The Never-ending Grift
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 02:52 last edited by
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Is anyone other than me bothered by this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-meme-coin-crypto.html
President-elect Donald J. Trump and his family on Friday started selling a cryptocurrency token featuring an image of Mr. Trump drawn from the July assassination attempt,
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Disclosed just days before his second inauguration, the venture is the latest in a series of moves by Mr. Trump that blur the line between his government role and the continued effort by his family to profit from his power and global fame.
What do President Trump and the Hauk Tauy girl have in common?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113846888132979151wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 03:05 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in The Never-ending Grift:
Is anyone other than me bothered by this?
I heard about it today and had the same reaction. An almost hard-to-describe annoyance at the degradation Trump has brought to the office. I know... Clinton got BJs and Biden was a propped up corpse, but Trump has almost made it numb to think about what it was like before him. A multiple-bankrupt celebrity, caught on tape joking about sexually assaulting women, commits adultery, found liable for sexual assault, fires FBI directors, has like 75% of his previous staff voting against his re-election, guilty of felonies, making fun of the disabled, pretending to care about the Bible for a photo op, mishandling classified information, guilty of fraud, two impeachments, responsible for multiple people going to jail or going bankrupt or dying, launching meme coins right before he takes the oath again. I mean wtf.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 03:52 last edited by
President Trump at a pre inauguration speech
“As of today, TikTok is back,” Trump said. “So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing. We have a guy...he’s a young kid, like 21 years old, and we hired this guy, and I went on Tiktok. Can you believe what I’ll do to win an election?”
“So whether you like Tiktok or not, we’re going to make a lot of money,” he added.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 04:34 last edited by
The TRUMP coin I believe has already lost 50% of it's value from the initial price high.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 05:57 last edited by
That's Ok. Doesn't Trump have 80% of the value?
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 11:36 last edited by
That’s usually how grifts work.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2025, 23:09 last edited by jon-nyc
Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”
I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.
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Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”
I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 02:12 last edited by@jon-nyc Well, based on the family history, it is a pretty believable "product"
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Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”
I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:08 last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Never-ending Grift:
Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”
I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.
Hahaha, so true.
Also, do you think Barron was named after the Robber Baron? Sure would make sense.
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@jon-nyc said in The Never-ending Grift:
Earlier today, the president’s daughter Ivanka warned her social media followers not to fall for a scam crypto coin called $IVANKA that, she said, “is being promoted without my consent or approval.”
I would love to hear someone articulate why it would be any less of a scam if she were the one promoting it.
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been ‘this is someone else scamming you, not me’.
Hahaha, so true.
Also, do you think Barron was named after the Robber Baron? Sure would make sense.
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:14 last edited by@89th said in The Never-ending Grift:
Also, do you think Barron was named after the Robber Baron? Sure would make sense.
More likely there was a copy of Barron's on the nightstand or coffee table when the naming took place.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:35 last edited by
Ah, the hyenas circle the
, just out of the circle of light.Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin. Somebody made a pitch and they took it.
Personally, I would not invest in any of the stuff.
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Ah, the hyenas circle the
, just out of the circle of light.Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin. Somebody made a pitch and they took it.
Personally, I would not invest in any of the stuff.
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 14:33 last edited by@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:
Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin.
I have seen no evidence to support the above. Feel free to point me to such evidence if you wish. :man-shrugging:
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 14:38 last edited by
I wonder how much damage a future anti-crypto president could do to the value of bitcoin? It's designed to be immune to such pressures.
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@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:
Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin.
I have seen no evidence to support the above. Feel free to point me to such evidence if you wish. :man-shrugging:
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 14:41 last edited by@Axtremus said in The Never-ending Grift:
@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:
Face it, with the exception of Barron, I doubt any of the Trump kids understand Bitcoin.
I have seen no evidence to support the above. Feel free to point me to such evidence if you wish. :man-shrugging:
I extrapolate that from what Trump told Hannity about Tik-Tok in his recent interview.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 17:10 last edited by
I would say that the people on this forum board on average are more knowledgable about bit coin than the average 18 year old. Most 18 year olds that I know do not have much, if any, knowledge of bit coin.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 17:36 last edited by
I would say 90% of the population has little knowledge of bitcoin.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 18:04 last edited by
@Jolly said in The Never-ending Grift:
I would say 90% of the population has little knowledge of bitcoin.
I agree with that. Even a lot of people who invest in it (and swear by it) dont really understand it.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:15 last edited by
I understand blockchain. It’s the coins I don’t get. I’m still waiting for a use case besides money laundering, smuggling, and speculation.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:21 last edited by Doctor Phibes
Nobody who claims to understand it has ever been able to explain bitcoin to me so that I can understand it. Admittedly, I felt much the same way about quantum mechanics, although at least in that case the professional dorks could back up their claim with third order non-linear differential equations.
So either I'm really stupid or they don't actually get it. Obviously, both could also be true.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 19:25 last edited by
One classical use case is that bitcoin would be a currency that would survive the collapse of fiat currencies. Thus "digital gold".