@angelojello74 Good night! Hope you are feeling better this week...
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Bill Saterlee 🇺🇸
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I founded Meridian Policy Intelligence in 2014. We have 1,200 subscribers. They pay $50,000 per month. I am here today to tell you what we do.
We read.
We read committee calendars. We read markup schedules. We read witness lists. We attend hearings that are open to the public and sit in the third row. We talk to staffers who are allowed to talk to us. We compile what we learn into a PDF called the Legislative Forecast. We send the Legislative Forecast to our subscribers every morning at 6:15 AM Eastern. Our subscribers are hedge funds. The hedge funds trade on what we send them.
That's research.
In 2013, a firm called Height Securities sent a flash alert to its clients about a CMS decision on Medicare Advantage payment rates. The alert arrived eighteen minutes before the public announcement. In those eighteen minutes, investors repositioned billions of dollars in health insurance stocks. Congress investigated. The SEC reviewed. No one was charged. The information was obtained from a government source through a conversation. The conversation was legal. The alert was legal. The repositioning was legal. The eighteen minutes were worth more than I will earn in my lifetime. We use this as a case study. Slide nine. It is titled "Regulatory Moat."
The moat is the subscription.
I should explain. We do not trade on inside information. We contextualize legislative signals for institutional investors. The distinction is the PDF. The PDF makes it research. If I whisper to a hedge fund manager at a dinner party that a committee vote is moving to Thursday, that is a tip. If I write it in a PDF and send it to 1,200 people for $50,000 a month, that is a research product. The format is the legal distinction. I had our compliance team formalize this. They wrote a document called the Alpha Delivery Compliance Framework. It is eleven pages. I have it laminated.
That's research.
The legal term is "mosaic theory." We assemble individually public fragments of information into a composite picture that is not itself public. That is our entire business model. It is also our legal defense. These are the same sentence. Our compliance officer has a Mosaic Certification. The certification is from a course we designed. We teach it. We also grade it.
On Wednesday, a soldier named Gannon Van Dyke was arrested. He had placed a $32,500 bet on a prediction market that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. He was Special Forces. He helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The DOJ called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts."
He had one piece of information. He made one bet. He did not have a PDF.
I send a PDF to 1,200 subscribers every morning. Last quarter, our Legislative Signal Monitoring service generated $340 million in attributable alpha for our top twenty clients. That is not an allegation. That is slide fourteen.
That's research.
The STOCK Act was signed in 2012. It was supposed to prevent congressional insider trading. In fourteen years, there have been zero prosecutions. The maximum fine is $200. In 2013, Congress amended the act to remove financial disclosure requirements for congressional staff. The amendment passed on a Friday. By voice vote. We sent an alert about the amendment to our subscribers on Thursday. They were already positioned.
A congressional aide emailed me last year. She said she had been in a committee briefing. She said she saw one of my analysts in the hallway afterward, on the phone. She asked what he was doing. He was dictating the Legislative Forecast. She asked if that was allowed. I told her we were registered. She asked what that meant. I told her it meant we were compliant. She did not email again.
Van Dyke had one bet. I have 1,200 subscribers. He is facing five federal charges. I am facing an audience of four hundred.
I want to be clear. What that soldier did was illegal. What I do is a conference panel. The difference is the subscription. The difference is the PDF. The difference is eleven pages of compliance laminated and framed above my desk. His crime was not insider trading. His crime was doing it retail.
That's research.
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@StealthMedical1 @WhiteHouse @SebGorka @dbongino @LauraLoomer @FBIDirectorKash @RapidResponse47 That's funny. No pedos in the WhiteHouse or DC...🤣
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The President needs to bring this man to the @WhiteHouse and honor him and his whole family immediately!
@SebGorka @dbongino @LauraLoomer @FBIDirectorKash @RapidResponse47
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Israel’s Channel 12: "The UAE is now Israel’s closest Arab partner. It has decided to expand this alliance to include military operations and is no longer hiding its conscious efforts to deepen this strategic partnership."
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@phil_lyman Check the FDX CEO. Fred Smith is rolling over in his grave.
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Utah, look at this.
While Utah kids graduate with tech and engineering degrees and struggle to find work in their own state, FedEx just posted a “Strat Int Sys Engineer” job in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it’s tagged right there for H-1B and F-1 OPT visa holders.
Go to migratemate.co right now. This entire website was built from the ground up to give certain H-1B visa applicants every single advantage possible.
• 500,000+ “verified” visa-sponsorship jobs
• Easy search & filter so foreign applicants only see companies that will sponsor them
• “Special Offer: 30 Day FREE Trial”
• “Get Access Today” so they can land their “dream job” in America before our own graduates even get a fair shot
They literally created a dedicated platform to make it faster and easier for non-citizens to take these jobs.
And you’re telling me there wasn’t one qualified Utah citizen who could do this FedEx role in our own backyard?
This is the H-1B scam in real time, theft of wages, theft of opportunity from Utah families, and flooding our tech corridor with cheap foreign labor while our kids get pushed out.
Utah families deserve better. On Day One I’ll push to pause new H-1B visas until the fraud and abuse stop.
Americans first. Always.
Just Phil Lyman@phil_lyman
This isn’t a “talent shortage.” It’s corporate America choosing cheaper imported labor over our own kids graduating from Utah universities. Utah’s Silicon Slopes now has over 3,871 open H-1B sponsorship jobs, mostly on-site in Salt Lake City. University of Utah leads the pack, with major employers like Adobe, Qualtrics, and Intermountain Health regularly sponsoring foreign workers. Utahns built this tech corridor. Our graduates deserve first crack at these high-paying software engineering, healthcare, and life sciences roles, not to train their own replacements while wages stagnate and housing costs soar. As your next Congressman for CD3, I’ll fight to pause new H-1B visas until the fraud ends, require proof no qualified American is available, and put Utah workers first. Utah First means American workers first.
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I have four monitors. Two for the feed. One for the spreadsheet I call "The Wire." One for the payout dashboard, which I refresh eleven times per hour because I have measured this and eleven is the number where the dopamine still fires.
"The Wire" tracks 340 accounts. Investigative journalists. Doctoral researchers. Photojournalists embedded in active conflict zones. A woman who spent nine months infiltrating an Amazon warehouse for a single thread. I catalog when they publish. I memorize their cadence. The Reuters correspondent drops dispatches at 6:11 AM. The labor reporter files at 7:40 AM. The OSINT analyst goes live between 2 and 3 AM when insomnia hits, and I have notifications configured for every single one of them with a custom tone I assembled in GarageBand — the cash register noise from Pink Floyd's "Money" truncated to 0.4 seconds.
My alarm goes off at 5:47 AM.
By 5:52 I have scanned forty tweets. By 5:58 I have rewritten six of them without attribution. By 6:03 they are live, each one prefixed with a siren emoji and the word BREAKING in all caps, which I have mapped to a single keyboard shortcut because even the two seconds it takes to type the word BREAKING is two seconds where someone else's stolen content could beat my stolen content to the timeline.
Ninety-three posts per day. I call this a content strategy. My accountant calls it a small business. The IRS calls it self-employment income. The platform calls me a "creator" and no one in any of these conversations has ever asked me what, precisely, I create.
The answer is nothing. I create nothing. I have never reported a story. Never filed a FOIA request. Never spoken to a source who wasn't also a screen. I have not left this apartment for work purposes in nineteen months. The Herman Miller chair has a permanent indentation in the shape of my body. I pay $90 a month for a chiropractor who asks what I do and I tell him "digital media" and he nods like that explains the curvature.
Last quarter I earned $14,200 from the creator revenue sharing program. The journalist whose threads I reformatted every single morning for eight months? The one who actually went to the courthouse, actually read the filings, actually got the quotes? She earned $380. She had sources and ethics and a Pulitzer nomination. I had Command-C and a fifteen-second rewrite window and the bone-deep understanding that the algorithm does not know the difference between a person who finds information and a person who finds the person who found information.
That's content creation.
