Iran War/Oil Boom: Nepotistic Corruption in the Trump Out House

The White House warned staff not to abuse insider info. Then $1.7 billion changed hands 1 hour before an Iran war reveal
Chase Kell
Tue, May 12, 2026 


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Weeks after the White House sent an email to staffers warning them against using confidential information to place trades on financial markets, more questionable oil market activity is raising suspicions.

Well-timed oil bets that seemed to be able to predict the future started making headlines in March. Using prediction market platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, prescient bettors were able to capitalize on fluctuating oil prices just before President Trump made major announcements on the war in Iran.

But it's not just oil bets that are winning big. In April, an American soldier was arrested on accusations that he leveraged classified information to make bets on the operation that captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Trump later told reporters that he's "not happy with any of that stuff."

Suspicions of insider trading were heightened even further on May 6, when $1.7 billion worth of oil contracts changed hands just an hour before a report from Axios sent oil prices tumbling.
More suspicious bets

As MarketWatch reports, trading in U.S. crude futures spiked on May 6 just before Axios published a report that America and Iran could be closing in on a deal to end the war (1).

Axios' report (2) — which was published at around 4:50 a.m. Eastern time — caused West Texas Intermediate oil futures to fall 7%. Meanwhile, roughly 17,300 oil contracts with an estimated value of nearly $2 billion had already been traded.

MarketWatch spoke with several oil-market experts who believe the suspicious activity could be an indication that someone with advanced knowledge of a potential end to the war was trading ahead of Axios' report.

"All federal employees are subject to government ethics guidelines that prohibit the use of nonpublic information for financial benefit," Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, shared with MarketWatch. "However, any implication that Administration officials are engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Bloomberg reported in April that The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating these suspicious oil futures trades and their suspected connection to Trump's announcements on the Iran war (3). And while a CFTC representative told MarketWatch that the agency can't confirm or deny such an investigation, the Department of Justice has reportedly opened its own probe into the matter (4).

As the DOJ began investigating these controversial oil price bets, Trump shared his distaste for prediction markets with reporters.

"I was never much in favor of it," Trump said from the Oval Office, according to the New York Times (5). "I don't like it conceptually. It is what it is."

The president's family, however, is heavily invested in the prediction market industry. In fact, Trump Media & Technology Group recently announced it would be launching its own prediction market platform called Truth Predict (6).

Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son and a director of Truth Social, has also invested in Polymarket and serves as an unpaid advisor to the platform. He serves as an advisor to Kalshi as well.

With this arrangement, the president's prediction market comments seem to clash directly with his family's current business endeavors. And while he says that he doesn't favor prediction markets at all, in 2025, the Trump administration reportedly backed away from enforcing oversight measures against Polymarket (7).

"Presidential statements used to be the gold standard, but this is not true for President Trump," Jeffrey A. Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, told the NYT (5). "What he does is more important than what he says. I don't think his comments will bother the prediction markets in the least."

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[Updated]: Thanks to the Great Moron: World Cup is a non-Event

The piece below claims that international sports events like the World Cup always fall short, and that the impending disaster of a World Cup taking place across three countries, the US, Mexico and Canada, is almost certain to happen because of Donald Dumb's vulgar and demeanning posture vis-a-vis Canada and Mexico.

The real reasons why FIFA is sounding the alarm is because people around the world do not like the arrogance, xenophobia and racism of Trump's US. 

Gasoline is expensive and so are flight tickets and game tickets. 

People are angry at the sublime Trump asskisser, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who awarded the senile Moron a 'Peass' Prize. 

People worldwide are angry at the Iran war launched by the Imbecile-in-Chief on behalf of a war criminal like ultra-orthodox Zionist Benjamin Netanyahu who is personally responsible for the GAZA genocide.

Potential visitors from what Trump called "shithole" countries are banned from obtaining visas and even if granted visas, they will not attend for fear of being abused, mistreated, bullied, maltreated, brutalized  and potentially killed by Trump's two militias, ICE-GESTAPO and U.S. CBP. 

Even visitors from "non-Shithole" (supposedly friendly) countries are wary of an aggressive US customs that might land them in jail for no reason whatsoever under the racist white supremacist policies by Stephen Miller, the sinister Zionist "advisor" of the Great Moron. 

Regular Canadian and Mexican travel to the US over the summer season has dropped by nearly 60% this year compared to pre-Trump years. 

Penny-pinching avaricious Trump is less likely to support hosting states' federal contributions to their budgets for the FIFA events, so economic disaster is looming.

There are questions about many teams' refusal to play on US soil, so FIFA had to re-engineer its schedules to have teams play uniquely on Canadian or Mexican soil. 

The aggressive and heavily armed racist white supremacist organizations that Trump has enabled are perceived as dangerous and inimical to foreign travelers and visitors, so people will probably skip this World Cup because it is not worth the headaches of having to deal with these violent neo-Nazi groups.

So, it is not only economic drivers that are already failing this World Cup; it is the nasty and unfriendly America of Trump. Obviously Trump would love the financial windfall - he worships money - but without the "damn foreigners". But this dumbass idiot doesn't understand what makes America REALLY GREAT. 

These large events orchestrated by big companies have one objective and only one: How to fleece stupid fans (who find kicking a ball an exercise of nationalistic fervor) of their money. People sort of accepted this begnin agreement of sorts. But Trump's adding insult to injury by humiliating people at consulates and airports because of their origin and skin color is the final nail in the coffin of any feeling of sympathy for the US under Trump.

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U.S. hotels are calling the World Cup a ‘non-event’ and 80% warn bookings are falling short of expectations, report finds
Sasha Rogelberg
Updated Tue, May 12, 2026 



Last year, FIFA president Gianni Infantino hailed the upcoming World Cup as the equivalent of “104 Super Bowls,” quantifying just how big the sport known as football worldwide is—or, at least in comparison to America’s football version. With the average Super Bowl getting 125.6 million views annually, Infantino expects the World Cup to attract the equivalent viewership of three Super Bowls a day for all 39 days of the competition. FIFA predicts games would touch six billion viewers globally, and expects the influx of travelers and tourism will help contribute to a projected $30.5 billion economic windfall for the three host countries of the U.S, Mexico and Canada.

The U.S. hospitality industry, however, is skeptical of the event’s money-making promises.

Of more than 200 hotels surveyed across the 11 U.S. host cities, nearly 80% said hotel bookings are tracking below initial forecasts, a new report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA) found. Though FIFA data shows more than five million tickets have already been booked for the event, “indicators suggest the anticipated economic lift may fall short of expectations,” the report said.

Most respondents noted trouble with overseas visitors obtaining visas, in addition to other geopolitical challenges, as the primary factors slowing down travel demand. Other U.S. hotels said FIFA created “an artificial early demand signal” with an overcommitment to hotel blocks. In March, FIFA exercised an opt-out clause in its contract and cancelled thousands of hotel rooms in all 16 of the World Cup host cities, including Philadelphia and Dallas, to accommodate shifting demand.

According to a FIFA spokesperson, the organization’s accommodations team worked closely with hotels to adjust room blocks, including on rates and room types.

“All room releases were conducted in line with contractually agreed timelines with hotel partners—a standard practice for an event of this scale,” the spokesperson said in a statement to Fortune. “In many cases, room releases were made ahead of established deadlines to further accommodate requests from hotels.”

The hotels surveyed—in the cities of Kansas City, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia, and Atlanta—blamed low international demand, with some saying booking pace was trending below even typical summer expectations. The remaining five host cities are spread out between Canada and Mexico, comprised of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey in Mexico and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. This year is the first time since 2002 that a World Cup has been hosted by multiple countries, and may be among the most politically charged one yet following a year of high tensions after the U.S. imposed tariffs globally, including on its co-bidders. All of this combined, the hotels say, makes the World Cup a little more than a blip on the map.

“Many respondents describe the tournament as a ‘non-event’ in these cities,” the report said.

Unique challenges for the 2026 World Cup

Total expenditures for the World Cup—including from host cities, FIFA, investors, and tourists—will likely top $13.9 billion, FIFA estimates. The U.S. alone is expected to spend more than $11 billion to host the event. However, analysts have cast doubt on FIFA’s ability to deliver on its economic promises. An Oxford Economists report published last month predicted “some GDP growth” as a result of the games over the summer, but only temporary job gains in the leisure and hospitality sectors.

Just a few weeks away, the first match will kick off on June 11. The tournament coincides with a period of tumultuous travel some warn could hamper attendance. People already have travel wariness thanks to the Iran war, now entering its second month, which led to a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz and has left oil prices elevated above pre-war levels.

