Name: More Charges Dropped Against Sam Bankman-Fried
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'More Charges Dropped Against Sam Bankman-Fried' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'More Charges Dropped Against Sam Bankman-Fried' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-28. Transcript available.

Why isn't there this groundswell, I mean outside of the obvious thing of
financial interests of major corporations corrupting our political system, but
like why is there not kind of people saying this is insane?
Because of the financial issue. It's 100% because of that. Because they've co-opted
the media and the media doesn't report on all these things.
You know, the media doesn't report on so many things that are bad for you
because it's bad for their interests.
Well, let me ask you this and we'll be right back to the Jim Gaffigan show in a
minute.
I'm here with Joseph Reagan. Rogan. No, let me ask you this. So, all right. So
Sam Bankman Freed.
Just got off of all charges.
Off of all charges?
That's totally not corrupt. By the way, he deserves to be free.
You think he deserves to be free?
Doing meth and hanging out with that little floozy in that house that you had
with 40 other people and banging each other?
Occasionally, when he would be in court in a suit, I would be like, oh, that's
so cute. He's got a suit on.
It's kind of like, you know, a boy at a bar mitzvah's confirmation.
It's just like, oh, look at him in a suit.
Like a real man.
But, all right, let me ask you this.
Feds drop campaign contributions charged against Sam Bankman Freed.
But is that all his charges about everything?
Are there other charges that are still available?
Or is he a free man now?
I think they said he had to get a haircut, which is really weird.
Okay.
Federal prosecutors are dropping campaign finance violation charges against
alleged crypto crook Sam Bankman Freed over a legal snafu in his extradition
from the Bahamas to the U.S.
Still faces 12 other charges in the case of five more of those counts are still
in question because they were added after he was extradited.
It seems to me like the fix is in.
Well, let me ask you this.
All right.
So, a logical – any comedian would look at that and go, all right.
So, somebody in the Justice Department was like, he donated a lot to our people.
Let's make this go away.
But here's a question I have.
So, there is that level of corruption.
But do you look at that level of corruption and see it as equal to what Trump
has been repeatedly busted as?
Do you see those as equal or do you see, like, that as – because, you know,
like, I wonder if – like, to me, it's like, you know, like, the indictments
against Trump, I'm like, it's going to keep going, right?
There's going to be more things.
Whereas, like, this is vague corruption.
I'm not justifying it, but, like, I feel like some people see this as totally
equal.
Do you think both sides are equally bad?
You would have to go over the case, right?
Because the way it's been described to me and the way the CEO was looking at it,
he was saying that this is fraud.
This is, like, straight-out fraud.
It's financial fraud.
And they were taking clients' money and using it in a way that they were not
supposed to.
They were funneling it off to Almeda.
He was not being honest about his connections to that.
I don't know all the absolute specifics of the case, but the way it's been
described to me is that there is not enough regulation in cryptocurrency and
that these people are allowed to do some really shady shit and that these
people took it to the far end of this.
And, you know, they were making insane amounts of money and they were doing amphetamines
and they were hanging out and having this polyamorous lifestyle with these
bunch of super nerds.
But you shouldn't go to jail for that.
Not yet.
Not for banging each other.
No, I think that's fun.
I'm happy that they get to live like that.
Like, these socially awkward weirdos, all of a sudden they're super rich.
If they were doing it above ground, rather, everything was cool, I would be
celebrating them.
I'd be like, yay, look at these.
They won.
But a lot of people lost a lot of money.
And, you know, there was also, they were being exposed by competitors, by Binance,
and then it turns out that Binance is fucked too.
And they're up their ass with a microscope and they might have all sorts of
problems with fraud and all sorts of other things that are being lobbied
against them or leveled against them.
I don't know.
You know, it's a lot of complicated financial stuff that's outside of my realm
of understanding.
Yeah, it is interesting because the basic premise, again, I know nothing about
crypto, but isn't the basic premise of crypto is, like, there's no regulations.
That's, this currency is outside of, it's not tied to the dollar.
It's, you know, it's, you know, it's, there's an independence there.
Whereas, so you can't compare that to Martha Stewart going to jail for insider
trading.
Well, yeah, I mean, the Martha Stewart thing is interesting because Congress
does what she did all the time.
I mean, they get access to information.
Oh, yeah, that happened during the pandemic.
Tons of times.
I mean, and it's not just a Democrat thing.
Everybody points to Nancy Pelosi.
It's Republican.
It's, like, literally 100% black and white.
I mean, excuse me, red and blue.
It's, like, across the board.
Yeah.
They're all doing it.
And it's just something that I think everyone does.
That's there.
They understand, like, bills that are going to be passed.
And then they immediately start buying stocks.
And they've always done that.
And it's one of the reasons why they want to be congressmen in the first place.
They have access to that information.
It's one of the reasons why they go in with a certain income and leave millionaires.
Just not just millionaires.
Like, insanely rich.
Hundreds of millions of dollars for, you know, six-figure salaries.
Wow.
Yeah.
Look, Nancy Pelosi is a better stock trader than both Warren Buffett and George
Soros.
Her husband is an investment guy, right?
Or he was an investment guy.
Well, he is when he works with her.
Right.
Like, she knows things.
He bets.
You know, he places the stock options and whee!
Right.
And then he gets hit in the head with a hammer.
So, I mean, I remember, like, all the senators that pulled out, like, Richard
Byrd and Kelly
Loeffler and all these guys right when the pandemic, and they sold their stocks
and then
they said, everything's fine.
Right?
So, it's like some of it is selling stocks.
It's not necessarily even buying them.
Sure.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
It's having information that would allow you to make, not just an educated
guess, but
you know what's going to happen.
You know what's going to happen, and you know that because of these decisions
that are being
passed, that these companies are going to become far more valuable because they've
got
certain deals, and then you bet on that.
And that's what it is.
And it's insider trading.
We all know it is.