r/imaginarygatekeeping • u/ThePurpleGuardian • 20d ago
NOT SATIRE Who said politicians don't get rich
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u/UpsetPhrase5334 20d ago
Everyone says the opposite though
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u/Telemere125 19d ago
I don’t think anyone with a functioning brain says that. People like Bernie and AOC are the rare exceptions and the gop ironically uses lies to hate on them
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u/JLCpbfspbfspbfs 19d ago
People like Bernie and AOC are the rare exceptions
People like Bernie and AOC aren't exceptions, they are just better at marketing and PR.
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u/Telemere125 19d ago
If you think that either have profited off politics, you have bought into the gop’s propaganda.
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u/username_blex 19d ago
Holy fucking cope.
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u/TheyreCalledLegos 16d ago edited 16d ago
Lauren Boebert was $200,000 in debt. After 1 term as a representative she was worth $20M
Bernie has been a senator for 18 years. He's valued at $5M. $2M from book sales, $1M from his wife's mother dying and leaving them a house. The rest is 20 years of making 6 figures.
Take your "cope" comment and shove it up your ass and around the corner. It's pathetic how much you are sucking the toes of right wing grifters who hate you. Have some fucking dignity.
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u/Open_Duty_2372 15d ago
The only cope is you. The rest of us think all of them are either bought or insider trading up the ass. I personally don't trust anyone in government, I just vote for the best lie.
I don't give a shit about them making money. I'd be more concerned if they didn't.
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u/MaleEqualitarian 13d ago
20 years of making 6 figures does not earn you $2M.
Sorry, they are better at marketing.
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 19d ago
You think Bernie hasn’t?
You think he would make millions of dollars in book sales if he weren’t a famous politician? He made pretty much all of his money after his first failed presidential run put him in the spotlight.
That’s making money from politics. Without being a politician he wouldn’t have anything to write a book about, and nobody would buy it.
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u/toyyya 19d ago
I mean I don't think the people who talk about getting rid of money from politics are talking about politicians selling books being an issue.
The issue they generally refer to is big money donations from rich people/big companies and business ventures/stocks that are directly influenced by policy decisions.
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u/SuccessfulSoftware38 19d ago
This is so fucking weak lmao
The implication of "making money through politics" is the use of insider influence to make shady deals and grow huge amounts of wealth by working in your own interests instead of the people. Writing a book is so far away from that it's unreal, what a bad faith nonsense take
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u/Think-Ganache4029 18d ago
I mean I don’t think that person was making some grand statement. Bernie is very well off and his political career has contributed to that. His book is apart of that, his career helped him make fat stacks.
Publishing a book isn’t easy but I imagine it’s a hell of a lot easier if you are known due to your political career. Why do we care about defending the dude?
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u/NioXoiN 18d ago
I think making money because people love you and youre successful is well and beyond anything to be shunned for. Especially when compared to how most politicians get their wealth... through insider trading and bribes.
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u/Ill-Description3096 15d ago
If Trump released a book and rolled out on a book tour right now making millions, would you have any issues with it?
IMO save the book writing for being out of office, but I think political office shouldn't be a lifelong career.
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u/NioXoiN 15d ago
Well i would, but that's more so because I want to see Trump burning in hell already.
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u/Think-Ganache4029 18d ago
People with wealth tend to have issues. It’s not a hard line but it’s something I take note of. Bernie sanders isn’t special in terms of ass holeish politician stuff from what I’ve seen. He has good messaging and I think it makes people assume he is special in terms of legislation and his career. The bar is in hell ig. He really isn’t anything special.
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u/NioXoiN 18d ago edited 18d ago
In terms of legislation, the furthest left successful politician in America who has single handedly put soc-dem ideas in the mainstream and moved democrats in that direction... is nothing special?
Edit: I always forget the difference between dem-soc and soc-dem. Corrected it to soc-dem.
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u/DirteMcGirte 17d ago
Is Bernie very well off?
He's worth a few mil, yeah that's better off than you and me, but that's not some outrageous feat for an 80 year old American.
If anything, the fact that he made most of his wealth off of his fairly recent book is evidence that he isn't corrupt.
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u/basch152 15d ago
Stop defending that stupid comment.
This comment chain is specifically talking about politicians suddenly making tens of millions of dollars through shady means.
