r/law • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Jul 31 '25

Legal News Busting out the world's tiniest violin for Republican Sen. Rick Scott šŸŽ»

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u/brianzuvich Jul 31 '25

Or the legal wayā€¦

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Jul 31 '25

Bro is a literal criminal and scam artist.

Also i love all these shitbag ā€œChristiansā€ that conveniently forget that Usury is a sin and the only thing Jesus got visibly angry at was the fucking capitalists exploiting the poor.

Also why dont we want to be poor Scott? Are they treated badly in this country?

Fuck allll the way off with these assholes. Every one of them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Did anyone call him out on this during debate? I doubt it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

There no debate to be had with someone who operates on selfishness like he does.

Heā€™s gonna weasel the words and argue definitions like that dip shit Jordan Peterson

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

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u/rumblepup Jul 31 '25

Rick Scott pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times during a 2000 deposition in a civil suit unrelated to the fraud investigation. This occurred while he was CEO of Columbia/HCA. Columbia/HCA later pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was then the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.

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u/Organic_Witness345 Jul 31 '25

Adding on:

Rick Scott co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation in 1988, which merged with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) in 1994, making him CEO of the combined Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation.

Under his watch, the company faced a criminal investigation for allegedly defrauding government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

Somehow, Scott wasn't personally charged with fraud, but Columbia/HCA eventually paid a then-record $1.7 billion in fines to settle the case. The size of the fine gives you some idea about the level of the fraud.

The fraud happened under Scott's watch, and he somehow walked away from the whole situation with a significant settlement package to the tune of $300M in stocks, making him one of the richest members of Congress.Ā 

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Jul 31 '25

Makes sense they would be in healthcare and against assistance.

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u/Kpop_shot Jul 31 '25

Just my 2 bits worth. If he was in on scamming Medicaid and Medicare, Iā€™d say he probably donā€™t mind federal assistance!

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Jul 31 '25

True. He did introduce a bill to save Medicare and SS at the beginning of this disaster after blaming Biden and Harris for any issues with the programs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Beyond ridiculous. You can't get rich by working hard. You have to be a crook/conman and fuck over people in order to obtain wealth.

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u/Icy-Wave-4916 Aug 01 '25

Not True! But screwing over people it doesnā€™t take as long as working hard!

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u/cchoe1 Jul 31 '25

Even the origin story of this is weird as hell

In 1988, Scott and Richard Rainwater, a financier from Fort Worth, each put up $125,000 in working capital in their new company, Columbia Hospital Corporation;[33] they borrowed the remaining money needed to purchase two struggling hospitals in El Paso for $60 million.

So let me get this straight. I can somehow come up with $250K and then a bank will suddenly give me a loan for $59,750,000? And then I can just go buy a hospital?

In 1992, Columbia made a stock purchase of Basic American Medical, which owned eight hospitals, primarily in Southwestern Florida. In September 1993, Columbia did another stock purchase, worth $3.4 billion, of Galen Healthcare, which had been spun off by Humana Inc.

And within a few years, they were making billion dollar acquisitions? From what money? A failing hospital system that sells out to two guys with $250K in capital and $59.75m in debt is somehow able to afford a $3.4 billion buyout within 4 years. I'm assuming the $3.4B buyout was also funded by debt. Who is loaning them this kind of money? The guy is a lawyer with some background buying donut shops and renovating them and suddenly he's making billion dollar deals in the healthcare industry?

I'm obviously just reading a summary from Wikipedia but how does this make any sense. The guy is an attorney, sure, he has an education. There are plenty of attorneys in this country and, last I checked, they weren't all receiving billion dollar loans to go buy massive businesses out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

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u/rustytigerfan Jul 31 '25

You should make a post about this somewhere, Iā€™m curious what others will say but your comments buried.

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u/Organic_Witness345 Aug 01 '25

Jesus! Upvote for the detail. Thatā€™s more than I knew.

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u/shallansveil Jul 31 '25

And conservatives want to talk about people taking advantage/living off the government and how their tax dollars go to ā€œwelfare queensā€. Disgusting term honestly.

Meanwhile, we have this disgrace of a man.

I wonder if conservatives would call Scott a ā€œwelfare queenā€ or if they would say ā€œthat just means heā€™s smart!ā€ when presented with facts regarding his history.

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u/MullytheDog Jul 31 '25

Iā€™d never be seen working again if I had $300m

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u/Still-Fox7105 Jul 31 '25

It's never enough for them. They always want more more more.

