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Which is, like, using their control of resources, although, again, the resource the U.S. has now is, like, money. Because they took all of the fucking world's resources, right? But using that to develop your own local industrial basis so you can have your own local manufacturing economy. And this is something that a lot of countries pursued this. Venezuela pursues this. Bolivia pursues it.
Which is, like, using their control of resources, although, again, the resource the U.S. has now is, like, money. Because they took all of the fucking world's resources, right? But using that to develop your own local industrial basis so you can have your own local manufacturing economy. And this is something that a lot of countries pursued this. Venezuela pursues this. Bolivia pursues it.
Which is, like, using their control of resources, although, again, the resource the U.S. has now is, like, money. Because they took all of the fucking world's resources, right? But using that to develop your own local industrial basis so you can have your own local manufacturing economy. And this is something that a lot of countries pursued this. Venezuela pursues this. Bolivia pursues it.
This is something that everyone, kind of across the political spectrum, is trying to do in the 60s and 70s and through the 80s. But the thing is, it's destroyed by the second thing that's sort of a model for what these people are trying to do, which is what Reagan was able to do to the American economy in the sort of 1980s.
This is something that everyone, kind of across the political spectrum, is trying to do in the 60s and 70s and through the 80s. But the thing is, it's destroyed by the second thing that's sort of a model for what these people are trying to do, which is what Reagan was able to do to the American economy in the sort of 1980s.
This is something that everyone, kind of across the political spectrum, is trying to do in the 60s and 70s and through the 80s. But the thing is, it's destroyed by the second thing that's sort of a model for what these people are trying to do, which is what Reagan was able to do to the American economy in the sort of 1980s.
And what Reagan is able to do is, Reagan actually does something that sounds really bizarre now, But he was actually successfully able to temporarily for about maybe like six years, six or seven years, was able to actually like dramatically ramp up American like like industrial production and like was able to do the whole sort of like we're bringing the jobs back to the U.S.
And what Reagan is able to do is, Reagan actually does something that sounds really bizarre now, But he was actually successfully able to temporarily for about maybe like six years, six or seven years, was able to actually like dramatically ramp up American like like industrial production and like was able to do the whole sort of like we're bringing the jobs back to the U.S.
And what Reagan is able to do is, Reagan actually does something that sounds really bizarre now, But he was actually successfully able to temporarily for about maybe like six years, six or seven years, was able to actually like dramatically ramp up American like like industrial production and like was able to do the whole sort of like we're bringing the jobs back to the U.S.
But the thing is, the way he did this was not the way the Trump administration is doing it, right? What he did was, on the one hand, he blew a smoking crater in the entire world economy. And that, Garrison, will sound familiar to you because these people are trying to blow a hole in the American economy, right? You have seen this. Yes, I have seen the stonks and the trade and the shipments.
But the thing is, the way he did this was not the way the Trump administration is doing it, right? What he did was, on the one hand, he blew a smoking crater in the entire world economy. And that, Garrison, will sound familiar to you because these people are trying to blow a hole in the American economy, right? You have seen this. Yes, I have seen the stonks and the trade and the shipments.
But the thing is, the way he did this was not the way the Trump administration is doing it, right? What he did was, on the one hand, he blew a smoking crater in the entire world economy. And that, Garrison, will sound familiar to you because these people are trying to blow a hole in the American economy, right? You have seen this. Yes, I have seen the stonks and the trade and the shipments.
yeah but even like like elon musk would like deliver like post about this right like very deliberately about how he wants to destroy the economy so that there could be like a oh yeah brief economic hardship and then a golden age right necessary hardship will have to endure for a short period of time to then reach the like utopia which is surely around the corner yeah and and it's interesting because when when serious people have to defend this like fox okay i say serious people i'm saying this and i'm saying fox news because like
yeah but even like like elon musk would like deliver like post about this right like very deliberately about how he wants to destroy the economy so that there could be like a oh yeah brief economic hardship and then a golden age right necessary hardship will have to endure for a short period of time to then reach the like utopia which is surely around the corner yeah and and it's interesting because when when serious people have to defend this like fox okay i say serious people i'm saying this and i'm saying fox news because like
yeah but even like like elon musk would like deliver like post about this right like very deliberately about how he wants to destroy the economy so that there could be like a oh yeah brief economic hardship and then a golden age right necessary hardship will have to endure for a short period of time to then reach the like utopia which is surely around the corner yeah and and it's interesting because when when serious people have to defend this like fox okay i say serious people i'm saying this and i'm saying fox news because like
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Yeah, I know, have to defend this, right? Like, okay, you know, we're not dealing with like, you know, we're not dealing with like intellectual titans here. But like when someone who is mildly more intelligent than Elon Musk has to defend this, it is Reagan they point to. Because Reagan, and Carter was also ahead of hand in this, but Reagan does this thing called the Volcker Shock, right?
Yeah, I know, have to defend this, right? Like, okay, you know, we're not dealing with like, you know, we're not dealing with like intellectual titans here. But like when someone who is mildly more intelligent than Elon Musk has to defend this, it is Reagan they point to. Because Reagan, and Carter was also ahead of hand in this, but Reagan does this thing called the Volcker Shock, right?