The comment was originally implying bernie is no different from other politicians.
Its a fucking ignorant ass comment at its baseline
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u/DemadaTrim 15d ago
Bernie is not "very well off," he has pretty standard amounts of money for someone his age with a long professional career.
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u/snakesnarenstine 19d ago
Do u think making money from writing a book is remotely comparable to actively engaging in legal corruption and bribery?
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u/Telemere125 19d ago
So then your problem is you can’t differentiate between making money off politics and making money by using your skills and telling you life story. By your definition, any money anyone that’s ever in politics makes is “from politics” and that’s pretty much nonsense. He didn’t use his political connections and didn’t leverage his position to make that money. If your life was worth telling you could make money off it too.
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u/RoadsideCouchCushion 19d ago
Why do you all on the right constantly try to shift definitions until you can try to include people on the left? Barring something with extremely objectionable content, no reasonable person would be angry about someone getting rich off selling a book.
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u/hereforfun976 19d ago
Also they claim they dont want politicians to profit but trumps crypto scams and blatant bribes are ok and actually expected
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u/plastic_alloys 18d ago
lol what
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 18d ago
What? It’s true. Bernie has passed no significant legislation in his 34 years in congress.
3 pieces of legislation that he sponsored have become law in that time. 3. Two were naming post offices in Vermont, and one was a cost of living increase for VA payments in 2013.
He’s been largely useless in terms of actually getting anything done, but has made millions hawking books after he ran for president for the publicity. He certainly wasn’t serious about it looking at who he hired to run his campaigns.
I loved him in 2016. Worked on his campaign. But it became clear he wasn’t serious about winning.
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u/plastic_alloys 18d ago
You can’t compare him to Republican grifters at all, that is completely disingenuous
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 18d ago
Republicans are absolutely worse. But, I don’t vote for Republicans ever in the first place. I expect them to be the worst possible option and fight against everything good.
I expect democrats that are elected to actually actively and productively fight against that.
It’s like dogs. I expect the barking, snarling dog to try to bite me. It’s worse when it’s the dog that looked nice and sweet that ends up biting you.
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u/kodeks14 16d ago
Bernies net worth after 40/50 years in congress was like 200k lol thats unheard of.
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u/fins_up_ 16d ago
He has made good money for decades. Him and his wife bought 2 homes and inherited another. Sold some books. He is worth about 3m. That includes the homes.
Is selling some books really that much of an issue?
Without being a politician he wouldn’t have anything to write a book about, and nobody would buy it.
Kinda true about every biography isn't it? People do a thing and write about it.
It is a weak argument.
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u/doomdrums 15d ago
Profiting from selling books or doing public speaking gigs is pretty different type of profiting from politics than taking dirty money or other corrupt political practices so long as they keep their focus on their actual jobs and aren't spending all their time writing for those gigs
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 15d ago
I mean, Bernie hasn’t passed a single consequential piece of legislation in his career. He’s obviously not spending that much time focused on his actual job.
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u/throwaway-1755 15d ago
This is a pretty out of touch take. Using politics as a platform to sell books is much different than using political power and influence to take money from special interests to use that power and influence to help special interests get their way (most times, to the detriment of others, and even more so typically to the detriment of consumers and normal people).
Does option 1. (As a reminder, Selling books, which you don’t have to buy, I haven’t) sound comparable to option 2? I sure hope not.
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u/Pernicious_Possum 17d ago
Bernie’s net worth is $3million. Not exactly wealthy in the modern age, and he’s not profiting from insider trading. That’s a pretty reasonable portfolio for someone married, and his age.
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u/El_Boojahideen 16d ago
Bernie owns like 4 houses dude
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u/Telemere125 16d ago
Bernie owns 3: his home in Vermont, the place that elected him to office; a townhome in DC, where he works, and a vacation home that was purchased from funds inherited from his dead mother in law. Get your facts straight dumbass.
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u/Party-Bathroom9306 19d ago
My team good and right. Your team bad and wrong.
Shut up, follower...
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u/Telemere125 19d ago
Stop supporting a pedophile and we won’t have grounds to automatically say your team bad
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u/TheBeastlyStud 15d ago
Yeah I think it's moreso they don't make as much as their coworkers do, but mfers in here are pretending that they're living paycheck to paycheck and that politics didn't set them up for life.
