White South Africans are not incurring the harm.
Yet.
UPDATE 08:32 am:
Friday, February 28, 2025
Crypto unleashed
Unleashing money laundering as well. Crypto is the favored currency for illegal transactions, and the Trump grift. And President Musk.
The idiot who bought the banana for $6.2 million.
Continue reading.Justin Sun’s involvement here takes this beyond the realm of mere amusement and into something potentially far more insidious: a yearslong saga of alleged activities like abusing employees, skimping out on international law, evading transparency requirements, and plagiarizing white papers, along with reports of government investigations, and sucking up to President-elect Donald Trump for the sake of rewiring American financial regulation as we know it.* It’s a literal pay-for-play, with Sun announcing just one day after the banana stunt that he would invest $30 million in Trump’s crypto scheme, World Liberty Financial, and bail it out of financial insolvency, earning an advisory role with the firm in the process.
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There are many reasons why Justin Sun is so notorious within the crypto world, even though he remained mostly unknown to the wider public before now. So let’s break down why this whole thing stinks … kinda like a rotting banana.
So, what’s Justin Sun’s whole deal?
Slate
Thursday, February 27, 2025
All chaos, all the time
UPDATE 02/28/2025:
UPDATE 03/28/2025:
Did I say that?
February 19
February 27
Speaking in Florida, Trump called Zelensky a "dictator", just hours after using the same word in a Truth Social post about the Ukrainian president.
BBC
February 27
Worse than you think
Nor replaceable that way.You may be aware, for instance, that a 19-year-old who goes by “Big Balls” online plays some role in all this. Seems bad. But you may have missed that Edward Coristine has since been installed at the nation’s top cybersecurity agency. And the State Department and the Small Business Administration. And he has a Department of Homeland Security email address and, by the way, also had a recent side gig selling AI Discord bots to Russians. See? Worse than you think.
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Similarly, you’ve likely heard that the United States Agency for International Development has been gutted and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been put on ice. All true, all bad. But here’s what that means in practice: Fewer people globally have access to vaccines than they did a month ago. More babies are being born with HIV/AIDS. From here on out, anyone who gets ripped off by payday loan companies—or, say, social media platforms moonlighting as payments services—has lost their most capable defender.
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Don’t care about science or vaccines? The Social Security Administration is reportedly going to cut its staff in half. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is going to be cut by as much as 84 percent. Hundreds of workers who keep the power grid humming in the Pacific Northwest were fired before a scramble to rehire a few of them. The National Parks Service, the Internal Revenue Service, all hit hard. So don’t make any long-term bets on getting your checks on time, keeping your lights on, buying a home for the first time, or enjoying Yosemite. Don’t assume all the things that work now will still work tomorrow.
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And this is all before the real reductions in force begin, mass purges of civil servants that will soon be conducted, it seems, with an assist from DOGE-modified, automated software. The US government is about to lose decades of institutional knowledge across who knows how many agencies, including specialists that aren’t readily replaced by loyalists.
Wired
It’s worse than you think because by the time the courts catch up the damage will already have been done. It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn.
Federal agencies could absolutely be more efficient, but we’re long past the point where efficiency is a plausible goal. DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does.
It’s worse than you think because so far all DOGE has done is drop a boulder into the middle of a pond. If you think this is bad, wait for the ripples.
Epstein files to see the light of day?
Heavily redacted, no doubt. Perhaps with only Democrats' names left visible.
Trump, like his father before him, has Groucho eyebrows. Bleaching them blond makes it less obvious.
UPDATE 05:10 pm:
"...to serve our President and our country."
The FBI and the DOJ are supposed to serve the country. Not the president.
UPDATE 02/28/2025:
I believe that's what we used to call being Rickrolled.
Sad!Today was supposed to be MAGA’s Superbowl - the release of the secret Jeffrey Epstein files. This was the day that many prominent Democrats and half of Hollywood were going to be hauled off in handcuffs to prison after we learned about their Epstein associations. MAGA has believed for years that Deep State actors had Epstein killed in prison to cover up their crimes.
Of course, the fact that their hero Donald Trump was a well-documented Epstein pal is irrelevant to them since Trump told them they only discussed business. Also, the fact that Epstein died in a prison while Trump was president would make it a lot easier for him to be involved in an Epstein murder than anyone else.
They insisted during the campaign that Trump promise to release the files on Epstein, the JFK assassination, UFOs, and a host of other conspiracies. And Trump promised them he would. But last night, on the eve of the release to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s investigative committee, DOJ said it will not release the files yet but might do so soon.
They all went nuts.
Then, hours later, AG Pam Bondi reversed that and announced they would release “some of the files.” MAGA wasn’t thrilled about that, and seemed to smell a rat.
So they waited today, and waited some more. And what happened? A motley crew of right-wing social media influencers emerged with a small binder in hand. So only a small amount of the files were released, and they were released only to a few MAGA influencers. The limited files were released by DOJ to ‘Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, Collin Rugg, Rogan O’Handly, Jack Posobiec, Chad Prather, Mike Cernovich. In other words, a bunch of professional liars and propagandists.
Rep. Luna wasn’t happy: “Neither I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today. A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein's phonebook. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
They even lost Laura Loomer: “So when can I expect these big shot brilliant social media influencers to research and release their ‘exclusive binders’ full of the first batch of Epstein files? I guess we will be waiting here all week because something tells me some of the people who were invited don’t have the brain power to do original research. Thank God I worked so hard during the election season and ran cover for so many people’s intellectual deficiencies.”
Meidas Touch
UPDATE 02/28/2025 01:36 pm:
MAGA Andy doesn't know what he's asking for, does he, Donald?
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