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Bitbit

(145 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:49 AM Feb 2025

Sovereign Wealth Fund with no budgetary excesses?

2.3.25
I really don’t like whacko conspiracy nuts, but I’m having a hard time believing this is about tic-toc, only..
(Trump did say “We have other things we can put in it.” - AP)

Trump signed an order for a Sovereign Wealth Fund.
We have no excess funds, which is usually the reason to start one.
We do have funds. About 2.8 trillion in SS alone.
ELON took over the Treasury. - AP

Tell me this ain’t a problem.

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CousinIT

(11,669 posts)
1. They have to have somewhere to dump all the money they're going to loot from the
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:52 AM
Feb 2025

Treasury and Social Security

rampartd

(2,238 posts)
2. wait 'til they invest the fund in bitcoin, or jared's hedge fund, or truth social .............
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:55 AM
Feb 2025

if obama had kept a stake in general motors these same guys would be crying "socialism"

Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)
3. Of course it is some sort of dangerous scam or scheme.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 07:59 AM
Feb 2025

Perhaps he is going to fund his propaganda machine.
And other nefarious schemes.

Also it is certain he will take a cut of the cash.

rogerashton

(3,957 posts)
5. Tax wealth
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:08 AM
Feb 2025

A redistributive tax on wealth is the correct (left not right) way to fund it. But of course they are not going to do that. It has to be some obscure scheme to loot the treasury, probably involving bitcoin. The sovereign wealth fund would hold bitcoin, which it would buy from M with your tax dollars?

Native

(7,199 posts)
6. As a fund, it would obviously contain more than just Tiktok, but that alone would be enough...
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 08:12 AM
Feb 2025

...as, "Social media [would become] part of the MAGA government propaganda arm." (Irish_Dem made this comment to my post yesterday re the fund). My response, "And the circle is complete." Irish then said fascists do run a tight ship.

I do imagine the fund will contain Tesla, Space X, Twitter/X, and Truth Social.

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