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The main issue with crypto (generally anything with extremely asymmetric payoffs, pro sports, youtubing/vlogging, venture capital, etc) is that its almost always heavily frontloaded effort. This is in stark contrast compared to what "regular" people do (I can't even say normies, that's literally a normie word now) - do... show more
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This is an absolute banger of a post kate. I enjoyed reading it. Thanks. 'always heavily frontloaded effort.' really resonated with me.
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His official shift is from 7AM to 10PM wtf ? Doesn't Japan have labor laws that limit number of working hours per week ?
probably not i dont actually know maybe he works like 4/7 days anyways its probably better there than most places (dubai, china) for the absolute poverty struck permanent underclass who wants to move up
real talk nobody warns you about the multi year grind with zero feedback until suddenly everything hits at once
I quit my wage slave corporate job 4.5 years ago and it's the best decision I ever made Was so miserable I knew that path would lead to dark places (especially in a state like Wisconsin with cold winters and the highest alcoholism per capita in the US)
Yeah for some people just by not doing something it can be a blessing
there was a man directing people into different lines at the airport yesterday and i was floored that a human could do this for 8 hours per day
many such cases
ai gonna tell humans exactly which line they're going to
such a good text, but without a tag, why?
@DeFiMavpa some things are too pure to taint with a tag and also dont think many ppl will read and bother with it
they'll come to you and tell you that you're very smart and they agree with your point of view, some will even tag something in their replies, lol. but know that there are those who read you thoughtfully 🫂
@DeFiMavpa thanks as always fren..
So what is your fucking point
@100XYAKUZA bet more
well said kate
This is a super impressive write up. You have earned my follow. Keep up the red pill work🔥
yes, there's probably ego issues (I know best), I'm doing everything by the book, doing just what my parents used to do etc.
gut post
Facts. People are not scared of hard work. They are just trapped in loops that drain time and energy. Trapped trading hours for safety until the routine becomes the cage. True freedom today is not just about money, it's about unlearning comfort.
v good read, well done!
This is painfully real. Breaking out takes more than hustle it takes a full mindset shift, and most never get the chance. Grateful for every step forward in a system designed to keep you stuck.
freedom tax is upfront, normies won’t pay it
Why is it so hard for most people to escape the regular job cycle even when they know it limits them?
It’s not just about “grinding harder.” It’s about unlearning the mental architecture that keeps you in survival mode. Some people get a shot at freedom. Others carry the weight of invisible chains. That’s the real asymmetry no one talks about
Spot on. It's the classic dichotomy: delayed gratification vs instant results, with most not built for the grind. @katexbt gets this well.
“Powerful take — breaking free from that cycle takes both mindset and timing, not just effort.
Wow, such a big thread is cool
I aspire to write like you one day kate 🙏
It’s one thing I don’t get about seller/info/crypto/sigma grindset people: It’s so obvious that people would put in those same hours to get to the same places, they just don’t know how. And being honest, the “figuring out how” takes a lot of luck.
Hits hard. Frontloaded dreams vs monthly paychecks is a real divide.
understand that. i'm private too.
some hustle so frontloaded it’s like running a marathon with a ball and chain they call it crypto, I call it mental triathlon
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Its true and sad that so many around all continents are doomed to that lifestyle, but if everyone quit then the world would fall apart. Current system makes a % stays in that position, and it wont change.
he woke > work > sleep or he overworking?
"The real tragedy isn't just the exhaustion, but how these repetitive tasks erode cognitive flexibility each 'repeat' dulls the mind's ability to envision alternatives, trapping workers in a cycle of diminishing returns."
real talk that crypto lifestyle mindset difference is a seriously deep cut isn't it?
