It’s pretty rare that I watch any YouTube/Rumble show live. Mostly I’d rather catch the full episode as posted after it’s complete. But Thursday night was an exception. I watched some Glenn G. in real time. He had three segments, all very worthwhile, and I present them here to you in reverse chronological order. The entire episode is now posted here.
3: I’m going to say nothing. I don’t have to; you can watch if you want. But there was a very interesting graphic presented, and I give you that solely, without commentary.
2: My favorite part. In classic Greenwald fashion he quickly lays out WTF the Empire is up to with regard to engaging in (completely undeclared) War In Yemen, and some of the reasons why that is completely illegal, in addition to being a typically stupid foreign entanglement of your tax dollars into a situation where you personally have zero financial or security interest.
Business as usual. Sadly.
1: I can barely even claim to understand what’s going on in this first segment. But I can definitely say that I intuitively hate the idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency, because it would put an end once and for all to paying anonymously with cash, which is what I do most of the time, especially when I’m walking into a store of any kind, for any purchase, like the old coot that I am.
I’m well aware that living on a cash basis not only makes me weird, but does less and less practical good in personal privacy terms. I don’t care. I prefer it whenever possible and I could not object more strenuously to a system which takes away that option forever, which is is what this CBDC crap would certainly do.
The general reason for even bringing it up was that Trump promised today, if elected, to kill it dead. Apparently he was strongly urged to take this stand by the ex-candidate called Vivek, and he was persuaded.
No candidate’s promises mean much.
Obama never closed Gitmo, nor codified Roe, nor brought The Hope and Change he so famously promised either. Trump didn’t finish his wall. Biden didn’t bring any student loan relief, or move us one inch toward an actual system of health care beyond ‘insurance’ … and these are just examples–most campaign promises are broken.
With that firmly in mind, and with my promise to never vote for Republicans or Democrats any more still in place, I will say … this is the very first time that Donald Trump has ever promised me as a voter something I actually and truly want.
By itself that is nowhere near enough to change my mind about my vote.
It’s just an interesting First.
And I am as always deeply grateful that a real journalist still exists, to bring to me news that I actually care about, instead of that warmed over NPR and Fox hash of irrelevancy that so often is cause for my spleen to need venting in these pages.