If I light your house on fire and then douse the flames halfway through it burning down, I shouldn’t be praised for my firefighting skills
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If I light your house on fire and then douse the flames halfway through it burning down, I shouldn’t be praised for my firefighting skills
I get that this is headlinese, but an “is” (“is asked”) would go a long way here

pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains
Read · Apr 8, 2025
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Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire
Crypto lobby: “Sure, Trump nixed the Crypto Enforcement Team, directed Major Fraud prosecutors to stop prosecuting crypto cases, and is trying to exempt crypto platforms from the BSA, but they wrote right here that they care about stopping crypto crime!”
Trump has directed the Department of Justice to stop pursuing crypto fraud, dismantling the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and ordering the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit to cease cryptocurrency enforcement.
(Memo, archive link)