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Are cult Senators completely unemployable outside of the Senate? Is that why they fear being primaried?
Shouldnt have gone to all those orgies, I reckon.
DeepWinter
(499 posts)Go in knowing you have a fixed limit of time.
OldBaldy1701E
(6,393 posts)usaf-vet
(6,936 posts)...... RoJo, aka Ron Johnson, and dozens of others are gone.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)All the insider trading tips. All the perks, honors, prestige.
Billionaires throwing money their way.
Get to throw their weight around and control and bully others.
Get a lot of attention and fame.
The narcissistic sociopaths love it.
rubbersole
(8,544 posts)...you must kiss the ass of the richest man in the world. tsf has been doing it for 20+years to daddy-vlad so he's practiced for Elon. No wonder Elon was jumping on stage. He won it all.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)He is the richest man in the world and one of the most powerful now.
He has the entire world at his disposal.
Enormous power and control over every person on the planet.
His dream come true.
True and frightening
mdbl
(5,488 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Otto_Harper
(726 posts)As soon as I getmy oxygen cannula in place and make it to my walker.
mdbl
(5,488 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Older guy on oxygen shuffling around on a walker.
No one would think he is MI5.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Your clerks do all the work and feel privileged to do your job for you.
You don't even have to say one word during open court, like lazy Thomas.
Perfectly legal for billionaires to pay you to swing cases their way.
You get to live a luxury lifestyle as a public servant.
All the perks, power, prestige, high honor the US has to offer.
No one will ever challenge or question you. Or have any power over you.
You answer to no one, ever.
And a lifetime guaranteed job.
BigMin28
(1,471 posts)from the masses. Remember they feel very threatened.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)No one appreciates their genius.
And their right to be the ultimate power.
People dare to question them?
People dare to not adore them?
They get back at us with their cruel medieval rulings from on high.
And yes surround themselves with high level tax payer funded security.
peregrinus
(279 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,411 posts)Madison Cawthorn talked about those and MTG recently mentioned something...
Media went silent
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Whatever you want is available, no questions asked.
Bluethroughu
(5,798 posts)Did nothing to the sex trafficking of underage girls.
Took years and did nothing to the planners, funders, and executers of an insurrection by a sitting president with aid by "Congressmen" and SC and wives.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)The sex, booze, drug, hooker, minors party time are legend and of long standing.
Anything you want, no questions asked.
Everyone in DC knows about these parties. Politicians and other DC regulars.
The Secret Service parties while on duty has been going on for decades.
The rule is that no-one outside the beltway ever hears any of this.
John McCain used to call Obama "a good family man."
This meant that Obama was not doing the sex and drug party circuit like everyone else.
Lots and lots of secrets. Everyone knew George Bush Senior had a long time mistress stashed
in Georgetown. And that one sitting Vice President was never seen and heard from after
he was sworn in. He was a stalker and flasher, kept under wraps and admitted to a sexual deviancy
treatment program in DC.
And yes everyone knows the planners, aiders and abetters of J6.
Top level politicians, staff, wives, etc.
The deal was cut to leave them alone and Liz Cheney could go after only Trump.
Everyone else has been protected.
Bluethroughu
(5,798 posts)These are not our best.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Men with money and power.
They get everything they want.
Bluethroughu
(5,798 posts)Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)The billionaires and dictators.
Putin certainly believes Europe and the US belong to him.
And he has captured the US and is making it a Russian vassal state.
Xi in China also believes all the world's resources belong to him.
China believes the Pacific is theirs.
Mike 03
(16,911 posts)politicians, anything goes. But when Cawthorn mentioned drug-fueled orgies he had been invited to, presumably by GOP, they politically executed him in a matter of days by releasing that hacked video of him and his buddy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,945 posts)They love to see how high they can climb. They all dream of a career or an event that thrusts them into high office. They leave only when they sense they won't climb any higher.
TommieMommy
(1,126 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(6,393 posts)Being a government official (or being very connected to one) can keep a lot of things at bay. Until one does not have the protection of the Secret Service or local police, or has control over things that the police would like them to be generous with, and so on... THEN they might have to be held accountable.
Ocelot II
(121,000 posts)It's that they don't want to lose the special perks and prestige that come with being a Senator and that almost no other job offers.
getagrip_already
(17,449 posts)But those that arent soon will be.
The grift is strong. Between trading on insider knowledge, giving info to others who become grateful with jobs to family, gifts of stock, bitcoin, etc.
But the shear oppulence of the job is a drug. They have staff to do everything for them. They can get a reservation anywhere they want whenever they want and expense it. Lobbyists fawn over them.
The job is a drug. They dont do it for service. They do it for themselves.
Bettie
(17,132 posts)and more wealthy every term they serve.