Last month, Goldman Sachs warned Europe’s jet fuel supplies could fall below its key 23-day shortage threshold—though carriers including the Swiss International Air Lines say they have enough supply for flights through the end of June. Still, the average price of a transcontinental flight rose from $167 in late February to $414 in mid-March, according to a Deutsche Bank analysis.

The costs of attending the World Cup stateside go beyond just airfare. Tickets for many of the matches top $1,000. And that’s on the lower end: The World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19 costs nearly $33,000. NJ Transit, which originally had a round-trip ticket package from New York City to MetLife Stadium for $150, lowered it to $105 last week following public backlash over the massive price hike. On average, tickets from New York Penn Station to the stadium are typically $13 for the 45 minute train ride.

The FIFA spokesperson said tickets have been released at various price categories, including a minimum of 1,000 tickets at $60 each for each match, including the final.

Though Infantino said the steep ticket costs were a product of “market rates” in the U.S., where the entertainment economy is so developed, even President Donald Trump admitted the tickets were too expensive.

“I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest,” Trump told The New York Post last week.

That’s in addition to some soccer fans’ decision to snub the U.S. during the World Cup. In January, 170,000 people in the Netherlands signed a petition calling on the Dutch national team to boycott the event following the Trump administration’s threats to take over Greenland. The Dutch cabinet rejected the boycott.

Lisa Delpy Neirotti, director of the Sport Management Program at the George Washington University, said while politics may be a factor to consider, soccer fans will be more swayed by ticket and travel prices than anything else.

“The geopolitical issues are a very small piece of it,” she told Fortune.

Why global sporting events usually fall short

Exorbitant costs and logistical barriers are certainly a drag for soccer fans looking to attend the

World Cup, Delpy Neirotti said, but international sporting events have a history of setting unrealistically high economic aspirations.

“Everybody wants to hear big numbers, right?” she said. “That gets everybody excited. That gets everybody to buy in.”

Part of those unrealistic expectations may come from the events’ propensity to spend beyond initial projections. A 2024 University of Oxford study found the previous three summer Olympic Games (prior to Paris’ in 2024, where researchers did not collect data) exceeded budgets by 185% as a result of immense security requirements and infrastructure demands. The 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal cost $1.5 billion more than its project’s $124 million budget, and it took taxpayers about 30 years to pay off the 10-digit debt.

That’s not the case for all international games. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar contributed nearly 1% of the country’s GDP, though the event was more likely to attract out-of-country tourists given the country’s smaller population. Its small size also meant a stronger concentration of venues, which made it easier for attendees to view multiple matches in one trip.

Delpy Neirotti does not expect an economic disaster from this year’s World Cup, but does warn that expectations should be tempered. There’s a likelihood that as most tickets become available, more soccer fans will book last-minute trips to give the hospitality and tourism sector a boost.

“It does bring economic impact, but it may not bring the impact that the report said,” Delpy Neirotti concluded. “You get all this hype, and then it kind of falls short. So then people are disappointed, but they still should be happy with it.”

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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[Update May 13] 

 

Why So Many World Cup Tickets Remain Unsold One Month Out

Margaret Fleming
Mon, May 11, 2026 

Only a month remains until the World Cup descends upon the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and thousands of tickets remain unsold, listed at extremely high prices.

Prices are starting to fall—barely—but FIFA will need a more dramatic drop in costs if it wants to fill stadiums, experts tell Front Office Sports.

FIFA opened its alleged final “last minute” sales window on April 1, saying it would stay open through the tournament. This would be the first time that any member of the public could access tickets straight from FIFA without needing to be selected at random, or go through a federation or special offer.

But FIFA didn’t put up all remaining tickets on April 1. The global governing body made some tickets available that day, but said at the time that “tickets will continue to be released on a rolling basis,” and it has continued slowly releasing more inventory as the tournament gets closer.

Sometimes, FIFA announces its releases, as the global governing body did for two drops on April 22 and May 7. The official announcement came two days before the April 22 drop and one day before the May 7 window. In these cases, fans wait for hours in the virtual queue, and when they finally get access to view tickets, they find prices that are higher than they want to pay, or experience glitches and error messages.

In other instances, the inventory fluctuates without an official announcement. On Monday, some ticket categories had appeared, disappeared, or changed prices from last week’s official drop.

In both cases, FIFA is drip-feeding tickets to a tournament that is already seeing unprecedented demand.

“It’s revenue maximization from FIFA,” Kieran Maguire, author and podcast cohost of The Price of Football, tells FOS. “I think FIFA have abandoned the traditional soccer fan and they’re pursuing a strategy of making as much money as they can, so are therefore creating artificial scarcity in the market by having small drops of tickets.”

Thousands of tickets remain unsold. The issue isn’t a lack of interest—FIFA said in January it received more than 500 million ticket requests—or a lack of inventory. Plenty of fans are interested in buying tickets, and plenty of tickets are still available for them.

FIFA’s problem is that demand does not exist at the prices that are being listed, ticketing expert Jim McCarthy tells FOS. “It would not be hard to sell this tournament, sell every single ticket of this tournament, but the prices are aggressive,” McCarthy says.

When FOS participated in the official ticket drops on April 22 and May 7, the virtual queue took several hours each time. Once inside, the April 22 drop was riddled with error messages, allowing only two match selections amid the warnings before inadvertently returning to the queue. On May 7, the system allowed more selections—FOS observed high prices for host nations and a ticket to the final listed at nearly $33,000—before again reverting to the line.

FIFA did not respond to questions about its strategy or whether it would lower prices in the future, nor did it confirm whether it had released more tickets on Monday.
Will FIFA Lower Prices?

On the secondary market, prices for group-stage matches are already coming down. But on FIFA’s primary platform, prices largely remain stubbornly high.

FIFA is using dynamic pricing for the World Cup as it did at last summer’s Club World Cup. Those prices eventually plummeted to nearly nothing; FIFA offered $4 tickets to see Lionel Messi in Miami and free tickets in Seattle.

The Record

There are some signs of ticket prices dipping, although not to levels that would make them widely affordable.

For the U.S. opener against Paraguay in Los Angeles on June 11, the prices for the highest-tier tickets, Front Categories 1 and 2, fell from $4,105 and $2,330 last week to $3,420 and $2,135, respectively, by Monday. For the U.S. against Australia in Seattle, FIFA added four Category 2 seats for $570. And after listing a Front Category 1 ticket to the final last week for nearly $33,000, FIFA had two tickets in that tier for $10,990 each on Monday.

With one month until the tournament, FIFA still has thousands of tickets available. For the U.S.-Paraguay opener, 10 sections each still showed an inventory of more than 100 available tickets on Monday. But FIFA is still keeping prices for those seats high. In one section alone, FIFA had more than 250 Category 1 tickets listed for $2,735 each.

McCarthy compares the phenomenon to the concert industry’s “Blue Dot Fever,” a recent trend of artists canceling tours due to lagging ticket sales, with a name that alludes to blue dots that appear on Ticketmaster’s website to represent unsold seats. He names Jennifer Lopez trying to model her tour off Taylor Swift as an example.

“She could have a very successful tour, but not in that way,” McCarthy says. “There’s a disconnect between the actual level of demand, both in terms of quantity and price, and what she put out as a product.”

Some of the prices are less costly. The Jordan-Algeria match in Northern California had a get-in price of $140 on Monday, while Germany against Côte d’Ivoire in Toronto had a cheapest ticket of $285.

But many group-stage matches still cost several hundred or even thousands of dollars.

On Monday, $380 was a common get-in price for many matches including Czechia–South Africa, Curaçao–Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria-Austria, Turkey-Paraguay, and Qatar-Swizterland. For tournament favorites like Spain, England, and the Netherlands, FIFA had a get-in price of more than $1,000 for some group-stage matches.

Last week, FIFA president Gianni Infantino defended the high ticket prices, saying “we have to apply market rates” and 25% of group-stage matches cost less than $300, which he said was cheaper than a college football game. But Maguire pushes back on that idea.

“For many countries who have qualified for the tournament, they are not wealthy, their GDP is relatively low,” Maguire says. “To therefore be treated as, ‘Well, because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we’re FIFA and we’re going to scalp you, and then blame it upon America,’ I think is incredibly harsh.”

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How Long do Colonial Rapes of Indigenous Nations Last? A Brief Overview

This is how colonial empires civilize the conquered natives

Though Rome existed during the middle of the first millennium BC, the Romans ruled an empire all around the Mediterranean (Mare nostrum = our sea) from 27 BC to AD 476 in the West, and continued in the East as the Greek Byzantine Empire until 1453. Where are the Romans and their empire today? In the trashbin of history. They were kicked out and their empire dismantled by German tribes of the time whom they refer to as "barbarians".

