Random rant, but sure...good morning to you too, manac.

Democrats, have fun

tigermanac® · 2025-03-04T11:21:38.146Z

You all are so delusional and so sick in the head. Every single democrat voted to keep men in women’s sports. POS to the max.

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Mar 4, 2025, 9:39 AM

TLDNR - Trump is compromised. Has been for decades now. Is what it is. It's a worldwide, communist-backed, anticapitalism movement, fueled by populism stoked by the failures inherent in unchecked capitalism. We enabled this through our own greed. There is no political solution to a systemic/functional problem.

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It is a major, worldwide movement, that's not even American in nature. It's run by Russia, ultimately. But it is impacting Germany, US, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, most of eastern Europe, Italy, and elsewhere (Even Canada, Netherlands, etc). It is a response to the worldwide globalist order that is unraveling. You know, the Bilderberg folks. The free trade, capitalist, globalist, folks. It's a system, not without irony, with its birth among Republicans in the US. And its death will be marked by Republicans, in the US. Hastened and facilitated by Communists in Russia, and elsewhere.

Russia has been heavily investing in our President for decades now. Numerous Russian oligarchs have anonymously funded Trump real estate ventures, to the point of saving him from more bankruptcies than you could probably count. Hundreds of millions have been spent (billions probably), wisely, by the Kremlin and Russia (laundered through companies, oligarchs, and ultimately LLC's) on US real estate, and our President has likely been the largest beneficiary of those shady deals. Trump has properties with hundreds of tenants keeping it afloat, where 77% of the units are owned by anonymous shell LLC's.

The FBI was way off investigating "Russian collusion" with Trump regarding an election. Nope. This is far worse. They were either being nice to not scare Americans, or being naive, to characterize it that way. It goes back decades before the 2016 election. Communists, and Russians, are famous for playing longball. It is actually a flaw in our laws (guised as a benefit), protecting and hiding real estate ownership, that cracked the door for the Russian snakes to enter. If you create a Trust, then in that trust place 50 LLC's, then have a random lawyer be the registered agent for the LLC's to tell anyone snooping around to pound sand, it is nearly impossible, even for the FBI, to determine property ownership. This was one of the reasons for the new law requiring LLC's to prove ownership to the IRS. And of course Trump has nixed that. While this protects rich Americans from lawsuits, and other problems, it is also an enabler of money laundering, and other financial crimes in the real estate market to happen, unnoticed. And Russia has probably taken advantage of this as much or more than anyone, but in a very targeted way.

Unfortunately, we don't know how beholden Trump actually is to Russians, and their oligarchs and shell companies, because we can't know, thanks to our own greed. Or who may be in China's pocket. Or anyone, really.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/russian-money-flows-us-real-estate-rcna17723

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/business/real-estate/2019/02/17/trump-in-palm-beach-did-russian-mansion-buyer-make-money/5934528007/

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/shocking_truth_about_trump/?webhylb

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-sold-40-million-estate-russian-oligarch-100-million-and-democratic-802613

https://ips-dc.org/trumps-dirty-money/

But I can assure you, Trump is bought and paid for by Putin and Russia. And has been for DECADES. Again, thanks to our laws and greed. Our capitalism, ironically, opened a door for them to enter, and destroy us. And I feel that is likely Trump's ultimate intent, or certainly the intent to those whom he is beholden to. People who buy his BS are dangerously naive, and quite by design. Most international lenders, many years ago, cut off Trump because his businesses failed. That drove Trump into seeking some shady sources for financing an otherwise improbable recovery in wealth. Trump has, himself, been financially leveraged and compromised in the same way he is treating other nations. Trump's financers expect results on their investment, and Trump will dutifully deliver. Likewise, Trump will use the same tactics to force loyalty to him, only now using the world's richest tax base. Only now, Trump is using the Treasury and currency of the most wealthy nation on Earth. This is by design. But I promise, IF Trump becomes king, as he desires, he will turn around, not needing Russian oligarchs or having any beneficial use for Putin, and Trump will turn around and bite the hands that fed him.

This isn't Russian collusion to sway some election, this is Russian blackmail, and a complete compromise of the candidate, LONG before any election or him even entering politics. And completely untraceable, thanks to our greed and wealth. Even with Trump's tax returns, no one could ever determine what exactly he owned. It was largely held by shell companies.

* - Fun fact - When the financial crisis of 2008/9 hit...lemme back up. When Enron stock was the darling of Wall Street and investors, back in the 1990's, Ken Lay, with the assistance of shady accountants, created numerous anonymous shell companies. Then they would farm off ownership of unprofitable divisions in Enron to these companies, to keep the losses these unprofitable divisions racked up, OFF the financial disclosures of Enron. This made Enron look profitable, while actually hiding massive losses at the company. Lay and his accountant were arrested for this. It was discovered, and was illegal by SEC rules (Trump wants to dismantle the SEC btw, go figure).

