A BILLIONAIRE is running for Governor of California on a platform of "tax me more." He literally wears a hat that says "Class Traitor" to his rallies. And progressives are actually buying in.

Tom Steyer is worth $2.4 billion. That's not a typo.

The hedge fund founder turned climate activist has spent over $132 million of his own money to campaign for Governor of California, and his entire pitch is that people like him should pay drastically more in taxes.

He calls himself a "class traitor." He has it embroidered on his baseball cap. Furthermore, he says he will vote yes on a first-of-its-kind state wealth tax targeting California's richest residents. He's been endorsed by Our Revolution, the group Bernie Sanders founded.

The California Democratic Socialists endorsed him too, writing in their official statement that Steyer is "somehow" the most progressive candidate in the race "despite being a billionaire" who earned his wealth through "exploitation of the working class."

That has to be one of the most reluctant endorsements in the history of left-wing politics, and they still gave it to him.

Why? Because the anti-billionaire energy in this country is real and growing.

53% of Americans now say billionaires threaten American democracy, up 7 points in two years. Nearly 80% say they'd back a billionaire who "challenges unjust systems."

Bernie's Fighting Oligarchy tour is filling arenas. Mamdani is taxing pied-à-terre apartments and slashing NYC's deficit. AOC said flatly this month that you "can't earn a billion dollars" and a national debate broke out for days.

People are sick of being squeezed. Gas in California is over $6 a gallon. Rent is crushing. Groceries are spiking.

And while working families pick which bills to skip this month, Trump is fundraising at Mar-a-Lago and building a $300 million ballroom at the White House with billionaire donors.

Here's what California voters are wrestling with: if the billionaire is the one promising to dismantle the billionaire class, do you take the trade? It's a real question. The party that lectures working people about respectability while losing to a guy in a red hat is about to find out.

The class war is officially on.

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THE DOLLAR IS DEAD.

THE PETRODOLLAR EXPIRED. AND NO ONE TOLD YOU.

June 9, 2024. The 50-year petrodollar agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia expired. Not renewed. Not renegotiated. Ended.

The single agreement that made the US dollar the world's reserve currency — gone. And the mainstream media covered it for exactly zero minutes.

Nixon made a deal with Saudi Arabia. All oil sold globally would be priced exclusively in US dollars. In exchange, America provided military protection to the Saudi kingdom.

This meant every country on Earth needed dollars to buy energy. Demand for dollars was infinite — not because of American productivity, but because of a handshake in a desert 50 years ago.

That handshake is over.

Saudi Arabia is now accepting yuan. Rubles. Rupees. Gold. Any currency. From any nation. The exclusive dollar requirement — eliminated.

When the world no longer needs your currency to buy energy, the demand for your currency collapses. When demand collapses, value collapses. When value collapses — inflation isn't a cycle. It's a death spiral.

The dollar isn't weakening. It's dying. On a schedule. And the replacement is already built.

BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — now expanded to include Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Iran. 45% of the world's population. 35% of global GDP. Building a parallel financial system that doesn't use the dollar. Doesn't use SWIFT. Doesn't answer to Washington.

A gold-backed BRICS currency is in development. Asset-backed. Auditable. Not printed from air by a private bank.

The world is choosing. And it's not choosing the dollar.

This is not collapse. This is transition. The dollar dying is the Federal Reserve dying. The Fed dying is the debt dying. The debt dying is your slavery ending.

You were never in debt. The CORPORATION called the United States was in debt — using your birth certificate as collateral. When the corporation's currency dies, the corporation's debt dies with it.

What replaces it: Treasury notes. Gold-backed. Issued by the restored Republic. No Fed. No interest. No infinite printing. Real money. For the first time in 111 years.

The death of the dollar is not the end. It's the beginning of everything they kept from you.

They built an empire on a handshake and a gas pump. The handshake is over. The pump accepts other currencies now. And the empire built on paper is dissolving back into the nothing it was printed from. What comes next is real.

 

The strangest thing about war is not that it happens.

The strangest thing is that nobody is surprised by it.

Not really.

Every generation acts shocked.

Every generation speaks as though it has discovered some terrible new tragedy.

Every generation promises it has learned.

And then every generation walks back toward the same cliff.

Not blindly.

Knowingly.

That is the part nobody wants to discuss.

The contradiction is not hidden.

It is one of the most publicly acknowledged facts in human history.

The poets knew it.

The philosophers knew it.

The historians knew it.

The generals knew it.

The kings knew it.

The revolutionaries knew it.

The veterans knew it.

Even the children eventually figure it out.

War is destruction.

War is waste.

War is failure.

War is what remains after imagination collapses.

War is the confession that humanity could not solve a problem without creating a larger one.

None of this is controversial.

Everyone knows.

That is precisely what makes it so strange.

Every Memorial Day, millions of people will post the same phrases.

