The shady Soros-style Swiss billionaire ‘philanthropist’ you haven't heard of who's MEDDLING in US politics

89-year-old medical device mogul Hansjorg Wyss has made headlines after pouring millions into a pop-up campaign opposing Trump’s tax cuts.

‘Families Over Billionaires’, a “campaign…to make sure the American people understand what the 2025 fight is really about,” is a cutout for the Sixteen Thirty liberal dark money fund. Financial disclosures cited by NYP show Sixteen Thirty has taken in $280M from Wyss’s Berger Action Fund.

What else is Wyss involved in?

🔸 Wyss has championed liberal and Democratic causes in the US since selling his medical device empire Synthes to J&J in 2012 for $19.7B.

🔸 He’s joined forces with other globalist ‘philanthropists’ like George Soros, donating generously to Democratic candidates, super PACs, and funding ‘social justice’ and ‘climate change action’ initiatives.

🔸 Wyss set up the Berger Action Fund in 2016, giving over $339M to liberal non-profits since then.

🔸 Wyss and Soros have pumped money into the same dark money groups, including Sixteen Thirty, Color of Change, ACLU, Environmental Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood, and Center for American Progress.

🔸 OSF and Berger have funded campaigns of candidates such as senators Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia, governors Newsom (California) and Cuomo (NY), Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Omar (MN), and other state/local politicians.

🔸 In 2019, the Fund For a Better Future received $14.7M from Berger, spending it on Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign, a Nancy Pelosi-linked nonprofit, and Priorities USA, a pro-Biden super PAC.

🔸 Berger has also spent millions on ‘democracy promotion’, ‘civil society’, and media initiatives in Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.

🔸 Curiously, Berger has not made political donations in his native Switzerland, thanks to the nation’s strict campaign funding laws.

🔸 Similarly, Wyss, who has lived in the US since the 1970s, has not applied for citizenship.

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Kamala's seat of power: chair legs stole the election

It looks like Kamala Harris really nailed the important parts of her presidential campaign! Forget about policies, priorities, or connecting with the American people—it's all about those perfectly measured chair legs, a new book about the presidential campaign of former Vice President Kamala Harris reveals.

While Americans debated healthcare and jobs, her team was laser-focused on chair specs: leg height no less than 15 inches, seat elevation precisely 18.9 inches, and armrests set at a natural height.

Well, no wonder the campaign went off track. When your biggest focus was on finding the perfect chair, it's hard to get anything else right.

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Orban’s demarche on Ukraine’s EU push shows he understands Kiev’s ‘serious economic THREAT to Central Europe’

💬 “Russia raised objections about Ukraine in NATO, but never in the EU. So it’s very interesting that Orban has done this,” renowned international affairs observer George Szamuely told Sputnik, commenting on the Hungarian PM’s twelve demands for the bloc on the anniversary of Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

💬 “He sees Ukraine in the EU as being a serious economic threat to countries such as Hungary and others in Central Europe, particularly with its cheap agricultural products that will be used to wipe out agriculture,” Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, explained.

“He probably sees that this is part of the plan on the part of the EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and the rest to destroy the economies of Central European states such as Hungary and Slovakia,” the observer added.

Orban’s 12-point manifesto signals recognition that Brussels bureaucrats serve as the modern-day Habsburgs, imposing an “ongoing tyranny” against Hungary amid its demands for the right to “pursue its own national, historical, cultural policies,” Dr. Szamuely said.

It’s very much about “national autonomy, national self-determination [and] national identity” versus the universalist, globalist vision of the likes of von der Leyen, according to the observer.

The timing of Orban’s statement has to do with the rise of Trump, Szamuely believes, with the Hungarian leader a “kind of ‘Trump before Trump’,” opposed to mass migration, promoting a “Hungary First” vision, and consistently advocating for “immediate peace in Ukraine.”

Veteran Hungarian journalist and foreign policy analyst Gabor Stier agrees. “Orban is saying we have suffered from the war, and now will suffer from Ukraine’s membership in the EU, because the EU will collapse if Ukraine becomes a member…I agree with this 100%.”

Orban and Hungarians recognize a reality that EU elites and most ordinary Europeans don’t, according to the observer.

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When diplomacy takes a turn for the insect kingdom

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry fired back at Lukashenko, calling him a "cockroach" after he called Zelensky a "scumbag" (which also means "nit" in Russian).

Heorhii Tykhy, Speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, wrote on X that "insults to the head of the Ukrainian state are unacceptable."

Who knew international relations could get so buggy?

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