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 The community is going to face the Trump test. Are they going to boo the president when he inevitably says something centralizing or will they fall in line like sheep? 
 Hoping for brutal honesty. 
 Can I just not boo or clap when he says anything good or bad?  
 Will you at least be brutally honest? 😜 
 All politicians suck. They aren't going to save you. Save yourself.

How's that? 
 Yep. That would be awesome to hear when the President inevitably says something centralizing. 
 Yea, I'm sick of hearing cheers at everything whoever speaking says. Especially when it's obviously a dumb thing.

Saw this a lot with both Bush and Biden.

Watching Trump's speech with the Libertarians was a bit refreshing though. The crowd actually cheered and jeered pending on the issue. It wasn't all one sided. 
 Both. Every "community" is compromised of individuals.  
 Yeah, I'm so sick of this idea people have of a monoculture.  
 Não se confia em políticos. Nunca 
 Some unfortunately, are already falling in line. 
 When? He's already said that he wants all the bitcoin mined in the US, revealing that he doesn't understand and/or care about decentralization.

And let's not even get started on his statist economic policies in general…  
 You will not be able to hear booing over the majority of cheering npc's.
I would be amazed to hear a single boo at just one of the 1000 anti-bitcoin things that will be said there. 
 The measure of a man is in his actions, not his words. 
 Sorry. I can’t boo for you. Not going anywhere near that.  
 I think Bitcoiners are unnecessarily suspicious of Trump. True, he's infatuated with the dollar system, and you can't blame him much because it's treated him very well, but he also sees the establishment or deep state like Bitcoiners do. America first policies are good for all Americans. He's also good for less war, which is good for us all.

He'll come around to Bitcoin. He's smart enough to understand it if it's presented well. His VP choice owns Bitcoin, so it's somewhat likely that Vance understands it and could relay to and educate Trump on it. 
 Wasnt aware everyone had to follow the same reaction schedule 
 Most will do the second. They worship their orange god despite his true feelings about bitcoin

https://x.com/Scaramucci/status/1816156370082881595 
 I'm okay if Trump comes to this thing without any knowledge or care for bitcoin, thats understandable, but he should be coming with concessions for bitcoiners. Time to sweeten the deal. 
 What about when he gives the right impression in his speeches, but the 6000 page bill gets negotiated in the house for a year, with a neverending assortment of concessions and unrelated ammendments added? 
 Boo as well. :) 
 There are many bitcoiners who only see the money part of freedom money.