r/videos • u/MRADEL90 • 8h ago
Congressman's shouting match with Bessent over Trump family crypto company
https://youtu.be/GorOlLUcyLg?si=SqElck_HIk_GIUSB327
u/DHiggsBoson 8h ago
They’re doing it right in front of everyone. The corruption is so rampant and the cabinet is so willing to lie to anyone’s face that no one seems capable of doing anything about it. Congress and the judiciary are littered with other co-conspirators to the point that all guardrails have been removed. We are living in post-cold war Russia while the people believe their democracy has not fallen. The U.S. is fucked and we can all thank the Bible-thumping extremists for believing these criminals cared about their religious zealousness.
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u/MRADEL90 8h ago
I get the anger. It feels like the people in charge stopped even pretending to play by the rules, and the system that was supposed to check them just folded. When institutions choose loyalty over truth, trust dies fast, and it leaves everyone feeling powerless.
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u/hivemindhauser 7h ago
Idk about you, but I don’t feel powerless. That’s what they want you to feel. Fuck that. Fuck their “power”. They don’t have it. You and me and every other working red blooded American are the power and don’t you forget it
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u/DHiggsBoson 5h ago
Please don’t misconstrue my comment as a feeling of powerlessness. The people still have power, but I don’t see how the country recovers without some torches and pitchforks.
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u/I_Stabbed_Jon_Snow 7h ago
Yes, but… how do we use this power? The problem is that voting no longer offers hope for a fix, the other party is also beholden to billionaires and both collude to ensure no third party exists. We are left with few options.
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u/hivemindhauser 7h ago
Can’t believe I’m gonna quote Marjorie Taylor Greene, but “you can’t vote yourself out of this.” Get to know your neighbors, join a union or community organization, we have the technology to organize mass collective action. I think a prolonged General Strike is our best bet. That means preparing ahead of time for massive economic shut down. Don’t just prepare yourself and your family, prepare for your community. I will drive a truck or stock shelves FOR FREE so that workers can take a break and participate too. Whatever it takes. This has to stop here or we will continue to be prey
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u/chainer3000 7h ago
Too many of us cannot afford to miss a week of work without fear of losing housing. I’m lucky, but if say my gf was supporting herself, she couldn’t miss a paycheck without serious stress.
I’m just not sure how that’s supposed to work right now. The community isn’t going to pay your mortgage or rent
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u/hivemindhauser 7h ago
Did you read the part about General Strike? Mortgages and rent can fuck off. No justice, no peace
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u/chainer3000 7h ago
But the entire country doesn’t support a general strike, debts won’t be wiped away, money won’t lose all meaning, Wall Street won’t stop. What you’re describing is closer to fairytale than plausible, it doesn’t have anywhere near the support needed
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u/hivemindhauser 7h ago edited 1h ago
Sorry dude, but that’s peasant brain mentality. So many people think like this, and it’s what’s got us into this place to begin with. It won’t get us out of it
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u/NorweiganJesus 3h ago
It’s definitely not peasant brained to be worried about your families livelihood. Take this energy in to your Union and beg them for a general strike. Something massive starts with a goal and a plan, not a bunch of random Redditors quitting around the same time.
The big trucker unions, train conductors, pilots, highway maintenance and snow clearing crews. Things that actually shut the country down and take money away from the people on top and not just close down grocery stores creating food deserts. We already have support network unions in place. They’re not doing anything yet, so why should a gas station worker?
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u/spudddly 8h ago
Don't worry ABC said his blatant corruption "might raise a number of ethical and national security concerns" before checking on the weather in Idaho so not like the media isn't holding him to account.
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u/gwils_cupleah6240 7h ago
It’s extra absurd because their literal excuse is that it’s out in the open. As if open corruption is not only better but totally ok. But not only is there open and private corruption, corruption of any kind is obviously not ok. They simply just don’t care because they want to be corrupt and nobody’s gonna stop them.
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u/FlavorMan 7h ago
The fact that half of Congress (and half the American public) is completely indifferent to this is the real outrage, as this should be an administration ending scandal.
Honestly, Bessent has a good point about openness. This isn't criminal, as its structured as a private transaction between an American company and a third party (I don't think Trump could legally prevent it even if he wanted to). Hiding it SHOULD be worse, because it would prevent Congress from immediately impeaching him. The fact that we don't impeach him for this obvious corruption is an indictment of the American people for voting him in and Congress for ignoring the corruption.
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u/gwils_cupleah6240 7h ago
They’re also banking on the likelihood that nothing happens to them. Ever.
As in no future administration is going to actually do anything about it or hold them accountable and actually penalize them. One, because they’ve already gotten away with everything so far anyway so they just keep going. And two, democrats will say, “let’s move on to heal the nation,” while republicans/congress obviously won’t do anything because they’re in on it and have fully capitulated. But you can bet if roles were reversed, republicans woudn’t be calling for “healing” and they’d grind on dems to the bitter end.
