Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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Surely you aren't that naive.

There's a decent chance that I am that naive, but in this case I was just being cheeky.
 
Apologies if this has already been posted.


Sure, it was quickly fixed and Meta said it was a mistake, but what the hell were they doing to make that mistake?

So they didn't anticipate this many people deleting their accounts and now they're spinning some BS
 

Trump terminates John Bolton’s security detail within hours of taking office​


"...Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because of threats against him from Iran. Trump initially terminated his protection after he left his administration in the first term, but President Joe Biden restored it once he took office.

“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a statement to CNN. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.” ..."
Should have testified in the first (or second) impeachment, John. FAFO.
 
The cult might falter after Trump dies but we won’t return to some level of normalcy unless we pay a big price for Trumpism.
Agreed. But I don't know what would entail "a big price". Trumpism could produce a bigger depression than the 1930s and pubs would blame dems and transgenders for it ... and a sizable part of the population would believe them.
 


“… 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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All to please crypto libertarian weirdos and take revenge on the FBI, I guess. The guy got up to an attempt at SCOTUS appeal but they denied Cert.
 
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Cool, cool.

In the coming days, I expect stop-work orders for several projects I work on. It’s stuff that can’t easily be re-started once it’s stopped—like studying a couple different cohorts of Long COVID patients.

We’re fucked, ya’ll.
Insane
 
Also put this in the DOGE thread but it is relevant to the supervillains stuff here, as well.

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“… 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.

And what's his reasoning for this?
 
And what's his reasoning for this?
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.

TBF, there were definitely some issues in some of the evidence gathering and NY allowing evidence of his apparent attempts to hire killers in five instances to protect his criminal enterprise (though he was not charged with those crimes), which was in accordance with NY law but almost certainly got him a (much) tougher sentence, but the dude seemed dead to rights on the criming …
 
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