BTC Sessions - Tom Luongo Exposes How the City of London is Sabotaging Bitcoin Now

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

Mentor Sessions Ep. 052: Tom Luongo on Bitcoin Coordinated Assault, Trump Attack on the Davos, Gold's Next Moves & Alberta vs Canada. What if the global elite's coordinated attacks on Bitcoin— from quantum FUD to spam wars and Epstein-Satoshi smears—are designed to crush cryptocurrency's rise while manipulating precious metals like gold and silver? Tom Luongo, renowned geopolitical analyst from Gold Goats 'n Guns Newsletter and Podcast, exposes the forces desperate to control payment rails, why Bitcoin isn't a rival to gold but a frictionless complement in volatile market dynamics, and how economic policies under Trump could revalue assets to $20K gold and beyond. In this Bitcoin deep dive, Tom unpacks Bitcoin's battle for dominance, the psychology behind Bitcoin's volatility spikes, silver's potential monetary revival amid financial system chaos, and political commentary on failing nation-states fueling Bitcoin's win.He breaks down capital flows shifting back to the U.S., the Hamiltonian economic model reshaping American finance, Trump's strategic takedown of Davos via Epstein files, and why Alberta independence could thrive as a U.S. protectorate amid deteriorating U.S.-Canada relations. Tom's bullish outlook: Bitcoin, gold, and silver thrive on adversaries, ensuring long-term sovereignty through sound money and community strength. If you're stacking sats while navigating economic policy turbulence, precious metals synergies, and cryptocurrency's role in market dynamics, this is your roadmap to 2026 financial resilience.About Tom LuongoX: https://x.com/TFL1728Gold Goats 'n Guns: https://tomluongo.meChapters:00:00:00 Intro & Coordinated Attacks on Bitcoin00:01:21 Main Interview Start & Forces Against Bitcoin00:03:02 Bitcoin Accumulation by Elites Since 201500:04:01 Epstein Files as Trump's Attack on Davos00:05:20 Bitcoin vs. Gold: Complementary Assets00:07:07 Friction in Gold vs. Bitcoin's Flow00:09:59 Silver's Potential Monetary Role00:11:42 Capital Flows & Gold in Fort Knox00:13:08 Scott Bessent's Vision for $20K Gold00:14:55 Market Psychology & Bitcoin Volatility00:17:15 Ramping Volatility to Break Weak Hands00:20:47 Hamiltonian Economic Model & U.S. Finance00:23:35 Future of American Capital Flows00:30:24 Bitcoin Market Outlook & Tourist Washout00:31:20 Scott Bessent, SOFR Switch, & Fed Reform00:33:40 Moral Obligation of Debt Repayment & Fraud00:38:37 Trump's Offers & Political Dynamics00:42:11 Epstein Files as Peace Offering Before War00:43:26 Midterms & Save Act for Fair Elections00:46:44 Alberta Independence: Strategies & Protectorate Path00:50:25 Deteriorating U.S.-Canada Relations & Carney-Trump Clash00:55:37 Market Outlook & Economic Predictions01:01:12 Tom Luongo Links & Wrap-Up⚡ POWERED by Abundant Mines: Fully managed Bitcoin mining. Learn more at https://qrco.de/bgYKPB🔒 Lockdown your Bitcoin with the BEST gear on the market from Coinkite. Get the 5% Off the COLDCARD visit: https://qrco.de/bfiDBV💡BOOK Private Sessions with Nathan, Gary, or Ben at Bitcoin Mentor: Master self-custody, hardware, multisig, Lightning, privacy, and more. 👉 Visit btcmentor.io Previous Episodes on Scaling and Bitcoin Privacy with Giacomo Zucco: https://youtu.be/7xC89Rn8GzY#Bitcoin #TomLuongo #GoldGoatsNGuns #BitcoinAttack #GoldSilver #Cryptocurrency #EconomicPolicy #AlbertaIndependence #MarketDynamics #PoliticalCommentary #FinancialSystems #PreciousMetals #BitcoinVolatility #SoundMoney #BitcoinOnly #BTCSessions #BTC #Decentralization #OrangePill #bitcoinpodcast

I've seen this behavior before. They did in oil. What they're doing is they're trying to ramp up the volatility. Somebody is desperate to try and break the psychology of the market. The minute the Trump administration comes out and says, look, we're collateralizing Bitcoin in a big way. What's the first thing they do? They have the price of Bitcoin.

And they've probably been sitting on thousands and thousands of Bitcoin since 2015. This is a bit the only part of the Epstein story I even believe. That wasn't Trump saying, I'm worried because I'm in the Epstein files. That was Trump issuing a public offer of surveillance. render to Davos and all of them. Now we start taking everybody down. Scott Besson's on that shit, dude. That guy who wants $20,000 gold. He wants to break these people. Gold needs to be revalued much, much higher. Bitcoin needs to be revalued much higher. That's Tom Luongo, the geopolitical and market analyst who's been decoding financial power plays for years in his gold, goats,

and guns newsletter and podcast. In this episode, we discussed the coordinated attacks on Bitcoin by global elites. It's the same people that have always been trying to mute Bitcoin. It's going to be the ones that want to control the payment rails. Why Bickwin and Gold are not rivals. Those differences in the way they operate is both a blessing and a curse, depending on your mode of application. Ultimately, why I own both. And why the Epstein Files release was not an accident, but Trump's direct attack on Davos.

That was a peace offering before total war. That's where we are now. Plus, Tom shares incredible insights on the recent market chaos and where we're headed next. I think the American charts will look very, very good. All right, good morning, Tom. Thank you so much for joining me. I want to dive right into it. So for like the last six months or so, whether it is or it isn't,

it's felt like there's almost been a coordinated attack on Bitcoin. We had like the quantum fud, and then we had the spam wars now followed up with the soft fork potential. Tetherfut is back on the table. And then the nice, you know, crowning achievement, apparently Epstein is Satoshi. So I'm wondering,

basically from your position, who is trying to nuke Bitcoin and why? Oh, it's the same people that have been trying to control the payment rails since they virtualized their, their shitty empire a century ago. That would be the city of London. And, you know, by extension, Davos slash Europe and everybody else, they don't want, you know, Bitcoin, along with the virtualization of gold and silver, are there, are the means by which they have extended the old empire into the 21st century by having control the payment rail.