Some sincere.

Some performative.

Some thoughtful.

Some automatic.

Most inherited.

"They died for our freedom."

"They made the ultimate sacrifice."

"We honor the fallen."

Perhaps.

But notice what never accompanies the slogan.

The obvious follow-up question.

If sacrifice is sacred, why are we so comfortable manufacturing the conditions that require it?

If the dead deserve honor, why do we so rarely examine the machinery that produced the dead?

If war is tragic, why do we speak about it as though it were inevitable?

If we have learned from history, why does history keep arriving with the same lesson?

The truly uncomfortable realization is that humanity does not suffer from a lack of warnings.

Humanity suffers from a surplus of them.

The warnings are everywhere.

In books.

In poems.

In monuments.

In graveyards.

In photographs.

In letters sent home.

In folded flags.

In old men who stare into the distance and suddenly become silent.

The warning has been repeated for thousands of years.

And still we continue.

Not because we have never heard it.

Because hearing it and living by it are different things.

We say we hate war.

Yet we love certainty.

We say we value peace.

Yet we reward division.

We say we honor truth.

Yet we cling to stories that flatter us.

We say we oppose manipulation.

Yet we eagerly consume narratives that confirm what we already wanted to believe.

The problem is not that some powerful person somewhere is lying.

Power has always lied.

The deeper problem is that human beings have always preferred comforting certainty to uncomfortable reflection.

We inherit identities before we inherit understanding.

We inherit loyalties before we inherit wisdom.

We inherit enemies before we meet them.

Then we spend our lives calling those inheritances conclusions.

The tragedy is not that a few people profit from conflict.

The tragedy is that entire civilizations repeatedly organize themselves around stories that make conflict feel necessary.

That is the racket.

Not merely money.

Not merely politics.

Not merely power.

The racket is the transformation of avoidable suffering into accepted reality.

The conversion of absurdity into normalcy.

The elevation of failure into tradition.

The endless mythologizing of consequences we should have prevented.

And because every generation inherits the same fears, the same desires, the same need for belonging, the wheel continues to turn.

Not because humanity is evil.

Because humanity is unfinished.

Because wisdom is difficult.

Because self-examination is painful.

Because it is easier to identify a villain than to confront a pattern.

And because the pattern eventually points back at us.

Not them.

Us.

The citizen.

The voter.

The believer.

The skeptic.

The patriot.

The dissenter.

The parent.

The child.

The veteran.

The civilian.

Every one of us.

The moment we become convinced that the blindness belongs exclusively to someone else, we become part of the machinery that keeps it alive.

Perhaps that is the lesson hidden beneath every battlefield and every cemetery.

Not that humanity lacks intelligence.

But that intelligence without self-awareness merely builds larger machines for repeating ancient mistakes.

And perhaps the most honest way to honor the dead is not to recite a slogan.

It is to stand before the evidence of history and finally admit that the problem was never a lack of warnings.

The problem was that we believed the warnings were meant for other people.

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The Billion-Dollar Blindfold: The DNC’s 2024 Autopsy is an Insult to Voters

Brent Molnar: Voice of Reason

May 21, 2026

When a political party spends billions of dollars to fight a must-win election that places the country on the doorstep of fascism (and loses decisively) the absolute bare minimum owed to its voters is a brutally honest reckoning. Instead, the Democratic National Committee has delivered a lesson in institutional cowardice.

After months of intense internal pressure and public stalling, the DNC has finally released its long-awaited 2024 election autopsy. The resulting 192-page document is not an honest analysis of what went wrong. It is an exercise in breathtaking incompetence that actively ignores the most explosive issues of the campaign.

It is beyond indefensible. It is beyond reprehensible. And astoundingly, the leadership of the party agrees. In an unprecedented move that perfectly encapsulates the dysfunction of the current Democratic apparatus, DNC Chair Ken Martin released the report while simultaneously throwing it under the bus.

Martin publicly stated, “I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards.” He admitted to shelving it back in December because it was riddled with errors, lacked sourcing, and was “not ready for prime-time.” Every single page of the document now carries a glaring disclaimer stating that it reflects only the views of its author (who is no longer with the committee) and that the DNC cannot even verify its own underlying data.

To spend billions of donor dollars on an existential campaign, suffer a massive, consequential defeat, and then fail to produce a functional, fact-checked post-mortem is institutional malpractice. But the true scandal isn’t the typos. It is what the report intentionally leaves out.

An autopsy is supposed to determine the cause of death. But the DNC’s report completely ignores the massive, bleeding wounds that fractured the Democratic coalition in 2024. By refusing to grapple with reality, the party establishment has revealed its outright refusal to learn from its mistakes:

The Ghost of Gaza: Despite months of nationwide protests, the uncommitted voter movement, and widespread polling showing that the administration’s unconditional support for Israel’s war in Gaza severely depressed turnout among young voters, Arab-Americans, and progressives, the report does not mention Gaza or Palestine a single time.

