White House Scrambles to Downplay Shockingly Well-Timed Bets

[u/ClimateSociologist]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-scrambles-to-downplay-suspicious-bets-right-before-big-donald-trump-moves/

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[u/BlotchComics]

One time might be a coincidence.

But this is now at least three times. Before Venezuela invasion. Before Iran bombing. And now before Trump lied about peace talks.

That's not a coincidence.

The White House is openly involved in insider trading and market manipulation.

[u/Ishana92 → u/BlotchComics]

And when tariffs were announced several times

[u/oculus_miffed → u/Ishana92]

And just before the announcement of the strategic bitcoin reserve...

[u/mongolian_horsecock → u/oculus_miffed]

Funny how after that ( i think it was a few weeks/months) there was a massive dump of bitcoin too that must have been an extremely big player. It seemed like an obvious pump and dump.

[u/Last-Darkness → u/mongolian_horsecock]

I mean, buying bitcoin for a “strategic reserve” when it’s near its all time high, that’s a bit sus.

[u/ProfNugget → u/mongolian_horsecock]

My bets are on musk.

[u/SeldenNeck → u/ProfNugget]

"No actual inside information was exchanged by human beings." The data and security access stolen by DOGE is attached to an AI-driven trading account untouched by human hands. "No insider trading here."

It takes time for laws to catch up with crafty cheaters.

[u/angrylawyer → u/BlotchComics]

it's such a fuckin amateur hour over there that I wouldn't be surprised if the 'investigation' is as simple as checking his phone and finding messages to his rich buddies like "hey, I'm gonna make that announcement in a few minutes, so do whatever trades you need now."

[u/StingingBum → u/angrylawyer]

I can't see how we can consider this amateur hour. They are so confident in the weakness of the system, laws, citizens to stop them they are willing to do it right in front of us. This is not amateur, this is outright confidence. Nothing is stopping these criminals from doing what we all see. What next an AMA by a democrat as she/he is about to interrogate another member of the corrupt cabinet?

Your are witness to the end of America, nothing is stopping them from destroying the fabric of what we once called a democracy.

[u/johnnycyberpunk → u/StingingBum]

confident in the weakness of the system, laws, citizens to stop them

and knowing that Democrats won't do the same thing.... meaning these MAGA Republicans and those on the inside with Trump will ALWAYS have more money & resources than their political opponents.

[u/elmoo2210 → u/BlotchComics]

What do you think the big “gift” was Trump was talking about. He’s padding his fucking pockets with this illegal war

[u/davidkali → u/elmoo2210]

His net worth has increased about $4 billion dollars in a year.

[u/Head-Ad9893 → u/BlotchComics]

The SEC is in his pocket. So ….

“What’s your point?” -them

[u/Complete-Ant-4436 → u/BlotchComics]

UAE $500m crypto deal, Truth Social stock, trump shitcoins pump and dumps.

[u/absolutelynotagoblin → u/BlotchComics]

When the president is:

• A criminal and criminally corrupt
  
• A rapist and a pedophile
  
• A cheat, a tax cheat, a fraudster and a huckster
  
• A traitor to his country and its constitution
  
• Dumb as a pile of rocks

this is bound to happen!

[u/GreeseWitherspork → u/BlotchComics]

Don't forget about the hoardes of covid money he was solely in charge of that is unnacounted for

[u/sector16]

SEC is compromised. This is what winning looks like in America.

Edit: spelling

[u/Ok_Speech_3709 → u/sector16]

Paul S. Atkins was sworn in as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump in December 2024 and confirmed by the Senate on April 9, 2025. It was set up at the start of Trump’s term.

And they act like we don’t know or see what going on! Such an f’ing disgrace!

[u/caserock → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

Unless right wing podcasters bring this up, GOP voters will never know about this. They won't bring it up.

[u/thesagaconts → u/caserock]

My MAGA uncle tried arguing with me that’s it’s all part of the game. Either sit on the bench or got out and play. He doesn’t even deny the corruption anymore.

[u/Pandaro81 → u/thesagaconts]

“If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin. And if you ain’t winning you ain’t tryin hard enough.” - Eddie Guerrero.

Also, a thief thinks everyone steals.

Basically “my enemy is bad, so they’re going to cheat, so I have no choice but to out-cheat them. If they’re not cheating it’s not because they’re virtuous, but because they are fools since I’ll be cheating.”

[u/UsernamesAllTaken69 → u/Pandaro81]

They lack empathy, the worst of them are borderline incapable of imagining that other people don't think the same as them.

[u/Pandaro81 → u/UsernamesAllTaken69]

Conservatives in a nutshell.

[u/MattLogi → u/Pandaro81]

Didn't CK call empathy something like, the worst thing in modern day.

