Red Flags & Red Ink: America's Cost of Corruption 💀
- Robert Magana
- Aug 7
- 12 min read
Updated: Aug 7
You know normally I'd like to only do this every now and then but the problem is the market is drastically shifting almost weekly due to the lack of vision, focus, and strategic guidance of our Governmental Administration.

🔄 A Resilient Market, But at What Cost?
The market remains resilient this is kind of expected though; you have to keep in mind that these past few decades have seen a lot of damage and unprecedented situations from wars, to politics, to plagues, to recessions and crashes.
So it doesn't surprise us that it's just chugging along, it's not that investors don't recognize the issues before us, it's just that they have a job to do so they have to continue and additionally they are relying on the belief that democracy will continue to function. But investments are shaking and short due to the inability to commit stemming from outside volatility due to socio-political dynamics.

Normally you get some sort of change with a new administration coming in and cleaning up the mess.
So assuming the Autocracy we have now changes at some point and we get fixes, it will prove the bets made now to be good ones as the market recovers with the country and worst comes to worst you just go short and move along. That's only if the administration changes power with legitimate elections. These elections though are already trying to be gerrymandered across the board.
🏛️ Political Interference: A Break From Tradition
Democrats have rightfully created a situation of mutual destruction as a tool to prevent the forceable overtake to prevent democracy and honestly I can't believe republicans are trying to do another census. There is no better way to annoy people than to try and send them another census so you can gain political control for yourself. I'm sure that will boil over well haha! If they think arresting these people will make them anything but civil rights like martyrs their beyond stupid.
🧠 Market Focus: Politics Over Industry
The focus of the market right now is more on politics than industry because the governance of Trump's administration is forcibly trying to insert it's will and pick and choose what parts of what industry succeed.
This is because contrary to literally every administration that has ever existed before Trump, this administration wants to have it's hand in the market so it can gain off of it.
💰 Corruption Unveiled
Most other administrations simply had a political view and focused on asserting that, while remaining agnostic towards the market and that invisible hand you get annoyed with in Social Studies as a kid goes to work.
Trump's administration is brazenly corrupt in numerous fashions and doesn't seem to mind gaining a buck for themselves rather than maintaining the market for consumers.
That's no surprise since Trump himself is a criminal.
🗣️ Public Response: Anger on All Sides
This has had backlash though as consumers and everyday people and voters en masse are absolutely pissed.
Yes even republicans, and in fact more so republicans. They feel betrayed and that does not sit well for them at all.
As republican politicians enter townhalls they are getting openly bashed by their own people. Even if you remove them or try to fake that things are okay it will not work. At the end of the day the voters make the choice on the ballet not a fake crowd.
What's impressive and I have to give it to the American People. Credit is due, they genuinely seem to understand the economics of what's happening.
With the new bill eliminating numerous things, and bolstering inflation and taxations for the average person to benefit billionaires, people are feeling the pain of the loss of what they know they are deserving of get taken away.
This includes, healthcare, judicial dynamics, etc.. but let's focus on taxes because it's the easiest to gain a concept of what people are feeling, and it's also important because knowing what people feel give you a much better macro view of the market.
💸 The Taxpayer's Perspective
When you think of taxes as a consumer you see the government taking your hard earned money, in exchange people absolutely 100% expect something back for it.
Free healthcare, better policies, money spent properly, better safety measures etc.. without that they get really pissed.
This administration has completely fouled up all of that and combined with the lack of disaster response and inflations continuation and price dynamics getting higher due to tarrifs they are furious.
What's even worse is this administration has quite in arguably and very noticeably taken all that money from eliminating those things and gave it to themselves.
You could not create any quicker a more vocal borderline potentially violent mob of people ready to take heads off like Marie Antoinette, if you tried.
👑 Elitism on Display
The thing is Trump doesn't care he's a textbook elitetist and proud of being an upperclassman always has been.
The message from republicans stemming from him and trickling down is "well just work harder and make enough money to where your upperclass, otherwise your lesser than us don't expect anything."
You can see how that wouldn't sit well with people who do work hard and are watching a criminal and his affiliates worm the system they lawfully abide by and work really hard just to get basic needs; and now they can't even get those.
💥 Inflation, Tarriffs, and Their Real Effects
Inflation remains constant and with Trump's Tarriffs domestically we are paying more and more for items we need and it's going straight to this group of upperclass snobs and people see it that way and they hate it.
Trump doesn't seem to understand what tariffs do or more so what I should say is he doesn't want to understand what tariffs do.
They are working in his favor whatever damage to you the consumer doesn't matter to him, whatever damage to the market doesn't matter to him.
So much so that he is literally trying to change the numbers that calculate the damage to the market with the firing of the labor statistics chair and replacing the fed with individuals more compliant.
He's doing this so he can look better while he does better and the country comes apart.
