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Interested in buying a ring once owned by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Emoluments)? Sorry, you can’t afford it.
In Los Angeles next month, the tony auction house Bonhams will present “Legacy of a Stateswoman: The Personal Collection of Senator Dianne Feinstein,” an auction of some of the far-left former senator’s possessions. Be sure to show up with a full checkbook, as you’ll likely have to plunk down as much as $100,000 for Irish/American painter William Alexander Coulter’s “Ships Sailing in the San Francisco Bay with Fort Point in the Distance.”
If that’s a bit rich for your blood, you could settle for a set of two paintings by the fifteenth-century Italian artist Neri Di Bicci, “Saint Sebastian” and “Saint Apollonia,” which you may be able to grab for $70,000, or, if it’s your lucky day and bidding is light, the low low price of only $50,000.
Then again, if fine art is not your thing, there is Feinstein’s platinum and diamond ring, “centering a round diamond weighing 4.14 carats, flanked by tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 0.50 carat total, size 8,” and yours for — again, if bidding is fierce — around $65,000.
Amid all this opulence, there are bargains galore. There is a pair of Chinese famille-rose “Phoenix” vases from the Guangxu period (1875-1908); they’re a real steal, as they’re expected to go for only six to eight grand.
This is, as the name of the auction informs us, Dianne Feinstein’s legacy: after a lifetime in government, she was a fantastically wealthy woman. And apparently, since Bonhams explicitly relates the exorbitantly priced baubles of her wealth to her political career, that is the message Feinstein or her estate wants to send to the American people: if you want to get rich, get into politics.
The biggest joke on the American people is that the people who serve in the U.S. government are still known as “public servants,” when in reality, they’re fattening themselves at the public trough and enjoying the fantastic perks that are otherwise accorded only to the extremely wealthy, all on the taxpayer dime. And with so many people around them willing to pay top dollar — all in strictly aboveboard ways, mind you! — for influence and access, it’s no wonder that so many politicians would become extremely wealthy themselves.
Historian and journalist Daniel Greenfield observes: “It’s funny just how insanely wealthy our ‘public servants’ are. This is the kind of thing you expect from European royalty, not former American government officials. But how much of a difference is there really?”
Virtually none at this point. And that is likely why the “stateswoman” Feinstein hung on so long, “serving” in the Senate from 1992 until her death in 2023 at age 90. “Public service” in the United States today is so comfortable and lucrative that people can’t bring themselves to surrender the reins of power once they get them.
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Captain Quirk says
Sorry sir, but she married rich men, one of whom was a banker. That doesn’t make her corrupt.
Left Coast says
In your mind neither does her Chinese Spy Driver . . .
Maybe not as Corrupt as the Bidens . . . but almost All Dems are Corrupt today, especially the ones in California . . .
jus wundrin says
Her history on the corrupt senate intel committee says different.
Captain Quirk says
Specifically, she married a certain Richard C. Blum. Vide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum
This guy did exceedingly well.
David M says
Did you know US Senators are legally able to inside trade the stock market?
somehistory says
That is the way many of them get filthy rich….such as n pelosi has done. And they pass info along to close family members without any fear of things going wrong for them.
James Lincoln says
David M,
Insider-trading is still illegal – no matter who does it.
It still happens – but enforcement is selective.
Emilie Green says
They go to Washington to “do good,” and wind you doing very well.
somehistory says
Her “legacy” is the sum of her material assets?
George Washington and some of the other early presidents were wealthy. But their “legacies” were not what they owned, but what they did for their fellowman, what they stood for, and their moral courage.
This woman who was in the senate for so long had nothing except her material possessions…and it seems as if she was fairly materialistic…to show for her ‘service.’. That doesn’t say much for her; and maybe is a letdown for those who voted her into office so many times.
It should cause a pause in the thinking of those who vote for creatures who do nothing to make their lives better and richer; instead, making the one voted in rich.
Rarely says
Just not factual. Her personal wealth did not come from her service. See Captain Quirk above.
Why try to blacken her name after so many years of service? She didn’t “need” the “job”.
somehistory says
What I wrote is “factual.” the article quoted the auction house regarding the woman’s “legacy.”
