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Donald Trump Just Got His Own Personal Crypto Crash
By Matt Stieb | Nov 24, 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-just-got-his-own-
personal-crypto-crash.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/donald-trump-just-got-his-own-
personal-crypto-crash/ar-AA1R3X0Q
The past year has been very good to President Donald Trump financially. Thanks to the many cryptocurrency projects his companies and sons have launched, he’s gained well over $1 billion of wealth on paper. Crypto has been booming since Trump came back into office by virtue of his administration’s friendly approach to the sector — and a general sense that it’s good for business to have an executive who understands little about the coin economy aside from its ability to inflate his assets or get controversial cash injections from abroad.
But this positive-feedback loop under Trump is faltering now that crypto is down amid questions about the size of the AI bubble and the greater health of the economy. Bitcoin’s had its worst month since an extremely messy year in 2022, dropping from $110,000 to as low as $84,000 since November 1. In total, over $1 trillion in value has been wiped out this month.
Trump is not immune to the megadip. A Bloomberg analysis found that the president’s net worth has dropped $1 billion following a recent high of $7.7 billion in September. His stake in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind social-media platform Truth Social, has fallen $800 million in the last three months alone. (This is likely because it bought $2 billion worth of Bitcoin this spring, joining a fad that’s seen businesses put the coin on their balance sheet to inflate their assets’ value.) The company remains unprofitable.
Other Trump crypto assets weren’t even accounted for in the losses. The value of the family’s holdings of its $WLFI coin has collapsed by around $3 billion since the token’s September launch. Bloomberg did not include the value of the coin in the loss calculation because the Trump family’s holdings can’t be traded right now.
Trump is not the only billionaire who has taken a hit. Michael Saylor, whose company Strategy is the driving force behind the businesses buying bitcoin, must be a little stressed at the moment. Strategy’s stock has lost 43 percent of its value in recent days. On Friday, Saylor posted a presumably AI-generated photo of himself as Ernest Shackleton, the stranded polar-exhibition leader, with the caption: “Endure.”
But Trump — unlike his billionaire crypto allies or even the small-time investors getting smoked — has the ability to mint more coins to make more paper money. Perhaps this is why Eric Trump seemed so upbeat in his comments to Bloomberg. “What a great buying opportunity,” he said in a statement. “People who buy dips and embrace volatility will be the ultimate winners.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump kills criminals instead of arresting them, but Trump won’t kill a Senator who said killing criminals is illegal. Glad Trump clarified that, except he didn’t:
Defense Department says it is opening an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly
The investigation is related to the Arizona senator's participation in a video Democratic lawmakers made urging members of the military not to comply with "illegal orders."
Nov. 24, 2025, 11:41 AM CST / Updated Nov. 24, 2025, 1:11 PM CST
By Alana Satlin and Mosheh Gains
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/defense-department-investiga
tion-sen-mark-kelly-rcna245675
The Department of Defense said Monday that it is opening an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, in connection with a video he and other Democrats recorded urging members of the military and the intelligence community not to comply with illegal orders from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X that the video, which set off a political firestorm last week, was "despicable, reckless, and false."
"Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not “retired”, so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ—and he knows that," he added.
A thorough review of allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which could include recalling to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures, the Defense Department said.
Kelly, who spent more than two decades in the Navy as a pilot and retired as a captain, said on X that Hegseth's post was the first he had heard of the investigation.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work," he said. "I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution."
Kelly’s fellow Arizona senator, Sen. Ruben Gallego, wrote in a post on X that Kelly "has dedicated his life to serving this country with honor. And now Trump is coming after him with the same baseless garbage he throws at anyone who refuses to bend the knee. Mark told the truth — in America, we swear an oath to the Constitution, not wannabe kings."
"F--- you and your investigation," added Gallego, a Democrat and veteran of the Marines.
Trump last week said on Truth Social that the Democratic lawmakers “should be arrested and put on trial,” accusing them of “seditious behavior” that, he said, could be “punishable by death.”
The next day, Trump said on conservative Brian Kilmeade's radio show that he was "not threatening death" toward the members.
“I think they’re in serious trouble. I would say they’re in serious trouble. I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble," Trump said. "In the old days, it was death. That was seditious behavior."
The Democrats' video was posted online on Tuesday as a direct appeal to members of the military and the intelligence community.
