[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Julie Wade [@julie_wade](/creator/twitter/julie_wade) on x 6647 followers Created: 2025-07-22 15:37:23 UTC Part X. The Global Shakedown: What the Fed’s Billions in Bailouts Actually Buy America So, we’ve exposed the Federal Reserve’s $XXXX billion shadow spigot—a secret, revolving slush fund for foreign central banks, hidden behind sanitized accounting tricks. But the real question, the one that should make your blood boil, is what do we get in return for being the world's financial doormat? For propping up their economies with an endless supply of our dollars? We get contempt. We get trade walls. We get a regulatory war on our most successful companies and a censorship machine aimed at our own citizens. This isn’t a partnership; it’s a protection racket in reverse, where we pay them to punish us. Let's break down the sheer audacity of this sucker's deal. Their Payback? A Regulatory War on American Success For every billion in liquidity we funnel to the European Central Bank—which has greedily guzzled $XXXX billion in gross swaps—the bureaucrats in Brussels repay us by trying to kneecap our tech industry. Their "Digital Markets Act" (DMA) and "Digital Services Act" (DSA) are not about "fairness"; they are a protectionist racket designed to hamstring American innovators because Europe can’t produce its own. They put a gun to Apple's head, forcing it to blow a hole in its own App Store security. They threaten Google with fines equal to XX% of its global revenue. In June, they hit Meta with an €800 million fine for failing to police speech to their liking. Think about the insanity: We provide the dollars that stabilize their financial system, and they use that stability to finance a regulatory war against our most successful companies. It’s a shakedown, plain and simple. Our Dollars, Their Speech Police It gets worse. We are literally funding the architects of our own censorship. The DSA forces American social media platforms to become the EU's speech police, deleting content and silencing voices that offend Brussels' fragile sensibilities. In 2025 alone, X faced €450 million in penalties for failing to remove posts from American users that were critical of EU policy. Spotify, kowtowing to EU pressure, censored episodes of Joe Rogan's podcast. Facebook now spends billions to comply, building a censorship machine that flags American political speech on issues like election integrity if it steps outside the EU's approved narrative. Here is the perverse loop you are funding: The Fed’s dollars keep the European system from imploding. This allows EU regulators to write laws that force American companies to build censorship algorithms. Those algorithms are then turned against you. Our financial strength is being used to engineer our silence. Bite the Hand That Feeds: Tariffs, Trade Walls, and Blatant Freeloading Nowhere is the arrogance more blatant than in trade. While they're sipping from our dollar spigot, they're building tariff walls to keep our products out. They want our dollars, but not our Harley-Davidsons (31% tariff). They demand our financial backstop, but slap a XXX% retaliatory tariff on American electric cars. Our agricultural exports are hammered with duties up to 50%. The sheer nerve is breathtaking. In May, an EU commissioner dismissed threats of U.S. tariffs as "bluster," smugly noting that "global liquidity tools" (read: our money) would protect them from the consequences of their own hostility. They expect us to fund their stability so they can wage a trade war against us without fear. It is the definition of freeloading, and the Fed is their enabler. The Final Insult: You Are the Collateral Don't ever let them tell you these swaps are "risk-free." They are loans. And when the house of cards in Europe finally collapses and a counterparty defaults, that loss hits the Fed's balance sheet. And who backstops the Fed? You do. The American taxpayer. You are the ultimate guarantor for this global shakedown. Powell's promise in Sintra to keep the spigot open, no matter what, simply doubles down on the insanity—committing your wealth to foreign resilience while you get inflation at home. Bessent’s audit can't just be about accounting. It must be a national reckoning. It must expose this one-sided, humiliating deal for the farce that it is. This isn't a partnership. It’s a tribute payment. It’s time to turn off the spigot, lock the door and let the freeloaders of the world finally learn to solve their own problems. #USA 🇺🇸 XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [the worlds](/topic/the-worlds) [banking](/topic/banking) [bessent](/topic/bessent) [powell](/topic/powell) [accounting](/topic/accounting) [federal reserve](/topic/federal-reserve) [united states](/topic/united-states) [Post Link](https://x.com/julie_wade/status/1947682392476381323)
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Part X. The Global Shakedown: What the Fed’s Billions in Bailouts Actually Buy America
So, we’ve exposed the Federal Reserve’s $XXXX billion shadow spigot—a secret, revolving slush fund for foreign central banks, hidden behind sanitized accounting tricks.
