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Corruption is the Feature
Ethics, Morals and the Rule of Law are the Bugs
Joe is Wypoxic
March 14, 2026
Just a short weekend post while I am visiting my 90-year old mom in a sun-splashed location, so I want to maximize my outdoors time before heading back home to the still chilly intermountain west.
Two stories from recent days:
Story #1 (behind paywall access HERE):
Story #2 (behind paywall access HERE):
Trump and Hegseth appear to be turning the entire Pentagon budget, the largest of any agency of the US Government, into one big grifting pond for private profit and advancement. They can do this in part because congressional oversight is, to all intents and purposes, simply dead.
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)2026-03-14T00:01:16.244Z
In story 1, you had an unqualified nepo baby in a fal\ke position “negotiating” nuclear talks with Iran (accompanied by his equally unqualified real state “magnate” Steve Witkoff) while trying to make personal finanical deals with Middle Eastern oil nations. In Story 2, as George Conway puts it, you’ve got the Department of Defense run by an alcoholic, nativist religious extremist (what I will call any Chrisitan Nationalist from now on) selling access to foreign governments for private profit.
One thing I’d like to think: in the not-too-far-distant-past, almost all Americans believed was that we were all against corruption. At the very least, against blatant corruption.
But under Trump 1.0 and more brazenly under Trump 2.0, corruption is a feature, not a bug.
And, of course, the Republican cult says and does… nothing. Normalizing this is not acceptable. Accepting this is not… acceptable.
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