What Should Have Happened at the Cryptocurrency Hearings
"You know what else is used for nefarious activities?"
HD DownloadThis month, Congress held multiple hearings on cryptocurrency, in which lawmakers called for new regulations and expressed concern about the threat that this new technology poses to the U.S. banking industry and traditional financial system.
In the latest Reason video, we explore what we would have liked to see happen during the crypto hearings.
Featuring Austin Bragg and Andrew Heaton; written by Austin Bragg, Meredith Bragg, and Andrew Heaton; produced by Meredith and Austin Bragg.
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"You know what else is used for nefarious activities?"
Counterfeit Jacksons?
Red SUVs?
White SUVs?
Social Media?
Laws protecting 'Good Samaritans'?
Dossiers?
At that point I almost expected Adolf to get a mention.
Oxygen
Water
HO2?
As I said before, government is a one way ratchet. Cryptocurrencies bring the promise of deregulation, and a true free market, from merely an idea to a reality. As such, they will be trammeled upon like a cinder.
Specifically and practically, government interference, bureaucracy and oppression has smothered breathtakingly profitable latent industries, from kidnapping to child sex, that the power of crypto has the potential to catalyze in a way regulated fiat currency cannot. I wouldn't expect that level of freedom to be permitted without a fight.
"and expressed concern about the threat that this new technology poses to the U.S. banking industry and traditional financial system"
Absolutely. How can they eliminate savings with inflation and create dependency on the state if the Hoi-polloi are hiding it in crypto, metals and land.
Peasant uprisings don't just crush themselves.
Lol. That mean old fed always try to gin up inflation, for decades!
"That mean old fed"
Not the insane levels of Covid spending, huh. They created 40% of all the money ever created in the last two years. But you think that's going to be okay, right?
Your comment sounded general. Are you arguing it is just covid spending that They are perpetrating as part of a plot to "eliminate savings with inflation and create dependency on the state"? Do you see this as the core motivation for the plandemic and the global hoax or merely an opportunistic side effect They engineered?
Both.
The Davos crew haven't been exactly quite about their plans with Agenda 2030, etc, but they're not quite as clever as they suppose and often have to resort to playing off their accidental fuck-ups and unintended consequences.
quiet
Sounds like a real page-turner. While there are many collaborators, who do you think ultimately pulls the strings? Seems essentially to me to be the original plans of the Elders of Zion still playing out.
Greed. Lust for power. The same string pullers since the stone age.
Well it does make a lot of sense. For centuries different groups have tried, but none have attempted so bold a play as this – cooking up a virus that allows you to spend taxpayer money relieving economic pain and getting people vaccinated, then use that to drive up inflation to reduce the savings of the elite. This is absolute end game for Them.
But that was just an academic paper, a "thought experiment" if you will, about the Fed taking over all private bank accounts, from way back in 2020. From Biden's pick for comptroller of the currency. Who is obviously not a real communist.
"What Should Have Happened at the Cryptocurrency Hearings"
Senator, you have no authority to regulate cryptocurrency. Fuck off.
Senator, do you even understand what cryptocurrency is? Do tell.
I'm going to go one step further on the cryptocurrency front - I've invented e-cryptocurrency! Everybody knows if you put an e in front of anything, it's better.
But what's really going to blow your mind is that I already hold a copyright on smart e-cryptocurrency, but that's something the world is just not ready for yet.
Hah. I've got NFT's for my quantum smart e-cryptocurrency stablecoin.
Well, shit. I guess I'm going to have to lobby my congressman to make that sort of dangerous thing illegal. "Quantum" is going too far.
"...Everybody knows if you put an e in front of anything, it's better..."
Put a '.com' behind it, and YAOZA!
What if you put an e in the middle (dog-e-coin)?
Love you, Heaton. Though, man, you're looking tired. Rest up a bit my friend. I know the last two years were hard on you and coincided with your attempt to go to LA for professional reasons. Know that I appreciates you.
