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December 17, 2022

Trump rages about 'cancer' on Truth Social amid reports Jan 6 panel will call to charge him

Source: The Independent

Donald Trump took to Truth Social to claim that “our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer”.

The former president went on to rage on Saturday morning that “the Crooked FBI, the so-called Department of ‘Justice,’ and ‘Intelligence,’ all parts of the Democrat Party and System, is the Cancer”.

“These Weaponized Thugs and Tyrants must be dealt with, or our once great and beautiful Country will die!!!” he thundered on the platform.

Meanwhile, after a year of exhaustive investigations and witness interviews, the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol is expected to refer Donald Trump to the US Department of Justice for a charge of insurrection.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-trading-cards-nft-super-hero-b2246338.html



For a moment I thought
December 17, 2022

Trump May Face 25 Years in Prison

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner predicted that former President Donald Trump might get up to 25 years in prison for committing offenses related to last year's Capitol riot, after the House select committee investigating the attack decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this month.

The Department of Justice prides itself on exercising independent prosecutorial discretion but they can't turn a blind eye to a coequal branch of government that has done such an exhaustive investigation when they pass all of that evidence over to [the] DOJ and they recommend criminal investigations and prosecutions," he said.

Some of the recommendations were made by a subcommittee that assessed potential criminal referrals. Proposed charges against the former president include insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States government, according to Politico.

"It is great that they're talking about obstructing official proceedings, that's a 20-year offense. It's great that they are talking about conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, that's a 5-year offense," Kirschner said.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-may-face-25-years-prison-blocked-future-office-kirschner-1767910
December 17, 2022

NB: Trump gets a 10% royalty on the resale of the digital card NFTs

You have the ability to trade or sell your Trump Digital Trading Card directly with your friends or on any secondary marketplace that accepts Polygon-based NFTs/digital collectibles.

On each secondary sale of a Trump Digital Trading Card, there will be a 10% royalty on the sale price that will be paid back to the creator.

https://www.collecttrumpcards.com

This is more than the grift that keeps on giving, it allows money to be laundered to Trump legally, by driving up the price on the aftermarket (10% to Trump on every sale with MAGAs thinking how smart they are) - or via private sales. For example, an Oligarch could buy set by private sale at an extortionate price (10% to Trump), on then sell them to the Saudisetc. at a super extortionate price (10% more to Trump), all perfectly legally. Trump declares the income. Launder complete.

As kpete posted: "He's Not Selling Cards!"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217469545
December 17, 2022

Trump cards NFTs now trading at $450

https://opensea.io

Trump gets a cut of every trade. An awfully good way of funneling money to him. For example, Saudis could make a one off purchase for big $$$, and he would get funds he could keep anywhere, for anything.
December 17, 2022

82.5 vs 81.7 vs 80.9 vs 80.4 vs 75.5

Life expectancy at birth, years, males, 2022

82.5 (Switzerland) 81.7 (Australia) 80.9 (Canada) 80.4 (United Kingdom) 75.5 (United States)

76.0 (China)

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/life-expectancy-by-country
rounded to one decimal place

December 16, 2022

Trump's digital cards sell out within a day

Source: The Hill

Former President Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out less than 24 hours after he first announced they were available.

As of Friday morning, the site selling the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) says they are sold out, and links to purchase the digital cards are no longer available.

OpenSea Data, which tracks the sales and markets for NFTs, indicated there were 45,000 of the Trump cards initially made available for purchase for $99 each. The Trump digital cards were the top trending item on the site as of Friday morning.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3777969-trumps-digital-cards-sell-out-within-a-day/



Somebody had to post it.

To see what's really going on, go to kpete's OP. It a front for funneling foreign money, and spiriting funds out of the U.S.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217469545

UPDATE: OpenSea 'reports' that the card NFTs are going for $230 on the after market.

Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/12/16/trump-nft-collection-sells-out-price-surges/
December 14, 2022

Ukraine: Smoking is bad for your health



This reply by mitch96 about the Wagners getting vaped, deserves a post all of its own.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17461532
December 12, 2022

Eloon - 'Fauci funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people'

Musk fires back after criticism of gender pronouns tweet about Fauci

Twitter CEO Elon Musk fired back on Sunday night after facing backlash for tweeting that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci” earlier in the day, a reference to chief White House adviser Anthony Fauci.

“Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the #LGBTQ+ community,” astronaut Scott Kelly, the twin brother of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), responded to Musk’s tweet. “They are real people with real feelings. Furthermore, Dr Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.”

“I strongly disagree,” Musk replied. “Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone. As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo.”

Multiple Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), have pressed Fauci on whether the National Institutes of Health has ever funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a claim Fauci has said is “entirely and completely incorrect,” as part of the Republicans’ claims that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3771492-musk-fires-back-after-criticism-of-gender-pronouns-tweet-about-fauci/
December 11, 2022

Some of the most far out there, Stupid Shit, that I have ever read -

Setting the scene -

Walker: Man, who didn’t vote for me?
Sheriff: It was a secret ballot Herschel.
Walker: Yeah, I know. But give me their names anyways.

Welcome to Planet Totally Brain Dead ...

Herschel Walker “absolutely shocked” by election result

... Walker seemed to feel pretty confident that he would win Johnson County, where his hometown of Wrightsville is located. While the former Georgia Bulldogs star did carry the county, wining just under 74 percent of the vote, he was reportedly “absolutely shocked,” per a former staffer—that he didn’t win 100 percent of the county, a statistical impossibility.

According to The Daily Beast, Walker was so confused by the fact that Johnson County voters actually cast ballots for his opponent, that he told aides to alert local law enforcement. “I’m gonna call the sheriff and have him find out who didn’t vote for me,” Walker said, according to one aide.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/herschel-walker-absolutely-shocked-by-election-result/ar-AA158htr

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