Oh, oh, somebody should let them know that the CIA recently admitted to intentionally fucking with the global heroin supply potency because they thought it would fuck up Afghanistan’s economy (allegedly). Because they assumed if people couldn’t get consistently potent heroin they would just stop buying it? (Allegedly)

I don’t think the CIA has actually commented on fentanyl being added to the U.S. heroin supply when they were intentionally fucking with the potency of heroin, but “whoever” introduced fentanyl to the U.S. took care of the potency problem. Now fentanyl has replaced heroin as the most commonly used opiate in the the U.S… so

So “somebody” was kind enough to offer a solution to the potency problem the CIA created by providing a cheaper and more potent synthetic alternative to heroin that can be made in a lab instead of grown in Afghanistan, and now that alternative is what dominates the U.S. market. Its weird because I feel like I’ve heard a similar story about the CIA and a cheaper more potent drug being introduced to the U.S. market before… 🤔

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/12/cia-afghanistan-heroin-poppy-seeds/

In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the “Mother of All Bombs,” the most powerful nonnuclear bomb in existence. And, amid the more conventional projectiles, tiny poppy seeds. By the billions.

On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned.

The covert program, which has not previously been disclosed, is an unreported chapter in the 2001-2021 U.S. war in Afghanistan and in the long checkered history of American efforts to combat narcotics globally, from Latin America to Asia. Its existence was confirmed by 14 people familiar with aspects of the secret operation, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified project.

Anyway, heads up Greenland. Who knows, they might even try to introduce an entirely new drug to the market to replace one that’s already selling instead of just smuggling fentanyl

He also assumed automation would be helpful for the working class because he thought it would mean we wouldn’t have to work to survive. I don’t think he saw billionaires just breeding the working class for wars or organ harvesting and completely replacing their labor with robots. I guess he didn’t really think about how low they will always stoop.

Poor people: “Well I guess there’s only one solution really.” Gestures to unpaid taxes and clears throat.

Billionaires: “Yes…” Looks at AI and fully automated societies before clutching pocketbook closer. “One final solution.”

I had a family friend who also had a really bad “flu” in November, 2019.

Then she stayed sick for several months before she had a seizure at home and ended up in a coma. Eventually woke and had to relearn how to walk. She’s mostly back to her normal self, but as far as I know, she never got an answer about why the flu she got just before COVID was spreading in the U.S. caused such a serious string of health related events.

Shout out to the broligarchs who stepped in by early March to use cutting “edge technology” to keep COVID disinformation from spreading across social media:

March 2020: White House seeks assistance from tech companies in fight against coronavirus

In a phone call, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios implored the companies to help out with an “all-hands-on-deck effort” to fight the new coronavirus. “The White House’s top priority is ensuring the safety and health of the American people amid the COVID-19 outbreak,” Kratsios said in a statement. “Cutting edge technology companies and major online platforms will play a critical role in this all-hands-on-deck effort.” According to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, top tech trade groups and companies participated in the call, including Apple, Cisco, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, the Consumer Technology Association, the Information Technology Industry Council and others. The meeting revolved around how the tech industry can better coordinate with the government to get out authoritative facts about the coronavirus while cracking down on the spread of bunk cures and conspiracy theories spreading online.

Remember how we didn’t know for the longest time if we all should be bothering with masks? Crazy how so many people died because of that little “misunderstanding.” I’m pretty sure the U.S. was like the only country where it was even really debated…

Federal officials initially discouraged the general public from wearing masks for protecting themselves from COVID-19. In early April, federal officials reversed their guidance, saying that the general public should wear masks to lessen transmission by themselves, particularly from asymptomatic carriers. Public health experts such as Larry Gostin stated that federal officials should have recommended mask-wearing sooner;others noted that US government guidance lagged significantly behind mask recommendations in East Asian countries and likely exacerbated the scale of the pandemic in the United States.

I wonder why masking ever became so debatable on social media, and only in the U.S. when these guys were trying to keep disinformation from being spread? Oh well, when a billionaire decides to bother trying to help you, I guess the least you can do is show how grateful your are and say thank you, so I guess thank you for your services broligarchs 🫡

Even if you couldn’t stop the mask debate from spiraling out of control, it’s not like y’all intentionally didn’t want people masking up right? Like what incentive could tech bros (including Peter Thiel’s protege, Michael Kratsios) have possibly had in March of 2020 to try and discourage people from masking?

