doclinkin wrote:payitforward wrote:So far from wanting to "make America great again," Donald Trump wants to sell America to whoever will give him the most money for it.
And given his deepening debts, this is even more of a liability than ever. There is a reason why having serious debt can prevent you from obtaining a security clearance. (To say nothing of a felony conviction). Trump is a walking Constitutional crisis. And given how reckless he is with dangerously sensitive information, I'd expect the real Deep State is having dark and serious conversations about what a 2nd Trump presidency would mean. How much information can you feed him, and how much of that can be fictional. I have no doubt he would try to purge all levels of the Intelligence community and auction off the positions to the highest bidders. Russia, essentially.
It would be ironic of course if an emoluments case ever made it to the Supreme Court for Scalia and Thomas to argue.
Dark sense it might not get that far though. Unless he has the Secret Service taste test every Big Mac he ever orders, I dunno.
he had already auctioned off cabinet seats, it's not speculation. a charter school philanthropist for sec ed, a banker for sec treasury, a wall street tycoon who was fined by the SEC for overcharging fees before taking office as sec commerce, president of Eli Lilly for HHS, the list goes on and on. tapped major donors and RNC staffers with zero diplomatic experience to numerous ambassadorships (Spain, Australia, Canada, Croatia, etc.). Scalia's son was tapped to be sec of labor.
it's just this time around, the powers that be (Fed Soc and Project 2025) have time to organize and prepare.
