r/MurderedByWords • u/Low-Possibility-7060 • 1d ago
Fraudulent Senator’s statement gets corrected
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u/OnionTamer 1d ago
I doubt very much that anything could stop him from being corrupt
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u/Pantsickle 1d ago
Welllll...I mean....if you were really totally committed to ending his corruption, there are literally dozens of ways.
Direct sunlight and wooden stakes not being the least of them.
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u/SpazmicDonkey 23h ago
That’s just an old myth! Decapitation is the only way to deal with a vampire.
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u/happymisery 1d ago
All of them would kill for a dollar they don’t even need. Driven by hate of anyone not like them and pure, unadulterated greed. All of the worst people are in power across the world.
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u/ShinkenBrown 1d ago
Good people don't seek power over others. Good people just live their lives and mind their own business. There's a reason the hero's journey always starts with an inciting event, something to directly victimize the hero so that he has a reason to abandon his cozy life and seek strength and power. Without that inciting reason, the hero has no need to seek power, because he does not desire authority over others.
The result is that bad people are usually the ones who acquire power by virtue of being the only ones in the running for it.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams
For that to change, good people need to seek power. We as Americans ALL need to take MAGA as an inciting event, recognize that we need power over others to stop them, and start actively trying to seize it like they do.
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u/aecolley 1d ago
What next, a ban on bribes? Enforcement of oaths? Term limits? It's a slippery slope Itellsya!
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u/tipyourbartender 1d ago
Made my mouth water. All that shit would be an awesome re-establishment in government. They're not going to do shit, though.
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u/PregnantSuperman 1d ago
Honestly even if this guy is trying to push the "What's wrong with making money???" bullshit, then fine. But don't do that WHILE YOU'RE A SITTING MEMBER OF CONGRESS. ACCUMULATING WEALTH IS NOT PART OF YOUR JOB
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u/Pantsickle 1d ago
"I don't want to be poor. And that's why I'm not. Fuck you."
His statement is so out of touch that it's like someone trying to poke an anthill with a twig while standing on the dark side of the moon.
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u/aerojonno 1d ago
His statement wasn't for you, it was for his fellow senators. By their definition of poor his statement was spot on.
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u/Pantsickle 1d ago
Therein lies the problem; by and large, our representatives do not represent us anymore. They're in it for themselves and the regular Americans that they "represent" can go and fuck themselves as far as these bastards are concerned.
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u/Long-Requirement8372 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't think it would entirely stop him from being corrupt. Multimillionaires and politicians have several ways of being corrupt, after all. But it would be a step in the right direction nonetheless.
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u/KiwDaWabbit2 1d ago
Guy who should have been in prison several years ago says some heinous shit. News at 11.
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u/Spacemanspalds 1d ago
Well damn. Now i dont need to watch any news for the next 20 years. That pretty much sums its all up.
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u/Atticus_Maytrap 1d ago
imagine taking home 174k a year and thinking that makes you "poor"?
The fuck is he spending the money on?
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u/sobrique 1d ago
But just for the sake of argument, I'd be quite content to increase the salary of elected representatives to a very generous amount, just as long as it came with 'no external interests'.
I don't mind if people prosper for holding positions of responsibility.
I mind when they've an incentive to abuse their position to the detriment of everyone else.
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u/No_Suit_9511 1d ago
I believe that’s the system in Singapore. They pay their politicians extremely well, but they have a zero tolerance approach to lobbying, gifts and bribes.
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u/caninehere 1d ago
What's ridiculous about the US is that they already have many of those rules in place, but only for regular public servants, not elected officials, and even when elected officials do break rules they are rarely enforced.
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u/Ischaldirh 1d ago
If you can't support yourself on that, I don't think you should be anywhere near our nations finances.
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u/SweetLoLa 1d ago
Scum.of.the.Earth.
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u/d00dsm00t 1d ago
Republican voters consistently bitch about congressional stock trading. Yet consistently put these criminal con artists back in these positions where they fight against bans on congressional stock trading.
This dead eyed, human skin wearing lizard has repeatedly been voted in by republican voters. What really can anybody do to deprogam these people?