•March 2020: Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich •March 2020: What is Clearview AI and why is it raising so many privacy red flags? •May 2025: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

When the Department of Defense scheduled a meeting in January 2020 for Clearview to pitch its services, the invite included Johnson. The following month, Ton-That sent his friend a proposal to compensate Johnson in Clearview stock for advisory services he provided to the company “with respect to developing, marketing and selling its technology.” In July 2020, Johnson helped Schwartz draft a letter for Rep. Matt Gaetz—a personal friend of Johnson’s—to send to top officials at the Department of Homeland Security, lobbying them to use Clearview to smoke out spies among the “400,000 Chinese nationals who enter the U.S. every year as foreign students.”

By the end of Trump’s first presidential term, Clearview had secured funding from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, one of Elon Musk’s earliest business partners, and signed up hundreds of law enforcement clients around the country.

July 2020: Peter Thiel’s New Man In The Defense Department

The Pentagon’s new 33-year-old head of research and engineering lacks a basic science degree but brings deep connections to Donald Trump and controversial Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

Too bad their plan to fight online disinformation about masking failed, I guess…

LMAO maybe I’m wrong but I give steve carell too much credit to agree and him too little credit not to sue. Doesn’t really strike me as the kind of guy to have a.sense of humor about himself.

Like he probably never really laughs unless he’s melting ants with a magnifying glass or murdering his mistress. You know the type.

If this guy looks familiar to you, it might not just be because he looks like a contestant in a Michael Scott look alike contest.

It’s because before he was Trump’s CIA director, he was a congressman trying to get rid of the Chevron deference: https://youtu.be/RWmCI-iSWdk

His bill didn’t pass, but it turns out it didn’t need to since the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference last last year.

2016:

Auer v. Robbins, holds that courts should defer to agencies in how they interpret their own regulations.

The rationale behind these decisions is well explained by Harvard’s Adrian Vermeule in a law review article published today on the subject of deference and due process. He points to the argument that “on grounds of both expertise and accountability, agencies are better positioned than courts to interpret governing statutes.” He also points to a growing body of case law incorporating Chevron principles and to the “Court’s recent emphatic pronouncement that Chevron may actually grant agencies the power to determine the scope of their own jurisdiction.”

Apparently Vermeule eventually came around on Chevron, but interesting he popped up back in 2016 when Ratcliffe first introduced the bill https://thenewdigest.substack.com/p/chevron-by-any-other-name

This is why a legislative solution is badly needed. Rep. John Ratcliffe (TX-04) has therefore introduced a bill, H.R. 4768, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016 (SOPRA), which amends the Administrative Procedure Act to direct courts to conduct a de novo review of all relevant questions of law, “including the interpretation of constitutional and statutory provisions and the provisions of agency rules.”

Omg wut 😱 “We looked into it and it turns out that there are no crimes except the ones being perpetrated by the president’s enemies. It turns out he and his wealthy friends aren’t pedophiles, and shooting a woman in cold blood in front of the entire world is always self defense as long as you support and defend the president who totally isn’t a baby killing pedophile.”

Vermeule states that law in this sense is “not tethered to particular written instruments of civil law or the will of the legislators who created them”[1] but instead embody rational determinations of the common good, and it is those determinations, as well as the natural law background against which they are made, which constitute the law. Vermeule says that these principles include "a candid willingness to “legislate morality.”

A law is simply the embodiment of a leader’s moral reasoning, and there’s no room for moral relativity when it comes to what the leader decides is either right or wrong (because he gets to decide). A just law means no law at all for Nazis and pedophiles and the people that protect and enable them. So say king pedophile, and the anti-elitist conservatives with degrees from Harvard and Yale.

Also they are just ripping off the philosophy of literal Nazis, but don’t call them Nazis bc that might be a felony. 🤫

The ultranationalist “Leader Principle” vested “complete and all-embracing” authority in the “myth person”[6] of Hitler who, as Rudolf Hess declared in 1934, “was always right and will always be right.”

