anon_
6d ago
Yeah, you try to bribe them with $50K and they're gonna laugh. Their annual bonus is 5x that.
anon_
6d ago
Give it a day or two, but I predict a lot of "Why did you spend $50K of taxpayer dollars to try to entrap a high-level Republican on the basis of 'an unrelated investigation'?" takes.
The obvious answer is that they did the same for Menendez and Jefferson, despite the D in their name.
anon_
6d ago
It's a good chunk of most Americans' annual income, but it's not a lot in the tier of people we assume are running the upper end of world's most powerful government.
Your landscaper probably does a lot more work for a lot less money in the normal course of business than a corrupt public official does
Indeed. But the idea that he's doing so with capital worth more than the corrupt public official costs is the jarring part.
Laid out in a case against commandeering local police to enforce federal gun laws, no less
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