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Giant Trump posters, a four-hour loyalty meeting, and an Exxon deal that calls itself “peace.”

Good morning! Nearly a century ago, Marine General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on his own career. “I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914,” he wrote. “Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three cont…