Do Republicans who complain about democrats not doing enough ever disagree with Republicans who complain about democrats doing too much?

[Anonymous]

​​After the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1991, the oligarchs who rose to power in the former Soviet republics looked to park their illicit money in western democracies, where the rule of law would protect their investments. Once invested in the United States, they favored the Republicans, who focused on the protection of wealth rather than social services. For their part, Republican politicians focused on spreading capitalism rather than democracy, arguing that the two went hand in hand.

The financial deregulation that made the U. S. a good bet for oligarchs to launder money got a boost when, shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act to address the threat of terrorism. The law took on money laundering and the illicit funding of terrorism, requiring financial institutions to inspect large sums of money passing through them. But the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) exempted many real estate deals from the new regulations.

The United States became one of the money-laundering capitals of the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars laundered in the U. S. every year. Congress addressed this threat in 2021 by including the Corporate Transparency Act in the National Defense Authorization Act. It undercut shell companies and money laundering by requiring the owners of any company that is not otherwise overseen by the federal government (by filing taxes, for example, or through close regulation) to file with FinCEN a report identifying (by name, birth date, address, and an identifying number) each person associated with the company who either owns 25% or more of it or exercised substantial control over it. The measure also increased penalties for money laundering and streamlined cooperation between banks and foreign law enforcement authorities. That act went into effect on January 1, 2024. Now FinCEN has firmed up rules to add anti-money-laundering safeguards to private real estate and private investment.

Yes, we see heated debates between Republicans all the time about this and I'll include a source in the comments.

No, disagreement with democrats in either direction is perforative. The reason they are opposed to them has nothing to do with their stated reasons - it is because it messes with their own cash flow.

[Anonymous]

I am at a loss to see your point in your text...

You assert Russian olgachs invested their money in western banks... Soo does most of the rest of the world.

You claimed they backed republicans on the account of protecting property rights. I would not be surprised but what would be the point they can't vote. And anyone seeking to rob other people of their property should be shot anyway.

We Americans are not responsible for the way former communist Boris Yeltsin incompletely de-collectivized Russia letting oligarchs form by making every Russian who knew nothing about the value of stocks a stock owner.
If Boris was smart he would have privatized the public sector enterprises and put the stock in a trust, brought in outside experts to asset its market value and held an international auction. Using the proceeds to rebuild a currency reserve to prop up the Russian currency.

Instead like a good little communist he just assumed everyone was an expert on everything and would be able to vote with their stocks better than they voted with their ballots. That is not how capitalism works.

The result was Russia elected new communist overlords they called oligarchs which the state would protect in the name of nationalism now.


I don't see how this has anything to do with money laundering, given that wealth was acquired legally in Russia, nor how congress passing a financial ownership law of questionable constitutionality and just as questionable value matters. If you want to park you money in America as much of the world does 25% in any particular stock isn't relevant and is easily avoided by smartly spreading the money around many stocks.

What does congress learn with this information of any value? Maybe who owns or controls a company if the stock has voting right and is more than 50%? Not sure how that is relevant at all to anything least of all terrorism.

[Asker]

I was about to underscore the point but ran out of characters. Repiblican love to complain about democrats not doing anything to fight corruption. But then Republicans also complain about overregulation. Do these two groups of republicans ever talk to each other? Will the Republicans that inevitably come out to call closing these loopholes "literal communism" confront the Republicans who complained that the democrats were ineffective when the loopholes were open?

[Opinion Owner]

Your confusing corruption which is the abuse of goverment power with expanding the domain of said power to be corrupted.

What private investors invest in with their own money is their business. But adding more goverment regulation power has added to the corruption problem. Today we have Government agencies abusing this information and the power to collect it to benefit themselfs for ideological or economic reasons.

We call THAT corruption and it is not something we are in a position to address given this takes place too far away from both the people and any office they elect to be regularly both known about and held accountable.

What little is caught is generally just the tip of the iceberg and often enough such as we criticize in communist countries overseas just enforced selectively as a way of purging one's enemies from the origination.

This is why practically speaking you can't deal with corruption except by downsizing goverment and moving as much power that does exist closer to the people it effects in elections.

[MisterWack]

Chips And Science Act has allowed microchips to be manufactured in America once again adding American manufacturing jobs & competing against Communist China was created by The Democratic Party and was able to be passed thanks to bipartisan negotiations from Conservatives to Republicans to Progressives to Democrats to Independents too.
It is so anti China that South Korea put funding towards the manufacturing plants so they can get microchips else where from China’s tyrannical rule, Microsoft & General Motors & more American industries ALL put in money towards good paying manufacturing jobs for hard working Americans. Pact Act helps our Veterans get benefits they never had and easily accessible too.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law puts funding towards our roads, bridges, airports and more along with $15 billion alone to safe clean drinking water for millions of Americans by locating & replacing lead pipes. America is stronger, fuck Communists. Attacking a Govt building is playing to the dictator playbook which we will not tolerate.

[Opinion Owner]

@MisterWack Getting congress to give already wealthy companies $249 taxpayer dollars to build factories in America. Represents the ability to play politics and get congress to spend money something that is all too common. It does not necessarily represent a necessarily good or fair policy.

You would be better off simply taxing the import of said chips for a prolonged time peroid so that it was cost effective for companies to invest their own money to build here. Rather than handing them hundreds of billions of dollars from We tax payers who may or may not need chips at all.

[MisterWack]

“ No, disagreement with democrats in either direction is perforative.” Yeah these ‘Republicans’ are really just Trump Fanboys and will stop at nothing to try to deflect, attack, and defame just like he does.

“Trump didn’t have the power to move national guard troops” (actually Mike Pence was able to since he was the one who sent them in)
“Then Mike Pence didn’t act accordingly”(no, he did because since the phone lines to the president weren’t allowing local govt requesting permission to send troops, he was acting President so he was actually accordingly to his duties as if he were POTUS so yes POTUS had the powers)

“Oh actually it was…. Democrats who attacked the Capitol in disguise… And they were peaceful”(Then why would Trump a Republican want to pardon them? Also they smashed in windows at the complex and chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”

They shift the goal post and don’t want to enlighten. Attack, blame, and defame.

[Anonymous]

Lmao. Dude the fall of the Soviet union was the fault of the soviets. Their people were starving. Literally every form of socialism and communism has the same results.

Oh and I fucking hate both sides. If I had a Thanos glove I'd erase them all.

[Asker]

I don't talk about the cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union here.

[Opinion Owner]

Don't care

[Asker]

Yet you had to post a reply. That's caring, dipshit 😅

[Opinion Owner]

Last I checked insults aren't permitted here.. But your kind are too obtuse to understand that.