{"id":283602,"date":"2024-12-30T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=283602"},"modified":"2024-12-25T05:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T05:20:56","slug":"the-one-hundred-billion-dollar-bitcoin-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/the-one-hundred-billion-dollar-bitcoin-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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23 Dec 2024 <\/em>– This is corruption in its purest form, happening right out in the open. Trump and the Republicans are ramming through the so-called \u201cBitcoin Act,\u201d a scheme to liquidate U.S. gold reserves and blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with a staggering $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.<\/p>\n

But are we surprised? Trump\u2019s White House was a billionaire bunker, stuffed with Wall Street hustlers and influence-peddlers who greased the wheels with record-setting pay-to-play donations. Now, they\u2019re raiding the Treasury, picking the bones of the middle class, and laughing all the way to their offshore accounts. It\u2019s the same tired playbook: privatize the profits, socialize the losses. And just to twist the knife, Musk and Ramaswamy\u2019s ridiculous DOGE plan promises to gut programs that millions of Americans rely on. The rich get richer; everyone else gets fleeced.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Daniel Medina – My cartoons stand up firmly against racism, xenophobia, hate bigotry, and ignorance. Regardless of the political party one belongs to, if you try to take advantage of the people, you will not be safe from my pen. Email: <\/em>contactdanielmedinacomics@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the \u201cBitcoin Act\u201d to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":182057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3225,2084,550,2825,354,555,562,1703,70],"class_list":["post-283602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought","tag-billionaires","tag-bitcoin","tag-corruption","tag-dollar","tag-economics","tag-elites","tag-finance","tag-us-federal-reserve","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283605,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283602\/revisions\/283605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}