Criminal lawyer Robert McWhirter warns Pam Bondi could face disbarment after Trump removed her as attorney general over cases she brought against political opponents

  • BillyClark@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    I’m with you until you get to the lottery part. Your description implies that those lottery winners who don’t go bankrupt are somehow worse than the ones who do go bankrupt, which doesn’t make any sense.

    They lose their money because they can’t control their spending, not because they lack the mental illness of money addiction.

    What a strange perspective you’ve given. It makes me suspect that you have a personal motive for thinking that way.

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      They mostly lose their money because everyone that finds out that they are suddenly rich, starts sueing to get what “they are owed,” or someone just kills them. The ones that can’t control their spending might never go broke, provided they got the lump sum invested by a fiduciary quickly enough.

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        44 minutes ago

        Your response is nonsensical. First, if they are killed, that doesn’t count. The terms we used were “going broke” and “going bankrupt”. Nobody uses those terms in their normal sense and means “gets killed”. So, your claim that a person getting killed is a counterexample is nonsense.

        Lawsuits don’t generally count, either. First, if those lawsuits are big, they are usually about who owns the lottery winnings in the first place. It means the person’s winnings were not as big because they were trying to keep winnings from other rightful winners, not that they lose money. If the lawsuits are big decisions against them for other reasons, then the person was already screwed with or without winning the lottery, they just weren’t worth being sued before. If the lawsuits are worthless, then a lottery winner can afford to hire a lawyer. If they inexplicably don’t hire a lawyer and just pay out settlements, that’s just a stupider example of what I was talking about where they don’t control their spending.

        Your. examples. do. not. make. sense.

        And on top of that, just go do the tiniest bit of research. I can tell that you didn’t even do a search because when I did, the search results were all about people spending too much. Some of them even appeared to have legitimate statistics. What you’ve done is pull your entire comment out of your ass. If you continue trying to defend these points without linking any proof, I will simply block and report you for trolling.