So you get rid of, you know, and by doing that, if you can control the value of the collateral and you can undermine people's ability to or desire. to have any faith in that collateral, then, of course, you can control the, it's easier to control the price. So, you know, the minute the Trump administration comes out and says, look, we're collateralizing Bitcoin in a big way. We're going to use it to help re-value the collateral of the United States and to revalue our debt and everything else. What's the first thing they do? They have the price of Bitcoin over the course of six months. I mean, it's not that hard, folks. And they've probably been sitting on thousands and thousands of Bitcoin since 2015. This is a big that the only point, part of the Epstein story, I even believe that they would be accumulating a bunch of this

to be able to dump on the market whenever they need to. And then, of course, you create futures and ETFs and this and that and everything else in order to virtualize the Bitcoin space. And then you turn around and then you throw a bunch of fud into the, into the, uh, the zeit guys that, oh, well, you know, I'm Jeffrey Epstein and I control the, the Bitcoin board. I'm like, that's nice. Yeah, okay. So you control the miners too and you control.

Yeah, okay. the most as as i was watching the guy i can't remember who it was i was on marty bent the other day and he was like it's the most like audited code in human history it's the most public code in human history but somehow geoffrey epstein in secret has been you know pulling the strings of the world i'm like okay why don't you go back to reading yet another john luckeray novel uh about how am i six is is capable of of controlling everything um how about they're just a bunch of fucking retort and they're scared to death. Yeah.

Maybe that's more operative. I don't know. Right. That was one of the things that really stood out to me too is that I realized how naive I kind of was about it because I always had this view in my youthful beauty. They're like, oh, the banks and the government don't even realize that Bitcoin is a threat. And that was my one takeaway from the Epstein files. I was like, oh, no, they were on to this might be a threat as early as 2011.

I was stupid to think that they wouldn't pick up on it. No, absolutely. And then, you know, and the other thing is is that you have to realize, that they, I mean, it's the same way that they, you know, tried to control the internet and they tried to turn that into the, you know, it's the same thing. Whenever they have control over, whenever a technology threatens their ability to bamboozle you with their bullshit about how they control everything, then you realize that, you know, they're, they're in there immediately. So, yeah, I mean, it's not a, it's not hard. And maybe, you know, it's like, and this is the part of this,

that's never made any sense to me about how people, operate when they, you know, when they go think about Bitcoin, they look at the, the, the, arguments for and against it. And they're like, at this, at any point in this process, you could have, like the gold bugs or whoever, the one getting out here is that, you know, and that if these people had the ability to control Bitcoin, it would have never got to 125 brand. Yeah. I mean, it's like if they ever had anything in the Epstein files, that was actually going to incriminate Trump. They would have used it already. But you can't. So why don't you stop with the boomer arguments about if it's not in my hands, I can't hold it. I'm like, fine. Then encode your freaking 24 seed

seeds on word seed on the freaking on the freaking coin and pass it around if you need to hold something tangible. I hear there are 3D printers that'll do it for you. It's not that freaking hard. Like, I mean, if you need poker chips, like, someone will make them for you. Like, It's not that difficult. Ultimately, at the end of the day, all of these things, all of these monies, all of these things that we're talking about are tokenized energy and tokenized human work. It's all it is. That's all Bitcoin is.

It's all gold is. That's all treasury. You know, and we're going to, you know, we're going to, the difference between gold and silver and Bitcoin and other other hard collateral is that there's no debt instrument natively issued against it to then, we're going to. it obligates through a counterparty risk some, some person to, you know, call in a marker. And then the middleman who's, you know, moving those things around is the guy making the money. And that's what you have to realize.

With Bitcoin, I was thinking about this the other day, just trying to explain it to people. I'm like, I get, I get gold bugs from why they're like, you know, if it's not in my hands, I don't own it. I get it. I mean, I, don't get, don't get me wrong, dude. I love my gold. And I love, you know, and I have my Bitcoin on my wallets and you got to get it. I love it all, right? I understand that thing, but here's the thing about gold.

And which is that in order for gold to be a flow mechanism, right, to control, to have to have gold flow around the world in order to turn what is into what will be, which is the only reason we freaking act in the first place, economically speaking, we want, we have. We want Y. How do we get Y? Well, with gold, as much as I love gold, it's reality. If you want it to flow with as little friction as possible, you got to trust the third party. Devalted for you, tokenize it, stick it into the Zegyce into the ether and go. Bitcoin, you don't need to, folks. It's right there. You can control. You don't need, you are the vault. And the network is the flow mechanism, which nobody, which nobody, which is, which is, you can interact with directly. You don't need to go through somebody else to get there. And no matter how you deal with gold, how you deal with silver, at some point, you are going to have to take on that layer of counterparty risk. And that doesn't make it bad. Bitcoin maxis, it doesn't make it, it doesn't make it, it, it makes it different. There are advantages to that than, you know, frictionless movement of money is not.

not necessarily a net positive good for society, folks, hate to break it to you. One of the great things about gold is at the minute you buy it, you've lost 10%. Yeah. Again, what the other thing is, when you sell it, you're going to lose another 10%. So maybe you're not going to move it immediately. Maybe you're going to save it and put it aside and stop thinking about it for a while. Maybe you're going to create for yourself a level of, of stability psychologically that Bitcoin can't give you.

You have to, because you can move Bitcoin like that. Yeah, it costs a little bit of money. Depends on the day, depends on the mechanism, right? Depends on what's going on. Costs a little bit of money. That's fine. But you can move it. And you can move it whenever you want.

You can move Bitcoin around like a feradonna double espresso to quote Dennis Miller. gold now you're going to be more like a three-toed sloth and those differences in its in their in the way they operate is both a blessing and a curse depending on your mode of application so ultimately why i own both while i love both and you know slowly but surely and being convinced that potentially silver needs to add into the mix as well because of the soon-to-be unavailability of of gold to the average person because it's very, very clear that gold needs to be revalued much, much higher. Bitcoin needs to be revalued much, much higher. And in order to offset all the debts, and silver has to fill in the interstitial level, that level where the average person today

can actually interact with the monetary system and the savings system in a way that has no counterparty risk at prices that they can actually function at. This is, you know, I'm, you know, I'm not, for years, I said silver is nothing but an industrial metal and until people start, you know, putting it on their balance sheets or whatnot. And now we're at that moment. You know, I said, well, if it ever comes to the, to the past that people start putting, using silver again as a means by which to put it on their balance sheets, I'll consider that it's going to regain monetary character. But until that, Until that time, I'm going to say, show me.

