thinking of every other corruption scandal in the history of the presidency and comparing them to the first three months of Trump 2.0 and slamming my head on the desk until I go unconscious - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 23 days ago

thinking of every other corruption scandal in the history of the presidency and comparing them to the first three months of Trump 2.0 and slamming my head on the desk until I go unconscious

Reposted from Daniel Drezner

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familyamal1.bsky.social•23 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/familyamal1.bsky.social/post/3lovqc2ysm224

dondechert.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wow. Makes Teapot Dome look like peanuts.

mi-homme-michel.bsky.social•22 days ago

Have you heard of Nicolas Sarkozy ?

daveversace.bsky.social•23 days ago

Very Tan Suit areas, I think we can all agree.

derschwede.bsky.social•22 days ago

At least you are the biggest baddest and meanest banana republic in history😬

hutchymon.bsky.social•23 days ago

I got yer emoluments -- hangin'

navinpokala.bsky.social•23 days ago

Teapot Dome was Checkers compared to this https://bsky.app/profile/dandrezner.bsky.social/post/3lovezsjrbs2y

photaculous.bsky.social•23 days ago

Is this a distraction perhaps?

It seems highly unlikely, but it has massive headline gravity and drags coverage from his failures to his follies..

foxbat.gay•22 days ago

No. From everything that we've learned so far Trump is absolutely fixated on having "the best plane" He's been obsessed with building a new Air Force 1 since his first term. He's got little models with paint schemes. He's obsessed with treats. That's why he goes on the doll rants. He gets the treats

jlgittinger.bsky.social•23 days ago

SAM please

whiskeyandwry.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is probably the biggest corruption scandal in US history (term 1 MBS bribery, the crypto bribery, up there), but it's also one of the biggest security scandals of all time too! Why not just send Qatar transcripts of all your conversation?

caramalameet.bsky.social•22 days ago

https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/

reeseer83.bsky.social•23 days ago

Warren Harding and Spiro Agnew would tell him to ease up a bit.

dralant.bsky.social•23 days ago

He can do victory fly pasts over all those vacant ocean ports.

amdiamanti.bsky.social•23 days ago

The corruption accusations they made up about the Clintons weren’t as corrupt as this.

itsbeka.bsky.social•23 days ago

Honestly that might the smartest play here

romabysen.bsky.social•23 days ago

Seems kinda bad for security

juicyb3rry.bsky.social•23 days ago

trump take bribe

difficultopinions.com•23 days ago

I want that plane to be a flying gold bullion museum. Gold fucking on every surface. Gold on gold. Gilded call buttons. Everything.

craigwinston.bsky.social•23 days ago

The SCOTUS of the last 50 years watering down the definition of corruption in a legal sense along w/ that insane immunity decision brought us to this point. The whole of the conservative legal movement needs to be pulled out root & branch. The next admin/Congress has to criminalize corruption again.

jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just another one added to the list along with his crypto schemes. Weakening your own nations currency, so crypto becomes more appealing? I'm sorry folks I think biblical end times have finally arrived in a very weird way. If this is not as close as possible historically, I don't know what would be?

jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•23 days ago

I mean there was a warning that the followers of the great beast would wear his mark upon their foreheads. Claims self divinity archetypes under the guise to rule over every aspect of everyone's lives.

ralstonchampagnie.com•23 days ago

A gas guzzler at that while climate change is happening...that how we know its corruption running amok, isn't it?

crs1.bsky.social•23 days ago

The press likes Trump and wants him to rule is like a King feels like the best explanation

We spent months on Claudia Gay

This kind of stuff can’t escape A18

omfproductions.bsky.social•23 days ago

Very weird romance with the idea of royalty among the media and capital elite it appears... they desperately want a king of America like England has for some totally unfathomable reason. Fucking Tories and Royalists and shit.

crs1.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yeah making money speech wasn’t at all catastrophic

But even before that the concept of a limited liability corp having human rights was the nose under the tent and obviously so