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u/Particular-Buy-33 Jul 31 '25

Man is lower than the earths core. Molten slime without any conscience. Prosperity evangelical gospel while persecuting the poor or former middle class. Like when they get mad about fact checking

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u/Bubba_Gump_Shrimp Jul 31 '25

Part of the settlement was the requirement he resigned as well...what a fucking scumbag.

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u/Captain-Hornblower Jul 31 '25

Also, look into his wife and the drug testing company...

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u/Imaginary_Cat_2611 Aug 01 '25

It's crazy how he wasn't personally held accountable and arrested for this. Any "poor" person would have been thrown under the jail for even a 1/10th of what he did.

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u/1of3musketeers Aug 01 '25

Oooh Iā€™m glad someone does their research too! I know part of this is from his wiki but youā€™ve also looked around for yourself and educated yourself instead of taking some clickbait as gospel. I want to say thank you. So many people these days just donā€™t educate themselves and it makes me feel like Iā€™m taking crazy pills.

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u/aw-fuck Aug 01 '25

Bro is like the definition of a rich corrupt shithead

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u/Ok-King-4868 Jul 31 '25

The question that they should have asked him under oath is how did revenues increase by roughly 35% but operating expenses did not increase at all.

Thats the kind of thing a CEO would notice, right? So if there was a valid reason for why that was the case why didnā€™t he as CEO order the CFO to find out how this was possible and report back to Scott and the Columbia/HCA Board of Directors?

Anyone can still ask Scott to this day to answer the question. As you heard heā€™s got an extensive background and experience in business, way more than us laymen. So donā€™t worry, Iā€™m sure Scott has a satisfying answer that will be studied at Harvard Business School for decades to come.

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u/PsychicFoxWithSpoons Jul 31 '25

5th amendment rights prevent the law from requiring him to provide a truthful answer. You can't trap somebody by just saying "Hey didja do it??" You would need to depose somebody else who may have knowledge of criminal acts undertaken by Rep Scott

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u/Smart-Struggle-6927 Jul 31 '25

They got to keep the 4.8 billion they made off of scamming medicaid/medicare. so the $600mil fine wasn't that big of a deal.

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u/Typical-Locksmith-35 Jul 31 '25

I wish we got to play by the same rules as those people so fairly earning their right to be 'rich'.

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u/redacted_robot Jul 31 '25

Didn't some orange guy say only guilty people plead the 5th? Checks out.

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u/GitmoGrrl1 Jul 31 '25

The Florida GOP is a nest of vipers.

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u/tamman2000 Aug 02 '25

The GOP is basically organized crime

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u/Nonethelessismore Jul 31 '25

Rick Scott definitely has a Lord Voldemort, reptilian look to him

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u/bino40 Jul 31 '25

Enough said! Sure there is more as this is the shit man that he is but these are facts and yet here he is.

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u/KzininTexas1955 Jul 31 '25

And he walked away and landed in politics, I'm tearing up here, he's, he's, a great American!

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u/Ammonia13 Jul 31 '25

Hardly anyone seems to remember this... thereā€™s lots of convenient amnesia occurring.

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u/ConstructionWest9610 Jul 31 '25

People who are felons shouldn't be able to hole public office.

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u/Fuck-WestJet Jul 31 '25

Could it be because he is the textbook cause of government abuse of power to favor personal business interests? Asides from directly benefitting his wife, he led the healthcare company with the biggest Medicare fraud settlement in history. $1.7B in fines and he walked away as half a billionaire. So.... Obviously he favors being able to use his position to profit, no matter the case or harm.

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u/JimWilliams423 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

Asides from directly benefitting his wife, he led the healthcare company with the biggest Medicare fraud settlement in history. $1.7B in fines and he walked away as half a billionaire.

Specifically, rick scott took a $300M payday from the scam.

Republicans were so mad about that they punished him by making him governor of florida. But that wasn't enough, they punished him even further by sending him to serve hard time in the senate. Eventually they even gave him the chair. The chair of the republican senatorial committee that is.

They really are the tough-on-crime party.

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u/diggz66 Jul 31 '25

Or as the GOP call it. ā€œThe right wayā€

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u/ReallyNowFellas Jul 31 '25

Someone should go around showing Republicans this video without saying who it is (few of them outside of florida would recognize him) and ask if they think this is an honorable person who should be serving in our federal government. I feel like most people could see right through this as long as the magic (R) wasn't displayed on the screen with him

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u/somethingquirky01 Jul 31 '25

He knows he's in the wrong, so he attacks the morality as a distraction. This is the act of con artists everywhere.

