US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Bindo dijo:
Can't wait to see how he squares allowing 600k chinks in on student visas, who are legally obligated to perform any action requested by the CCP/MSS, with viewing China as engaging with the DNC and IC to steal the 2020 election and attempt to throw him in prison for life.

If the chinks are bad actors, you can't allow half a million of them in at a time.
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If we are steel-manning trump on this, he thinks we are just getting chink money to help prop up colleges. If that's exactly what's happening, and they go home with their fancy ivy league education, that's one thing. (This is not what is happening) I understand it, I disagree, fuck colleges.

All this said, and giving trump the benefit of the doubt, it's still stupid and retarded.

This was over a year ago.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/state-department-chinese-student-visas-00375568

I'm not sure what is going on with this, other than a steady decline in applications.
https://www.steptoe.com/en/news-pub...t-power-a-feature-of-us-china-decoupling.html

Part of the way it was sold to trump was probably "soft power" I generally know what soft power is, I would assume it's just making US college degrees desirable. Seems sort of useless with what China has been doing.
 
Sammich dijo:
You gobble up every bit of propaganda that says america is evil, falling apart, and demonic. Of course you equate russian orthodox "christians" as just regular old catholics.
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Michael Orthodox, please lock in...
Moral plague dijo:
The libniggers are deliberately missing the point of election vulnerability and going "rigged rigged rigged against joe biden reeeee," very predictable.
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Side note but anyone with eyes could see that Russia worked against Biden. I don't know if they worked for Trump (I would say Bernie instead) but they worked against Biden. Remember rape thing?
 
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Trump Media has reportedly discussed charging hedge funds and trading firms up to $100,000 per month for high-speed access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts through a new “Truth API” service — Financial Times.

➡️ The premium data feed would provide users with Trump’s posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, offering an advantage to firms trading on market-moving announcements.

➡️ Wall Street executives say the service could become essential for high-frequency trading firms, as Trump’s posts have repeatedly triggered sharp movements in stocks, oil, and global markets.

➡️ The proposal has prompted concerns over potential conflicts of interest, with critics arguing that a company majority-owned by the President’s family could financially benefit from privileged access to market-moving presidential statements.

➡️ Trump Media, which is majority-owned by the Trump family, has not publicly commented on the reported pricing.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 dijo:
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Trump Media has reportedly discussed charging hedge funds and trading firms up to $100,000 per month for high-speed access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts through a new “Truth API” service — Financial Times.

➡️ The premium data feed would provide users with Trump’s posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, offering an advantage to firms trading on market-moving announcements.

➡️ Wall Street executives say the service could become essential for high-frequency trading firms, as Trump’s posts have repeatedly triggered sharp movements in stocks, oil, and global markets.

➡️ The proposal has prompted concerns over potential conflicts of interest, with critics arguing that a company majority-owned by the President’s family could financially benefit from privileged access to market-moving presidential statements.

➡️ Trump Media, which is majority-owned by the Trump family, has not publicly commented on the reported pricing.
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Well I wasn't sure I'd ever see the day a sitting president sold the rights for insider trading, but here we are.
 
Sammich dijo:
If we are steel-manning trump on this, he thinks we are just getting chink money to help prop up colleges. If that's exactly what's happening, and they go home with their fancy ivy league education, that's one thing. (This is not what is happening) I understand it, I disagree, fuck colleges.

All this said, and giving trump the benefit of the doubt, it's still stupid and retarded.

This was over a year ago.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/state-department-chinese-student-visas-00375568

I'm not sure what is going on with this, other than a steady decline in applications.
https://www.steptoe.com/en/news-pub...t-power-a-feature-of-us-china-decoupling.html

Part of the way it was sold to trump was probably "soft power" I generally know what soft power is, I would assume it's just making US college degrees desirable. Seems sort of useless with what China has been doing.
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Yeah, the upside is Kissinger era thinking that exposure to the west will democratize China. Obviously that hasn’t worked out
 
King Of Braves dijo:
Well I wasn't sure I'd ever see the day a sitting president sold the rights for insider trading, but here we are.
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Insider trading would be foreknowledge

While this may act like foreknowledge, Trump is saying a thing, and the moment he hits “send”, the thing is said. The amount of time the thing takes to be heard is kinda after the fact. Maybe before the internet, Wall Street guys would try to get the newspaper earlier than everyone else. I’m not aware of anything like that being prosecuted as insider trading.

But this is all speculation on my part, and I agree it’s not the most dignified shit Trump could be doing.