Just a lot of graft & surrendering because the road to hell is paved a brick at a time

omfproductions.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh wait, we discussed this before... go figure... probably comes right out of this.

shadow4me.bsky.social•23 days ago

Only enough to put yourself in a coma for the next 3 1/2 years as this is just the start.

markshatraw.bsky.social•23 days ago

I would love to go back in time to the people who wrote my AP US History book, full of "Credit Mobilier" and "Teapot Dome," and hand them this article lol

rob1946.bsky.social•23 days ago

Don’t do that.

toomuchdystopia.bsky.social•22 days ago

This stuff makes Teapot Dome look cute.

caramida.bsky.social•23 days ago

The sweet escape of unconsciousness

angrynerdbird.bsky.social•22 days ago

Republicans tore Jimmy Carter a new asshole. Because he owned a peanut farm.

blbarden.bsky.social•23 days ago

No matter what Trump may think this plane belongs to the IS government. Trump cannot take it with him into retirement

beefhusker84.bsky.social•23 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when Clinton's "pay-to-play" was considered scandalous.

bluedotspecialfl.bsky.social•23 days ago

I laughed out loud. I mean it’s so true.

Are the GOP going to just put their special “own the lib” spin on this? What’s Fox gonna say about this? It’s all so blatantly illegal. Oh I know!
I can hear it now! “he is rewriting what the presidency is. Bringing back honor (whiteness). “

justinmm2.bsky.social•23 days ago

The best part (aside from the corruption and intelligence and safety concerns) is how it sets a new bar. Everyone else is really going to have to step up their game.

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•23 days ago

Where is Congress on all this?

gatsugaming.bsky.social•23 days ago

getting ready for their next round of insider trading!

jeffreyd.bsky.social•23 days ago

Indeed, questions may be raised!

abjurer.bsky.social•23 days ago

This makes Teapot Dome look like it was about an actual teapot.

hugoyyo.bsky.social•23 days ago

SCOTUS said he just can.

rincewind.run•23 days ago

I know we’ve all decided impeachment is a dead letter because presidents cannot be convicted by their own party but actually he should be impeached for this and it’s not remotely a close call

ndnickerson.bsky.social•23 days ago

I CANNOT EVEN
AHHHHHHHHHH
we live in the fucking twilight zone

nuggutron.bsky.social•23 days ago

Impeached with a spear

urpgoar.bsky.social•23 days ago

Alternatively you lot can storm the White House and hang Trump from the nearest lamppost or tree. That option is always open.

jasonfossella.bsky.social•23 days ago

correction: a Dem Congress would 100% impeach a Dem president for this, which is why it would never happen. the problem is Republicans. factio republicana delenda est

rayanselmo.bsky.social•23 days ago

No, we've all decided impeachment is a dead letter because impeaching the Insane Racist Toddler gives us President Cabbage Patch Couch-Humper, and impeaching Couch-Humper would give us President Spineless Self-Righteous, and impeaching Spineless would give us President Fascist Corn Mummy, and ...

rincewind.run•23 days ago

also Qatar can probably make the cost back several times over via all the people who will pay them to install bugs in the plane

dmnd.me•23 days ago

How many years out are we from the tell-all books from former spooks who are like, yeah, we had everything and here are the receipts for the listening devices and the reports we prepared

I think at least 20 years

cleanwindows.bsky.social•23 days ago

"what if, and hear me out, what if instead of selling off rights to install listening devices, we just installed them all ourselves, and then provided access to them AS A SERVICE?"

digibo.bsky.social•23 days ago

They can organize an auction to sell the rights to install bugs. Plenty of interested parties.

beaglebets.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just make sure those bugs are covered in gilt foil

jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•23 days ago

Imagining some devious type State actor having a satellite remote control device hidden and installed on the planes computer nav system. Or just the right kind of hidden backdoor software coding installed on the planes software that controls every aspect of the planes navigation and operation.

jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•23 days ago

What devious fun someone could have.

markshatraw.bsky.social•23 days ago

Tired: make the plane entirely out of the black box
Wired: make the plane entirely out of listening devices