Did it say anything about what she had accomplished while “serving” in the Senate and that some documents regarding her ‘service’ would be for sale? Hint: not all they do is “classified.”
I’m not trying to “blacken her name” Whether or not she “needed the job” has nothing to do with what I wrote. If she married wealth, that doesn’t, in and of itself, prove that she wasn’t interested in getting wealth of her own. Whether or not she ‘needed’ the money, she kept running for the ‘job.’ And made money.
She evidently didn’t turn down the paycheck she received for her “service.”
if she didn’t do it for the money, then it was solely for the power, because even when she was losing it mentally, had to be wheeled around, and her aids were doing the work, she kept running for office.
So, why try to “blacken” my comment with nonsense?
Rarely says
Doing it for “power”? Speculating on her motives? Some people (not enough, I’ll admit) are in it to serve and feel they have something to contribute. Not refusing the pay check is zero evidence that she was in it for the money (or the power for that matter). Faulty conclusions backed by no evidence = blackening her name.
One may disagree with her politics without criticizing her character.
somehistory says
rarely, you just can’t seem to understand comments. If you re-read my first comment, if you read it in the first place, you’ll see that I didn’t ‘blacken’ her “character.”
I said if her “legacy”….a word used by the auction house…was her jewelry, paintings,…a.k.a. material things which cost lots of money….then there was not much to the woman’s contributions.
“her accomplishments”. must have just been what she could buy with the money she made from the taxpaying public….You are the one trying to say what her motivations were…”service” to the people….
Actions say a lot about why a person does certain things.
She stayed in ‘power’ a heck of a long time and what did she accomplish worth calling a ‘legacy’? the auction house said it’s her material wealth.
So take your admiration for a woman who had no effect on you to the next person who makes a comment on the article, because I’m done trying to help you understand the facts.
E T says
Some, I live on a bay in Northern Ontario. Lots of loons, my favourite one I named Rarely.
somehistory says
Thank you, E.T. That’s cute.
Rarely says
E T probably voted for Trudeau. I suspect there’s a little too much inbreeding up there (except for the fine people in Thunder Bay, of course).
Captain Quirk says
Remember the ‘praesumptio innocentiae’, the presumption of innocence? Come on, folks, that’s not the way things work! Prove it! ‘Wo steht denn dass’? ‘Zeigen sie mir!’
somehistory says
“Prove” what? She was rich….had a lot of bling….and the auction house called it her “legacy.”
Rarely says
That the auction house calls the bling her legacy is meaningless to her years of service. Bonhams is not speaking of her record as active politician but merely her legacy as a “collector” of some valuable pieces of bling.
Then commentors on this website conclude she must have acquired her wealth by abusing her position (e.g. insider trading inuendoes) without the slightest bit of evidence and plenty against.
somehistory says
Not “concluding” anything of the sort. But saying it’s possible that some of her wealth came from being a senator for a very ….toooooo long….time.
What documents are there that say she was a successful senator who actually helped Americans?
Rarely says
somehistory
I have no interest in debating her political record. It may be good or bad based on one’s point of view.
BUT there is nothing to show that she was in any way dishonest or unduly profited financially from her years in service.
Criticize her political record as much as one likes but it is unfair (to say the least) to try to blacken her name by insinuating that her wealth was a result of dishonesty in her political career. If one has evidence of ill doings let’s see it.
Not all wealthy politicians are Spiro Agnews.
somehistory says
You see, rarely, it’s just as I wrote in the other response to you. The things I posted related to the house calling her “legacy” the things she owned….not what she did as a senator. Nothing like what could be said about people such as George Washington and others who were also wealthy, but made big differences in people’s lives.
As I also wrote that I was done with an attempt to explain that to you. so, now, I’m done once again, because you just can’t get it straight.
Just as you insulted E.T……she may not be from Canada at all….and she has said how her children are in Florida…U.S.A. because she poked a little fun at you.
So argue with someone who is on your level of understanding…like the captain q.
And when you do, advise him I’m not one of his “folks.” In the South of the U.S.A., that’s what we call family.
