#graft — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #graft, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/117094185051543322
#Graft and #Corruption **All the time** in the #tRump Administration. Overt and brazen. It flys in the face of ALL merikans.
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RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/117094185051543322
#Graft and #Corruption **All the time** in the #tRump Administration. Overt and brazen. It flys in the face of ALL merikans.
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🤣✨ Behold the new messiah, "Graft"—a miraculous tool claiming to slice grep tokens by 42%, as if anyone still uses grep in the age of #AI overlords. GitHub’s desperate attempt to stay relevant: a convoluted word salad of #buzzwords and promises that only a venture capitalist could love. 🍝💼
https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft #Graft #GitHub #Innovation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🤣✨ Behold the new messiah, "Graft"—a miraculous tool claiming to slice grep tokens by 42%, as if anyone still uses grep in the age of #AI overlords. GitHub’s desperate attempt to stay relevant: a convoluted word salad of #buzzwords and promises that only a venture capitalist could love. 🍝💼
https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft #Graft #GitHub #Innovation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%
https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299985
#HackerNews #Graft #ClaudeCode #grep #optimization #GitHub #tokens #reduction
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Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%
https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299985
#HackerNews #Graft #ClaudeCode #grep #optimization #GitHub #tokens #reduction
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The black box around Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown has long fueled gossip in China. Now an underground market bets on who falls next. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/asia-pacific/politics/xi-graft-purges-underground-leaks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #xijinping #china #ccp #corruption #graft
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The black box around Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown has long fueled gossip in China. Now an underground market bets on who falls next. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/13/asia-pacific/politics/xi-graft-purges-underground-leaks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #xijinping #china #ccp #corruption #graft
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Is Trump the GOAT of Presidential Corruption?
The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career.https://newrepublic.com/article/213983/trump-presidential-corruption-goat-grifter
#corruption #crime #criminal
#finance #financialcrimes #graft
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Is Trump the GOAT of Presidential Corruption?
The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career.https://newrepublic.com/article/213983/trump-presidential-corruption-goat-grifter
#corruption #crime #criminal
#finance #financialcrimes #graft
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MY GOD. 😡
#Felon47's mind-blowing #corruption, #grift, #graft, and acceptance of #emoluments will be the subject of documentaries for the next 75 years (to the delight of the #NarcissistInChief I'm sure.)
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MY GOD. 😡
#Felon47's mind-blowing #corruption, #grift, #graft, and acceptance of #emoluments will be the subject of documentaries for the next 75 years (to the delight of the #NarcissistInChief I'm sure.)
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Harebrained Schemes' new survival horror RPG 'GRAFT' gets a story trailer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/harebrained-schemes-new-survival-horror-rpg-graft-gets-a-story-trailer/
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Harebrained Schemes' new survival horror RPG 'GRAFT' gets a story trailer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/harebrained-schemes-new-survival-horror-rpg-graft-gets-a-story-trailer/
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Dai creatori di Shadowrun arriva GRAFT, survival horror RPG ambientato in una megastruttura morente. Il nuovo trailer svela il sistema di innesti che trasforma il corpo in arma, tra combattimenti viscerali e scelte narrative.
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She got out of bed, lit a candle, and pulled out her sketch book. She flipped to the page and studied her drawing. Normally prostrate, the tree had a delicate umbrella of branches standing on a grafted trunk, so you could walk underneath. Then it hit her. The imported vines were unaffected by the parasite! She could use their roots and #graft the native vines onto them! In her nightgown, she ran breathlessly out of her room and went in search of her host. (2/2) #wss366
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She got out of bed, lit a candle, and pulled out her sketch book. She flipped to the page and studied her drawing. Normally prostrate, the tree had a delicate umbrella of branches standing on a grafted trunk, so you could walk underneath. Then it hit her. The imported vines were unaffected by the parasite! She could use their roots and #graft the native vines onto them! In her nightgown, she ran breathlessly out of her room and went in search of her host. (2/2) #wss366
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Desert-Hearts: Part 3 of 4 Alexandria I
#FanFiction #AscendanceOfABookworm #HanneloresFifthYear
#Wss366 Graft #ScribesAndMakers A can of worms of a barrel of monkeys?•⋅☾Same Day, Alexandria☽⋅•
Rozemyne was relieved that Ferdinand wasn’t in his lab. She had hinted that she would like to see him today, but Ferdinand was Ferdinand and work and research always came first with him. Today he joined her for the first meal of the day.
