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Veritable mch. No context.

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@FlowerdewBob Likewise. V good flavour this year I predict.

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@chinahand Delighted to hear she still going strong. Red yellow mud st back in the day… hardly pushing the party line

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@FlowerdewBob As the chickens come home to roost…

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@chinahand Very bad aura. Sad story that guy.

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@chinahand I attended sunflower revolution rally in London back in the day and guess who showed up… 99% taiwanese crowd… gave a speech in english: i come from a place called hong kong….!

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Alex

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@robnitm Very chilling place in its derelict condition which lasted many years. Have been up on the roof. Back in the day…

[hs @Lstruere]

お金があればなんでもできることを定期的に思い出させてくれる表参道のアップルストア

[Historic Sports Pictures @HistoricSports2]

Billy Mercer was a goalkeeper for Hull City, Hudderfield Town and Blackpool immediately after WW1. During the war he had been gassed and this affected his health in later years. The state of the goalmouth in this 1925 picture shows the appalling state of pitches back then

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@yatesy_oi_oi @BlockheadsPage Me too. Nice humphrey ocean portrait on the cover.

[Bob Flowerdew @FlowerdewBob]

I recently posted this Siegerrebe but just had to again, so delicious and so willing, even if you don't think you could have an outdoor grape go on give this a try, a young vine costs less than a bottle of good wine and should last a tad longer

[Edward Elderman @edwereddie]

A stewardess for Southwest Airlines in 1972

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The legendary Citroen CX Safari, utilized by the BBC for filming horse racing due to its exceptional hydropneumatic suspension that ensured the car's stability

[Lee @gxerlee]

Happy heavenly birthday Barry Sheene #LEGEND

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Kids taking an ultraviolet bath, USSR, 1980s.

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

1953. A conference room.

"Sir, we've surveyed the land. Rolling hills. Hardwood forest. A creek."

"Pave it."

"All of it?"

"Leave four trees. Put them in little concrete boxes so people know what we killed."

"And the buildings?"

"One building. Beige. Put a fake clock tower on it so it feels like a town."

"Is it a town?"

"No. You cannot walk to it. You cannot walk within it. If you park at one end and want a coffee at the other, you get back in the car."

"Sir, that's insane."

"That's a Tuesday errand, son. Now go draft the minimum parking requirements."

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

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@JoshuaBarzon Sad really.

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@aburningbush @nickcarrscouts Sorry. Made me laugh.

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@FlowerdewBob Used to be the enemy now it’s our friend!