This is a form of "honest graft":


From the Robert Malone substack:


The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth.

Why it matters: The coin (technically a token that's issued on the Solana blockchain) has massively enriched Trump personally, enabled a mechanism for the crypto industry to funnel cash to him, and created a volatile financial asset that allows anyone in the world to financially speculate on Trump's political fortunes.

After another massive overnight rally, as of Sunday morning Trump's crypto holdings were worth as much as $58 billion on paper, enough -- with his other assets -- to make him one of the world's 25 richest people.

Where it stands: While the Biden administration broadly took the view that memecoins like $TRUMP are securities subject to SEC regulation, the incoming Trump administration has pledged to be much more crypto-friendly and to regulate such coins with a light or nonexistent touch.

For the record: The coin's official website, GetTrumpMemes.com, urges visitors to buy coins with either dollars or crypto in order to "Celebrate Our Win & Have Fun!"

The coin is "not intended to be... an investment opportunity," per the site, which says that it "has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office."

That hasn't stopped investors from making millions by speculating on the price of the coin, which was launched while Trump was reportedly hosting a "Crypto Ball" in Washington.

By the numbers: Some 200 million of the 1 billion total coins have already been released and are being actively traded. The rest, which are owned by Trump-controlled entities, will be able to be sold at various points over the next three years, starting in April.

On average, Trump's companies will be able to sell some 24 million coins per month into the market, which at current prices (which keep moving), would amount to an income of $1.73 billion per month, or $20.7 billion per year. (Although no one has a clue what the value of the coin will even be this afternoon, let alone three years from now.)

Not to be outdone, Melania Trump launched her own coin MELANIA Sunday night, almost immediately achieving a market capitalization north of $5 billion.

Flashback: During the first Trump administration, there were worries that individuals were able to enrich the president by staying at his hotel in Washington.

Since then, Trump has listed a meme stock where he controls more than 50% of the shares — and, now, has a meme coin that's even less tethered to reality.

Both of them represent a much more direct way of funneling money to Trump than staying at his hotel did.

Between the lines: The emoluments clause of the Constitution, written in 1787, hardly envisaged a world where a president could conjure billions of dollars of wealth out of nowhere just by endorsing a meme.

In the present day, it's impossible to track who's going to be buying this coin over the next three years and thereby directing their money directly at Trump.

Given the Supreme Court's expansive view of presidential immunity, there's a good chance that any such action will be deemed lawful.

The bottom line: Trump has just delivered a masterclass in the ability of a president to turn power into wealth.

All of this reminds me that, despite all that I may know or think I understand, there are layers and layers of issues and undercurrents at play here that are way above my pay grade.

Hitler was a politian. Why do you think Hitler was any different, because he was right about the jews? Jews funded his rise to power.

Don't be stupid.

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It is the scientific discovery that fetal cells of the child pass into the mother’s body during pregnancy and that the child’s genetic material remains part of the mother’s body for the rest of her life. Thus the close bond between mother and child.

This means some of Jesus the Son of God remained with Mary and this makes her unique among all created beings. This didn’t happen to anyone else.


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If there is ever a government enforced system of eugenics that produces a supply of superior men, it would promptly get pulled down and destroyed because superior men would realize how oppressive it was.

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A common fallacy used by shills, particularly those who like faggot Disney pirate movies, is called "nut picking". It's a variation of straw-manning.

Nut picking is taking an extreme view of a random internet dude and not a major figure, and constructing a straw-man fallacy whereby they make it out that this random dude speaks for everybody who disagrees.

Don't fall for it.

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You're mainstream and you didn't even know it.

Think Star Wars & Dungeons and Dragons suck now? Maybe Witcher, or film noir, or (formerly) niche sports like BJJ or Judo? How about niche sites like 4Chan. They all started like punk music, a niche rebellion thing, now you have Tucker and Musk being in charge of things and pretending that they are still the rebels. They are the machine they rage against.

Soon it's going to suck worse than it does now.

The result, to be a real conspiracy theorist you'll engage in even more fringe shit.

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The [fill-in-the-blank] is all fake. Source: trust me bro.

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The NOLA terrorist attack. Here is a false dichotomy:

Real attack, or the FBI got some stooges to kidnap a governor, ahem, I mean Mohamadians to attack a secular gathering, to make a play for sudden relevance right before they get a new boss?

Thoughts?

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Oldest rule in politics...to the victor go the spoils.

Politics is "who gets what".

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Yesterday, I stopped at a stop sign at a quiet residential intersection on a lazy afternoon when there was no other traffic about. It being close to the winter solstice, it was dim but not really dark.

After looking right, then left, and seeing it was clear, I was about to go and turn left when the thought popped into my head that I should check right again. I did, and flying down the street comes a black guy in a black hat wearing navy blue clothes on one of those mini-motorbikes without a headlight. He blended right in. He was either near impossible to see the first time I looked right, or must have rounded a nearby corner or come down from the gently slopping hill at such a high rate of speed he wasn't there at my first glace right. He wasn't there at my first glance right, I swear on it. This all took place inside 2 seconds.

I waited until he whipped past, and he stared at me as I dashed by, somewhat surprised that I almost went and hit his careless ass, a look of almost anger was on his face.

I have no accounting for where this internal voice came from. But what it did save me from was seriously injuring or even killing a stupid but otherwise innocent man.

Ever have anything like that happen to you? You listen to a voice in your head tell you to do something, something that you COULD NOT have known rationally would make sense. You listen, and good comes of it. I'm not talking about your conscience telling you not to lie or steal, but some other gift of natural prophecy or divine warning.

Even hardcore skeptics have surely had this happen to them.

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Did you know that celebrating birthdays, which in ancient Greece and Rome you did for a "god" or "emperor" (who wanted to be worshiped as a god) was considered a PAGAN practice by early Christians?

Did you know that in some middle eastern cultures they still don't celebrate birthdays?

Now do you understand why Jesus birthday celebration wasn't something the people living in Rome who knew Christ cared to do. Mary was alive and the most likely source of Luke's gospel which has the whole infancy narrative of Jesus. If he interviewed her, the woman who give birth to the man (even if you think he was an ordinary man) do you think Mary carried a calendar around?

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