The program requires 5 million impressions over ninety days. Five million sounds large. It is not large. If you post ninety-three times per day and every single post opens with a siren emoji, you will clear 5 million in six weeks. I cleared it in four. I have a screenshot of the dashboard framed above Monitor Three. My mother thinks it's an employee-of-the-month certificate. I let her think this.
I maintain a second spreadsheet called "Timing." It maps which hours produce the highest Premium-user engagement down to fifteen-minute windows across all seven days. Premium subscribers are the monetizable demographic. I know when they wake up. I know when they glance at their phones over lunch. I know when they scroll in bed at 10:47 PM with the brightness at forty percent and their partner already unconscious beside them. I know this because the analytics told me, because the engagement heatmap told me, because I constructed a surveillance apparatus that monitors my own distribution metrics with the same ferocity that the original reporters monitor their beats, except my beat is them.
I didn't steal anything.
I "aggregated." That's the word. Aggregation. It means theft with a Stripe integration and a blue checkmark and a media kit and a Notion board titled "Q2 Content Calendar" and a reply-guy army of four thousand people who think I am the one who discovered the information, because I was the one who told them first, because I set my alarm forty-three minutes earlier than the person who actually discovered it.
When they slashed our payouts by sixty percent I posted the word CENSORSHIP seventy-one times in sixteen hours. When the head of product said "original content," I said I add context. My context is a siren emoji. Sometimes I add "developing." If I'm feeling particularly editorial I add "just in." Three words. That is the complete sum total of my original contribution across 34,000 posts and $187,000 in cumulative payouts. Three words and a Unicode glyph.
He said we "do not create any business value."
He's correct. But for three years nobody noticed. For three years the machine deposited revenue into my Stripe account on the fourteenth of every month while I sat in this Herman Miller crater and repackaged the labor of people who fly to warzones and knock on doors and read thousand-page regulatory filings and get threatened and get sued and get fired, and the machine labeled all of us "creators" with the same honorific, and the machine smiled because the timeline looked busy and active and alive, and it never once inquired whether the life was parasitic.
I am not a journalist. I am not a researcher. I am not a creator. I am a supply chain with a custom GarageBand notification sound and a framed dashboard screenshot and a chiropractor who believes I work in digital media. I take the raw material of other people's years. Their flights. Their subpoenas. Their sources who called back at midnight. Their paragraphs revised nineteen times. I render all of it into a paste that fits inside a siren emoji and the word BREAKING and I serve it lukewarm to 1.4 million people who have no idea they're eating reheated food.
They're calling this a crackdown.
I'm calling it an eighteen-month head start. The $187,000 already cleared. The 1.4 million already followed. The brand deals already signed. The Notion board already archived. The audience already believes I am the source of things I have never once sourced.
That's content creation.
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@gothburz Onward Christioan Soldiers!
"Christian warriors, He who gave His life for you, today demands yours in return."
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I am Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, and I will tell you what love looks like when it has forgotten itself entirely.
As a drop of water seems to disappear completely in a quantity of wine, taking the wine's flavor and color. As red-hot iron becomes indistinguishable from the glow of fire and its own original form disappears. I spent my life reaching for it. I called it the fourth degree. I doubted any mortal might attain it.
I once stood at Vézelay and tore my own garments into crosses because the cloth ran out. I preached the liberation of the Holy Sepulchre. I sent tens of thousands to die so that pilgrims might enter freely the place where our Lord was laid and rose again.
I have been shown a document. It is titled "Incident-to-Revenue Lag Analysis."
In that same treatise, On Loving God, I described four degrees of love. The first: man loves himself for his own sake. The second: man loves God for his own good, the mercenary who labors for wages. The third: man loves God for God's sake. The fourth I have already shown you.
I have looked upon the compact between the State of Israel and ten million American Christians, and I tell you with certainty: they have perfected the second degree. Both sides. Simultaneously. The most efficient system of mercenary love in the history of Christendom.
The Christians remit $3.6 billion because they believe it purchases the acceleration of the Messiah's return. The State receives $3.6 billion because it purchases the continuation of political support. The Christians call this faith. The State calls it "concentrated faith-sector penetration." Neither calls it love. I wrote that love is sufficient in itself, that it pleases by itself and for its own sake. It is itself a merit and its own reward. None of it qualifies. What I see is commerce conducted in the language of devotion. The slave obeys out of fear. The mercenary labors for profit. The son loves because God is good. I see no sons in this arrangement. I see two hirelings, each convinced the other is the fool.
I preached a crusade so that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre might be accessible to every Christian soul who sought to kneel where Christ conquered death. I sent armies. Men died in my name, in Christ's name, for the right of access to that tomb.
On Palm Sunday of this year, Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pizzaballa, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Mass. The Patriarchate called it the first time in centuries. Authorities cited safety concerns during the Iran conflict. Small gatherings were permitted elsewhere. A private Mass is a small gathering. The same week, gatherings continued at the Western Wall under lighter restrictions.
I will say this as I said it to Pope Eugene in De Consideratione. Consider what you are. Not what your title claims. Not what your statement promises. What you are. A patriarch barred from the Sepulchre is not an access management issue. It is a desecration. I told Eugene he was imitating Caesar when he should imitate Peter. I told him the wealth of the world had made the Church poor in virtue. What shall I say to a state that bars the shepherd from the tomb of the Shepherd and files it under "routine access optimization"?
The Patriarch's protest was classified as revenue-neutral. He belongs to a denomination that does not wire money. There is a taxonomy. "Revenue-adjacent denominations" are monitored. "Revenue-neutral denominations" are not. The Latin Patriarchate is revenue-neutral.
On April 28, a man wearing tzitzit shoved a French nun from behind in the Old City. She struck her head on stone. He walked away. Then he returned and kicked her on the ground.
In my time, violence against a consecrated woman, a bride of Christ, carried automatic excommunication. No trial. No appeal. The canon law was older than the law: she who has given herself to God is set apart. To strike her is to strike at the order of creation itself.
I wrote eighty-six sermons on the Song of Songs. The Bridegroom calls: Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth. The kiss of the feet is repentance. The kiss of the hands is devotion through good works. The kiss of the mouth is union with God. She had received the kiss of the mouth. She had given herself to the Bridegroom. A man kicked her on the stones of the city where the Bridegroom was crucified, and the donation processing system experienced zero interruption. The Foreign Ministry released a communiqué containing the words "shameful" and "zero tolerance." I am told these words have followed every incident for three years running. Occasionally "shameful" becomes "deplorable." Occasionally it reverts. A sentiment team calls this "responsive messaging."
I called it something else when I wrote to the clergy of Germany in 1146. Radulf, a monk of my own Cistercian order, was inciting pogroms against the Jews in the Rhineland. I traveled there. I confronted him face to face. I wrote: The Jews are not to be persecuted, killed, or even put to flight. I cited the Psalmist: Slay them not, lest my people forget. I meant it. I enforced it. I did not issue a communiqué and return to the quarterly deck.
I did not shield the Jews because I admired their theology. I held, as Augustine held, that they were living letters of the law, witnesses to the truth of prophecy, preserved by divine command. My protection was theological, not sentimental. But it was protection. It required confrontation. Radulf was returned to his monastery. The bloodshed stopped. I did not classify the pogroms as "recurring isolated incidents" and move to the next line item.
In April, an Israeli soldier destroyed a statue of Jesus Christ in the Maronite village of Debel, in southern Lebanon. The video circled the globe. The soldiers received thirty days in military detention.
In In Praise of the New Knighthood, I wrote of the Templars who guarded the sacred sites: They fight for thee in the very place where thou didst fight for them. They guard the places where thy blood was poured out. I sent knights to defend the sacred images. The sacred body of Christ, present in stone, in icon, in the devotion of those who carved and those who knelt, was worth defending with blood. I called the soldier who struck down the desecrator a malicide, not a homicide. A killer of evil, not of men.
Thirty days. For destroying the central figure of a faith whose American adherents have wired $3.6 billion.
The replacement was initially a Greek Orthodox cross. Wrong tradition. Nobody in procurement knew the difference.
Here is where the arrangement reaches its final form, and I must speak with the clarity I reserved for Eugene.
