That crowd loves grifters and con-men. That Trump crowd acts like peasants just to get close to the proximity of wealth.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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@dwazou can't get prosecuted for buying votes if you never pay
[insert smirks and taps forehead meme]
Then it's fraud.
But also, conspiracy to commit.
An act doesn't have to be committed for it to be a crime.
It goes to show how dumb people are
All you have to do is wave some money around in their face and make promises to them
.... and they'll do whatever you ask them to do .... then when all is said and done, you can just walk away and never give anyone anything.
Maurice: 'To my right, heh, to everyone's right in fact, we have congressman Alex Shrub; the youngest state congressman to ever be elected by Vice City and now a respected man in the capital. Mr. Shrub got elected because he has great hair and says things that make you nod your head. His campaign appealed to the wealthy because he set all of us at ease by confirming, "It's okay to be rich, as long as you say you care about the children." Mr. Shrub, welcome!'
Alex: 'That's not entirely true, Maurice. My campaign also appealed to the poor... who were too stupid to understand what I'm saying, so I held up pretty pictures and then I gave out candy bars to appeal to their most base insticts.'
💰 This could be yours!
I believe you owe me some money
No, I checked. Turns out it was mine, not yours.
Then they'll fall for it again in a couple of years 😭
They would if there were elections again.
But they'll probably just make the enemies list to be silenced sooner than the rest of us.
Sometimes, news is surprising.
This is not one of those times.
He can't afford it
No shit.
GTFOutta here! Seriously!? I am shocked.
SHOCKED!
So the only question really is whether it's more the case that he's not paying because there's a chance that he could be prosecuted for buying votes or if he's not paying just because he's a lying sack of shit who doesn't keep promises.
Or both.
I'm thinking both.
Wouldn't offering payment and not paying it also be criminal in someway?
IANAL, but I don't think so, unless they managed to make a charge of fraud stick, which would require proving that he never had any intention of paying them.
Without something like that, his failure to pay up is a civil matter rather than a criminal one.
Sold your country to a guy Tesla wants to pay 58b a year to so he can tank it for $100 and he doesn’t pay.
Cool.
Surprise?
Living by the Christian values of “promise” 😂😂😂
Because of course he wouldn't pay up. The man could literally afford to take more money than any one person could ever spend in their life, put it in a pile and set it on fire, and not be any more than a fraction of a percent poorer, but he's still such an unfathomably awful cunt that he just has to stiff people anyway.
Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.
To all the comments and replies asking Isn't this or that aspect of what he did illegal?: Yes of course, for us it would be illegal, but it doesn't matter. For oligarchs the legality of anything they do is irrelevant. They do whatever they want and get away with it. Sometimes it costs them a small fee, but they don't notice that.
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I hope Musk accuses them in court of entrapment. I wanna see the rich moron try to outsmart the poor morons. Everyone will lose, but it'll being some levity to our death-knell.
It’s never gonna see a court room, unfortunately
"The leopards would never eat my face!"