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<div class="row mt-3"><div class="col-12 mt-3"><img class="img-thumbnail" src="https://mefisocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/598/987/056/516/746/original/af7691ef2ecd84c3.png" alt="Link Preview Image" /></div></div>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/aa22ba84-a4a6-4a14-821d-fb7d9bc25e5e/the-most-brazen-thefts-of-public-funds-that-has-ever-occurred-just-happened.</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 21:05:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/aa22ba84-a4a6-4a14-821d-fb7d9bc25e5e.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:55:52 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 11:09:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> Gee, what are they planning for November?</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/decapitae/statuses/116600929439095894</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/decapitae/statuses/116600929439095894</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[decapitae@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:09:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 09:46:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/mastodonmigration%40mastodon.online">@<span>mastodonmigration</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> and epstein avoidance. Anything to get the public riled over a horrendous shit. The war is not working as wished, but we hear a lot less of the files these days, what is opened is kind of scrolled over. This is seen as if you are a nation of morons.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116600601745052041</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116600601745052041</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[connynasch@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:46:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 09:42:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/paulschoe%40mastodon.world">@<span>paulschoe</span></a></span> I am so very pleased NOT to be an American! <span><a href="https://theblower.au/@thegarbagebird">@<span>thegarbagebird</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116600588139039175</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116600588139039175</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[connynasch@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:42:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 09:27:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://theblower.au/@thegarbagebird">@<span>thegarbagebird</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>In Trump's philosophy, 'running like a business' means changing any company funds as quickly as possible into private funds (stripping the assets).</p><p>He is doing the same now to the USA.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SlushFund" rel="tag">#<span>SlushFund</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ConMan" rel="tag">#<span>ConMan</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/paulschoe/statuses/116600525597108891</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/paulschoe/statuses/116600525597108891</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[paulschoe@mastodon.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:27:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:56:51 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>I thought I was mad, but Liz <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Oyer" rel="tag">#<span>Oyer</span></a>, former <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/DOJ" rel="tag">#<span>DOJ</span></a> pardon attorney, is mad and brought receipts, cause she knows what constitutes “criminal conspiracy “. </p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4IlufC8?si=ooaoiGxW_8rlSsQq" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4IlufC8</span><span>?si=ooaoiGxW_8rlSsQq</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Trump" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/IRS" rel="tag">#<span>IRS</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/DOJ" rel="tag">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/kakistocracy" rel="tag">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/116600170870635648</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/116600170870635648</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[missconstrue@mefi.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:56:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:18:26 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> I'm not one either. It's an evolving situation right now. This writeup from Joyce Vance is a good summary of where things stand:</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/kleptocracy" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>open.substack.com/pub/joycevan</span><span>ce/p/kleptocracy</span></a></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/maybeimaleo/statuses/116600019776056593</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/maybeimaleo/statuses/116600019776056593</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[maybeimaleo@sfba.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:18:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:14:19 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="https://sfba.social/@maybeimaleo">@<span>maybeimaleo</span></a></span> so, I’m not a law reader, in that I have no idea how settlement works. Does that not remove it from the purview of the judge, or does the judicial branch still get a chance to weigh in here? And can they stop the whole thing? </p><p>As someone with no legal expertise, I thought if both sides came to an agreement, it was removed from judicial oversight. That’s certainly how the media are reporting it, as though it is done deal, fait accompli .</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/116600003594573890</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mefi.social/users/MissConstrue/statuses/116600003594573890</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[missconstrue@mefi.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:14:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:07:38 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/dzwiedziu%40mastodon.social">@<span>dzwiedziu</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p> I know. Unfortunately, it also gets in the way of reasoning about federal spending and tax the way we need to be.</p><p>This is why I go through the exercise of cultivating an MMT consistent narrative with the idea of being just as if not more potent.</p><p>Fact that our tax dollars are a blood sacrifice to narrow deficit spending, even as these assholes are printing money directly into the bank account accounts should make people even more angrier.</p><p>And rightly so</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599977329053970</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599977329053970</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:07:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:42:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/ghostonthehalfshell%40masto.ai">@<span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span></a></span><br />This is the MMT interpretation (IMHO the correct one).