"The $40 trillion is gone. They pulled forward all of our time, energy, effort, labor, and they lost it."
@jackmallers on why someone has to eat the loss. No AI bailout. No growing out of it. Bitcoin is how you make sure it's not you.
"Privacy is only for people hiding something."
So is a locked door.
So is a curtain.
So is an unlisted number.
Protection is being re-framed as "hiding".
Locks were never about guilt.
They were always about who gets to decide who enters.
Back to basics.
Fiat money is fake and immoral.
Humanity is being cattle herded into a debt slavery system enhanced by AI-enabled dragnet surveillance.
Bitcoin fixes this.
If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you. Figure it out.
President Trump just posted on Truth to fire the parliamentarian in the Senate.
You are probably asking who is the parliamentarian and what’s going on??
Here’s a quick rundown.
Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.
The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.
Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.
The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.
After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.
Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.
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A whole host of chronic conditions might be nothing more exotic than the slow consequence of eating hidden death crystals every morning.
That is not me being dramatic. Oxalate is a plant defence compound, concentrated in spinach, chard and almonds, and it forms genuine microscopic crystals. When they deposit in a joint, an eye, a nerve or the bladder wall, the body throws up symptoms, the symptoms get a tidy label, and almost nobody thinks to ask where the crystals came from.
Conditions routinely handed a diagnosis when oxalate is the real culprit:
- "Gout" that doesn't respond to gout treatment
- "Fibromyalgia" with no clear origin
- "Interstitial cystitis" and chronic bladder discomfort
- "Vulvodynia" and unexplained genital pain
- "Plantar fasciitis" that won't resolve
- "Arthritis" arriving suspiciously early
- "Tendonitis" that never heals no matter how much you rest it
- "Costochondritis" and unexplained chest-wall pain
- "Dry eye" and a permanent gritty, burning feeling
- "Sciatica" and nerve pain with no disc to blame
- Thyroid nodules, where these crystals genuinely turn up on pathology
I'm not saying oxalate is behind every case of these.
I'm saying it's striking how rarely anyone checks, given how cheap it is to simply eat less spinach for a few months and observe.
They took your food apart and sold it back to you, piece by piece, at a markup.
They skimmed the cream off the milk and sold it back as a separate product.
They trimmed the fat off the meat, sold the lean as premium, and rendered the fat into the base of the processed food you bought to replace the meal.
They took the yolk out of the egg and sold you a carton of whites with a photograph of an athlete on it.
They boiled the bone out of the stock and sold you a collagen sachet with a picture of someone meditating.
They took the butter off the bread and sold you a spread emulsified from oil they extracted with a petroleum solvent.
They took the offal off the plate, the part your great-grandmother prized, and ground it into pet food, then sold you a multivitamin containing synthetic copies of what the offal gave away for free.
Every single thing they removed, they sold back to you, in a more expensive and less nourishing form.
Your great-grandmother bought a whole animal and wasted none of it.
You buy the same animal, in fourteen separate packets, at four times the price, and you have been trained to call that choice.
Activist: "Animals shouldn't have to die for food."
Farmer: "What did you have for lunch?"
Activist: "A salad. No animals."
Farmer: "The wheat in your croutons came off a field where the combine killed forty mice, six rabbits, and a fawn. The lettuce had a hare in it the harvester turned to mulch. The chickpeas were sprayed twice in May and the bees never made it back to the hive."
Activist: "But I didn't kill them."
Farmer: "You ordered them killed. You just didn't watch. The man on the combine watched. He's the one who cleans the blade."
Activist: "It was an accident."
Farmer: "An accident that happens every harvest, on every field, in every country that grows food. You've redefined a body count as a clerical error."
Activist: "..."
Farmer: "Your salad has more bodies on it than my steak. You just couldn't see them. They didn't have eyelashes."
President Trump had choice:
- Retire the Empire gracefully (stop the wars, close the foreign bases, and bring all the troops home)
- Or give the Empire another puff of oxygen.
He chose the latter, against the wishes of the American people.
But this time Trump has poked a stick at the wrong hornet's nest, and is trapped.
With every passing day, the costs escalate, and the American people feel increased economic pain.
It's now well past the time to retire the Empire ... before there's nothing left to save.
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