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The White House, LLC

97 points by geox 1y ago

mitchbob 1y ago
https://archive.ph/7qAJm https://archive.ph/7qAJm
jameskilton 1y ago
Which is exactly what he did in his first term. The corruption and hypocrisy is the point. Republicans don't care about anything other than being the team in power.
- pixxel 1y ago
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- throw0101b 1y ago
  > It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. > It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination. > It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect. > It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point. > For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue — the greatest. * A.R. Moxon, https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267 https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267
bix6 1y ago
He’s a good businessman, ok?!? He wont be impeached so is the only hope that the next administration (haha) can charge him?
- ianhawes 1y ago
  He will almost certainly pardon his entire family and himself prior to the conclusion of his 2nd term.
  - trollbridge 1y ago
    Well, the precedent is set there to do that.
    - bdavisx 1y ago
      Yes and no - there's an argument to be made that you can't pardon someone for doing something illegal on your orders.
      - franga2000 1y ago
        There are a lot of arguments that can be made, most of them have been made and most of those lost in the current supreme court.
  - pupppet 1y ago
    Who are we kidding, there will be a 3rd term and beyond.
- NickC25 1y ago
  I know you are being sarcastic, but he won't get charged because the courts have ruled that anything he decides is an official act is legal. He's also not a good businessman. He's bankrupted 3 casinos. To anyone here who is still on the Trump train, let's look at what this Epstien-island-visting, makeup wearing "stable genius" failed to sell to Americans: ~Red meat. ~Airline Travel. ~Gridiron football. ~College education. ~Liquor. Yet this being is treated as some sort of business savant. Come on. There also won't be a next administration, he's already said he's going to be president for life.
  - moralestapia 1y ago
    If the outcome of businessman is making money, then I'd say he's quite good ... and way before he became president.
    - georgeecollins 1y ago
      That's not really true. His father was an excellent businessman and left him what would be $1b in today's dollars. If he had just invested that money in the stock market he would be far richer in say, 2008 then he was. He probably effectively went bankrupt with the casinos, his creditors just didn't really go after him. What turned around his fortunes was being a game show host. He did do well from licensing his name. Also he is now really making a fortune off memecoins and other stuff that seems grifty. People that think he was a good businessman are like joe six pack or vibe economy types. People in finance or real estate in New York would laugh at the idea.
      - moralestapia 1y ago
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sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
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- coldpie 1y ago
  > What baffles me is why that many Americans hate diversity to have elected a charlatan to the highest office in their land. It didn't come from nowhere. It's the result of 50 years of targeted and largely unchallenged propaganda funded by the owning class to convince workers to vote against their own interests. It's no coincidence that right-wing billionaires who profit from these policies own all of our social media and most of our journalism institutions. It's been a decades-long, generational coordinated effort to end democracy in America and convert us to a Russian- and Chinese-style oligarchy, and they've finally pulled it off.
  - yostrovs 1y ago
    Propaganda is telling Americans for 4 years that their president is healthy, brilliant, and sharp, while they themselves see a fading grandpa who can't function on his own. Which leads people to not trust anything else the same media tells them. And then they start wondering about who actually is the president... Is it Jill or someone whose name they don't even recognize? And they get real angry at being taken for a fool, and vote accordingly. The last election was lost by the Dems rather than won by Trump. This article is yet another example of how this happens.
    - sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
      And yet, the words that come out of Trump's mouth show significant mental decline, but he's given a pass because the words are spoken somewhat energetically, sometimes.
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - amanaplanacanal 1y ago
      One common phrase is "cutting off your nose to spite your face", which almost everybody thinks is a bad idea, but here we are anyway.
yostrovs 1y ago
Interestingly, the article begins with mentioning Hunter's activities in Ukraine, and implies that nothing improper happened there. Any honest observer would certainly think that a Ukrainian energy firm hiring Biden Jr to consult for major $$$ on matters he knows nothing about, while his father is the U.S. President's pointman in Ukraine, is clearly a shady deal. The article should be about how both presidents are being corrupt, but we get this.
- whateveracct 1y ago
  The article doesn't need to be about both Presidents - why is that a necessity? The old administration is done and over. It's clearly about the current administration, which is partaking in enough visible, ongoing corruption to fill a textbook.
- bdavisx 1y ago
  Trying to what-about this just shows that you're either being deceitful or don't understand the differences. Biden Jr. was taking advantage of his dad's position - and everything seems to point that Biden Sr. was not involved and didn't really want to be invovled. The Trump family is all in and everyone is involved trying to grift as much as possible, including the President.
- foogazi 1y ago
  This comment is only about Biden’s presidency- it should be about both Trump and Biden, but we get this
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
  Yet another false equivalency.
- razakel 1y ago
  He's a Yale-educated lawyer who runs a hedge fund. That's exactly the sort of person a company would want on their board.
  - yostrovs 1y ago
LocalH 1y ago
We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? Ludicrous. Criminals, the lot of them.
- throw0101b 1y ago
  > We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/ https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-fa...
Cipater 1y ago
A United Arab Emirates fund has agreed to invest $2 billion in a stablecoin (a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar) at World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm the president owns with his sons Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Barron Trump, among other partners. The deal, which the then-candidate unveiled in September from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, represents tens of millions of dollars in profits for the firm. Over the past year, Trump-branded residential towers have opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, through a Saudi partner with state ties. In April, a real estate developer unveiled a Trump-branded luxury residential and golf resort at a $5.5 billion state-owned megaproject in Doha, Qatar, at an event attended by Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, and a Qatari minister. The Trump administration and family’s company has plans for new towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi. In addition, sovereign wealth funds from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged more than $3.5 billion to a venture capital fund led by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. In addition, the Trump administration is in talks with the government of Qatar to accept a Boeing 747 valued at around $400 million to serve as a temporary replacement for the United States’ current Air Force One presidential aircraft, which are more than 40 years old, given the delays in Boeing’s contract to build two new presidential planes.

