The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression.
When the stock market cracked in October 1929, you had a bad recession on your hands. Painful, yes. But recessions end. What turned this one into a decade-long catastrophe was the Fed actively contracting the money supply by roughly one-third between 1929 and 1933. Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz documented this in excruciating detail in "A Monetary History of the United States." The Fed watched over 9,000 banks fail and did almost nothing. Bank failures shredded the money stock, credit collapsed, and businesses that could have survived a normal downturn got buried.
Here is the specific mechanism the textbooks gloss over. When banks failed in waves, from 1930 through 1933, the money multiplier collapsed. The Fed had every tool to offset this. Instead, in 1931, facing gold outflows, the Fed raised the discount rate from 1.5% to 3.5% in one move. You are in the middle of a deflationary spiral and the central bank jacks up the cost of borrowing. Prices fell 10% annually. Real debt burdens exploded. Farmers, manufacturers, and ordinary borrowers got crushed under obligations that grew heavier every single month.
Murray Rothbard made a different argument on top of this: the Fed's cheap credit during the 1920s built the bubble in the first place, so the liquidation was unavoidable. The Fed created the conditions for collapse, then panicked and made the correction catastrophic.
A government-chartered monopoly on money played both arsonist and fire marshal, with zero accountability either time.
“The ummah is not Italy. It has no border because it is the entire world.
This transnational identity is fundamentally antithetical to the American national sovereignty.”
So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from an Italian winning an election?
Let me tell you.
An Italian has a national identity, Italian, that is tied to a defined territory: the borders of Italy.
He may celebrate Italian holidays, follow Italian politics, send money home, or even dream of returning one day. None of this is inherently antithetical to the American nation-state.
The Italian American immigrant does not believe Ohio is part of Italy. His attachment is territorial. It is confined to a nation whose boundaries are recognized by everyone, including himself.
Islam presents something fundamentally different.
Islam is not merely a religion practiced by people from many nations. Muslims belong to a single civilization that transcends every nation.
A Muslim may be Egyptian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Bosnian, or Indonesian, but he belongs to something larger than the nation-state: the ummah.
The ummah is not a country with fixed borders. Its political horizon encompasses the entire world.
That is why Muslims repeatedly say that Islam will enter every home.
The ummah is not Italy. It has no border because it is the entire world.
This transnational identity is fundamentally antithetical to the American national sovereignty.
An Italian American may work to advance Italian causes, but those causes remain bounded by Italy.
A Jewish American may work to advance Israel’s interests, but those interests remain tied to a particular state with defined borders.
No Italian wants Italy to govern America. No Jew wants Israel to govern America. Muslims want Islam to rule America.
Islam is a state being presented to Americans as a religion, and Americans are electing Islamic politicians to rule them without realizing that they are electing citizens of another country whose priorities will never be American.
The West is handing over the world's economy to China. To China, for God's sake: an unimaginably brutal totalitarian regime.
And why?
So our hypocritical elite can continue to style themselves as planetary saviors?
Enough demoralizing doom-crying.
Enough despicable praying in public.
Enough subverting our children's future.
Enough pointless impoverishing of Europe and Australia.
Enough bloody Net Zero idiocy.
Enough.
@ShamashAran I’m not for banning them, but if one runs amok it should not be treated much differently than if the owner started negligently discharging a firearm in public.
The guy who invented dial telephones put 250,000 phone switchboard operators out of work. This was the highest paying position for women in the US. The guy who invented it was NOT an engineer or electrician, but rather, a mortician. There were two funeral homes in the town he served… his and a rival. The owner of the rival had a wife who worked as a switchboard operator. Anytime anyone called for A funeral home or HIS funeral home, she would route the call to her husband. He invented the dial phone so customers could explicitly end around switchboard operators and call someone directly. I just love this story.
Apparently the real scandal in Ceuta wasn’t tens of thousands of migrants surging across a border, scaling walls, flooding beaches, disappearing into the mountains, and overwhelming local control.
No, no. The real scandal was that someone had the nerve to film it.
Enter Anne Applebaum, elite globalist hall monitor, arriving with the galaxy-brain theory that because the footage looked exactly like what MAGA and European populists have warned about for years, the whole thing must have been “orchestrated.”
Of course. Reality agreed with the right, so reality must now be investigated for extremism.
The border didn’t fail. The camera was “divisive.”
The crowds weren’t the problem. The people sharing the footage were “amplifying” it.