“You wanted to see me,” he said. He poured himself some tea, but said nothing more.
“It’s Star-Cross Day,” Rozemyne said.
A look of irritation flickered for an instant on her husband’s face, but was gone by the time he said, “Is it? I hadn’t noticed.”
The aub pushed a red box elaborately decorated with shimmering cut shells. “For you,” she said. Mild disappointment shadowed her face. She had been hoping he might remember and get her a book, but that would have never occurred to Ferdinand.
He sighed as irritation flickered across his face again. With one finger, he flipped open the box and looked inside. “At least they aren’t coach beetles,” he said. If Rozemyne had been expecting him to be excited, she was disappointed.
“Are you going to try them?” she asked.
He took a red, heart-shaped cookie and nibbled on it, nodded, and spoke. “Not bad. We should declare a monopoly on the sale of desert-heart leaves. I’m sure others can copy these, but if we control the prime ingredient, it will bring wealth to the duchy. And if handled correctly, we can smoke out some of the #graft in the provinces.”
He popped the rest of the cookie into his mouth, not letting a crumb fall on his outfit.
Rozemyne smiled.
The aub’s eyes gleamed as her husband took out yet another cookie. This was as good as it got in terms of receiving praise from Ferdinand.
“Who else did you give these to?” he asked.
“Just Hannelore,” she replied. Ferdinand froze mid-bite.
[Continued Tomorrow]
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Desert-Hearts: Part 3 of 4 Alexandria I
#FanFiction #AscendanceOfABookworm #HanneloresFifthYear
#Wss366 Graft #ScribesAndMakers A can of worms of a barrel of monkeys?•⋅☾Same Day, Alexandria☽⋅•
Rozemyne was relieved that Ferdinand wasn’t in his lab. She had hinted that she would like to see him today, but Ferdinand was Ferdinand and work and research always came first with him. Today he joined her for the first meal of the day.
“You wanted to see me,” he said. He poured himself some tea, but said nothing more.
“It’s Star-Cross Day,” Rozemyne said.
A look of irritation flickered for an instant on her husband’s face, but was gone by the time he said, “Is it? I hadn’t noticed.”
The aub pushed a red box elaborately decorated with shimmering cut shells. “For you,” she said. Mild disappointment shadowed her face. She had been hoping he might remember and get her a book, but that would have never occurred to Ferdinand.
He sighed as irritation flickered across his face again. With one finger, he flipped open the box and looked inside. “At least they aren’t coach beetles,” he said. If Rozemyne had been expecting him to be excited, she was disappointed.
“Are you going to try them?” she asked.
He took a red, heart-shaped cookie and nibbled on it, nodded, and spoke. “Not bad. We should declare a monopoly on the sale of desert-heart leaves. I’m sure others can copy these, but if we control the prime ingredient, it will bring wealth to the duchy. And if handled correctly, we can smoke out some of the #graft in the provinces.”
He popped the rest of the cookie into his mouth, not letting a crumb fall on his outfit.
Rozemyne smiled.
The aub’s eyes gleamed as her husband took out yet another cookie. This was as good as it got in terms of receiving praise from Ferdinand.
“Who else did you give these to?” he asked.
“Just Hannelore,” she replied. Ferdinand froze mid-bite.
[Continued Tomorrow]
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El RPG de terror y supervivencia GRAFT estrena su primer tráiler de la historia durante el Convergence Games Showcase 2026
#IndieGames #Noticias #ConvergenceGamesShowcase #GRAFT #RPG #SurvivalHorror
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El RPG de terror y supervivencia GRAFT estrena su primer tráiler de la historia durante el Convergence Games Showcase 2026
#IndieGames #Noticias #ConvergenceGamesShowcase #GRAFT #RPG #SurvivalHorror
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Survival horror RPG GRAFT debuted its first official story trailer.
