The top 7 donors gave over $1bil to Trump. This is how an oligarchy entrenches itself in a democracy.
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Are we great again yet?
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@georgetakei Color me unsurprised that none of America's adversaries issued a travel advisory — only America's allies.
#RuleOfLaw#Trump#InterNationalSecurityThreat#InternationalPariah#AmericaDeservesBetter#AmericaHasBetter#HarrisWalz#Law#Democracy#Freedom#DEI#USPol#USPolitics#DisqualifyTrump#DisqualifyJDVance#DisqualifyTrumpAppointees#ExpelMusk#KremlinAssets#BetrayalOfCountry#Insurrection#ObstructionOfUSGovernment#ObstructionOfNationalDefense#DefraudingAmerica
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Official statement from Albert Sellars LLP in response to President Trump's recent executive order.
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#USPol remixed propaganda poster
This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.
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Donald Trump wants to send American citizens to concentration camps for boycotting a billionaire corporation, causing the loss of half their stock value.
This is not a drill.
Musk is right. Tesla didn’t do anything. It was Musk himself who brought this upon the company. (Keep it peaceful though, folks!)
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@georgetakei
George, if you aren’t willing to play by their rules you are going to lose.
George, if you aren’t willing to play by their rules you are going to lose.
Nelson Mandela knew that and responded accordingly.
It will take everything we have to get him out of power and years to rebuild trust and the rule of law afterwards. This is what we mean when we say elections have consequences.
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@georgetakei Congress shall make a law that no malignant psychopath shall be eligible to hold any public office under the United States.
It would be the appropriate vaccine against rampant assholism. 😎✌
https://dutytoinform.org/banner_post/trump-meets-diagnostic-criteria-for-ppd/
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This is how we know we are in the Upside Down.
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@georgetakei
But 47 still has his phalanx of MAGA white nationalist “christians” as his sword & shield, right? He still touts that our nation needs “more God?”
But 47 still has his phalanx of MAGA white nationalist “christians” as his sword & shield, right? He still touts that our nation needs “more God?”
The evil frightens me, the stupidity is contemptible, but the hypocrisy repulses me.
No lies detected.
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@georgetakei LOL! 👏👏👏👏👏
Tim Walz is speaking truth to impotence.
#HarrisWalz#Trump#SixTimeBankrupt#BusinessDeadbeat#WreckingAmerica#ProsecuteALLRebels#Project2025#CoupDEtat#Coup#Insurrection#Rebellion#Subversion#ImpeachTrump#ImpeachJDVance#ImpeachTrumpAppointees#BetrayalOfCountry#LootingAmerica#SabotagingAmerica#RuleOfLaw#Law#Justice#Freedom#Democracy #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether#USPol#USPolitics
People are hungry for the new voice of the Democratic Party.
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@georgetakei After the next election—IF there is one in four years—#PeteButtigieg will be the next president. Mark my words.
But watching #SenatorChrisMurphy explain the #corruption Trump and Musk have brought to the system in their first 6 weeks alone (!), makes me doubt there will be another election. Democracy does die in broad daylight after all…
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@georgetakei 'if conservatives "believe Donald Trump is being treated poorly and wrongly'
I been treated wrongly and poorly since I was two. I dont want people to pray for me, as even my own aunt prays for the things I dont want.
I been treated poorly and wrongly in this administrations too, as my need for disability assistance has been delayed due to staff shortages at Social Security.
I'd pray for Trump to be impeached, to save my life.
#USpol
When America faltered, others stood up to lead.
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@georgetakei Uhm, the Trump gang is lost in an ocean of Putin's kompromat on Trump & his RINOs.
Nice diplomatic try though, dear President Zelenskyy!
Europe has spent a lot more than the U.S. it seems, & the EU's going to keep on supporting Ukraine with everything it needs, besides considerably reinforcing its own defenses against the lunatic in the Kremlin.
#EUPol#USPol#Ukraine#USPolitics#ArmUkraineUp#ArmEU#FuckPutin#ArrestPutin.
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The Trump regime has already threatened legal actions against businesses w/DEIA policies. Now he's threatening universities that allow "illegal" protests, and threatening to imprison, expel or deport students.
This is another step towards the criminalisation of dissent, and full-on fascism. No doubt inspired by Putin. Whether it will get that far remains to be seen, but it's inching closer.
This reminds me of the same steps from the 90s SciFi series Babylon 5.
