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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Kennedy Center votes to restore Trump's name and close for 2 years, challenging a judge's order read more


Donald Trump's use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an "unprecedented" $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more, while federal oversight of his actions has waned.


White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave that post by the end of August, President Donald Trump said. read more


Russian President Vladimir Putin could potentially attack NATO within weeks, according to a series of new United States intelligence assessments. read more


Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Hours after being sworn in as attorney general, Blanche gave Donald Trump even more protections. read more


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"Trump last year raked in at least $1.4bn from his crypto ventures according to financial disclosure forms he filed in June. Simultaneously, about one million investors in a Trump crypto scheme suffered almost $3.8bn in losses as their volatile crypto holdings tanked in value.

Monetizing his presidency further this summer, Trump's Truth Social media business is pushing a new scheme that offers wealthy buyers special early access to his posts for a fee of $100,000 a month, which top Democrats and public interest groups say pose serious conflict of interest and corruption issues."

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"On another monetization front, critics raised red flags about how Trump tapped his justice department to forge a potentially lucrative and sketchy deal to settle a $10bn lawsuit by Trump against the IRS about a leak of his tax returns that gives him and his family immunity from IRS audits of prior tax returns and could save him $100m.

Likewise some analysts are troubled by how Trump has circumvented the constitution's prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400m plane as a gift from Qatar, and how other wealthy foreigners have backed some Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad.

Beyond his personal enrichment, Trump's monetizing his office and transactional governing style has proved lucrative to his sons, some top advisers, billionaire buddies, big donors and other allies, say critics.

A CNN poll in late July buttressed criticism of Trump's monetizing his second term: the poll revealed that 66% of 1,225 respondents said Trump doesn't put the good of the country over his personal gain and only 34% said he does."

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Well, only the Base supports still Make America Graft Again!

This is what Visitor and MSGT voted for.

MAGA is a whiter shade of pale.

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Not to mention that white is stronger than:

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Apropos of nothing...

Carlos Castaneda Interview with Theodore Roszak 1969

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... so I guess you can post anything you want, too.

(Theodore Roszak was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text The Making of a Counter Culture. Wiki)

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