Hey, I know Hitler’s bad and all, but let’s not just pile on him, don’t lose track of the fact that other people have done bad things too. Did you see how the Social Democrats dealt with socialist revolutionaries?
That’s not what I’m saying, and it is disingenuous of you to make that comparison when I’ve clearly explicated the broader problem of nearly all politicians having bought into a system of fundamental corruption, and the even larger acceptance of fraudulent ‘wealth creation’ which allowed this entire scam to function in the first place. That Trump is so venal and corrupt to engage in this scam in the first place isn’t some kind of unique event in recent political history; it is an extension of how much of this corruption has become strictly normalized. When Nancy and Paul Pelosi make a continuous string of amazingly successful investments which are for sure not based upon inside information that the Speaker of the House fed to her husband, what Democrats other than fringy progressives are going to speak out against members of Congress and their immediate family members not being allowed to make frequent trades on the stock market, and how much of a news story is it when they do so?
At this point, Trump’s corruption is so open that nobody is actually very shocked and for a large number of his voters, it is part of his appeal in somehow getting back at all the other people in government who have enriched themselves, real and imagined, through their positions. It isn’t particularly newsworthy to report that, “Yes, Trump did another ethical breech” when he does them so frequently, and the Fox News response is to point out all of the ethical lapses that his critics have done.
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Again this is how we got here. The media just gave up reporting on Trump doing unprecedented terrible things. Instead just wrote wordy articles about how the system is messed up and other politicians had done bad things too, and then maybe mention how terrible and unprecedented and completely unlike those other things the thing Trump just did near the end. The average uninformed voter when it came up as a headline on their feed would just see “Trump did bad thing but other people did bad things too, system all messed up”
Using insider knowledge to invest in someone elses company, is not just a little bit less bad than what Trump did. Implying that is enabling Trump and is again exactly what gave us POTUS Trump. Setting up a company purely for the purpose of bribery (DJT only has value for that purpose, without being a conduit for cash from bad actors pockets to the POTUS it’s value sinks to zero) and then setting up a god-damned crypto currency for the same as publicly traded shares are too well regulated, is as closely related to dabbling in a little insider trading as mass murder is to shoplifting.
Though this has swung somewhat from OP should probably move to another thread if you want to continue.
I think he’s just lazy as fuck. And old. Being the president isn’t easy. To actually do all of the shit he said he would do would take a lot of work. A lot of meetings. Trump likes the easy way out.
Energetic coked-up Musk came in and said “I’ll do all the stuff, your people will cheer, and you’ll come out richer. You just gotta let me do anything I want.”
Trump said “ok sounds good to me” and here we are.
Yeah this and also offered him an enormous pile of cash. I’d be interested to know if the whoole Trumpcoin thing happened directly after that meeting, as a suggested method of receiving said enormous pile of cash (it would be pretty easy I think for Musk to ensure Trumpcoin keeps rising year-on-year without blatantly just sinking billions of dollars)