• donut4ever@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, this sounds ridiculous. So basically grab as much cash as possible on your way out? It always baffles me as to why and who votes for people like these? People who clearly work so hard against their own citizens.

    • merridew@feddit.uk
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      "Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled."

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger#Modern_use