Excuse me, President Carter briefly owned a peanut farm. Massive corruption.
There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
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booscience@beehaw.org 5 days ago
pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Zzzz too little too late NYT and who cares about OpEds when that is the only place you have real honest news.
They’ll roll over again and again for fascists, they’ve long excused every kind of horrific action.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You guys realize we had presidents when we were genociding the natives…
Right?
Like, “manifest destiny” was a real thing that really happened…
trumps the most corrupt president in “modern” history, but when our country is less than 300 years old, it’s really all “modern history”.
He’s just the most corrupt president anyone alive has lived thru, still a big deal but a big reason we’re where we are today because people don’t know shit and just vote on vibes.
trump is the cough from a disease, we can’t afford to just take cough medicine because the cough is annoying, we need to fix what’s causing the cough. We don’t have time to keep treating symptoms while ignoring the disease: rampant unregulated capitalism.
Fix that and we just don’t fix trump, we fix all the symptoms that are fucking our lives up.
0ops@piefed.zip 5 days ago
These were terrible actions but not really “corrupt”, afaik they did what they were voted in to do.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’m not gonna put all the time in to explain why morals are not the same as laws and corruption can be legal…
But wanted to at least say that’s something you need to understand before jumping into any conversation about corruption or morality.
Like, by your own logic trump ain’t corrupt, because unregulated capitalism has controlled our country for decades and no one is currently stopping him.
I’m just going to get way too frustrated that you don’t understand that yet if I try to explain it. I sincerely hope you figure it out tho.