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https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/18/trump-demands-1bn/
Trump is reportedly demanding a $1bn entry fee to sit on his made-up Gaza “peace board” — cash he would personally control
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Extort? This is a presale for founding members of the new Western colonial management. And of course a chunk of money would go to Trump, why do you think he decided to be capital’s scapegoat? Out of kindness? Lol. Stop trying to legitimise Western imperialism or understand any of this through a filter of morals… since the days of viking pillaging to the Crusades to the Dutch East India Company to the Opium wars to the double nuke drop, the West (America being the current manager of the empire since the reshuffle of power around WW2) has never operated on or believed in moral values, the only difference now is that a declining America with a lot of desperate, confused, propagandised and amoral white people doesn’t even feel the need to spin things anymore, so some things you were told by the empire are obviously clashing with things the empire does.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Anyone else thinking this is what he’s going to use to pay his Gestapo once Congress finally cuts them off? Surely I’m just suffering from TDS here, right?
CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
You’re completely delusional. Once he got his tiny hands on that money it would never see a pocket other than his. Anyway, I’m sure that there are more than a few that would be happy to continue doing the job without pay, as long as they can keep swaggering around in their jackboots.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 hours ago
I hope you’re right. It doesn’t help that I gamed out that asshole getting a third term about a month ago, and one of the court decisions needed for my theory to work came to pass this past week (with Justice Brown-Jackson explicitly calling out the loophole that’s needed).
I just can’t help but thinking that keeping his ass out of jail may be one of the few things he’d spend this money on.