Quote from: Die_empty on Today at 06:02:11 AM

Quote from: legiteum on August 09, 2024, 09:13:34 PM

I have sometimes been called "alarmist" in these forums because I have made predictions about what Trump would do if he wins the presidency. I predicted that Trump would introduce a competitor of Bitcoin, and then use his control of the US government to prop up his platform and pass laws to denigrate existing crypto platforms like Bitcoin.

Well, it looks like my first prediction is about to come true.

Your predictions have not materialized because Trump has not won the elections, and the announcement by Trump Jr. might just be another political stunt.

I guess I should have qualified that the first part of my prediction has come true.

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I know that America has a vibrant Congress and Courts. Or are you seeing your country now operates an authoritarian system where the president has absolute powers to make laws without limits?

Trump tried to overthrow the US government violently, and his voters don't care. He is a convicted criminal with 88 more indictments on the way, and his voters don't care. He illegally extorted Ukraine, and his voters don't care.

Trump won't have to make any laws, he will just break the ones that already exist as if they weren't there--and his voters won't care.

There was a recent poll (I forgot where, google it) that indicated that a majority of Trump's voters want an authoritarian system where the president is an absolute dictator.

America has a vibrant Congress and Courts... if we can keep it...

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Do you mean that Trump will introduce his cryptocurrency just because he wants to enforce his anti-abortion laws? That's ridiculous. Americans already know how to bypass such laws. Many of them will simply move to Mexico where they will even get cheaper and private abortions. Trump will end up flooding the US with illegal abortion drugs if he goes to this extent in his bid to control abortion.

No, Trump is introducing his own crypto stuff so he can make billions (or even trillions) of dollars. He will use his party's favorite policy goal as an excuse to disfavor his competitors and favor his own products.

Republicans are already instituting border controls around states to keep women from leaving states to get abortions. They obviously know all about what you are proposing here, and obviously the only way to stop all of the abortions will be to do what they are doing in certain states in the whole country.

Also, Republicans have also temporarily made the abortion drug illegal nationwide, but since a Democrat was president (Biden), that failed. But Trump will reinstate that ban the moment he gets into office. And then yes, all abortion drugs in the US will have the same issues as illicit drugs like heroine and fentanyl since they will be illegal.

Stopping the millions of abortions in the US every year--a key policy goal of Republicans for the last 40 years--will require a new police state like the US has never seen.