uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
Y’know, it never occurred to me that these folks would just... try to rely on a system of bribes and hush money payments to keep their empire duct-taped together.
I get the control over the narrative. But the numbers seem weird: they value silence at an annuity of $15k/mo (source: some of the earlier court filings, plus Corsi court filings). And that... doesn’t seem scalable, when insights into DC corruption are generally on the order of millions+.
uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
I think this may be one of the reasons the wheels are coming off now, as opposed to two years ago. With power on the other side of the aisle, soliciting silence just became much more expensive. And it seems they didn’t update their corruption to cover for it.
Huh.
re: uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
@Goldkin Which specific news, ooc?
re: uspol, epiphany, musing about news of the day
@zetasyanthis Yeah. I don’t understand the implications, but I’m guessing this is why so many media folks in his inner orbit are suddenly finding better deals with a D House. Which seems like a blunder unless more fixes are in?