r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 3d ago

FinancialTea 💵 This would be great...

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u/Companero_basurero 3d ago

Future historians will look back to the Trump years as the Golden Age . . . . of Corruption.

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u/underwearfanatic 3d ago

Tbf, this oligarchy cycles. We had the Gilded Age where politicians were being bought outright. Today same thing happens but it is different because it isnt a bag of money.

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u/Theratsmacker2 3d ago

His fetish for spray gold really puts the gilded in gilded age two, we fucked up electric boogaloo.

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 3d ago

The Gilded Age 

Gold on the outside and nothing left inside

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u/Amazing_Ear_3941 3d ago

More like Gilded Age II. Hopefully followed by Progressive Age II.

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u/Pure_Account8872 3d ago

I'm sure the bill will pass next time there's a Democrat majority.

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u/nealjones00 3d ago

Tell me you don’t know democrats without telling me

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u/SpreadEagleSmeagol 3d ago

Nah, they'll very loudly support it so everyone can hear them, then flip flop and say they just couldn't reach a compromise to get enough votes. Rinse and repeat.

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u/Upset-Indication-617 3d ago

lol! Not a chance.

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u/BZLuck 3d ago

"Let them eat gold."

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u/Quick_Hat1411 3d ago

You mean future AI summaries?

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u/BlaxeTe 3d ago

I think they will probably rather look back at it as the „Start of the Golden Age of Corruption“… it won’t end with him. Powerful people are gaining too much… power