Summary
Donald Trump has exempted himself from key ethics guidelines required under the Presidential Transition Act, which he signed into law in 2020.
By rejecting federal funding for his transition team, Trump avoids donor limits and disclosure requirements, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and transparency.
Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and government watchdogs, warn that Trump’s refusal to submit an ethics plan undermines accountability and could open the door to corruption.
This move marks a break from precedent and has sparked alarm over potential personal enrichment during his presidency.
The more I see this unfold the more I understand why Trump won. (This is in no way me supporting Trump, the guy deserves the worst this world has to offer!)
Anyways, the establishment and dems are a bunch of toothless liars! If I was some poor chap doing my best to just stay alive in the US I likely also would’ve have lost hope in my vote mattering. Legally speaking, it quite literally doesn’t. The dems regularly shitting on the primaries is a great example of this (and ofc the electoral collage).
Nobody in politics cares about the people. After the 2008 crash, both the reps and dems bailed out all the banks responsible for the mass fraud, while the people that suffered barely got shit.
The vast majority of people didn’t vote and some voted Trump out of desperation, wanting any change at all. It’s fucking sad.
Trump is America’s self-inflicted gunshot wound
And even if it heals, the medical bills will wreck us.
“And that’s MXC’s impact replay of the day!”
Seriously, I want that on a bumper sticker.
Warren is a good example of someone who does care and I can only recommend her books on the matter. She came from the same place as everyone else and managed to get where she has been for a good while now.
If she’d been president 2016 or any time after that things would’ve looked a lot different, probably globally, I can almost guarantee as much.
Edit: and by different I mean a lot fucking better, to be clear.
You mean Bernie, not Warren. Plus Bernie was winning primaries and insanely more popular than Warren.
If he’s so popular why wasn’t he elected after every primary
Because you don’t live in a democracy. And you don’t get elected after every primary, primaries are held before election to see who is popular. Sanders approval rating is through the roof and has been consistently over the years, easily the most popular senator across the board.
Your answer is the DNC, ain’t that complicated. Sanders won the votes of the people, but the liberals and dems pushed Hillary anyway in 2016, and lost.
Yeah, but she’s not progressive enough for the leftists (plus they hate her for some perceived slight against Bernie), and too left for the moderates.
Alarm! Concern! Criticism! Hand-wringing!
we are well past the point of hand-wringing. this calls for a strongly worded letter
Furrowed brows!
What are you doing about it?
The news outlets will SLAM him for this!
indeed they will
Lowly me? Preparing to !Resist@fedia.io
I’ll have to look into that.
I really hope the segment of poor people that voted for him suffer greatly under his regime. They need to learn a hard kind of lesson they seem to be unwilling to learn any other way.
I don’t think you understand the psyche of people voting for him, even if Trump personally came to their house and stomped on their balls they would vote for him.
It won’t make any difference to their future votes if they suffer, it’ll just be suffering.
I still don’t really know a good way to pry people away from his cult of personality or convince them of the truth but suffering for the sake of itself is not good.
Did you just become one of the “hurting the right people” crowd?
Ot doesn’t work on them anyway. They just blame someone else.
They already are… Look at the states and counties that vote red. Leaders in education and life expectancy they are not. Great in poverty with a dearth of opportunity they are. Over the decades these places have been ravaged by big business. Then business moved overseas and opiates moved in.
What do these people do? In a flash of absolute genius they vote in the guy whose administration is filled with tech bros. The problem is the tech bros all think these people are trash and are happy to see them occupied by video games and drugs.
So clearly the immigrants working for low pay are the reason the economy is fucked. The solution must be the administration whose only legislative accomplishment was a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. Because the economy can’t possibly be fucked because as a society we’ve given to the top 1% all of the gains in productivity since the 1980s.
This is not it. What an abhorrent and sadistic take.
Here’s a handy tip for the future: if you find yourself writing a sentence that goes “I really hope […] poor people […] suffer greatly”, maybe reconsider posting it.
The […] Is doing some heavy lifting.
That’s like saying that “I hope the black people that killed my parents suffer greatly” shouldn’t be said. You can’t just " I hope […] black people […] suffer greatly" it.
No one is immune from propaganda.
Could open the door? The door was ripped from its hinges already.
Those alarms already had the copper wire stolen from behind them.
Stop with the precedent. Decorum and tradition means nothing and only Dems keep falling for it and setting themselves arbitrary barriers.
Now he did it. IT’S DONE. WE GOT EM. Donald will finally feel the FULL FORCE of our justice system telling him that they are VERY CONCERNED.
Mark your calendars everyone, we have a new holiday.
😂
Toothless watchdogs is more like it
Thank goodness for the watchdogs! I’m so glad they’re here. What would we do without them?!?!?
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Shit now there’s nothing stopping him from doing immoral undemocratic stuff like pardoning his children.
or appointing relations to advisory and diplomatic posts.
Lol, trump would do way worse than pardon his kid that was targeted by the doj for something that hardly gets charged in the first place. Trump incites violence, disregards the constitution, is a sexual predator (probably a pedophile) and the list goes on.
Rules for thee but not for me, got it.
Biden is literally following the rules with an official presidential pardon. Trump is violating a law he signed into law.
What does any of this have to do with Biden?
Did you forget your original comment?
Shit now there’s nothing stopping him from doing immoral undemocratic stuff like pardoning his children.
Or did you bring up “pardoning his children” right after Biden pardoned his son for an entirely unrelated reason?
He did that? Oh never mind, if Biden did it, then it’s ok if Trump does it, too. Please disregard my initial comment. It is in fact not immoral and undemocratic to pardon your own children.
Yes. It is “okay” if a president uses their legal power to pardon people for federal crimes. In that it is their legal right to do so.
Is this the first day you’ve been aware of that fact? It’s been true for a very, very long time.
Oh look, crickets.
You tell 'em Captain Logic! Also, when are we going to poison this damn infestation of giant pandas?
Oh you poor thing…
You’re right. What could Trump possibly do that would even come remotely close to equaling Joe Biden doing such a totally outrageous and unacceptable legal thing?
Tell me of all the people Don pardoned.
?
What about that is confusing to you?
Every part. I’m not your siri, just google it or something
Are you mental?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump
Relatively few compared to his predecessors. Some real assholes on that list. It amazes me how Roger Stone isn’t under the Jail.
Lil Wayne is on that list btw.
We will get to see is how they twist the presidential pardon this coming year.
Afaik a presidential pardon is strictly federal.
State cases and Civil cases are not covered.
I’m sure the supreme Court will Fix that.
What about pardoning war criminals?
There once was a man from Jamaica, Who liked to sling pieces of paper. The tropical sun was a topical one, And the walri could see it much deeper.
Can someone explain this to me
Recite it in concordance with Jamaican patois phonology, and it rhymes.
Is there more to it than rhyme? It makes no sense to me. 💩🧠💩😅
To the people who will wake up tomorrow pretending this is going to be buisness as usual. Fuck you. That’s all.
Raise alarms? Could open the door to corruption? Undermine accountability?
Where the Hell have these people been? And anybody who is shocked by these headlines needs to come out from under their rock. None of this is new or news. It’s SOP.
As for accountability and watchdogs? Can you be any more lip service? What is anybody going to do? Ever? They had four years to make Trump and team accountable. Hasn’t exactly worked out.
Wake me when September (2028) ends.
Can things stop. I just… Want things to stop now.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Him not signing an ethics pledge is probably the most honest move he did in his lifetime.
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