The government wasn’t lying. Independent journalists were somehow creating chaos by documenting it.
And when Nick Shirley reportedly found migrants still camped on beaches and hiding in the hills ... then got chased, attacked, and threatened while filming ... we were apparently supposed to ignore that too. Wouldn’t want inconvenient evidence interrupting the prestige media’s humanitarian cosplay.
This is how the scam works. When the script collapses, the propagandists don’t admit they were wrong. They accuse the audience of noticing.
They sanitize the policy failure, interrogate the witnesses, invent sinister motives, and then pose as guardians of truth while standing knee-deep in their own bullshit.
Ceuta didn’t become a crisis because conservatives posted videos.
It became a crisis because the border broke.
The videos simply made it impossible for the globalist press to keep pretending otherwise.
So naturally, they blamed the camera.
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To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.
I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.
Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.
Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.
I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.
And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk
"Rent itself, this power relationship, this monthly tribute, that we have to fork over, to people already richer than us, to pay for our human need for a home— That itself is the crisis.”
(No one forces people to rent apartments in expensive cities like NY.)
She then says the solutions are “reputational damage” to the landlord, “organizing tenants” to withhold rent. (The tired threat of destroying others’ lives because you can’t have what you want.)
That real estate investments = “a hoard of wealth.”
(As if the buildings themselves are hogging all the cash out there.)
Another guy, “We need to take over territory… We have to fund organizations that make that possible… First, we need to get rid of common sense and listen to the troubles where they are happening.”
(So, theft, the financing of theft, and turning away from any common sense.)
The woman than says, “At the point when you’re so vulnerable… Because you have stopped paying rent, this monthly ritual, this ‘contract’ you’re supposed to turn over…. They’re recognizing their right to their homes.” (Trying to convince people that breaking the law is their right.)
Bottomline: "You have something I want, so I'm going to try to steal it." Not trying to find ways to usher in affordable housing, or to help people to get housing and employment in more affordable locations in the US, just out-of-control toddler behavior.
Women carry an enormous reserve of empathic energy.
For most of history, that energy had a destination: the child. When a society stops having children, the energy doesn’t vanish. It searches for a proxy – whatever the consequences.
The data: Atari, Lai and Dehghani (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020) measured the moral judgments of 336,691 people across 67 countries. Women score consistently higher than men on Care – protection of the vulnerable, aversion to their suffering. On Loyalty and Authority, the gap is negligible.
The striking part: the gap is widest in Western, individualist, egalitarian countries. Precisely where we are told these differences are imposed roles, they widen as the constraints are lifted.
Feminine morality does not protect the law, the rank, or the rule. It protects the being who suffers – identifiable, embodied. It will let the system collapse to save a kitten.
And when this force enters public debate without its natural anchor?
Simas, Clifford and Kirkland (APSR, 2020): the higher a person’s empathic concern, the more affectively polarized they become. Empathy is exclusive by nature – as tender toward its chosen object as it is intolerant toward whoever contradicts it.
So an energy made for the child, deprived of its recipient, fixes on the substitute — the pet, the distant stranger — and turns the fellow citizen who objects into someone to be cast out.
This is not a fault in women. It is a civilization that produced the most powerful caring instinct in nature, then removed its object. The tragedy is not that women care too much. It is that we built a world with nothing left, close at hand, to care for.
A society without children is crushed between two forces with a single origin: suicidal empathy and murderous apathy.
Washington and Oregon are burning. Homes are gone. Families are running for their lives. Entire communities are choking on black smoke while the ground turns to ash.
And right on cue, the media whores point at the sky and start screaming CLIMATE CHANGE like a bunch of brain-dead cultists.
Then the cops finally grab Aaron Farinacci for the Old Trails fire near Spokane after some alert citizen watches a guy matching his description light tall grass on fire. They find the piece of shit with waterproof matches and a lighter in his pocket. His genius reply to the police?
“You don’t know the whole story.”
Oh, we’re starting to, you murderous fucking lunatic.
This is the same Aaron Farinacci who previously shot his own father dead after an argument over doing the goddamn dishes, briefly held a gun on his mother, got a competency evaluation, pleaded down to manslaughter, served a fraction of what he deserved, and then wandered free into the Pacific Northwest like nothing happened.
But sure, keep lecturing me about my gas stove, you absolute frauds.
