1/ I agree with this. And it's inevitable - the principal / agent problem can't be worked around. Plunkitt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Plunkitt … ) talked about "honest graft" vs "dishonest graft". I disagree with his stance on the issue, but it does get to the point that >>>https://twitter.com/jordanthelawyer/status/1317485536890806274 …
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7/ in cash, when the cash goes directly to the politician, when influence that is purchased is used grotesquely and obviously (as when Joe Biden, on video, bragged that he had forced the Ukranian government to sack a prosecutor who was going after Hunter's patron for corruption)
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8/ If RETIRED Bill Clinton can put the CEO of Expedia in touch with the right social crowd, and that's worth $350k/yr payoff to Chelsea...ugh, it's grotesque, but we've got to eat it. If Hunter Biden is selling access to the next POTUS to CCP-connected Chinese CEOs >>>
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9/ and Hunter is kicking half of that up to the POTUS himself ... holy cow, that's orders of magnitude worse. ....and that concludes my TED talk on the difference between tolerable and intolerable graft.
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