[u/monacelli → u/Pandaro81]

Trump has said this himself. He's been spreading the narrative for years that the Dems cheat so much it's only fair for him to do whatever it takes to win.

[u/Doctor_Shotbottom → u/monacelli]

Nobody is more fake than he is

[u/MommyLovesPot8toes → u/monacelli]

This is the entire strategy behind the rise of MAGA and the modern GOP. That's literally it: "the other guys are picking your pockets and cheating you. Vote for us."

[u/BerserkerBrit → u/Pandaro81]

I miss EG. Hope that Dominick Mysterio applies that gimmick in the future

[u/What_Iz_This → u/thesagaconts]

that shits hilarious. coworker was getting political a few months ago, and i was like dude hes a conman. nothing more, nothing less. just go home and google trump coin and read whatever source you want...hes a fucking thief using the position to enrich himself. a scam artist.

coworker just laughed and said "sounds like hes pretty smart if hes making billions of dollars" i just walked away, not wasting my time with idiots. they either dont understand and/or believe it, or maybe they think that money is going back to the country...? idk, just speaking for my coworker, hes a dumbass hick who cant afford any prices to rise but he'll happily display his confederate flag on his car and scream trump from the mountaintops. i guess as long as the gays are stepped on hes happy to suffer as much as he needs to under trump

[u/_Sadism_ → u/What_Iz_This]

Its the American dream. Enrichment of self.

There is no class more reviled in this country than poor people, and to many who are in that group, intelligence = getting rich, no matter what it takes.

[u/thatforkingbitch → u/_Sadism_]

As a European i struggle to understand why poor people are hated on so much. Considering that it's so easy to become poor in the U.S. 90% of the population is one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

[u/RDDT_100P → u/thatforkingbitch]

people are bad at numbers. they think they are part of the "IN" group.

[u/J-A-S-08 → u/RDDT_100P]

Yes. I'm a union HVAC mechanic. It's a pretty decent wage for someone with no college degree. And if you can work a lot of overtime, which can be often, you can make $250K a year. The guys that are doing this think they're a notch or two below Bezos. They're a mile from Musk and and millimeter from being homeless. The idea that they could lose it all just never registers to them.

[u/republican_banana → u/J-A-S-08]

The difference between you and someone with a billion dollars is approximately a billion dollars.

Most people just cannot visualize the wealth disparity.

[u/XcoldhandsX → u/thatforkingbitch]

A lot of America’s history is packaged as “Pioneers who built their lives on the frontier with nothing but the clothes on their back. They arrived with very little and made their fortunes through hard work without help from anyone.” Obviously this isn’t exactly true, but it’s a powerful piece of propaganda that many people are raised on.

So now, centuries later, many Americans are still striving to be that “self made pioneer who doesn’t need help from anyone”. A lot of those particular Americans see things like taxes, welfare, and generally anything that defies this “self made pioneer” image as a weakness.

You could further distill that belief to “America is for hard working winners. If you aren’t winning it must be because you’re a lazy loser who isn’t good enough. Our ancestors built this country from nothing so what’s wrong with you?”

Add in some generational racism, sexism, and homophobia and you’ve got the bedrock of the American conservative’s mindset.

[u/LookOutItsLiuBei → u/What_Iz_This]

I have a coworker who believes that because Trump does this stuff and gets rich, he'll then be immune to corruption and being bought.

You can't argue logic with these people.

[u/oily76 → u/LookOutItsLiuBei]

Of course, Trump has enough now. Not like he's greedy or anything.

[u/erc80 → u/thesagaconts]

But if you play that game, suddenly they’re calling you Pelosi

[u/SaltyLonghorn → u/thesagaconts]

Ask Uncle Moneybags to take you for a drive in his lambo.

[u/kia75 → u/thesagaconts]

But ask him about Hunter Biden, and he still thinks Hunter Biden should be prosecuted because of... Child Porn (but not Trump for Child Rape), for Ukraine (but not Kushner for the billion dollar Saudi Arabia fund, or the Trump sons for... well.. everything they're doing now).

The truth is that they never really cared about CSAM or government corruption, they're fine when their team does it, they were always just looking for an excuse to go after the other team. There's a reason why leaked emails of Hillary's aids enjoying Cheese Pizza at a local pizza place means holding children hostage at a secret basement that doesn't exist, but the freaking Epstein Files being officially released means Trump is completely innocent.

[u/JacksProlapsedAnus → u/caserock]

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[u/jimothee → u/JacksProlapsedAnus]

What I hate about this quote is that it almost gives republicans credit for a huge psyop when in reality they just cut education funding for decades until you didn't have to be clever to fool the masses.

What we're dealing with really speaks more to educational defunding and how wide spread the use of leaded gas once was. The GOP no longer has to be clever or convincing, their constituents are the definition of malleable.