The Arab Muslim Moors invaded and took Spain and southern France. They settled in their "Andalus" colony and stayed nearly 800 years (711 AD until the fall of Granada in 1492). They pilfered the country of its resources and waged many wars agaisnt the indigenous Spaniards, but then they were kicked out.

The Europeans, led by the French, invaded and conquered Palestine between 1095 and 1291. As they marched across southeastern Europe to reach Palestine, they looted, raped, and massacred the people of many cities, including other Christians (of the Orthodox faith) as well as the Muslim population of Jerusalem. They created kingdoms, counties and principalities. They founded settlements and bred with the locals. But they were kicked out after 200 years. 

The French colonial creeps conquered Algeria (among other north African countries). They settled in their "Algérie Française" and stayed 130 years (1830 until 1962). They pilfered the country of its resources and committed racist massacres against the indigenous Algerians, but then they were kicked out.

The British colonial crooks invaded India (beginning in 1608) and traded and settled in what they called the "British Raj", which was the period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until 1947. But then they were kicked out after pilfering the resources of the country. 

The Germans first arrived in Namibia in 1884, when the territory was declared a protectorate of the German Empire, known as "German South West Africa". They massacred and pilfered, but luckily not for long. They left Namibia after World War I in 1915, when their colony was captured by Allied forces. 

The Dutch colonized South Africa by establishing a trading colony at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. They slowly expanded into a larger colony as Dutch farmers, known as Boers, began massacring and displacing indigenous African communities. But the crooked British got jealous so they captured the Cape Colony in 1795 and finalized its seizure in 1806. The British are sticky colonial bastards. White apartheid South Africa did not gain independence from the UK until 1931 and finally got rid of white European rule in 1994.

Vietnam, China, and many other countries had to fight to kick their European colonizers out. 

The colonizers ALWAYS claimed to be bringing civilization to the "savages". 

Yet, rarely have invading colonizers succeeded in permanently controlling their conquered victims and causing an actual GREAT REPLACEMENT of one population by another. When this did happen in history, it is usually because the numbers of invading thugs and thieves overwhelmed the local population in numbers and settlements, in massacres and ethnic cleansing campaigns. 

One example that comes to mind of a partially successful Great Replacement is the Turkic invasion of southeastern Europe. It was partially successful because they arrived in great numbers that outnumbered the indigenous populations. Turcomans began invading Europe in the late 13th century. They became known as Ottomans (after the name of their Sultan Osman) and their expansion and seizure of formely Greek-Byzantine-Eastern Roman territories culminated with their conquest of Constantinople (whose name they butchered into today's Istanbul) in 1453. They reached Vienna but were repelled by a Polish king. Ultimately, they began retreating from Southeastern europe, leaving behind them Islamized regions like Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania, though they failed at islamizing Greece. Eventually, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 led to the creation of modern-day Turkey over what were Greek, Armenian and Kurdish territories. In other words, they were kicked out from most of the territories they had conquered during 600 years of occupation, except Anatolia and Western Thrace which constitute most of today's Turkey. Is this an instance of a partial success of a Great Replacement of indigenous peoples by a foreign invader? Perhaps. But I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of a Greek re-invasion and reconquest at some point in the future.

Now, please compare all of these colonizing enterprises with the divine Israel, born out of Yahweh's thigh like Venus and incepted by virtue of primitive Bronze Age writings - known as the Torah or Old Testament. The numbers of conquering Zionists is pathetically small (6 million?) compared to the 400 million Muslim Arabs that surround them. Give them 100, 200, 300 ...let's be generous with 800 years... Will they still be there? What chance do they have, really? No amount of technology, deceptive propaganda and sophisticated wizradry can compensate for the demographic disadvantage and the historical precedents.

Modern Zionsts claim they are descendants of the biblical Hebrews-Israelites, which is an abysmally false premise. Modern-day Zionists are relatively recent eastern European converts to the religion of Judaism and have no historical or genetic connection with the Hebrews. Their claims to Palestine are as absurd as, say, Muslim indonesians (Buddhists before converting to Islam) claiming property deeds to Mecca because they are Muslims! Granted that the Israelite Hebrews ruled Palestine for some 300 years under David and Solomon, but then other nations conquered it from them (Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, etc.). This bonkers "return" of the Zionists to Palestine is like the return of the Pink Panther - a farce of history that was enabled by favorable "colonial" circumstances. Once the circumstances change - and they are bound to change - the Zionists will have to leave like all the conquering colonizing bastards before them were kicked out of the places they colonized. They don't belong to the Near East any more than the British belonged to India or China, or that the Arabs belonged to Spain.

Inverse Robin Hood: Trump Steals from the Poor to Give the Rich

Oil company tycoons are his buddies. Elite billionnaires who lick his stinking cankled feet in gratitude while attending his disgusting "ballroom" gatherings where they lavish praise on the generally dozing old geezer, the Great Moron. 

Trump has butchered social services and programs that help the middle class and the poor; he has dismissed tens of thousands of civil servants who make the government work; the money he says he saved goes to his wealthy elite friends, among whom the oil companies. Who benefits from government services? Not his billionnaires friends. 
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Opinion

Trump’s crooked ‘art of the deal’ with Big Oil
William S. Becker, opinion contributor
Mon, May 11, 2026 



The American people have seen several big oil scandals over the last century. We have survived Teapot Dome, the collapse of Enron, windfall profiteering during the 1970s oil crisis, Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon and more. But President Trump’s deal with Big Oil is the most corrupt in our history. Its cost pervades everything from household budgets to public health, national security, the climate, and the future.

During his first term and now in his second, Trump has delivered hundreds of billions of dollars in favors to the industry, including tax breaks and subsidies, access to more federal land and waters, a major rollback of environmental regulations, the suppression of competition from clean energy technologies, access to Venezuela’s oil reserves, and of course the very profitable Iran war. No one has stopped him.

This arrangement is clearly unethical, if not illegal. That became obvious in April 2024 when candidate Trump offered the oil industry a deal, telling its executives that if they gave $1 billion to his campaign, he would deliver their wish list when he recaptured the White House.

He has been delivering ever since.

The deal betrays the middle- and lower-income voters who helped elect him. By cutting important social programs and safety nets to pay for the oil industry’s tax breaks and subsidies and by raising consumer prices, Trump’s energy policies are transferring wealth from American families to one of the world’s most powerful industries.

Oil companies ended up providing nearly $100 million to Trump’s campaign organization and affiliated political action committees, not counting dark-money contributions. They also gave nearly $12 million to Trump’s inauguration and have continued contributing millions more to Trump’s PAC since he took office.

Trump, meanwhile, has continued making promises. Last July, his One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave oil and gas more than $70 billion in new and expanded tax subsidies through 2034, along with $250 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed loans. This was on top of his 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which gave 17 oil and gas companies a combined $25 billion in one-time benefits, along with a permanent 40 percent reduction in their tax bills.

Nine oil companies reaped at least $1 billion in immediate tax savings. To pay for these windfalls, families got “the largest cuts to basic needs programs in U.S. history.”

In 2022, during the Biden presidency, the Inflation Reduction Act had provided incentives for electric vehicles that would have spared families from today’s rising gasoline prices. The bill’s incentives for solar and wind power, the cheapest ways to generate electricity, would have helped mitigate rising electric rates. But in 2025, Trump’s beautiful budget bill terminated many of these incentives.

Now, utilities will generate up to 60 percent less clean energy through 2035, and other industries will pay up to $11 billion more for power in 2035, costs that will inevitably pass on to electric consumers.

Last August, the Trump administration canceled nearly $680 million in funding for offshore wind projects. Trump is now using about $2 billion in tax dollars to pay power companies to abandon offshore wind projects and invest instead in fossil fuels.

Fossil-fuel pollution causes more than 91,000 premature deaths in America each year, plus hundreds of thousands of illnesses. according to the non-profit Stockholm Environment Institute. Yet the Trump administration is doing the oil industry another favor with at least 145 actions to weaken or rescind environmental rules.

Climate instability caused by fossil fuel pollution costs families in some regions over $1,000 annually due to higher prices for energy, food, insurance, property damage and medical care. Billion-dollar disasters, which drive up the government’s need for tax revenues, cost the equivalent of $1,500 per person in 2023 and 2024.

