Flo Bolassi

@RupertLowe10 First they ignore you <- You're here Then they laugh at you Then they fight you Then you win

Restore Britain is becoming too big to ignore.

@SimonDixonTwitt @RupertLowe10 Will be interesting to see where Restore ends up getting their funding and therefore to whom they are beholden.

@RupertLowe10 Until you get the call. Who Really Runs the World? | Simon Dixon youtu.be/rZL3U1etEW4?si…

Morning, workers - another week, another opportunity to fund the healthy indolent. When you’re stressing out at the office, on the site. There’s been a cock up, maybe a contract has fallen through. Juggling childcare and the school run with work. Always remember who you are doing it all for… The scroungers. The shirkers. The freeloaders. Basically half of the money we earn is gone - vanished. Handed back in tiny slivers through the form of woefully delayed GP appointments, third world roads and a chocolate teapot police force. Millions and millions of workers look at it all - what is the sodding point, honestly? The political solutions on offer until this point have consisted of rearranging the cutlery. There is now a political party to kick the table over. Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state, and we will take great pleasure in doing so. There are millions of healthy working age Brits who do NOTHING - they sit on benefits, and don’t even try. Dressing gown, digestive biscuits, daytime television. Then off to the job centre for some box ticking exercise to get their cash. Well, our cash. Of course we need to support those in genuine need, and Restore Britain would do that. And these measures would allow for better funded support to those who actually need it. But we the endless conveyor belt of healthy fraudsters and shirkers will have their cosy lifestyle come to a crushing end. They will be made to work. If they refuse, they will go hungry. Tax, the welfare budget and the size of the state will all chainsawed away. Restore Britain will unapologetically stand with the workers, the business owners, the entrepreneurs. 6am Britain who actually keeps this country running. Under a Restore Britain Government, the piss-take will end. I can promise you that.

@the_culturist_ Miss that guy 😞

"There is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them." — Sir Roger Scruton

@GhostNumbe50967 @balajis I think by "digital gold" he is referring to #btc which is a bearer asset in itself (with fixed supply and therefore more scarce than gold).

@balajis Digital Gold is simply “faster paper”. Whomever creates a digital representation of gold must also prove they have the gold that digital asset represents. A trust-based system. It’s just Digital Fiat.

THE GOLDEN AGE The fiat crisis has begun. So what wins in the end: gold, digital gold, or some other kind of precious metal or cryptocurrency? Only time will tell, and different assets have different failure modes, but here are some thoughts. (1) First: remember that Bitcoin's value proposition is seizure resistance. Not your keys, not your coins. (2) To explain what that means, think through the mechanics of physical gold. It's great...if you can buy it, transport it, secure it, and sell it safely. But it's much easier to do that when you live in a highly organized state, like China. However, such a state can also track you to your doorstep to seize the gold, once it runs up in price. That's what FDR did in the 1930s and what China is fully capable of doing in the 2020s: (3) So when you think through the game theory, as the price of gold rises, the cries to tax (or seize!) the physical gold will also rise. Note: we need not even mention paper gold here. In a true crisis, such claims are not worth the paper they're printed on. That's why many countries are repatriating their gold. Not your bricks, not your gold! (4) By contrast to physical gold, digital gold (and cryptocurrency more generally) can be securely bought, sold, sent, and received at any time, in any amount, and in any location. It is invisible, international, instantaneous, and internet-native. And it is transportable, programmable, and easily verifiable in a way gold bricks simply aren't. (5) In particular, digital gold is seizure-resistant in a way that physical gold is not. The same holds true for cryptocurrency as a class. Go back to the fundamentals: seizure resistance is part of why cryptocurrency was invented as an alternative to precious metals. (6) This is not to say that physical gold won't have its day. If you live in a safe, small country like the United Arab Emirates, you may be able to buy your gold and eat it too. They probably won't expropriate property there. (7) Moreover, it is quite likely that many countries (particularly in the East) will soon re-standardize their currencies on gold, or digital gold, or some mixture of precious metals and digital assets. As I've been noting for years, BRICs has been stacking gold bricks: (8) However, don't overreact towards gold. The successors to the American Empire are China and the Internet. You should think of this as the past and the future replacing the present. China will replace the dollar with gold, along with physical commodities that it can touch, feel, and control. Meanwhile, the Internet will replace the dollar with digital gold, along with digital assets that it can encrypt, script, and verify. (9) So: feel free to hedge as you see fit between the physical past and the digital future, with just one caveat: namely, you may not want to buy physical precious metals unless you're in a financially and physically secure region of the world. That probably means being outside North America and Western Europe. Because those countries are in the midst of sovereign debt crisis. And as that crisis deepens, both their failing states and their angry mobs are going to be hunting for whatever they can steal. (10) In other words, what's much more important than allocation is location. Ray Dalio expressed this obliquely in one of his earlier interviews, where he said that "location" is a risk: What Ray actually meant is: if you live in a jurisdiction that heavily depends on the dollar (which includes the entire G7), you want to get out. Because the total pauperization that follows the end of the dollar may mean that angry mobs (or government agents, or both) may come to your home, steal your assets, and perhaps rip you limb-from-limb in the process. A cheery thought...yet also historically precedented. That's what came to Eastern Europe and Asia in the 20th century during the rise of communism. And that's what may come to North America and Western Europe after the end of Keynesianism. Prior to such a situation, you really do not want to buy gold bricks, which you can't transport through an airport. You want to hit the bricks. You want to move faster, escape things. Get as far away from the dollar zone as you can...but physically first, rather than financially. After all, "staying and fighting" a sovereign debt crisis caused by decades of money printing is like staying and fighting a volcanic eruption caused by decades of earth moving. You didn't cause it, and you can't stop it, but you can easily be wrecked by it. So emigrate just as the early Americans emigrated from Europe. Unless you believe the Irish Americans "betrayed" Ireland by leaving, unless you really want to spend the rest of your life paying down welfare and warfare debts you didn't incur, you should change your location out of the G7. And then do whatever allocation you like. Or just ignore this analysis and do what you see fit. Your call, of course. If so, I really do hope my MAGA friends are right that "The Golden Age of America Begins Right Now." Because I also think we are on the verge of a type of Golden Age, and a Bitcoin Age...but in a very different way.

