Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.
The offshore empire gets named on live TV, Wall Street's forecasters get humiliated by the jobs numbers, and Europe moves to loot its own savers. One pattern runs through all of it — and eight weeks to settle it. Five posts inside.
From ground zero in Michigan: the socialist who vows to bring down the system was manufactured by it — Rhodes Scholar credentials, foundation money and all — while Bessent and the Trump team dismantle the machine that gutted Detroit.
Susan Kokinda critiques Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed, arguing that while he calls Trump a symptom and “the system” the disease, El-Sayed actually protects the same oligarchic system he denounces. From reporting outside a Michigan polling place, she recounts El-Sayed’s slogans (“Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all”) and contrasts them with Republican claims that the “Big Beautiful Bill” and pro-industry policies put money in workers’ pockets through tax relief and jobs. She traces middle-class decline in Detroit to the end of Bretton Woods and NAFTA, cites Scott Bessent’s “compensate the loser” strategy, and argues oligarchy is unelected policy control. She disputes El-Sayed’s AIPAC framing by citing larger funding streams from foundations and NGOs, then ties El-Sayed’s Rhodes Scholar background to Cecil Rhodes, framing the conflict as “Rhodes versus Lincoln” and promoting Promethean Action.
00:00 The Monday Brief - BESSENT VS THE FAKE REBEL: Who Really Made Abdul El-Sayed - August 10, 2026
01:45 Money In Your Pocket
06:04 The Enemy's Real Strategy
08:39 The “Money Out of Politics” Fraud, And What That Money Bought
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Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.
Bessent explains Wall Street, the financial press, and Democrats keep being proved wrong—contrasting Canada’s job losses with a blowout U.S. jobs report, calling out FT/WSJ panic, and framing a Red Queen economy that must outrun debt, China, and skills gaps.
Susan on Bessent naming IRGC accounts in the British Virgin Islands — the real target is the offshore money machine, not just Iran. Syria sanctions lifted, the Mecca Pact, Russia at the G20, and China on Iran.
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