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[–] clay_pidgin 316 points 4 months ago (5 children)

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/11/09/whats-the-deal-with-speaker-mike-johnsons-financial-disclosure/

He claimed 0 assets. No stocks, no interest earning bank accounts, no mutual funds, no CDs. That's awfully suspicious.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 87 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Maybe the most important word here is "claimed".

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 77 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Don't you need an account for your paycheck? Like they don't pay cash.

[–] clay_pidgin 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some places pay cash, and some will pay in pre-paid debit cards. That's not usually the case for the U.S. Gov't, though!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What kind of scammer is paying in prepaid debit cards?

[–] prettybunnys 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

McDonald’s did this I believe

[–] tmyakal@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Dollar Tree, too. A friend of mine worked there for two weeks, quit when her first paycheck came as a debit card.

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[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

According to FDIC, about 4.5% of US households do not have a bank account of any kind, but that number is much higher when you only include low income households. Some choose not to have an account, some are denied accounts by banks for various reasons.

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

Also, most banks only offer free checking accounts with direct deposit or a minimum balance. I don't know if this is still the case, but I worked for a payroll processor many years ago and, at that time, many small businesses chose not to offer direct deposit to their employees. Paying bank fees is very difficult for low income households.

One of the options the company I worked for had was to offer refillable debit cards to employees that their paychecks would be deposited to. This gave them the basic features of a bank without needing to create their own account.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can cash a paycheck without an account it just costs you to

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

Mike Johnson cashes his checks at walmart confirmed.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

If you go to the bank that issued the check, they should cash it for free.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 51 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is he married? Maybe all of it is in his wife’s name.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

or an LLC or some other tax haven

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

This is most likely the correct answer.

Hides assets and protects them from prying investigation

[–] clay_pidgin 20 points 4 months ago

I support that's possible.

[–] rambling_lunatic 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Actually, the Speaker’s office told Marketplace that he does have a personal bank account, but it’s exempt from House reporting rules because it doesn’t earn interest."

Lol

[–] Corigan@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Oh the perfect cover for massive bribes got it.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No claimed assets + religious nutjob suggests to me that he gives all his income to some cult leader.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 4 months ago

The cult leader? Itself.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 132 points 4 months ago (8 children)

So you're telling me that either Mike Johnson has a wad under his mattress, or is somehow the most based cryptobro in politics? Someone should.... investigate.... this.

[–] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 94 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 26 points 4 months ago

This is my vote, using Occam's Razor. Or a related option: he's being overly pedantic about terminology (e.g. maybe everything is in a trust or something).

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 84 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Vance shoots his wad in his couch

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago

Any time Mike Johnson shoots a wad, his son gets a notification about it.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

And the pennies caught between the cushion hold more value than his deposit.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Does JD worry about being homosexual because he fucks a Lazy-Boy or does he think it is fine because it is sounds close to Ladyboy and they are real women after all.

[–] MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 93 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He also shares his porn browsing history with his son. And reviews his sons porn browsing history.

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[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is he not 3rd in line? Also there is a currently a member of congress being investigated because they claimed on their campaign finance forms to have loaned their campaign $350,000 despite not having a savings account. Pretty weird if you ask me

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Biden is the president

Harris is first in line should Biden leave office

Johnson is second in line, behind Harris

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it’s a zero-indexed array.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Not really, the president is not in the line of succession.

[–] mindbleach 8 points 4 months ago

As programmer, that should feel right, but it sure doesn't.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

3rd if you count the presidency itself.

Pres

Vp

Speaker

President pro tempore

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I prefer my presidents pro Teriyaki

[–] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

have i been eating amateur teriyaki this whole time?!

[–] ayyy 9 points 4 months ago

If it was Kikoman, honestly yes.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The president is not in line though. His office is what the line is for, and he's in it.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Idk why but the line of attack with weird isn’t really doing it for me.

But it doesn’t matter much because I’m far from the average voter and they already earnt my vote 5 times over.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

It's being overused. However The Speaker of the House of Representatives not having any bank accounts is best described as weird.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think that Democrats should get too hung up on the word "weird" specifically, because that can get overdone pretty quickly, but the general strategy of gently insulting Trump in a way that flusters him and embarrasses his supporters is golden imo.

I'm in a terminally red area. I usually try to avoid political discussions, but when I've been pressed for my opinion on Trump, I tend to avoid talking about policy, because really, that's a dead end for the type of person that would start this conversation. Instead I'll respond with something like "politics aside, he honestly comes across as kinda dumb" or "Naw, he creeps me out". Bam! There isn't a fox news talking point for that that doesn't involve trying to change the conversation to some dem, and really these statements are just a matter of opinion. Go straight to policy and you'll get memorized talking points back, go to really harsh direct insults, they'll dismiss you as having TDS. But when you keep it subtle and insulting in an everyday, almost dismissive sort of way, like by saying say "sorry no, your guy is just too plain weird", that gets to them. It forces introspection, and though it might not mean anything that day, those short moments of realizing that their politicians really are a bizarre group might start to add up. I know it did for me. Antagonizing Trump should be secondary to subtley and carefully making his supporters embarrassed to support him and dorks like him.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

I’m in a terminally red area. I usually try to avoid political discussions, but when I’ve been pressed for my opinion on Trump, I tend to avoid talking about policy

Honestly policy is a surprisingly safe topic because most laypeople don't pay close attention to policy. Stay away from the current hot talking points and just speak in broad strokes and most trumphumpers will actually agree with very progressive policies

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

It seems to work on the people for whom Trump being a complete lunatic, obviously suffering from dementia, trying to overthrow US democracy and being in league with their country's biggest enemy doesn't work. So, I'll take it

[–] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

When Walz delivered the line originally it landed really well. Ultimately, the point is to impact the conversation enough so the people who aren't very plugged in hear it, which I think has worked. I don't think many people here needed to be convinced not to vote Republican

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

It’s dismissive and invalidating, which really does work on T regardless.

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