</p><p>Still the persistence of the classical national budgeting tale can come here as a way to get people more pissed.</p><p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/116599877608118556</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dzwiedziu/statuses/116599877608118556</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:42:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:27:21 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> They don't HAVE this money, because Trump doesn't have this money to give them. Not yet. At this moment it's a proposed "settlement" for his IRS case – which the judge rejected.</p><p>The judge's problem with that suit is that Trump is suing an agency HE CONTROLS., putting him on BOTH SIDES of that suit. IMHO this same problem applies to this ridiculous "settlement" as well.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/maybeimaleo/statuses/116599818884798005</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/maybeimaleo/statuses/116599818884798005</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[maybeimaleo@sfba.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:27:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 05:43:40 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/lawyersgunsnmoney%40mstdn.social">@<span>lawyersgunsnmoney</span></a></span> <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>Taxpayer dollars cease to exist when they are cashed with the treasury.  It’s a bank ledger where numbers are added and subtracted from, a giro payment system in Knapp’s taxonomy. We don’t use chartalist (paper note) payments for very much anymore.</p><p>The treasury has an infinite credit no interest rate credit line with no repayment date. The obscenity is that we are made to burn our money, even as they print money into their own pockets.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599647172659784</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599647172659784</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:43:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 05:20:52 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>There needs to be a Nuremberg style trial whenever this is over to get rid of this criminal bunch…</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116599557472799724</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/xs4me2/statuses/116599557472799724</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[xs4me2@mastodon.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:20:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 05:18:09 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/custom_emojis/images/000/028/572/original/3a0d75ffd3afd38c.png" title=":100a:" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/NosirrahSec/statuses/116599546778702322</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/NosirrahSec/statuses/116599546778702322</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[nosirrahsec@infosec.exchange]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:18:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 04:51:45 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/ghostonthehalfshell%40masto.ai">@<span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span></a></span> Former Treasury guy here - not disagreeing my friend with your analysis and implication of “full faith and credit”regarding payment of obligations where the General Fund is running a deficit; however it’s *still* taxpayer dollars being used to pay the traitors. If the regime created a permanent indefinite appropriation it might be off budget, like the Judgement Fund, but an appropriation equals public money. So the outrage remains valid and justified IMO <span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/lawyersgunsnmoney/statuses/116599443019941813</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/lawyersgunsnmoney/statuses/116599443019941813</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 04:51:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 03:27:36 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> It's so fucking corrupt.</p><p>What they would call a "related party transaction" if it happened at a company.</p><p>And deliberately dodging having to go before a judge? <img src="https://board.circlewithadot.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f440.png?v=28325c671da" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--eyes" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title="👀" alt="👀" /></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/laprice/statuses/116599112108117904</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/laprice/statuses/116599112108117904</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[laprice@beige.party]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:27:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 03:11:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>Feel like their name for the fund should never be used. Instead it should be called the $1.8 Billion Taxpayer Ripoff Fund, or something like that.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116599050658577659</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116599050658577659</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:11:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 03:02:04 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>We must always understand the nature of federal spending as a moral document. A document declaring who the federal government adds money to and it does not. And who it taxes and who it does not.</p><p>Trump is printing $1.8 trillion into his pocket and a bunch of billionaires. They are fed billions of dollars every day and are never taxed. We are starved of dollars and told to destroy the ones we have.</p><p>Their wealth will expand in direct proportion to the additional spending.</p><p>2/2</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599011680132089</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116599011680132089</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:02:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to The most brazen thefts of public funds that has ever occurred, just happened. on Tue, 19 May 2026 02:59:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/missconstrue%40mefi.social">@<span>MissConstrue</span></a></span> </p><p>No federal spending is ever financed with taxpayer dollars. Federal reserve is obligated by law to honor every check written by the treasury, regardless of the treasury’s balance. </p><p>In other words, the federal government print money by spending it into existence.</p><p>Our tax dollars do only one thing when they are sent to the treasury: they cease to exist.</p><p>Trump $1.8 trillion or more precisely can add $1.8 trillion to billionaire pockets, including his own.</p><p>1/2</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116598999615225906</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116598999615225906</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:59:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>