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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The Mescalero Apache Tribe in New Mexico announced that a member was confronted by ICE agents last week and was asked for ID — first in Spanish, although the member spoke English.

    In case the racism wasn’t obvious enough.

    These tribes know what is at stake here. Trump’s arguments against birthright citizenship is based on old, invalid arguments that put their own citizenship at risk. Imagine the Supreme Court wiping out citizenship for millions of Native Americans with one decision – it could happen.






  • It makes perfect sense when you realize that Silk Road was the killer app that launched Bitcoin and the entire Crypto universe that is currently funding Trump’s lifestyle.

    Now Ross can dust off that old brain wallet and live large in his stash. When he was arrested, 1 BTC was worth $200ish, it’s now worth $100k. And he can make more whenever he wants to by simply selling a shitty token.



  • This one isn’t worth anyone’s time worrying about right now, except for the proper advocacy groups who will challenge it right away, where it might get to the Supreme Court during this Presidential term, or might not. He tried to pull this when he was in charge of the last Census, and was blocked in the courts. Which means it can be challenged right up to the point where they formalize the questions a few months beforehand, so whatever he decides now can be changed by the next President.

    For those of you who are about to post “We can’t even be sure he will leave office when the Constitution says he will”, you’re right, of course. But if that happens the Census will be so low on the list of how we are fucked up that it will end up being a footnote, so it’s not worth worrying about in either case.




  • So, the trading volume is already in excess of its market cap, even though is has only been traded for less than 24 hours, and only 20% of tokens are released? That means that people are trading it actively, multiple times in one day.

    I bet when you dig into the Smart Contract, you will find a small transaction fee going back to the founders with every single transaction. So if a foreign power wants to send money to Trump, all they have to do is structure some shell companies to trade it back and forth. A fraction of a cent goes to the founders each time, but if you buy 50 million dollars worth, and have bots trade bits of it 500 million times between accounts you own, you can feed Trump millions of dollars in a fashion that is untraceable by anyone but you.

    And, since you have just created billions in volume out of nothing, that might encourage more marks investors to pay attention, at at the end of your exercise you could very well end up with more dollars than you spent on the coin in the first place, all funded by retail crypto investors with severe FOMO.

    I’m curious, though, because the typical end game is for the founders to sell everything quickly to cause the price to tank, then ghost everyone. They can’t do that with this coin, because Donald Trump will not be disappearing anytime soon. But maybe this is his insurance policy against impeachment – he can just fly to Russia and rug-pull $TRUMP from the plane, over Starlink.


  • It’s not without precedent, much of the current US was purchased from colonizing powers. The Louisiana purchase is perhaps the most famous one, where Napoleon needed more money to fight the British and worked out a deal to sell France’s North American territories to the USA.

    But the US didn’t have enough in its Treasury to fund the full amount, so in addition to selling bonds to raise money it also assumed some of France’s war debt. Then, once all the arrangements were made, they simply had ceremonies to pull down the French flag and raise the American one. (And in some territories, Spain was involved, somehow, leading to a “three flags day” in some places.)

    If it happened today I bet they would finance it all with Dogecoin, because of course they would. If it helps Dogecoin moon to $69, I can retire early.