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John Yates 3h ago

On Jan 20, 2025 #America went from the leader of free world to despotic, fascist, #BananaRepublican rule by a convicted felon, pathological liar,malignant narcissist,ignoramus installing only incompetent bootlickers to kill all that #America stood for! #Kakistocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Politics

DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic 12h ago

‘No-Bid Contracts’

Inside the Trump Kleptocracy

“The National Park Service wanted to repair two ornamental fountains in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The Biden administration in 2022 had estimated the work would cost $3.3 million. But Mr. Trump’s government agreed to pay Clark $11.9 million to do it, and later added tasks that increased the contract to $17.4 million, the documents show.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/politics/lafayette-park-fountains-trump-contract.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.9hQP.jDFlEIQhu0Gv&smid=url-share

#Trump #kleptocracy #giftlink

Kim Perales 2d ago

Sheer lunacy:🚨"WH mulls using DPA in #SpiritAirlines takeover."
-S Lincicome

Spirit🚨has declared bankruptcy 2X in the past 2 yrs, after the DOJ blocked a merger with JetBlue during the Biden admin. The Iran war has been driving up jet fuel costs for all airlines & earlier this mo, creditors expressed serious doubts Spirit could remain viable.

The DOD would use Spirit's excess cap for trans troops, MIL cargo or other missions.
Trump Air⁉️
#Kleptocracy #Kakistocracy #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-mulls-using-defense-production-act-in-spirit-airlines-takeover/

White House mulls using Defense Production Act in Spirit Airlines takeover

President Trump is open to some type of federal action, several sources told CBS News, and he has said publicly he'd "do it to save the jobs."

GrumpyOldFart 2d ago

“Hungary and Iran Are Where Trump’s Politics of Kleptocracy Went to Die”

by Katherine Stewart in The Byline Times on Substack

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“For those of us who live outside the information bubble of the anti-democratic movement, the meaning of events in Hungary and Iran should be clear. There is no compromise with Trumpism, wherever it is to be found. Like the Hungarians, we must throw the bums out. And then, as the Hungarians have vowed to do, we must hold them to account”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/hungary-and-iran-are-where-trumps

#Press #SocialMedia #US #Hungary #Iran #Trump #Orban #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #Corruption #Incompetence #Dictatorship #War #Kleptocracy

Hungary and Iran Are Where Trump’s Politics of Kleptocracy Went to Die

The defeat of Viktor Orbán and the folly of Trump’s war in Iran both expose the machinery and failures of anti-democratic ‘pseudo-religious kleptocracy’ argues Katherine Stewart

Byline Times

William Lindsey

"More than that, as both Orbán and Trump have understood extremely well, religious nationalism offers a permission structure for the worst kinds of corruption, violence, and abuse. If God is on your side and the devil is on the other side, after all, anything goes."

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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William Lindsey

"Does anybody remember Jerry Falwell Jr, the high and holy Christian nationalist whose endorsement of Trump in 2016 was pivotal, but who then lost his job in a morass of yacht-based sex and money scandals?

This is a movement that doesn’t just succumb to the occasional grifter, but rather produces them regularly, and then backs the grifter-in-chief all the way to the end of time."

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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William Lindsey

"Those who have not studied the movement often express some surprise on seeing the connection between Christian nationalism and corruption. These people are supposed to have Jesus and the Bible on their minds, not Mammon, right? But religious grifting is something of a cottage industry in the US."

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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William Lindsey

"In both Russia and America, the money machine that funds pseudo-religious kleptocracy is still present.

Furthermore, while the MAGA movement is showing some division around the war in Iran, there is little sign that the base of religious nationalist supporters has lost its appetite for culture wars against the supposedly 'woke.'”

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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William Lindsey

"'Pseudo-religious' because it involves the use or exploitation of religious imagery and narratives for political purposes, often by people who don’t even believe in the religion they are selling. ...

What we can take for granted is that neither America’s Christian nationalist leaders, nor their Russian allies, are likely to re-think their basic vision or mode of operation."

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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William Lindsey

"Hungary and Iran are where Trump’s politics of kleptocracy went to die. The defeat of Viktor Orbán and the folly of Trump’s war in Iran both expose the machinery and failures of anti-democratic ‘pseudo-religious kleptocracy.’"

~ Katherine Stewart

#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hungary-and-iran-are-where-trumps

Hungary and Iran Are Where Trump’s Politics of Kleptocracy Went to Die

The defeat of Viktor Orbán and the folly of Trump’s war in Iran both expose the machinery and failures of anti-democratic ‘pseudo-religious kleptocracy’ argues Katherine Stewart

Byline Times