• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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            19 hours ago

            They could still actually rob Fort Knox and directly invest the U.S. treasury into a crypto pump and dump scheme.

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                18 hours ago

                I’m talking an actual transfer of federal funds and pretending it’s legit, like the proposed strategic crypto reserve/sovereign wealth fund.
                The previous ones were personal grift, paid for by willing idiots.

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                  18 hours ago

                  Honey, babe, sweetie, dear, aside from the blatantly corrupt assignment of federal contracts to themselves:

                  Look up what ‘finality of payments’ is. Cancelling that means… Think of it them having root access to every bank account based in the united states.

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                    18 hours ago

                    I don’t think we’re talking about the same kind of crime here.

                    I’m talking about theft, you’re talking about financial terrorism.

                    There’s no grift to be had in destroying the value of the currency you are attempting to steal unless you transform it into something else that has or retains value after your crime has been committed, such as gold, other currency, or stable crypto (the latter two of which are easily exchangeable for crypto before the dump happens).

                    I think even Trump might understand that if he steals all the dollars but that means all the dollars will no longer have value, that he will no longer have valuable dollars.

                    We’re not dealing with the Joker here. We’re dealing with a 80’s businessman who fried his brain with coke and laundered Russian money and is stuck in those glory days as he descends into dementia. Now he’s a puppet with his hand in too many cookie jars, and an hand or two in his own ‘cookie jar’ and all he wants is MORE.