[georgemcbay]

> Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington.

2026 Skynet wouldn't bother sending humans to lobby in Washington, lobbying is a slow and outdated way of currying government favor with no assurances of success.

2026 Skynet would just move a large block of cryptocurrency over to World Liberty Financial and get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon.

[Terr_]

> get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon

Likely already in-mind for parent poster, but a fitting headline from this week: "Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon."

(https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardo...)

[zombot]

The ever-expanding swamp of corruption. But since the US legal system is so obsessed with precedence, these feces will stick.