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  • Sorry, wasn’t trying to imply you did support that, but that is definitely a concern with the people who are trying to dismantle the entire federal government. There is a good chance that if Trump is allowed to fire Powell, the ultimate goal will be to replace it with some sort of deregulated banking system.

    If the federal reserve is successfully abolished and all banks essentially just become fully deregulated private businesses, your only option would be to trust a private business to hold your money for you or bury it all in a mayonnaise jar.

    In just seems like if there were some kind of economic crisis, the safer bet would have to be a bank independently backed by its own standard/reserve instead of expecting a bailout.

    I actually wouldn’t even necessarily be opposed to that in a normal world if there were enforceable laws and federal regulations that prevented billionaires from creating state protected monopolies instead of encouraging them. However, Thiel and Trump both see elimination of any competition as a smart business model, not corruption.

    They might just assume people will eventually be forced to use their banking systems because they might end up being the only option. I’m just trying to understand the rationale (if there is one) for why Trump and Thiel would both try to open competing cryptobanks.

    Obviously neither is trustworthy, they’ve both bankrupted multiple business deals in the past, but without the reserve, I feel like the most rational way to make one more competitive than the other would be to leverage some other resource they hold a monopoly on to make their bank the safer option, at least by comparison to one without any similar leverage.


  • But without the federal reserve or something else guaranteed to back it why would you hand your money to the most corrupt and impulsive people in existence and assume your money is safe because they’re holding on to it for you?

    Traditional banks have tanked the economy and had to be bailed out multiple times. The only rational reason to trust them is the federal reserve.

    Why would you assume it’s any safer to hand it to the people who literally just tanked the economy after they reshuffled or stole every penny they could get their hands on and dumped it into AI.


  • Not like a physical piece obviously but instead of having money backed by gold or a federal reserve, it would just be like backed by a resource you can be confident the bank holds an abundance (or in Thiel’s case a monopoly on). Since you know the resources are valuable and held by the bank, you have something backing up whatever you put in the bank.

    When a bank gets robbed or loses the physical cash you put in it for some reason, and you don’t have a federal reserve to replace it, what is the actual incentive to keep the money in a traditional bank vs just moving it to crypto where there is access to a guaranteed valuable resource (because the evil asshole that owns the bank also has a monopoly on the valuable resource).

    If a bank like JP Morgan can only protect people’s money by profits earned from their investments, don’t they just become a sort of middle man?

    Not like they’re an innocent mom and pop in all of this, but I do not look forward to the day Peter Thiel controls 24/7 tracking surveillance, all of our data, and our entire banking system. Idk just seems like a bad idea. Even though he’s a “libertarian.”


  • Forgive me,(this is why we need the oligarchs to handle our money for us), but if you got rid of the federal reserve and the U.S. dollar and planned to replace the dollar with crypto, why not just replace the former gold standard with some other resource like uranium?

    If every billionaire is starting their own cryptobank, what else incentivizes people to use one bank’s currency over another? It’s got to (hopefully) be something other than the reputation and trustworthiness of the men that own the bank.

    If you have money in the bank, then suddenly the federal reserve is abolished what reason do you have to keep your money in a standard bank (like JP Morgan) other than their own questionable history/reputation and the assumption they can back the money you keep there with their investments.

    If an emerging energy crisis were to make uranium one of the most valuable resources available, why assume your money is any safer in JP Morgan than a cryptobank that’s owned by the guy who also owns the own uranium mine that everyone else is investing in?


  • Hypothetical question: If you were an evil villain with way too much influence, who has always wanted to control the economy, and you were successfully able to get rid of the federal reserve, what would stop you from backing your new cryptobank with some other natural resource that you hold control over?

    Like if you had your own crypto bank, and you could back the crypto dollar your bank offers with something like uranium, why not? Wouldn’t it just be acting as the actual incentive to make somebody place more faith in your crypto scheme vs another one? Without the federal reserve wouldn’t you just be relying on traditional banks to protect your money by investing in things like uranium and other resources?.

    Would there even have to be a single resource new cryptobanks rely on or could any new bank back their cryptocurrency with whatever natural resource(s) the owners of the bank also happened to hold? Like maybe some banks are backed by the value of uranium, some other bank has their cryptocurrency backed by oil or lithium? Basically whatever natural resources they’re hoarding.

