ericeffinb

I speak Fluent Sarcasm… 98% taker of film photographs... part time contributor to film photographic.

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

HELLO, MR. OCTOBER!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

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[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Holy shit. 🤣

[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.

[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.

Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?

Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why is the U.S. giving Israel $3 billion a year for “infrastructure,” when remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation lack basic running water and electricity?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.

Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.

[Miss G ♡◇♧ @missguzmanreyes]

Bro just fulfilled my childhood dream.

[MLB @MLB]

His friends were able to get the attention of Pirates' outfielder Bryan Reynolds and they went wild after he got thrown a baseball for his birthday 😮🔥

#MLB #Baseball #Sports

[ericeffinb @EricBouvet]

@notgaetti @baseball_ref @CodifyBaseball @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @JessicaDBrand @19fredlynn @EdHand89 @GlobeBobRyan @BigLeagueDigest @OfficialMLBRFC El Monte High Lion 🏆

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Not enough people talk about Fred Lynn

• .283/.360/.484 (.845 OPS), 129 OPS+
• 1975 AL ROY *and* MVP, 9x All-Star
• (9 straight AS selections 1975-83)
• 4 Gold Gloves, 1979 batting title
• 4.1 WAR per 162 for 17 seasons
• Was on deck for the Fisk HR
• 50.2 WAR, 306 HR, 1111 RBI
• 1960 H, 737 XBH, 3352 TB
• Sure HOF'er, but for injuries
• (Only played 150 games once)
• Averaged 25 HR, 91 RBI per 162
• Iconic pic w/ 3 other MVP in CAL
• (D. Baylor, R. Jackson & R. Carew)
• Only reached 100 strikeouts once
• Hit exactly 23 HR in 4 straight years
• Two-and-done on the BBWAA ballot
• Top BR Similarity Score: Reggie Smith
• Played an athletic brand of CF defense
• Getting beaten up on defense = injuries
• Better postseason hitter than you knew:
• .407/.450/.593 (1.043 OPS) across 61 PA
• Named ALCS MVP in 1982 (.611 BA, 5 RBI)
• Only 11 center fielders ever recorded even one season with at least a .330 BA, .400 OBP, 75 XBH, and 100 RBI; 10 of the 11 are in the Hall of Fame, and the other is Fred Lynn, who did it twice.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Rep. Pete Aguilar @RepPeteAguilar]

🚨REMINDER🚨

Everything is more expensive right now thanks to Donald Trump and Republicans.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Five days ago, US Customs and Border Protection began processing $35 billion in tariff refunds to importing companies.

FedEx. Dyson. L'Oreal. Bausch & Lomb. Over 1,000 companies have filed for reimbursement.
The refunds are flowing.

But not to the families who paid them.

In February, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs under emergency powers. The tariffs collected over $130 billion from importers.

Yale Budget Lab analysis: the average American household paid $1,751 in higher prices last year because of those tariffs.

In February, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on the Trump administration to refund every household. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul did the same.

Three months later, $35 billion is flowing to corporations.

Zero is flowing to families.

The companies that passed the cost on to consumers are being made whole.
The consumers are not.

Where is the household refund?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[ericeffinb @EricBouvet]

Do Cinnamon Toast Crunch & Blueberries go together? 🤔 Asking for me…

[Julia Carter @thejuliacarter]

There are two Americas.

[ericeffinb @EricBouvet]

My friend has been spot on these entire last four years. Please read and WAKE UP!

[ericeffinb @EricBouvet]

This is jacked on so many levels

[NYC-DSA 🌹 @nycDSA]

A healthcare worker that was working was arrested tonight in Brooklyn

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

So let me get this straight: We're ok with using tear gas against peaceful protestors in the United States, but we banned export of tear gas to Hong Kong so it can’t be used against protestors there?