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  What did Santos get for this "sacrifice"? Considering what McCarthy is willing to offer to be in power, it can't be good for any of us.
context: The con artist himself is doing more to hold himself accountable in any of his fellow republicans.
  What a fucking world. >
  
  He's probably just avoiding having to do any actual work. >
  
  My thoughts exactly. He knows he's on his way out so there is no benefit in gaining influence on anyone by working on committees he doesn't care about anyway. Why waste his energy on that when he can get the same pay by napping on his office couch instead? >
  
  Why would he be on his way out?  He’s going to parrot GOP talking points and vote in lockstep which is all they want. >
  
  News articles are predicting federal charges on the mysterious nonexistent campaign donors. >
  
  The same news that tells me Trump indictments are coming soon
  Nothing will happen soon, if ever >
  
  Nah this is serious shit. He also apparently forged a treasurers signature on forms filed w/ the FEC if I remember correctly from last week. They got Capone for tax evasion, they’ll get Santos for this shit >
  
  They got Capone for tax evasion like 90 years ago. 
  They didn't get Trump for tax evasion and we have all seen the evidence he did it. 
  Times have changed. Republicans are now above the law. >
  
  A sitting or former president has never been inducted, representatives have. >
  
  Nobody wants to work anymore /s >
  
  His old roommate is on record quoting Santos saying he only needs one term in congress and he'll get money and Healthcare for life 
  What better way to do it than to be on no committees >
  
  Five goddamn years and they get a pension...fucking insane. Republicans are going to need to increase the retirement age to 115 in order to pay for all these shitty politicians who breeze in/out of Congress on their way to lucrative lobbying firms. >
  
  I'm confused about this part, will search later. Does the pension start from day one, and they can access after it after five years, or does it not even start until they've served five years?
  Either way, they have to contribute to the pension themselves; it's not all taxpayer funded. Plus, won't be much in it five years from day one.
  So, it isn't as bad as some people think it is. >
  
  They are vested after 5 years in office.
  But they can't pull from that pension until they are 62 years old or under other very specific circumstances (e.g., 20 years of office means they can take it around \~50 years old, etc.).
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  But this stuff is just rich people icing on the cake. A nice little "F U" to the people who work, or have worked, for a living. The real money is in insider trading and bribes.  Check out all the money Santos made from completely fabricated donors.  Watch as Sinema went from \~$40,000 net worth to \~>$11 million in just a couple years... on a low six figure salary.
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  Our system is inherently corrupt because capitalism is 100% about the concentration of wealth (power) into as few hands as possible.  Little wonder when that happens in government. >
  
  News Thursday: "Santos arrives for committee meeting". >
  
  Why bother?
  He gets paid the same whether he does anything or does nothing. 
  He basically just volunteered himself to do nothing and get paid in full. >
  
  Nah thats true but not true committee participation has tons of lucrqtive perks: insider trading, big companies owing you favors for helping, etc. His congressional pay is unchanged yes but nobody is in politics for their measly state given salary, they want powerful connections and the ability to insider trade with impunity. >
  
  Still allowed to insider trade, still has access to the info, still not giving up his seat, he's just not sitting in it. >
  
  Still allowed but doesn't have access to the information that would be available in say for example the intel committee when something pretty big like covid is on the horizon circa January 2020 that could effect slcertain stocks and shit. That's the important stuff and nobody is gonna leak that stuff to Santos cause nobody likes him they just need a warm body in his seat. >
  
  
  say for example the intel committee
  
  ...he's not on that committee in the first place....
  He's on the Small Business Committee (little to no opportunity for insider trading) and the Science/Space/Technology Committee (lots of opportunity, and not important, so more openly discussed).
  So, nothing has really changed. >
  
  Well I for one believe him! /s >
  
  but his other aliases will >
  
  Let me introduce you to my temporary replacement Seorge Gantos. >
  
  Jorge Saints >
  
  Because he doesn't plan on doing anything but collecting health insurance and a salary. >
  
  Well, it does give him time to work on his twitter A-game so that he can stand out between all the other GQP'ers.