The grift is real, in plain sight - and the MAGAts still think he cares about them 🤣
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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They still think he's going to hunt down and stop all the Democrat run baby sex trafficking pizza kitchens.
They think he already has, and the only thing keeping them from popping back up into existence is him sitting on the throne.
Oh my god, I had managed to completely forget about the pedophile pizzeria shit - tabarnak, there's just too much crazy to keep track of.
The conspiracy theory was that child-molesters ran the government. To fix it, they elected child-molesters to run the government.
I've always assumed that was the whole point
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So Trump starts mining company for Bitcoin as they announced. Then once they have a decent amount they start investing all the gold from Fort Knox into Bitcoin as previously stated by the white House to inflate prices. Then uses the money for illegal bribes with anonymous accounts? Something like that I assume
If corporations can receive pardons, then corporations should be able to receive the death penalty.
Nope sorry, corporations can only be 'people' legally if it endows all of the benefits but none of the risks.
I'm told this is a cornerstone of capitalism.
Reminds me of this quote from Ambrose Bierce from the Devil's Dictionary:
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Dictionary/C
- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
There's a lot of good ones in this book.
They can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_death_penalty
Personally I prefer the avenue where all their IP is copylefted. Really, its a great way to spur innovation.
I hope one day we do this to all for profit companies. Imagine all for profit companies IP becoming open source, and only allowing nonprofits to form to replace them. It would be a huge Renaissance and economic success
The longer this goes on, the more I think about Flying Squid, and think he was right to gtfo of dodge
Sadly, most folks aren't in a position to gtfo of dodge, as much as we would like to.
I am (sorta - it would still take a tremendous amount of effort), but I also have dreams I want to chase here that just aren't possible elsewhere. It's a real shitty catch-22.
Ah did they poof? Wondered why I hadn't seen them around recently.
I believe flyingsquid moved to Britain? I'm trying to remember. I think they are still busy getting readjusted to life across the pond, and hopefully they'll return to being active on Lemmy soon
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April Fools! Right? RIGHT? It's an April Fools joke isn't it?
Aww fuk.
Corporations, by contrast, cannot go to jail and or be physically executed
Ok so technically we can't physically execute a corporation, but we could get pretty close if we rounded up the board and c-suite.
There is a death penalty you can actually execute against a corporation, you can dissolve their charter. For some reason this is seen as more extreme than putting a human being to death.
What happens to their stuff? I'd guess "it depends". There's no clear heirs or estate with a company, I think.
The government could seize the assets and liquidate/auction them
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It's worth a try, let's do it.
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My first reaction was "is that even legal?"
And then my second reaction was it doesn't really matter with Trump there:
All this, and Biden wasn’t allowed to forgive our student loans…
That right there is something I’ll never forgive him for. He could’ve had the DoE wipe everything from their servers as an official act, helped millions, and gotten off Scot-free.
Instead he drug his feet, let Repubs tie it up in court, and ultimately failed all but a select few student borrowers.
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So we just gifted them $100 million? Looks like DOGE should be firing Trump next.
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Guess we know who will be running his grift programs from now on...
I'm 100% sure that no money went to Trump and this is purely his goodwill.
Because Trump is definitely the guy that would support a foreign company that supposedly doesn't operate in the USA
This is still the beginning, you ain't seen nothing yet. The rule of law no longer exists in the US. This has such deep implications, you can barely fathom them.
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Does this set a precedent for the President to pardon private mercenary companies?
Yes
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They don’t face any consequences anyway…so they’re being pardoned from the consequences they don’t actually face
About right for April Fools.
Subtract this amount from the DOGE "savings"
More crypto scam horseshit
That's how you KNOW Trump cares about the Working Class people! By PARDONING the ENTIRE CORPORATIONS that are LITERALLY killing People!
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Is this another terrible consequence downwind of Citizens United?
Yes
OMG, for BitMEX of all things?? I expected at least a fossil fuel company of some sort.
Easier to launder money and have illicit money activities through crypto than fossil fuels
It's the exchange he used for Trump coin, and the one the Argentina president used for his scam coin.
Also Hawk Tuah coin.
These scams were all connected via the same digital wallets.
lolwut?
April's fools!
Right? Right?....
Wait, so for example, this company had to pay $230 million in fines. Suppose that they did a $20 million "donation" to the president (which, being a crypto exchange, could be done in untraceable Monero). Then they get pardoned even if they aren't incorporated in the States and they claimed to not operate at all in the USA. When is the last time that you heard Trump caring this much about foreign companies who pay $0 in American taxes? Usually he is like "fuck them fuck that and slap additional tariffs on them"
Like that Nikola guy who sent Trump a $2 million "donation" and then by pure coincidence and sheer luck got pardoned.
America is no longer a country. Non MAGAts should leave the country and seek refuge in countries that aren’t run by fascist dictatorships.
Hey if a corporation can be pardoned does that mean a corporation can be charged with crimes such as manslaughter?
Such public benefits now fall prey to the whims of the president with his pardon of a cryptocurrency company that smacks of political corruption.
So a man who promised to pardon his friends and allies, once elected, pardons his friends and allies. Is that corruption or is it just government policy by this point?
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