Ezra pointed this out, but why do “goodbye tours?”
1) say goodbye to counterparts 2) set themselves up for cushy post-admin jobs (dinners with executives, at which the ‘well, what will you do next’ question is met with winks and nods) 3) boondoggle tourism
For what you’re seeing here — foreign revolving doors — it’s more complicated.
Look for these folks to go to places like “German Marshall Fund” or other well-endowed think tanks. They’ll take non-resident fellowships, “Professor of Practice” gigs at say the LSE, & more.
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For the foreign stuff it’s not exactly FARA work (they won’t explicitly be lobbying on behalf of foreign governments), it’s a “thank you for the billions in unaccounted for U.S. Tax Dollars,” and the like.
Maybe they’ll make 500k a year on it, likely much less.
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In the end, it all comes down to one of the most depressing revelations I had during my time at the White House:
That senior government officials sell out all the time, and the price for which they do is shockingly low.
At his rally in Las Vegas tonight, @realDonaldTrump is going to reveal details around one of his most exciting policy ideas:
FREEDOM CITIES
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Why do we need new cities?
The average Americans spends between 20 and 50% of their post-tax income on rent or a mortgage.
And that percentage has been increasing.
It’s most people’s biggest expenditure!
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ECON 101 REMINDER: we model the price of goods and services with curves representing the amount of stuff for sale (supply), and the desire folks have to buy that stuff (demand).
Unaware, ignorant, and dismissive of human nature, they know neither power nor wisdom. They were bred and selected for physical and spiritual weakness.
So ask yourself, when these “elites” tell you that decline is inevitable, “why?”
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Most are cognitive children, playing at a game of life and death they know nothing of, with an irrational inclination towards danger stemming from subconscious nihilism.
They anger when you state facts. And swear that saying the game has new rules will make it so.
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Many of us have been talking privately about this possibility for months, but didn't want to speak it into existence. It is here. And not going away.
Read what the Marxists are saying online.
More violence is coming.
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IT HAS ABSOLUTELY BEEN INCITED
Eight years ago they fabricated the appearance that candidate- and then President Trump was somehow a "Russian Agent."
They haven't stopped lying. About everything.
Today is the intended response.
2/7
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GASLIGHT US
Just as with the invasion, crime, drugs, inflation, deindustrialization, and demoralization, the "it's not happening... well it might be happening but that's a good thing" cycle will continue.
Debunked stories like this (see @NeilPatelTDC’s post explaining that the story is fake) are often used by political leaders to get the intelligence services to spy on their adversaries (in this case, pro-Trump conservatives).
When the powers that be are unable to “best” their competition legitimately, they turn to the intelligence services to dig up dirt (or to create the illusion of dirt).
BUT.
They can’t do it directly. So instead…
2/8
The political forces create a story about some kind of foreign connection to the target.
This can be real, or fabricated (e.g. Team Hillary’s fabricated ‘Alpha Bank’ story).