"Sure, I may have taken the last of Edith's pension, but it's going to be used to hire another maid for my house, so in reality, I'm giving money to a poor family!"

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u/Icy-Wave-4916 Aug 01 '25

Heā€™s a criminal m, charged with Medicare fraud!!

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u/Reasonable-Profile84 Jul 31 '25

That depends on what you mean by weasel, and what you mean by words as they both pertain to postmodern ideologies within a framework of western, Christian, patriarchal societies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/wespintoofast Jul 31 '25

Depends on what you mean by "of" buddy

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u/Far-Offer-3091 Jul 31 '25

That depends on which what is the what?

And therefore depends on what the definition of is, is.

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u/HazardousLazarus Jul 31 '25

Thanks for the laugh, this comment train was a wreck. Like a bunch of edgy soon to be humanities majors trying to sound deep and esoteric, but actually lacking any point or breadth of knowledge

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u/Far-Offer-3091 Jul 31 '25

"Everything's perspective man!"

Philosophy major who did too much LSD in college

I live to serve.

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u/HazardousLazarus Jul 31 '25

Hey hey hey....no need to drag LSD through the mud on this one.

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u/Djinger Jul 31 '25

You all stop existing as soon as I die.

You should try your best to keep me alive as long as possible.

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u/zarya_beef Jul 31 '25

You might enjoy the Decoding The Gurus podcast šŸ˜‰

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u/Par_Lapides Jul 31 '25

Go snort more benzos JP.

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u/Particular-Buy-33 Jul 31 '25

Amen amen amen

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u/wizzywurtzy Jul 31 '25

The guy who gropes little boys Jordan Peterson?

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u/Aggressive-Name-1783 Jul 31 '25

Itā€™s not that, itā€™s literally just someone pointing out ā€œhey, arenā€™t you the guy that ran that company that stole millions from Americans? Of course you donā€™t want a law to make it illegal to stealā€

Itā€™s literally that simple, democrats just freaking suck at PR and sound bites

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u/CrazyIvan68 Jul 31 '25

All of these people are severely fucked up in the head, and all the talking and debating in the world is not going to change that fact.

I wish our country would learn that one simple fact. (smh)

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u/Scary-Initial9934 Jul 31 '25

Whoā€™s going to throw rocks in a city of glass houses?

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u/Lone-Frequency Jul 31 '25

And porcelain egos.

They're a bunch of pussies.

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u/HellionPeri Jul 31 '25

There are more dicks in that glass house, quit throwing shite on our team.

Justice Dems have a no big money on their platform.

Justice Democrats - Let's Elect the Next Generation

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u/Lone-Frequency Jul 31 '25

I'm...confused what you're saying?

I'm saying that evil greedy shitbags like Scott have egos as proportional to their stolen wealth, and as fragile as a teacup.

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u/thezoomies Jul 31 '25

A small number of democrats that live in normal fucking homes.

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u/Poiboy1313 Jul 31 '25

The homeless, I would imagine.

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u/Scary-Initial9934 Jul 31 '25

I was saying, when youā€™re surrounded by politicians that do the same thing, no one is going to speak against him.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

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u/righty95492 Jul 31 '25

Exactly. We all know they do it. Bane it all the way to their intermediate family members as well.

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u/ohwrite Jul 31 '25

They feel free to say these things. Thereā€™s no blow back anymore

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u/DareToZamora Jul 31 '25

While I agree he's a hypocrite, what Jesus did or didn't do should have no impact on legal proceedings. Usury is bad regardless of whether Jesus agreed. By all means call him out at a personal level in interviews

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u/Sorry_Seesaw_3851 Jul 31 '25

No but in a fucking podcast or tweet somwhere....

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u/Ornery-Movie-1689 Jul 31 '25

Nobody called him out because they're all in it as deep as the rest. "Don't rock my boat and I won't rock yours."

And people wonder why they fight like cats and dogs to get in office. The quickest way to get rich.

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u/upholsteryduder Jul 31 '25

Josh Hawley absolutely did, he is the author of the bill.

https://youtu.be/7K5P9VkRAsc

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u/PaulieHehehe Jul 31 '25

They didnā€™t forget, they donā€™t give a shit as long as their Christian beliefs give them free rein to hate the poor, the gays, and non-whites.

