Orange Felon Can't Tell Me What to Do

Words of Advice:

DONALD TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON. CASE CLOSED.

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If something sounds good in your head, don't let it come out of your mouth.

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"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Karma may sometimes be late to arrive.
But it never loses an address.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

There Should Be a Giant, Blinking “For Sale” Sign Over the West Wing

Donald Trump will host the top holders of his cryptocurrency at a gala tonight at his private golf club near Washington DC. ... The attendees are winners of the US president’s meme coin competition. Last month, Trump announced that the 220 crypto wallets with the largest holdings of $Trump between 23 April and 12 May would win a ticket to a private dinner at the Trump National golf club. The top 25 holders would also be invited to a “Private VIP Reception” with the president beforehand.

Since this con job of a crypto coin benefits The Short-Fingered Vulgarian directly, he might as well have a mailbox at the entrance where attendees could deposit envelopes of cash. This is Boss Tweed or Chicago Machine levels of corruption on a vast scale.

More worrisome it is not on the road possibility at lower level government officials will decide to take cash for their services. You want a permit for something-- grease some palms. We could end up with Central American shitholes-level of corruption, thanks to the COFF.

5 comments:

Jones, Jon Jones said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSPwexlyTo

Hillary was the spawn of Illinois corruption
What makes Illinois so corrupt? In the coming weeks and months, the Tribune will explore and attempt to explain why corruption continues to poison virtually every level of government in our state, draining off tax dollars and robbing public service of its meaning.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/our-culture-of-corruption/

Same as it was in the 60's when we got the mail edition of the Tribune

dinthebeast said...

Kinda Spiro Agnew-y.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dan gerene said...

When Biden was president Donald Trump Jr. repeatedly claimed that Biden was trying to make the U.S. into a banana republic. Just more projection.
This morning in the Detroit Free Press said "The White House declined to release a list of the attendees, arguing Trump didn't host the dinner in his official capacity."
In other words when he breaks the law he is immune because he did it in his official capacity, but when he violates the emolument clause it's in his unofficial capacity. BS.

Eck! said...

Not a banana republic, one of those foreign shitholes.
What hillary did is really really, really, old history.
Hrs buckiing for most corrupt, and most hated.

Eck!

Jones, Jon Jones said...

Hillary is part of refence class forecasting
Reference class forecasting or comparison class forecasting is a method of predicting the future by looking at similar past situations and their outcomes. The theories behind reference class forecasting were developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. The theoretical work helped Kahneman win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
Sometimes called the inside view v the outside view

https://www.lesswrong.com/w/inside-outside-view

These people make a lot of money using the outside view
It may be easier than you think to debias your decisions and make better forecasts by building the “outside view.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-to-take-the-outside-view