Ongoing cases and investigations from the SEC against crypto firms have been paused or dropped. A few remain, but not likely for long.
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Sam Bankman-Fried has managed to pop his head back up, despite his 25-year prison sentence. The former Democratic megadonor is now making Trumpian claims that he was targeted by a “politicized DOJ” under Biden, clearly angling for a pardon.
![Although he’s currently in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried has managed to resurface. Not long after rumors emerged that his parents were investigating the possibility of securing a pardon for their son [I76], Bankman-Fried gave a jailhouse interview to the New York Sun. Bankman-Fried, a Biden megadonor who was second only to George Soros in political contributions to the Democratic party in 2021–22, now claims he too is a victim of the Biden-led “prosecutorial abuse” and “politicization of the DOJ” that Trump has alleged for years. Why would they target him? Because, he says, they learned he was “giving to” and “working with” Republicans and conservatives more than was previously known.34 In the interview, he also gave an approving nod to Elon Musk’s “chainsaw” approach to government cuts — something he would extrapolate upon in a 10-tweet long thread posted a few days later, where he apparently felt the need to make his return to Twitter in order to give his thought leader-style take on widespread firings of federal employees.35c The sudden about-face is a rather transparent and groveling attempt to suck up to Trump, but it’s not terribly surprising that Bankman-Fried’s once claimed strongly held moral beliefs have wilted in the face of the possibility of 25 long years in prison.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/095/874/964/705/867/original/afbc9d355624ea14.png)
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Former Rep. Patrick McHenry has taken not one but three roles at crypto-involved firms. This includes Andreessen Horowitz, where he will “ensure that Little Tech gets a fair shot”. (a16z is the largest VC firm in the world and has installed four employees in the White House)
Slide titled 'The internet as we know it is flawed', showing two globe icons with flags planted in them. On the left, the globe has the Chinese flag and is surrounded by red speech bubbles with Xs in them and yellow triangular warning symbols. It is captioned 'Digital Authoritarianism'. On the right is a globe with a flag containing the logos of Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Apple, and Google, surrounded by green circles with dollar signs and blue circles with checkmarks. It is captioned 'Big Tech Oligopoly'.
Anyone else remember when Andreessen Horowitz published a slide deck denouncing “Big Tech Oligopoly”? Just me?
McHenry subsequently revealed he would also be taking a role as an advisor to the fintech firm Stripe, as well as as vice chairman of the advisory board to Ondo Finance. Ondo Finance is a “tokenized real-world asset” firm that wants to do things like put US treasury bills or stocks on the blockchain, and McHenry will likely be a valuable asset in — in his words — “making sure that Ondo is heard by the right people in Washington” and “helping shepherd them to new relationships.”37 Ondo contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration in late December;38 in early February, Trump’s World Liberty Financial project purchased almost half a million dollars’ worth of ONDO tokens.39
![The revolving door has spit out former Representative and longtime crypto industry ally Patrick McHenry (R-NC) into roles at not one but three industry players. He will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as a senior adviser, where he will “help innovators navigate the policy landscape”, touting his time in Congress “remov[ing] bureaucratic barriers for American entrepreneurs”. He wrote that “It’s time to level the playing field and ensure that Little Tech—the next generation of builders—gets a fair shot.”36 (“Little Tech” in this case apparently meaning the largest venture capital firm in the world, which is so very small that it was able to blow $83 million on political contributions to ensure that no fewer than four of its employees were placed in major White House roles, including as the likely upcoming head of the crypto industry’s chosen regulator, the CFTC). Any mention of everyday American and the fairness of their shots was conspicuously absent in McHenry’s statements.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/095/878/019/312/901/original/133508b1aecff088.png)
The revolving door has spit out former Representative and longtime crypto industry ally Patrick McHenry (R-NC) into roles at not one but three industry players. He will be joining Andreessen Horowitz as a senior adviser, where he will “help innovators navigate the policy landscape”, touting his time in Congress “remov[ing] bureaucratic barriers for American entrepreneurs”. He wrote that “It’s time to level the playing field and ensure that Little Tech—the next generation of builders—gets a fair shot.”36 (“Little Tech” in this case apparently meaning the largest venture capital firm in the world, which is so very small that it was able to blow $83 million on political contributions to ensure that no fewer than four of its employees were placed in major White House roles, including as the likely upcoming head of the crypto industry’s chosen regulator, the CFTC). Any mention of everyday American and the fairness of their shots was conspicuously absent in McHenry’s statements.
