Jane Coaston

Do you remember a couple of years ago during the Super Bowl where every ad was for crypto?

And Sam Backman Freed's company, which currently Sam Backman Freed is writing long Twitter threads about how mean Joe Biden was to him, tagging Donald Trump on everyone, being like, please, I really hate prison.

But like...

It is indicative to me that one of the main challenges of cryptocurrency is that you appear to not be able to use it without doing something sketchy and illegal, i.e.

Donald Trump and sultans.

I mean, yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, we can look at Trump's own family of people who all just putting out meme coins from which only they benefit.

And I think that, like, again, cryptocurrency keeps just being predominantly used for scams and for shady businesses that are themselves in some ways scams.

This goes to, I've been thinking a lot about like kind of the, you're already starting to see the 2028 posturing from Democrats.

And there was a lot of talk in 2024 about like, oh, the crypto bros.

Like the crypto bros were so critical to this.

And like, I get that there was like, there were multiple pods of people who supported Trump for various reasons because they believe that he could be wielded to their purposes, which is what people thought in 2016.

People keep thinking that they can wield Trump in some way.

Like, oh, if he could be turned, he would be a powerful asset.

And then it's like, no.

he's just going to fuck up your life.

He's just going to fuck up your life in every single way.

And you're starting to see that on crypto from these crypto bros.

And I think that we're starting to see this from, say, Georgia Senator John Ossoff.

Like, there is a strong...