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Nothing says you cannot preemptively pardon people. It has been done before. Don't forget, Nixon resigned from the office, but never was formally impeached. He was pardoned to avoid an even larger scandal than was already going on. Biden pardoned his family because he knew that Trump would go after them regardless of the truth. He knew that the GOP would never stop attacking them for political clout, regardless of the actual facts of the scenario. Just look at what the GOP has done with Hunter Biden. A private citizen who never was in a political position in the Biden administration has been made into a political target because they couldn't take it out on Joe Biden himself. When the truth came out that nothing was problematic in relation to the President like they kept insisting, they kept on going after him but instead for his own private actions.
I'm sure the GOP would give the same level of care if a Dem was declaring bankruptcy.
The easiest route to end the chaos would be Congress removing Trump’s emergency powers (due to fentanyl crisis, which is already a stretch) to take back control of the tariffs. Going scorched earth in this scenario would likely look like him slandering them on social media which could deter enough GOP voters from voting for the incumbent GOP candidates which could swing the election in the Democrats favor. It’s likely that if Democrats took both chambers, they will take action to impeach Trump. However, the GOP controlled House and Senate could move to impeach Trump prior to the midterms to try saving the GOP from losing both chambers. Another more extreme scorched earth scenario, could look like Trump declaring martial law to prevent the midterm elections, in this scenario the Supreme Court would hold the cards as to whether it’s constitutional. If they decide it is, then the question becomes whether the military would actually follow through with these orders without there being an actual emergency to justify it and whether this course of action is even possible without igniting a full on civil war. There’s a lot of interesting dynamics in play. I think the most likely scenario will look like Trump being talked off the ledge before things become irreversible. He’ll try to turn it into a grand victory for America which only MAGA will believe while the rest of the world views it as him folding and the midterms will be a toss up assuming the markets come close to recovering.
At this point, I’ll be surprised if Trump effectively completes his term unless he walks back on tariffs, which I don’t believe he’ll do. GOP congressional seats up for grabs will be lost to Democrats in the midterms otherwise. The GOP congress will turn on him if they sense their careers are at stake. If they don’t, Democrats will control both chambers, handicapping Trump for the remainder of his term. This is all setting up for a grand finale. The question is whether Trump attempts to go scorched earth and bring the GOP and even America down with him. His political history indicates he won’t accept defeat which is why I believe Congress or the Great American past time of keeping politicians in check will intervene before complete collapse. I live in a red state and I can tell you firsthand the sentiment around Trump is changing. Some of my largest clients are manufacturing and assembly plants and they’re in extreme fear mode. They’ve slashed budgets and layoffs are looming. It’s about to get really painful for blue collar Americans here and there’s no spinning why it’s happening this time. I believe he’ll retain the most extreme MAGA supporters but the fringe voters are getting turned off.
You talking about the GOP or the GOPs leader?
Bitcoin needs speculation money to force it up, that isn't likely until Trump is out of power... GOP always crashes the stock market
Yup it's basically the same. We always had that wing in the GOP. The buchananites but Reagan and Bush defeated them and pushed them out for a generation
I think that hypocrisy knows both sides. Would also point out that you act like the current right is the same as it was 20 years ago is incorrect. There has been a massive realignment in this country. Some of the original right went further right the Buchanan wing finally took over and blue collar voters moved more to the GOP. Granola crunchy conspiracy lefties moved to the GOP Many of the traditional classical liberal freedom loving Republicans have now left the party
The crazy shit is the GOP were literally just complaining and moaning about the debt ceiling being raised like.... 2 months ago
Yes he has massively backed himself into a corner now. His ego doesn't allow him to see things in a logical, sensible manner....like ever. This can only go on for so long before the GOP is knocking on his door
You'll see. There is no more opposition to the GOP and no one is coming to save you. All wealth is concentrated in the top 5%. Quality college education is unaffordable The governement wants cheap manufacturing job for your country instead of high paying S.T.E.M. jobs. Non straight/cis white males are forced out of the labor market, when not out of the country. The brain drain is just beginning. You will be left behind.
