Summary
➡ The text discusses the improbability of a communist takeover in the US due to the presence of armed civilians and a lack of interest among the population. It also mentions the potential for a major economic crash, but suggests that recovery would be possible, as seen in post-war Germany and South Korea. The author argues against the idea of hiding away in a bunker, instead encouraging community involvement to rebuild after any potential crisis. The text ends with a personal anecdote about living in a city under threat of bombing, highlighting the importance of resilience and community in times of crisis.
➡ The text discusses the potential aftermath of a societal crash, suggesting that industries like finance may be heavily impacted while others, like agriculture, may become more important. It suggests that people may need to learn new skills, such as farming, to adapt to this new society. The text also discusses the potential for smaller, local economies to emerge, with people working in their local communities. Lastly, it suggests that those with capital, such as investors, could play a key role in organizing these new local economies.
➡ The speaker is trying to be self-sufficient by growing food and raising chickens in his backyard, which also teaches his children responsibility. He’s also learning about mechanical watches for fun and to understand how machines work. He expresses frustration about wars, particularly the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeing them as wasteful and only benefiting the military-industrial complex and banks. He also discusses his location being a U.S. outpost since 1967, and feels that their wars are just testing grounds for U.S. weapons. He believes that leaders are responsible for the wars but feels helpless to change the situation.
➡ The speaker discusses the ongoing conflict and financial issues in the Middle East, suggesting that the funding of both sides of the conflict may be contributing to the problem. They propose that if the funding were to dry up, future generations might question the reasons for the fighting. The speaker also suggests that Israel should reject its relationship with the United States and fight its own wars. They conclude by discussing the possibility of peace if both sides agree to it and if external influences are removed.
➡ The speaker discusses the concept of an inflationary cycle, suggesting that many people are unaware they’re living in one. They argue that this cycle has been perpetuated by generations, from the post-World War II era to the present, leading to societal issues like job dissatisfaction among Gen Z. The speaker also compares the situation to a hypothetical scenario where society becomes addicted to brothels due to government subsidies, implying that corrupt leadership and banking practices have led to a similar addiction to inflation. They predict that this unsustainable cycle will eventually lead to a harsh return to reality.
Transcript
My son’s school had a mini hyperinflation, which I’m going to give you an anecdote of. He had a medieval day at school. And all the kids dress in medieval garb, and they sell. They make crafts at home. So my son made potion. Potions, which. Fruit punch. With little vials. Fruit punch. We sold potions and little cardboard swords. And they. And all the kids make something. And the school gives every kid 20 gold cardboard coins to spend. So you price it and you spend. And then you use it as the medium of exchange to buy something else.
And the second he started describing this, I said, this is going to end with some kids very unhappy. I just knew it. And that’s exactly what happened. So the kids who got there, the kids who sold first, were able to quickly go in exchange for other real things. But it quickly, because when the money is just a worthless token like that, it has no. You have no desire to hold onto it. Quite in fact, you have to get rid of it by the end of it. The marketplace is only for 1 hour. So you have to get.
You have to sell your stuff, turn it to currency, and then get the other stuff in 1 hour. So it turned into a bit of a madhouse, apparently. And there were kids who ended up. Who had sold their goods, had the currency and nothing to buy. And they were including a friend of my son’s. Didn’t get much. Wait, how did your son do? Did you. Did you train very well? Did you tell him what was. I think. I think I’d have to ask him if I. If I told him to dump the currency or not. Okay.
If I. If I didn’t, I’m hoping that my. My life lessons to him can imbued him with enough. But he did come home like a bandit. Like a. Like he looked like he robbed the place. Wait, so, Phil, are you saying that in analogous to a 1 hour time limited market, if the sagacious and benevolent central banks were to issue a CBDC central bank digital currency with a time limit on spending the tokens that it would result in hyperinflation. Just like your medieval school project here. I’m pretty sure that is what would happen. Rafi. Yes, I understand the lesson.
That’s beautiful. That was a very. No, it was a wonderful lesson. I think that was. That was great. I even said, when he came home and explained, I said, son, your currency hyperinflated. You just watched a hyperinflation. That’s what it looks like. What was the purpose of this in the school? Were they trying to teach about monetary theory? What were they trying to do? No, it was. It was just. It’s a medieval day at the end of the year. They do it every year for the fifth grade. And they have. They have jousts with pool noodles in the morning and, you know, other activities.
I don’t even know. But one of. One of the things is a market, a medieval market, where they, you know, hawk their wares for. You know what’s funny? Here’s another little anecdote or a little thing that sticks out of my mind. They’re using. I mean, it’s fake gold, but, like, the memory. But the genetic memory of us using gold as money directly is, like, still there, you know, like, so we’re pretending this little cardboard token is a gold coin that has inherent value that we’re using. It’s the same thing with bitcoin. Like, what image do they use? They use a gold coin.
That’s like. That’s really true. Yeah, but it all comes back when. It all comes back to me now. As Celine Dion once said, when you touch me like a coin and you hold me like that, and you trade me like this, and it all comes back to me now. It’s home coming back to me now. I don’t really listen to Celine Dion. It just gets in my head sometimes. Sure you don’t, Rob. Yeah, I don’t. I believe you. Okay. Yeah, no, my kids recently saw Titanic for the first time, so I think that’s why. Yeah, she’s 14, so it’s okay.
Right? Yeah. I’ve actually never seen that. I’ve never seen Titanic. Oh, it’ll make you cry. My daughters cried. They cried at the end when they were all dying. Yeah. And it’s. It’s also. There’s. There’s a federal reserve scene in there. It’s, like, very subtle, but during one of the rich people’s dinner, there’s this whole thread on Twitter about how Titanic was really a fulcrum point in the effort to get the Federal Reserve founded because. Oh, yeah. Didn’t some anti federal reservists sank? Yeah, they sank with the boat. Yeah. Like the big leaders of the notion, they were sailing to New York to try to counter the movement, to establish a central bank.
And the conspiracy theorists say they would have succeeded were it not for you lousy kids who sunk my titanic boat. I. Don’t you think there’s merit to that? Who knows these. There’s so much stuff happening now. We were talking, like, what’s happening in Israel and the rescue of the hostages. And I don’t know if it’s part of a plan or if it actually happened, and I won’t. Maybe both or I don’t know what anymore. It’s all. It’s all just a big scrambled eggs in my brain. And 2020 really messed me up. Took me from being a, I guess, a mainstream thinker, but not monetarily a mainstream thinker, but, you know, not thinking that the government was capable of such evil horror in my lifetime to realizing that.
Yeah, okay, that’s it. That’s where we are. And I gotta change. Yeah. Once you. Once you realize the tv is lying to you, it’s like there’s no. There’s no. You almost lose your sanity, like, what’s real itself, and you have to, like, rebuild from. Rebuild from what you see physically around you, almost, you know. Yeah, I went through the same thing. Yeah. Wow. We all have. Except for, like, the. The cliff high people that were already there the whole time for other reasons. Okay, so we have four topics here that you wanted to get into. Yes, I’ll let you lead them.
All right. I’ll say what they are here, and then we’ll get to what we get to. I’ve got about 40 minutes, and then I gotta go. So the first one is one, one, one. How long or short can the recovery period be post crash? Two. Two. Two is employment in the endgame. And post endgame, three, three, three are all wars, banker wars. And we can apply this to my situation over here in northern Israel. I don’t know the answer to that here. I guess we can hear your theories. Four, four. Are boomers to blame for all of this? With their reckless spending and 50 years of deficits? Is it a generational rot? My answer to four is no, but we’ll get into that at the end.
So, first of all, how long or short can the recovery period be post crash? Phil, what do you think? So I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit, and maybe I’m just a relentless optimist. I think is long. And this is with a caveat. This is the caveat of we don’t blow ourselves to bits or communists take over the government. I think it can be very, very quick. And my evidence for this is if you look at the financial panic in revolutionary France, as soon as they started trading in silver again, it all went away. All their problems just went away.
And in fact, they ran Napoleon conquering half of Europe for the next 15 years. The other evidence, the Weimar hyperinflation, once it ended, right, they were able to start rebuilding now, didn’t quite go the right way, but. But they were able to, you know, keep things, you know, rebuild on that. It didn’t. It didn’t collapse into complete, like, you know, zombie apocalypse. In fact, none of them really did. The worst one I could think of is the russian revolution. And the russian revolution was only able to get off the ground because there had been three years of world War one, plus horrible domestic government mismanagement, plus foreign.
Lenin was brought back in by the Germans to go be an agent provocateur. So I think Lenin walked into a perfect storm with which he was able to capitalize on, considering we haven’t had three years of world War one yet. Now, if World War three kicks off, will I revise my estimates downward? Probably. But assuming we don’t get world War three, and I really don’t think without world War three that a communist takeover of the us government is possible. There’s just too many. There’s too many armed civilians and there’s too many people who are not interested in it.
I mean, even in revolutionary Russia, they had 20%, 25% of the vote. They muscled their way in. You know, I don’t think they’ll be able to muscle the way. I really don’t. Especially with the decentralized, you know, all the state governments and stuff, would, you know, half. Half of the states would go into open rebellion if we, you know, put a hammer and sickle on the. On where the stars are, on the american flag. Right? You could say. You could say on that, that our brush with totalitarianism, with COVID has woken more people up to, we don’t want any of this, and we are on to you.
We have to remember that Russia went from basically feudalism, tsarist government, to the absolute opposite, which also ended up extreme, ended up being the same totalitarian government. Anyway, reading in the diary of the Great Depression by Benjamin Roth that there was a lot of communist itching for communism in the 1930s and back then, it was before people really understood how murderous it could be. So it would be able to get more people on board with agitation. Right? And I showed you a speech of a progressive reform rabbi, one of the guys that I’ve been researching from this diary.
And his speech was basically advocating totalitarian dictatorship of the country. And forget profits and just take over the entire economy and force businessmen to do what you want them to do. And after we do all this, we’ll have a commission by Congress to study economics. So it was much more possible in the thirties. I think it’s much less possible now, even though we have all this woke movement. I think they’re just loud. But most people are just like, hey, I just want to make money for my family and be left alone. And I want to say for the people who think.
The people who. The counterpoint would be the Great Depression. And so what I would say is that it was the socialist meddling of Roosevelt that extended this. I mean, 1929, Hoover and Hoover. Hoover started it, too. Yes, Hoover and Roosevelt. I mean, 1929 would have been a nasty crash, but you would have, you know, you say, oh, well, I’m not as rich as I thought it was. Guess I’ll go get another job and work harder and rebuild it. Right? But when you can’t. When, you know, when the socialists come in, you can’t find another job and you can’t rebuild, then it.
Yeah, then it lingers a lot longer than it would otherwise. So, you know, if. If we don’t fall into a socialist, you know, spiral, which I. I don’t think we will, I think this is the end. We are in it right now. So I think we’re gonna. I think we’re bounce out of it. Could we collapse further into it? Technically, yes, I would say yes, it is. It is possible we could end up with, you know, Hugo Chavez style ruling in America. You know, maybe a general. A general says, you know, I don’t like Trump or Biden.
Get you both out. I’m gonna rule from now on. And nobody really rises up against him. And then he runs for president for life. These things do happen, right? I think it’s unlikely in America. So I think. And other countries in the world, too. So I think, barring those caveats, if you look at nasty crashes, even, I mean, this is gonna be a big one. This is gonna be the biggest one we’ve ever seen. I think. You agree with that. Yeah. I mean, it’s gonna be really, really big. But barring complete collapse, the stuff is still there.
So it just gets reallocated. The purchasing power, like you said, gets reallocated from the holders of all the credit to the holders of the money. And you just get a reshuffle, and then you can build off of that. Yeah. When you take it that way, what slows it down is when the people with all the credit go to the people with all the guns, which is the government, and say, point those guns at the people with the money so they can’t take our stuff. Yes. Yeah. Even though we’re broke. So that’s what slows it down, the stopping of that reshuffling from credit holders to money holders.
The faster it happens, the better. Now, thoughts coming to my head. Right. So the Great Depression was a deflationary phenomenon. The dollar was strengthening, prices were falling, and the dollar is what the fed prints. That’s its power base. So no one was thinking, oh, the dollar was going to collapse. The opposite was happening, and the Fed still wasn’t so powerful back then. It was just starting its meddling. And that’s what caused the boom, uh, rudimentary meddling, in the 1920s compared to now, of course. Um, but if we’re talking about a hyperinflationary depression, which is what we’re heading into, because the Fed is going to print every time that there’s a crisis, then you’re talking about the destruction of the dollar.
If you’re talking about the destruction of the dollar, then the powers that be don’t have the power to meddle into the depression itself. And it has to liquidate with maybe some more violence, unfortunately, in the big cities. But I think if you’re not in the big cities and, uh, the violence kind of burns itself out there, I don’t think it’s going to spread into the farms over, like, a ten year period of Mad Max insanity. I don’t see that happening. It could be wishful thinking, but I’m limited because I can’t think that way. Because if I start thinking that way, I’m going to hide and not do anything and not live well.
I was watching. I think it was Bill Holter and Margaret Sniper. This is where this inspiration for this topic came from, because they had a much more doom and gloom outlook. And I think it’s incorrect. I think, and like you said, maybe we’re a couple of pollyannas here, but I think that’s wrong. I think it’s going to be a nasty crash and a bounce back relatively quickly. And so let me give you some more examples. So, and this is with physical destruction. So Germany, after World War two was. I mean, it was back. It was bombed back to the Stone age by the.
By the sixties, West, I mean, East Germany sucked, but West Germany was a decent place to live. South Korea was bombed in the Stone age, in the Korean War. So is North Korea by the 1970s. In fact, by the 1980s, Korea was a flourishing democracy. And North Korea sucks to this day. So you can see the destruction doesn’t necessarily preclude rebuilding. It’s the totalitarian takeover that precludes rebuilding off of the destruction. I mean, Japan, likewise, Japan. And Japan, you know, even in. Even the sixties, Japan was, you know, a flourishing country. So, you know, are we in for a few bad years? Yeah, almost certainly.
But, you know, do I think you need to build a bunker? And, you know, I don’t, I don’t. I’m not building a bunker. I’m not. I’m not doing that. So you’re going to live in the world? Yeah. Yeah. It also doesn’t help. Right. You need to. You need to get out into the community and help rebuild the world you want to build in. You can’t hide in the bunker and wait for other people to solve the problem for you. Actually, my neighbor, who I’m looking at right now, right out the window, is building a bunker. Not a bunker for the end of the world, but like a bomb shelter, because we’re being bombed.
