17 days ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Are you thinking of someone else? LBJ smoked and drank himself to death after leaving office, because he was too much of a whiny bitch to deal with being hated for Vietnam. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/lbjs-last-interview
17 days ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
I don’t recall him ever saying anything against the banks at all. EO 11110 was a transitional document that *ended* the issuance of silver certificates in favor of FRNs. It’s the exact opposite of everything these narratives craft.
17 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
But it did allow the federal government to sort of "sidestep" the status quo held by the federal reserve. At least partially.
Or has the US government always been able to mint its own currency and it just doesn't because (((reasons))), JFK being another one of those (((reasons)))?
17 days ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
> But it did allow the federal government to sort of "sidestep" the status quo held by the federal reserve
The EO allowed the government to print silver certificates as needed after their formal discontinuation (which JFK wanted) to fill in any gaps until enough federal reserve notes to replace them had been printed. That’s all it did.
>Or has the US government always been able to mint its own currency
It’s in the Constitution. Only the federal government has the authority to do so. Private bodies don’t have this power. Jefferson himself, after seeing what the First Bank was doing, said (paraphrased), “I want only one amendment to the constitution, and that’s an *explicit reiteration* that Congress can’t absolve themselves of their constitutional responsibility by outsourcing this shit to private companies.”
JFK should be commended for his attempts at putting the jews in their place (borne of his dad’s tutelage and his experiences after WWII). But he was only against Israel’s nukes, not against their banks.
16 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
> That’s all it did.
I thought it might have been a tongue in cheek way to let savvy people disconnect themselves from the reserve. I admit I'm not very versed with this period in history, either foreign or domestic.
> JFK should be commended for his attempts at putting the jews in their place (borne of his dad’s tutelage and his experiences after WWII). But he was only against Israel’s nukes, not against their banks.
Much obliged for the information. This somehow became a misnomer in my head: that he was critical about the tiny hat reserve and that's the real reason he was assassinated.