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Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency (www.theguardian.com)
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Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level

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[–] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (18 children)

'Expressing alarm' is meaningless without actually responding to the alarm. That whole article is full of statements like "alarmed legal and ethics experts", "critics raised red flags", "analysts are troubled", "experts have raised “corruption” concerns", "offer equally strong critiques", "We have previously raised concerns..." etc, and not a single word about anyone doing anything beyond a sternly worded letter.

Everyone: "Hey! The smoke alarm in the kitchen is going off!"

Democratic Party: "Damn. Anyway, moving on"

Sort your shit out, America.

[edited comment after reading the whole dispiriting article]

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Well a big problem with the US is that the establishment of the Democratic party has been saying for the last 30 years "NOT NOW, this election is TOO IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FIRE ALARM" to people who are hurt and scared because they feel like they are definitely in a burning building.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    Yes, surely the democratic party is the one to blame here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    Yeah, they are.

    They offered voters nothing.

    Nothing got you all here. Voters didn't turn out because they didn't believe in either candidate. A minority of leftists and liberals even wanted Kamala Harris, they were just voting by default to fuck Trump.

    There was no real hope there, just a stab at the status quo for a few more years before Team Nazi tried again, and they would've. Democrats are worse at handling Republicans than Ash Ketchum is at handling Team Rocket.

    oh, and fuck Jill Stein.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    So, 50% of the population is responsible for the horrors the other 50% perpetrated on the world? Talk about blaming the victim.

    I don't know where you live, or how old you are, but I have a feeling that you should probably keep your opinions to yourself until you have a little more to stand on, because that was a terrible take.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    My impression is that the left just kind of petered out around the 1980s, because there was a broadly felt sense that "everyone is middle class now" - leaving the US with a "leftist" party that really was more "moderately conservative", and a Republican party that was fumbling its way closer and closer to fascism, via "populist" conservatism.

    To quote the usual phrase: Republicans are the reason things got worse, Democrats are the reason things did not get better. I think that's what people are getting at. If you want to get out of this situation, the US needs Democrats who actually want to make things significantly and noticeably better - and Democrats who stand in the way of that, are part of the problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's wild to me that everyone wants to blame the people they think should be fixing the system instead of blaming the ones that broke it...

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Listen, lil bruh, degrading comments leave you with less stand on because they're hollow and cheap. Maybe if the Democowards had more to stand on in 2024 beyond being a four-year pause button instead of actually furthering socialist policies that benefit anyone, people would give enough of a shit to leave the house in November.

    I'd camp out in the parking lot for AOC.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    The DNC didn't drive down engagement, the "both sides", the "Kamala is a cop", and the "Kamala Supports Genocide" people did. Things like that only further the GOP agenda. I don't want another repeat of the last 4 years, so I don't really give a shit if they run Kamala again or Hunter Biden, because literally anything is better than what we have now. Is AOC a better candidate? Yes, no doubt. But in a year and a half, ifshe's running, people like you will find some flaw in her policy and claim she's just another "corpodemocrat mouthpiece."

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Amongst others, including every US citizen.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Then maybe you should list the others...

    Edit, since you edited without flagging it...

    You put the blame for 100% of the system on 50% of the population in your original post. Now, you blame every American citizen. Seems weird you are avoiding calling out the GOP or Republicans by name.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    🙄

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