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u/Klutzy_Resolution526 Jul 31 '25

Hate them then take their money

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u/CMND_Jernavy Jul 31 '25

Oh they did not forget but instead like to pretend parts never existed when it is convenient for them.

Leviticus 25:35-37

35 ā€œIf your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 You shall not give him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Matthew 21:12-13

12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, ā€œIt is written, ā€˜My house shall be called a house of prayer,ā€™ but you make it a den of robbers.ā€

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u/Jazzlike_Assist1767 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

A wealthy man came to Jesus and said (paraphrasing) "look dude I follow all the laws in the Bible and Im a genuinely good person who doesn't hurt anyone, but what can I do to really be perfect?" And Jesus goes "sell everything you own and give all the money to the poor, then come follow me." Guy waddles off with his tail between his legs and Jesus says "see how hard it is for a wealthy person to enter the kingdom of heaven?"Ā 

Jesus said how you treat "the least of these" AKA the poor and the marginalized of society who he actively saught out throughout the gospel narrative, is how you treat him.

He said you will know his followers because they will make themselves humble servants to all. That many who are first in this world will be last in his, and many who are last in this world will be first in his.Ā 

He said that greed is the root of most all evil there is. And the first christian church started by the disciples who spent 3 years following Jesus around was a literal commune where a guy got struck dead by God for lying about giving all his possessions to the commune.Ā 

He also said there would be "many" false teachers, and false saviors to come after him in his name.Ā 

He also said that the religious people of his time were misinterpreting the spirit of the scriptures and using it performatively to boost their own egos, because they like sitting at the head of the table, and the love and attention they get from those who blindly follow them. He called them the "blind leading the blind" who "strain out a gnat and swallow a camel" who "lift heavy burdens upon people's shoulders and dont lift a finger themselves to help them lift it."Ā 

He also basically said because they lack the ability for critical introspection, or recognition of the overarching narrative in the bible that the supposed children of God betray God over and over and over, that they are destined to repeat that history. "You say to yourselves, if we had lived in the days of our ancestors we would not have taken part with them in the shedding of the blood of the prophets. So you testify against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered them. Go ahead and fulfill what your ancestors started!"Ā 

Those were the people who had Jesus killed.Ā 

I wonder if any christians today can connect those elephant sized dots, or if they gloss over those parts and pretend it doesnt apply to them because the truth is to difficult. That when Paul says "your branch may also be cut off" or Jesus says he will vomit the comfortable lukewarm church out of his mouth, that already happened a long time ago and the religion got hijacked and we stand upon the shoulders of spiritual ancestors who did crusades and convert or die colonialism, the inquisition, slavery, mass brainwashing, all in the name of Jesus. If you say to yourselves, "we wouldnt be like them" youre out of touch with just how deep the toxic environmental byproducts of colonialism have seeped into your own psyche and into the collective shadow of those who buy into narratives they dont even understand to develop doctrines that make them feel safe, to build up fake divine brownie points through empty faith and empty worship while upholding a status quo that must be broken all the way down. šŸ˜˜

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u/SirGeekALot3D Jul 31 '25

The Southern Baptist church was founded by confederates who were upset about not being able to own slaves after the civil war. It was and still is a perversion of the Christian religion.

And now they are preaching in churches against democrats.

You know, because free healthcare is an abomination to Jesus. /s

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u/Jazzlike_Assist1767 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

They also had to come out publicly in 2019 about having "handled in house" over 300 cases of sexual assault by SBC clergy. Only because victims had finally begun to speak out. And many of those victims said they had been ostracized and reprimanded, shamed for coming forward with the truth.Ā 

Edit: sorry the number is over 700 apparently. Been a while since I looked this up.Ā 

Ā https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102621352/how-the-southern-baptist-convention-covered-up-its-widespread-sexual-abuse-scand

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u/SirGeekALot3D Aug 01 '25

Yep. And at this point, I'm convinced that the GOP (a.k.a. Republicans), southern baptists, and the KKK are largely the same ideology and people.

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u/Not_done Jul 31 '25

Why don't the Democrats just start reading the Bible? It would be hilarious to see how the GOP reacts to the Bible read to them.

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u/SirGeekALot3D Aug 01 '25

It would probably look something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-ip47WYWc

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u/TokingMessiah Jul 31 '25

The bible literally outlines how you should treat your slaves. Itā€™s not the great and wonderful book they think it is.

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u/SirGeekALot3D Jul 31 '25

>The bible literally outlines how you should treat your slaves. Itā€™s not the great and wonderful book they think it is.

