As America slides into recession, this is a struggle over who owns America’s future: a broad middle class—or a locked-in economy run by the richest few…
We know who Trump and his gang are working for. The French aristocrats and churches didn't want to pay taxes, so they didn't because they had the power; until they didn't. We're approaching the tipping point.
According to AI, since the 2024 election, the Trump family's wealth has significantly increased, with estimates ranging from nearly doubling to accumulating billions, largely driven by booming crypto ventures (like Truth Social/TMTG), significant real estate deals (like the D.C. hotel sale), and lucrative partnerships and licensing, with sources like Forbes and The New Yorker pointing to figures suggesting billions in gains, with reports highlighting over $1.8 billion in cash/gifts from leveraging the presidency and potential paper gains exceeding $11 billion from crypto.
Many of his allies have also made huge sums. I reported about the Witcoff connection last week. The Trump family's involvement is primarily through their own private ventures and companies:
World Liberty Financial (WLF): A corporate entity owned by the Trump family, DT Marks DEFI LLC, holds a 60% stake in WLF Holdco, the parent company of the WLF crypto platform. The family is also entitled to 75% of net revenues from the platform's token sales and holds billions of dollars worth of the associated $WLFI tokens on paper. World Liberty Financial (WLF) is a U.S.-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and company with close ties to President Donald Trump and his family. The company operates a stablecoin called USD1, pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, and a native governance token, WLFI.
Key Details
Founders & Key Personnel: Launched in 2024 by Zachary Folkman, Chase Herro, Zach Witkoff, and members of the Trump family. Donald Trump is listed as "chief crypto advocate," and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are "Web3 ambassadors," with Barron Trump as the project's "DeFi visionary".
Mission: To bridge traditional finance with the world of blockchain, promote the global use of the U.S. dollar in digital finance, and offer accessible lending, borrowing, and investment services.
Products:
USD1 Stablecoin: A stablecoin fully backed by U.S. treasuries and cash equivalents, designed for fast, low-cost global transactions on various blockchains like Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain.
WLFI Token: The native governance and utility token. Holders can vote on protocol upgrades, partnerships, and other key decisions.
Upcoming Services: The platform plans to launch lending and borrowing platforms, mobile applications, and a debit card that integrates with services like Apple Pay.
Business Model: A Trump business entity owns 60% of World Liberty Financial and is entitled to 75% of all revenue from token sales. The company has attracted significant institutional investment and has been involved in major deals, including a $2 billion investment using the USD1 stablecoin by an Abu Dhabi-state backed firm.
Controversy
The venture has faced significant scrutiny and has been criticized by government ethics experts over potential conflicts of interest due to its direct link to the U.S. President and favorable policy changes that followed its launch and investments from foreign entities. The company denies any wrongdoing and emphasizes its rigorous compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.
American Bitcoin: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are involved in launching a new Bitcoin mining company, "American Bitcoin," through a merger with Hut 8. The brothers are expected to take a 20% stake in this new venture.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT): The parent company of Truth Social, in which the former president holds a majority stake, is exploring expansion into crypto services and has filed trademarks for "Truth.fi Bitcoin Plus ETF" products
Thanks for some details. Max at UNFTR explains that they want the digital money system to be privatized rather than a digital money system like China has so they profit on every transaction.
Whereas the government has about $3 trillion in value, private individuals control about $13 trillion.
Ray Madoff has been making the rounds concerning her book, The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy. The Second Estate refers to the French royalty, who paid no taxes. “While the American tax system was designed to serve as a counter to inequality, imposing its greatest burdens on those with the greatest capacity to pay,” Madoff explained, “today, it does just the opposite: imposing its greatest burdens on earners at all income levels, while those with high wealth, get a free pass.” In this way, America’s wealthy today are much like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France—formally called the Second Estate—a group who were given special privileges including the right to not pay taxes.
Many of the individuals who control the government pay little or no taxes. The biggest dodge is that in many cases they take a minimum or no salary -- because salaries are subject to income taxes. Instead, they borrow against the equity value of their investments.
As Madoff says if you and I find a $100 bill on the street, we have to report it to the IRS and pay tax on it. Morbidly wealthy Individuals do not have to report when they borrow against themselves. They can receive $millions in estates without having to report a dime.
