Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

[Politesse]

If the Court system agrees that media outlets should not be permitted to endorse political candidates, I'd actually be fine with that as long as it was consistently applied.

That would put FauxNews out of business.

Exactly.

 

[unapologetic]

Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm

 

[Swammerdami]

Did the UAE AI chip bribe make this or any other thread yet?

... I just came across more warnings about stable-coin. Specifically about the stable-coin controlled by the Trump family (and an anonymous investor!). ... The money spent buying a stable-coin can be invested in long-term high-yield Treasury debt or even (secretly?) in whatever suits the managers, i.e. the Trump family in the case of the World Liberty Financial stablecoin. Is it plausible that the Trump family does NOT plan on grifting billions as fast as they can? Congress is busy deregulating stablecoins at Trump's urging.

Soon after posting the above, as if on cue, Robert Recih's newsletter shows up in my in-box. It's free to view, so I'll just post a few excerpts.

... Yesterday, the New York Times — which Trump just sued for $15 billion for allegedly defaming him — reported that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, apparently made a multi-billion dollar deal with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates who controls $1.5 trillion of the Emiratis’ sovereign wealth.

In return for Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firm depositing $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps, the White House agreed to give the U.A.E. — in particular, a sprawling technology firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon — access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, despite national security concerns that the chips could be shared with China.

This is just the top of the iceberg of Trump’s crypto corruption. ... Within his first six weeks in office, Trump called for a “Crypto Strategic Reserve”— a government backed stockpile of crypto assets, sort of like our oil reserve, but completely pointless. That announcement made crypto prices soar.

... Forbes now estimates that over half of Trump’s entire net worth is crypto-based. With Trump acting as both the President of the United States and as his own crypto brand ambassador, it’s hard to tell which job he’s doing at any given moment. One US company said it explicitly purchased $2 million of Trump’s meme coins to influence trade policy.
...
Trump’s SEC also abandoned a lawsuit against Binance, a crypto exchange that had previously pled guilty to money laundering. This happened just days after Binance started listing a Trump cryptocurrency on its marketplace.
... Trump’s Justice Department even scrapped the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, giving a green-light to all kinds of crypto crime, even though Americans lost $9.3 billion in crypto scams in 2024.

... While the [so-called GENIUS Act] appropriately bans members of Congress and their families from profiting off stablecoins, it places no such restrictions on the president.

The most dangerous part of the GENIUS Act is how it allows crypto to reach into mainstream financial systems. ... If a single cryptocurrency began to tank — as crypto has done in the past — investors would likely rush to sell off crypto to get their real money back. This could lead to massive bank runs....

Crypto has shown no redeeming social value and it poses huge dangers to our economy. Yet Trump is enabling it to worm into the economy because he’s taken huge crypto payoffs that have made him and his family billions of dollars.

 

[southernhybrid]

What I find the most infuriating about this is the lack of pushback by the news organizations over such clearly illegal actions.

You must read and watch different news sources than I do. That's all they've been talking about on the news and in the papers I read. Ok. Not all, but there have been numerous articles about it.

 

[ideologyhunter]

That's about as blatant an attack on the 1st Amendment as there could be.
Forty more months of this unbearable lunatic.

 

[Elixir]

That's about as blatant an attack on the 1st Amendment as there could be.
Forty more months of this unbearable lunatic.

Should suffice to turn the USA into a full on Russian surrogate.
The rubicon is 2026, the fascists know it and are trying to move heaven and earth to defeat the will of the people, should it go against them.

 

[Elixir]

Did the UAE AI chip bribe make this or any other thread yet?

... I just came across more warnings about stable-coin. Specifically about the stable-coin controlled by the Trump family (and an anonymous investor!). ... The money spent buying a stable-coin can be invested in long-term high-yield Treasury debt or even (secretly?) in whatever suits the managers, i.e. the Trump family in the case of the World Liberty Financial stablecoin. Is it plausible that the Trump family does NOT plan on grifting billions as fast as they can? Congress is busy deregulating stablecoins at Trump's urging.

Soon after posting the above, as if on cue, Robert Recih's newsletter shows up in my in-box. It's free to view, so I'll just post a few excerpts.

... Yesterday, the New York Times — which Trump just sued for $15 billion for allegedly defaming him — reported that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, apparently made a multi-billion dollar deal with Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates who controls $1.5 trillion of the Emiratis’ sovereign wealth.

In return for Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firm depositing $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps, the White House agreed to give the U.A.E. — in particular, a sprawling technology firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon — access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, despite national security concerns that the chips could be shared with China.

