Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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Callatoroy said:
At least he didn’t lie about it. Yet you still support Biden and he bold faced, straight up lied to you and the country about pre-emotive pardons and for his family. Do a little research on schiff’s, shumer’s and Biden’s comments on preemptive pardons.
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When you run into a brick wall, change the subject. We know how it goes. So predictable. (Yawn)
 
Paine said:
open.substack.com

Welcome to Vichy America

After the Fall
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“If you want an analogy for the present state of America it’s perhaps not an out-and-out fascist regime, but a Vichy regime. It’s partly fascist but mostly just a reactionary and defeatist catch-all. It’s a regime born of capitulation and of defeat: of the slow and then sudden collapse of the longstanding institutions of a great democracy whose defenders turned out to be senile and unable to cope with or understand modern politics.
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We'll always have Paris...
 
nycfan said:


“… The Silk Road site was set up by Ulbricht in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that's inaccessible to traditional search engines. It did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to pay with cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. All transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.

It became a place for people to buy and sell illicit drugs, weapons, poisons, and services such as computer hacking.

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"Silk Road was the Amazon of drug sites," former FBI Special Agent Milan Patel said in an interview for the CBS News series "FBI Declassified."

"We saw murder-for-hire postings, hacking-for-hire postings, which was, 'hey, pay me two bitcoin and I'll hack into your ex-wife or ex-husband's email account,'" Patel said. "…It was totally anonymous. And you could never trace it back to the person who asked for it."

Ulbricht ran the site until his arrest in 2013, when it was seized by the FBI. During his trial, prosecutors said at least six deaths were traced to overdoses from drugs bought on Silk Road. They alleged that Ulbricht collected $18 million through commissions on tens of thousands of drug sales, and presented evidence alleging he sought to have people killed for threatening his business. …”

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Trump has gone full supervillain.
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altmin said:
I just had a nine year logn group chat move off of messenger to Signal because of this. Everyone in it pretty much decided to divest of Meta products.
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I would delete Facebook but it is the only way I can keep track with people I grew up with. Given, most of them are deplorable and I have to wade through 10 ads to see one true post but I feel a need to stay connected to the small town I grew up in especially since my parents are gone.

Also I would lose contact with no -deplorable friends from the DC area if I abandoned Facebook. There is just really no alternative to it.
 
LosPollosHermanos said:
It grew into all kinds of nefarious stuff but there are multiple documentaries on how it all went down. Watch them and make your own decision. He started it young and it grew out of control and he wasn't the only one involved. He's not multiple life sentences culpable. The crypto bros love him because the site ran on bitcoin transactions. That was the only payment option back before cypto was anything. Elon asked for the pardon. Libertarians also like him because they don't give a shit about drugs as a personal decision and don't want the government wasting asinine amounts of tax dollars trying to enforce drug laws.
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I have watched many documentaries on different aspects of cyber crime as well as many podcast on the subject.

One such podcast darknet diaries, I recall had an extensive interview with a convicted cyber criminal, he talked about how sited such as silk road helped him and facilitated his criminal enterprise.

For me it's not so much the drugs, my opinion on those is pretty well documented.

But as an early victim of identity theft, the amount of time I've spent clearing and protecting my personal information and identity over the last 32 years, I have a special hate for people that facilitate this bullshit. Especially someone like this who has skills and could have made a great living with those skills instead of choosing to use them as he did.

But, the sentence does seem extreme when we have rapist getting a few months for their crimes, Brock Turner.
 
nycfan said:


“… The Silk Road site was set up by Ulbricht in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that's inaccessible to traditional search engines. It did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to pay with cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. All transactions were encrypted and hence untraceable.

It became a place for people to buy and sell illicit drugs, weapons, poisons, and services such as computer hacking.

…
"Silk Road was the Amazon of drug sites," former FBI Special Agent Milan Patel said in an interview for the CBS News series "FBI Declassified."

"We saw murder-for-hire postings, hacking-for-hire postings, which was, 'hey, pay me two bitcoin and I'll hack into your ex-wife or ex-husband's email account,'" Patel said. "…It was totally anonymous. And you could never trace it back to the person who asked for it."

Ulbricht ran the site until his arrest in 2013, when it was seized by the FBI. During his trial, prosecutors said at least six deaths were traced to overdoses from drugs bought on Silk Road. They alleged that Ulbricht collected $18 million through commissions on tens of thousands of drug sales, and presented evidence alleging he sought to have people killed for threatening his business. …”

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Trump has gone full supervillain.
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So, the right is furious Biden commuted the death sentences of murderers, but will stay silent on Trump outright pardoning one.
HYPOCRITES!!!!!!11111111
 
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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Callatoroy will be along directly to tell you you suffer from TDS and are simply overreacting to routine protocols that are always a part of transitions.
 
altmin said:
I just had a nine year logn group chat move off of messenger to Signal because of this. Everyone in it pretty much decided to divest of Meta products.
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The problem is, how do you divest when things are so intertwined? I deleted my meta social media accounts years ago, but I have index funds and 401k funds that still include them, as well as Amazon, tesla, and other groups that I don't want to support.
 
Where are the Democrats? Trump's flanks are exposed on the January 6 pardons!!! Attack, Attack and Attack some more!!!!!

Many of these are violent criminals with prior records no less who can now get their guns and do who knows what. They violently attacked the capital police. Point it out. Point it out.

Why do we let them get away with the "Justice Department was weaponized" argument as the Speaker just used. Point out that to go after violent criminals is their job. Emphasize the word "violent". It will break thru.

And the word "violent" will help inoculate the counter on the Biden pardons. Not easy, but can be done.
 
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