So he doesn’t have one. It’s called a mamad. It’s like, just, it’s just a room with, like, double thick cement walls. So if there’s a. And now they’re being installed all over the city, these little places like these safe houses, the siren goes off. You just run into one of those and it’s like a concrete box, and then you wait for an explosion. I think it’s just psychological. I’m not intending to do any of that, but, of course, if, like, a thousand missiles start falling here all, you know, every second, then, you know, I’ll head into a bunker, I guess.
Yeah, it must be scary. I mean, I’ve never. I’ve never experienced it. You have. It must be very scary to hear the scary thing. Actually, this happened yesterday, right? My wife was teaching gymnastics. She teaches on Sundays and Thursdays at the gym. And the gym is right on the outskirts to the city. So I put this on the silver report on Chris’s channel on Arcadia economics. I put a picture of the fire that my wife was, like, right next to. It was right outside the fence of the city. And she called the head of the school activity section, people of the city, and said, look, there’s a fire right by the gym.
Are we doing this today? This seems crazy. And she’s like, oh, yeah, pikuda Aref. What’s a homeland security? They said, everything’s fine. Don’t worry about it. We’ll just continue. She’s like, no, this is not fine. I’m looking at this with my eyes, and there’s a fire here, and it’s about to come into the city. And then. So, like, what the disturbing thing was, is, like, during COVID I was like, oh, my God, everybody locked down. We’re all gonna die. Everybody put a mask on, shoot up your vaccines, etcetera. And now when the city literally almost burned down, it was like, oh, yeah, whatever, sure, it’s okay.
Everybody’s perception is totally nuts. Yeah. People are not the best at threat assessment, at accurate threat assessment. Okay. Okay. So I think that answers the question for us. So we’ll leave it at with the caveats that we don’t blow ourselves to bits or let totalitarians completely take over our government’s. Then the crash itself should not be that bad. We should be. You should have a quick recovery. There will be a lot of suffering for some people who put their life savings into roaring kitties GME fund, but everybody else be rebuilding. You can rebuild quickly. You can bounce off of it fairly quickly.
Yeah. And the last thing I’ll say on this subject is that in order for a totalitarian group to take over, they need a lot of money. So you’ll see what happened in Russia and what happened in Germany when totalitarians took over, is the Nazis immediately went to the. Went to the riches, went to the gold, stole everything from all the Jews and all the rich people. You know, not Stalin. Lenin did the same thing. Stole from all the aristocracy, took all the money. They need money to do this, and they don’t have any. Could they try to find it from the gold bugs? That’s going to be really hard to do.
It’s very decentralized, and I’m just hoping they can’t find the resources this time to kick off a totalitarian dictatorship. It’s very expensive. It’s not free. Very expensive. Fingers crossed. All right, so, number three. Yeah. Employment in the in game and post in game. So this. This came from you. You’re. You inspired me to ask this question because you. You were on another interview and you said, I’m not. It was with Mario. You said, I’m not planning to do this post in game. And that led me to think, well, what the hell? Well, like, what are we going to be doing? What do you, what does employment look like in the end game? And I mean, obviously there’s going to be a lot of unemployment in the in game, but what do, what do you see happening? What do you see happening as far as employment in, in game and post in game? Um, I don’t know.
I can only think of it in very broad strokes. Uh, food, uh, the financial industry is going to be shattered because all they, all they do is shuffle paper, which can be helpful when you are trying to make business more efficient. But when business is so lopsided and the paper shuffling just feeds on itself because of the inflation that’s going on, you have entire industries that are going to be wiped out. Like most of Wall street. There’s still going to be a Wall street. There’s still going to be stocks and trading and bonds and stuff like that, but it’s going to be out to be completely reorganized.
And all these people that are doing basically nothing, mostly in academia and worthless doctors. I would imagine that the socialist health care system is not going to function anymore because it’s controlled by the government, which has no money, and people are going to have to actually choose their doctors based on good practices and people that actually help heal them rather than shoot them up with whatever big pharma comes up with next, which I think is going to be semaglutide, which is ozempic, which they’re now touting as a preventative health, heart disease preventer, or some crazy stuff like that.
People are going to have to go into agriculture. They’re going to have to learn how to build things and grow things and take care of their basic needs. It’ll be faster than growing from an agrarian society to industrial because we already basically have the knowledge of how to farm. You’re going to have to have more people farming, more people growing, smaller farms decentralized instead of huge farms where the capital can’t be maintained. And you’re going to have to have more local farms, more local communities, where you’re going to have a job in your local city. I’m just imagining you’re going to have a job in your local city.
