- 18 U.S.C. §201 (Bribery) — Paying officials for official acts
- 18 U.S.C. §1951 (Hobbs Act) — Extortion under official authority
- 18 U.S.C. §208 — Conflict of interest, financial
- 18 U.S.C. §203 — Paid representation while employed
- 52 U.S.C. §30121 — Bans foreign political contributions
- 52 U.S.C. §30122 — Bans straw-donor contributions
- Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act — Proposed library donation limits (not passed)
- No Payoffs for Pardons Act — Proposed pardon-bribery clarification (not passed)
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Congrats on being self aware.
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politics @lemmy.world•How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
13·6 days agoWith the Overton window shifting… I’m just not sure anymore.
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politics @lemmy.world•How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
283·6 days agoI’m surprised the authors didn’t mention the means-testing scam Democrats are running. They show how consultants drain the party’s money, but they miss how politicians shrink their promises to the bare minimum. Instead of fixing big problems like healthcare, housing, or prices, they figure out the least they can offer and still win. It’s the same game as the fundraising: it serves the consultants and donors, not voters. They tell us “democracy is on the line,” then offer us scraps. No wonder people feel the party asks a lot and gives little.
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politics @lemmy.world•Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
61·7 days agoYeh, that guy…and all the others as well. I think we all know that the US has been doing this for a long long time. Thats one of the reasons why we’re seeing a movement away from centrism.
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politics @lemmy.world•Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
232·8 days agoI understand that both Obama and Clinton deported more people from the US… but the way they did it may support the argument that Trump’s method was more about the display of terror and meeting his bases expectation to meet his campaign promise of hurting the other people.
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politics @lemmy.world•Cops Not Happy When Man Creates Flock-Style Camera That Only Collects Police Plates
15·8 days ago… and billionaires.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What a 5400 rpm drive and a 100 Mbps link actually do to Immich (numbers from two 2011 boxes)
222·9 days agoGuy put Postgres on a 5400 rpm laptop drive, wondered why Immich took 24 seconds to load, then “discovered” a $20 SSD fixes it — 95x faster, stop the presses. The rest is him learning that a 100 Mbps Realtek port from 2011 is slow and a dual-core Celeron is bad at math.
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politics @lemmy.world•Manufactured Cruelty: Criminalizing Homelessness
4·9 days agoThere is a company that keeps lists of people. CIA money built it and now a billion dollars pays it to map neighborhoods for raids and comb Medicaid rolls for names. Medicaid. People went to a doctor and that is how they got found. Two more companies run the cages, nine of ten souls ICE holds are in their buildings, and their profits rose seventy percent, and somebody got a bonus for that. One man helped found the list company, then founded a think tank that makes it a crime to sleep outside, and keeps his money in the cages those laws fill. And the banks hold stock in the eye and the cell both. Push any of them and they all say the same thing. The company did it. Not me.
WOE unto them! Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousness! A company has no legs to stand before God. Men do. And they will stand, not sit behind counsel, not send a statement, and their ledgers will be ash and the only book open will be His, and there is no page in it for contracts. I was a stranger and ye took me not in. I was sick and ye looked up my name. I was in prison and ye OWNED the prison. They brag their deals are no-bid. That gate is no-bid too. No lawyer. No appeal. No payout. God was never once fooled by a letterhead. The day cometh that burneth as an oven and they will have nothing in their hands but what they did to the least of these. Nothing. Repent. Be afraid.
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politics @lemmy.world•Gavin Newsom hobbles his 2028 bid before it launches
5·14 days agoSo true.
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politics @lemmy.world•Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary
4·16 days agolol. Thank you.
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politics @lemmy.world•Texas Republican calls out GOP’s costly obsession with anti-trans campaigns: ‘It’s just not resonating’
30·16 days agoThe rich have a long list of other marginalized people they will con stupid people into hating as a smokescreen for them to raid this countries treasury and future.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI
281·16 days agoGreat call out on the irony. So true. Welcome to the future.
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politics @lemmy.world•Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary
9·16 days agō…_(ツ)_/ ̄
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politics @lemmy.world•Judge Threatens Trump With Sanctions to Testify in BBC Lawsuit - Bloomberg
8·16 days agoThe snake snakes. The weasel weasels.
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politics @lemmy.world•I voted today to keep Melanie Stansbury, among other things.
5·16 days agoThese are way better than the typical I VOTED stickers. Very nice.
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politics @lemmy.world•Troy Jackson tells Susan Collins to ‘shut up’ during Maine Senate debate
8·16 days agoNet negative post imo
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politics @lemmy.world•'I'm not a big fan of Zelensky,' Trump says as US-Ukraine tensions deepen
15·17 days agoNATO allies didn’t promise him a kingdom.
Its amazing to me that donors don’t seem to think about this disgusting dynamic and force equity adjustments.