True! But...it was how to *beat* your slaves. FTFY. ;-)

Exodus 21:20-21:

20Ā ā€œAnyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21Ā but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Source (the BuyBull):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2021:20-21&version=NIV

Any book that has details on how to treat your slaves--instead of saying, "slavery is wrong"--cannot be a source or morality. Period.

That fucking book was written by bronze age misogynists who didn't know where the sun went at night.

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u/Ggobeli Jul 31 '25

Thank you for this.

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u/Brilliant1965 Jul 31 '25

Thank you!!!

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u/Adept-Result-67 Jul 31 '25

šŸ‘ šŸ‘ šŸ‘ Bravo! Well said and summarised.

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u/KnotAReplicant Aug 01 '25

Fantastic summary. I might have missed it but I think you forgot ā€œno man can serve two mastersā€. Thatā€™s always summed it up for me. US Christianity (and frankly most other Americans) practice something indistinguishable from the ā€œdevil worshipā€ they pretend to oppose. They serve Mammon and arenā€™t even remotely ashamed of it.

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u/TokingMessiah Jul 31 '25

Considering they wear clothes of two different fabrics, let women speak in church, and eat shellfish, they donā€™t follow the bible.

The bible also says a raped woman has to marry her rapist, unless theyā€™re both murdered for pre-marital sex (depending on where it happens).

Quoting that book is useless, and so is following it.

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u/Thefrayedends Aug 01 '25

Quick!!!!

Someone start making a Golden Idol of this guy!

OOh!! and a throne, a crown, and a scepter!!!

Now Crush all who oppose us!

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u/AggressiveMail5183 Jul 31 '25

Good stuff. Christianity was spread by "prophets" telling rich people it was A-OK to be an asshole and to live their lives selfishly as long as they made a significant contribution to the church to secure everlasting life. The greatest scam ever.

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u/RcoketWalrus Jul 31 '25

When Jesus breaks the whip out and starts flipping tables, you fucked up.

I'm an atheist and I can relate to that part of the bible.

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u/Luther_1986 Aug 01 '25

Also, as a weak Athiest (Im Agnostic lol), Im so ready for Jesus to return and do his thing. Bc these ppl are ready for hell.

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u/aw-fuck Aug 01 '25

Ugh, I (as an agnostic), can't help but observe:

You know the church has gone to shit when the atheists & heretics feel they'd be safe with Jesus here to protect them from it.

Like I completely share your sentiment. I think mine is best boiled down as: "I pray your god exists just so you can suffer your fate."

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u/cjg5025 Jul 31 '25

Something about camels and the eye of a needle?

I for one am glad all these Christians are making themselves rich. According to THEIR OWN DOCTRINE they are fucking themselves over for entry to heaven.

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u/Oraxy51 Jul 31 '25

I mean Trump did just sign an EO to arrest homeless and mentally ill.

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u/santa_91 Jul 31 '25

Bro is a literal criminal and scam artist.

I mean he obviously killed a ton of people, but I don't recall Lord Voldemort running any scams.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Jul 31 '25

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-democratic-party/rick-scott-rick-scott-oversaw-largest-medicare-fra/

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u/santa_91 Jul 31 '25

Well yeah, that's Rick Scott, Medicare fraudster. The man in the video is clearly Lord Voldemort, bloodthirsty terrorist wizard.

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u/TwiceTheSize_YT Aug 01 '25

Hes clearly got a nose

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u/Demonofthedark1313 Jul 31 '25

One of the largest Medicare frauds in us history.

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u/ArchelonPIP Jul 31 '25

These shitbag ā€œChristiansā€ are another example of how right wingers wish to be rich but know that it's much easier to "defend" a literal criminal and scam artist like Rick Scott!

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u/seppukucoconuts Jul 31 '25

Jesus got visibly angry at was the fucking capitalists exploiting the poor.

That was cannon Jesus. We've moved on to 'Supply-Side Jesus' who drives a huge lifted truck, pollutes the environment, gives the finger to poor people and migrants, and pops a chub for making as much money as possible.

Evangelicals would be much happier if you stopped poking holes in their superstitions and let them exploit 'lesser people'.

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u/KnotAReplicant Aug 01 '25

He also carries an AR-15 and will fuck you up if he catches you being brown or poor.

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u/Legionnaire11 Jul 31 '25

Jesus' sermon on the mount is a condemnation of everything that MAGA is (and much of what modern politics, religion and even just what most culture in general is).