I didn't know I was from Missouri, but, you know, must have had somebody in a previous life was from there, but I don't know when. It would have been well before Missouri was Missouri. So because my line is goes back to Italy way too, way too far. So I don't know. Very Italian. Very Italian.

Just very tight. I want to pull that apart a little bit actually because that brings up a few questions for me. So one, for me looking at the precious metals and the kind of little blow off top that we've had here just feels like euphoria. Like we just ripped up and we just were taking a break. Potentially, I don't know if there's anything else. I don't think there's necessarily any funny games going on there, but there might be.

But kind of pulling all three of those things together, we had in the Epstein files, there was even a reference to, it was, oh, geez, I have it here somewhere. It was basically claiming that Fort Knox had none of the gold, right? That it was saying in 2000, I think it was 2011 report for the IMF chief at the time, who was then later locked up in prison, saying that there was no gold in Fort Knox. And I remember back in March of 2025, we had both Trump and, Elon talking about like checking out what's in Fort Knox and then we got just kind of radio silence from them. So I could be not my area of expertise, but has talking about capital flows,

have we been seeing a capital flow of gold potentially returning back to the US? And that might explain also why the price is running up that they might be refilling the coffers. Yeah, but I don't, I don't think I see, this is the thing. I mean, the whole Fort Knox's empty thing is really kind of silly. Most of the gold that was in Fort Knox was 90% gold. It was U.S. which is not London good for delivery. So it was leasedable, right, as value. Do I believe that the Federal Reserve was involved in leasing gold into the gold market for years?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Do I think those leases are still operative today or, you know, part of the market? No. You know why? Gold's $5, $5,500 an ounce. We're doing it right now and it's up again this morning. And it's not backing off. Like the two weeks of the last couple of weeks of interesting.

Like silver, I will agree with you. It was an emotional blow off top. It was clearly there was a lot going on in the silver market. But the gold market, no, Scott Besson's on that shit, dude. I'm sorry. Like that guy wants $20,000 gold. He wants to break these people. He's very obvious that he does.

And he's, you know, silver is not part of the American monetary thing going forward, the monetary conceit going forward. It's clearly a mix of treasury-backed stable coins, a strategic Bitcoin and gold reserve as collateral to undergird that stablecoin environment. And silver is clearly still a strategic metal from an industrial perspective. I don't think that, I mean, I just don't see Besson as interested in silver from that perspective. Clearly, we put it on the critical minerals list here in the United States. We're now moving maybe even as far as you want to say it. We're moving away from even a gold end or Bitcoin standard to a critical mineral standard. My Armstrong talked about this the other day.

I tweeted out about how the rush is on now, not necessarily for oil, but for a critical mineral stockpile going forward to, deal with technology and the rest of that and can't really argue with it. So I don't think we're ever really reached any kind of emotional top and gold. Like the way I saw things happening with silver. Like I would say I was did my market report from my patron yesterday in the morning. I was talking to them about this stuff and I'm like, get to the gold chart and get to the silver chart. And I'm like news for you folks.

When, you know, people are texting me every 20 minutes going 63,000 talking about Bitcoin. 61,000 at that point. That's when your ghost is supposed to say, I'm buying some. And when silver, oh my God, it's 115, it's 120, it's 125. That's when your ghost should be telling you, maybe you should light your fucking position. Not that.

That is what you have to learn how to do in this life. And when you get, I never saw that with gold. I saw a whole lot of people going, damn, 5K. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that whole blow off top between 5 to 4,800 and 5,500 happened really quick. And then we move back to 4,700. And now we're back to 5100. I mean, you can look at the chart on gold. Gold never threw a one bar weekly reversal signal. It never technically, I mean, the charts are, you know, ludicrous. Don't get me wrong. It's not like everything didn't go to ludicrous speed. And, you know, we can invoke Melbrook, we invoke the Mel Brooks and space balls and all that.

But that being said, because, you know, I'm still like quintessentially generous. X over here. The, you know, knowing that, we all went the plaid and the charts are insane. But at the same time, that's when discipline and reading your charts is important. Silver through the massive one bar engulfing reversal signal last week. It's going to bounce around for a while. Same way that oil after the 12-day war kind of spiked and then collapsed. I mean, when you see things like that, Bitcoin, I find very interesting.

Both times or three times now it's attempted on a weekly breakout to break out hard, first of 125, when it finally broke through the 121 area and it broke the 125, and they beat it down like a redhead of sept child. And the same thing at around, you know, 100, like 95, a couple of weeks ago or even a month and a half ago, and then slammed it right back down again. And the same thing happened about three weeks before this current slam down. Like, I've seen this behavior before. They did in oil.

What they're doing is they're trying to ramp up the volatility. They need to wash all the weekends and speculators out of the market. When they wanted to destroy the price of oil, I said this from the moment, the Biden, the Biden junta, started talking about how they were going to sell the strategic controlling reserve in the United States. That was a signal to London oil traders to go crazy on the volatility side. in oil and that someone had your back that no matter that would backstop your losses you will increase and the volatility in oil literally doubled over the course of like six months like it be it was insane and it still is insane and it's now only just now beginning to die down a year into the

Trump administration while they're doing the same they're ramping up bitcoin they're ramping up the volatility in Bitcoin in order to get as few people into it keep as few people in it as possible to keep everybody going, I don't know what to do with this. And all the gold bugs sit on the sidelines. Well, if I don't hold it, I don't own it, that kind of thing. And that's how you freeze that part of the market out. It's how you keep, because the fewer people you have in a market, the more you can control the volatility.

