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You're supposed to put an apostrophe in the word that's. When implying you're the 8th or 9th smartest guy on the internet it kinda blows your cover when you fu ck up something so basic. Just saying.

It's easy to say shit like that when you're a godless sociopath. Leftists really are the worst people the world has ever known. Everything that's wrong with this world flows directly through that godforsaken community.

Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation. The former US president stands to gain billions of dollars – his stake is currently valued at about $4bn – from the merger between Trump Media and Technology Group and the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corporation, which took the parent company of Truth Social public. … The situation led Trump Media to take emergency loans, including from an entity called ES Family Trust, which opened an account with Paxum Bank, a small bank registered on the Caribbean island of Dominica that is best known for providing financial services to the porn industry. Through leaked documents, the Guardian has learned that ES Family Trust operated like a shell company for a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, who co-owns Paxum Bank and has been a subject of a years-long joint federal criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into the Trump Media merger. The existence of the trust has previously been reported by the Guardian and the Washington Post. However, who controlled the account, how the trust was connected to Paxum Bank, and how the money had been funneled through the trust to Trump Media was unknown. The new details about the trust are drawn from documents including: Paxum Bank records showing Postolnikov having access to the trust’s account, the papers that created the trust showing as its settlor a lawyer in St Petersburg, Russia, and three years of the trust’s financial transactions. The concern surrounding the loans to Trump Media is that ES Family Trust may have been used to complete a transaction that Paxum itself could not. Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan. Postolnikov, the nephew of Aleksandr Smirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has not been charged with a crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing Paxum Bank warned of legal action for reporting the contents of the leaked documents. … Part of the problem was that Trump Media struggled to get financing because traditional banks were reluctant to lend millions to Trump’s social media company in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack, Wilkerson said. Trump Media eventually found some lenders, including ES Family Trust, but the sequence of events was curious. ES Family Trust was established on 18 May 2021, its creation papers show. Postolnikov’s “user” access to the account was “verified” on 30 November 2021 by a Paxum Bank manager in Dominica. The trust was funded for the first time on 2 December 2021. Trump Media then received the loans from ES Family Trust: $2m on 23 December 2021, and $6m on 17 February 2022. The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ES Family Trust would gain a major stake in Trump Media because it was offering the money in exchange for Trump Media agreeing to convert the loan principal into “shares of Company Stock”. Oddly, the notes were never signed. But the investment in Trump Media proved to be huge: while precise figures can only be known by Trump Media, ES Family Trust’s stake in Trump Media is worth between $20m and $40m even after the sharp decline of the company’s share price in the wake of a poor earnings report. The ES Family Trust account also appears to have benefited Postolnikov personally. As the criminal investigation into the Trump Media deal intensified towards the end of last year, the trust recorded several transfers to Postolnikov with the subject line “Partial Loan Return”. … The reason for the trust’s creation remains unknown. Aside from the money that went to Trump Media, the trust’s statements show the trust has directly invested money with only two other companies: $10.8m to Eleven Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm, and $1m to Wedbush Securities, a wealth management firm. The current status of ES Family Trust is also unknown. The trust’s address is listed as a residential home in Hollywood, Florida. But, according to the property website Redfin, the six-bedroom home appears to have been sold in December 2023. The creation papers also contained something notable: a declaration that, if the original trustee – a Paxum employee named Angel Pacheco – stepped down from the role, his successor would be a certain individual named Michael Shvartsman. Sprawling money-laundering investigation Last month, federal prosecutors charged Michael Shvartsman, a close associate of Postolnikov, with money laundering in a superseding indictment after previously charging him and two others in July with insider-trading Digital World shares. Shvartsman and his co-defendants pleaded not guilty. At least part of the evidence against Shvartsman came from a confidential informant for the DHS, court filings show: in one March 2023 meeting with the informant and an associate, Shvartsman mentioned a friend who owned a bank in Dominica and made bridge loans to Trump Media. “[Shvartsman] stated that a friend of his owns a bank in the island of Dominica and would be able to provide banking services to Russian and Ukraine Nationals if the [confidential informant] had other clients in need of that service,” the DHS report said. ..,, https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

303,000 new jobs added to US economy in March, dropping unemployment to 3.8%. Under Joe Biden, America is in the longest stretch of sustained sub-4% unemployment in over fifty years. Unemployment under President Trump was 15%. See for yourself: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm Trump can move numbers down, though, like his stock price, which is dropping like a rock. Trump Media is by far the most expensive stock to short on Wall Street.

the early Jordan Peterson... before he became part of the bigger profit machine.

