"When all is said and done, the White House hopes to provide $40 billion in rescue money for Argentina. …

Trump’s economic 'policy' has no real philosophy—it just involves throwing money at people he wants to help and tariffs at people he decides to punish. There’s no other rhyme or reason to it, and now even MAGA is starting to notice."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy #farmers #agriculture #beef
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-cry-for-me-argentina-heres-40b-trump-america-first-moo

"[Farmers] see that Donald Trump has to make a choice. And his choice is either: Is he going to screw over his billionaire friends in Argentina, or is he going to screw over the farmer? And he’s picking the billionaire."

~ Matt Hildreth of RuralOrganizing.org, whose family has farmed for genereations

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy #farmers #agriculture #beef
/4

https://newrepublic.com/article/202097/trump-screwing-voters-badly-shocked-maga-farmer

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/1

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/demolishing-the-presidency

"Somebody has to be held accountable that the people’s house is being systematically destroyed by a tyrannical toddler with delusions of grandeur, who is so psychologically damaged he needs a $250 million ballroom to make himself feel better about the fact that he’s a weak, pathetic piece of garbage."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/4

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-b2c

"Specifically, they are asking 'if Washington would plan to backstop the facility.' In other words, these banks are willing to lend Argentina money as long as they can keep the profits, while losses are shouldered by U.S. taxpayers. The Treasury Department did not dispute the Wall Street Journal’s report, saying only that talks with the banks 'remain ongoing' and details would be announced 'when these talks are complete.'”

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy
/3

"A report this week by the Wall Street Journal details what is really happening. The group of banks assembled by Bessent to help Argentina, which includes JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, is demanding 'some type of guarantee or pledge to ensure they will get their money back.'”

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy
/2

"The cost of the Argentine bailout to United States taxpayers may grow to $40 billion. ...

Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, desperately needs an influx of dollars to prevent a rapid devaluation of the peso. Controlling the peso’s value is key to Milei’s plan to reduce inflation, which reached 200% in Argentina in 2023."

#Trump #Argentina #EconomicElites #taxpayers #economy
/1

https://popular.info/p/update-taxpayer-bailout-of-argentina

"Somebody has to be held accountable that the people’s house is being systematically destroyed by a tyrannical toddler with delusions of grandeur, who is so psychologically damaged he needs a $250 million ballroom to make himself feel better about the fact that he’s a weak, pathetic piece of garbage."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/4

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-b2c

"Destroying our history is not a metaphor anymore ...

Now the assault on our history by Donald Trump is being done with excavators that are ripping, crushing, and destroying by board and nail and wire and window, the East Wing of the White House."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/3

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/destroying-our-history-is-not-a-metaphor

"New images of the White House East Wing show a much larger demolition site. This is why the White House ordered employees not to share any new photographs or videos of the demolition process."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/2

Photo below from Parnas' article.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-struggles-to-recruit-ice

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
/1

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/demolishing-the-presidency

"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."

~ Mike Brock

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
/1

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart

“It boils down to this. The measure of mental health in a person is the degree of their interest in others. That could be their neighbours, or it could be social and political.”

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
/4

Zoe Williams surveys the landscape of self-help books right now, noting,

"If you yearn for an Ayn Randian existence of absolute self-reliance, there are plenty of bestsellers that can help. They may not make you happier though."

Contra the "Trumpy" philosophy of this literature, she cites psychotherapist Manu Bazzano, who observes,

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
/3

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/09/look-out-for-number-one-selfish-self-help-books-are-booming-but-will-they-improve-your-life

"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.

This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
/2

"When Marc Andreessen describes liberation as freedom from 'having to pretend to care about other people at dinner parties,' when venture capitalists celebrate 'disruption' that destroys communities while enriching investors, when tech platforms optimize for engagement regardless of democratic consequences—they’re not just acting selfishly."

~ Mike Brock

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
/1

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart

If anyone is left to write history after what we've going through now, I think historians of the future should assign the Roberts Supreme Court a singular and singularly maleficent role in the planned destruction of US democracy, a destruction willed by economic elites acting in collusion with reactionary right-wing Christians.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/5

As a trained theologian whose master's and doctoral degrees are from a Catholic theological program and who spent much of his teaching career working in Catholic institutions, I am especially outraged that this destruction of democracy has been undertaken by a right-wing Catholic cabal on the court with close ties to the theocratic Opus Dei cult.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/6

As a body, the US Catholic bishops worked feverishly to stack the court with the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling it, and are very happy with what they have gotten, especially after Roe v. Wade was knocked down. I refuse to take anything seriously that almost any Catholic bishop in the US says now about democracy or human rights.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/9

There are, as I know well, strong currents of all of that in the Catholic church and courageous people moved by their Catholic faith to defend human rights and democracy.

But those people have not had the upper hand in US Catholicism under the current bishops, many of them appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/8