Of course he will. This is how corrupt regimes operate.
“This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector.”
Once you build so much corruption into government functions, it’s hard to purge it. The task in 2029 will be Augean.
If not stopped by flipping Congress in 2026's mid term election the corruption of the. Felon and his administration will become the fabric of the new order.
America had better wake up. The con of trumpism is nothing but a net destructive force in society.
Here are a few thoughts on government picking winners and losers when it comes to government subsidies, taxes and tariffs.
"The levers of government should never be used to pick winners and losers based on political priorities." Jodi Ernst, GOP Senator, Iowa
It's bad policy for government to be “picking winners and losers in the economy … through tax breaks.” Fmr House GOP Speaker Paul Ryan slamming Obama for favoring Solyndra for tax breaks in his first term.
“Our tax system should not pick winners and losers, but should treat every business, small and large, with the same basic rules.” Fmr GOP Vice President Mike Pence
"We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet." Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem
"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers" Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump Administration
It's clear what many of us thought back in the day. GOP opposition to the policy aims and goals of the Democratic Party never had anything to do with policy. It was simply all BS. What they really opposed, wrapped in the blather of their protestations about "winners and losers" was democracy and Democrats.
Otherwise all these ppl would be shouting from the roof tops now as the Trump Admin follows the exact same policies they opposed when Obama and Biden did the same.
So, we come back to our regular question... We're GOP leaders in opposition to "picking winners and losers" back in the day lying or were they wrong?
Because there's got to be a reason they've now abandoned their previous principled views... ahem...
George Will writes, speaking of current Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...
In June, Scott Bessent gave a speech decrying the Biden administration’s “discredited economic philosophy of central planning” — its attempted “social and political engineering” with an economy “managed” by “subsidizing supply in favored industries and restricting it in disfavored ones.” Such government intervention in the economy, Bessent warned, “breeds favoritism for market incumbents,” reduces economic dynamism and raises prices.
Once again, like a broken record... for all you MAGA fans and enablers... What changed, or was Bessent lying because he was speaking of the Biden Admin?
In my research Burisma is a foreign company so how does trump grant them anything for their payoff to hunter and joe. If the administration actually goes after government corruption by elected officials all the members of both chambers need to go after the administration to try to remove their name from the list. Pelosi, shumer, mcconell, clintons and waters are all in the cross hairs. I just hope the current administration follows through but I am skeptical because it hasn't happened, ever.
Jamelle Bouie, NYTimes, explains the chaos and insanity of the past few days by talking about Trump's personality disorder and how that informs almost all of his actions and behaviors. I think he's correct.
"[Trump] did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win, and someone has to lose."
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"Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration. His obsession with territorial conquest — seen in his effort to coerce the Canadian government into relinquishing its sovereignty as well as his calls for the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal — is an obvious product of his predatory approach to human interaction. His authoritarian attempts to cow and coerce key institutions of civil society into compliance with his agenda and obedience to his will are, likewise, a kind of dominance game. They are meant to demonstrate his mastery over his perceived enemies more than they are to achieve any policy aim. He even said as much during an event on Tuesday, when he bragged about the law firms “signing up with Trump” and said that “they give me a lot of money, considering they’ve done nothing wrong.”
In Greek mythology, Augeas, whose name means "bright", was king of Elis. He is known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned, until the time of the great hero Heracles. The derivative adjective augean came to signify a challenging task, typically improving or fixing something that is currently in a bad condition.
"In my research Burisma is a foreign company so how does trump grant them anything for their payoff to hunter and joe."
And how does it relate to a US President exempting some companies from tariffs and not others? Trump has said numerous times over the years that foreign governments, not Americans, will pay the tariffs, so why the exemptions? Conservatives have for years decried government picking winners in business policy. Aren't subsidies, at their core, socialistic?
What specifically, with evidence, are you talking about as it relates to Trump, Burisma, Joe and Hunter Biden?
