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[–] [email protected] 254 points 6 days ago (8 children)

anyone else buy the dip? because you know all his criminal friends did.

[–] [email protected] 303 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I don't, but yes this is very blatant

[–] [email protected] 244 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

If the FTC/SEC were staffed, they'd be very upset.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

The acting chair of both, SpoogeCannon, of DOGE, has released a statement voicing his concern about this. He said he’ll get to the bottom of where this picture came from and put a stop to it.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 6 days ago (1 children)

must be the biggest insider trading event in history

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago (7 children)

The biggest most beautiful insider trading, you've never seen bigger insider trading. String him up!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

There must be a way to surface this info? Surely there are known "insider" accounts one can track?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

100%, its incredibly obvious.

No, I was watching the bond market. The bond market is very tricky. I was watching it, but if you look at it now, it’s — it’s beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But, yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.”

Hard to believe these are US Presidential quotes. Sounds more like some teenage barista smoking pot.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don't shit on teenagers smoking pot by comparing them to Trump lol

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even the people smoking pot know he's an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing.

Source - I smoke pot.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 6 days ago (3 children)

And nothing will happen. But i bet a new trans athlete will win 5th place in an event somewhere to divert magas attention.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Didn't that already happen? I thought they were all butthurt about some pool competition, like it fucking matters.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My favorite is people complaining about trans competitors in chess

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well you are that's cause they developed a cunning male brain at birth, and now with hormones they also have a crafty female brain. Having two brains is an unfair advantage over the poor cis men and women who only have one brain.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, no shit. His first term was 100% him playing golf and using the treasury as his personal piggy bank, why the fuck would we expect anything different this time around? Wake me up when someone actually does something about it.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He made the announcement at 1:18, but there was a high volume spike in SPY at 1:02. He then introduced some friends, like Charles Schwab, in the white house later and said they had made billions. This crash was also the first time MTG bought stocks.

Should be an SEC investigstion with actual consequences for once. Probably won't be, but there should.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (1 children)

100% he is making bank off this. So are his buddies. What DOGE was all about, setting up the US Gov't to be fleeced as a cash cow for the crime family. We need these criminals removed and full security audit on our entire gov't computer system. Every US citizen is currently at risk due to negligence but these fools. That doesn't even cover the extensive list of civil rights violations and oh...you know, constitution violations. But it matters not unless the are actual consequences. But money makes those go away.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 6 days ago (7 children)

The American legal system will be unable and/or unwilling to deal with it. Best chance is to send HIM to El Salvador if he ever relinquishes the office.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Absolutely not. Crimes committed within the u.s. such as treason get adjudicated in the u.s.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean, dude literally commited treason. "Market manipulation" is quite tame in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Multiple treasons, and all the people who would punish him for his market manipulation just benefitted from it so they're only going to thank him

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 days ago (9 children)

He has like 30 something felonies and openly admitted to rigging the voting computers. The man could commit murder on stage and still somehow continue being president.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 days ago (5 children)

This should be considered an act of war by...everyone, really. Everyone should pull their stuff out of the US market, be they ordinary Americans, Norweigian oil bonds, or German gold.

Trump will pull this shit again, he has a pattern of pulling the rug, and will keep doing so long after there is no more rug.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (21 children)

I've been saying this all along. Not just about this time, but he has pulled off a similar trade scare every month since he took office, with the same result - he announces tariffs, the market tanks, he rattles his sabre a bit, then pauses the tariffs, and the market rises again.

This has been the third, and biggest one, probably because he needed to make it a big one as he cried wolf for a third time. Which means the next time he does it, it will have to be even bigger.

Its clearly market manipulation, of a type that only president could do, but only if he were corrupt enough.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean it's not like he went on Truth Social shortly before he announced the pause and told people it was a good time to buy stocks or anything... right?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

The only reason he reversed course is because the bond market was shitting the bed. If no one was buying our shitty bonds, then they couldn't issue the debt to pay for the massive tax cuts for the rich they're about to pass. The insider trading wasn't supposed to start until the market bottomed, they will absolutely try this same play again in three months.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It seems like bonds are favourable when issued by a country with a stable government. Won’t investors consider this a sign of an unstable government and possibly continue to dump bonds?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago

And? Who’s going to do anything about it? The stupidest people in this country gave a con man unilateral power to do anything he wants, what did they expect?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

Impeach. 3 times at least before it will work.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

isnt there a video of him talking about how much him and his friends made from it? its not really an accusation at this point, he manipulated the market.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And that's not even in the top 10 most heinous crimes he's committed

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

This week even.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel no one looks at truth social cause screw it but shortly before the announcement of the pause on tariffs trump did post to buy now.

Dump Post

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

There was definitely a rumor that caused a market spike two days ago until the white house immediately called it "fake news" which the media took at Trump's word as they always so gullibly do. Well as it turns, out, this "fake news" got the duration of the pause right to the exact number of days.

Now everyone seems to be pretending they don't remember that this happened just two days ago and I just don't get it. Shouldn't somebody be asking why some random people on Twitter seemed to know Trump's plans in advance?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Insert George Carlin quote number 18647

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This grifter needs to be jailed now

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You misspelled hanged until dead.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Is it 125% for China and 10% for everyone else currently?... for 90 days?

Or is it 10℅ across the board for 90 days?

I'll wait for his next tweet to make all my speculation pointless. Fuck this guy.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago

You know he'll never face charges tho, right? I mean SCOTUS essentially gave him carte blanche to do anything he wants, whenever he wants to whomever he wants, no questions asked.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not market manipulation, he tweeted in the morning that it's a good time to buy, we should've just trusted the orange man /s

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (4 children)

He's been accused of a lot of things. Doesn't mean anything until he gets punished

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I don't see how any of this matters.

He is literally and figuratively above the law. He will face zero consequences.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

im so tired.

I know that’s the point but please just let me go

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Arrest his corporate benefactors for insider trading. They’ll find out loyalty is only one way, or worst case scenario pardoning clear criminal behavior goes on record

If the conman-in-chief somehow made himself above every law, above Constitutional checks and balances, we have to start by removing the criminals that enable and support that, or worst case scenario take every opportunity to highlight it to low information voters

He can only flout the law because he has supporters that enable criminal behavior. Remove them and this all comes tumbling down

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Jail Trump! Jail Trump!

.....and he pardoned himself.

Hold on, is he raping two old ladies on main street while also shooting a dog, stealing 10 cars, developing an illegal DNA chemical and polluting the environment?

.....and he pardoned himself.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for the market to either stop responding or crash and never recover since you can't trust this fucking asshole.

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