The AI Bubble Is Real and It’s About to Hit Regular People the Hardest
Okay - I just went back through my notes app - and hooooboy. I started to research and write sooooo many things this week that I just abandoned because there’s too much to cover - even if you spend 12 to 14 hours a day, everyday trying to keep up with it all. But I…
Billionaires Don’t Make Good Leaders Because They Don’t Need Money. Wrong.
I’m so tired of seeing billionaires be lauded as good options for governing roles because they can’t be tempted by money because they have plenty of it. You don’t get to be a billionaire because money has no effect on you - duh. Every election cycle, some billionaire decides they’re the answer to our problems…
Trump Called Epstein Files a ‘Hoax’ Then Signed the Release Bill Anyway
So, we’ve all been talking about Trump signing the Epstein files bill. He announced it on Truth Social with a 390-word post painting Epstein as a lifelong Democrat and promising the release would reveal connections to Democrats. Survivors of Epstein’s abuse cheered in the gallery. Trump called the files a hoax designed to distract from…
Trump Accounts Are a Wall Street Subsidy Disguised as a Baby Bonus
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been talking about Trump accounts like he’d just invented sliced bread. What he’s not mentioning is that this whole setup is designed to look generous while quietly offloading risk, funneling billions to Wall Street, and potentially undermining Social Security. Here’s how it works: The government seeds $1,000 into accounts for…
Trump Signed the Epstein Files Bill. Bondi Couldn’t Explain What Changed.
Well, he did it. Trump signed the bill to release the Epstein files tonight. The question everyone’s asking is whether he can still find a way out of this. Here’s why the answer is probably no. Attorney General Pam Bondi stood in front of reporters today and couldn’t explain why the Justice Department suddenly needs…
Will the Epstein Files End MAGA? Here’s My Honest Answer.
So, probably like you, I’ve seen a lot of people ask if the release of the Epstein Files will be the end of MAGA. The bill to release them just passed both the House and Senate and this issue created a wedge between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene that looked unthinkable three months ago. And…
Trump Is Stripping Whistleblower Protections From Thousands of Senior Federal Employees
The Trump administration is about to finalize a rule that strips whistleblower protections from an estimated 50,000 senior federal employees. That’s not spin. That’s what the documents reviewed by Reuters actually say. The Whistleblower Protection Act makes it illegal for agencies to retaliate against employees who report violations of law, gross waste of funds, abuse…
Why AI Panic Misses the Real Threats
Humans have always been better at destruction than robots Every generation picks its apocalypse. Right now, the smart money says it’s AI. Machines will steal our jobs, collapse the economy, render humans obsolete. The solution everyone’s pitching is Universal Basic Income, because apparently that’s the only thing standing between us and complete societal breakdown. There’s…
Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?
Larry Summers asked Epstein whether the Russians had something on Trump In the more than 20,000 pages released this week, there’s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining. Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on…
Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix
More than 20,000 pages just dropped. Here’s what I’m doing with them. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Democrats on the committee released three emails first, all mentioning Donald Trump - the GOP side called that cherry-picking. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House…
Trump Pardoned 77 People Involved in the Plot to Overturn the 2020 Election
In case you missed it over the weekend, Trump pardoned 77 - SEVENTY SEVEN! - people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. His pardon attorney announced it on Sunday. Rudy Giuliani got one. Mark Meadows got one. So did lawyers like Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, aides like…
Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Was Pitched With a Literal Posterboard at a Golf Club
You probably saw that Trump floated a 50-year mortgage plan over the weekend. Maybe you saw the pushback - his own base losing their minds, Republican congresspeople calling it debt slavery, housing experts explaining why it’s economically illiterate. What you might not know is how this disaster actually happened. Saturday night at Trump’s Palm Beach…