The Biden Delusion: The report attempts to critique the campaign’s mechanics while entirely ignoring the elephant in the room: President Joe Biden’s stubborn refusal to drop out of the race until the eleventh hour. The party apparatus spent over a year gaslighting the public about his viability, only to have the dam break late in the summer, yet this historical failure of leadership is entirely sidestepped.

The Primary Bypass: The document conveniently glosses over the catastrophic decision to coronate Kamala Harris as the nominee without a single primary vote being cast. By avoiding the chaotic, undemocratic process that installed her at the top of the ticket, the DNC sidesteps any accountability for actively shutting down voter choice.

Instead of taking responsibility for a disastrous top-down strategy, the report takes the easy way out. It blames the Biden political operation for failing to prop up Harris, criticizes Harris for “writing off rural America,” and chides the party for focusing on “abstract issues and identity politics.”

While those factors certainly contributed to the loss, they are merely symptoms of a much deeper rot.

The Democratic Party establishment failed to do the most basic analysis of its own complicity. They asked voters to save democracy, but when they failed to deliver, they refused to transparently investigate their own catastrophic blunders. If the DNC cannot even manage to accurately diagnose how they lost 2024, they have absolutely no blueprint for how to win in the future.

 

Sleepy Joe tolerated the genocide, but he wouldn’t give them their Iran War. He had to go. Orange Man was the gravy train:

“The 56-year-old alleged his father was the victim of a Mossad-linked scheme that fueled the 2023 Republican impeachment inquiry, in a surprise sit-down with the conservative firebrand who spent years mocking him as a 'crackhead.'

He alleged that disgraced FBI informant Alexander Smirnov is 'a known Israeli intelligence agent' and that fugitive alleged arms dealer Gal Luft is hiding in Israel under government protection.

'They're the two principal individuals that made the only claim that people hung their hat on in Congress and elsewhere as it relates to my dad and corruption, bribery, and stuff like that,' Hunter told Owens.

He claimed that Smirnov has now mysteriously vanished from federal prison.

'He is on furlough but no one knows where he's been furloughed to and the only passport that he has is an Israeli passport,' Hunter said.

Smirnov, 44, was jailed for six years in January, 2025, for fabricating the claim that bosses at Ukrainian gas company Burisma paid Joe and Hunter $5 million each.

It became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry into the then-president.

Luft, a 57-year-old dual US-Israeli citizen, was indicted by the Southern District of New York in 2022 on charges of acting as a Chinese foreign agent, brokering deals for illicit weapons and sanctioned Iranian oil.

He was arrested in Cyprus in February 2023 and fled while on bail. He remains a fugitive.

Hunter claimed Israel is shielding the alleged gun runner.

'Luft, who was a former IDF officer who is believed to be living in Israel as a fugitive, who the Israelis will not help us locate,' he told Owens.

 THE SYSTEM DOESN’T NEED CHAINS ANYMORE

Modern control no longer arrives through force.

It arrives through endless entertainment. 

Sports.

Celebrity scandals.

Fashion trends.

Algorithmic outrage.

Infinite scrolling designed to consume attention every waking hour.

While populations remain hypnotized by screens, entire systems of corruption expand quietly beneath public awareness. 

Financial manipulation.

Mass surveillance.

Psychological conditioning.

Behavior tracking through data, emotion and digital addiction.

The most disturbing part is that people willingly participate.

Every notification becomes a stimulus.

Every trend becomes programming.

Every distraction pulls attention further away from the structures truly shaping the world.

Ancient empires controlled populations through fear.

Modern systems control them through stimulation.

Because a distracted society rarely questions power.

And while millions argue over celebrities, games and viral headlines…

The real decisions are made far beyond the screen.

#DaniRoa #Teloocultaron #MindControl #MediaManipulation #HiddenTruth #GlobalAgenda #MassProgramming #DigitalControl #PsychologicalWarfare #SurveillanceState #Conspiracy #TruthHidden #fblifestyl

 

 

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Please share this far and wide so this prick gets wind of it…

Essayist Lucinda Law cuts to the heart of our corrupt current Supreme Court & the anger all thoughtful Americans feel about it. Here's Lucinda's letter to Justice Roberts. I couldn't agree with her more…

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"Dear Justice Roberts,

"It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt — that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.

"So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.

"People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.

"You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth. You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction. You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference. And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.

"Your Court did not merely 'interpret' the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.

"Citizens United accelerated America’s transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined. Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect. The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.

"Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?

"Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language — when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.

"Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.

"This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.

"And we are furious — not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.

"History will remember this era. And it will remember you and your Court- not as a guardian of constitutional democracy, but as a key institution that eroded it. That is already your legacy, so stop whining- you earned a nation's scorn."