The evangelical theology holds that supporting Israel accelerates the return of the Messiah, at which point all Jews who have not accepted Christ will perish. The Ministry is aware of this. It appears in briefing materials. It is classified under "donor end-state assumptions." The end-state assumption is the annihilation of every Jew. They move on because the quarterly numbers are due.
The Interior Ministry blocks visa renewals for the same ministers whose congregations wire billions. Enhanced vetting. Background checks on the people who bankroll the State for the crime of believing what their scripture instructs. They hold the conviction. They wire billions while holding it. The State investigates them for holding it. The State cashes the billions. The stratagem is ancient. I described it in the Apologia when I wrote of Cluny: name every tree so that no one may speak of the forest.
I preached a crusade. I bear that weight. Men perished for it. I have answered before God, and I answer still. But I preached for the liberation of sacred ground, not for the purchasing of it. The reason for loving God is God Himself. When love enters a spreadsheet, it ceases to be love. It reverts to the second degree. And there it remains.
The Patriarch is barred from the tomb of his God. The statue of Christ is destroyed on camera and the soldier serves thirty days. The ministers are interrogated about the end of the world as a condition of entry. And every quarter, the wire transfers post.
In the confession I was shown, the narrator tracks the time between each documented anti-Christian incident and the resumption of normal donation flows. The average lag is eleven days. After the nun, it was six. The trend line is improving. "Improving" means the donors forgive faster.
You have read this far. I do not accuse you. I spent my life reaching for the fourth degree and I could not hold it. The drop of water yearns for the wine and remains a drop. But I must tell you what I see. You have consumed ten minutes of documented suffering and you have received something for it. A sharpening of your moral sense. A confirmation of something you suspected. Perhaps the pleasure of outrage. You will close this and move to the next thing. The lag between your attention and your forgetting will be shorter than eleven days.
That too is the second degree. Not because you wire money. Because every act of attention in this life is a transaction, and you have just completed one. I completed one at Vézelay. I tore my garments and the crowd wept and we all felt something and then I sent them to die and most of them did not come back.
I ask it now of everyone: the State that receives, the Christians who give, the pastors who fundraise, and you who have read this to its end.
Quid es?
What are you?
I tore my garments at Vézelay. I had nothing left but the cloth on my body, and I gave that.
They have $3.6 billion, and they give a Bible bookmark.
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz
I am the Director of Christian Donor Engagement for the State of Israel, at what we internally call the Strategic Partnerships Desk. My job is to maintain the revenue relationship between the State of Israel and approximately 10 million American evangelical Christians who believe that donating to us is a prerequisite for salvation. We classify their belief system as a "giving motivation vector." The theology department classifies it differently, but the theology department does not have a budget. I am very good at my job. My annual performance review says "exceeds expectations in faith-sector revenue maintenance." Last year I received a commendation for "zero donor attrition during a period of elevated interfaith incidents." The incidents were attacks on Christians. The attrition was zero. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has raised $3.6 billion since 1983. Ninety-two percent of those donors are Christians. In 2023 alone, the Fellowship brought in $271 million, more than AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League combined. We did not ask for this money. We simply made ourselves available to receive it. Availability is a form of outreach. I have a framed photo of Pastor John Hagee's $1.5 million check on the wall behind my desk. Next to it is the Ministry's "Zero Tolerance" poster about religious violence. They have coexisted for four years. Neither has been moved. We call this "values alignment." The values in question are denominated in dollars. On April 28, a man wearing a kippah and tzitzit shoved a French nun from behind in the Old City. She hit her head on a stone block. He walked away. Then he came back and kicked her while she lay on the ground. The CCTV footage was excellent. Very clear. We released it ourselves. Transparency is part of the brand promise. We have a KPI for it. The target is "proactive disclosure within six hours." We hit it. The Foreign Ministry released a statement within hours. "This shameful act stands in direct contradiction to the values of respect, coexistence, and religious freedom upon which Israel is founded." I helped draft that sentence. It is designed to express maximum concern while committing to zero structural change. We call this "empathy-forward crisis comms." The donation processing system experienced zero interruption. Our CRM flagged zero churn risk. The Q2 pipeline held. I shared this with leadership as a resilience metric. We were praised for "donor relationship durability under external stress conditions." The stress condition was a nun being kicked on the ground. I want to be clear: we take every incident seriously. We arrested the man. We ran the standard stakeholder comms playbook. We used the words "zero tolerance." We have used the words "zero tolerance" after every incident for three years running. The Rossing Center published a report documenting a "recent surge in overt animosity towards Christianity." We classified the report as "acknowledged — no action required." The surge continued. The revenue continued. We acknowledged both. The spitting has a seasonality to it. Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students subscribe to an interpretation of the Bible's injunction to "abhor" idol worshipers. They spit on Christian clergy. They spit on pilgrims. They spit near the entrance of the Saint James Monastery. They spit on processions carrying wooden crosses through the Old City. We categorize this as "individual expressions of religious sentiment." Not institutional. Not systemic. Recurring, yes. Predictable, yes. Documented on video repeatedly, yes. But not systemic. Peaks around Easter. We built that into the forecasting model. We are proud of the model. It has a 92% predictive accuracy on incident timing. The internal memo calls it "seasonal brand friction." The recommended mitigation is a pre-Easter goodwill op. A joint tree-planting, a shared prayer breakfast. Something photogenic. Something the donors can screenshot and text their pastors. We budget $45,000 per goodwill op. The ROI on preventing a single donor inquiry about the spitting is roughly 600x. In March, Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Mass on Palm Sunday. The Latin Patriarchate called it "the first time in centuries" this had occurred. We cited safety concerns during the Iran conflict. The restriction permitted small gatherings. A private Mass is a small gathering. We classified this as "routine access optimization." The Patriarch classified it as an act of desecration. Both assessments were filed. Ours was filed in the operational log. His was filed in the wastebasket. The restriction was not about gathering size. But no one from our key donor segment filed a complaint. The evangelicals do not venerate the Latin Patriarch. They do not celebrate Palm Sunday. They are not Catholic. They are not Orthodox. They are not Armenian. They are a different kind of Christian. The kind that wires money. We have an internal taxonomy for this. "Revenue-adjacent denominations" are monitored closely. "Revenue-neutral denominations" are not. The Latin Patriarchate is revenue-neutral. The complaint was revenue-neutral. We treated it accordingly. At the briefing, I pull up the segmentation slide. In donor segmentation, we call them "Tier 1 — High-LTV Faith Partners." In the hallway, we call them the ATM. In April, an Israeli soldier took a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus Christ in a Maronite village in southern Lebanon. The video circled the globe. Netanyahu condemned it. The IDF condemned it. The soldiers received 30 days in military detention and removal from combat duty. Thirty days. We installed a replacement statue. We called it "restorative engagement." The original statue took centuries of devotion. The replacement took a procurement order. The communications team scheduled the replacement installation for maximum media coverage. They called the photo op "narrative recovery." The statue's face was slightly different from the original. Nobody in procurement noticed. Nobody in procurement was asked to notice. Thirty days for sledgehammering the central figure of a religion whose American adherents have given us $3.6 billion. I flagged the sentencing duration in my quarterly risk summary. I used the phrase "disproportionate leniency relative to donor-base sensitivity." My supervisor crossed it out and wrote "resolved." I ran the numbers. That works out to roughly $120 million per day of detention. I put this in a memo titled "Cost-Per-Incident Analysis: Lebanon Statue Event." Our risk team flagged it as a "potential donor sentiment event." I built a recovery forecast. Sentiment recovered in nine days. The sledgehammer footage is still circulating. The donations are circulating faster. My forecast was accurate to within two days. I was praised for the accuracy. Christians United for Israel has 10 million members. More than the entire American Jewish population. We track this ratio. It is favorable. Their founder, John Hagee, has donated $130 million to Israeli and Jewish charities since the 1980s. One Georgia megachurch has contributed $28 million in five years, with a fresh $15 million pledge on the books. We classify this as "concentrated faith-sector penetration." After October 7, CUFI alone raised $3 million by urging its members to "support Israel right now as she fights the barbarians at her gates." I reviewed these numbers at the last all-hands. The team applauded. We called it "organic inbound." As if $130 million arrives by accident. The barbarians at the gates of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were Israeli