Lynn Chu

So far all the complaints about Trump administration corruption amount to zilch. It’s all smoke generated by the usual heavy-breathing of left liberals, whether partisan or naive (Calley Means might be a tad wet behind the ears) who work themselves up into a surety that anyone else who is making any money—like a lobbyist hired, perfectly rationally, because they have access to a politically powerful person—just “must” be corrupt. Wiles’s daughter was a lobbyist before Mommy got her top job. She has access so it’s not surprising that a lot of special interests signed up to her employer’s shop. The worst scandal out there is Jensen Huang being honeypotted. Apparently the honeypot actually made off with top Nvidia technology. Almost worse than that was Manuel Rocha: Cuban intelligence at the very tippy top of the U.S. State Department ever since Reagan. Wow, devastating. Lobbying is perfectly normal. Indeed it is almost the essence of democracy. People’s fees are free market negotiable. Decisions on policy are in government officials’ discretion. The only real question in what is or is not corrupt is whether any particular official can be said to be in breach of their fiduciary duty to the nation because they perverted their official judgments for money (or sex, or other emolument). Media by the way do this all the time, to wit the Tucker, Candace, Megyn crowd (reportedly) changing their spins based on fees they’re charging, apparently, foreign governments or special interests. Media have lobbyist envy. I consider THAT to be corrupt, as we expect media to pursue truth. Sadly human nature is corrupt just generically. The Bible has a lot to say about that, so this is not new news.

The sanctuary city concept is being used to destroy federal and state law enforcement coordination writ large. It is a Constitutional level violation of comity and the entire structure of the United States. It is Revolution in the guise of “universal human rights.”

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were patsies of the communist left but they willingly assumed their risks and deserve no sympathy.

I wonder if Elon’s also been targeted by honeypots. Probably all of Silicon Valley has.

According to The Wright Report’s Bryan Dean Wright, now behind a paywall for most episodes, Trump is at risk of being successfully impeached and removed because of the number of GOP senators angry over the Iran war and the risk to their own seats in the Senate it entailed, and which was seen in the internal polling early on (the loss of Kansas). BDW warns that the fate of South Africa, which once had a space program and was an innovator in medicine, accomplishing the first heart transplants, may be ours. The left relishes death and killing their opposition and today South Africa cannot maintain its water and sewage systems. See also California for the incompetence vector. Their agenda is seizure. And murder of those who resist. And they remain dedicated to their tribal cause regardless of fifty years of evidence to the contrary. I would note that they have zero regard for the rule of law and the Biden administration already demonstrated this with its opening of the border. Law is now an ignorable set of twisted sophistries to be used as an instrument of raw power.

Wow. How prescient. And the man with the big cheesy smile then as in 2020 was Biden. Respect.

It’s worth remembering that lobbying is not only legal, it’s the essence of democratic engagement on policy. That said, it can in some cases shade over into personal favoritism and kickbacks. That requires a detailed assessment of the specific facts and any unusual high pay for services, or policy flips.

Gas prices could’ve been better explained as a rather small price for an operation—one can hardly even call it a “war”—of absolute necessity and required by longstanding US foreign policy to avert nuclear proliferation. This was not a matter of discretion for Trump. It was permanent US policy.

The biggest mistake the Republicans made with respect to messaging was letting Democrats rename “inflation” “unaffordability.” It let them emphasize how you’re feeling now over who caused it, and how.

Stock trading on information is perfectly legal as long as it’s done only after the information is formally public. Developing rules about what that ought to mean exactly, and pushing the start line forward to after any legislation has passed, might be a good idea. Everyone in the world has an information advantage of some kind in relation to their particular profession or expertise.

Who is this disgusting woman in the Congress saying that she would support “ruining” Pete Hegseth?

Calley Means’s suggestion to get rid of direct election of Senators and return to the original design (state legislature appointment) is a viable one imho. He points out that the Senate is corrupted by fundraising taking up 90% of all of their time. To finance their elections. This has all been pointed out before. I remember the issue being discussed 40 years ago in just those terms. And the problem is now logarithmically worse.