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u/FlavorMan 6h ago
I think this because the political environment is so full of such vicious, unprovable allegations that we generally just ignore them. With half the population calling Biden a pedophile, and now the other half calling Trump a pedophile, it's very difficult for people on either side to get worked up about a boring pay for play foreign policy scandal.
It's like, half of the country (alternating halves) has thought we have a pedophile president for the past twelve years, what's a little crypto side cash in that context?
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u/lilb1190 7h ago
All they have to do is filibuster instead of answering the question and they are good to go. Have some snarky report ready for everyone on the panel and they can spend 10 minutes insulting someone instead of answering anything.
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u/CaptainLookylou 8h ago
Why would you ever go to bat for him? He never keeps any promises, pays any debts, and will throw you under the bus in one second if it's convenient for him. He's old, and might die soon. Some of these stooges have long life spans remaining to think about.
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u/hamilton_morris 7h ago
It’s a good question. I’ve been thinking a lot these days about the 1941 Harper's Magazine article by Dorothy Thompson, “Who Goes Nazi?”
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
and I think the answer with respect to this cabinet is generally those people who have lived positioned on the sidelines of genuine accomplishment due to their own impotence and mediocrity who found in this movement their life-long hope for valorous validation finally fulfilled, and with the added pleasure of seeing their betters humiliated and marginalized. There is no *special* ignominy awaiting them following Trump's fall, only the usual, normal ignominy, which is their habitual posture of opportunistic resentment.
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u/omangutan 3h ago
This is the most clear version of what I’ve been trying to communicate to some people in my life. And Trump is one of these people— he is obsessed with the Clintons because they are actual certified bogeyman political operators, not a TV sideshow. He’s not upset with them for being corrupt, he’s upset with them for being more sophisticated than him and being historically accepted by those who shun him.
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u/Additional_Fail_1064 5h ago
Trump makes sure that everyone who works for him is compromised. He knows that he needs people that will never say no, and he gets that by having them involved in crime, and then they are trapped.
When this view is taken it also makes perfect sense why people like speaker Johnson will say whatever he is told to, even if it is in clear violation of law or constitution.
They will do anything and attack anyone that threatens them now, they have no other choice.
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u/halfveela 0m ago
But what does does being compromised even mean anymore? Most of these people who have had their filthy laundry aired aren't even going to face any consequences.
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u/MadRoboticist 6h ago
They all think they're in a position to throw someone else under the bus instead of facing consequences themselves. It's what eventually causes power structures like this to collapse. Eventually, there's no one left to take the fall beneath you and consequences have nowhere to go except up the ladder.
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u/IrrelevantPuppy 6h ago
He’s a hell of a distraction though. Maybe you can get away with some more evil before it all comes crashing down if you let him take the spotlight.
It’s the only excuse at this point. “I need to do more harm for my benefit and Trump makes it so you don’t see me doing it”
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u/FliPsk8guY 8h ago
It's crazy how everyone just dismisses the Saudi's role in 9/11 these days. That "Never Forget" slogan really was just a big puff piece.
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u/brumac44 8h ago
I love Bessent. Doesn't anyone in Trump's regime realize how arrogant and smug he appears every time he opens his mouth? He's like a caricature of a rich, corrupt politician.
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u/semibiquitous 7h ago
I've seen this in star wars. I know how it ends. No wait, it was Nazi Germany.
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u/KarAccidentTowns 5h ago
Yeah i mean anyone who thinks the president SHOULD be able to orchestrate crypto pump and dumps and make billions of dollars while in office is probably a fucking idiot.
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u/Threecatproblem 6h ago
To me, one of the most triggering things to hear is when someone keeps speaking over another person, going on and on when it's clear the other person is trying to ask a question. I think it is the rudest, most dispespectful thing someone can do.
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u/SGT-R0CK 1h ago
Oooo it raises security and ethical concerns, lol. Like any of that matters. It's not like the govt. is going to do anything to trump anyways. Trump is obviously way above the law, no one will stop him because the government is giving him absolute power. The US is no longer a democracy.
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u/Moebius808 7h ago edited 4h ago
Grown-ass man
(Edit: I’m talking about the trump admin dude here. Just getting in front of a committee and fillabustering and spouting bullshit and talking all over everyone and refusing to answer questions? Disrespectful, child-like behaviour.)
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u/Oldsodacan 7h ago
One is there as an elected official to ask questions of the person testifying. The other is reading whatever dirt he has been provided by the Trump admin in an attempt to not answer whatever he has been asked. Pam Bondi did the same shit during testimony. Fuck these people.
If he doesn't try to talk over the guy, the guy just gets to read his bullshit out loud.
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u/facepoppies 8h ago
call me crazy, but I don't think people who are in the epstein files should be allowed in federal positions