Summary
Donald Trump has exempted himself from key ethics guidelines required under the Presidential Transition Act, which he signed into law in 2020.
By rejecting federal funding for his transition team, Trump avoids donor limits and disclosure requirements, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and transparency.
Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and government watchdogs, warn that Trump’s refusal to submit an ethics plan undermines accountability and could open the door to corruption.
This move marks a break from precedent and has sparked alarm over potential personal enrichment during his presidency.
And what are they going to do about it? If breaking the oath bears no teeth, the oath is pointless.
I face more punishment breaking my Paladin oath in Baldurs Gate 3…
Just like all checks and balances in government, it assumes the branches are somewhat independent and ethical, at least claim to serve their constituents, and protect their own power. It’s up to the legislative branch or the judicial branch
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Turns out the concept of “checks and balances” was always a stupid lie.
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I still never finished act 2… patches and mod updates sent me back to RTS and 4x. My last run was a dope oath breaking paladin
I’m trying to keep my ancients oath but every dialogue option seems like a trap to make you lose it. I fucking lost it talking to a bird for fucks sake. I’ve lost so many hours of progress resetting because I don’t want to pay 1000 gold, it’s literally 1/10th that cost to change your class.
I wish paladins had a morality slider instead, like KOTOR
Do you play with any mods? UI?
I’d be happy that Trump voters finally got what they deserve, but unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer the consequences alongside them. As well as the rest of the world.
It’s funny how Brazil (a country that’s seen the consequences of authoritarianism) is handling their own attempted coup vs the U.S., we are basically welcoming Trump back after everything he’s done.
After the coup attempt he should have been barred from office and arrested. This is such a ridiculous timeline.
Societies get the leaders they deserve.
I hate that sentiment and especially wording, but there is sadly truth behind it…
I guess… he barely won the popular vote, and didn’t pick up any significant amount of new voters. I wouldn’t say the basically half of voters who voted against this deserve it.
This is the part that hurts the most.
I canvassed, I rallied, I pushed people to vote. I did what I could to ensure the fascist didn’t win again, but he still did. Enough of my country either didn’t care, found some excuse to not vote for her, or wanted him to to be president.
I was denied a chance at a primary, but I was excited for Kamala. There is no person who can sit and represent 300 million people and make them all happy, but she was more on my side than not, and I’m willing to push for ‘better right now’ and then push for ‘better later’ too as distinct events.
As part of the now vocal minority, I don’t relish what is to come. I didn’t ask for it and I don’t want it; but lumped in with ‘Americans’, we sure seem to.
Yeah, it sucks. I really wish we would have dealt with the issue when he planned a coup iinstead of basically letting him walk all over everyone back into power.
The 80 million people who didn’t vote deserve it.
Man, no wonder we go to war with people all the time. Can’t even not wish harm on people simply for not voting. Is it frustrating, sure, but i don’t wish harm on people over it.
Him not signing an ethics pledge is probably the most honest move he did in his lifetime.
Alarm! Concern! Criticism! Hand-wringing!
Furrowed brows!
we are well past the point of hand-wringing. this calls for a strongly worded letter
What are you doing about it?
Lowly me? Preparing to !Resist@fedia.io
I’ll have to look into that.
The news outlets will SLAM him for this!
indeed they will
Those alarms already had the copper wire stolen from behind them.
Opens the door to corruption?
The door was burnt for firewood years ago.
People are generally quite stupid, so they need to feel the effects that everyone knew was coming two decades ago. When you destroy education and let money control media and politics, you get America.
We have learned (and are still learning) that precedent doesn’t mean shit
It is spelled “president”
(/a)
It was.
Now it’s Fuhrer.
Okay, I give up. What on earth is /a supposed to mean!? Some sources decode it as “alterous”, but that doesn’t help me either. Is this just a typo of /s?
Probably just a typo
Just a typo, (and fat fingers) but I’m going to say it stands for “ambiguous” because…
There once was a man from Jamaica, Who liked to sling pieces of paper. The tropical sun was a topical one, And the walri could see it much deeper.
Can someone explain this to me
Recite it in concordance with Jamaican patois phonology, and it rhymes.
Is there more to it than rhyme? It makes no sense to me. 💩🧠💩😅
The more I see this unfold the more I understand why Trump won. (This is in no way me supporting Trump, the guy deserves the worst this world has to offer!)
Anyways, the establishment and dems are a bunch of toothless liars! If I was some poor chap doing my best to just stay alive in the US I likely also would’ve have lost hope in my vote mattering. Legally speaking, it quite literally doesn’t. The dems regularly shitting on the primaries is a great example of this (and ofc the electoral collage).
Nobody in politics cares about the people. After the 2008 crash, both the reps and dems bailed out all the banks responsible for the mass fraud, while the people that suffered barely got shit.
The vast majority of people didn’t vote and some voted Trump out of desperation, wanting any change at all. It’s fucking sad.
Trump is America’s self-inflicted gunshot wound
And even if it heals, the medical bills will wreck us.
“And that’s MXC’s impact replay of the day!”
Seriously, I want that on a bumper sticker.
Warren is a good example of someone who does care and I can only recommend her books on the matter. She came from the same place as everyone else and managed to get where she has been for a good while now.
If she’d been president 2016 or any time after that things would’ve looked a lot different, probably globally, I can almost guarantee as much.
Edit: and by different I mean a lot fucking better, to be clear.
You mean Bernie, not Warren. Plus Bernie was winning primaries and insanely more popular than Warren.
I mean the universe spent years letting us all know this guy was corrupt as fuck.
Americans voted for corruption.
We WANT corruption.
We’ll be no better than Russia by the end of our lives. And it will have been no one else’s fault but our own.
Not mine, thanks
Maybe just maybe you guys should have laws that require this instead of ohbits always been done this way. What a riduclulse country.
It is a law. Apparently it’s just not enforced.
The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.
It is a law. Trump signed it in his first term.
Penalties include
- no transition funding
- no early read-ins to get up to speed
Apparently they don’t care. Congress could probably do something but Senator Warren is shouting into a void
Edit: if you don’t sign an ethics statement promising not to accept
bribesdonations from unethical sources presenting a strong appearance of conflict of interest, your penalty is you get to acceptbribesthem
“which he signed into law in 2020.” You’ve got to be fucking kidding
The one thing we can absolutely be sure of is that this dispicable con-man will do all that he can to enrich himself, without regard for any limiting principle or structural restraint.
Its not a question of “if” he “may” be corrupt, but only how brazen the supposed patriots in the Republican party will let him be as he does it.
Could open the door? The door was ripped from its hinges already.
