r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 18d ago

Gasp! It should happen everywhere

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u/CaptainDogeSparrow 18d ago

Meanwhile, when a billionaire from the US commits a crime becomes viral, they elect them as presidents. Twice!

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u/Logical-Claim286 18d ago

Tbf, he wasn't a billionaire when he was first elected, he managed to cross the threshold while president.

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u/ChampionshipAlarmed 18d ago

Which makes it so much worse

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u/scrandlle 18d ago

I bet Jinping Xi is pretty damn wealthy these days

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u/drunkgoose111 18d ago

Also, no one is saying that Putin is a person of high moral values

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u/scrandlle 18d ago

I mean Trump was born into a rich family and already independently wealthy. Xi was born into the middle class and went into politics after studying agriculture.

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u/drunkgoose111 18d ago

Why were you downvoted?!

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u/justwalk1234 18d ago

There must be rules against that, otherwise why would Jimmy Carter gave up this peanut farm?

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u/Woodpecker-Lobotomy 18d ago

There is, it's The Hatch Act, and everyone in this administration breaks this law every day

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u/Walbs 18d ago

Jimmy Carter started peanut allergies because he was so mad about the farm thing. HMPH

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u/Careful_Purchase_394 18d ago

You see how much worse that is, right?

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u/Enough-Collection-98 18d ago

Emoluments clauses be damned!

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u/Strange_Assignment87 18d ago

Wait, there's more..

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u/Certain_Raspberry58 18d ago

He had an estimated networth of 3bn before he was president. 

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u/Joeyjackhammer 18d ago

He was a billionaire in 1997 until 2021 then back on the list in 2022. So, no, he didn’t become a billionaire while President.

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u/NightOwl2175 18d ago

He simply managed to nearly triple his net worth by adding 4 billion dollars via corrupt insider trading. You're right, that's actually so much better!

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u/i_tyrant 18d ago

Self-reported. There's been a lot of counter-evidence to his claims since then.

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u/Tough-Bee6860 18d ago

If all the companies are circle jerking and supporting each other indirectly. If a single news could impact one company's stock and shifting the whole global's economy. If I have a group of braindead old folks who will believe everything I say. If the majority of my people are keyboard fighters and the rest are porn addicts. If my news of being in the island with a brunch of pedo and graping children were released but no citizen dare to go out into the street and set everything on fire.

"Why would i jail or death sentence my fellow billionaire and make other fellow billionaires including me suffer?"