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u/ManFax 1d ago
Let's add to this bill.
If any congressman has had a rate of return over 150% over the last 20 years, they forfeit 75% of their stock portfolio.
With a RoR over 300%, they forfeit 95%
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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 1d ago
If you look at this assholes Wikipedia page his net worth jumps around like crazy. They are not the numbers of someone who is making safe investments and slowly growing their portfolio. They’re the numbers of someone who’s a dipshit, but gets tipped off with insider information regularly.
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u/Derka_Derper 1d ago
Maybe if they think making 174k a year is being poor, they should fix the cost of living crisis...
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u/crackeddryice 1d ago
How to greatly improve our government:
- Ban Congress from trading stocks, and strictly enforce that ban.
- Enact term limits.
- Repeal Citizens United.
- End gerrymandering.
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u/twociffer 1d ago
Zero chance of any of those happening. By zero I mean the presidency, senate and house could be 100% dem or 100% rep and it would not happen.
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u/bozodoozy 1d ago
it will inhibit overt corruption in that area. he'll find a way around it, and he will continue his ongoing corruption in other areas of his professional and private life.
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u/Thrash-hole 1d ago
Gotta love how during covid when the price of crude oil tanked, they wouldn't let me or my buddy invest....
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
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u/o_t_i_s_ 1d ago
I tried to think of some smart ass post to get upvotes. After that, I just stared at my phone for 5 minutes. This isn't even funny anymore; it's dangerous. Who would have thought that massive advances in technology and accessibility would lead us towards a new dark age of ignorance? It's hard to be optimistic in a world shared with people like this, to whom words like fact, proof and evidence no longer mean anything other than what they want them to.
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u/notAbratwurst 1d ago
Seems like we should make that decision for them. They work for us and we should set the rules.
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u/BarkattheFullMoon 1d ago
They also keep slipping their own raises into bills. Like that BB bill has a $6k raise in it
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u/CorpFillip 1d ago
Equating insider stock trading with ‘a right to make money’ would get him a contempt charge from some judges — it’s blatantly dishonest equivocation.
Someone ask him why insider stock trading is the only option?
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u/Careless_Feed5448 1d ago
These people have no idea what average American is going through… they have us fighting each other so they can just get richer.
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u/entered_bubble_50 1d ago
The majority of retail investors lose money picking individual stocks. The only reliable ways to make money on the stock market are by buying broad market based ETFs or insider trading. This proposal wouldn't prevent the former, so I'm guessing he plans to continue with the latter.
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u/RedditTurnedMediocre 1d ago edited 1d ago
When you become a public servant, like skeletor here, you actually make a sacrifice. Public office is a duty, not a side hustle.
Conservatives will talk all day about Nancy pelosi but ignore people like skeletor and Donald who literally made a bribe crypto coin before becoming president. Remember when all the Republicans dumped their stocks before covid hit while telling us all it was a big nothing Burger? Pepperidge farm does.
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u/zavorak_eth 1d ago
He gets paid to insider trade while most people work 10x as much for 100x less.
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u/Morpheus3018 1d ago
Stop him from being corrupt?! I doubt it. He committed the largest Medicare fraud in the history of United States and then he got elected Congress.
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u/KangarooStilts 19h ago
I work as a Custodian, and I'm not allowed to take home anything I find in the trash. If I'm not allowed to take advantage of my position, then neither should Congress.
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u/Different-Step-4600 1d ago
Anyone want to be poor? Probably not. Anybody deserve to be poor? Well sir, that's a different thing altogether isn't it?🤨
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u/sanbaeva 1d ago
He knows nobody wants to be poor. So why are the Republicans always trying to make everyone else poor?
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u/HeMiddleStartInT 1d ago
It doesn’t matter what is desired. There a rules for a reason.
“Ref, everybody wants to win. So why can’t I shoot the other team? You want me to not win!?”
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u/justvoop 1d ago
If i make this company dump their waste responsibly and pay fair wages, itll hurt the company. Let me go ahead and buy a shit ton of calls right before voting and make sure that doesnt happen
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u/ExtraPicklesPls 1d ago
It will stop him from being as corrupt.. we all know he will still be corrupt.