🌀 Market Whiplash & Institutional Rot
These tariff announcements and wild shifts will continue, some will go into place, some will get backed down on, but in the end we will still be paying more gaining none of the industry pluses they are intended to give and seeing none of the benefits of the added stockpiling of money to the government or more so Trump who sees it as his.
Trump has some severe psychological damage and it's becoming more obvious by the day.
🏛️ Corruption at Every Level
His narcissistic nature is seeping deeper and deeper into your wallet and into what he feels is his, your money.
We can see that with his pollution of the white house and it's gody renovations and items he himself is receiving, his own manipulation of making the presidency marketing aspect of a business for himself, and literally self gaining for his companies.
🇺🇸 Broken Systems, Weary People
And with that people are tired of the political nature of things.
In most administrations you get the elections and campaigning and then things sort of calm.
That's because every other president in U.S. history understood and put the country first.
⚖️ Democracy vs. Autocracy
Democracy is a system that is supposed to rely on the support of the people so that even if people are self invested their survival is reliant on that support.
An autocracy does not work like that, whoever is on top succeeds regardless and everyone below is subject to change; Trump is in power and is trying to make it permanent.
He does not care about the U.S. and it's people.
🕵️ Total Control: The Power Grab
His administration and literally every aspect of it is politically driven from the CIA, FBI, soon to be Fed if he has it his way, the Courts, BLS if he has it his way, FDA Regulators, the EPA, the Treasury, and every other office he can have an influence on.
He has made a pointed effort to do that, installing people who are willing to push his narrative regardless of public safety or populace benefit.
⚔️ Collateral Damage
They have put troops in danger, agents in peril, judiciary has gone to action corruptly against citizens, money and the USD is shooting downward, the health community is shattering, and yet they are trying to say they are doing a good job pushing Trump's narrative to the world and attacking opposing forces and politicians.
These efforts are to feed the autocracy not the people beneath it.
📉 Shrinking Dollar, Rising Unrest
With the dollar shrinking, tariffs driving already moving up inflation higher, and unemployment rates rising to supplement the cost of products, consumer spending capability will be driving even lower.
With the actions taken against America's last bastion of integrity driven Economic values i.e. the Fed and the Bureau of Labor Statistics changing or for now attempting to be changed to project fraudulent numbers this will only get worse.
When inflation decreases and unemployment rises you decrease rates, when inflation rises and unemployment decreases you increase rates. This revolves around increasing your spending power, but right now inflation is rising and unemployment is rising. So even with a decreased rate your spending power is diminished and it will only worsen things or more likely temporarily increase a few things only to fall flat and well below the hype it's getting.
💳 Economic Fallout for the Average American
Everyone in known existence today uses those numbers, and even though other outlets will retain them, lending and banking dynamics will change for the U.S. and for the worse.
This will affect consumers as it limits lending and therefore growth, car buying, home buying etc... and so the only factor that actually drives U.S. dynamics today, the consumerism, is now being washed away.
Manufacturing can't exactly expand if they can't get any money to do so.
So imports will diminish driving prices higher and higher and exports won't increase to the scale we need it to.
💻 Tech and Energy: Slow Rolling
As predicted tech remains productive because it spins a positive narrative to have it to for the administration.
That said tech is having trouble growing for the same reasons as that, their capital is not what it should be. So it's slow rolling.
Energy is much the same and the main concern there is lack of proper regulation from the governmental levels, and in fact these regulations and people overseeing it are seen as completely incompetent by the energy industry.
₿ Crypto’s Strange Space
Crypto is doing well as it looks like it is here to stay, the problem is this administration is awful at regulations.
So there is still some concern with the original volitility and criminal nature of it leaving it scene as still a risk.
That viewpoint has stuck so hard with crypto since it's inception it is physically impossible to not think of it when you think of crypto.
So much so they literally tried to rebrand the entire product creating stable coins etc...
Ethereum is growing despite this and to be honest I feel like it would do even better if it had some legitimate regulation put in place on it that was substantial.
It would give it more stability taking what's viewed as a ludicrous but also volatile product and making it a ludicrous and also adopted product.
🛡️ Defense: Stable But Unguided
Incompetency's are a theme with this administration.
The defense industry which is one of if not the only other industry doing okay is facing much of the same.
Our international policies, relations, and contributions are coming apart without a measure of guidance.
For example:
Israel still gets U.S. benefits while placing food aid in hot zones so that it can create an excuse to kill the people trying to get the food aid.
Netanyahu doesn't care about the hostages he has two goals: staying in power which he would not be had this war not started as he was getting ready to get ousted, and the other is his ethnic purge.
If he cared at all he wouldn't mind basic food aid and water programs to set up shop in safe zones and properly allowing the UN to take action.
My dream as a kid was to empower the UN forces, if we have to push them in with NATO I feel we should.
