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'I'm not greedy': January 6 rioters and Trump allies eye $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund
www.reuters.com

... Since President Donald Trump's administration announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund for Americans deemed to be victims of political "weaponization," January 6 Capitol riot defendants and other Trump allies have scrambled to figure out how to get their share.

Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to apply to the fund, assuming he could get between $2 and $5 million.

"I'm not greedy," Tarrio said. "But my life was all f!cked up because of this."

Trump pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 defendants last year. Some have now begun to calculate the cost of their prosecution, jail time and businesses lost in the hope of compensation for what they regard as abuses by the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden. ...

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The Zulu warriors handed Colonel Mustard and his horde of white colonists a terrible loss in 1879.

For the British, this was their Battle of Little Bighorn (June 1876), lost by brevet General Custer.


The Palestinian raid against Israel (7 Oct 2023) or Ukraine's spectacular Operation Spiderweb (June 2025), which crippled Russia's strategic bomber fleet, are other examples of the underdog fighting back against a superior invader.

Some argue that 9/11 was a counter-attack to American imperialism and Wall Street hegemony.

Using Light for Health

www.hubermanlab.com

"Andrew David Huberman is a Stanford University neuroscientist and tenured professor who studies the brain and its functions. His work focuses on brain development, plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair."

"Or to use the less technical version, we can not have nice things (h/t Digby).

1/3rd of our fellow Americans would rather be poor and homeless because they would be force to share with Persons of Color.

As Chris Hayes argued on his program All In, T*ump's base, approximately 37% of the voting population, is effectively "holding the rest of the country hostage".

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LBJ's Warning on White Resentment Still Haunts America

www.youtube.com

"We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.

Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs.

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Billy Moyers quoting LBJ

www.snopes.com

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So, bottom line, Corporatists have for decades built upon this racial prejudice to finally obtain a Voter Base that they could control with fears of minorities, immigrants, an anyone else they can give said Base an opportunity to look down on, such as women or Democrats or trans or gay or women who have abortions.

Divide and Conquer is alive and well in Project25 Trump's 'Murica.

Unlike the first time when the Great Depression swept across the US evenly, G.D. 2.0 is settling over America in splotches, first appearing in rural areas, the Rust Belt, and Red States.

In upstate NYS I saw a child working in a McDonald's (I frequent the Mac Shacks for coffee, smokes, and latrine).

More people will be selling blood or plasma to make ends meet and businesses are cutting corners to survive.

At a fast food chain I ordered a meal for $15 or $17 and the plate was all "filler" and garnish with a tablespoon of cold slaw in a tiny white cup.

Houses are selling at dirt cheap prices too: www.reddit.com

~50m north of Albany, a NYS Trooper told me he was so happy to pass the academy and get a steady job. A former construction worker, he was in his 30s and married when he took the test.

When driving around upstate NYS, one notices more prisons than hospitals.

Both are probably the best employment opportunities in hard times.

Upstate NY is also MAGA territory and their economy is hit by less Canadians coming down to spend their money.

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