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    gawkeriteliteAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 4:40pm

    And Obama's family vacation to Africa this past year cost the taxpayers over 100 million bucks. But please, do continue Adam.

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      phunkshungawkeritelite
      4/28/14 4:45pm

      When you travel with a complete Presidential security team and go to several different countries as our Head Executive you can't get that done for 50 bucks on the valujet website.

      I mean Christ..

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      wowthatcameupquickgawkeritelite
      4/28/14 4:46pm

      http://www.whitehouse.gov/africa-trip-20…

      Yeah that itinerary screams vacation.

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    OMG!PONIES!Adam Weinstein
    4/28/14 5:01pm

    If you want to launder money, forget the Cayman Islands, forget Bitcoin, forget shell corporations.

    If you want to launder money, form a superPAC.

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      BackInBlackOMG!PONIES!
      4/28/14 5:03pm

      No, super PACs actually disclose all of their transactions. Start a politically active nonprofit. They actually launder money.

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      OMG!PONIES!BackInBlack
      4/28/14 5:06pm

      Duly noted. 501(c)(3) it is!

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    etfpAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 5:02pm

    Direct mail?

    Must I quote the great Killface?

    "the dry hump of marketing strategies."

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      Adam Weinsteinetfp
      4/28/14 5:14pm

      One of the things that's always killed me about campaign finance is how much of the money is going *not* to advertising, *not* to ground organizing, *not* to canvassing, but directly to the accounts of political friends who act as "consultants." Ass-tons of money to outfits that do direct-mail are a huge flag right there. It's a bipartisan welfare scheme for weenies in Georgetown and Alexandria townhomes who are too smart or too ugly to run for office.

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      The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepsAdam Weinstein
      4/28/14 7:54pm

      Ah. . . how do I set one of those thing up? Is there a "direct-mail for dummies" book anywhere?

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    Paul_DAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 4:42pm

    Angry white people throwing their money towards a cause that serves no purpose?

    Televangelists take note!

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      Paul Dimitrov AuermannPaul_D
      4/28/14 6:05pm

      Actually, televangelism and movement conservatism are closely connected.

      The tactics that led to televangelism's success were copied by today's movement conservatism. They are, essentially, the same beast serving different masters. The rhetoric is unimportant, of course; the outcome—separating the faithful from their dollars—is what matters.

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    pjcfsuAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 4:42pm

    This is the dumbest shit I have ever heard. OF COURSE SHE MAKES ALOT OF MONEY. She is good at her job. Jesus, get a fucking hobby bro

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      SuperHybridSystem3pjcfsu
      4/28/14 4:45pm

      Is she?

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      김치전!pjcfsu
      4/28/14 4:47pm
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    ArkAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 4:41pm

    Not a very effective PAC if they're paying the head officer 4 times more than they actually contribute to campaigns in a year. As a donor, I would be rather unhappy to see my money being wasted on fat salaries.

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      SuperHybridSystem3Ark
      4/28/14 4:45pm

      I think that's the point.

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    ObliteratiAdam Weinstein
    4/28/14 4:44pm

    Stealing from the poor is profitable, if you think big enough.

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      BackInBlackAdam Weinstein
      4/28/14 4:43pm

      Don't forget Dan Backer, the lawyer who won the McCutcheon case, who appears to make his living on charging yahoos to set up Tea Party PACs which he then pays himself out of.

      Sometimes he gives the money to Mitch McConnell.

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        CanofminusAdam Weinstein
        4/28/14 4:57pm

        The Tea Party: One of the best examples of rich people tricking the middle class into hating themselves while making a buck. The best one so far is Fox News.

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          DanCopelandCanofminus
          4/28/14 9:02pm

          "Rich people pay FOX people to make middle class people blame poor people." -John Fugelsang

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        GazesAtShoesAdam Weinstein
        4/28/14 4:43pm

        Those poor suckers that keep feeding their Social Security hard earned money into these Teaparty Super Pacs. What was the return on their investment in 2012, barely 1%? Yet the people that run these Pacs are laughing all the way to the bank despite not being able to win elections on any real national scale.

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