Luke Parker 💀 🇸🇻 🧡

𝗗𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗦𝗬𝗢𝗣 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗦, 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 Dan Bongino broke down one of the oldest manipulation tricks in media — and named names. Here's the playbook, exactly as he described it. Step one: claim you have hidden knowledge. Something the gatekeepers don't want you to know. Something Trump himself is being kept from. You never actually say what it is. You never name names. You never make a falsifiable claim. You just gesture at a dark space and let the audience lean in. Step two: the Lego trick. You put one piece of information on the table. Then you put a completely unrelated piece of information on the table. You keep talking. You never connect them. But your audience's brain does it for you — because that's what human brains do. We find patterns. We complete puzzles. And here's the critical insight Bongino delivers: 𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵. That's the whole trick. Make you think the conclusion was your idea. The manipulator never said it. You did. So when someone challenges the claim, you defend it like your own thought — because you believe it is. His example is precise: a local news anchor says a woman is missing, and that neighbors saw her arguing with her boyfriend. Then: 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴. Your brain already k!lled the boyfriend. The anchor never said that. But you know what you know. Bongino applies it directly: Joe Kent insinuating Israel was behind Butler, Pennsylvania without ever saying it. Candace Owens gesturing at "hidden knowledge" about Charlie Kirk's death — knowledge she never actually shares, never names a suspect, never makes a claim that can be tested or refuted. Just two Legos on a table and a long pause. His closing point is the sharpest: if Candace actually cared about Charlie Kirk and his family, she would stop trying to destroy the trial that is currently proceeding — a trial with due process, evidence, and constitutional protections. Instead she is running a psyop that benefits no one except her own engagement numbers. This is not a conspiracy theory Bongino is describing. It is the mechanics of how conspiracy theories are manufactured and implanted. Learn to recognize it and you become immune to it. 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗱.

Folks, we told you this was coming, and today the mask is fully off. A couple weeks back we reported, based on solid sources, that Coinbase was quietly lobbying to kill a real de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin while pushing one that applied only to stablecoins like USDC. We laid out the clear incentives in our deep dive. Coinbase made 1.35 billion dollars in stablecoin revenue last year, up 48 percent year over year, almost entirely from yield on the Treasuries backing USDC. A proper Bitcoin de minimis would let people spend sats on everyday purchases without triggering taxable events on every transaction. That directly competes with their centralized yield machine. We called it what it was. Policy that protects Coinbase’s float rather than advancing neutral Bitcoin adoption. Brian Armstrong pushed back hard. He called our reporting totally false and misinformation while insisting he was personally lobbying for Bitcoin de minimis. Some accused us of lying or spreading rumors. We stood firm. We offered to have Brian on the TFTC podcast to clear the air. We waited. Now the latest draft from Reps. Horsford and Max Miller on the updated PARITY Act framework has dropped. It confirms exactly what we warned about. It gives a de minimis exemption to stablecoins but leaves Bitcoin out entirely. It keeps the punishing double taxation on Bitcoin mining fully intact while carving out relief for passive validation, basically staking. This is not an oversight or sloppy drafting. It abandons any pretense of technology neutrality and deliberately picks winners. Dollar-pegged stables and staking get the breaks, while actual Bitcoin usage as money and Proof-of-Work mining get kneecapped. Without de minimis for Bitcoin, every small Lightning payment or sat transaction still forces cost-basis tracking and IRS headaches. Paying your plumber in sats or grabbing lunch with Bitcoin remains a taxable event. Stablecoins, being pegged and low-volatility, get an exemption they barely need. The real beneficiary is protecting that massive USDC reserve float and the yield it generates. Meanwhile, American Bitcoin miners, already operating in one of the toughest, most capital- and energy-intensive industries, face continued double taxation while staking gets a pass. That is not neutral policy. It is industrial policy against domestic Bitcoin mining at a time when we should be leaning into energy abundance and securing the hardest monetary network. The Bitcoin Policy Institute is releasing a full statement soon, and we fully back the call for strong community pushback. Every Bitcoiner needs to contact their reps and make it politically radioactive to sideline Bitcoin while handing carve-outs to stables and staking. This language slows real adoption, entrenches custodians, and weakens American Bitcoin infrastructure. We weren’t lying. Our sources weren’t lying. The draft proves the reporting was on target. Those who rushed to call it misinformation owe the community some honest reflection. Brian, if you’re still open to that conversation, the invitation stands. Come on the podcast. No spin, just walk us through how this draft lines up with your stated support for Bitcoin de minimis. The mic is warm. This fight isn’t over. Bitcoin doesn’t need permission, but bad policy can delay sovereign adoption and punish the miners securing the network. We’re here to protect the protocol and the right of individuals to use sound money without turning every transaction into a compliance nightmare. Stay sovereign. Stack sats. Use Bitcoin as money anyway. Call your reps today.