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2026 Skynet wouldn't bother sending humans to lobby in Washington, lobbying is a slow and outdated way of currying government favor with no assurances of success.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