We started finding out with the first run of Trump that our government still operates on gentlemen’s agreements and the pony express being cutting edge technology.
At this point, yes. At the beginning of the 1st Trump term I swore he must have had a secret phalanx of lawyers dedicated to finding every little edge case and loophole in the law. Before trump you at least had more people pretending to respect the spirit of the law and avoid partisanship. And before maybe the 90s I think the majority were sincere. Opposite parties could put politics aside and socialize with each other and be friends. But this seems impossible now.
The sentence that literally founded the United States: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The people who wrote that sentence owned slaves. It’s always been loopholes.
As a foreigner, sometimes it feels like the entirety of US politics is based on loopholes.
I’d rather say it’s based on “loopy a-holes”
We started finding out with the first run of Trump that our government still operates on gentlemen’s agreements and the pony express being cutting edge technology.
This is true. Most loopholes are in the tax codes.
Always has been
common law failures in full display
Yep. That’s also how our “justice” system works too.
At this point, yes. At the beginning of the 1st Trump term I swore he must have had a secret phalanx of lawyers dedicated to finding every little edge case and loophole in the law. Before trump you at least had more people pretending to respect the spirit of the law and avoid partisanship. And before maybe the 90s I think the majority were sincere. Opposite parties could put politics aside and socialize with each other and be friends. But this seems impossible now.
The sentence that literally founded the United States: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The people who wrote that sentence owned slaves. It’s always been loopholes.
Shenanigans
That was super entertaining to watch!
Blessed be the fruit loops.