Know Your Class War: The Trump US Treasury Casino

 

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tells @ErinBurnett why he thinks Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is a "giant rug pull scam." pic.twitter.com/WsVry8xNvS

— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) March 8, 2025

I really don't have anything to add. Trump is turning a part of the United States' actual wealth into a casino where we are putting down real money for chips other folks are gambling. 

Trump notoriously bankrupted casinos. Some people think this was a kind of money laundering and I am not saying this is wrong, and when I look at this ill-begotten notion?

Why did people vote for a tax fraud, a business fraud, a con artist and cheat? 

The entire Trump presidency is a kind of Nigerian prince scam. He isn't who he represents himself as and people dump money into him hoping someday, he pays off.  I will literally never stop being mad so many people are this absolutely obviously janky person's marks.  

Celebrating Everything "We" Stand For!

 

Right before his (indoor, possibly cursed) swearing in (as opposed to his cussing out, which is every day around here), Trump has launched a meme coin because "it's time to celebrate everything we stand for" which feels about right, depending on your value of what Trump stands for. He might not do anything about your grocery bill--he's VERY likely to make your fuel bills higher, but he definitely, with a raised fist no less, will fight to do this.

This always feels to me like the sort of obvious buck-raking activity that should counter the sort of wide-eyed Trumpstans who say things like, "He refused his presidential salary; look at all he gave up!" The office of the presidency shouldn't be a gold mine!

But this also leans into the notion of Trump's popularity is a sunk-cost situation: forget about hats and flags and "emotional investment". This is a political figure who has made his political persona also about a financial investment. 

Dark Brandon Rises

 

Just as a throw-away sort of post, the sheer discomfiture the right has with Joe Biden doing regular stuff and having fun with his image absolutely delights me. Today, the chatterati were all in their feels about whether ice cream is manly and sunglasses are cool because of his appearance on Seth Meyers' show. I think the embrace of "Dark Brandon" as a counter-meme to "Let's go Brandon" fucks with their idea that the LEFT CAN'T MEME--of course liberals can meme. There's just more to life than trolling. 

Unless it makes hoes mad, and man, I sure do like to see hoes mad. 

But just to get more tendentious about the thing, the idea that it is less "something-something" of a president to eat ice cream is tan suit shit.  Ice cream is delightful--why so lactose-intolerant, Western Man? Even DJT gets his two scoops on, and I don't mean raisins.  Frankly, whoso would be a man, should be a nonconformist, and eat the damn cone even if everyone else should say him "ghey". 

Also, what are you going to do with a cone? By the sheer physics of ice cream cones, you can neither put it down nor stop licking, for it is constantly melting around you. It is a metaphor for a calling.

Or maybe I'm just flipping riffing because little man Moses left the White House with his bush burning because everyone wants him to do at least one useful thing in the House and he doesn't know how. And yes, there's memes for that, too. 

House Republicans are what they are and are big Trump fans and Biden is sonning their leader and they can be mad, stay mad and die mad, IDGAF. 

I meme

I just wanted to get this image onto the interwebz.

Just Saying:

I felt like this needed a meme-ing. That's all.

These Candies Leave a Bad Taste

This image says it all. Let's end the politically correct agenda that doesn't put America first. #trump2016 pic.twitter.com/9fHwog7ssN

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 19, 2016

So, Donald Trump, Jr. posted the above message on Twitter, and I don't think he'll delete it because it was exactly the message the Trump Campaign was putting out today regarding the acts of alleged terrorist Ahmed Rahami--who was not Syrian, nor a refugee, and who was found asleep in a doorway by police. (My priceless Tweet: "I woke up in a Linden doorway, the policeman knew my name," has been absurdly ignored, and I am miffed.) What can one even say? The alt-right version, no less simplistic, usually uses M&M's. So it's not original, in just the way it isn't insightful or clever. But it does have the Trump/Pence logo going for it. Which inspires me, because of course it does.

UPDATE: People trying to flee are dying before our actual eyes. And this privileged peckerwood wants to compare them to poisoned candy? Fuck him, his Daddy, their party and the alt-right.

UPDATE 9/28: He seems to have deleted the picture so here:

The internet doesn't actually forget, even if it loses some graphic integrity.