Politics Thread

[Masterofreality]

I'm not trusting anyone. You never know who gives dark money...well, because it's dark.
Bankman's co-founder of FTX gave to Republicans:

He additionally gave 400K to his girlfriend, a failed congressional Republican candidate:

https://www.insider.com/ftx-bahamas-...400000-2022-11

Do you think she'll give it back like this guy?

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11...man-fried-ftx/

Paul mis directing again.
1) Has Salame been arrested?
2) Salame isn’t a “co founder” but an executive at a subsidiary company.
3) If Salame is known to have given the money to Repubs, the money isn’t “dark”. It’s right in the light of day.
4) Salame heads a subsidiary of FTX. Where does it say he knew about fraud? In fact the article you post says that Salame “vomited”’when he heard about FTX state and stated that he had zero idea about what was going on at SBF’s lair.

Fact: The big donor and Chief Honcho has been arrested, and gave tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars to Dems and has been close to Maxine Waters. Open Secrets says that fraudster SBF was the second biggest donor to Leftist causes, right behind George Soros, who of course, funds liberal prosecutors like Philly’s Larry Krasner who want no bail, limit police activity and stoke the present crime wave.
His parents are leftist activists. Stop trying to make people look elsewhere.

[paulxu]

Maybe he wanted to buy the naming rights to Miami's NBA Arena away from FTX?

Good point. They are probably up for sale.

Also:

They said that though Salame worked closely with FTX cofounder Bankman-Fried, he wasn't part of the crypto mogul's inner circle.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-...-fried-2022-11

It's not deflection to point out the other cofounder gave to the other party.

[Masterofreality]

Good point. They are probably up for sale.

Also:


https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-...-fried-2022-11

It's not deflection to point out the other cofounder gave to the other party.

I repeat. Salame was NOT a cofounder of FTX as, a small piece of research into Wikipedia would prove Paul.

Sam Bankman-Fried and Zixiao "Gary" Wang[21] founded FTX in May 2019. FTX began within Alameda Research, a trading firm founded by Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and other former employees of Jane Street in 2017, in Berkeley, California. FTX is an abbreviation of "Futures Exchange". Changpeng Zhao of Binance purchased a 20% stake in FTX for approximately $100 million, six months after Bankman-Fried and Wang started the firm”

He was an executive in a Subsidiary company. Salame has not been arrested because his contributions were above board and was not part of the fraud.
Last time I checked, it’s a free country and folks can contribute to whatever party they want.
You do believe in freedom, right Paul?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX_(company)

[paulxu]

Of course I never said Salame broke the law like SBF is alleged to have done. Is that "gaslighting"?
I never said he wasn't free to contribute to whatever party he wanted. Is that "gaslighting"?

I quoted a noted publication, Business Insider, that seemed to indicate it. Yes, I understand he was Co-CEO and Chairman at FTX.
And he is not listed as a founder of FTX.
And his contributions seem to be above board. He also appears to be the one who blew the whistle on SBF.

[Smails]

It's not deflection to point out the other cofounder gave to the other party.

He's not a co-founder. You've repeated this lie 2x on this topic... You even repeated it after it was pointed out to you to be false in 16032

[paulxu]

See 16035.

[noteggs]

Ok, what is happening with the border news? As usual MSM is walking in lockstep and finally reporting on current/potential problems. Has to be a cover somewhere. Or does this have anything to do with pubs controlling house soon? Even though the dems have controlled everything for two years, we can now blame both?

Yes I know title 42 is set to expire, but the Biden Administration has already had a record number illegal crossings of 5 million. Hey secretary Majorkas, do you still think the border is secure?

[GoMuskies]

I need to get my mother one of these Trump digital trading cards for Christmas! That would really spice up the holidays! LOL

[paulxu]

As a bonus, you'll be helping the legal defense fund. And could get a round of golf !

[paulxu]

I don't understand Crypto Currencey, but as one guy said...it's not "currency", it's securities.
Anyway this seems strange for a billion dollar corporation:

There were no financial statements at FTX;

https://prospect.org/power/ftx-bankm...dictment-ever/

I wonder if, like Madoff, they'll try to claw back the money that was spun off of the Ponzi like scheme.
May mean campaigns would have to return contributions.