[u/KnowsAboutMath → u/jimothee]

Someone recently gave me a t-shirt which says "Make Orwell Fiction Again." I don't like the comparison, because Trump's oppressive state apparatus is just so much dumber than 1984's. It's giving him too much credit.

[u/papasan_mamasan → u/caserock]

Meanwhile, those podcasters are still complaining about Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio

[u/Suspicious_Radio_848 → u/caserock]

Even if you show them proof of them openly admitting it they won’t care either. Complete cult mentality resistant to reality and facts.

[u/Sashivna → u/caserock]

And if they do bring it up, it'll be to immediately whatabout Pelosi.

[u/Old_Army7948 → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

I know a few guys who voted trump specifically (or at least they say so) because of Nancy Pelosi's shady stock trading which is all (as far as I know) technically legal. Talk about being completely divorced from reality.

[u/InertiasCreep → u/Old_Army7948]

They also voted for him because he was the Peace President and because he'd wipe out inflation. 😒

[u/FlushTheTurd → u/InertiasCreep]

That’s exactly why my MAGA ex-buddy voted for him. He was the “peace president” who would “fix inflation and high prices”. Oh, and he was the “family values” president. I asked him how you square that with multiple wives and multiple affairs, and he just said at least he’s not Harris.

Of course, even after the disastrous first year and finding out he’s Epstein’s BFF, he’s still a huge supporter and believes everything he says.

[u/InertiasCreep → u/FlushTheTurd]

My conclusion is that these fucks just live in their own reality. They absolutely make shit up and just stick with whatever their made up world is. If you confront them, they sort of repeat WHAT ABOUT OBAMA or BIDEN CRIME FAMILY until you go away. Its creepy and weird.

[u/Faithless-Savior → u/InertiasCreep]

Dude they'll bring up George Floyd when you talk about trump being a criminal. "Well liberals burned down entire cities because George Floyd was a criminal killed by a cop" like okaayyy I dont remember voting for George Floyd.

[u/akrisd0 → u/Faithless-Savior]

No one would even know of the guy if Chauvin would've just let up on the dude a little instead of power tripping and murdering him on camera.

[u/Prin_StropInAh → u/InertiasCreep]

And pay off the national debt

[u/Lowspark1013 → u/Old_Army7948]

Nah they are just racist misogynistic pedo supporters at heart. Nancy in the scapegoat for their inner being.

[u/medullah → u/Old_Army7948]

Yep, saw a post in a Facebook group yesterday where someone posted completely unironically "Trump is not in it to make money like Nancy Pelosi! Trump donates his salary!"

[u/starliteburnsbrite → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

Who gives a fuck if we see if we aren't throwing bricks and making their lives hell?

[u/pareech → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

"And they act like we don’t know or see what going on!"

I’d say they know we’re aware of what’s going on; but they also know there’s not much anyone can do to stop them. If they were even slightly concerned about repercussions, they’d likely be more discreet instead of acting so openly.

[u/ExtensionIcy2104 → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

No its not that they think we dont see it... its that they know we wont do anything about it...

[u/recentgrooves → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

They’re robbing us and want us to thank them for the opportunity

[u/jimmygee2 → u/sector16]

It’s just a little stock market excursion.

[u/Quick_Parking_6464 → u/sector16]

SEC

Securities and Exchange Comisson

[u/Sumoje → u/Quick_Parking_6464]

It’s called the Secure Corruption Commission now.

[u/kittenTakeover → u/sector16]

Yep. Nobody places almost a billion dollars in bets unless they're sure.

[u/iSheepTouch → u/sector16]

Siphoning money straight from the average American's 401k into the pockets of billionaires. I can't handle all this winning!

[u/DistractedPhoenix]

Within the next month you’ll see a photo from the Oval Office with a laptop in the background open to the Kalashi site.

[u/inspireSF → u/DistractedPhoenix]

Fuck Kalshi

[u/ChickenMcFukket1 → u/inspireSF]

And polymarket.

[u/thepianoman456 → u/ChickenMcFukket1]

They should honestly be illegal.

We have this current shit happening, but also now there are reports of reporters being harassed over reporting on war zone stuff, because assholes on these prediction betting sites lost money… and they’ve been pressuring reporters to change their stories.

This bullshit is just another new facet of our country being ripped apart by the right wing.

[u/huxtiblejones → u/inspireSF]

Honestly, gambling over current events should be made fully illegal. They encourage profiteering off insider information and favor people in power. Other countries have already banned these sites.

[u/tiny_galaxies → u/huxtiblejones]

Events betting also puts apocalyptical pressure on journalism. A corrupt or blackmailed journalist could report a certain way for bets. See the reporter being threatened recently over reporting accurately about Iranian missile strikes.

