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[Sloanes Teddy]

Trump beat all of Congress by 3X. His folks must be so proud.

[adesigar]

1 hour ago, Sloanes Teddy said:

Trump beat all of Congress by 3X. His folks must be so proud.

 

3x more than 535 members of congress sounds a little low. You also need to add in all the family deals around the world and the crypto scams and the pay for pardon deals etc. Probably multiple times more than all of the congress corruption over the last couple of decades.

Edited 7 hours ago by adesigar

[Maverick47]

1 hour ago, Sloanes Teddy said:

Trump beat all of Congress by 3X. His folks must be so proud.

I think you’re comparing Trump’s $2.2 billion of income in 2025 to the volume of trades made by all the traders in Congress, totalling $665 million?

Probably not apples to apples.  Highly unlikely that the congressional trades resulted in the same volume of profit on those trades.  If they made 20% profit on their trades, that would be $130 million.  Trump’s grift alone is more than 15 times that.

 

 

 

[Sloanes Teddy]

i was being conservative. do not want anyone to accuse me of exaggerating the president's graft:)

[cubsfan]

3 hours ago, adesigar said:

 

3x more than 535 members of congress sounds a little low. You also need to add in all the family deals around the world and the crypto scams and the pay for pardon deals etc. Probably multiple times more than all of the congress corruption over the last couple of decades.

 

LOL -- Congress sets the rules!

 

[cubsfan]

On 7/5/2026 at 9:17 AM, Spekulatius said:

Since we discussed authoritarism here is a specific issue, since Antifa was brought up. Antifa literally Means Anti fascist which to my knowledge not illegal. It’s not an “organization” either. There is no Antifa leadership. It’s a loose term for left organization and typically small groups that have little if any coordination that range from those who do throw Molotov cocktails to college student groups who demonstrate on the college grounds. How this is designated a terrorist organizations shows how far we have drifted off to authoritarian side here. Declaring an organization a terrorist organization based on nebulous associations is done by intent to scare people and now creates the perception of an enemy within - a very old autocratic scare tactic.

 

Say what you will about free speech in Europe, but I don’t think this would be possible. 

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

 

Antifa is not real. Must be my imagination.  ROFL

 

https://www.ngocomment.com/p/562-years-in-prison-all-members-of

 

562 Years in Prison: All Members of North Texas Antifa Terror Cell Now Sentenced

The 16 members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell have been sentenced to over 562 years in prison in the first federal Antifa terror case in U.S. history.

 

 

[Spekulatius]

6 hours ago, adesigar said:

 

3x more than 535 members of congress sounds a little low. You also need to add in all the family deals around the world and the crypto scams and the pay for pardon deals etc. Probably multiple times more than all of the congress corruption over the last couple of decades.

Trump drained the swap in DC by replacing it with the Everglades. He also made sure he is the biggest crocodile in it.

[Spekulatius]

1 hour ago, cubsfan said:

 

Antifa is not real. Must be my imagination.  ROFL

 

https://www.ngocomment.com/p/562-years-in-prison-all-members-of

 

562 Years in Prison: All Members of North Texas Antifa Terror Cell Now Sentenced

The 16 members of a North Texas Antifa terror cell have been sentenced to over 562 years in prison in the first federal Antifa terror case in U.S. history.

 

 

Highly questionable judgement and most of the sentence was because they were accused of being member of a terrorist organization which furthers my is why Antifa was designated as such with. The explosive mentioned were no more than fireworks. There was one shooter in this group who got 100 years for attempted murder.

 

By the same token, you could easily designate all the products boys and similar groups as terrorist and jail them for 50 years each doing doing riots. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Spekulatius

[adesigar]

Actually I remember something called the Jan 6th insurrection.

 

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/harrowing-scenes-jan-6-us-capitol-attack-four-years-ago-2025-01-06/54EOIAWCWBMJTANZY54FA33FKU/

 

1200 years in prison and that’s not even the final tally.

[cubsfan]

46 minutes ago, Spekulatius said:

Highly questionable judgement and most of the sentence was because they were accused of being member of a terrorist organization which furthers my is why Antifa was designated as such with. The explosive mentioned were no more than fireworks. There was one shooter in this group who got 100 years for attempted murder.

 

By the same token, you could easily designate all the products boys and similar groups as terrorist and jail them for 50 years each doing doing riots. 

 

They shot an ICE officer in the neck, he's lucky to be alive.  

 

All those onsite were armed.

 

They brought 11 guns with them. They were wearing body armor. They shot an ICE officer, and when he returned fire - and disabled the shooter's automatic weapon, they fled.

 

I guess they thought that their Signal chats would protect them. They turned on each other like rats and disclosed the whole Antifa conspiracy.

 

I just love how you make excuses for them.

 

[Parsad]

5 hours ago, Sloanes Teddy said:

i was being conservative. do not want anyone to accuse me of exaggerating the president's graft:)

 

LOL!  Hilarious.  The MAGA faithful won't care...$1M, $1B...as long as he's implementing his/their agenda, they don't give two shits.  It's additional zeroes for heroes! 

 

And John McCain...war hero, honest man, no graft, tried to do what was right regardless of party...LOSER, got caught, LOSER!  Very sad when you think about what is celebrated and what isn't any more. 

 

Cheers!

[Spekulatius]

5 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

 

They shot an ICE officer in the neck, he's lucky to be alive.  

 

All those onsite were armed.

 

They brought 11 guns with them. They were wearing body armor. They shot an ICE officer, and when he returned fire - and disabled the shooter's automatic weapon, they fled.

 

I guess they thought that their Signal chats would protect them. They turned on each other like rats and disclosed the whole Antifa conspiracy.

 

I just love how you make excuses for them.

 

There was only one shooter.

The accused and convicted brought body armor, but did not wear it. Owning body armor is not illegal.

I do not defend the shooter and he deserves a deft prison sentence but let face it, if those were right radicals, they would not been been accused of aiding terrorists which is why most for 50 years.