I surprised we haven’t printed “Thoughts & Prayers” on the dollar bill. Yet.
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I surprised we haven’t printed “Thoughts & Prayers” on the dollar bill. Yet.
Eideard 
In 2019, the Hungarian Embassy in Washington paid two hundred and thirteen thousand dollars to Policy Impact Communications, a D.C.-based P.R. firm staffed by well-connected lobbyists. One of its board members is Dick Carlson—the director of the Voice of America under Ronald Reagan, the Ambassador to the Seychelles under George H. W. Bush, and, as it happens, Tucker Carlson’s father.
By the standards of sponsored diplomacy, though, a six-figure contract is hardly unusual. (In 2018, the government of Saudi Arabia paid American lobbyists more than thirty-eight million dollars.)… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/04/does-hungary-offer-a-glimpse-of-our-authoritarian-future