The game combines tense resource management and visceral combat with a psychological mechanic where upgrading your body with enemy parts alters your main character's mind.
#GRAFT #WeBeHarebrained #game #games #videogames #gaming #gamingnews #gamestic
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Survival horror RPG GRAFT debuted its first official story trailer.
The game combines tense resource management and visceral combat with a psychological mechanic where upgrading your body with enemy parts alters your main character's mind.
#GRAFT #WeBeHarebrained #game #games #videogames #gaming #gamingnews #gamestic
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Sweet deal for prison for profit corporation.
Private prison company, CoreCivic, sells two immigant detention centers to federal government for about $1.5 BILLION. The company will continue to operate the facilities under federal DHS contracts.
The company is a major trump donor.
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Sweet deal for prison for profit corporation.
Private prison company, CoreCivic, sells two immigant detention centers to federal government for about $1.5 BILLION. The company will continue to operate the facilities under federal DHS contracts.
The company is a major trump donor.
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Extreme heat threatens Trump's July 4 Freedom 250 plans
It's ironic that the #TrumpReigh might have known & planned for this if they hadn't FIRED all the knowledgeable experts ad the #nws.
#extremeheat #incompetence #graft #grift #corruption #DOGE
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/holidays/trump-july-4-extreme-heat-dome/
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Extreme heat threatens Trump's July 4 Freedom 250 plans
It's ironic that the #TrumpReigh might have known & planned for this if they hadn't FIRED all the knowledgeable experts ad the #nws.
#extremeheat #incompetence #graft #grift #corruption #DOGE
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/holidays/trump-july-4-extreme-heat-dome/
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Why isn’t the #FBI using their resources going after real #criminals? Many are very easy to find as they are in the #TrumpRegime commiting their #crimes out in the open. I guess, if they did, they’d have to start with President & the head of the FBI which might be a bit awkward.
#corruption #votingrights #electionintimidation #grift #graft #corruption
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Why isn’t the #FBI using their resources going after real #criminals? Many are very easy to find as they are in the #TrumpRegime commiting their #crimes out in the open. I guess, if they did, they’d have to start with President & the head of the FBI which might be a bit awkward.
#corruption #votingrights #electionintimidation #grift #graft #corruption
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CNBC: Google Chromebook graft case sees Indonesia’s former education minister jailed for 10 years. “An Indonesian corruption court on Tuesday sentenced former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim, a co-founder of ride- hailing and payments giant Gojek, to 10 years in prison for corruption. Makarim was found guilty in a case linked to the procurement of Google Chromebooks for schools under the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/cnbc-google-chromebook-graft-case-sees-indonesias-former-education-minister-jailed-for-10-years/ -
CNBC: Google Chromebook graft case sees Indonesia’s former education minister jailed for 10 years. “An Indonesian corruption court on Tuesday sentenced former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim, a co-founder of ride- hailing and payments giant Gojek, to 10 years in prison for corruption. Makarim was found guilty in a case linked to the procurement of Google Chromebooks for schools under the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/cnbc-google-chromebook-graft-case-sees-indonesias-former-education-minister-jailed-for-10-years/ -
#Trump made more than $1bn from #crypto in first year back in office
The #grift goes on. Trump enriches himself while the American people suffer.
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#Trump made more than $1bn from #crypto in first year back in office
The #grift goes on. Trump enriches himself while the American people suffer.
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“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence”*…
Scheduling Note: as a consequence of long meetings scheduled to start very early, (Roughly) Daily will be off tomorrow/Monday and Wednesday. There should be a post on Tuesday, and regular service should resume on Thursday…
Corruption in the U.S. has a long and costly history, intertwining both government and corporations. Our current moment is feeling especially “dirty“– and disfunctional— at both levels.
Eric Ries was a founder of the Lean Start-Up movement and the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. His new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad (highly recommended), tackles the issue head-on. Here, a short excerpt, explaining why…
Not all forms of making money are equal. Some create wealth; others destroy it. Over the centuries, when people have gone searching for the moral logic of capitalism, they always hit this same bedrock principle: Fully informed, uncoerced, voluntary transactions create surplus value because both parties end up better off.
