Sovereign Sunday Easter Edition
Election Passports in Georgia, MMT & The Rising
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Evergiven Freed
A sigh of relief for shipping chokepoints and overstretched supply chains as the Evergiven was finally freed from being stuck in the Suez Canal. While I can’t confirm, I have it on good authority (anonymous sources from the NYT) that the picture below is indeed from the actual rescue operation.
More MMT and Deficit Cowbell
“Relief” as well this week from the debt markets as Biden’s infrastructure plan came in only at $2-3 trillion, as opposed to the $4 trillion rumored. Remember, this is on top of the $6 trillion stimulus last year, the $2 trillion stimulus from earlier in the year, and the greatest expansion of debt and spending in human history in the last 12 months.
We’ve reached the laughable stage, but there are benefits that come with being the reserve currency of the world. Despite printing nearly 35% of the dollars that were ever created in the last year and despite over $120 trillion in unfunded liabilities, the dollar and the economy keep trudging along. As a veteran trader, I’ve learned one thing to keep in mind - “It doesn’t matter, until it does.”
The attempt to mainstream MMT and communism by the establishment and their media lapdogs can only end in disaster. The only question is when, not if.
So protect yourself, protect your family. Make moves now, not when the dominoes begin to fall. And right now, Bitcoin is still the single best asset out there to store monetary energy and value.
Election Passports aka Georgia ID
The latest psyop is that laws expressing even the most minimum requirements to vote are somehow racist or wrong. Georgia became the latest to ask for minimal requirements that should have been mandatory years ago. If anything, the reality is that it should be incredibly harder to vote, not easier.
I've read Georgia's new voting laws several times, and they are quite sensible and far less restrictive than many states’ voting laws. Taking the absolute bare minimum bit of personal responsibility for casting a ballot seems like a pretty fair trade-off for the right to vote.
The unstated assumption in all of this by the Left is that minorities are are incapable of doing the simplest, most mundane things necessary to be a barely functional member of society, such as obtaining an ID. But who on earth can function without some form of ID?
You can't pick up tickets at an MLB game, open a checking account, buy a car, buy alcohol, purchase Sudafed, check out a library book, get on a plane (sorry Delta), the list is endless. And the new GA law, contrary to the lies being spread allows many forms of ID. I can't imagine anyone in GA can’t get at least one of them if they want. It’s obvious that if the Dems had their way you would have people standing on the street corner handing out ballots to anybody that walks by with a basket in hand to drop it in. It begs the question, if you don’t support even the most rudimentary form of verification, what level of ballot integrity do you support?
Kim Stossel has been consistent in calling out the woke cancer infecting nearly every aspect of our life including corporate America. Her take on GA is worth a read:
"Thus the sight of the nation’s top business leaders monotonously reciting a fact-free narrative. As they know, state legislatures are moving to reaffirm longstanding rules and restore confidence in electoral systems that were arbitrarily remade during Covid. ID requirements are no more racist at the ballot box than on a Delta flight. Some 36 states have them, and they’ve been upheld by the Supreme Court. It isn’t Jim Crow to codify the use of the ad hoc drop boxes that sprung up last year. It isn’t voter suppression to reaffirm that activists aren’t allowed to approach voters in line, especially to solicit votes with gifts (contrary to urban legend, the Georgia law allows poll workers to provide water). The Georgia law expands voting, adding early voting on more weekends and providing additional equipment and poll workers in larger precincts.
Mr. Bastian’s moralizing memo fails to cite a single one of the supposedly “egregious measures” in the bill that will suppress the vote, although he does stress he hears his employees’ “pain.”
The letter from the 72 executives misstates the Georgia rules, suggesting the only way to satisfy the ID requirement is with a driver’s license, even though “200,000 Georgians lack a license.” In fact, voters can also use a free, state-issued nondriver ID, and those who lack one can fulfill the requirement with a Social Security number or even a copy of a “current utility bill, bank statement, government check, or paycheck.” The letter suggests the Georgia “playbook”—enacting rules less onerous than those in many blue states, as Karl Rove has noted in these pages—is of a piece with “police dogs, poll taxes, literacy taxes.” One can only hope Merck is more rigorous when conducting pharmaceutical trials.
Corporate CEOs may think this virtue signaling will spare them the left’s boycotts or Democrats’ punitive legislative measures. That’s a sucker’s bet given this week’s Democratic plan to siphon $2.3 trillion from corporations to fund new spending. Meanwhile, longtime Republican defenders of corporate activity are rapidly losing interest in aiding CEOs who promote partisan conspiracy theories. Witness Sen. Marco Rubio’s fuming tweet on Thursday calling Delta a “woke corporate hypocrite,” noting that the company is “business partners with the Chinese Communist Party,” raking in “billions of dollars in a country that doesn’t even have elections.”
If our country is so racist, why are so many people risking their lives every day to get in? Wouldn't you think they would have heard from others how terrible it is? The fact is, America is not perfect, but there is no greater nation on Earth.
I will not fall for the venal B.S. that we are a racist, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, anti-Jew, anti-gay nation. We have 350 million people here with all different backgrounds, and we get along shockingly well. Show me ONE other country with a more diverse population, and fewer issues. HINT: There are none.
