This only includes data from 2024. Anything Trump has done as president is irrelevant to this ranking. If you think 28th out of 180 sounds bad, wait until the data for 2025 comes out
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Anything Trump has done as president
I seem to recall he was wheeling and dealing and threatening and posturing for a significant portion of the post-vote pre-inauguration window. It was like a victory lap in the swamp.
Yeah pretty sure President Musk is trying to speed run this metric
I think it's gonna be a long while before the US improves upon any international measurement thing
so much accomplished in 3 weeks
Oh don't worry... This data doesn't even include the last 3 weeks
They did just elect a thirty-four time convicted felon to lead them.
Hold our beers. Once the judges start getting arrested, we're gonna break records.
Just bribe them to get the score back up
Standard are low. Always have been.
Just wait for next years placing, when the current actions of the Trump junta are taken into account.
In all fairness, it's a Corruption Perception Index, so this doesn't mean that Corruption before wasn't horribly bad, just that people did not perceive it so.
It's not by chance that this index has the curious effect that when the Justice System in a country starts cracking down on Corruption that country's position on this index gets worse (probably because there are a lot more news about corrupt people being arrested during such a crack down, hence the perception of corruption goes up).
Judging by how these things are managed in the UK, the secret to look good on the index is for the Justice System to not even investigate allegations of Corruption (much less prosecute and convict) so officially there is no Corruption and if the Press ever publishes articles about Corruption they get sued for Defamation by the Corrupt and lose since the de facto Corrupt have never been convicted hence are not de jure so and in the eyes of the Law cannot be publicity said to be Corrupt, so the Press never points out Corruption and people tend to think everything is squeaky clean (mind you, this doesn't work in countries with lots of low level corruption - say, coppers demanding money for not seeing traffic infractions - because low level corruption is evident in day to day life whilst high level Corruption is not).
I suspect that the Perception of Corruption has been managed in the US in s similar way to how it's managed in the UK.
Mind you, I'm not saying the US isn't even more Corrupt now than before, only that the perception of it probably severely underestimated the reality (and quite likely still does).
Those look like extremely generous ratings
Ever ...SO FAR!
FFS...
Not yet 30 days in...
Just how bloody bad will it be by 100?? 🤦♀️ 🤦♀️
This doesn't even take any of this year into account. It's just 2024: the "good old days".
This headline... Oooffff
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