“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens," the lawmakers said in the video. "Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats coming to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”
In addition to Kelly, it featured Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Reps. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Poor white Trash with a home assessed at roughly $325k paid for with cash when I was 32 years old. Car paid for with cash. Zero debt. 833 credit score.
I'm doing better than 90% of Americans, my dude, and I haven't worked a single day since June of 2019.
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I never said that I did, stupid.
I said I'm doing better than 90% of you.
All I've heard in the news the last 5 years was those poor people making over $100k per year and they're living paycheck to paycheck.
My ONLY two jobs since the beginning of 2010 were making $8.75 per hour overnight at K-Mart, and $10.50 an hour overnight at Sam's Club. Combined, the income from those jobs were around roughly $38,000 in roughly 3 years of work.
That means that 12 out of the last 15 years, I haven't earned anything.
Yet my house is paid for. My car is paid for. I have zero debt. I have an 833 Vantage credit score. And the only reason that isn't maxed out at 850 is because I never held a mortgage and I haven't had a car loan for nearly 25 years.
I'm one of a very small percentage of people who were able to buy a house free and clear with cash, and I'm certainly in one of the most minuscule boxes ever created when I can say I did that when my lifetime earnings in 30 years since I started working is only $250k. And at the time I bought that house with cash, it was after making only roughly $210k in 16 years.
"How the fuck did you do that?"
Simple. I don't buy shit that I don't need using other people's money.
Specifics? Never a single cent of college debt. Brown-bagged lunches when everybody else was ordering out. Learned to rehab houses. Learned to fix up shitty cars and keep them running for years after most other people would dare. Made excellent use of my 401k benefits while I had them, and then never gambled in the stock market again after getting everything that I could ever need. I don't gamble. Never had a $100k Bridezilla wedding I couldn't afford to pay for, which means none of the expenses that being married and having children brings, and didn't have to pay anybody any child support or alimony when the inevitable divorce came up. Oh... and never paid the 6 months salary all the De Beers commercials say that I'm expected to pay for a near-worthless diamond wedding ring. I shop around. I never buy anything unless absolutely necessary until it's on a good sale, and when it is I buy in bulk big-time. I buy second-hand stuff like good power tools from fools who need to sell them when times get bad because everything they own is on credit. I don't buy Christmas and Birthday presents for people, I do things like offer to paint a room in the house for free instead. I roll my own cigarettes for $0.80 per pack instead of paying $15 per pack. I barter my skills for favors and good meals, which in and of itself is a really nice benefit since I sustain my life otherwise these days by living mostly off of tuna, chicken breasts, peanut butter, cheap Aldi vegetables, and Cheerios that were bought in bulk. (And even eggs again, now that they finally got back under $2.00 per dozen around here. YAY!)
FORBES: How Does Your Debt Compare? U.S. Average Credit Card Debt In 2025
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/average-credit-card-debt/
How does mine compare, Forbes?
I don't have any debt.
And I bought a house that even BlackRock didn't want to touch during the housing market crash, and I've spent all that time gutting it and rehabbing it whenever I felt like doing the work. I bought it for 1/3rd the market value when it was bought by the previous owners who trashed it, in an already severely depressed housing market, and now
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Quote:If you had control, you would stop smoking. But you don't, so you won't.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I roll my own cigarettes for $0.80 per pack instead of paying $15 per pack.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
By Paul Krugman | Nov 25, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assa
ult
My first post after I brought this Substack back to life almost a year ago was about DOGE, the not-exactly-part-of-the-government organization, headed by Elon Musk, that Donald Trump was creating to save money by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse.” DOGE would, I predicted, fail. And it did indeed fail, even more spectacularly than I expected: Although DOGE still has eight months left on its original charter, it has already been quietly disbanded.
But although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest “achievement” was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
Back at home, DOGE wreaked havoc on the U.S. government through a combination of arrogance, ignorance and sheer incompetence.
Readers may remember when DOGE staffers summarily fired hundreds of staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which protects America’s nuclear weapons, then desperately scrambled to get them back when they realized what those workers do. You may also remember Musk’s claim that millions of dead people are receiving Social Security benefits, nonsense based on a misunderstanding of how the Social Security Administration’s databases work.
Musk is gone, at least for now, from the Trump administration. So are many of the young acolytes he parachuted into temporary positions of power in government agencies, although some have managed to worm their way into longer-term positions.