Vermeule has always been a fan girl when it comes to how can we apply Nazi law to the justice system in America. But again, pointing out reality is highly offensive to delicate Nazi snowflakes, so if you see this link to his work on the Harvard law review page, I guess no you don’t 🤷‍♀️

https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/vo122_vermeule.pdf

Or if you prefer a more casual Donotsaynazi experience, you can read his substack (for real) https://thenewdigest.substack.com/p/chevron-by-any-other-name

This excerpt from last year tells all the woke worry warts they should stop making such a big deal about the SCOTUS decision to overturn the Chevron deference. A sentiment that Trump’s current CIA director has also shared for at least 8 years, long before the SCOTUS decision to overturn it in 2024 and long before the CIA was leading the recent invasion of Venezuela in 2025.

So relax, there’s no Nazis, there’s no unjust oil (and mineral) war. Just America being great and a lot of paranoid Pennys making a big kerflufel over the shadow under the bed, which the justice department has looked into, and assures you there’s nothing to be worried about…

Then they called you a fucking rube under their breath, but you didn’t hear it. Just like we all didn’t hear Jonathan Ross call that lady a fucking bitch after he murdered neutralized her in “self defense.”

The lesson was unmistakable: surveillance is not abstract. It is personal, local, and routinely deployed to suppress Black political dissent rather than protect public safety.

Today, we witness new forms of state surveillance justified under the language of “public safety,” “border security,” and “anti-terrorism.” Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement operate with extraordinary discretion, often in communities already intensely policed and under-protected. When federal agents are deployed to cities without transparency or accountability, and when violence follows, the public is told to trust the process rather than interrogate the power.

State sponsored terrorism led by an authoritarian in the name of public safety can put on a different mask over time but it’s the same old shit whether it’s Robespierre’s, Hoover’s, or Trump’s reign of terror.

Dress it up in whatever justification you like, when a government is this terrified of civilian free speech you’re not some protective misunderstood warrior, you’re just another terrified tyrant desperately clinging to a facade of power that hasn’t crumbled yet.

From TIME’s Archives: The Truth About J. Edgar Hoover (1975)

He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr. He had to be pushed into hiring black agents for the bureau.

The fact that such a man could acquire and keep that kind of power raises disturbing questions not merely about the role of a national police in a democracy, but also about the political system that tolerated him for so long. The revelations show too that those political dissidents in years past who complained they were being harassed and spied upon were not so paranoid after all.

Mainly by infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, the FBI was able to act swiftly in the early 1960s to solve several murders of civil rights workers in the South. But, as King charged, the bureau did little about enforcing civil rights laws that did not involve such sensational crimes. One reason: the FBI was concentrating on catching auto thieves and fugitives so as to keep its Southern bureaus’ arrest and recovery statistics on Hoover’s mandated upward curves.

It was King’s criticism that led Hoover to call him “the most notorious liar in the U.S.” and to launch an ugly vendetta against him. Hoover ordered one tape from a bugged Miami hotel room where King had been staying sent anonymously to King’s wife. The FBI sent word of King’s reported sexual activities to the Pope, trying to convince the Pontiff not to receive him.

I keep imagining the pope’s reaction to this shit. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with this man? Imagine Kash Patel or Trump contacting the Pope with some creepy voyeuristic bullshit, like “we just wanted to give you a heads up that we’ve been spying on a private citizen who has been committing dangerous thought crimes and here are the details of his sex life. We just thought it would be appropriate to make sure you know about it, since you are the pope… We’re not weird and perverted creeps, he is!”

Imagine living under the tyranny of such a pathetic and small little man like Hoover, followed by the collective sigh of relief when he was finally gone in 1975. An entire nation so afraid to speak out against such an obvious hypocrite who held so much power and authority to wield all of federal law enforcement however he saw fit.

A man with such a fragile little ego, so threatened by the voice of a single American pointing out that the tyrant cared more about headlines and meeting politicized quotas, than actually protecting America, that he responded by devoting an obscene amount of man power and tax dollars to harassing a patriot who refused to be intimidated into silence, and attempting to destroy his reputation.

Imagine it’s 1975 and journalists and even federal law enforcement agents are brushing themselves off with a chuckle and asking “wow, how and why did we ever put up with it? Why was America’s tyrannical abusive father figure ever allowed to get away with it for so long?”

