6 comments

  • master_crab 1 hour ago
    Forget the IRS. America can balance its budget going after and fining these illegal trades and traders. MAGA!

    (edit: /s but not about making the government some money off this corruption)

  • helsinkiandrew 1 hour ago
  • mhh__ 30 minutes ago
    These guys are all going to end up in prison at this rate. Dems are currently predicted to win next election no?
    • cowlevel 11 minutes ago
      Even if they win, you're being extremely optimistic about what they'll do. Most of them are only slightly less corrupt than this, and definitely not enough to actively punish corruption. Most times they just say "let's move on" and grant a pardon.
      • dash2 6 minutes ago
        I never saw anything remotely close to the Trump 2 level of corruption in any previous administration, Democrat or Republican.
        • horns4lyfe 5 minutes ago
          Doesn’t mean it wasn’t there
    • pm90 7 minutes ago
      Depends on who actually gets elected. A centrist candidate like Buttigeg/Ossoff/Harris/Newsom would almost certainly lead to no prosecutions. Someone with actual convictions like AOC or Ro Khanna might.
    • baq 22 minutes ago
      Oh absolutely not. They’re going to end up very rich!
  • pards 1 hour ago
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  • jdw64 1 hour ago
    The reason America is great is that even after electing such a corrupt president twice, the country still keeps running. I feel the greatness of the American political system.
    • usui 56 minutes ago
      The counterfactual doesn't make sense. Which country would stop or grind to a halt after electing a corrupt president? I think almost all countries would keep running at a basically normal capacity until failure, yet that doesn't prove those countries have great systems.

      This will need a lot more time and hindsight to make general statements in terms of the wider picture.

      • diydsp 26 minutes ago
        It'a not abt whether it keeps running. It's whether its citizens are able to maintain their rights.
        • cowlevel 11 minutes ago
          the comment specifically said whether it keeps running
      • mxkopy 23 minutes ago
        I think it’s sarcasm. In other counties such corruption would trigger revolution, and the political system would grind to a halt
    • LeBit 8 minutes ago
      The billions diverted from the government (tariffs, Venezuelian oil, etc) to enrich his own family and friends probably won’t make a dent in the American economy.

      America is so great , it can sustain the appetite of corrupt presidencies.

    • mschuster91 56 minutes ago
      Eventually though, the built in resiliency will be destroyed. Public services got gutted by DOGE and a bunch more called it quits.

      And in the end, that is the game they are playing. Starve the beast (aka, the US government) until not much more than the military remains.

    • phs318u 30 minutes ago
      Please tell me there's an implied /s there somewhere.
    • alienbaby 7 minutes ago
      have you looked closely at the state of your institutions lately. 'The country keeps running' .. a large thing has quite a lot of momentum, it will travel quite far from that alone even if you do remove it's kneecaps.

      unless you dropped the '/s' ?