Ann Laabs 🏳️🌈
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- For those of you who are following Lori Crews and her hospitalization, I'll still post any news each day in and among the story of my life. Thanks for praying and caring for her.
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- Once again I had to park my own car at a valet station because the valet didn't know how to drive manual; this doesn't bother me and in fact I find it amusing, but it certainly brings home that I really am from a different age of the world now.
- Being able to drive a stick shift is about as vital as being able to ride a unicycle, but there’s a lot of people here who seem to think it’s the end-all-be-all of life skills. Seems like there might be a big overlap with people who still write paper checks.
- Thanks for the put down, kid.
- How it started: How it's going, Quid Pro Quo Edition, courtesy of @ericlipton.nytimes.com & @nytimes.com.
- Eric, is this specific enough to fit your definition of bribery? Gift 🎁 Article 'Trump’s Plan to Accept Luxury Jet From Qatar Strains Bounds of Propriety' www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given lavishly appointed plane and that Mr. Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt Glenn Thrush www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
- “If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s certainly no such thing as a free plane.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
- Think it's time to call my GOP Senator again. How much will this "free" plane cost after it's taken apart part by part to check for listening devices?
- Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given lavishly appointed plane and that Mr. Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt Glenn Thrush www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
- But it's not an explicit quid pro quo, so no bribery. Just corruption.
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- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- You're confusing corruption with bribery.
- "Because the system works The system called Reciprocity... Don't you know that this hand Washes that one too? When you're good to Mama Mama's good to you!"
- Eric comes from the Miss Mary Sunshine school of journalism
