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 were portrayed as savage tormentors of the invading killers and rapists (the Zionists).

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 who have been raised inside intellectual Zionist gulags (Hollywood, media, books, newspapers, Holocaust lectures, courses, documentaries...). He admits that the deteriorating support for Israel in the United States, especially among the younger generation that sources its information outside the 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 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 a Canaanite Palestine that hadn't done anything to them, except that Yahweh - like the British crooks of the 20th century - had gratuitously promised them 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 colony off American support because he can no longer rely on a 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 were instrumental in exporting their Islam, mosques, madrassas and terrorism to the west over the past several decades, including no less than the 9-11 attacks against the US. 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. 

Trump to Deliver Incoherent Drivel at Rose Garden Today

On President Donald Dumb's schedule today Friday is a much-anticipated ranting drivel of fragrant horseshit at the Rose Garden. The much anticipated slurred speech will focus on a soup of narcissistic self-congratulatory comments about Dumb's achievements: attacks on women's intelligence, unhinged racist remarks, disgusting comments still blaming a decade-old Obama-Biden admin for his own abysmal failures, blocked Hormuz, soaring oil prices, angry "allies", dissatisfied American voters including Dumb's own MAGA morons, a US dollar losing its monopoly in trade and finance, and rising inflation and high grocery prices, etc., all hurled in a divagating and sleepy monotone. The senile and aging president is expected to occasionaly fall alseep while speaking, just long enough for attendees and listeners to catch their breath, decipher the hidden meanings of the ramble, and try to make sense at all of any of it.

If he takes questions from the press, Dozy Don Dumb will introduce new insults against women. After his much-heardled mysogynistic responses to female reporters' questions, like "Shut up Piggy" or "Low IQ" or "you're a disgrace" or "you never smile", etc., the Dumb jackath will usher such new linguistic gems to the world of diplomacy, all researched for him by his low-life vulgar spokespersons, as "loose" or "slut" or "fat" or ugly" all the way to the diamonds of all insults against women, namely "hormonal" or "bitch" (which he has so far courteously refrained from uttering in public).

Here, the senile and smarmy Donald Dumb appears completely lost among the roses at the White House. He is known to wander aimlessly in total confusion and usually waits for his nurse-in-waiting to take him to his bed and change his diapers. He wants to rename the White House as Trump's White Home for the Insane Elderly. 

Donald "jackass" Dumb will deliver ​remarks in the Rose Garden at ‌the ⁠White House today Friday. As expected, the idiot's handlers ​did ​not ​mention what ‌the remarks ​would ​be about because they know the demented senile old man has no idea how to deliver a coherent speech. We are all expecting a giant soup of disjointed Dada-inspired automatic-speech phrases and broken sentences, the likes of which the whole universe has never ever seen or heard since the dawn of life on earth. 

How Trump's 'America Alone' is Killing the US Dollar

When a moron of gigantic proportions is leading the US, expect far more losses than gains. Trump's policies are pushing the US dollar out of its preeminence, which it has held since the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944. The Trump "magic" was to convince a dumb and ugly American electorate that his undermining of everything the US itself foisted on the world after WWII - things like the US dollar, the UN, NATO, etc. - is a strike of genius.

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‘Different from anything in the past 80 years of dollar dominance’: U.S. sanctions spur a ‘paradox’ pushing allies away from American currency
Sasha Rogelberg
Updated Wed, May 6, 2026


De-dollarization concerns have been reignited following the onset of the Iran war, which economists said have shaken confidence in the stability of U.S. financial systems.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc—Getty Images)

The world’s de-dollarization push continues, but this time, it’s America’s allies who are pulling back from greenbacks.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last week a $25 billion sovereign wealth fund to bolster domestic infrastructure, part of an effort to make Canada’s economy less dependent on the U.S.

The move follows France’s withdrawal of all of its 129 tons of gold held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between July 2025 and January 2026. France, considered America’s oldest ally, instead replaced the gold with an updated bullion and stored it in Paris—making $15 billion from selling its old stockpile.

Governor of the Bank of France Francois Villeroy de Galhau said the decision “was not politically motivated,” but the last time France repatriated gold was quietly between 1963 and 1966, fearing the U.S. mounting debt would result in a devaluation of the dollar against gold, which ultimately accelerated the U.S. ending the Bretton Woods system and the gold standard.

Sana Ur Rehman, a EBC Financial Group market analyst, argued these actions are different from past efforts to de-dollarize because they are coming from the U.S.’s long-established allies. While sanctions and other policies have intended to sustain U.S. trade dominance or punish adversaries, Ur Rehman said those efforts are backfiring and hurting the U.S.’s relationship with key global confederates.

“These are not the actions of enemies,” Ur Rehman wrote in a note published Tuesday. “They are the actions of allies and partners who have watched the United States weaponize the dollar-based financial system, and have quietly concluded they need to reduce their exposure to it.”

“That shift,” Ur Rehman continued, “driven by allies rather than adversaries, is what makes the current moment different from anything in the past 80 years of dollar dominance.”

De-dollarization has been happening for decades—greenbacks’ share of global foreign exchange reserves have fallen from 71% in 1999 to 57% today, a 25-year low—but the Iran war has put a brighter spotlight on this phenomenon and what it could mean for a shifting world order decades down the line.

Following the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil usually passes, industry exports said some ships have been able to pass through the chokepoint by paying in Chinese yuan. The use of the petroyuan signaled to some economists the weakening of the petrodollar, or the exclusive use of U.S. currency to trade oil. The petrodollar remains the dominant currency used in global oil trade.
 

U.S. sanctions and de-dollarization

During the past 20 years, the U.S. has imposed about 70 active sanctions effecting more than 9,000 individuals, companies, and economic sections—more restrictions than the EU, United Nations, and Canada combined. As a result, economists have said these sanctions have eroded favorability toward the dollar from some of America’s adversaries.

Following penalties placed on Russia in the early 2010s following its annexation of Crimea, Russia agreed to a currency swap with China worth 150 billion yuan, about $25 billion. In 2023, Saudi Arabia and China signed a $7 billion currency swap agreement. A Deutsche Bank report recently found that while 90% of cross-border trade in North and South America is done through the petrodollar, only about 20% of trade invoicing in Europe and 70% in the Asia-Pacific is done through the petrodollar.

The Trump administration’s decision to pursue war in Iran, as well as other aggressive trade moves such as tariffs, have sent the message to other countries that the dollar may not be as rock-steady as it once was, according to David Wight, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

“The increasing aggressiveness of the United States in multiple fields—both in terms of sanctions and in terms of warfare—has caused more countries to kind of wonder, ‘Do we want to be completely tied or dependent on the dollar if things go sour for whatever reason?’” Wight told Fortune.
The ‘paradox’ of U.S. sanctions

Ur Rehman said U.S. allies pulling away from U.S. assets could lay the groundwork for other countries following suit, creating a snowball effect of countries relying less on American financial systems. In January, Emanuel Mönch, former head of research at the Germany’s central bank Bundesbank, said tensions with the U.S. could drive Germany to move its gold away from an American central bank. Germany holds 1,236 tons of gold at the New York Fed, about 37% of its total reserves.

“Given the current geopolitical situation, it seems risky to store so much gold in the U.S.,” Mönch told German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. “In the interest of greater strategic independence from the U.S., the Bundesbank would therefore be well advised to consider repatriating the gold.”

Ur Rehman is not the first expert who has flagged U.S. sanctions as potentially having an adverse impact on American economic dominance. A November 2025 analysis published in the Cambridge University Press posited U.S. sanctions could create a bifurcated global economic system with the U.S. and its allies on one side, and China and BRICS countries on the other. Author and political scientist Dongan Tan cites the growing popularity of China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, which is now used by more than 4,900 banking institutions in 187 jurisdictions.

Ur Rehman noted de-dollarization will resemble a frog in boiling water: By the time U.S. sanctions have caused enough countries to de-dollarize, global trust in the U.S. may become harder to salvage.

“The erosion is slow: percentage points per decade rather than per year. But it compounds,” Ur Rehman said. “And the paradox is that Washington cannot both weaponize the dollar system and maintain universal trust in it. These two objectives are in direct conflict.”

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

GOP-MAGA Live Up to Family Values and Jesus-Saved Bigotry

 ...particularly in the backward illiterate and very Christian southern states. As I've repeatedly compared them to their Islamic countrerparts, the Evangelical Christian fundamentalists across the southern belt want to impose Christian Sharia Law on the country, all the while denouncing a non-existent supposed Islamic Sharia threat. 