It is impressive how Thom hits the nail on the head with every post. Being reminded that the billionaire techbros, as they are called these days, are turning America into a 19th-century monarchy where the techno'd gentry live royally off the labors of their self-indentured workforce. The only difference between the 18th and 21st Centuries is that instead of mostly agriculture, the dominant source of wealth in the Techbro economy is now digital. The only purpose they see for humans is to build, operate, and maintain robots that will farm, erect buildings, and produce and operate robots and other machines. Or, at least that is their vision.
Already today, America has but two dominant economic classes: the "have2muches" and the self-indenturing "wanna-have-mores." Only a lucky minority of "have-enufs" discovered that having too much does not make one happier, just more powerful.
While the Techbros have created a stereotype as inventive geniuses, nearly all, from Bill Gates on, are merely vulture capitalists who buy up technical patents until they have a monopoly on a product line or service. In fact, few techbros even graduated college, much less have PhDs. They are not deep-thinking creators. They just buy the patents and inventive talents they need from the college grads and PhDs. A dangerous consequence is that the techbros have no way of knowing what unintended negative consequences await them as their wealth and visions evolve. Neither do any of us.
The TechBros used the research We the People paid for, then drove the real geniuses and experts to near madness to get the products they wanted. Now they are exploiting workers overseas, communities here and the environment to get even richer.
AI is not ready for prime-time, but they don't CARE because they are rotten to the core. What a bunch of psychos.
A great example, back in the early 80s, my San Diego lab bought a bunch of mini computers (alas, I cannot recall the name). It had a word processing system that blew the doors of MS Word. Bill Gates bought the software patent and all, and the next year MS came out with a superior word program. However, Word did not have all the functions Gates bought. He held back some tools and then charged owners for "upgrades" over the next several years. That is ruthlessly greedy.
That was his exact MO. He did NOTHING for the rest of the world till Melinda steered him in that direction.
He gets 10 points for heeding his wake-up call. The Gates Foundation bought the computers that I used to use at our local library.
I also think he is a prime example of a rich guy that others think is a genius about EVERY damn thing. I saw an interview where where HE gave off the vibe that concept is bogus.
Gates is in the new trove of Epstein pics released today, but they show nothing illegal. "The last known direct personal meeting between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates was in 2013. However, some of Gates's team members at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation maintained contact with Epstein as late as 2017."-AI Overview
Very poor judgement. Still wonder if it had anything to do with the end of his marriage.
Yes! We know most of Thom's points but to see it nicely listed and in black in white is quite stunning. We've been so screwed and we have three years to go. i'm begging everyone I know to get out of debt ASAP....
The greatest transfer of wealth in our nation's history.....
It's the first theme of the TRump Administration. The second is proving our laws are meaningless by abusing his pardon power. To make sure that we UNDERSTAND we're powerless, he gave our information to the TechBros, but that also EXPOSED them for who they are and what they want. A Technocracy.
This stupid, dementia-ridden psychopath is a loser. His Cabinet are incompetent criminals. Congress is coming for them too. This week Governor Newsom used AI to depict Donold, Miller, and Hegseth in cuffs. It was a beautiful thing.
COP30 was held on November 10th in Brazil, and the first vessel off the coast of Venezuela was bombed on September 2nd. Brazil is a signatory to the International Criminal Court. I'm guessing they have a secret warrant. TRump COULDN'T go to COP30 or G20. Watch where he does or doesn't travel---that shitty casino "rally" was a good metaphor for what is in store.
No Kings. TRump belongs in prison here or in the Hague. See you in the streets.
alis-Technocracy,I prefer " Technonazis" . Consumers who are concerned should fight back against these disgusting,greedy,pigs.Find a way to make their life very uncomfortable. Start with Wall Street,CNBC who has supported the " Technonazis" fora long time.
IMHO most of the CEOs are competitors, and most want to be king of the hill, and we should be ble to take advantage of that fact.
Musk may have been able to extricate himself from liability as a government contractor, but this government is hostile to his sources of income, alternative energy and EVs.
