• Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    It wasn’t the ‘mistress’ part that bothered anyone. It was the ‘Spy’ and smuggling part that was what brought him down.

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    Because the “mistress” part is a distraction from circular financing, and smuggling GPUs to countries that shouldn’t have them. Including Russia, into Russian drones, used to attack civilian homes, which makes Jensen Huang a war criminal.

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    The scandal isn’t the cheating, it’s selling products to Chinese countries despite export restrictions, the cheating was just a vehicle for that. As heinous as it is, Trump’s paedophilia doesn’t have an impact on the global economy.

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      Except when he’s pressured by the Epstein class into starting a war with Iran and raising the cost of energy.

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    More so the smuggling of chips then the mistress. People are saying it’s the mistress to try and detract the public from the smuggling that makes up 20% of nvidia sales

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      Seeing as the Trump admin very likely knew about and tolerated the smuggling, it also seems to be a pretext as much as the Mistress or Spy angle.

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      Still, cheating on your spouse is more immoral than smuggling chips. And child rape is among the worse things a human can do to another.

      But only one of those matters in this country and it wasn’t even a crime until a couple of years ago.

      And that’s a fucking problem.

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        Ousting the CEO was a bottom dollar decision, not a morality decision. A corporation breaking US export control laws for ITAR technology has a much greater impact on investor bottom lines than any type of CEO sex scandal.

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    The CEO answers to the shareholders.

    A second-term president answers to no one.

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    I do understand.

    He’s protected by other pedophiles throughout government and its financiers, they’re colluding. (bOtH sIdEs)

    Trump’s not even the big fish.

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    So obviously a lot of fools that can’t connect the obvious dots are going to say ALLEGED pedophile. Ok, fine. However, he is an adjudicated rapist. So you can say that in the U.S. being an actual rapist doesn’t bring down a president and have it be 100% undeniably true.

    The bar has been lowered. Severely. And the only way to raise that bar again is to bring justice to the rapist desecrating the office of the presidency.

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    I mean, we really ought to just never have a president again. Too much power concentrated in one place.

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      The US should have a leader who is technically the head of the country but whose powers are basically ceremonial. He should swear in the leader of the house, appoint certain high-ranking officials (on the consent of the house leader) and sign laws into effect. He could be the one sent to other countries as a representative of the USA, and he’d be welcomed with red carpets, etc. But, he couldn’t actually enter any negotiations or anything. He could even wear a military uniform to look extra cool.

      In short, the US should have a King.

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        There are plenty of parliamentary republics (Germany, Italy, Austria, India, Ireland, Israel) where the president has mostly ceremonial and representative duties

        No need to revert back to monarchy.

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          It’s safer though. These days “President” has a terrible connotation in the US. Freshen things up with a ceremonial king.

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      I think we’d be a lot better off if we had staggered nationwide elections for individual cabinet posts and let them run the country.

  • Because the circumstances of the CEO affair are inconvenient to the shareholders.

    PS: Three! Three Hwang-mistresses so far, ah… ah… ah…

    When it comes the Republican party here in the States, they only posture and clutch pearls only when a Democrat is scandalous. When Roy Moore and and Matt Gaetz were discovered _preying on underage teens, they didn’t even blink.

    The Democratic party cuts into its own when there are sex scandals, even when it’s grownup matters, like harassment of staffers or prior colleagues.

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      In general, company investors aren’t part of a cult. SpaceX and Tesla are another matter, but in general it’s about whether the company makes money or not.

      Politics was already cultish. People would care more about the success of their team, rather than how their lives improved. When Trump came along the level of cultness went up a few notches.

      Also, if it were just an affair it would be quickly forgotten. What matters is that it was an affair with a spy working for a government that’s an adversary to the US. And he’s the CEO of a company that is not allowed to export its most high-tech products to that adversary.

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      Ha, that’s just goofy.

      See Epstein files for details. What we have seen (like flight logs) proves you wrong.

      Biden didn’t do a thing.

      (Bill Clinton, Dershowitz, Senator Glenn, and many others. Trump was just one of many)

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    It’s not about having a mistress. Huang is successfully controlling the narrative which is the actual shocker. Do people even realize Elon fucking Musk… exists?! You know, as in being a CEO of SpaceX and Tesla? The guy has more children with affairs than he attends board meetings and nobody ever cared.

    It was never about that at all for Huang but about illegally smuggling hardware into China, cozying up to Trump and the Democrats subsequently sweeping the midterms. He fears for a harsh sentence under a different president so he wants this to be over quickly and get a pardon. It’s blatantly obvious he controls the narrative to different affairs as soon as people start asking the actual questions and it’s painful to see people falling for it.