Anarchistbear said:

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New reporting suggests the Harris campaign squandered a lot of the $1 billion it took in. A lot of people lined their pockets, raising the question: How much of the Harris campaign was essentially a scam that took the money of desperate anti-Trump voters? https://t.co/d8v97Eona1 pic.twitter.com/edVrrTNTmF

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) December 11, 2024

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SB Gold can probably shed light on this as a fundraiser

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How much did Trump's campaign lead make on the campaign? I think I read 24 mill

Disgusting

VOTE BLUE

18%.

Is this a great country, or what? Why didn't I think to make a killing on this? Instead, I'm sharing my brilliant political insights here, for free.

Aren't US politicians /politics/governance one big nepotism scam anyway ?

From my vantage point politics are a utterly useless self serving shizz show on both sides.

BearGoggles said:

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Objectively, the Lincoln Project has been a massive grift by people taking advantage of anti-Trump sentiment. They were fundraising and paying themselves or their affiliates/friends for "services."

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Name a PAC that doesn't do that. There are probably a few, but the vast majority do that to varying degrees.

Instead of voting for president, maybe we should auction it off, with the proceeds going to the treasury. That way at least the taxpayers get something out of it.

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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BearGoggles said:

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Objectively, the Lincoln Project has been a massive grift by people taking advantage of anti-Trump sentiment. They were fundraising and paying themselves or their affiliates/friends for "services."

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Name a PAC that doesn't do that. There are probably a few, but the vast majority do that to varying degrees.

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"To varying degrees" is doing a lot of work in your post. It is a question of scale and the Lincoln Project paid their founders a disproportionate amount. It was a grift.

" Opensecrets, a campaign-finance watchdog group, wrote at the time that (like most PACs) most of the Lincoln Project's money had gone to pay subcontractors, "making it difficult to follow the money" to vendors, and that "almost all" of the money raised had gone to firms run by the group's board members, specifically Galen's Summit Strategic Communications and Steslow's Tusk Digital. $50 million of the $90 million raised went to firms controlled by the group's leaders, according to a February 2021 AP News report. The Lincoln Project eventually grew to an organization of over 40 employees and over 60 interns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lincoln_Project#Fundraising_and_expenditures

The largest and most prominent PACS do not work this way. And any that do, are also a grift.