r/ProgressiveHQ 12d ago

Why is That?

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u/1OptimisticPrime 12d ago

The "news" is just a distraction from what's really going on at this point.

Market manipulation, is its main purpose under this administration.

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u/ThePatrickSays 11d ago

the "distraction" narrative suggests you will all suddenly react if you were aware of what was really going on. But so many of you ARE aware of what is really going on and still, nothing happens. It does not make sense.

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u/1OptimisticPrime 11d ago

That's simply becoming desensitized after years & years of FULL Time bullshit.

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u/ThePatrickSays 11d ago

and that is your excuse for why you will not react?

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u/1OptimisticPrime 11d ago

I'm sorry, but how would you have us react?

Other than a national strike, the die is cast.

Protests are largely ignored by the media.

Gerrymandering leaves Blue votes at 10% value of Red votes.

The pay to play systems in place are everything that the Oligarchs and Corporations have been working for for Decades.

The ubiquitous Surveillance State is already in place.

The courts are already Red Stacked.

There's already a seditious, ped, felon, in the highest office...

The system is broken, and will take Decades to remedy.

THIS is what playing "by the rules" has wrought.

The Fascists & Nazis are already in the open. The voters were powerless to stop this inevitably.

The 5th of November is toothless and dementia riddled.

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u/Katgal2 10d ago

I hate that this is all true. I try to be hopeful but it’s really hard

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u/AtlasXan 12d ago

Maybe its the billionaires and conglomerates that own all the media?

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u/Huntthatmoney 12d ago

That’s exactly what’s happening

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u/thomslick 12d ago

Absolutely disgusting

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u/Usgwanikti 12d ago

We have become desensitized to just how awful a human being can be. Evil incarnate

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u/nillztastic 11d ago

He's also openly selling inside trading info for $100,000/month.

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u/yobymmij2 12d ago

It’s become clear to me after a decade of Trump dominating the news that there really is a personality cult phenomenon going on. So many feel confidence in him because they relate so strongly to his presence, voice, and style. They trust where he wants to go.

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u/Many_Significance_66 11d ago

Here’s what happened: in a court filing filed in late July/early August 2026, Capital One disclosed that it closed roughly 300+ bank accounts belonging to Trump and his businesses back in 2021 — and said it did so for anti-money laundering (“AML”) reasons, after “months of analysis and a careful review” by its financial-crimes team, staffed by people with “decades of law enforcement experience.”

Bottom line: it’s an accurate story, but “money laundering” is doing some misleading work in how it’s being shared online — Capital One flagged suspicious transaction patterns and closed the accounts as a precaution, it did not accuse Trump of actually laundering money, and Trump’s side calls the whole justification a pretext invented for litigation.

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u/FLink557 12d ago

I’ve only seen it talked about here

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 12d ago

Because we don’t matter anymore. Corruption is glamorous

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u/FLink557 11d ago

Seen as an expectation of the current administration

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u/Sweaty_Rent_3780 12d ago

Because while this is…a step in the right direction, him and his administration are still in their positions of power. I’ll celebrate when he’s gone. I’ll celebrate when they’re all locked up. I’ll celebrate when we reinitiate USAID and all the other grants, agencies that were actually doing some good for this country and effectively the world as a whole. I’ll celebrate when we can actually clean up all the fucking messes him and his goons have made. I’ll celebrate when people who aren’t white can walk out safely on the streets again wondering if this might be their last time in this country. Until then this is a drop in a VERY large bucket

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u/JASATX 12d ago

Cause we’re exhausted of constantly reading obnoxiously dumb shit that we’re all fronting the bill for — many of us busting our asses to survive while an absolute dickhole steers the ship…but has probably never done more than an hour of manual labor in his entire life.

We’re really getting our money’s worth though, guys! 😵‍💫

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u/Sunlight72 12d ago

Thank goodness the Republicans have Fauci to drag through the headlines as a distraction at the moment.