This is just the top of the iceberg of Trump’s crypto corruption. ... Within his first six weeks in office, Trump called for a “Crypto Strategic Reserve”— a government backed stockpile of crypto assets, sort of like our oil reserve, but completely pointless. That announcement made crypto prices soar.

... Forbes now estimates that over half of Trump’s entire net worth is crypto-based. With Trump acting as both the President of the United States and as his own crypto brand ambassador, it’s hard to tell which job he’s doing at any given moment. One US company said it explicitly purchased $2 million of Trump’s meme coins to influence trade policy.
...
Trump’s SEC also abandoned a lawsuit against Binance, a crypto exchange that had previously pled guilty to money laundering. This happened just days after Binance started listing a Trump cryptocurrency on its marketplace.
... Trump’s Justice Department even scrapped the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, giving a green-light to all kinds of crypto crime, even though Americans lost $9.3 billion in crypto scams in 2024.

... While the [so-called GENIUS Act] appropriately bans members of Congress and their families from profiting off stablecoins, it places no such restrictions on the president.

The most dangerous part of the GENIUS Act is how it allows crypto to reach into mainstream financial systems. ... If a single cryptocurrency began to tank — as crypto has done in the past — investors would likely rush to sell off crypto to get their real money back. This could lead to massive bank runs....

Crypto has shown no redeeming social value and it poses huge dangers to our economy. Yet Trump is enabling it to worm into the economy because he’s taken huge crypto payoffs that have made him and his family billions of dollars.

I saw Newsome begging on FB, and it occurred to me that he should issue some cryptocurrency - instant unlimited cash. Just ask Donny.

 

[unapologetic]

I'm working on my protest sign for the Oct 18 No Kings protest.

Me too. I'll post pics tomorrow.

EVERYONE, You can find a protest near you on this map:

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

www.nokings.org

 

[bilby]

EVERYONE, You can find a protest near you on this map:

Well, maybe not EVERYONE; Though I guess it depends on your definition of "near".

According to that map, the nearest protest to me is the one in Honolulu, HI.


More than 12 hours away on a plane travelling at FL400 and mach 0.95 seems to be stretching the definition of "near" somewhat; Though it is only about 7,540km (4,680 miles), so that's a minuscule 1/50 of the distance to the Moon, and any astronomer will tell you that the Moon is very near to the Earth...

 

[Patooka]

EVERYONE, You can find a protest near you on this map:

Well, maybe not EVERYONE; Though I guess it depends on your definition of "near".

According to that map, the nearest protest to me is the one in Honolulu, HI.

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More than 12 hours away on a plane travelling at FL400 and mach 0.95 seems to be stretching the definition of "near" somewhat; Though it is only about 7,540km (4,680 miles), so that's a minuscule 1/50 of the distance to the Moon, and any astronomer will tell you that the Moon is very near to the Earth...

I nearly took this post seriously. Because I actually don't know what the fuck satire is anymore.

 

[unapologetic]

Well, maybe not EVERYONE; Though I guess it depends on your definition of "near".

According to that map, the nearest protest to me is the one in Honolulu, HI.

Your participation WILL be missed.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

That's about as blatant an attack on the 1st Amendment as there could be.
Forty more months of this unbearable lunatic.

It's not going to be forty months. The Dems will have to hold the White House for about three decades straight to undo what Trump & Co. has done.

It takes an idiot with a lighter and a can of gasoline about 30 seconds to set a house on fire, then another 10 minutes before it's hopelessly ruined. It takes a lot of money, time, and skilled people to rebuild it.

The 2026 elections are over a year away. That's going to be the first clear view of how democracy's holding up in the U.S. It might be the only view that's needed. We may wake up Wednesday morning to find out that Los Angeles, San Franciscos, and New York, etc. have all overwhelmingly voted red, or it may take until 2028 when Trump refuses to leave office and/or SCOTUS decides the whole three term thing is unlawful.

I'm assuming he's going to live that long because that's just how things work. We lose Carl Sagan at 62 while the hamberder-swallowing ape keeps chugging along.

 

[southernhybrid]

Piece-o-Shit and his ass-wipes are looking to punish transgender people by barring them from owning guns.

These people have such a burr up their asses about transgender but are just fine with people who are actually dangerous owning guns.

Another example of how this administration is cruel to be cruel.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

Yeah. I heard about that a week or so ago and my stupid neighbor thinks it's a good idea since he believes that trans people commit most of the mass shootings. He told my husband that. If he had told me that, I would have corrected him by telling him that straight while males have committed most of the mass shootings, so maybe they shouldn't be permitted to own guns.

