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This is just more of the same behavior we've seen for years now, but you still throw your hands up and ask, what have we come to as a country? You get tired o
by supernova87a 6y ago
This is just more of the same behavior we've seen for years now, but you still throw your hands up and ask, what have we come to as a country? You get tired of doing this weekly.
That the President could even think of uttering the phrase that "we should get a cut for allowing this deal to go ahead". As if we're gangsters borderline extorting businesses because "we wouldn't want any harm to come to your very nice deal here, would we?"
Pro-business Republicans, this is what the party stands for? The party line was, benefits of economic growth and business going directly to the people, not government -- and you'll get behind a statement like this, carving out a special rule to take a percentage off the top?
- xsmasher 6y agoIt's like that TOS episode where 1950's gangsters with tommy guns run a planet.
- pseudolus 6y ago"A Piece of the Action" [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_the_Action_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_the_Action_(Star_Tr...
- loopz 6y agoThis is just continuing testing the waters, before boiling the pot the frog (you) is in. Testing what they can get away with now, versus what they will get away with in the medium-term future. Classic psychopathic gaslighting. What they brag about doing to someone else in the past, you nod, and they'll do it to you soon enough. What will the lawyers call it though; bribery, or taxation?
- mytailorisrich 6y agoI think the extortion here really is him effectively boasting that he put a dead horse's head in Bytedance's bed to make them sell Tiktok to MS. The guy was into real estate and the construction industry in New York in the 70s and 80s after all.