@itsalwaysrains Citadel: a kingdom of disgusting complexity where, “we make the rules” “we own the levers of politics” starts and ends.
KG believes he does necessary work.
Citadel and the like ARE violence.
@itsalwaysrains QE, derivative after derivative, CFTC beneficial ownership set ups, long dated swaps, and many more magical manipulations fly over the public’s head.
🍪 They hid your stock behind a cookie in 1999-
the year Congress repealed Glass-Steagall
and quietly repealed ownership itself.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was sold as "modernization."
But what it really did was fuse three forces that were never meant to coexist:
➡️ Risk originators (investment banks)
➡️ Risk holders (insurance companies)
➡️ Risk transmitters (commercial banks)
In that fusion, the door opened for CEDE & Co.
- A nominee -, not a custodian, became the default titleholder of America’s equity.
From that moment on, you didn’t own stock.
You held an entitlement- an IOU from the machine.
And in bankruptcy court?
Entitlement isn’t ownership.
Title is.
That wasn’t a bug.
It was the blueprint.
They knew exactly what they were building:
A multi-layered liability veil to shield the system from the toxic derivatives and phantom equity they were about to unleash.
Global theft.
On a grand scale.
And in that theft?
Millions of lives were shattered.
Pensions emptied.
Homes lost.
Dreams stolen.
Every time they rewrote the rules,
the fallout buried real people.
And every time, they blamed the victims for not reading the fine print.
This was the birth of structural obfuscation:
🧱 Real title moved to CEDE
📄 Filings routed through DTCC
🔁 Ownership looped through nominees
🕳️ Synthetic shares floated untethered
And today?
When the court demands proof of ownership,
your name gets filtered through a trust ledger that was never yours.
That’s the trap.
You think you own your shares?
Try enforcing them.
You think your vote counts?
Try tracing it.
The synthetic obligations didn’t disappear.
They were rerouted-
through shell corps, carve-outs, and trusts with names no one was meant to recognize.
They built a world where equity could be:
-Sold without ownership
-Fractionalized
-Stripped of rights
All with no clear chain of title.
No proof.
No trail.
And the irony?
The very laws that stripped you of ownership
are now being used to reclaim it,
by those who understand how the trap was built.
Carl Icahn once said:
“Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me? I study natural stupidity.”
The ones destroying the future aren’t hiding in shadows.
They’re filing 8-Ks.
They weaponize procedure.
They hide behind compliance.
The most dangerous crimes aren’t messy.
They’re procedural.
Just signed term sheets and quiet paper trails no one dares to follow.
But not everyone stayed blind.
There are good people on the inside-
People who wore masks not to deceive, but to infiltrate.
Who smiled in the boardroom, so they could design the exit from within.
You were never meant to find that exit.
“Children and animals must be protected at all costs.”
-Ryan Cohen
At. All. Costs.
Sometimes you have to look at what you think "wrongdoing" is through a different lens, especially in a one of a kind bankruptcy like DK-Butterfly.
Because the same rules made by the abusers, were the very same rules being used against them.
They built a system where:
Confusion = Control
Where every path to enforcement is rerouted-
through delay, dilution, or denial.
The old system thought it could erase title.
The new one is rewriting the ledger.
Because equity didn’t die.
It went dark.
And now it’s returning,
through the very pipes they used to hide it.
So if you’ve ever wondered:
🟤 Why your shares disappeared
🟤 Why your votes never counted
🟤 Why your broker goes silent when you ask for delivery...
It’s because you were never supposed to ask.
The system was built to make you doubt yourself before you doubted it.
To bury you in forms, filters, and filings.
To label the curious as crazy.
To reward obedience-
and punish awareness.
You were told it was over.
That your shares were worthless.
Gone.
But the trap they built to erase you
is now the trap erasing them.
And when the cookie crumbles,
the real owners won’t be the ones who sold.
They’ll be the ones who never let go.
So if you’re still here-
You’re not late.
You’re early.
And when the shell cracks-
When the butterfly emerges...
You won’t just be a shareholder.
You’ll be the proof they never wanted to exist.
Sometimes justice doesn’t wait its turn.
Sometimes it’s carved out-
one objection at a time.
In a system built on delay,
even a single demand for transparency
is an act of revolution.
The truth has a funny way of surviving.
And when it breaks through-
no cookie will be big enough to hide behind.
July 20, 2025
Happy Ice Cream Fortune Cookie Moon Day.
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The real receipts
were always in the ink. 📜🪶
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