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Passages

(4,291 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 05:21 PM 5 hrs ago

Senator Sanders: Trump is considering a large bailout for a multibillionaire dictator

while he cuts health care for 15 million Americans.

This is insane. The working families of the United States need help, not one of the richest families in the world.






Never-ending grift.
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ananda

(35,302 posts)
7. He doesn't want to help anyone ...
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 06:05 PM
5 hrs ago

who's not a fascist or not capable of
givng him land and/or money.

Beartracks

(14,623 posts)
9. Well, Americans already got him what he wanted: re-elected.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:13 PM
4 hrs ago

So he has no more use for us, MAGA included.

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sop

(18,909 posts)
6. United Arab Emirates' 'Spy Sheikh' bought secret stake in Trump crypto company: WSJ
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 06:04 PM
5 hrs ago

(CNBC) "A government official and top royal from the United Arab Emirates purchased a $500 million stake in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture last year, months before the Trump administration greenlit the sale of advanced AI chips to the UAE, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday."

"Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan — also known as the “spy sheikh” — is the Gulf nation’s national security adviser and manager of its largest wealth fund. Aryam Investment, a Tahnoon-backed company, took a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial, according to the Journal. The deal would make Aryam the largest shareholder of World Liberty, and the company’s only known investor besides the founders, the Journal reported."

"World Liberty is behind the stablecoin USD1, which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by short-term U.S. government treasuries, U.S. dollar deposits, and other cash equivalents."

"The company counts President Donald Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff as co-founders emeritus, and is run by members of the Trump and Witkoff families."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/01/spy-sheikh-stake-trump-crypto.html

It's no secret, Trump gets away with this sort of corruption because he always does it right out in the open, for all to see.

Karasu

(2,041 posts)
12. When Democrats are in charge, we somehow "can't afford to pay for all this" according to Republicans. But now that they
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 07:43 PM
3 hrs ago

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have the fascist government of all their wet dreams, money suddenly grows on fucking trees, and there’s nothing too crazy for them to spend it on—including bailing out their fascist friends in other countries just for the hell of it.

Under Republicans, the Pentagon alone is now spending more than every other country’s defense budget combined, to say nothing of other obscenities like the “BBB” that transformed ICE overnight, the so-called "Golden Dome", the trillion-dollar AI investments, and all the idiotic vanity projects like the ballroom/dictator bunker and the “Arc de Trump."

No Democrat could get away with this kind of spending even if they tried, yet somehow, these fascists are getting a pass. It’s obscene and beyond hypocritical, given what Republicans claimed to stand for prior to 2025.

Yes, I know full well it was always BS. The American public, however, largely have failed to figure it out. It’s maddening.

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