97 points by geox 1y ago

https://archive.ph/7qAJm https://archive.ph/7qAJm

Which is exactly what he did in his first term. The corruption and hypocrisy is the point. Republicans don't care about anything other than being the team in power.

pixxel 1y ago
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throw0101b 1y ago
> It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. > It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination. > It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect. > It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point. > For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue — the greatest. * A.R. Moxon, https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267 https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/109551955251655267

bix6 1y ago

He’s a good businessman, ok?!? He wont be impeached so is the only hope that the next administration (haha) can charge him?

ianhawes 1y ago
He will almost certainly pardon his entire family and himself prior to the conclusion of his 2nd term.
- trollbridge 1y ago
  Well, the precedent is set there to do that.
  - bdavisx 1y ago
    Yes and no - there's an argument to be made that you can't pardon someone for doing something illegal on your orders.
    - franga2000 1y ago
      There are a lot of arguments that can be made, most of them have been made and most of those lost in the current supreme court.
- pupppet 1y ago
  Who are we kidding, there will be a 3rd term and beyond.
NickC25 1y ago
I know you are being sarcastic, but he won't get charged because the courts have ruled that anything he decides is an official act is legal. He's also not a good businessman. He's bankrupted 3 casinos. To anyone here who is still on the Trump train, let's look at what this Epstien-island-visting, makeup wearing "stable genius" failed to sell to Americans: ~Red meat. ~Airline Travel. ~Gridiron football. ~College education. ~Liquor. Yet this being is treated as some sort of business savant. Come on. There also won't be a next administration, he's already said he's going to be president for life.
- moralestapia 1y ago
  If the outcome of businessman is making money, then I'd say he's quite good ... and way before he became president.
  - georgeecollins 1y ago
    That's not really true. His father was an excellent businessman and left him what would be $1b in today's dollars. If he had just invested that money in the stock market he would be far richer in say, 2008 then he was. He probably effectively went bankrupt with the casinos, his creditors just didn't really go after him. What turned around his fortunes was being a game show host. He did do well from licensing his name. Also he is now really making a fortune off memecoins and other stuff that seems grifty. People that think he was a good businessman are like joe six pack or vibe economy types. People in finance or real estate in New York would laugh at the idea.
    - moralestapia 1y ago
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      - 9283409232 1y ago
        [flagged]

