If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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Lololol!

The remedy is impeachment. But neither party wants to cross that bridge because they want their person to have unfettered pardon power when their person is in office.

As opposed to just handing them out like candy?

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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So we're good when the Dems do this now?

Want to make sure we got this bookmarked for three years from now when President AOC pardons Luigi.

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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Yes, some people would run. We would have politicians that are less corrupt but also not as smart.

In a perfect world, we would make it really, really hard for politicians to be corrupt, and pay them something like $1M to $5M / yr. It would save taxpayers a huge amount of money.

It would be really difficult to do, and most people would cheat, but the level of cheating would go way down. Because people are always smarter and faster than the legislative process, the only way to reduce the amount of corruption is to disseminate power out of DC and into the states.

I do have a dream though where it is illegal for the political class to be in possession of money or assets, and all of that is held by the federal government. All of the spending that you do is on the government debit card, and the financial information is the property of the US government. If you are an elected politician and it is discovered that you possess or control assets or money, the government confiscates it and you go to jail.

Complete pipe dream, but the only way I can think of to reduce corruption significantly. This would be a lot easier to do with a federal crypto currency that has an audit trail, which is why I think such a thing will never be fully adopted by the US Government.

I think the easy way to fix all this is to require any pardon to be limited to a specific crime and the pardon should have to name it. These "I pardon person X for any and all crimes from 199x to 202x" deals are BS. If they are going to receive a get out of jail free card, we should be told what they would have otherwise gone to jail for.

You don't know how any of this works lol.

I am 100% because we are the idiots that allow it. OP is *****ing now but was silent on biden's pardon. People upset with Biden's pardons aren't speaking out against Trump. I have been consistent as has some others.

Link to claim

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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So we're good when the Dems do this now?

Want to make sure we got this bookmarked for three years from now when President AOC pardons Luigi.

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I was being sarcastic lol

I don't support Trump, any candidate or parties, and never will. They are all just actors stealing money from middle class Americans.

Politics are the longest con in human history.

He didn't just X, he Y.

AI slop

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You don't know how any of this works lol.

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Haha. I do, just don't like it. Cheers!!

Yep. It's an obvious conduit for corruption and it's hard to argue its benefit outweighs its abuse.

Serious reform is way overdue.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoin-usd1-binance-holds-87-percent/

Google helps w such things...I grabbed bc I should sourced it in original post.

So do you think Binance bought those stable coins from Trump? Because that's the implication you're making. Which isn't accurate.

For better or worse, the pardon power is plenary and has very few limits. Since its basis is the Constitution, to place additional limits on the power you would have to amend the Constitution. I wouldn't be too sad if it happened, but I think it unlikely.

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K2-HMFIC said:

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FWTXAg said:

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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So we're good when the Dems do this now?

Want to make sure we got this bookmarked for three years from now when President AOC pardons Luigi.

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I was being sarcastic lol

I don't support Trump, any candidate or parties, and never will. They are all just actors stealing money from middle class Americans.

Politics are the longest con in human history.

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The pardon system needs reform because right now this stuff is getting out of hand…

Our politicians reflect the electorate.

The further we violate James Madison's caution, the more "rules" seem necessary.

An ever expanding book of rules is just treating symptoms. Curing the disease would require a significant filtering restriction on the suffrage.

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The whole damn Congress is for sale and Congress made sure it's legal. Campaigns contributions are bribes. Kickbacks to congressmen for government money are bribes. Insider trading for congressmen is legal but Martha Stewart went to prison for doing 1/one millionth of what Navy Pelosi has done.

Our country is run by crooks, buffoons and too few good men. Trump at least he ant stealing our taxpayer money like all these politicians getting kickbacks from all the NGO money theft

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I guess you didn't hear about Trump's 10 billion dollar lawsuit against the government that he's going to settle to pay . . . himself?

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The remedy is impeachment. But neither party wants to cross that bridge because they want their person to have unfettered pardon power when their person is in office.

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What's the crime?

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The whole damn Congress is for sale and Congress made sure it's legal. Campaigns contributions are bribes. Kickbacks to congressmen for government money are bribes. Insider trading for congressmen is legal but Martha Stewart went to prison for doing 1/one millionth of what Navy Pelosi has done.

Our country is run by crooks, buffoons and too few good men. Trump at least he ant stealing our taxpayer money like all these politicians getting kickbacks from all the NGO money theft

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I guess you didn't hear about Trump's 10 billion dollar lawsuit against the government that he's going to settle to pay . . . himself?

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Said any money he gets will be denoted to charity or given back. He just wants the judgment, truth out.

Yes he said this, yes publicly. Believe it was Friday on AF1.

Gosh you kids are a broken record of solid gold TDS.

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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So we're good when the Dems do this now?

Want to make sure we got this bookmarked for three years from now when President AOC pardons Luigi.

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I was being sarcastic lol

I don't support Trump, any candidate or parties, and never will. They are all just actors stealing money from middle class Americans.

Politics are the longest con in human history.

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The pardon system needs reform because right now this stuff is getting out of hand…

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Trump is actually employing the pardon power as intended. Biden implemented mass lawfare not just against MAGA and Trump but against anybody seen as even the remotest of threat to the admin and their puppy masters.

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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Lololol!

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If you can't laugh you'll cry.

I completely agree with you, it's amazing we let our "elected leaders" openly rob us blind. And then some of us even cheer them on.

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I haven't bought any of those coins. Was I robbed?

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FWTXAg said:

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If they made corruption illegal nobody would run for office. There wouldn't be enough money in it. Trump just does it bigger and better than anybody that came before him and he signs it with a gold sharpie.

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So we're good when the Dems do this now?

Want to make sure we got this bookmarked for three years from now when President AOC pardons Luigi.

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I was being sarcastic lol

I don't support Trump, any candidate or parties, and never will. They are all just actors stealing money from middle class Americans.

Politics are the longest con in human history.

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The pardon system needs reform because right now this stuff is getting out of hand…

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Trump is actually employing the pardon power as intended. Biden implemented mass lawfare not just against MAGA and Trump but against anybody seen as even the remotest of threat to the admin and their puppy masters.

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Was the pardon power intended to get your wealthy buddies off the hook so they could get out and buy up your ****coin?