Bitcoin are somewhat analogous to tulips at the height of the Dutch Tulip Mania - they're speculative assets given value by the madness of crowds. S.4912 would require the USG to trade dollars for bitcoin that billionaire techbros own (b/c they, or their pals, created bitcoin, out of thin air)...

"Asiatic hordes"?

Given his latest disconnected ramblings and blurted out confessions, it's quite possible.

Oh boy, another grand conspiracy theory to distract us from reality (rich get richer, war as business, etc.)

So Harp & Zacharia would be *normalizing* sick pedo cannibalism for Trump by accusing Democrats of doing it -> the apparent intended point being that *everybody* across the political spectrum does the sick pedo cannibalism thing.

Available evidence suggests that Trump himself has spent considerable time hanging around with sick pedo cannibals.

The glories of Trumpism condensed into a 2-minute standup comedy act.

Anyway, I don't use AI so I can't say it's useless. You're the judge of that. It's a technology that seems to work for some people.

Ah, the platformed, shallow chattering class.

Before Twitter became Elon's Nazi bar, I used to follow the woman who invented the Wayfair QAnon sub-genre and was kind of sad to lose that source of comic relief when Twitter banned her.

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

She likely was in the Wayfair QAnon conspiracy sub-genre crowd, the folks who claimed that random pieces of improbably expensive Wayfair office furniture were really kidnapped children. But I suppose she now believes that ICE kidnapping & torturing children is fine.

An extremely effective condemnation of this corporate BS.

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While the world community does next to nothing, Israel seems to be gradually escalating its aerial assaults on the people of Gaza ("cease fire" notwithstanding.)

"...I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive some of what life has given me."

"...and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools and a stadium, provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 Euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region to contribute to their family economy..."

Senegalese soccer star Sadio Mane, who earns $10.2 million a year, uses a cracked iPhone 11 & says, "Why would I want 10 Ferraris, 20 diamond watches, and two jet planes? I starved, I worked in the fields, played barefoot, and I didn't go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools..