Good news! We don't have a $39t debt problem. Bad news. It's actually $72t. Plus why we bailed out Japan, the least productive conversation feat. Dana Bash and RFK Jr., and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social stunning a tv host into silence. UNFTR's OTR is here. Watch the full video: youtu.be/K0JbfG0G9Oc

RFK's an awesome interview, isn't he? So buttoned up. Why we're pumping up the yen. US debt is 2.5X GDP. I'm volunteering to help James Carville pack up his shit. And the war is Iran is off (on) off (on) off....

The Yen Bailout, RFK Jr. Fail, and the $72 Trillion Debt

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Elon Musk spent years warning that AI could end humanity. Then he decided he couldn't stop it anyway, so he just joined the acceleration club instead. That's the ultimate grift: manufacture concern, claim powerlessness, profit from chaos. Watch the full video: youtu.be/ztEHE6N5kHM

A 25 year old hedge fund manager might have shown how this all falls apart this week.

Situational Awareness: How a 25-Year-Old's Hedge Fund Exposed the Entire AI Bubble

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Marco Rubio's war on "leftist terror" relies on incidents from 50+ years ago. He couldn't cite a single modern example. Meanwhile, Americans are dying in Iran. This is a distraction, and a direct attack on free speech. The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.

With Iran War Lost, Trump Seeks to Start One at Home.

The Trump administration is going to extreme levels to quash dissent by conflating speech with violence and labelling people on the left domestic terrorists.

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America's paternalistic racism, Cold War brain damage, and inability to define socialism are all wrapped up in how we've treated Venezuela. We're finally naming the pattern instead of pretending it's about democracy. This is UNFTR's On The Record. Watch the full video: youtu.be/ztEHE6N5kHM

It's our weekly roundup. No one seems to know what socialism is. Maduro trial set for June, 2027. Elon blows interview with The Economist. Trump blows his comedy set. How Venezuela encapsulates American imperialism and racism.

Crushing Venezuela | Trump Bombs | Elon Blows | Socialism

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Russ Vought wants bureaucrats traumatized. Unable to work, defunded agencies failing. The genius is, when services collapse, you blame the person in front of you, not the saboteur. This is the crisis of confidence opening neoliberals have been waiting for. Watch the full video: youtu.be/HTciDEqUlUU

NY Fed warns: PE is loading insurers with $300m in mezzanine debt, packaged like pre-'08 mortgage securities. With $2t in corp. debt exposure and inflation still elevated, we're a black jelly bean away from catastrophe. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Trump & the Black Jelly Bean Theory.

Trump and the Black Jelly Bean Theory.

The New York Fed released a troubling report detailing the risk of Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) exposure in the insurance industry. Over the past several years, private equity has taken larger...

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Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, is committing the resources of the federal government to fighting antifa! Totally under his jurisdiction. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0

Apologies to all those who like black licorice flavor jelly beans. My high school teacher made this up to demonstrate the inevitability of bad decisions. This administration is making a lot of bad decisions but there's a black jelly bean in the jar that's giving 2008 vibes.

Trump is Running Us Off a Cliff | CLOs Echo the Global Financial Crisis

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Trump shook hands and broed out with Canada's prime minister Mark Carney in a luxury box, then slapped a 50% tariff on Canadian imports. He can't stop fighting with our allies for a single day. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0

The leading index has been rolling over for years while the coincident index climbs. Wall Street's fine. Consumers feel like garbage. Builders are pulling back. Same country, two timelines: the investor's economy and everyone else's. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0

Donald Trump's a useful idiot for Project 2025 architects, notably Russell Vought. But Trump's not actually driving things into the ground. He's making them so shitty that the corporate state looks good by comparison. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: The Quest to Make Everything Terrible.

Shitty: The Quest to Make Everything Terrible.

Everything is getting worse, but the country hasn’t collapsed. This is all by design. Donald Trump is a useful idiot for the people behind the scenes and Project 2025, most notably Russell Vought. The...