Because the more the market makers and the money players have control over the bid and the ass spread. And, you know, when a market has nobody left in it, one to flee, and two, you know, because again, you can't play volatility games as nobody's on the other side of the trade. Right? I mean, yeah, you can trade back and forth with each other and all that's happy jazz. But I mean,

eventually even that becomes like really tired and everybody just looks at the chart and they're like, fine, like you're just buying here. And you can see it this morning in Bitcoin. Like they knocked it down on the open this morning below 71 grand. It's now sitting at 69 and it just refuses, well, it did up until about 10 minutes ago, was just kind of sitting at 69. Now it's back over 70 grand, and we're going to see,

maybe we'll see a little bit of a pop. But there's a clearly, they've decided, someone has decided that 71 grand is, as far as this bounce goes, so that they can set up the next bounce. And how you get people to come back into the market is to do what they, what I just talked about,

which is you leave, you create artificial resistance at 121. And then when you find, finally get the breakout signal at 125, you go, oh, cool, we're on our way to 250 now. And everybody backs off and goes, okay, we've gotten the breakout. Let's go forward. And that's when the slam downs come. And when you see that behavior repeatedly, that's not normal market behavior. What should be happening is once you break above resistance like that, all the shorts should start flipping and going along because they need to in order to cover their losses. And it should be, you know,

the bulls did their work. They broke down the resistance. When you see, the fake out like that. And you see it repeatedly in the same asset over the course of six months over a period. We saw it in oil for four years under Biden and we saw it. We're now seeing for six or seven months now in the in Bitcoin. Somebody is desperate to try and break the psychology of the market. Okay. They they are pushing this market to a place for no gut, for whatever their reason is because it doesn't, it's not trading like a normal asset. On the other hand, we watched the Dow, for example, sit there and say, oh, God, I've just, 50 grand, this is just too big a number?

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I hit that point where like just like you were saying you get the text about like how Bitcoin is dropping. I was getting the Bitcoin is going to zero emails coming through and people panicking. It's like, it's really effective. It's been, it's been unbelievably effective. It's kind of, like from my position, again, having that broader knowledge of the technical aspects, it's really disheartening to have to go through and explain all this shit over and over again. Right. Well, this is part of the thing. This is part of the reason why, I mean, I, you know, I don't, I mean, I just do what I do, right? And if people want to subscribe, they subscribe. And, you know, that's fine. And I don't try and really pimp the service. But there is some method to the madness. There's a reason why

there's the half an hour rant about politics and current events for that portion of my audience that likes that. It doesn't care about the charts. I have people literally say, I stop listening to the market reports once you get to the charts. And I have other people who skip the rant and go directly to the charts, right? The point is that there's a reason why both of those exist. Both of those are there as a two-act play every Wednesday and every Sunday because the one informs the other, and the other informs the big they inform each other right um because i sit down i put the whole thing together i actually write the rant or the talking points or the rant after i've looked at all the charts i look at the charts first to tell me what the story is while i'm looking at the headlines and i think

it's really important that when you can read a chart really well and that's why i'm like i'll teach you how to read a freaking chart. I'll try and make it as simple as possible. It demystifies things. And then you see, like, that's an unsustainable thing. And, like, I was telling, I was on with Alex Craneer the other day. We were talking about golden silver. And I said, and Alex is like, oh, my God.

And the thing in silver was unprecedented. It was like a massive thing. I'm like, Alex, my heart rate didn't even go up by three beats a minute. I've watched it so many times. I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, they're doing that now. like I'm you know sometimes you got to wonder whether or not you're just so emotionally scarred that nothing phases you right and you know again the most gen x man in the world fine I get it but at the same time you're like no at some point something like that was bound to happen and every day that it continues to go higher is another day that oh yeah well the probability of this reversing on us is you know and I'm like oh there it is because and I was I think I was telling the story to,

might have told the story yesterday for the market report. I remember when gold had $1,000 an ounce. And I was one of those people. Oh, dude, I've been in gold since the brown. I know. I've been in gold since Brown's bottom for fuck's sake. Okay. Let's not, you know, I mean,

I'm sitting there silver at $120 an ounce going, oh, they're only, oh, the refiners only give me 85. I bought it all at four. Like, what do I give a fuck, right? Literally. And I, you know, but, I remember when gold first hit $1,000 an ounce, and then the market opened up on, there was, you know, and then they played the games.

It changed the margin requirements that Sunday night. They start bombing it in the overnight market in Tokyo, yada, yeah. This is before Shetang Hai was even a thing, right? This was, you know, 2008 or whatever the hell it was. And, and I'm like, I remember waking up that morning and I'm at work. I was still chemist at times when I'm in my laboratory. It's the poor guy who was literally running back and forth, monitoring the bath and having listen to me and literally have a nervous breakdown screaming at the why i'm watching kitko and like

and screaming like why are people buying the dollar why is this going on what's happening this is gold this is like and i was like and i'm like and i got done with that and i sat there having a full fledged nervous breakdown dog i'll never be that guy again i need to know what happened and you know since then, because at that point in my life, like, I didn't go 15 minutes without checking the price of gold. Yeah. I'm not dead serious. Like my entire emotional well-being as I was trying to figure out what was going on in the world was tied to the price of gold. I remember that for Bickwin.

Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And so, you know, every computer, every screen that I had in every, you know, I had a, I'm an old computer guy. So I have a computer in like every room.

I have the work computer downstairs. I have the gaming computer up on my office. I have, you know, this, you know, whatever. So constantly walking by, especially when you're working from home since 2011, I've been working from home. Like, you're constantly just walking by it, checking the price. Oh, it's 130. Let's see what, how did the Comox close today?

How did the London close today? How did the, okay, so it's European clothes and then this and that, like, all that. I got so in tune with the rhythm of how it would trade. Like, after a while, like, and then I'm like, eventually, I'm just like, Why are you stressing about this? You should be trying to figure out why is this happening? You get out of the mode of how they're, you know, what's going on. When is it going to break out and do what you confirm that you're right about everything?

Well, hey, but dude, maybe you're wrong about something. And then, you know, the process. What I learned, of course, is that gold is the most politicized asset in the world. And so therefore, you have to learn about politics. And in order to learn about politics, you know, I've learned about geopolitics. And you got to sort of, then, then, and this is, you know, where, and then, you know, Bitcoin was kind of parallel to that for me. But, and now Bitcoin is rapidly becoming one of those things. That is, you know, you have to understand the politics of Bitcoin

in order to understand why Bitcoin does what it does. And then once you do that, and you can read a chart, maybe $69,000 wasn't, or $65,000, $61,000 wasn't sustainable. I think. I didn't. wake up the next morning and it's 71 grand. I'm like, okay, okay, I'm fine. I mean, I'm not saying it's going to go to 150 tomorrow, but you could get the false move down, you know, collapse, spike bottom, V-shaped bottom, and then boom.

