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FWIW, I'm ready to join the "impeach Vance" movement. He'll cross some line. It's quite the rage.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-bitcoin-coup-how-crypto-accelerationists
JD Vance and the Tech Oligarchs Who Want to Burn Down the Dollar
MIKE BROCK
JUL 23, 2025
This isnt speculation. This isnt connecting dots that dont exist. This is based on direct conversations with people inside this movement, people who have explicitly told me that they view the destruction of the dollar as both inevitable and desirable, who see the suffering of ordinary Americans during financial collapse as an acceptable cost for achieving their vision of a Bitcoin-dominated economy, who have positioned JD Vance as their primary vehicle for implementing policies they know will undermine American monetary stability.
To understand how we reached this momentwhere crypto accelerationists are actively working to engineer dollar collapse from within the highest levels of governmentwe need to trace the intellectual evolution I documented in The Plot Against America. What began as abstract criticism of democratic institutions during the 2008 financial crisis has become a concrete blueprint for dismantling them through cryptocurrency-enabled financial sabotage.
The Philosophical Foundation
Peter Thiels own public statements reveal the framework driving this project. Speaking at Libertopia in 2010, he described PayPals founding vision as an attempt to overturn the monetary system of the world. He continued: We could never win an election, but technology could unilaterally change the world. In 2021, he declared that Bitcoin is the most honest market we have in the country. Its a canary in the coal mine. It tells us that this decrepit regime is about to blow up.
My comment, shared earlier: (repost
The Musk/Silicon Valley (much of it) elitist vision.
Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220003654
Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking' Republicans to Control Entire US Government
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220008207
These posts contain, or link to, important understanding of the twisted mentality of Elon and company.

usonian
(20,125 posts)Trump is toast. DOJ et. al. will be caught shredding evidence and replacing it with AI shit.
Murdoch, Putin and Musk have a new "chosen one" They choose not to go down with the Trumptanic.
flamingdem
(40,652 posts)The article doesn't get into it much.
usonian
(20,125 posts)Sometimes, I use the name because it's the best known example.
The point is to overthrow the currency system with "their own"
Just as PayPal was an early stab at doing so.
All monsters as principals or early participants except for Reid Hoffman, who supports liberals and liberal causes. (He created LinkedIn)
flamingdem
(40,652 posts)I'm trying to wrap my head around how to hedge against what's coming.
The retirement of the Fed member seems to be a step. Then the jobs
numbers being revised down so much. Really seems like they want to
break the economy. What to do about the dollar becoming losing its
hegemony and value. The mainstream financial pundits don't seem
very worried. Once Vance is in place things could happen quickly.
Ran across this diagram earlier
Link to tweet