Trump Just Made Bribing Politicians Legal Again
Trump Just Made Bribing Politicians Legal Again
Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding receiving gifts from lobbyists.
It was already legal.
SCOTUS has consistently ruled in the favor of conservative politicians grifting such that you can literally pay a politician for services rendered and not go to prison.
Not really. Just rescinded a bunch of Biden executive orders
Not that it matters when congress won't enforce emoluments clause violations
Make America Grift Again
Imagine believing that bribes were ever "illegal".
Unless a different law forbid it SCOTUS already legalized gratuities (basically paying politicians for something they already did).
....did the legality of it ever really stop any of them in the first place? Lol
There was always the need for a fig leaf... and the shame of someone pointing out that fig leaf. Now there's neither.
Those were nothing but a virtue signal, and only provided a false sense of security.
History has proven most politicians are criminals who have no virtue.
This is just Trump rescinding Executive Order 13989. Highlights from that EO.
- No accepting gifts from registered lobbyists or lobbying organizations
- Revolving door ban, outgoing. (That's leaving the White House and going directly to work for a job you previously were over in the White House)
- Revolving door ban, incoming. (That's being a lobbyist and then getting hired into a department you lobbied.)
- Revolving door ban, holding the door. (You can't help others get in or out of a department into or hired from a lobby directly related to the department in question)
- Golden Parachute Ban. (No hiring you if you had a golden parachute)
- Vampire clause, everything agreed to here, everyone who reports to the person who agreed must agree to it.
So the first item is lobbying as usual, but the rest dealt with who could and couldn't be hired/considered for nominations.
Power cited in the EO was 3 USC § 301, 5 USC § 3301,7301.
IMHO: I think the title is horrible.
It says a great deal about the us political system that this was an executive order and not an actual law.
Why do you think it's horrible? All of those are basically just bribes with extra steps.
I didn’t comment on the action. I indicated the linked article’s title is horrible.
Since when was lobbying not legal?
I mean, in theory, this could be used by the Democrats as well and fight back with...
On a side note: Those Hitler comparisons are stupid, imho as a German. Hitler and his entire staff was actually quite competent and benefited the German people - Trump and his cronies are basically just corrupt and don't think further than their own nose points. They also don't help the American people in any way - quite the contrary... Doesn't make them any less dangerous, but Hitler got nearly 80% of votes in fair elections back then...Trump cheated and heavily used voter suppression, so that's also very different.
Hitler and his entire staff was actually quite competent and benefited the German people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
Meanwhile, Schacht's administration achieved a rapid decline in the unemployment rate, the largest of any country during the Great Depression. By 1938, unemployment was practically extinct. Price controls kept inflation in check but also squeezed out small farmers. The government also introduced rent and wage controls.
The Great Depression had spurred increased state ownership in most Western capitalist countries. This also took place in Germany during the last years of the Weimar Republic. However, after the Nazis took power, industries were privatized en masse. Several banks, shipyards, railway lines, shipping lines, welfare organizations, and more were privatized. The Nazi government took the stance that enterprises should be in private hands wherever possible. State ownership was to be avoided unless it was absolutely necessary for rearmament or the war effort, and even in those cases "the Reich often insisted on the inclusion in the contract of an option clause according to which the private firm operating the plant was entitled to purchase it."
A very large portion of Germany was quite happy, going along between 1930 and 1938, simply because of the fact that they had a better life - looking the other way as your Jewish neighbour was deported (or worse) was a necessary evil for a very large portion. Giving up most worker rights as well.
Hitler got nearly 80% of votes in fair elections back then...
No, he didn't. His party did
Semantics.
The NSDAP relied on the appeal of Adolf Hitler and advertised with the effective slogan “Work and bread”. It announced an immediate economic program and job creation measures. The SPD demanded a fundamental restructuring of the economy through nationalization and neglected the demand for job creation.
Hitler was the face of the NSDAP, most Voters believed him and specifically voted for the NSDAP.