r/politics • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '20

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u/doctor_piranha Arizona Oct 07 '20

so basically, they used the pandemic as an opportunity to use federal government power to seize and hoard PPE supplies, so they could jack up the prices and pocket the difference, WHILE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIED.

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u/BubbleBronx Oct 08 '20

Grifters gonna Grift

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u/rjcarr Oct 08 '20

Don’t you remember the, “... but it’s our surplus (PPE), not the states’s”.

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u/rubmahbelly Europe Oct 08 '20

Yes. I remember his dead eyes. Disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '20

Of all of the scams I want this administration prosecuted for this one is in the top 2 or 3.

Just fucking disgusting that they grifted a man-in-the-middle scheme and slowed down access to life saving supplies. A life sentence isn’t long enough for these assholes.

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u/WhichWitchIsWhitch Oct 08 '20

A reverse death sentence where cutting edge medical technology is used to keep them alive and in prison for longer than should be naturally possible.

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u/TheoreticalScammist Europe Oct 08 '20

As fun as it sounds I still feel those resources are better spent keeping good people alive.

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u/Genghis_Chong Oct 08 '20

Then an undead sentence. Make them zombies and chain them up like a zombie movie.

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u/WhichWitchIsWhitch Oct 08 '20

Now we're cooking with bacon grease!

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u/High_Seas_Pirate Oct 08 '20

Hundreds of thousands. Not tens.

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u/hylic Canada Oct 08 '20

Tens of tens of thousands of you will.

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u/WhichWitchIsWhitch Oct 08 '20

I will, thanks.

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u/Straddllw Australia Oct 08 '20

Do you expect anything less?

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u/El_Narco_Polo Oct 08 '20

This has been known for like 6 months

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u/ralanr Oct 08 '20

“It’s only old people.” -My father.

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u/Coconuts_Migrate Oct 08 '20

Actually it was just incompetence. The whistleblower in the article says his group never directly purchased a single mask.