What Do I Want from a President?

answer: decentralize and get out of the way

In my video I summarize and expand on Mathew Crawford’s 90-minute interview of me, where I touch on geoengineering, base-12 numbering systems, my economic plan for small-scale sovereignty, the issue of trust in the resistance movement, and feminine vs. masculine styles. Mathew talks about Bitcoin and the attack on community banks. And we look together at decentralization and how it could be implemented through current strategies like crypto or The Greater Reset, or future system changes that forbid money creation by private entities and decentralize the Fed into 1000 commonwealth banks. I look for a President to create 12 regions and protect their sovereignty, Mat wants a candidate who’ll tell the truth, and Visceral Adventures and CJ Hopkins agree. Here’s the link to the original interview:

My video expands on some of my points using references linked below:

• Weather Modification History, thank you Teresa Whiteley! And here’s one by Georgie&Donny summarizing Tessa Lena’s interview of Nikki Forrio, thanks Jo!

• Base 12 or the duodecimal system, non-QWERTY keyboards and turtle-shell calendars.

• My book, How to Dismantle an Empire.

• Trust in the resistance movement: my 12 articles on Malone, my comment on a recent post by ‘Sage Hana’

• Ellen Brown on How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis:

How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis

In a February 2023 article on Pirate Wires titled “Operation Choke Point 2.0,” [Nic] Carter laid out the case that the federal government was quietly attempting to ban crypto. In a 7,000-word March 23 follow-up titled “Did the Government Start a Financial Crisis in an Attempt to Destroy Crypto?”, he writes:

The two most crypto-​focused banks, Silvergate and Signature, were forced into liquidation and receivership, respectively. The established narrative is that they made “bad bets” and lost, or that they couldn’t handle flighty depositors in the form of tech and crypto startups.

But there’s an alternative version of events being pieced together that is far more sinister …

The preponderance of public evidence suggests that Silvergate and Signature didn’t commit suicide — they were executed.

In January 2023, … [s]ome in the crypto space noticed highly coordinated activity between the White House, financial regulators, and the Fed, aimed at dissuading banks from dealing with crypto clients, making it far more difficult for the industry to operate. This is problematic because it represented an attempted seizure of power far beyond what is normally reserved for the executive branch.

On Sunday the 12th of March, Signature (SBNY) was abruptly sent into FDIC receivership by the NYDFS [New York State Department of Financial Services]. This was not a two-bit crypto bank. They had $110B in deposits as of YE 2022, of which around 20 percent came from crypto-focused companies. …

Almost immediately, we knew something was wrong. Signature was not a “crypto bank” like Silvergate, where the majority of deposits were derived from crypto firms. It was a pretty venerable NY bank that primarily serviced real estate. It was not in as bleak a financial position as Silvergate or SVB, or other beleaguered regional banks. They weren’t closed on a Friday afternoon after market close, as is typical in receivership situations, but snuck in on a Sunday night, practically a footnote to the SVB shutdown. The FDIC was reportedly surprised on Sunday when SBNY was delivered into their hands. The NYDFS has maintained a well known long-running animus against crypto. The bank crisis was the perfect cover to take down the last remaining bank, which was unapologetic about servicing crypto firms (and ran important fiat settlement infrastructure).

The only problem: based on what we know, it appears that Signature wasn’t actually insolvent when they were nationalized and $4.3B of shareholder value was vaporized.

Ellen continues:

A second smoking gun was the denial of FDIC insurance to Custodia Bank, which had a 100%-reserve business model that would have cost the FDIC nothing and posed no risk to the public. Custodia’s goal was just to provide a secure onramp from dollars to cryptocurrencies and an offramp back again. In fact, Custodia didn’t need to ensure its deposits, because it would not have been making loans from them. It would have kept them in reserve for the depositors. The bank needed FDIC insurance only because without it, the Fed refused to give Custodia a master account, necessary to participate in the national payment system.

