why do you assume there has to be one or the other. There can be two forms of currency you know right ? A central Cash and Central Digital currency can exists at the same time
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Trump 2024 Run Thread
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There won't be eventually. There are already lots of places that won't accept cash and they will eventually force everyone to be digital to participate in the economy. What on earth would make you think it's a good idea to give the federal government more control than they already have? This is a global response to the decentralized crypto market that they currently have very little, if any, control over. For me it's a lot like the AI issue. Not all bad but mostly bad.
fair point. I don't' support a single centralized currency of digital only, but the US can't just IGNORE it. IT will be the future of currency regardless if the US wants to play or not.
Digital currency with State control would be my preferred approach, but we can't just wish it would go away because it isn't going to
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It sounds like a good idea until it isn't. You're right about one thing though... they are going to cram it down our throat because the global overlords have deemed it so. If you can't control the people... control their money. More to come...
'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’
EXCLUSIVE: Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into
judiciary.house.gov
"In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression," Jordan wrote.
Mike Johnson Admits He's Taking Orders From Trump on Stopping Bipartisan Senate Border Deal
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson admitted to Laura Ingraham on Fox News Wednesday night that he has been talking to Donald Trump "pretty frequently" about a possible deal being negotiated to fix problems at the border.
A bipartisan border deal was reached recently between Republican Senator James Lankford and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer to solve many of the issues the country is facing at the southern border. Soon after, Laura Ingraham aired a misleading graphic on her show, cherry picking portions from the bill that would be most likely to anger hardline MAGA Republicans.
Almost instantly, Johnson was pressured to denounce the bill and said that it would never reach the House Floor. On Wednesday, Johnson said, "I don’t think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform, because we know how complicated that is."
Republicans have been quite vocal in admitting that they will refuse to pass any legislation on the border that could possibly benefit President Biden.
Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX) recently told CNN, "Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating."
It turns out that Republicans are not simply trying to help Donald Trump at the expense of doing right by the nation; they are working directly with Trump to sabotage any efforts to secure the border. And so is their propaganda network, Fox.
Here's the transcript from Johnson's appearance on Ingraham's show Wednesday night:
It goes without saying, but Donald Trump is not, in fact, the president.
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GOP senator says some conservatives might scuttle a bipartisan immigration-Ukraine deal to stick it to Biden
- A key GOP senator raised the spectre that some in his party want to talk bipartisan immigration talks.
- "There are some that are saying, 'Hey, we don't want Biden to actually get credit for doing anything on the border," Sen. James Lankford said.
- Lankford has helped lead negotiations over a trade off of tougher immigration laws in exchange for Ukraine aid.
"There are some that are saying, 'Hey, we don't want Biden to actually get credit for doing anything on the border, because obviously, he's made a huge mess," Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, told The Washington Post.
Lankford has been at the center of months-long talks that would pair President Joe Biden's request for Ukraine aid with stricter immigration enforcement. Biden asked top leaders to come to the White House earlier this week as he pressed them on the urgency of getting Ukraine more military funds for its war against Russia.
The possibility that the talks might be tanked to try to hurt Biden's reelection chances are just another reminder that November's presidential election is rapidly approaching. Polling also shows that Americans are deeply unimpressed with the current situation at the Southern border. In December, federal officials recorded the highest number of illegal border crossings ever in a single month period.
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So, in case anybody hasn't figured it out by now, it's really been about Trump first, not America first.
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Trump Mocks Nikki Haley's First Name. It's His Latest Example of Attacking Rivals Based on Race usnews
Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley 's birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996.
Trump called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn't have what it takes.”
The attack comes four days before the New Hampshire primary, in which Haley is trying to establish herself as the only viable Trump alternative in the Republicans' 2024 nominating contest.
Trump's post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley's given first name — though he's misspelled it “Nimrada” — and falsely asserted she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972.
The attacks echo Trump's “birther” rhetoric against President Barack Obama. Trump spent years pushing the conspiracy theory that the nation's first Black president was born in Kenya and not a “natural born” U.S. citizen as required by the Constitution. That effort was part of Trump's rise among Republicans' most culturally conservative base ahead of his 2016 election that surprised much of the U.S. political establishment.
Haley has dismissed Trump's latest attacks as proof that she threatens his bid for a third consecutive nomination.
“That’s what he does when he feels threatened. That’s what he does when he feels insecure,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump's false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office. “I know that I am a threat. I know that’s why he’s doing that. So it’s not going to waste any energy for me.”
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For years, he has referred to Obama as “Barack Hussein Obama,” putting an obvious emphasis on the 44th president's middle name. Obama was the son of an white American mother and a Black father from Kenya. He was born in Hawaii, though Trump spent years asserting Obama had manufactured the story and a birth certificate to support it. Trump eventually admitted his claims were false but then, during the 2016 general election, said he did so only to “get on with the campaign.”