Trump is inserting himself in many businesses. I.e. Hollywood. Netflix and Paramount are wrangling over buying Warner Discovery. Both CEOs have paid homage to Trump. NYT: Shortly after “60 Minutes” aired an interview with newly minted Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, Trump telegraphed to David Ellison, CEO of Paramount/CBS that he wanted some changes. “Since they bought it,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social of Ellison’s Skydance, “60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!” Mr. Ellison has yet to act. But such clear broadsides raise even further questions about what a CNN- and HBO-owning Ellison might be asked to do.
The same kind of double dealing exists in energy, computer chips, etc. Surely one of these guys has seen Shakespear.
TRump is disintegrating in front of our eyes. It's fascinating, only because he is a psychopath and President. He truly has had it all, and it was never enough. Pitiful.
The TechBros were reading science fiction and TRump was reading Hitler.
Maybe the internet is "Brutus" and "Judas" all rolled into one.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,.....".-Wm S
Morbidly fat Krasnov is playing dumb about the economy. He thought by getting rid of the reporting agency reports he could say whatever lies he wants and nobody would be able to say he was wrong. Sadly for him people know what it cost them to buy food month to month and so were not fooled by claims that prices were down. Wall Street might be up as it usually this time of the year but job numbers are harder to hide because you can either get a job or not. Nothing hard to figure out when the result tells you all you need to know. The administrations paperless office has not hidden where the economy is going and farmers and unemployed know it. Meanwhile the grift keeps on going non stop as the bottom 90% find it harder and harder to buy a house and food even with two workers and the administration is trying to make it easier to add a third worker by getting the rules on child labor more lax. The welfare for the advantaged keep on getting higher and higher while the rules on the minimum wages in the work place on purchasing power keeps going downwards. 1968 minimum wage would be over $25 an hour. Tie a living wage to the purchasing power would make a single worker in the family possible again. You could then buy a house. Let us make the American dream possible again.
The international organization CIVICUS, which tracks the health of civil society worldwide, has downgraded the United States to “obstructed” civic space in its 2025 State of Civil Society Report.
That is the headline. It should not be buried.
“Obstructed” is not a rhetorical insult or a partisan label. It is a specific classification in a global framework used to assess whether people in a given country can meaningfully exercise basic civic freedoms—speech, association, peaceful assembly—without undue interference by the state. More on what it means below. But the simple fact that the United States has crossed that line, according to a long-running global monitor, is significant in itself.
If the billionaires make the vast majority of us poorer will that not reduce their income in the long run? We have to buy their goods and services for them to get richer. Notice how they are shoving AI down our throats to recoup their huge investment in massive data centers.
Thom we might as well nickname you Hillary Clinton as you've become such a propagandist for the establishment you contradict yourself at every turn. You ask who the Trump and the GOP really work for, then you proceed to bemoan that they are not sending as many weapons to Ukraine. Who do you think Biden and his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who made millions as a board member at war profiteer Raytheon, were working for when they sent $100 billion of our tax dollars to Ukraine, most of which went to our war contractors? Who was Biden working for when he sent Boris Johnson to stop peace talks between Zelensky and Putin in March of 2022? Who was Biden working for when he sent $35 billion in munitions to help Israel slaughter 100,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza and thousands more in Lebanon? Trump did indeed exacerbate the upward transfer of wealth with his tax cuts for the wealthy, but under Biden the oligarchs gained over $1.5 trillion in wealth, the biggest winner being Elon Musk. Most of your points are either anti-Russia or Anti-China, parroting the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, the former who claimed pro-Palestinian protestors were funded by Russia and China and the latter who is on a tour decrying Putin and how ignorant young pro-Palestinian protestors are. Almost every one of your points applies to Democrats as much as Republicans, or is establishment propaganda meant to whitewash the horrors inflicted upon us and the world by these dueling cancer capitalist mafias. The most telling point of all Thom is that you don't even MENTION Gaza. That says everything we need to know about your brand of "progressive" talk.
We know who Trump and his gang are working for. The French aristocrats and churches didn't want to pay taxes, so they didn't because they had the power; until they didn't. We're approaching the tipping point.
