home.social

#kleptocracy — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kleptocracy, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  2. My country is also qualified for the following

    Kleptocracy

    The corrupt people running SR also steal all resources of the country blind, leaving absolutely nothing for the population.
    Minimum wage, Social Security in comparison to a minister salary is so large in difference it is laughable

    Quotes

    Kleptocrats abuse the freedoms found in Western countries by transferring funds out of a kleptocracy and into Western jurisdictions for money laundering and asset security. Since 2011, more than $1 trillion has left developing countries annually in illicit financial outflows. A 2016 study found that $12 trillion had been siphoned out of developing economies.[15] Western professional services providers are often taken advantage of by exploiting legal and financial loopholes in the West to facilitate transnational money laundering.[16][17] The kleptocratic financial system typically comprises four steps according to one opinion.[18]

    Sources

    Moi

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocr

    #Kleptocracy #Kakistocracy #democracy #tyranny #politics #economy #power

  3. RE: newsie.social/@ProPublica/1172

    How many in Congress are *not* violating ethics, oath of office, or law? And it rises to the top, where the stinking fish head rots downward into our economy and our world standing. Sad.

    Paxton's. but one fitting poster child.
    Even Sir is apologizing for him (he's not a 10 in the appearance department). Sick.

    #GQP #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #corruption

  4. Short but pithy #TrumpVirus #Truth from Robert Reich

    > How Trump Made America Expensive Again

    youtu.be/uXw1QpD2duo

    > Trump just said the quiet part out loud: he doesn't care about your finances. "Not even a little bit."

    > Here's where your money is going instead.

    #corruption #emoluments #WarCrimes #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #TrumpVirus #nepotism #Kleptocracy #grifting #Plutocracy #Jan7 #fraud #sedition #treason #BrainSpurs

  5. "Voters are struggling to buy gas and groceries, so watching Trump handsomely line his pockets with money he’d never have but for the office is even more painful to watch. Especially since his go-to move when asked about consumer prices is to whine that “affordability” is a made-up issue."

    salon.com/2026/08/31/texas-and

    #USPol
    #Kleptocracy

  6. "Meet the new boss.
    Same as the old boss"
    --Pete Townsend

    Kidnapping the corrupt leader of a sovereign nation and acquiring access it's oil reserves "at cost" sure seems like a crime syndicate worthy move to me.

    "The U.S. government will control 55% of the joint venture, split between equity in the venture and the ability to obtain oil from it at cost, the official said."

    So just a different corrupt government in charge of the oil.

    src: yahoo.com/news/politics/articl

    #Kleptocracy
    #Kakistocracy

  7. So, pretty cool that DeSantis was able to steal $10m of taxpayers’ money and totally get away with it.

    "Despite our finding that the money was misappropriated, we find insufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally," the report concluded. "Nobody will take responsibility for deciding the $10 million of taxpayer money would go to Hope Florida… or had any memory of who made it."

    #USPol #Kleptocracy

    cbsnews.com/miami/news/grand-j

  8. Having personal wealth of more than 1 million pounds should be illegal, if a company has wealth of a small country in liquid assets that should be shared with everyone in the form of taxation and public good.
    Thus ends the sermon.

    #Kleptocracy #corporateGreed

  9. @adwright apparently it's coming from Argentina? You KNOW Trump and his grifter family are getting a kickback from this deal.

    #corruptionAllTheWayDown #kleptocracy

  10. The idiocy of the Trump regime is endless. The only way to create any resiliency here in the face of upcoming global fossil fuel shortages would be to shore up a North American alliance, where the combined resources of the USA/Canada/Mexico's oil, natural gas and refinery productions, along with markedly reduction of diesel & lng exports, could keep us in relatively better (even if not good) economic outlook, versus the rest of the globe. But instead the MAGAts are doubling down on tariffs & refined fuels exports, alienating allies, & dooming the US public to massive inflation & job loss, all so a few fossil fuel corporations can reap record profits on lower volume.


    #Idiocracy #kleptocracy #economics #fossilfuels #tariffs #maga #trump #canada #usa #mexico #iran #war #globaleconomy #trade
  11. A Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel Trades

    The financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics on Monday affords another look at Trump’s Intel trades.

