Founding Fathers = Hate Symbols 🤔

Plus G.O.A.T. Twitter Threads

Jul 11, 2021

Well, 5 hour delay going out to Raleigh this week, 9 hour delay coming home last night means y'all are getting a brief one this week.

Two notable, anecdotal datapoints from recent travels: (1) The labor shortage is still acute in many locations; and (2) Companies are still using 'Covid' as an excuse to cut services rather than pay higher wages where they can. It reminds me of the time post- 9/11 when every company that missed earnings for the next 4 quarters blamed it on ‘terror’.

Together, it adds up to a pretty sub-par retail travel experience. Case in point, I was at a blockchain accelerator event in Raleigh this week.

Weather delayed the flight out of LGA. Apparently, the 8 year/ $10B airport ‘renovation’ didn’t include lengthening the short runways so any inclement weather in NY makes departure a coin flip.

5 hours later when we landed, we spent an extra 45 minutes at the gate while they looked for a 'gate agent'. This is obviously some union collective bargaining boondoggle as this agent was a zero utility woman who sat at the gate desk and played on her phone while exhausted passengers shuffled past her at 2:30am.

Same story on the way back but worse. Pilot and crew timed out on the runway after an 8 hour delay, so back to the gate…which no longer had a… you guessed it, gate agent. Rinse lather repeat.

For many in my circle, it's been closer to a year since it became clear that proper nutrition, exercise and supplementation meant Covid was a relative non-event (as long as you weren't over the age of 80 or obese). Even for the diehards, it’s been clear for months that the Casedemic is officially over. So you’d expect airlines and Ubers to drop the mask theater, and hotels to return to normal.

The hotel I booked looked mint on the app, but as the front desk informed me when I arrived, the pool is closed, the fitness center is closed, and the bar/breakfast area is still closed due to “Covid”.

Safety notices were visible throughout the hotel and plastered inside every elevator about how dedicated this particular hotel and their affiliated national chain is to our “safety” during this unprecedented time (which 9 times out of 10 usually amounts to nothing more than canceling maid service and bathing every surface in copious amounts of what will likely be discovered to be cancer causing chemicals).

Here’s a simple request on behalf of myself and many other freedom seeking voluntaryists, how about a little less theater and a little more “service”. I’d gladly trade the 0.01% extra safety enhancement measures on a 99.99% survivable illness for items like a gym or pool where the positive effects of sun and steel far outweigh the imaginary benefits of Purel double doses and mask theater.

Markets & Crypto

Still range bound, which as I’ve said in past issues would be the path of max frustration. For BTC to still be range-bound after a series of state-sponsored attacks and FUD is impressive in its own right. My playbook remains the same. If you want to be a trader, trade the range. If you want to be an investor, continue to accumulate at support. Most of the weakness and FUD is deliberate and orchestrated, and is designed to give the bigger banks and other TradFi funds time to accumulate.

The other half comes from state sponsored enterprises and our corrupt establishment regime (political lifers/intelligence security state apparatus/military-industrial-Big Finance-Big Tech complex) who are starting to recognize that bitcoin and crypto are legitimate threats to their cartel control of wealth and information.

As I said in a prior issue of SovSunday, "Freedom empowering technologies and burgeoning surveillance states will inevitably clash."

I believe Satoshi Nakamoto’s Whitepaper will one day be studied in harmonized Metaverse study pods alongside the Declaration of Independence and other great homages to freedom & liberty (just as those documents were once studied in offline public schools before teachers’ unions and woke dogma like CRT/Equity put the final nail in the coffin of those institutions).

Here's a good article by Alex Gladstein on whether America has strayed far from its founding ideas, and whether Bitcoin can help it get back on track.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-the-american-idea

If You Wonder Why

Not much to add this week to the building and inevitable civil conflict or ‘two nations-two movies’ reality that I've described previously. The thread I’ve posted below is a phenomenal roadmap of ‘why’ for half the country.

The 4G warfare pot continues to simmer this summer. As crime spikes higher and quality of life drifts lower in progressive blue cities, look for the gap between Americans to widen and migratory destinations like Florida and Texas to come under more virulent media attacks. The exodus to thriving Red Sanity states will continue unabated. The hundreds of billions in stimulus money may have bought failing Blue cities a stay of execution, but as long as people feel unsafe, taxes are over 50%, and public schools are imploding, there will be no ‘rebirth’ or renaissance.

Here's a great 'summary' thread below that readers should pass onto acquaintances still getting their news from the MSM and clinging to establishment narratives. And when your grandchildren ask why the country was rent asunder, point them to this thread.

MartyrMade Twitter Thread

“I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself. 1/x

Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they're not particularly attached to them. 2/x

Here are the facts - actual, confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc). 3/x

These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them. 4/x

Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew. 5/x

This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff - who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake. 6/x

At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov't when it didn't happen. 7/x

We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying. 8/x

Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year. 9/x

Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin. 10/x

This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper. 11/x

GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election. 12/x

It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. 13/x

They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. 14/x

The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period. 15/x

This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. 16/x

They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots. 17/x

They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don't. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. 18/x

Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. 19/x

Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now. 20/x

Re: "fake impeachment", we now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden's $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. 21/x

Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? 22/x

Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned. 23/x

Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information. 24/x

The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. 25/x

And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew. 26/x

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. 27/x

Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange - the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc - but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!). 28/x

Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof. 29/x

Even the courts' refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They'll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? 30/x

It's a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too. 31/x

Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. 32/x

They knew it was unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct. 33/x

a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media. 34/x

They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive. /end”

Articles I'm Reading....

**Edward Snowden, one of the finest minds of our time, on ‘conspiracies’

**Michael Pollan on The End of the War on Drugs and What the Peace Should Look Like.

**The greatest threat to California (and most blue cities) is not global warming or economic inequality. It’s the elected leadership.

**The Stomp Reflex: From the Patriot Act to Covid - When Governments Abuse Emergency Powers

People Who Recover From COVID-19 Potentially at ‘Lower Risk of Re-Infection than Vaccinated: Study

**An Introduction and Overview of Microdosing

**What Happened To You? The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism

**A New Zero-Emission Hyperloop Port Offers Ground Transport at 'Airplane Speeds'

**AI Program Spots Prostate Cancer Before Symptoms Present

**Mutiny at Great Jones: How a cofounder war led every employee to quit Instagram's trendiest cookware company (paywall). Non-paywall summary.

Not Satire

Just your latest ‘Satire or Not?’ cover from everyone’s favorite Woke Marxist Propagandist. Soak this in, and then explain to me how the country will ‘unite’.