By the end of April, the Iran war cost taxpayers at least $25 billion. Some analysts estimate it could cost them $1 trillion. The war has resulted in thousands of deaths, including those of 13 U.S. soldiers. Hundreds of GIs have been wounded. It has triggered the worst global energy crisis in history.

Meanwhile, the 100 biggest oil companies earned more than $30 million in windfall profits every hour during the war’s first month. If oil prices remain elevated, they are expected to rake in $234 billion in extra profits by the end of this year.

Political candidates always make promises, but Trump’s seemed to involve a clear quid pro quo. Trump solicited the $1 billion one month after he became the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee. Trump’s April 2024 deal with oil executives seemed illegal on its face. It is a felony to solicit or receive anything of value after one is officially informed that he or she will be nominated for public office.

But what is unethical may not be illegal under the U.S. Supreme Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence. As a law expert explained, “Unless Trump wrote on a napkin during the meeting an exact amount of money he wanted deposited in a specific campaign vehicle in exchange for a specific policy goal, there’s little chance it would violate bribery laws as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court.”

What is indisputable is that Trump’s relationship with the carbon cartel is like an oil spill spreading through the environment, the economy, consumer prices, the tax burden, and the future. It will take an entirely new Congress to stop the spill and begin the cleanup.

Reckoning Time for the Zionists

The Zionist war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is taking stock of his country's standing around the world as a result of the genocide he is perpetrating against the Palestinians.

The US is virtually the only country worldwide that still blindly suports the apartheid racist Zionist colony in Palestine. But this is changing rapidly. The advent of the Internet and social media have opened the hidden archives and disseminated the facts of the giant ethnic cleansing carried out by illegal European (and later American) migrants and settlers less than 100 years ago in historic Palestine. The so-called Israel's war of independence was a large-scale campaign of terrorism against the indigenous Palestinian population by Zionist terror squads (Irgun, Haganah, Stern Gang, Lehi...), enabled by a hypocritical British mandate that had promised the Zionists a piece of Palestine in exchange for money to fund its war effort. Palestine did not belong to the British for them to sell it like they did. So, as the illegal hordes of Zionists descended on the beaches of Palestine, the British crooks pretended to fight them off but in reality were letting them in through the back door.

The truth about the rape of Palestine, on whose remains the artificial state of Israel was created by Zionist terrorists out of nothing, is now known. The monopoly over information, that the Zionists had secured out of their own guilty tormentors and antisemitic Western mass murderers, is now gone. Fictionalized stories of poor refugees fleeing antisemitic Europe to Palestine - e.g. Leon Uris's Exodus or Cecil B. de Mille's movies - were simply propaganda destined to camouflage the rape of Palestine under a veneer of respectability in which the indigenous victim (Palestine) who owned the land was portrayed as a savage tormentor of the invading killers and rapists (the Zionists). Just like with Trump, every accusation the Zionists leveled against the indigenous Palestinians should be read as a confession: Israel is the only colonial rapist of a third world country in history that constantly claims to be the victim of, and needs protection against, its own raped victim.

Netanyahu's war in Gaza and in the region, and his extremist ultra-orthodox criminals who are ethnically cleansing what remains of Palestine, have shown the world, as if in a retrospective flashback, what actually happened between the 1920s and the 1940s in Palestine. And Netanyahu has now reckoned with this awakening by younger generations of westerners who have been raised inside intellectual Zionist gulags (Hollywood, media, books, newspapers, Holocaust lectures, courses, documentaries, museums...). He admits that the deteriorating support for Israel in the United States, especially among the younger generation that no longer sources its information from traditional Zionist mouthpieces, "correlates almost 100% with the geometric ​rise ​of social media." As heir to the biggest propaganda con job of our time - the Zionist narrative - he has the gall to blame several countries for manipulating social media in a way that "hurt ‌us badly". The Internet and social media have democratized information. No one, not even the Zionist propaganda experts, controls the information and the historical archives any longer. 

Israel's aura is no longer. The world now see the Zionists, who heretofore had elevated themselves and their Israel exclusively into the status of victims of Western antisemitism, as colonial racists, butchers and criminals who do not value the human life of others. The pseudo-victim suddently shed its disguise and revealed itself as one of the most brutal and inhumane torturer, inbued by a Bronze Age supremacy ideology (the Chosen People) carried into our time via the trash of self-glorifiying biblical accounts by nomadic Arabian desert tribes that, truth be told over and over again. gained their first foothold in Palestine in yet another giant ethnic cleansing of Canaanite Palestine. You can read all about it in the old testament-torah where Yahweh (the Jewish god) instructed Moses and Joshua to massacre every man, woman, child and animal of the Canaanite Palestinians that hadn't done anything to them, except that Yahweh - like the British crooks of the 20th century - had gratuitously promised them other people's land, the land of Palestine. 

Netanyahu's admissions include the corollary of the above change in narrative, namely that the midterm elections in the US this coming November look like a landslide against the MAGA-GOP-Republican poodles of the Zionists. It is sadly gratifying that it took the Gaza genocide and the advent of the moron-on-the-Zionist-leash Donald Trump for the world to understant the incestuous relationship between the US and Israel. Hence, Netanyahu says he wants to wean his criminal colony off American support because he can no longer rely on the traditionally dumb American electorate to believe the lies of the MAGA radical white supremacist right and elect his poodles to Congress. In its dumb stubborn teenage mindset of a country, the US is always behind in evolving with the rest of the world, but November 2026 could the watershed that begins to uncouple the dog walker's leash from the dog itself. 

Netanyahu feels the urgency of his debacle by proxy: "I don't want to wait for the next Congress" to begin separating Israel from its breastfeeding American mother. 

And now to make the story laughable - listen to this - Netanyahu wants to replace US financial and military support with support from the Arab Gulf Sunni Muslim fundamentalists who have been exporting their Islam, mosques, madrassas and terrorism to the West over the past several decades, including no less the 9-11 attacks against the US, 15 of whose perpetrators were Saudi Sunni Muslims, two were Sunni citizens of the United Arab Emirates, one was a Sunni Muslim from Egypt, and one was a Sunni Muslim from Lebanon, all US "allied" countries. 

And you have the MAGA-GOP morons from Texas fighting off the windmill of Muslim Sharia Law (by imposing their own Christian Sharia Law, a.k.a "Biblical law") while hailing their alliance with the masters of "Koranic Law".

Imagine the logical absurdity of extremist ultra-religious terrorist Zionist Jews in bed with their Muslim alter egos, the extremist ultra-religious terrorist Sunni Islamists. Come to think of it: it does make sense. 

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Netanyahu wants to wean Israel off US military support, he tells CBS
By Jonathan Stempel
Mon, May 11, 2026 


Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony commemorating Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, or Yom HaZikaron, at the Military Cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem April 21, 2026. ILIA YEFIMOVICH/Pool via REUTERS

May 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to wean Israel off U.S. military support within a decade as his country pushes to strengthen ties with Gulf states, he said ‌in an interview that aired on Sunday.

"I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, ‌the financial component of the military cooperation that we have," Netanyahu told CBS News' "60 Minutes" program.

Netanyahu said Israel receives about $3.8 billion of U.S. military ​aid a year. The U.S. has agreed to provide a total of $38 billion in military aid to Israel from 2018 to 2028.

But it is "absolutely" the right time to possibly reset the U.S.-Israeli financial relationship, Netanyahu said.

"I don't want to wait for the next Congress," he told CBS. "I want to start now."

Israel has long had bipartisan consensus within the U.S. Congress for military ‌aid, but support from lawmakers and the ⁠public has frayed since the outbreak of war in Gaza in October 2023.

Sixty percent of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, and 59% had little or no confidence in ⁠Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs, according to a Pew survey conducted in March. Both percentages were up seven percentage points from a year earlier.

Netanyahu said deteriorating support for Israel in the United States "correlates almost 100% with the geometric ​rise ​of social media."

He said several countries, which he did not identify, ​have "basically manipulated" social media in a way that "hurt ‌us badly," though he personally did not believe in censorship.

Support for U.S. President Donald Trump, a close ally of Netanyahu, has also ebbed since the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28.

The war has led to higher gasoline prices, which contributed to U.S. inflation rising on an annualized basis in March to the highest level since May 2023.

A significant factor behind higher fuel prices has been Iran's throttling of traffic ‌through the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world's oil ​normally passes.

Only after the war began did Israeli planners recognize Iran's ability ​to close the strait, Netanyahu said. "It took a ​while for them to understand how big that risk is, which they understand now," he ‌said.

In the "60 Minutes" interview, Netanyahu declined to discuss Israel's ​military plans or timetable in ​Iran, but he addressed the potential ramifications if Iran's leadership changed.