It would actually be better for Bitcoin if it just takes a break. Let everybody get, you know, confirm the bottom. 61 grand, confirm that bottom. Give me a double bottom of 61. Get everybody just demoralized completely. You give me a double bottom at 61. As long as it doesn't turn it's your triple bottom, I'm okay.

You get a double bottom, you get a nice, I hate to use like chart patterns. I don't believe in them. But the double bottoms I'm okay with, double tops I'm okay with triple tops and triple tops and triple bottoms are meant to be broken. Okay. Because it's just the psychology. There is, there is honestly God traceable psychology to a triple top and a triple bottom. You know I don't use lines on charts. I don't use MACD.

I don't use RSI. I don't use Bollinger bands or Intramoku. clouds or all that fucking shit's bullshit just read candlesticks and you'll understand how to freaking market works japanese figured the shit out ages ago simplicity is it creates an ordered mind and i know that sounds rich coming from this this mind but from me from this mouth i get it but really that's what why i look at charts the way i do is because my mind has so has the ability to go in 1800 directions at once now i remember my therapist very funnily my former therapist is to me. It's not like you can't do six months worth of psychotherapy and one five-minute rant.

Like literally, my therapist said that to me one way. I'm like, well, yeah. So that's part of the reason why I do look at charts the way I do. Literally in my other monitor, I'm just watching a gold stock that I have some interest in. And I'm just got the 30-minute chart up and I'm like, oh, okay. And there's nothing on the chart, just the candle six. I actually wish I could get like the little dashed line that they put on the screen for the current price. I actually want that gone too. I don't even need it.

I just be able to read the canvas and you don't know what's happened. Take a look at those. No, it's funny too because even one of the things I found myself thinking about, like again, confirming the bottom would be great. Taking a break here, I'm actually not opposed to as we'll do.

I don't think we're in a prolonged bear market. I don't think that's going to be there. Okay, beautiful. And then the other thing I was thinking about is that usually Bitcoin gets like a flush moment, like the ICO boom. We have like a exchange collapse.

I think we probably did need to wash out the tourists, people that really didn't understand, even sound money theory, like why they're necessarily even piling into silver, piling into Bitcoin. So I think probably a little bit of a little time here and then start making a way back up would be a healthy place to be. But I kind of want to pivot for a second because we touched on scopp a set. There's a bit of a blind spot for me that I wanted to go back and unpack a little bit.

We talked about the importance beforehand of moving from LIBOR to SOFER and getting kind of reconciled over the price of dollars. And you were mentioning that he'd be very happy with a gold going to about $20,000 US to help deal with the debt situation. So I want to get your update. He seems like a very interesting guy to me. He even mentioned Alberta Independence, which I found wonderful. I want to get your sense on how that basically broader mission for him is going. The plans that Scott Passent has, what the Treasury is trying to do, how are they doing?

How is even the switch to so far? I think everything is working exactly the way it needs to, which includes the scapegoating of Jerome Powell. Interesting. Please tell me more. I've got Kevin Warsh coming up now. Yeah, well, the point being is that they've been setting up since the beginning of Trump 2.0 or the second season of the Trump show, whatever you want to call it. that the Fed needs to be reformed.

Well, how else are you going to reform the Fed than to tell everybody that the Fed needs to be reformed and give them a good reason to reform the Fed? Right? So you've got percent out there doing it from the financial services part, you know, thing of this, you know, swap lines and fraud and this, and that banking regulation, the things that the Fed was never designed to do.

We should take those things back under the Treasury as per the Constitution and, you know, the actual, you know, legal system that, you know, this country was founded on. And then there's the Trump side of it, which is, hey, look, they're building, you know, the frigging Tajma hall over there. And like, that's just dumb.

And that's a waste of your money. And that speaks to the average person who doesn't even know what the fucking Fed is. Yeah. I don't even know what monetary policy is. You got to remember that, you know, we all, you know, we're all six sigmas away from the norm. We're all weird people because we care about monetary policy. Most people are wondering about, you know,

how they're going to get their kids home from, soccer practice for fuck's sake and we can we spend all day talking about monetary thoughts you know what I mean like and then what all this means and all these little things and so just sometimes you have to jack out of that point of view is it's a great place to be if you're an expert in it and everybody wants and if people want to listen to us you know gab or about it great but every once in a while you got to step back and go um how are we going to if I'm Trump how are we going to make this into an 80 20 issue that I can get 80% of the people to say yes we need federal reform

We got to start with something. Got to start with something. So let's pick on Powell and then, you know, Trump wants much lower interest rates. And he believes he can get them now because he's got a, he's putting in a, the bear, he's, the Senate is stopping him desperately from doing so. Clarity Act, the Safe, you know, binding up the clarity act, binding up the Save Act, all of this stuff that's not passing any of his legislation and everything else. Clearly what Trump wants to do is to remake.

American finance and American tax policy in the image of Alexander Hamilton. This is not even freaking, I mean, now that Steve Bannon is talking about it, I guess now we're allowed to talk about that. That fucking asshole is trying to steal that talking point from, because he's trying to co-opt it for city of London

and then make it his and then be the guy that's, he's Steve Bannon. He's the most evil fucking man in American, the American political commentary at. Period. I know that I see that Gates was saying that he was going to make a run for president after Trump? Who? Bill Gates?

No, no, no. I think I saw Matt Gates talking about Bannon making a run for a president. I could be wrong. I forgot if I saw something. Yes. Steve Bannon. Steve, the only run Steve Bannon's making is to the fridge for another beer. Okay. Now, seriously, we'll get the

I've got, seriously. Christ on the crutch. Got wheat belly like you wouldn't believe. Now, what Trump is putting in place and what Besson is putting in place to go back to your original question is that hamiltonian system of political economy whatever you want to call it there's all sorts of ways of talking about it the american system versus the british system of hyper financialized capitalism and that it's the third way it's many ways is what Putin has done in russia it's what she has been doing in china though with a much more malinvestst classic kind of austrian malinvestment veneer over top because they got all this

money floating around and what to do anything and too many freaking people to keep from to keep from being on employed. China's got other issues. Russia doesn't have enough people. China has too many people. They're both kind of trying to do the same thing. The United States has more than enough people, and yet we brought in 20 million frigging poos. Like I, and I know you're in Canada, so you, you know, it's even worse for you because they've doubled the population, right? Whereas for us, it's still less than 10% of the population. We need to get rid of all these people, every goddamn abundance and I'm all back home and let them go rebuild India. No offense to the Indians in the audience. Love you all, but get the fuck out.

