I'm glad there's at least one other person on Nostr who recognizes that Trump is a corrupt, self-dealing charlatan who's going to enrich himself on the backs of the American taxpayers.
I know folks here are excited about legal support for bitcoin and the general pro-crypto regulatory environment under Trump, but I feel like he’s a shitcoin.
Look at this $TRUMP meme coin he launched: https://gettrumpmemes.com/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/
This is grift and fraud. The only people who should be happy about it are either folks who are getting in on the ponzi scheme and hoping they’ll get out before it collapses or people who are accelerationists who want to bring about the collapse of the current system as fast as possible. Who cares about the people hurt in the process.
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The comments on him I see here are mostly negative.
I guess it depends on your feed and who you follow. I see plenty of ribbing and jokes, but when the rubber meets the road most people I've encountered are up Trump's butt.
There’s a healthy mix of pro and anti Trump commentary here. It’s pretty clear to me he seeks to extract value for himself. There may be some desire to leave a legacy now but it’ll be secondary in priorities.
I don't think he gives a shit about a legacy beyond renaming everything after himself. He's one of these people who thinks he's going to live forever. There won't be any point when he looks back at his life and decides to do something good for the country, or the people who come next. He's going to be a grifting, narcissistic shit bag until his last breath.
I think most people are nuanced about Trump.
They recognize when he does good stuff, and criticize him when he does bad stuff.
Anyone whose 100% always in support of, or hating on is delusional.
Trump is a human that does some good things but also is flawed, and makes mistakes like the rest of us.
And yes, I know politicians are held to a higher standard because they represent us, and well, all I can say is Trump represents The United States citizenry perfectly 🙃.
The problem is that the bad things he does are so awful that recognizing whatever accidental good things he does only serves to normalize and carry water for him. Like, I'm sure Hitler held the door for someone at some point, but you wouldn't stop to recognize Hitler for that nominal gesture because of how dwarfed it is by his bad deeds.
Sounds like every American President, ever.
From 9/11 Bush to Drone Strike Obama to Sleepy Deep State Joe to Grab her by the pussy Trump.
The fact that Americans are so blind to this is hilarious. Can you believe some people thought Biden was actually better?
Christ, I'm not the hugest Trumper but still, common sense simple common sense.
Except it's not like every other president. You're ignoring the unique things he's done that literally no other president has ever done, or would have dared to do. The level of corruption, self-dealing, and grifting he's done as president, the total lack of ethics, as well as the assaults on the Constitution and rule of law are something that just isn't the norm, or what you find when investigating past presidencies. And there's this instinct from people to wave their hands and say, "Oh, other presidents have done worse", or "Oh, the other side does the same thing", and that's simply not true. Whether it's due to ignorance, or a partisan desire to write-off any criticism of their guy, it's dishonest, disingenuous, and just not reflective of reality.
Biden literally pardoned hi family during Trump's speech.
It literally is every president. LMFAO stop playing dumb
He pardoned his family and all those people because Trump telegraphed that he would be engaging in a campaign of retribution against them and their families. Those pardons were an effort to protect innocent people from the unbridled vengeance that Trump himself promised. And still, you're moving the goalposts to defend your indefensible position. I'm not talking about policy, or actions that are within the purview of the president. I'm talking about everything I detailed in my last comment. Instead of confronting that, you're moving the chairs and coming up with more bullshit whataboutism. It's so dishonest and I don't even know if you realize it. You're engaging in overt logical fallacies out some desperate need to defend this guy. It's exactly what I just described. This obsessive need to revise history, make things up, and deflect in an effort to shield him from any honest criticism.
Like Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian deals? His laptop, Dr Fauci? LMFAO these are the innocents he's protecting?
Sorry, who funded the war again? In the last 4 years, under the Biden deep state, we saw several wars start, being funded and an extra 2 trillion printed when 5 trillion was the mark.
There's no whataboutism in historical facts chief, unless you're to scared to look at historical data. By the way, whataboutism involves the term "what about" and I never said that, so keep that in your top pocket.
More whataboutism. I'm done with this conversation. I've said what I wanted to say, and you're just running in circles with your fallacies and intellectual bankruptcy. GN
by the way, name some of these "unique things he's done that literally no other president has ever done, or would have dared to do."
you mean walk into North Korea or ?
Carter had to sell his peanut farm because they were concerned he might benefit farmers and indirectly himself as president. Last time Trump promised to keep his business at arms length with no say in how they were run. Now he’s just like, fuck it, I’m going to act like a tin pot autocrat and make as much money as I can while I’m in power. That’s the actions of someone who thinks their own country is a shithole.
lol he literally minted a shitcoin. I have no qualms about who he is. What I'm saying is that NONE of the presidents were saints, in fact they all were corrupt and crooked in their own ways. I mean, how far back do you need to go to find an upright president?
Carter?
I think Trump gave the businesses to the kids? IDK bro if Hunter Biden gets a pass, then I guess so will Trump's kids at the end of this term.
I wanted Kamala to be president and I am pretty alone on Nostr with this opinion. She is not that much of a shit coin human being.
How many African Americans did she incarcerate for marijuana possession as a prosecutor 🤔?
What's your point? She was the AG performing the standard duties of her office. Why are you holding her up to this other standard just because she's also black?
I'm just making an argument against her using a progressive argumentation.
Personally, I'm indifferent on the drug debate, I think drugs are bad but our current legal system does turn non-violent offenders into hardened criminals due to the lack of support to reincorporate former criminals back into society.
We need to utilize the tactics of both Norway, and Japan, Norway prisons are designed to help reintegrate ex-convicts back into society while Japan's strict, and effective criminal justice system ensures criminals get penalized.
America has a broken justice system where bad crimes aren't penalized, and minor crimes are extremely punished, incentivizes bad behavior.
Any other white folk working the same job would’ve done the same. Trump told people to go to the capitol and got a few people actually killed. 😂
To peacefully protest.
January 6th was conducted by Ray Epps, and other insiders to formulate an agenda.
Most January 6th protestors were simply following the guide behavior of Government assets who sowed chaos.
Also Trump ordered more national guards, and others to protect but Nancy Pelosi rejected it!
January 6th was caused by Democrats to portray Americans concerned about vulnerabilities in our election systems as domestic terrorists.
Of course! Nothing of what you said has been proven 🥹 But believe your own lies
Hahaha, sending me a link of the shit platform Twitter 😂 When already everything happened and his call-to action tweets before, but of course he’s an angel to tell them to go home. 👍🏼
Well all the unjustly prosecuted 1,500 who were misled by 10 to 20 federal agents, and state police will be going home now 😁!
Our Republic is safe from Communist "Democracy".
And our America citizens will be able to fairly investigate, and peacefully protest against corruption once again!
Oh here comes the brainwashed point of view of all Americans on communism 🙂 You really enjoyed that pill 💊