    The trades were made from eight accounts controlled by the president. For now, I’ve listed them on this schedule, which runs chronologically from January 2025 to March 2026.

    There is lots to digest here, and lots of agita to go along with it, but for the moment I want to call out just one date on the schedule: 18 August, 2025. On that day, Trump Account 6 made its biggest trade of INTC, in the 250-500K range. It is whale-scale, much larger than any other transaction listed here.

    I guess the president somehow caught wind of the rumors that the Department of Commerce was about to take a 10 percent stake in Intel.

    The next day, 19 August, Howard Lutnick went on CNBC and talked up the idea of the stake; the deal was announced three days later.

    Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel trades 260702Download #INTC #corpgov #corporateGovernance #corruption #ethics #governmentEthics #Intel #kleptocracy #oligarchy #PaisnerVLipBuTan #PaisnerVTan #politicalInsiderTrading #power
  12. this is what happens when the “commander in chief” is a #criminal #kleptocrat

    A #US #SpecialForces #soldier involved in the capture of #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro was arrested for allegedly betting on the operation, netting him $400k in profits….

    The trader opened an account in late December on #Polymarket, one of the best-known #PredictionMarkets. He placed about $32k that Maduro would be “out” by January.

    #law #Trump #kleptocracy
    cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us

  13. #Trump #DOJ #antitrust head Gail Slater stepping down less than a year after being appointed.

    In July, Reuters reported 2 of Slater's deputies were fired for “insubordination” after a settlement greenlighting #HewlettPackard Enterprise's $14 billion acquisition of #JuniperNetworks. The move exposed a power struggle within Trump's admin between proponents of robust antitrust enforcement & dealmakers seeking to #leverage #influence.

    #law #MafiaState #kleptocracy
    reuters.com/world/us/trumps-ju

  14. By contrast, large #corporations in #Minneapolis have been much less vocal about the effects of #immigration enforcement on the city, known as both a bastion of progressive politics in the #US #Midwest & a robust corporate #employer. 17 #Fortune500 companies are based in #Minnesota, including #Target, #UnitedHealth, & #GeneralMills.

    #complicit #economy #business #SmallBusiness #WorkingAmericans #Trump #affordability #CostOfLiving #authoritarianism #kleptocracy #plutocracy #ForMeButNotForThee

  15. "Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor. Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar:

    - Mr. Sacks has offered astonishing White House access to his tech industry compatriots and pushed to eliminate government obstacles facing A.I. companies. That has set up giants like Nvidia to reap an estimate of as much as $200 billion in new sales.

    - Mr. Sacks has recommended A.I. policies that have sometimes run counter to national security recommendations, alarming some of his White House colleagues and raising questions about his priorities.

    - Mr. Sacks has positioned himself to personally benefit. He has 708 tech investments, including at least 449 stakes in companies with ties to artificial intelligence that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis of his financial disclosures.

    - His public filings designate 438 of his tech investments as software or hardware companies, even though the firms promote themselves as A.I. enterprises, offer A.I. services or have A.I. in their names, The Times found.

    - Mr. Sacks has raised the profile of his weekly podcast, “All-In,” through his government role, and expanded its business.

    No event better illustrates Mr. Sacks’s ethical complexities and how his intertwined interests have come together than the July A.I. summit. Mr. Sacks initially planned for the forum to be hosted by “All-In,” which he leads with other tech investors. “All-In” asked potential sponsors to each pay it $1 million for access to a private reception and other events at the summit “bringing together President Donald Trump and leading A.I. innovators,” according to a proposal viewed by The Times."

    nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technol

    #USA #Trump #DavidSacks #BigTech #AI #Plutocracy #Kleptocracy

  16. We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.

    Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”

    #US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
    youtube.com/watch?v=YRyS1goUc5s

  17. @davidaugust

    #mairikkka is now another 3 steps closer to #northkorea

    #kleptocracy is not cool

    #cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab

    "The Economist was founded 182 years ago to further the cause of free trade"...as the super-capitalist magazine takes another shot at #BigHands.