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If not stopped by flipping Congress in 2026's mid term election the corruption of the. Felon and his administration will become the fabric of the new order.
America had better wake up. The con of trumpism is nothing but a net destructive force in society.
Here are a few thoughts on government picking winners and losers when it comes to government subsidies, taxes and tariffs.
"The levers of government should never be used to pick winners and losers based on political priorities." Jodi Ernst, GOP Senator, Iowa
It's bad policy for government to be “picking winners and losers in the economy … through tax breaks.” Fmr House GOP Speaker Paul Ryan slamming Obama for favoring Solyndra for tax breaks in his first term.
“Our tax system should not pick winners and losers, but should treat every business, small and large, with the same basic rules.” Fmr GOP Vice President Mike Pence
"We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet." Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem
"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers" Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump Administration
It's clear what many of us thought back in the day. GOP opposition to the policy aims and goals of the Democratic Party never had anything to do with policy. It was simply all BS. What they really opposed, wrapped in the blather of their protestations about "winners and losers" was democracy and Democrats.
Otherwise all these ppl would be shouting from the roof tops now as the Trump Admin follows the exact same policies they opposed when Obama and Biden did the same.
So, we come back to our regular question... We're GOP leaders in opposition to "picking winners and losers" back in the day lying or were they wrong?
Because there's got to be a reason they've now abandoned their previous principled views... ahem...
George Will writes, speaking of current Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...
In June, Scott Bessent gave a speech decrying the Biden administration’s “discredited economic philosophy of central planning” — its attempted “social and political engineering” with an economy “managed” by “subsidizing supply in favored industries and restricting it in disfavored ones.” Such government intervention in the economy, Bessent warned, “breeds favoritism for market incumbents,” reduces economic dynamism and raises prices.
Once again, like a broken record... for all you MAGA fans and enablers... What changed, or was Bessent lying because he was speaking of the Biden Admin?
In my research Burisma is a foreign company so how does trump grant them anything for their payoff to hunter and joe.
If the administration actually goes after government corruption by elected officials all the members of both chambers need to go after the administration to try to remove their name from the list. Pelosi, shumer, mcconell, clintons and waters are all in the cross hairs. I just hope the current administration follows through but I am skeptical because it hasn't happened, ever.
I had to look up Augean... "an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy."
Jamelle Bouie, NYTimes, explains the chaos and insanity of the past few days by talking about Trump's personality disorder and how that informs almost all of his actions and behaviors. I think he's correct.
"[Trump] did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win, and someone has to lose."
[skip]
"Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration. His obsession with territorial conquest — seen in his effort to coerce the Canadian government into relinquishing its sovereignty as well as his calls for the acquisition of Greenland and the Panama Canal — is an obvious product of his predatory approach to human interaction. His authoritarian attempts to cow and coerce key institutions of civil society into compliance with his agenda and obedience to his will are, likewise, a kind of dominance game. They are meant to demonstrate his mastery over his perceived enemies more than they are to achieve any policy aim. He even said as much during an event on Tuesday, when he bragged about the law firms “signing up with Trump” and said that “they give me a lot of money, considering they’ve done nothing wrong.”
Augean comes from the 12 Labors of Herculeas.
In Greek mythology, Augeas, whose name means "bright", was king of Elis. He is known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned, until the time of the great hero Heracles. The derivative adjective augean came to signify a challenging task, typically improving or fixing something that is currently in a bad condition.
Skud... what does this mean?
"In my research Burisma is a foreign company so how does trump grant them anything for their payoff to hunter and joe."
And how does it relate to a US President exempting some companies from tariffs and not others? Trump has said numerous times over the years that foreign governments, not Americans, will pay the tariffs, so why the exemptions? Conservatives have for years decried government picking winners in business policy. Aren't subsidies, at their core, socialistic?
What specifically, with evidence, are you talking about as it relates to Trump, Burisma, Joe and Hunter Biden?
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