Retired grandpa living the good life in Minnesota. Beat stage 4 cancer and making every day count. Rebuilding a healthy body back up to 26.2. GenX rocks!
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Obama just had a mic drop moment, mocking Trump:
“He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.”
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela was negotiated in secret. Now we know why. The contract just leaked, and it doesn’t say what Trump says it says.
What it does say is that we bought 35 percent of a company for a penny a share. The company is run by Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan businessman who’s been investigated for money laundering in Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. DOJ officials reportedly asked foreign governments to close those investigations and let him travel.
The parent company is registered through a Barbados shell, so nobody can see who the other owners are. Any dispute goes to a court in Texas. One person involved said it was built to insulate the deal from future administrations.
The company pumps about 200,000 barrels a day. America burns through that in 15 minutes. If this were a good deal, they wouldn’t have had to hide it. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
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Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.
When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
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Steve Witkoff's an imbecile. In addition to the million plus dead, Putin hunts and kills Russian dissidents & has abducted thousands of children from their families.
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🛳️ Here's a funny one. It takes a Russian tanker carrying 40,000 tonnes of diesel about three weeks to reach US terminals
So by the time the ship arrives in the US, the Americans will have exported more than 4 million tonnes of their own fuel.
That's 100 times more than the Russian tanker will deliver, as Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukraine's Presidential Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, aptly points out.
And the tanker's entire cargo would be enough to cover just two hours of diesel consumption in the US.
Now that's what I call a deal!
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🚨 The whole world needs to hear these words from Zelenskyy:
“Of course, we are not losing this war, but we are losing people and time. And it's heartbreaking, because our children don't have a normal life, they don't have a childhood,” says the Ukrainian president, whose country is now experiencing something that feels very much like betrayal.
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Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas.
He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas.
But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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The corruption we know of is already staggering. Imagine the corruption we don't know about.
New: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now. propub.li/3UdAtIG
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This is for all the writers ( and want to be writers) in this beautiful community 💖✍🏼👩💻👨🏻💻📝. This gave me some serious guffaws and I hope it does for you as well 👍🏼💙. Happy writing ✍🏼🙏🏼. @LouDPhillips @DzintraSullivan @ChrisBohjalian @therealSIR3 @hwinkler4real @AuthorFleur @donnacox1021 @drdoomed01 @jameshealyjr
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First there was the Alina Habba story about her billionaire Turkish third husband sending a 17.6 million dollar check — which was issued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo rather than the billionaire third husband — to a defense contractor in Texas connected to Trump’s pal Richard Grenell who Trump made head of the Kennedy Center which included 5.6 million dollars that was to go to the Kennedy Center to get Trump to help the billionaire third husband with the business ventures he had secured in Venezuela from President Maduro who Trump kidnapped.
Then there’s the story of a Venezuelan billionaire who paid Habba 50 million dollars for 4 years of legal services as general counsel of a brand new company he created that has no apparent actual business in order to use her access to Trump to procure a pardon for felony bribery charges that low and behold got reduced down to a petty misdemeanor.
In a recent poll, the number one issue for most Americans wasn’t gas prices or inflation or immigration or trans athletes — it was government corruption. And there’s never in the history of the country been a period of more rampant government corruption than the past 21 months since Trump’s inauguration.
Stop the Damned Corruption Now!
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100% corruption
BREAKING NYT:
A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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Trying to figure out how Russia captured the White House faster than the Donbas
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Face it MAGAts, lifting Russian sanctions is the textbook definition of giving aid and comfort to the enemy