  18. On Feb. 5, #Trump’s #DOJ said it was closing the investigation into the diary. Ms. Fago & Ms. Walczak were not charged, nor was anyone from #ProjectVeritas.

    In the meantime, a #pardon application was submitted on Mr. Walczak’s behalf. It suggested that Donald Trump Jr., as well as Ms. Guilfoyle & other Trump allies, supported his clemency.

    #criminal #law #USpol #MafiaState #plutocracy #kleptocracy

  19. Kurlander & Harris would later plead #guilty, admitting to conspiring to steal, transport & sell the diary to #ProjectVeritas. Ms. Harris was sentenced to one month in prison. Mr. Kurlander is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

    When #Trump won the presidency for a second time, it offered hope to Project Veritas, Ms. Fago & Mr. Walczak.

    #criminal #law #USpol #MafiaState #plutocracy #kleptocracy

  20. The #FBI did not retrieve the diary [because it was stolen FFS]. Instead, Kurlander & Harris entered negotiations to provide it to #ProjectVeritas, a #Trump-allied undercover *media* group [foumd in a court to not be media] that had been tipped to the diary’s existence by Stephanie Walczak, Ms. Fago’s daughter.

    #criminal #law #USpol #MafiaState #plutocracy #kleptocracy

  21. A handy list of large crypto donors to Trump’s inauguration fund, which is basically an unregulated pot of money the president can do whatever he wants with. A few translations are in order:

    * Circle = world’s 2nd largest stablecoin after Tether (USDC), closely linked to #Coinbase
    * Foris Dax = Crypto[.]Com
    * Fred Ehrsam = #Paradigm (and co-founder of Coinbase)
    * #Payward = #Kraken
    * #KyleSamani = #MulticoinCapital
    * #HaydenAdams = #Uniswap (more on Uniswap: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-)
    * Charles Cascarilla = #Paxos, the stablecoin issuer behind the #Binance stablecoin #BUSD that was summarily executed by regulators for #moneylaundering
    * Yuga Labs = #BoredApeYachtClub (the infamous monkey JPGs)

    #NFTs #corruption #crypto #BAYC #Inauguration #trump #uspol #uspolitics #bribery #kleptocracy #KleptocracyIsComing

  22. The #TeslaTakedown Shows How We Can Make #Oligarchs Feel the Pain

    The “#Tesla #Takedown#protests reveal a major vulnerability of the #TrumpRegime.

    Sunjeev Bery
    April 13 2025, 6:00 a.m.

    "On April 5, vast crowds of people took to the streets across America to oppose the policies of the Trump regime. The nationwide Hands Off protests felt like a collective decision to stop doomscrolling and start coming together against our country’s lurch toward authoritarianism. The next step is to turn the crowds, speeches, and witty signs into a powerful force with a clear and systematic plan for breaking Trump’s dark vision for our future.

    "While Trump possesses the formal authority of the federal government, history is full of examples in which an angry public can bring all of that crashing down by moving from passive acceptance to active opposition. At present, the path to that decisive future may seem hard to discern. But there are already networks of resistance that have shown early signs of success, and the 'Tesla Takedown' movement stands at the top of that list.

    "By protesting Tesla dealerships across the U.S., the grassroots campaign has ripped a hole in the wealth of Trump’s most supportive oligarch: Elon Musk. In doing so, the movement has demonstrated that America’s financial and corporate elites are far more vulnerable than they would have us believe. Tesla Takedown organizers have described a powerful surge of activism that combines deep opposition to both Musk and Trump with a sense of community and even joy. 'There’s this bond of being with people who share your love of democracy, decency, and the rule of law,' said retired Colby College history professor Elizabeth Leonard, who organizes Tesla Takedown protests in #WatervilleME.

    "Thanks to the Tesla Takedown movement and the broad anti-Musk revulsion that activists have channeled, Musk’s political and commercial fortunes appear to be in decline. He is still the world’s wealthiest man, but he has lost his air of invincibility and increasingly looks like a stumbling buffoon. His political intervention in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race backfired spectacularly, with a state that previously voted for Trump in 2024 by a 1 percent margin electing the Democratic Supreme Court candidate by a whopping 10 percentage points. Tesla stock has dropped some 40 percent since the start of the year, erasing $135 billion in Musk’s wealth. And following Musk’s toxic interventions in U.S. politics, Trump has reportedly said that Musk will be stepping back from his public White House role.

