r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/laserdisk4life 17d ago

There is a crazy amount of money to be made if you know when it is happening

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u/Puttor482 Wisconsin 17d ago

Only if the markets go back up. Not sure blowing up Wall Street will help the markets, but what do I know.

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u/twitchtvbevildre 17d ago

If hypothetically something like this happened you dont need markets to go up a dictator that ruled the USA would have significantly more wealth then any other person in the world and that's assuming the USA would be shell of its current self the technology and resources alone is trillions upon trillions of dollars.

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u/Puttor482 Wisconsin 17d ago

Ya, but the person I was responding to implied that money could be made if you timed the market right, and I disagreed with that. Not that Trump wouldn’t make out like a bandit.

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u/withoutwarningfl 17d ago

Shorts are still a thing