Over 80 percent of this spending went toward Republicans or conservative causes, a new analysis finds.

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      "Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund reveals in a new report Thursday that 40 billionaires and billionaire families with ties to Epstein have injected over $1.57 billion into U.S. elections since 2010.

      According to the group’s analysis, 84 percent of this spending, or over $1.3 billion, went toward Republicans or conservative causes."

      That’s about $3 million a year if divided evenly, mostly to Republicans. I remember seeing articles about politicians being bought for $10-30k. So that’s a good stake in the Republican party in every state. And that’s only the money they have tracked.

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    The Republicans who love go fuck children is enjoying support from the Epstein class. Not really shocked about this development.

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      So that’s where most of Trump’s 1.76 billion slush fund for traitors came from: additional pedophiles.

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        Just to be clear: The fund has been (for now, stay tuned) abandoned, but it was always going to come from taxpayers, which rarely if ever means the Epstein class.

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    That’s just what they could find. And, doesn’t include insider trading tips, or other “perks”.

    The real number is much, much higher, I have no doubt.

    One more reason to support term limits for Congress. Don’t let them get entrenched. It’s not about age, it’s about terms. The problem is how long they stay in office, how old they are is just a by-product of that.

    We need term limits for Congress.

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    Does America even have an elections agency anymore? Like, there won’t be any problems with campaign donations of you’re not going to have elections anymore.

    Without elections America will officially be an Authoritarian state.

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      There’s definitely a dog and pony show on a Tuesday in November. Can’t wait to see the surprise red wave in 6 months.

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    You have to wonder about correlation and causation here. Are the billionaires spending money on these elections because of their Epstein ties? Or is it just that every fucking one of these billionaire perverts is in the fucking files?