As always, you can apply the axiom "Every accusation is a confession" to these mongrels because, other than the suits and ties, they are exactly like the Afghan Taliban, the Saudi Wahhabis, or the Iranian Ayatollas. When they accuse these Muslim neanderthals of incest and ploygamy, they are reflecting to us their own incest and polygamy.

They abuse women and want them out of the workplace. They want to control them because they fear them. So, like the very skilled bigots they are, they talk about the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage, etc. but then engage in adultery and sexual abuse, and applaud the murder of thousands of inocent people by the enraged white Christian supremacists running the US government. How very Christian!

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Married GOP Congressman Allegedly Penned 3-Page Note to Ex-Staffer About Her Writing 'a Complex Chapter in My Heart'
North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards, 65, denied all allegations of misconduct, which emerged weeks after two fellow congressman resigned over their own scandals involving staffers

Joseph Konig
Thu, May 7, 2026


North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards on May 15, 2025.
Credit: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty

NEED TO KNOW

- The increasingly active House Ethics Committee is reportedly probing North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards for alleged inappropriate conduct involving young female staffers

- Axios reported several allegations, including that the married Republican penned a three-page handwritten note to a former staffer that said she had “written a complex chapter in my heart”

- Edwards, 65, denied all allegations of misconduct and welcomed an investigation

Yet another member of Congress is facing scrutiny for alleged misconduct as the increasingly active House Ethics Committee reportedly probes North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards after he was accused of inappropriate conduct involving young female staffers.

Axios reported several allegations from unnamed sources, including that the married Republican penned a three-page handwritten note to a former staffer that said she had “written a complex chapter in my heart.”

“In the mountains we have to shovel horses--t,” Edwards told The Assembly, a North Carolina news organization, before an event in Flat Rock, N.C., on Tuesday, May 5. “In D.C. I have to deal with horsesh-t. And these allegations are more horsesh-t.”

Edwards told The Assembly he had never had a romantic relationship with a staffer, "I have done nothing wrong," and said he has "no reason to resign," but did not address specific allegations.

“I’m not going to debate these issues in trashy tabloids," Edwards told the outlet.

North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards on May 16, 2025.
Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty

His office did not comment on whether the committee had been in contact with Edwards, and the Ethics Committee declined to comment. The committee has a policy not to publicly acknowledge investigations until official announcements are made.

"I welcome any investigation, given the professionalism my staff has demonstrated and my commitment to serving the people of Western [North Carolina],” Edwards said in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday, May 6. “Given the current political environment we are facing in our nation, it comes as no surprise that others with their own political agendas will attempt to raise false accusations in order to create news stories.”

None of the details reported by Axios have been independently verified by PEOPLE, and a campaign spokesperson for the congressman dismissed the claims to the Assville Citizen-Times as “baseless allegations designed to impact the campaign driven by those who want to settle old political scores.”

Probes from the Ethics Committee preceded the April 13 resignations of Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican whose former staffer fatally lit herself on fire in 2025 after an affair, and California Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who dropped out of the California gubernatorial race after allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct involving staffers.

Gonzales ultimately admitted to having a sexual relationship with his staffer who died by suicide, though Swalwell has denied all wrongdoing since multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., also resigned in April after the first public House Ethics “trial” in 16 years found her guilty on 25 counts related to federal criminal charges she still faces for allegedly defrauding federal pandemic aid programs of millions of dollars. She has also denied wrongdoing while the criminal case remains underway, but opted to step back from Congress "rather than play these political games."

Reps. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., (left) and Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, (right) on June 12, 2025.
Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

Axios reported on the existence of Edwards' handwritten letter on Monday, May 4, and cited three sources who said they witnessed Edwards, 65, act inappropriately toward two female staffers in their 20s.

The D.C.-based outlet characterized those alleged actions as crossing “professional boundaries” and said it “created an uncomfortable work environment.”

Edwards also allegedly gifted a staffer jewelry and a custom puzzle of Adam Sandler, as well as invited her to a Sandler comedy show, according to Axios. Another young female staffer in her 20s was allegedly gifted other items, including a purse.

The report alleged that Edwards also traveled to Las Vegas for a stay at the Bellagio hotel in November 2025 to vacation with the young woman who he wrote the letter. She reportedly no longer worked for his office at the time.