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But the “announcement” doesn’t seem to actually announce anything new, and instead seems to be Trump’s attempt to apply some electroshock paddles to the easily swayed crypto markets.
Every time he does this, it seems to work less and less.
![Besides the mention of specific crypto assets, Trump’s post doesn’t actually appear to announce anything new, and instead reiterates that his “Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve” [I75]. (I will note that the actual wording of the EO was more guarded, directing the working group not to “move forward on” a strategic reserve, but rather to “evaluate the potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile”.) Nonetheless, crypto prices rallied a bit, with bitcoin returning to around $93,000. This was still somewhat of a subdued recovery, only juicing bitcoin back to around its February 25 price, leaving me wondering how many promises Trump has left in the tank to keep bitcoin prices pumped up as they are now. Without the actual government infusion of cash into bitcoin markets via this “strategic reserve” gambit — something that may yet be a ways off, could take various forms, and could fail to materialize entirely — words alone seem to be running out.](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/095/860/122/436/849/original/182e80f0ad58497d.png)
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The SEC has rapidly been pausing and dropping enforcement cases and investigations against crypto companies, including some of the largest crypto-focused political donors (and those paying Trump in more... creative ways).
A case against Consensys, the makers of the MetaMask crypto wallet, will be dropped shortly by the agency, according to the company.25 Consensys contributed $800,000 to crypto-focused super PACs.
Simultaneously, ongoing investigations of companies including Gemini, OpenSea, Robinhood, and Uniswap have been dropped, despite the agency previously having sent Wells notices signaling impending enforcement action. Gemini’s Winklevoss twins contributed $4.9 million to crypto-focused super PACs and $2.6 million to Trump directly; Robinhood contributed $2 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
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Trump’s nominee for SEC Chair, Paul Atkins [I71], has not even been confirmed yet, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from barreling ahead with the new administration’s promises to the industry that all their problems would go away.
Most notably, the SEC case against Coinbase was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the SEC cannot refile the case in the future. CEO Brian Armstrong was explicit with his thanks when announcing the dismissal on Twitter: “I have to give credit here to the Trump administration, for winning the election”. He insisted that he believed “we would have won this case in the courts either way”, but noted that Trump’s election “certainly helped accelerate the process”.23 Coinbase has spent $75 million on contributions to crypto-focused super PACs, some apparently in violation of federal election law, and contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
A case against Justin Sun and his Tron project, opened in March 2023 and alleging fraudulent market manipulation “through extensive wash trading”, “orchestrating a scheme to pay celebrities to tout TRX and BTT without disclosing their compensation”, and unregistered securities offerings, has been stayed as parties “consider a potential resolution”.24 As a foreign national, Sun is not permitted to make contributions to American political candidates or committees. However, he has spent $75 million purchasing World Liberty Financial’s WLFI tokens, and Trump personally gets a 75% cut of that project’s re](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/095/867/956/631/439/original/75856fc38c137b55.png)
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Trump’s nominee for SEC Chair, Paul Atkins [I71], has not even been confirmed yet, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from barreling ahead with the new administration’s promises to the industry that all their problems would go away.
Most notably, the SEC case against Coinbase was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the SEC cannot refile the case in the future. CEO Brian Armstrong was explicit with his thanks when announcing the dismissal on Twitter: “I have to give credit here to the Trump administration, for winning the election”. He insisted that he believed “we would have won this case in the courts either way”, but noted that Trump’s election “certainly helped accelerate the process”.23 Coinbase has spent $75 million on contributions to crypto-focused super PACs, some apparently in violation of federal election law, and contributed $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
A case against Justin Sun and his Tron project, opened in March 2023 and alleging fraudulent market manipulation “through extensive wash trading”, “orchestrating a scheme to pay celebrities to tout TRX and BTT without disclosing their compensation”, and unregistered securities offerings, has been stayed as parties “consider a potential resolution”.24 As a foreign national, Sun is not permitted to make contributions to American political candidates or committees. However, he has spent $75 million purchasing World Liberty Financial’s WLFI tokens, and Trump personally gets a 75% cut of that project’s re
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Gemini’s Cameron Winklevoss isn’t satisfied with the SEC merely dropping an ongoing investigation into his crypto exchange. The billionaire is now suggesting that the SEC should have to repay 3× his legal expenses, and “dishonorably discharge” any employees who were involved.
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Ongoing cases and investigations from the SEC against crypto firms have been paused or dropped. A few remain, but not likely for long.
