News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

crazy canuck

Raz, there is only a ceasefire.  It remains to be seen what happens after.

viper37

I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 21, 2025, 10:49:27 AMHowever, an asylum applicant, regardless of how they entered or what docs they have, is not "illegal" in any proper understanding of the word. They are acting in accordance with US statutory law and protected by international treaties signed by the US

Unless they don't show up for their hearing. Just like someone on a tourist visa who overstays their visa.

viper37

Lots of people were scammed by Trump's memecoin scheme.  In a very, very, very surprising turn of events, it would seem only his family and big investors close to him benefited from the coin.  Lots of people were unable to sell their coin in time.

Some are expressing shock and disbelief that Trump would do that.  Hawktuah girl or Trump, same fight. :)

I never thought I would become so addicted to soap dramas. :)
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Admiral Yi

What's your beef with the Hawk Tuah Girl?  :huh:

Grey Fox

Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 21, 2025, 06:54:39 PMWhat's your beef with the Hawk Tuah Girl?  :huh:

She also launched a Cryptocoin, she also, iirc, rug pulled it.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Grey Fox on January 21, 2025, 07:00:11 PMShe also launched a Cryptocoin, she also, iirc, rug pulled it.

asoka

Shame on you Hawk Tuah Girl.

Razgovory

The silk road guy got a pardon, which is weird as Trump wants drug dealers to get the death penalty.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

viper37

Quote from: Razgovory on January 21, 2025, 09:32:39 PMwhich is weird as Trump wants drug dealers to get the death penalty.
How is this weird?  They had 1 billion$ seized when he was arrested.  Surely he had more stashed just in case.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Syt

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o

QuoteTrump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.

Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son.

Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"


Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking.

During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200m (£131m) worth of drugs anonymously.

The Silk Road took its name from the historic trade routes spanning Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.

The site achieved notoriety through media reports and online chatter. But users could only access the site through Tor - a system that lets people use the web without revealing who they are or which country they are in.

Court documents from the FBI said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they did not know how many were active.

Sentencing Ulbricht - who has two college degrees - District Judge Katherine Forrest said he was "no better a person than any other drug dealer".

She said the site had been his "carefully planned life's work".

The judge noted the lengthy sentence also acted as a message to copycats that there would be "very serious consequences".

"I wanted to empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and anonymity," Ulbricht said at his sentencing in May 2015.

Trump previously hinted that he planned to commute Ulbricht's sentence during a speech last year at the Libertarian National Convention.


The Libertarian party had been advocating for Ulbricht's release and said his case was an example of government overreach.

Republican congressman Thomas Massie, a Trump ally, applauded the president's decision.

"Thank you for keeping your word to me and others who have been advocating for Ross' freedom," said the Kentucky lawmaker.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.