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Tony Blair, since leaving office, has made more than £110 million via companies that benefited from the invasion of Iraq, and his connections with BAE Systems.
"This analogy is not a stretch. It is exactly what is happening now, as described in a recent explosive Wall Street Journal exposé that documents exactly how much Russia is dangling the prospect of riches to friends of Donald Trump Jr. and other connected Americans in exchange for a dishonorable peace that sells out Ukraine, our European allies and the vast majority of Americans who oppose Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war."
"As Ukrainian officials held a critical meeting with U.S. representatives [today], Jared Kushner (a private citizen with massive foreign financial entanglements) sat in the room. His presence is as inappropriate as it is alarming. The Ukrainians’ expressions said it all:"
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #Ukraine #Russia #PutinsPoodle #grift #corruption
/3
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/sunday-afternoon-news-updates-113025
Tony Blair, since leaving office, has made more than £110 million via companies that benefited from the invasion of Iraq, and his connections with BAE Systems.
"Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest, without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country. For them, America is a limitless passive resource. ...
The president and vice-president do not know the history of people like themselves, or that of other republics that were needlessly brought down by men of their particular sort."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/5
"They think that the magic of words will always save them, that there will always be a next grift, that no crisis is so great that it cannot be turned to personal profit. This is true right up until the moment when it is not."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/6
"How does a country burst? To answer this questions, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble. ...
This end of the United States is possible, in part, because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/4
"Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest, without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country. For them, America is a limitless passive resource. ...
The president and vice-president do not know the history of people like themselves, or that of other republics that were needlessly brought down by men of their particular sort."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/5
"Information flows through platforms owned and controlled and manipulated for their ends by these same men. And shocks to the system are exactly what the disaster surveillance capitalists want."
"How does a country burst? To answer this questions, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble. ...
This end of the United States is possible, in part, because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/4
“A'll he wants is a ballroom, stadiums named after him, the Arc de Trump, to party with his rich friends, and for billionaires to kiss his ass.' She added, 'He doesn’t care about anybody who voted for him—and neither does his party!'”
~ Joy Reid
#Trump #Epstein #ApprovalRating #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #grift #ArcdeTrump
/2
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/joy-reid-trump-only-cares-about-his
"It’s ridiculous that we have to protect these wealthy, insanely powerful people, while at the same time having Donald Trump deliberately sabotage our economy. You look around, there’s layoffs everywhere. You know, everything is not just a little bit more expensive, it’s significantly more expensive than it was even three years ago, say. And why? Where’s the money, man?"
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup #economy
/6
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-epstein-files-season
"Where’s the money? It’s not like there’s no money. It’s there somewhere. Who has it?"
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup #economy
/7
"In a sane world:
The voters would never elect a pathological liar, malignant narcissist, sadist and sociopath who hates most of the country’s people—a broken man who is chiefly interested in enriching himself, getting attention, creating havoc, savoring violence and seeking retribution against his perceived enemies."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup
/5
"It’s ridiculous that we have to protect these wealthy, insanely powerful people, while at the same time having Donald Trump deliberately sabotage our economy. You look around, there’s layoffs everywhere. You know, everything is not just a little bit more expensive, it’s significantly more expensive than it was even three years ago, say. And why? Where’s the money, man?"
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup #economy
/6
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-epstein-files-season
"A new document shows Jeffrey Epstein asking his lawyer to look into Donald Trump’s finances in 2012."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup
/4
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-hegseth-announces-major-military
"In a sane world:
The voters would never elect a pathological liar, malignant narcissist, sadist and sociopath who hates most of the country’s people—a broken man who is chiefly interested in enriching himself, getting attention, creating havoc, savoring violence and seeking retribution against his perceived enemies."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup
/5
"Looking out for the top .0001 percent: Donald’s presidency is not about governing. It’s about extracting as much money and power as possible for himself and his inner circle of grifters. It’s all a big grift."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Epstein #ApprovalRating #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #grift
/3
"A new document shows Jeffrey Epstein asking his lawyer to look into Donald Trump’s finances in 2012."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #grift #corruption #coverup
/4
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-hegseth-announces-major-military
“A'll he wants is a ballroom, stadiums named after him, the Arc de Trump, to party with his rich friends, and for billionaires to kiss his ass.' She added, 'He doesn’t care about anybody who voted for him—and neither does his party!'”
~ Joy Reid
#Trump #Epstein #ApprovalRating #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #grift #ArcdeTrump
/2
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/joy-reid-trump-only-cares-about-his
"Looking out for the top .0001 percent: Donald’s presidency is not about governing. It’s about extracting as much money and power as possible for himself and his inner circle of grifters. It’s all a big grift."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Epstein #ApprovalRating #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #grift
/3
“A'll he wants is a ballroom, stadiums named after him, the Arc de Trump, to party with his rich friends, and for billionaires to kiss his ass.' She added, 'He doesn’t care about anybody who voted for him—and neither does his party!'”
~ Joy Reid
#Trump #Epstein #ApprovalRating #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom #EconomicElites #grift #ArcdeTrump
/2
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/joy-reid-trump-only-cares-about-his
LLMs trading Crypto is like Shit drinking Piss
"No president has ever used his office to rack up anything close to the estimated $5B Trump has hauled in for himself, selling everything from tacky gold sneakers to crypto. He has mastered the art of trading on access & enticing foreigners to pony up big bucks (and even an airplane). The most pro-corruption president in history also has stopped enforcement of foreign corruption, crypto fraud and other white collar crimes."
~ Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-c92
"No president has ever used his office to rack up anything close to the estimated $5B Trump has hauled in for himself, selling everything from tacky gold sneakers to crypto. He has mastered the art of trading on access & enticing foreigners to pony up big bucks (and even an airplane). The most pro-corruption president in history also has stopped enforcement of foreign corruption, crypto fraud and other white collar crimes."
~ Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-c92
"In 2017, during his first term, Trump described Qatar as 'a funder of terrorism at a very high level.' Since the gift of the plane, however, Trump’s posture toward Qatar has changed dramatically."
Then the gift of an airplane, and now the plans for a Qatar military training camp in Idaho….
"Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration. The apparent link between personal benefits and official acts has fundamentally changed the nature of the most powerful political office on Earth."
~ Judd Legum
And other systemic changes other than air pollution too, ofc
Like: Become a member of an organization, talk positively about good policies in your friend group, going to a local hearing and speak in support of new bicycle infrastructure, donate and/or volunteer for a candidate, etc. For your health
This thread was inspired by the latest episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase, on the seed oil hype https://maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/episodes/17731905-seed-oils
#health #fads #food #stress#RealVsPercievedThreats#AirPollution#IndividualVsSystemicChange #grift #grifters#SeedOils
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