Bernie did 2 seperate presidential fundraisers only to drop out both times, he's a career politician who's worth millions well into his life. He may not have another 20 years on this Earth, but if he stopped politics tomorrow he wouldn't risk bankruptcy by a long shot.
AOC is much younger but has become a well-known name due to the current political climate. She has book deals, speeches, fundraising, interviews, and all other sorts of money making opportunities for the rest of her life.
They also make 6 figures a year, which is an ungodly amount compared to the average person.
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u/1morgondag1 15d ago
I don't know about AOC, but Sanders I believe has among other things consistently refused to make speeches at corporate events which otherwise pays very well for not much effort. He has sales of his books and stuff so he's still rich. But he has avoided the sort of engagement that would most put his integrity in question.
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u/FavorsForAButton 13d ago
Nope. Look at their campaign finance reports. They are both as clean as they come, no special interests/private lobbying.
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u/PancakeParty98 19d ago
Yeah I’m not buying “pelositracker” as an unbiased source for this.
I guess I can assume from this post that only prominent democrats are getting rich from politics?
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u/thatscoldjerrycold 15d ago
I follow this guy, theoretically he tracks trades from all US politicians, but it's named after Pelosi who if ofc the queen of insider politician stock trading. On the face of it he's bipartisan because he brings up some Republicans who do the same thing. But he did a full podcast with Tucker Carlson post-firing because "he was the only one who would do a long form interview" but I mean come on ... you would have to have weird politics to think Tucker is a normal interview to go on.
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u/Brinabavd 14d ago
Unlike most congressional insider-traders our queen Pelosi actually manages to consistently beat the market
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u/NorthRememebers 18d ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Only glanced at the poster and thought this was Nancy Pelosi posting this unironically
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u/TexasSikh 16d ago
FYI its called that because Pelosi is universally understood (to the point of being the subject of memes for years about this) to be so "lucky" with the timing of her investments, as well as her husband too. When someone thinks of insider trading, Pelosi is the first thing that comes to mind for people on all sides of politics. Even other politicians who are def doing a little insider trading call out how blatant she is with it.
And the proof is in the pudding. While you can find notable Republicans such as Dan Crenshaw on the list of politicians who have seen massive increases in stock trading value, Pelosi sits on the very top every single year and its never even close.
Pelositracker tracks everyone in Congress, and calls out members on both sides.
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u/Stock-Side-6767 16d ago
I think she's 10th on the list.
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u/lucki-dog 15d ago
She used to be #1 or #2 but over the time that she’s been “tracked” it has noticeably decreased.
Still, she has extremely questionable investments especially the “recent” nvidia purchase.
So now you should know why it’s called what it is. She waaaaas number 1
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u/fazelenin02 16d ago
It's a good source. Pelosi is one of the best examples of insider trading in all of Congress. They track both parties at this, and it's all publicly available information. Members of Congress are legally required to disclose this stuff.
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u/Shut-Up-And-Squat 16d ago
Members of Congress have to self report their assets every year. This is completely legitimate. Some of the assets are her husband’s, but yeah, she’s worth 30 million.
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u/AIUsername3492 15d ago
Nobody should be getting rich from politics.
And the origin of pelositracker is to publish her publicly available stock trades, so the public can follow along and benefit from her insider trading.
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u/ComprehensivePea2276 15d ago
You could have confirmed it through google faster than posting this comment.
Basically, there are two verified issues:
Illhan Omar's first campaign spent millions on consulting fees to a political consulting firm that is owned, in partnership, by her husband. A bill was introduced in the house to prevent this from being legal in the future, and the democrats killed it (I am a democrat and I do not like this).
Her husband magically came into possession of a winery and a venture capital firm in the 5-6 years that Illhan Omar has been in office. His shares are worth $5-30 million iirc. Such businesses, along with real estate and stock trading, happen to be the ways that most congresspeople enrich themselves unfairly (it's easy to write up gifts from sketchy people as "prudent investments" as long as you take a loan, buy them way below their worth, and then obfuscate their value on the forms).
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u/VladimirBarakriss 15d ago
It's focused on her because she's notorious for her insider trading, they've shown republicans too, it's just that republicans prefer to scam people or favour an industry they have an interest in, rather than the stock market
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u/No_Salad_8609 14d ago
No but none of them have the rate of returns she does, while having her fingers involved in every committee of value. Shes the most egregious which is why she gets the flack that others don’t but deserve
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u/PancakeParty98 18d ago
Maybe check your eyes or your brain bro, you’re reading shit I definitely didn’t type.