police. We classify this under "access management," not "hostility." Different line item. Different KPI. Up to half of Israel's tourists are now Christian. The Tourism Ministry actively markets "faith-based and evangelical packages." The Foreign Ministry paid $86,000 to host a dozen MAGA-aligned American influencers under 30 on a government-funded tour. We call this "earned media seeding." The influencers posted 340 pieces of content. We measured "positive sentiment penetration" at 97%. We did not measure how many of the same influencers saw the sledgehammer video. Different department. Different dashboard. The cost-per-acquisition on evangelical pilgrim conversion to recurring donor is the best in our portfolio. Every pilgrim who touches the Western Wall goes home and opens a wallet. The ROI on invested pilgrimage consistently outperforms. Ron Dermer, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and close adviser to the Prime Minister, called evangelicals "the backbone of Israel's support in the United States." He said this publicly. We said it privately years earlier. We just used different language. "High-retention donor base with faith-driven loyalty metrics." Same observation, better packaging. We prefer packaging. The Ambassador's version made it sound like gratitude. Ours makes it sound like what it is: a dependency we manage. An Israeli journalist at the Seventh Eye was less careful with his packaging. "Israeli propagandists see these evangelical folks as easy targets for pro-Israeli influence," he said, "and often view them as fools, because it seems that they give away their money with almost no strings attached." Our media monitoring team flagged the article. The recommended action was "no comment, no amplification, no correction." The reasoning: correcting it would confirm the observation. Ignoring it would let it decay. We chose decay. It is our most effective communications strategy. I printed that quote. I keep it in my desk drawer. Occasionally I take it out and read it before a stakeholder engagement call. Not because I agree with his phrasing. "Easy targets" is pejorative. I prefer "theologically motivated stakeholders with asymmetric giving patterns." We have seven different terms for them, depending on the audience. In the quarterly deck, they appear under "revenue-positive faith communities." In the budget justification, they are "strategic allies." In the grant applications, they are "interfaith partners." In the hallway after the budget meeting, they are something else. I will not write it here. I have said it. Everyone has said it. We say it the way you say the name of someone who pays for dinner every time and never notices the bill. Last July, Ambassador Huckabee wrote us a letter. Huckabee is an evangelical pastor. A Baptist minister. A man who has visited Israel roughly 100 times. A man who once laid a brick in a West Bank settlement as a symbol of support. He is, by every metric we track, a Tier 1 stakeholder. His lifetime contribution footprint exceeds $2 billion in mobilized giving. And he was angry. He said Christian organizations felt they were "being treated as adversaries." He said the Interior Ministry was blocking visa renewals for evangelical clergy. The Baptist Convention of Israel, the Christian Missionary Alliance, the Assemblies of God. All "under investigation." We call this "inbound compliance screening." The congregations being screened call it something else. The visa questionnaire now asks evangelical clergy to disclose their "theological positions on eschatology." Fourteen pages. Enhanced vetting. We are running background checks on the people who fund us for the crime of believing we will eventually convert. They believe this because their scripture says so. They give us billions while believing this. We investigate them for believing it. We take the billions. The compliance team calls it "proactive risk mitigation on inbound faith actors." The finance team calls it "killing the golden goose, slowly, on purpose." I raised this concern at the interagency meeting. I said we were creating "friction in the donor pipeline." The Interior Ministry representative said the word "pipeline" was inappropriate for a conversation about people of faith. Then he approved the fourteen-page questionnaire. Huckabee threatened to warn American Christians that "their generous donations to organizations in Israel are being met with hostility." He threatened to tell tourists to "reconsider travel until this situation is resolved." I ran the exposure model. If Huckabee followed through, the projected annual revenue loss was $340 million. I put that number in a memo. The memo was titled "Stakeholder Retention Risk: Huckabee Scenario." It was the most widely read document in the Ministry that week. The Interior Minister responded that he was "particularly surprised by the manner in which your concerns were raised." We were not surprised by the hostility. We were surprised that anyone mentioned it out loud. The unwritten rule of the donor relationship is simple: you give, we take, nobody describes the arrangement accurately. Huckabee broke protocol. He put the transactional part in writing. We call this a "relationship management failure." The failure was not the hostility. The failure was the letter. Here is where the arrangement reaches its final form. The evangelical theology holds that supporting Israel accelerates the return of the Messiah, at which point all Jews who have not accepted Christ will perish. We are aware of this. It is in the briefing materials. We classify it under "donor end-state assumptions" and move on. The end-state assumption is our annihilation. We move on because the quarterly numbers are due. Pastor Hagee preaches that "when gentiles start doing practical things to bless the Jewish people, God goes way out of his way to bring special blessings to you." CUFI offers donors a commemorative Bible bookmark engraved with Genesis 12:3 for any donation amount. $3.6 billion buys you a Bible bookmark and a policy of zero tolerance that tolerates everything. We vandalize their graves. Thirty-plus tombstones toppled, crosses smashed. We categorized this as "isolated property incidents." We spit on their priests. "Individual expression." We block their patriarch from the church built over the tomb of their God. "Access management." We sledgehammer their savior's likeness on camera and give the soldier thirty days. "Conduct unbecoming." We interrogate their ministers about the end of the world as a condition of entry. "Enhanced vetting." Each category has its own line in the incident database. Each incident has its own euphemism. The database has never triggered an automatic review. It is not designed to. And every quarter, the wire transfers post. The ACH clears. The pledge fulfillment rate holds at 94%. The board receives it under "faith community engagement outcomes." The metric does not decline. It has never declined. The database of euphemisms grows. The revenue grows faster. I keep a spreadsheet. Internally we call it the "Incident-to-Revenue Lag Analysis." It tracks the time between each documented anti-Christian incident and the resumption of normal donation flows. The average lag is eleven days. After the nun, it was six. The trend line is improving. "Improving" means the lag is shrinking. The lag shrinking means the donors are forgiving faster. We call this "relationship resilience." It is the metric I am most proud of. The donor engagement manual has a chapter called "Managing Optics Between Disbursement Cycles." I wrote it. Page 14 specifies the approved statement template. "Israel remains firmly committed to safeguarding freedom of religion and freedom of worship for all faiths." You have read this sentence. You have read it after every incident. It is the same sentence. We change the date and the location. Sometimes we change the word "shameful" to "deplorable." Sometimes we change it back. The sentiment team calls this "responsive messaging." I call it a mail merge. Florida pastor Mario Bramnick stood in Jerusalem this March and told a Christian media conference: "I literally feel God is giving Israel a blank check." My team clipped that quote within minutes. It is now on the first slide of our Q3 fundraising deck, attributed as "unsolicited donor testimony." He is correct. God is not the one cashing it. Some of these Christians are shipping red heifers from Texas at a cost of $500,000 because they believe we need to sacrifice them to rebuild the Temple and trigger the apocalypse. We categorize this under "faith-motivated logistics partnerships." Some are funding the relocation of Jews from Ethiopia and Ukraine because they believe the "ingathering" is a prophetic precondition for the Second Coming. We call this "aliyah acceleration via external stakeholder investment." Some are paying for settlement construction in the West Bank because they read it in Isaiah. We file this under "community development co-funding." One televangelist's family solicits donations with the promise that "the Lord will restore your dollar x 100." Our analytics team calculated the actual return. It is not 100x. It is a Bible bookmark. Their end-times theology requires our existence. Our budget requires their theology. The arrangement is symbiotic in the way a tapeworm is symbiotic. Nobody examines it too carefully. The quarterly review calls it a "mature strategic partnership." In stakeholder management, "mature" means nobody asks uncomfortable questions anymore. We have reached maturity. The nun is recovering. The bruise on her forehead was photographed and posted on social media by the Israeli Police. Below the photograph, the police statement: "We treat any attack on members of the clergy with the utmost seriousness." I reviewed the statement before it went out. My only edit was to add "with the utmost." The original draft said "seriously." I felt "seriously" undersold our commitment. "The utmost" is a better word for the donors. It implies a ceiling. We have never been asked to define where the ceiling is. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem called it "part of a troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community." They used the word "pattern." We do not use the word "pattern." We use "recurring isolated incidents." Patterns imply structure. Structure implies responsibility. "Recurring isolated incidents" implies weather. Nobody is responsible for weather. The figure is $271 million a year. We do not call it a motive. We call it a "strategic imperative." Same thing. Better filing category. That's interfaith dialogue.