Although DOGE is no longer, the damage persists. In addition to the needless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives around the world and the trashing of America’s global reputation, all for some flashy headlines, DOGE also seriously compromised the functioning of the US government. Thousands of dedicated federal employees were pushed out, taking their expertise and institutional knowledge with them, while those who remain are demoralized. Future recruitment of high-quality government workers will be much more difficult given the way their predecessors were treated.
Less obvious, but arguably just as important, is DOGE’s misappropriation of Americans’ personal information along with the destruction of institutional norms on safeguarding that information.
Like any modern government, the U.S. federal government must collect information about the people it represents. A government can’t collect taxes or provide benefits without acquiring a lot of information about individuals’ incomes and their lives in general. It can’t supervise banks, mitigating the risk of financial crisis, without acquiring a lot of information about people’s finances. It can’t conduct essential surveys, like the surveys we use to track the economy and the Census, without finding out a lot about the people surveyed.
Historically, however, government agencies have followed rules designed to avoid putting all this information in one place, which would risk turning America into a surveillance state. Some of these rules are embodied in legislation, notably the Privacy Act of 1974. Others are norms or fall into a legal gray area. But there has been a general understanding that we want to respect privacy, on practical as well as moral grounds. For example, as the New York Times reports,
The I.R.S. has long encouraged undocumented migrants to file a tax return, and many tax lawyers and immigration activists had trusted the agency would not use tax information to deport people. In a report, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that in 2023, unauthorized immigrant workers paid $66 billion in federal taxes, with roughly $43 billion of that taking the form of the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare.
But
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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
Suddenly, media outlets seem to have figured out that President Donald Trump is really, really unpopular. There’s been a palpable shift in the discourse: The New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump, suggesting he’s losing his grip on the party. Axios claims that it’s “red alert” time for Trump and the GOP. Politico describes how Republicans are getting routed in school board races, a sign that MAGA culture-warring has lost its sway and is even backfiring. And one CNN analyst offers a brutal reading of recent approval numbers on Trump, pronouncing them “atrocious.” We talked to Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, who regularly dissects MAGA and media foibles alike. We discuss why the political media smells blood, how deepening splits in MAGA show Trump’s weakness, what it means that the Trump-MAGA culture war and immigration raids are badly alienating ordinary voters, and how Trump is in a potentially irreversible tailspin.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203559/trump-weak-failing-president-me
dia-finally-saying
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
You can keep saying words, but they aren't true, and you're not going to make them true by repeating them over and over again.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.
How are you going to pull it off this time dude?
In reality, Trump's numbers still haven't sunk much at all. You really need to stop looking at individual polling. I don't understand why you won't ever learn that lesson.
On this day in...
2025:
Trump 43.2% Favorable / -53.1% Unfavorable (-9.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
2021:
Biden 42.5% Favorable / 52.0% Unfavorable (-9.5 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
2017:
Trump 38.6% Favorable / 56.7% Unfavorable (-18.1 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
Republican Party Favorability Now:
40.2% / 53.0% (-12.8 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/republican-party
Democratic Party Favorability Now:
34.0% / 56.9% (-22.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party
After 10 full years of political attacks, politicized legal assaults and massive multi-billion media campaigns against him, Trump's negative spread matches that of Joe Biden*'s at this time in his only term, and is only half of what it was 8 years ago.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party as a whole today is -13 worse off than Trump's spread, and is even nearly -5 points worse than Trump's polling 8 years ago today, back in the days when you had the entire legacy media saying "the walls are closing in on Trump" 800 times per day.
You don't have a Political Party anymore, dude.
It doesn't matter how much people hate the guy currently in charge when everyone hates you even more and appear as though they have collectively decided this time that they're not going to forget that.
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‘An Example MUST BE SET’
The pursuit of Senator Mark Kelly in the military-justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans.
By Missy Ryan, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Nancy A. Youssef | November 25, 2025, 10:18 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/11/mark-kelly-milit
ary-justice-trump-hegseth/685070/
Mark Kelly thought he was merely stating the obvious. Earlier this month, the Arizona senator joined five other congressional Democrats to film a message addressed to members of the military. “You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders,” they said.
An ordinary president, Kelly told us on Tuesday afternoon, would have responded to the video by affirming that troops should of course follow lawful orders. “But not this guy,” he added. “We basically said, ‘Follow the law.’ And he said, ‘Kill them.’”
