The Shit List
The receipts they can't delete and the patterns they’d rather you forget.
Arright, check it out. We’ve been tracking these people one post at a time, but when you stitch the receipts together, the picture changes. This isn’t just a collection of bad actors, it’s a map of the grift.
I’ve collated every exposé, every deep dive, and every “oops” point into one place so you can see exactly who is running the show and how they’re doing it.
The news cycle moves fast because they need it to move fast, they want you to lose the thread.
Well, here is the thread, pulled tight.
Read it, share it, and don’t let them tell you you’re imagining things.
DONALD TRUMP
He conned his own base
Trump literally said: “Don’t forget, MAGA was MY idea.” “I know what MAGA wants better than anyone else.” So when HIS base says no new wars, when HIS base says bring jobs back, when HIS base says release the Epstein files, he says: that’s not MAGA anymore.
He gets to move the goalposts. You don’t. You’re being played by one of the most prolific con artists in human history.
He promised no new wars. Then started one.
“On day one I will end all foreign wars.” “I want the dying to stop.” Those were his words. His rallies. His crowd chanting it back at him. 175 Iranian civilians dead.
150 American troops injured. Gas at $5. Arright. How’s that landing?
He can’t keep his own story straight on the war he started
Trump told CBS the Iran war is “very complete, pretty much.” Then an hour later said they hadn’t “won enough” and need “ultimate victory.”
Then his own Defense Secretary said the war ends on THEIR timeline. Not Trump’s. Three different stories. Same day. Same war. 150 American troops injured. 1,300 Iranian civilians dead. Oil at $120 a barrel. Very complete. Pretty much.
He’s holding the government hostage over a bill he keeps lying about
Trump’s top domestic priority right now is a bill he doesn’t even understand. The SAVE America Act.
His words: it bans mail-in voting except for illness, disability, and military.
The ACTUAL bill? Doesn’t ban mail-in voting.
It just makes it harder. His words: it would ban trans athletes and restrict gender-affirming care.
The ACTUAL bill? Doesn’t mention either.
Those provisions don’t exist. He’s holding the entire legislative agenda hostage, refusing to sign ANY other bills until this passes, based on a version of the bill that does not exist. NBC and the Brennan Center all fact-checked it this week. He’s been publicly corrected repeatedly. He keeps saying the same things.
Either the President of the United States cannot read his own legislation. Or he knows exactly what’s in it and is lying to your face to hype it up. Both options are a problem.
He threatened to blow up the global oil supply with no backup plan
Trump threatened Iran with “death, fire and fury” if they block the Strait of Hormuz, the passage that carries 20% of the world’s oil supply.
The one Iran is now mining. Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, warned this week of “catastrophic consequences” for global energy markets.
The White House’s response? They’ll figure out the naval escort plan later. Later. For the catastrophe. That’s already happening.
He’s installing loyalists in positions of power regardless of fitness
We are living in an alternate dimension.
Somehow, Ken Paxton is one step away from being a U.S. Senator. The man who was impeached by his own Republican colleagues in Texas.
Accused by his own staff of bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction. Who settled a whistleblower lawsuit with $3.3 million of taxpayer money. That guy is now in a runoff for the Texas Senate seat.
Trump leaned toward endorsing Cornyn, then the leaks started, and Paxton made what insiders called a “genius move.”
Pay attention to Texas.
Whatever happens in that runoff tells you everything about where this party is going.
PETE HEGSETH
Secretary of Defense
He gutted military leadership during an active war
Hegseth has fired or forced out the Air Force chief of staff, the Navy chief of staff, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the commander of Naval Special Warfare, and the head of SouthCom, among dozens more.
Five former Secretaries of Defense, including Trump’s own first pick Jim Mattis, wrote a joint letter to Congress calling it reckless and demanding immediate hearings. Congress did nothing.
His message to the generals who remained: “If the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.” He told our generals to quit. During a war.
He fired the people whose job was to prevent civilian casualties, before the bombs dropped
Hegseth disbanded the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, the team responsible for building no-strike lists for schools, hospitals, and religious sites, before Operation Epic Fury launched. Then on day one of the Iran war, a U.S. Tomahawk missile struck a girls’ elementary school in Minab. 175 dead.
Most of them between 7 and 12 years old. Bellingcat authenticated the video. The New York Times confirmed the missile fragments.
The U.S. is the only party in this conflict that operates Tomahawks. Trump said Iran did it. Hegseth said it’s “under investigation.” The people who would have stopped this? Gone.
His commanders are telling troops this war is a holy mission to trigger Armageddon
Over 200 formal complaints.
Every branch of the military.
