We were always told the framers of the Constitution were old timey genius’s, but they couldn’t foresee a corrupt piece of shit selling pardons? It’s ridiculous and should never have been a presidential power. They fucked up.
They expected that voters/citizens and other branches of govt wouldn’t stand for it.
Instead they’re either in on it or too cowardly to do anything.
In all fairness, they never could have prepared for the impact the internet has on politics.
Radio alone was enough to kill any argument for the electoral college.
If not the telegram and daily national news.
Let’s be honest they’re opium is nothing like modern fentanyl. Their weapons are nothing like what I can pick up at Walmart. Their methods of communication weren’t even in their infancy compared to things like telephony in the internet.
Some of them would be high off their tits in the street, I’m certain Benjamin Franklin would be addicted to porn…
Ben never would have survived the AIDS crisis.
He would have died doing what he loved.
Old ladies.
Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.
They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.
Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.
They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.
Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.
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Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.
My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.
Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
My conspiracy theory is Rand Paul hand-delivered a key to Putin when he flew to Moscow.
Not a hypothetical. I spend a lot of time in Asian factories as they’re bringing up more capacity to avoid Chinese tariffs. The vast majority fund their out-of-China-operations with BTC because they can move it around without interference from the Chinese government. I saw more than a few Russian groups touring these new factories.
Trump is a giant fraudster. This is a surprise?
Trump rightfully should be in prison
Dead in a bunker like his predecessor
Embrace the grift.
What’s the going rate? Last I checked it was a cool two mil
3.5 now
Get that paper
How about freeing a black or Mexican person for being black or Mexican?
birds of a feather
At first I thought “wow Trump has a friend’s back” then I remembered Trump doesn’t have any friends, hmmm why he do this?
They never recover all the funds fraudsters come out of prison with laundered money in hard to track accounts so I’ll give you three guesses and I’ll be real disappointed if you need more than one.
Ah. More bribes.