According to AI, since the 2024 election, the Trump family's wealth has significantly increased, with estimates ranging from nearly doubling to accumulating billions, largely driven by booming crypto ventures (like Truth Social/TMTG), significant real estate deals (like the D.C. hotel sale), and lucrative partnerships and licensing, with sources like Forbes and The New Yorker pointing to figures suggesting billions in gains, with reports highlighting over $1.8 billion in cash/gifts from leveraging the presidency and potential paper gains exceeding $11 billion from crypto.
Many of his allies have also made huge sums. I reported about the Witcoff connection last week. The Trump family's involvement is primarily through their own private ventures and companies:
World Liberty Financial (WLF): A corporate entity owned by the Trump family, DT Marks DEFI LLC, holds a 60% stake in WLF Holdco, the parent company of the WLF crypto platform. The family is also entitled to 75% of net revenues from the platform's token sales and holds billions of dollars worth of the associated $WLFI tokens on paper. World Liberty Financial (WLF) is a U.S.-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and company with close ties to President Donald Trump and his family. The company operates a stablecoin called USD1, pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, and a native governance token, WLFI.
Key Details
Founders & Key Personnel: Launched in 2024 by Zachary Folkman, Chase Herro, Zach Witkoff, and members of the Trump family. Donald Trump is listed as "chief crypto advocate," and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are "Web3 ambassadors," with Barron Trump as the project's "DeFi visionary".
Mission: To bridge traditional finance with the world of blockchain, promote the global use of the U.S. dollar in digital finance, and offer accessible lending, borrowing, and investment services.
Products:
USD1 Stablecoin: A stablecoin fully backed by U.S. treasuries and cash equivalents, designed for fast, low-cost global transactions on various blockchains like Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain.
WLFI Token: The native governance and utility token. Holders can vote on protocol upgrades, partnerships, and other key decisions.
Upcoming Services: The platform plans to launch lending and borrowing platforms, mobile applications, and a debit card that integrates with services like Apple Pay.
Business Model: A Trump business entity owns 60% of World Liberty Financial and is entitled to 75% of all revenue from token sales. The company has attracted significant institutional investment and has been involved in major deals, including a $2 billion investment using the USD1 stablecoin by an Abu Dhabi-state backed firm.
Controversy
The venture has faced significant scrutiny and has been criticized by government ethics experts over potential conflicts of interest due to its direct link to the U.S. President and favorable policy changes that followed its launch and investments from foreign entities. The company denies any wrongdoing and emphasizes its rigorous compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations.
American Bitcoin: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are involved in launching a new Bitcoin mining company, "American Bitcoin," through a merger with Hut 8. The brothers are expected to take a 20% stake in this new venture.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT): The parent company of Truth Social, in which the former president holds a majority stake, is exploring expansion into crypto services and has filed trademarks for "Truth.fi Bitcoin Plus ETF" products
Thanks for some details. Max at UNFTR explains that they want the digital money system to be privatized rather than a digital money system like China has so they profit on every transaction.
Whereas the government has about $3 trillion in value, private individuals control about $13 trillion.
Ray Madoff has been making the rounds concerning her book, The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy. The Second Estate refers to the French royalty, who paid no taxes. “While the American tax system was designed to serve as a counter to inequality, imposing its greatest burdens on those with the greatest capacity to pay,” Madoff explained, “today, it does just the opposite: imposing its greatest burdens on earners at all income levels, while those with high wealth, get a free pass.” In this way, America’s wealthy today are much like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France—formally called the Second Estate—a group who were given special privileges including the right to not pay taxes.
Many of the individuals who control the government pay little or no taxes. The biggest dodge is that in many cases they take a minimum or no salary -- because salaries are subject to income taxes. Instead, they borrow against the equity value of their investments.
As Madoff says if you and I find a $100 bill on the street, we have to report it to the IRS and pay tax on it. Morbidly wealthy Individuals do not have to report when they borrow against themselves. They can receive $millions in estates without having to report a dime.
It ain't fair.
Daniel,excellent points,it should really piss all of us off and motivate us to do something.
It is impressive how Thom hits the nail on the head with every post. Being reminded that the billionaire techbros, as they are called these days, are turning America into a 19th-century monarchy where the techno'd gentry live royally off the labors of their self-indentured workforce. The only difference between the 18th and 21st Centuries is that instead of mostly agriculture, the dominant source of wealth in the Techbro economy is now digital. The only purpose they see for humans is to build, operate, and maintain robots that will farm, erect buildings, and produce and operate robots and other machines. Or, at least that is their vision.
