Greg O'Berry

@EWErickson A judge ruled the merger couldn’t occur dumbass.

Today, 14,000 Americans are waking up unemployed because Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Lina Khan, and the Biden Administration insisted they were smarter and more knowledgeable about the airline industry than the airline industry itself. Technocrats kill jobs.

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Nice job, Pete.

@veggieto @gtconway3d @grok @ChatGPTapp This lacks specific evidence supporting each charge. I’d love to see the fully supported articles.

Seems @ChatGPTapp was happy to oblige. H.R. 1 A Bill of Impeachment Against the President of the United States Resolved, That the President of the United States is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited to the Senate: Article I: Abuse of Power The President, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the laws and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, has engaged in a pattern of conduct constituting an abuse of power. This conduct includes: Using the powers of the presidency to advance personal, political, and financial interests rather than the interests of the nation; Undermining or selectively enforcing federal laws for political advantage, including altering or suspending enforcement of anti-corruption statutes; Leveraging executive authority to benefit allies and shield associates from accountability. Such actions are inconsistent with the President’s duty to ensure that the laws be faithfully executed and constitute an abuse of the powers entrusted to the office. Article II: Obstruction of Justice and Accountability The President has engaged in conduct that obstructs lawful oversight and accountability mechanisms. This includes: Interfering with, delaying, or undermining investigations into potential misconduct involving the executive branch; Using executive authority to impede transparency and frustrate congressional and public oversight; Encouraging or enabling actions that weaken the enforcement of anti-corruption safeguards. These actions have obstructed the administration of justice and impaired the ability of coequal branches of government to perform their constitutional duties. Article III: Undermining Anti-Corruption Safeguards The President has taken actions that weaken or compromise long-standing anti-corruption frameworks designed to prevent bribery and improper influence. According to reporting, this includes: Temporarily suspending enforcement of anti-bribery laws and later reinstating them in a narrower form; Signaling tolerance for conduct that risks enabling corruption in domestic and international dealings; Eroding institutional norms that deter illicit financial influence and foreign corruption. Such conduct threatens the integrity of the United States government and its standing in combating corruption globally. Article IV: Conduct Detrimental to Democratic Governance The President has engaged in a broader pattern of conduct that undermines democratic institutions and public trust. This pattern includes: Prioritizing political retribution over impartial governance; Disregarding norms and practices that ensure fairness, accountability, and ethical leadership; Contributing to a systemic erosion of confidence in governmental institutions. This conduct is incompatible with the President’s duty to uphold democratic principles and the rule of law. Conclusion Wherefore, the President, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office. The President has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government.

.@grok, please turn this article into a draft bill of impeachment. Number it H.R. 1. Thanks! 🙏🏼

@baseballcrank @Vegasnem So you view Biden's grant of a pardon to his son as a greater abuse of power than the many and more significant abuses of power Trump is doing in this term?? After all he has done you remain unwilling to hold him accountable or even see the magnitude of his abuses of power.

@Vegasnem True, but entirely beside the point. We can call out both failures & abuses without them having to be THE WORST THING EVER DONE.

Powell probe was a textbook example of everything wrong & self-defeating in the 2d-term Trump approach. Abuse of law, needless conflict w/Fed, Senate, & SCOTUS, no popular constituency, no coherent message, no strategy for how to handle pushback, ends by accomplishing nothing.

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

@USronaldcarter Are you in Russia or Eastern Europe and how much are you getting paid for these shameless lies?

🚨 This was the most insane single day in American foreign policy in a generation and most people missed half of it.. > Iran agreed to suspend its entire nuclear program — indefinitely.. > Iran agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again.. > zero dollars changed hands.. no frozen funds.. no pallets of cash.. > the US naval blockade on Iran stays up until the final deal is signed.. > Trump publicly ordered Israel to stop bombing Lebanon — used the word PROHIBITED in all caps.. > Netanyahu went on live TV and admitted he was acting on a US request.. > Defense Minister Katz got overruled within hours after saying Lebanon ops "have not yet been completed".. > a 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire took effect overnight.. displaced Lebanese civilians started walking back to their villages.. > oil dropped 12% in minutes.. global equities surged.. > Iran's Foreign Minister declared the Strait of Hormuz "completely open" — first time since March 27.. all of this.. one Friday.. if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..

I don’t wanna get crazy but I think we could see a TSJ-esque leap from Andrej in year 2

@SamaHoole There is no evidence Rockefeller engineered modern medicine to sell petroleum-based drugs No evidence of a coordinated system designed to keep patients chronically ill Many of these claims rely on conspiracy-style connections without evidence

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived. He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent. He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine. Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report. The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs. Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug. The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller. By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific. This is the system that exists today. The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured. The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity. The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead. Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop. The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed. The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries. It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it. You are the customer. The corridor is where you live.

