The administration seems to be pro-crime, which is very problematic.
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This urge to defend the indefensible and “both sides” the most corrupt administration in American history is exactly the problem. Go take a look in the mirror.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
on a daily basis the current US president commits treason against the people of the united states, which im pretty sure even presidential immunity doesnt protect against. Just one of the shady dealings with foreign monarchies, laudering their bribes directly to the president thru billion dollar purchases of worthless crypto "assets" ala world liberty financial; should land the president and his entire family in capit…
When you view it through the lens of Graft First, everything makes sense. All the seeming stupidity, ineptitude, and hypocrisy is just to make a buck. Governing doesn't even appear to be an afterthought. I still haven't figured out how he's profiting from Trump Accounts yet. Kick backs I suppose.
>I still haven't figured out how he's profiting from Trump Accounts yet
I would guess that he could have been paid in many various ways (TrumpCoins anyone) by financial institution(s) that were set to benefit from the accounts. Have the trump crypto companies followed all of the KYC laws?
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#43This is just more than a little fucked up... I think we've "limited" liability way too much in terms of corporations... it's the investors that are meant to be protected, executives and board members are not meant to be immune. And I do think in the worst cases, the death penalty should be on the table. edit: to be clear, IMO, corporate power is an expression of govt power, which should be minimized.
At some point the broad strokes of libertarianism became exactly what we expected.
Naked corruption and public harm, without consequences.
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#44The administration seems to be pro-crime, which is very problematic.
Every administration caters to its donors.
I mean, _kinda_? This kind of reflexive both-sides-ism works to obfuscate the _huge_ difference in scale, _and_ the occasional, small-but-real attempts of mostly democrats to do something about it.
Now, if the democrats had more big donors than republicans, maybe they wouldn't? But that's a counterfactual that we can't know. But we do know that Bush 1 vetoed a soft money limit passed mostly by democrats, and that Clinton pushed for one, but didn't get it done.
McCain-Feingold passed the Senate with 48 out of 50 D votes (96%), and 11 of 38 R votes (29%) (and one I (100%)), the House with 198 of 210 D (94%), and house, 41 out of 217 R (19%), 1 out of 2 I (50%). Then it was a mostly R appointed Supreme Court that gutted it. Then a _more_ R appointed court that has continued to whittle it down.
For all that the Democrats don't go far enough, there is a _huge_ difference between the parties on this.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
don't forget Trump's 90 minute call w/ Putin on the 4th of July a few days ago https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/europe/putin-trump-call-indep... or that time multiple US congressmen were forced to spend the 4th in Moscow https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visi...
I don't understand why people keep using things like this as their examples. JFK met with Khrushchev. Bush Senior and Reagan had regular contact with Gorbachev. It's not weird for heads of state to talk to each other. What's weird is for Trump to be paying tax dollars to cancel energy projects because he doesn't like windmills or using the FCC to investigate media outlets who criticize him. There are plenty of good e…
Because it's not quite the same; JFK et. al. weren't dumb enough to trust the Russians during those contacts. This administration, though…
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-ukraine-war-trum...
> President Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from the Kremlin, a U.S. official and two Western officials with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427505-trump-put...
> President Trump reportedly met late last year with Russian President Vladimir Putin without a translator or aide from his administration present.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why people keep using things like this as their examples. JFK met with Khrushchev. Bush Senior and Reagan had regular contact with Gorbachev. It's not weird for heads of state to talk to each other. What's weird is for Trump to be paying tax dollars to cancel energy projects because he doesn't like windmills or using the FCC to investigate media outlets who criticize him. There are plenty of good e…
Because it's not quite the same; JFK et. al. weren't dumb enough to trust the Russians during those contacts. This administration, though… https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-ukraine-war-trum... > President Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from…
This seems like the same class of complaining about something ridiculous. If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else? What advantage would that have compared with lying to you in Russian and having it translated accurately?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it's not quite the same; JFK et. al. weren't dumb enough to trust the Russians during those contacts. This administration, though… https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-ukraine-war-trum... > President Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from…
This seems like the same class of complaining about something ridiculous. If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else? What advantage would that have compared with lying to you in Russian and having it translated accurately?
I think we're worried about the Trump administration lying about what they talked to the Russians about. A translator with loyalty to the USA might request what they heard.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it's not quite the same; JFK et. al. weren't dumb enough to trust the Russians during those contacts. This administration, though… https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-ukraine-war-trum... > President Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from…
This seems like the same class of complaining about something ridiculous. If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else? What advantage would that have compared with lying to you in Russian and having it translated accurately?
> If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else?
Why not? The only other person in the room doesn't speak Russian.
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This seems like the same class of complaining about something ridiculous. If Putin wants to lie to you about something, do you expect him to speak the truth in Russian and then have his translator tell you something else? What advantage would that have compared with lying to you in Russian and having it translated accurately?
I think we're worried about the Trump administration lying about what they talked to the Russians about. A translator with loyalty to the USA might request what they heard.
Which is an even more fanciful conspiracy theory since the objection was Trump not bringing his own translator, a person he could otherwise personally select for their loyalty to him.