"If this regime is indeed weakened or possibly toppled, I think it's the end of Hezbollah, it's the end of Hamas, it's probably the end of ​the Houthis, because the whole scaffolding ‌of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses," Netanyahu said.

Asked if it were possible to topple ​the Iranian regime, Netanyahu said: "Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No."

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in ​New York; Editing by Sergio Non, Paul Simao and Lincoln Feast.)

The Stuff that Fills MAGA Moron Brains Exposed by Lauren Boebert

They think that a piece of garbage written by ignorant stinking Arabian desert nomads some 3,000 years ago is the ultimate reference to all human behavior. They can't think of anything else. Their brains are stultified by it. Just like Muslims who take another piece of trash, also written by Arabian desert camel-stinking nomads some 1,400 years ago, for the only reference to modern-day living. 

That is how fundamentalists, extremists, ultra-religious barbarians, fanatic dogmatists see the world: From the lens of ignorant illiterate primitive humans whose knowledge of this world was so limited that they resorted to fantasies and myths that were, obviously, custom-tailored to their own self-serving arrogance, vanity, conceit, narcissism, cockiness and self-centerdness. Because of their slavemaster, the human brain, most humans actually believe they are, individually, the center of the universe and that whoever/whatever is behind this universe of ours had them personally in mind. Our brain fools us into believing this shit because it is only concerned about our survival, not the truth. 

We are in the 21st century. We no longer are in the 3d or 4th millennium BC. We understand our world much much better than these barbarians of the Arabian desert from thousands of years ago. Yet, billions of morons around the world, brainwashed from childhood into religious bullshit, continue to take these primitive Stone and Bronze Age parchments literally. They can't let go of the illusions, the fabrications and the myths that, though they might have contributed to our survival, are absolute fiction and fables.

Despite the slow advent of reason and science over the past few centuries that has transformed human civilization, we still have barbarian refuseniks who are stuck in the religious mindset of preferring lies to facts, fabrications to evidence, and myths to the truth. Indeed, Trump and his Christian nationalist MAGA morons have resurrected this tendency and granted their own barbarian mindset a sort of respectability. 

But human evolution operates like a giant ship at sea. Any U-turn she needs to make will take a very long orbit to complete and a lot of time. Our reliance on evidence-based facts is slowly creeping into our world despite the fierce opposition by conservative cro-magnons and unevolved members of the subspecies homo stultus. Those recalcitrant to evolution and change prefer the false but comfortable safety of believing crap, because they are too stupid and lazy to think hard about difficult questions. Some of them - most MAGA leadership - know they are promoting horseshit to their followers, but that is the only way they have to keep them chained into ignorance and into voting for them.

It's been done to death. Since antiquity, there were philosophers and scientists who understood that religions are a plague to humans, and hard as they tried to convince their contemporaries otherwise, the malevolent conservatives continue to hold sway over an ignorant base that cannot, under any circumstance, comprehend the facts. It was a crime punishable by death for someone, say around the 1300s in Europe, to read and write. The Church saw in learning and knowledge a Satan-devised tool to undermine the Church. They were right, except for the Satan part. 

Here is a bimboesque MAGA dimwit explaining to us one Bronze Age biblical bullshit (angels) with another but more modern bullshit (aliens). Neither angels, nor aliens, exist. But this is the human brain's cerebral cortex fooling us into believing this garbage because it rejects the evidence otherwise. As long as numskull conservatives continue to plague humanity with their fossilized ideas, the battle between barbarity and civilization will continue in up and down cycles. But the long term trend is comforting in that it favors logic, reason, and evidence over stupidity, fantasies and myths.

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Lauren Boebert Makes Bizarre Biblical Claim About Aliens

Mary Papenfuss

Sat, May 9, 2026 

Just in time for President Donald Trump’s release of the UFO files, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert has declared that aliens from outer space are actually “fallen angels,” like Satan.

That means if any intelligent life is found on or from other planets, they are, in Boebert’s mind, hellfire demons.

It’s “always been something in my mind to say, ‘Well, how can we be the only ones?’ Like, God’s not going to stop creating just with us,” she said in a video recorded in a car and first reported by Right Wing Watch.

But she doesn’t believe it’s a good thing because any other intelligent beings in the cosmos besides humans are probably evil.

“The more I look into this, the more I see the Old Testament and what was told to us there, of fallen angels, and Nephilim,” she added excitedly. Nephilim are mysterious beings described in the Bible as powerful giants whose eventual wickedness prompted God to send the Great Flood to purge the Earth of the wicked.

Outer space aliens are not friendly “Marvin the Martian kind of thing,” Boebert emphasized.

This is “in the Bible,” and there’s “nothing that says that fallen angels, that Nephilim just disappeared. And so I believe that this could be an aspect of it,” Boebert added, apparently referring to the released classified UFO files.

“I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic,” she added.

Boebert’s vision echoes the perspective of Vice President JD Vance, who declared in March that he also believes extraterrestrials in UFOs are actually “demons” rather than visitors from other planets. Bizarrely, he claimed that the “aliens” are part of the “devil’s great trick… to convince people that he never existed.”

“I don’t think they’re aliens, I think they’re demons, but that’s a longer discussion,” he said on the Benny Show podcast.

Another TACO: He's Re-admitting Immigrant Scientists and Doctors

 

Not enough US-born American citizens go to medical school or science and engineering. These poorly educated American never get the basic education and thinking skills from their high schools, and so never qualify for higher education in science and technology. The majority are anyway too dumb or too lazy for this sort of demanding careers in scientific research, engineering and other high tech career paths. 

Which exposes the stupidity of the MAGA universe and Trump who choose to ignore the fact that their country is the leading contender in these areas BECAUSE of all the smart and hard working foreign-born scientists, doctors, engineers and such who have been immigrating to the US since the 1940s, propelling the US ahead of all other countries. From the standpoint of racist Zionist Stephen Miller, skin color is the first criterion to admit people into the country. If you're a drunkard white imbecile taxi driver from Ireland, you're welcome. But if you're a dark-skinned PhD in Nuclear Physics from Sri Lanka, you're rejected.

It's a dilemma that these MAGA criminals do understand. They know that it is immigration that has made this country great, not the dumb inbred white assh--es from Appalachia or Georgia or Arkansas or Tennessee or Texas. But they don't want the skin color of the country to continue turning tan because of the influx of darkies from all over the globe.

So now, after nearly two years of persecuting immigrants (Green card holders, H-1B visa holders, PhD students...), the country is sliding backward in science and technology, and the professional unions, syndicates and associations are begging the jerks in the Whout House to start re-admitting skilled and smart immigrants because their dumb MAGA "base" can't furnish the supply of intelligence needed to keep the country ahead of the Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese. The dumb MAGA "base" of peasants and neanderthal rednecks is in fact jealous of these smart immigrants and is more interested in such barbaric endeavors as storming Congress to steal an election, being saved by Jesus, or joining Erika Kirk's mindless Turning-Stomach-USA organization, or buying more and more guns and storing canned food in the backwoods in preparation for Armageddon, or any such numskulling Hollywood-worthy trash.  

Again, one more time, Trump goes TACO. He has decided now to listen to his imploring buddies in the medical and insurance Mafia, now starving for doctors because of the Great Moron's ban on importing skilled physicians from shithole countries. 

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US lifts hold on immigration applications for doctors but leaves others waiting
Associated Press
Sat, May 9, 2026 


Dr. Faysal Alghoula is a pulmonary and critical care physician whose path to practicing medicine in the US spans multiple countries and years of training. - Michele Abercrombie/CNN

Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn’t been able to since the Trump administration stopped reviewing applications for people from several dozen countries it deemed high-risk.

Alghoula’s current visa will expire in September if his application is denied.

But last week, the administration quietly made an exemption for medical doctors with pending visa or green card applications, possibly allowing Alghoula’s case to move forward. It’s a move physicians organizations and immigration attorneys had sought for months, citing widespread shortages and a high proportion of foreign-trained doctors, who disproportionately work in underserved areas, according to the National Library of Medicine.

The lack of doctors is top of mind for Alghoula, a pulmonologist and Intensive Care Unit doctor who serves a mostly rural population spanning parts of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.

“It is about four to five months wait to get the pulmonologist here,” he said.

Still, applicants and immigration attorneys say its unclear how big a difference the exemption will make. The change means doctors can have their cases reviewed, but it doesn’t guarantee their green cards or visas will be renewed. It is also unclear whether U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will be able to process those applications in time to meet immigration deadlines like Alghoula’s — especially as many doctors with pending applications still haven’t heard any updates from the federal government directly since the announcement was first made.

