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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:22:05 JST Randahl Fink

   Corruption hot mic moment:

   Forgetting that he is being recorded, Trump tells Ford management that company chair Bill Ford calls him "all the time" to get Trump to remove "environmental garbage" legislation.

   Managers then talk about a car that has been gifted to Trump with his own face painted on the side, and say they are working on a new car for him, to which Trump replies "I WANNA SEE IT!"

   Quid pro quo.

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     Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉 (dacig@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:22:05 JST Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉

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     @randahl In the global south we call that corruption. In the global North you have nicer words like Old boy network, lobbying, bourgeoisie...

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     amalia (amalia22@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:22:20 JST amalia

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     @randahl Dirty brown tongues. Also been to Epstein Island? Release the Epstein Files.

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     Artstories (art_histories@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:28:59 JST Artstories

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     @randahl He is so full of hate that he wants to destroy everything. He is a vile POS and I will never understand why he has the support of the republicans, why he never has been hold accountable, why he was elected.

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:28:59 JST Steve's Place

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     • Artstories

     @art_histories @randahl He and the Russians (by proxy because Trump's kids say they "get all the money we need from Russia") have apparently been financing the Republican party for many years. He quipped, before running the first time, that he was going to cut out the middleman.

     Also, he has all of the photos and videos from Epstein's, the millions of images and documents, available to him for blackmailing purposes, with the likely exception of Putin's, which I believe he handed to him in that Alaskan quick meet between the two.

     We also have Rupert Murdoch's lying Fox News on televisions in businesses and homes across the country spewing racist and misogynist lies about everyone the billionaires see as a threat to their omnipotence, and desire to see crushed.

     That's my understanding.