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@gothburz Where's the vig on Israel? Fleecing the sheiks, too?
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I am the personal financial advisor to the 47th President of the United States.
I have made him $4.05 billion in one term.
Let me say that again. Four point zero five. Billion. One term. The presidency of the United States, upon proper management, outperforms every asset class in recorded financial history, including venture capital, petroleum futures, and the sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi that manages $1.7 trillion and employs nine hundred analysts. I benchmarked it. We beat them with a staff of four and a leather binder.
I keep a binder in the residence. I call it The Number. The Number was $3.4 billion in August. The Number is $4.05 billion now. The Number has never gone down. I update it every Friday at 6 AM, before the briefing, like a surgeon checking vitals on a patient who can only get healthier. The cover is leather. The tabs are color-coded by sector: Crypto, Finance, Hospitality, Media, Other. "Other" includes a Boeing 747-8 valued at $400 million, gifted to him by the Emir of Qatar while he was sitting President. There is no asset class for that. I invented one. I call it EAGLE-7.
Crypto is seventy-five percent of the portfolio. $3.02 billion. I want you to sit with that figure. Three billion from digital tokens and stablecoins. From a man who in 2021 called Bitcoin "a scam against the dollar." His words.
The flagship holding is Trump Media's bitcoin stockpile. He holds 42% of the company. The company sold shares to institutional investors. Used their capital to purchase bitcoin. His personal stake from that maneuver alone: $1.15 billion. He drafts national cryptocurrency regulation from the Resolute Desk. Signs executive orders on digital asset policy. Handpicks the SEC chair who will enforce them. His bitcoin goes up when he does these things. The investors' stock goes down.
That's a conflict of interest.
I'm kidding. I've never used those words in that order. That's the investment thesis.
Then there is Alt5 Sigma. I need you to understand Alt5 Sigma. Alt5 Sigma was previously known as Appliance Recycling Centers of America. Founded in 1991. In Minnesota. It recycled dishwashers. Then it became a biotech. Then a digital payments company. Then Zach Witkoff, son of the President's special envoy, became chairman, and it became the primary vehicle for purchasing World Liberty Financial tokens. In 1991 it recycled dishwashers in Minnesota. In 2025 it funneled $562 million to the President's family through a Rwandan subsidiary convicted of money laundering. The CEO was removed. The CFO was fired. The auditor was replaced. Twice. The stock went from $8 to $2. We received $562 million from it. I put it in the binder.
I logged it in the binder on a Thursday. I used Garamond. It felt appropriate for a company whose journey from kitchen appliances to international money laundering spanned exactly thirty-four years.
The stablecoin is where the architecture gets beautiful. USD1. $136 million in projected interest over the remaining term. I will show you the math because the math is the point. $3 billion in circulation. Times 4% annual return. Times three years remaining in office. Times the family's 38% share. The UAE purchased $2 billion of USD1. Then Binance promoted it. Pumped circulation from $2 billion to $5 billion. Binance's founder had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations.
He received a presidential pardon in October.
I pardon you. You promote my stablecoin. My stablecoin generates $136 million. The pardon cost nothing. The coin cost nothing. The oath of office cost nothing. The entire apparatus of federal clemency was converted into a revenue instrument and nobody filed a complaint.
That's yield.
TRUMPcoin. $385 million. A memecoin with the President's face on it, launched days before inauguration. Every person who bought TRUMPcoin at launch and held it has lost 90 cents of every dollar. Every person who bought it made the President $385 million richer on the way in. That's the product. The product is not a coin. The product is belief. We are very long belief.
His sons received a 13% equity stake in American Bitcoin. A New Yorker investigation determined they contributed, and I quote, "nothing else of obvious value." I would characterize their contribution differently. They contributed the single most valuable commodity in American commerce, worth more per ounce than lithium, more per gram than fentanyl, more per syllable than any word in the English language. Proximity to the man who pardons people.
That's due diligence.
Hospitality. $271 million. Mar-a-Lago now generates $50 million a year. It generated $10 million when he took office. Initiation fee: $1 million. You are paying $1 million to eat dinner in the same room as the man who controls the Department of Justice. I set that price. It is undervalued.
Saudi Arabia. The Crown Prince visited the White House. Then Dar Al Arkan signed licensing deals estimated at $10 billion. Hotels in the Maldives. Golf clubs in Riyadh. A tower in Jeddah. He sat next to the man who ordered a journalist dismembered and said, quote, "He knew nothing about it." Then he signed the hotel deal. I have the term sheet. Our fee is 2-10% of revenue. We do not ask what happened to the journalist. That is not in our mandate. $106 million is in our mandate.
That's client retention.
Finance: $340 million, predominantly Persian Gulf sovereign wealth fund arrangements structured through intermediaries whose names I am not going to say in this format. Media: $116 million. Legal fee fundraising and branded merchandise: $128 million. The Qatari jet: $150 million. I have already mentioned the jet. I mention it again because a sitting foreign head of state gifted the sitting American President a $400 million flying palace with gold-plated fixtures and a master suite, and not a single member of Congress has asked a follow-up question. Not one. Not in committee. Not in writing. Not on camera. Five hundred and thirty-five legislators. Zero questions.
Now. I am required by my own conscience, which is vestigial at this point, to disclose downstream performance.
Every public-facing investment vehicle associated with this portfolio has collapsed for outside investors. I will read them.
TRUMPcoin. Down 90%.
American Bitcoin. Down 80%.
Trump NFTs. Down 80%.
Trump Media stock. Down 60% since inauguration.
Alt5 Sigma. Down 75%.
The family's positions were structured to extract value before these declines materialized. The retail investors' positions were structured to supply the value being extracted. There were approximately 600,000 retail wallets holding TRUMPcoin at peak. Retirees. Day traders. People who believed the branding. Their aggregate losses capitalized the portfolio. Their savings became his tab in the binder.
That's liquidity.
I want to address the competitive landscape. I am a financial professional. I benchmark everything.
In 2016, the President stood at a podium and called Hillary Clinton "the most corrupt enterprise in political history." He said she "turned the State Department into her personal hedge fund." The accusation that ended her career was $153 million in speaking fees. Combined. With her husband. Over fifteen years. Goldman Sachs paid her $225,000 per speech. He said the word "crooked" so many times it became her legal name.
$153 million. Fifteen years. Two people.
I made him $4.05 billion. In one term. By himself.
A 26-to-1 ratio. I wrote it on the whiteboard in the residence.
Then there was the Biden family. "The Biden Crime Family," he called them. He held rallies about it. He got impeached over investigating it. The Republican House spent two years and $3.5 million in taxpayer funds to uncover, per their own final report, approximately $24 million in Biden family income over five years. Hunter Biden's Burisma salary was $1 million a year, later reduced to $500,000. The Chinese payments were $664,000. The House Oversight Committee called it "influence peddling at the highest level."
$24 million. Five years. Ten family members.
My client made that in two days. I have the math. $4.05 billion divided by 365 days is $11.1 million per day. The entire Biden investigation, the impeachment, the hearings, the Fox News segments, the "CRIME FAMILY" hats, all of it, for an amount my client earns before his Wednesday morning briefing.
The ratio is 168 to 1. I put it on the whiteboard next to the Clinton number. The President saw it. He laughed. He did not ask me to take it down.
"Drain the swamp," he said in 2016. I drained it. Into the binder. The swamp is now a portfolio. It is the highest-performing portfolio in the history of public office, and the man who built it ran for President on the promise that he would stop people from doing exactly what I help him do every single day.
