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Blue Full Moon

(2,053 posts)
1. Questions and was it a payoff
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:00 AM
18 hrs ago

Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen.

She has been on a govt salary for years.

Something aint right
Adam Kinzinger

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
2. Can you imagine if you were black or Mexican and went to the police and said you had $3000 in cash stolen from you?
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:40 AM
17 hrs ago

flashman13

(1,159 posts)
3. The South Dakota governor's salary is $139,000 a year. So where does she get the cash to be
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:09 PM
17 hrs ago

sporting $50,000 Rolexes and high dollar accessory baubles that she can't seem to keep track of. She's one more grifting corrupt MAGAt.

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
4. The lying and the incompetence are bad enough, but I think the in-your-face corruption is going to sink us
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:12 PM
17 hrs ago

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
6. I am suspicious of any wealthy person working in the government. Why are they doing it? I wanna know.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:32 PM
16 hrs ago

flashman13

(1,159 posts)
8. There are all sorts of reasons why a wealthy person might enter government service.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:24 PM
14 hrs ago

Some are good and some bad. Some, like FDR, do it out of altruism. Many like tRump do it for naked power.

The ones that bother me the most are the ones that enter Congress without a pot to piss in and leave as multimillionaires.

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
9. Yeah, I know there are wealthy people that are good in government. I'm thinking of Governor Pritzker.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:48 PM
13 hrs ago

But I am afraid they may be the exception. I’m starting to think it’s greed.

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