Republican senators prioritize Trump’s $400 million ballroom over pressing national issues, sparking controversy and concerns over conflicts of interest.

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    Hey South Carolina, member when you had the chance to boot this bag of shit to the moon?

    Yeah. Anyway.

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    So all those bribes were never going to pay for the anything other than Trump’s down-payment on his beach front property in Gaza. Cool cool. The corruption is laughable at this point. Republicans and Neo-Liberals are pure evil.

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    This feels like the 100’th time orange guy has said something and immediately after everyone flocks around him and says yes this is what we need let’s do some laws and praise him for coming up with it.

    I get so tired, the brown nose circus is well oiled and all the clowns are mastering their roles.

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    Cool… $400m to a Fuhrer bunker but nah to healthcare, food, or other things that keep people alive… not one bunker that keeps a fat stupid fucking pedophile “safe” from the people.

    What a stupid fucking piece of shit. Someone don’t miss this time.

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      I mean, theat whole ballroom thing is absurd, but so is everything america does for their little kings. The security guards, the tank they roll around in, airforce one… In other countries their leaders often go to work by train, bicycle or gasp drive themselves. While 400 million is a lot of money going down the drain, compared to the rest of the bullshit celebrity ass kissing budget you have to ensure your little princes safety, it’s nothing. And it’s not even good. People just walk in to the guy. When obama was president there was an incident where someone just walked in the white house and no one stopped them, because they are incompetent as fuck.

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    Where’d all the money go that he raised already? It’s great that these assholes can cut everything else, saying “we don’t have the money,” but find infinite funds when their king wants something.

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      I mean it was always a grift.

      Every ‘donation’ is just a bribe and has been from the start.

      I’m sure I didn’t need to state this at this point.

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        Yeah, but where’s the money that he raised for the ballroom? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if he just pocketed it and that our political donation system is not regulated and like everything else, just relies on winks and handshakes, but his grift has to hit some legal wall at some point, right? …right?

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          They would not have “donated” if they didn’t have a clear way to siphon it out to whoever or wherever Trump and his cadre wanted it.

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    You didn’t really think Trump’s pet project was going to be privately funded, did you?

    As always, it’s Trump’s vanity but it’s your money and your White House…

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      Graham said Monday that the ballroom should be paid for with $400 million in taxpayer funds collected in the form of national park fees and customs fees, with the private funding Trump secured going to extra costs like fine china.

      oh, the epstein donations go towards the epstein china. pretty simple, really.

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      You don’t get to say what your money is spent on, and you don’t get to negotiate how much you want to contribute. That’s the power of taxation.

      In theory, you can vote for someone who will choose to spend your hard-earned on something worthwhile. In practice, it’s an illusion. And pretty soon, Trump will try to dispense with the illusion altogether.