Trump To Sign Order Allowing Bribery & Corruption. Seriously.

[Nicefella]

Allowing people in public office to take grease payments for simply doing their jobs hurts small businesses and puts a drain on the whole economy. Grease payments are a bad thing.

You realize I am discussing another country’s already established bureaucratic system, right?

 

[Nicefella]

Bribery is not the equivalent of grease payments. Please Google this and find me one non slanted legal article that says grease payments are the same as bribery. The fact that the FCPO deemed them to be so has hurt our small business interests abroad.

 

[Politruk]

You realize I am discussing another country’s already established bureaucratic system, right?

So what?
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[Nicefella]

So nothing. You win.

 

[Politruk]

Bribery is not the equivalent of grease payments. Please Google this and find me one non slanted legal article that says grease payments are the same as bribery. The fact that the FCPO deemed them to be so has hurt our small business interests abroad.

The only difference I can see is that a grease payment is paying an official to do his job as he is supposed to do it anyway, while a bribe is paying an official not to, or to do it your way.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

MAGA is now officially the Party of Corruption (as well as Pedophilia).

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

Hmm, will the change be for past sins as well or just going forward? Con man's gonna con so might as well avoid prison down the road plus it's the friends and family plan probably as well. Cha ching

 

[Nicefella]

The only difference I can see is that a grease payment is paying an official to do his job as he is supposed to do it anyway, while a bribe is paying an official not to, or to do it your way.

And in those jurisdictions grease payments are LEGAL. So what’s a US business trying to compete in say, Nigeria, supposed to do?

 

[butters]

speaking of grease and payments:

Former Trump advisor Bannon to plead guilty in border wall fraud case, avoid jail

 

[RobDownSouth]

Which part of it suggests that they condone bribery? It looks like they will evaluate it to make it more efficient.

blah blah blah

I’m hoping they do allow for grease payments again. Here is the difference between grease payments and bribery.
https://www.hilderlaw.com/blog/2019/12/what-is-the-difference-between-a-grease-payment-and-a-bribe/

You, sir or madam, are a sealion plain and simple.

There is no difference between a bribe and a "grease payment", your mewling notwithstanding.

 

[Nicefella]

You, sir or madam, are a sealion plain and simple.

There is no difference between a bribe and a "grease payment", your mewling notwithstanding.

you get bonus points for using scalion, mewling and notwithstanding in the same sentence/paragraph/message.

So - Other than throw petty insults and your opinion of legal definitions, send something substantive my way?

 

[Bray123]

you get bonus points for using scalion, mewling and notwithstanding in the same sentence/paragraph/message.

So - Other than throw petty insults and your opinion of legal definitions, send something substantive my way?

No more. That's shallot.

 

[RobDownSouth]

you get bonus points for using scalion, mewling and notwithstanding in the same sentence/paragraph/message.

So - Other than throw petty insults and your opinion of legal definitions, send something substantive my way?

While I admire your tenacity, I would point out that "Scalion" (sic) (presumably you meant 'scallion') and "Sealion" are two completely different things, unlike, say, "bribe" and "grease payment".

Since you seem fundamentally unwilling to discern the twin branches having a common root in a poisoned fruit tree, I see no reason to continue to engage in neologistic word retroconning whilst you and your "elk" (sic) attack America from many different angles in a continual attempt to have progressives "play defense".

Elon Musk is looting the United States Treasury Department and you want to hair-split word definitions.

 

[Noitall]

Double Down, Dudes: Dems Willing to Shut Gov Down to Save Fraud and Abuse From Trump

makes common sense

you all left this out

 

[Lathanar1]

Lol, ten bucks says within the next week some European government announces an investigation into Musk on bribery charges related to Starlink.

 

[Politruk]

Elon Musk is looting the United States Treasury Department and you want to hair-split word definitions.

Well, to be fair, he is only looting it of information, not money.

So far.

 

[jomar]

Well, this is just the first step now that trump sold his DC hotel for an inflated price to some oligarchs. Once it is the norm for us to bribe other countries the door opens for it being ok for other countries to bribe the US. And boom! trump has another income stream.

 

[Politruk]

Remember Abscam? "I took those bribes because it's just what Arabs expect" did not fly as a defense.

 

[dmallord]

US exports are at an all-time high, so what’s the reasoning for enabling corruption of foreign governments?

If you want to build a Riviera in the Middle East, you have to grease some wheels and palms [hands] to start the engines huffing and puffing to bulldoze the terrain. Like Joni Mitchell's 'Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot?'

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?

Today, Trump reaffirmed his desire to take over Gaza by fiat... who's going to stand in his way?

 

[jomar]

Today, Trump reaffirmed his desire to take over Gaza by fiat... who's going to stand in his way?

He was a mob boss in his interview today saying “we’ll just own Gaza. We’ve given Jordan and Egypt a lot of money but I won’t have to even threaten with that. I mean Gaza will just be ours and everyone is saying it’s a great idea and it’ll be the best thing ever.”

 

[Politruk]

Trump just threated to cut off foreign aid to Egypt and Jordan if they don't take in the Gazans.

 

[dmallord]

Trump just threated to cut off foreign aid to Egypt and Jordan if they don't take in the Gazans.

Please check with his new press secretary. I'm sure she has an explanation for what he said that didn't mean what you and I heard. If he did, according to MAGA tribesmen, he didn't mean it. And if he did–that's brilliant—something no one else ever offered as a beautiful solution.

 

[jomar]

Trump just threated to cut off foreign aid to Egypt and Jordan if they don't take in the Gazans.

Ey, i gotta offer you can’t refuse. Capisch?

 

[Politruk]

Remember Abscam? "I took those bribes because it's just what Arabs expect" did not fly as a defense.

This is pretty important, when evaluating the propriety of "grease payments."