The video to service members was the second Kelly had recently released. The former Navy pilot and astronaut took to social media with a group of fellow Democrats last month to urge the public to peacefully resist President Donald Trump’s placement of troops in U.S. cities and to “step up for the country we all love.” Like so much else that members of Congress push online to connect with voters or stump for campaign funds, their video ahead of nationwide “No Kings” protests in October generated little national buzz.
Earlier this month, the group filmed its second message, amid U.S. strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, a campaign of questionable legal validity. Like the first, the video message was intended as a “digital play” to generate views and support, according to two Democratic Senate staffers with knowledge of the matter. “It was supposed to be nothing more than that,” one of the aides told us.
In the week since, it has become very much more than that. President Trump suggested trying and executing the lawmakers for sedition. A wave of violent threats against them followed. Then Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth launched a review of what he termed “serious allegations of misconduct” into Kelly, who retired as a Naval captain in 2011. Kelly now faces the possibility of being recalled to active duty to be court-martialed for his statements. If convicted, he could be dismissed from the service, lose his pension, and possibly be imprisoned. (Kelly is the only lawmaker in the video who reached 20 years in the service, therefore making him an official military retiree eligible for recall.)
If the first 10 months of the second Trump administration showed how willing the president and his cabinet were to use the criminal-justice system against their perceived enemies, the pursuit of Kelly extends that retribution campaign to the machinery of military justice in a potentially destructive way.
Experts in military law say Hegseth’s gambit is unlikely to stand up in court, because Kelly’s apparent transgression consisted of restating service members’ oft-cited responsibility to act within the law, as defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the services’ equivalent of the U.S. criminal code.
But even if the pursuit of Kelly—who flew combat missions in the Gulf War and was later sent into space by NASA before becoming a U.S. senator—ultimately fails, the move sends a clear warning to other officers and military retirees who might want to speak up.
Before recording the two videos, the group, spearheaded by Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan senator and former CIA officer, had discussed what they could do to publicly push back as Trump pulled the military into new and, from their perspective, troubling missions, Kelly told us. The group also included Representatives Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan and Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania. Some of the lawmakers sat on committees with oversight of the military; they all wanted service members to know “that we have their backs,” Kelly said.
The first suggestion that the latest vid
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It took 3 idiot women to write that, huh?
They will be the first to be replaced at the Atlantic with AI.
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"Allahu Akbar": D.C. National Guard Shooter Identified As Afghan National Who Entered U.S. During Biden Years
CBS News reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez confirms that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Law-enforcement officials told Galvez that Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 during the Biden-Harris regime.
"The suspect reportedly shouted, Allahu akbar!" reporter Julio Rosas wrote on X.
Fox News sources report the shooter overstayed his visa and was in the country illegally.
Lakanwal was arrested shortly after the attack, and the FBI is now investigating it as a possible act of terrorism.
The attack follows Democrats' escalation of hostile rhetoric against federal authorities for deporting illegal aliens and securing metro areas. Such rhetoric has already fueled assaults on ICE and Border Patrol agents.
Given that the shooter is an Afghan national and the incident is being examined as a potential terrorism case, attention is shifting back to a report from earlier this year in which former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams warned on the Shawn Ryan Show about "1,000-plus Al-Qaeda–trained fighters within U.S. borders."
Shortly after the attack, President Trump requested an additional 500 National Guard troops for the Washington, D.C., area. This move suggests the deployment may involve more than routine efforts to clean up homeless encampments or deter street crime; the mere fact that the military is being positioned on the ground points to a broader security threat - one our government is not fully explaining, but one that we suggest below...
As Sarah Adams recently warned, the next Al-Qaeda attack on the homeland is only a matter of time:
"Well, Al-Qaeda says they trained and deployed a thousand for this attack. First off, I think there are more than a thousand Al-Qaeda members in the United States, but for the Homeland Attack, that number is based on what Al-Qaeda is saying, so they could exaggerate it; however, they did have about 1,400 in the Hamas attack, so the number is not off from what they did in the first round of attacks."
And just days ago...
The optics here are not great for the Democratic Party's open-border policies under the Biden-Harris regime, which facilitated a mass migration invasion into the US. The posturing of military forces on streets in DC underscores the severity of the threat - and it's now clear this was never just about clearing homeless encampments or removing drug addicts from street corners.
Politically, the incident gives Trump even more cover to accelerate his planned deportation campaign. It will also continue much-needed scrutiny on Islamists and Islamist Marxists [sic] who seek to destroy the nation from within.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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