The government. This is mostly what we do now with benefits, though we should do a bit more of it for some programs. For instance, you can't go on disability EI without a doctor's note. If you're seriously advocating for just giving free income to anyone who wants it with zero qualifiers I think that's a very bad path for many reasons. Is this what you're proposing?

Covid was an excuse for you cultists to show off your stupid gang-style designer masks. Is your vaxx card updated, comrade?

1. No, that's 100% you, 100% of the time. Nobody's buying your woke bullshit. 2. No, your threads are ALWAYS about left-wing activism. You're a woke cultist, nothing more.

Cite.

Aww muffin - you got butthurt again and couldn't think of anything intelligent to say? Realized you were wrong and felt like lashing out a bit? I get it. Sorry but what i said was quite true.

1. I'm an American patriot. YOU are a marxist a$$hole. 2. Yes they are. Just because a whore like you has infinite patience for the world's most destructive government, doesn't mean we all have to be patient - that's why we vote; so we can bounce the hair sniffer's ass out of office this November. Now get over yourself, you sick little f*ck.

You're obviously not very bright.

Why the world? This mess was created by Britain and the US way back in 1953 when they overthrew democracy in Iran and installed a dictator. They should be who's responsible for setting things back on the right path.

Excuse me, but THAT is a lie as well. And it is the OBAMA VIRUS epidemic, since Obama was responsible for the creation of the lab that produced that virus. And you are clearly the dumbest human on the planet if you think masks stopped everything. I don't see any masks on THESE animals. And Unelected Joe invited these animals to come here and register Demonazi.

So what if there just simply isn't any need for labourers because of automation and Al, will the old morality no longer apply and how do we transition away from it? I mean this will directly attack just about the most sacred cow conservatives cling to.

"They can make Drs believe whatever they want them to believe" at 18:30. That's one of the unfortunate things about our society and the way we instruct people in university: learning by rote is the central theme of academia, and critical thinking is cancelled out. What we saw happen to Dr Raoult for saying "HCQ" has happened to thousands of other Drs on a smaller scale, we just don't know about it because it happens outside of our line of sight. The master stroke of these vax-pushers was gutting the hospitals and medical clinics of NA of the dirty dirty unvaxed. It's just like Dr Kory says: "Once these people are stripped of their jobs and their titles, they're completely discredited within our society". They say "I love the vax" or they say "I was a doctor and..." ALL of these Drs of conscience went from having an accredited opinion that people think they should listen to, to being branded as social pariahs - by the people who run our national health services. They're now outcasts. The message is loud and clear: TOE THE LINE, PIMP THE VAX, OR WE WILL DEESTROYYY YOU. Are you gonna be Dr Smith working at the big hospital making bank, or are you gonna be Dr Bobo trying to get a job as a pecker checker at the STD clinic, swabbing drippy dicks and pustulating putties all day?

From a very high level, this Libbie/Conservative culture war can be summarized as those who see reality and trust their senses, and those who see reality but choose to believe excuses and warped narratives. I haven't figured out why so many would freak out like this all at once...but this age (roughly 2000 years) is closing. This is gonna sound a tad "flighty" but...every time history records a shift in the ages, humans freak out. So I'm-a-gonna go look at some new irons now, and try to ignore the "magnetically challenged".

You don't understand the underlying socio-economic principles involved with an expanding workplace and the employment vs participation ratios, now do you want fries with that or not!?!?!? - Dem supporters.

Oh BTW...

