That’s true, will they even let him into the country since he went and changed his name and it doesn’t match his birth certificate anymore?

He should have kept his name. We need a Pope Bob

The team that shall not be named won that one

I lost $2 when he picked “Leo” instead of “Bootylicious”…

No, someone at Wikipedia is working overtime though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

His wiki says that “Hilary” is also a correct translation. It would be so triggering to certain people to have a “Pope Hilary”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Hilarius

I wonder how much money is about to change hands in the Pope betting markets.

They are voting on the Pope’s new name, too. I have $2 on Pope Bootylicious

The DUI hire order the flights stopped when he found out they weren’t full of whiskey

No, Yonkers is definitely not Upstate, by any definition. White Plains might be, but is kind of just as far north as the bridge so it tracks.

I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize the Mario Cuomo Bridge!

Yes, for NYC people anything north of the Tappan Zee is Upstate

It makes more sense when you realize that money has solved all of Donald Trump’s problems in the past. Get a little too handsy with a woman? Pay her off to keep quiet. Have a business partnership or contract you want to get out of? Pay lawyers to harass them in court until they give up.

Heck, he doesn’t even need to use his own money most of the time, he can spend out of one of his companies like it’s a slush fund then declare bankruptcy, leaving business partners and banks with the bills.

He is now running the government like one of his privately owned companies, and using our money to try and solve his problems. Give them a pittance to go away, and when they don’t, you can say “we gave them a chance” before kidnapping them.

There’s nothing like an angry mob building a makeshift guillotine while chanting they want to hang you to make you change your viewpoint…

Let’s look on the bright side. He is still reluctant to publicly acknowledge it, which means that even he knows it is a shameful thing to be. I would be more afraid if he said “Hell yeah, I am, what are you gonna do about it? Do you own a President like I do?”

This comment, all by itself, is an impeachable offense. Sigh.

Bitcoin is pseudonomynous. All transactions are public, and thus traceable. but it relies on obscenely large random numbers to work, and if the numbers you generate are sufficiently random, there is no practical way for anyone to link any particular random number to you without additional info.

However, if you are a target of an investigation, and the government compels you to give it your numbers the old fashioned way, then poof! they can now get your entire transaction history without a warrant because it’s all technically public. (They wont necessarily know where the transactions are going unless they conduct a similar exercise on the other side of the transactions.) They can also seize everything left in your wallet – while they may legally need a warrant for that they don’t technically need it if they possess the keys and we’ve seen how the Justice Department in the US is no longer constrained by laws.

This relative pseudoanominity makes it good for money laundering, but not as good as cash. Still, it is hard to move large amounts of cash across borders undetected, but it is as “easy” to move $1 in Bitcoin across a border as it is to move $1B.

It’s not total disarmament, hockey sticks are effective weapons.

I remembered my login, my UID is in the 200,000s so I’m not as cool as you.

The place doesn’t seem to have changed at all, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.