Byron Warnken

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Einstein

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said the free market is mispricing long-term bond yields. So he wants to use the superior judgment and power of central government planners to correct the mistakes of capitalism. Good thing we didn't elect a Democratic Socialist president.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When Donald Trump asks a journalist, “Who are you with?” the answer should always be “The American people.” Every network. Every outlet. Every single fucking time.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He’s supposed to be the Attorney General. He’s not supposed to have anything to do with partisan politics. This is so fucking wrong.👇

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HYPOCRISY: Today Todd Blanche says DOJ will “prosecute” anyone who touches a federal officer.

Heres a clip of him boasting that every Jan 6er “was either pardoned or had their sentence commuted.”

200 officers were injured on January 6. Blanche is as evil as he is stupid.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

His boss pardoned 100s, literally 100s, of people who assaulted over 140 police officers on January 6th, broke their bones, gave them strokes and heart attacks.

The level of gaslighting here is off the charts. Truly shameless people.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Todd Blanche's first address to DOJ: "We will always back the blue... Any time somebody assaults a federal law enforcement officer, we'll prosecute them."

73 Capitol Police and 65 MPD officers injured on Jan 6, 2021, would love to have a word.

5 more would, but they're dead.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Isn't it crazy that by the end of Trump's term in office that he will be solely responsible for adding approximately 43% of the total US debt across his 2 terms in office?
How are people ok with the USA's national debt hitting $50 trillion by 2028 before the end of Trump's term?

[Vitaliy Katsenelson @vitaliyk]

Trump Media is reportedly charging trading firms up to $1.2 million a year for early access to Trump's Truth Social posts. His posts move markets. One post about Iran sent oil down 5% in a day.

The product is literally called Truth API. API now stands for Access to President Interface.

Understand what is for sale here. Not information. Time. A few milliseconds between when a hedge fund sees the president's words and when you do. They trade against you in that gap. The product only has value because you are the sucker on the other side.

Trump owns 41% of the company. He writes the post, sells the head start, and pockets the fee.

It did not use to be this way. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust the day he became president, because even a peanut farm was too much of a conflict of interest for the office. He came home four years later to a business a million dollars in debt, and he accepted that as the price of the presidency. Fifty years later, the president sells early access to his own words and keeps the money.

The US stock market trades at a premium to every other market in the world for one reason: the assumption that it is the most liquid and the fairest, with a rule of law that ensures fairness for every participant. That is the entire point of the SEC, to make the market fair to everybody, so that nobody feels like they're a sucker. Trump is turning his own people into suckers. He is pitting Americans against themselves. If this happened in any other country we would be laughing at them. We are starting to live in a banana republic.

This is a pattern. Trump promised a Bitcoin strategic reserve to win crypto votes, gambling the dollar's reserve status for endorsements. Now he is selling trust in the market for money.

Wall Street calls him TACO because Trump Always Chickens Out. He never chickens out when it comes to his own wallet.

[Byron Warnken @warnkenlaw]

@HawleyMO The president is literally selling early access to market moving government news for personal gain. Who’s the scam artist? You guys suck. You’re worthless. Checks and balances my ass.

[Jesse Livermore @Jesse_Livermore]

Hard to even process -- a president selling market-moving information to banks and wealthy investors in advance of everyone else, and personally pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars from it. This alone is more worthy of impeachment than 100 Watergate cover-ups.

[Byron Warnken @warnkenlaw]

@modelstrangers I’d follow him

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[Byron Warnken @warnkenlaw]

This true?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, and the Trump family’s deals are expanding.

[Byron Warnken @warnkenlaw]

It’s treason. He will be tried and convicted. He’s going to be put to death. We will find out Butler wasn’t real and he was owned by foreign governments and various individuals. The rapes and the insider trading will not be denied by anyone after we all see how big the fraud is

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Imagine being a pilot hunted through 18,000 foot mountains, struggling for breath, and your clown-ass President is tweeting fucking war crimes while his son is making money off gambling whether you’ll live or die on Polymarket.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today:

* US foreign direct investment is lower

* US factories employ 89,000 fewer people

* US goods trade deficit is UP 2%

https://t.co/LJ7h0yLJXG

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

i am beginning to think that the head of the iranian military wasn’t a part time news host 15 months ago.

[Byron Warnken @warnkenlaw]

@elonmusk If the will of the people is contrary to the Constitution, you have to change the Constitution first. Judges just interpret the laws and the Constitution