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This administration is going to be an ethics nightmare. Wait until we see how Trump manipulates the tariffs to benefit his friends and punish his enemies.

Also, "Mr. Boulos’s stake, according to securities filings, is worth $1.53." When I first read that line I thought $1.53 billion? $1.53 million? I guess it is one dollar and fifty three cents. LOL.

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There will be no ethics in the upcoming administration. Every single member of the Executive office will be stuffing taxpayer money into their offshore accounts as quickly as possible

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It's only an "ethics nightmare" if anyone cares. Certainly Trump and his enablers don't. It's OK if you're a Republican. Once people who DO care realize that they can't shame Trump and others, or that they have any other recourse, they'll stop caring too.

And so, authoritarianism grows.

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Ethics? What ethics? Last time was also an ethics nightmare, but fortunately Trump had a great AG who refused to target Trump for any of his crimes, or hold him to account. Trump put corrupt and unethical snake oil salesmen in charge, and the results were just as advertised! Many of them resigned from his cabinet, before they could be prosecuted.

As for Mr. Boulos’s stake worth $1.53? Clearly, he is making his money illegally or off the books. Perhaps to the drug, illegal mining or human trafficking trade. The grifts are endless, but to be expected!…:)

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Boulos became a billionaire in Nigeria, one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

He also has Hezbollah ties. Had President Biden named someone with Hezbollah ties to any role in his administration, Jews would have screamed loudly. But Trump Jews would be writing op-ed pieces from their laptops praising Hitler while they were on the trains to the death camps. They are completely brainwashed.

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Maybe he’s that Nigerian prince who keeps emailing me that his $2 billion fortune is tied up in Geneva, and If I can just wire him $1 million in US currency, his money will be released, and he’ll pay me back double!

I knew I should have responded to that email: Damn!…:)

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Genocide rightly gets a lot of attention when it comes to fascist regimes, but the notion that you do business if and only if Hitler, Mussolini, Putin or Trump says you can do business defines fascism better,

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Trump is a fervent admirer of Xi, praising him as ‘a brilliant guy’ who ‘controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.’”

I realize Trump said that some time ago, but there is no indication that Xi’s iron fist and Trump’s admiration for it have waned since Trump first said that. It is worth recalling the pedigree of the term “iron fist” in a political context.

“…Signor Mussolini, expressing ‘annoyance and irritation’ at attempts upon his life and welcoming his share of ‘risk and danger’ declared nothing could stop the onward march of Fascism, which ‘will continue to hold the destinies of the Italian people in its iron fist’.”

—“Mussolini exalts fascist iron fist.” New York Times. (1926, April 30). https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/04/30/119067507.html?pageNumber=5

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Correct. The defining aspects of a Fascist regime are government control over the private sector, and a well-organized political party to enforce its decrees. Capitalists have always been willing to sell out all principles in exchange for guarantees of riches, and power-hungry politicians are always willing to sell their souls. Trump and the Republicans check the boxes.

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Corporations that paid into Himmler's slush fund benefited from slave labor.

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If no ethics are present, where is the nightmare? This will literally be Trump and his cronies opening up the taxpayer piggy bank and taking every loose cent they can.

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Don't worry, I'm sure Gen Z won't mind paying back the deficit for us. They live to serve us and have no needs of their own.

Hey maybe my parents can vote to cut school taxes again. They say the 16th time is the charm. All that austerity sure looks good on our students, doesn't it? My parents will never pay the price. Hell, most old people don't think they should pay school taxes at all. I'm sure the kids don't mind. I just hope they're doing their active shooter drills.

Dude, it's all gone. Every tax we pay federally is going straight into Trump and Co's pockets. The deficit is going to break Gen Z and America.

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More specifically - Gen Z men. I wonder if they realize that to folks like Trump and Musk, they are literally meat for the grinder. The only thing they want from you is your labor boys and the second you can't deliver, you're out for new blood.

I see the dockworkers are celebrating that Trump says no automation... tell me dockworkers, do you really think that people focused on money above all as paying a fair wage when they know what the robot costs? No... you'll be working for what a robot costs before long or the robots are coming. Prices gotta come down boys! He's certainly not going to ask his buddies to take a paycut.

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Trump has six personal bankruptcies under his belt. He's working towards a national one. After all, he's the King of Debt!

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Think Boss Tweed on a national scale.

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Boss Tweed provided needed services to his local community, which is how he stayed in power.

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Didn't Boss Tweed claim he only took "honest graft"? Trump won't even observe that boundary.

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You're being too generous. This bunch is closer to Boss Hogg. :)

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