“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…

Shocked that stock market is tanking again on the eve of yet another Trump imposed deadline with Iran after recent gains based on his social media posts. It’s almost as if there is some sort of pattern at play. open.substack.com/pub/noelca…

“There was a bald eagle in my backyard yesterday - I took it as a sign. As a nation (and much of the world beyond it) gathered in protest on a chilly day at the end of March, Donald Trump woke up in his Palm Beach mansion and thought about playing golf and how much more money he could make from the Iran war. And how successful he has been over the last month in distracting the news media from his role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Trump didn’t think about the dangers we face as a nation, the dysfunction and disaster at our airports or the lives lost in the Middle East. As has been the case every day of his self-centered and destructive life, he woke up and thought about himself and his own financial interests. Then he presumably shuffled down to the omelette bar in his usual Benzoed stupor and began the circus of self-aggrandizement, substance abuse and geriatric coddling our mad king so desperately craves and requires to function, aka ‘Executive Time’. This was after speaking at a Saudi Investment Forum in Miami on Friday afternoon; undoubtably some of the wealthy tycoons in attendance (along with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff) were also at the MAGA, Inc. fundraiser Trump hosted at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night. He hosts these dinners most weekends now, as there is no limit to his grifting and abuse of the office of the presidency to fill his own coffers. As if it wasn’t bad enough (or as on the nose as it gets - as to whom his administration is really serving, POTUS seems to allocate more of his schedule to Saudi royals, and representatives of its Public Investment Fund, than hours in the Oval Office) that he spends millions of taxpayer dollars to enjoy three day weekends without interruption, Trump uses these golf vacations as a way to further fleece both the American economy and the world at large.”open.substack.com/pub/noelca…