Election 2024: The Fate of Democracy
VR46 Where’s the conspiracy? 80% of the “value” was held by Trump and his family, the coin with no fundamentals was released, there were massive purchases within seconds of release, and he personally profited. Given the source of cash isn’t tracked and went to a sitting president directly. Do you see how that could be problematic?
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303abuser I’m on about in general there is a lot of speculation.
The coin is still trading isn’t it, they didn’t just pump and dump and walkaway. You call a drop from 30 dollars to 18 in a few weeks a dump? When btc has been dropping.
Crypto is the wild west but it doesn’t look like he’s broke any laws, he has other companies trading on the market, weather it trump, Elon or any other politician they can choose to sell whenever they like. I’d rather politicans couldn’t play the markets but is what it is, they all have insider info and nothing ever gets done.
As smalls said at least he doesn’t hide his antics, he isn’t the first politician to make money out of his position look at sunak and Nancy pelosis ffs, she’s the greatest trader alive.
Such Karen’s on this thread how can you keep it up for 4 years.
VR46 weather it trump, Elon or any other politician they can choose to sell whenever they like
They actually can’t when it comes to regulated markets, there are divestiture laws that trump has continually skirted.
If you don’t see how having the president of the most powerful nation in the world compromised by untraceable foreign “donations” is a massive problem, I’m not really sure where to start.
303abuser full of crap Nancy sold many stocks at the top and many CEO’s and politicians have done the same, the stock market has pretend rules they are never enforced just as much of a casino as crypto if not worse in many cases.
Acting like politicians haven’t used their power to benefit themselves in past. Wtf.
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alistair Hedgefund manager before entering politics, like there wouldn’t of been financial advise given to his wife. Their wealth grew another 100m after his term as pm.
Has a serious amount of cash in a US based investment fund. See below.
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Further securing the borders only a weeks in to the job. Tariffs seem to play as good leverage, but no way will the left see it that way.
VR46 a what often happens with short-term gain?
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The one thing Repubs are good at it being really agressive with a politcal talking point and driving it home whether its true or not, they have a high success rate because their audience are extremely gullible and fail in their due dilligence to find out if in fact the message is actually true or not. Case in point being the “open borders” rhetoric used recently. Again, a total lie which can be proved through actual statistics and objective facts, not alternate facts.
Here’s a good article on just how it all works.
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
It points out how border crossings and border attempts have indeed grown under the Biden admin post pandemic. Here’s an interesting point which shows the borders are the same as they ever were and were never in fact “open”,
"While the raw numbers are much higher under Biden — 5 million encounters compared with 1.4 million under Trump in those time frames — the percentages for the two administrations were similar: 47% removed under Trump and 51% under Biden. Bier’s estimates are for illegal immigration between ports of entry. (As our bar graph above shows, both administrations had removal rates above 50% when Title 42 was being used to expel people.)
“These numbers highlight how difficult it was even for the most determined administration in US history to expel everyone who enters illegally,” Bier wrote. (David Bier - associate director of immigration studies at the Libertarian Cato Institute)
another good point he makes that will make MAGA heads spin, "Bier wrote in November that his work showed the Biden administration “has removed a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump DHS did over its last two years. Moreover, migrants were more likely to be released after a border arrest under President Trump than under President Biden.”
Here’s a great graph for those who are more comfortable with pictures. It shows the numbers post-pandemic are up around the same as the Bush era, lowest in general during the Obama years, began to spike again during the Trump admin and then jumped up during covid before dropping again last year. Trump won’t make the borders “more secure”, its the sam for every President, the US border still remains one of the tightest on the planet. The idea that they can stop fentanyl or any other substances coming through is nonsense, they said the same for cocaine back in the 80s. It does make for a cool soundbite though and maybe it cons a new generation of people unfamiliar with the past.
Along_the_Wire look at the start of Trump’s first few months of his previous admin for the answer here. His aggressive anti-immigration rhetoric worked for a few months before things went back to normal again.
“securing the borders” lol. How much did that attempt at a wall cost? When he held a gun to the head of the Pentagon to secure funding. This is the new “war on drugs”. Literally pissing into the wind.
Trump loves the uneducated and dangerously thick. I wonder why….
