Thank you, President Trump.
Obviously, I’m saying this sarcastically. This is a clarification for people who might have arrived since yesterday and don’t know that I despise BlackRock. That Trump is extorting Ukraine to accept BlackRock shenanigans is very depressing.
If anybody thinks that this is good and can explain how, please pipe up now. I need good news.
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But why, what’s the explanation?
This is so bad it makes me clamour for the bad old days of the Biden administration.
Plus the optics: Witkoff, Kushner and now Fink, they’re all Jewish. Do they really want to serve ammunition to supporters of the “World Cabal” conspiracy on a silver plate?
[NB: I’m also Jewish. Not anti-Semitic].
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That’s exactly what I thought. These morons will lead us straight into pogroms. On the leftist side, they are all open border nihilists and gender lunatics. On the rightist side, we have soulless crook Jews. This is going in a bad direction.
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Guess her ethnicity!
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I wondered precisely about the ethnicity when I saw this earlier. What a shock.
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I’m sorry, Avi, but “optics” is not the right way to look at it. Either something is right, in which case, the optics don’t matter. Or it is wrong, and the optics don’t matter. The way you frame it, this would’ve been fine had non-jews been leading this initiative.
When Ted Cruz says the purpose for him to enter the US government was to serve Israel, does it matter if Cruz is a gentile? Either swearing fealty to a foreign nation is good or it is bad. Let’s argue on those terms instead of debating what makes the jews “look” good or bad. If acknowledging the stranglehold organized jewish interests have on american domestic and foreign policy makes jews look bad, so be it. This may be a PR problem for jews (not my concern) but it is an existential problem for my country (very much my concern).
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Stringer: you’re absolutely right.
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It’s like telling Indian tech leaders in Silicon Valley to keep a low profile so they don’t become the face of H-1B fraud. That misses the point completely. They shouldn’t refrain because it creates bad optics for Indians. They shouldn’t engage in fraud because the behavior itself is unethical. This is about morality, not PR.
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I don’t think that appealing to the morality of the BlackRock CEO or Kushner is productive. Their souls are dead. Only naked self-interest can motivate them.
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OT? In other news Netanyahu is taking a page from Trump and bragging about his great relationship with putin…. and Israel has reprimanded the Ukrainian ambassador for criticizing this great relationship…
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1999033639779094753
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Israel is completely pro-Russian. There are so many oligarchs from Russia there, that it’s not surprising.
“Our greatest ally” is a Putinoid slave. Even though (or because?) there’s a clear Russian trace in October 7.
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” Even though (or because?) there’s a clear Russian trace in October 7.”
By now, I’m starting to think it was a russian-made gift for Netanyahu… he’s certainly benefitted from it more than anyone.
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This explains Trump’s major Russian turn.
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“That Trump is extorting Ukraine to accept BlackRock shenanigans is very depressing”
My current working hypothesis… Trump is bored by normal diplomacy and has largely given up on it and is going to what he knows…. business deals. He thinks (or has been led to think) that there are fabulous economic deals to be made with russia and no one around him has noticed that these get-rich involving russia never work out for anyone except a few russian oligarchs…
None of them get that while russian economic potential is in fact huge, the entire russian system is based on not exploiting that except to steal from the large russian underclass which is happy to use buckets instead of flush toilets while telling themselves they’re a great power…. yeah, russia could be prosperous but that is the very last thing any russian government wants.
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Trump’s most recent approval ratings are in the absolute toilet. Yet he still invests tons of time into these ludicrous schemes instead of doing things domestically.
This is very frustrating.
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Don’t worry, kids, the never-Trumper jews in 2020, literally the last entrant in the MAGA coalition, got everything they wanted from him, and that’s what matters.
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Tim Waltz has been handed a gift:
https://x.com/i/status/1999160642389819712
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Jesus.
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There’s a theory that Putin got bored of business deals and reverted to Russian imerialism.
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“a theory that Putin got bored of business deals and reverted to Russian imerialism”
Theory? The main flaw is that the russian leadership never gave up the idea of russian imperialism.
And business deals that enrich foreigners are very dangerous to the russian order as they would also get more money to more russians and increasing wealth tends to make societies more demanding, when russia was richer than it ever had been there were occasional protests and so the government decided to dial back living standards.
That so many people fail to grasp this basic fact (including me for years) is why people think that prosperity should tempt the russian leadership. “Dont’ they want to be a wealthy country? It’s irrational to want most citizens to subside in dire poverty!” But the continued impoverishment of the russian population is crucial to keep the current order.
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Keeping people in poverty to stay in power is pretty standard for Africa. SA is an exception, where people know all they have to do is abstain from voting and there is some else happy to take over.
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“pretty standard for Africa”
But not for Europe and lots of people try to apply European filters to russia and it never works….
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Putin’s goal is to get rid of white people and replace them with non-white people. It’s race war.
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“utin’s goal is to get rid of white people”
Could you write more about that?
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For you, anything, my friend. I’ll post a little later today.
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I’m not even asking for a good president, but why can’t we get a decent president? What was the last decent president we had, Clinton? Bush Senior? Feels like a lifetime away. And Trump is trying real hard to make us miss the Biden years.
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Clinton signed the Budapest Memorandum. Bush Senior paid reparations to Russia for the Cold War and tried to prevent Ukraine’s independence to please the Russians.
So yeah. Reagan was even worse. We might have to go back a century to find somebody decent.
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Blackrock is the largest manager of middle middle class assets, especially 401ks. True opposition to Blackrock would mean supporting Russia, where wealth is owned by the people, i.e. the state.
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