When I was working, an American citizen expressed her gratitude for my service by gifting me a $20 box of candy. My supervisor confiscated it before it reached my desk. He even sent her a letter explaining that I was prohibited from accepting any gift of any value. Maybe I should have told my supervisor the candy would be donated to my home library. 😁🍭 🍬
As Bohr once said to Einstein “no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” We have observed Krasnov accepting a Boeing 747 from the nation of Qatar. This is an emolument (payment for the office of POTUS). Despite Bondi’s gaslighting and irrational yammering to the contrary, this is an observed phenomenon. It is,therefore, quite real…
What I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around is that there is little or no accountability. The Founders believed their setting up 3 branches of government would provide checks on one another to contain abuses of power. But where were, where are the effective mechanisms? In this case of emoluments, in the case of the Executive ignoring a 9-0 ruling by the Judiciary…..how is this possible that the checks are absent and never truly set up in the first place? It’s a rhetorical question of course. But when the Legislature colludes with the Executive branch there is no check on power. The checks and balances we believed in, were always a convention, a custom that were merely waiting to be overridden by a leader or a party or both who chose to ignore them. At some point a Trump would arrive and nothing was set up to prevent his corruption ahead of time. To use the Circus analogy, Democracy is the tightrope walker who sees a net below him and thinks he safe, but as he falls he sees that the ropes are rotten and barely attached to the poles. His weight crashes him through the net and he realizes, the moment before impact with the ground, that his safety net was just an illusion.
“Left wing”? Actually this is a conservative approach. I think Mike clearly believes upholding the Constitution and believes in the rule of law. Whatever you may have thought of Republicans generally in the era of Nixon, they did at least still follow the law when the public could see clearly that it was being abused. Nixon, for all his faults, had a small degree of shame. Trump has none. The presidency is for sale.
Having followed politics for the greater part of 60 years, I can safely tell you you know nothing about Richard Nixon nor his accomplishments or his failures. When you can stop speaking in grand sweeping statements like the presidency is for sale and detail specifically the transactions that occurred that made you think that way I’ll respect your comments. Otherwise you’re nothing but background noise.
When I was working, an American citizen expressed her gratitude for my service by gifting me a $20 box of candy. My supervisor confiscated it before it reached my desk. He even sent her a letter explaining that I was prohibited from accepting any gift of any value. Maybe I should have told my supervisor the candy would be donated to my home library. 😁🍭 🍬
As Bohr once said to Einstein “no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” We have observed Krasnov accepting a Boeing 747 from the nation of Qatar. This is an emolument (payment for the office of POTUS). Despite Bondi’s gaslighting and irrational yammering to the contrary, this is an observed phenomenon. It is,therefore, quite real…
His library?? Like, with books? For a man who can’t read? And how do you fit a plane that is too big for most airports into a library?
What I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around is that there is little or no accountability. The Founders believed their setting up 3 branches of government would provide checks on one another to contain abuses of power. But where were, where are the effective mechanisms? In this case of emoluments, in the case of the Executive ignoring a 9-0 ruling by the Judiciary…..how is this possible that the checks are absent and never truly set up in the first place? It’s a rhetorical question of course. But when the Legislature colludes with the Executive branch there is no check on power. The checks and balances we believed in, were always a convention, a custom that were merely waiting to be overridden by a leader or a party or both who chose to ignore them. At some point a Trump would arrive and nothing was set up to prevent his corruption ahead of time. To use the Circus analogy, Democracy is the tightrope walker who sees a net below him and thinks he safe, but as he falls he sees that the ropes are rotten and barely attached to the poles. His weight crashes him through the net and he realizes, the moment before impact with the ground, that his safety net was just an illusion.
Worthless left wing gaslighting.
Expected right wing drivel, showing you probably know nothing about the emoluments clause.
“Left wing”? Actually this is a conservative approach. I think Mike clearly believes upholding the Constitution and believes in the rule of law. Whatever you may have thought of Republicans generally in the era of Nixon, they did at least still follow the law when the public could see clearly that it was being abused. Nixon, for all his faults, had a small degree of shame. Trump has none. The presidency is for sale.
Having followed politics for the greater part of 60 years, I can safely tell you you know nothing about Richard Nixon nor his accomplishments or his failures. When you can stop speaking in grand sweeping statements like the presidency is for sale and detail specifically the transactions that occurred that made you think that way I’ll respect your comments. Otherwise you’re nothing but background noise.