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Here's your Saudi corruption

Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:22 am
Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
5340 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:22 am
This is the type of person we've chosen to partner with. $450 million for one painting. frick him.

He tortures his relatives and extorts their wealth and then like the spoiled pussy that he really is, tries to hide this. Not one American life is worth losing over the protection Saudi Arabia. Let the Iranians crush them as far as I'm concerned. Ditto Israel.

U.S. government intelligence and a Middle East art-world figure familiar with the purchase say Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman used a proxy to purchase the 500-year-old ‘Salvator Mundi’

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“The image of the crown prince spending that much money to buy a painting when he’s supposed to be leading an anticorruption drive is staggering,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and leading expert on Saudi politics.


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Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
45232 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:24 am to
Finally get a good Muslim to run the KSA and we freak out over a painting. What does this have to do with corruption?
Posted by Erin Go Bragh
Beyond the Pale
Member since Dec 2007
14916 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:26 am to
Netflix has a good documentary on the Da Vinci painting in question.

I really don't care how people spend their money.

There are no heroes in that part of the word. You chose your friends and allies for strategic purposes only.
This post was edited on 12/8/17 at 8:28 am
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
118853 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:28 am to
MbS is exterminating all the Democrat and Republican Never Trumper donors in Saudi Arabia.

Good man.

Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
5340 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:28 am to
quote:

Finally get a good Muslim to run the KSA and we freak out over a painting. What does this have to do with corruption?


Wow, do I really have to explain it to you?
Posted by Samso
nyc
Member since Jun 2013
4730 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:30 am to
You act like the $450M was an expense.
Posted by jamboybarry
Member since Feb 2011
32654 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:31 am to
I don't give a frick about some goofy painting that dick overpaid for. I'm more concerned about the 3000+ people KSA had a hand in killing on 9/11 that we still don't have all the info on.
Posted by SECSolomonGrundy
Slaughter Swamp
Member since Jun 2012
15895 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:31 am to
Yeah, please explain how him buying a painting is corruption.
Posted by LSUnation78
Northshore
Member since Aug 2012
12074 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:32 am to
Ah yes, a Clowns in America displeased with the changes in Saudi Arabia.

I dont recall hearing the cia talk about the “optics” of Waleed’s hundreds a millions of dollars given to the clinton foundation. Atleast the crown prince got a painting for his money... what exactly did Waleed get for his money?

Well, the cost of buying Hillary is now apparently being strung up by your feet and interrogated.
Posted by ItTakesAThief
Scottsdale, Arizona
Member since Dec 2009
9202 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:34 am to
Money laundering or using the money he is extorting from the people he arrested
Posted by bamarep
Member since Nov 2013
51807 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:35 am to
You're really this spun up over who bought a damn painting?


You had the option to out bid him you know.
Posted by LSUnation78
Northshore
Member since Aug 2012
12074 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:35 am to
The saudi royals have spent huge amounts of money on luxury goods for as long as I can remember.


Can you show me your outrage and indignation when Waleed gave hundreds if millions to clinton foundation to buy favor?
Posted by uway
Member since Sep 2004
33109 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:36 am to
quote:

Finally get a good Muslim to run the KSA and we freak out over a painting. What does this have to do with corruption


The CIA is losing its touch if this is the best they can do.
Posted by LSUnation78
Northshore
Member since Aug 2012
12074 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:37 am to
Do you think he needed to take their money in order to buy the painting?
Posted by LSUnation78
Northshore
Member since Aug 2012
12074 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:37 am to
True desperation on their part.
Posted by Sidicous
Middle of Nowhere
Member since Aug 2015
17188 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:42 am to
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
7580 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:45 am to
$450MM is chump change.
These guys have trillions hidden all over the world.
Posted by SECSolomonGrundy
Slaughter Swamp
Member since Jun 2012
15895 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:49 am to
What's most interesting is the painting sold a few years back from a New Orleans gallery for 10k.


We all missed out on that one baws.
Posted by choke
Member since Dec 2015
790 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:54 am to
Can he not buy whatever he wants with his own money?
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6851 posts
Posted on 12/8/17 at 8:57 am to
The painting is an investment. It will increase in value over the years...smart move.
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