Discussion: Gov't Ethics Chief Presses WH: 'A Waiver After The Fact Won't Fix The Problem'

[ronbyers]

Ethics are for the little people. Trump and his Trumpeters stride the world without need for no stinking ethics.

[caltg]

Rules are only for little people.

As are taxes, apparently. Trump learned well from Leona Helmsley.

[cincypix]

“Ethics” and “anti money laundering” rules are for all those low energy libtards who want to hold America back from being great again

[caltg]

They don’t give a shit about government, good or otherwise. Neither do most of the Rs up on Capitol Hill.

You are too kind. They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves, period.

[tena]

“the immaculate discovery”

[thunderclapnewman]

[caltg]

Have you read about how disorganized the Comey replacement effort has been? Can’t decide how much is due to the normal incompetence of Trump’s staffing process and how much is calculated stonewalling.

There also appears to be a major problem in that virtually no one with any competence and integrity is at all interested in working in this administration. It could likely be a “kiss of death” for a career.

[edgewise]

At the end of the day my Battalion commander would remove his government issue black ink pen from his fatigue shirt pocket and place it in the center of his desk. I asked him about it once. He replied: “That ink pen is for Government use – not my personal use.” Mr. Trump could never earn my former commander’s respect - nor mine. To serve means to recognize something greater than one’s self.

[caltg]

“DC law firms say they’re getting a lot more inquiries from government employees, who are generally calling for one of three reasons: They’re worried about being caught up in an investigation, worried about being fired, or considering becoming whistleblowers.”

Aha! I knew it. Trump has found the key to reducing joblessness. His very presence in the White House has become the “Attorneys Full Employment Act.”

[wanderer]

“With certain exceptions.”

The rules only apply to the peasants. Clearly.

[katscherger]

Nailed it.

[demosthenes59]

Ethics? In the Trump “administration”? LOL

[jeannes]

it’s a wonderment everyday what new rule that no one even thought to be concerned about gets violated and needs to be ‘cleaned up.’

[ignoreland]

it was important to make sure that all individuals had the opportunity to be able to speak to the media about what the President was doing to make the country stronger.

Yeah, they had to go to Breitbart, because everyone else knew Littlefinger was aiming to make the country weaker and every shot was right on target.

@edgewise: my dad brought some of those home once. They made great catapults (disassemble, then reassemble with the spring in front of the little white thing, then BAM at your little brother or the kid sitting in front of you), but I asked once if the FBI might come get us. Next time I saw a ballpoint pen it didn’t have that gov’t notation on it, but neither did it leave a little red mark on your target.

@thunderclapnewman: I would’ve bought that cartoon had the “reality” phone have a plainly cut cable.

[brian512]

This maladministration requires new vocabulary to describe. The perverse negative synergy – antergy? – between their corruption and their incompetence is record-setting.

[tiowally]

Trump learned well from Leona Helmsley.

In truth, he learned it from Roy Cohn and his slumlord millionaire daddy.

[justruss]

Yep, he is the slum lord of the United States. When does he turn off the water and electricity to make us all move out?

[26degreesrising]

And the beat goes on.

[lastroth]

“With certain exceptions.”

Which will be marked with Ryan’s magical asterisks. (Cheap son of beach charges us an arm and leg every time we have to use them suckas)

[twowolves]

Have to keep reminding Donnie time after time that he was elected President, not king.