These Colors Don’t Run!

If they invested more money into the furniture, there would be less for them to grift

Probably not the very first use of the term, but it’s how I came to learn about it

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I know, right? Why does the NYP hate the Mets so much?

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You think these early adopters actually kept their moral compass after becoming bazillionaires? They’re capitalists now, too.

Maybe forcing them to speed up will turn the temperature up too quickly, and make the frog jump out of the boiling water. I doubt it, though.

But that’s what he does, he pushes the boundaries until he finds resistance, pulls back, then tries again later. If it weren’t for the court rulings against him he probably would have gone full “Marshal Law” already.

Also note that many of those rulings came from lower courts, some got partially reversed at the appellate level, and others got temporarily reversed at the emergency level at SCOTUS. At some point, SCOTUS will make the official rulings, on the record. That’s when the real shit will go down. There are three ways it can go down:

• a full repudiation of the Adminstrations’s position. Not very likely, given this court.
• a full embracing of the administration’s position. This would be the point historians point to when American democracy died.
• a narrow ruling against the administration, which the court takes great pains to imply doesn’t set a larger precedent. Don’t believe them! This will be identical to the one above.

Once this happens, no matter what the ruling is, the Administration will claim it as a victory and go full dictatorship. The nature of the ruling will dictate what institutions can do to counter it.

Anonymous means that they don’t release their name to the public, not that they don’t know who it came from.

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Exactly, you get it. There are a bunch of people running around who got a cheat code for life-changing amounts of untraceable* money. They did nothing more than run the right software at the right time, but they think that makes them geniuses. They are pouring it into this administration right now, because our President has made it clear that he is for sale to the highest bidder.

* = yeah, I know BTC really is traceable, its security is in the math of large numbers. But anyone dabbling in BTC that early is at least smart enough to know how to maintain their anomymity.

Percussive maintenance

It’s the Binance guy who just got pardoned, he has enough crypto that $130M is a rounding error. It could also be the Silk Road guy, but I’m not sure how much he has left after the bulk of it got seized years ago.

Casually dropping $130M to buy an army seems like a crypto bro thing.

That’s only about 1200 BTC…

Pride is probably the sole thing keeping him from stepping down.

I think that sums up so many of the Democratic Party’s problems…

That depends on whether someone in PA can assemble the resources needed to primary him.

“Modernizing” being euphemism for planting lots of listening devices for his friends in Russia paying customers.

Their game plan is to put all their money in crypto, foreign currency, and gold, which they are betting will hold its value after the US economy implodes. Then the entire US will be up for sale at “cheap” prices, relative to their currencies, while everyone with dollars gets screwed.

Yes, they might utterly destroy the finances of most of us in the pprocess, but they don’t care! They just want to own it all.

They are going to basically offer her Chuck’s Senate seat, unopposed, as long as she doesn’t go after the nomination that they have already awarded to Newsom. He’s the Next One Up!

Would deploying chemical weapons in US cities be enough to finally get Republicans to rein this shit in? Or will they cheer it on?