Why? Do you really expect the GOP to give up the power they consolidated to democrats?
>to vote again because the next elections will be landslide GOP wins. How can there be a landslide GOP win when GOP supporters don't vote? Have you ever seen a democrat or any other republican saying "You don't need to vote after this time"? The only way is by fixing it where Voters don't matter anymore. He literally said "it will be fixed". No amount of "context" can change that simple logic.
He was speaking to the Amish, a voting block that doesn’t vote or like to vote. He said that to encourage them to vote so he can implement his policies he said will sweep the country and be so popular the Amish won’t have to vote again because the next elections will be landslide GOP wins. There, did the research and context digging for you.
The Dem circus IS out of control! Crossdressing Clowns in Maine, an unhinged stolen valor thief & Congresscritter Blumenthief waxing on moronically, to the delusional Rep Jeffries who can't open his mouth without manufacturing a lie. Pelosi thinks she's slinking away with her and Paul's ill-gotten millions. No one cares about toxic Kamala, Walz is a complete failure at trying to stay relevant. A glimmer of sunshine, I do love the fact Schumer just gave away all his political credit and is voting with the GOP🤣. The last 6 weeks have been a sad rotation of these pathetic sideshows, desperately trying to make negative new buzzwords stick, like "Constertooshunal Cryseees!" or the repeated sad, disruptive commentary during Congressional procedures.
How can you prove something that hasn't happened yet? :) But see it this way: The GOP is pretty united behind Trump at the moment, right? But Trump's executive order for the strategic reserve was very clear about only using coins that were seized by law enforcement. Trump stressed that the strategic reserve would come at no additional cost to the tax payer! This bit is important because Lummis proposed bill is the opposite of that, it would spend $80 billion to buy Bitcoin. If Trump wanted to buy Bitcoin he would have clearly said so, but he stressed they won't spend money on this. So he's not behind this bill. You know, not every bill that gets proposed by the GOP will actually make it into law... Here's a GOP bill that wants to [put Trump's face on the $100 bill ](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-benjamin-franklin-100-bill-gop-proposal-2038753)to replace Benjamin Franklin. Do you believe this will pass, just because it's coming from the GOP and they have a majority?
No, no i do not. That's not at all what the Muller report said, only what the corrupt GOP stooge AG changed the front page of it to say. The rest found very clear, irrefutable evidence of Russian collusion, and today's events just make that even more clear. 'The Mueller report found that the Russian government "interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion" and "violated U.S. criminal law".[11][12][75] The report relayed two methods by which Russia attempted to influence the election.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Findings
It's not that complicated. Highly volatile speculative assets do not do well in an environment of economic downturn and volatility. The US is a huge market and has a disproportionate effect on the crypto market. The economic outlook is going to be poor for as the GOP are permitted to run the US economy into the ground. The market isn't moved substantially by "dumb money" and that is the only thing that trump can realistically mobilise with his pro-crypto rhetoric. Because nobody with half a brain believes a single thing that comes out of his mouth. Even the dumb money might be thinking twice after having already been rugpulled by their lord and saviour. The federal crypo reserve is a damp squib given it's just moving existing assets around. It's just nothing.
It's completely manufactured. They absolutely know what they are doing. Both parties hate crypto. Democrats tried to use institutional power to destroy crypto and it backfired terribly. GOP fake embraced crypto, launched shit coins, rug pulled, and pocketed $Ms from idiots. The goal is to keep stealing money from idiots until all trust is lost and the crypto market destroys itself. Accomplishes their goal and they make bank.
He may or may not, I really haven’t decided, but the forces behind Trump know exactly what they’re doing. They’re robbing everyone of their money and autonomy. They just can’t say it. GOP incompetence is either feigned or manufactured. They have a plan, and right now that plan is working.