Already today, America has but two dominant economic classes: the "have2muches" and the self-indenturing "wanna-have-mores." Only a lucky minority of "have-enufs" discovered that having too much does not make one happier, just more powerful.
While the Techbros have created a stereotype as inventive geniuses, nearly all, from Bill Gates on, are merely vulture capitalists who buy up technical patents until they have a monopoly on a product line or service. In fact, few techbros even graduated college, much less have PhDs. They are not deep-thinking creators. They just buy the patents and inventive talents they need from the college grads and PhDs. A dangerous consequence is that the techbros have no way of knowing what unintended negative consequences await them as their wealth and visions evolve. Neither do any of us.
BRAVO, Tom!
We have found the plot.
The TechBros used the research We the People paid for, then drove the real geniuses and experts to near madness to get the products they wanted. Now they are exploiting workers overseas, communities here and the environment to get even richer.
AI is not ready for prime-time, but they don't CARE because they are rotten to the core. What a bunch of psychos.
A great example, back in the early 80s, my San Diego lab bought a bunch of mini computers (alas, I cannot recall the name). It had a word processing system that blew the doors of MS Word. Bill Gates bought the software patent and all, and the next year MS came out with a superior word program. However, Word did not have all the functions Gates bought. He held back some tools and then charged owners for "upgrades" over the next several years. That is ruthlessly greedy.
That was his exact MO. He did NOTHING for the rest of the world till Melinda steered him in that direction.
He gets 10 points for heeding his wake-up call. The Gates Foundation bought the computers that I used to use at our local library.
I also think he is a prime example of a rich guy that others think is a genius about EVERY damn thing. I saw an interview where where HE gave off the vibe that concept is bogus.
Gates is in the new trove of Epstein pics released today, but they show nothing illegal. "The last known direct personal meeting between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates was in 2013. However, some of Gates's team members at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation maintained contact with Epstein as late as 2017."-AI Overview
Very poor judgement. Still wonder if it had anything to do with the end of his marriage.
Yes! We know most of Thom's points but to see it nicely listed and in black in white is quite stunning. We've been so screwed and we have three years to go. i'm begging everyone I know to get out of debt ASAP....
The greatest transfer of wealth in our nation's history.....
It's the first theme of the TRump Administration. The second is proving our laws are meaningless by abusing his pardon power. To make sure that we UNDERSTAND we're powerless, he gave our information to the TechBros, but that also EXPOSED them for who they are and what they want. A Technocracy.
This stupid, dementia-ridden psychopath is a loser. His Cabinet are incompetent criminals. Congress is coming for them too. This week Governor Newsom used AI to depict Donold, Miller, and Hegseth in cuffs. It was a beautiful thing.
COP30 was held on November 10th in Brazil, and the first vessel off the coast of Venezuela was bombed on September 2nd. Brazil is a signatory to the International Criminal Court. I'm guessing they have a secret warrant. TRump COULDN'T go to COP30 or G20. Watch where he does or doesn't travel---that shitty casino "rally" was a good metaphor for what is in store.
No Kings. TRump belongs in prison here or in the Hague. See you in the streets.
alis-Technocracy,I prefer " Technonazis" . Consumers who are concerned should fight back against these disgusting,greedy,pigs.Find a way to make their life very uncomfortable. Start with Wall Street,CNBC who has supported the " Technonazis" fora long time.
Apt description, David.
For those who have not, please go to WIKI and read the page on Musk's maternal grandfather: Joshua N. Haldeman
Then research The Technate of America in the notes of this map:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
IMHO most of the CEOs are competitors, and most want to be king of the hill, and we should be ble to take advantage of that fact.
Musk may have been able to extricate himself from liability as a government contractor, but this government is hostile to his sources of income, alternative energy and EVs.
Trump is inserting himself in many businesses. I.e. Hollywood. Netflix and Paramount are wrangling over buying Warner Discovery. Both CEOs have paid homage to Trump. NYT: Shortly after “60 Minutes” aired an interview with newly minted Trump critic Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, Trump telegraphed to David Ellison, CEO of Paramount/CBS that he wanted some changes. “Since they bought it,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social of Ellison’s Skydance, “60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!” Mr. Ellison has yet to act. But such clear broadsides raise even further questions about what a CNN- and HBO-owning Ellison might be asked to do.
