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Old 05-15-2025 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Buck Rogers
Well, I guess you could start with selling nights in the White Houses' Lincoln bedroom for $100,000+ like someone did in 1995 and 1996. Sub-letting over-night stays of my house kinda miffed me.
Sure, you could start there- you’d end up using direct access to the president & the White House as an explicitly advertised award for buying a meme coin owned by the president; or a $500K “Executive Branch” club- again publicly advertising access to presidential staff/cabinet members.

I’m not going to defend unethical conduct by Slick Willie just because I may have agreed with parts of his social agenda. (That’s the moral autonomy you retain when you’re not in a cult.) It was crooked & it sucked. So when the same kind of thing becomes the explicit guiding principle of an administration, I can objectively say it is a new level of crooked. I don’t know why it’s so hard for some people to say that if corruption is bad, frequent & open corruption is worse.

[Closing argument- thread headed for lockdown. On point I believe catastrophic outcomes for the U.S. travel industry is still a less likely probability. Corporations & markets have largely taken a “wait & see” approach to most of his bluster & he isn’t exactly known for his discipline or perseverance when it comes to carrying out a cohesive policy agenda.]
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