15 years is about as long term as the GOP can envision nowadays 😂
1) There's never been an insurrection so we can't have "another" one 2) The left is the one who has been anti-democracy. They literally tried to arrest and jail the GOP front runner, hit him with made up charges, and remove him from the ballot. Absolutely incredible that you have it THAT wrong. 3) This has been the most transparent admin in US history. He's answered almost as many questions in 2 months as Biden has in 4 years. His cabinet literally posts everything they do 24/7.
In other words, you can’t blame anyone besides the GOP for this enormous failure. Trump is singlehandedly ushering in a massive recession with his incompetence, and republican congressmembers, senators, and even voters, are too fucking corrupted/inept to do anything about it. Absolute clowns. Enjoy the massive increase in crime that follows big downswings in the economy. Definitely worth it so Trump can deport less immigrants than Obama (projected 250k vs 650k actual deportations).
>I'm not opposed to pain in exchange for a fiscal policy that looks more than 4 years ahead. Except the GOP budget still has a couple trillion MORE in deficits because they are cutting taxes more than they are cutting spending. >I'm not going to justify wasteful spending just because it keeps people employed. How much is wasteful? Ok, let's say USAID's "woke" stuff is wasteful. Is doing humanitarian projects overseas, like building utilities (water systems, power grid improvements, etc) wasteful? Is our National Park system wasteful? And again, the particular subject at hand here is the short term economic picture - do you think these rapid changes, with firings and significant scaling back in spending, will cause short term economic growth, or contraction?
Separate for a moment your personal views on whether or not USAID should be paying for woke programs. That money is essentially ongoing economic stimulus. Musk/DOGE have previously said they want to reduce the number of federal workers by 75%. There are about 3 million federal workers. If 2.25 million people get fired in short order, do you think that is a good or bad thing for the economy in the short term? The House GOP budget has something like $1.5-2 trillion in spending cuts. Do you think pulling $2 trillion out of the GDP is a good or bad thing for the economy in the short term? Again, separate your personal views. Do you think the government has gotten way too big, and a large scale reduction in size and scope of government is necessary and will lead to long term better results? That's fine, I'm not gonna debate that here. And it isn't just liberals like myself saying this is going to cause pain. Musk said it himself last fall Trump's Treasury Secretary recently said >Could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure. And look, there's going to be a natural adjustment as we move away from public spending to private spending. The market and the economy have just become hooked. We've become addicted to this government spending, and there's going to be a detox period. "Adjustment" and "detox" what do you think he means by that?
Realization crypto going up since Oct was without good reason There's no way to do the reserve legally to raise it by trillions in value as long as GOP in Congress is this weak in support
The budget that the GOP presented has a 3 trillion deficit dude, what cuts are you talking about?
NO. Are they going to the casino too. This is bullshit. They can't use our money to gamble. Btc lost 10k in value in a month and only is so high because people are investing millions in advertising. It's a giant scam . Trump literally just stole millions from his followers. How stupid do they have to be...oh that's right the Texas GOP are corrupt AF
With this current admin and GOP ethics, we’ve learned that anything is possible.
just so you know, this bitch paid off both sides of the aisle, but for Dems he did it publicly. For GOP, he paid them in crypto knowing it would've been harder to track if the public is unaware. sbf admitted this himself like the buffoon he is.
You literally have no clue what you're talking about. The reason he's doing all these Executive Orders, is because he's incapable of getting anything of substance through congress. The GOP majority in the house is so thin, and they are constantly infighting, they are incapable of passing anything that matters. Even though they have the majority. Only a weak president has to try and govern by EOs. EOs are not laws. EOs have limited scope. EOs can just as quickly be disregarded by the next guy.
Lol what's fake about what I said? Use your big girl words and links if you can. 😀 Oh FYI you've been guzzling literal GOP propaganda your whole life: Fox News founder Roger Ailes literally wrote a plan in 1970 called “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News”. “In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide “pro-administration” coverage to millions.” https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/
Start watching Congress amigo. Trump is having to twist arms and threaten primaries real hard even to get his first bill through. The Senate GOP is giving him cold shoulder already on the deficit spending in the budget bill and on his Ukraine antics. Homie doesn’t look like he’s going to be able to force anything to passage in a few months.
