Valerie May 🌻

“As I have tried to warn people many times before, the Trump family motto is basically, ‘Fuck you, stop me’. It is of course not limited to Trump, the self-dealing extends to his Cabinet as well. When you consider all of the economic arbitrage from this illegal war in Iran and Trump’s disastrous tariff policies, don’t sleep on the fact that Howard Lutnick’s sons, who took over for him to run Cantor Fitzgerald when he joined the administration as Commerce Secretary, began buying up tariff-related debt for pennies on the dollar a year ago, when their father helped put these trade policies in place. How much money will they make by gobbling up distressed assets now that Trump is tanking the global economy due to rising oil prices? Especially in Southeast Asian markets; the hotels, tech companies and manufacturing businesses that are now suffering due to soaring energy costs may find themselves in the portfolios of these unscrupulous scions. This is akin to a global shakedown at the hands of a single mafia family (Russian ties notwithstanding, Putin is benefiting immensely, as he always seem to do under Trump’s policies) destroying the world’s economy to benefit their own profit margins. The human suffering caused by it all doesn’t even register to them. Howard Lutnick already proved himself quite immune from empathy in his many years of looking the other way for his next door neighbor, Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation; continuing to do business with him and travel to his private island. Not to mention Lutnick’s total lack of empathy and compassion in the days after 9/11, when he stopped the paychecks for his 658 employees who had perished in the horrific terrorist attacks. The twenty five years since have only calloused a cold heart further. If you want Trump to stop sending troops to Iran you have to make him a better offer. He is transactional and the only thing he is concerned with is his own self-interest. Our enemies understand this and our allies do now as well. The more money that this war makes for those on the inside of this administration, and his inner circle at Mar-a-Lago, the longer it will last and the greater the toll will be for Iran and American forces. They do not care about the consequences of their actions - and so far there hasn’t been any of real significance. We must change that and demand accountability.” open.substack.com/pub/noelca…