"Trump gave every indication right from the beginning that he was going to be purely #transactional," said Ebenezer Obadare, a senior fellow at the Council on #ForeignRelations. "He's thrown out the old playbook. He's not going through normal diplomatic channels."

…3 Americans had been sentenced to death by a Congolese military court in Sept 2024 for participating in a…failed coup in May last year. Efforts to free them by both the #Biden & #Trump admins had gained little traction.

@collectifission @jeffmcneill @alberto the problem is that #Mozilla failed to use their past "#UncoditionalIncome" or rather absurdly good #Google deal in any meaningful and sustainable way.

• And if the relationship were to change from "#FLOSS like free beer!" to a "#transactional" one I'd certainly expect them to not just #DoBetter, but have more #transparency, #accountability and stop their #Enshittification!

Which is why I want @Mozilla / @mozilla_support to hand over #Firefox to @torproject and make #TorBrowser it's #upstream.

• Obviously the best option would be for #Mozilla to become like a #nonprofit (#eV) or #cooperative (#eG) where they have to actually #audit their finances (in the case of cooperatives, by an accredited external auditor) to enshure they ain't wasting huge amounts of money.

• Cuz even if everyone there makes $200k a year (obviously they don't) that's still $300M that had to go somewhere.

And even if we assume they blow another $100M on equipment, hosting, sponsorships and other expenses that's still $200M unaccounted for.

• I'd be willing to pay for a good browser, I really would, but that also entails said #funding to go somewhere useful as per the interest of those funding.

Anything else is a #donation.

…The push appears intended to capitalize on #Trump’s #transactional approach to #clemency. Trump favors #pardon seekers w/connections to him—either personally or through lawyers & lobbyists—& claims of *prosecutorial misconduct* [perceived persecution] that echo his own #grievances about the cases against him.

‘#Betrayed’: How #Trump’s #Alliance With #Hateful #Christians Is Fraying.

Donald #Trump is not “#oneofus,” one #faith #leader told #NOTUS. “His #relationship with #conservative #Christians was #transactional.” — #Hogwash

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/trump-christians-republican-platform

#Trump’s top advisers say the efforts to cajole & punish w/in the party are not a central part of their strategy, & some close to Trump point out that TFG can be quick to forgive *when it is in his interest*. Trump has long distinguished himself as both surprisingly #vicious & disarmingly #transactional, often willing to forgive intractable enmity for short-term gain.

#Trump, 2X-divorced casino magnate, made little pretense of being #religious before his presidency. The ardent support he received from #evangelical voters in 2016 & 2020 is often described as largely #transactional: an investment in his appointment of #SCOTUS justices who would abolish the fed right to #abortion & advance the group’s other top priorities.…

But #religion scholars, drawing on a growing body of data, suggest another explanation: #Evangelicals are not exactly who they used to be.

(For those of you who might not know, Fedora Silverblue is based on rpm-ostree.

Think of it as your OS on git.

Upgrades are like a simple git pull and take almost no time at all, even between major versions. It’s very common that I’m running today’s OS on my machine.

And if something goes wrong, you can always roll back. Not that I’ve had to yet.)

Even in the #Senate, where Min Ldr #MitchMcConnell is a forceful advocate for #Ukraine #aid, some #Republicans are demanding additional $$ for #border #security in exchange for greenlighting Ukraine aid. (using human lives & #democracies as #transactional chits in #CultureWar #politics)

“The reality is these issues are all connected, & …urgent. Our adversaries are cheering for #dysfunction. So let’s instead show them #unity,” Sen #Appropriations Cmte Chair #PattyMurray (D-WA) told lawmakers.

#JackSmith & #Trump are in a way familiar figures to each other. Smith was raised in NYState & worked for yrs in Brooklyn, toiling in the borough whose politics helped Trump develop a #transactional view of business, politics & HR.

Smith worked as an Asst US atty in the Eastern Dist of NY, which covers Brooklyn.…where Trump’s father…worked the Democratic political machine & became a deeply connected real estate developer who used the levers of #power to help his business.

@DeanObeidallah what did #KevinMcCarthy have to do to wrangle this? It seems impossible for it to be good for #democracy.
#Trump is nothing if not #transactional.