This question is exactly how the Dems failed to win against a halfwit that can't put together three coherent sentences and throwing threats of tariffs everywhere as his only economic policy. Everyone left of the GOP has been asking what the hell the Dems are doing for the last 12 months. Even now they are barely doing a god damn thing. Paddleboards with slogans and wearing pink "in protest" at the most globally embarrassing presidential address in living memory. Being unwilling to make a meaningful stand on any actual factors of cost of living, failing to meaningfully speak to the depth of corporate corruption in America, and being unwilling to make a stand on anything significant around Gaza, meant the Dems lost the election. Trump was never going to help with any of these things but boy howdy did he talk about it plenty. That was all it took.
He seems more ideologically captured than he is correct. Liquidity boost from QE helps push prices higher but as we already saw he had a higher rally than we are currently at without it. Like most things in economics, it's way more complex than any one factor. Crypto and stock market can crash out even with QE if Trump and GOP dumpster the economy and put us into a recession or depression. There's a reason why threat of tariffs and then the implementation of the tariffs tanked the market and crypto tanked at the same time even though liquidity hadn't changed.
I tried to warn people last year. Trump and GOP are going to be obviously bad for the economy, but they had crypto bro orbitors hyping up a "pro crypto presidency". Best play was what I did. I had a huge amount of cash set aside in November, and on election night as soon as it was clear Trump won I bought a bunch of popular top utility cryptos. And then rode the wave till Jan 15th for a solid sell. My thought was "Crypto will pump on Trump win, but GOP/Trump are economically illiterate twats that will hurt the economy and tank the markets, so sell before he can get in and do damage" The sheep said I didn't know what I was talking about. Well, look who's laughing now. Learn this lesson and make better choices next time.
The thing is who cares? Burisma obviously hired him, hoping to get some sort of favor, and yet despite extensive efforts by the GOP, no evidence was ever found that Hunter was anything besides an expensive paperweight. Do you think Jered's dad should have been pardoned? Do you think the Saudi's should have funneled 5B to Jered? Or Ivanka's Chinese copyrights? None of the above was illegal. Probably all of it should have been. But if you are going to bitch about the system, then fix the system. Otherwise you are just a hack playing "whataboutism"
Lol- congress sure is heck ain’t controlled by Trump. GOP margin is razor thin- unlike the essential stuff this kind of vote isn’t going to go down strict party lines (spoiler: most don’t). They barely passed the speaker vote, the chances of this passing right now are almost zero imo.
Correct, because the laws about fraud and scams don't include crypto for the most part. Dems tried to make the laws include crypto and the GOP as well as the crypto community at large, lost their shit. I get GOP doesn't like new regulation, but you have to at least have the law define what applies and what doesn't or you can never get recourse if something bad happens.
Oh dear you're one of those uneducated ones. Thanks for making that clear, I won't bother you further with how you've been lied to just to get your vote so the GOP could disintegrate the democratic system in the US and turn it into Russia 0.5 with mockup elections and a few wealthy people sucking the rest of you dry. I'd say enjoy the ride into economic turmoil and inflation as you stick your head in the sand while your comrade in chief does exactly what Putin expects him to do with your country. Ima bookmark this comment and get back to you in a year lol.
The GOP didn't own all the news outlets and media back then. And now Trump oversees what's reported from the White House.
I say this as a person who cashed out his entire portfolio the day Trump announced his TRUMP coin rug pull. Donald Trump is a proven lying sociopath. If you have been aware of his existence for the past decade and still haven't realized this, YOU FUCKING DESERVE TO LOSE YOUR ENTIRE PORTFOLIO. You are only smart enough to by someone else's exir liquidity. The evil of the GOP is fueled directly by your idiocy. Congratulations
Oh, is that what happened?! 🤣 GOP to the rescue!...wow
I doubt Trump will allow it, and since his GOP controls both houses, that bill is sadly DOA.
