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Robert Kantner retweeted
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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Robert Kantner retweeted
We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.
So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.
What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)
Robert Kantner retweeted
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Donald Trump thinks the mere act of investigating him and his Administration could be illegal.
By preemptively threatening Democrats investigating his Administration, Trump confesses to his own corruption.
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Robert Kantner retweeted
In their race to the bottom, lame-duck Republicans are so desperate to pack the courts before Democrats take control of the Senate that they’re rushing to confirm a judge with active judicial misconduct charges pending against him.
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A) None of those people the reporter mentioned broke any law or threatened the president.
B) Blanche is rationalizing trump’s attempt to weaponize the DOJ, yet just criticized the Dems two days ago for wanting to investigate actual crimes committed by this administration.
The hypocrisy is off the hook.
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Robert Kantner retweeted
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
It’s an issue that right wingers blow out of proportion and pretend that it’s the only thing on everyone’s minds.
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So you say, but I only commented on what was posted here. And taking a knee is not disrespectful, FFS.
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It’s seen as toxic because of right wing propaganda that mischaracterizes it and blows the culture war aspect out of proportion.
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The MAGA morons posting here are pathetic. Trump needs to apologize for being a traitor during every national anthem.
You miss the point, and put equal blame on both, when only one side makes legitimate claims. You cannot blame the truth tellers for the division.
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That’s false equivalency. One side has the receipts, the other nothing but lies and misrepresentations.
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Robert Kantner retweeted
More evidence that the president of the United States is psychotic. He’s been called out on this lie for many years. Once upon a time he knew he was bullshitting. But he has convinced himself of it now, as he has with all of the other fantasies with which he today soothes his fragile ego and that the world watches and listens to every day.
That’s the end stage of narcissistic sociopathy, of malignant narcissism. He’s rapidly decompensating into psychosis, and it’s accelerating.
Are we really still going to entrust him with the nuclear codes?
Is the media still not going to talk about the president’s depleted mental health?
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Trump was miles from Ground Zero on 9/11, speaking by phone from his office. He visited the area days later. His story of being lifted from the rubble by firefighters first appeared in 2021 and lacks corroborating evidence. politifact.com/factchecks/202… usatoday.com/story/news/fac… newsweek.com/fact-check-did…