In banana and lemon republics, like the old country of Lebanon, billionaires gain access to power by literally buying stupid people's loyalty: They hold wads of cash in their (or their cronies') hands and distribute them to voters at the rate of $100 bill per voter. Then, once in power, the billionaires become little dictators stealing public money for their own lavish lifestyle and engrossing their safes with more billions. I never thought I'd see US public figures, politicians and officials do this sort of scam out in the open, without them getting caught and dragged to courts. But every time you smell Donald Dumb around, there's suspicious money and suspicious criminals lurking about.
Yes, Donald Dumb is one of those vintage corrupt feudal lords and his coterie of republican MAGA submissives who dare not stand up to him. He has now made the US just another banana republic where the dictator, Big Brother Dear Leader, can splurge taxpayers' money on his own self-serving lifestyle.
On Sunday, Donald Dumb took a ride on the Daytona International Speedway track in the presidential limousine ― ahead of the Daytona 500 opening event of the Nascar series.
People quickly denoucned the hypocrisy and double standards on social media. And Donald Dumb also made Air Force One do a flyover of the track. In the shriveled minds of ignorant idiots like him, this is what a "great" president does: He merely "appears" great with a shiny albeit slimy sheen. He doesn't have to actually "be" great in a meaningful substantive way.
Critics slammed the stunts’ cost to taxpayers. They also recalled the money that would have been spent on Trump’s trip last weekend to watch the Super Bowl.
And they noted the stark contrast with those costs and how the president himself has tasked tech billionaire, the South African-born neo-Nazi, Elon Musk with slashing public spending as part of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency.
Donald Trump is once again blowing millions of taxpayer dollars on another self-serving trip, this time to the Daytona 500. Trump burned $25,000 in jet fuel, doing laps around Daytona in Air Force One, which will be paid for out of grandpa’s social security benefits [pic.twitter.com/AmQijITrtC]
And then this: Amazon's Jeff Bezos buying up the insufferably pathetic bimbo Melania's new documentary about a topic that could make a huge difference in the daily lives of millions of Unitedstatesians: her return to the White House. Price tag for Bezos: $40 million out of the billions he siphons out of your online orders. She, the first lady, personally pockets 70% of the $40 million (i.e. some $28 million). All of this not because of the value of the documentary, but in order for Bezos to please the Dear Leader, make profitable future deals thanks to his loyalty to Donald Dumb, prostrate himself before him on all fours, and kiss his ring at Mar-a-Lago.
That's how feudal vassals bought access, land and serfs in the Middle Ages. Why not in the "Beacon on a Hill" democracy of the United States in this 21st century?
Opinion
Here’s How Much Money Trump Has Made Off the Presidency So Far
Hafiz Rashid
Fri, February 14, 2025
Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have been making deals and raking in money ever since Trump won the election, including a cool $40 million to license Melania’s documentary about returning to the White House as first lady.
That’s just one of Trump’s numerous moneymaking schemes since his return to office, which have netted him and his family nearly $80 million so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That includes donations to his future presidential library and a hefty $10 million settlement with Elon Musk’s X. That sum doesn’t include the millions the president and first lady have each netted from “meme coin” cryptocurrency ventures, a blatant means of scamming MAGA supporters.
Melania’s upcoming Amazon documentary may be one of the most obviously corrupt deals. The Journal reports that the first lady, the president, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, all had dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December, where Melania sold Bezos on her movie. Two weeks after that dinner, Amazon agreed to shell out the $40 million, nearly three times as much as the next best offer and the most the company has ever spent on a documentary.
The first lady is reportedly getting over 70 percent of the $40 million, and her agent is trying to sell “sponsorships” to executives and billionaires for the movie, with $10 million as the starting price. In return, these sponsors would get thanked in the credits and be invited to the premiere.
Some of Amazon’s competitors weren’t even interested in the film. Netflix and Apple declined to field offers, while Paramount only bid $4 million on distribution rights. The only other company that showed some interest was Disney, but their offer was just $14 million.
According to an Amazon spokesperson, “We licensed the upcoming Melania Trump documentary film and series for one reason and one reason only—because we think customers are going to love it.” [Yeah, sure. Customers may find in it how the price of eggs is NOT going down and how rising inflation is not what the Dumb moron-in-Chief promised them]
That seems hard to believe. Amazon and Bezos are shelling out money not because they love the documentary but because they are cozying up to the president to stay on his good side and hopefully get some favorable decisions from the Republican-controlled government. In Trump’s second term, it’s all about cash for favors, with no concern about appearing corrupt.
[That is in fact what the South African neo-Nazi Elon Musk is doing: trashing his competitors' federal contracts in the name of fighting waste and corruption, but not his own hundreds of millions in federal contracts. Welcome to United Banana Republic of America.]
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