Banks would no sooner have him shot on fifth avenue
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Banks are not willing to shoot themselves in the ass for Trump. They would fight to the end to hold onto that sweet transaction money.
He wants it to be America's WeChat.
That's what I was thinking - he now has the resources and clout to make it happen abut to FORCE it people by government decree
Force?? I’d be willing to bet he won’t even have to ask.
It would be funny because I don't think twitter has the server infrastruktur or the domain knowledge.
“Please insert envelopes of cash to our dowse-with-gasoline machine that only sometimes randomly sparks“
He sure could. Did you know that USPS is technically a government-granted monopoly by way of the Private Express Statutes?
Drumpf could grant X (The everything App (Formerly Known As Twitter)) the same privileges. Maybe not directly, but ultimately it'd have the same result, if they created a service that routed payments through it, and forced citizens to use said service and then grant said service a monopoly.
Guess it's time to go back to cash only.
Nothing is stopping him from issuing an EO. Will it stand up to a judge though?
That was part of what I was asking - I don't know enough about how this all works in the US. So an EO could mandate it, but he'd need it to be aproved by a judge?
A judge doesn't have to approve it. Of he does it, no doubt some payment gateway companies are going to challenge the order which is where the judge comes in.
It could well be you know. Trump is not tech saaavy and elon could push for it as its his dream. The thing to watch is Larry Ellison go look up everything he owns and what he is in control of.
The same Ellison who suggested surveillance will be used to make people behave?
Thats the bunny yep. He owns a lot of media and news companies. And he is now i think contracted with government data gathering via the AI stuff a quick search will show ypu all the pies his sweatty fingers are in.
I'm sure he could and would. All he'd need to do is dictate that X is the only payment provider all government departments may use to improve 'efficiency'.
Yes, that's what I was thinking, then it's a slippery slope to making everything have to go through it
I mean he could and could try to force it, but if people were too stubborn to use it wouldn't last long.
Just make a payment for something to people and they only can claim it by signing up to use the everything app?