Caitlin Long, the Wall Street veteran who founded Custodia, argues that this newly-imposed rule constitutes an unconstitutional violation of the long-standing right of states to charter their own banks. In an April 17 article titled “Why Defending the Right of States to Charter Banks Without Federal Permission Is Critical,” she writes:

Until a decade ago, it was unheard of that a bank would stop serving entire groups of customers or the people in lawful — if controversial — industries. It was also unheard of that banks would be blocked from accessing either of the two federal utilities in the banking industry: (i) deposit insurance and (ii) the U.S. dollar payment system (which the FDIC and Fed operate, respectively). Indeed, legislative history shows that Congress took great pains to keep the operation of these two utilities standalone and fully separated from the power to charter banks. As a check and balance, Congress wanted all chartering work done exclusively by the states or the lone federal agency that can charter banks, the OCC. Access to the two utilities was automatic for eligible banks, albeit with bank-​specific insurance premiums and overdraft restrictions.

Custodia sued the Fed, and the Attorney General of Wyoming, the state chartering the bank, joined the lawsuit. The Attorney General noted in the filing that the Fed had created a “Kafkaesque situation” where a Wyoming-​chartered bank is denied access to the U.S. dollar payment system “because it is not federally regulated, even while it is also denied federal regulation.”

• And on giving advice to Presidential candidates, here’s Tonika at Visceral Adventures with Just Tell the Truth, Bobby and CJ Hopkins on The Great Divide:

What I am trying to get at, Bobby, is that those of us who have refused to convert to the new “reality” — which I am guessing is approximately 25-30% of the global population — are not looking for a leader who can “heal the divide.” We are in a fight. We are fighting for reality. We’re fighting for what’s left of reality.

And, at the moment, we are getting our asses kicked.

So, fuck it. What have you got to lose? Throw out the playbook. Fire your PR people. Go for broke. Tell the truth. Tell folks what we’re up against. That it isn’t something an election is going to fix. That it isn’t something a new president can fix. That it isn’t fixable. That it is a fucking fight. And not one according to the Queensberry Rules. A ball-kicking, eye-gouging, chair-swinging, bar fight. And that sometimes, like now, when there is nowhere to run to … well, you have to stand and fight, even if you know you’re going to lose.

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To follow up, this is What is the Greater Reset?:

A movement called The Greater Reset is gaining traction, based on a 1970 radical libertarian philosophy called Agorism. Its members aggregate in Freedom Cells and practice counter-economics, as explained by Derrick Broze in Manifesto of the Free Humans. I give my understanding of it and the people I admire, like Joel Salatin, RFKjr & James Corbett, who are part of it. But I also raise four concerns and ask the question: can you change the system by dropping out or can you only drop out by changing the system? I explain how my system differs and why I think it would make The Great Reset obsolete.

and Reinventing Education:

There’s been much talk about Biden’s $10K student loan forgiveness but student loans are just one symptom of the dysfunctional education system. This episode examines how to reinvent K-12 through university with self-driven curricula, edu-tourism, edu-travel and no debt. It uses the economic system of anarchy and federalism described in my book, How to Dismantle an Empire. It references The Student Loan Scam by Alan Michael Collinge, a TEDtalk by Sir Ken Robinson, a NY Times article by Nick Burns, and The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.

plus a bonus on the hamsa, The Only Deadly Sin:

I examine left/right ideologies as responses to real world circumstances, responding to Russell's interviews of Jonathan Haidt and Darren Brown. I ask what's your go-to deadly sin and confess mine as envy, looking at Natalie Wynn's definition and the relationship of the evil eye to lockdown virtue-signaling. I use the hamsa, the eye in the hand, to show how we could ward off the evil eye by turning away negativity both within ourselves and against others—especially towards those on the other side of the political divide. I outline the "four dogma and one suspicion" that Russell and I share: 1) all people are equally good 2) when people behave badly, systems are to blame 3) systems can be changed 4) all communities are equally capable of self-governance and 5) entertaining the possibility that we are One Mind. I discuss a study that Darren quotes from Jonathan's book, The Righteous Mind. Jonathan quotes from William Gibson that the Matrix is our consensual hallucination and I express the hope that we can make it a good hallucination by seeing the best intentions in each other.