@mydorazio @baseballcrank I feel sorry for anyone who believes Trump is good at anything other than feeding his pocketbook and ego at the expense of others. His track record and the lack of coherent speeches prove that over and over.

@greg_oberry @baseballcrank If you're playing chess, and the guy punches you in the face and declares forfeit, no amount of studying chess will help. After all these years you guys still don't get it. He beats them at their own game--a game the Romneys of the world will not play. archive.is/BG3q8

I'd be more offended by this sort of thing if it wasn't fully priced into Trump by now. Still doesn't justify anyone lying to cover for it. Can we at least agree that, even if you like Trump for instrumental reasons, we'd be better off if the next GOP leader doesn't do this kind of thing? And that there's a whole list of Trump things that fall in that category?

@Shannon_A_IL @UofIllinois Well, if you and your dad thought it was well written, then it must’ve been your stance on the topic😳

I got a “C” on a paper at @UofIllinois for simply for having a pro Chief Illiniwek stance. This was 2000. Went home for break and showed my Dad-pretty bright guy-who said my stance was the only reason for the poor grade; was well written. He said “If I could go back, I’d argue with these professors all day long!” I definitely saw wokism bias and this was 26 years ago! @ianmSC

@thedaywar90 You must be kidding. He is a morally and ethically, corrupt, narcissist and sociopath. That’s not changing.

What can President Donald Trump change about himself that may make you like him- even a little bit?

@FranchiseMnA Trump is spending at record levels despite cutting numerous programs that help Americans. Tell me how Republicans are fiscally responsible.

If W2 employees didn't have their taxes withheld automatically and had to separately pay quarterly/annual taxes, 95% of America would be republicans Only when you have to write that fat quarterly check after seeing the money in your account do you realize how painful it is

@mydorazio @baseballcrank Can’t be bought? He’s wealth has ballooned during his a presidency. A congressional report from late 2025 asserted that Trump and his family have built a crypto business empire while in office, attracting investments from foreign interests and major donors.

@greg_oberry @baseballcrank It is that kind of sentiment that tempts us to say anti-Trump folks have TDS. Calling a position a delusion or lie without rebutting it seems lazy to me. Rebuttal is a better approach. youtube.com/watch?v=h6hfkO…

@mydorazio @baseballcrank Trump hasn’t just blurred ethics lines — he bulldozed them. Billions in bus. interests kept while in office. Foreign $ flowing into his properties. Family crypto deals exploding as oversight collapses. Policy aligning with major investors. Shameless, large-scale self-enrichment.

@mydorazio @baseballcrank Everyday Trump lies. Pick any Truth Social post or public comments he makes daily. He lies and/or criticizes people, both Americans and foreigners, like no president has ever done before him. This is not debatable. He has exceeded his presidential authority. Example-Tariffs.

@renewtoconserve @GShaneMorris The difference is Obama posted none of these dumbass.

A FB dude pointed this out, and it's very much true. If your reaction to these two images was substantially different in either direction...time to do some soul-searching/principles inventory.

@baseballcrank @mydorazio The fact that you even engage in an attempt at good faith intellectual discussion of his behavior is sickening. The man is a sociopath and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional or lying.

In politics, it in fact matters quite a lot what the people in the middle of the electorate think. And while you have to spend capital that costs you some of those people, I'd much rather spend it on doing things of public consequence than on this kind of personal self-pleasuring that does nothing for anyone but Trump himself.

@CountBifur @Geiger_Capital I'm a recently retired member of the group you mention. Don't forget the fact that much of the wealth we've created for ourselves is from Investments that are taxed at capital gains rates when liquidated, a nice discount to marginal income tax rates. I doubt you're struggling.

Let us also not forgot that the "working rich" are by far the most abused financial group in the country. High salaries and bonuses, highly taxed, and difficult to build tax-shielded portfolios. Usually doctors or highly paid engineers, or smaller business owners doing well. By far the most oppressed minority in the country.

One of the great political moves by the left in recent years has been convincing a large portion of America that "the rich" don’t pay taxes and it’s all poor people, when the exact opposite is true. The Top 1% pay 46% of all income taxes. The Top 10% pay 76% of all income taxes.

@ScottyBeeIsMe @FeminineWildToo @DeepNotShallow I’m sure like most intelligent people she believes the rules should apply to everyone, yet don’t seem to apply to Trump who has over a dozen women that have accused him of sexual assault.

@FeminineWildToo @DeepNotShallow I take it you believe all women, but only when they accuse Republicans, never when they accuse Democrats. No matter what.

It's next level insane that someone like Eric Swalwell knew about all the skeletons in his own closet and still decided to run for Governor? How delusional are these people that they don't think this shit will come up?

@Jerry__Grey @atrupar So many idiots on X

@atrupar Should we require a judicial warrant to issue a speeding ticket too? If we did, do you think anyone would ever get a speeding ticket?

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.