Thread by @drawandstrike

Nobody looks too closely until AFTER the thing collapses.

EVERYBODY IS MAKING MONEY! EVERYBODY IS HAVING FUN! WHEEEEEE!

**WHY** would you LOOK too CLOSELY?!

Take FTX.

A buncha college age kids, including head slob SBF, living in a FREAKING PENTHOUSE in a luxury hotel in the Bahamas scammed and grifted billions for several years and nobody caught on what they were doing?

BULLSHIT.

It was a huge freaking money laundering operation.

They were protected.

Until suddenly....they WEREN'T.

Same thing is gonna happen to Tether. Just a question of when.

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Say what?

Usefulness to intelligence agencies, you say?

OH SHIT.

ALAMEDA RESEARCH?

Is that right?

Recall that it was SBF who secretly transferred over $10 billion of FTX client assets via backdoor access to Alameda Research, a company he supposedly no longer owned or controlled.

And much of the purloined FTX client's $ has simply disappeared and nobody knows where it went.

Did it go into Tether?

Wait, WHAT?!

No shit?

Tether has **never** been audited to verify this claim that each Tether coin is backed up by 1 US dollar, you say?

Oh my...how very interesting!

Well hey! If you can't trust an ACCOUNTING FIRM being paid by the company to make this 'attestation' who can you trust?

2017 was [checks calendar] 5 years ago.

And they're still saying they can't get this audit done until just a few more months pass by.

They even got caught transferring funds to cover the 2017 attestation from their accounting firm.

Political payoffs seem to play a huge role in allowing these crypto currency scams to keep going.

Warning signs and red flags all over the place here.

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Even the Wolf of Wall Street was loudly telling everyone several years ago Tether was a massive scam.

Well yes, if Tether does not actually have 1 US dollar tied to each new Tether coin that's sold, they are essentially PRINTING MONEY.

And for going on 10 years, everybody buying into Tether has essentially been accepting the promise that each Tether they are acquiring in transactions has a $1 US dollar value.

They are merely **taking the company's word for this**.

Oh dear...

You mean to tell me...

You REALLY mean to tell me...

...that when they launched this 'Tether' thing....

Meet former child actor and Epstein Island visitor Brock Pierce.

Sweet baby Jesus...

This is the guy they used as the front man for Tether when it launched.

Yes, Brock Pierce and his shady crew turned up at Epstein's Island in the USVI.

Pierce claims to have had no dealings with Tether since 2015, more than 8 years ago.

Ah well then.

So who's running Tether these days?

I'm glad you asked that.

Its gonna blow your mind.

Tether is currently run by this guy, Jean-Louis Van Der Velde.

So uh, the fellow who's running a $68 billion crypto currency stablecoin, THE stablecoin that's driving much of the crypto market... the stablecoin that's never been successfully audited to ascertain it's real value...is some kind of recluse you say?

Nobody knows much about him?

Is that right?

Um....yeah well ok....

So this Giancarlo Devasini guy is the one making most of the day to day decisions at both Tether and Bitfinex?

He's the hands-on guy?

This does not inspire confidence, finding out the guys' actual resume, does it?

Remember, Tether in 2022 was the 3rd biggest crypto in the world.

Oh hey at least somebody is willing to speak up in defense of this guy's shady past!

Oh wait...it's multi-billion dollar money launderer and fraudster SBF?

Never mind...that's not exactly a character reference is it?

Yup.

This is gonna be biblical when Tether collapses.

FTX may have lit the match, but it's not the only house of cards that will end up tumbling down.

Would you trust any of these men with your money?

Many cryptocurrency true believers literally shut their minds to Tether being a scam like FTX because they are so emotionally and financially wired into crypto right now.

The awful implications of Tether being a scam are just too terrible to contemplate. So they avoid the issue.

You ready for The Brutal Truth?

FTX was kept afloat for so long, and Tether is kept afloat for right now...because...

intelligence agencies and various mafias and international cartels are keeping it afloat because its just SO DARN USEFUL.

You doubt that?

Keep reading...

