This is unacceptable. The Trump grift makes anyone in congress look like a saint.
Public servants should be like fucking nuns, they had a calling to support their country, they should be comfortable but never wealthy. I'd vote for a redesign of the system that forces anyone who takes a government job at x level or higher is blocked from any advisor, board, or executive job for life. They can only be regular ass employees, unless they run a medical practice.
I know a few diplomats and they used to brag about the shit ass American cars American diplomats used to get around. They compared themselves to Russian diplomats who love their luxury vehicles. The normal car was meant to show we were there to serve our country and foster relations with others, not benefit ourselves from our position.
The overt corruption and manipulation of the market/inside information is sickening. The political economy of America has always been rigged in the sense that class mobility is limited but to see those with access to power make millions in seconds with no thought and no narrative to justify it is sickening. Americans are watching their 401Ks tumble (again), while Trump and his cronies make insane wealth on top of the wealth that would last until the end of human civilization.
I remember sitting in Russia and seeing how the government operated--from the police to the universities to those in the Duma--and I said, "This is America's future. This is what the Republican Party wants." We aren't in the same crony-capitalism/kleptocracy system quite yet, but we are heading down that path quickly. And, with Ellison owning CNN and his son owning TikTok and Sinclair owning so many local stations, we are going to repeat their media landscape, which will make it all the easier. The current grifts are just the start
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300243093/russias-crony-capitalism/The Head of Department of Defense reaching out to Black Rock to buy millions in stock for defense industry right before the war.
Big investments right before the invasion of Iran
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/who-struck-it-rich-in-the-markets-when-trump-postponed-bombing-iranThe big "prediction market" bet right before the attack on Iran.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/25/large-polymarket-wall-street-bets-on-trumps-war-news-under-scrutinyThe "prediction market" bet that Maduro would be ousted (Polymarket allows for anonymous bets via crypto).
Trump Jr. Getting a seat on the board of a prediction market while investing millions in another just as daddy gets to make rules about regulation.
Kushner making billions off his wife's fathers connections
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