We will never trust you again

[Lumber]

Not according to the AG Report. Millions of dollars, handed out by liberals, broke conflict of interest rules with liberal MPs funneling money to companies they were connected with. That is only one point of government malfeasance. There are many more listed. Tell me, how much of that money was recovered?

So not so much debunked as clarified and confirmed by the Attorney General

Anyway, we're getting off the original topic so I will abstain from any further derai

All of that is true except for the part where liberals were involved in any sort of "money funneling". No liberals were involved in where the money went. The government wasn't involved at all in where the money went. Even @cbh can back me up on this one. And the reason this is "on topic" is that if you are still using this is an example of "clear cut government corruption", despite all the research on I've shared on this site, then I question the validity of any of your claims of knowledge of corruption.

 

[MrWhyt]

Ilhan Ohmar - net worth $30 million. Up from one million just a few years ago. You don’t need to be POTUS.

Citation needed

 

[ytz]

How China Wins the Future

Beijing’s strategy to seize the new frontiers of power.

www.foreignaffairs.com

 

[OldSolduer]

So all the time we in the CAF were told we had to be ethical…by politicians who may or may not have been.
Hmmm makes you wonder why we joined somedays.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Citation needed

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrockets to as much as $30 million – months after denying she was a millionaire

The disclosure, filed in May, shows the far-left “Squad” lawmaker and her husband, Tim Mynett, experienced a roughly 3,500% increase in net worth last year, compared to 2023.

nypost.com

 

[MrWhyt]

reported a net worth of up to $30 million

so not $30 million but a max of $30 million, and it could be as low as $6 million. And those numbers represent her husband's businesses. Sounds like her husband is a successful business man, I thought that was a good thing?

 

[Brad Sallows]

Everytime the Americans exported freedom somewhere McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Levis and Nike followed. It's been a minute since the Cold War, but people forget how much of a status symbol American brands were. And everything culturally American. From American cars to Hollywood movies. Even today, the world will watch YouTube videos on their iPhones while sipping Starbucks and flying on a Boeing to their next vacation. Being all about free markets enabled this. But if they become transactional like Russia and China, it's hard to imagine how this kind of model can be sustained.

The US doesn't have to "export freedom"; it never had to, but especially does not have to in the internet age. "Exporting freedom" was an excuse for the interventionism that eventually pissed off enough independents and Republicans to shift the political ground. (The Democrats were mostly always already there; for decades almost every attempt to "export freedom" was characterized by them as propping up right-wing regimes to resist the global march of the wonders of socialism.)

All the US needs is for US companies to do whatever it is they do.

 

[Brad Sallows]

China may or may not succeed at what it is trying to do, which is create vassals. This works approximately until the vassal has to choose between paying the Chinese master or ending the squeeze on its own people that is necessary to pay the Chinese master (in order to prevent being torn apart by its own people).

China is more likely to end up with a lot of sunk capital abroad and not much to show for it.