And where does the money come from to pay for all of this? Oh yeah, tax paying non-Indigenous, y’know, the settler colonialists. What a sham. The Liberal-NDP communists don’t understand the basic idea that raising taxes and the cost of living such that most of Canadians’ after tax income is going towards mortgage/rent and utilities, clothing, food etc. has lowered the demand for goods and services that drive economic growth and give us the high living standards we once enjoyed. Going without any extras — dinner at a restaurant once in a while, a little landscaping and paint job for your home, some ice cream for the kids, etc., means both that people’s living standards have fallen AND businesses are doing less business. It’s a vicious circle. Making a funding announcement that will only result in the bottom 50 percent of households getting an extra $10 a week for housing, kids meals, or whatever else, won’t make a dent in this structural problem. It will drive up our debt as yet another bureaucracy is created to collect taxpayer money and redistribute it to favoured groups. That’s this government’s approach. Grow the bureaucracy, collect more taxes, raise debt, make splashy announcements, and redistribute people’s earnings towards preferred groups. Almost none of it achieves the stated outcomes: national daycare program, pharmacare, affordable housing, etc. It just makes the most dependent people more dependent, entrenches the nanny state, disincentivizes businesses, and reduces the discretionary spending of working people, but you know, that 17.5 % carbon tax is saving the planet as millions of immigrants arrive to fill theoretical jobs and homes in a country where people no longer have kids but get free birth control, abortion, and assisted suicide from a government that cares so much about you that they want to raise kids instead of letting parents do it, because heterosexual relationships, men, women, and religion are settler colonial, gender normative, and racist. Emissions keep rising but that will be reversed once people really can’t afford food and shelter. At that point people really won’t dare to start a family, and you can bet that the healthcare system will be ready and waiting with their assisted suicide kits, abortionists, and free opioids, but, y’know, they’ll be really inclusive about it. All are welcome. And don’t talk about family in the natural sense of a man and a woman having kids and raising them. That’s a hate crime.

No.

I don't think the solution to inflation is giving out free money. In fact it would make it worse.

Good point. The young Russian men born around 1780 or so were involved in a war, likely to die. Many Russian men born around 1920 died too. Chance, fate.

Don't help me with things. It's confusing.

I bet if people are rioting in the streets...about halfway thru PP's term... they'll be able to see it clear as day then.

Here's the NON paywall version for those who can't get past the paywall https://archive.ph/wujNc So - none of the CPC are actually proposing that in the slightest. The article doesn't even say they were. In fact it mentiones one person in the party who's not even running for anything and says she said they could 'own' it without even suggesting what that meant or the context it was said in. Sigh. I actually got a little excited Mike, i thought 'holy - mike's actually contributing instead of his usual nonsense - and i click on it and find out that its just you being dishonest again. Well - that's the left for you.

Really? By my count I'm batting about .900 You?

I will defer to your opinion on Cuomo, how's that ?

Joe Biden PLAYED NO ROLE in the conviction of Rebecca Lavrenz by a jury OF HER PEERS. El Paso County’s “praying grandma” who entered U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 convicted of 4 misdemeanors

Depends on what you mean by 'proper'. I doubt it'll be too extensive.

You must be talking about FN reserves which may be full of broken families and no head of the home to provide for the families. In that case, they are welfare cases and require the powers that be to look after them. But outside those special cases, government should not be trying to take over the care and raising of families in society at large. People need to take responsibility for raising their own families.

Look. most people are so dumb they think the other country pays the tariff. They have no idea that YOU pay the tariff out of your own pocket. Tariffs are an excuse to remain uncompetitive, reduce consumer choice, & international trade and invite retaliation by countries you do trade with.

Maybe that's why he's hiring Manafort for his campaign again.

Idiocy. The Democrats continually come into office and fix the economic shambles created by Republicans, then Republicans come in and destroy everything again. Reagan promised to eliminate the Federal Debt and instead increased it 500%. Clinton finally balanced it and Bush couldn’t wait to plunge us immediately into deficits. Republicans ALWAYS increase deficits. Democrats REDUCE deficits.

Sounds like Trump is once again dealing with shady Russian mobsters.