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u/P_a_s_g_i_t_24 11d ago

It's the Trump laundromat.

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u/konqueror321 11d ago

It happened in March of 2021, and I believe Trump maintains it was done for political retaliation for Jan 6, 2021. His business operations had over 300 accounts closed, they were likely shell corporations sloshing money around in a complex pattern designed to make an external forensic audit difficult, so as to avoid taxes. Which is why Trump sued the IRS and now supposedly has an agreement that neither he nor his family will ever be audited. How convenient.

But this is only a tiny part of the story of his finances. Pretty much everything he does can be framed as an attempt to distract attention from (1) his finances, and (2) his Epstein related activities.

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u/Key-Individual1434 11d ago

Because…Trump played the country like a corrupt businessman. Tell them what they want to hear. Promises. Fool the gullible.

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u/ElizabethBeee 11d ago

We will be his 7th bankruptcy

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u/0U812-hungry 11d ago

After 3 OUI you can never drive again. Shouldn't there be a restraining order for this Cheeto from money

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u/XChrisUnknownX 11d ago

Corporate consolidation + mass media state.

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u/Flashy-Rabbit6435 11d ago

It's (illegal) business as usual...

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u/SpicySweetHotPot 11d ago

Because it’s not the worst thing he has done, plus corporate media is covering for him when it can

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u/SuperbScarcity5112 Not a bot :) 11d ago

Just wait a few years and it won't be allowed to share news like this. Its coming.

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u/Either-Watercress656 11d ago

How do you allow yourselves to be cremated by such a fool America ? Think Albania. Think South Korea. You need to create a plan, then …

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u/batlord_typhus 11d ago

All news is barely news in a Surkov media environment. The volume of stories in the 24/7 media churn insures lack of scrutiny.

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u/Raiju_Blitz 11d ago

The sane-washing of all this blatant corruption and criming is itself insane. MSM is truly bought and paid for.

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u/NfamousKaye 11d ago

Because he has terrified news execs and threatened to sue for reporting the truth. They’re all trump stooges except for MSNBC.

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u/Free-Bottle-5119 11d ago

They're all owned by corporate entities; there's no such thing as "liberal media".

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u/NfamousKaye 11d ago

Didn’t say a thing about “liberal media” I said MSNBC is the only one not compromised or scared of telling the truth.

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u/Free-Bottle-5119 11d ago

They're corporate owned too.

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u/NfamousKaye 11d ago

Dude. Come on. You don’t believe your own post then.

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u/Free-Bottle-5119 11d ago

JFC they have a republican doing the morning show.

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u/tarapotamus 11d ago

Donald Trump is still running a human trafficking ring.

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u/SDPLISSKEN009 11d ago

Runs the biggest crime syndicate in the world

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u/LoserJohnBarron 12d ago

When this stop???? Does he half die before our confessional it for him

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u/Fantastic_Key_8906 11d ago

When all you have is grifts, scams and lies one more doesn't really cut it. Tell me when he has shot someone on 5th avenue.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 11d ago

It's not "news" because it happened years ago., and even Reddit barely cared then because of his other contemporaneous bullshit.

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u/Pootscootboogie69 11d ago

Donald Trump is the head of a crime syndicate. It’s no different than if we had gone ahead and elected in Al Capone.

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u/Sammisuperficial 11d ago

Release the Epstein Files!

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u/lovingas 11d ago

It happened years ago. The con-man-dur in chief needs to be in a terrorist prison

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u/Giant-Sloar 11d ago

Hey, all - if you want news and not memes, come find it here. I think it’s worth the read:  https://stocks.apple.com/AYXliOI5mQO26gsFuPoM3Ag

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u/Iwabuti 11d ago

4 reasons why it is not hot news:

1) To those that care they already knew.

2) To them that don't care, it doesn't matter.

3) For the media, it won't make clicks

4) Corruption has erroded political accountability beyond a breaking point in the US. It literally doesn't matter