And the GOP can stop it by putting in good regulations now that actually benefit people instead of spouting tariff this and tariff that and fucking the market. Either way shit seems fucked
I'm nervous for the 2029 bull run. If America votes out the GOP next election, the pushback on all his policies will be violent and will likely take crypto with it.
There's corruption in the GOP as well, and MAGA's gonna expose that too.
This is the purpose of Fox news. It's literally why it was created. Defend all actions of republicans and if they cannot be defended then provide a distraction and if the distraction doesn't work then vaguely hint it was actually a democrats fault all along. Almost all media and social.media has been taken over by right wing. Regardless of your personal politics, it is objectively terrible when no independent accountability can be pinned on someone from the right wing doing a bad thing. Politicians from both sides do bad things and an impartial and independent press always has a role in bring this to light. This is no longer happening (and don't mention what has happened to the legal system and sensible regulations either!). $TRUMP coin was a massive scam perpetrated by an incoming president on his own people. The GOP of old would have crucified him.
At least GOP HAD a primary instead of imposing an atrocious candidate on us!
Joe Biden and the GOP came to a comprehensive Immigration Reform bill that would actually *stick* and not EOs rolled back when a Dem wins in 4 years (assuming the US still has elections). Trump tanked the deal so he could campaign on Immigration and idiots would eat it up. He let an entire year of illegals flood in to win an election and morons would vote for him. Don't blame Kamala for your complete bumbling ignorance.
It's a shame the GOP portion of congress make derisive comments about latin american countries, yet Argentina isn't letting Milei slide. America's going in a different direction unfortunately.
Exactly. The USA are sleepwalking into a fascist cleptocracy. Citizens leave the defense of their institutions to lonely judges and perhaps a few GOP dissidents who sacrifice their carries. It's the 1930s Germany playbook with a touch of Berlusconi.
GOP women hate trans because they already have that look
Ironic literally the first link you posted is broken, presumably because the current administration is continuing to take down data we all paid for… I’m not going to waste my time trying to explain to you why rags like the NY Post, and bullshit GOP-led investigations which uncovered no actual proof of anything and accomplished nothing but wasting taxpayer dollars (maybe DOGE should look into that), aren’t the flex you think they are. You also forgot a pretty critical part of the story: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-fbi-informant-to-plead-guilty-to-lying-about-fake-bribery-scheme-involving-the-bidens
Is it really the GOP's doing OR is it the Legacy medias own fault for failing to stop with the bullshit at a time when EVERYONE worth a damn has the truth at their finger-tips should they separate themselves from the rest of the herd... It's CRAAAZZYY to suggest or pretend that Americans just became so "conditioned" all of a sudden via the GOP as opposed to them just having a mind and insight of their own... Maybe you should give it a go and stray as far away from the rest of the 🐏🐑 as possible... It just might blow your mind...
It's just a way to get bribes from foreign countries. This man is the single greatest enemy has ever had in our entire history. Given, he also has the worst GOP Congress and cabinet in American (modern world?) History, but he's entirely takes the blame as the worst leader of a superpower, ever.
The GOP has been conditioning rural America to distrust legacy media for over 40 years...
Nobody cares anymore. The GOP will let him f Do whatever he wants and he helps them fuck up the whole government.
[Arizona GOP just advance a bill legalizing people to shoot and threaten to kill undocumented people.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/arizona-bill-shoot-kill-migrants-property-trespass-border-rcna141147?link_id=2&can_id=3af8d5f25b187e749e5be2ca097a0ed0&source=email-release-ahead-of-scotus-ruling-on-idaho-v-united-states-the-democratic-legislative-campaign-committee-announces-spotlight-candidate-to-flip-idaho-house-seat&email_referrer=email_2338227&email_subject=release-dlcc-highlights-the-worst-most-dangerous-republican-bills-pushed-in-state-legislatures-in-2024) just for passing through their land.
Someone else here mentioned that the GOP has proposed 4.5 trillion in tax cuts in order to make the money printer go brrrr.
