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This feels like whataboutism. That line of argument isn’t new and is often associated with pro-Kremlin narratives—do you have a more substantive point to add?
Or just simply pointing out the usual blind political hypocrisy ...
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I suspect in the aftermath of this administration, the power of the President as a whole is going to be massively stripped back.
Has not happened after other catastrophic administrations. Each party likes the power when they get hold of it.
Congresscritters like personal power. Trump has neutered even his own party's legislators and they do not like it, even if they fall in line out of fear. Keep in mind even when Trump is in power, his own party goes through processes like "pro forma" sessions which prevent him from making recess appointments.
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#53Given the scope of all government officials it should just be the case that you cannot trade individual equities, stocks or have any outside investments wholesale. Otherwise how could you stop it? It’s not like when you work at big co and you just stop trading their stock. You get access to information that clearly will be material potentially months in advance.
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#54Despite the apathy of Americans, I continue to have hope that there will be consequences for all recent and past actions. It's unfortunate that recent events are only the tip of the iceberg, too many to even remember.
What were the consequences after 2008 financial crisis?
We created a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to try to head off that kind of crisis before it happened again.
We got rid of it last year.
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Pelosi got a free Presidential jet and scooped the inside trades on Iran? Trump set a stratosphereic high bar for examples par excellence, I doubt all of Pelosi's husband trades add up to a signifigant fraction of Trump's crypto gains alone.
You can actually buy an iOS app that mimicks Nancy Pelosi stock picks! Top that!
Irrelevant to the matter of scale - Trump's corruption easily exceeds that of Pelosi.
More to the point, this is simple what-about-ism to avoid facing up to corruption in the US government and the poressing need (for many decades now) to take effective action.
As it stands, the emoluments clause and the impeachment wrist slapping make the US a standing joke for poor definition of problem and inability to punish.
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Pelosi got a free Presidential jet and scooped the inside trades on Iran? Trump set a stratosphereic high bar for examples par excellence, I doubt all of Pelosi's husband trades add up to a signifigant fraction of Trump's crypto gains alone.
You can actually buy an iOS app that mimicks Nancy Pelosi stock picks! Top that!
Sure. This one’s free. https://www.trumpcorruptiontracker.com/
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#57Why bother reporting this - it's obviously happening and it's obvious that nothing is going to happen about it.
For sure nothing will happen with the defeatist attitude
It does encourage you to focus on something that you might be able to fix, instead of being constantly dragged from one outage to the next.
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What were the consequences after 2008 financial crisis?
What were the crimes you believe were committed in 2008 and who do you think committed those crimes?
You seem to think you’ve found some sort of gotcha. There were plenty of crimes committed in the MBS world. See GS, Credit Suisse, and others. However very few were prosecuted at the individual level.
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What were the consequences after 2008 financial crisis?
Nothing Stock market at all time highs Miami houses selling north of $150,000,000.00 No one cares about that crisis anymore The markets keep ripping no matter what Just some hiccups along the way
You’re correct, but this is unsustainable.