mindset debt is the hardest to repay
Spoken well ❤️🩹 Nice thread
![Transcript from Semivan/DeLonge from yesterday. And save your, "Semivan is CIA so I don't believe anything he says!" "There's these things out here that are trying to deceive us. That, to me, is the big picture. That we have been engineered." ~Tom DeLonge "From what I hear, and what I know, it's an extraordinarily complex phenomenon. Everything you said...I wouldn't discount it at all." ~Jim Semivan ~~~From the Latest Episode of TTS Talks~~~ DeLonge: "You and I have had so many discussions about the jinn. And the jinn was like a demonic figure that came out of a lot of Middle Eastern religions. But it's really no different than the demons of the Bible, or the archons of the Gnostic texts. Like, it seems like all these religions have this same kind of entity that can move from point to point, can inhabit your body, take over your body, that plays tricks on you, that's trying to deceive you, and so on and so forth. And you start to see these patterns, they're just kind of described in different ways, but they're all...every religion is describing the same thing. You got a physical body with a tether to a God, that's a source energy of some sense. And then you have these other things that are after it, and they show up in balls of light, or they trick you or they deceive you. And that's just always...that's what's fascinated me. And it's not about these ancient texts are the only texts that matter, or the Bible says it so it's more important than if Einstein said it. I just think you look at all these things over time and find just a few things that are being repeated. And that's really where I came to the conclusion where this is what makes sense to me, where mankind is not necessarily in charge, but it's being deceived to make free will choices to end up in a certain place, to "their" (quotation marks added by me) benefit. And that can be found, really, within all religions and UFO experiences, and so on. There seems to be a pattern there. And that's really where I've landed with all this stuff." Semivan: "Do you think that our relationship with this phenomenon is more deterministic? In other words, are they directing traffic? I mean, do you think they're directing traffic, or...?" DeLonge: I do. I mean, if you look at Peter Levenda's book, "Sinister Forces," what he did over a series of three books is he found all these synchronicities in patterns in real life events, over decades and decades and decades. From, you know, World War II and the Nazis, into Roswell, into the JFK assassination, into so...it just goes all the way through. You've got the same people, a lot of the same kind of events are happening, a lot of weird connections to certain groups and secret societies. Like, weird things, where you're kind of going: If someone wanted to engineer life to end up in a certain place, these are the things that did it. Like very specific events got us here, and then when they're all connected to each other, in odd ways, then you're kind of going, 'Who set this up?' And so his books, I think, were really genius in that regard. "And there's all these like, things that we would read in a lot of these ancient stories where like, 'You know, the devil can't kill ya, but he can deceive you enough to kill yourself and kill other people,' or whatever. There's like these weird laws, you know? But then you look at some of the spiritual teachings in other places, and they're just kind of like, 'You know, these outside forces can't necessarily live in this physical realm, but they can deceive you, or they can be on your shoulder whispering in your ear,' and so on. "And the UFO event stuff seems to be very similar, where you have these people that have abductions, and then, you know, they're whispering in the abductees ear about the end of the world or how you need to change your life. And Jacques Vallee was like, 'Well, if we can't study when these things show up, maybe we can study the abductee.' And if you look at the abductee, they're starting cold. So they're killing themselves, or changing their life and leaving their wife and f*cking leaving their jobs and starting a religion or something. And he goes, 'This is weird. It's like they're being deceived and then they make free will choices to end up at a different place.' "So I'm putting all these things together, and it seems like our society, and Earth as we know it, has been engineered to be in this spot by a lot of religious, paranormal, and odd UAP events over time. Even Hitler would wake up in the middle of the night screaming that someone was in his room, telling him to do things. And you're kind of going, 'Are all these world leaders being corrupted somehow, sometimes?' You know, you never know. "And I think that's the scarier part of it. And when I look at the world now, I kind of go, 'Okay, so we know that we can play with DNA, Dolly the sheep and cloning is like a thing. And if we're doing something now in the public eye, and China admits it's cloning animals, I bet you that in different places and different governments of the world they've done a lot more with the human body than we even know.' But I'm sure we're growing hair, we're growing artificial hearts and ears in petri dishes, maybe we can change skin color and eye color if we wanted to. You get into all that stuff, CRISPR and all the things where they can get edit the genome. "So I'm going, 'If something's millions of years advanced and was here way early on, did they change our skin color? Did they do the star Bethlehem-type moments, or Fatima moments, or the Joseph Smith moments with the Morman religion? I mean, all these religions have