There will be a local doctor, a local farmer. It’ll be more self contained economies for a while, and then once we have a monetary system going again, we can start hooking up and becoming a little bit more centralized and hopefully not as central as we are now, but something like that. How does someone go from, let’s say, working in finance or for, let’s say, to farming quickly? That’s my, that is one of my concerns. I know, I know. I was all, Pollyanna, everything will be fine. But then I’m thinking, like, you know, if I spend, if I’m 40, like, if it’s someone like me, right? I mean, I can farm.
I do have things growing in the backyard. I don’t have a lot of experience managing a large crop. And fails, I’m going to starve. So I’m questioning, like, I don’t know. I’m just saying, like, how, how is somebody like me supposed to get agriculture skills in a hurry? You might not need to get agricultural skills in a hurry. There are probably people around you who already have agricultural skills, and they are transposable. When they say, Phil, do this, don’t do that, follow my instructions. And then you just become a piece of capital that does what the leader of your collective is telling you to do.
And you’re organized. Hopefully, you’re organized power based on how much knowledge you have and how much food your knowledge produces, and then you’ll want to gain that knowledge. And hopefully we can be imbued with the knowledge that we need to have instead of the knowledge and how to manipulate an inflationary system to make us a little bit richer. Yeah. Okay. And like you said, like when you were talking about Rob Roy, right. Your best asset is your honesty and your hardworking nature and the fact that people can rely on you. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing.
Absolutely. Yeah. Informal credit is the most important. And when you, when you, when you enter a society without the, without the very structured hierarchy of laws and, you know, I thinking, like, now, like, you know, people get into each other’s faces, but they won’t. You don’t want to be the first person to touch the other person because then you’re going to get sued and you have to, you know, all this stuff. When all that goes away, you have to be known as, like, the person who can get something done, because if you’re not known as that person, no one’s going to extend you any credit whatsoever.
Are there skills, are there skills we should be learning now while YouTube is up? Like, should I be watching certain YouTube videos now to prepare for employment? Post in game, either self employment or from somebody else? I guess you could, but it’s always good to learn something that you want to learn. I would say go with what you really want to know, as opposed to what you think you have to know if the world comes to an end, but you don’t really want to learn it, and it’s just a burden because that’s not going to work.
So if you have, like, this urge to learn how to grow something in a basic way, even a basic skill will get you pretty far, and then you can rely on your collective that you’ll be part of to get you the rest of the way. But what I was going to say that I forgot is that as stackers, who would we be? We would be the investors in these smaller projects and these local projects, because we would have the capital to hire people, because that’s going to be the money. So we’ll be the capitalists of. We’ll be organizing the people into these collectives to grow food for us.
We’ll be the investors. Well, hopefully I’m not just fantasizing. And we’ll be able to. And we have. We have a pretty good sense, like, why are we stackers? Because we have a pretty good sense for bullshit. And so what is our talent? We might not be able to grow things very well. We might not be able to shoot very well. At least, you know, I have a gun, but I’m not like a professional shooter or anything. I don’t know any weapons, tactics, but I can spot bullshitters. So I think my job will be to get people together to say, okay, we need food.
Who’s good at that? Do I trust you? You know, I’ll talk to him. Who’s good at building this? Who’s good at engineering that? And I’ll put them together in some kind of a company or collective and say, well, here’s the money. I’ll hire you and start building. That’s what we’re good at. We’re good at collecting good people, which is what we’re doing right now. That’s a good point. That’s a very good point. Unfortunately, we’re all too far away. Like, it’s. We’re so dispersed. But that’s also. That’s also a good thing. If we were all in one spot, then the, uh, then everyone who wanted our gold just come and get it.
Um, okay, so let me ask you final, final thought on this. Are you doing anything in particular beyond stacking? Like, are you learning carpentry or masonry or farming or something? Um, I am trying to grow food in my backyard. It’s succeeding to some degree. Uh, I do have chickens, and that has really, uh, enriched the lives of my children who have learned to take care of them and take care of their minor problems like bumblefoot and collect the eggs and go around and get mulch and keep the, the soil fertile. Um, so I’m trying to keep the, the value of my property higher in terms of what it can grow.
I haven’t eaten anime chickens. No, I’m not eating my chickens. I’ve eaten their eggs. Okay, right. So you, you’ll eat their babies, but you won’t eat them? I’ll eat their unfertilized, unborn children. You just have, like, a moral, you had a moral sound to, I’m not eating my chickens. No, no, I can’t. My kids will kill me. Yeah. And I do know, I do know ritual slaughter. I know how to kill, I know how to kill a chicken. I know some guys who know how to kill goats and cows who I’ve gone together with them to purchase part of a cow and a goat.
And other than that, I’m interested in watches. So I’m learning how to put together a mechanical watch, even though that might not have direct applications for anything. It does give my mind, which is not an engineering mind. I have very little talent in actual physical engineering logic, but it gives me a basic idea of how machines are supposed to work, which I think could be useful, even though I’m not going to be fixing watches in an apocalypse or anything. So I’m just trying to do what I enjoy doing and stay happy about it and keep talking to people and hopefully that’s enough.
