Just a dry run before the real event. Working as intended, nothing to worry about...

> What the hell is even going on

What if the Stock Market was entirely converted to Meme Stocks?

The independent IGs installed after all Nixon's criming might be in a good position to check up on that.

But he illegally (without required notice period and specific reason provided to Congress) fired them right at the beginning of his term.

You could look at https://www.capitoltrades.com/ in a few days. Of course you'd probably expect the average senator/congressional representative to be smart enough not to go insider trading on their own monitored account...

The alternative you mention is more likely, given all we know. On the other hand, why not both.

Ah, there's the rub. Even with a smoking gun there's no political will to do anything about it.

> are completely insane

More likely detached from reality, laser focused on personal gain, and punishing perceived enemies.

Anybody who could investigate probably got fired. After the pardons of Blagojevich and the Nikola guy it’s pretty clear that scamming is ok now.

I mean it's all right there out in the open. He fired anyone who could hold him accountable and now he is openly manipulating the markets.

Buy the NASDAQ at 1:17PM. Sell at 2PM. You’ve just made 10% without doing any work. If you’re doing any kind of leveraged play, you can get even higher returns.

He does all the above!

He owns his own social media stock (DJT), where he post this morning "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT" to his followers. Attracting more to his social media company.

He has a meme coin in cryptoland, and now via tariff manipulation, he can guide select people to place big bets on the largest derivatives market.

Derivatives had huge moves based on these announcements. Out-of-the money SPX E-mini puts went up 10x after tariffs were announced. Near-the-money E-mini calls doubled after today's announcements. These are zero-risk insider strategies.

Like I said, on a scale we've never seen before.