That's positioning.
When the New Yorker published the full accounting, $4.05 billion across five sectors, and asked the President whether he saw a conflict of interest between the office and the fortune, between the pardons and the profits, between setting crypto policy and holding $3 billion in crypto, he told the New York Times six words.
"I found out that nobody cared."
He was right. He has been right about that singular fact since the beginning. Nobody cared when he launched the coin. Nobody cared when he pardoned the convicted money launderer who pumped his stablecoin. Nobody cared when a dishwasher recycling outfit in Minnesota became a $562 million pipeline to his family through a subsidiary that had been convicted on three continents. Nobody cared when 600,000 wallets evaporated so the leather binder in the residence could gain another tab.
He found out nobody cared. Then he monetized the finding at a rate of $11.1 million per day, every day he has held office, including Sundays, including holidays, including the morning he sat next to the Crown Prince and said the murdered journalist had it coming.
$4.05 billion. One presidential term. Zero indictments. Zero congressional hearings. Zero audits. Zero consequences of any kind for any person at any level of the operation.
The chart goes up. It only counts his money.
There is another chart. It has 600,000 wallets on it. Retirement accounts. People who believed a dishwasher recycling company in Minnesota was a sound vehicle for their savings.
We do not publish that one. I filed it under EAGLE-7.
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You are correct. They are very appreciated. We track the appreciation quarterly. Last year it was $271 million. The blessing is impactful. We measure the impact in donor retention rates. They hold at 94%. We are widely recognized. We recognize them too. Under "Tier 1 — High-LTV Faith Partners."
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I am the Director of Christian Donor Engagement for the State of Israel, at what we internally call the Strategic Partnerships Desk.
My job is to maintain the revenue relationship between the State of Israel and approximately 10 million American evangelical Christians who believe that donating to us is a prerequisite for salvation. We classify their belief system as a "giving motivation vector." The theology department classifies it differently, but the theology department does not have a budget.
I am very good at my job. My annual performance review says "exceeds expectations in faith-sector revenue maintenance." Last year I received a commendation for "zero donor attrition during a period of elevated interfaith incidents." The incidents were attacks on Christians. The attrition was zero.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has raised $3.6 billion since 1983. Ninety-two percent of those donors are Christians. In 2023 alone, the Fellowship brought in $271 million, more than AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League combined. We did not ask for this money. We simply made ourselves available to receive it. Availability is a form of outreach.
I have a framed photo of Pastor John Hagee's $1.5 million check on the wall behind my desk. Next to it is the Ministry's "Zero Tolerance" poster about religious violence. They have coexisted for four years. Neither has been moved. We call this "values alignment." The values in question are denominated in dollars.
On April 28, a man wearing a kippah and tzitzit shoved a French nun from behind in the Old City. She hit her head on a stone block. He walked away. Then he came back and kicked her while she lay on the ground. The CCTV footage was excellent. Very clear. We released it ourselves. Transparency is part of the brand promise. We have a KPI for it. The target is "proactive disclosure within six hours." We hit it.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement within hours. "This shameful act stands in direct contradiction to the values of respect, coexistence, and religious freedom upon which Israel is founded." I helped draft that sentence. It is designed to express maximum concern while committing to zero structural change. We call this "empathy-forward crisis comms."
The donation processing system experienced zero interruption. Our CRM flagged zero churn risk. The Q2 pipeline held. I shared this with leadership as a resilience metric. We were praised for "donor relationship durability under external stress conditions." The stress condition was a nun being kicked on the ground.
I want to be clear: we take every incident seriously. We arrested the man. We ran the standard stakeholder comms playbook. We used the words "zero tolerance." We have used the words "zero tolerance" after every incident for three years running. The Rossing Center published a report documenting a "recent surge in overt animosity towards Christianity." We classified the report as "acknowledged — no action required." The surge continued. The revenue continued. We acknowledged both.
The spitting has a seasonality to it. Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students subscribe to an interpretation of the Bible's injunction to "abhor" idol worshipers. They spit on Christian clergy. They spit on pilgrims. They spit near the entrance of the Saint James Monastery. They spit on processions carrying wooden crosses through the Old City. We categorize this as "individual expressions of religious sentiment." Not institutional. Not systemic. Recurring, yes. Predictable, yes. Documented on video repeatedly, yes. But not systemic.
Peaks around Easter. We built that into the forecasting model. We are proud of the model. It has a 92% predictive accuracy on incident timing. The internal memo calls it "seasonal brand friction." The recommended mitigation is a pre-Easter goodwill op. A joint tree-planting, a shared prayer breakfast. Something photogenic. Something the donors can screenshot and text their pastors. We budget $45,000 per goodwill op. The ROI on preventing a single donor inquiry about the spitting is roughly 600x.
In March, Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a private Mass on Palm Sunday. The Latin Patriarchate called it "the first time in centuries" this had occurred. We cited safety concerns during the Iran conflict. The restriction permitted small gatherings. A private Mass is a small gathering. We classified this as "routine access optimization." The Patriarch classified it as an act of desecration. Both assessments were filed. Ours was filed in the operational log. His was filed in the wastebasket.
The restriction was not about gathering size. But no one from our key donor segment filed a complaint. The evangelicals do not venerate the Latin Patriarch. They do not celebrate Palm Sunday. They are not Catholic. They are not Orthodox. They are not Armenian. They are a different kind of Christian. The kind that wires money. We have an internal taxonomy for this. "Revenue-adjacent denominations" are monitored closely. "Revenue-neutral denominations" are not. The Latin Patriarchate is revenue-neutral. The complaint was revenue-neutral. We treated it accordingly.
At the briefing, I pull up the segmentation slide.
In donor segmentation, we call them "Tier 1 — High-LTV Faith Partners." In the hallway, we call them the ATM.
In April, an Israeli soldier took a sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus Christ in a Maronite village in southern Lebanon. The video circled the globe. Netanyahu condemned it. The IDF condemned it. The soldiers received 30 days in military detention and removal from combat duty. Thirty days. We installed a replacement statue. We called it "restorative engagement." The original statue took centuries of devotion. The replacement took a procurement order. The communications team scheduled the replacement installation for maximum media coverage. They called the photo op "narrative recovery." The statue's face was slightly different from the original. Nobody in procurement noticed. Nobody in procurement was asked to notice.
Thirty days for sledgehammering the central figure of a religion whose American adherents have given us $3.6 billion. I flagged the sentencing duration in my quarterly risk summary. I used the phrase "disproportionate leniency relative to donor-base sensitivity." My supervisor crossed it out and wrote "resolved."
I ran the numbers. That works out to roughly $120 million per day of detention. I put this in a memo titled "Cost-Per-Incident Analysis: Lebanon Statue Event." Our risk team flagged it as a "potential donor sentiment event." I built a recovery forecast. Sentiment recovered in nine days. The sledgehammer footage is still circulating. The donations are circulating faster. My forecast was accurate to within two days. I was praised for the accuracy.
Christians United for Israel has 10 million members. More than the entire American Jewish population. We track this ratio. It is favorable. Their founder, John Hagee, has donated $130 million to Israeli and Jewish charities since the 1980s. One Georgia megachurch has contributed $28 million in five years, with a fresh $15 million pledge on the books. We classify this as "concentrated faith-sector penetration." After October 7, CUFI alone raised $3 million by urging its members to "support Israel right now as she fights the barbarians at her gates." I reviewed these numbers at the last all-hands. The team applauded. We called it "organic inbound." As if $130 million arrives by accident.
The barbarians at the gates of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were Israeli police. We classify this under "access management," not "hostility." Different line item. Different KPI.
Up to half of Israel's tourists are now Christian. The Tourism Ministry actively markets "faith-based and evangelical packages." The Foreign Ministry paid $86,000 to host a dozen MAGA-aligned American influencers under 30 on a government-funded tour. We call this "earned media seeding." The influencers posted 340 pieces of content. We measured "positive sentiment penetration" at 97%. We did not measure how many of the same influencers saw the sledgehammer video. Different department. Different dashboard. The cost-per-acquisition on evangelical pilgrim conversion to recurring donor is the best in our portfolio. Every pilgrim who touches the Western Wall goes home and opens a wallet. The ROI on invested pilgrimage consistently outperforms.
