• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    The CEO answers to the shareholders.

    A second-term president answers to no one.

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    So obviously a lot of fools that can’t connect the obvious dots are going to say ALLEGED pedophile. Ok, fine. However, he is an adjudicated rapist. So you can say that in the U.S. being an actual rapist doesn’t bring down a president and have it be 100% undeniably true.

    The bar has been lowered. Severely. And the only way to raise that bar again is to bring justice to the rapist desecrating the office of the presidency.

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    I mean, we really ought to just never have a president again. Too much power concentrated in one place.

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      I think we’d be a lot better off if we had staggered nationwide elections for individual cabinet posts and let them run the country.

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      The US should have a leader who is technically the head of the country but whose powers are basically ceremonial. He should swear in the leader of the house, appoint certain high-ranking officials (on the consent of the house leader) and sign laws into effect. He could be the one sent to other countries as a representative of the USA, and he’d be welcomed with red carpets, etc. But, he couldn’t actually enter any negotiations or anything. He could even wear a military uniform to look extra cool.

      In short, the US should have a King.

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        There are plenty of parliamentary republics (Germany, Italy, Austria, India, Ireland, Israel) where the president has mostly ceremonial and representative duties

        No need to revert back to monarchy.

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          It’s safer though. These days “President” has a terrible connotation in the US. Freshen things up with a ceremonial king.

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    I do understand.

    He’s protected by other pedophiles throughout government and its financiers, they’re colluding. (bOtH sIdEs)

    Trump’s not even the big fish.

  • Because the circumstances of the CEO affair are inconvenient to the shareholders.

    PS: Three! Three Hwang-mistresses so far, ah… ah… ah…

    When it comes the Republican party here in the States, they only posture and clutch pearls only when a Democrat is scandalous. When Roy Moore and and Matt Gaetz were discovered _preying on underage teens, they didn’t even blink.

    The Democratic party cuts into its own when there are sex scandals, even when it’s grownup matters, like harassment of staffers or prior colleagues.

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      In general, company investors aren’t part of a cult. SpaceX and Tesla are another matter, but in general it’s about whether the company makes money or not.

      Politics was already cultish. People would care more about the success of their team, rather than how their lives improved. When Trump came along the level of cultness went up a few notches.

      Also, if it were just an affair it would be quickly forgotten. What matters is that it was an affair with a spy working for a government that’s an adversary to the US. And he’s the CEO of a company that is not allowed to export its most high-tech products to that adversary.

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      Ha, that’s just goofy.

      See Epstein files for details. What we have seen (like flight logs) proves you wrong.

      Biden didn’t do a thing.

      (Bill Clinton, Dershowitz, Senator Glenn, and many others. Trump was just one of many)

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    It’s not about having a mistress. Huang is successfully controlling the narrative which is the actual shocker. Do people even realize Elon fucking Musk… exists?! You know, as in being a CEO of SpaceX and Tesla? The guy has more children with affairs than he attends board meetings and nobody ever cared.

    It was never about that at all for Huang but about illegally smuggling hardware into China, cozying up to Trump and the Democrats subsequently sweeping the midterms. He fears for a harsh sentence under a different president so he wants this to be over quickly and get a pardon. It’s blatantly obvious he controls the narrative to different affairs as soon as people start asking the actual questions and it’s painful to see people falling for it.

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      Is he though? Public opinion doesn’t really matter and he’s already been summoned to testify before Congress about it.

      Pretty sure the people that actually matter here are all about the illegal Chinese smuggling bit and not the sex.

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          Yeah, that’s what I said?

          He’s actually in trouble because of the criminal stuff. Not because some idiots online think it’s because of the affairs.

          That was my point. Some dipshit twitter users aren’t actually affecting anything. He’s not “controlling the narrative” at all when he’s still facing a huge criminal shitstorm.

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        Summoned to testify. How often do any of these investigations result in people going to jail? He’s rich af, so odds are nothing will happen to him.

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          Well, Congress has no ability to charge anyone with a crime. That’s the DOJ. And Congress has referred charges to the DOJ several times.

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    Easy.

    A CEO is accountable to shareholders. A president is accountable to no one (at least while in office, per SCOTUS).

    Alternatively, the CEO affects investments; a president is the investment.

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    A crime syndicate depends on everyone being on the same page about quid pro quo and being okay with corruption. If anyone defects, then the syndicate fails, hence why anyone who has second thoughts dips out asap and usually quietly, lest they incur the wrath of the insiders.

    Trump’s open crookedness is a beacon for other psychopaths that says, “Open for Business.”

    Trade secrets being given to China means stock will inevitably go down, so this is about that and not really the adultery itself.

    In both cases, it’s profit greed over morality.

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    An errant CEO can cost billionaires the value of their precious stock portfolio. Such a person must be fired. Fucking kids, however, can get many of them sent to jail; therefore all the other billionaire pedophiles must be protected so no one will confess who they fucked kids with… or ate them, or snuffed them, or whatever else they get off on.

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    It’s quite simple really: Trump has made billionaires a ton of money and his paedophilia has no ill effect on it. Huang’s affairs have cost billionaires a ton of money.

    It’s never been about morals, just money

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      I’m positive without a doubt that many Democrats are also just pedophiles.

      Have you heard of The Epstein Files? Check it out.