Bragg, the beard game has gotten almost too intense. You're towing the right side of the line now though. You be looking fierce.
Also, I don't even know if people remember me or not, but Merry Christmas Reason Commentariat.
Know that I still think of you and wish you well, even if in aggregate I got burned out of posting here.
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May we all remember in the New Year that we're all on the same side, more or less....
Long time no see! Welcome back, even if only for one comment.
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12 Let's Go Brandons
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Things to do to become a DICTATOR.....
1) be a narcissist who likes to put your name on buildings
2) appoint family members to positions of power
3) rallies — who has rallies after the election is over?
4) the press is enemy of the people
5) Missile parades introduce "new Sherman tank"
6) use your office for your own personal financial gain
7) align with other dictators and strongmen
8) claim minorities cause all the problems except your hires
9) lie so freely that people don’t know what the truth is
10) goofy red hat
11) Bypass Congress/Constitution w/fake National Emergency
12) Investigate the Investigators and or opponents
13) claim unlimited powers from Art. 2
And to think, I removed 12 Trump Derangements from the list this year.
Jail will keep him from doing most of these, his cellmate will keep him busy.
Fail.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-ranked-as-worst-u-s-president-according-to-political-scientist-survey
What's up Peanuts? From the socialists at the Wall St Journal:
Booming U.S. Economy Ripples World-Wide
Surging American demand draws investment from overseas with supply chains working to keep pace and driving up prices
U.S. economic output is set to expand by more than 7% annualized in the final three months of the year, up from about 2% in the previous quarter, according to early output estimates published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. That compares with expected annualized growth of about 2% in the eurozone and 4% in China for the fourth quarter, according to JPMorgan Chase.
Major U.S. ports are processing almost one-fifth more container volume this year than they did in 2019, even as volumes at major European ports like Hamburg and Rotterdam are roughly flat or lag behind 2019 levels. The busiest U.S. container ports are leaping ahead of their counterparts in Asia and Europe in global rankings as volumes surge, according to shipping data provider Alphaliner.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/booming-u-s-economy-ripples-world-wide-straining-supply-chains-and-driving-up-prices-11640082604
Obviously the Wall Street Journal are Biden bootlickers.
(reposted for importance)
Add this little nugget (same source)
In Europe, “durable goods consumption is showing nothing like the boom that is ongoing in the United States,” said Fabio Panetta, who sits on the European Central Bank’s six-member executive board, in a speech last month. Consumption of durable goods has surged about 45% above 2018 levels in the U.S., but is up only about 2% in the eurozone, according to ECB data.
45% above 2018 - before the Trump virus!
Wow, economy is kickass. Sorry Peanuts. It is a fact.
(article behind firewall - will copy more of it or any WSJ for you guys as a Christmas gift)
The demand is stuff still left over from last year and the supply chains are failing because of the lockdowns and Buttigieg's ineptitude. You can't leave hundreds of tankers and cargo liners at sea for a year and then expect everything to still work.
I can't believe you and your bosses think you can trick us with this stuff.
What are you talking about?
News articles say that Biden saved Christmas and shelves are full here on the 23rd.
Overflow lots set up by large retailers this month as temporary staging areas for imported containers have helped bring down congestion levels at the Port of Savannah, and Georgia officials expect further efficiency gains with this week’s opening of two more port-sponsored pop-up sites.
The Georgia Ports Authority, in partnership with the Norfolk Southern, will start accepting loaded containers on Monday at the freight railroad’s nearby Dillard Yard and later this week will begin routing shipping units to a general aviation airport in Statesboro, located about 60 miles west of Savannah, Chief Operating Officer Ed McCarthy told FreightWaves.
Moving containers to off-port properties is part of the recently announced South Atlantic Supply Chain Relief Program designed to reclaim space at the Garden City Terminal, where container crowding is making it difficult for vessels to unload and for stacking equipment and trucks to maneuver. In October, Savannah handled an all-time record of 504,350 twenty-foot equivalent units for a single month, an increase of 8.7% over October 2020. The volume surpassed the GPA’s previous record of 498,000 TEUs set in March. For fiscal year 2021 ended June 30, container volumes increased by 20% over last year.
