Is America About to Get the Biggest “Special Assessment” in History?
Get ready to get your financial ass kicked. That’s the message the bond market sent last week, although almost nobody in the corporate press bothered to translate it into English. If you’ve ever lived in a condo or home with an HOA, though, you may understand what’s happening better than you realize.
My Republican Dad Fought Fascism, Then Gave Me Kafka. Trump Just Made Me Understand Why.
Last Friday, for the first time in American history, a brand new court in America deported to Afghanistan Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old lawful permanent resident living in Fort Worth. She was never charged with a crime, and wasn’t allowed to see the evidence against her (and neither were her lawyers). Attorney General Todd Blanche called the whole thi…
Trump Took Control of Another Country’s Oil Fortune. Where the Hell Is the Money?
At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Trump keeps claiming America is “getting” from selling Venezuelan oil.
America Lost Trust in Its Government. Now Comes the Dangerous Part.
A new Economist/YouGov poll of registered voters that just came out this week found that the top two words that Americans across the board endorse to describe Donald Trump are “corrupt” (53%) and “dangerous” (51%). Not even half of registered Republican voters were willing to call him “honest.”
Did Trump Just Make an Offer That Could Land His Lickspittles in Prison?
Trump has now repeatedly offered his voters $5,000 checks if Republicans hold onto the House and Senate this fall, calling it the “Trump dividend.” On Sunday he told a rally that it’ll “happen 100 percent” if enough people turn out to vote GOP.
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Note To Billionaires: You Will Not Buy Our Elections
The Muskrat tried to buy the Republcans a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with $20m and it didn’t work. Wisconsin voters said, “not a chance in hell will you buy our elections”,
"Fascism is corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" Benito Mussolini(1945)
It is now clear that the American wealth gap is so wide that Cheeto has begun to take advantage of the gap to disenfranchise the middle class and turn over the country to the billionaires. Voters be damned!! Cheeto with his federal power will just rig the elections. Gil Duran in his The Nerd Reich asserts that AI is not the immediate danger....the real danger to American are the billiionaires themselves.
Last year Cheeto announced that he got a “donation” from billionaire nutjob Timothy Mellon to pay the military because of the shutdown but clearly wouldn’t be enough to help. But think about that. Cheeto has bypassed Congress and their fiscal responsibility. The president doesn’t need the Congressional approval for spending money…only dictators do that.
Cheeto knows that with enough money he can build a Black House ballroom from private donations, he can buy elections, he can buy off Nazi senators and representatives, he can even buy off in time, wait for it, SCOTUS and maybe even the lower judiciary. Cheeto is going to the bank with his billionaire buddies….you give me cash and I’ll make things happen for you because of your “donation”. Corruption? No, just making an honest transaction.