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- cross-posted to:
- boycottus@lemmy.ca
- politics
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
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But he DOESNT take a Salary!
-Really Smart Republican Voters!
People hate on trump but he’s honestly the perfect image of American Culture. That’s probably why he was chosen as a muppet for whoever owns him.
he is the final symptom of a larger disease yes.
final
Pretty optimistic
he was chosen because he is an easily manipulated moron, he doesnt represent all or even half of us.
He’s your president, like it or not he represents the United States, all of it
Which is exactly the mindset of Americans. That’s exactly what my original post means.
ohh you lumped us all into one megalith gotcha
As bad as he is as a person, Trump isn’t the cause of the problems, he is a manifestation of them. He exploits them for personal gain but the system allows him to do it. The problems will not be resolved if there is another presidential election and he isn’t re-elected. The problems are deeper. To resolve them, a very broadly based restoration of ethics is required.
‘Expressing alarm’ is meaningless without actually responding to the alarm. That whole article is full of statements like “alarmed legal and ethics experts”, “critics raised red flags”, “analysts are troubled”, “experts have raised “corruption” concerns”, “offer equally strong critiques”, “We have previously raised concerns…” etc, and not a single word about anyone doing anything beyond a sternly worded letter.
Everyone: “Hey! The smoke alarm in the kitchen is going off!”
Democratic Party: “Damn. Anyway, moving on”
Sort your shit out, America.
[edited comment after reading the whole dispiriting article]
Well a big problem with the US is that the establishment of the Democratic party has been saying for the last 30 years “NOT NOW, this election is TOO IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FIRE ALARM” to people who are hurt and scared because they feel like they are definitely in a burning building.
And meanwhile, they’re defunding the fire department.
Ok buddy, when was the last time YOU saw a large housefire without it being surrounded by firetrucks?
Explain That
Do you REALLLLLYYYYYY think it is a coincidence?
Boycott to prevent taxes going to Trump’s goons.
Imagine what Harris and Biden would have done.
They would have probably gone with the status quo.
Empty promises to grow the middle class, supported Ukraine and not started a new war with Iran, and kept their corruption at a sustainable level… you know, to keep having a cow to milk rather than slaughtering it for the one-time bonanza.
Probably no mass deportation or concentration camps or thousands of people disappeared into deportation gulags and (likely) mass graves in some country where nobody will find them.
We had Biden and Harris. They kept kids in cages. They gave us genocide in Gaza. They ended a rail worker strike for rail workers. Sick and tired? Keep working.
Everytime I read about Trump and those around him, I think of this scene. Everytime, I am suddenly overcome by an overwhelming desire for a genie to grant me a wish.
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