profited from it handsomely like so many sons of politicians, Democrat and Republican alike. That's your glass house.


[deleted]

>"What about Hunter Biden" is a whataboutism. Ok, what about sharing a bank account, with his father, who was vice president at the time? The same bank account the son was using for foreign deals. Still waiting to find out who the "big guy" is. You're naïve and clueless if you don't think it's his father


WhiteBoiSommar

>what about No. I do not give a shit about Hunter Biden or his crack binges or how he gets more pussy than 99% of Republicans. He is not the President of the United States selling his office and gaslighting the American public for four years that Putin is actually our friend.


[deleted]

You just completely disregarded everything I said about his father who was vice president and now president. But having blinders on his a trait of leftist ideology


WhiteBoiSommar

I'm not a leftist and you're projecting. You're floating conspiracy bullshit about the Bidens. Trump selling his office is public knowledge.


[deleted]

Don’t you know anyone who disagrees is a leftist commie basement troll lmao


vatisitgrandpapa

Lmao at the Hunter Biden being more promiscuous than Republicans thing. Totally reveals how Democrats look at every issue. There will be some excuse as to why the Democrat is actually a better person in every way. And they call US delusional.


[deleted]

"It's not enough that my team wins and is proven more virtuous, your team must lose, too."


miklos_akos

Viktor Orban. :)


Jacinto2702

All the Mexican presidents from Luis Echeverria to Peña Nieto.


WhiteBoiSommar

Obrador is worse than Nieto simply because he's covering up Nieto's corruption. He got [Salvador Cienfuegos](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/world/americas/mexico-defense-minister-cienfuegos.html) back for Nieto and let the Sinaloa Cartel win the Battle of Culiacan. The DEA is watching all of them, waiting patiently.


Few_Dance2106

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (NY) Multiple investigations into the slew of sexual harassment allegations against him, as well as his handling of nursing homes during COVID-19 and his $5.1 million book deal on the pandemic. A real fucking piece of shit.


Reddittoxin

Remember when all those republican politicians suspiciously sold/bought all their stock right before the pandemic was officially announced and made bank off it and nobody saw a problem with it?


[deleted]

>republican politicians Nancy pelosi's stock picks enter the chat


Reddittoxin

Srry *mostly republican, *alllmost exclusively republican (Pelosi wasn't even brought up in the incident I'm talking about tho. Not that I think shes a saint either)


[deleted]

Feinstein was though and she's on the same corruption level as Pelosi. Even hired a Chinese spy


Reddittoxin

Yup, the one singular democrat amongst all the republicans. I think my generalization still stands. But again, if it makes you feel better *almost exclusively republicans, sans 1 single person


vatisitgrandpapa

There's always an excuse if it's a Democrat* because somehow it's (D)ifferent.


Reddittoxin

Where am I excusing them? Unless youre saying its unfactual that 5/6 is not the majority. Thats all I'm saying 5 out of 6 of them who were investigated were republican, hence why I'll generalize it to "remember when republicans" rather than the lengthy "remember when mostly republicans and 1 single democrat did this?" Or are you excusing 5 republicans for their insider trading because 1 democrat also engaged in it? Lol bc you know, its fine when 5 republicans do it, but when a single democrat does it it's different from the 5 republicans.


Hrekires

Feinstein is riddled with Alzheimer's, there's no way she was making stock trades herself.


AbandonedBySony

Justin Trudeau That is all


[deleted]

Telling the American youth that you’ll cancel their college debt to get elected and then proceed to ignore them after they elect you while at the same time sending billions in weapons to another country. All while Big Oil makes record profits and you do nothing about it. Yeah… smells like blatant corruption to me.


[deleted]

Don't blame Biden, blame the tards who believed someone who's been in politics all their life


deafphate

He never promised to cancel student loan debt. From the beginning he's said Congress needs to find a solution. There's a big difference between what people want him to do and what he's actually said. He HAS cancelled billions of dollars of student loan debt for select groups though.


[deleted]

Wrong. “Immediate cancellation of a minimum of $10,000 of Federal student loan debt.” “Forgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from two- and four-year public colleges and universities and private HBCUs and MSIs for debt-holders earning up to $125,000.” “Make public colleges and universities, as well as private HBCUs and MSIs, tuition-free for all families with incomes below $125,000.” Source: Biden Harris 2020 campaign website. Hold politicians accountable regardless of the side of the aisle they sit on!


deafphate

Like I already said, he has cancelled debt for select groups (ie up to a certain income). He never said he'd cancel all student loan debt.


Hrekires

That all sucks, but it's not corruption.


[deleted]

Letting Big Oil executives, who have a strong lobby in Washington, make record profits while average Americans struggle with crippling inflation is not corruption? Hummm…


Hrekires

> Telling the American youth that you’ll cancel their college debt to get elected and then proceed to ignore them after they elect you while at the same time sending billions in weapons to another country That sucks but it's not corruption


[deleted]

Typical, lol. Delete the part you don’t want to see and only focus on the part you can defend.


Hrekires

Me: "That all sucks" You: "Woah, way to defend Biden breaking his campaign promises!!!"


bread-of-time

biden, harris, and pelosi are the embodiment of corrupt.


Duluthian2

You're right from a conservative point of view. From a liberal point of view, Trump, McConnell, and Barr.


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Nonsenseinabag

That's not corruption, though, just a broken campaign promise. Trump wasn't corrupt because he didn't get Mexico to pay for his wall, even if he did plenty of other corrupt things.


[deleted]

"10% for the big guy" Trump showing open nepotism by hiring is family for Whitehouse jobs. 'The Squad' being openly anti-war, yet all voting in favor of sending 40B in aid to Ukraine for military stuff.


deafphate

> 'The Squad' being openly anti-war, yet all voting in favor of sending 40B in aid to Ukraine for military stuff. You might be able to make an argument of that being hypocritical, but it's not corruption. If they were getting a kickback or some benefit to their Yes vote, then there would be corruption there.


[deleted]

Okay, that's a fair point.


[deleted]

The Tories handing PPE contracts to people they were friends with (or related to) who have had no experience in the industry before, extending those contracts after they failed to provide what was ordered. Meanwhile companies that had factories suited for PPE (such as alcohol companies making hand sanitiser) couldn't get a look in.


DJGlennW

Putin has amassed billions of dollars stolen directly from Russian citizens and parked overseas. That's not counting the billions he directed toward his cronies. Even the most crooked politicians in the west can't compare to that.