The Blowback episode on the JFK assassination was a wild ride. Might have to relisten to that today.
JFK was a conspiracy? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time.
Posted in another thread:
So, the non-crazy way to think about it is that JFK was killed for three reasons, one of which was the last straw for what chuds call the “deep state”, i.e. the intelligence agencies and federal bureaucracies that actually rule us. He tried to stop the war in Vietnam, he tried to take the ability to issue US currency away from the Federal Reserve, and he tried to disband the CIA. “Shatter into a thousand pieces” or somesuch, it was the password to open one of the Wikileaks archives.
Trying to stop the Vietnam war was obviously bad, they had great plans for that war and they weren’t going to let an elected President get in the way. Disbanding the CIA was obviously a non-starter. The assassination was just self-defense, totally justified in the CIA’s own eyes. But what about the money thing?
Everyone knows US currency is issued by the Federal Reserve. Despite the government-sounding name, it’s a private corporation just like Facebook or Twitter. They print our money and sell it back to us at a profit. (It’s what France does with their francs in Africa[1].) JFK had the idea to cut them out, and issued United States Notes, which were legal tender just like Federal Reserve Notes. You can still buy them from currency collectors.
The problem is as soon as you say any one of these three, either you get shouted down for being a nutso Alex Jones fan, or right wing nutbags start shouting, “Yes, I’ve been saying this for thirty years!” and attach themselves to you. Both are killers and nobody will take you seriously.
LBJ ended all three as soon as he was in office.
[1] Libya’s Khadaffy was killed for the same thing, trying to start a new currency, the gold-backed dinar, thus depriving France of its profit from controlling Africa’s currency.
I hate it when a blue check on Twitter posts something I think is true because now I have to double check