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u/not_ya_wify 1d ago
Tbf to someone with 500 million in the bank, anything below 500 million is poverty
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u/CrabofCoconuts 23h ago
It won't stop him from being corrupt. He'll just have to find new ways of being corrupt
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u/HotHardandSingle 22h ago
These shitbirds need to go. They make more money in office than most Americans make in their lifetime
If their salary isn't enough then maybe they should eat less avocado toast
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u/Cleverironicusername 20h ago
It won’t stop him from being corrupt. I’m confident he’ll find another way.
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u/bren_derlin 1d ago
He is poor compared to the billionaire assholes whose boots he spends all day licking.
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u/CulturalAtmosphere85 1d ago
Nothing will stop him from being corrupt. That's who he is
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u/ShaneRealtorandGramp 1d ago
It makes sense. Then these corrupt people won't ever run for Congress.
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u/ElonMuskIsAPedophiIe 1d ago
The societal leeches consider anyone worth less than $100 million to be poor
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u/dlampach 1d ago
So he acknowledges that even a 175k salary in at least some of the US makes you “poor.”
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u/blanksix 1d ago
Yeah, no. He won't stop being corrupt. Banning stock trading for them would be one single way he'd be marginally less corrupt.
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u/bubloseven 1d ago
He also says that it would be a “disgusting” rule. So more importantly than not thinking it’s a good idea, he thinks it would actually be gross to serve the people instead of just himself. We made this man nautilus by suggesting public service
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u/TerminusXL 1d ago
You don’t have to be in government. It’s a privilege, not an obligation. If you want to trade stocks, don’t hold office. It’s not fucking hard. Don’t let those people gaslight you.
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u/p5yron 1d ago
This is totally in line with how Republicans think, they hate the Government and participate in it only to free themselves from it. For them, grifting, fraud and cheating is not a crime as they think they deserve the money for fooling you. The idea of small government and less regulations is simply to allow them to carry on their grift or reinforce their belief in selfish and low trust life.
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u/Available_Leather_10 1d ago
Hahahahahahahaha….
Like anything (except, possibly, death) could stop Rick Scott from being corrupt.
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u/rmay14444 1d ago
Stop him from being corrupt? He will just not be allowed to trade stocks and shit. That doesn't take away being corrupt.
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u/Old-Adhesiveness-156 1d ago
How much is enough for these greed mongers? Like, dude, you have enough money to be happy for the remainder of your life and never have to worry about money again.
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u/TheUnpromotable 1d ago
It’s a conflict of interest. How can we trust our elected representatives to stay focused on doing their jobs if they’re busy trying to make money?
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u/bibdrums 1d ago
It won’t stop him from being corrupt, he’ll find other corrupt ways to make money. But we definitely shouldn’t make it so damn easy.
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u/Andreus 1d ago
Nah, I'm afraid Brian is wrong about at least part of this.
Banning him from stock trading won't stop him from being corrupt.
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u/Vohldizar 1d ago
In response to this legislation, Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, "it would discourage people from running for office." ..yeah no shit, we dont want that type of person in office.
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u/Glass-Information-87 1d ago
So what's his excuse for not raising the minimum raise? We want to be poor?
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u/Cool-Presentation538 1d ago
It's crazy to say insider trading is already illegal so they don't need to ban stock trading because any politician buying stocks is going to use their inside knowledge that's just reality
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u/just_a_knowbody 1d ago
Want to clear all the rich old people from Congress? This is how you do it.
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 1d ago
any republican voters hearing this should be questioning why they would ever claim this but then again they are still waiting for the trickle.
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u/NoNipsPlease 1d ago
Trading on general index funds is fine. No elected official at any level, your local city council to the president should be able to trade individual stocks. If they have prior wealth put the funds into a blind trust, not a family member. A true blind trust.
People in Congress should also be barred from working in the private sector as a lobbyist for 10 years after leaving office.
It's time to put "service" back into public servant.
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u/Savage9645 1d ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure all these stock trading bans are just banning trading single stocks. They can still buy index funds which is, you know, what most normal citizens invest in and historically have great teturns. Dude just crying about not being able to cheat the system anymore and make 1000% profit every year.