I’m listening in the background to CNBC say the GOP has a budget draft that borrows four trillion. I glance at the bitcoin price and it’s shooting straight up. Remember 1 trillion / 21 million = $47,619 natural float for Bitcoin’s price in dollars. Each.
Gary was hard on crypto with his regulation by enforcement approach. He could have listened to Hester Pierce to focus on regulation by policy while the enforcement division is going after the crypto industry (keep em in check), and Hester’s proposal could have been worked on during Biden’s administration. She really made a good case that a safe harbor must be provided for crypto projects, as a token/coin takes time to be developed and mature. Then crypto turned from a bipartisan to a partisan issue. Prolonged uncertainty and the enforcement relentless hounding caused key crypto figures (Brian Armstrong, Winklevoss, etc) to back the GOP, and once Trump won, the floodgate is opened. Trump maybe wasn’t a true crypto enthusiast, but he saw how crypto could leverage his political interest. The SEC finally formed a crypto task force, SAB 121 repealed (financial institutions need not to put crypto in their custody on their balance sheet), we’re seeing plans to establish BTC reserve, and the enforcement division now seems like a tiger stripped of its fang (Jorge Tenreiro transferred from enforcement to the IT department). Ideally, we want the crypto industry to have the same treatment/respect as the financial institutions. But the government tends to either go full defensive (Gensler’s aggresive enforcement) or full aggresive (deregulation kinda vibe). It might be too early for me to say the current administration will be too lax with crypto, but I do hope the current administration can strike a balance. Regulate by policy first, then enforcement comes second. Because relying on the Howey test solely has been proven to be a disastrous choice.
If Trump starts relegating tax income proportionally (which he'd never do because there would be a GOP revolt) I hope we start to see these taker states start realizing their dependence on the fed
Not that one GOP guy. The wheelchair gay guy who narc'ed about the cocaine parties
That is very vague and seems like some kind of deflection. Trump and the current GOP are beyond unprecedented, you don't need to be in a cult to see that, you just need to base your beliefs on evidence
I don't use false equivalence to defend criminal behavior just because it’s coming from the side I support. I don't make excuses for any wrongdoing. I don't conveniently ignore the real harm like the blatant attacks on our democracy and the very real consequences of supporting a coup. The fact is, the GOP is actively enabling corruption and chaos, and instead of holding them accountable, you’re deflecting. That’s a weak defense. If you care about the integrity of our government and accountability, you should be calling out those who are actually undermining our country, no matter which side of the aisle they sit on. I refuse to make excuses for a party that's out to destroy the very democracy I cherish. Can you say any of that?
Markets hate unpredictability and the President has made the US entirely unpredictable. The GOP seems content to allow Trump and Elon to crash the markets so 🤷♂️. what are you gonna do? hope he takes a nap and goes golfing i guess. so we should be back this spring/summer
> How much did he donate to Trump and the GOP. wrong party. he was a big donor to biden and congressional democrats
How much did he donate to Trump and the GOP. If he did there’s a realistic chance
Trump and GOP congressmen are allowing it. It's not one man, it's one man and an entire political party.
He's the single biggest enabler of what the modern GOP has become. Refused to put country over party at every juncture. Is he an effective politician? Sure. Are his politics good for anyone but him and his backers? No. He's like a villain in a Dickens novel. Cartoonishly callous, unempathetic and duplicitous.
Contacting Congress is important, but let’s be real—just calling won’t be enough if the Democratic leadership doesn’t stop playing by rules the GOP abandoned years ago. We’re dealing with a full-scale takeover of the U.S. government by a billionaire tech grifter and a convicted conman, and the only response from half of Congress is to “build bridges” with a party that is actively enabling this authoritarian power grab. Yes, pressure your representatives. But also demand that Democrats stop acting like this is normal. The GOP is either complicit or too scared to act, and hoping for a few “sane Republicans” to stop this is like expecting Musk to suddenly start respecting workers’ rights. It’s delusional. This isn’t a legislative fight anymore—it’s an existential crisis. The Treasury is being looted, USAID has been erased, government services are getting shut down, and the country is being gutted in real time. If elected officials won’t act like this is a national emergency, then public outcry needs to be so loud that they have no choice. So yeah, call your reps, flood their inboxes, but also demand that they start fighting like this is the collapse of democracy—because it is.