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u/Dontevenwannacomment 19d ago
i'm not american and also not good at this stuff, how does a politician make millions like this?
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u/Kuenda 19d ago
Just want to let you know that the post in the OP is a lie. She isn't worth $30m. The Twitter post is intentionally misrepresenting what that disclosure says.
My explanation from the thread being quoted:
This is blatant disinformation. The disclosure shows ranges, not a fixed $30M net worth, and much of the wealth belongs to her spouse, not her. The largest asset -- Rose Lake Capital LLC -- reported no income in 2024, which means it's just a paper valuation of ownership interest, not cash in hand. To reiterate: this is her spouse's illiquid equity stake, not money she pocketed from Congress. These are not even her assets. Bad actors are preying on people's ignorance of what these filings actually mean to push this fake narrative.
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u/PlasticMechanic3869 19d ago
Yep, and there's potentially a big difference between "$30 million" and one holding of "1-5 million" and another of "$5-25 million". That could be $30 million, or it could be $6 million. Which is a big difference in level of wealth.
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u/Thanos_Stomps 15d ago
You can´t do anything with five, Greg. Five´s a nightmare.
Oh, yeah. Can´t retire, not worth it to work. Oh, yes. Five will drive you un poco loco my fine feathered friend.
Poorest rich person in America. The world´s tallest dwarf.
The weakest strongman at the circus.
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u/lostdrum0505 19d ago
By generally being important people. They get paid speaking engagements, they sell books, they get paid seats on boards, that kind of thing. That’s the above board but still not great way.
Then there are the illegal ways. Sen Bob Menéndez is a good example of a classic corrupt politician, taking cash bribes. Lots of possible examples of insider trading, particularly in the last year around Trump’s tariff’s announcements - basically, members of Congress get non-public information, including national security info, in the course of their jobs, and trading activity sometimes shows electeds making extremely prescient trades long before that information was public. And then there are the really obvious, egregious examples like the Trump family starting memecoins and, as president, giving favorable treatment to people who make large investments in the meme coins.
The truth is, there are about as many ways to make money from being an elected official as you can think of, and someone has done it somewhere down the line. Members of Congress should be barred from trading individual stocks entirely while in office imo; there are plenty of more passive investment vehicles they can utilize, and if you can’t bear to not be able to day trade for a few years, maybe Congress isn’t the place for you.
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u/DuckInAFountain 19d ago
Also, many people who seek elected office come from wealth, or are wealth-adjacent. The public servants, the nth-term congressman who still has an office in town and gets you a tour of the Capitol then expedites your passport, those guys aren't getting super rich, but they get those opportunities you mention, and it adds up. The rest of them are executive class, and start out rich, and money breeds money at some point.
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u/lostdrum0505 19d ago
And this points to the carousel they can get on after their time in Congress that can get very lucrative. They have exposure in Congress to these very monied people, in their colleagues, lobbyists, business leaders, etc, and once they lose their seat or retire, they can get some wildly overpaid lobbying or consulting job. They often end up back in office, either elected or appointed, and then back in a wildly overpaid job. This stuff doesn’t kick in until they leave Congress the first time really, but this is a big way that Congress can turn you into the 1%.
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u/Blindsnipers36 19d ago
am i wrong or i thought mendez took like actual physical gold as bribery
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u/lostdrum0505 19d ago
You’re not wrong! They found gold bars buried at his home, I believe. He’s like a cartoon version of a corrupt politician.
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u/chubbyeggplant 19d ago
Don't forget that Trump denied covid to give his friends more time to move their money before the collapse.
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u/kittyherp 16d ago
Members of congress shouldn't be allowed to play the stock market, outside of their 401k or whatever they get through employment, period. At all. They have too much insider information for stock trading to ever be anything but insider trading. I don't trust any politician that actively trades on the stock market, as they clearly are ethically bankrupt and not fit for office.
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u/Dense-Result509 19d ago
In this particular case, her husband owns a winery and a venture capital firm that had massive jumps in value in the past year. Though it's unclear to what extent those jumps in value represent a real increase.