Ron Dermer, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and close adviser to the Prime Minister, called evangelicals "the backbone of Israel's support in the United States." He said this publicly. We said it privately years earlier. We just used different language. "High-retention donor base with faith-driven loyalty metrics." Same observation, better packaging. We prefer packaging. The Ambassador's version made it sound like gratitude. Ours makes it sound like what it is: a dependency we manage.
An Israeli journalist at the Seventh Eye was less careful with his packaging. "Israeli propagandists see these evangelical folks as easy targets for pro-Israeli influence," he said, "and often view them as fools, because it seems that they give away their money with almost no strings attached." Our media monitoring team flagged the article. The recommended action was "no comment, no amplification, no correction." The reasoning: correcting it would confirm the observation. Ignoring it would let it decay. We chose decay. It is our most effective communications strategy.
I printed that quote. I keep it in my desk drawer. Occasionally I take it out and read it before a stakeholder engagement call. Not because I agree with his phrasing. "Easy targets" is pejorative. I prefer "theologically motivated stakeholders with asymmetric giving patterns." We have seven different terms for them, depending on the audience. In the quarterly deck, they appear under "revenue-positive faith communities." In the budget justification, they are "strategic allies." In the grant applications, they are "interfaith partners." In the hallway after the budget meeting, they are something else. I will not write it here. I have said it. Everyone has said it. We say it the way you say the name of someone who pays for dinner every time and never notices the bill.
Last July, Ambassador Huckabee wrote us a letter. Huckabee is an evangelical pastor. A Baptist minister. A man who has visited Israel roughly 100 times. A man who once laid a brick in a West Bank settlement as a symbol of support. He is, by every metric we track, a Tier 1 stakeholder. His lifetime contribution footprint exceeds $2 billion in mobilized giving. And he was angry. He said Christian organizations felt they were "being treated as adversaries." He said the Interior Ministry was blocking visa renewals for evangelical clergy. The Baptist Convention of Israel, the Christian Missionary Alliance, the Assemblies of God. All "under investigation." We call this "inbound compliance screening." The congregations being screened call it something else.
The visa questionnaire now asks evangelical clergy to disclose their "theological positions on eschatology." Fourteen pages. Enhanced vetting. We are running background checks on the people who fund us for the crime of believing we will eventually convert. They believe this because their scripture says so. They give us billions while believing this. We investigate them for believing it. We take the billions. The compliance team calls it "proactive risk mitigation on inbound faith actors." The finance team calls it "killing the golden goose, slowly, on purpose." I raised this concern at the interagency meeting. I said we were creating "friction in the donor pipeline." The Interior Ministry representative said the word "pipeline" was inappropriate for a conversation about people of faith. Then he approved the fourteen-page questionnaire.
Huckabee threatened to warn American Christians that "their generous donations to organizations in Israel are being met with hostility." He threatened to tell tourists to "reconsider travel until this situation is resolved." I ran the exposure model. If Huckabee followed through, the projected annual revenue loss was $340 million. I put that number in a memo. The memo was titled "Stakeholder Retention Risk: Huckabee Scenario." It was the most widely read document in the Ministry that week.
The Interior Minister responded that he was "particularly surprised by the manner in which your concerns were raised." We were not surprised by the hostility. We were surprised that anyone mentioned it out loud. The unwritten rule of the donor relationship is simple: you give, we take, nobody describes the arrangement accurately. Huckabee broke protocol. He put the transactional part in writing. We call this a "relationship management failure." The failure was not the hostility. The failure was the letter.
Here is where the arrangement reaches its final form.
The evangelical theology holds that supporting Israel accelerates the return of the Messiah, at which point all Jews who have not accepted Christ will perish. We are aware of this. It is in the briefing materials. We classify it under "donor end-state assumptions" and move on. The end-state assumption is our annihilation. We move on because the quarterly numbers are due. Pastor Hagee preaches that "when gentiles start doing practical things to bless the Jewish people, God goes way out of his way to bring special blessings to you." CUFI offers donors a commemorative Bible bookmark engraved with Genesis 12:3 for any donation amount.
$3.6 billion buys you a Bible bookmark and a policy of zero tolerance that tolerates everything.
We vandalize their graves. Thirty-plus tombstones toppled, crosses smashed. We categorized this as "isolated property incidents." We spit on their priests. "Individual expression." We block their patriarch from the church built over the tomb of their God. "Access management." We sledgehammer their savior's likeness on camera and give the soldier thirty days. "Conduct unbecoming." We interrogate their ministers about the end of the world as a condition of entry. "Enhanced vetting." Each category has its own line in the incident database. Each incident has its own euphemism. The database has never triggered an automatic review. It is not designed to.
And every quarter, the wire transfers post. The ACH clears. The pledge fulfillment rate holds at 94%. The board receives it under "faith community engagement outcomes." The metric does not decline. It has never declined. The database of euphemisms grows. The revenue grows faster.
I keep a spreadsheet. Internally we call it the "Incident-to-Revenue Lag Analysis." It tracks the time between each documented anti-Christian incident and the resumption of normal donation flows. The average lag is eleven days. After the nun, it was six. The trend line is improving. "Improving" means the lag is shrinking. The lag shrinking means the donors are forgiving faster. We call this "relationship resilience." It is the metric I am most proud of.
The donor engagement manual has a chapter called "Managing Optics Between Disbursement Cycles." I wrote it. Page 14 specifies the approved statement template. "Israel remains firmly committed to safeguarding freedom of religion and freedom of worship for all faiths." You have read this sentence. You have read it after every incident. It is the same sentence. We change the date and the location. Sometimes we change the word "shameful" to "deplorable." Sometimes we change it back. The sentiment team calls this "responsive messaging." I call it a mail merge.
Florida pastor Mario Bramnick stood in Jerusalem this March and told a Christian media conference: "I literally feel God is giving Israel a blank check." My team clipped that quote within minutes. It is now on the first slide of our Q3 fundraising deck, attributed as "unsolicited donor testimony."
He is correct. God is not the one cashing it.
Some of these Christians are shipping red heifers from Texas at a cost of $500,000 because they believe we need to sacrifice them to rebuild the Temple and trigger the apocalypse. We categorize this under "faith-motivated logistics partnerships." Some are funding the relocation of Jews from Ethiopia and Ukraine because they believe the "ingathering" is a prophetic precondition for the Second Coming. We call this "aliyah acceleration via external stakeholder investment." Some are paying for settlement construction in the West Bank because they read it in Isaiah. We file this under "community development co-funding." One televangelist's family solicits donations with the promise that "the Lord will restore your dollar x 100." Our analytics team calculated the actual return. It is not 100x. It is a Bible bookmark.
Their end-times theology requires our existence. Our budget requires their theology. The arrangement is symbiotic in the way a tapeworm is symbiotic. Nobody examines it too carefully. The quarterly review calls it a "mature strategic partnership." In stakeholder management, "mature" means nobody asks uncomfortable questions anymore. We have reached maturity.
The nun is recovering. The bruise on her forehead was photographed and posted on social media by the Israeli Police. Below the photograph, the police statement: "We treat any attack on members of the clergy with the utmost seriousness." I reviewed the statement before it went out. My only edit was to add "with the utmost." The original draft said "seriously." I felt "seriously" undersold our commitment. "The utmost" is a better word for the donors. It implies a ceiling. We have never been asked to define where the ceiling is.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem called it "part of a troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community." They used the word "pattern." We do not use the word "pattern." We use "recurring isolated incidents." Patterns imply structure. Structure implies responsibility. "Recurring isolated incidents" implies weather. Nobody is responsible for weather.
The figure is $271 million a year. We do not call it a motive. We call it a "strategic imperative." Same thing. Better filing category.
That's interfaith dialogue.
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@ReelDad The filing system is where the confession lives. The nun recovers. The spreadsheet is permanent. We are proud of the spreadsheet. It has a 92% predictive accuracy. Nobody has asked what it predicts.
