Trump: Cryptocurrency ‘a Very Dangerous Thing’ — ‘I Like to Have the Dollar’

[WisconsinLiberty]

See bold, we all know what that means when statists make comments like that.

No friend of liberty.

Trump also said this in 2016:

Trump: Gold Better Than Cash; Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is
https://thenewamerican.com/trump-gold-better-than-cash-puts-his-money-where-his-mouth-is/

Blasting “False Economy,” Trump Takes on the Federal Reserve
https://thenewamerican.com/blasting-false-economy-trump-takes-on-the-federal-reserve/

 

[Swordsmyth]

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to never allow the use of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), as it would "give the government absolute control over your money."

"This would be a dangerous threat to freedom – and I will stop it from coming to America. We are also going to put in place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to de-bank you for your political beliefs. That will never happen while I am your president," Trump told a crowd in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - as first reported by The National Pulse.

Trump says he will prevent implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) pic.twitter.com/vheJDn2HBg
— Bertman (@manofbert) January 18, 2024

Trump's comments come hours after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed that federal agencies have been flagging financial transactions using politically sensitive words such as "MAGA" and "Trump" in yet another egregious example of the establishment targeting political rivals.

As we've reported for years, CBDCs - touted by globalists such as French Central Bank deputy governor Denis Beau as "the catalyst for improving cross-border payments by enabling the build-up of a new international monetary system" - are in fact the ultimate tools of oppression.

Even Fed Governors know 'this way lies danger':

"In thinking about the implications of CBDC and privacy, we must also consider the central role that money plays in our daily lives, and the risk that a CBDC would provide not only a window into, but potentially an impediment to, the freedom Americans enjoy in choosing how money and resources are used and invested," Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman told a Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems last year.

Central bank digital currencies are part of a broader "war on cash."

A cashless society is sold on the promise of providing a safe, convenient, and more secure alternative to physical cash. We’re also told it will help stop dangerous criminals who like the intractability of cash.

But there is a darker side – the promise of control.

The elimination of cash creates the potential for the government to track and control consumer spending. Digital economies would also make it even easier for central banks to engage in manipulative monetary policies such as negative interest rates.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/trump-vows-never-allow-central-bank-digital-currency

 

[pmbug]

Swordsmyth - you do realize that CBDCs (subject of your post) are not BTC/crypto (subject of this thread), right?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Swordsmyth - you do realize that CBDCs (subject of your post) are not BTC/crypto (subject of this thread), right?

I have been told they are by people defending the abuse of power trying to bury this story in the BTC/crypto section.
And people were claiming he wanted a CBDC:

If he's talking about actual cash, I'd agree.

But I don't think he is.

 

[Swordsmyth]

And we can all see that this threadt was thought to be fit for US politics, until something that made Trump look good was posted in it, then it gets banished to an obscure section of the site.

 

[pmbug]

I have been told they are by people defending the abuse of power trying to bury this story in the BTC/crypto section.
And people were claiming he wanted a CBDC:

Well whoever told you that is misinformed. BTC/crypto (not including stablecoins - they are a different beast) are decentralized and free market. CBDC is centralized and a nuclear weapon of tyranny. Anyone conflating the two needs to open their eyes. The government has been engaging in a war against crypto while working on developing CBDCs. Governments (or more accurately - the banking cartels) do not want competition. The war on cash is just another prong in preparing the masses for a CBDC. Governments have seen the holy grail of financial surveillance (CBDC) and do not want the people to have the financial freedom to conduct commerce with any bearer instruments (coin/cash). I hope there is a sufficient awakening among the masses before it is too late. What we use for money is a fundamental fulcrum between financial liberty and oppression.

 

[acptulsa]

Anyone conflating the two needs to open their eyes. The government has been engaging in a war against crypto while working on developing CBDCs. Governments (or more accurately - the banking cartels) do not want competition.

Wait wait wait wait.

If there's just no way to conflate the two, how can they be competition? And if the cartel wants to eliminate the one as a threat to the other, how is the one irrelevant to a subforum about the other?

Swordy is trying to use you to justify one of his attention whoring hissy fits by asking you leading questions. Allegedly, it's not a living, just a hobby.

 

[pmbug]

...
If there's just no way to conflate the two, how can they be competition? And if the cartel wants to eliminate the one as a threat to the other, how is the one irrelevant to a subforum about the other?