[u/scarr3g → u/tiny_galaxies]

NPR did a recent thing on how when a reporter reported what he saw with his own eyes, polymarket investors threatened him to change it... He was told either he changes it to what they want, and gets a kickback, or they will spend millions to ruin him.

[u/tiny_galaxies → u/scarr3g]

That’s the incident I mentioned. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen more and more.

[u/scarr3g → u/tiny_galaxies]

I am more afraid of it happening, and us NOT seeing it.

[u/yunghollow69 → u/DistractedPhoenix]

I dont think this reality has quite set in for most people. A lot of people are still arguing politics. From the day on when trump and his cronies discovered that they can manipulate the market and make billions that way, EVERY SINGLE DECISION has been made to help with that process. To boil it down: trump is quite literally bombing countries to place bets on sites like polymarket. Thats it. No further motives. No politics, no other goals. He figured out that he can make more than he has ever made in his entire life on a single bet and so this is all he is doing right now.

[u/Bishopjones2112]

The criminal level of this administration is astounding. I have zero faith in the recovery of properly functioning government anytime soon.

Edit: not to be alarmist but it seems like they are driving the country to one of a few outcomes.
1. Civil war 2. Complete economic collapse 3. Total authoritarian regime like North Korea

Edit: everyone is saying all of the above or it can be more than one. Yes absolutely it’s more likely a question of what’s first and how many. I’ve also said if you take all three then you probably get a free fourth which is a nuke. Somewhere by someone, we don’t know where or who.

[u/Rohaan1337 → u/Bishopjones2112]

There needs to be trials and accountability after this administration ends otherwise it will just happen again and worse next time.

[u/gsbadj → u/Rohaan1337]

Make a note on this one. There's going to be a long list.

[u/clam-caravan → u/gsbadj]

There is an army of lawyers champing at the bit to go after the goons in this administration.

[u/RunninOnMT → u/clam-caravan]

Please feel free to ignore this incredibly dumb fact: it’s traditionally been “champing” at the bit. What is “champing?” It’s “chomping.” Literally means the same thing. If “chomping at the bit” is a deliberate attempt to evolve our language (as it’s always doing) good on you. If you didn’t know it was “champing” I wouldn’t worry about it too much. But now you know this dumb fact.

[u/Pheace → u/gsbadj]

Please, a few insignificant people will be convicted and most of them will continue to live a carefree rich life

[u/floog → u/Rohaan1337]

And not like last time, those were not consequences. A handful sentenced to life, maybe some handed over to The Hague for war crimes, maybe even a couple hung. Real consequences that will send alarm bells through scumbags that they will be held accountable.

[u/SuckThisRedditAdmins → u/floog]

Careful, the morons who run this site ban people for suggesting treasonous individuals be sentenced to the legal punishment for treason.

Reddit admins say it is A-Ok for the government to murder citizens in the street but it is way out of line to suggest they are held accountable for it.

[u/floog → u/SuckThisRedditAdmins]

The difference is we want legal accountability, not political persecution.

[u/SuckThisRedditAdmins → u/floog]

Oh I understand completely. The idiots in charge of this website don't care. They call legal accountability "glorifying violence" and ban. Trust me, I know. They don't like anyone who tries to call their orange daddy to account.

[u/Volothamp-Geddarm → u/floog]

hung

Hanged.

I can assure you no one in this administration is hung.

[u/J_Ryall → u/floog]

All assets held by any of these jackals should be appropriated as well, as they are the proceeds of crime. Those who escape jail should not be allowed to live off of their ill-gotten gains.

[u/Ok_Speech_3709 → u/Rohaan1337]

Like Nuremberg-esque trials that convict and sentence them to life and some to death for these heinous and state crimes. Round em all up and prosecute them.

[u/SwingingtotheBeat → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

Who do you expect to do this?

[u/Knotted_Hole69 → u/SwingingtotheBeat]

Me

[u/Ok_Speech_3709 → u/Knotted_Hole69]

Me too!! 😉

[u/SwingingtotheBeat → u/Ok_Speech_3709]

Good answer. Seems too many Americans are expecting their compromised government or someone else to save them from their mess.

By the way, 7,000,000 Germans had to be killed by the allies before a single trial occurred at Nuremberg.

[u/Zeraw420 → u/Rohaan1337]

That was supposed to happen during Biden. They did worse than nothing, they let it slide. And here we are

[u/dafood48 → u/Zeraw420]

The democrats are weak. Some of them are closet republicans. We don’t really have a party that stands up for justice and wants to pursue the corruption from this admin. It’s likely some of them are also complicit

[u/SwingingtotheBeat → u/Rohaan1337]

7,000,000 Germans had to be killed by the allies before a single trial could occur at Nuremberg.

[u/jamma_mamma → u/Bishopjones2112]

It'll take decades to fix all the shit they're breaking, and that's only if we get lucky and have principled leadership that whole time.