Okay, now. All right. So with that being said, let's, let's, uh, let's lay it down. Yeah. Clearly what Trump and company are trying to do is that they want to remake the way America, um, taxes and spends and organizes capital and for and allows capital flow internally within the country. And then, you know, clearly of how capital flows around the world.

I think that that's for the most part in process. It's being stopped. It's being, you know, fought tooth and claw by Congress, because Congress all works for the bad guys, especially John Thune and all those assholes in the Senate. But that will all break down because this is what the other lesson of the Epstein files is. So I think it's all happening. You know, you have to allow for the collateral to rise in value in order.

in order to offset the debt, I think they're making a very strong argument at this point that all that debt that we think we owe, there's all stolen goods anyway. It's all fraud. The fraud, like the Somali daycare mafia, that was fraud. The American people should not have to pay that money back. Those debts that were incurred,

you people stole the money and then handed it to the NGOs who then they used to pay for purple hair at Antifa to to attack, to work out their psychosexual issues with fucking ice, fuck off. Like the women all need to go home and actually like, you know, spend time with their husbands and the kids all need to go to fucking therapy or, I don't know, handed a shovel and go dig a ditch somewhere into the middle of nowhere in order to learn how to sweat. Something needs to happen, but I don't give a shit what the hell it is.

That, but that money, when you steal money, I am under no obligation. and morally to pay you back bondholders. Now, the American superpower has been that we have never, ever defaulted on our debt. Yeah. For real, right? I mean, not indirectly. Not directly, right? That's one of our superpowers.

It's part of the rate. So this is the tension, which is, but Trump has made this argument. And at some point, he's like, you know what? I don't have to listen to you people. And then the crazier at the jilted ex-wife of Europe gets pissed. off and the crazier they get, the more Trump is going to have every right to just go, you know what, I'm canceling the $4 trillion worth of reserves on your central bank's balance sheets. Don't even think about making me angry.

But you can't do that. Why? How can you do that? Because fuck you. That's why. Because you don't have, you people can't build, the British can't build ships. Okay. The French can barely make cheese.

Right? The Germans can't make cars. and we're supposed to listen to these people as is that they're the ensusiant wise masters of the fucking universe. How about why don't you go fuck yourself and we'll call it even? Which is what Trump did for a year over the Epstein files. If you go back and you really listen to Trump, not with a generous eye or generous, just get neutral. Take your opinion of Trump out of the equation.

go back to i i can go back to like my 2019 self or my or 2021 22 22 self i'm already i'm over don't trump let's move on find somebody else i can stand that they can you know they can that can bear the standard and let's try and rebuild america right i didn't think it was trump in 22 i go back up and you go he's saying all these things about the epstein files all last summer while thomas massey is like you know i you know it's like winging his mangyna in public. It was hilarious about the Epstein files. And I'm like, he kept saying over and over again, let's just put this to bed. These things don't matter. Let's just put on my bed. Too many good people are going to be hurt. Too many bad people. A lot of bad people

will be hurt. But there's all this stuff. Why don't we just put Epstein to bed? It's the corpse that will never die. That wasn't Trump saying, I'm worried because I'm in the Epstein files. that was Trump issuing a public offer of surrender to Davos and all of them why don't you just give up you get to keep the money you've stolen you're not going to prosecute you for the kids you freaking killed or diddled or anything else we're going to let it all go we're going to forego revenge and we're going to move forward and we're going to take this thing and we're put in a vault and we're going to leave it there we're going to keep the seventh seal unbroken for the most part very similar to the the Putin thing he did with all the oligarchs back when he first

took power right Putin called all the oligarchs in and said look here's the deal you get to keep all the money you stole you get to keep the shares in your companies but we're going to nationalize we're going to we're going to take um partial ownership of these things and you guys won't have to pay anything back as long as you stay out of of politics and you allow us to rebuild the country. If you're okay with that, we won't ever bother you. You can move overseas. You can live on, you can live on the Mediterranean.

You can spend all the money you want. You can fuck all the horrors you want. You can do anything you want. Stay out of Russian politics and you're good. And of course, Mr. MI6 himself, Mikhail Kortikovsky, couldn't do that. So Putin said, that's nice. I own you coast. Fuck you, go to jail.

Fuck off Bill Browder. You're all done. And a couple others. That's what Trump just offered these same people. And they told him no. Do you think Thomas Massey got the Epstein files released? No, Trump let them out. Now we're watching Peter Mandelson crash out.

Now we're watching Kirst Harmer crash out. Now this morning, one of the governors of the Bank of France just stepped down. Japan just declared massive independence yesterday. Like all of these things are happening. And we're taking gold to $5,000. and we're going to destroy the LBMA and we're going to destroy the LMA and we're going to destroy you and we're going to destroy you and by the time we're done we're going to sold all fucking city of London with salt and you people are never going to um ever ever ever victimize anybody ever again

that was a that was a peace offering before total war that's where we are now and if you look at it that way dispassionately i know i just kind of give you the petting hand on it but you're If you look at it dispassionately, that's what he did. It was a mob boss offer from one end of the high table to the other. And just like in the John Wick movies, the high table said, nope, we're in charge. The rules matter. Rules and consequences. We're in charge, not you.

Oh, really? You think so? Okay. Now we start taking everybody down. And I think that that's what we're going to start to really see over the course of the next a couple of months. And I don't mean that it's all going to go through Pam Bondi or anything like that. I think Bondi and Patel were brought in because they're loyal, kind of stupid, and just talented

enough to start cleaning up their departments. If Trump wins the midterms, which I think he will, because. Really? Yeah. I'll tell you why. Because the Save Act is going to pass. And then we're going to actually have a fair election in this country. Between the redistricting numbers and everything else, we're going to find out.

out that America is 6535 red, not 50, not 50, 50, 5248. Okay. Like at some point, the women are all going to stay home because they, there's going to be no, it'll be over. Yeah. Like, he'll win. If they can't cheat and ballot harvest for four months, they can't win the election. They can't take the house.