This is the progressive public-safety model in all its smoldering, retarded glory: lock down healthy, working citizens, shut their businesses, force masks on their kids, threaten their jobs, and call that “compassion.”
But when a violent, mentally unstable killer gets released back into society with zero supervision? Suddenly the same power-worshipping assholes discover a deep love for civil liberties. No institutionalization. No real monitoring. No accountability. Just endless taxpayer money, soft bureaucratic bullshit, and a media class standing in front of the flames blaming fucking carbon dioxide.
Climate conditions can help a fire spread.
They do not strike the goddamn match.
Progressives emptied the asylums, gutted enforcement, subsidized the chaos, ignored every warning, and then acted shocked when the forests went up in smoke.
Now the same worthless bastards who created the danger want to lecture the victims about their thermostats.
What a perfect, cynical scam:
Protect the policies.
Protect the politicians.
Protect the narrative.
And prosecute the weather.
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She decided to marry a white man and hates the whiteness part of her son
This goes beyond evil. Imagine being her son and constantly seeing your mom yap in public about how much she hates half of you
Tim Robbins reveals what Romanians told him cancel culture reminds them of and it will make you rethink everything
"I asked, what was the uptake on the vaccines in Romania? And they said something like 40%. I said, well, how do you explain that? And they said, well, you know, we lived under the Soviet Union for many years, so we know how to look like we comply when we're not complying."
"And I said, what else reminds you of the Soviet Union? And they said, without a doubt, cancel culture."
"Soviet Union used to keep files on all of us, right? So as long as you're a good party member, there wouldn't be a thing said. But once you stepped out of line, they brought out that old file. Now that affair with your secretary from 30 years ago is going to ruin your life. They're going to ruin your family. They're going to kill your career. And they're going to make a big public display of it to show other people to stay in line."
"And they felt like cancel culture was basically operating in the same way as the Soviet Union did. And it was really interesting to see that perspective in Eastern Europe."
Dear socialist friend, if the free market is so broken and collective ownership so obviously superior, your communal paradise is literally one Craigslist post away.
Pool your money, elect your planning committee, and divide the labor equally. Nobody stops you. No government permission required. 100 years of free market thinkers have been pointing this out, and somehow the commune never materializes.
Funny how that works. You want collective ownership of the steel mills, mines, and factories, but you won't collectively own a duplex in Cleveland with your equally passionate X mutuals.
Voluntary cooperation is apparently the dealbreaker.
Just... do it.
Between 1837 and 1863, the United States ran no central bank, and prices barely moved. This is no coincidence.
After Andrew Jackson killed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, America entered what historians call the Free Banking Era. Banks operated under state charters, competed with each other, and issued their own paper notes backed by gold and silver. No Federal Reserve. No lender of last resort handing out cheap money to well-connected institutions.
The result? Average annual inflation sat somewhere around zero. Some years actually saw mild deflation, meaning your dollar bought more over time. Imagine telling that to someone who watched their grocery bill climb 20% between 2020 and 2023.
Free market thinkers have pointed to this period for decades because it demonstrates a fundamental mechanism: competition keeps banks honest. If a bank in Ohio issued more paper notes than its gold reserves could support, people caught on fast and demanded redemption. The bank either held enough gold or it failed. There was no bailout waiting.
Yes, banks did fail sometimes. Free banking critics love bringing that up. But bank failures in a competitive system are exactly how bad actors get flushed out. Depositors learned to check a bank's reputation. Publications like the *Bank Note Reporter* gave people real information on which institutions were solid.
The system wasn't perfect, but it produced something modern central banking has never once delivered: sustained price stability without a government committee deciding what money should cost. The Fed has existed since 1913, and the dollar has lost over 97% of its purchasing power since then.
“We must recognize Zohran Mamdani for what he is: an enemy of the American people, a traitor to the principles of liberty, and a clear and present danger to our way of life.”
Zohran Mamdani is the walking, talking embodiment of everything that has gone catastrophically wrong with the American political system, a socialist parasite who arrived on our shores as a guest and now demands the right to dismantle the very nation that gave him shelter.