Mostly, I’m just relying on God to keep things together as much as they can be. All right. All right. The next one, the light and fluffy topic of our all wars, bankers wars, and how it will apply it to your situation. But I want to say I am, I’m absolutely convinced that statement is a correct statement because I went through, I actually, so I went through September 11 and I was, I didn’t sign up and I had a pan. A lot of my friends did. A lot of my friends, you know, went to go rally around the flag and signed up and.
For the army. Army, yeah, military, army, Navy. Right. I mean, there’s a whole bunch of my generation and several of my friends died in the colonial wars, you know, in Iraq and Afghanistan. My cousin was hit by an IED. He’s thankfully, mostly physically okay. Yeah, he’s, I mean, you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t look at him and say, oh, he got hit by an IED, but he did get hit by an id, and he has some, some issues with that. And he lost a couple of his friends, a couple of squad mates in that explosion. And I’m just looking at it now in 2024.
I’m like, what did we do? We wasted 20 years, trillions and trillions of dollars. To do what? Nothing. Nothing at all. And who got rich off of that? It was the military industrial complex and the banks that use the inflated money to pay for, I mean, the cantion effect. They just sat next to the money printer, hand off the freshly printed bills to the military industrial complex. Everyone gets rich except for anyone not standing close to the money printers. And everyone else ends up sitting around scratching their heads like. I’m like, what were we doing? Why were we there? You almost forget why you were even there in the first place, right? At least in the modern context.
And maybe you have a different view with your thing. I am. At least in the modern context, in the american experience, I might even include world War two in this. But everything since World War two, I think, has just been a bankers war. Okay? So that is a statement that I agree with in a broad sense, that big wars benefit banks most because they print money to supply the weapons. So it’s just people getting rich. Who are the bankers? They finance the war. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist or particularly educated or smart to come to that conclusion.
When it comes to my situation over here, we are in. We are an outpost. We’re a colony of the United States, and I don’t want to be one. We’ve been a colony of the US since 1967. In the six Day war, we were supposed to lose. We were getting squeezed by Egypt and Jordan and Syria and Lebanon all at the same time. And they were openly saying that they were going to invade and kill us all. So we attacked first and we weren’t supposed to. They were telling us not to do that, but we basically bombed their air forces before they took off.
And all of a sudden they didn’t have any air forces. And then we just conquered everything that we marched into, including Jerusalem, and then we even fired on purpose. I think, though the official story is an accident. But we fired on an american ship called the USS Liberty in June 1967 and killed, like, I think it was either 19 or 39 or some high amount of us servicemen. And I think the unofficial reason that is not spread around is that they were broadcasting our troop movements to the egyptian army. So we attacked America in 1967 and we didn’t get any weapons from them.
And then even after, despite that, or maybe because of that, they decided to make us an outpost, right? And they said, okay, we’ll supply our weapons. You just listen to us. And ever since then it’s been that way. So our wars, I think the israeli wars, really, if you want to get conspiratorial about it, we are the weapons testing ground for us weapons. They give us weapons and then they tell us, try it out on our arab neighbors. And then the israeli government has to give some kind of a matlah, some kind of excuse to launch a new war, which I think might be why there were 8 hours of stand down orders from the army that didn’t do anything when we were attacked because there had to be a war.
And maybe they didn’t know. Maybe they didn’t know it was going to be a massacre like it was. Maybe they. Maybe they thought it was going to be a little bit of a skirmish that they could do something with for maybe a week or a month or whatever, and then maybe it turned out to be worse than they thought it was. That’s what I think happened here. They wanted to test out new weapons, whatever they are, or new war tactics. So our wars are just a derivative of us wars. And I think they’re all in this together.
Could I be wrong about that? Sure. And doesn’t change the fact that there’s still hostages over there that we. So we’re forced into it, just like. Was there any chance that you weren’t going to. That America wasn’t going to go into Afghanistan? Maybe there was a chance that they weren’t going to go into Iraq, maybe. Fine, okay. But still, they were going to go to war. You weren’t going to stop that and you were going to go into, you’re going to go into World War Two after the bombing of Pearl harbor, even if you say, which is probably true, that FDR knew about it in advance and let it happen because he wanted to go to war, fine, okay.
But what are you going to do? It happened. We’re in the situation now. That’s it. We got to fight it. And it sucks because people in charge of it, I hate them, and I think they’re responsible for it, but what am I supposed to do? So I. Right. After October 7, this is like, this is like the day after October 7, they were doing a vox populi on the street of Gaza and there was a woman who walked up. She had the, you know, the beekeeper suit on. And she said, the leaders of Gaza have brought ruination upon us because she said the Israelis are going to do what they’re doing.