    It seems like it would kind of undermine the entire idea of even having a traditional banking system? What would be the point of putting your money in a traditional bank without the federal reserve, and what else would actually incentivize you to use one cryptobank over the other?



  • its now obvious they’re nothing but scum charlatans who sold out the American people for the chance to rape some kiddies with their billionaire buddies.

    Hey now, they also have to get rich while doing it, and at the real heart of the decision over siding with Trump on the federal reserve, is the fact that the old faction of wealthy pedophiles who control this country, will be making a big change and potentially accepting a pretty significant risk for the way business is conducted in the U.S.

    This is literally the only reason supreme court justice oligarchs might not automatically side with Trump on this.

    Trump is on board. Thiel is on board. The real question is will the old, old, old, Mayflower blue blood pedophiles be dumb or bold enough to give the approval to move the entire U.S. economy to crypto, just because two of the dumbest and most insane conmen from the newer faction of wealthy pedophiles, (who also, coincidentally happen to be foreign assets), are trying to convince them it’s a great idea that will be too big to fail?

    Not sure if there will be something that is actually proposed back the crypto based economy, but when you think about why gold was ever given such an arbitrarily high value in the first place, why not just replace it with some other natural resource or resources that are currently being snatched up by some of the world’s most evil oligarch’s?

    (Like, if you were looking to get rid of the old guard who made their fortune in oil money wars and already hold most of the gold, maybe you’d hit the jackpot by buying a uranium mine and starting your own cryptobank just in time for an energy crisis to emerge because you and your friends are “saving the world” with AI data centers…)

    The economy remains fucked for the plebs regardless of how this goes, but if they do agree to finally just let Trump gut the federal reserve, they will also definitely snatch up all the crypto they can get their hands on in hopes of continuing to control and influence the majority of the U.S. economy. At that point, there does seem to be a risk one of the many other countries that used to be our enemies, but are apparently now our frenz, could come along and fuck over even the oldest money American blue bloods in the biggest modern day crypto scam in history (so far).

    If that happens, then it means we’re all fucked over, including any of the blue bloods/old money crew who weren’t really as in on the long con as they believed they were.

    If the old faction is out of the way, Peter Thiel (and/or whoever else from the old faction has probably been backing him for quite some time, but is smart enough not to advertise it) will likely be prepared/be protected/rewarded for getting the job done. Thiel then becomes one step closer to finally holding the majority of the cards (at least publicly) within the new authoritarian surveillance monarchy he’s always dreamed of ruling.

    However, that is just one possibility. It seems that the world’s richest scumbags realized a long time ago that crypto does legitimately offer them a way to continue to conduct their illegal businesses without a paper trail (hence whatever is in those Epstein/Thiel bank transaction records JP Morgan won’t release). So there is also a chance it’s not a scam/risk of toppling the old money authoritarian pedophiles to replace them with new ones, and that the U.S. and eventually the rest of the world becomes a crypto backed economy while everything continues as normal for the Mayflower crew and their new money friends in Club Ped.

    Either way, as usual, we all get fucked over regardless of how any of this plays out for them. And, as usual, we don’t really have much of a say in what happens.

    However, considering everything is absolute shit right now, we also don’t have much keeping us blissfully distracted (other than the threat of civil war and the tease of justice for the publicly outed members of Club Ped, which will probably never actually materialize), so why not make sure they know that the angry mob with pitchforks actually knows what they’re fucking doing, even if we can’t stop them from doing it?

    Last week:Trump family’s crypto firm seeks bank charter

    Oct 2025: JPMorgan Chase to Unlock Billions: Crypto Collateral for Loans Signals New Era

    Oct 2025: JPMorgan to Let Clients Use Bitcoin and Ethereum (Peter Thiel’s cryptobank) as Collateral for Loans

    March 2025: Rep. Massie Introduces Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act to “End the Fed”


  • I know everything is a distraction from everything else, but that’s kinda the point of flooding the zone. (Yes, even when the zone is being flooded by news about Trump murdering U.S. citizens and threatening to throw an official civil war onto the smoldering pile of unjust wars currently being committed by the federation of Chevron and friends, formerly known as the United States).

    But this might be something to at least keep on the backburner of chaos while fighting the corporate fascists in a war they’ve been planning for decades.




