> The Deep State runs the show. Their presence is permanent and their agenda is both ongoing and impervious to the whims of the voting public.

–Jeff Thomas

Can anything be done about this or are we just screwed?

"In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt introduced the Emergency Banking Act the day after his inauguration speech, in which he had assured the country that he would not mess with the currency."

–Jeff Thomas

https://w3.do/AfnGcTLC

"“People desire certainty,” Doug Casey once observed to me, when discussing a related subject, and that’s exactly so. If we’re uncertain during troubled times, we’ll instantly jump at the opportunity to put a single face to the problem, to blame one individual for whatever is troubling us.

"This is evidenced by the presentation of photos of Lee Harvey Oswald and Osama bin Laden, mere hours after major events, as the certain culprits. They were immediately accepted, without any question, by a people desperately seeking certainty."

–Jeff Thomas

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-all-important-doorman/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20desire%20certainty,desperately%20seeking%20certainty.

"However, the larger issues – particularly the flow of tax dollars into the pockets of corporations, continue exactly as planned, regardless of who’s in office.  Bankers continue to receive absurdly large bailouts when they’ve grossly mismanaged their banks. The military industrial complex continues to enjoy perpetual warfare, so that they can supply armaments to the government for unnecessary conflicts. Big Pharma enjoys legislation that forces people to be vaccinated against their will and accept outrageously high prices for medications that are generally inexpensive to produce."

–Jeff Thomas

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-all-important-doorman/#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20larger,inexpensive%20to%20produce.

"To be sure, there have been presidents who have bucked the Deep State, but they tend to change their tune rather quickly and get back into line. Those who have refused have sometimes found themselves on the business end of a bullet, although, more recently, the preferred tactic has been to invent accusations of corruption and indecency, then to produce questionable witnesses to discredit the leader. (A leader who has been forced out in disgrace is just as gone as one that’s been assassinated.)"

–Jeff Thomas

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-all-important-doorman/#:~:text=To%20be%20sure,that%E2%80%99s%20been%20assassinated.)

"The US is run as a corporatist body – joint rule by big business and the state. The elected members are, like doormen, temporary. They are, of course, highly visible, which they’re intended to be, as they’re meant to distract the public eye away from those who are truly in charge.

"And, like doormen, they’re disposable. They can be unelected at four-year intervals and the agenda continues as planned. They are, in fact, largely irrelevant to the direction that the country takes."

–Jeff Thomas

https://internationalman.com/articles/the-all-important-doorman/#:~:text=The%20US%20is,the%20country%20takes.

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"But everywhere else in the world, or let’s say everywhere else in the Western world—especially Europe, the US, and Canada—Third World migrants are being used as a vehicle to give the elite more power. Their voting will be directed towards the elite, who encourage them to immigrate by offering a smorgasbord of welfare goodies. They’ll form an automatic plebeian class, paid for by the old middle class."

–Doug Casey

https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-relentless-rise-of-taxes-regulations-and-inflation/#:~:text=But%20everywhere%20else,old%20middle%20class.

"The way things are developing, more and more powerful institutions are controlled by BlackRock types. The elite love to talk democracy, but it’s just a smokescreen."

--Doug Casey

https://w3.do/_4b-PlHO

"The “powers that be” actually want to destroy the middle class. That’s not something they’d say, but it’s apparent that the elite would prefer a society with a small number of themselves supported by a sufficient number of plebs but without a troublesome middle class. They don’t like having to rub shoulders with masses of hoi polloi when they visit St Mark’s Square in Venice or Macchu Pichu in Peru. They want just enough service personnel around to make it an enjoyable experience. "

–Doug Casey

https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-relentless-rise-of-taxes-regulations-and-inflation/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9Cpowers%20that,an%20enjoyable%20experience.

"With the turn of the 20th century, roughly 120 years ago, governments all over the world created central banks and the income tax. They started small but have become behemoths, funding welfare and warfare. Both things are highly destructive. In the 19th century there was no welfare and very few wars, because wars are expensive. Governments were hard-pressed to extract adequate revenue from their populations for fighting."

–Doug Casey

https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-relentless-rise-of-taxes-regulations-and-inflation/#:~:text=With%20the%20turn,populations%20for%20fighting.

“You are my flock, the human flock of my pasture, and I am your God. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’ ”

https://ref.ly/Eze34.31 via the Logos Bible Android app.

This may sound anathema to the anarchist, but perhaps it is not the state itself that is the problem, but the involuntary nature of it...🤨

The government hates competition.

But the revolution is not complete until you are in gulag...

Perhaps the masses need to watch a good sci-fi drama of what life using CBDC would really be like...

Would the American people just roll over and accept such confiscation and digital tyranny, or would they rise up and overthrow their oppressors?

I hate watching the smugness and obfuscation and duplicity of the Executive agency bureaucrats that go before Congress and lie and refuse to be accountable. They know they now have more power than Congress, which created them. I wish Congress would abolish some agency or severely restrict it in some way to show it who's boss, but I don't believe it can, because Congress (which was supposed to represent The People and be the most important branch of the federal gov't) is no longer in charge...

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I thought if you made enough money you could still get get young, beautiful women even if you're old and fat? 🤔

I guess you just can't be TOO hideous... 😄

Government as a service. And voluntary. If it's by force, i.e., without consent, it's illegitimate.

But most folks will have to unlearn their government indoctrination first...

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