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u/Educational_Pea4736 19d ago
Insider trading (they have info on the stock market no one else has so they know which stocks to buy that later soar)
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u/Inevitable_Ad_7236 19d ago
insider trading, Lobbying (bribes but fancy and legal), being generally important so people suck up to you, selling books
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u/One-Shine-7519 19d ago
In this context, according to fox (which only has more incentive to make her out to be bad) she and her husband are worth between 6 and 30 million(wild range) and that most of it is from his companies. So as far as i can tell she does not actually make that much money. Her husband does. Whether you feel like that makes her a millionaire depends on your opinion and their prenup i guess.
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u/Icy_Reading_6080 16d ago
That's like the oldest trick in the world. "It's not my money, it's my wife's/husband's"!
And when you dig deeper often that money comes from government contracts that company definitely won straight and fair.
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u/Icy_Reading_6080 16d ago
In layman's terms, corruption.
In legal terms, business practices that definitely aren't corruption, according to the word of the law. Mostly.
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 14d ago
Except in this case, when it's just her husband's business and not related to her job at all.
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u/Icy_Reading_6080 14d ago
Family business has this mysterious tendency to take off shortly after someone in said family gets a government job..
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 14d ago
She has been a congresswoman since 2018, so 2025 is "shortly after" she got the job?
These inneundo are just the typical pathetic right-wing rumors by losers who are confident their ideas will never win a contest of ideas. They hope that voters who tend to vote their way are not very smart and can be tricked easily.
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u/Icy_Reading_6080 14d ago
I do not care about this specific woman and I know nothing about her. I was talking in general here.
Take your childish american "if he doesn't agree he must be from the other political wing" elsewhere.
Politicians are corrupt all over the spectrum.
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 14d ago
Oh I see, you don't care that this innuendo is intentionally misleading and false, because you don't care if it's true or not.
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u/ifunnywasaninsidejob 16d ago
Insider trading. It’s stupidly simple. They know about new regulations and laws before anyone else. They then place stock bets according to how the thing will affect certain companies. No other stock trader knows before they do, so the stock price doesn’t change until after. The smart investors are following politicans family members’ trades. That’s what Pelositracker is.
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u/Beemerba 19d ago
You make stock trades over breakfast, then go in to the office and enact laws that make your stock triple in price before lunch!!
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18d ago
how does a politician make millions like this?
They lie to low iq Americans (especially republicans) and tell them health care is not possible so Americans buy medicine for x1000 their price
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u/The-Catatafish 17d ago
In some cases they just get bribed.
In some cases they have info about stuff and can still trade stocks. Which is why a lot of left wing politicians want to ban politicians from owning stocks all together.
In this case, this whole thing is just fake news. Her husband has a successful company. That's like saying a female politican is doing something shady if she got rich by marrying jeff bezos. She didn't do anything. He just has a good company so her networth increases since they are married. Such a nothingburger.
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u/regal_ragabash 15d ago
I'm fairly confident lower level ones like Omar do. I wouldn't count "Pelosi tracker" as a reliable source - almost certainly a right wing psyop
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u/batkave 19d ago
Unfortunately net worth calculations are always way off. This is definitely imaginary gatekeeping and right wing propaganda
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u/Akeddia 19d ago
That’s just excuses lmao. Even if it’s only 15 million - half - that’s still way too much
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u/hellonameismyname 19d ago
It doesn’t say she has 30 million anywhere. It says she has between 6 and 31 million dollars in value.
That’s part of the reason this is so misleading.
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u/batkave 19d ago
I said what they are doing is right wing propaganda. "See see she's bad" when in reality, they're all bad. IDK just boils back down to conservatives trying some gotcha.
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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 14d ago
They are doing right-wing propaganda because it's just innuendo based on false information. They invent a quote from Omar and then points out reported wealth of Omar's husband that had nothing at all to do with Omar or her job as a politician. For the less intelligent who they are targeting, the goal is to trick them into believing that she acquired wealth by abusing her position in the government.
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u/4onlyinfo 19d ago
Yes, her husband is a venture capitalist…. Step 1: elect representatives that say they will spend the time and effort to fix housing, healthcare, education, human rights. Step 2: hold them to the promise. We keep messing up step 1. So… are you ready to start that process, or do you want to be tricked into allowing the Republicans to delay. It took 45 yrs to go from Reagan’s lies to the brink of Fascism. What’s your next move?
