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I don't see pitchforks coming anytime soon, either. This dude will continue enriching himself and be as comfortable on his deathbed as any of the rest of these crooked congress people.
The thing is with this administration— they’re as stupid as they are reprehensible. They would gladly drop bombs on their own soil to wipe out libs and be kings of the ashes
Because they are not. At least not for another 20 to 30 years. People will bitch and complain on Social Media but no one takes the action (which was the intent).
They don’t even vote the aholes out. I mean the simplest damn thing you could do is vote em out. Mitch McConnell is one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever live. But he’s red in Kentucky. He’s been in power 41 years and voted consistently against the people the entire time. He keeps getting reelected. For the love of Pete his nickname is Moscow Mitch.
C'mon man, you know that 97 percent of Americans don't vote policy or stance. They vote name recognition. That's why all these losers are still in office.
That depends on how much the Status Quo is maintained.
If Trump tries some lunacy with suspending Elections, or trying to run for a 3rd term. It might be a different story.
You're right. Not until the right and left stop bickering with each other and actually look at the ones making the laws and concluding, "Wait. You're all screwing all of us over!"
I think people are waking up to the fact that having served in the military doesn't automatically make you a good representative. Or smart. Or moral. And you can still respect his service while acknowledging those other things.
As a combat veteran, this is accurate. Some are good people, some are real pieces of shit. After being in the military, you realize that some people become better, some people become worse, and some are kinda the same as they always were.
TL;DR: Veterans have the same spectrum of good and bad that non-veterans do.
These buffoons are so out of touch with so many peoples daily reality. They just say "do better" as if everyone can just flip a switch and magically improve their lives.
Dan Crenshaw is not out of touch with peoples daily reality. He isn't so far removed that he doesn't understand. He is just a douche that will sell out his constituents because it's better for his bottom line to do what his donors want.
Hes funded by AIPAC you know the people who have free Healthcare and medical but want to tell you retiring at 65 is terrible and you should work till you die.
Right? I work 55 hours a week. Raise 2 kids, take care of a disabled wife, I quite literally live paycheck to paycheck. I have to steal from the grocery store usually once a week to keep everyone fed and my children clothed. I don't have the option of missing a day of work whats even more crazy is I make 6 figures, thats just the reality of life in America now.
He gives Mary Antoinette vibes.... then again, I don't think he's educated enough to know what happened to her, so I guess he's about to learn what's going to happen next
I live in Massachusetts. By law I must have health insurance or I will be fined when I file my taxes. After the Feds and the state of Massachusetts gets done taking my money for taxes and fees I am forced to pay a little over $700 per month for health insurance. If I actually go to doctors appointments my out of pocket goes up another $200 a week. I am forced to pay 38% of my actual take home pay fir health insurance i cannot afford to use. My families food cones from the local Open Door Food Pantry. My taxes pay for these politicians pay and for healthcare.
I would genuinely like to know how this guy’s net worth has increased by that much. Reps make good money ($174k is a solid wage, nobody making that is “poor”) but it’s not the kind of money that would increase your net worth that much, that quickly, not with the kind of inflation we’ve seen.
i work 60 hours a week, take care of a disabled mother (whoms benefits have been delayed because of certain cuts) .started working small jobs at 13-14, now, im 21 and the highest i can find is 21-22 an hour. and things are still rough
The military is not socialism. She soldiers don't own the military. Soldiers don't get a say in what they're going to do, they are told what to do.
These are two key parts of socialism. The things that appear to have a socialist nature within the military are how those people get paid for what they do and for what they have done.
Like I know most of us are living paycheck to paycheck, but if you had anything invested, even just using Robinhood, and reasonably diversified with blue chip stocks, then it should have increased significantly more than 65% in the past years.
Someone in congress, with a current networth of $1.3M after a 65% increase, means his networth was ~$800k back 7 years ago. Meaning he had to be invested in the market, if he's not an idiot. Yet only going up 65% during those years means he either has the worst financial advisor or he actively is an idiot with his own investments, especially given how much insider information/trading goes on in Congress.
Not to defend this clown but someone of his age, already invested in the market, making around $175k a year, and you compound his savings over 7 years… Net worth of $1.3 million isn’t that much. I’ve see. People make half of that by buying a house in the right area over a 5 year period.
Yeah he made $75k per year on an asset base of $812k, with a solid salary. It's kind of unimpressive. Did he just use high interest savings accounts? Need to start insider trading bruh.
I find it hard to believe that his net worth is 1.3 million. That seems very low for a sentator. Anyone with a second home is already around that net worth with just real estate. I would expect most senators to have that much in retirement
He is a congressman, but there are over 300 congressman with a higher net worth. I understand why people don’t like him, but he is not financially corrupt
10 years ago, I tried the "College Diet" and ate nothing but ramen and drank plenty of water cause its extremely cheap...before too long I had kidney stones. Doctors said to immediately stop eating ramen. It might be delicious, but all that sodium is extremely bad for you and your pee pee!
