"The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain.

It is the system Russia’s president Vladimir Putin exploits in Russia, and President Donald J. Trump is working to establish it in the United States of America." - Heather Cox Richardson

#HeatherCoxRichardson
#Kleptocracy
#Corruption
#USPOL

"The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain.

It is the system Russia’s president Vladimir Putin exploits in Russia, and President Donald J. Trump is working to establish it in the United States of America." - Heather Cox Richardson

#HeatherCoxRichardson
#Kleptocracy
#Corruption
#USPOL

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

#Kleptocracy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/china-us-poverty-income-inequality

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

#Kleptocracy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/china-us-poverty-income-inequality

"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."

#kleptocracy

Legacy Media's License To Kill
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/legacy-medias-license-to-kill/

"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"

#kleptocracy

Legacy Media's License To Kill
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/legacy-medias-license-to-kill/

"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"

#kleptocracy

Legacy Media's License To Kill
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/legacy-medias-license-to-kill/

"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."

#kleptocracy

Legacy Media's License To Kill
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/legacy-medias-license-to-kill/

Highly recommended site:

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Supported by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Funded by: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Future of Work

#dystopia #kleptocracy #democracy #

Highly recommended site:

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Supported by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Funded by: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Future of Work

#dystopia #kleptocracy #democracy #

"More worrying still... is the trend of wealthy donors funding far-right and racist movements that are the tip of the spear against net zero policies"

#Fascism
#ClimateEmergency
#Kleptocracy
#Billionaires
#EatTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

"More worrying still... is the trend of wealthy donors funding far-right and racist movements that are the tip of the spear against net zero policies"

#Fascism
#ClimateEmergency
#Kleptocracy
#Billionaires
#EatTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

“This is all just a con,” said Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “[Trump] successfully used the real anger that people have about the status quo free-trade regime to claim he was upending things, when in fact we are seeing him double down on this corporate-rigged trade model.”

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-04-trumps-tariffs-kleptocracy-in-action/

#tariffs #kleptocracy

“This is all just a con,” said Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “[Trump] successfully used the real anger that people have about the status quo free-trade regime to claim he was upending things, when in fact we are seeing him double down on this corporate-rigged trade model.”

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-04-trumps-tariffs-kleptocracy-in-action/

#tariffs #kleptocracy

"If Aqua 1 Foundation has been working with World Liberty Financial since the president’s primary crypto venture launched in September 2024, there’s little to no evidence of the relationship in the public record. Trump did travel to the UAE in May 2025, where he announced “over $200 billion in commercial deals between the United States and the United Arab Emirates.” Two weeks later, someone began registering websites and social media accounts for Aqua 1 Foundation.

The president’s latest crypto benefactors, whoever they turn out to be, stand to gain enormously from their $100 million investment. Until now, the $WLFI token has only been a “governance token,” granting its holders the right to vote on proposed changes to the World Liberty Financial platform. But the token itself has been nontransferrable—meaning that anyone buying it was putting money into a token that couldn’t be sold or moved. That’s about to change. World Liberty Financial recently put out a vote to “unlock” $WLFI tokens, allowing them to be moved between wallets—a change that won the fulsome support from the current holders of $WLFI. Soon, $WLFI will be tradable on public markets, and its early backers will be able to cash out—ensuring, in turn, that the most flagrantly corrupt president in American history will once again line his pockets."

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-aqua-1-foundation/#

#USA#Trump#Crypto#Cryptocurrencies#Aqua1Foundation#WLFI#Kleptocracy

"If Aqua 1 Foundation has been working with World Liberty Financial since the president’s primary crypto venture launched in September 2024, there’s little to no evidence of the relationship in the public record. Trump did travel to the UAE in May 2025, where he announced “over $200 billion in commercial deals between the United States and the United Arab Emirates.” Two weeks later, someone began registering websites and social media accounts for Aqua 1 Foundation.

The president’s latest crypto benefactors, whoever they turn out to be, stand to gain enormously from their $100 million investment. Until now, the $WLFI token has only been a “governance token,” granting its holders the right to vote on proposed changes to the World Liberty Financial platform. But the token itself has been nontransferrable—meaning that anyone buying it was putting money into a token that couldn’t be sold or moved. That’s about to change. World Liberty Financial recently put out a vote to “unlock” $WLFI tokens, allowing them to be moved between wallets—a change that won the fulsome support from the current holders of $WLFI. Soon, $WLFI will be tradable on public markets, and its early backers will be able to cash out—ensuring, in turn, that the most flagrantly corrupt president in American history will once again line his pockets."

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-aqua-1-foundation/#

#USA#Trump#Crypto#Cryptocurrencies#Aqua1Foundation#WLFI#Kleptocracy