Think about your last genuinely good purchase. You valued the product more than the price you paid, so you are better off. But the seller, too, is better off (otherwise they would not have sold). Both parties are wealthier. When this happens, it’s a bit of a magic trick. In an instant, new value exists that did not a moment before. This wealth was not stolen; it was generated.
But this only works when the exchange is truly voluntary and informed. Remove any of these conditions and the mechanism breaks.
This is why embezzlement, coercion, fraud, bribery, and deception are wrong. It’s not only because they are illegal or even immoral. It’s because they corrupt the fundamental premise of our entire economic system. They transform transactions meant to create value into ones that destroy it.
This trajectory is so common these days that we hardly know what to call it. The answer is simple. Since every version of it shares the same value-destroying logic, regardless of whether the violation is illegal or even immoral, we should use the same word to describe them all: corruption.
Our modern sense of “corruption” has become catastrophically narrow. What I’m talking about is something much broader than bribery or embezzlement. (After all, the Latin corrumpere means “to break completely.”) Corruption breaks the logic of capitalism itself.
Every Ponzi scheme, every hidden externality, every unit of extracted value is a drag on our whole economy’s potential. These corruptions don’t just harm their immediate victim; they erode trust, increase transaction costs, and destroy the civic infrastructure that makes efficient markets possible. The hidden economic costs are staggering. The truth is that capitalism succeeds not because of these widespread violations but despite them…
As the “father of capitalism” himself, Adam Smith, said: “Justice… is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society… must in a moment crumble into atoms.” (Theory of Moral Sentiments, Chapter III)
Diagnosing the disease that threatens us: “Corruption, Defined,” from @ericries.bsky.social.
* Thomas Jefferson
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As we grapple with graft, we might recall that on this date in 2002, three days after being found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting emails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron, accounting firm Arthur Andersen was preparing its appeal.
Legal department member Nancy Temple and David Duncan, the lead partner for the Enron account, were cited in the legal action as the responsible managers in the scandal because they ordered subordinates to shred relevant documents. Duncan himself pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to obstruction of justice on April 10, 2002, saying that he had ordered the destruction of documents and also personally destroyed documents.
The conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court (on the grounds that the jury had not been properly instructed on the charge against Andersen). The Supreme Court ruling theoretically left Andersen free to resume operations. However, the damage done to the Andersen name was so great (not just from the Enron scandal but also from others involving Andersen accounting malpractice, such as WorldCom a year after Enron) that it did not return as a viable business even on a limited scale in the years after the ruling.
Although only a small number of Arthur Andersen’s employees were involved with the scandal, the firm was effectively put out of business; the SEC is not allowed to accept audits from convicted felons. The company surrendered its CPA license and 85,000 employees lost their jobs.
#ArthurAndersen #buiness #capitalism #corruption #culture #Enron #graft #history #justice #politics #trust #Worldcom -
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence”*…
Scheduling Note: as a consequence of long meetings scheduled to start very early, (Roughly) Daily will be off tomorrow/Monday and Wednesday. There should be a post on Tuesday, and regular service should resume on Thursday…
Corruption in the U.S. has a long and costly history, intertwining both government and corporations. Our current moment is feeling especially “dirty“– and disfunctional— at both levels.
Eric Ries was a founder of the Lean Start-Up movement and the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. His new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad (highly recommended), tackles the issue head-on. Here, a short excerpt, explaining why…
Not all forms of making money are equal. Some create wealth; others destroy it. Over the centuries, when people have gone searching for the moral logic of capitalism, they always hit this same bedrock principle: Fully informed, uncoerced, voluntary transactions create surplus value because both parties end up better off.
Think about your last genuinely good purchase. You valued the product more than the price you paid, so you are better off. But the seller, too, is better off (otherwise they would not have sold). Both parties are wealthier. When this happens, it’s a bit of a magic trick. In an instant, new value exists that did not a moment before. This wealth was not stolen; it was generated.
But this only works when the exchange is truly voluntary and informed. Remove any of these conditions and the mechanism breaks.