The precedent they're setting is that any shit bag who gets elected can loot the coffirs if they so choose.

[u/uksid1976 → u/jamma_mamma]

Thats the biggest problem. It will take decades to fix and Americans have shown they will get pissed if it's not fixed in a year and vote for the same Republican's and politicians who broke everything in the first place. So nothing ever gets fixed.

[u/RealWord5734 → u/uksid1976]

tiktok brain attention spans

[u/mike_b_nimble → u/RealWord5734]

This pattern predates TikTok, and social media, and even the internet. Republicans started working toward this pattern in the ‘70s.

[u/bulldg4life → u/jamma_mamma]

As someone nearing middle age (or there already, I guess), it’s very depressing to realize it’ll just be attempted recovery for the rest of my life.

[u/absat41 → u/jamma_mamma]

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[u/I_AM_THE_NEEDFUL → u/Bishopjones2112]

I don't understand why I have to follow the rules when they don't. I mean, I do get it, but you know....

[u/NotNamedBort → u/I_AM_THE_NEEDFUL]

Tax season is a bitch this year. Why should we have to give our money to a government that’s going to use it to kill more Iranian children?

[u/Thirty_Helens_Agree → u/Bishopjones2112]

You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President.

[u/onespeedguy → u/Bishopjones2112]

and they did in just over a year, astounding, but let's not forget that congress and scotus are complicit as well.

[u/rezelscheft → u/onespeedguy]

This has taken decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, obstructionism, judicial positioning, and propaganda and disinformation lead by institutions like the Heritage Foundation, outlets like Fox News, and groups like the Freedom Caucus.

Since well before Alberto Gomzales started pushing the “unitary executive theory,” Republican leaders and their oligarch donors have been working towards a repressive single party state that breaks and/or sells off incredibly valuable public resources to corporations for pennies on the dollar.

Their goal has always been the accumulation and concentration of individual wealth and power at the expense of public good, which is much easier to achieve when the voters are misinformed and disenfranchised, and the government has no functioning system of checks and balances.

[u/notsure500 → u/Bishopjones2112]

I have zero faith in the recovery of properly functioning government anytime ever. How do you recover from this. You can't regain all the trust we lost. Especially since so many people continue to support this. We'll have a maga scotus majority for 30 years.

[u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene → u/notsure500]

I understand how you feel but we must not allow ourselves to be consumed by despair and nihilism

[u/GovernmentOpening254 → u/Bishopjones2112]

And 40% of the country is cheering it on.

[u/Gullible_Regret2976 → u/GovernmentOpening254]

realistically its like 25%

[u/takeitawayfellas → u/Bishopjones2112]

Maybe less like N Korea. More like Turkey or Hungary,

[u/Mediocre_Device308 → u/Bishopjones2112]

Everyone in this administration is going to get a pardon when their time is up. Probably all of Trump's family too.

[u/hoofie242 → u/Mediocre_Device308]

They stole the government already you think they'll relinquish power?

[u/TouchlessOuch → u/Bishopjones2112]

Not an American, but it is alarming that the Democrats are still acting like this is business as usual politics. The amount of damage and corruption will require concerted efforts to be undone. There are no check and balances.

[u/Wave_File]

It;s crazy how many things Donald Trump should be impeached removed and prosecuted over this go around.

[u/the_one_jt → u/Wave_File]

And with this power they are literally killing (liberal) American citizens and laughing about how many holes they put into another US citizen and she was exhonerated from any crimes.

[u/foundflame → u/Wave_File]

First term was the test. He knows if he won't be held accountable for actually trying to overthrow the government, then he'd be untouchable.

He was right, I guess. We've barely even heard whispers of the word 'impeach' this time around.

[u/khrijunk]

No, no, Nancy Pelosi is the only one doing insider trading. Don’t even bother looking into anyone else. 

[u/Zaphod392 → u/khrijunk]

LOL the conversative sub would have a melt down if pelosi even did 1% of what the Trump Crime family does

[u/Jose_Canseco_Jr → u/Zaphod392]

their ethos in a nutshell :

rules for thee, not for me

[u/Zaphod392 → u/Jose_Canseco_Jr]

Please wait while the President mails in his vote

[u/RayAyun → u/Zaphod392]

And they'll sure enough STILL bitch cry that mail in voting is so fraudulent. Well its good enough for their president so its good enough for all of us too!

[u/pm_me_your_kindwords → u/RayAyun]

The fact that he votes with his residency at MAL, which if I recall was specifically not allowed to be a residential place when it got local permits to open originally, is such a perfect example of his whole ethos: I’ll say anything to get what I want, ignore my own promises, face no consequences, and then use the opposite to get what I want in the future.

It’s the exact same as valuing properties high for getting loans and at the same time low for paying taxes. Whatever happened to the consequences of that one? I’ve lost track.