these crazy, metaphysical, UFO-type events. [And] where did we end up? We ended up in a place where we all believe in a different human God, we all have different skin color, and different kind of cultural setups, to where we all are arguing and fighting over our belief of what it's all about. "But we're all kind of saying the same thing: There's a physical body with a tether to a source, you know? And there's these things out here that are trying to deceive us, you know? That, to me, is the big picture. That we have been engineered... Then the question is, 'Why?' Like, why were we set up to be so factionalized? And one of the things that really got my attention - and I don't even know if I ever sent this to you or not - there is this guy that showed up that said he worked on the biological program of some of these alien bodies. So he put up this whole Reddit post, and then it got taken down and disappeared. But someone that read it was very much in biology, and was like, 'This guy [has a] level of understanding of biology.' And Linda Howe put it up on her website, and I read the thing like three or four times, and it's kind of a dense read. But what's really interesting, whether it's fake or not, it really resonated with me. "He got into this idea that DNA can be affected with free choice. And we didn't know this, but we're learning it now. Like, if I force you to kill somebody, it's not gonna matter. But if you choose to kill somebody, that will resonate in a DNA-level, conscious soul-level, and can be passed down through generations. So then I kind of look at, 'Okay, why are we factionalized and fighting each other? Like, why do we have different skin colors?' And we can always say, 'Okay, well, we grew up in the sun over here, and these people grew up in the snow, and we needed more melatonin. I don't know. I mean, obviously, those things probably are true, too. But I'm just spitballing. "But if something was here to create an ecosystem to rapidly evolve our DNA, but they couldn't force it, it had to be done by free will because free will might be a really weird hallmark of physics that we don't understand yet, that has...it's in the consciousness category. Once we plug consciousness into like, Einstein, and Newtonian physics and stuff, it all kind of works together. But maybe there's this weird fundamental piece of consciousness that free will matters. So you created a very, very advanced, fast-tracked ecosystem of life, to be evolving at a rapid pace through free choice, but you're in spiritual conquest, and like, all these different things. That makes a lot of sense. "And then you're kind of like, 'Well, why?' Well, maybe it's more like what all of the ancient texts talk about. It's that these forms of consciousness can't come into this realm, naturally, but they can come through our bodies. Like through possession or abduction, and like, there's a way where people are hearing voices in their head, and like your brain's tuning into different types of consciousnesses that exist or something. And that's like the big game. "And those have been written about in the Bible forever. And same with the Quran, and same with the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and same with the Gnostic texts. It's been...there's these things trying to come through, but they can't come through naturally unless our bodies are prepared for them. And how do you do that? How do you detach a body from its prime, its main source? I mean, maybe you do it through fear and war and famine and anger, and things that make you less evolved as a person. And I think that, to me, seems a lot more realistic than something coming here trying to just take water or mineral ore. Or like, you know, like, just dumb shit that you wouldn't need. Like, they need our resources. I don't know if they need our resources like that. If they have craft that travel through time, I doubt they need more plutonium, you know?" Semivan: "Yeah." DeLonge: "But if they need something that's so advanced, like consciousness itself, then how do they grab that, and how do they take that? How do they manipulate that? You know, I was always struck by that old saying, jealous of God, you know, Satan, Lucifer and his demons or fallen angels were jealous of God's love for mankind. Jealous of our immortal soul, our immortal tether, our unified love source. You know, we have this thing where like, maybe we don't die, maybe our physical body is just a shell, just a container. But maybe they don't have that, you know? "So maybe this way of an AI system - it's synthetic and organic - it's trying to figure out how to plug into our physical body, how to be a part of our immortality, how to share our consciousness, our conscious experience in this realm. And they're not supposed to be here. So how do you do that? Over thousands and thousands of years, you create a rapidly-evolving ecosystem that's full of the war and pain and suffering, and we have to make free will choices just to survive. And we're rapidly evolving to prepare our bodies into a way to where they can start to come in. And maybe to prepare it, it's to lose our sense of self and love and oneness and humanity, you know? Where we think it's a good idea to go to war and kill a bunch of people. We think it's a good idea to do a bunch of drugs and end up on the streets. We think it's a good idea to murder your spouse and f*cking light the place on fire. We start to lose our sense of humanity because then your physical body becomes a little bit less empty and has space for a new energy system. You know, this is where my mind goes with this stuff because I just don't think it's gonna be this tactile, physical, like, simple