Wild Rusty Barstow

>Be Patrick Henry >born 1736 Virginia backcountry >no college, minimal formal schooling >self-taught lawyer grinding borrowed law books >brutal early life: store bankrupt, farm failed, tavern failed >married at 18 to Sarah Shelton >first wife suffered severe mental illness after children, died young >remarried Dorothea Dandridge >total ~16 children >1763 Parson's Cause trial, argues successfully against British law >wins big victory for local taxpayers >becomes overnight hero to ordinary Virginians >1765 House of Burgesses >Stamp Act speech >Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell >George the Third may profit by their example (meaning tyrants who abuse power get assassinated or executed by their own subjects) >speaker screams TREASON >Henry replies if this be treason make the most of it >chamber erupts >instant revolutionary legend >1775 St. John's Church Richmond >delivers Give me liberty or give me death speech against British rule. Colonies face a choice between freedom and slavery >Virginia convention votes to raise armed militia companies >Revolution effectively begins that day >Continental Congress delegate >pushes aggressively for independence >governor of independent Virginia twice >1787 invited to Constitutional Convention >refuses to attend. “I smelt a rat.” great line >1788 Virginia ratifying convention >leads Anti-Federalist fight >debates Madison relentlessly for days >opposes ratifying without protections >demands adding a bill of rights to limit fed power >opposes unlimited federal taxing power >fights against giving Congress broad direct taxes on citizens without strong limits or consent >fears even permanent federal army could oppress the people, fears standing army in peacetime >opposes president with king-like authority >warns against executive too powerful and unchecked >opposes federal government too distant from the people >fights centralized power far away ignoring local realities >his unrelenting pressure forces Federalists to promise amendments >Bill of Rights gets added to secure ratification >later opposes national bank and related financial schemes >opposes them as unconstitutional federal power grabs using vague implied powers >opposes debt assumption >opposed paper aristocracy >opposed consolidation of wealth in elite hands >squints toward monarchy >stays true agrarian yeoman >farmer family man suspicious of bankers and centralized elites >never sells out >dies June 6 1799 at Red Hill plantation >buried on his own land Leaves Behind: >liberty or death as the only acceptable stance >armed citizens as the ultimate check on tyranny >Bill of Rights as the critical barrier against federal overreach >permanent redpill on centralized power >no chains no submission >Give me liberty or give me death, still the hardest line ever spoken on American soil >Patrick Henry mogs eternal

@MerleSquirrel Lmao, you’ve just proven my point. Too dumb to even understand what’s causing your criticism about society so you want more of it. You’re literally not smart enough to understand the macroeconomic concepts at play here. Sad actually.

@RustyBarstow What the fuck do you know about my problems? You know nothing about me or my living situation. My criticism is about society.

All of this discourse is missing the forest for the trees. No amount of penny pinching is going to make up the gap for people today to enjoy the same quality of life their parents/grandparents had period full stop. The cost of a home/education/healthcare/EVERYTHING is too high.

@TheMarieOakes The money supply has tripled since the five dollar footlong. Stop voting for ridiculous expansionary monetary policies that require insane money printing.

Anyone else remember $5 foot longs? When did those stop? Sad

@MerleSquirrel You’re too dumb to understand what’s causing your problems so you clamor on for more of it.

@RustyBarstow Because I need something else to do when I’m not fucking your wife

@nomoretendies Of course there’s a both sides. Stop supporting insane money printing monetary policy.

The cost of food is completely out of control. There is no “both sides” to this. Costco bulk chicken and ground beef are not even competitive anymore. And if you want to argue that chicken and beef are luxuries, then you are literally a communist agitator

@MerleSquirrel You don’t actually think anything, you just repeat nonsense you don’t understand. Why do you love printing money and crushing working Americans…?

@RustyBarstow Well your ilk is the reason things suck now so idc what you think

@WildBillSherman @nazbowling102 I’m a millennial.

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 Tell that to the boomers that enriched themselves on migration and inflationary policies. Take some responsibility Rusty.

Notice how Joel's response to rising food prices is to give personal financial advice? This is because conservatives are are incapable of conceptualizing a society, they can only conceive problems on a personal level.

@BeltParkway @isaiah_bb Crazy graphic

@RustyBarstow @isaiah_bb you dont think we already know lol

A chipotle burrito with Guac and a drink is $26 by me.

@JonOC1993 @nazbowling102 Don’t you think it’s sad how predictable your opinions are to others? Consider for a moment that you are the mark.

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 Well, if you don’t know you don’t know. But I think 2 trillion could be immediately cut, you’re right. Let’s start with social security and medicaid.

@BeltParkway @isaiah_bb Wait til you learn about how fast food places cook their food

@RustyBarstow @isaiah_bb soybeanoil sure is a shame

@martianwyrdlord Deflation is the natural state of a market economy.

I never understood why deflation was supposed to be bad. It just means more goods and services can be purchased for a given quantity of money. Meaning there are more goods and services available per capita. Meaning everyone is richer. I can see why you'd hate this if your business model is built around being as close to the fake money spigot as you can get, but for every non-parasitic member of society, this seems like a good thing.

@JonOC1993 @nazbowling102 Cutting $2T from federal spending would be a good start. Get rid of all illegals, firing squad is fine

@nazbowling102 @RustyBarstow I understand it generally. But we have a lot of third worlders to babysit now. I don’t see a way out of it.

@JonOC1993 @nazbowling102 Jewish financial speculation. Lmao. Are you one of these “the Jews created capitalism and also the Jews are the ones spreading communism” retards too?

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 Where does unending third-world immigration and Jewish financial speculation end up on your list? I do agree with your assessment btw. Only there are little to no candidates who’d connect macroeconomics and the aforementioned problems we are facing right now.

@nazbowling102 @JonOC1993 The vast majority of the people talking about this are, people think there’s such thing as price gouging in fucking mixed market economy.

@RustyBarstow @JonOC1993 Nobody is confused about the concept of inflation lol

@H8lyHandGrenade @bumbadum14 All the post-liberals and right wing leftists whose talking points you use relentlessly have the same beliefs.

@RustyBarstow @bumbadum14 Oh you think so? Why's that.

OH SOMEONE THINK OF THE BOOMERS. THEY PACKED THEIR LUNCHES!!! THEY WAITED TABLES TO PAY FOR COLLEGE!!! THEY HAD TO SAVE FOR 2 YEARS FOR A DOWNPAYMENT ON A HOME :((((((((

@JonOC1993 @nazbowling102 It depends how high up on your list macroeconomics is. If it’s at the top, like it is for me, you search for candidates who understand inflation and fiat currency debasement so much that they speak about it like this:

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 So, knowing that, who should we vote for? Better question: How are we voting ourselves into a better situation?

The same people (rightly) complaining about the economy are almost always the same people who want more government spending and money printing.

@H8lyHandGrenade @bumbadum14 You almost certainly support expansionary policies that cause inflation my man.

@RustyBarstow @bumbadum14 both can be true

@JonOC1993 @nazbowling102 Very few candidates understand macroeconomics.

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 So what candidate would you recommend that stands against such fiscal policy measures?

@uchiha58249 @nazbowling102 You’re too stupid to even understand what we’re talking about, I know you’re a young person who has gathered a collection of talking points from people you find charismatic and convincing, but consider that you’re the mark. Good luck.

@RustyBarstow @nazbowling102 "Just vote the Indian invasion away bro"