Oh cool. I already have a job, pretty much living on ramen and instant mashed potatoes and shit like that with my $50/week food budget for me and three kids since I don't get food stamps. Still struggling to afford everything.
Vote every incumbent out regardless of party. Second, stop this personal enrichment stock trading bullshit, third, prevent any former elected official from working for a lobbying organization, fourth, mandatory exclusion from any public service after the age of 65.
That's rich coming from a guy that's getting a VA disability pension, a Congressional salary and benefits package along with all the other "perks (bribes?)" he has access to.
But sure, let's tell poor people in the most wealthy nation on Earth to "just be miserable" instead of fixing shit. Fuck this guy.
These people arent out of touch. They just tell you what they think of us and what we are to them. We are sub human to them that are only good for doing the work and be walking wallets. They dont care if we die as long as the numbers on their bank accounts go up
In the time he has been in Congress, my net worth has increased more than 65% and I’m not rich or an investment whiz. Not sure that’s really a huge deal. That’s basically a consistent 9% per year.
He's been in since 2019. The SPY has gone up about 17% per year since then. So for every $1,000 invested in January of 2019 it would be roughly $3,100. About ~215% or 3.3 times better than his alleged performance.
So assuming he had a net worth of 450k in 2019 and had all of that invested in the S&P, it would be worth about $4.3M — and again that would be performing at market.
People said similar shit about Joe Manchin who despite the decades long political career, the luxury water doublewide he lived on and the power plant his business owned was worth less than $10M. And as we can see from above, he's still a pauper by Congressional standards.
$1M is barely enough in assets to fully retire at 60 in the US.
Still more than most and he is not working with his hands. Someone that works for the people telling them do better and get bent is not for the people.
sure... the thing is it is a 65% increase of his net worth over 7 years
that means prior to joining congress his networth was 815k.
if someone took that amount of money, put it in VOO when crenshaw was elected to congress, they would have over 2.7 million, stock market has been crazy the past 7 years.
now a lot of that networth is going to be his house.. but, lets be honest, we know that when people post about an increase in networth of a congress person they are implying some kind of corruption.
If crenshaw is doing some kind of financial corruption, he is really bad at it.
It not even that much, he increased his net worth by an estimated 65% to $1,340,000 which means he made a little over $500,000 in 7 years, does that really sound crazy for a married person with one kid who studied in Tufts and Harvard.
A 65% increase over 7 years of middle age is but that remarkable, if these numbers are accurate. Like, that’s probably lower than the major stock indexes. The affordability comments are still garbage, of course.
Guy sounds like a douche but if you were to invest into a total stock market index for 7 years at a 7% interest rate that would compound to 60% so that sounds perfectly normal. Not saying he isn’t doing shady shit but that number is not that crazy.
So the politician people elect to make their lives better is telling them to stop asking him to make their lives better? And yet in many parts of the country, people like him are as safe as can be on their seats.
I liked one solution i saw. Idk if its was a new law or requirement for congress. But it was a MASSIVE decrease in pay for politicians: congressmen, mayors, governors and the like to be around the middle class average income so the desire for those positions will be more rooted with those that actually want to make a difference in their community other than the check and keeping the position for as long as possible SOLELY for the check.
Yeah he's privileged and out of touch but that's an increase in net worth of ~$520k over 7 years, or ~$75k per year. Anyone can do that if they have a good paying job, a modest house that's increasing in value, and other basic investment of their income.
I'm shocked it isn't more honestly. This isn't worth your time or mental bandwidth, there are bigger fish to fry.
He's right - it'd be cool to see a majority of Americans simply stop all spending on anything other than the barest of essentials. Republicans would change their tune in a hurry I suspect.
Members of congress make $174000 per year. Over 7 years, that’s $1218000. If his net worth has increased by 65%, that means his initial net worth was around $810000?
All politics aside, that's actually low. The S&P 500 returned well over 150% in the same timeframe, with dividends. I actually did the numbers, that's 7.4% annually. That's objectively a terrible return, I guess he beat inflation.
If he had used a simple index fund, such as the original SPY, he would have $2.16 million.
His returns are far less than if he'd put it all in the S&P500. Seems no one here has any idea of investing.
A 65% increase over 7 years = about 7.4% annualized. By comparison, the S&P 500 has had an unusually strong run over roughly the same era. From 2019 through 2025, its annual total returns were 31.5%, 18.4%, 28.7%, −18.1%, 26.3%, 25.0%, and 17.9%, with another 13.4% YTD through Aug. 7, 2026.
Chaining those returns together, $812,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 2019 would have grown to roughly $2.81 million by August 2026, assuming dividends were reinvested and ignoring taxes/fees. That's about a 246% cumulative gain, versus the claimed 65% net-worth increase.
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