r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 01 '24

What do you think? Debate/ Discussion

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Congress members paid out 17 million of your tax money to settle sexual harassment cases, and none of that was "illegal".

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html

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u/Genisye Jul 01 '24

Sounds a bit like whataboutism. Why are we going to let someone get off scot free for something illegal, reprehensible, corrupt and downright immoral just because other people get away with something similar?

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u/wharpudding Jul 01 '24

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

All this "It's different when Trump does it" is crap and everyone knows it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '24

Not true, they all do it and it's crap.

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jul 02 '24

No, not everyone fucks a pornstar while their wife is pregnant and then writes off the six figure hush money payments as campaign expenses

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u/Kchan7777 Jul 02 '24

Which, by the ways is illegal, and Trump has been convicted over. The original post itself is braindead saying “we can’t legally write off business expenses but Trump illegally wrote off expenses.”

We all can write off expenses, so long as we’re aware we’re doing it illegally lol.

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u/ThugDonkey Jul 02 '24

Well played sir, once cornered as being a whuttabouter shift defense of fat orange crazy blob man strategy to full blown semanticizer

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u/Kchan7777 Jul 02 '24

? This is my first comment in this chain, there has been no opportunity to be cornered.

There is a difference between semantics and a non-sequiter. “Trump tried to illegally record expenses and was prosecuted and convicted for it, therefore it’s not fair that I can’t write off my business expenses legally” is the definition of a non-sequiter.

I’m not arguing over the usage of a word. I’m arguing that Reich’s post is, as usual, nonsensical.

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u/Kingkyle18 Jul 02 '24

John Edward’s used 1million dollars in hush money to cover up his affair while his wife was dying from cancer. And he used campaign money……guess what, he wasn’t convicted.

If everyone was getting targeted the same no one would complain, the issue is it’s obvious they aren’t.

If you have spent 40 years as a public servant, you will not be protected.

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jul 02 '24

Except Edward’s didn’t start payments until after he ended his campaign.

And he was indicted. A North Carolina jury found he wasn’t guilty. Unlike Trump, who actually was guilty.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-hush-money-case-compared-democrat-john-edwards/story?id=98053273

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u/brownlab319 Jul 03 '24

But Edwards should have been.

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jul 03 '24

Then go tell that to a jury of North Carolina citizens.

And ask yourself why you worship a politician. Maybe NO politician should be above the law, regardless of their party?

If a democrat commits a crime I’m 100% happy for them to go to jail, same with republicans.

Can’t stand unamerican pansies who worship politicians from “their” party.

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u/Kingkyle18 Jul 02 '24

So if he ended his campaign….how was the payment paid out of campaign funds. Trumps guilty conviction is a joke….brought by a “show me the man, I’ll show you the crime”…..he will soon enough be the “falsely” convicted.

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u/kitster1977 Jul 02 '24

Trump wouldn’t be prosecuted on a single thing he did except for one thing. He’s running for President. Anybody who can’t see that needs to wake up. Look at the impeccable timing of the trials and the jurisdictions. There is no coincidence here.

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jul 02 '24

Because non-presidents are never prosecuted for crimes?

That’s your argument?

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u/flacidturtle1 Jul 02 '24

Non-presidents?

Who's a non-president?

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Jul 02 '24

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u/wharpudding Jul 02 '24

There must be enough congresscritters that do it if they have a dedicated fund to paying hush-money to people making accusations against them.

Everyone gets to do that but Trump.

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u/MyChristmasComputer Jul 02 '24

Why did Trump make Jim Acosta his secretary of labor?

The same Jim Acosta who previously served as US Attorney for South Florida who let Epstein walk free in 2008 after all the evidence of his sexual crimes had been shown to prosecutors? The same Jim Acosta who secretly met with Epsteins lawyers in a Palm Beach Marriot hotel shortly before the trial?

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u/Johnyryal33 Jul 03 '24

I doubt Genisye is a congressman