Edit: I asked grok and this seems to be the main point
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Samuel Fuller dijo:
Not the military production.
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Not true, a significant portion of our bullets are made in China. It's a problem.
Mr. Racewar1488 dijo:
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Trump Media has reportedly discussed charging hedge funds and trading firms up to $100,000 per month for high-speed access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts through a new “Truth API” service — Financial Times.

➡️ The premium data feed would provide users with Trump’s posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, offering an advantage to firms trading on market-moving announcements.

➡️ Wall Street executives say the service could become essential for high-frequency trading firms, as Trump’s posts have repeatedly triggered sharp movements in stocks, oil, and global markets.

➡️ The proposal has prompted concerns over potential conflicts of interest, with critics arguing that a company majority-owned by the President’s family could financially benefit from privileged access to market-moving presidential statements.

➡️ Trump Media, which is majority-owned by the Trump family, has not publicly commented on the reported pricing.
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This is the third or fourth action Trump has taken this year to enrich his family/company/himself. Doesn't change that he is better than Kamala, Biden or Hillary. It does mean that he has become like most politicians.
 
SpergioLeonne dijo:
Insider trading would be foreknowledge

While this may act like foreknowledge, Trump is saying a thing, and the moment he hits “send”, the thing is said. The amount of time the thing takes to be heard is kinda after the fact. Maybe before the internet, Wall Street guys would try to get the newspaper earlier than everyone else. I’m not aware of anything like that being prosecuted as insider trading.

But this is all speculation on my part, and I agree it’s not the most dignified shit Trump could be doing.

Edit: I asked grok and this seems to be the main point
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What's changed is how trading works and access to market moving information milliseconds before the general trading pools get it is absolutely an advantage.

There's a whole rabbit hole of how brokerages have taken advantage of literally milliseconds between data hitting one location vs another location to buy or sell in that millisecond if it was advantageous for them. There's a broker who created a whole system to defeat this



It was creating a "premium" stock market where people were able to trade in real time using computers and algos in response to what OTHER traders were GOING to do a split second before they did it, all just from natural lag in data systems.

If Trump is selling that millisecond of time to brokerages when he makes market moving statements, it may not be insider trading, but it's absolutely playing into the "We're the elites and we're going to rig the system against you" market environment that already exists. People will be able to buy or sell stocks to raise or lower the price in advance of the general public having access to the same information.
 
CaliforniaRaisin dijo:
What's changed is how trading works and access to market moving information milliseconds before the general trading pools get it is absolutely an advantage.

There's a whole rabbit hole of how brokerages have taken advantage of literally milliseconds between data hitting one location vs another location to buy or sell in that millisecond if it was advantageous for them. There's a broker who created a whole system to defeat this



It was creating a "premium" stock market where people were able to trade in real time using computers and algos in response to what OTHER traders were GOING to do a split second before they did it, all just from natural lag in data systems.

If Trump is selling that millisecond of time to brokerages when he makes market moving statements, it may not be insider trading, but it's absolutely playing into the "We're the elites and we're going to rig the system against you" market environment that already exists. People will be able to buy or sell stocks to raise or lower the price in advance of the general public having access to the same information.
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Oh I’m with anyone who says day trading is gay. All it does is pour gas on pumps and dumps, there’s no real justification for it beyond “we like gambling” and “don’t tell me what to do.”

But I’m not about to jump on board in the specific case of Trump feeding into it with millisecond advantage plus memberships when this is a thing that legislators have specifically chosen not to address
 
SpergioLeonne dijo:
Oh I’m with anyone who says day trading is gay. All it does is pour gas on pumps and dumps, there’s no real justification for it beyond “we like gambling” and “don’t tell me what to do.”

But I’m not about to jump on board in the specific case of Trump feeding into it with millisecond advantage plus memberships when this is a thing that legislators have specifically chosen not to address
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It's not feeding into it. It's just "This shit already happens on the reg so I might as well get a piece of the action". There needs to be significant overhauls of how legislation works with the market, but we all know it's not going to happen because those same people who make those laws, benefit from the current loopholed system. And when someone is called on it, they just shrug and go "show me where it's illegal?"
 
I get the feeling the actual reason why the voter fraud issues weren't all thrown out in the open before isn't due to a malicious coverup but possibly due to fear of it causing a crisis. Even the most corrupt and shitty Democrats don't benefit from selective ballot shredding and Chinese interference since that crap is starting to benefit the DSA assholes as the activists and money are on their side.
 
Evan Kor dijo:
but possibly due to fear of it causing a crisis.
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We're in a war with Iran, we survived the great Wu Flu of 2020 and the Floyd riots, Trump was nearly assassinated by mere centimeters. The world and the US has been walking into crisis over and over since 2020. Everyones used to it and numb to it by now.
 
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