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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Sep 13, 2022, 01:10 PM Sep 2022

More buffoonery from Senator RonJohn

'Infiltrated': GOP senator angered that Democrats are allowed to participate in American life

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is angered Democratic voters are allowed to go to church, college, and be employed by those institutions and even the federal government, saying they have “infiltrated” these essential areas of American life and many others.

An election and COVID conspiracy theory promotor, Senator Johnson, appearing on far-right-wing talk show host Mark Levin’s Sunday night Fox News show, declared, “what this entire election is about is fighting for freedom.”

It’s a common refrain for the Wisconsin Republican who infamously spent the Fourth of July in 2018 in Moscow, “posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials” as The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank noted at the time, while posting a tweet for his American constituents proclaiming, “What does July 4th mean to me? Freedumb."

Milbank observed Johnson’s Moscow visit came on “the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin’s regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/infiltrated-gop-senator-angered-that-democrats-are-allowed-to-participate-in-american-life/ar-AA11KfRQ

Republican senator’s wealth boosted by stake in company with Chinese links

Wisconsin Republican senator Ron Johnson, a vocal critic of Beijing who has vowed to launch investigations into the Biden family’s alleged relationships with Chinese businesses, declared $57m in income in his first 10 years in office in connection to his ownership stake in a company whose growth has closely been linked to China.

Financial disclosures show the senator’s wealth has sharply increased during his years running for and serving in the Senate thanks to his holding in Oshkosh-based Pacur, a plastics maker where Johnson previously served as top executive.

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During his first run for public office before his 2010 election, Johnson portrayed himself as a successful businessman who knew how to create jobs. An advertisement he used in both his successful 2010 and 2016 campaigns showed the 67 year-old standing in front of a white board, touting his own record as a manufacturer, a fact that he said made him stand out in a sea of lawyers who serve in the Senate.

A close examination of Johnson’s financial disclosures and other public filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission, legal filings and other public records reveal that Johnson’s wealth was boosted by his company’s ties to another company that was owned and managed by his family, which in turn grew its business in China, acquired businesses in China, and reported having a loan worth tens of millions of dollars from the Bank of China.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/republican-senator-s-wealth-boosted-by-stake-in-company-with-chinese-links/ar-AA11LyLY
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More buffoonery from Senator RonJohn (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Sen. Johnson must have had his self-awareness surgically removed gratuitous Sep 2022 #1

gratuitous

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1. Sen. Johnson must have had his self-awareness surgically removed
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 02:08 PM
Sep 2022

Or had a shame-ectomy done. Nobody I know, including myself, could be this relentlessly dense.

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