More than 50 installations.
The actual quote filed in one complaint: “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”
Filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an organization whose members are 95% Christian.
Hegseth, who fired the military’s lawyers and disbanded its ethics oversight, invited a Christian nationalist pastor who doesn’t believe women should vote to lead the Pentagon’s prayer service.
The people running this war believe they are fulfilling biblical prophecy. They have the nuclear codes.
Every time he gets caught, someone else gets fired
Got exposed using the FBI jet to fly his girlfriend to a concert, fired the 27-year FBI veteran who ran the jet program. Got roasted in the New York Times by his own agents, fired another round of staff.
Got caught on a $100,000 taxpayer-funded Olympic joyride, with a whistleblower saying it delayed an FBI evidence team from a mass shooting scene, fired the Iran counterintelligence unit.
Twelve agents. Gone.
The firings came within hours or days of each unflattering story. He didn’t clean up the FBI. He cleaned up his story.
KASH PATEL
FBI Director
His money comes from America’s adversaries
Kash Patel came into office worth up to $15 million.
He consulted for the Embassy of Qatar. He advised a Czech arms conglomerate with ties to U.S. adversaries. His single largest disclosed asset: between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Shein, a Chinese fashion company.
He is the director of the FBI. The FBI’s number one national security priority is China. He disbanded the public corruption squad, the unit that investigates crimes by public officials.
His own nonprofit raised $1.3 million but spent only $212,000 on its stated mission, spending more on “advertising and promotion” than on helping anyone.
He fired the Iran watchers days before the Iran war
February 28th.
The United States launches Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
Days before? Kash Patel fired CI-12, the FBI’s entire Iran counterintelligence unit.
Not after. Not during. Before.
The agents fired had one thing in common: they’d worked on the investigation into Trump’s classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
He fired the people watching Iran. Right before we went to war with Iran. And the reason had nothing to do with Iran.
JD VANCE
Vice President
He ghosted a war
Trump launched a war. Bombs dropped. The Middle East is on fire. JD posted nothing for 72 hours. X account dark. Not in a single war room photo.
The Vice President ghosted a war.
This is the guy who built his whole brand on being anti-war.
Wrote op-eds about it.
The day before the bombs dropped he told reporters there was “no chance” of a prolonged conflict.
The next day? Bombs.
Then Trump went on camera and said Vance was “maybe less enthusiastic about going.” Your own boss. On live TV. During a war.
ERIC TRUMP
He’s profiting from the swamp his family claims to be draining
The irony of Eric Trump’s public posture vs. his private portfolio has reached a fever pitch.
He frequently takes to the airwaves to cast himself and his family as the ultimate victims.
That narrative collapses under the weight of his recent venture into the defense industry.
By investing in a drone company specifically positioned to secure lucrative Pentagon contracts, he is effectively leaning into the very “swamp” his family claims to be draining.
Decrying government overreach in the morning. Positioning himself to profit from the Department of Defense by dinner.
STEPHEN MILLER
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
He profits from the suffering he engineers
Stephen Miller is the architect of America’s mass deportation machine.
He sets the ICE arrest quotas.
He decides who gets swept up.
He runs the whole operation from the West Wing.
He also owns between $100,000 and $250,000 in stock in Palantir, the tech company that powers ICE’s entire data and surveillance infrastructure.
The more aggressive the deportation operation, the higher the government contracts. The higher the contracts, the more his stock goes up.
He is literally profiting from the suffering he is engineering. In real time. Ethics experts flagged it. Nobody did anything.
PAM BONDI
Attorney General
Her brother’s clients keep getting their charges dropped
Brad Bondi is a defense attorney.
His sister Pam Bondi is the Attorney General of the United States, the person who runs the DOJ. Since Pam took office, the DOJ has dropped charges against multiple clients represented by Brad.
That’s not a coincidence.
That’s a conflict of interest sitting in plain sight.
Nobody in the Republican Party has said a word about it.
MARKWAYNE MULLIN
Secretary of Homeland Security
He challenged a man to a fistfight in the Senate chamber and now runs ICE, FEMA, and the Secret Service
He’s the only senator in America without a college degree.
He challenged a union leader to a fistfight during a Senate hearing, on camera, in the United States Senate, and Bernie Sanders had to tell him to act like an adult.
In one year while serving in Congress his personal wealth jumped $45 million.
He believes abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape, even if the mother’s life is at risk. He found out he got the job on social media.
Trump’s announcement called him “a MAGA Warrior and former undefeated MMA fighter.”
Not experience. Not expertise. He hits people.
He now runs ICE, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and counterterrorism.
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— Zeke
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