Thoughts on Trump pardoning the Silk Road drug and cybercriminal Ross Ulbricht?

The pardons for Fauci, Milley and Biden’s family members specifically cover any “offences against the United States” that may have been committed from January 1 2014 through to the date of the pardon.

In a troubling development, former President Joe Biden has set an alarming record by granting 8,064 pardons, far surpassing any of his predecessors.



While some may argue that this exercise of presidential power is a sign of generosity, the sheer volume of pardons raises serious concerns about accountability, fairness, and potential political motivations.


How many pardons has Joe Biden given?
Summary
President Tenure Pardons
George W. Bush 2001–2009 200
Barack Obama 2009–2017 1927
Donald Trump 2017–2021, 2025–present 1740
Joe Biden 2021–2025 8064

That's simple to answer.
Nobody brags about how much he has lost, everybody sees just the handful of people who made a huge load of money with it and the propaganda of the ones on the top suggests everybody can make big money with it.
Mix in a few conspiracies, like suggesting that cryptos is the way to bypass the evil government and protect your money from inflation and you get to a crypto market where 95% of all people putting money into it come out at a loss.
Even at that point it doesn't stop, the ones who lost do not get the point of being part of the 95%, they all believe they are the rare exception, they must have done something wrong, need to learn a better strategy, invest again and next time it will work out ...... until it again doesn't.
There are pople who lost everything they had, all their savings, their house and even broke up their marriage when the wife had enough of the husband wasting all their money.

If all the above is still not enough, this is by far not the end of it.
Have you ever followed the world championships in poker?
Poker as it is played in the championships is a game of 95% luck and 5% skill.
There are millions of people paying huge entry fees for the 1 in 100 million or so chance to be the one and only champion who wins millions in the end.

Lotto is the same thing, millions of people play lotto every week, they all throw away their money for a (i.e. in Germany) 1 in 140 million chance to win the jackpot.
Nobody does the math that 1 in 140 million once a week means you have to play on average 2.7 million years to win the jackpot once. They buy 10 tickets a week, throw away 10 times as much money and don't realize that that still means and average of 270,000 years to win once.
Everybody just sees that among the millions of players where most buy more than one ticket, almost every week someone wins the jackpot.

The other night I was at the bowling alley to watch my daughter and her classmate. The other girl's father was there too and he's a crypto guy. I wish I had counted how many times in those two hours he whipped his phone out and opened his crypto tracker app to see what was happening to prices. It was constant, every five minutes at least, classic addict behavior. And the crypto market is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I have to imagine that checking his phone is the first thing he does every morning and the last thing he does at night. In that way, it's even worse than gambling.