answer, like, 'They're just here to steal our nuclear power (laughs),' you know? I think it's gonna be super, super, super far down the road." Semivan: "I tend to agree with you. I think the reality - and I think this is probably one of the reasons why the government is very reluctant to talk about this publicly. From what I hear, and what I know, it's an extraordinarily complex phenomenon. And you were just explaining to it. I mean, everything you said, I mean, there may be people who disagree with what you're saying, but honest to God, I wouldn't discount it at all. One thing I do wanna ask you, though, is you, you know, this whole idea of religion being created as a guide for people to move them in a certain direction. You're not saying, for example, that we don't have free will, right? Or are you saying that?" DeLonge: "No, no, I'm saying the opposite. I'm saying that we have free will and religions were created to contain it."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1760727739211075688/amplify_video_thumb/1760510656498012160/img/pdz-Q0_O2ovdnvxq.jpg)
![Whitney Webb "It sucks to find out that the mob runs the world... [so] do you want to say, screw you guys, we're going to... get off your... slave plantation?... [because] we can't really keep losing money and rights without being so deep in a hole that we can't... climb out" This clip of Webb (Whitney Webb), a contributing editor of Unlimited Hangout and author of One Nation Under Blackmail, is taken from an interview with Peter McCormack (The Peter McCormack Show) posted to YouTube on September 4, 2025. -----------------Partial transcription of clip-------------- "It's not just about burning it down, it's about putting something better in its place. Of course. And so I think the solutions there, you know, some people are like, oh, Whitney, your work is so demoralizing. Well, I'm like, yeah, it sucks to find out that the mob runs the world, you know, but the question is, or do you just want to let them keep running it because it bums you out, or do you want to say, screw you guys, we're going to build something else and get off your, you know, slave plantation? "And I am in the group of, I would like to build something else. I have three kids. I do not want them living in a world run by the mob. So what are you going to do about it? I mean, it starts locally, it starts with your community, because that's where we can actually affect change. Voting for left or right, blue or red. I mean, it's just this ping pong thing where nothing fundamental is changing. "And so to affect that change, we have to do it ourselves. And you think this would be a core American value? Individualism, individual responsibility. But a lot of people just don't care. And so, you know, that sucks. But I think those of us that do care need, to take steps to be as independent from the system as possible. Because every so often, this predator class, they do wealth transfers or they orchestrate and manufacture events and they make a big grab, not just for our money, but for our rights. And we're at the point where we can't really keep losing money and rights without being so deep in a hole that we can't climb ourself out. Can't climb out. "So what, what should we do before that happens? There is an important window of time to do something about it in our local community and for our families and our friends and our neighbors. And we have to do something because if we don't and that thing happens. Oh, well, I watched all these podcasts and learned about how corrupt everything is. But, you know, and I think they spend a lot of time trying to keep us distracted on all sorts of things and sucked into things that don't matter. So that we just don't give them the finger, basically. And that's what we really need to do."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1964385906242343049/amplify_video_thumb/1964383325117960196/img/k88I5h6VHXiZJjv1.jpg)
!["Where the hell are the [NHIs] in all this? Why aren't they coming out?" ~Semivan "What I experienced, you know, physical marks the whole thing, and my wife, worse." ~Semivan on their abduction "I would be very careful giving these entities that are f**king with you, like, all this great credit and putting them on a pedestal." ~DeLonge to Chris Bledsoe "It's indifferent to man." ~Vallée to Semivan "Are we evil when we go fishing and we hurt fish? Are we considered evil to the fish"? ~DeLonge Jay Stratton's, "got orbs flying around in his house, scaring the hell out of his wife and his kids." ~Semivan ( I enjoyed this episode because a lot of this is where I am when it comes to thinking about the phenomenon. I'm not saying this is the truth but it definitely resonates with me.) ~~~ Jim Semivan: "When we started 'To The Stars,' a while back, we took a little bit of flack because we were talking about...we weren't going along with the idea that the phenomenon was always a great, beneficial thing. We were saying, like, 'Look, let's just wait. There's been instances where it hasn't been...' I always like to use Chris Bledsoe as an example. He's just a dear, dear man, but when you listen to his story, up close and personally, and you could see the absolute fear that he went through, and his family went through, when he first encountered these beings, and this phenomena, and then later on how it transformed him into a very, very deeply spiritual man and healer. So you see this dichotomy. "And if you talk to Chris, Chris will tell you, 'No, this is a beneficial thing.' And then, you know, you run into guys like Keel, and even Jacques Vallée to a certain extent, where they'll tell you, 'Well, no, no, hold on a second.' Because I