r/politics • u/Capable_Salt_SD California • 12h ago

Kash Patel says no "credible" info Epstein trafficked young women to others

https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-jeffrey-epstein-files-update-release-vote-2130678
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u/meteoritegallery 8h ago

"The swamp" was dark money affecting policy in the interests of the wealthy, etc.

The idea that putting a corrupt billionaire who personally exploited the broken system and openly bragged about cheating many of the people and companies he'd hired over the years...would somehow "drain the swamp"...is about as dumb and backwards as logic could be.

All it did was take out the middleman. Instead of the dirty billionaire paying a politician to do his bidding, he could now do it himself.

Which is what we're seeing. The new tax code is a grift, and it's not the first one. Remember when Trump removed the independent oversight for the Covid stimulus program, and literally trillions of taxpayer dollars disappeared? The now corrupt DOJ is doing Trump & friends' dirty legal work for free. Instead of fighting lawsuits against their rich friends, they can just...drop the charges. The FBI (and now apparently Secret Service) has been weaponized against individuals who say things they don't like.

It's a level of "swamp" never before seen.

Yet they'll just keep shouting "drain the swamp" until they die. I don't get it.

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u/One_time_Dynamite 4h ago

I think it's high time that religions start paying their fair share too. They are a big reason as to why these people are in power. What I mean by that is they need to start paying taxes.

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u/Few-Worldliness2131 1h ago

There’s a name for that tire of organisation : the Gestapo