RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116240452236514964
#Craptocurrency con-man #SamFraudmanJailed wants a pardon, from his fellow #ConvictedFelon, President #MafiaDon Trump--and he's willing to kiss...umm, THE RING, what did you *think* I was gonna say?...to get it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/116020352888759125
#Craptocurrency is indeed a massive ponzi scheme run by and for the benefit of transnational organized crime. We've been watching the money flows for years.
The only thing that Fiona misses here is that what Putin has on Trump IS THE ONE THING HE CARES ABOUT: the only reason he still got to cosplay as a billionaire after he squandered all his family's money through #TheArtOfTheBadDeal WAS HIS BAILOUT BY THE KREMLIN/RUSSIAN MOB (same/same) when the world's banks wouldn't touch him anymore. The one thing Donald J. Trump is legitimately TERRIFIED of--and which no amount of MAGA adoration could impact--IS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY and having to live like the hoi polloi (a.k.a., We, the People). He would do LITERALLY ANYTHING--even run for President, when he only wanted to run out the clock living as a dissolute pedophile playboy--to avoid that.
Crucially, this is also why we're starting to see a little bit of independent action from our #MafiaDon this term, even some LIKE Iran & Venezuela that run counter to Russia's traditional interests--because he's succeeded in his one core competency: grifting off his puffed-up pretense of power (and harnessing bespoke Trump-branded #craptocurrency to the U.S. Treasury) to make the #TrumpCrimeFamily ACTUAL billionaires, even if the Kremlin called in its chips.
The one thing keeping him MORE-OR-LESS in the fold NOW is his (quite legitimate) fear of developing #RussianWindowCancer. Vlad doesn't TAKE WELL to signs of independence from his vassals.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@CryptoCriticPod/115944986007594973
Our regular reminder that #craptocurrency is a massive ponzi scheme operated by and for the benefit of transnational organized crime.
And a #MafiaDon now sits in the Oval Office....
#Craptocurrency: the #enshittification of money 😅
cc: @pluralistic
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115685459324906148
This. And as somebody who spent a couple decades as a strategic Intelligence leader, I would add that this #craptocurrency casino is operated as a ponzi scheme BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME, to generate & launder revenues outside the limitations & risks imposed by government control of REAL currencies.
Dr. Jim Ellsworth
Charming Malcontent