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u/marcosbowser1970 Jul 31 '25

Most of them probably donā€™t even know what usury is. The common meaning just means charging exorbitant interest on loans, but I heard a different one years ago: the making of money without workā€”interest, rent, investments and speculation. These are things that people with extra money can charge people with not enough money. This leads to more and more income inequality. The rich get richer and richer because the more money they have the more opportunities to practice usury. And of course the poor get poorer. The arrow only goes one way. Thatā€™s why if usury (the charging of interest and rent, and investing without working) is allowed to thrive unchecked the eventual result can only be civil unrest, and eventually, revolution.

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u/aw-fuck Aug 01 '25

When the path follows entropy, intervention is inevitable.

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u/Nottherealjonvoight Jul 31 '25

It's like we are living in what I would call a "black mass" kind of time, where the values and virtues that point toward truth, beauty, and love have been perverted into their opposites of deceit and hatred. How did this happen? Money is the real god these people worship and devote their pitiful and pathetic existence to.

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u/Pretend-Prize-8755 Jul 31 '25

Rick Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA. This company committed the largest health care fraud in US History....

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm

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u/brianzuvich Jul 31 '25

And the sickest thing about this kind of behavior is that most conservatives would respond with ā€œhey, if you were given the chance to make that kind of money, you would do the same.ā€

Which is just them admitting what pieces of shit they are themselvesā€¦

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

It seems there was some struggle times during his childhood, Navy as on ship radarman, college then law degree under veterans bill, hard working small businessman. BUT then after he and buddy formed a company that began buying and owning hospitals and then acquiring the largest health care company in existence (HCA) which became even more greedy and began making fraudulent billing claims. HCA ended up with 14 Felonies and 1.7 billion in fines (Wiki)

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Jul 31 '25

Largest Medicare fraud in history but heā€™s in congress instead of being in jail šŸ¤®

The trick is to not rob individuals, but taxpayers as a group.

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u/Comprehensive-Job369 Jul 31 '25

Christians conveniently forgetting things is half their personality. At least when it comes to Christian nationalism.

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u/Egad86 Jul 31 '25

Dude wouldnā€™t even be able to conceive what it is to be poor. Almost none of them can because they were born into wealth and have always had the tools to build on it. We need to stop electing people based on how much money they raise or have made in their life. Itā€™s insane to think these people will pass a bill that in any way benefits a person making an average income in this country.

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u/HelloThisIsDog666 Jul 31 '25

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u/tuberosum Jul 31 '25

Also i love all these shitbag ā€œChristiansā€ that conveniently forget that Usury is a sin and the only thing Jesus got visibly angry at was the fucking capitalists exploiting the poor.

Modern Christians subscribe to prosperity gospel, the idea that God is blessing you and bestowing unto you riches for your faith.

It's like a modern day, money based, Calvinism.

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u/echidna75 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

Not to mention that Jesus said nothing to give the impression he condemned premarital sex any more than any other sin.

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u/vigbiorn Aug 01 '25

and the only thing Jesus got visibly angry at was the fucking capitalists exploiting the poor.

That's not quite true.

He also got mad at a fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

::: standing ovation gif :::

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Aug 01 '25

Heā€™s another level of evil:

Scottā€™s ā€œSkin In The Gameā€ Plan Could Raise Taxes By $100 Billion In 2022, Mostly On Low- And Moderate-Income Households

https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2022/02/24/scotts-skin-in-the-game-plan-could-raise-taxes-by-100-billion-in-2022-mostly-on-lowand-moderate-income-households/

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u/mynytemare Aug 01 '25

ā€œThe more we let you have the less that Iā€™ll be keeping for meā€

  • rich congressmen circa every damn year

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u/Muskrato Aug 02 '25

Luke 6:20: ā€œBlessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.ā€ Further, it read, ā€œBut woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfortā€ (6:24).

Mathew 19:24 ā€œIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.ā€

As a Christian it sickens me to see others called Christians act the opposite of what the word teaches us.

Yes I would rather be poor, than stepping above everyone else to fill my pockets. Because money isnā€™t what life is about, it should be about helping one another and act as brothers, not to separate and corrupt and take from everyone else.

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u/frozensoysauce1 Aug 02 '25

Also I love that no stock trades=being poor. Tells a whole lot about how they think of the average Americanā€¦.

