Trump Thread

[rory_20_uk]

Most businesses most of the time undergo limited scrutiny. And most do not stand up to intense scrutiny. Be that Amazon's tax evasion, Facebook and Google's use of data or Apple's tax "approach". The one constant is that they are amoral and do whatever they can to help themselves - if massive, well resourced and profitable companies either lack the will or the want to follow all the rules it is hardly surprising that others equally do not.

So in swaggers Donnie and takes the view since he now is the government and hence much more powerful he can much more easily bully smaller entities - which now is almost everyone, break even more laws - since he writes them and is perplexed that his subordinates - which is everyone - do not act like the cowed minions at private companies who can generally be silenced quite easily and seem to think they follow some sort of set of laws which Donnie didn't agree with. Like Judge Dread, Donnie's take on it is "I AM the Law!!!"

To almost everyone else it is patently obvious that the USA has a system of checks and balances that is almost designed to create gridlock, so fearful were the founding fathers of becoming another UK / France where the sovereign power has, well, power. Not to Donald who so clearly wants to be a Dictator like all the cool countries - Russia, the Philippines, Turkey, North Korea. And three out of the four were very recently democracies, so why can't his democracy get in line and let him enjoy his latest toy?