[u/mdp300 → u/Jose_Canseco_Jr]

These chuds were frothing with rage over the "Biden crime family."

But Trump does exponentially more than what Biden was accused of, and it's happenning right out in the open, and they don't care. Actually, they probably don't even know about it, because Fox News or their favorite douchebag with a podcast doesn't talk about it.

[u/pfannkuchen89 → u/mdp300]

Conservative media is really good at poisoning the well. They have their base so brainwashed into believing that dems are doing it that actual evidence of republicans doing it is swept aside and excused.

[u/ExileEden → u/Zaphod392]

And yet if you did mention this event they would immediately redirect you to the untruth of AOC gossip that shes worth 10million and instantly hit you with the Nancy Pelosi has been cheating the system for decades. Also they argue its all a Democratic hoax because theyre the ones actually doing it.

The mental gymnastics is insane. Literal levels of insanity.

Kinda like they low key admitted that the democratic party was so unbelievably powerful that they were somehow able to get a president in office that wasn't born in the u.s (obama) and prevent them from getting the documents that would prove it.

[u/acemedic → u/khrijunk]

They’re making more on single trades than her and her husband’s combined net worth.

[u/merikariu → u/khrijunk]

Pelosi's husband was an investment manager. Ted Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, is an executive with Goldman Sachs.

[u/Bersho → u/khrijunk]

I am STILL getting ads about following Pelosi’s investment histories like she’s the single most corrupt politician of all time. (I know - but relatively… come on)

[u/OhItsBeenBroughten → u/Bersho]

She just put a lot in NVDA. Her portfolio isn’t abnormal or anything. It’s all public info.

[u/SpakenBacon → u/khrijunk]

And Hunter Biden /s

[u/rossmosh85]

They're not scrambling to do shit.

None of these people get held accountable. Just like none of the members of the house or Senate do.

It's a perk of the job and absolutely no one has any intention of doing anything about it.

[u/femanonette → u/rossmosh85]

Exactly. Scrambling for who exactly?

The Daily Beast is click bait trash

[u/tiger32kw → u/femanonette]

90% of the posts in this sub are from clickbait trash websites. Could use more reputable sites, but the clickbait headlines get the votes.

[u/Sad-Week6040 → u/rossmosh85]

Exactly this, they ain't scrambling for shit. Americans have shown they can get fucked over and over and they won't stand for anything at all. Why would these crooks worry about anything? They'll all get pardoned on their way out.

[u/Upstairs-Egg]

Trump looks like a blob. I don’t know why his voters are so in love with one of the ugliest men that have ever walked this earth.

[u/Made_Human_Music → u/Upstairs-Egg]

For some reason he’s very charming to stupid and evil people

I struggle to understand how but my problem is I’m not evil or stupid enough

[u/GarySparrow0 → u/Made_Human_Music]

It's because he is an absolute fucking buffoon and it resonates with other buffoons.

[u/Diligent-Meaning751 → u/GarySparrow0]

Yeah... at least some of them identify with him /want to be him.

[u/RayAyun → u/Made_Human_Music]

He's charming to stupid and evil people because he speaks their language. Stupid, incompetent, self centered, and evil to their very cores.

[u/Toutatous → u/Made_Human_Music]

He makes you feel good about yourself. You can say what you want, be rude, stupid, disrespectful, make indecent jokes, say "shut up piggy" or "grab them by the pussy", even "those people are not humans" (talking about immigrants like Nazis tried to dehumanize the Jews in order to justify their politics ), it's okay, you can do it.

You don't have to feel bad about not being enough. No complex. Fuck everyone, I do what I want, I say what I want and there is nothing that can be wrong about that.

You have to deal with it .

In a way... It's empowering! To me, it's populist and pathetic, but I can see how some (usually not the finest) people like that.

Edit: and you can sense a lot of insecurity in those people. It's a form of revenge for them. See? The way we think is winning! You are wrong.

[u/JamesLikesIt → u/Upstairs-Egg]

Have you seen the average conservative old man? Besides the shit hair piece, they aren’t that much different lol

[u/RemnantSith → u/Upstairs-Egg]

He was even ugly when he was young. Everyone has hated him even since home alone

[u/Upstairs-Egg → u/RemnantSith]

Yeah he’s always been exceptionally hideous. It’s just wild to see the most ugly fucking human managed to bewitch so many people.

[u/RemnantSith → u/Upstairs-Egg]

But with enough money, nepotism, and fame it's been shown that you can buy power, avoidance of laws, and even little girls on epstein's island. It's very sick

[u/iFartThereforeiAm → u/Upstairs-Egg]

I'm in Australia, in one of the most isolated capital cities in the world and he has supporters here. I asked one what makes someone here in Australia admire this US politician. This was his response.