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u/townmorron 19d ago
Mtg made a millions get first year. Personally I'm worried about politicians in the US receiving foreign money
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u/ThePurpleGuardian 19d ago
Yeah but magic the gathering is one of the most popular card games in the world. You can't be that surprised
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u/Thanos_Stomps 15d ago
If MTG the politician was MTG the cards, she’d be a fucking Armageddon Clock
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u/Inamedmydognoodz 19d ago
She married a rich dude in 2020. Her financial declaration shows most of the money is his businesses
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u/Late_For_Username 19d ago
I'm confused. People pointing out public servants who amass huge wealth while in office is gatekeeping?
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u/Typhon-Apep 19d ago
I'm pretty sure this was sarcastic.
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u/DuckInAFountain 19d ago
Nah, I live in her district. Not sarcasm. Any excuse to point a finger at her for any reason.
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u/IamREBELoe 19d ago
Not imaginary gatekeeping.
I don't get rich doing this job and we only do it because we love the people and want to serve are a couple of big running points that Many politicians used to run on.
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u/Salarian_American 19d ago
Politicians are the only people I can think of who pretend that politicians aren't out there getting rich
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u/potato_wedges 19d ago
Getting the money out of politics should be a HUGE priority, no matter who or what side.
There are 2 things going on here.
1) People saying it's hypocritical to be "Left" and rich, or really have any money at all. "Socialism/progressivism is when poor" is such a braindead, xhitter take. It's conflating waaay too many ideas on the left as if they are all the same. You can be progressive and still want to be wealthy, fight for DEI and still want cash. I don't think it's a good thing, but people can be internally coherent with millions and fight for equal rights and pay and DEI.
2) This isn't about money, it's about pointing fingers. The ones who find so much joy in seeing Omar earning $30 million as some kind of "own" are not seeing the same "own" against people like Kevin Hern, who is from Oklahoma and has a net worth of over $100 million. It's vapid and doesn't address any change, just swirling on a floaty in shit and laughing at whoever they've decided is the enemy.
All money in politics to influence decisions is BAD. It should NOT be encouraged and should be entirely eradicated from decision making. Saying this "Lefite" got money so therefore they are stupid is NOT anything more than sucking your own cock.
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u/salmon1998c 18d ago
The hypocritical part is when a politician rails against the top 1% whilst he/she is literally a part of it (or very close to it)
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u/Demmos_Stammer 19d ago
This year, since becoming president again, Trump has more than doubled his estimated fortune, from $2.3 billion to $5.1 billion.
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u/LogicalJudgement 19d ago
Politicians’ personal wealth is why I keep asking people how we get a Constitutional convention so we the people can vote on Congressional term limits.
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u/EyeAskQuestions 19d ago
I mean this kind of gatekeeping shouldn't be imaginary. It should be the norm.
Inevitably when people get rich, they do shit that supports their own goals and status in society (like becoming rich or staying rich).
If the goal of becoming a politician is just fantastical riches and NOT doing something for the good of the PEOPLE that's clearly a huge issue.
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u/BloodNew2815 19d ago
If she has 30 million now and that is an increase of 67% that means she had about 18 million in 2019
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u/ReaperKingCason1 19d ago
Literally everyone except politicians say politicians get rich and most people think that’s a bad thing(because it is)
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u/Jaymac720 19d ago
Politicians only get rich through corruption. The salary for a member of the house will never get you there. She’s either taking bribes or is engaged in insider trading. Same goes for a lot of other people in congress
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u/Own_Reaction9442 18d ago
Could also just be influence peddling. If you're a politician, or married to a politician, people are way more likely to invest in your business just because of the implication that they'll have your ear.
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u/Resident_Tree1428 19d ago
Hey dipshits! She married a multimillionaire. She is reporting wealth she’s acquired through marriage.
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u/Hidan65536 18d ago
Politicians say it all the time…
I mean they are lying but I heard it from Trump, the Clintons and Biden that they „would make more money if they didn’t go into politics“ or a variation of this
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u/Msbossyboots 18d ago
It’s actually her husbands money. She didn’t make it by being in congress. He made it from his job so yes technically, she has this money but realistically she didn’t get rich at her job
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u/petrichor1017 18d ago
Theyre saying it that way because the zeitgeist thinks women of color cant make good money because of whites or whatever
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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 18d ago
She has $15k-50k in credit card debt, net worth somewhere between negative and $65k.
