Donald Trump’s filling his cabinet with billionaires and industry insiders.
If he wants to show that they’re not just working to line their own pockets, he should start with a strong ethics pledge.
If he wants to show that they’re not just working to line their own pockets, he should start with a strong ethics pledge.
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How about something more substantive?
I have no idea what would be substantive, but I know a worthless ethics pledge, isn't it.
Decorum is dead and her civility is wasted energy.
Less than zero.
To nerd quote Donald Fagen “the rules are changed, it’s not the same, it’s all new players in a whole new ball game”.
This message was brought to you by politicians sleepwalking into the apocalypse.
No more insider trading and no one can own more than one piece of real estate. Also all millionaires AND billionaires must reduce assets to below a million dollars in value.
Trump is incapable of thoughts and or actions involving ethics or common morality.
She’s always been right about Trump.
I'm sorry. I thought you Had to be Joking. No... Go on.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/01/18/democrat-lawmakers-write-letter-to-big-tech-leaders-accusingg-them-of-trying-to-buy-favor-with-trump-n2650721
They are working to line their own pockets, and he doesn't care anymore who knows it
You’re the one in the position of power. You’re the elected official whose supposed to fight back
Go fuck your ethics pledge. Resist… strongly… do something
Asking a man with no ethics to make a strong ethics pledge is a worthless gesture.
Stop living in a pre-Trump world. It's gone.
he is a dictator. Democracy is over. Warren should be making plans for Massachusetts to leave
but
stop asking fire not to burn
you don’t talk to fire
you put it out
Have you met Donald Trump? {{sarcasm}}
Remember when you were 2nd to Bernie in the Primaries? And Biden picked Kamala Harris instead? The time has come to hit hard, low, below the belt if necessary. DO whatever you must Senator, FIGHT like HELL. It's going to be a rough 2 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/fighting-back-newsletter-democrats
Ethics...huh?!?
What are you doing to stop them, or at least fight?
Asking serial liar to "pledge" is utterly feckless.
How about, you know, doing something other than offer "stern words," which is the Dem version of "thoughts and prayers."
Hollow words.
Trump won’t do this; he doesn’t care about ethics, no matter if some law prof thinks he should.
Time for the blue slips. All this pious wishing is going nowhere. Yes I know they’ll dump the blue slips immediately but you will have made a point.
The motive you imagine him having he has _never_ had and almost certainly never will have.
What’s our damn PLAN?
Quit pretending this is going to be normal!
You should propose a Constitutional Amendment to exclude from the pardon power any crimes commuted by government officials during their tenure.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-hoped-to-avoid-war-with-germany-in-the-1930s
I think deadpan works here.
“Surely you will enact ethics rules”
He has been up front, he is only about lining his own pockets. He is all in an every one in his cabinet following his example, from Musk on down.
He doesn't, we already know this? He got what he was after, which is immunity from the law for his many, many crimes. Everything else doesn't matter to him.
It's too late for pledges.