The same kind of double dealing exists in energy, computer chips, etc. Surely one of these guys has seen Shakespear.
Will the first "Brute" please come forward.
TRump is disintegrating in front of our eyes. It's fascinating, only because he is a psychopath and President. He truly has had it all, and it was never enough. Pitiful.
The TechBros were reading science fiction and TRump was reading Hitler.
Maybe the internet is "Brutus" and "Judas" all rolled into one.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,.....".-Wm S
As a mental health therapist I am convinced that trump's nodding off is a result of being drugged....
Thank you, Thom. Much appreciate how you synthesize across tons of facts to create the nuggets of truth.
No. One. Does. It. Better.
Good description of Thom's work, Julianne.
Maybe the "arc of justice" is more like a pendulum - and we are in a swing back/away from justice.
Morbidly fat Krasnov is playing dumb about the economy. He thought by getting rid of the reporting agency reports he could say whatever lies he wants and nobody would be able to say he was wrong. Sadly for him people know what it cost them to buy food month to month and so were not fooled by claims that prices were down. Wall Street might be up as it usually this time of the year but job numbers are harder to hide because you can either get a job or not. Nothing hard to figure out when the result tells you all you need to know. The administrations paperless office has not hidden where the economy is going and farmers and unemployed know it. Meanwhile the grift keeps on going non stop as the bottom 90% find it harder and harder to buy a house and food even with two workers and the administration is trying to make it easier to add a third worker by getting the rules on child labor more lax. The welfare for the advantaged keep on getting higher and higher while the rules on the minimum wages in the work place on purchasing power keeps going downwards. 1968 minimum wage would be over $25 an hour. Tie a living wage to the purchasing power would make a single worker in the family possible again. You could then buy a house. Let us make the American dream possible again.
The international organization CIVICUS, which tracks the health of civil society worldwide, has downgraded the United States to “obstructed” civic space in its 2025 State of Civil Society Report.
That is the headline. It should not be buried.
“Obstructed” is not a rhetorical insult or a partisan label. It is a specific classification in a global framework used to assess whether people in a given country can meaningfully exercise basic civic freedoms—speech, association, peaceful assembly—without undue interference by the state. More on what it means below. But the simple fact that the United States has crossed that line, according to a long-running global monitor, is significant in itself.
Source:
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/global-monitor-civicus-downgradesitvr
I suggest that the very notion of "a broad middle class," let alone its actual existence is obsolete.
If the billionaires make the vast majority of us poorer will that not reduce their income in the long run? We have to buy their goods and services for them to get richer. Notice how they are shoving AI down our throats to recoup their huge investment in massive data centers.
Thom we might as well nickname you Hillary Clinton as you've become such a propagandist for the establishment you contradict yourself at every turn. You ask who the Trump and the GOP really work for, then you proceed to bemoan that they are not sending as many weapons to Ukraine. Who do you think Biden and his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who made millions as a board member at war profiteer Raytheon, were working for when they sent $100 billion of our tax dollars to Ukraine, most of which went to our war contractors? Who was Biden working for when he sent Boris Johnson to stop peace talks between Zelensky and Putin in March of 2022? Who was Biden working for when he sent $35 billion in munitions to help Israel slaughter 100,000 innocent Palestinians in Gaza and thousands more in Lebanon? Trump did indeed exacerbate the upward transfer of wealth with his tax cuts for the wealthy, but under Biden the oligarchs gained over $1.5 trillion in wealth, the biggest winner being Elon Musk. Most of your points are either anti-Russia or Anti-China, parroting the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, the former who claimed pro-Palestinian protestors were funded by Russia and China and the latter who is on a tour decrying Putin and how ignorant young pro-Palestinian protestors are. Almost every one of your points applies to Democrats as much as Republicans, or is establishment propaganda meant to whitewash the horrors inflicted upon us and the world by these dueling cancer capitalist mafias. The most telling point of all Thom is that you don't even MENTION Gaza. That says everything we need to know about your brand of "progressive" talk.