@745ecb23 . He probably gets some pension perk for having been Speaker for a few months, not to mention board seats, lobbying jobs. He can coast now.
If it’s money he wants. If it’s power, we’ll then….
#Jimmycarter said this in 2015
On the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program:
…"the United States is now an #oligarchy in which “unlimited political #bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.
" Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/
From Biden's speech in Arizona
#maga
.This is the United States of This is the United States of America,” Biden said.
“Did you ever think you’d hear leaders of political parties in the United States of America speak like that?
Seizing power, concentrating power, attempting to abuse power, purging and packing key institutions, spewing conspiracy theories, spreading lies for profit and power to divide America in every way, inciting violence against those who risk their lives to keep America safe,
weaponizing against the very soul of who we are as Americans.”
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Florida Approved a PragerU Climate Cartoon for Schools. We Asked a Scientist to Fact-Check It.
Prager University, which is not an actual university, has received funding
from Texas fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which has worked to undo climate regulations.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/08/prageru-climate-skeptic-science-florida-education/
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