FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:47 pmOne of the EOs that put on hold by the judicial branch was the one to halt federal payments. It seems that Musk has just gone ahead anyway, bringing a team of unvetted engineers with no security clearance to take over the most sensitive payments systems in the country. He just seems to go places and say that Trump says he is allowed to and then anybody who says that isn't how it works gets kicked out.
Trump doesn't seem to have actually done anything to grant Musk any of this power, but by just wandering around and confidently telling whoever you meet that you work for their boss, in today's America you get to shut down branches of government, decide whether your business competitors receive their contracted payments, stop all the retirement homes in South Dakota getting their money because a lunatic sent you a tweet saying that Lutherans are bad... and in that tweet he appears to have numbers from that incredibly sensitive payments system with no possible authorisation.
You guys are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
Oh no, all the Democrat Leftist Liberal money-laundering schemes, scams, and fraud are being turned inside-out...!!!
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:21 pm
If you are a foreign nation needing to send Trump a bribe, there are two primary options. One is his new shitcoin, currently trading for about $20 with little activity from a high a couple of weeks ago of $75. If a foreign government needs to buy their way out of an exhausting trade war or oil embargo, they would need a means to funnel a large enough payoff anonymously... to do so, simply buy $TRUMP coins, enough of them push the value up by 10 or 20 dollars after which the FOMO will do the rest and the market will see to it that Trump can safely cash out a billion or so from it without tanking the thing.
So that happened (albeit just a very rich foreign individual rather than an entire foreign nation): A crypto mogul who invested millions into Trump coins is getting a reprieve on civil fraud charges https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/busi ... index.html
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:31 am
So what do you think? Has Trump sold out to Bezos, Musk and Zuckerman et al.? I recall IC being very critical of corporate socialism but feeling that Trump was being treated unfairly and yet here we are with Trump backed by some of the richest men in the world?
Convicted fraudster Trevor Milton got pardoned by Trump a couple of days ago, totally related to his campaign contributions. What an excellent return on investment it proved to be.... send 1.8m dollars to the Trump campaign... get out of to four years in prison, $168 million in restitution, and a $1 million fine. https://electrek.co/2025/03/28/trevor-m ... cumentary/
While the boring mainstream news is all about Trump being bribed by the Qatar royal family with a $400M palace in the sky to hang out with Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly Abu Mohammad al-Jolani), who was the leader of al-Qaeda's Syrian branch Jabhat al-Nusra - and who used to have a $10M dollar price on his head before he offered Trump a deal to put up a tower in Syria...
Let us not forget the office way to bribe the Trump administration i still via the $TRUMP shitcoin - currently trading at under $13
Have you heard of GD Culture Group? Most likely not, since the Chinese e-commerce firm focusing on TikTok has just eight employees and earned zero revenue last year. Still, though, it found the capital to make as much as a $300 million investment in $TRUMP — the meme cryptocurrency launched by Donald Trump that has no inherent value, except maybe buying access to the president.
In a securities filing made public late on Tuesday, and first reported by the New York Times, GD Culture Group announced it had purchased $300 million of bitcoin and the $TRUMP coin. Despite a staff too small to play a game of baseball, the firm made the purchase with money from a stock sale to an undisclosed interest in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven designed to make opaque deals such as this.
It’s unclear how much of the purchase was bitcoin and how much was the president’s meme coin. But it was the first instance of a company with connections to the Chinese government buying Trump’s cryptocurrency. In a previous financial disclosure, GD Culture Group stated that the Chinese government may “intervene or influence” the operations of one of its subsidiaries “at any time.”
So that TikTok ban is going to be kicked into the long grass again.
Days after his Mum was at Trump's special dinner for holders of $TRUMP meme-coin - still the only official way to bribe the Trump administration in the open - Paul Walczak, who was sentenced to 18 months for stealing $10 million out of his employees payroll taxes, is now a free man.
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 4:27 pm
Days after his Mum was at Trump's special dinner for holders of $TRUMP meme-coin - still the only official way to bribe the Trump administration in the open - Paul Walczak, who was sentenced to 18 months for stealing $10 million out of his employees payroll taxes, is now a free man.