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Trump is also among many Republicans who deliberately mispronounce Vice President Kamala Harris's name. Rather than the correct “KA'-ma-la,” Trump sometimes says, “Ka-MAH-la.” Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, is the first woman to become vice president and the second non-white person as either president or vice president, following Obama.
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During his presidency, Trump questioned during a meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. would accept immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” across Africa instead of countries like Norway. He did not explicitly mention race but the White House followed disclosure of his comments with a statement explaining that Trump supported granting access to the U.S. for “those who can contribute to our society.”
He also has said that four congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.
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During his presidency, Trump questioned during a meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. would accept immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” across Africa instead of countries like Norway. He did not explicitly mention race but the White House followed disclosure of his comments with a statement explaining that Trump supported granting access to the U.S. for “those who can contribute to our society.”
He also has said that four congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.
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Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley 's birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals.
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as Nimarata Nikki Randhawa. She has always gone by her middle name, “Nikki.” She took the surname “Haley” upon her marriage in 1996.
Trump called Haley “Nimbra” three times in the post and said she “doesn't have what it takes.”
The attack comes four days before the New Hampshire primary, in which Haley is trying to establish herself as the only viable Trump alternative in the Republicans' 2024 nominating contest.
Trump's post was an escalation of recent attacks in which he referenced Haley's given first name — though he's misspelled it “Nimrada” — and falsely asserted she is ineligible for the presidency because her parents were not U.S. citizens when she was born in 1972.
The attacks echo Trump's “birther” rhetoric against President Barack Obama. Trump spent years pushing the conspiracy theory that the nation's first Black president was born in Kenya and not a “natural born” U.S. citizen as required by the Constitution. That effort was part of Trump's rise among Republicans' most culturally conservative base ahead of his 2016 election that surprised much of the U.S. political establishment.
Haley has dismissed Trump's latest attacks as proof that she threatens his bid for a third consecutive nomination.
“That’s what he does when he feels threatened. That’s what he does when he feels insecure,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump's false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office. “I know that I am a threat. I know that’s why he’s doing that. So it’s not going to waste any energy for me.”
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For years, he has referred to Obama as “Barack Hussein Obama,” putting an obvious emphasis on the 44th president's middle name. Obama was the son of an white American mother and a Black father from Kenya. He was born in Hawaii, though Trump spent years asserting Obama had manufactured the story and a birth certificate to support it. Trump eventually admitted his claims were false but then, during the 2016 general election, said he did so only to “get on with the campaign.”
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Trump is also among many Republicans who deliberately mispronounce Vice President Kamala Harris's name. Rather than the correct “KA'-ma-la,” Trump sometimes says, “Ka-MAH-la.” Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, is the first woman to become vice president and the second non-white person as either president or vice president, following Obama.
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During his presidency, Trump questioned during a meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. would accept immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” across Africa instead of countries like Norway. He did not explicitly mention race but the White House followed disclosure of his comments with a statement explaining that Trump supported granting access to the U.S. for “those who can contribute to our society.”
He also has said that four congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.
...
During his presidency, Trump questioned during a meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. would accept immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” across Africa instead of countries like Norway. He did not explicitly mention race but the White House followed disclosure of his comments with a statement explaining that Trump supported granting access to the U.S. for “those who can contribute to our society.”
He also has said that four congresswomen of color should go back to the “broken and crime infested” countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.
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Do you honestly think Putin is afraid of Trump? I mean, Putin is weird but not so weird to be afraid of the guy who worships him.
I don’t think he is afraid of him in an alley….i think the whole world has no ideas what he would do and there is fear of that.
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Nah, I don't agree. We've seen enough of Trump to know his methods and desires. He isn't some random wildcard.
He is unusual in that most US presidents are fair quick to use force in situations that they feel they can alter the outcome in favor of the US with minimal US casualties. Trump, OTOH, is pretty hands off when it comes to relatively minor foreign skirmishes.
But, when it comes to (non-Muslim) dictators, Trump is pacifist. He "fell in love" with Kim Jong Un. As posted above, he gladly handed Putin Crimea. Realistically, Ukraine would likely be mostly if not all in Russian hands right now if Trump was still president.
Sure, our European allies fear him. Maybe some fear in the Middle East. But, I think our real adversaries see him as a useful pawn to try to manipulate by giving him his nacissistic moments while they get what the want, not a leader to fear. I suppose that might keep us out of war as they see they can make strategic gains without war.
Obama let Putin have Crimea
I disagree. I am not arguing if Putin is afraid of him, but I am afraid of what Trump might be capable of. think his thoughts and actions are a random wildcard. I afraid that his vindictive egotistical nature might result in him ordering nuclear weapons.