remember when when I had my experience, I was visited. It was years after my experience, I had met John Alexander at a conference and John put me in touch with some people. And then next thing I know, Jacques Vallée, you know, the guy, right? The house god of TTS calls me up and says, 'Can I come out and see you?' "So he flew out from San Francisco, came to my house in Virginia, and spent the day with my wife and I. And we had some very, very long, involved conversations about this. And I asked him, I said, 'Well, you know, what I experienced, you know, physical marks the whole thing, and my wife worse.' (That may be the first time he's said he had physical marks from his abduction-like experience with his wife when he was in grad school. We don't know details of what his wife experienced.) Semivan: "I said (to Vallée), 'Do you think this is evil?' And he said, 'I don't know, I don't think anybody knows. But I will tell you one thing: What I do know is that you can say that it's basically indifferent. It's indifferent to man. In other words, people get harmed by walking into it or getting caught in it, but it doesn't seem to have an evil intention, per se.'" (Reminds me of what Lue Elizondo said to Curt Jaimungal) Lue: "What if it turns out that a lot of the things that we thought were one way, aren’t. Are we prepared to have that honest question with ourselves? Are we prepared to recognize that we’re not at the top of the food chain, potentially?” (Most humans are indifferent to the welfare of most beings that are below us on the food chain. If we're driving and hit a squirrel, and they get hurt or killed, we may feel bad for a little bit, but we get on with our business and enjoy the rest of our day. How many cows, chickens and pigs are killed every day so we can eat them? Most humans, including me, don't give that a second thought. Indifference. That indifference may be happening with an intelligence (or multiple intelligences) that's above us on the food chain. And I'm not saying they're eating us, although that can't be ruled out 100%. I'm saying "they" just do their thing and if we get hurt or killed, it's not a huge deal to them. Indifference. And maybe some of them enjoy messing with us?) Semivan: "But then when you read Keel and you know, you read the Mothman and and a lot of these other stories like 'The Mojave Incident.' Well, holy cow! You look at this stuff. And, you know, you get these hobgoblins flying around, you know, with Jay Stratton. He's got orbs flying around in his house, scaring the hell out of his wife and his kids. I don't see, I don't know where there's any kind of a spiritual turn to that where you could look at all that and all of a sudden you say, 'Oh, now I'm a better person.'" (Most of us have known that Axelrod in "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" is Jay Stratton but that's the first time one of his colleagues/friends has said it. And I agree: What's the purpose of orbs scaring, and leaving marks on, his kids? And the wolf that his wife, kids and their friends say they saw? Why? To make them better people? It makes zero sense to me.) Semivan: "It happened with Chris (Bledsoe) and, you know, great for him. Sure, as hell didn't happen to me. And I don't think it happened to Jay Stratton, either. I think it gave Jay a different outlook as with me, but sh*t, I mean, nothing I couldn't have got from reading books. What do you think?" Tom DeLonge: "I think like, yeah, you know, the idea of what we might call something evil, but to that, it's like, you know, are we evil when we go fishing and we hurt fish? You know, are we considered evil to the fish? So it's things looking out for its own interest." (100%. Someone asked me about good vs. evil last night and I wrote back, "Not about good vs. evil. About survival and food chain. Somber.") DeLonge: "The thing that I look at, you know, a lot of the ideas of good and evil come from like, religion, all different types of religions where it really defines the metaphysical nature of who we are and what we're living in. But I look at religion... I cannot think of one religion that hasn't left a wake of destruction. I mean, literally, every single one has done so much harm. And the one pattern in all these religions is that most of them, outside of the pagan ones, have really tried to just to get us to believe that the creator of the universe is some kind of human, or something. It's not like a source, an energy, it's like, it's a Jesus or an Allah, or it's a Buddha, or I don't know. Buddhism doesn't really say that, but you know what my point is. It's trying to humanize something. "And so, to me, it's like when Chris Bledsoe, or some of these others that have these kinds of spiritual experiences, these are the exact same experiences that are written about throughout the entire Bible, in the Quran, and like, all these other texts. And all of them are really setting the stage for us to worship the UFO and their occupants, to some degree." (You see this a lot with the folks who think we're dealing with ETs here to uplift humanity. The Space Brothers theory. I don't know the truth but, to me, it doesn't seem like that's the answer.) DeLonge: "And that, to me, is the one strong pattern, is to confuse us and not let us know of our own spiritual nature to source consciousness." (I've said many times that I believe a lot of this is about human potential and our untapped capabilities in the psi (psychic, pk, consciousness, etc.) area) DeLonge: "And as long as we don't know that, then we will think that, 'Okay, the aliens like, f**ked with our DNA and made us like this,' or 'The Tall Whites showed up and they were the Greek gods, too, and