

Wait a minute, how can they get away with deporting citizens? Is that even a thing? How can a country deport its own citizens?
Wait a minute, how can they get away with deporting citizens? Is that even a thing? How can a country deport its own citizens?
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
No, it’s not above board at all. It will be challenged in the courts, and the challenge will win. The question becomes, what happens then?
A court can say “This is plainly illegal, it needs to stop and be reversed”, but if that ruling is ignored it’s not like they are going to send in US Marshals to kick DOGE out. Unless there is a clear enforcement mechanism that the court can use, Elon will just stay, like a squatter.
In fact, a squatter is the perfect analogy. Elon simply moved in, without paying rent, because he is a friend of the property manager. And won’t leave because he knows it will take forever for the landlord to evict him and then even after that there is no force to it.
So, literally, State-owned media…
I think if Trump tries this again, Newsom is justified in sending the California National Guard to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from gaining access. Then, we might get that civil war that the Right has been clamoring for.
Trump would bring back gladiator combat if he could. Ten migrants fight to the death, and the one that wins gains a residency permit that he’ll just revoke the next time he has a man tantrum.
I’m waiting for the next Lab Leak theory, only this time, it’s because dogs are peeing on the eggs
He’s not supposed to be, he is just making it clear that he will fire anyone who says no to him.
Stop misgendering Elon!
The correct exclamation in this case is Butt Tizzy Males, not Buttery Males
why isn’t this treason?!
Because Musk bought the election for Trump, and now Musk do whatever he wants.
The SEC wanted to consider every bit of crypto a security. But most securities are issued for the purpose of raising money. So, a company makes a formal offering of shares, or debt, and that is all regulated. The investors are essentially participating in whatever the company is doing.
Cryptocurrencies with Blockchains aren’t like that, though. It’s not a cooperative enterprise where everyone is making a profit. It’s released on a set schedule according to the protocol. Anyone can join in the mining/staking process simply by having the right equipment (and in the case of staking, enough of the coin to qualify). Furthermore, you can buy and sell coins without participating in the underlying mining/staking mechanics. So it’s not a common undertaking at all, it really resembles a currency or commodity.
The SEC went hard after US exchanges like Coinbase for selling “unregistered securities”, while not really defuning it all that well, and without actually giving exchanges a process to register even if they wanted to.
Now, I will add that there exchanges also all sell shitty tokens like $TRUMP. Those are different, because they are governed by a smart contract riding on top of a Blockchain. They are a layer removed from the Blockchain they are riding on. There is no utility there; the utility is all in Ethereum or Solana or whatever Blockchain enabled the shitty token.
The SEC could have done everyone a lot of favors by simply saying “Blockchain coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum are commodities, Shitty ERC-20 tokens (or their non-ethereum equivalent on other chains) are securities and need to be registered before being traded in the US”. If they provided a web form and charged $100 per shitty token, they might even make enough to fund all the crypto enforcement when those shitty tokens inevitably get pump-and-dumped. ($TRUMP will get dumped, too, eventually.)
Yes, we know. But if the established, non-broligarch folks realize that they won’t be in the winning end after it’s all done, they might do something about it. Not until all the brown people are exported and the government is drowned in the bathtub, though. Those were the WSJ’s priorities all along. if they get upset, it will only be because Elon jumped the line in front of them for the cash.
Or even worse, X becomes the official payment processor for the US Government, forcing all employees and contractors into his platform.
This article doesn’t mention what I think is the key difference: Democrats’ hostile regulatory environment against Crypto. I bet all of these Tech Bros bought Bitcoin and Ethereum early, and are sitting on a huge stash of it. Hell, we know Musk personally pumps Dogecoin every chance he gets. Some regulation is necessary in the space, but Biden’s SEC was going way too far.
So, you have all these yoyos with extra money, and Citizens United which says it is speech. Is it any wonder they steered the money toward the guy who would let them do whatever the hell they want?
We’re gonna see these names and addresses leaked to J6-affiliated groups, and they’re gonna offer up some purges of their own of the people who don’t quit. Trump will immediately pardon them. Republicans will cheer them all on, because apparently that’s what Jesus wanted all along. Who knew?
Which he will then blame on the birds being too woke. I’m calling it now.
They are doing plenty of retribution in the red states, it’s just more targeted to certain demographics. When they’re done with them, they will come for you, and the State government will cheer it on. Blue states will at least be fighting back for all their people (citizens or otherwise).
“Rotation program”? More like “sit on this and rotate”
ended, and yes, it was.
The cruelty is the point.