re: #158 lawhawk

“I’ll take Quid Pro Quos for $1,000 Alex”
“U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of Mississippi river for $15 million.”
“What is Seward’s Folly?”
“Sorry @Steelers fans, it is ‘What is the Louisiana Purchase, the Louisiana Purchase.’” #QuidProQuoJeopardy

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) October 23, 2019

they’re trying to conflate two things:
- consideration freely given in the normal course of contract negotiations
- threatened / pressured / blackmail / extortion related ‘quid pro quo’