Thank God we started holding law enforcement and government officials accountable for their unconstitutional abuse of authority, and not just white washing or excusing tyrannical behavior as something that had to be done for the safety of our nation, right?

It’s not like we’ve repeatedly excused the abuse of tyrants with claims that even if we can’t always understand it, we just have to trust that our leader/police/military/father always knows what’s best for us. Whatever you did to earn his wrath, was probably, mostly, your own fault, and he only did what had to be done. For the common good of the nation.

Thank God we have definitely acknowledged and continue to acknowledge the hard truths and uncomfortable lessons we’ve all learned from history instead of just repeating the same mistakes for over 50 years. Otherwise, what a fucking nightmare we’d be living in currently.

Fucking wannabee Allison Burger bitch boy.

When he first started sniffing around Venezuela a few months ago there was seriously an article about CIA intervention being necessary to defend democracy because of “questionable” election results…🤡

“He’s not the legitimate leader!”

I’m waiting for the day the whole administration tries to flip the script and claim this was all a giant social experiment. They crashed the economy, invaded US cities with a militia, started killing civilians, and dragged us into a foreign war over oil and then kicked off WWIII bc they knew it was the only way they could get all the sheeple to wake up.

Like the current grift will just shift into a new grift where they pretend an angry mob of millions forming outside of the White House was actually their plan the entire time.

“This was a test and you passed. Congratulations, give yourself a round of applause.”

Trump said he checked the rules and he can do that.

the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place”

That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. Like shockingly fucking dumb. It’s so fucking dumb it leaves you speechless and instead of anybody just telling him “Hey, that’s the dumbest fucking thing” they’ve ever heard, people are just going along with it like the stupid committees he comes up with don’t really matter since he’s only class President not the POTUS.

Somebody should really throw a subway sandwich filled with raw onions, anchovies, and mustard at that fucking turd along with every turd on his fucking turd board. If for no other reason than to just slightly improve the odor that must fill any room when you jam pack it fill of so many rank pieces of shit.

The man’s ample ego, for example, was shown by the way he furnished his $160,000 home, a red brick house in Washington’s Rock Creek Park. The foyer always greeted visitors with a photo of Hoover chatting with the incumbent President. A large portrait of Hoover graced the first landing of the stairs toward the second floor. A bronze bust of him stood for years at the top of the stairs. All four walls of the lower recreation room were papered with pictures of Hoover with various celebrities.

Hoover, moreover, pocketed money from the bestselling book about U.S. Communism, Masters of Deceit, even though it was written under his byline by FBI agents working on Government time. On most every conceivable occasion, Tolson solicited gifts among top personnel for the Director. A record was kept of those foolish enough to fail to give. Hoover set up a tax-exempt charitable foundation to help support Freedoms Foundation, which gave at least two $5,000 personal-achievement awards to Hoover.

Sex seemed often on Hoover’s mind. Shortly after the killing or wounding of 15 students by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State in 1970, top-ranking officials of the Justice Department held a meeting to discuss a federal probe. At its end, Hoover took over and talked about only one topic: his belief that one of the coed victims had been sexually promiscuous. Recalled one official: “When Hoover finally ran down, no one else said a word. We all just got up and walked silently out of the room. We were all embarrassed.”

A disturbing question is why Hoover for so long was able to still any effective criticism. Didn’t journalists in particular know what kind of dirty tactics Hoover was employing? A few newsmen—Jack Anderson, Fred Cook, Tom Wicker, Jack Nelson—picked up and printed some facets of the dark side of Hoover. A few groups—Black Panthers, the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, Socia11st Workers Party, and Minutemen—had long been complaining, rightly as it turned out, about FBI harassment. But mostly, no one was listening.

Long before Nixon, the FBI had its own enemies list of reporters and publications that seemed unfriendly and should be shunned on all inquiries, no matter how trivial. Anyone printing positive news about the FBI, on the other hand, might be favored with some of the FBI’s rare handouts of information on major stories. For a newsman, that was more readily productive than trying to interest an editor in some undocumented expose of FBI practices based on nervous, anonymous sources. The Los Angeles Times’ Jack Nelson tried anyway; soon his office was swirling with rumors that he was a drunk, and his boss got a letter from Hoover gently suggesting that Nelson be fired.