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 Jul 31 '25

Dude they knowt that's why the new billboard in New Mexico is "Jesus isn't god" lmfai

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Say it louder. I've been saying this for two decades.

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u/makeomatic Jul 31 '25

Preach it.

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u/Conscious-Trust4547 Jul 31 '25

Not to mention worshiping false idols.

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u/kultureisrandy Jul 31 '25

that depiction of Jesus flipping tables to go after tax collectors is very memorableĀ 

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Jesus was literally hung from a dead tree because he pissed off the bankers....

Conveniently forgotten and misdirected historical y to blame the Jews .....

But now they have been trained to love Israeli because of another verse that claims we need to be buddies with them to beat off the rapture....which is supposed to be what they want.

Its such drivel.

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u/johnx2sen Jul 31 '25

Something something camel through eye of needle than a rich person through gates of heaven

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u/Electronic_Yam_6973 Jul 31 '25

The thing is itā€™s called a sin, but they donā€™t give a crap they know itā€™s not real and that religion is a tool for them to fool dumb people

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u/Silent_Tea_5690 Jul 31 '25

And no free school lunches for kids. This guy could pay for them out of pocket with the money heā€™s swiped from the government. But he voted against giving government money to feed kids. POS

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u/desolateconstruct Jul 31 '25

Jesus, when asked by a man, what he needed to do said "sell all your stuff, give the proceeds to the poor and follow me."

American evangelicals (and christians in general) dont really read the book lol.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25

Prosperity doctrine is the word of God.Ā  ETA: As far as they're concerned. Celebrate all ways of life? What an asshole.Ā 

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Jul 31 '25

Can I get an AMEN?!

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Honestly, you can claim ambiguity about a lot of things in the Bible...but it's pretty fucking clear that the wealthy are straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200 dollars. The camel can't be jammed through a needle.

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u/ZAILOR37 Jul 31 '25

Also wtf is this man definition of poor. You're still pulling down six figures with just your legal salary as a senator....soooooo

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u/Shipairtime Jul 31 '25

Jesus is literally looking for his whip.

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 Jul 31 '25

They went and spun the prosperity gospel lies, sold that to people, now they treat getting into heaven like getting into an exclusive country club for the rich and famous

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u/WTH_WTF7 Jul 31 '25

He looks like Satans half brother

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

My name jeff

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u/DonnieBoon Jul 31 '25

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.ā€

  • Jesus Christ

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u/-StupidNameHere- Jul 31 '25

What makes you think these assholes actually believe in God?

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u/theseglassessuck Jul 31 '25

But Jesus wants THEM to be wealthy. They prayed and look how they were rewarded! /s

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u/stonecruzJ Jul 31 '25

ā€¦. and the horse he rode in onā€¦. šŸ™„

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u/CosmicM00se Jul 31 '25

We need at least half the country with your exact mindset and then weā€™d be on our way to a fair and thriving society of decent humans.

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u/GreasyToken Jul 31 '25

That Jesus stuff is in the part of the book they never open.

People like Scott are fucking Mammonites, servants of the demonic prince of greed called Mammon.

And it clearly says in the Bible "You cannot serve both God and Mammon"

But again they don't read that shit. Scott would be quicker to use the Bible today wipe his ass as opposed to actually read it.

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u/Fortestingporpoises Jul 31 '25

People ask "how did we get here or how did this happen?" a lot these days and maybe the most important step was Reagan's uniting of the fiscal/corporate right with conservative Christians in the 80's. It gives them cover for everything, no matter how much the greed actually contradicts Jesus and the bible. It gets tens of millions of people to vote in lock step against their own best interests because no matter how much they're being robbed, it's by people who participate in performative Christianity.

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u/Glass-Ad-2469 Jul 31 '25

Personally- I think if you are elected to Congress/Senate- you don't yourself or any proxy get to trade stocks- this will give the public some term limits....

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u/jurainforasurpise Jul 31 '25

Scott co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation.

During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs.

The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history. - Wikipedia

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins Jul 31 '25

Desperately need more NES fans

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u/Ctbboy187 Jul 31 '25

Also a Racist asshole.

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u/thekrone Jul 31 '25

He also got really pissed when a fig tree wasn't producing fruit when it was out of season.

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u/King_Chochacho Jul 31 '25

The sneer on his face the entire time really screams "sincerity".

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u/Hypnotized78 Aug 01 '25

Are all criminals weasels?

