That's $100 stolen from every single American in the country
From every kid, from every grandma, from every person in hospital
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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That was his only reason to get into the White House.
Well, also protection from prosecution.
Are we still sold on the theory that a billionaire ex-President was finally going to get his come-uppence via a state court campaign finance law conviction, when the judge deliberately dragged out the sentencing until after the polls closed?
Or are we holding out on Kamala Harris being tougher on Trump than Clinton was on Reagan or Bush was on Clinton or Obama was on Bush or Trump was on Obama/Hillary or Biden was on Trump 41?
The special counsel had finally moved forward with prosecuting right before the election. There was going to be a federal trial. That all got dropped when he won.
what a strange thing to do
Trump's been doing crimes since the 1980s and skated every time. You are deluding yourself if you believe a special counsel was going to finally do its job, the day after Trump returned to political irrelevance.
Not when everyone from Guliani to Comey to Garland had dragged their heels for 40 years.
The thing is, we don't know. The evidence was clear as day.
The thing is, we ~~don't~~ know. The evidence was clear as day.
Fixed that for you. The fact that it's so obvious and egregious, yet they STILL dragged it out until it was too late makes it clear that the fundamentally corrupt US "justice" and political systems would never have reined him in, even if he HADN'T managed to con his way back to the white house.
Well, also protection from ~~prosecution~~ punishment.
He was successfully convicted. He didn't even get a slap on the wrist. At best, he got a paper cut from the judge throwing the sentencing papers at him.
He got zero jail or prison time.
Speaking of which, whatever happened with that judge who threatened consequences if Trump continued to ignore his orders? Why isn't Trump in jail yet? Dude's a fucking judge; quit fucking around and arrest his ass already.
It went nowhere because he wasn't going to be the first judge to give a former and possibly future president any consequences.
Even Hitler got thrown in jail. It was a ridiculously cozy jail for a few months, which gave him time to write his infamous book, but still.
Indeed also that.
Does that count the $2 billion that Jared got from the Saudis? I feel like 3.4 billion is very underestimated.
Check the other article - it doesn't count all the crypto holdings Trump has that are worth over 11 billion or there abouts. post link:https://lemmy.world/post/34308185
That article cited like 15.9 billion including cryptocurrency. I am sure it is even more than this.
Why are criminals running our country again...
There are no rules keeping a serial pedophile, rapist, fraudster, bankrupter from becoming President?
There are plenty of rules, it's just that half of the elected officials are traitors. He should've been ousted with the first impeachment but half of the country yearns for fascism, or at least they think they do until the boot is on their neck. I can only hope I live long enough to see Rafael Cruz struggling to breathe with a boot down his throat, wondering if he'd have escaped it if only he'd licked it harder.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Fuck, he really is winning
And no one will see the inside of a prison cell for this.
Hey, guys, feeling great yet? I mean from my point of view of looking from the outside in then you don't look that great. Looks like a filthy paedo and his family are taking you all for a bunch of idiots and you're doing fuck all about it.
First thing we do after the purge is nationalize every asset owned by Trump, his family, and co-conspirators, then we divy up checks for all citizens, and put the rest aside for all the lawsuits the country will have to pay out because of Trump.
If we can keep Trump alive, it would be fun to remove as much of his skin as we can while still keeping him alive, then force him to do shitty manual labor until he dies. In his last agonizing Moments we can give him a bath in brake fluid and rock salt.
Oh yay, slavery and torture for our enemies, that will fix everything.
Ehrm. That’s reactionary, not revolutionary. Not even funny, really.
Good luck controlling the population if they ever get their hands on the dude. I’ve never seen these levels of rage from American citizens about anyone before. There can easily be a point where he’s not safe anywhere.
It's fucking hot is what it is.
Dr. Fistington, how many doses of this treatment would you recommend daily and should he be taking it with water?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number (where the daily beast got the story from)
Quite the rollercoaster.
According to the long and detailed list, about half of it is cryptocurrency stuff. WTF.
about half of it is cryptocurrency stuff.
Makes sense, since that's literally what it was invented for.
They may SAY a lot of florid shit about independence from corrupt institutions and real value, but in reality, rich people wanted money that isn't regulated or taxed like real money to make it even easier to further enrich themselves without giving anything back to the people who suffer from their excesses.
I am filled with rage
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
PHEW! Thank GOODNESS he CUT my VA BENEFITS and my SOCIAL SECURITY and my Kid's EDUCATION! NOW I'm not so Worried about affording this!
I think the elite will cause America to suffer a Greater Depression, and makes all these millions, billions, and even trillions, mean nothing. A big rig filled only with $100 bills would be worth less than the vehicle itself.
Americans will illegally migrate to Mexico, because they can work the farms for bread and a roof, not dollars.
I'm guessing that the collapse of USD will probably be the final push towards American Balkanization. Probably because the states will have to effectively discontinue the usage of USD for purely economic purposes, while the feds will continue issueing USD for workers until they all effectively leave.
That is more or less my guess, too. We will likely see CaliBux, Monero, Euros, and so forth all jockeying to become the next big thing in America. My guess is that the east coast in particular would adopt the Euro, if only for the stronger connection to the EU's commerce bloc.
Yeah it'll vary by region and the nature of the local economy, for example I wouldn't be surprised if some areas devolve to barter and trade but eventually start trading in precious metals. Regardless I suspect that for the most part the only uniting thing is that digital currency that is to say non physical money will probably fall out of favor to some degree, for pretty much the same reason folks back during the great depression continued to stuff their mattress with dollars that being the banks are probably going to shit the bed.
I think that privacy coin might actually take off - up until recent times, the US wasn't likely to fall apart. There wasn't a need for a digital currency that couldn't be controlled by government. Vaccines, hormones, and NSFW bans would all contribute towards legitimization, doubly so if food or a new Underground Railroad comes into play.
But anyhow, we live in interesting times. I think BOTH of our positions about digital and non-digital currency would be true. I can see canned food being the #1 physical currency, since it is non-perishable food.
Note I am factoring in as much the secondary effects of such a scenario, namely some level of trade collapse. Crypto of all types requires a certain level of technology that may be nonviable in a lot of places due to people not being able to get the tech or being unwilling to use it for such a purpose, even maintaining the required Internet infrastructure would be effectively impossible. A little ticket entitling someone to a pound of ground beef issued by a state who is holding things together though requires at most a printing press with a hole puncher to show used ones.
Currency is a complex thing but one of the few uniting factors for it is ease of use and ease of production. Ingots were used in the bronze age because every blacksmith needed them, coins were used in Europe for centuries because gold was a useful liquid asset that was hard to fabricate, paper money started as IOU tickets that could be exchanged for coin, and postage stamps could be used in lou of cash. Crypto almost as a baseline can't fill the niche as required, unless you backed it similar to the previously state food stamps but at that point just use paper.
Lol he's fucking almost 90 like come on dude what the fuck are you even going to do with the shit.
Number MUST go up!!! That's all those fucking billionaires think of
Following in Putin's footsteps. The filthy rich should have taken note:
“After Khodorkovsky’s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin’s answer was, “50%” He wasn’t saying 50% for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50% for Vladimir Putin personally.”
Yup. All these rich fucks giving him gold bars don't realize that's just the entry fee. He is going to demand more and more until he owns them.
Like this old dodard thinks he's gonna take the money with him somehow.
Money doesn't have an exchange rate in hell, pedo.
He has capitalism brain. All these sick fucks can think of is acquisition of more money at all costs.