Ryan Ramone

Husband. Dad. Photographer. What can you do to help someone today? We Are All Connected. “You have power over your mind - not outside events"- M. Aurelius #BTC

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

I DON’T subscribe to pride month.

What you choose to do with your personal life sexually isn’t my business nor do I need it advertised constantly.

America would be a much better place if we spent more time recognizing fathers & mothers who go above and beyond raising kids.

Being a parent is TOUGH. It requires lots of sacrifice.

We need to get back to recognizing true heroes of the world.

“Strong Parents” who raise great independent leaders.

Strong parents:
lower crime
Lower taxes
Lower confusion

Let’s get back to celebrating great parents again.

It’s not a difficult task.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

Amazing that this organization is not required to register as a foreign agent.

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@scottmelker Absolutely! Plan is to lose all my money

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@benjamincowen

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@jakeshieldsajj Now do @lexfridman

[Balaji @balajis]

WESTERN ANTI-DEMOCRACIES
The underlying issue is that "democratic" governments are actually wildly democratically unpopular, as you can see from the recent image below:

Basically, Washington DC and its Western European satellite states would not retain control — or the ability to steal as much money from their people — if they allowed truly free speech and free markets.

And that's why they've become so anti-democratic:

- Building one-party states (eg California)
- Faking the news (eg Russiagate)
- Censoring the internet (eg Hunter Biden story)
- Show trials of political opposition (eg Trump)
- Weaponizing commercial law (eg Elon Delaware)
- Arresting tech founders (eg France)
- Imprisoning people for tweets (eg UK)
- Blowing up Nordstream, then covering it up
- Funding COVID-19, then hiding that too
- Fomenting war and cold war everywhere

The list goes on and on. This is also why they blather so much about democracy. Censoring the Hunter Biden story during the 2020 election shows they're about as genuinely "democratic" as the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.

Indeed, Communist states also called themselves democratic over and over, for very similar reasons. Because just like "communism" meant one-party rule by the Communist Party, this type of "democracy" just means one-party rule by the Democrat Party — or their wholly owned blue subsidiaries in places like the UK and France.

(To prove it, ask a partisan Democrat if they'd push for actual democracy, in the sense of competitive multiparty elections. Of course not — if they reduced gerrymandering, they might elect a Republican! And that of course would be an attack on "democracy." Thus does the epistemic loop close.)

Anyway, the whole point of Western anti-democracy is to frustrate the democratic voice of the people in favor of one-party control by an illegitimate, parasitic regime. But why?

BUT WHY?
Why do blues care about control so much? Are they simply sadists, who want to see the streets of their own capitals covered in filth while innocents are assaulted by criminals?

I mean, that's surely part of it. But another huge part is that blues are more interested in stealing money from the people via $100B trains to nowhere than in any kind of genuine public service. And that is why they will fight so bitterly to retain control: blues are looting world historical amounts of money and want to continue doing that.

THE BLUE BUSINESS MODEL
This is a huge concept, but you can get the idea in just one graph from the city of San Francisco. Note how the budget of this homeless "prevention" agency went from $200M to $1B+ per year, while the homeless population skyrocketed?

That's because these Democrat drug dealers get paid for increasing the homeless population.

They do the marketing, by putting up billboards for hard drugs like the one below. They manage the supply chain, by handing out syringes. They secure the real estate in the form of "safe injection sites." And they handle compliance, by suing in the courts and abolishing the police.

And that is why blue cities have become shitholes: because blues get paid for making them into shitholes! This is the Dem Scam. They are McKinsey for MS-13, essentially management consultants for murderous drug dealers.

Blues have their smarts, though. The primary blue business model innovation is to avoid taking a small cut of a $10 fentanyl transaction in lieu of taking all of the $1B+ for fentanyl "prevention."

Blues are, in short, criminals posing as cops. Like the Communist Party, the Democrat Party is a pack of government criminals. You can see it from their sympathies — among other things, this is why blues wanted to abolish the real police, so they could loot in peace.

That's also why they destroy democracy in blue-controlled areas like California: by turning them into one-party states they avoid all accountability for their crimes.

PROVE AND SCALE
Once the homeless industrial complex model was proven in San Francisco, it was scaled to the rest of the US and the world.

I mean, going from $200M to $1B/year as per that graph above is huge! It's more than Uber makes in SF. If that was a venture-backed business, you'd scale it everywhere.

And so the blues did. Thus you get San Francisco on the Seine. Paris imported not just the tech of California, but the woke of California as well:

Now you might say: well, this is unethical!

And of course, the blues who do this completely lack ethics. Blues are getting innocent people, largely minorities, addicted to drugs in order to make money for their NGOs. They're also letting innocent people get attacked on the streets. Blues are befouling their own neighborhood for a quick buck. This is genuinely evil behavior.

But we know that kind of person exists. After all, that's why drug dealers exist. And that's why Democrat drug dealers exist.

THAT'S WHY THEY DO IT
So, that's why Western anti-democracies will fight so hard to remain in power: because they want to steal your money. Because of the blue business model.