This photo provided by Dr. Faysal Alghoula shows him performing robotic bronchoscopy to diagnose lung cancer at his clinic in Evansville, Indiana, in 2024. - Faysal Alghoula/AP

Alghoula said he doesn’t trust the administration will approve him due to numerous stories about immigrants being detained at appointments to renew their paperwork like the one he has next month.

“I’m still scared to go to my interview,” said Alghoula, who has lived in the U.S. since 2016. That uncertainty intensified on Friday when he learned that his interview, scheduled for early June, had been canceled without any explanation. He said he doesn’t know what that means for his application.

Meanwhile, the pause remains in affect for thousands of others including researchers and entrepreneurs from 39 countries including Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela. While they’re on hold, many can’t legally work, get health insurance or a driver’s license. If they leave the U.S., they won’t be let back in.
Immigrants unable to work or see family

The Trump administration decided last year to stop reviewing green card and visa applications for people from a list of countries deemed high-risk and this year stopped reviewing visa applications for citizens of more than 75 countries over concerns they would seek public assistance. The moves came amid the U.S. government’s broader crackdown on immigrants.

The pause followed the shooting of two National Guard troops by an Afghan citizen, which the administration said highlighted “what a lack of screening, vetting, and prioritizing expedient adjudications can do to the American people.”

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration officials, didn’t answer questions about the pause or recent changes to exempt physicians but said in an email it wants to ensure applicants are properly screened after determining the prior administration failed to do so.

“There are lots of bans and lots of pauses that are happening right now,” said Greg Siskind, an immigration attorney based in Memphis, Tennessee. “It is all about making life miserable for people who are here legally so they will choose other countries.”

It isn’t clear how many doctors have been affected by the pause, according to a spokesperson for the American Academy of Family Physicians, who said several doctors have reached out to the organization asking for help.

Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab came to the United States three years ago to conduct radiology research. - Jeff Chiu/AP

Some doctors have already been denied

Before the exemption, many immigrants filed federal lawsuits demanding the government issue decisions on their cases.

One of them was Iranian Dr. Zahra Shokri Varniab, who came to the United States three years ago to conduct radiology research. She was waiting for a green card to attend a residency program but her application got stuck in the pause. She filed a lawsuit demanding an answer to her application and a federal judge ordered immigration officials to review her case.

They did — and denied her. The 33-year-old doctor said she believes it was in retaliation for her lawsuit.

“I feel completely confused,” Shokri Varniab said.

In court filings, U.S. government lawyers wrote that Shokri Varniab’s application contained inconsistencies about whether she plans to become a practicing doctor or researcher. She said she plans to do both.

She said the exemption doesn’t appear to apply to her since her case was decided but is seeking relief in court.

Immigration policy compounding war abroad

Immigrants who hold prestigious jobs in science and technology said they currently can’t work due to the pause because they’re waiting on employment authorization documents. Some said they are running out of money for rent and groceries and worry their careers could be thwarted if they’re forced to leave the country.

Those from Iran are especially worried about returning home during the ongoing war with U.S. and Israeli forces. They said they can’t regularly reach family due to the Iranian government’s internet blackout or count on them for financial support.

Kaveh Javanshirjavid came to the United States from Iran seven years ago to study for his doctorate in agriculture. He was supposed to start a lab job in January but needs employment authorization and his application is on hold.

The 41-year-old said he’s borrowing from friends to pay rent and relying on his wife’s doctorate stipend for basic necessities. But he doesn’t know how long that will last because she’s also Iranian and will need work authorization to get a job after graduating this summer.

“The whole of my life is on hold,” he said.

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Will Donald Dumb Use the President's "Doomsday Book"?

 

Notwithstanding the facts of his atavistic stupidity and his diminuendo slide into a demented form of senility, the jackass in the Whout House has at his disposal a "book" you'll read about below.

Basically, he has two options within the timeframe of 2026 - 2028: He either steps down or is dismissed by an impeachment and fades into the horizon and let someone sane run the country, or (based on previous conduct as in 2021) cause all kinds of troubles and send the country spiraling into chaos and anarchy by taking actions that pre-empt his exit from office: Martial law, emergency powers, claim voting fraud, use all the criminals he has seeded in various state and federal positions to scuttle, cheat, impede and declare democracy is dead.

His age somehow makes one think he's no longer up to "sanely" causing trouble, although if his dementia takes over he could lose all inhibitions of propriety, law, norms and ethics and become like a mad bull in the arena. But the more likely scenario would be, given that Donald Dumb is an absolute idiot who is easily manipulated by "sane" criminals around him (Stephen Miller, Benjamin Netanyahu, Lady Lindsey Graham....), these "advisors" would play the same role as Gríma Wormtongue with his nefarious hold on King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings. Think about it: Trump launched his war on Iran because Netanyahu convinced him to: Presidents of several administrations before Trump, republicans and democrats alike, rejected Netanyahu's 30-year long nagging quest to have the Americans bomb Iran. Trump is like the village idiot who is dragged into mischief by the village kids.

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Ex-Trump Official Sounds Alarm on ‘Doomsday’ Plan White House Can Exploit
Josh Fiallo
Fri, May 8, 2026


Nathan Howard / REUTERS(Nathan Howard)

A former official from Donald Trump’s first term is sounding the alarm about a so-called “Doomsday Book” that could deliver the president unprecedented power if he acts upon it.

Miles Taylor, who resigned as Homeland Security’s chief of staff in 2019, writes that the White House has a secret catalog of pre-drafted executive orders that, if enacted, would allow Trump to do “extraordinary things” like effectively invoking martial law.

The book dates back to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration, which developed so-called PEADs (Presidential Emergency Action Documents) and gathered them into a single instructional book—only to be opened in an extreme scenario such as a nuclear attack on Washington.

The manual was written amid the Cold War, with the understanding that it should be opened only in an emergency that threatened the future of the United States. However, Taylor writes for The i Paper that there is real fear in Washington that Trump may misuse these executive orders.

The Brennan Center for Justice revealed in 2024 that the secret PEADS would grant a president the power to detain civilians, suspend communications, censor the press, establish military areas, and freeze or seize property—all with the stroke of a pen.

Taylor said that Trump “did not fully understand the powers he possessed” in his first term, referring to the secret book. He added that “some of those who did understand were terrified he might use those authorities.”

“One such official, who once held the keys to the Doomsday Book, warned me back then that if Trump returned to office, he feared those powers being turned not outward at America’s enemies but inward at citizens,” Taylor said. “He imagined federal forces ringing polling places in opposition states, intimidation dressed up as election security, and the architecture of homeland defense aimed at the homeland itself.”

Now, Taylor writes that MAGA 2.0 has already laid the groundwork for the White House to use these emergency powers to oppose this year’s midterm elections, which are expected to be a GOP bloodbath.

“All the instruments required to execute it are now in place,” he said. “The detention capacity is being built. The legal framework exists. The targeting doctrine exists. The classified emergency orders still allegedly exist. The man who would sign them has told us, on the record, that nothing but his own morality stands in the way.”

Taylor is not the first to warn about Trump’s potential use of PEADS. Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift did the same last month, pointing out that Stephen Miller is the White House counsel overseeing the process by which PEADs could be instated.

“That alone should be sufficient warning of what’s possible,” she wrote.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has been the architect of President Donald Trump’s migrant crackdown in MAGA 2.0. / Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The White House did not respond to an email seeking comment about the Doomsday Book and Taylor’s concerns.

Taylor says a civic organization he runs is now speaking with lawmakers in Washington to inform them about the emergency orders and how to combat a possible Trump power grab should he act on them.

“These are scenarios almost none of them have imagined, let alone planned for,” he writes. “Yet I consider them to be more plausible than ever. And they must be proactive in preparing to challenge—in court—abuses of power that might be designed to keep the president’s party in power and to keep him, in his mind, away from the threat of impeachment.”

The president’s obsession with the limits of his power has only made Taylor even more worried that he will abuse it through the executive orders in the Doomsday Book.

Trump said in January, “When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

A week prior, he said of the limits of his power: “There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that’s very good.”

Trump’s posts on Truth Social have grown particularly unhinged in recent months as he contends there should be fewer checks on his power. Perhaps the 79-year-old’s most chilling remark came in August.

“I have the right to do anything I want to do,” Trump said. “I’m the President of the United States of America.”

With executive orders already lined up, Taylor writes that it is time to take the threat of Trump abusing the pre-written, “doomsday” executive orders a reality.

