It'd be nice if our elected officials, president, literally anyone in power could speak as thoughtfully the guy famous for, "fuck your couch".
https://t.co/3nKKU3EXwC
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
Within one 24 hour period, Trump:
- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion
All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.
But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."
Trump bought COREWEAVE bonds before they got bailed out by NVIDIA—whose CEO went on the trip to China.
Trump bought BOEING bonds just before Scott Bessent announces an order of jets by China. Boeing’s CEO was also there.
I cannot even believe what I’m seeing here. Even for him.
Never forget the GOP lawmakers & right-wing media who babbled endlessly about Hunter Biden yet remain silent at the grotesque levels of Trump and family self-enrichment. And if you think the family's days in politics will be over when Trump Sr. is gone, you still don't get it.
Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?