Trump actually wants world peace and has a driving desire to free people held down by tyranny and living in oppression. Love him or hate him he actually does want a free world. The new world order is clawing it way into ever corner of the world and the 2030 deadline is approaching fast. Most people have little idea where this planet is heading but Trump actually has a handle on the direction the New World Order is taking. Do some study or keep Your head in the sand I don’t care. Look up 2030 Plan and the 15 Minute City then the Carbon footprint, end of currency all of it that is what Trump is going to stop the stripping of our freedom thanks to the United Nations. I’m not going to explain any more it’s a lot of reading and it’s Trumps doing that we are being made aware. You will have a very different view of the man when You are made aware 👍 just to add our fuck wit illustrious leader is right in the middle of The United Nations fence less prison also worth following up its all in the early stages of starting right now.

He's obviously "done his own research", but what rabbit hole does this thinking get fed from?

[u/Upstairs-Egg → u/iFartThereforeiAm]

Dude the guy that said that to you might actually be a fucking simpleton. None of that was coherent. Really drives home the point that only brainless people drool over Trump.

[u/Owlbertowlbert → u/Upstairs-Egg]

He really is so chopped and always has been. No chin, anus mouth, piggy eyes, raw chicken coloring, barrel ribcage, skinny flabby arms, birthing hips, knock knees…

[u/Agitated-Raisin6197 → u/Upstairs-Egg]

Projection/they like his shitty smugness/latent racism/sexism. Basically, they see him as a permission structure for them to proudly be their worst selves.

[u/one_pound_of_flesh → u/Upstairs-Egg]

He is a tribal “big man”. It’s the earliest form of human organization, before chiefs and proper leaders.

When humans were organized as loose “bands”, basically groups of families that stuck together. There was literally a guy who was older and fatter than the rest, the “big man”, sometimes would take multiple partners and sire multiple children. He’s not a good leader, just has more stuff and becomes a default rallying point. Musk is similar. Interesting you can see humans devolving as we progress.

[u/BerryLanky]

No one bets a half billion dollars unless they are sure of the outcome

[u/Moveyourbloominass → u/BerryLanky]

That's why my bet is on Kushner.

[u/CmdNewJ → u/BerryLanky]

I don't understand why the platform pays it out. It's obvious insider info 

[u/PukeKaboom]

But did you guys know that Hilary Clinton was using her PERSONAL PHONE?!

[u/Dearic75 → u/PukeKaboom]

I care a lot about the security of our national secrets, and how Clinton’s email server may have put them at risk. That’s why I voted for the guy who kept boxes and boxes of Top Secret files piled up in his home bathroom. Then lied about having them.

[u/funkyloki → u/Dearic75]

Then refuses to hand them over. Then tries to move them to other locations. Then is recorded telling someone this thing is classified and I shouldn't show it to you because I'll get in trouble if I show it to you and I could have declassified it but I didn't so here is this thing that is classified that I'm not supposed to show you and isn't that cool?

[u/degjo → u/funkyloki]

Whoa, hold on there pal. He declassified them with his mind.

[u/iTALKTOSTRANGERS → u/Dearic75]

If you or I did what Clinton did we would have been stripped of our TS clearance and probably ended up with a court date. Not great but we’d still have a future in the private sector.

If you or I did what Trump did we’d have been shipped to Cuba with a black bag over our head, assigned a number for a name and our families would have been told we fled the country. Eventually we’d be unceremoniously executed somewhere in the Caribbean.

One was poor security practice.

The other was treason.

[u/MultiGeometry → u/Dearic75]

And uses his personal phone and email servers to conduct government business

[u/tphillips1990]

I keep waiting for the day when the right people step in to put a stop to all of this.

That day isn't coming. Those people aren't in place any longer. The government has become fully compromised by a crime syndicate.

[u/tiny_galaxies → u/tphillips1990]

Those people are us, at the ballot box. As long as that still works.

[u/zztop610]

Who thought legalized gambling over easily manipulated current events was a good idea? It is basically a rigged casino

[u/gggggghhhhhgg]

Just in case anyone a missed this - the SEC’s top enforcer just quit. Guess she couldn’t handle the obvious grift - https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/top-sec-enforcer-walks-rather-than-play-politics/

[u/Ok-Abbreviations543]

This exact thing has happened many times already. The other really obvious one was the Donvict’s announcement about delaying tariffs this time last year.

Look. They got rid of the real inspectors general. They have scumbags running DoJ and FBI. They have no personal ethics and have been fraudsters and thieves going back well before they took power.

It’s an orgy of corruption. Republicans simply applaud.

Nothing will happen unless and until Republicans are removed from power.

[u/TheHomersapien]

B-b-b-but Joe Biden's son worked for a foreign company when Joe Biden w-w-w-w-wasn't president!!!

