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The Official 2nd Term Trump corruption thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Jan 7, 2025.

  1. Os Trigonum

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    Charles Blow is one of the NYT's loudest anti-Trump voices, so it's looking like the Times itself is looking to cuddle up to the Donald

     
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    There are so many things that Bill Maher says that are smart, but he like many say things that are wrong and stupid, and over-simplifications.

    ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug whose discoverers got the Nobel Prize in 2015 for its effectiveness against MALARIA. Research showed it was completely ineffective against COVID-19.

    Raking leaves doesn't work on evergreen forests which is what california had. It may even make things worse as pine needles suppress brush growth. There are things that could be done yes, but not raking.

    Problem is that no one wants to address reality in smart and practical ways. Because we debate about climate change, we can't implement solutions taking climate change into account. The forests are hotters and dryer in the winter - you need to remove dead branches and clear corridors near highways to create breaks and protect evacuation routers. Transmission lines needs to be moved underground. Invasive species like Eucalyptus that are very flammable need to be removed. Logging needs to be allowed more to reduce tree density (something environmentalists should be faulted for).

    yes there is blame all around and things that can be done. But reducing it to "the liberals need to rake the leaves!" is just unproductive and stupid.
     
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    if you listen to the whole clip he acknowledges the over-simplification of the "raking leaves" claim
     
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    I did and he switched to Ivermectin which was snake oil to COVID. That's why I addressed it.

    Here's a much better and frank discussion of the LA fires

     
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    The Jews in Hitler’s Military

    LONDON — Sustained by scholarship, peanut butter and a sense of mission, American Bryan Rigg is exploring an eerie and uncharted no man’s land of Holocaust history.

    Rigg interviews former German soldiers of Jewish heritage, some of them high-ranking officers, who fought for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich in World War II--during the Holocaust, when the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews.

    “Thousands of men of Jewish descent and hundreds of what the Nazis called ‘full Jews’ served in the military with Hitler’s knowledge. The Nazis allowed these men to serve but at the same time exterminated their families,” Rigg said.

    Continued...
     
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    @Nook unbelievable levels of corruption in front if our eyes.
     
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    so I'm not up on crypto . . . explain the corruption to me like I'm a five year old
     
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    What's corrupt about this?
     
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    Trump and company launch a crypto coin but keep majority of the supply in house so the price fluctuates alot bcz the supply is low. When supply is low the price is easier to move. Trump and company hype up the project claiming its the next big project and once the price is high enough they dump the majority of the supply onto the market without advanced warning. This crashes the coin as theres not enough buyers hence the people who bought early get screwed while Trump and company sell out and make a killing.

    Unbelievable that pump and dump is legal now bcz the president is literally doing it. What a braindead stupid country yall have become. Hijacked by corruption
     
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    Are you stupid? You're okay with the president hyping up a fake crypto project with no real meaning other than a pump and dump. Trump and company will dump the coin leaving bagholders broke.

    Jesus yall are braindead
     
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    so that's still above my limited intellect. How exactly is this different from selling and trading wheat and corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade in 1850? explain it to me like I'm a, well, six-year old
     
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    so wait a minute . . . I'm a little fuzzy on the exact nature of the evil here. Did Trump hold a gun to peoples' heads to get them to fork over a boatload of cash to him? or are they freely giving up their own money on spec? explain it to me like I'm . . . well, you know. Stupid.
     
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    bcz those are actually backed by a commodity that you're selling. These crypto scams arent selling anything. Theres nothing backing them

    Its just a pump and dump scheme. Theres no asset value. Its a scam which his braindead low iq followers will lose money on
     
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    Hes obviously using his name to scam people into buying the coin which then he'll sell leaving people holding the bag. are you slow?

    "in other news other than launching a 20 billion dollar scam"

    Unbelieve corruption
     
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    In 1850 futures traders were buying and selling things that didn't exist either. explain it to me like I'm a moron.
     
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    What's illegal about this?

    People are investing in this by their own free will. They're gambling, it's not something I would do, but there's nothing wrong with it.
     

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