Tag: Greed

Donald Trump is promising everyone $5000 after the midterms, if they get elected.

Sounds like the same promise about the tariff refund cheques, the same cheques that were never issued, but the tariffs only inflated the cost of goods for the average Americans, and then a couple people made Billions of dollars.

OK OK. That sounds really fucking stupid, how did that happen. Well, grifters gotta grift, so here it is.

The US tariffs essentially work by certain products and goods having a “tariff” on them. Say, for instance eyeglasses. Some blind bastard buys a pair of glasses from Canada for $100, and has them shipped to them in the USA. There’s a 50% tariff on eyeglasses, so now they paid that $100 for the glasses, but US Customs imposes a new $50 tariff charge before that person gets them. That person has to pay an additional $50.00.

The “idea” is that if foreign shit is more expensive, you’ll buy locally. Only, the USA doesn’t produce a lot of things locally, or when they do they cost way more. Or you can’t get what you want. So you are forced to pay tariffs.

Those tariffs in 2025 cost the American consumer between $216 to $287 BILLION dollars. That is up from approximately $80 Billion in an average year. Quite the jump.

So, what happened to all that money you ask? Well, the big corporations that were affected got massive refunds to offset their additional spends (aka, they made money on the tariffs), where-as the everyday consumer had to pay more for their goods. And, that’s still a shit load of money.

Only, there’s a fly in the ointment.

Getting any sort of refund can take months, more likely years. And it can be held up in red tape and god-only-knows-what else, so this creates a secondary market. In steps a company called Cantor-Fitzgerald who bought up the tariff refund receipts for approximately 25% of their value. They’re basically buying up debt at 1/4 of what it was worth. And, all the people who got fucked by the tariffs now get at least SOME money back, so they’re kind of happy, even thought they got ass-raped by Trump. But, Cantor-Fitzgerald gave them a little kiss on the forehead after they got gang raped, so I guess it all evens out.

That’s when the supreme court ruled that the tariffs were unlawful. Woah woah. Insane stroke of luck for Cantor Fitzgerald! They just made a really cool 300% profit on their investment all by one supreme court ruling. The same supreme court that was stacked with Trump loyalists! What a great windfall for Cantor-Fitzgerald!

Wait a second. Who exactly is Cantor-Fitzgerald? We should take a look into that. Well, it’s chairman as Howard Lutnick from 1996 to 2025, when Howard stepped down from chairman so her could be the 41st US Secretary of Commerce (you know, the exact person in control of what is/isn’t tariff’d, and oversees any sort of investigations into that kind of thing). Well, that’s a good thing, because we wouldn’t want the U.S. Secretary of Commerce having any sort of conflict of interest with tariffs, would we? Except, he then appointed his two sons, Brandon & Kyle Lutnick as the co-chairs of Cantor-Fitzgerald.

Woah woah woah. I know that name Howard Lutnick. Where have I heard that before? Perhaps it was because he was named hundreds of times in the Epstein files, and got caught lying about going to pedo island, and taking his kids with him to the rapist resort. The same Howard Lutnick who bought the house next door to Jeffery Epstein in the upper east side. The same Howard Lutnick who co-sponsored Project 2025? The same Howard Lutnick who lost 658 of his Cantor-Fitzgerald employees to the 9/11 attacks, and then immediately froze all paycheques and health benefits for the missing and desceased employees? The same Howard Lutnick who stole the entire Cantor-Fitzgerald firm thought a bunch of bullshit lawsuits against Bernard Cantor’s wife Iris? The same Howard Lutnick who has consistently violated the Hatch Act advocating for specific political candidates, and also promoting specific private assets on TV while in public office? The same Howard Lutnick who is entangled in a ton of crypto-scams? The same Howard Lutnick who keeps promoting AI datacenters that have direct ties to his children? The same Howard Lutnick who got $135 Million bucks from American Airlines for property damage from the 9/11 attacks, which were supposed to go his employees, but instead he kept it all himself? Ya, that Howard Lutnick.

So, effectively Trump put in a bunch of tariffs, this extracted a fuckload of wealth from everyday Americans, and that money went right into the hands of Howard Lutnick’s two kids, who definitely, in no way shape or form have any ties what-so-ever to Jeffery Epstein, and Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” (Ya, I know, fucking hilarious), just released their latest “service”. It’s called “Truth API”. So, what does it do? Well, for a hefty fee, you can buy “access” to the 10 most influential people on the platform and see their “truths” before anyone else. There’s no exact timeline, but effectively you would be able to get information before the general public.

Seeing as Trump’s “Truths” almost always move global markets, you can then hedge bets before the general public does on which way the market will go based on his bullshit.

There ya go. He’s literally selling insider trading access.

And you know what’s going to be done about it? Absolutely fucking nothing. Once again, hard right politics just break all the rules with impunity while left wing parties just sit there and pen condolence letters for dead hard right pieces of shit that break all the rules. Seriously. It’s absolutely fucking baffling.

Except when it affects her.

Giving people of colour, or the LGQBT+ community, or women, or whomever the right to marry, or vote, or have autonomy over their bodies isn’t privilege. It’s equal rights.

Privilege would be something like “gay people don’t need to pay taxes”.

Kind of like the Catholic Church doesn’t have to pay taxes.

This. This is exactly the type of shit that re-enforces the idea that society is a fucking disaster. This person thinks they’re being helpful, and they’re going to get support. Oh woe is me, I had to look at some mail on the ground in a park, right beside a trash can.

Jenni C Yyz couldn’t take 3 seconds to think “Oh hey, who leaves a shitload of mail on the ground”, and didn’t bother to consider “Probably stolen and when the thief didn’t find anything useful to them they threw this shit on the ground and walked away”. They couldn’t even pick up the mail and put it in the trash, let alone pick up the mail and walk it the LITERAL half block to where it was likely stolen from. No. Instead, they pulled out their best friend, the cellphone, took a photo, then opened Facebook, searched for this group, then posted it.

What really tops off this fucking useless bitch is the comments. Sarah Townson uses her brain and even the smallest shred of empathy for others, takes 20 minutes out of her day, collects the mail, and takes it back to where it was stolen from – noting that there were what looked like important documents in there. But Jenni had to continue her holier than thou attitude, then basically shaming Sarah and ensuring that she cleaned up the entire park “oh, but did you get it all”?

Fuck Jenni C Yyz. What a fucking cunt.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15761595/Millionaire-US-big-game-hunter-75-trampled-death-five-elephants-hunting-antelope-central-Africa.html

Millionaire US big game hunter, 75, is trampled to death by five elephants in central Africa.

Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75 – who owns a vast collection of exotic animal heads in trophy rooms at home – was trampled to death. He was being guided by a professional hunter in the thick forest of Gabon on a £30,000 ($40,000) stalk for a shot at the elusive yellow-backed duiker. Over the decades, he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US, he has hunted almost every species of wild deer.

But the highly respected hunter’s luck ran out last Friday while in the Lope-Okanda rainforest when his hunt stumbled into five female elephants with a calf. African elephants are the largest land mammals and females can stand 12ft tall at the shoulder, weigh nearly four tons and run at speeds of up to 25mph.

The startled elephant herd immediately charged Mr Dosio and his professional hunter. The elephants were so well hidden in the dense undergrowth that they appeared ‘as if from nowhere,’ and the professional with the high-powered rifle was just flung aside.

Didn’t have Elephants on my 2026 bingo card, along with the TEMU submarine and random pissed off Italian guy from previous years.