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I know that after you leave office as POTUS it is some sort of unwritten rule that you withdraw from politics.
Why did Trump not withdraw?
Also why isn't he a senator or congressman during Biden's term?
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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Unfortunately political systems are often held together with “tradition” and “gentleman’s agreements”, where conventions dictate how people should behave. Politicians typically followed them because it is seen as the honourable and right thing to do.
However, it seems to be a recent trend among the hard right that politicians just ignore those conventions because:
a) those conventions are inconvenient b) honour means nothing to them, and c) nothing actually enforces those unwritten rules - so there are no consequences for ignoring them
Similar things have happened here in the UK as well. I guess our political systems both assume some degree of good will & trust in its representatives, and it generally turns out that trust is misplaced.
It's not typical just for the right around here, the left does it as well. Who does it more... I would speculate they both do equally.
Still waiting on those examples... 🙄
I'd have to disclose the country I live in for the examples.
It’s okay, you can just admit you’re full of shit.
It’s the internet, no one really cares.
Write me a pm if you want specific examples.
Why would I PM with you?
I’m interacting with you on a public forum and if you don’t like to do that maybe Lemmy isn’t the right choice of social media for you.
Because I already said I don't want to disclose publicly where I live 😒 🤦.
Your instance and my instance admins can read PMs.
I can publicly post those pictures of our conversations.
Nauru is the smallest country by population and has 12 688 people so you still wouldn’t be doxxed.
🤦
Told you. You want examples? PM me.
I’m not the one asking for examples, I’m the one telling you that you’re full of shit.
🤷
Nice conversation.
I told you what my terms are and you refused to accept them, calling me a liar... I can't do more than that 🤷.
No problem, if you can’t continue to have a public conversation you have nothing of value to say anyways.
https://lemmy.world/comment/4891363
I did write him a PM, ask him/her what he found out with the info I gave him.
No.
You say what you want to say publicly or I continue to assume you’re acting in bad faith.
OK. I made my choice, you made yours 🤷.
I don’t seem to have the ability to PM people on my app but if you could PM me with those examples, I’d be very appreciative.
❤️
PM sent 👍.