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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by n0n0n4t0r on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:03AM (#45221683)
Given how the democracy is attacked, I'm not sure there will be an election in 2028
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by owlbite on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:48AM (#45223454)
There will almost certainly be an election in 2028. The degree to which it will be rigged through gerrymandering, voter intimidation, voter suppression and/or blatant cheating is a different question.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by krapp on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:57AM (#45223557)
The answer is "as much as legal, and maybe a little more" as with all American elections.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by ta1243 on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:52AM (#45223493)
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by Consultant32452 on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:13AM (#45221761)
One less thing to worry about
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by dzonga on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:12AM (#45221756)
you don't make improvements to a house, adorn it with gold all over, make 200m improvements if you have the intention of leaving.

behaviour says more than words

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by hamdingers on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:57AM (#45222836)
Every president remodels and redecorates the White House, often to a much greater degree. The consternation over it is an intentional distraction.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by dboreham on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:23AM (#45223126)
It's done as an intentional distraction. The guy is a top class troll after all.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by ptaffs on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:21AM (#45221839)
i think the person you are talking about doesn't treat houses like most people, i mean he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by potato3732842 on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:30AM (#45221932)
>he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

Exactly. It's a social norm among that class of society

When a Koch, or a Scwab, or the CEO of some mega-corp buys a property on Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or Vail or overlooking Tahoe or whatever, with intent to actually spend even the scantest amount of time there themselves they engage in absurd unnecessary renovations. That's just how they do things. There is an occasional exception for those in that group who have "found meaning" in some other avenue for lighting money on fire.

Edit: You can thank me later for implicitly telling you where the best construction dumpsters are.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by ta1243 on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:52AM (#45223500)
You don't adorn it with gold if you have taste.

Trump is not going to live much longer than 2028 anyway.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by krapp on Friday September 12, 2025 @12:18PM (#45223761)
I think he had a stroke at the 9/11 ceremony and no one is talking about it yet.

And there was definitely some weirdness with his hand, the absence that convinced people he was dead, some odd rumors about his shirt sleeve and suit implying he was hiding medical devices or some kind of injury, an "AI" glitch in a recent video which may have been debunked, and his obvious mental and emotional degradation when confronted with the Epstein stuff.

I am absolutely convinced Trump is only being kept alive by ritual blood sacrifice or that he's being puppeted by Grok through a Neuralink or something.

Biden got taken down by the the "crippling senile dementia" meme because it's only a problem when it's Democrats, but Trump seems worse off than Biden ever was. The bastard will probably live another thirty years though, somehow.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by ta1243 on Friday September 12, 2025 @01:29PM (#45224496)
Everyone is talking about it.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/photos-trumps-drooping-face-9-11-p...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/trump-sparks-health-fe...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/glob...

> Biden got taken down by the the "crippling senile dementia" meme because it's only a problem when it's Democrats

Democrats felt both Biden and Trump were far too old and senile to be in charge. And they were right.

The problem is that Republicans only felt it was Biden.

Remember when having a "consensual" blowjob from an intern was almost enough to get a president fired? Remember when presidents resigned when the public found out they were involved in organising a break-in?

That world has long gone, social media saw to that.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by EFreethought on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:00PM (#45226720)
> Everyone is talking about it.

And they are talking about it very strongly.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by LightBug1 on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:34AM (#45221977)
Just !
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by moi2388 on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:03AM (#45222895)
Want to bet 10k? You’re literally making claims without any basis. He left last time, he will leave again, if he even makes it to the end of his term
Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Friday September 12, 2025 @01:50PM (#45224688)
> without any basis

This is his second, ostensibly last, term, meaning he will have an uphill battle at best to convince the public that he should get another term for some bullshit reason. His last term ended with him obviously trying to prevent the next guy from taking over. He obviously wants to be in power. It's disingenuous to say there is no basis. Whether it's likely is another matter but this is intellectually dishonest.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by moi2388 on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:49AM (#45246504)
Every president wants to be in power, or they never would have ran.

Fact is you’re fear mongering for no reason. Last time he also just left. There are zero cases of a president staying in office after their terms.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by LightBug1 on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:01AM (#45247596)
If you're willing - how old are you? Where are you from? What do you do?

I'm just really curious how you get to a stage in life firing off this kind, sorry, naive view.

The American rule book has well and truly been ripped up and burned ... you just can't seem to see the smouldering embers at your feet ...

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by moi2388 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @10:19AM (#45262588)
I’m curious how you get to a stage in life where you just make up crisis, when all previous cases show this is simply not happening.

He already left once before. I don’t understand how this is news to you.

Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by LightBug1 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:39AM (#45287994)
Your use of the word "left" is doing some heavy lifting ... that's some decent gaslighting you've got going on there ...

You must have a short memory. I assume that's intentional. My condolences as to where you've ended up in life. Bye.