“You are the most amazing woman," the letter, which Axios said its reporters viewed, began. "I only wish I could explain the joy and meaning to me for the time we spent together at the office — but especially away from it.”

Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., during a House Budget Committee meeting on May 16, 2025
Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty

Edwards’ campaign website says he has two children with his wife of 46 years, Teresa, and they now have two grandchildren.

“It is hard to say whether the so-called Ethics Committee or the news media have conducted themselves worse in this story concerning our Congressman, Chuck Edwards,” Henderson County GOP Chair Greg Beam wrote in a Monday newsletter titled “DEFENDING CHUCK.”

“Anyone who knows Chuck and Teresa know how ridiculous the accusation is,” Beam added.

Veteran Sam Bingham, left, points at Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., at a town hall on March 13, 2025, in Assville, N.C. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty

Edwards has served in Congress since 2022, when he beat controversial former Rep. Madison Cawthorn — who was in his 20s and faced misconduct allegations and legal troubles of his own.

Prior to that, the McDonald’s franchise owner served in the North Carolina state Senate. His House district, which includes Asseville and much of southwest North Carolina near the Tennessee border, is viewed as a “likely Republican” victory this fall, according to Cook Political Report.

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American Pimp's Arab Gulf Girls Upset with their Pimp over Hormuz

The Great Moron doesn't consult with anyone. He believes his psychotic natural charm precludes any input in decision-making from "hostage" allies like his European estranged spouses or his Arab Gulf girls. The Pimp-in-Chief goes it alone like Lone Ranger without Tonto or Don Quixote without Sancho Panza in his quest to dominate the world.

But, Lone Ranger has enemies like Don Quixote had windmills. He invents them to appear brave and strong when no one really cares about him. Donald Dumb personifies the hero syndrome (per AI: The sick individual seek recognition for heroism, sometimes by creating problems themselves. This can stem from narcissistic tendencies, leading them to engage in attention-seeking behavior to feel important or valued).

But his former spouses, mistresses and hoes put up with the deranged Pimp-in-Chief for a while as he helps them get clients, but then they have enough weirdeness from him and abuse from his other enemies (e.g. Iran bombing them), and so they go on strike. The Pimp is jeopardizing the girls' business without protecting them. 

As of today, one of Pimp Trump's Arab Gulf hoes has closed the brothel on him, forcing him to back down from fighting the Iranian windmills. When an ass like Lone Ranger in the Outhouse, with no education and no knowledge of geography and history, pretends to fight all the windmills of the world, people - friendly hoes and inimical enemies alike - walk out on him, muttering under their breath: "this is really weird".

In other words, Donald Dumb doesn't give a sh- - about allies, and so allies abandon him to fight his stupid wars by himself. After making enemies of European allies, he has now made enemies of his Sharia-prone fundamentalist Islamist-with-oil Arab Gulf pseudo-allies because he jumps into a war without consulting them and without even preparing himself for the consequences. Only his "genius" mind and abysmal moral decay drive his policies.

So, yeah, MAGA imbeciles: Please find another moron in 2028 to replace this decaying one. There are plenty of morons like him around in your parts of the country. Walking around with guns like dumb jerks from the 19th century does not make you strong. It makes you look stupid, which is so very authentic of you.  

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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

Mosheh Gains

Thu, May 7, 2026

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.

A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.

Other close Gulf allies were also caught off guard; the president spoke with leaders in Qatar after the effort had already begun.

A Saudi source told NBC News that Trump and the crown prince “have been in touch regularly.” Saudi officials were also in touch with Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Central Command and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the source added.

Asked whether the announcement of Project Freedom caught the Saudi leaders by surprise, the Saudi source said: “The problem with that premise is that things are happening quickly in real time.” The source said Saudi Arabia was “very supportive of the diplomatic efforts” by Pakistan to broker a deal between Iran and the U.S. to end the war. [i.e. message to Donald Dumb: Stop this war]

A White House official said in a statement when asked about some Gulf state leaders being caught off guard by the announcement of the U.S. effort to help ships transit the Strait of Hormuz, “Regional allies were notified in advance.”

A Middle Eastern diplomat said the U.S. did not coordinate Project Freedom with the Omanis until after Trump made the announcement. “The U.S. made an announcement and then coordinated with us,” the diplomat said, adding, “we were not upset or angry.”

