It's the fascist playbook. All it needs is for good people to remain silent.

If you need a selfish motive, these moves and threats directly stifle research which is the foundation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, staffing, material costs (chips and computers) and endanger national defense, and even threaten to hinder projects with large tech flowdown, such as the F-35, which (former) allies fear can be shut down or not supplied.

All this for an obsolete isolationist vision and tax cuts for the wealthy, who might think they are isolated from the ripple effects (Bezos, Zuck, Musk) but even the latter is worried about tariffs (in an anonymous letter) and none will benefit from chaos and recession or worse.

Designating a "strategic crypto reserve" at the same time as a $1.5 trillion heist shows that grift is the overriding goal. And by his buddy, Kim.

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