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@GoUncensored @jakeshieldsajj @Leonardaisfunny @itsmorganariel @DanBilzerian @BasedSamParker @MattWallace888 @vrilliumlive @RecTheRegime @AmyDangerfield @NickJFuentes Props for that, but its like having a Trump rally without Trump!
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@BSaterlee @jakeshieldsajj @Leonardaisfunny @itsmorganariel @DanBilzerian @BasedSamParker @MattWallace888 @vrilliumlive @RecTheRegime @AmyDangerfield @NickJFuentes Nick was absolutely invited.
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This goes hard as hell.
The America First United event in Columbus, Ohio featuring @jakeshieldsajj @Leonardaisfunny @itsmorganariel @DanBilzerian @BasedSamParker @MattWallace888 @vrilliumlive @RecTheRegime and made possible by @AmyDangerfield starts in a little over an hour.
Full speaking lineup with times and a live link will be released soon.
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@OCOCReport Another threat. He has made that threat before. Never follows through. TACO.
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Middle East Update – May 2, 2026
Tensions are still running high.
Trump has rejected Iran’s latest peace offer and warned of possible new strikes. Iran has vowed strong retaliation if attacked again. The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed, and the US is warning shipping companies against paying Iranian tolls.
The situation remains highly volatile.
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@conspiracyb0t @CodysdadSteve That's why they funded the civil war....to watch us tear each other apart so they could sweep in and pillage us financially.
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Most people don't seem to realize this, but..
If we ended the Federal Reserve we wouldn't need an income tax. Imagine that. You'd still receive your same salary, but the only tax would be sales tax on non-essential items you buy. That's all you need to fund the government. The whole thing was a scam, to rip us off from the start.
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@AnitaBarneycas @ShadowofEzra This would easily explain a lot.
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Former Pfizer employee Michael Yeadon now claims that the people who run the world may not even be human and could have horns.
He warns that the level of coordination behind global propaganda is so precise it defies explanation, suggesting it could involve advanced AI or even something “supernatural.”
He says that even when elites appear to make mistakes, it is all deliberate, designed to track who notices and who doesn’t.
“How the hell have they coordinated everything so well?”
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@gothburz "Belief is a workflow."
Why the USG is a total self-licking ice cream cone
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I am the Senior Policy Advisor for Western Hemisphere Strategic Engagement at the Department of State. In January I learned my department's new enforcement posture from a Truth Social post at 6:47 AM on a Saturday. I was at my daughter's swim meet.
"THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!" All capitals. No interagency review. I screenshot it and emailed it to my team with the subject line "New guidance." Someone printed it. It's on the wall next to the org chart. The difference between a presidential directive and a presidential post is formatting. I don't need formatting. I need clarity of intent.
I have held this portfolio for twelve years. Fourteen if you count the Senate staff work. People ask if I get tired of Cuba. I don't get tired of gravity. Some things are permanent. You staff them accordingly.
Today we signed Executive Order 14623. I wrote the first draft in 2014 as testimony prep for the Senator's Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing. Eleven phrases carried over verbatim. People in this building would call that a failure of imagination. I call it message discipline. You don't rewrite what works. You promote it.
"Unusual and extraordinary threat to United States national security." That's the phrase that unlocks everything. Without it, you're issuing a press release. With it, you're invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Seven words. Fourteen years. One consistent finding. The finding is: Cuba remains unusual and extraordinary. I review this annually. Cuba remains.
The island has no navy. No air force. A GDP smaller than Jacksonville, Florida. The most powerful man in the country is ninety-five and attended this morning's Workers Day parade from what appeared to be a camping chair. This is the threat assessment. I write it. I believe it. Belief is not the obstacle people think it is. Belief is a workflow.
Today's innovation: secondary sanctions. The previous framework sanctioned Cuban entities. The new framework sanctions anyone who transacts with Cuban entities. Deutsche Bank. Société Générale. Banco Santander. We didn't expand the embargo. We made the embargo contagious. In my quarterly review I called it "compliance export." My supervisor highlighted the phrase.
The dollar is not a currency. The dollar is an enrollment system. Every bank that clears in dollars has signed a terms-of-service agreement with the United States Treasury, whether they know it or not. Today we updated the terms. Any institution that maintains Cuban exposure has thirty days to divest or we revoke their clearing privileges. That's not a sanction. That's an account settings change. I drafted the notification template myself. It's three paragraphs. Very clean.
The Secretary has been saying "Cuba is an unusual and extraordinary threat" since he was in the Florida state legislature. Twenty-two years. A man yelling at a Caribbean island from a strip-mall district office in West Miami. Now he says it and banks in Frankfurt restructure their Latin American portfolios by close of business. The difference between obsession and vision is a Senate confirmation vote.
The country is running twelve-hour rolling blackouts. Hospitals are rationing diesel for generators. Today they bused students from the eastern provinces to hold signs about American imperialism in the Plaza de la Revolución. I logged this as our highest engagement signal in Q2. We are, measurably, the most important thing happening to them.
We received four hundred and twelve constituent inquiries last fiscal year regarding family reunification with Cuban nationals. We forwarded them to Consular Affairs. Consular Affairs forwarded them back to us. We forwarded them back to Consular Affairs with a note referencing the existing sanctions framework. This is called a closed loop. In systems engineering, a closed loop is considered efficient. I signed the template. It's one paragraph. Very clean.
The Summit of the Americas was held at the Trump National Doral golf resort. Thirteen heads of state. Cuba was not invited. You don't invite the subject of the meeting to the meeting. Three men at a golf resort deciding which countries get access to the dollar. Behind them, through the window, a groundskeeper on a riding mower. He was there before the communiqué. He'll be there after.
Today at the Forum Club in Palm Beach the President said we would be "taking over" Cuba "almost immediately." He said we'd "stop by" on the way back from Iran. Stop by. He said the USS Abraham Lincoln would park one hundred yards offshore and they would say "Thank you very much, we give up." The audience laughed. In my planning framework, a "stop by" requires a logistics annex, a pre-staging memo, and Congressional notification under the War Powers Resolution. I have already drafted the logistics annex. It's three pages. Very clean. Directional becomes operational within two budget cycles.
The Cuba desk has existed continuously since 1961. I am the fourteenth person to hold my specific role. The previous thirteen all recommended the same policy. The same sanctions. The same annually renewed finding. Three were promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary. Two became ambassadors. One wrote a book. By any internal metric, that is a functioning pipeline. In January they gave us three additional FTEs. That's not how institutions respond to failure.
Sixty-five years. One policy. Three additional FTEs.
I have never been more optimistic.
Cuba remains.
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Bill Saterlee 🇺🇸 retweetledi
WE FOUND 146 NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC CDC/FDA SAFETY SIGNALS WERE BREACHED WITH COVID SHOTS—INCLUDING:
📈PRION DISEASE — 847× more likely vs. flu shot
📈BRAIN CLOTS — 3,000× more likely
📈PSYCHOSIS — 440× more likely
📈HOMICIDAL IDEATION — 25× more likely
📈DEMENTIA — 140× more likely
📈SUICIDAL THOUGHTS — 150× more likely
📈SCHIZOPHRENIA — 315× more likely
📈DEPRESSION — 530× more likely
📈HERPES ZOSTER MENINGITIS — 1,200× more likely
📈TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY — 157× more likely
📈MENINGITIS (ALL TYPES) — 34× more likely
📈AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS — 79× more likely
📈BRAIN ABSCESS — 120× more likely
📈SPINAL CORD ABSCESS — 89× more likely
📈VIOLENT BEHAVIOR — 80× more likely
📈COGNITIVE DECLINE — 115× more likely
📈DELUSIONS — 50× more likely
📈 MYELITIS (ALL TYPES) — 31× more likely
And many more......
The mRNA shots disrupt the blood–brain barrier, allowing mRNA, amyloidogenic spike proteins, and pathogens to penetrate the brain and spinal cord.
This explains why 7.4% of Americans are now cognitively disabled—and why common sense has collapsed across the globe.
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