Comment by Traubenfuchs
11 hours ago
> They literally went to the king with gold in hands.
Exactly what I was thinking about when I was writing my comment.
I can understand that big corpos are not our friends and are purely money driven, but publicly bribing the president with gold is on a level no one ever expected. Right in line with the Fifa peace price.
IDK, the FIFA world peace prize was completely unsurprising to me. It’s a massively corrupt institution and has been for decades. It’s out of the norm in a US context, for sure, but that kind of thing is penny ante for an organization whose Wikipedia article has multiple subsections on corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA?wprov=sfti1#Corruption
And don't forget the $400 million airplane that is probably filled with listening devices that will feed info to all of our enemies.