They did that in 2024. they ballot harvested for three months to steal 40 seats in the House and five Senate seats. You think that's going to be, you think that's going to happen again? Really? It may happen in California because there may be no way to stop California. It gives you shit. It won't be enough. And so it's not, you know, again, long time between now and November.

remember Robert Barnes works for fucking Steve Bannon who works for city of London who you know he's crashing out rich Barris is crashing out mark Mitchell over Rasmus is is crashing out they're all measuring noise statistically are we haven't had a decent hold taken in america in 25 years this is the thing I think everybody needs to get through their heads you guys anybody remember nate silver he had the he had the model that could predict american elections yeah and then we changed the and then they changed the algorithm on the on the machines to cheat even more and then he couldn't win or maybe it was like just like brexit they told us it was going to be 55 45 45 in favor of remain and it winds up 53 40s or 52 48 leave and that's with cheating yep so if they hadn't cheated in

24, Trump would already have the entire thing done. I'm sorry, but gaslighting works everywhere. So why don't you stop all, stop trying to become armchair. I just stayed at a holiday and express last night, political commentary experts, and go out there and like saying, I don't want the Democrats and the crazy fucking Marxists to control the country. Why don't you stop whining about losing the fucking midterms and go do something about and making sure that the midterms don't get stolen and then it'll happen just like it happened in 2024 but if you sit around oh my god bitcoin's a $61. It's going to zero. It's the same fucking demoralization play. It's the same psychological operation. Shut the fuck up and go out there and goddamn stand on the street corner.

Have a little faith. I know we live in a post like I know we live in a you know I know we live in a post the Enlightenment world where everybody's supposed to be too, you know, too wise and insusient to actually believe and, you know, and actually have faith in the universe or anything. But, you know, I get it. But, you know, maybe you should try it on, try that feedback on for once. It might actually work better for you. So I said at Cornerstone last year. I said, you know, we're standing here today because I, like a lot of other people, chose to live in a universe where Donald Trump didn't get his head blown off on national television. We chose that reality and we're living in it now. lines far, far more fun than the one that they had planned for us. Why don't we continue to have fun?

I mean, and all that takes is getting up in the morning going, yeah, I want to, I like fun. Fun is good. Let's do fun. And fun would be watching London turn into a mighty python sketch. I don't know. I'd like the seat parliament literally turn into faulty towers. Now I'm showing my age. Like that would be hilarious. Let's all turn it into just freaking stupid goddamn farce and be done with it. Because that's what most of politics is. And let's get back to work, building shit and going to the moon and building high speed rails and have a, you know, and have an and look up as opposed to looking at her fucking feet.

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I would like to ask you, how do I make it happen? What is the best strategy for actually pulling off Alberta independence? Well, I think that the best thing you can do is to continue to watch Trump make minceme to Mark Carney. Oh, my God, yeah. Okay. And then you should learn to walk. You should learn to crawl before you walk before you walk. run. Understand, and I said this to all the guys that, you know, we met a cornerstone last year,

who, you know, the guys who were helped Sean put it on and were theorizing about all this. I said, you should, you should go for, if you, if you, the best scenario for Alberta, in my mind, is still territory. U.S. territory protectorate. You can have our tariffs, you can have our military, you can have our, you can have our, you can have our money. You can have all the benefits of being a member of the United States, no passport, across the border, yada, yada, yada, not state. Why? Because right now we don't really have political control over our own country. You don't want to go from being one economic football,

and political football, to another. You want to take the time to rebuild your legal system, You're, you know, integrate American law over Canadian law. It's a huge, we all think that we're like all one, you know, big happy family on North America. We all speak the same language. And certainly with Alberta, we're all come from the same damn stock, right? Alberta was settled by Americans, right? I get it, you know, but we're not. And culturally, we are, but legally we're not.

You know, there's a lot of differences. I'm learning this every day. I had the differences in Canadian law and American law. And I think it's very important that we do that. And just like, you know, let's get past the crisis period of 2026 through 2032, probably, is the right period to think about it. Let's get Alberta, you know, standing on its own two feet, deciding what its destiny is going to be.

And destiny may be that you decide not to become a state. And yet you become a U.S. protector. And then eventually the U.S. says, okay, you want to be an independent country? Great. We're good. And we, you know, we work it out. And then you pick up, and in the process, you can pick up British Columbia, Saskatchewan in Manitoba.

And then, you know, we signed a, we signed a couple of big treaties. And then you guys are like, you are Belarus to our Russia. Because that's basically what it wants up being. I mean, Belarus isn't really, it is a separate country, but it isn't. It's in the union state now with Russia. And, you know, what matters is, you know, how we go forward rather than, you know, you know, all the legal definitions. I think if you, if you keep that, if you keep it that way, right, you say, we need to be

independent because Ottawa's terrible and it is. And, you know, if you're worried and if you're trying to sell this to people who are normy about it, who are not necessarily on the, on your side of the political fence, B-I-E then and they're and they speak about oh my God we can't do that that would be too disruptive well no we're going to make it as disruptive you know not as you know as as as non-destructive as possible and say this is the way we can go forward and we're going to be Alberta for Albertan I want you know and work it out that way and then just and then over the course of time let let let the chips fall way they may if you guys become the

51st and 52nd states by converging like the four provinces leave and like you you make two states out of them or three states three even four states out of them i don't know um fine but that's a 20 let's get through this crisis period where the united states actually survives you know because we're in a we're in a civil we're in a civil war right now so you know but the borders are all going to change and it should really be you know, you know, focusing on what's good for Alberta and don't sell this is the big mistake that conservatives always make they try to sell people on the numbers it'll be better for your pocketbook it'll be better for this it'll be better for that I got news for you as an old

libertarian that shit doesn't work you got to peel to people's hearts you're right down to them and tell them no this is about our community this is about our families this is about what's best for Alberta as Albertans and has nothing to fuck the money we can make we can fix the money in post we can fix all that later we have a good strong community that that we care about each other and you reach across the political divide that will be successful but i've already i've already seen way it's easy to go to the money yeah the money is the easy part i got news for you that left brain shit doesn't work you want to we want to change you got to get the heart you've got to get deeply into the hearts and lines thing and you've got to reach across

the the aisle and say i care about your sons and thought you're you're going to change across the heart you're I care about your small business. I don't get a shit that you voted for Carney. I want this for all of us. And we can decide on what we're going to, and how we're going to organize ourselves later. And I'm going to demonstrate it by doing X, Y, and Z, and then go do it.

