I actually got my timeline mixed up. Mayor Tara was the mayor BEFORE the guy who wrote the now-infamous open letter to the Somali community.
She’s the one who got the ball rolling on it during her term from 1998-2002. Mayor Raymond came after her. I first started spending lots of time in Maine in 2005 before moving here permanently.
UAE sovereign money quietly bought 49% of a Trump-family crypto venture just before inauguration, with massive upfront payments, while the same actors were lobbying for restricted U.S. AI chips that were later approved. Even if not provable as criminal bribery, it’s an unprecedented conflict of interest involving foreign capital, crypto opacity, and national security policy.
Let me guess, BUT what about Biden and his crack head son…
Hmm well yes I see that this could be a problem.
What policies did he create to help his benefactors?
The difference is that you can buy that crypto on the open market.
But our legislature and political favor is not supposed to be for sale.
Given that you can’t understand these self evident differences, I don’t see how anybody explaining it to you would make any difference.
It is a public business transaction, not exactly unusual for businessmen. Could there be a form of quid pro quo? Yes, but that’s hardly a rock-solid ethics violation and certainly not the same thing as a bribe.
Comparing that to, say, Biden or Obama isn’t possible because those guys were lifetime politicians and didn’t have business ventures. They all became fabulously wealthy on modest public servant salaries. Trump was loaded for decades before he entered politics, and his net worth declined during his first term.
I guess we’ll know he’s up to something really bad when Elizabeth Warren tells us about Trump’s next great crime against humanity.
A lot of people don’t understand how framing works in the media, and thus latch on to unsupported narratives very easily. A good recent example of that is when people thought that the coroner ruling Presti’s death a homicide was proof of wrongdoing after several media outlets nudged readers towards that conclusion.
It works in the other direction, too, when important details are omitted to put a positive spin on something really bad. Say I was a media hack who wanted to cast the Unabomber in a positive light. I could write a story hook that goes something like…
A brilliant mathematics professor moved to Montana. Now he’s in prison for life.
Or Jim Jones…
A social justice advocate for marginalized people purchased a plot of land in Guyana to provide for his followers. After a visit from a Congressman, the promising commune experienced turmoil.
Here’s a perfect example of media manipulation joining forces with falsely claiming victim status where the mainstream news outlet omits the most important part of the story. Maine Democrats ALWAYS play the victim while they’re busy plundering the land.
Here’s another recent example of playing victim from an organization who took mass shooting funds and doesn’t have the decency to give it to victims or the wisdom to just shut the hell up about it. It plays great with progressives who love a jumbled word salad.
AI chip reversal:
For years the US blocked the UAE from buying top tier AI chips like Nvidia’s Blackwell series over fears the tech could leak to China. In May 2025, just months after UAE backed investors bought 49 percent of a Trump family crypto venture, the administration reversed course and approved massive AI chip exports to the UAE. The main beneficiary was G42, the AI firm run by Sheikh Tahnoon, the same figure tied to the $500 million Trump crypto deal.
Killing the AI Diffusion Rule:
The Biden administration had finalized an AI export rule set to begin in May 2025 that would have capped how many advanced chips countries like the UAE could buy. The Trump administration scrapped it before it took effect, clearing the way for the UAE to build a trillion dollar scale AI infrastructure powered by US hardware.
Crypto executive order and fallout:
On January 23, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14178 directing the government to support private dollar backed stablecoins. This directly benefited World Liberty Financial, which issues the USD1 stablecoin. Two weeks after the AI chip approvals were announced, a UAE linked fund used $2 billion of that same stablecoin to finance a deal with Binance.
The UAE didn’t just buy a few coins on an app they signed a private, secret contract for a 49% ownership stake in the company itself, four days before the Inauguration. You cannot buy that stake on the open market.
It wasn’t just a “business deal” it was a $500 million entry fee that paid off immediately. Right after that check was cut, the administration reversed national security bans to hand the UAE 500,000 restricted AI chips, scrapped the rules blocking their tech growth, and issued an Executive Order that helped the UAE dump $2 billion into the family’s own stablecoin.
To top it off, the President issued a full pardon to Binance founder Zhao the guy whose company provided the software for the Trump firm and whose exchange is now fueled by that same family owned stablecoin.
This is AI written but okay.
Did you know that the UAE pledged 1.4 trillion (over 10 years) in US investments as a part of this deal?
Gee, when you put it that way, I feel really bad for not voting for four more years of open borders and vote-rigging. Instead of only 42 languages spoken at my city’s public school, we could have ended up with 60, maybe 70, plus even more single-family homes getting bought up by startup home healthcare agencies billing Maine’s government for millions of dollars. Can’t forget the 300 homes bought up by Chinese Communist Party linked organized crime to turn into illegal grow houses that our state refuses to investigate. They actually made it easier recently by budgeting for more Chinese translation services.
