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Warren Buffett stands out amongst his billionaire peers because he has maintained his grounded image for over half a century. The Financial Times called him “capitalism’s kindly grandpa” and he seems far less ruthless than Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs in their primes.
We need similar oversight across the Trump national security decisions. In 2019, Trump revoked the Obama-era rule on reporting drone strikes. Most Americans still seem not to know that the drone war has escalated under Trump because, without the reporting, the quotidian killings don’t generate news. The Pompeo-UAE deal last month is the most recent in a long series of arms agreements with Middle Eastern powers made without due oversight. When the State Department inspector general objected in May, Trump fired him. Biden’s going to need to rehire and put those IG’s back to work. Again, where is the money going, and to whom? Given the revelations about the Trump organization’s extraction of fees from the Secret Service and room rentals at the Trump hotels, it seems likely that a deep well of graft lies beneath the few revelations thus far. Let’s follow the money and see where it goes.
While tracking financial improprieties, foreign policy decisions, and pandemic mismanagement seem to fall under the general rubric of independent investigatory commissions, we may need a truth commission — that is, a nonjudicial body (sometimes with the ability to refer cases to prosecutors) empowered not to punish crimes, but simply to unearth what actually happened — to probe the alleged human rights violations perpetrated by the Department of Homeland Security. The track record of such commissions as vehicles for justice is mixed depending on what judicial authority their recommendations carry. They are, however, good for forming what political scientist Elin Skaar has called a “rudimentary sketching of a common narrative.” When it comes to the concentration camps at the border, the family separation policy, the machinations of the internal deportation force, or the use of DHS troops as anti-protest paramilitaries, the deportation of Covid-positive immigrant families, we’re on familiar ground for the ways such commissions can be useful for revealing the excesses of an authoritarian regime.
Yet entrepreneurs don’t go from an average Joe to a caricature ruthless boss overnight. Many of them start with dreams of changing the world for the better and small decisions move them away from their original principles.
While he isn’t in the running for the next Nobel Peace Prize, for entrepreneurs there are few better role models than the Sage of Omaha. He highlights integrity as the key to unlocking successful management:
“Would you rather be considered the best lover in the world and know privately that you’re the worst — or would you prefer to know privately that you’re the best lover in the world, but be considered the worst?”
So in 2021, prosecutions or no, President Biden needs to commit to serving truth. I believe that the Trump administration has perpetrated both actual crimes and significant misdeeds (that may not be in fact criminal) in every aspect of their misrule. But I could be wrong. Let’s find out, let’s air out all the dirty laundry, and then proceed into the roaring ’20s on a firm and shared basis of knowing what the heck actually just happened to our country.
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ouble the child’s experiencing will be met with greater delight than their achievements. Any kind of success poses a potential danger to their influence, so they would rather see their child suffer a loss than enjoy a success they cannot control.So in 2021, prosecutions or no, President Biden needs to commit to serving truth. I believe that the Trump administration has perpetrated both actual crimes and significant misdeeds (that may not be in fact criminal) in every aspect of their misrule. But I could be wrong. Let’s find out, let’s air out all the dirty laundry, and then proceed into the roaring ’20s on a firm and shared basis of knowing what the heck actually just happened to our country.
At this lunch, Warren explained his beliefs on integrity in-depth to their eager ears. It’s unsurprising the businessmen needed to learn about it considering they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single meal.
In 2014, two businessmen paid $650,000 to have lunch with Warren Buffett. It’s ridiculous but it went to the Glide Foundation to help homeless people so the money is in a better place now.
“You look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true.” — Warren Buffett
This isn’t about justice, although justice should be the aspirational goal. President Trump is going to exit the White House with an unprecedented flurry of preemptive pardons for everyone who might possibly implicate him in anything. President-elect Biden has indicated he’ll let the Justice Department decide who to prosecute, but I’m skeptical this will happen. Influential voices are lining up against prosecuting Trump. Biden is wary that prosecutions would be a distraction. And after all, Nixon was pardoned, Iran-Contra forgotten, and Obama famously chose to “look forward, not backwards,” when choosing not to investigate the Bush-era use of torture. Letting Republican administrations off the hook for malfeasance has been common, but not in the end restorative.
Yet there isn’t a tape measure on Earth we can pull out to simply measure someone’s integrity. Often it’s hard to even judge our own ethics and whether we are doing the right thing. So how does Warren test people to determine whether they meet his standards? There are two key questions he has shared over the years which provide insight.
The question facing the incoming president isn’t whether to let things lie fallow or to dig up the truth; the Trump administration is openly trying to bury or even destroy the evidence. The White House has been flouting the Presidential Records Act, and is in fact currently facing a lawsuit intended to force compliance. The Department of Homeland Security has been trying to designate documents related to border enforcement for destruction rather than preservation. Both the National Archives and Library of Congress, two institutions that should be as dedicated to preserving knowledge as the CDC is to fighting disease, willingly doctored a photo of the Women’s March to remove anti-Trump slogans. Only a chance visit by a Washington Post reporter revealed the alteration; what else have we missed?