The longer your compound capital, the less you need luck and the more you need Shrewdness.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 14
Yesterday, we learned that Jeff Bezos, on behalf of Amazon, paid Melania Trump $40 million to license her documentary produced by disgraced director Brett Ratner.
As a “licensing deal,” Amazon doesn’t even get to own the film; they just get to distribute the film on their platform for a limited time during a “licensing period.”
To be clear, this is an unheard-of deal.
No one is getting paid anywhere near this amount of money for documentaries in 2025.
Most subjects of a documentary don’t get paid anything.
If they are paid for their personal archive or a licensing fee, no studio is paying anything remotely close to what Melania was paid, not even for the biggest stars.
Figure out some bullshoot reason to justify paying a bribe.
Pay the bribe and chalk it up to "expenses".
This is how the grift works- whether it's Trump, Melania, or any of the other grifters who have attached themselves like remoras to the MAGA gravy train.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Key Step left out:
Step 1: Sheeple has to CREATE an environment and CREATE a huge pool of voters just waiting for MAGA.
Step 2: Sheeple has to do all Sheeple can to get those voters to go to the polls to vote for Trump.
Step 3: Sheeple has to convince non-voters, or Kamala leaners to GO TRUMP
Step 4: Trump wins again
Step 5: Trump grifts Sheeple good and hard as reserved.
Step 6: More punishment ensues.
Step 7: The Leader LAUGHS every minute. Punishment on Cruise Control
Step 8 to Step 8,000,0000: Sheeple can only say BAAAAAAAAAAA SubStack Cancel WaPo BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
And all the while, the Leader is charging more national debt, and exporting punishment to Paris and Hamburg too.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Back in the dumb days of giving a Shit - the Leader used to write how anyone from BUSH to CHENEY to CLINTON - and so many others - would "write a book".
The Leader - would ask - just who the hell is buying those books when most of them can't name their own Senator? This while the Ruling Class was getting millions.
This didn't register on Sheeple's hate radar -- as usual Sheeple was asleep. the Leader was on it.
This is no different. It's just more money and more public because in a decayed culture with dumbass people having no civics knowledge like the Leader used to warn.....you don't have to hide the grift any more :)
baaaaaaaaaa
No. of Recommendations: 10
at this point, it has become easier to keep track of the non-grifters.
Popular Information has identified 10 companies that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress that voted to overturn the election and, over the last four years, have not broken that promise.
farmers insurance
airbnb
expedia
nike
clorox (ironic!)
general mills
holland&hart
whirlpool
qurate
lyft
https://popular.info/p/10-corporations-that-kept-t...
No. of Recommendations: 1
Popular Information has identified 10 companies that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress that voted to overturn the election and, over the last four years, have not broken that promise.
I wonder if they have the wherewithal to sustain that?
