Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Can someone smarter than me help me understand how the United States seems to have completely given up on forcing presidents to divest their business interests while in the presidency?
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sardius.eth
@sardius
unfortunately a weakness of the system and a symptom of the late republic crisis we’re going through there isn’t really a way to force them to give up the business interests, as this was never signed into law. It was more tradition and respect to the 1978 ethics in government act, and each president from Lyndon B onwards divested their assets, either selling them off or holding them in a blind trust this was broken in trumps first term when he refused to divest or stop involvement with his assets and businesses, breaking the long standing tradition. Until this gets codified into law, now that the tradition is broken, it may continue to intensify along current lines
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Drew Trombley
@dtrom
Jimmy Carter would have been the Peanut King of the World!
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Monteluna
@monteluna
You and I would both agree a company that hires for a crypto role, would probably want someone knowledgeable about crypto, and we would both agree that you have to be in crypto to get that knowledge. For some reason this logic shouldn't work for government, then we wonder why government can't get anything done.
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matthias
@iammatthias
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HackingThroughLife
@hnnhstphnz
People do not understand civics and are really selfish
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