Trump Just Pardoned ... a Corporation?
Trump Just Pardoned ... a Corporation?
This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you...
HDR Global Trading, parent company of BitMEX
You're welcome. Fuck paywalls, and fuck clickbait that buries the actual info behind the paywall.
And what was being pardoned:
"In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law."
Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like "I want to destroy the country" with not a whole lot else going on.
Thanks! But I could easily read the full article without seeing a paywall in this case
There is no paywall. It does require you provide an email. Doesn't have to be a real email, just email format.
It does require you provide an email.
Yeah, fuck that. Extra unnecessary steps.
I did some testing. The form accepts anything in the format @. so long as each * segment only contains appropriate characters. The domain itself doesn't need to be real, but the suffix needs to be real.
"a@b.cd" works.
Your democracy is falling apart because of it is an empire in late decadence. Its systems of checks and balances are collapsing.
The world is getting more war friendly because as dominant empires fall apart internally, nations want to do stuff they weren't allowed to when the big bad empire had more control.
This is all part of the natural life cycle of empires. Best case scenario is they fizzle out with protection from another empire, like Great Britain did. Worst case scenario is really bad.
Expect to see more of this kind of thing in the future. Might be a good time to consider going somewhere else, cause things could get really ugly. These problems are terminal and at this point it doesn't really matter who gets elected. It'll keep falling apart. I say this with sadness. My country also got screwed by the USA, but if it hadn't it would have been some other empire. Such is the life of the small poor nation.
I'm sorry, but I think it's important to see this for what it is and to adapt.
This is all part of the natural life cycle of empires. Best case scenario is they fizzle out with protection from another empire, like Great Britain did. Worst case scenario is really bad.
You’re saying Russia is invading Ukraine and China is getting ready to invade Taiwan because the US has less control because of decadence?
This is all part of the natural life cycle of empires. Best case scenario is they fizzle out with protection from another empire, like Great Britain did. Worst case scenario is really bad.
This isn’t even the first time in US history that they’ve become isolationist.
Decadence? No. Moreso vanity, moreso arrogance, moreso pride is our downfall. The American people feel the need to feel as if they are superior to everyone out there. We fucking placed tariffs on Taiwan. They basically already agreed to cuck themselves and build a chip fab on US soil, thus eventually removing our need to protect them for their chips. But no, we fucked their wife, and now we're going for their ass too. Vanity, arrogance, pride. We are going down the same path as the Qing. Autarkic, Insular, leading to falling behind and getting fucked.
Meh we put ourselves at the center of globalization and trade by offering the Europeans access to our markets in exchange for being our meat shields if the Ruskies ever decided to get uppity.
Now globalization is starting to break down because we have no interest in maintaining it. Every president since Clinton has been more and more isolationist than the last. Even Biden had no interest in maintaining the order. The aid he offered to Ukraine was primarily military support, there was very little economic support for after the war.
Trump has moved the needle on populism in the US. Breaking global trade was always going to happen, but Trump is accelerating it. Yes he is a corrupt skum bag, but we’ve had skum bag presidents in the past.
America in the long term will be fine, our demographics are better than Europes or Chinas, we make our own energy and grow enough food to feed our population. We just need to restore manufacturing to North America (I.E. Canada, Mexico and USA).
America can exist quite happily as a regional hegemony and let Europe, India, Russia and China fight over the rest of the world.
Welcome to cold war. Now the bad news: you have been asleep for at least 25 years.
our demographics are better than Europes or Chinas, we make our own energy and grow enough food to feed our population.
Except your infrastructure falls apart, because maintaining it all would be too expensive. Eisenhower didn't think of maintenance cost.
I hope you're right.
At the end of his first term, Trump was selling pardons for $1,000,000. I wonder how much money he charges for a pardon now.
Oh, I remember Citizens United
just fascist tings
Let’s see if he’ll pardon Luigi Mangione or Edward Snowden. 😏
Kinda makes sense no? Corporations are people and are treated as such in courts.
If people have death penalty, corporations should also have one
Businesses have been sued out of business before. Not QUITE what you mean, but the ends still the same.