  • Are women are allowed to have preferences or autonomy in the world she lives in? Probably just following orders there too.

    On the off chance she is allowed, as long as it involves adults and consent, no way it could possibly be more perverse and disgusting than the preferences of her boss and his friends running their child exploitation network, which she and every other member of his administration continue to protect and enable.

    The NatCons seem to have some very fucked up beliefs about “morality” when it comes to telling other people what is and isn’t acceptable. This is how they control everyone else and escape justice.



  • I think the “big reveal” is that he’s corrupt as fuck, and cares about nobody but himself and his wealthy friends because they’re all protecting each other while they rape, murder, and pillage their way across the globe and make a mockery of the religions and nations they pretend to care about.

    And that like Putin, Xi, and Netenyahu, Trump is probably more along the lines of a middle manager on the national totem pole, at least in terms of the power he holds to make the final calls about what happens in the home base he helps control and desecrate.

    That’s it… That’s literally the truth behind every conspiracy “theory.”

    A pyramid scheme of creepy predatory psychopaths have basically run the world, create wars, manipulate markets, and high five while they help each other exploit, murder, and escape justice. All while convincing their supporters they were placed in charge by divine intervention or magic, and that upsetting the “natural order” that brought them to power would be going against God’s will. Oh, and warn others about the dangers of globalist governments and international law (obviously).







  • My point is that people were spreading the narrative/rumor that she was shot in the head for some reason. It is possible to be shot in the head and survive, it’s not as common as surviving gunshot wounds to extremities or even the chest cavity, especially if first aid and stop the bleed measures are started ASAP.

    So for some reason, from the very beginning, there was a miscommunication being spread (whether intentional or not) that her survival was probably less likely than it actually was.

    Even if that doctor hadn’t been there and hasn’t been prevented from helping, it also seems worth asking why all of the ICE agents who were present at the time had been issued fire arms, but none of the dickheads just standing around letting this lady bleed out, had any first aid training?

    Seriously none of them? Nobody even had some kind of common sense inkling hat they should probably try to stop the bleeding? Not even the “war veteran” who shot her? Just more weird shit to add to the long list of how/why did shit go down the way it did that day. So many weird things seem like he set out to intentionally murder somebody that day, and not just because her wife had embarrassed him beforehand.

    1. Why did the ICE agent who allegedly had PTSD from being dragged by a car intentionally position himself in front of her car?

    2. Why was his safety already off when he grabbed his gun

    3. Why did he keep his phone in one hand filming while he shooting at a car that was moving towards him?

    4. Did none of the “trained federal agents” really not have any basic first aid training, despite some of them previously seeing combat?

    5. Why did they refuse to let the doctor help her?

    6. Who started the rumor she had been shot in the head?


  • Well true, but not having a steady pay check definitely doesn’t keep you out of the gulag.

    It’s kinda weird there were/are so many people encouraging this absolutely terrible idea that people should be attempting to join ICE and just dragging their feet while collecting a paycheck as a gulag employee, who will be handed a daily list of people they are required to round up and throw in the gulag to meet their employee quota.

    Vs. it somehow being more problematic to keep collecting a paycheck while potentially finding ways to sabotage the billionaire responsible for the destruction of a rapidly sinking institutional ship, which several crew members seemed to make a genuine effort to repair and preserve over the years.

    Especially considering the Nazi collaborating billionaire (who definitely paid way more for the ship than he would have ever willingly paid in taxes) suddenly seemed to decide after more than a decade of mainly just insisting he be allowed to take pictures of himself posing at the helm once in a while, that he was captain and nobody would be telling him how to run his ship. Then almost immediately, he either accidentally bet on the wrong horse, or, he intentionally steered the ship directly into an iceberg (on behalf of the horse).

    If it wasn’t intentional, it kinda seems like he would have just dumped it/sold it to the highest bidder already, but he hasn’t for some reason. It’s weird he’s still holding on to it since it’s not like there’s much of a need for a solidly right of center mediocre American news outlet in 2026. Almost seems like it’s more out of spite than anything else. Especially considering that historically it was seen as a trustworthy American newspaper that broke some very important stories (admittedly not a history without some questionable missteps, and odd political ties even before Trump, but that’s also true of most mainstream news).