Man, we really missed out by passing on Harris/Walz. Imagine all of the other cities that could experience the diversity of Lewiston and Minneapolis.
I find it hilarious when TDS sufferers can’t understand why other people don’t fall for the same media narratives they do, even after 10 years of trying again and again.
Perhap’s that’s just due to the content of their character.
Yeah, these lazy, good for nuthin’ white people need to get their shit together. They already stole the land, you mean to tell me they can’t buil a house on it?
We just need to steal it again
To be fair, a lot of them do, and the reason we have a lot of them is mostly due to Democratic public policy. When I moved here there was only one chronically homeless guy in town, a dude named Punk Ice that everyone in town knew. He wanted to live on the street and never really caused any big problems and actually cleaned a lot of stuff up looking for bottles and cans. We had functioning homeless shelters that had modest levels of public funding but were mostly organized and funded through the Catholic diocese. The migrant influx machine had not yet been fully spun up through NGO’s and government offices to facilitate it, and we weren’t in a total housing crunch where even finding a rental is a challenge.
Aside from the massive influx of migrants to Lewiston that was facilitated almost entirely through tax dollars scooping up the homes, Maine has made MAJOR changes to both drug policy and homeless shelter policy since 2019. They de-facto legalized public drug possession and public use with The Homelessness Crisis Protocol, which instructs police to NOT arrest anyone who claims to be homeless but instead refer them to one of the taxpayer-funded homeless and addiction services nonprofits that have also sprung up.
They also changed the funding stipulations for homeless shelters, leaving anything organized through the Catholic church ineligible, despite their decades-long track record of actually helping people get on track. My friend runs the longest-running one next to our lovely basilica.
Instead, all public funding for homelessness must go to organizations who run the low-barrier model, meaning you don’t have to be in recovery, don’t need to be looking for a job, don’t need to be doing anything except not being violent in the shelter, which is one of the only things that will get you kicked out. They can’t do background checks, so sex offenders and criminals on the lam can just show up, say they are Darnell Becker, and then get food, shelter, free drug paraphernalia like needles, narcan, boofing kits, crack pipes, test strips, and anything else they need to get high.
This has attracted a LOT of people to Lewiston who want to just get high all the time and turn downtown into a needle-ridden dump. A lot of them are hookers taking advantage of the freebies, too. The city council and state legislature have made this a HUGE priority and recently voted down a proposal to limit the amount of needles handed out at a time, which is currently 100.
It’s a de facto subsidy for drug dealers because it frees up all of an addicts time and money to become revenue for them, and I’d be shocked if kickbacks weren’t involved. Possibly even threats.
As I learn more about what’s actually going on, it just seems like an organized crime racket where they do the bare minimum with schools, public safety, and public works to maintain the appearance of a legitimate government while operating a massive racket through nonprofits, fraudulent health care, drug distribution, pot grows, and probably some other rackets I’m forgetting. The priority is staying in power, which means they have to purchase enough votes and rig the system enough to maintain a veneer of legitimacy, but not rig it too brazenly to drive out a typical TDS sufferer who votes blue no matter who.
You ever get the feeling you’re barricated in an apartment during a zombie apocalipse, with limited supplies, and half your neighbours wanna open the the door for them?
Why did the Spaniards vote for Pedro? He’s not the same Pedro Sanchez from Napoleon Dynamite, who was a benevolent and wise civic leader backed up by some tough pendejos. This Pedro seems like a fascist trying to silence the opposition.
Vote for a better Pedro.
Brother, I live in California.
It’s more like 2 out of every 3 people think that the zombies are just misunderstood and that we should start paying for their health care.
I wish I could like your comment more than once.
And? They are facts not an op-ed.
So, more influence and control? Funny how when China or Israel does it, it’s a huge issue. Was that not an issue with the Dems??
And what does the pledged money have to do with Trump and his family pocketing hundreds of millions?
Bias is blinding you
They are all the same. They are all FOS.
They aren’t all of the facts, and if you could think and write for yourself, you wouldn’t need AI to explain facts for you. If it makes you feel any better, this is a common condition of TDS sufferers in 2026.
Again, what exactly are they getting out of advanced chips?
I want all elected officials to be wiped out, regardless of party. Short of that, I like a lot of what trump is doing, but not all of it.
Speaking of bias, you seem to be really fucking loud about issues on the right, but don’t seem to care about issues on the left. Like at all, actually. But yes, I’m the biased one. lol
