Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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nycfan said:
Libertarians supported Trump and he hates the FBI. But he could have at least just commuted this guy’s sentence instead of a full pardon.

Libertarians believe this guy was targeted for his beliefs and use of crypto rather than his dark web criminal enterprise.
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I am spitting angry about the Ubrecht pardon. That guy is the most horrible POS around.
 
Day One and through most of today, I was of the mind that while Trump was doing a lot of crap all at once, most of which I oppose, we were more or less seeing what he promised play out in a jumble of performative and more serious executive orders, though the breadth and lack of any discernment on the J6 pardons was a bit surprising.

Tonight, the list of stuff his administration is doing is causing me genuine disquiet about this being a lot worse than suck it up for a while and hope for the best until the consequences of his lies and bizarre policy prescriptions start to be felt.

Pardoning a guy like Ulbricht (and the statement accompanying that), giving Musk free access to US classified data without guardrails, whatever deal is being cut with Oracle between TikTok and the new AI project (Stargate), shutting down info sharing by the FDA and CDC and pulling out of the WHO, the issuance of extremely broad immigration EOs, the mob talk coming out of House leadership … I dunno. Very Macbeth / vengeance vibe.
 
nycfan said:
Day One and through most of today, I was of the mind that while Trump was doing a lot of crap all at once, most of which I oppose, we were more or less seeing what he promised play out in a jumble of performative and more serious executive orders, though the breadth and lack of any discernment on the J6 pardons was a bit surprising.

Tonight, the list of stuff his administration is doing is causing me genuine disquiet about this being a lot worse than suck it up for a while and hope for the best until the consequences of his lies and bizarre policy prescriptions start to be felt.

Pardoning a guy like Ulbricht (and the statement accompanying that), giving Musk free access to US classified data without guardrails, whatever deal is being cut with Oracle between TikTok and the new AI project (Stargate), shutting down info sharing by the FDA and CDC and pulling out of the WHO, the issuance of extremely broad immigration EOs, the mob talk coming out of House leadership … I dunno. Very Macbeth / vengeance vibe.
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100%. And while this doesn’t let them off the hook, I have a very strong feeling 70% of the people who voted for Trump have no idea how bad this is about to get.
 
Calheel said:
Nothing happens.
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So this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.
 
CRHeel94 said:
So this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.
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Understandably
 
CRHeel94 said:
So this morning I realized that I have two nieces that are in the States each expecting in the next few months. Both are in the US with spouses that are on work visas (one is a heart surgeon, another is an oil trader); one has been in the US for about six years. Per this EO, their babies would fall into that limbo at birth while this gets resolved. They are freaking out right now.
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Really sorry to hear that.
 


“…In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner of the internet known as the dark web, became an international drug marketplace, facilitating more than 1.5 million transactions, including sales of heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. (The site generated over $200 million in revenue, according to authorities.) In court, prosecutors claimed that Mr. Ulbricht had also solicited the murders of people whom he considered threats — but acknowledged there was no evidence that the killings took place.

Despite his crimes, Mr. Ulbricht has remained popular with crypto enthusiasts because Silk Road was one of the first venues where people used Bitcoin to buy and sell goods. For years, his supporters have argued that his sentence was overly punitive and adopted the slogan “Free Ross” online and at industry gatherings.

“It’s hard to argue that Ross Ulbricht wasn’t the most successful and influential entrepreneur of the early Bitcoin era,” said Pete Rizzo, an editor at the news publication Bitcoin Magazine. “This is the industry banding together and saying, ‘We’re going to reclaim our own.’”

Mr. Ulbricht’s pardon was eagerly anticipated by crypto enthusiasts. On Monday, after Mr. Trump granted clemency to nearly 1,600 peoplecharged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Elon Musk, one of the president’s biggest supporters, responded to a concerned post on X, writing that “Ross will be freed too.” …”
 
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But the life sentence struck many observers as harsh. In 2017, the federal appeals court for the Second Circuit, in affirming Mr. Ulbricht’s conviction, acknowledged the severe nature of the punishment.

“Although we might not have imposed the same sentence ourselves in the first instance,” the court said, “on the facts of this case a life sentence was within the range of permissible decisions that the district court could have reached.”

Mr. Ulbricht has been serving his sentence at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz. Supporters in the crypto industry, in calling for his release, have noted that he was convicted of a nonviolent crime and was never tried on prosecutors’ most explosive allegation that he paid to have people killed. …”
 


“… Painters on Tuesday spread a fresh coat to hide the holes that showed where it had been mounted until its sudden removal following President Donald Trump's Monday inauguration.

"Poof! He's gone," one uniformed military official joked, shaking his head in bewilderment. …”

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It is a lot less hilarious if you recall the way the Soviets frequently disappeared people out of photos, textbooks and reality back in the day.
 
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“… The firing of U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an Armed Forces branch, echoed in the halls of the Pentagon.
While the Coast Guard is part of the armed forces, it falls under the Department of Homeland Security and not the Pentagon.

… But as Trump's team is sworn into jobs across the Pentagon, there is anxiety about sweeping personnel decisions.

"People are trying to read the tea leaves about what might be coming," a second U.S. official said. Milley's portrait removal is not doing much to allay those concerns, officials said.

… As they finished painting the wall where Milley's painting had hung for just over a week since its January unveiling, one painter looked at the blank wall with humorous satisfaction.

"There was no portrait here," he said.”
 
LosPollosHermanos said:
Nobody deserves 2 life sentences plus 40 years for running an internet black market. It's the only one so far I agree with. Punishment was ridiculous.
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Did he deserve a pardon? Or would you argue for his sentence being commuted?
 
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