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Is lying to a room full of liars still a lie? No one gives a shit about this stuff. If anyone cared about being honest we wouldn't allow companies like Facebook to lobby congress. But it's ok, they've only spent around $7 million this year on lobbyists if the data at opensecrets.org is correct: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00003356...

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This is what I wondered when Congress was raking baseball players over the coals for using legal or quasi-legal or illegal steroids / hormones, whatever it was. The congresscritters were indignantly putting on a show trial to humiliate some athletes who, yes, broke the rules ... but all I could think was, "You're an f-ing politician. You preach here about honesty?!"

Buying votes in Congress seems to be quite cheap. I think the average is less than $10,000 per vote. So that would buy them quite a few votes.

There have been multiple stories in the past few years about this company or that company making something like 1,500% "ROI" on their lobbying (bribing) money.

#MAGA

Please don't do this.

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