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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts

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From: Sun Tzu10/26/2025 7:08:44 PM
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America is dead; long live Americanistan!

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In May 1605, Camillo Borghese became Pope Paul V. Two months later, he made his 27 year-old nephew Scipione a cardinal.

The boy had never served a parish. Never studied theology. In fact, he wasn't even a priest yet.

They fixed that problem in 11 days. Minor orders on July 31st. Subdiaconate August 1st. Diaconate August 5th. Priesthood August 7th. Cardinal by August 12th.

One week to transform a law student into a prince of the Church. The qualification process was arduous: adopting his uncle's surname and accepting the red hat.

Within weeks, Scipione brought his lover Stefano Pignatelli to Rome, creating such scandal that cardinals and ambassadors formally complained to the Pope, demanding Pignatelli's banishment.

The Pope's solution was ordaining the lover and eventually making him a cardinal too.

'Nepotismo' entered language as the word everyone practiced but nobody defended.

Barron Trump, still a teenager, is being positioned for TikTok's board, overseeing an algorithm that shapes more American minds than any newspaper, any network except perhaps the presidency itself.

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More at linkedin.com

I have this this mental image of Trump looking at a picture of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden together and singing,

"Anything you can do, I can do better.
I can stink more than you'd ever could!"

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