I’m gonna say that I don’t really care if the KGB “convinced” a private citizen to take out an ad. Seriously: if some dude stopped me on the street and offered me $1M to buy $100k of AdSense saying NATO started the war in Ukraine, I’d probably do that. Who really cares what I, or some 80s real-estate schmuck, pastes on the side of walls? Trump never made any secret of being an anything-for-money person.
I’d expect to get fired. I’d expect it to be disqualifying for public office. So, to me, the thing that’s actually disturbing is how many of our political leaders & how much of the public at large is willing to go along with and even celebrate the propaganda for free. Betray their stated ideals for free.
I’d expect to get fired. I’d expect it to be disqualifying for public office.
Yeah, but that’d be the better world (not ideal one though, in ideal one there is no lobbying), and we’re now in situation where people made careers lobbying different stuff, while being in positions, that are supposed to serve the people.
Tulsi Gabbard is my favourite example with few episodes of taking money from Assad regime at some points and that is like lowest low, lower would probably be lobbying for DPRK, and I feel like she wouldn’t turn down that offer too. And that is the person choosen by Taco Don to lead national intelligence.
In 1983 Graydon Carter (later editor of Spy and Vanity Fair) was assigned to write a profile of trump for GQ magazine. In the profile, Carter mentioned that trump’s hands seemed “too small for his body”. When the issue came out, trump sent out his minions to buy up as many copies of GQ in NYC as they could get their hands on, to prevent people from reading it. Apparently, this led to greater-than-normal sales of that issue which prompted publisher Si Newhouse to greenlight trump’s book The Art of the Deal.
Damn.
Turns out 40 years ago it was just as easy to piss in his ears. Just flatter him and push whatever agenda you might need him to repeat
I’m gonna say that I don’t really care if the KGB “convinced” a private citizen to take out an ad. Seriously: if some dude stopped me on the street and offered me $1M to buy $100k of AdSense saying NATO started the war in Ukraine, I’d probably do that. Who really cares what I, or some 80s real-estate schmuck, pastes on the side of walls? Trump never made any secret of being an anything-for-money person.
I’d expect to get fired. I’d expect it to be disqualifying for public office. So, to me, the thing that’s actually disturbing is how many of our political leaders & how much of the public at large is willing to go along with and even celebrate the propaganda for free. Betray their stated ideals for free.
Yeah, but that’d be the better world (not ideal one though, in ideal one there is no lobbying), and we’re now in situation where people made careers lobbying different stuff, while being in positions, that are supposed to serve the people.
Tulsi Gabbard is my favourite example with few episodes of taking money from Assad regime at some points and that is like lowest low, lower would probably be lobbying for DPRK, and I feel like she wouldn’t turn down that offer too. And that is the person choosen by Taco Don to lead national intelligence.
In 1983 Graydon Carter (later editor of Spy and Vanity Fair) was assigned to write a profile of trump for GQ magazine. In the profile, Carter mentioned that trump’s hands seemed “too small for his body”. When the issue came out, trump sent out his minions to buy up as many copies of GQ in NYC as they could get their hands on, to prevent people from reading it. Apparently, this led to greater-than-normal sales of that issue which prompted publisher Si Newhouse to greenlight trump’s book The Art of the Deal.