Christian Evangelical "Holy Men" Don't Understand the Word "Holy"...

...because they think it refers to holes or orifices found on other, younger, human beings. So, when these American Evangelical missionaries (who think they were just farted out of God's sublime caudal aperture because they are, well, White Americans of course, just like their hero Donald Dumb) set out to convert the savages of shithole countries from one Jesus (say, Catholic) or some other prophet (Mohamed, Buddha, etc.) to their new and improved Jesus (i.e. Evangelical Protestant), they begin by exploring said holes, which they baptize with bodily fluids and consecrate them to the intimate service of the Lord Jesus.

By sodomizing savage young boys placed in their care, they guarantee them an express passage to paradise in the next life. It's just that they expect them to put up with the pain they inflict on them in this life. And that is in essence the message of Jesus: There is no point working hard in this life because the true rewards are a post-mortem eternal life, slouching on a white cloud surrounded by naked binary babes with or without wings, with no worry about the morrow. For this life, you must bear the rapes, the humiliation, the pain and the shame... and you'll be fine because once dead you'll be seated first class on that cloud - you won't need a donut under your behind because God-Jesus heals the traumas inflicted on you by his Epstein-like representatives on this earth.

And you may have already guessed it: This sort of stuff happens only in holier-then-thou "Bibical Sharia law" states like Texas where hominids and bovines are indistinguishable. That is why they call them "cow-boys": They are boys with cow attributes.
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Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas
Suzanne Gamboa
Updated Thu, May 7, 2026

This article is part of “Pastors and Prey,” a series investigating sex abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God.

WACO, Texas — Daniel Savala, a former missionary whose influence inside an Assemblies of God-run college ministry persisted for years despite repeated warnings about his predatory behavior, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he sexually abused two boys.

Appearing by video from jail, Savala, 70, entered the plea before Judge Susan Kelly, admitting to one count of continuous trafficking of persons, a felony charge for offenders who engage in a pattern of sexual exploitation involving multiple victims over time. Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Savala, dressed in gray jail scrubs, showed no emotion as he entered his plea and accepted a sentence that prosecutors expect will send him to prison for the rest of his life.

“I don’t expect he will ever see the light of day again,” McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens said afterward. “And that is justice in this case.”

Daniel Savala poses with young followers in Alaska in 2002. (Courtesy Olivia Wolf)(Courtesy Olivia Wolf)

The plea brought closure to a criminal case that began in 2023 after revelations that leaders in the Chi Alpha campus ministry repeatedly failed to act on allegations against Savala, allowing him to continue mentoring teens and young men for years.

Last year, an NBC News investigation found that leaders in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, were warned again and again about Savala’s history but failed to cut off his access to students in Texas — even after a 2012 child sex abuse conviction in Alaska. Instead, he remained a revered spiritual figure among pastors in Chi Alpha, who called him “Papa Daniel” and “the holiest man alive” and sent scores of students to his Houston home for guidance.

Behind that image was a secretive ministry built around a backyard sauna, where Savala invoked scripture to persuade boys and young men to undress, preaching that “nudity is unity” and blurring the line between spiritual mentoring and sexual exploitation, according to his accusers and former followers.

Savala’s devotees included a pastor from Waco who brought his own sons, ages 11 and 12 at the time, to Savala’s home beginning in 2021. According to court records, the boys were instructed to undress in the sauna, where Savala sexually abused them while their father was present — the conduct at the center of the charges Savala pleaded guilty to Thursday. The criminal case against the boys’ father is pending.

Savala’s plea carried weight for a broader group of accusers and whistleblowers, some of whom attended the hearing and saw the conviction as the culmination of decades of alleged abuse and years of ignored warnings. At least eight others have accused Savala of sexually abusing them as teens or young men, according to lawsuits, signed statements and criminal filings.

"You thought yourself invincible," Joseph Cleveland told Daniel Savala while giving an impact statement in court Thursday. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)(Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)

One of them, Joseph Cleveland, addressed Savala in court while delivering a victim impact statement. Choking back tears, he said Savala exploited his search for fatherly wisdom as a teenager, calling his former mentor “a deceitful, evil” predator.

“You’re not the ‘holiest man alive,’” said Cleveland, who accused Savala of grooming and sexually abusing him for a decade beginning in 2004, when he was 15. “You’re not a ‘guru.’ You’re not even a man of God. You’re a charlatan.”

Joseph Cleveland as a teen; Daniel Savala's house in 2018. (Courtesy Joseph Cleveland; Google Maps)(Courtesy Joseph Cleveland; Google Maps)

Savala, who’d made a name for himself in Pentecostal circles as a world-traveling missionary, embedded himself in Chi Alpha at Sam Houston State University, where beginning in the 1990s, pastors came to see him as a supreme spiritual authority despite his lack of formal training or credentials. As the ministry at Sam Houston grew into the largest Chi Alpha chapter in the country, his teachings — including an emphasis on unquestioned obedience to spiritual leaders — spread with it, carried by former students who went on to launch chapters across Texas and beyond.

Behind the scenes, Savala’s accusers say, he continued to abuse students, often convincing them that the sexual acts were part of God’s will.

Church leaders had a clear opportunity to intervene in 2012, when Savala was charged in Alaska with sexually abusing boys during his time as a youth minister in the 1990s. Instead, Chi Alpha leaders in Texas rallied to his defense, paying his bond and hiring a lawyer for him. After he pleaded guilty and served a short jail sentence, the pastors allowed him to resume mentoring students.

In the decade that followed, at least half a dozen people contacted Assemblies of God officials in Texas and at the denomination’s national headquarters in Springfield, Missouri, warning that Chi Alpha was exposing students to a convicted sex offender. These whistleblowers sent emails and made phone calls raising concerns. Again and again, they were dismissed or ignored, NBC News found.
‘Pastors and Prey’: NBC News investigates sex abuse in Assemblies of God churches

Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators — and allowed them to keep abusing children.

Assemblies of God church leaders allowed a children’s pastor to continue preaching for years after he was accused of sexually abusing girls. He was arrested following NBC News' reporting.

Dozens of boys say they were abused in a Christian scouting program that vowed to raise godly men.

Assemblies of God pastors call for change after churches fail to oust accused abusers.

Some of those whistleblowers later went public, led by Ron Bloomingkemper Jr., a former Chi Alpha member who said he left the ministry in the 1990s after Savala pressured him into sexual activity. In 2023, he and others launched a website and online forum that became a clearinghouse for allegations against Savala and other Chi Alpha leaders.

The revelations triggered a cascade of consequences, including criminal charges against Savala and some of his protégés, lawsuits from accusers and the dismissal of multiple Chi Alpha leaders.

Ron Bloomingkemper Jr., a former Chi Alpha member who for years raised alarm about Savala's actions, attended his plea hearing. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)(Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)

Bloomingkemper said Savala’s conviction was a step toward justice, but he still wanted to see the church structure that enabled him to be held accountable.

“This is the tip of the iceberg,” he said after the hearing. “It’s not about one man. It’s about a system that allowed one man to basically groom and manipulate and abuse people.”

In a statement, a spokesperson for the General Council of the Assemblies of God, the church’s U.S. governing body, said the denomination was “pleased to hear reports of Mr. Savala’s conviction.”

“The Assemblies of God stands in strong opposition to the teachings and practices he followed,” the statement said.

In previous statements, the General Council said Savala was never a credentialed minister and that it warned Chi Alpha leaders in 2018 to stay away from him. Five years later, after receiving “reports of sexual abuse,” the denomination said it “took appropriate actions,” including dismissing more than a half dozen ministers with ties to Savala. The denomination has repeatedly defended its child protection policies and said it grieves for all victims of abuse.

Former Chi Alpha members, including Joseph Cleveland and Ron Bloomingkemper, listen as Daniel Savala is sentenced. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)(Ilana Panich-Linsman for NBC News)

A handful of former Chi Alpha members and a minister attended the hearing Thursday. The father of another teen who says Savala sexually abused him in 2021 also delivered a victim impact statement over video feed.

Cleveland, now 37, had spent years thinking about what he would say to Savala if he ever got the chance. From the witness stand Thursday, he said he’d come to speak on behalf of “all the men and boys you hurt.”

“To this day, I still live with the effects of the pain you caused,” Cleveland said. “There are nights where I can’t sleep, I often feel paranoid and have constant headaches. Those are the fruits of your labor.”

Drawing on the same faith Savala once used to influence him, Cleveland said he was choosing to offer his former mentor something he hadn’t earned: forgiveness.

