For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office.
Harry Truman refused to lend his name to any business, even in retirement. Richard Nixon so feared a brother might profit off their ties, he had his phone tapped. And George W. Bush dumped his individual stock holdings before taking office.
Donald Trump is taking a different approach.
The family real estate business is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its founding a century ago, each deal potentially shaping everything from tariffs to military aid.
Led by Eric, and his brother, Donald Jr., the family business has expanded into cryptocurrencies with ventures that brought in billions of dollars but raised questions about whether some big investors received favorable treatment in return.
We need to elect someone who, among other critical traits, is comfortable with approving bills to limit their own power and the power of their successors.
I don’t believe that will actually be possible.
Enforcement of the emoluments clause is all it takes. Enforcement is what’s failing in the US.
You need to get the sycophants out of congress first. Theyre all intentionally complicit. Ds and Rs.
Every American who agrees with you needs to VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS at a minimum, or you’ll continue to see the same incumbents in the generals. Bonus: not as many people vote in the primaries so your vote “counts” even more.
And if you’re in a deep red state, I encourage voting in the Republican primary with the goal of harm reduction. Plus, you could LARP as an anthropomorphic version of a QVC July 4th surplus blowout sale, in order to blend in.
The existing system is designed to make that as difficult as possible. Elections are on a weekday, and you have to register months in advance often. They want to make you have your birth certificate a passport now too. This is an uphill battle and I dont blame anyone that finds in incomprehensible.
Eventually the chickens come home to roost. If you beat people down enough they will revolt. The benefit of keeping a minimum wage job starts to seem irrelevant if you cant pay your bills either way.
Quit normalizing Trump’s bullshit.
Or it could open the door to civil forfeiture of their crime money, with enough fines, penalties, and jail time to wipe the out for life. I like my way better.
I’ve been fanning the flames of that hope for a while now. If they can seize the money in your wallet and charge it eith a crime, they sure as hell can do the same to thrit crime money.
The problem (for now) is that those responsible for bringing charges are unwilling to set that precedent.
I’ve put my Dem candidates on notice - they get one more vote. If they don’t get this dealt with (as much as they can given they won’t have the White House) they needn’t bother asking again; the answer will be fuck off you’re worthless.
Future?
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the plan is for the trump family to rule us for decades.
We have laws against treason that just need to be enforced.
It should lead to prison and new laws and constitutional amendments.
No new laws needed. Just enforce the emoluments clause.
Man, yet another thing on the pile of things easily avoidable by FUCKING VOTING.
Well, Kamala cackled and there was the genocide, so I so tots had to stay home and/or vote for a bullshit party. Or at least do so much bitching about the Democratic Party that I convinced others to take that course of action!
And I don’t feel the least bit sorry for it, because I’m Morally Superior! Toodles!
–More than a few conversations I’ve had with a few maximalist contrarians. Some of it IRL, unfortunately.
If every moral abstainer/third party voter had voted for Kamala in 2024, Trump would still be President. There simply weren’t enough of them to matter.
The door’s been open…
It’s just trump is so bad at hiding it, everyone can notice.
The problem is most people still don’t understand it’s not new, just being obvious is new.
It’s not new, but the nazis are 100x more egregious… even more than Bush junior, who already deserved to be tried in the hague and imprisoned for life.
It’s not new, but the nazis are 100x more egregious
Yes…
That is a different way to say exactly what I had already said
Wait, the dude profiting off the office may inspire others to profit off the office?
Fucking unbelievable.
The capability had always been there but most people who reach that office understand who they’re there to serve: the people, not themselves. There’s also a fairly obvious conflict of interest along with it not being a particularly principled thing to do.
All of these things the orange moron lacks.
APNews is nothing but trump sane-washing now…
Current lawlessness allows potential future lawlessness…
Fucking morons…
Politics has always attracted way more sleazy types than honourable types. This just fortifies that. How do we attract the honourable types, who are capable, but want nothing to do with this current bullshit?
It should “open the door” to all of these motherfuckers spending the rest of their lives in prison, FFS.