Trump had announced the operation over the weekend as a way to break Iran’s blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, and his top national security leaders spent much of Tuesday talking up the effort in public briefings at the Pentagon and White House, only to have the president suddenly halt the operation roughly 36 hours after it began.

The U.S. military had been lining up a number of additional ships in the Gulf for transit through the strait when the operation was stopped, a U.S. official said. U.S. Central Command had earlier announced that two U.S. flagged ships had made it through the strait as part of Project Freedom.

In his post, Trump said Project Freedom would be “paused for a short period of time to see whether or not” an agreement to resolve the war “can be finalized and signed.”

The U.S. military maintains fighter aircraft, refueling tankers and air defenses at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis allowed the U.S. to fly aircraft from there to support the war in Iran, as well as allowing aircraft based in nearby countries to fly over.

“Because of geography, you need cooperation from regional partners to utilize their airspace along their borders,” one U.S. official said. In some cases there is no other way around, the official explained. Military aircraft were critical to protect ships during Project Freedom, essentially providing a defensive umbrella.

The U.S. military refers to permission to use another country’s territory as ABO, which stands for access, basing and overflight. Fighter jets, refueling tankers and support aircraft all need permission to fly from key regional allies. Saudi Arabia and Jordan are critical for allowing aircraft to base there, Kuwait is critical for overflight, and Oman for both overflight and naval logistics.

Trump called the emir of Qatar after Project Freedom began, and a Qatari official said in a statement that they discussed the ceasefire agreement and “implications for maritime security and global supply chains.” The statement said the emir emphasized the importance of de-escalation. [i.e. message to Donald Dumb: Stop this war]

The U.S. military continues to maintain a presence in and around the Gulf. It has a bigger footprint in the region than it did on Feb. 28 when the war began. There are two carrier strike groups in the region, and the Pentagon has brought in additional logistics and support and has re-supplied stockpiles.

Project Freedom briefly provided U.S. military surveillance, firepower and personnel on board ships so they could safely transit out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, as Iranian forces continued to threaten and attack ships in transit through the critical waterway. Pentagon officials said the operation was separate from the bombing campaign that began on Feb. 28 and was dubbed “Epic Fury.”

The Trump administration has attempted to push forward on a negotiated agreement to end the hostilities. Iran was reviewing another peace proposal with the U.S., Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said in an interview with Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency. He said once the regime has assessed it, Iran will discuss it with Pakistan, which has been acting as a mediator. Axios first reported details of the proposal.

In a social media post early Wednesday, Trump didn’t detail the proposal, but said the war could end if “Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to.”

“They want to make a deal,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday. He said there had been “very good talks over the last 24 hours.”

The political pressure is mounting on Trump ahead of the November midterm elections, when Republicans will be fighting to preserve their narrow margin in the House and majority in the Senate. In an interview with PBS on Wednesday, the president said it’s possible U.S. negotiators could strike a deal with Iran’s regime before he travels to Beijing next week for a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

“I think it’s got a very good chance of ending, and if it doesn’t end, we have to go back to bombing the hell out of them,” Trump told PBS.

Several close Trump confidants have encouraged the president to “finish the job” in Iran by taking out the rest of the regime’s conventional military assets, even insisting that the offensive could be completed by the time of the critical China trip, according to multiple former U.S. officials.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Iranian leaders Wednesday and said it was critical the war ended as soon as possible.

“We believe that a comprehensive ceasefire is urgently needed, that a resumption of hostilities is not acceptable, and that it is particularly important to remain committed to dialogue and negotiations,” Wang said in a video of the meeting accessed by The Associated Press.

In a post on social media, a senior Iranian parliament official called the latest proposal a “wish list until it becomes a reality.”

“Americans will not obtain through a failed war what they failed to gain in face-to-face negotiations, Ebrahim Rezaei said on X. “Iran has its finger on the trigger and is ready; if they do not surrender and grant the necessary concessions, or if they or their devilish henchdog allies try to act mischievously, we will deliver a harsh and regret-inducing response.”

But a Jordanian official told NBC News that the diplomatic efforts were serious.

“The Iranians don’t have the economic means to keep this going,” the official said. “Their economy is failing, they can’t pay salaries.”

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com