dhork @ dhork @lemmy.world Posts 12Comments 4,256Joined 2 yr. ago
It makes more sense when you realize that money has solved all of Donald Trump's problems in the past. Get a little too handsy with a woman? Pay her off to keep quiet. Have a business partnership or contract you want to get out of? Pay lawyers to harass them in court until they give up.
Heck, he doesn't even need to use his own money most of the time, he can spend out of one of his companies like it's a slush fund then declare bankruptcy, leaving business partners and banks with the bills.
He is now running the government like one of his privately owned companies, and using our money to try and solve his problems. Give them a pittance to go away, and when they don't, you can say "we gave them a chance" before kidnapping them.
There's nothing like an angry mob building a makeshift guillotine while chanting they want to hang you to make you change your viewpoint....
This leave out the most egregious thing they are doing: installing Starlink backdoors all over government.
At best, Elon and his team are making sure that he has unfettered access to all the data for his AI shenanigans. But where is the data being held? How do we know Elon's backdoor has not, itself, been backdoored?
At worst, he is actively selling it all to foreign powers.
There is zero accountability, so we really dont know....
Isn't it obvious? He's not taking on any additional load at all.
The administration may not be able to fully cancel executive agencies that were established by Congress, but they can assign their duties to someone who would have no problem ignoring them. So instead of being killed outright, they die a slow death due to benign neglect.
Well, duh, but they will do everything they can to stack the deck. AOC isn't running for this, in exchange for keeping out they will let her run for Chuck's Senate seat.
Aside from the Chosen Candidate, everyone else who is running is just running for the name recognition, the ability to live large for a while on campaign cash, and then back out and support the Chosen Candidate when asked to.
Let's look on the bright side. He is still reluctant to publicly acknowledge it, which means that even he knows it is a shameful thing to be. I would be more afraid if he said "Hell yeah, I am, what are you gonna do about it? Do you own a President like I do?"
You realize our only other choice will be Gavin, right?
They're from New York, not Alabama
Elon Musk: It Is 'Outrageous' to 'Claim That I'm a Nazi'
Let's look on the bright side. He is still reluctant to acknowledge it, which means that even he knows it is a shameful thing to be. I would be more afraid if he said "Hell yeah, I am, what are you gonna do about it?"
This comment, all by itself, is an impeachable offense. Sigh.
Bitcoin is pseudonomynous. All transactions are public, and thus traceable. but it relies on obscenely large random numbers to work, and if the numbers you generate are sufficiently random, there is no practical way for anyone to link any particular random number to you without additional info.
However, if you are a target of an investigation, and the government compels you to give it your numbers the old fashioned way, then poof! they can now get your entire transaction history without a warrant because it's all technically public. (They wont necessarily know where the transactions are going unless they conduct a similar exercise on the other side of the transactions.) They can also seize everything left in your wallet -- while they may legally need a warrant for that they don't technically need it if they possess the keys and we've seen how the Justice Department in the US is no longer constrained by laws.
This relative pseudoanominity makes it good for money laundering, but not as good as cash. Still, it is hard to move large amounts of cash across borders undetected, but it is as "easy" to move $1 in Bitcoin across a border as it is to move $1B.
It's not total disarmament, hockey sticks are effective weapons.
No, they are cousins
If they pick another reformist Pope (especially one from Africa or Asia), I would expect the American Bishops to openly revolt and name their own Pope. It's been over 500 years since we had an Antipope. I think we're due.
Sure, call it heresy. But the Pope called Martin Luther a heretic, too, and yet that didn't stop people from believing that he might have been on to something.
If someone believes something deeply, whether or not it is batshit crazy, who am I to tell them they're wrong? If it is that bonkers, I will just write them off as a crackpot and let them be.
Agree. But, is dispensationalism really "pseudo-theology" if people believe it?
She is right about one thing. Trump plans on being president past January 2029, and if he manages it he won't need to be on any ballot to do it....
Catholics (in America at least) would happily let him spit in their faces, as long as he continues to make abortions harder to get. Never mind the fact that the Church is equally against the death penalty, or treating migrants like cattle....