Socrates

A wise old bastard who's absolutely had it

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@atrupar This is a real retard folks. When we used to call people that in the 80's/90's this is what we were talking about

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@atrupar This man is a 4x loser in business. Has squandered billions. He has no idea what he's talking about.

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@BrendaMac58 Love how we need internet randos to explain what the "tells is exactly like it is" president is *actually* doing

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@kdl6785 @RadioFreeTom All caps. This man means business, you guys

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@ChrisMartzWX @KoriTalbot This guy tries to be a voice of RW intellectualism but this comment is a nice little look at who he really is.

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@revalpermanand @JMLV51 @atrupar I love how that is still burning you alive. Absolutely love that for you

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@JMLV51 @atrupar It's the George Floyd explanation again. He died of an overdose, it was just an unfortunate coincidence that a police officer happened to be taking a knee on his neck at the same time.

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@atrupar Republicans get further and further from Occam's Razor. They're asking you to believe a very unlikely explanation, or at least hold out for that possibility which also happens to sustain their positions. This isn't hard

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@GeraldoRivera You're still not a member of The Kittansett Club

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@DrJoelGator Wait do you not think there is a connection between a vaccine and the disease that vaccine was meant to prevent?

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@Chad4uandme @johninsc1 @shellenberger Also you could probably drop the comma between favor and retard

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@Steve_Woodward9 @johninsc1 @shellenberger You know if I didn't know better, I'd say you're triggered

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@Chad4uandme @johninsc1 @shellenberger Nah

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@SenBillCassidy No, they had to. Thankfully they won't be alive to vote for more people to die the way they did

[Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99]

This video is extremely disturbing to watch

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@mattvanswol I've been to bigger weddings

[Socrates @TheGadfly21]

@SenRonJohnson This government influencer would like you to know that the debt he helped influence is a problem and also that he can do nothing about it

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

Ron, YOU’RE IN THE FUCKING SENATE. Stop talking about the debt like you found it on the floor, YOU voted for it. You don’t get to shovel trillions onto the tab, throw on a fiscal-hawk costume, and lecture everyone else about morality and restraint.

Your last 10 votes added ~$4.25T alone:

HR6500—FY27 CR
S2—SAA
HR5371—FY26 CR
S2296—FY26 NDAA
HR3944—FY26 MINIBUS
HR1—OBBBA
S1582—GENIUS
HR1968—FY25 CR
S5—LRA
S4367—WRDA24