But with our allies naturally and rightfully disbarring Israel and the U.S. backing them our distribution is all over the place.
Another Example:
Ukraine. Trump in my opinion seems to be feigning the argument with Putin.
I do feel he's caught onto Putin's very disrespectful opinion of him which Putin hides under a manipulative smile and statements.
That said why announce to Russia that your moving submarines putting those naval experts in danger, why even meet with him if Putin has put no terms together for resolution, and why even give him a deadline when Ukraine can do so much more with weapon distributions and provide an even better position for future negotiations.
To me it seems like he's saying one thing like let's go after Russia but not wanting to go to far with Putin, but also trying to get a win making it look like he's pushing them to peace.
🌀 Trust & Volatility
I mean with all that said how do you even trust anything this guy Trump does when it might change on a dime if it benefits him.
That volatility is spread throughout the market, with the tariff introductions shattering recovering market gains, and now the market is trying to recover again.
Not only that but it still doesn't know where to go so gains are happening in the market but it's spread thin throughout various companies and industries, signaling a lack of direction and strategy because of the understandable lack of knowledge of where things will go with this administration.
That said they don't even know if this administration will last. Epstein is such a massive U.S. catastrophe.
It's probably as close to the holocaust as we've got, it's that mass damaging and poorly handled.
💢 Voter Fury: GOP on the Brink
So people especially republican voters are putting up their fist and getting ready to bloody their own politicians.
And their politicians have no real substance in their narrative that they are flailing very wimpy hands trying to spin things.
To the point they are actually trying to tell their own voters that they are wrong rather than listen to them.
This is textbook of an autocracy.
Trump being the sociopathic narcissist criminal he is desprately in any situation or room tries to control the narrative so that it favors him.
He has done this all his life but this is lost on politicians who do lie but aren't conmen.
With Trump's mask off exposing more and more day by day to voters the monster he really is and these politician's own voters dwindling in support there really becomes only one option, absolutely 100% one option alone for their survival and the continuation of the republican party.
That is Impeachment.
🧹 The One Option: Impeachment
If they impeach Trump for his actions and the Epstein thing, then roll back the negative things he's done that people hate, they would come out looking like the heroes of justice rooting out the problems. Like these military posers ICE and their unjustified actions which is a concern for all voters, the tariffs, Epstein documents, I mean the list goes on and on.
Imagine though if they began exposing Trump, the other people involved in the Epstein situation with the release of the files and fully prosecuting to the highest extent.
It would not surprise me at all if republican voters start supporting their party again if they saw that happen along with the other fixes of issues which are in common agreement that affect them.
It's because it is only with Trump's removal that things change and shift direction.
And because they want want that change and justice to be had, doing so would make them feel seen and heard.
It would save their party and de-radicalize it.
That's only if it happens.
Best case scenario: it does and they look like the heroes turned good who once complied with evil and the democrats look like the champion of the people and republicans then have room to shift their own narrative.
Worst case scenario: republicans don't do it and they go way waaaaaaayyyy down with Trump, and the democrats become the champion of the people. Adios Vance and whoever else forever
It's really their choice here and now. Trump will have to corrupt the system to stay in power and if you think people will take that lying down you got a serious very dangerous other thing coming.
🎯 Final Thoughts
What's looking like what will win out is the people of the U.S. who in majority are willing to fight and put their fight behind whoever they need to, to get Trumps actions to stop.
What has to be understood right now is that Trump is consolidating power, trying to create a private military via ICE, seizing DC, replacing judicial forces in the courts/FBI/DOJ and so on. Which as I said is what autocracies do. There is absolutely 100% enough illegal actions taken already to take action. ICE violating California laws, substantial enough to remove or prevent and halt all operations, illegally firing FBI Agents substantial enough to remove or prevent and halt the head of the FBI, or any of the other thousands of legal violations.
In the end the people's views will win out but that is a long term ending, if nothing is done now then people will likely die and conflict will absolutely get violent. I can't imagine he'll just sit around for a whole a** year while replacing judicial forces...or hey maybe you're right and he mystically gives up on all this because midterm votes come through and he just all of the sudden gets ousted and accepts it with grace. Yeah because he's known for that right? hahah.
This is the law makers, the law enforcers, all those elected their one shot to nip this before it comes to something like that. I get everyone wants the system to work and it should but I just don't think that unless something abrupt is done right now, that there is a scenario where we won't have to come to blows, and that will not enter us into a full on skirmish. And right now you have a DOJ that won't do it, a forceable policing agency going rogue, Trump instilling rioters into his those agencies, getting rid of people who would at least voice opinions, and a supreme court under his thumb. And on the other end approximately 342,034,431 pissed off beyond belief people.
So what are my predictions? That's between me and God mwahahahaha, for now that's all you get of my super power.