ANYWAY, when the financial crisis hit in 2008, the financial disclosures of lenders durned DARK RED as subprime mortgages ruined the perceived value in MBS securities. This went into the trillions. Under emergency powers, the Federal Reserve created 3 anonymous shell companies, Maiden Lane 1, 2, and 3. They then transferred the toxic/subprime mortgage debt into these shell companies, held by the Federal Reserve, removing the toxic mortgage debt from the books of the world's biggest lenders. This kept them solvent, the debt disappeared, and poof fixed. Now the Federal reserve had a problem, they were now sitting on trillions in toxic debt and bad MBS, and not the lenders. They started a program for repayment, and in just two years they simply deemed themselves repaid. There was NEVER any evidence these repayments from the lenders occurred, other than Fed accounting sheets saying they did. And had Congress not passed the Dodd/Frank Act, we would never even know this had been done. But here's a clue. To this day, who is the single largest holder of mortgage backed securities in the US? Yep, the Federal Reserve...around $2 trillion worth. It's STILL there.

There are currently around 2 MILLION vacant homes in just the state of Florida. No one living in them. Just tossing that seemingly random fact out there.

Anyway.......my TLDNR post of the day. Just ironic as we sit here thinking dem and pubs, finger pointing and whatever, we're trying to play chess on a backgammon board. Girls in guys sports, DEI, whatever else, all this meaningless crap, while the country is actually collapsing. Russians are far smarter than we are, at least the leadership is. They also fund dems, and dem causes, through similar shady deals, only to stoke outrage to be ostensibly cured by a populist who they have total control over. They have played us well. I will give them that. They have added logs to the fires of both dems and pubs, always keeping the balance equal, the outrage growing, and the stakes higher. Biden was compromised by Ukraine and Russian oligarchs too, go figure.

We are hapless pawns, in a broken system. But hey, at least we're as rich as 4 foot up a bull's ###.

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The *frequency* of the occurrence isn't really material...I mean, I suppose it is if you think it shouldn't be up for a vote, but once it is in a vote, the principle of the issue is more pressing (especially as discussed here). You might say "There are only three guys competing in NCAA women's sports...I'm not putting any energy into crafting legislation banning it." Maybe. Although the women forced to play against them might think it a bit more pressing. None the less, you could make that argument. But once it's up for a vote, and you say "No, I vote against preventing men from competing in women's sports", then it has nothing to do with how common it is. It means you support men playing in women's sports.

Perhaps they should be governed by states, etc. I don't know. Is that the stance of the democrats that voted against banning it? It's a state's issue? Honestly, I'm not sure where the law is on that and I suspect most of us don't know. It's a convenient punt to de-legitimize a federal action. But truly, I don't know. I would be surprised if that was the argument, as Dems are not known to be big "states' rights" people.

Your third bullet is kind of a reframing of the first two.

I'll say this...Trump/Vance is a catastrophe in my opinion. ANYONE should be able to waltz in and win the next election against this administration (assuming we'll see JD in 2028). The way to NOT do that, is for the Democrats to take a firm stance that they support men competing in women's sports, or create a climate like Biden did about the border and get us RIGHT BACK to where we were, etc. In my opinion, the Dems must get away from this love of identity politics, far-left policies, "everything that Trump did was evil" mindset.

Democrats, have fun

Re: Democrats, have fun

Grate cumback, troll***

Re: Grate cumback, troll***

Re: Democrats, have fun

They can't help themselves, they fall for it every time***

Who voted for that?

Re: Who voted for that?

Re: Democrats, have fun

We are fully post political now, and so few see it.

Russians...? Really? It's not a nationalism situation. It's an ethnic one.***

Re: Democrats, have fun

"Good morning, manac, can I make you some breakfast?"

I go to the gym at 430 and read the news while on treadmill

Re: I go to the gym at 430 and read the news while on treadmill

Guys I'm tRoLlInG***

Re: Democrats, have fun

Re: Democrats, have fun

COMMON SENSE =/= HATE, but ramble on with your personal attack. Ironic.***

Did you read the OP? "You all are so delusional and so sick in the head."***

Lutz. As if I give a #### one way or another.

Re: Lutz. As if I give a #### one way or another.

Only person having fun is Putin***

Or the Tranny vote was to say Hey look here while the economy starts to crumble***

So that's the childish way to look at it

It's simple. Voting against restrictions is promoting it. It's a binary issue.

Ever play coed softball, volleyball, frisbee, dodgeball, bowling or pool?

These retorts fall a bit flat to me.

Re: These retorts fall a bit flat to me.

Okay. This is just my opinion so no need to go back and forth on it but

Why does it have to be Vance?

It doesn't have to be. I'm hoping Nikki runs again.

True, and that was my thought as well.

I disagree, I think there has to be a national standard

This is my point. "Oh, this is a federal overreach" from the party that

Imagine if the Dems...

But that's true. IT IS already a crime to

No, I don't

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