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Comparing Trumpp to Hitler when the parallels are obvious !!!
TRUMP WILL NEVER LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE
HE HAS TO WIN ANOTHER TERM CAUSE IF HE LOSES / LEAVES HE GOES TO JAIL.
HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO STAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE
THEY WILL HAVE TO TAKE TRUMP OUT OF THE BUNKER IN A STRAIGHT JACKET
Trump saw the Bunker before in his last term – didn’t like it – it’s located UNDER THE BALLROOM
BUILD A BALLROOM put everything in the bunker he wants to have so he lives in the bunker while the USA burns. He can’t leave the bunker or he goes to jail.
THAT’S THE REASON FOR THE BALLROOM@!!!!

As with Hitler before him, this kind of mania needs to be chemically maintained, the drugs stop it all comes crashing down in a bunker somewhere.
Said to be true of all the top-ranking Nazis: fueled by drugs akin to amphetamines.

NYT: A manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of abortion back before the justices in an election year. This means that the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to ban medication abortions right before the midterms.

Trump’s disapproval just reached a new high in the Post-ABC-Ipsos poll. Disapproval of Trump on:
62% his job as president
76% cost of living
72% inflation
66% situation with Iran
65% relations with U.S. allies
65% the economy
61% taxes
59% immigration

ABC/WaPo/Ipsos: Trump’s disapproval rating hits 62% – the highest of either of his terms
-He’s underwater on every single issue tested
-2/3 of Americans say the country is on the wrong track
– Republicans who strongly approve is 45%, lowest across both terms
@GMA

Paul Ryan, Who Proposed Raising the Retirement Age to 70, Retired at 48 With a Full Government Pension. This Needs To Stop Happening!

Democrat Quentin Wiltz has beat Republican Tony Carbone in the Pearland, Texas. Quentin Wiltz will be the next mayor. Democrats continue to flip seats from Florida, Texas, Ohio, and all over US. Grapevine–Colleyville ISD, once a strong, major, Republican-leaning district, has now flipped. All three Republican trustees lost their re-election bids. Huge defeat for Texas Republicans.

Spirit CEO specifically said the reason they could no longer do business was because of higher fuel cost. This under the Trump administration.

Trump administration stalls 165 U.S. onshore wind farms over national security concerns. Trump is anti wind and solar.

A group of more than a dozen dwarfs has reportedly raided the Church of Scientology.

This idea that consolidation leads to more local news has never been proven empirically, and all FCC efforts to demonstrate the theory in practice have failed. It has been the justification in hundreds of media mergers since 1996.

In the last 5 days, Michigan’s average diesel price has soared 90 cents per gallon to $6, a new record, just as farmers are getting into their fields. Illinois has also set a new record, and Indiana and Ohio are poised to be next.

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Sweep @0xSweep https://x.com/0xSweep/status/2050586670366687723
May 2

The US government announced the biggest crypto seizure in history. China says it was actually the biggest crypto hack in history and the hacker was the US itself

In December 2020 a Chinese Bitcoin mining pool called LuBian got “hacked” for 127,271 BTC. Worth $3.5 BILLION at the time and $15 BILLION today

To understand why, you need to know who Chen Zhi is

He’s the chairman of Prince Group, a Cambodian conglomerate that on the surface ran real estate, finance and hotels in 30+ countries

In secret it ran one of the largest transnational criminal organizations in Asia

Prince Group operated dozens of forced labor compounds across Cambodia. Workers were lured with fake job offers, imprisoned on arrival, beaten and forced to run pig butchering scams against victims worldwide

Pig butchering is the scam where operators build fake online relationships, slowly fatten the victim up emotionally, then convince them to “invest” their savings in fake crypto platforms before disappearing with everything

The DOJ found facilities staffed with 1,250 phones controlling 76,000 social media accounts. Every account a different fake persona, running a different romance scam, on a different victim somewhere in the world

At peak the operation generated $30 MILLION PER DAY

The proceeds got laundered through Bitcoin

In December 2020 LuBian got “hacked”

The pool’s private keys had been generated by a weak random number generator and bruteforced in days

LuBian sent transactions to the thief’s wallet begging for the money back

The funds sat untouched for nearly 4 years

In June and July 2024 the entire 127,271 BTC moved in a coordinated sweep to new wallets. Nobody knew who controlled them

Then in October 2025 the DOJ unsealed an indictment against Chen Zhi and revealed they’d been holding the entire stash the whole time

Largest forfeiture action in US history. $15 BILLION in Bitcoin in US custody

The 2020 “hack” was either an insider self heist within Chen Zhi’s own organization, or something far stranger

China is now publicly accusing the US government of being the actual hacker and claiming American intelligence brute forced LuBian’s weak keys in 2020 and quietly held the BTC for 4 years before retroactively “seizing” it through court filings in 2025

The DOJ has not explained how the funds came into US custody

If China is right, this is the first known case of a state level cryptocurrency theft

The US identified weak keys belonging to a criminal organization, drained the wallet years before the public knew and waited for the legal infrastructure to catch up

OFAC sanctioned Prince Group as a Transnational Criminal Organization. 146 associated targets added to the SDN list

Senior Chinese government officials from the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of State Security were named as direct co conspirators paid bribes to shield the compounds from law enforcement

Byex Exchange, a Prince Group linked crypto exchange that had received $1.3 BILLION in transactions – sanctioned

Jin Bei Group, the casino and hotel chain hosting scam compounds – sanctioned

Chen Zhi was at large for months. In January 2026 he was arrested in Cambodia and deported to China. His current whereabouts are unclear

But the industry he was part of is bigger than him. KK Park in Myanmar. Sihanoukville in Cambodia. Compounds across Laos and the Philippines. The UN estimates the global pig butchering industry generates $75 BILLION per year

Chen Zhi’s $15 BILLION is maybe 5% of one year of the industry’s revenue

And if China’s accusation is true, the US government has been quietly executing onchain seizures for years

The “biggest crypto crackdown in history” might actually be the moment we found out the most powerful actor on the blockchain has been the United States all along

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