Ruben W

Father, Engineer, environmentalist, amateur farmer, energy nut, DIY enthusiast

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@angel_0f_deathx Amen to that

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

Can’t argue with that logic! 😂

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Here we go again. Let’s hope this time it’s real!

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Is Washington protecting Venezuela's money, or taking it over one asset at a time?

In 2019, Trump's team got Britain to freeze Venezuela's gold. Now Venezuela is close to a deal to move those 31 TONS, worth about $4B, from the Bank of England to the New York Fed. Venezuela won't be allowed to sell it. It can only borrow against it, which means paying interest to use its own gold.

The deal leaked the same day the White House announced Trump would meet Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, and they're meeting in New York this week. It's the same gold Venezuela asked for after June's earthquakes killed more than 6,000 people, when a State Department official told the Senate Venezuela "should have plenty of cash flow."

Based on my investigation, we learned what Washington is actually doing with the Venezuelan money it controls. More than $11 billion in oil money has gone into a U.S. account as an asset that no American court is allowed to touch, Venezuela has to ask our permission to spend it, and its own records show $300 million coming back. The oil went to traders with federal bribery records. The Pentagon went into business with a Maduro-era oilman whose money laundering case was closed as the deal was happening. A Trump donor's company just signed on to develop a block holding an estimated 30 billion barrels, and a Venezuelan banker got a pardon after $3.5 million went to the president's super PAC.

I would have never gone down this rabbit hole had I not watched Scott Bessent testify and notice his answer to the Venezuelan funds was off.

Full investigative article up on Substack now with every document linked to how I came to this conclusion. Link is in bio and the article is free. Enjoy!

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@USBornNRaised You guys are delusional

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[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Trump is fucking lying to and about Ranchers again:

- He CANNOT “authorize documents” that let ranchers sell their own processed meat. That’s federal law. Needs Congress.

- Custom slaughter already exists. The meat comes back stamped NOT FOR SALE: still needs USDA inspection.

- He has no plan just looking save his own ass while a loyal constituency continues take hits.

[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.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Holy Crap U.S District Judge Loretta Preska has just ruled that the late Virginia Guiffre 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell can be unsealed.The Federal Judge has ordered the Public release of the files from Virginia’s defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell. Hell yes!

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@Adaystars @angel_0f_deathx The problem with that is that when the ruling class is corrupted, they will make anything They need to be a crime in order to maintain their Forced labor supply.

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@ThexyBeatht_2 AMEN!!!👏

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the needy to be called "parasites," and our planet to be ravaged, all while billionaires get richer, we've misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

Just the facts….

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@gardengirl125 They are both lies. We need to be better and not spread them, especially when we want to believe it. The fact is there were 5 co-founders, Musk is one of them. You can see the history on Wikipedia. Those two filed a piece of paper, and picked the name.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught, on video, entering a U.S. citizen’s home without a warrant, tackling the father to the ground, while pinning down his 15-year-old grandson.

As the family repeatedly told agents they were U.S. citizens, and demanded to see a warrant, the agents ignored them.

The daughter began recording and repeatedly asked to see a warrant, but they refused. She also told agents her father is diabetic, and that the teenager they were restraining was only 15 years old.

The agents continued to arrest both U.S. citizens from their home, without a warrant, eventually releasing the child but taking the father.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from entering a home without a judicial warrant.

If federal agents can force their way into a U.S. citizen’s home, ignore repeated demands to produce a warrant, and use force without lawful authority, they aren’t just violating one family’s rights… they’re undermining one of the core constitutional principles America was founded on.

A free country depends on the government being bound by the Constitution. If those limits can be ignored without consequences, we are no longer a free country.

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@sumlenny 🤬

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

Nicely put

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@HonestPassion13 @ThexyBeatht_2 Nah, decent people don’t ghost other people. Leave it be

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

Look around…

[Ruben W @RubenWillmarth]

@Maya35747538 @gardengirl125 Perhaps they need to look around and start or join a different party. This one is inserting govt into every aspect of our lives, except for their corporate sponsors, and the tariffs were the biggest tax increase on consumers in modern history. Actions matter, not words