No one is actually astonished, unless they’ve been in a coma for the last ten years.
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"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"
- George Carlin
Exactly.
And that's just him. Imagine what the rest of his family is doing. Total scumbags... However... It's not illegal, they all do it. I'd be happy to see officials make it illegal and not just frowned upon.
Legal, illegal, doesn't matter. When you are a rich pedophile they let you do it.
Grab em by the pussy
Us poor people treat fines, charges, lawyers and court proceedings as deterrents against doing certain things ... especially if they are illegal.
Rich people treat fines, charges, lawyers and court proceedings as the cost of doing business ... and it doesn't matter if its legal or illegal to them ... they just throw money at everything and they don't care if it's right or wrong or moral or immoral.
I would hesitate long and hard before assuming Trump is not doing anything illegal.
Insider trading is illegal.
Yes true they're supposed to report any trading that might be non public info buuuuttt this whole administration is wonky illegal shit. And in this case .. we find it and I bet you absolutely nothing is going to change. What's he concerned about his polling numbers?
And what real world consequences does that result in? If it's nought then the word illegal is meaningless nonsense.
Sure, but what else is there?
Any other judgment that doesn't involve laws that are not even worth the paper they're written on.
Such as?
I can't think of a better institution than rule of law. The problem is all institutions rely on people to uphold them. Particularly, those in the positions of most power. Not just those with the guns.
I can’t think of a better institution than rule of law
That's really sad
Can you?
Family, friendship, libraries, science idk i could go on all day lmao
You've forgotten the context of the question. Those institutions don't maintain social order. They are maintained by social order.
Of course they do, how many billions of people wake up early in order to take care of their families every day? That's not social order?
they all do it.
No they don't. And definitely not to this extent. And especially not past presidents.
Stop acting like this shit is normal.
It isn’t normal but it was only a matter of time. We keep NOT holding our leaders accountable for the things that ARE crimes. this was inevitable.
Congress does this all the time. Why do you think career politicians become so wealthy.
They all do it? Who has done anything even close to this scale?
The problem is not that these wealthy owners and political insiders are doing this ...
... the main problem is an entire country of complacent morons that allow it all to happen, passively support it, casually ignore it, pretend it isn't like that and vote accordingly to put these idiots or idiots like them back into power every single time.
Here are the complacent morons in which you refer:
They just want their team to win, even if it means they personally suffer.
I still can't get over the amount of open public support he gets from people in the US. It's like we are so fucking lazy that we just absorb whatever propaganda is blinking in front of us at the time.
Or maybe that's what I'm hoping is the case for most people rather than being well-informed true believers.
His followers have been trained to knee jerk it away.
If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc
If you ask them about it, they will just say “well pelosi made trades” etc
You are correct of course. And the answer people with two braincells would give is
"Good we both agree its wrong, so let's hold them to account"
Everyone whose been paying attention for the previous 16 years:
Well I mean, what else could we expect from the crime president?
ridiculous. over 55 trades per day. If you looked closer at timings, I'm sure there'd be plenty of reversals pre/after TACO events.
This is just what he's admitted to. Someone is going to correlate these trades with announcements of tariffs or military operations, to see if they look like there was coordination in order to manipulate the markets.
But the trades that would show those patterns were conveniently left off the disclosure. Soon we'll hear that he didn't include everything, and he'll claim that he's a big important businessman, he has lots of trades that the rest of us losers wouldn't understand, and he forgot a few, no big deal. He disclosed 3700 trades, obviously he wasn't trying to hide anything.
Except the trades that prove his guilt.