Neil Frank says
Corruption
40 rounds says
Despite those defending the late senator, she was able to employ a Chinese spy which to me speaks volumes toward either her naivety, stupidity, or complacency. None is acceptable for someone in her position
somehistory says
So true, 40. Honesty and integrity should be the hallmarks of someone making laws for others to obey, and be willing to obey those laws.
Many, if not most, politicians fall very, very far short of being even near honesty or even knowing what integrity is all about..
James Lincoln says
Dianne Feinstein / Joe Biden should be the “poster politicians” for mandatory cognitive testing of all US elected officials.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, we had a senator whose daughter had power of attorney, but whose aides would help her on how to vote
Just like there are minimum ages that one can be a member of Congress, there ought to be a maximum limit as well. 80 is a nice round number: once a congressman hits his/her 80th birthday, his/her seat should automatically be vacated in favor of a special election
Same rule for POTUS and judges (And no, Trump being hale and hearty is the exception, which should not be the basis for a rule!)
CalvinsLutheran says
Politicians are those souls who have the job of doing what the so called “honest upright” general public will not do. Crawl around in the filthy spaces of the underworld of human corruption. Indeed a nasty job but somebody’s got to do it. Regular everyday people scarcely study the government they live under enough to vote which is corruption in and of itself. Yet complain when those who do the job do as they Machiavellian must do. The complainers rail against the police and simultaneously shriek “DEFUND THE POLICE” while those politicians who conduct the choruses live in gated communities with personal security agencies. The apolitical numbskulls actually have their lives of insouciant catatonic stupidity because others do the nasty work. Politics is inherently nasty as is the proctologist’s job. So why complain about the proctologist’s mansion? When somebody knows their ish they automatically receive compensation. Politics is pragmatically Machiavellian so either pick up a campaign of your own or stuff it. Government of, for and by the people when the masses are corrupted by their own SLOTH is what it is!! Charles de Gaulle produced the Eurabian EU we see today because Europeans sweetly allowed such. Christianity is not for the weak so Europeans chose SECULAR POST MODERNIST DECONSTRUCTIONISM and sold their churches to be converted to Mosques. After all of the persecution Christians have suffered the EU has abandoned the Judeo-Christian foundation it rests upon in order to support the 1400 hundred year old anti-Christ agent of persecution of Christians and Jews to come on in and enjoy our ❤️ love. Yet Europeans found Christian asylum seekers utterly LOATHSOME. For those of you who can add I ask: “What is the bottom line?” Read everything written by Robert Spencer and Bat Ye’or for a start. Then ask Angela Merkel what was she thinking? Dr. Benjamin Spock said on the way to his dirt nap “ I’ve ruined an entire generation” Angela Merkel said “we can do this!” Today’s state of affairs as produced by those two look abysmally more like a Utopia that Anton Zandor LaVey or Aleister Crowley would relish. I have a heavy heart for the both of them.
E T says
Ask Kamala Harris what she thinks about the Global Pandemic Treaty. Gate’s ex is throwing time and money into Kamala’s campaign. (Mandatory vaccinations MONEY)
The WHO will have the power to:
Declare pandemic emergencies ( Event 201)
Enforce restrictive measures on you and your family
MANDATORY VACCINATIONS
Central power — more surveillance
Block travel, work, freedom to worship…….
UNELECTED authorities will impose quarantine on travel, work……
Ask Kamala Harris about the International Health Regulations
Who will have all the power — the WHO
gravenimage says
‘Legacy of a Stateswoman’: Dianne Feinstein’s Fantastic Wealth on Display at Auction
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The saddest thing regardng Diane Feinstein is that you probably are not going to find anyone nearly as sane from the San Francisco bay area at this point.
Rufolino says
Thank your lucky stars Trump is rich beyond the dreams of avarice through his business success and he didn’t need to pick up his President’s pay cheque.
Rarely says
Very clever of him to choose wealthy parents.
somehistory says
Yes, yes, it was. And he kept “building” on it. Better than stealing it from the American taxpayer through raises Senators give themselves.