You know, they’re going to start bombing and attack us. And all the leaders of Gaza are sitting in Qatar, and she specifically. They’re sitting in Qatar. Right. They’re not here. So they, you know, they have, you know, brought hell down upon us where they don’t have to experience it. And, you know, I thinking, you know, where do those billions come from that the leaders of Gaza have. Right. You know, I wonder how much american money is just funding both sides of this just to, like you said, either test weapons and also just to get the debt out.
You know, the. The debt must expand at an exponential rate. The debt does not care where it expands to. So if it expands into two sides shooting each other, uh, then it’s fine with it. And that makes me wonder, after the financial system, I’m not saying, I’m not saying as soon as everything collapses, everyone’s gonna lock hands and sing Kumbaya in the Middle East. Kumbaya, my lord Kumbaya, o Lord Kumaya. But if that impetu. If you were. If the funding dries up, I’m wondering if in a couple generations, people are just going to wonder what the hell they were all fighting each other for.
I don’t think it’s going to be that, because with the jewish people, it’s always a special case. They just want to kill us, and it’s always been that way. But I do believe in a few generations, there can be a very simple solution. Just pay the strong side has to pay the weak side to leave, give them money and go and just separate. We have to live alone here, and we can’t have other people near us that want to kill. Let me count to that point slightly. I read, and I wish I could dig it up.
I don’t know where I read this, but I read in Mandatory Palestine, so this is like the 1920s or whatever, that Jews and Arabs could, like, have dinner at each other’s houses, and it wasn’t, it wasn’t a problem. I mean, there were, there were, there were some issues, but it wasn’t like, it wasn’t like it is now where it’s like you can’t. Can’t live in the same area. So that makes me wonder, you know, and there’s Jews in Iran. I mean, a lot of them have left. Yeah, there are Jews in Egypt. A lot of them have left, but there were, and they were living peacefully for, you know, thousands of years.
So it makes me wonder if the impetus dries up, will that, will that hatred that you experience, will that go away? Will the hatred of the Jews ever dry up? It’s because I think it’s being fun. I really. I’m absolutely convinced it’s being funded now. At least. At least. Yeah, yeah, no, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s definitely being. It’s definitely, hey, you want to fund it? It’s like what they did to Ukraine. They did the same thing to Ukraine. They go, you know, put. You put all these missiles on the border with Russia, pay for, you go, look, I know it’s being funded.
I. I understand that. And I don’t want to be part of this funding. So the only, the only way we can really win. And it’s. It’s very difficult for me to like to, to surf the fine line between religious thinking and practical thinking here. And I have to unite them. I can’t do anything else because our existence makes no sense here. What the hell are we doing here? And we came back. How, like, you try to explain it step by. Doesn’t make any sense. But we’re back home. And what has to happen is that we have to reject the corrupt relationship we have with the United States and not rely on us taxpayers to supply anything for this.
Which means Israel has to have a leader. And there is one. There is a candidate for this. He’s not very popular, but hopefully he can become very popular. I mean, we have this guy in El Salvador. We have the millet example. These people can just, like, jump up and change everything overnight for good. So maybe that’ll, hopefully that’ll happen here. But we need a leader that will completely reject the inappropriate relationship with the United States. Say, we don’t want any more of your weapons. We’ll produce what we need over here. And that’s a big risk. I understand that.
And some people would consider it suicidal. But then again, the last war we won was 1967, when specifically we’re not getting any help from the United States. And every, ever since then, we’ve lost every war we’ve survived, but we haven’t won like we have since 1967 at all. Not even close to it. So we have to break the banker relationship and fight our own wars at our own risk. And you know what? I’ll put it in God’s hands, and I don’t want it in America’s hands. And you don’t want it in America’s hands. And if we die, we die.
And we won’t die, and everything will be fine. And that sounds crazy, messianic thinking. Well, I can’t. I told you I can’t. I can’t break from that completely. And I’m sorry, but I’d like to be friends with the United States, but I don’t want to rely on them. And I think a lot of Jews think the same way, and we need a leader who believes that also. Yeah, well, let me. Let me. Let me finish the point on this thought. I went to an amusement park with my son one or two weeks ago, and we’re wandering around, and it is.
It was. It’s a. It’s a blue. It’s a. It’s a good park. It’s a good park. It’s a blue collar park. It’s a. It’s a working man’s park. It’s not. It’s not Disney World. And there is just. There is every shade of color under the sun there. So there’s black people, white people, Latinos, and tons of. And everyone’s mixed as well. Mixed. Mixed like you wouldn’t believe. And everyone just get along. Everyone’s getting along fine. Um, and, you know, there are forces in America that are trying to say, like, you, you cannot get along. Like, you, you just cannot.
You know, that the history is too, too deep. It’s too. It’s too inbred. Uh, so that we must, you know, fight until we. Until one side wins and the other side loses. But everyone just kind of get along now. And it just shows you, like, you don’t have to. If you don’t listen to the tv, everyone can get along. Uh, now, now, I will say that it takes. It absolutely takes both sides. You can’t. If you show up and extend your hand, the other person slaps it away, then you must. You must fight. That is human nature.
