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Bread and Circuses

(2,045 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:04 PM Nov 2025

Did anyone know this? More than 4 MONTHS Ago? Selling access, favors, pardons, government contracts right in the Open!
Trump Crime Syndicate fears no one or nothing… because the criminals run everything !

https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/dcs-new-500k-private-club-the-executive-branch-launches/

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" The Executive Branch" -- the members-only 500K Club (Original Post) Bread and Circuses Nov 2025 OP

The call it a "parallel economy" Diraven Nov 2025 #2

(32,133 posts)

1. Surprised? Why? This is what crime bosses do when they own the majority Organized Crime Party.

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:18 PM

Nov 2025

(1,896 posts)

2. The call it a "parallel economy"

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:26 PM

Nov 2025

They try to make bribery, cronyism, and access peddling sound like legitimate business.