re: #31 Citizen K

Petty, but likely also a grift.

They’re buying with OPM, passing them along to distributors—who are probably talking directly to someone like Kushner—to be bid on. As desperation goes up, prices in the market goes up. Feds stepping in to buy lots but then not distributing them directly creates artificial scarcity. And as the disease expands through the population, state by state scarcity will increase naturally as well.

I mean, most public-private partnerships are a grift where the “private” sector lobbies to create massively advantageous terms (no bid contracts, for example, or anything relating to criminal sentencing) but also buy politicians so they’ll never be called to account for not delivering what was promised, or only late and at ridiculously padded costs.