 

[Swammerdami]

I used to think that the impending Civil War wouldn't follow state lines. After all, there are more people in California who voted for Trump than in any of 47 states! But now I'm not so sure. Will there come a time when a state like California announces that fascist police forces will not be allowed to operate in that state, and enforces the order with deadly force?

Trump is stupid but he is very much aware that Rhode Island and Connecticut vote for sane leaders and sane Congresspeople, so it makes his limpy dicky tingle when he can hurt them. He wouldn't cancel such a program in a "Red" state.

And this is the sort of nine year-old behavior that makes his supporters poop their "Trump MAGA" underpants in admiration. They wish they were as virile as Fuckface Von Clownstick and had the gumption to grab teen-age pussy, and steal money out of blind men's cups. Remember: The Deplorables still click "Approve of Trump" by an overwhelming margin; his inflicting pain on Democratic voters is WHY they approve.

California is one of the biggest agriculture producers in the world, ahead of all but a few countries. Trump is deliberately trying to hurt California by using his ICE brown-shirts to harass and deport farm workers.

Red states with 95,000 immigrant workers or more include Florida, Texas, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Alabama. Have any of these states been the victim of major ICE raids?

 

[southernhybrid]

I used to think that the impending Civil War wouldn't follow state lines. After all, there are more people in California who voted for Trump than in any of 47 states! But now I'm not so sure. Will there come a time when a state like California announces that fascist police forces will not be allowed to operate in that state, and enforces the order with deadly force?

Trump is stupid but he is very much aware that Rhode Island and Connecticut vote for sane leaders and sane Congresspeople, so it makes his limpy dicky tingle when he can hurt them. He wouldn't cancel such a program in a "Red" state.

And this is the sort of nine year-old behavior that makes his supporters poop their "Trump MAGA" underpants in admiration. They wish they were as virile as Fuckface Von Clownstick and had the gumption to grab teen-age pussy, and steal money out of blind men's cups. Remember: The Deplorables still click "Approve of Trump" by an overwhelming margin; his inflicting pain on Democratic voters is WHY they approve.

California is one of the biggest agriculture producers in the world, ahead of all but a few countries. Trump is deliberately trying to hurt California by using his ICE brown-shirts to harass and deport farm workers.

Red states with 95,000 immigrant workers or more include Florida, Texas, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Alabama. Have any of these states been the victim of major ICE raids?

There have been a lot of ICE raids in red states. I'll post a link that lists some of the more recent ones. Plus, let's not forget that a rural area in Georgia was recently raided at the Hyundai plant, removing highly qualified S. Koreans who were there to help build the plant that was going to make electric batteries for Hyundais. Sure, some had expired VISAs, so why not renew their VISAs so they could finish the work instead of stupidly deporting them? And, here I thought the orange moron wanted to bring manufacturing back to the states. What was I thinking?

https://www.iceinmyarea.org/en

 

[unapologetic]

recently raided at the Hyundai plant, removing highly qualified S. Koreans

I heard Rump reversed this dicesion, but it's too late, Hyundai is shutting the plant down in protest.

 

[TSwizzle]

I used to think that the impending Civil War wouldn't follow state lines. After all, there are more people in California who voted for Trump than in any of 47 states! But now I'm not so sure. Will there come a time when a state like California announces that fascist police forces will not be allowed to operate in that state, and enforces the order with deadly force?

Thankfully insufferable prick Newsom is going to save democracy by redrawing district lines to turn California into even more of a one party state.

 

[unapologetic]

Newsom is going to save democracy by redrawing district lines to turn California into even more of a one party state.

As opposed to the Repugnants in Texas?

The goal of the UNdemocratic Party (the Repugnican party) is to make this a one party country.
Yes, Newsom is fighting back.

 

[TSwizzle]

Newsom is going to save democracy by redrawing district lines to turn California into even more of a one party state.

As opposed to the Repugnants in Texas?

I don’t live in Texas.

Yes, Newsom is fighting back.

lol, Newsom is a joke.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I used to think that the impending Civil War wouldn't follow state lines. After all, there are more people in California who voted for Trump than in any of 47 states! But now I'm not so sure. Will there come a time when a state like California announces that fascist police forces will not be allowed to operate in that state, and enforces the order with deadly force?

Thankfully insufferable prick Newsom is going to save democracy by redrawing district lines to turn California into even more of a one party state.

It will be up to a vote of California residents. So how is that undemocratic?