• blame [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      i think theres some followup with EB-5 to make sure the investment and jobs actually materialize. this seems like it’s a no-strings-attached pay $5 million, get a green card. I also assume with the EB-5 investment, since it’s an investment, the line might actually go up. This is probably just setting $5 million on fire.

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      3 days ago

      make them fork over $5M and have to carry around this atrocity?

      Something like that. Trump could even have tv ads.

      “Hello. You probably don’t know me but I’m Indian billionaire Jay Chaudhry. I’m the CEO and founder of cloud security company Zscaler. You probably don’t know about that either. Haha.” He gets serious tone in his voice. “Some people in media and some people on social media claim that President Trump’s Carry the Card law isn’t fair or right. They even use worse terms. Can you believe that? I’m proud to always carry my 25 million dollar Trump Platinum Card to show how much I love and cherish President Trump and how much I love America.”

      “What you need to do right now if you’re not American as you could be is go to CarrytheCard.com to find out which card is right for you…”

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      My first experience with parody was watching SNL in 1978 and then Monty Python the same year or maybe the next year. Sketch comedy blew my mind. But 2025 blows away that and all the other parody and sketch comedy I’ve ever seen in my life. Almost every day Trump or another republican is doing something that’s better because it’s actually real. And then the dems might reply with something that’s limp and pathetic yet somehow still funny horror-comedy. Everything is bizarro world.

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      3 days ago

      How about this?..

      “Today I am announcing that for every dollar in $TRUMP coin you buy (up to five million) - the price of the Trump Gold Card goes down a dollar. And if you buy five million in $TRUMP coin - you get a special bonus. You get a virtual membership to Mar-a-Lago. And - this very, very important - I like you. The president as a friend is very, very important always but even more in the future - maybe. You want me to like you. You know - just in case I have to do things - all sorts of things - because national security danger. You’re already not really American, right? You can always buy more $TRUMP coin too. More coin - more like. Makes sense.”