No. That shooting was not justified. You're lying again. This is Trump's policy page: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47 Where does he say he's turning loose all Jan 6 political prisoners? Sure ya did...

I had to take a Gravol after scrolling this thread...

Sky Termination Debris (STD). The collateral damage caused when large pieces of sky crash to earth. Exactly. At this point you should already be in your basement, if not though, under no circumstances should you leave the house. A final word of caution about breaking communication protocols. For your own safety, I urge you to maintain strict electronic silence until after the event. That means no phone calls and absolutely no further posts on social media. Only complete electronic silence will prevent the people who failed to prepare for STDs from getting anything that rightly belongs to you.

He DID drain the swamp. Until only the scum was left. Scum that would hawk nationalist Bibles during Easter Week... no limit to how crass one can get.

So he had four years to do it, but he just didn't? But if by some miracle he wins in 2024, this time he's really gonna do it?? You have no foundation to back up your claims that Trump wants to be Hitler or Stalin 2.0. Nobody can deny that Trump has his share of faults, but it's beyond ludicrous to suggest that he wants concentration camps or gulags.

Woketard? I came here looking for political discussion. Did I stumble into a teenagers chat room?

You're insulting a lot of blacks and hispanics with that remark since a number of them have moved over to Trump for 2024. Such hatred. The hatred for Trump only started when he ran on the Republican side. Most people liked the man prior to that, including some ladies in the link below. "He's an upstanding American" Joy Behar If I didn't see it with my own eyes...

Is that you Vladimir?

The Big Lie that has pervaded every aspect of covid and covid policy is something that the true experts and those paying attention have known since March of 2020 - the lie that ALL were at deadly risk. The true experts have known that it was irrational and disingenuous to disregard covid's clear demographical risk profile and lock down society, including the healthy and the non-elderly. In this 32-month long cavalcade of lies, the notion that ALL were at risk has been the most fundamental untruth and the one with the most consequences. Public Health authorities kept those under 25 - who were at functionally zero risk - out of colleges and schools. They, and other officials, forced even young people to “vaxx,” mask and test, even though they KNEW those healthy and under 70 were at microscopic risk. Analyzing whether society should lock down, close schools and businesses and vaxx was a very easy call. Anyone who suggests that it wasn’t easy or that "they didn't know" doesn’t know basic facts or is posturing. The implementation of the unprecedented measures was dispassionate and unscientific, and highly influenced by politics. The interventions were clearly pseudo-scientific. During 2020, Covid bureaucrats pretended that they didn’t know that the virus simply didn’t threaten most people. The core, suppressed truth is this: Even without treatment, over 99.98% of un-injected, normal-weight people under 70 survive Coronavirus infections. And with basic, inexpensive outpatient treatment, even more do. Yet for the last 3 years, covid-fearing, fire and brimstone preachers have convinced their flocks (of sheep) that getting covid guarantees damnation and that the injection is the only way to salvation. The covid cult members have repeatedly asserted that the injected “don’t get or spread the virus.” As breakthrough cases multiply, this is disproven daily. Instead of admitting failure, the fallback has been that “Yeah, but vaxxed people don’t get hospitalized or die.” This is also being proved false. In the UK and Israel, which vaxxed earliest, many of the vaxxed are being hospitalized and dying. Same here in Canada - per the data you've presented here. Same with every highly-vaxxed country.

It's being talked about more and more. The truth is coming out. The truth will come out.

She's all out of bubblegum ?

Danielle Smith just fired the entire AHS health board. 11 bigwigs. It's a great start.

He must have some reason to feel more hopeful. The federal Liberals are narrowing the months-old gap with the Conservative party, with a former 20-percentage point Conservative ballot advantage shrinking to a 12-point lead, according to latest tracking data from Nanos Research. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-liberals-narrowing-polling-gap-poilievre-conservatives-lead-declines-to-12-points-nanos-1.6831453

For clarification all leftists are Democrats. Democrats used to be liberals but the marxists killed them all off and replaced them with leftists. There's a few liberals left but they sadly disguise themselves as Republicans. They are now referred to as RINOs. If you're feeling particularly jocular you could call them Republican lights.