And that will carry the deck. And you'll have no problem. I'm curious then to on that note, I want to touch on a little bit on your thoughts on the interactions currently between Carney and Trump, what's going on there in terms of their relationship between the U.S. and Canada, because it seems to be getting worse and not, again, another reason for me to want to get out of Canada. And then additionally, how you think that Carney and the federal government would respond to Alberta actually pulling off the independence referendum. Well, this is the thing.

If Alberta pulls off the independence referral, let's sort with that. But first, that's easy. Carney is going to try and invalidate it in every way matter of shape performance. He's going to say no to it. The same way that the EU has never been willing to accept Brexit, right? I mean, we're still dealing with it. but still dealing with that shit, right? They have their plans as to how they're going to, like, you know, deal with that problem. The relationship between Carney and Trump is only going to get worse because Trump holds all the cards. And Carney is trying to, you know, play this game that he's going to appeal to the EU. I honestly think that all of these people, the Kirstarmers, the Karnies, the macrons, all the rest of them,

they really do think that if, that they're going to be able to hold everything. everything together until they steal the midterms and then they're just going to, you know, roll Trump out of power and, you know, put us all in the gulog and they don't realize that at that point, um, I get on a C-17 with the snake eaters and my friend Blaine Holt and I go to city of London and I shoot every like they don't understand how angry we all are. They have no idea. They have no clue. They think it's all, oh, it could be one sigma more. Oh, you people talk about this. No, no, no, no.

You have no idea. I have said this before in public, and I will say it again. Every time I've had a guy come over to work on my house, I don't work on my, I don't do my own plumbing anymore. Thankfully, I have enough patrons that they would rather me come out and do another podcast or, you know, put it on another newsletter or whatever than me sit around and be an amateur plumber. I don't need to do that shit anymore.

I call plumbers in to deal with my freaking problems. And I can tell you that every time I've had a guy come out to deal with, deal with something around the house and they listen to me talk for 15 minutes and they're like, because I always sound them out, so I always start, you know, gabbering. And this was, of course, North Florida. Like, they always just stopped me dead cold and right. That's, that's okay. Dude, all I need to know is one thing.

When do we should get to start shooting them? Yep. It's the same. I hear it everywhere. I say this on every, whenever I say this on a podcast, the other, the guy on the other end is always going, yeah, that's exactly the scenario here. So these people have no idea. They still think that they live in these gilded, in these gilded cages where

we're civilization where they'll we'll we'll stay civilized no no no no no no we're already beyond civilized we're already past that we're just trying to figure out whether or not you're going to actually take the gloves off not you Nathan but the the royal you the antifa you when are you going to cross the line when are you going to come after my my daughter or my family or this or that because the minute that happens All gloves are off and it will not matter. And I've lived in Florida, and I know what the, I know what the sheriffs are like in Florida. And I can tell you that, and this is something that everybody, this is something Canadians may not know about America.

But in America, the power structure at the state level goes from the governor to the lieutenant governor to the sheriffs of each of the individual counties. The sheriffs are constitutional officers. They bypass the state legislatures. meaning if the sheriff decides to deputize a whole swath of the of the local population and if you don't think at this point in time that they don't have a whole lot of guys and if they're ready and here's the thing you've heard you've seen all those like stupid freaking um american the stupid friggin um videos those are like ticot videos of like you know wokenistas in the american military saying y'all fat

assholes think that you're going to come up against the American military and you're going to like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I got news for you, dude. It doesn't take more than six weeks to get any fat swinging dick into shape at Paris Island, six, eight weeks, boom, send them out, go to war, got news for you. We can all get in the shape, really goddamn quick. And who are you? Like, really? I've seen Antifa boot camp. It's hilarious. Yep. And it's pathetic. authentic. Yep. So, you know, I know the one thing I will not underestimate is how crazy they are, meaning how committed they are. Yes.

Watching Alex Pretty before, you know, uh, well, they're possessed. Before he, uh, you know, got what was coming to him. Because that's the only way you can describe it, folks. Yeah. All right. there will be no remorse though there will be no performance so if you don't want to go there fine we're offering you terms of surrender just like trump did with the epstein files now are you ready or not if i know and that's and that's when you as albertans need to look at those who are squishy albertans trying to maintain the status quo i got news for you when you reach the crisis

point, that's when you find out where everybody's character is. And they're going to be looking to you. And if you guys are ready to lead, then you'll lead. And if you're not ready to lead, it's going to fall apart. So the big question is, do you have the leadership in Alberta to close the deal? I don't know about you, but in about six, seven weeks, I got to finally look Daniel Smith in the eye and find out whether she's a closer or not. Yes. I'm extremely excited to see you two both on stage together.

So that'll be interesting. Okay. I love it. Tom, one more thing I want to get out of you to make sure we close everything out here. It's been a wonderful conversation so far is medium market outlook, right? The only thing that currently is pumping off on my radar is it looks like jobs data in the U.S. is coming a little bit negative, not looking so great. So I'm just curious going into the midterms, medium outlook for the year. How are things looking in the charts for you? I don't, I think the American charts will look very, very good. The U.S. equity markets are very good. Yesterday, I did a little doubt.

I invoked the ghost of Richard Russell and invoked the little Dow theory and noted that Friday was both a Dow Industrials and Dow Transports breakout on the big chart to new highs. And it's telling you that what Trump is doing is working and any labor data, you have to, you're getting, you have to attenuate for the number of people that were actually getting rid of and for the government jobs that are being destroyed. Okay. It's a complicated labor picture, but it comes down to, you know, Americans are going back to work. And Americans are coming off the dole. And non-Americans are going home. And that doesn't really show up in aggregate, you know, British propaganda media style economic numbers, which is why they report them the way that they do. Easy to write a story and a headline on Bloomberg or the Financial Times.

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