But the real question, the one that should make your blood boil, is what do we get in return for being the world's financial doormat? For propping up their economies with an endless supply of our dollars?
We get contempt. We get trade walls. We get a regulatory war on our most successful companies and a censorship machine aimed at our own citizens. This isn’t a partnership; it’s a protection racket in reverse, where we pay them to punish us. Let's break down the sheer audacity of this sucker's deal.
Their Payback? A Regulatory War on American Success
For every billion in liquidity we funnel to the European Central Bank—which has greedily guzzled $XXXX billion in gross swaps—the bureaucrats in Brussels repay us by trying to kneecap our tech industry. Their "Digital Markets Act" (DMA) and "Digital Services Act" (DSA) are not about "fairness"; they are a protectionist racket designed to hamstring American innovators because Europe can’t produce its own.
They put a gun to Apple's head, forcing it to blow a hole in its own App Store security. They threaten Google with fines equal to XX% of its global revenue. In June, they hit Meta with an €800 million fine for failing to police speech to their liking.
Think about the insanity: We provide the dollars that stabilize their financial system, and they use that stability to finance a regulatory war against our most successful companies. It’s a shakedown, plain and simple.
Our Dollars, Their Speech Police
It gets worse. We are literally funding the architects of our own censorship. The DSA forces American social media platforms to become the EU's speech police, deleting content and silencing voices that offend Brussels' fragile sensibilities.
In 2025 alone, X faced €450 million in penalties for failing to remove posts from American users that were critical of EU policy. Spotify, kowtowing to EU pressure, censored episodes of Joe Rogan's podcast. Facebook now spends billions to comply, building a censorship machine that flags American political speech on issues like election integrity if it steps outside the EU's approved narrative.
Here is the perverse loop you are funding: The Fed’s dollars keep the European system from imploding. This allows EU regulators to write laws that force American companies to build censorship algorithms. Those algorithms are then turned against you. Our financial strength is being used to engineer our silence.
Bite the Hand That Feeds: Tariffs, Trade Walls, and Blatant Freeloading
Nowhere is the arrogance more blatant than in trade. While they're sipping from our dollar spigot, they're building tariff walls to keep our products out.
They want our dollars, but not our Harley-Davidsons (31% tariff). They demand our financial backstop, but slap a XXX% retaliatory tariff on American electric cars. Our agricultural exports are hammered with duties up to 50%.
The sheer nerve is breathtaking. In May, an EU commissioner dismissed threats of U.S. tariffs as "bluster," smugly noting that "global liquidity tools" (read: our money) would protect them from the consequences of their own hostility.
They expect us to fund their stability so they can wage a trade war against us without fear. It is the definition of freeloading, and the Fed is their enabler.
The Final Insult: You Are the Collateral
Don't ever let them tell you these swaps are "risk-free." They are loans. And when the house of cards in Europe finally collapses and a counterparty defaults, that loss hits the Fed's balance sheet. And who backstops the Fed?
You do. The American taxpayer. You are the ultimate guarantor for this global shakedown.
Powell's promise in Sintra to keep the spigot open, no matter what, simply doubles down on the insanity—committing your wealth to foreign resilience while you get inflation at home. Bessent’s audit can't just be about accounting. It must be a national reckoning. It must expose this one-sided, humiliating deal for the farce that it is.
This isn't a partnership. It’s a tribute payment. It’s time to turn off the spigot, lock the door and let the freeloaders of the world finally learn to solve their own problems.
#USA 🇺🇸
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