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Throw it on the pile? I guess?
One century of presidential earnings while in office, everything earned - all presidents combined - $40 million USD of getting “rich”.
Trump, one year. 3 billion in personal enrichment. Planes, “donations”, etc.
Corruption laid bare. Everything the reich wing said they hated about Hillary, Bill, Pelosi, Obama making money on the job. Not a peep about this. Not. One. Word.
I'm sure a decent person in the Nazied States of America will soon bring the orange child rapist to justice. Any moment now one of them will grow a spine and arrest the obese imbecile and the other cronies...
Any minute now
...soon
...just you wait
...
...it'll happen
...mark my words ...
...
... {crickets}
Normalizing the lack of consequences will be horrible to manage in the future. Any administration that wants to do any enforcement will have to deal with years of precedent of inaction.
'You want to punish me? Where was your 'righteous indignity' and your 'laws' when trump was in charge?'
That's why I say we have to either split the union and all be separate (free to join into smaller groups), or we just rewrite the constitution and remake the government from the ground up.
We have to do the latter regardless because we've proven the current ones are fundamentally broken and all it took was to act in bad faith. Literally all of this because there's intentionally no system in place to account for bad faith or no confidence.
That is actually the exact purpose of the second amendment. So that we the people can replace a government that no longer works for the people of the country.
I don't think the second option is viable.
You have whole states loving the pedo unconditionally. And they would need to sign a constitution that specifically bars them to try and summon a new trump.
They simply won't sign it. So you better start thinking as separate states that join to stay relevant and hope the red union that will shortly after form doesn't have imperialist aspirations. Otherwise you'll be in for a second civil war.
But the economics in the red states would lead to such bad living conditions that people would move, and then the spiral of no money, and no people to fight a war would lead to a very one sided victory.
The economics of the red states will pale in comparison to the question of where the weapons end up. There are a lot of nuclear weapons in deep red areas.
What you say is true, but everybody has lost the game if nukes are used. Their states wont be inhabitable either.
Fortunately the chance of those yokels actually figuring out how to use one is pretty much zero. They're complicated.
Ironic given that the secessionist Free State Project was instrumental in Tump's political career
The only state that has a separate electrical grid is Texas, and it sucks.
They are in the process of connecting to the national grid actually. I guess they could just disconnect it again
Well I would imagine in such a scenario there would be large upheavals in state gov too. But you're right.
'You want to punish me? Where was your 'righteous indignity' and your 'laws' when trump was in charge?'
It didn't start with the orange turd, you wannabe "moral" hypocrites.
Go back, far far back and check if any one of the presidents faced serious repercussions.
Cant think of any president acting in bad faith against the people for personal gain, can you?
I'd say the Watergate scandal was pretty significant and still involved consequences (at least compared to now)
Wouldn't that be a bad financial decision? Am I stupid??
These are corporate bonds, rather than stocks. They will pay out a fixed amount over a given period of time. One might assume this is a down payment for silence
Oh right, thank you for explaining.
Bribe
I'm assuming he didn't so much buy the bonds, but was gifted them.
But why gift him something if he’s going to subpoena you. I’m so confused.
The subpoena was happening either way. But the bonds are a gift to prevent prosecution. Or at least that's how I read it.
Edit: Looking at it another way, buying the bonds could be Trump buying the guys silence when he testifies.
Thought the same thing and that's why I'll never be rich.
It's not like he has a stellar record when it comes to investments.
Even I know that you shouldn't buy shares in a company that you're (for whatever reason) sure will tank in the near future.
In that case you'd buy shorts or if you have an appetite for risk, a contract for difference (CFD) or options
Bonds and stocks are very different investment vehicles. In this case it's similar to shorting a stock (betting the price will go down).