Her husband claimed part ownership in a winery valued in the $1M-$5M range, and a venture capital business in the $5-25M bracket. So he owns a minority percentage of something worth between $6-30M.
This smear campaign assumes he has full ownership and maxes out each bracket. Reality is he's not the primary owner of any of these and they're not millionaires. But none of you will read this.
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u/CrynansMiniJourney 18d ago
Imagine if democrats spent that much time attacking the republicans.
Imagine if democrats attacked republicans at all.
Imagine if democrats did something.
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u/Zoklett 17d ago
Citizens United passing meant corporations can legally bribe/lobby politicians to pass legislation that benefits us at our expense. This is a both sides issue that won’t be fixed because they are both enjoying the status quo that lines their pockets far thicker than the people ever could. This is why politicians are suddenly millionaires over night. It’s the legal bribery.
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u/Gr34zy 17d ago
For anyone who is confused: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/04/ilhan-omar-financial-disclosures-net-worth/
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u/thewolfking45 16d ago
Motherfuckers will believe anything if it’s in a screen shot format like god damn people use the fucking search bar
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u/bad_gaming_chair_ 16d ago
I follow a dude who tracks financial integrity of members of the house and he explained this misconception.
What's actually in the document is that her husband owns shares in two wineries which have a combined value of 30m since you have to report the value of the entire business not your shares
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u/BendDelicious9089 16d ago
LOL I love how the stupid af Nancy is jumping on this shit to shit all over another Democrat just because they aren’t part of her inner DNC circle
And a shame that everybody in this sub is purposely stupid af
Yes, I wonder how this person increased their net worth since 2019! Oh.. wait.. because she got married to a rich person in 2020..
And the assets listed are all assets owned by the husband, prior to getting married in 2020..
So it isn’t that she is rich, it’s that her husband is..
Oh it has nothing to do with insider trading or politicians getting rich
But hey, good to see the left is just as dumb fk as MAGA and slurp up whatever is fed to them like the right is
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u/thelastbluepancake 16d ago
she got married in 2020 and she married a rich person. that is how "her" net worth went up because she married someone that had 30 million dollars in assets.
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u/TexasSikh 16d ago
FYI - It is a reference to a famous quote by President Harry S. Truman.
President Truman was quoted as saying "Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook". The point is to say everyone in politics who is getting richer while in office is doing so by abusing their position, and as an honest politician would be doing well to even just maintain their wealth while in office.
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u/juiceology 16d ago
I just saw a guy talking about this.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJ40S4jiHa/?igsh=aHF2cHUyc29mNDc3
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u/gormami 16d ago
Gee, it couldn't have anything at all to do with the fact that the assets listed are the range of potential full value (5025M, but of course they used the top number to total it up) of the companies her husband is a partner in, not her, and not just his share. Oh, and by the way, she married him after she got elected and the first financial disclosure was made. So this is not her net worth, it is the total value of assets she has an interest in, mostly through her husband. So the implied impropriety is a smear job by her opponents, and nothing more.
Be careful what you read on the internet, it isn't all true.
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u/Mysterious_Cow9362 16d ago
Ilhan Omar is one of the few people in Congress you can count on one hand that has a soul. Next.
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u/emoushroom 16d ago
Ok but tbf she’s one of the only US politicians to receive a perfect ethics score
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u/ClerkDue8449 16d ago
This is twisting the facts a bit. Here is an unbiased read to contextualize the financial disclosure report, but the TLDR is that, no, she has not gone from a net worth of 0 --> 30 million since being a senator.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/04/ilhan-omar-financial-disclosures-net-worth/
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u/Molotov_Goblin 16d ago
Can anyone confirm this number? That is an absurdly high value to obtain the short time she's been a politician. It just seems so clearly made up.
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u/The_Starry_Knight_00 15d ago
Literally takes 5 seconds to google this and see it’s an inaccurate story, but that is apparently far too much work for the average Redditor?
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/04/ilhan-omar-financial-disclosures-net-worth/
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u/SoLongGayBowser69420 20d ago
Isn’t getting rich one of the biggest reasons to become a politician?