    "Through its victories, the Tesla Takedown community has revealed a major vulnerability of the Trump regime. Many of the oligarchic elites who back Trump’s agenda get their wealth from the very public whose broad interests Trump is now attacking. Tesla, #Amazon, #Meta, and other companies depend on the American populace for their profits, even as their owners have lent their support to Trump’s unpopular right-wing agenda, which is squeezing the material wealth and rights of the American people. When activists connect these dots through compelling campaigns, they can hold Trump’s oligarchic enablers directly accountable by draining their wealth.
    Tesla itself is now in a downward slide that could mark the early stages of an death spiral — or at least a significant reassessment by investors who have treated Tesla as something far bigger than simply a car company. Sales continue to decline across the U.S. and Europe, with 2025 first quarter numbers showing a 13 percent drop. Meanwhile, major Chinese electric vehicle competitor BYD reported a 60 percent increase in sales during the same period.
    In response to the anti-Tesla backlash, Musk embarked on a dubious right-wing outreach strategy that will only further alienate his original climate-conscious customer base. First, he had Trump turn the White House into a Tesla dealership. Then came the public support of #RightWing voices, including #MAGA supporters, #WhiteSupremacist #Proud Boys, and militia groups. It seems '#Swasticar' is no longer just a meme.

    "The success of the Tesla Takedown movement opens the door to the question of what comes next. Can the movement take on more of Musk’s wealth — including #SpaceX? Can protesters leverage their momentum to go after a wider range of targets, including the other oligarchs who have backed Trump? Will the anti-Musk community translate its ability to capture headlines into direct pressure on the political system itself? By broadening the attack on Musk’s interests and targeting more Trump-supporting oligarchs, the Tesla Takedown movement can help bring an end to Trump’s authoritarian policies."

    cc: @teslatakedown

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/04/13/el

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/ezYM9

    #USPol #BadDOGE #Oligarchy #ElonMusk #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Coporatocracy #Kleptocracy #Resistance #FundLibrariesNotSpaceX

  23. #Trump said he doesn’t know #TrevorMilton but was told that the way Milton was treated by the justice system was “very unfair.”

    “And they say the thing that he did wrong was he was one of the first people that supported a gentleman named Donald Trump for president,” Trump said. 🤮🤮🤮

    Trump also said he acted after receiving some “fantastic recommendations”about Milton.[💰]

    #law #pardons #felon47 #fraud #Nikola #kleptocracy #broligarchy
    apnews.com/article/nikola-trev

  24. Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

    "It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

    Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

    "After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

    "'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

    "'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

    "The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

    "Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

    "#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

    "'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

    Read more:
    commondreams.org/news/bernie-s
    #Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

  25. FFS

    One of #ElonMusk’s closest friends, a #billionaire co-founder of #Airbnb, is taking a role in #Trump’s admin to help Musk carry out his drive to slash the federal bureaucracy….

    #JoeGebbia, Airbnb co-founder, is a board member at Tesla who lives in Austin, where Musk, …keeps a large compound. He is planning to start shortly as part of Musk’s team, called #DOGE….

    #broligarchy #kleptocracy #plutocracy #USpol
    #boycottAirbnb

    nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/poli

  26. Their presence will shower nearly a trillion dollars’ worth of legitimacy upon #Trump — a demonstration that he has triumphed over decency & the rule of #law & is now fully accepted & feared by the well-heeled & the powerful, by #corporate America, by the #establishment. We are witnessing a melding of #oligarchy & #Trumpism. (In the days before the ceremony, there was a host of parties throughout DC, mounted by #tech #aristocrats to celebrate Trump’s inauguration.)

    #kleptocracy #bourgeoisie

  27. When you think everything that doesn't go your way is "stolen" and you need to steal it back you probably have kleptomania.

    If you're in government and feel this way then you are a kleptocrat.

    #kleptocracy #kleptomania