sam-cop-vimes 1y ago

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coldpie 1y ago
> What baffles me is why that many Americans hate diversity to have elected a charlatan to the highest office in their land. It didn't come from nowhere. It's the result of 50 years of targeted and largely unchallenged propaganda funded by the owning class to convince workers to vote against their own interests. It's no coincidence that right-wing billionaires who profit from these policies own all of our social media and most of our journalism institutions. It's been a decades-long, generational coordinated effort to end democracy in America and convert us to a Russian- and Chinese-style oligarchy, and they've finally pulled it off.
- yostrovs 1y ago
  Propaganda is telling Americans for 4 years that their president is healthy, brilliant, and sharp, while they themselves see a fading grandpa who can't function on his own. Which leads people to not trust anything else the same media tells them. And then they start wondering about who actually is the president... Is it Jill or someone whose name they don't even recognize? And they get real angry at being taken for a fool, and vote accordingly. The last election was lost by the Dems rather than won by Trump. This article is yet another example of how this happens.
  - sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
    And yet, the words that come out of Trump's mouth show significant mental decline, but he's given a pass because the words are spoken somewhat energetically, sometimes.
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - amanaplanacanal 1y ago
    One common phrase is "cutting off your nose to spite your face", which almost everybody thinks is a bad idea, but here we are anyway.

yostrovs 1y ago

Interestingly, the article begins with mentioning Hunter's activities in Ukraine, and implies that nothing improper happened there. Any honest observer would certainly think that a Ukrainian energy firm hiring Biden Jr to consult for major $$$ on matters he knows nothing about, while his father is the U.S. President's pointman in Ukraine, is clearly a shady deal. The article should be about how both presidents are being corrupt, but we get this.

whateveracct 1y ago
The article doesn't need to be about both Presidents - why is that a necessity? The old administration is done and over. It's clearly about the current administration, which is partaking in enough visible, ongoing corruption to fill a textbook.
bdavisx 1y ago
Trying to what-about this just shows that you're either being deceitful or don't understand the differences. Biden Jr. was taking advantage of his dad's position - and everything seems to point that Biden Sr. was not involved and didn't really want to be invovled. The Trump family is all in and everyone is involved trying to grift as much as possible, including the President.
foogazi 1y ago
This comment is only about Biden’s presidency- it should be about both Trump and Biden, but we get this
sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
Yet another false equivalency.
razakel 1y ago
He's a Yale-educated lawyer who runs a hedge fund. That's exactly the sort of person a company would want on their board.
- yostrovs 1y ago

LocalH 1y ago

We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? Ludicrous. Criminals, the lot of them.

throw0101b 1y ago
> We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/ https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-fa...

Cipater 1y ago

A United Arab Emirates fund has agreed to invest $2 billion in a stablecoin (a cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar) at World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm the president owns with his sons Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Barron Trump, among other partners. The deal, which the then-candidate unveiled in September from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, represents tens of millions of dollars in profits for the firm. Over the past year, Trump-branded residential towers have opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, through a Saudi partner with state ties. In April, a real estate developer unveiled a Trump-branded luxury residential and golf resort at a $5.5 billion state-owned megaproject in Doha, Qatar, at an event attended by Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, and a Qatari minister. The Trump administration and family’s company has plans for new towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Abu Dhabi. In addition, sovereign wealth funds from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged more than $3.5 billion to a venture capital fund led by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. In addition, the Trump administration is in talks with the government of Qatar to accept a Boeing 747 valued at around $400 million to serve as a temporary replacement for the United States’ current Air Force One presidential aircraft, which are more than 40 years old, given the delays in Boeing’s contract to build two new presidential planes.