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
What a joke. Medicaid getting slashed to "save taxpayers money" and a tax cheat gets pardoned. Trump always looking out for his buddies, regardless of what they do. Nothing more than a con artist. Trump will literally do whatever he wants even if it's blatantly unethical.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 4:27 pm
Days after his Mum was at Trump's special dinner for holders of $TRUMP meme-coin - still the only official way to bribe the Trump administration in the open - Paul Walczak, who was sentenced to 18 months for stealing $10 million out of his employees payroll taxes, is now a free man.
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
What a joke. Medicaid getting slashed to "save taxpayers money" and a tax cheat gets pardoned. Trump always looking out for his buddies, regardless of what they do. Nothing more than a con artist. Trump will literally do whatever he wants even if it's blatantly unethical.
A whole series of fraudsters as well. Then again, your new ambassador to France is a blackmailer that Trump pardoned (because he is Ivanka's father in law).
Weirdly, the White House press sec refused to divulge the guest list for that dinner on the grounds that it was in Trump's own time and not an official act, making it the one crime he has committed in office that explicitly doesn't meet the criteria for an official act under the Supreme Court immunity ruling that let him off for all his other crimes.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 4:27 pm
Days after his Mum was at Trump's special dinner for holders of $TRUMP meme-coin - still the only official way to bribe the Trump administration in the open - Paul Walczak, who was sentenced to 18 months for stealing $10 million out of his employees payroll taxes, is now a free man.
What a joke. Medicaid getting slashed to "save taxpayers money" and a tax cheat gets pardoned. Trump always looking out for his buddies, regardless of what they do. Nothing more than a con artist. Trump will literally do whatever he wants even if it's blatantly unethical.
A whole series of fraudsters as well. Then again, your new ambassador to France is a blackmailer that Trump pardoned (because he is Ivanka's father in law).
Weirdly, the White House press sec refused to divulge the guest list for that dinner on the grounds that it was in Trump's own time and not an official act, making it the one crime he has committed in office that explicitly doesn't meet the criteria for an official act under the Supreme Court immunity ruling that let him off for all his other crimes.
If only we all knew billionaires. Just think, we could do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted to. Apparently, there are no ethical guidelines for the super-rich. I guess it's a good thing we still have freedom of speech. I'd hate to get hanged or guillotined for saying this.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:31 am
So what do you think? Has Trump sold out to Bezos, Musk and Zuckerman et al.? I recall IC being very critical of corporate socialism but feeling that Trump was being treated unfairly and yet here we are with Trump backed by some of the richest men in the world?
Reported by Yahoo News...
The list of MAGA Inc. donors included Elizabeth Fago of Florida, who made a donation of $1 million on April 3. Nursing home executive Paul Walczak, Fago's son, received a pardon from Trump on April 23 after having pleaded guilty to tax crimes months earlier. According to The New York Times, Walczak’s pardon application highlighted Fago’s political activity, and Fago attended a pricey fundraiser for the Trump super PAC shortly before Walczak received a pardon.
Fago's $1 million donation exceeds all of her previous individual donations to GOP campaigns combined, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:31 am
So what do you think? Has Trump sold out to Bezos, Musk and Zuckerman et al.? I recall IC being very critical of corporate socialism but feeling that Trump was being treated unfairly and yet here we are with Trump backed by some of the richest men in the world?
Reported by Yahoo News...
The list of MAGA Inc. donors included Elizabeth Fago of Florida, who made a donation of $1 million on April 3. Nursing home executive Paul Walczak, Fago's son, received a pardon from Trump on April 23 after having pleaded guilty to tax crimes months earlier. According to The New York Times, Walczak’s pardon application highlighted Fago’s political activity, and Fago attended a pricey fundraiser for the Trump super PAC shortly before Walczak received a pardon.
Fago's $1 million donation exceeds all of her previous individual donations to GOP campaigns combined, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The MAGA crowd is a group of seriously depraved individuals. Not that it seems to matter to them.
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:31 am
So what do you think? Has Trump sold out to Bezos, Musk and Zuckerman et al.? I recall IC being very critical of corporate socialism but feeling that Trump was being treated unfairly and yet here we are with Trump backed by some of the richest men in the world?
A new crypto account opened yesterday morning.
30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.
The market dumped.
The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.