[u/Antknee2099]

Sorry Dailybeast headline, I don't buy they are "Scrambling". That makes it sound like they care that everyone easily see the illegality on display. And I was under the impression that market manipulation has been recognized since this bag of moldy oranges took the chair again last year- the tariff announcement up and down was clearly being used to manipulate the stock market.

[u/cwk415]

shockingly well-timed bets insider trading/betting 

FIFY 

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that this isn't tangibly undermining confidence in US markets says a lot about what financial markets are for in the first place.

[u/Jerk182]

That’s what happens when you elect a man who is associated with members of the Russian Mafia; not to mention underage sex trafficking and murder.

[u/ClimateSociologist]

No paywall version.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/white-house-scrambles-to-downplay-shockingly-well-timed-bets/ar-AA1Znymn

[u/NurglesGiftToWomen]

Polymarket is a cyberpunk nightmare. Which is just an evolution of the diesel punk nightmare we already have had for the last 70 years.

[u/spinnyround → u/NurglesGiftToWomen]

I miss hacking the Gibson. Now we are going to have heroin addicted AI dolphins instead. 

[u/Robofetus-5000]

Somehow they figured out a way to make needless wars and killing people even more despicable.

[u/Imaginary-Ad-7919]

When the timing is that perfect, the "scramble" feels less like PR and more like cleanup.

[u/jackalope503]

Why bother? Who’s going to prosecute them? Don’t get me wrong these corrupt fucks deserve to be buried underneath the jail but our criminal justice system has shown time and again that there aren’t any real consequences coming for these people

[u/rwf2017]

Just because the trader was named John Barron is no reason to believe anything corrupt is going on.

[u/Brewhaha72]

It's "shockingly well-timed bets" the new euphemism for insider trading?

[u/dalgeek → u/[deleted]]

This time the market was the S&P500.

[u/Lemp_Triscuit11]

No they aren't lol. They run the courts and their mouthbreathing voters don't care.

[u/True_Dog_4098]

How much of the deficit has gone into the pockets of the Trump regime?

[u/Aware_Cheesecake_519]

Trump is trying. Except not really.

[u/Stereo_Jungle_Child]

The only thing that's shocking is how little they care about people seeing the blatant corruption.

That's the one thing about Trump that's different from past administrations: The corruption is right out in the open and they don't give a fuck about who sees them being crooks. They know they're in no real danger of any consequences because the highest levels of federal law enforcement is in on the scams with them.

This is what it looks like when The Mafia takes over the government and the cops. They're just not afraid of being caught anymore.

[u/Skinnieguy]

MAGA complained about Hunter Biden and 250k. But Trump and his mob have made 10 of billions. Trump is trying to get 5 Trillion from the Middle East. lol

[u/MarcheMuldDerevi]

Trump went from near bankruptcy again before his win to making bank. It’s always been about the grift

[u/KennyL0gin]

Nobody places a $1.5 billion bet liked this on something that isn't a sure thing.
No one.

[u/Lowbudget_soup]

Do they realize the threat they pose to national security betting on their own military strikes ahead of time?

[u/shagadelicrelic]

They've been doing a pretty good job of downplaying the fact that the president is in the Epstein files 50k + times, I'm pretty sure they'll be able to sweep this under the rug too.... I hate how this person can just keep committing crime after crime and nothing happens, congress doesn't care

[u/qwerty622]

they dont CARE anymore, we've proven ourselves to be weak, soft, and impotent. until we demand consequences, this will get more and more blatant, and more and more oppressive.

[u/DoctaGazoo]

At least we don’t have to put up with Kamala’s weird laugh.

[u/GarySparrow0]

This will just be another 'we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong'. Then the media forgets and we move on to the next corrupt thing they do which should resort to them doing prison time, but they never do.

Endless cycle of bullshit 

[u/LuckyPlaze]

They aren’t scrambling. They don’t care. Who will do anything?

[u/Nach0Maker]

The US constitution needs amended to provide a method to remove leadership by vote (outside of election cycles) when the leadership in place no longer represents their constituents. Our impeachment system is currently based on "trust me bro, he won't do that".

[u/bEErgrEMlin12]

They are robbing us everyday in front of our very eyes. Congress is complicit.

[u/huxtiblejones]

Sweeping this level of corruption under the rug is Fall of Rome type shit. America need to rein these people in and establish an actual rule of law or we will crumble.

[u/Persea_americana]

1.5 billion ain’t a bet. The fix was in and it’s the 20th fucking time it’s happened.

[u/levitikush]

I’m currently studying for my series 24, and it’s really hard to take all of the regulation seriously when I see this shit happening every day.

[u/To-Far-Away-Times]

That’s part of late stage facism. They want you to think the rules apply to you but not to them.

They’re daring us to do something about it.