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The right wing's taking the wrong lessons from Homer. Hegseth loves buff guys. Trump burns his bridges. Ro Khanna got a talking-to. Bessent declares war on antifa. The UK's PM revolves. And the economy? Two timelines, one country. Catch this week's OTR. Watch the full video: youtu.be/DTzf52JTVJ0

The lesson of the Odyssey is still lost on the right. Pete Hegseth is obsessed with buff dudes and their balls. Trump is doing Trumpy shit. Clavicular tries his hand at peace in the Middle East. Just another day in the Upside Down. #UNFTR

The Odyssey | Pete Hegseth Loves Buff Dudes | Clavicular in Israel

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Russ Vought's little project is shaping up quite nicely.

Trump Isn't Destroying America, He's Making It Shitty

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The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983, while China's about to flood the market and Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Traders have kept oil stable so far, but fundamentals always catch up eventually. Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are feuding on X over technology *they* built together (which happens to be designed to optimize our obsolescence), and everyone's just watching it like entertainment instead of a preview of who actually controls the future. Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0

June's budget is a masterclass in priorities: more from paychecks, more refunds to the top, less for classrooms. Lindsey Graham's replacement makes sense, right? Oh, and we're draining oil reserves. Anything else going on? It's On The Record for 7/14/26! Watch the full video: youtu.be/czzbuPyQD_0

Lindsey paving the way to the bad place for Mitch. Rubio is "viceroy" of Venezuela. Fresh look at US financial picture as of June. We're almost of out oil. Elon and Sam have it out. KLTW to @dropsitenews.com for West Bank coverage. Headlines and more.

US Financials in Free Fall | Graham, McConnell, and the Strait of Hormuz

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Credit card delinquencies are brushing up against '08 peaks. Auto loan delinquencies have blown past Great Recession records. Subprime borrowers are missing payments at unheard of rates. The symptoms echo '09, yet the underlying crisis is different. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI

Watching the mainstream already mourning Lindsey Graham and rewriting his history. Graham was hateful & cowardly. And now he's food for worms. These guys never learn. So busy selling their souls in life to understand that we all wind up in the dirt.

The money supply is two to three times larger than 2008. The problem is, it's not circulating. It's parking at the top while the bottom of the economy bleeds out with weak hiring and frozen housing. That's not a shortage. That's a distribution problem. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI

OpenAI's giving America a 5% stake in their company. You know, the one that lost $40 billion last year with no path to profitability. All they ask in return: forget about the wealth tax and just let them operate. Oh, and maybe a bailout when it collapses. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI

10 sitting house democrats signed the Promise to America pledge ensuring they're not socialists. It has 6 points; 5 are empty platitudes. The 6th cuts Medicare, Medicaid + Social Security. Are they corrupt, or just stupid? You decide. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: The New Republicrats.

The New Republicrats: Snakes of the Democratic Party.

Ten sitting house democrats and five candidates just signed the “Promise to America” pledge ensuring the public they are not socialists. It has six banal points with no specifics, no plan, and no agen...

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A message for the moderate dems who "pledge" to fight socialism. First, socialism doesn't exist in America. Second, we already have a party that supports this pledge. Third, fuck off. Love, me.

These 'New Democrats' Are Literally Aligned with Trump's Plan

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Good news. I too spoke with Mitch McConnell yesterday. I wished him a speedy recovery and he said, "brff nnnn maahhh". I told him to save his energy. Nevertheless, he persisted.

Yes, we absolutely believe reports that Senate Majority Leader John Thune spoke with Mitch McConnell, and that the two had a “lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics.” Substantive. Lengthy. Of course! Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI

Silliness meets substance on this week's On The Record: dead senators, OpenAI's gift to America, the Palantir CEO insisting he's not on drugs, Trump's meme coin casino, and whether 2026 really is shaping up like 2008. Watch the full video: youtu.be/gGL-2C8HNhI