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Trumpcoin taking Americans to the cleaners as his net wealth soars past $2 billion. Is this how we want Big Gav to behave when he becomes Pres?

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Any time a Republican feels happy about extra powers or favours THEIR President gets, they should ask themselves, do I want the SYSTEM to allow it?

In other words, would I be happy for the OTHER guy or gal to have this power?

What if KAMALA had made $2 billion gaming the system? Cheating Americans out of their cash and taking political favours from overseas?

Is TrumpCoin now one of the world's biggest money-laundering schemes for dirty donations for favour?

(Probably not, given the size drug empires have grown to because America's 'war on drugs' has driven down supply, raised prices, and so created immense incentive to criminal warlords running drug enterprises that rival many corporations. But that's not the point. The point is this is POLITICAL money laundering.)

My favourite ABC journalist outlines how Trump is taking Americans to the cleaners.

The irony? Like climate, energy, renewables, science, vaccines, medicine, lines of supply in a pandemic, Middle Eastern "Forever wars are for losers", and generally most of life, the universe, and everything - he doesn't even understand it!

Like most other things in his life, others have arranged it for him.

He must be a very very special boy - his NPD tells him he is!

That - and being a President that let's his billionaire bros bribe him. Other's gotta 'grease the wheels' - no matter how greasy the process itself might feel!

 

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Trump’s entire career has been money laundering. People who voluntarily give money to him deserve everything they get.

You can’t fix stupid.
 
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No one is being force to invest in Trumpcoin nor being forced to buy Trump hats, t-shirts, sneakers, medallions, keychains, bottle openers, mugs, snow globes, flags, bed sheets, car wraps etc.
The POINT is, leadership requires a higher ethical standard. A leader who exploits their followers' devotion for financial gain is shameful at best and predatory at worst, violating the very trust they were chosen to protect. Additionally, using a classic deflection technique of "no one is being forced" attempts to shift focus rather than address the actual wrongdoings by this president and his family.

Be blessed.
 
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The POINT is, leadership requires a higher ethical standard. A leader who exploits their followers' devotion for financial gain is shameful at best and predatory at worst, violating the very trust they were chosen to protect. Additionally, using a classic deflection technique of "no one is being forced" attempts to shift focus rather than address the actual wrongdoings by this president and his family.

Be blessed.
Considering the list of items I came up with, I wasn't expecting anyone to take that seriously. Aside from that "Trump is a bad president because" has been done to death.
 
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Considering the list of items I came up with, I wasn't expecting anyone to take that seriously. Aside from that "Trump is a bad president because" has been done to death.
Not seriously? The Trump empire is literally stealing your tax dollars and he claims " nobody cares". Follow the money.
 
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Not seriously? The Trump empire is literally stealing your tax dollars and he claims " nobody cares". Follow the money.
Every administration has stolen my tax dollars. Wasteful spending on things I didn't know about and wouldn't have okayed.
 
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Every administration has stolen my tax dollars. Wasteful spending on things I didn't know about and wouldn't have okayed.
Once again deflecting. Trump , not an administration aka the Executive Branch of government, is stealing your money for personal use. Big difference.
 
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Once again deflecting. Trump , not an administration aka the Executive Branch of government, is stealing your money for personal use. Big difference.
Okay, I won't vote for him again. Not that I ever have.
 
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Trump’s entire career has been money laundering. People who voluntarily give money to him deserve everything they get.
Not so much money laundering per se, although there is that, but grifting and cheating. It seems to him that winning is getting the better of someone by any means possible. Win-win is not satisfying, it has to be win-humiliate.
You can’t fix stupid.
That's very pessimistic...
 
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No one is being force to invest in Trumpcoin nor being forced to buy Trump hats, t-shirts, sneakers, medallions, keychains, bottle openers, mugs, snow globes, flags, bed sheets, car wraps etc.
What about jets from Qatar? Are Americans being forced to "invest" in that retrofit and the re-retrofit because the plane isn't AF1 worthy? Specially since the two new ones will be ready next year?
 
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What about jets from Qatar? Are Americans being forced to "invest" in that retrofit and the re-retrofit because the plane isn't AF1 worthy? Specially since the two new ones will be ready next year?
Yes.
 
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What about the reflecting pool debacle? Are Americans forced to pay for that display of incompetence replete with arrests to cover for the embarrassment?
The results of the arrests are yet to be seen. But work on the pool is taxpayer funded as it always has been as far as I know. It was pretty much a bad project from the get go over a hundred years ago.
 
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The results of the arrests are yet to be seen. But work on the pool is taxpayer funded as it always has been as far as I know. It was pretty much a bad project from the get go over a hundred years ago.
Got it. I am just trying to understand your position. It seems, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but you're kind of indifferent to grifting off political positions as long as no one is forced to invest in it.
 
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Got it. I am just trying to understand your position. It seems, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but you're kind of indifferent to grifting off political positions as long as no one is forced to invest in it.
The original post I made was sarcasm that wasn't in Trump's favor. However I don't get tied up in knots over it. It's not good for one's health and wellbeing. Are you looking to take it out on me in lieu of taking it out on Trump? I charge per post for being a whipping boy.
 
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The original post I made was sarcasm that wasn't in Trump's favor. However I don't get tied up in knots over it. It's not good for one's health and wellbeing. Are you looking to take it out on me in lieu of taking it out on Trump?
No I agree. When it comes to Trump coins, phones, watches, merch, a fool and their money are soon parted. However with Trump, he's the same NY con. The office will not change him. What does rub me the wrong way is the branch of government for checks and balances and required processes are just ignored. I have often noted the election of Trump has made clear the vulnerabilities of our Democratic Republic and the Founding Father's error of assuming a president will be of integrity. If, and I mean if the Dems take over the House they should have their calendars full of legislation of making the system another Trump proof.
 
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(Probably not, given the size drug empires have grown to because America's 'war on drugs' has driven down supply, raised prices, and so created immense incentive to criminal warlords running drug enterprises that rival many corporations. But that's not the point. The point is this is POLITICAL money laundering.)
I feel the need to correct you. The war on drugs is a war on drugs, except those approved by the CIA (my bros). It's not ineffective, it's effective exactly how it needs to be.
 
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Got it. I am just trying to understand your position. It seems, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but you're kind of indifferent to grifting off political positions as long as no one is forced to invest in it.
This is indeed correct. It actually the investor who is to blame.
 
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This is indeed correct. It actually the investor who is to blame.
I am willing to bet dollars to donuts if I do a post search, I will find countless statements from said poster critical of Hunter Biden using political positioning to grift; where no one is forced to invest.
 
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