And the blue business model isn't limited to Democrat drug dealing, of course. There are endless variations, both American and foreign. Some examples:

a) Blues made money from the $100B California train to nowhere, which produced billions for unions and zero miles of rail.

b) Blues made money by forgiving student loans for blues while imposing punishing taxes on reds.

c) Blues make money from every bill they pass, which always includes appropriations for blue-controlled universities or subsidies for blue-controlled nonprofits.

d) And above all, blues make money by literally making money — by printing money via the Fed. This is the largest theft in human history, and the printed bucks go largely to blues.

Anyway, there's more I can say, but you start to get the point. The reason Western anti-democracies are cracking down on democracy is because they want to protect the blue business model. Many blues just wouldn't have as much money, or as much status, without their parasitic states. So: trillions of dollars is at stake, and they will play for keeps.

PS: There's only one force that's stronger than blue, and that's orange. But that's a topic for another day.

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@CryptoWendyO Yes!

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@indexsy My man!

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@blogbizznass Sorry man. We’ve all been there….

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

Milton Friedman said it best:

“Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax.

There is no such thing as an unbalanced budget. You PAY FOR IT either in the form of taxes, or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt.”

Fact check: TRUE ✅

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@garethaboyd @googlesearchc Exactly Gareth! Silver lining my man!

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

You’re not rich or influential enough to require a political opinion.

The country is 90% sheep who will do whatever they are told by who says it loudest. The end.

Unless you have 500 mil + n mega clout you have zero impact in this game of sheep . So just shut up n work.

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

The passage below reveals the true motive behind the NY Times hit piece on Bari and the Free Press: envy.

When Bari left the Times in 2020, her career was supposed to die a quick death, as far as they were concerned. Instead, she won the break up by doing what few people thought possible: creating a real competitor to legacy media outlets.

What irks them most is not that Bari curates interesting articles. It's that she also gets the kind of insane scoops that are supposed to be the special province of legacy media––e.g., Aleksei Navalny's posthumous letters!

That turns the Free Press from an interesting newsletter into something far scarier: a true competitor.

It was considered impossible to create a competitor to legacy car companies. Then Tesla did it. And the incumbents hated them for it.

It was considered impossible to create a competitor to legacy media outlets that have brand loyalty going back a century.

Now the Free Press has done it and, predictably, the incumbents hate us for it. @bariweiss @TheFP @nytimes

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

The worst kind of bankruptcy is when you no longer believe in yourself.

That level of spiritual and mental bankruptcy can destroy your BIGGEST dreams.

You will experience setbacks.
You will make bad decisions at times.
You will lose money at times. Sometimes all your money.
You will lose great clients at times.
You will lose great employees at times.

At 24 years old after having started 7 businesses I was in debt $49,000 in credit card with -$700 in my checking account.

It seemed like nothing was going my way.

I had 3 things going for myself at the time.

1. I read 4-8 books every month.

Every biography and business book I read, shared stories of the greatest leaders who came close to giving up.

The fruits of their labor was almost always right after they almost gave up.

Like Churchill says “ if you’re going through hell, keep going”.

2. I went to 4 business conference every single year since 21 years old.

This by pure coincidence forced me to be around people who were ahead of me in life.

Usually, they were 3-5 levels ahead of me in life. This challenged the hell out of me.

The constant upgrade in association, put me in a place to realize what was around the corner if I continued.

They both exposed leaks in my mindset or strategies I was using in business as well as validated what I was doing right.

3. I NEVER missed church on Sundays.

This gave me the most powerful gift.

FAITH: Belief in a brighter future

This became an edge.

It was as if a higher power was with me throughout my journey.

Fast forward 21 years later, and not much has changed.

1. I’m still consuming the same amount of content if not more

2. I’m still attending 4+ conferences every year.

Except now the associations are at much higher levels than I currently am.

Just a month ago, Jennifer and I were invited to a an exclusive event with 60 families where the minimum net worth of the families wealth was a billion. We were ranked last as a family in that room.

3. God is still the cornerstone of my life.

There’s no way I could handle running 9 companies with thousands of employees/agents nationwide.

Being married with 4 active kids.

Running a podcast.

Interviewing guests.

Researching.

Doing my best to stay active and healthy.

All on my own.

This is a byproduct of the faith and believing that he’s got his hands on everything we have going on.

He’s always brought the right people in our lives at the right time when we’re ready for it.

I couldn’t do all of this on my own.

Once again, if this isn’t the best season of your life, remember that the worst kind of bankruptcy is when you no longer BELIEVE.

Future looks bright!

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@benjamincowen You better be going to Vegas next year Ben!

[Balaji @balajis]

ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.

Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.

1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.

Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?

2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.

3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.

For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.

4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.

But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

@CryptoWendyO Easiest call ever. Yet, this concept no one can grasp ….

[Ryan Ramone @Ryanramone27]

Solid advice

[Digital Asset News @NewsAsset]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Some audiobook recommendations:

The Story of Civilization by Durant
Iliad (Penguin Edition)
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
American Caesar by Manchester
Masters of Doom by Kushner
The Wages of Destruction by Tooze
The Storm of Steel by Junger
The Guns of August by Tuchman
The Gallic Wars by Caesar
Twelve Against the Gods by Bolitho
Genghis Khan by Weatherford

The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile.

Admittedly, this is a list that appeals to those who think about Rome every day.

I hope someone makes an audiobook of The Encyclopedia of Military History by Dupuy and The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Creasy.