Thread by @soychicka

Are you a Russian oligarch, or otherwise involved in Transnational Organized Crime?

If not, then sit down, because you'll want to hear how taking down Trump's friends in the global mafia can actually cut taxes, fund health care, medicare, social security.make your life better.

Transnational organized crime is estimated to be an industry on the scale of 7-10% of the annual global economy, which in 2017 was about $80 Trillion.

So, that means something like $4-8 Trillion a year goes into the pockets of organized crime.

And what do those criminal organizations and entities do with that money? Two things.

a) Spend some of it
b) Hoard most of it

Now, keep this in mind:

These fellas aren’t out there setting up their own legit corporations to run their business - they get their money from committing crimes - the majority of their costs + operating expenses are covered by nation states and private industry.

And guess who ultimately pays those bills?

Yeah. You do.

Note: the figures above are after laundering through legit-ish businesses; I’ve been told that the actual profit margins are something on the order of 95% retention, because mob bosses don’t pay their people jack shit (that’s why Trump is actually pretty broke, I hear).

And not only do your tax dollars facilitate those high profit margins, but we also have to pay the externalities - the costs of investigations, prosecution, and incarceration, along with the personal costs to private citizens...

like when a junkie smashes in your car windows to steal $0.37 off the floorboard every couple months... increased insurance rates, deductibles, lost time...

sometimes lost homes, or lost lives...

And, of course, there’s the pain that those of us with the ability to empathize can only try to understand - the victims of sex trafficking and human slavery, those injured or killed by illegal weapons trafficking, those whose lives are ruined through addiction...

and, of course, the costs associated with that are both paid in suffering and borne by our tax dollars.

So. To the skeptics, imagine that the Russia investigation turns up incontrovertible evidence exposing the guilt of hundreds, if not thousands of those involved in profiting from transnational crime... uncovering tens of trillions of dollars hoarded in offshore bank accounts.

Not only do we get the moral satisfaction, and some degree of justice for the millions victimized at the hands of TOC activity - we get at least one other perk.

One word:

Forfeiture.

Like we saw with Manafort’s guilty plea, you don’t get to keep your ill-gotten gains - the government can seize those assets.

Check out EO 13581 if you’re interested in seeing more, Trump reauthorized it :)
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…

So, let’s assume we might be able to track down only 1/3 of the profits those individuals have pulled in over the past 20 years... that’s over $26T...

And $26T is enough to pay off the national debt in full, with a few trillion left over to solve other problems:

fully fund public schools
fix social security
ensure healthcare for EVERYONE
cut taxes in half for indiv with net worth < $200,000 and businesses with ann rev < $5M

So. Maybe Trump isn’t guilty of anything - but somebody sure is.

And Mueller is working on tracking that down.

If taking down those who intervened in our democracy, and continue to do so today isn’t enough of a perk for letting Mueller follow through on his investigation....

Isn’t bringing an end to the human suffering + financial losses enabled by those bad actors well worth the effort?

So, before you vote, just think about what the actual benefits of congressional oversight here might be:

if Mueller is allowed to bring his investigation to its conclusion, there's a good chance the outcome will result in massive asset forfeitures that help significantly pay off the national debt, get the Libs to stop whining about schools and health care, and cut taxes.

If Trump didn't do anything, he'll be vindicated.

And if he did, then he's been helping to enable everything I've talked about above... and deserves whatever he gets.

Oh - I almost forgot:

If you ARE a dirty oligarch or other flavour of criminal involved in undermining our democracy, you get a perk too.

Free room and board for the rest of your life :)