“Your majesty, we can’t. American law forbids us from accepting any foreign gifts.”
https://x.com/Paddystinian/status/2120698096921334058
Col. Douglas Macgregor just dropped a brutal historical parallel.
During the Louisiana Purchase, after Livingston and Monroe sealed the deal with Napoleon, the French emperor pulled solid gold francs from his pocket and tried to hand each of them 50 as a personal thank-you.
They refused on the spot. “Your majesty, we can’t. American law forbids us from accepting any foreign gifts.”
Napoleon was surprised, but he accepted it. That was the standard then.
Macgregor’s point is simple and sharp: those men operated under a clear legal and cultural line they refused to cross. Today, that line is gone.
Both sides of the House are bought. The permanent class, the donors, the foreign lobbies — they write the checks and they get the policy. Even Trump and his family sit inside the same system of money, influence, and quiet obligations that has captured Washington. Promises get made. The money moves. The outcomes don’t change.
When American negotiators once turned down gold from Napoleon himself because the law said no, and today’s lawmakers of both parties treat foreign money and domestic donor cash as the normal cost of doing business, the difference isn’t subtle.
Washington hasn’t just lost its way. It sold it.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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