The Cee-Eye-Aye and other intelligence agencies are using Tether to fund their 'democracy' operations around the world.

They've done it in cool places like Myanmar and Syria.

Bet 'cha didn't know that!

How do you think the CIA and No Name funded AQ and ISIS operations without leaving a trail?

We don't negotiate with terrorists like AQ or ISIS unless we're funding them in Syria or something like that.

Which we were doing.

Now you know why Benghazi had to be covered up and moved on from FAST.

They could not have it come out that our own CIA was funding, arming and training ISIS.

Too many awkward questions, you see.

Better to avoid any nasty and unnecessary disclosures about how we create and fund and direct terrorist groups to destabilize the Middle East so we can greatly expand our military presence there and the MIC can cash in.

Remember, we're surreptitiously funding and equipping and arming and directing ISIS behind the scenes as they cut a bloody swath through Syria and Iraq while that gay motherfucker spent 4 years doing his helpless shrugging act & pretending ISIS just couldn't be stopped.

And then Trump got in there and fucked up all their plans for the Middle East by arming the Gulf Cooperation Council [the massive Saudi Arabia arms deal the MIC shrieked in high holy horror about], got a nice sword dance and then proceeded to fucking eviscerate ISIS in 4 months.

BUT I DIGRESS.

Back to Tether and why various international criminal cartels and intelligence services find it just so darn useful...

Much of The Swamp is in bed with the cartels.

Sweet, sweet mounds of cartel cash, you'd be surprised at what it can buy.

You've been conditioned to think the cartels are independent of the intelligence agencies.

Or that intel agencies have some kinda equal partnership with the criminal cartels when it comes to international human/sex/arms/drugs trafficking.

The Brutal Truth is the intel agencies OWN THE CARTELS AND RUN THEM FROM BEHIND THE SCENES.

So most people are looking at this exactly backwards.

Any criminal cartel that wouldn't play ball with the intel agencies was taken down long ago.

The only cartel players in the game these days are the ones that are intel agency owned and operated.

Another sign the intel agencies are involved:

Tether openly defied US sanctions and....nothing happened.

And now we arrive at last at...UKRAINE.

You all knew Ukraine was gonna come up, right?

All roads lead to Ukraine sooner or later, you know.

And from Ukraine they lead to...who the country that is saved for last.

Read this again:

everybody knows Tether is engaging in massive amounts of money laundering.

Nobody is tracking the transactions.

That's by design.

And this has been allowed to go on for over 10 years.

And at this point we all have a pretty good idea why this blatant money laundering has been allowed to take place.

In hindsight, it's easy to see how FTX was always just one huge massive scam.

But Tether has all the similar signs - including **many of the same players**.

Read this next part CAREFULLY.

Nobody's supposed to remember any of this these days.

This certainly makes it look like FTX and Tether were both feeding off of each other, moving funds back and forth to keep their schemes going.

Alameda Research was a huge driver of Tether's market.

Where did Tether go once that FTX money spigot got shut off?

Understand: FTX IS NO LONGER AROUND TO SEND $36 BILLION DOLLARS TETHER'S WAY TO KEEP THE SCHEME AFLOAT.

The jig is up.

The news is out.

They've finally been found out.

[Starts humming 'Renegade' by Styx]

So now that both FTX and Alameda Research got exposed and shut down, where has the $$$ come from to keep Tether afloat?

We've already sussed out that SBF wasn't really running a lot of FTX. He was a front man.

Are the people supposedly running Tether also front men?

Was that financial dance between FTX and Tether just some massive money laundering scheme being run from the shadows?

Are the people pulling the strings from the dark about to be dragged into the light?

Time will tell.

The reason the MIC [Military-INTELLIGENCE-Complex] keeps using the 'boy wonder genius' cover story?

IT WORKS.

People are naturally inclined to believe it. Boy wonder genius strikes it rich, launches successful startup!

Suckers fall for it EVERY TIME.

WHAT am I telling you with these 4 screenshots?

I'm telling you to BREAK THE PROGRAMMING.

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