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Botany

(70,483 posts)
4. I don't care what they are calling it now but both Facebook and Zuckerberg suck dead dog dick
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 02:49 PM
Jan 2022

"Manchin’s campaign received contributions from companies such as Facebook, ...."

They knowingly helped the Russian install Trump in 2016 (they quietly paid a $5 billion fine)
and now they are helping to stop progress for the American people and the fight for protection
of the earth's climate.


People have to stop using that platform.

"Sen. Joe Manchin’s reelection campaign raised nearly $300,000 from corporate political action committees and executives days after the conservative Democrat said he would oppose President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion social and climate spending package, according to a CNBC analysis of Federal Election Commission filings."

Joe is 78 and he will be 80 or 81 in 2024 so he is not running again. So the question is where is that money going?

George II

(67,782 posts)
6. Just about every politician gets money from "corporations", in other words their employees...
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 05:19 PM
Jan 2022

Nothing unusual, nothing out of the ordinary, and nothing even close to being illegal or unethical.

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