Ok it can’t be a coincidence that the Trump administration modeled themselves after this guy right?

Such FBI-infiltrated groups as the Ku Klux Klan and the Weatherman did proclaim violence.

God can you imagine how terrifying it would be to go from a world where the groups that were infiltrated by the FBI in the 1960s, then infiltrated the FBI by 2025 in an attempt to destroy any trust the American people have in the federal government. 😅

I mean jfc, imagine growing up hearing your own mom talk about her traumatic childhood in Meridian, MS. Like how she had a friend who’s father was working as a lawyer for the SPLC and was attacked while he was getting out of his car in his own driveway after work one day. Or how she can still remember being on the school bus and smelling burning wood from a cross that had been lit the night before on the lawn of one of her 8 year old classmates. Or how the day MLK was assassinated she and her siblings were walking to see a movie when her mother and father suddenly drove up and demanded they get in the car and come home because they were worried about riots.

Honestly try to imagine all of that just being your childhood growing up in America, and keep in mind that’s still a childhood of white privilege. Imagine all of this happening around you before you even hit puberty, and not even fully understanding what is happening in the broader context of your country, but just knowing that some people in your town have decided that if they couldn’t control the lives of others, if black people and other people of color in your little town can’t be forced to live in the separate world unequal and parallel from the one you live in, then this is just the way life will have to be for everybody.

Imagine learning that a local school teacher who had been missing was then found murdered and had been acting as an informant for the FBI, or remembering one summer when her small town suddenly got national attention during a search for 3 men who had gone missing after being pulled over by local police. One man was a local and the other two had traveled to Meridian to help go around reaching out to the community, making sure people were registered to vote.

Did that teacher deserve to die for trying to help law enforcement? Did those men deserve to die for trying to protect people’s rights? Can you imagine a world where people argued that they were somehow in the wrong for simply standing up for they believed in was right, and that what happened to them was something they brought on themselves?

She also remembered that (despite her very understandable hesitation to just blindly trust any authority figure simply because they had been granted a title of authority,) it was only when the FBI came to her town to find the men who had gone missing, and enforce the laws that were being ignored locally, that things actually started to change.

She was never a very political person and definitely couldn’t be described as anything like a sjw or leftist, but she did make sure that even when I was growing up, I understood that the FBI was supposed to step in when corruption at local levels interfered with the rights and justice people were entitled to.

Idk if her childhood days are supposed to be the days that people are referring to when they talk about making America great again, but I do know when I think about those stories, I pray to God that those aren’t the kind of terrible things my child experiences.during her lifetime.

Imagine how it would feel if you grew up hearing those kind of stories, and then one day you realized that the terrorists you grew up being warned about, had successfully infiltrated the federal government and law enforcement in order to help tear down the protections that so many died for. That even though some of the terrorists had only joined recently as part of a new administration, others had probably been there for quite a while getting things ready to welcome them aboard.

Imagine a scenario where making it difficult, if not impossible, to tell who were the terrorists and who were the ones really fighting for liberty and justice, was part of the terrorist’s plan all along.

When you know about men like the police in Meridian or read the truth about J. Edgar Hoover, you can’t just pretend that men like that haven’t always existed in positions of authority alongside the ones who were doing the right thing. Even if J. Edgar Hoover didn’t wear a robe and burn a cross, he was still a white supremacist, and he still used his position of authority to abuse his power, not to protect Americans. MLK pointed out Hoover only seemed to be interested in solving civil rights related murders that ensured he would receive positive press, rather than actually protecting civil rights. Like any good leader, Hoover responded to MLK by directing the FBI to focus on enforcing civil rights protections. Just kidding, rather than proving MLK wrong,.Hoover began using FBI resources to target and spy on him, eventually using the surveillance he collected in an attempt to bad mouth him to the pope.

Decades of normalizing and excusing abuse of authority has only helped make it easier for literal terrorists to get their foot in the door and infiltrate all levels of government and law enforcement to do what has been normalized and excused so many times before. It’s been over 50 years since those 3 men were pulled over outside of Meridian, but could you honestly tell me or anyone else in America right now that it would be in their best interest to blindly trust any authority figure simply because they have been given authority?