You must fight. So. But if both sides can agree to get along, then you can get along. Yeah, I think. I mean, I don’t have any problem, I guess, morally, with getting along with Arabs. I mean, a Druze guy just dropped off groceries at my house. We get along with the Druze perfectly well. And the christian Arabs also. There’s not much of a problem with them. But, you know, I guess Islam wants us out because we’re a threat. I mean. I mean, as long as that happens, then your choice, the choice before you is. Is made because you can’t.
Like I said, it takes both sides to agree to peace. Because one side wants war, the other side gets war too. Doesn’t matter what you want. Yeah, it sucks. Well, and that’s. That’s how it is right now. And in the short term, I hope the endgame changes the equation, and so both sides run out of money. So if we fight, we’ll fight with a lot less sophisticated weapons, and then we’ll just come to a financial conclusion to this instead of a physical one. But either way, we’re not leaving. And, you know, like I said, I hope my prediction is correct, and I hope that.
I hope that just dries up and people just say, well, what? We wasted a bunch of money, just like the Americans in Afghanistan. We wasted 20 years and tons of money and got nothing to show for it. And now no one wants any more wars. So maybe that’ll happen there, too, and everyone will just agree to live in peace. Yeah. And the best way. The best way for to find out if that can happen is that everyone else has to butt out. And that means that our leadership, our leadership has to push everyone out, because all the bankers who want this war want to feed it.
So we got to cut off the feed. All right, final question, real quick. Yeah. Are boomers. This is a viewer question to me. Was our boomers to blame for this with their reckless spending and 50 years of deference? I think we have the same answer. It won’t take long. And is it a generational rot? My answer is no. There’s no such thing as generational rot. People. People respond to the incentives in front of them. So if the incentive in front of you is to borrow money and build a swimming pool and buy a boat, you can’t really, you could not really have afforded without the debt and, you know, live high in the hog and pretend you’re rich and then dump everything on your children and grandchildren, then people are going to respond to those incentives.
They did not know in the 1970s. They did not. I mean, some did like Rothbard knew, but they didn’t know that they were an inflationary cycle. I didn’t know I was in an inflationary cycle until I started watching in game investor. You just live in the world you live in. You respond to the incentives. You respond that are presented in front of you. And it takes a powerful mind to say, oh, this is fake, and then say, okay, what’s the reality? And what do I need to do to prepare for the abrupt return to reality? And most people, you know, I have tried.
I’ve talked to people in my family who think I’m crazy. I’ve talked to my neighbors who think I’m crazy. You know, you just speak to everybody, and there’s a few people who get it and respond to it, and everyone else just thinks, you’re crazy. And they just live their inflated life. There’s, you can’t do anything about it. And it’s not their generational fault. It’s not the fault that the world war two generation pampered their kids because they were also experiencing inflation. So they said, well, we can live that generation went through the Great Depression, so they said, we’re not going to let our kids go through that.
And so they had more pamper. And then the baby boomers grew up and had the millennials and the gen Xers, who also were quite pampered. Now the next generation, now we’re at the end of this line. You can see Gen Z is not pampered anymore. They’re stressed out. They hate their whatever jobs are available, suck and don’t pay, and they can’t afford anything. So the pampering is done. So the question is, next is, what happens next? Go ahead. What are your thoughts on. I want to make a quick analogy, then I got to go. The analogy is you said all wars are bankers wars.
So bankers figured out how to control inflation between them. They figured it out in 1946, how to do it after World War two, Bretton woods, and then fiat currencies. And we’re in the same inflation since then. You could say it’s even started 1933, wherever you want to start, the count doesn’t matter. They figured it out. Now let’s say instead of bankers, let’s say operators of whorehouses, like brothels, whatever, they figured out that they just decided to get together and like, build brothels, like in every city in the US, really, really cheap, and subsidize it and get the government to subsidize going to prostitutes for everyone.
Would you be surprised if the entire society ended up addicted to hookers? I mean, is it their fault? I mean, the government was subsidizing the building of brothels everywhere. And so what do you expect to happen to the society? So we had corrupt leadership, corrupt bankers, and that led down to America conquering the world. And once an empire conquers the world, they look for other things to occupy their minds, and they’re usually immoral. So it’s a natural cycle of after America took over the entire planet, after World War two, they got bored and they decided to print money and buy a bunch of crap.
And we’re still stuck in there and still addicted to it. So stealing from other people to buy more crap. At some point soon, the crap ride is going to dry up and we’re going to be left with nothing but dried crap. That’s a beautiful analogy. Roughly. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Dried turds turn into prosperity in your neck. Yes. That’s just like, you know, that’s what dried turds do. They do turn into prosperity once you use them as fertilizer for your garden. There you go. We’ll end on that. Thanks, Rob. This is a great conversation. Okay. Yes, thanks.
And I will see you soon.
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