Look at this smug, arrogant fraud, this communist infiltrator who has the audacity to lecture native-born Americans about what they owe the world while he schemes to strip them of their most basic rights. He is a liar of epic proportions, a hypocrite so brazen that he makes the average politician look honest by comparison, and he is currently engaged in a war against the people of New York that would make a tin-pot dictator blush with envy. This deluded little tyrant Mamdani believes he can force working-class New Yorkers to show identification to buy a loaf of bread in one of his government-controlled markets while simultaneously fighting tooth and nail to ensure that no one needs to prove they are even a citizen to cast a ballot and decide the future of our republic. The sheer, unmitigated gall of this position reveals the true nature of the socialist agenda: control the food, control the vote, and control the people.
Let us dissect the mechanics of this deception, for Mamdani is no fool; he is a calculated enemy of freedom who understands exactly what he is doing. His so-called "public markets" are nothing more than Soviet-style distribution centers designed to create dependency and track consumption. By requiring identification to access these state-run bazaars, he is building a database of the desperate, a registry of those who have been driven to government dependency by the very policies he champions. He wants to know who you are, where you live, and what you eat. He wants to monitor your purchases, judge your choices, and eventually dictate your diet in the name of equity and sustainability. This is surveillance masquerading as charity, control dressed up as compassion. He will know if you bought meat instead of bugs. He will know if you splurged on a treat instead of saving your ration credits. He will have the power to deny you access to food based on your political views, your social media posts, or your failure to comply with his ever-shifting mandates. This is the dream of every totalitarian who has ever lived: the ability to starve dissent into submission.
And yet, this same sniveling worm Mamdani squeals like a stuck pig at the suggestion that voters should prove their identity before participating in our democracy. He calls voter ID laws racist, discriminatory, and suppressive. He claims that requiring identification to vote is an unconscionable burden on the poor and marginalized, a barrier too high for certain communities to clear. But apparently, those same communities are perfectly capable of obtaining identification when it serves his purposes of tracking their grocery purchases.
The contradiction is so blatant, so insulting to the intelligence of every thinking person, that it can only be explained by malice. Mamdani does not care about the poor. He cares about power. He cares about importing a new electorate that will vote for his socialist fantasies, and he knows that loose voter laws allow fraud to flourish. He wants illegal aliens voting. He wants dead people voting. He wants multiple votes cast by the same activists, because he knows that his ideas are too toxic to win in a fair contest. He is a fraud who seeks to rig the game while pretending to defend democracy, a snake who wraps himself in the language of rights while conspiring to steal them away.
The personal arrogance of this man is almost as offensive as his policies. Watch him speak, that condescending smirk plastered across his face, that tone of smug superiority that suggests he believes himself intellectually and morally above the very people he seeks to rule. He is a child of privilege who plays at being a revolutionary, a man who has never built anything, never created a job, never contributed a single positive thing to society, yet who believes he has the right to reorder our economy and our constitution to suit his whims. He is a cosplayer in the costume of the working class, a fraud who speaks with a fake accent of solidarity while plotting their enslavement. He is the worst kind of politician: the true believer who thinks his ends justify any means, the fanatic who cannot be reasoned with because he has replaced reason with ideology. He is a cancer on the body politic, a tumor that must be excised before it spreads.
His background is the cherry on top of this farcical sundae. This is a man who came from wealth and comfort in Uganda, who was educated in the finest institutions that Western civilization has to offer, and who has repaid that generosity by dedicating his life to the destruction of the system that raised him. He is an ingrate of the highest order, a man who bites the hand that fed him and then demands the other hand for dessert. He has learned nothing from the history of the twentieth century, nothing from the millions who starved under Soviet collectivization, nothing from the piles of bodies that socialism has produced wherever it has been tried. He is either historically illiterate or historically malicious, and neither quality recommends him for public office. He is a fool who thinks he can succeed where every socialist dictator has failed, who believes that this time, with him in charge, central planning will finally work. It will not. It cannot. And the people of New York will pay the price for his hubris.
We must recognize Zohran Mamdani for what he is: an enemy of the American people, a traitor to the principles of liberty, and a clear and present danger to our way of life. He must be opposed at every turn, exposed at every opportunity, and driven from office at the earliest possible moment. His policies must be mocked, his hypocrisy must be highlighted, and his character must be demolished until no one can take him seriously as a leader. He is not a visionary; he is a vandal. He is not a reformer; he is a wrecker. He is not a public servant; he is a public menace. The people of New York deserve better than this communist clown, this socialist snake, this arrogant, condescending, elitist fraud who thinks he can control their food and steal their votes in the same breath.
He deserves nothing but our contempt, our resistance, and our relentless determination to ensure that his political career ends in the ash heap of history where it belongs.