I called "capitalism" not Pete Buttegieg.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/retailers-open-pop-up-container-yards-to-bypass-savannah-port-jams
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a TDS-addled pile of lefty shit and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Shrike isn’t very bright.
Let people out of lockout and hand them 2 trillion bucks, and what do you expect?
But someday the bill will come due.
lockdown, lockup, lockout, something like that
Let people out of lockout and hand them 2 trillion bucks, and what do you expect?
Now, you are logical. This is the plausible argument.
I can't believe I am commenting one of you Peanuts.
"complementing" dammit.
I wsa a Demosthenian at UGA. The poster 'CE' would be the only one worthy of our society.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a TDS-addled pile of lefty shit and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does.
Why should the bill come due? Do you mean that people will have to pay higher taxes? Is that something you're advocating for?
Biden actually shrank the deficit relative to 2020.
Fox & Friends ‘Supply Chain Crisis’ Segment Derailed By Expert Touting Record Holiday Sales
“2021 will be the best holiday season ever with sales of Christmas goods, 11.5% above what newly-released were in 2020,” said Conner, “so we’re a long way from declaring victory in the supply chain crisis, but obviously, there’s been some incredible work done and some great collaboration to keep goods moving through this crisis.”
By Colby HallDec 23rd, 2021, 10:52 am
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/fox-friends-supply-chain-crisis-segment-derailed-by-expert-touting-record-holiday-sales/
turd is a TDS-addled pile of lefty shit and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
(Bloomberg) -- Former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the release of his White House papers to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, confronting the court with the fallout from the riot for the first time. (today)
Wow, The Dotard is hiding his part in the insurrection.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a TDS-addled pile of lefty shit and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
the fallout from the riot
The Biden Presidency?
hiding his part in the insurrection.
I'll bite, Shriek.
What was Trump's "part in the insurrection"?
Insurrection is the act of revolting against an established government. Sedition is the incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority. Coup is a violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group. 18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the US or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence. 1) Mushroom dick tried to pressure secretaries of state to not certify. 2. Agent orange tried to pressure state legislatures to overturn the results. 3) Benedict donald tried to get the courts to overturn the results. 4. Pussy grabber tried to pressure Mike Pence to overturn the results. 5. When all else failed, stable genius tried to get a mob to overturn the results.
Technically speaking an "autocoup" or "self-coup."
1) Mushroom dick tried to pressure secretaries of state to not certify. 2. Agent orange tried to pressure state legislatures to overturn the results. 3) Benedict donald tried to get the courts to overturn the results. 4. Pussy grabber tried to pressure Mike Pence to overturn the results. 5. When all else failed, stable genius tried to get a mob to overturn the results.
So he properly appealed to all the appropriate authorities (except for #5 which is your demented fantasy) and you're calling that insurrection. I guess in your neo-fascist world anyone who takes their case to the Secretaries of State, Legislatures, and courts is a rebel?
How unbelievably fucking stupid and fascist.
Here's the actual dictionary definition, slaver:
in·sur·rec·tion (ĭn′sə-rĕk′shən) n.
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin īnsurrēctiō, īnsurrēctiōn-, from Latin īnsurrēctus, past participle of īnsurgere, to rise up; see insurgent.]
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
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Sort of like CHOP/CHAZ.
You are almost correct. After the states are finished counting and has been verified and the electors chosen, he went to 60 courts with 80 judges, and they ALL agreed, there was no case for fraud and this was some judges he appointed including 3 on the Supreme Court. Continuing to fight was futile and that's where my list of 5 becomes criminal. I guess you don't think attempted murder by hanging is not a crime? Pence was afraid to go with his own Secret Service because he thought Trump had told them to bring him to the gallows?
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