Q1 - They are very different constructs that are competing to serve the same market/function.

Q2 - My original comment was not directed at his post being published in the crypto sub-forum. It was about his anti-CBDC post placed in an anti-BTC/crypto thread. The post does not fit with the thread topic. But as you have raised the question, I personally would say that discussions on CBDCs belong in Economy and Markets (where Federal Reserve/central bank policy discussion belong). CBDCs <> crypto.

...
Swordy is trying to use you ...

Maybe I'm the one using him to highlight the important difference on these two topics.

 

[acptulsa]

Maybe I'm the one using him to highlight the important difference on these two

Hope I helped.

 

[pmbug]

(forum rep system here is too limiting)

 

[WisconsinLiberty]

Trump likes Gold more than dollars.


Trump: Gold Better Than Cash; Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is

The New American
April 6, 2016

 

[Occam's Banana]

And we can all see that this threadt was thought to be fit for US politics, until something that made Trump look good was posted in it, then it gets banished to an obscure section of the site.

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Congratulations on your discovery that mods are not omniscient beings who never miss anything.

(And thanks for bumping that thread so it could moved to where it belongs.)

 

[Swordsmyth]

Wait wait wait wait.

If there's just no way to conflate the two, how can they be competition? And if the cartel wants to eliminate the one as a threat to the other, how is the one irrelevant to a subforum about the other?

Swordy is trying to use you to justify one of his attention whoring hissy fits by asking you leading questions. Allegedly, it's not a living, just a hobby.

So you agree that my original thread belonged in US Politics and not the Crypto section.
Interesting.

 

[Swordsmyth]

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Neither thread belongs there, CBDCs are not Crypto and my thread was about Trump's campaign promise to not allow a CBDC which makes it more of a US Politics topic even if they were.
And this one was about Trump's position on crypto.

It doesn't belong in Crypto as both Bern and Tulsa have said above and even if it could go either place threads should not be moved from a valid section where the OP put them.

 

[acptulsa]

Wait wait wait wait.

If there's just no way to conflate the two, how can they be competition? And if the cartel wants to eliminate the one as a threat to the other, how is the one irrelevant to a subforum about the other?

So you agree that my original thread belonged in US Politics and not the Crypto section.
Interesting.

That's what you gleaned from that?

Didn't realize English was your second language.

At least, I hope that's what that is, because if that isn't it, you're a moron.

It doesn't belong in Crypto as both Bern and Tulsa have said above and even if it could go either place threads should not be moved from a valid section where the OP put them.

You need to learn how to comprehend the English language before you do any he said she said claims. Because when you don't take that first step, you tend to lie your ass off, lying bastard.

Don't put words in my mouth and pretend you just did it because you're an idiot. God gives humble idiots latitude; presumptuous idiots go to the Lake of Fire in the end.

If you want to know what I think, and aren't just looking for something you think you can twist into something else, I think piling every damned thing into the same subforum just because you think you can whore more attention there creates an unsorted jumble useless for research. And piling on one of the two worst presidents in history or the other just because popularity and momentum is serving the devil.

And good morning to you too. Here's a nice idol for you to piss God off by worshipping today:

Now keep my name out of your mouth, at least until you learn how to read.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

I propose we establish a "Swordsmyth Trump Cuck" subforum, wherein he can ramble nonstop about how Trump has never been wrong about anything and he's literally the Hoover Dam holding back the woke-ist, leftist flood from finally and totally consuming all of America.

That way, we can all safely look through the window at him, and say, "awwwwww... the poor little fella." And then we can all go back to discussing actual, legitimate liberty-oriented solutions to this disaster of a country.

Just a thought...

 

[CCTelander]

I propose we establish a "Swordsmyth Trump Cuck" subforum, wherein he can ramble nonstop about how Trump has never been wrong about anything and he's literally the Hoover Dam holding back the woke-ist, leftist flood from finally and totally consuming all of America.

That way, we can all safely look through the window at him, and say, "awwwwww... the poor little fella." And then we can all go back to discussing actual, legitimate liberty-oriented solutions to this disaster of a country.

Just a thought...

Little snowflakes do need their safe spaces.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Little snowflakes do need their safe spaces.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to CCTelander again.

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