Because the GOP elected Trump and told him he could do literally anything.
I sold when the market was high. Trump is too much of a wildcard. It's time to pull out until the GOP pulls out. They're bad for business.
The GOP has said no to CBDC, so I assume it's privately created ones like USDC.
You can already see the spending data you’re looking for - it’s public record and it’s easy to find and navigate. And if you’re looking for concrete, non-partisan work that would immediately eliminate waste or inefficiency, GAO exists and does good work that, for some reason, Musk and the GOP is choosing to ignore right now. The only agency you’ll have trouble with is the Pentagon, since they can’t pass an audit, and the DoD given its size. Worth pointing out, Shitler and the GOP aren’t looking to defund THOSE agencies, though. Almost like it isn’t about waste and efficiency at all. If it were, they would’ve started with GAO’s work (instead of piss poorly attempting to do the job of an agency that already fucking exists) and they’d have went straight to the Pentagon before going anywhere else.
While I dont mind the idea of a sovereign wealth fund, there is no way this isnt mishandled by Trump and his cronies to use taxpayer funds to "invest" in other buddies companies. This is like giving no bid contracts to big time GOP donors for the border wall project. If you put in the proper controls, bi partisan investment committee, and then government members couldnt trade individual stocks, only sectors or market wide funds, I could see it as a success. However the track record of Trumps administrations would lead me to beleive they will pilfer billions from the tax payer and "invest" in donor companies. Maybe sometimes they will succeed but its an easy to to subsidize any business of cronies.
I don't think this second trump administration is like other governments GOP is always saying we're broke as a county. How are we gonna fill a "sovereign wealth fund"? With debt?
I hate donald Trump for a huge list of reasons, but none of them include the value of his fucking property portfolio, lol. You have to be a meth head to think nobody blamed Biden for the crypto dump two years ago. It's literally the platform Trump and the GOP ran on: Biden was bad for the economy, we need to replace Gensler, yellen, Powell, et al. But Twitter nazis have a short memory and that is to the extreme advantage to their orange emperor. I'm personally not angry because of the dip, because I sold my entire altcoin portfolio the day Trump announced his rug pull. You can see the evidence in my comment history.
I don’t think it was the Bitcoin maxi’s, this falls on the lack of education in red states as well the spread of propaganda from foreign actors. To add the finishing touch we had an opportunity for more election security and the GOP killed it so we can get to where we are now.
nope GOP and the gang wanted this product
Yeah, I snickered at the quote in the OP article about how no president would take this kind of political risk. Trump has so much political downside protection, he is always at his most exposed and it is enough to control the GOP.
Lol what? Who do you think I'm with when you say "you guys"? I have no party affiliation, and nothing but animosity for both the GOP and DNC. Get out of your team sports mentality, you've been divided and conquered.
Bankman-Fried “Public records of Bankman-Fried’s money show it primarily went to support Democratic committees and candidates. He donated $6 million to the House Majority PAC, the main outside group supporting House Democrats. He also gave $250,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and $66,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The bulk of his political donations — $27 million — bankrolled the “Protect Our Future PAC,” a group advocating for pandemic preparedness. The “Protect Our Future PAC” spent $24.2 million on independent expenditures (mailers, ads) to support 19 Democratic House candidates including Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia and recently elected Reps. Maxwell Frost, of Florida, and Jasmine Crockett, of Texas. Carrick Flynn, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in the Oregon Democratic primary, saw $10 million in outside spending from the “Protect Our Future PAC.” Under federal campaign finance law, candidates are supposed to have no say or knowledge of outside groups spending on independent expenditures to support or oppose them. Republican donations Bankman-Fried said in an interview in late November that his donations to Republicans were roughly equal to those he made to Democrats, but that “all my Republican donations were dark.” He also said he made all of these donations during the primary contests. “Reporters freak the f*** out if you donate to a Republican, because they’re all super liberal. And I didn’t want to have that fight, so I just made all the Republican ones dark,” he said in the interview, adding he thought he may have been the “second or third biggest” GOP donor this cycle. “ On the XRP front you are actually incorrect : retail sales are the ones ruled ‘not a security’. … it’s the institutional sales that continued litigation / fines is about. Kind of weird you flipped that around backwards
Who is falling for non stop GOP related rugpulls ?
