Correct, and correct. But Vance will be seen as a MAGA traitor for removing Trump, and they will have a very hard time getting their messaging straight.
I think that would also lead to a power vacuum. Vance might get the big boy chair, but the stringpullers will get antsy with midterms approaching.
Escalation or capitulation.
Escalation means explosion of all the tension that has been building since inauguration, and that won’t last long as it will be utter chaos and good for nobody.
Capitulation means Vance. But that doesn’t necessarily preclude escalation down the road with him.
If I was a betting man, I’d say capitulation - MAGA politicians will throw Trump under the bus, MAGA voters (read: morons) will reject Vance, Bannon, Miller and Thiel will panic and get messy, and then some people will go to prison.
Oh yeah, it’ll get worse. But that’s what will get him out and everyone in prison.
Basically their hand is forced: escalate or capitulate. I’m not 100% sure which will happen but I am 100% sure it will be one of those two things within the next two weeks.
Soon. When the safety nets start failing.
However, Trump will likely be removed by his own people in a matter of months, and Republicans will pretend to be victims of an elaborate scheme. It’ll probably work too, because anyone who is a supporter of Republicans today is a literal moron, or psychopath.
So this is how you know you’re the fucking bad guys, if any MAGAs are lurking around here.
They are either starving people for leverage, or starving people out of malice. That’s it. Those are your only options.
If you support a government that starves people for leverage, you’re a fucking asshole.
If you support a government that starves people out of malice, you’re a fucking asshole, and you’re a complete failure of a human being.
I’m very, VERY thankful Trump and MAGA are finally collapsing. 3 months from today Trump will not be the president. 3 years from now, most of these people will be dead or in prison.
Ah, but if you can find the book in thousands upon thousands of libraries spread all around the world, has anything been lost?
Bitcoin is crypto. Crypto is not Bitcoin. I strongly encourage you to look into the history of money. What has been used as money in the past, why it was used as money…rai stones are my favorite example.
Bitcoin, if you are able to understand the mechanics of it, is the “hardest” form of money that has ever existed. History shows money always flows into the hardest asset available. It also shows what happens when that asset loses its hardness. This is why gold has been king for a long, long time.
Then along came Bitcoin (NOT crypto, there was crypto before and crypto after), and it used game theory, the internet, math, cryptography and programming to become the most elegant store of value ever invented, which is also the hardest form of money ever created.
I actually loathe Bitcoin, even if I admire it and buy it. It’s an energy nightmare. No one will ever convince me that it’s “green” in any meaningful way. And I’m a huge environmentalist. But I’m not an idiot. It’s inevitable. It’s already started. Fiat currencies are going to start inflating uncontrollably and the money is going to go somewhere. If Bitcoin is superior as a store of value to gold, and more importantly is harder than gold, it’s got a long, long way to go.
OOHHHHHHH there’s no physical Bitcoins, THAT’S why it’s a scam!
Shit, I wish I had figured this out before. Thank God you came along to open my eyes 🤣🤣🤣
All this time I thought Bitcoin Inc had my real bitcoins safely in storage. How could I be so fucking stupid?
I won’t be replying as I’m now going to jump off a bridge given how badly I’ve been intellectually bested. I simply cannot go on any longer now that the truth behind Bitcoin has been revealed to me.
Never mind, I found one but I had to look way back.
You said crypto has no utility. Which is awfully naive and I’m not even sure you really believe it. But you’re not really making a strong case. You’re just…saying it has no utility.
What arguments? You haven’t made a single argument, you’ve just been bloviating at random.
Tell me, what arguments have you made? Or is “crypto scam you dumb” the argument?
WHY is all crypto the same?
Uhhhh ok if you want to be pedantic, crypto is not immaterial as it exists as matter (the hardware holding the blockchain).
I guess I was under the impression you were using it to mean “without physical value” even though that’s not the definition. I figured you couldn’t possibly be trying to argue that there is no physical matter involved in Bitcoin…
Oh my god you don’t even know what fiat currency is.
Okay I think we’re good here
Just because you say it doesn’t make it true, and if it were true you’d expect me to be invested in other “cryptos” surely.
Do you think I’m invested in any non-Bitcoin crypto? Why would I draw such an arbitrary line between one and the literal rest of them?
Maybe, just maybe there is a difference.
Remember these conversations down the road.
And stop saying crypto. We are talking about Bitcoin.
Fiat currency is immaterial. So much so that it can literally be created out of thin air.
Ok, I’m in on that. They are gonna need that money.
But I’m going to buy $400 of Bitcoin with the rest of that $500
It would be wild, if that’s what actually happened
Edit: Do you have a charity picked out? Or shall I just go ahead and buy more Bitcoin?
We’re losing the plot here.
The apocalypse thing is a stupid thought experiment at the end of the day. I think it’s fair to say gold would be better than Bitcoin in a total apocalypse scenario. But this isn’t why people buy Bitcoin. It’s not the collapse of civilization people are buying gold and bitcoin for, it’s the collapse of the US dollar (and all fiat currencies).
For that collapse scenario, which is exponentially more likely than the literal apocalypse, Bitcoin is king. It’s an objective fact. It’s literally the most logical solution to that problem. This isn’t to say that Bitcoin doesn’t have downsides. It does. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s inevitable. That’s what most people can’t seem to wrap their heads around
Just realized this is an extremely poor argument anyway…maybe “does not” instead of “cannot” will be helpful in understanding.
I answered your question so maybe you’ll do me the honour of answering mine.
If someone breaks into your house and steals your gold coins, what value do they have to you?
If it burns down, how much will it cost to recoup all your gold back into a manageable, tradeable form?
The traitorous, moronic MAGA voters will have nothing to do with it. They’re just along for the ride, just like they are now. They’re nothing but pawns.