“Not because you deserve it,” Cleveland said. “If it was up to me, I wouldn’t do it. But I do know that God is better than you. God is better than the church that harbored you.”

Suzanne Gamboa reported from Waco, and Mike Hixenbaugh reported from Washington, D.C.

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com

MAGA: Evolution or Repositioning in View of November Elections?

Many more MAGA morons are changing gears now that they see the end is near. Among these MAGA luminaries are those former FUCKS NEWS employees who praised Trump for his racism and xenophobia. Tucker Carlson has, of late, taken a more centrist position on many issues, particularly on the Zionist manure that has traditionally being fed to a dumb American public by the so-called unbiased American media. 

 

Megyn Kelly has also changed her views on Islam, it seems, and as would be expected of the extremist right-wingers whose puny brains can only operate in binary ways: If you're here, you're not there. If you love Trump, you must hate Democrats. If you love Jews, you must hate Muslims. If you don't like capitalism, you must be a communist. This is how poor conservative minds operate. There are no nuances, no middle grounds. No room for debate. Zionist propaganda has fashioned the average American mind not to think for itself, but absorb like a mop all the trash that a colonial genocidal enterprise is good for America, no matter what. Hollywood movies, newspapers, books, documentaries.... have long brainswashed the hapless minds of middle America.

 

But the wisdom of the ages has told us that the truth is always somewhere in between the two radical opposing views. Just as I despise all religions for the sedating fantasmagoric lies they tell us to make us feel better, I profer equal dislike for both Judaism and Islam for a number of reasons, most notably because they are very closely related, actually inbred, cousins with nearly identical practices and beliefs.  

Megyn Kelly has suddenly changed her extremist views on Islam because Tucker Carlson’s own eye-opening metamorphosis has increased his popularity among Muslims. But her own reasons are a little deeper than chasing popular views. She clearly says that she's "gotten more clear-eyed on Israel" which we understand to be what millions of formerly brainwashed people have discovered over the past few years: 

 

1- Israel is a genocidal, colonial, racist, undemocratic, ultra-religious backward Middle Eastern country whose fake "civilized" tattoo long promoted by the Zionist lobby has washed off.

 

2- Our views on Islam, generally sterepotypical and malign, have all been instilled in us by the Zionists and their Evangelical minions for the specifc objective of demonizing Muslims and Islam as "the enemy", because those negative views ensure that the dumb United States is the only country on earth that blindly supports a criminal genocidal Israel. 

 

No one better than the morons in Texas who say they are fighting their retard hallucination that Islamic Sharia Law is becoming the law of the land, and wish to replace it with an equally abhorrent Christian Sharia Law they refer to as "biblical law". You see, Texas morons confuse Christianity with Judaism because the Jewish Torah was absorbed as the "Old Testament" by the Christian religion alongside the Gospels (or New Testament). They really don't know the difference; they lump them together as "the Bible" and they quote the Old Testament (with its orgy of God-inflicted violence on humans) far more than the New Testament. They essentially are Judaized Christians, just as they are urbanized dumb peasants and rednecks. 

Kelly says, “His [Carlson’s] show is doing fine, it’s not like he’s hurting for audience, but I think he’s understanding there may be some new listeners over here. You know, like, he’s gotten very, very popular lately, I read, with Muslim viewers, because he’s been standing up for Islam. You know? 

 

And I have to tell you, Mark [Halperin], it’s been something I’ve noticed just since I’ve gotten sort of more clear-eyed on Israel, that a lot of the anti-Muslim rhetoric that’s put out there originates with people who are very, very pro-Israel, who kind of need us to demonize them. And I’ve taken a look recently at my own rhetoric on this to say, like, ‘Have I been manipulated?’ I want to make sure I’m not getting manipulated,” said Kelly. “But I think he’s having a lot Muslim viewers flock to him. I know for a fact he has a lot young men flocking to him. And so while he may have lost some contingent of the Fox News audience that’s very, very pro-Israel, and, you know, pro-Trump, and you can’t say anything about Trump, for every one of those who leaves, there is another newer, younger audience member who does wanna hear these traditional lines challenged, and hear just new independent thinking. I mean, I’m experiencing some of that myself, and Tucker probably times ten.”

In the past, pre-metamorphosis Kelly said the following about Islam:

"Islam is not consistent with the values of America, of the West. They should stay in countries that don’t care about keeping church and state separated. They should say in countries that don’t care about protecting free speech. They should state in countries that don’t care about women’s rights. That’s where Islam can fester and grow. It’s great! I mean, I’m sure if that’s like your thing, and you don’t care about, like, genital mutilation, you might really enjoy living in an Islamic country. If you don’t mind living in a life as a woman where you have to keep every inch of your body except for your eyeballs covered, yeah, some place in the Middle East could be for you. It’s not my thing, it’s not America’s thing, and it’s not a thing that we should want or encourage in the West."

 

Some of what she says may be correct about some aspects of Islam, but here is the rub - American Evangelical Christianity is not that much better. Sure, when ties and suits replace abbayas and hijabs, superficial people believe that it makes a difference. But you know that the "the cowl does not make the monk". Millions of Muslims around the world are far more civilized and modern than the inbred backwoods neanderthals of the American south and middle. Hegseth is the foremost brutal Evangelical jackass whose comments on women would make the Taliban blush. 

 

Ultra-orthodox Zionist radicals are identical clones of the Islamist radicals one finds among our "friends" in the Saudi Arabian Wahhabi Kingdom, for example. Ultra-orthodox Jews would not sit next to a woman on a bus or on a plane. They want women to cover their bodies. They hate the Christian "gentiles" as much as the Islamists do. Ultra-orthodox Zionist soldiers have been smashing Christian symbols - crosses, Jesus statues, etc. in churches in Christian Lebanon as they kill, steal and throw mayhem there under the pretense of self-defense. Ultra-orthodox Zionist settlers were filmed last week in Jerusalem pushing a Catholic nun to the ground then brutally kicking her repeatedly. And unfortunately, these are the same ultra-orthodox war criminals who sit in the Israeli government, who are Donald Trump's best friends, and who are behind the continued rape and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. 
 

The fundamental question is not to argue like idiots which of Islam or Judaism is "better". Any rational well-informed individual will reach the logical understanding that ALL religions are stupid creations of ignorant humans who don't understand their world and make up stories and myths to fool themselves into feeling better.  All religions reject human mortality out of  the primitive arrogance of barbarians, and promise us "eternal life" up in the clouds after we die. It is so easy to fool illiterate ignorant people with fabrications and illusions.

 

In conclusion, it is gratifying to see a former jackass - a jenny in this case - of FUCKS NEWS shed her blinders and start seeing the world for its complexity, instead of swallowing without chewing all the Zionist regurgitations about how much better they are than the Muslims.

 

I'll close with this fact that most MAGA evangelical imbeciles don't seem willing to discuss in public. MAGA's roots are in the KKK and every jackass white christian supremacist racist ideology in between that only the backward peasant founders of America are capable of. When the biblical numskull idiot from Arakansas, Mike Huckabee, talks about his own salvation being close at hand as a result of his appointment as ambassador to Israel, this is what he means and intends to do:

 

Now that the Jews have reclaimed the bullshit Promised Land with much barbarism and violence, the Christian Messiah Jesus is expected to return to Israel from his celestial wanderings across the gazillion galaxies of the universe. He has already booked his one-way space travel with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. His fans, the American Evangelical morons, will be there to watch the fireworks of Armageddon and the End of Times. At that point, they will insist that their brethren Zionists, whom they otherwise adore, finally become Christians now that they have proof that Jesus is the Messiah.  

 

For their part, the Zionists allies of the Evangelical morons don't like Jesus. Period, They don't like the kind of Messiah he is. He's too meek and mild. They think he's a charlatan. They have another Messiah in mind, one who is less meek and mild, one who is warmongering and bellicose and bruta, like Benjamin Netanyahu for example. One that hasn't come yet, one that they still wait for, and who promised them in the very reliable scientifically-proven prophecies of the garbage Old Testament-Torah that he will make them, God's Chosen Few, rulers of this world over the untermeschen gentiles. 

 

If they still refuse like they did 2000 years ago, this time there will be mercy, no isolation inside ghettos across Europe, not even antisemitism or Nazi crematories; this time,  the Nazifying Evangelical morons will put to death - by slaughtering them with a sword - all the Zionists who continue to reject Jesus as the Messiah once they behold his fantastic return to earth from space. So, I just don't see how the Evangelical morons and the Zionist criminals do get along, knowing that they make love nowadays with daggers behind their backs, as they rampage and plunder Palestine and declare their Islamic alter egos their enemies.