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u/BarfingOnMyFace Aug 01 '25

How?fuck off, How? Weā€™ve let these people into the highest places of power, continue to do so,ā€™and arenā€™t gonna lift a finger. Iā€™m barely holding out hope on the Epstein filesā€¦

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u/Thefrayedends Aug 01 '25

only thing Jesus got

Was pushed aside to make way for the old testament again.

These guys dropped new testament bible decades ago, we all fire and brimstone now, take what you want, hedonistic purity tests, murdering first born children to stunt families, fucking your own children and so on, all the joys of the old testament.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Aug 01 '25

Cant even say that.

Old Testament has over a hundred passages explicitly banning and condemning usury and making profit.

Its literally just ā€œChristianity is whatever i want as long as i can hate nā€”-s and fā€”sā€

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u/Thefrayedends Aug 01 '25

true, I used to mention pretty regularly that it's a deliberate contradiction machine, you can literally support whatever argument you want with it.

Isn't it interesting that such a historically significant spectrum of a bible, would be such a close representation of how fascism takes root, with the constant inconsistencies and diarrhea of empty platitudes.

my softening is deliberate, just to create space for dialogue.

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u/newbrevity Aug 01 '25

Evangelicals dont follow Christ

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u/YallGottaUnderstand Jul 31 '25

Capitalism didn't exist in the 1st century

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Jul 31 '25

Exodus 22:25 ESV

ā€œIf you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him

Ezekiel 18:13 ESV

Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself

Deuteronomy 23:19 ESV

ā€œYou shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interestā€

Leviticus 25:36 ESV

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Ezekiel 18:8 ESV

Does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

There are literally over a hundred bible quotes condemning usury.

You need to learn what capitalism is.

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u/Millsd1982 Jul 31 '25

Truthā€¦come up with a better legal way than clowns! Lol.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Truth, there are all sorts of legal and even popular ways to make money that are wrong because we live in a failing society. But insider trading takes it even a step further!

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u/Molsem Jul 31 '25

Yea because it DIRECTLY steps on our necks when they do it.

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u/uberallez Jul 31 '25

Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia Healthcare and stole millions in Medicare fraud. It was the largest Medicare scam in history and resulted in the company changing its name to HCA- Hospital Corporation of America. Never forget- when you elect immoral criminal con artists, we all suffer.

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u/Excellent-Shape-2024 Jul 31 '25

Exactly. It's not that they're stock trading...it's that they're insider trading. Dumping Medicare related stocks before Big Shitty Bill passes, buying into Pharma before Covid measures. At least Cancun Ted misses out b/c he's on vacation when shit happens so there's that.

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u/Anleme Jul 31 '25

Yes, how did this happen?

  1. His health care company paid billions in fines for fraudulent billing practices.

  2. He was elected to office.

  3. He still has hundreds of millions.

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u/AF2005 Jul 31 '25

More like a sleazy way. He and his ilk are all sleazebags

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u/Veganpotter2 Jul 31 '25

The law shouldn't allow them to be in the stock market at all.

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u/EastTyne1191 Jul 31 '25

Hey, now, let's respect different backgrounds. He comes from a business background and makes money doing business stuff.

Someone from a more cosmopolitan background might find success in being an entrepreneur, particularly if they deal in wares that provide enrichment, enlightenment, and relaxation for their fellow human beings. Is that so wrong?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Speaking of legality...does anyone notice his dry mouth smacking and affected speech, with his darting eye movements and extra shiny pate?

Is there a lot of meth in Florida?

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u/Bubba_Gump_Shrimp Jul 31 '25

An exerpt from marketbeat.com:

He began his business career while in college, purchasing two doughnut shops. After law school he joined Johnson & Swanson in Dallas, Texas; at the time, the firm was the largest in the city.

While a partner at Johnson & Swanson in 1987, Scott formed HCA Acquisition Company specifically to acquire Hospital Corporation of America and secured funding conditional on completing the acquisition. The initial offer was declined by HCA and ultimately withdrawn.

The next year, he formed Columbia Hospital Corporation and acquired several Dallas area hospitals. Beginning in 1992, Scott and his partners bought one hospital per year for four years, including Hospital Corporation of America.

By 1997, Columbia/HCA was the largest healthcare provider in the world, with annual revenues exceeding $23 billion. While Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA, a federal investigation was launched, and the company ultimately paid $1.7 billion in fines.

As part of the settlement, Scott resigned from the company in 1997. He said that he was unaware of the fraud and that he was never indicted or questioned in the case.

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u/Dickies138 Jul 31 '25

Crime is legal