04-27-2017, 01:59 AM
This Presidency is a disgrace for corruption alone.
It's worth remembering that Barack Obama picked Joe Biden because he had the fewest possible conflicts of interest while a Senator. Biden was living on his Senate salary -- and no connections to any corporate interests or personal assets.
We have the potential for Somoza-style, Marcos-style, or Batista-style corruption, a hidden tax that we will all be obliged to pay without getting representation or even service. Want to do government business? Make sure to stay at a Trump hotel. Got a job interview with the government? Make sure to stay in a Trump hotel even if the interview is local.
It's worth remembering that Barack Obama picked Joe Biden because he had the fewest possible conflicts of interest while a Senator. Biden was living on his Senate salary -- and no connections to any corporate interests or personal assets.
We have the potential for Somoza-style, Marcos-style, or Batista-style corruption, a hidden tax that we will all be obliged to pay without getting representation or even service. Want to do government business? Make sure to stay at a Trump hotel. Got a job interview with the government? Make sure to stay in a Trump hotel even if the interview is local.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.