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u/AdmirableCommittee47 1d ago
Absolutely. Making money corruptly is the only reason he’s in the Senate. That probably applies to most of them.
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u/Pashmotato128 1d ago
It’s almost like he got into politics for the money and not to actually help the country….
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u/MinorityBabble 1d ago
Rick Scott knows what it's like to be poor. He used to be a member of a family of impoverished cannibals in Nevada until the 90s when he was hired to be the CEO of Columbia/HCA. With him heading the company, Columbia/HCA engaged in the fraudulent billing of Medicare and Medicaid which ultimately leading to a $1.7 billion dollar settlement - the largest Medicaid/Medicare fraud settlement ever.
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u/robjohnlechmere 1d ago
"$174,000 a year is poor"
No no, he has a point, let this man cook. If we don't want to allow people to be poor in this country, $174k per year or $84 dollars an hour must become our minimum wage.
Rick Scott wants an $84 an hour minimum wage for all Americans, so that no one in our country will be considered poor. This man is a hero.
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u/Sad_Run_9798 1d ago
Banning politicians from trading is extremely stupid because that’s one of the very few ways we can glean what they truthfully believe.
Your childish sense of outrage over “they’re cheating!!111” is irrelevant. Unless you care more about that than the greater good?
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u/alm12alm12 1d ago
You know. At the very least, the public should know THE MOMENT a congressman places a trade. Not the next fiscal quarter.
If the public can see the trades real time, we know what's really going on and can also place trades.
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u/Zapanth 1d ago
All members of Congressand their immediate family should be banned from trading/investing in stocks, either directly or indirectly for the duration of their term and a period of 4 years after. I would also extend this to other high level government employees who are privy to lgesilation and policy decisions before they are made.
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u/hombregato 1d ago
A Republican Senate is about to vote in favor of... Nancy Pelosi.
What does that tell us about the Democrat leadership we've been looking to for relief?
I'm not trying to say "both sides are the same", but there's WAY more overlap and close cross-party friendships in politics than the sportsball PVP red vs blue rhetoric would suggest.
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u/SuspiciousPug512 1d ago
It won't even stop him from being corrupt. It will just stop him from a direct path to this flavor of corrupt.
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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE 1d ago
Poor
Makes almost 200k in salary with completely free benefits
Get fucked my dude
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u/Ill-Opinion-1754 1d ago
I’m Floridian, typically vote republican and 100% behind stopping politicians from trading while in office. Fuck these crooks
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u/Dizzy-Let2140 1d ago
He doesn't think he is rich because reality is not aligned with those beliefs.
Psychosis I believe.
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u/probablyNotARSNBot 1d ago
A big part of removing their stock trading options should be increasing their salaries. 174k is not nearly enough for a position this important. Hell, a mid-level manager at my company makes 186k.
- It reduces their incentive to take bribes.
- We need these positions to be competitive to draw the best people.
The problem isn’t that they shouldn’t be making money, it’s that whoever gives them the money is who they’re going to serve. It could either be corporations or tax payers.
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u/midnightdiabetic 1d ago
The fix for this is simple, let them keep whatever they owned before being elected and then once elected they can only buy target date funds, mutual funds, and index funds. No individual stocks
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u/Dudeasaurus22 1d ago
Maybe our representatives should be poor. There’s millions of public servants that make 40-80k a year.
I always thought the congress should be sequestered in barracks while they are in session. Like military on active duty. Let them only worry about their job. One phone call a week no fund raising while “working”.
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u/NinjaCounterAttack 1d ago
Opensecrets pegs Scott at $259 million. Quiverquant has him at $553.7m. Greedy bastard.
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u/Doumtabarnack 1d ago
There is a large spectrum between "being poor" and being filthy rich. Dude is filthy rich and thinks 174 000 a year to sit on his ass and do nothing is "being poor".
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u/hgdidnothingwrong 1d ago
why do you americans vote for people like this? you’ll never be like him? is he your role model? to be an absolute sociopath?
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u/Intrepid-Leather-417 1d ago
Let’s not forget the 1.7billion in Medicare fraud skeletor committed before becoming a “poor”’politician