Why don't Americans call inordinately powerful and corrupt people oligarchs?
Habits are hard to break, and we've always called them congresspeople.
(A joke I wrote myself) A Russian man walks through the streets of Moscow.
As he passes by the headquarters of a major company, he notices a poor man in decrepit clothes standing by the building, seemingly waiting for something, looking at the sky. "Another poor crazy weirdo", he thinks. He keeps on walking.
The next day, he passes near another company's HQ, and see...
Did you hear the joke about the Russian Oligarchs?
Neither did anybody else, because the Secret Service was kept away due to "privacy concerns"
A lawyer, a spy, a mob boss and two Russian oligarchs walk into a bar. The bartender says...
"You guys must be here to talk about adoption."
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