@BitcoinMonk21 @boomer_btc @WorldByWolf @grok can bitcoin run without the internet?

@boomer_btc @WorldByWolf Can it really run without the internet?

Surprise surprise the man with a massive holding of bitcoin would like you go drive up the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a hedge. Bitcoin is not a store of value. Bitcoin doesn’t work if the power goes out. Bitcoin is a nonsense. Buy silver and gold if you’re worried.

@ZubyMusic You and @PeterMcCormack on the same vibe. This is such a key point and could be the one that finally unites both sides. Tax the rich = End inflation.

Inflation is the most regressive tax that exists. If left-wingers understood economics, they'd be angry at the money printers, rather than entrepreneurs and builders.

@PeterMcCormack Anything that helps to educate the people of Britain as to what is actually causing the issues is a massive plus. Great work and more please, Peter.

I recorded a 52 minute rant for the podcast this week + introduced Conor cam. Was cathartic. Let me know what you think. Planning another one on Monday. youtu.be/XPgV5hlPZ3c

@elonmusk @RolandForTexas

You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make. Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing. However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants to come along for the ride can buy Tesla stock. If Tesla “merely” becomes a $1.999 trillion dollar company, I get nothing. This is a great deal for shareholders, which is why they voted so overwhelmingly to approve this, for which I am immensely grateful. And they did so by a margin far more than you won your political seat.

Elon Musk wants to become a trillionaire off the backs of American taxpayers while we are struggling just to pay for groceries.

@Lord_Talbot64 It's because they are utterly incompetent.

The governments answer is always more tax never stop spending on things we don't want.

@EVERYDOTMEME Bitcoin

@RupertLowe10 @PeterMcCormack been saying this on his show for a while. No one on the entire front bench has ever run a business and now they're in charge of the biggest business in the country!

I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is. They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state. Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you. Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there... It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it. Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it. They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket. There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust. And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector. GET A REAL JOB. If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that. They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more. Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it. Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision. Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it. Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.

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@PeterZeihan I thought you left X?

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@MarkLynchSC Loan to own. If we didn't do it, China would have done.

Why are we sending $20 billion to Argentina when America's small farmers are going bankrupt?

@Silverblad2654 @thecoastguy Respectfully, I don't think you understand how Bitcoin works. But that's fine. All the best.

@FloBolassi @thecoastguy The UK government and now the EU have proven they can shut you off your mobile phones or almost any other network they damn well want and we still don't know who really designed BTC code ergo what traps it may have

Read about Bitcoin. Read the White Paper. Read about legacy addresses. It matters. And I got a C for O Grade maths.

@Silverblad2654 @thecoastguy How do you turn off hundreds of thousands of nodes all around the world all at once?

@thecoastguy Crypto is a scam, Neil 1/ Deflect Plebs from real money (Gold/silver) 2/ Keep the US Dollar going longer 3/ Able to turn it on/off at will (yes they can!) 4/ Psyop towards CBDC All it was good for was if you KNOW it's a scam to profit while you could and buy REAL money

@asif45741242 @thecoastguy Nope. Multi-sig vaults exist.

@thecoastguy There is a problem with Bitcoin or any decentralised currency, If someone turns up at your house with a gun and demands you transfer all your Bitcoin to their wallet, you are fucked end of, you can't get it back, there is no fraud protection, nothing, game over the end.

@RupertLowe10 These guys are so done.

Ed Miliband says - "we have a message for Elon Musk. Get the hell out of our politics and our country." What a pathetic man. Embarrassing, genuinely embarrassing. Musk, his investment and his brilliance, is very welcome in Britain. The world's greatest entrepreneur has a special connection to Britain - instead of celebrating and embracing that, our mad Government use their platform to hound and abuse him. Brilliant work, just brilliant. We want people like Musk to enjoy Britain, to respect Britain, to invest in Britain. OBVIOUSLY. Miliband is a spiteful little man who is putting his own political agenda ahead of the national good.

@TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Once the illegal immigration is down to 0, the UK needs a sensible immigration policy, which could perhaps include some young Europeans as well as more experienced, skilled workers from Europe and worldwide.

Labour to open EU doors to even more immigration They have no idea how angry the British voters will be Only @reformparty_uk will look after British workers & young people

@RupertLowe10 Good for you, Rupert. So many people have got your back and are relying on you. Thank you.

All MPs have been sent an invitation to sign this joint letter to Starmer, outlining our profound opposition to the introduction of Digital ID. I am hoping to build cross-party resistance. Digital ID will not be introduced without an almighty fight in Parliament.