Uhhh perhaps you forgot that the US had a national surplus when Clinton left office. So I don't necessarily blame just tRump but the entire GOP
Both of your points are likely to play out. The GOP will establish a pro crypto policy, however with the fallout from their economic plan, the added incentive for them will be that it won't benefit retail, but rather it will be institutions and the mega wealthy that benefit. The big 1-2 punch.
Well, giving Trump the funds directly, what is that for? Is that a bribe? Is that legal? Even if you are working on the assumption he's not particularly concerned with whether an action is legal or not if it benefits him, that approach is problematic. This way, it's more like going golfing and forcing the Secret Service to pay for rooms and food in his club at inflated rates - or inviting multiple GOP members along to fill up even more rooms for the same end goal: "How much money can I grift this week?". The difference is this new method is not limited by the cost of a hotel room - he could literally sell a billion dollar tranche of tokens.
> I never thought the president of America would scam us There is no one in this world that naive right? Wait, no, half of America. Reagan's dismantling of the education system was an incredible boon to the GOP and all the shit coins.
What else is new in the GOP?
Misconception. He funded both Democrats and Republicans. SBF was the public face for Dems, Ryan for the GOP (Ryan’s in jail for this as well.)
Imagine Elon Musk put 2-3% of his Net Worth into #Bitcoin with a smash buy on Election Day. Instant approval rating boost to Trump, Musk, and GOP as Bitcoin would soar majorly with a $12B smash buy. I hope Elon sees this and sends it 😎
It's tough to find that many yes men tho. Quite a big portions of the GOP is NOT his yes men.
Powell lowers interest rates which always pumps the market. Trump and GOP create volatility by trying to shut down the government. Every Trump supporter in here “it’s Powell’s fault!” Lmao
No. Read a book. He cut rates cause their was a pandemic and economic crisis. Stimulus was bilaterally supported by Dems and GOP. Before that, Powell mostly kept rates at the low level they’d been for 8 years since the financial crisis. He raised them slightly over Trumps term before the pandemic.
Yup, everybody knows that. The reason the market is so bullish is that the legislation roadblock might be gone with Trump in the Whitehouse and his grip on the GOP. I don't think either the GOP congress members or the Senate will die on a hill to prevent it from happening. Trump is of course a pathological liar, but is very predictable because is incredibly self-serving and crypto going up is in his own self-interest. But let's see there are still many steps.
For real. They are really teaching their kids hard sciences; where we let the GOP blow up our shit for 40 years in the goals of instituting a religious purge.
Trump and Elon are running a pump.and dump scheme. In the event Trump *doesn't* go full fascist, he's going to break every. Single. Crypto-bro who has invested in his scheme. This is Trump's MO. He has run multiple financial schemes to enrich himself. He's about to screw over trailer-park Republicans by cutting social security and welfare. He's gonna screw over the "good" Latin-American population. He's screwed over contractors, lawyers, MyPillow guy. He's left Giuliani behind. I'm looking forward to the big Crypto-crash he causes, and it's gonna be glorious. Elon is probably also going to be a victim, and if he goes bankrupt as a result, or has to sell off his shares in SpaceX, Tesla, and Xitter to pay for it, it's gonna be a good, fucking day. Trump Crypto-bros are going to take that personally and the GOP will have a very bad time. Or maybe it happens when Trump dies because he's such a cult of personality.
The vote that McCain voted down was not "repeal and replace" it was "repeal and trust the GOP to create something later" at a time when there was 0 GOP consensus on what the replacement would.