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No doubt, but to who's benefit? Don't forget "follow the money".
^ Always this.
Just because the "bad other party which supports child-castration" did lots of fraud and corruption, it does not absolutely follow that the "good party which opposes child-castration" is acting in the best interests of anyone but themselves and their close circle of patrons and allies.
No doubt, but to who's benefit? Don't forget "follow the money".
China lost their oil sources and mineral sources, arms trading partners, and much of their ability to influence the Middle East as well as South America. The U.S. now has control over the waterways, oil, mineral deposits, and behind the scenes is chasing down the banks that have been channeling the oil money for Iran and Venezuela.
And while BRICS is all but dead, there's a line of oil tankers heading to the Gulf of America to fill up, rather than Iran. China's push to end the dollar internationally has been stopped in the most spectacular way.
Maybe the funniest/saddest thing to happen is that the UK is having trouble sending even a couple dinghies to the Gulf because their navy has been gutted. NATO has been exposed as a bunch of posers. I fully expect us to pull back from NATO, which means--HOPEFULLY--that we'll see a peace windfall by spending less on NATO and the bases in Europe.
Somehow I really hate to circle back to this, yet it seems like it's kinda important since MILLIONS of people died. Go to the 9 minute mark, and then watch to the end which is only at 11:19.
Report: 9 out of every 10 new jobs in the US since 2020 have gone to foreigners
Well, here's one of those headlines which sounds like complete and total nonsense.
But here's some official stats pulled directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Here's a better look at that graphic:
We reported on this trend in 2023, but the numbers aren't looking much better.
This trend ramped up in 2020, pre-Covid, and has carried on through today. 90% of all new hires are foreigners and not Americans. This, despite Americans graduating college at an insanely high rate and not being able to find any work.
Yeah, no one has a complete lock on what Bessent and Lutnick and DJT are going to do next, which is one of the tools they have in their toolbox.
This post which I am replying to here was written almost exactly one year ago (Apr 9, 2025), right about the time that DJT was starting to seriously preach the Gospel of Tariffs, which would eventually morph into messaging such as "Tariffs will completely replace the income tax," and similar.
With regard to Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce) in particular, what we did not know at the time was that after he stepped down as the chief of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald to take his present job, his sons Brandon and Kyle (who took over for him) created an interesting new financial instrument: they started purchasing the rights to collect any potential future tariff refunds from companies which had been paying the new tariffs, for 20-30% of their anticipated face value.
So, all of us ordinary Americans have spent the past year paying artificially inflated prices for everything from olive oil to cars. And now, instead of all of that revenue being used to reduce government debt, it is instead being paid back, with interest, to the corporations which acted as intermediaries in collecting the money from us and remitting it to the government. Except of course for those corporations who pocketed a quick payoff from the Lutnick Bros last year, in which case all of that money is going into the pockets of the family of the Secretary of Commerce and their clients.
Plus the extra overhead of needing to spin up a government Department of Tariff Refunds.
Do you see what an enormous grift this has been? Billions of real dollars taken directly from you and I, laundered through the Dept of the Treasury, and then handed directly to investment bankers and multinational corporations. It's like the 2008 bailouts, only without the theatrics of pretending to be in the best interest of ordinary folks with a mortgage and a 401k.
Every single fraudulent Learing Center and burrito-cart / home health agency combined does not even come close to the magnitude of this one swindle.
..."The Southern Poverty Law Center mastered that formula for over fifty years. On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, a federal grand jury in Alabama dismantled it with an 11-count indictment.
The charges are wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The allegation at the center of the indictment is not complicated. The SPLC raised hundreds of millions of dollars from donors who believed their money was being used to destroy white supremacist organizations. Instead, according to federal prosecutors, the SPLC was quietly writing checks to members of those organizations, routing the payments through shell companies with names like "Fox Photography" and "Rare Books Warehouse" to prevent donors, banks, and regulators from knowing what was actually happening. The money moved from the SPLC to a sham account, from that account to a second sham account, and was then loaded onto prepaid debit cards and handed to people embedded inside the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, the neo-**** National Alliance, and other violent extremist organizations.
The indictment covers payments made between 2014 and 2023, a nine-year window during which at least $3 million in donor contributions was secretly funneled to at least nine individuals with active affiliations to violent extremist groups. Donors were never told. Banks were misled through fictitious business names created for the express purpose of concealing the transactions.
One informant affiliated with the neo-**** National Alliance received more than $1 million across the covered period.
Another informant held the title of Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America. He was on the SPLC payroll.
The indictment alleges that one of the SPLC's paid informants was a member of the online leadership chat group that organized the Unite the Right rally. That informant attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. He helped coordinate transportation for other participants who traveled to Charlottesville. He was paid more than $270,000 by the SPLC over eight years.
The organization that turned Charlottesville into its most powerful fundraising instrument had a paid operative embedded in the planning of the event itself.
The indictment does not exist in isolation. It is the latest chapter in a much longer story about what the Southern Poverty Law Center actually became in the decades after its founding.
By the 2000s, critics across the ideological spectrum had noticed that the SPLC's hate group designations were drifting well beyond violent extremism. The Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Center for Immigration Studies, Concerned Women for America, Moms for Liberty, and Turning Point USA all found themselves designated as hate groups. None had advocated violence. Their designations were based on policy positions the SPLC found politically objectionable.
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In 2023, the FBI used SPLC research to draft an internal memo declaring traditionally observant Catholics a potential domestic extremist threat. Public outrage forced the Bureau to retract it.
...The SPLC built one of the largest nonprofit war chests in American history on the back of fear-based fundraising. As of 2024, the organization carried an endowment of $822 million and took in $129 million in annual revenue. It previously held more than $160 million in offshore investment accounts, a peculiar arrangement for an organization with the word poverty in its name that leadership described as standard endowment management.
...A former employee wrote in The New Yorker afterward that it was hard not to feel like the staff had become pawns in what was a highly profitable scam. That article was published in 2019.
"It would go like this: the SPLC would dream up a business that didn't actually exist. A few examples include: "Fox Photography," the "Tech Writers Group," the "Rare Books Warehouse," and the "Center Investigative Agency (CIA)."
...the SPLC would open a fake account at a bank, fund it, and use the money to pay "informants" and hate groups millions of dollars.
To convince the banks to open accounts for their invisible businesses, the SPLC lied on the account applications. In writing. The DOJ now has it dead to rights.
Then --critically for the indictment-- in 2021, one of the banks investigated SPLC's accounts, discovered they were made up, closed them, and got the SPLC to agree in a letter confirming they were all fake and actually owned by the SPLC.
The DOJ has the letter.
The SPLC has lawyers. Lots of lawyers. Its lawyers, it turns out, did not bother to read the Bank Secrecy Act.
Finally, since you can't lock up a non-profit, the DOJ's indictment sought the remedy of criminal forfeiture.
Every single payment it made from a fake bank account is wire fraud.
...But what federal law does allow under a criminal indictment is freezing fraudulently obtained assets pending forfeiture. In other words, the DOJ can now freeze some or all of the SPLC's $800 million political war chest. Six months out from the midterm elections..."
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