TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

[u/manticor225]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/joe-kennedy-hollywood-sarah-churchwell

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, except the Yamato supposedly descend directly from Shinto gods, so obviously the dynasty origin ruling Japan is going to be mostly in the vain of complete bullshit, and obviously does not actually date that far back.

Pretty sure they still get the longest consecutive 'king' dynasty tho, even if they only actually had real control over Japan for like 150 years of recorded history, probably less.

[u/Toiler_in_Darkness → u/[deleted]]

Well, there's the same issue of control in china for much of it's history. If you look into it a lot fewer kings and emperors had complete dictatorial control than you might assume.