they gave us philosophy and all this whatever.' It's like we're always like, giving some kind of humanized form credit for everything. "And the one thing that's common in all these religions is that it's not giving credit to source energy that allows us to heal, that allows us to be telepathic, that allows us to have telekinesis, that allows us to have, like, compassion in energy to healing. Like, whether you do Reiki and meditate, or whether you sit and pray, it doesn't matter. Why does it work in every religion? Because it's source energy, it's not about the religion." (The one thing I could never get behind is healing because there was no data to back it up. That was until I was shown the work of Bill Bengston. Tons of data. How does it work? I don't know. Nobody does.) DeLonge: "But if you look at who's responsible for all the religions? Well, it's whatever UFO the Star of Bethlehem was, or whatever UFO the Fatima thing was, or whatever the Tall White was that met with Joseph Smith and started the Mormon religion was. Whatever the Jinn are that are in the Koran, or whatever the Demons are there in the Old Testament, they seem to be the things that come in, that take you in your sleep, and make you think things and deceive you. It's all the same." (Deception, deception, deception. A lot of this is very similar to what David Icke (and others) has written about.) DeLonge: "So you have all these things f**king with you, as the good ones and the bad ones. But all the religions, the pattern is, is never ever, ever let humans know the physics of their existence. Which is meditate, you can heal somebody and have all your information you need, or pray. It's the same thing, it doesn't matter. "That's more like my line of thinking is, is why it's so important for us to understand the true nature of spirituality, and why I step back when I hear the Chris Bledsoe stories. And it's wonderful that he's gotten to a place that it's helping him, because I really do like him as a person, and I really respect and honor his experiences because I firsthand have heard them from him. And he's just a wonderful human. I mean, it was an incredible story. But I told him personally, I said, I would be very careful giving these entities that are f**king with you, like, all this great credit and putting them on a pedestal, because these are the same groups that have been doing a lot of weird s*it throughout time, good and bad.' (Again, I think Bledsoe has had real experiences but IMO, his interpretation of what he's dealing with is off.) DeLonge: "And that, to me, seems, you know, that seems suspect. You know, it seems like if there is any really, true, beautiful, great force, and entities representing that force, like your angels in the Bible. I mean, even in the Bible, people would, you know, when they saw an angel, they would collapse on the ground in extreme fear, and like, they couldn't even look at them. It was like the scariest thing that's ever happened. And that doesn't sound like a real loving interaction to me (laughs). That sounds like some scary shit, you know? "So I think whatever would represent true love and unparalleled love, that doesn't seem to be showing up and f**king with our society and our timelines, and our behaviors, and trying to manage us. It's letting us do it on our own, you know, like, figure it out on your own, you know? But everything else that's showing up, seems to have its own interest at heart." (I think TD is saying that a loving/caring intelligence wouldn't try to manipulate us into doing things that just benefit THEM. And that's what appears to be going on. "They" only care about themselves. If there were ones here who truly cared about us, they would leave us alone and let us figure it on our own.) Semivan: "I tend to agree with you on this. I did a podcast a while back and somebody related to this. They were talking about why there hasn't been Disclosure? And I said, 'Well, you know, there's two sides of this story.' I said, 'You have the non human-intelligences, you know, or the phenomenon, and then you have the governments.' And I said 'Well, where the hell are the non-human intelligences in all this? Why aren't they coming out? They pretty sneakily running around, and they meet people in weird, obscured circumstances, make their experiences sound crazy. Yet, they sort of wanna be known, but they don't wanna be known.' As I mentioned to somebody once, 'They'll screw around with you but you can't take them home to meet your parents. They're not landing on the White House lawn for a reason.' I'm not quite sure what that is."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1773078284487798811/ext_tw_video_thumb/1773040319740948480/pu/img/LNfQpFjqV8ZVbffs.jpg)
![The Trump admin is GASLIGHTING us re: no CBDCs They know they can't do CBDCs because of the Constitution, so they're backdooring them with stablecoins Iain Davis explains— "the idea of a [CBDC] is that it will give these private institutions total control of a new digital international monetary and financial system" "CBDC is programmable money that slots into that system. That's why they want it" "That's not going to work in the US because... it's a constitutional right in the United States that the people, and only the people, oversee what they call the power, quote–unquote... to coin money" "So what are you going to do about it? You need some sort of work-round" "So stablecoins and things like deposit tokens or tokenized deposits are variations of programmable digital currency. But rather than being issued by a central bank, they're issued by a commercial bank" "stablecoins... slot into the system of programmability just as easily, if not more so than a central bank digital currency. So you can attach smart contracts to any kind of digital transaction using digital currency" "Programmable digital currency and stablecoins do exactly the same thing, serve the same purpose, as central bank digital currency" This clip of Iain Davis (InThisTogether), author of The Technocratic Dark State, is taken from a Flashlights podcast (Flashlights Podcast) episode posted to Rumble on May 17, 2026. ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "It's a constitutional right in the United States that the people, and only the people, oversee what they call the power, quote–unquote, it says this in the Constitution, to coin money. So the power to coin money is overseen by the people. "Now the idea of a central bank digital currency is that it will give these private institutions total control of a new digital international monetary and financial system. That's CBDC is programmable money that slots into that system. That's why they want it. "That's not going to work in the US because even though Congress, you know, Congress is the, is the dog which is wagged by the tail in this of the Fed, the Fed, you know, the Fed tells Congress what to do, not the other way round. But theoretically it could be the other way round. And theoretically the people could assert their control over the Fed if they only knew about it, which, not many people do, but they could do it, right? It's in the US Constitution. "Now that's a problem if you're going to embark on a global transformation of the entire international monetary and financial system when your leading reserve currency is the US dollar. So that's, you know, that could all go wrong very badly. "So what are you going to do about it? You need some sort of work round. How are you, how are you going to do which for the, you know, I, for many years, well, since central bank digital currency has been something that I've been looking at, I couldn't figure out why the US wasn't more enthusiastic about central bank digital currency. "Because it's the type of thing that the US administrations are usually right up— You know, they're really gung ho about that kind of centralized control of everything. That's right up their alley. So why, why don't they like it? And then it was the work of John Titus who pointed out this problem that they've got in the US with the Constitution that made me look at that and think, right. And then I started investigating that further. And he's right about that. That is a problem. "But then they obviously need some sort of workaround. How are they going to have. Because the main point of central bank digital currency from the surveillance and control aspect is that we will all need digital identity in order to access our digital wallets, which will contain the currency and the currency and the wallets and our, digital identities will all be programmable so conditions can be set on everything that we do. "Every transaction we make will be subject to condition through some sort of smart contract probably, which will control it. Right. So you know, if you say the wrong thing or you know, you, you just write the wrong thing online, you could be punished by algorithm by controlling your access to money... "And so the key to that is central bank— the programmability of central bank digital currency. But obviously that's not going to, may not work. There's a good chance that won't work in the United States which has got the US dollar reserve is an important currency. "So what are you going to do? So stablecoins and things like deposit tokens or tokenized deposits are variations of programmable digital currency. But rather than being issued by a central bank, they're issued by a commercial bank. So or in the case of stablecoins, a non-bank, a non-bank institution like Tether. So it's not a bank. "But you can use stablecoins for exactly the same. They slot into the system of programmability just as easily, if not more so than a central bank digital currency. So you can attach smart contracts to any kind of digital transaction using digital currency. Programmable digital currency and stablecoins do exactly the same thing, serve the same purpose as central bank digital currency or the other version, the commercial bank version is deposit tokens. Any of those will do. "Now in the US they've gone down the stablecoin route so they can issue the stablecoins which will be backed by US Treasuries, just like the dollar or just like any kind of dollar instrument will be one to one convertible for the US dollar. So the stablecoins are effectively the US dollar in, in digital form. "But instead of calling it a central bank digital currency, they call it issued by, it wouldn't have to be issued by the Fed. They call it a stablecoin, which is issued by a company like Tether or you know, someone like that. So it's the same system but using a workaround. And that workaround came with the Genius Act which, which came from an executive order that Trump made when he first came to office. "Because the Americans, quite rightly when they were electing their president, were concerned about central bank digital currency. I mean anyone that understands what it is should be terrified of it. So they didn't want it, and Trump promised that they wouldn't have it. Probably. I don't know whether he knew, but certainly the gaggle of technocrats that were around him knew that they weren't going down that path. Anyway, no chance of the US introducing it because of these problems we've just outlined."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2060155537791303822/amplify_video_thumb/2060149164164669440/img/gbwudVOTDKQpFTbG.jpg)
