Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Navigating the chaos of today’s politics can be overwhelming —this show helps make sense of it all. In about 30 minutes each week, host Bella Goode breaks down the players, policies, and threats facing democracy — in plain language and straight talk. Your crash course in today’s politics
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 37: Confronting Crypto (Part 2)
Crypto didn’t just reinvent money—it unlocked a volatile new battleground for speculation, scams, and power grabs. In part two of her Confronting Crypto series, Bella Goode dives deep into the emotional chaos and political consequences of crypto gone mainstream. From meme coins and NFTs to stablecoins and ETFs, this episode unpacks how digital currencies became tools of influence, manipulation, and even political theater. Whether you see crypto as innovation or illusion, one thing is clear: it’s no longer a sideshow, it’s shaping how power moves in the 21st century.
Key Takeaways To Listen For
- What ETFs and stablecoins offer crypto investors and the risks that still come with them
- Meme coins explained: From Dogecoin’s joke beginnings to a $60B market and political symbolism
- NFTs: digital baseball cards or digital fraud? How hype, scarcity, and scams define their value
- The environmental, regulatory, and ethical costs of blockchain’s growth
- Is crypto good, bad—or just a mirror? What this new system reveals about us
Resources Mentioned In This Episode
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- USDC
- Solana
- Tether
- Circle
- Blur
- OpenSea
- Magic Eden
- Coinbase
- Binance
- Uniswap
- Axie Infinity
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Host: Bella Goode
Bella Goode is a pseudonym — but the voice, research, and mission are all real. A Republican turned democracy advocate in 2016, I was raised by middle class parents in Pennsylvania. I’m a former marketing executive, entrepreneur, and lifelong learner with an MBA from Wharton and a Master’s in Psychology from Penn. I spent decades telling stories in the business world; now I use those skills to connect the dots in American politics.
I’m here because the truth matters — and because the stakes have never been higher. Surviving Trump isn’t lighthearted. It’s clarity, evidence, and a fight for the future of our democracy.
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