Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.
My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.
Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
My conspiracy theory is Rand Paul hand-delivered a key to Putin when he flew to Moscow.
We were always told the framers of the Constitution were old timey genius’s, but they couldn’t foresee a corrupt piece of shit selling pardons? It’s ridiculous and should never have been a presidential power. They fucked up.
They expected that voters/citizens and other branches of govt wouldn’t stand for it.
Instead they’re either in on it or too cowardly to do anything.
In all fairness, they never could have prepared for the impact the internet has on politics.
Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.
They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.
Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.
They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.
Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.
On they’re trying to go back to the only white men with land thing again.
This can be easily explained: Trump is a two-bit fraudster, and low-level gang members such as himself are expected to look out for their organizations’ leaders.
How about freeing a black or Mexican person for being black or Mexican?
This pardon is for Adriana Camberos, who seems to be from an actual Mexican crime family.
Sure, why the fuck not? It’s not like laws matter anymore, apparently.
birds of a feather
Trump is a giant fraudster. This is a surprise?
What’s the going rate? Last I checked it was a cool two mil
3.5 now
Get that paper
Ah. More bribes.
He also pardoned Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan.
