Agree except that calling it California Capitalism I think is inaccurate. Capitalism is actually based on free markets, we have. Nothing of the sort, not even slightly.

What you describe is a consequence of the fiat debt system, which is based on the communist tenant of central banking and money as a tool of political authority. Thats what causes this. Money is literally issued out of thin air as debt. The results are what you describe.

that didn't last long

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chat is this healthy?

#coffeechain

There are Bitcoiners who believe Musk is Satoshi..

The man apparently wants to make humanity interplanetary; an admirable goal.

Yet he ignores the single greatest catalyst that would set this in motion - freeing humanity’s best and brightest from fiat debt slavery with the only vehicle capable, Bitcoin.

Instead of possibly unleashing 100,000 Einsteins, he chooses to pump a meme coin which benefits him.

Anyone who believes Musk is Satoshi is SERIOUSLY retarded.

At best he’s a well-meaning but narcissistic Billionaire who thinks he alone can achieve the goal, more likely he’s a LARP getting fat and happy in the Cantillionaires Lounge and doesn’t really care.

But one thing is for sure, he ain’t fucking Satoshi.

#politics #flashback

When Donald Trump took power in 2017, one of the first things he did was to temporarily halt immigration (and entry of foreign nationals) from seven countries (Executive Order 13769). The news media invariably called them "Muslim-majority countries" and called the order a "Muslim ban" and then called Trump a racist. Many people today who I respect on many issues believe this fabrication, believe that Donald Trump was the architect of the Muslim ban so "of course he is racist."

Trump was legally challenged and it went to the Supreme Court, twice, where they determined both times that the president does have the power to enact such an order.

The executive order does not mention religion, neither muslim nor Islam. It doesn't even name the countries (other than Syria)! Rather, it refers to pre-existing legislation: 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12).

8 U.S.C. 1187, mentioned in the executive order, was amended by H.R. 158 on December 9, 2015, by congress during the Obama administration. H.R. 158 was titled the "Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015". That act specifically named Iraq and Syria, but it also included any "country that is designated by the Secretary of State ... as a country, the government of which has repeatedly provided support of acts of international terrorism...". (8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12)(A)(i)(II)). So this by reference included Iran and Sudan. A few months later on 18 February 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified three additional countries that would also be covered by the limitation on Visa Waiver Program travel, those being Libya, Somalia and Yemen, because in those countries the government "has repeatedly provided support of acts of international terrorism" (8 U.S.C. 1187) And thus the seven countries were identified and travel restricted more than a year before Donald Trump took office.

PLEASE NOTE: I do not agree with the United States' labels for these countries. This is very much an Israeli view of who are the terrorists that I think you all know that I disagree with. However, what I am saying is that the countries were chosen not-at-all due to their majority religion, but rather entirely because they were the ones that Homeland Security had determined (prior to Trump) to be supporting terrorism. If he wanted to ban Islam he would have included another 30-odd countries. But he didn't even pick the countries.

What is most shocking about this story, however, isn't the mistaken belief of the Trump-haters, nor the propaganda of the news media, but that four supreme court justices felt there was enough "racial animus" to rule the other way in the face of these obvious facts I have laid out. To me, that makes these justices dishonorable: Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan.

Ron Paul would be enjoying his 5th term

Ron Paul would be enjoying his 5th term

My condolences to the single-issue Bitcoiners who supported a presidential candidate who's now officially a fully-retarded shitcoin scammer.

This. IIRC I talked about this on tje last BR EP. Normalize disposable identities for payments.

Dare I say deterministically generate them for each payment....

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My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌️