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All USG lawmakers should just be invested in the same index fund - no matter what party. They can put as much money in there as they want, and when they leave government, they can move it out of that fund without penalty/capital gains.

This explains EVERYTHING. Any chance we can make bribery illegal?

It's called CORRUPTION, Lummis

A blind trust... where you know what the target investments are? That is not a blind trust, that is just a regular investment portfolio

Wyoming. Do better. She’s been taking from you for quite awhile. What do you get in return? Corruption. Grifting. Lying. EPSTEIN.

Corruption.

That sums up exactly why incumbents need to be thrown out. Term limits. Age limits. Enough of this 🐂 💩!!!!

Owning crypto, which is all a fraud, should be disqualifying for any government official.

“corruption”

Rotted & corrupt to the core.

How about returning them to avoid a conflict of interest? 🤡

Well, anybody who's on a committee that works on a certain legislative package should deny contributions from people who are in the industries that are affected.

"I put all of my bribes in a blind trust." Probably the most moral person in the Trump Administration, right there...

Just… fucking REFUSE the “contribution”. This is not hard.

The Game that only the privileged understand.

The first rule of getting rich in Washington is to be deliberately obtuse about what "blind trust" is.

“blind trust” is an oxymoron for these unethical politicians. they’ve given us ample reason not to trust them at their word.

if you are aware of donations and investments, blind trust or not, it is still unethical. When Lummis leaves Congress at the end of this year, money or in this case bitcoin is hers to spend. Anyway I am pretty sure in politics, blind trusts are managed by politicians indirectly. Fraud is rampant.

Hell yeah you did

Of course I'm corrupt. But that doesn't count because I save my bribes for later.

People who bribe are gonna bribe, eh? That's quite the explanation of corruption.

“I put my bribes in a safe after I’m paid” isn’t the confidence-booster you think it is.

No consequences evar

i believe the word you're looking for is "bribes"

It's like "legally blind" where you can definitely still make out enough color and shape to tell a pug from a polar bear.

Didn't the SCOTUS give their blessing to politicians accepting "gratuities" for past and, ah em, future acts? So long as there's no specific quid pro quo, its all good!

I like her hair. She looks like a mom from a movie about bitter divorce.

Uh...

It's been a while since we tarred and feathered our politicians and it's fucking showing.

Lucky you! 🙄

Hiding in plain sight… ‘Of course we’re open to bribery’.

She is admitting to "personal" donations for the record

Very clever way to admit receiving bribes. I guess since it's Bitcoin it doesn't count.

We the People need an anti-corruption working-class movement to make clear NO PERSONAL ENRICHMENT while serving in any government position!!!

Where are they and why are all the guests Republican senators?

Don’t take the money!

“Look, we all take bribes from industry.”

"I don't even know if I own it any more ... but I'm in it for the long haul."

Insanity

So Senator your method of hiding trades is ‘now you see it. Now you don’t’?

“I let others handle my bribes for me” is not quite the win she thinks it is.

“I’m corrupt but blind trust corrupt.”

How can the trust be "blind" if "you" put something in it.

Cool. Bribes are cool now.

Don’t worry my bribes are put into a blind trust

👇🏼

"Yes, I receive the bribes. But I don't really know the exact amount of them at any given time. Let's just assume they're de minimis."

It's blatant corruption. Pure and simple

It’s all a big fucking joke to legislators and media pundits. Laugh. Laugh. Laugh.

She's trusting that voters will remain blind to her bribes.

So she does what they want and when shes done she collects.

Example #249,478 of Republican (legal- wink wink) corruption. lol This shit would have made Bernie Madoff drool

Uhhhh. Lmao.

Corruption. Plain and simple.

Hey, we put our bribes in a blind trust, what are we heathens?

Should be an ILLEGAL conflict of interest. We need publicly funded elections that are time limited.

We don't have representation We have private auctions

"put it in a lock box" does not mean you don't work to make that investment grow thru legislation

I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like a bribe.

"I put my Bitcoin in a blind trust" ... First off, that's not *blind*. I guess "they give me Bitcoin and then I write regulations that massively affect its value" didn't have the right ring to it though.

Guess this is why dems love bipartisanship. @schumer.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @repsuhas.bsky.social @thirdway.bsky.social #DumpChuck

yes i take bribes but pocket the money in a less direct way

"It's not corruption if you say that it isn't corruption" isn't exactly the most convincing argument Lummis could be making, here.

So, kickbacks and bribes. He's admitting to taking bribes.

In any civilized country (like mine) that is considered corruption and illegal, with jail penalties. How is this possibly legal in the USA?

Senator, respectfully, you don't have to accept the "donations."

What an amoral representative!!

FFS they just openly admit the corruption now as there are no ramifications

“I’m only the same amount of corrupt as my colleagues.”

I put my Bitcoin into a blind trust. Then I started my new job where I regulate Bitcoin. And while I was pursuing this job, I accepted campaign donations directly from Bitcoin through BitPay. How do I know if the guy running my blind trust sold the Bitcoin I regulate? I mean, he could be an idiot.

I SEE NO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST HERE Next Question 😂😩😭

How is this not a bribe?

yeah but DEI and transgender everywhere

She has no shame no conscience no morals and zero fucks

Isn't that conflict of interest and bribery?

Ehhhh she didn't say financial contributions, i'm sure she just meant lobbying coz otherwise that's just bribery.

Amazing

I don’t think she knows that we all know what a “ blind trust “ is.

Sorry, but I don’t trust you blindly

So my mom always said: "It's ok to say, no thank you." Insights as to why old timers not stepping down from office until they die or AKA the "long haul" while known as the Crypto Senator. Senate gift rules: Allow $50 per gift, $100 per year from non-lobbyists.

Did he just say he put his bribes in a blind trust?

How is that not describing bribes?