• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      My hunch...

      He'll be on the board of directors of like maybe as many as 10 companies. It could be all the companies you mentioned. I have no idea how much those positions pay but it doesn't matter - he'll use those seats as networking, leverage and for grifting. Watch him get his vile, grifty daughter on the boards too. Fuckers.

      He'll get some sweet, sweet sinecure (At perhaps Amazon?) with a title like special senior consultant. He'll get paid seven figures and he won't actually have to do any real work. If he likes to travel - he'll "consult" in Italy or Japan or Brazil or wherever he wants to go on the snazzy corporate jet with whoever he wants to travel with him. He'll get other perks up the yazoo. He probably will do nearly all his "work" remotely. But he might actually have to physically go to a location in the US a few times a year for show.

      He'll actually get far more than seven figures annually due to his stock options and the fact that the US media sucks ass. So when Manchin is on year 5 (or whatever) of his Amazon gig and he cashes them in - he'll get $60 million or whatever. And the media will pretend that's not somehow actually part of the way Amazon pays him. It's some kind of magic event not directly connected to his job.

      Speeches. He goes somewhere, opens his mouth, the wordy words come out for a couple hours and they give him $100,000 or whatever,

      I'm sure there are ez grifts beyond the board of directors, sinecures, and speeches but they aren't coming to mind right now.


      Ninja edit

      The salaries of Boards of Director in the US range from $20,665 to $560,142 , with a median salary of $100,898.

      As I understand it - their entire "job" is going to meetings a few times a year. And many grifters are on loads of board of directors. Ez money.


      Edit

      MasterShakeVoice mentioned an obvious grift I forgot about...

      • sell access to foreign governments
      • MasterShakeVoice [undecided]
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        3 years ago

        There are also various Foundation/NGO grifts. And you can sell access to foreign governments like Larry Summers or Tony Blair, although Manchin probably isn't actually diplomatic enough for that

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          sell access to foreign governments

          Ah. That too. How could I forget that?

          Manchin probably isn’t actually diplomatic enough for that.

          You never know. He loves money.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        yeah, this is pretty much my guess too. he's also already made many millions during his career, so everything he gets is just a bonus to him. he could not give less of a fuck about anyone else.