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As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face) (www.independent.co.uk)
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‘For $5 million, this could be yours,’ Trump says of card available to wealthy immigrants to buy a right to live and work in the U.S.

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[–] HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 66 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not the Onion? Fucking come on already

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Today's reality is wilder than anything Onion can come up with.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

~~Don’t~~ worry, they still got it.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I 100% expected this to be an Onion article!

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 50 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you hada disposable five million dollars why would you want to live in the USA?

[–] Apricot@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To get in on the corruption?

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

Five million to join, and all the exploitative labor practices you want!

Regulations you say? Never heard of em.

Labor laws... What, you need to hire prisoners? They're cheap!!

And better yet, the sorry bastards have to pay so much for health care they're practically indentured to you.

Five million to get in, and all the land we can sell.

This is the darkest timeline.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago

Selling citizenship like blue check marks? This sounds familiar.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Other countries do this, too. Here's 18 of them: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa/

Rich people play by a different set of rules than you do, even in places with slightly less oligarchy.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago

The US is already on that list, and the golden visas top out at $100k. This is just another Trump scam.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for that list. Seriously considering some

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I bet it's not a gold card. It's just a painted on piece of toast.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's bronzer

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It’s yellow and brown on inkjet paper that says

DO NOT LAMINATE

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We are slaves for the highest bidders. We have been for a long time but this is just the latest security update for them. This is an offer for people to come to America to live out their corruption in admin-created, perfect poor environment for them to abuse.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

He looks very old

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

If you give me the $5 million, I'll take one of the disgusting things off your hands.

Dollars won't be worth much soon anyway.

[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hey I always wanted to be Cyprus, said no one ever, including Cyprus (<3)

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Gusanos salivating right now. They never miss an opportunity to get easy US citizenship and flex wealth.