It seems more than a little obvious in 2026 that taking advantage of America’s hesitancy to hold authority figures accountable, and dividing Americans by downplaying reasonable concerns about unconstitutional policing, excessive force, and militarization of police departments, with accusations that acknowledging or expressing those concerns somehow automatically makes you opposed to all law enforcement, was also part of the larger plan to normalize what people were absolutely right to be concerned about. The normalization of corruption and military force against Americans civilians in the name of safety has intentionally made it more difficult to tell the difference between those who truly want to use their authority to protect and defend all Americans vs the terrorists who intentionally seek to turn back the progress of the Civil rights act as well as those who enable them (intentionally or not) by normalizing their abuse of authority.

Sounds classically conservative to me. Nationalism is just a mask these people wear so they can claim that anyone daring to point out the harm they’re doing can be labeled unpatriotic.

They use the countries and the religions they exploit and desecrate like a protective Edgar suit. Anyone who gets in their way or points out their hypocrisy is not only going against an entire country you’re allegedly going against God. “You’re either with us or against us.”

The strategy is ancient, and it’s modern use may be most easily recognized as American, but I can think of a few countries that the suit fits.

Yeah why do you think they’re all so busy deep throating Edmund “the French revolution proves that liberalism is inherently dangerous” Burke.

It’s not that hoarding of resources and exploitation of the many by the few who rely on their labor for their hoarded collection, is dangerous and will always become unsustainable once the few can no longer bribe the state to control the many. (Although an authoritarian 24/7 surveillance state will get you about as close to sustainability as you can ever hope. At least until somebody cuts the power and your screens shut off).

The real danger is caused by the idea that the many should ever be allowed to compete for those resources without the few rigging the system against them. Or, that the few should ever be forced to live by the same rules they have chosen for everyone else, in order to survive in the rigged system that they have created.

Inbreeding may toss in a few extra thumbs, chromosomes, and blood disorders here and there, but it sure does produce some “superior” skills when it comes to reasoning and logic.

I dunno guys… This latest crop of billionaires sure seem stupid to me.

Are you saying that the self appointed “technologists” who are only relevant today because they vacuumed up the work of others into “startups” financed by their generational wealth and familial connections, probably aren’t the guys we should be counting on to save humanity?

The same guys who took a sledgehammer to bureaucracy and “wokeness” over the last year to make America greater than ever? The descendents of the men who made it necessary to ever have “woke” laws and regulations to protect people from being exploited?

You’re saying it’s probably not a good idea to allow them invade other countries and jizz their greatness all over the globe?

Psssh ok Greta Q. Antichrist. You know the technologists warned me about you… /s

But he’ll never outright give it to them completely. And even if he does, he could just take it again.

Trump is just the shitty sales guy that makes the deals because his dad got him the job a long time ago.

He’ll sell it (or at least lease it) to somebody, but there’s no telling who. There is no loyalty among true conservatives. That’s why empathy is “toxic” and psychopathy is viewed as such an admirable trait.

Sorry, wasn’t trying to imply you did support that, but that is definitely a concern with the people who are trying to dismantle the entire federal government. There is a good chance that if Trump is allowed to fire Powell, the ultimate goal will be to replace it with some sort of deregulated banking system.

If the federal reserve is successfully abolished and all banks essentially just become fully deregulated private businesses, your only option would be to trust a private business to hold your money for you or bury it all in a mayonnaise jar.

In just seems like if there were some kind of economic crisis, the safer bet would have to be a bank independently backed by its own standard/reserve instead of expecting a bailout.

I actually wouldn’t even necessarily be opposed to that in a normal world if there were enforceable laws and federal regulations that prevented billionaires from creating state protected monopolies instead of encouraging them. However, Thiel and Trump both see elimination of any competition as a smart business model, not corruption.

They might just assume people will eventually be forced to use their banking systems because they might end up being the only option. I’m just trying to understand the rationale (if there is one) for why Trump and Thiel would both try to open competing cryptobanks.

Obviously neither is trustworthy, they’ve both bankrupted multiple business deals in the past, but without the reserve, I feel like the most rational way to make one more competitive than the other would be to leverage some other resource they hold a monopoly on to make their bank the safer option, at least by comparison to one without any similar leverage.