MAGA Perverts & Corruption Mega-Thread

[zazen]

Chamath is a fool to question how bonds can affect policy. The mental gymnastics his otherwise smart but unwise brain goes to, to rationalise the admins actions.

Every policy runs through the bottleneck of money. Even non-spending policies have economic consequences.

The bond market determines the cost of funding every policy (infrastructure, war etc).

Whether these yield hikes are here to stay or are just a short term bounce and bound to eventually drop - the point is debt is being rolled over at those higher rates now or soon.

And that affects everything: federal debt financing, corporate refinancing and real estate.

Edited April 12 by zazen

[zurew]

https://x.com/jamiewheal/status/1910704519693971812

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, zurew said:

https://x.com/jamiewheal/status/1910704519693971812

What does that even mean??

[zurew]

14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

What does that even mean??

It supposed to mock the idea that some MAGA has that creating more factories and therefore more factory jobs is actually so cool because factory work is cool and masculine and people need those jobs over some gay liberal office jobs.

[UnbornTao]

 

Edited April 12 by UnbornTao

[aurum]

Potential insider trading:

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/11/congress/tariffs-insider-trading-allegations-democrats-00286880

Don't forget Trump and his wife both have already done a memecoin pump and dump. 

[Thought Art]

 

[Twentyfirst]

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

The BrownShirts of Trump Era. The Vigilantes, the Deputized ICE

Remember the guy breaking the Windows of a car and demanding the imigrant to get out?

Guess what? not and official. 

The Zombies are just waiting to comand

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/veterans-patrol/

 

[Joshe]

Warner Bros allegedly reached out to the Trump admin to ask what they could do to improve their relationship with Trump and Trump admin suggested they give Don Jr his own TV show, after pointing to Jeff Bezos and how he gave Melania Trump 40 million for her personal fluff piece documentary. 

If true, it’s interesting that Trump would share in the profits like this. Makes me think all this fleecing of billion dollar entities is just an appetizer, crumbs tossed to loyalists while he focuses on schemes so drenched in rot, the full sum of corruption we’ve seen so far, from a man already in a league of his own as the most corrupt president in American history, won’t come close in scale and depravity to what’s coming.

I think there’s a final act coming, which will end in collapse. When it happens, the size and filth of it, and how far he takes it, will force even those under his spell to see him for what he is. There will be zero ambiguity. He’ll leave them no way to explain it, no lie to hide behind. Like telling yourself your lover isn’t cheating on you, despite wise and trustworthy counsel telling you otherwise, and then the day comes when you walk in on them in the middle of the act. That’s what it’s gonna be like.

1. Denial - Clinging to defenses. Repeating the script. Refusing to see.

2. Betrayal - The gut-level realization that he never cared. That the loyalty was one-sided. That they were used.

3. Exposure - No more filters. The truth is laid bare, undeniable, and overwhelming.

4. Disorientation - A moment where nothing makes sense. The narratives fall apart. The certainty is gone. They don’t know what to believe, or who they are without him.

5. Collapse - The emotional and psychological breaking point. Identity, pride, community—shattered. Silence replaces slogans.

6. Recognition - The cold, unavoidable truth. The realization of who he really is, then the dissonance from the thought that they were the ones all along who suffered from TDS. 

Edited April 18 by Joshe

[kguirnela]

 

[Leo Gura]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-michele-fiore-nevada-fraud-cf56ef8b302b8111e47cf52d5a606d19

[Yimpa]

11 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-michele-fiore-nevada-fraud-cf56ef8b302b8111e47cf52d5a606d19

On 4/18/2025 at 5:00 PM, Yimpa said:

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