Anyone who thinks they have a better option somewhere else, give it a try. Then let us know how easy it is to become a citizen of that country, or how well your differences are accepted.
If it doesn't serve their political agenda, it will be ignored, eliminated or repressed. After all, how quickly did the name Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa disappear from the news when they learned he wasn't a white male, and therefore couldn't help propagate the false white supremacist on Anti-Asian hate narrative?
Expect to see the same with Noah Green, the Nation of Islam supporter who rammed his car into the Capital killing a police officer. If Green was a Trump supporter, you’d hear nothing but wall to wall coverage for days, even weeks like we did with the so-called ‘insurrection’ earlier in the year. Green’s attack was deadlier than the January riot at the capital where the only person who died was a female protestor shot in the face by a trigger-happy cop. When it comes to Noah Green though, wrong race, wrong religion. So expect the whole incident to be memory holed by the evening news.
On the bright and light side, Richard Grenfell offered this verse Friday:
It’s Friday and hope is lost....
Death seems to have won,
Judas has betrayed Him,
His best friend denied Him,
His mother is distraught,
The doubters are laughing,
Jesus is buried,
And the tomb is sealed tight.
It seems over...
But Sunday is coming!
Despite the present darkness, be optimistic and have faith that the resurrection of America, and free men and women everywhere is coming as well. 🙏🏼
What I’m Reading…
**There has been a concerted effort from the mainstream media and the entrenched political/academic/banking/corporate class to divide and conquer for some time now. Don’t let them do it. Turn off the boob tube. Talk to your neighbors. Have open and honest conversations. Phenomenal and devastatingly accurate blogpost from Uncle Mary Bent.
**The Collapse of Bill Hwang and the danger of leverage. One of the largest personal wealth wipeouts in a matter of days.
**Remember when useful dupes like Greta and the American press lapped up President Xi for his 2060 plan to have China carbon neutral? Well China installed more COAL BURNING power plants in 2020 than continental Europe’s entire installed capacity. Don’t hold your breath for the anti-capitalist climate doom brigade to flag this as important anytime soon.
**Either spectacular marketing or a mega-flameout (I'd bet the latter), inside BitClout - the latest 'decentralized' social media network.
More on that: An interview with ‘Diamondhands’, BitClout’s Founder
**Free markets and competition lead to innovation. Innovation leads to progress. Progress leads to returns. Returns lead to more investment. The circle of life for financial markets. This is the way.
**Microsoft secures $22 billion Government contract to outfit troops with 120,000 AR headsets. While consumers might be yawning, the military is saying, “Game on” to AR.
**Given that the vaccine passport push is now beyond obvious, I recommend reading this article from January to know where this is all heading if we allow this policy - merging vaccine records w biometric digital identity and economic activity. We went from an implicit, masked surveillance state to an implicitly surveillance state with full, voluntary buy-in practically overnight. Fear is a helluva motivator.
Charts I’m Watching…
What I’m Listening To…
Tim Ferris and Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More.
Books I’m Reading…
Wild at Heart, by John Elridge
Hard to think of a better book for Easter. A formidable answer to an age-old question: How can a man of faith make himself tolerable and useful while accepting and expressing his primordial maleness. The searching and aggressive urges to conquer what needs subduing, protect the vulnerable, fix what is broken, compete and risk what demands to be risked in himself and the world.
The Dao of Capital, by Mark Spitznagel
TWITTER OCTAGON
Parting Words…
“Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’” Matthew 27:63 NKJV
Isn’t it something how the enemies of God oftentimes remember the declarations of God more than His followers do. Isn’t it something how God’s enemies have more faith in God’s promises sometimes more than we do?
In the verse above, as Jesus was laying dead in Joseph’s tomb, it was the chief priests and Pharisees (enemies of Jesus) that remembered the words of Jesus when He said, “After three days I will rise.” The disciples were terrified and in hiding, but the enemies of God were holding onto that promise Jesus made that He would rise. So they approached Pilate and asked him to secure to the tomb...
The devil acts in urgency to steal, kill, and destroy us, because he knows how the Bible ends. He knows he loses. He knows his days are numbered. He’s active every single day to deceive us, because he knows the truth, and he knows only through deception and lies can we be swayed from the truth. Let’s not live a day where we’re “out-faithed” by the devil, his demons, or anyone else who’s an enemy of God! Let’s live our lives with EXPECTATION that EVERY promise Jesus declared will come to pass!! We are going to wake up tomorrow morning and celebrate what happened on that 3rd day! It’s because of what happened on that 3rd day that allows us to live every single day with so much CERTAINTY and EXPECTATION, with so much PASSION and JOY and ZEAL, because the Spirit who raised Jesus from the grave lives inside all of us who declare Christ as Lord and Savior!! Today, be sure that every single promise of God either has already, or will soon enough come to pass!!” - Christian Edwards
"Barn's burnt down -- now I can see the moon."
This hauntingly deep Haiku written by Mizuta Masahide, a 17th century Japanese poet and samurai, expresses the best of several personal philosophies all in a poignant, concise sentence.
Life happens for us, not to us. And even in the darkest of moments - a house burning down and the loss of shelter, those who are resilient and mentally strong will find a victory in every defeat.
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