This is why embezzlement, coercion, fraud, bribery, and deception are wrong. It’s not only because they are illegal or even immoral. It’s because they corrupt the fundamental premise of our entire economic system. They transform transactions meant to create value into ones that destroy it.
This trajectory is so common these days that we hardly know what to call it. The answer is simple. Since every version of it shares the same value-destroying logic, regardless of whether the violation is illegal or even immoral, we should use the same word to describe them all: corruption.
Our modern sense of “corruption” has become catastrophically narrow. What I’m talking about is something much broader than bribery or embezzlement. (After all, the Latin corrumpere means “to break completely.”) Corruption breaks the logic of capitalism itself.
Every Ponzi scheme, every hidden externality, every unit of extracted value is a drag on our whole economy’s potential. These corruptions don’t just harm their immediate victim; they erode trust, increase transaction costs, and destroy the civic infrastructure that makes efficient markets possible. The hidden economic costs are staggering. The truth is that capitalism succeeds not because of these widespread violations but despite them…
As the “father of capitalism” himself, Adam Smith, said: “Justice… is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society… must in a moment crumble into atoms.” (Theory of Moral Sentiments, Chapter III)
Diagnosing the disease that threatens us: “Corruption, Defined,” from @ericries.bsky.social.
* Thomas Jefferson
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As we grapple with graft, we might recall that on this date in 2002, three days after being found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting emails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron, accounting firm Arthur Andersen was preparing its appeal.
Legal department member Nancy Temple and David Duncan, the lead partner for the Enron account, were cited in the legal action as the responsible managers in the scandal because they ordered subordinates to shred relevant documents. Duncan himself pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to obstruction of justice on April 10, 2002, saying that he had ordered the destruction of documents and also personally destroyed documents.
The conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court (on the grounds that the jury had not been properly instructed on the charge against Andersen). The Supreme Court ruling theoretically left Andersen free to resume operations. However, the damage done to the Andersen name was so great (not just from the Enron scandal but also from others involving Andersen accounting malpractice, such as WorldCom a year after Enron) that it did not return as a viable business even on a limited scale in the years after the ruling.
Although only a small number of Arthur Andersen’s employees were involved with the scandal, the firm was effectively put out of business; the SEC is not allowed to accept audits from convicted felons. The company surrendered its CPA license and 85,000 employees lost their jobs.
#ArthurAndersen #buiness #capitalism #corruption #culture #Enron #graft #history #justice #politics #trust #Worldcom -
Clarence Thomas, born OTD in 1948, accepted lavish gifts without reporting them as legally required over a 20-year period https://toilet-guru.com/blog/62.html?s=mb #GOP #graft
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Clarence Thomas, born OTD in 1948, accepted lavish gifts without reporting them as legally required over a 20-year period https://toilet-guru.com/blog/62.html?s=mb #GOP #graft
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Clarence Thomas, born OTD in 1948, accepted lavish gifts without reporting them as legally required over a 20-year period https://toilet-guru.com/blog/62.html?s=mb #GOP #graft
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Clarence Thomas, born OTD in 1948, accepted lavish gifts without reporting them as legally required over a 20-year period https://toilet-guru.com/blog/62.html?s=mb #GOP #graft
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Working on the back cover of the new issue of Shut Yer Pie Hole!~ Folks can check out some Pie Hole content at https://shutyerpiehole.org
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Working on the back cover of the new issue of Shut Yer Pie Hole!~ Folks can check out some Pie Hole content at https://shutyerpiehole.org
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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Electing Trump was a mistake. It cannot be taken back. But remember what he has cost you when the #midterms come.
"It is very hard to say that the #president’s second act has improved the lives or financial status of many, unless of course your last name is #trump."
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https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-meet-the-press-interview-walkout-presidency -
Electing Trump was a mistake. It cannot be taken back. But remember what he has cost you when the #midterms come.
"It is very hard to say that the #president’s second act has improved the lives or financial status of many, unless of course your last name is #trump."
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https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-meet-the-press-interview-walkout-presidency -
Don't worry - Trump's supporters have already forgotten about all of those promises
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Don't worry - Trump's supporters have already forgotten about all of those promises
