Introduction
In 2020, the world was hit by what was described as a global pandemic. But behind the headlines, lockdowns, and panic, something far more consequential was unfolding—an engineered crisis that served as cover for a massive power shift in global finance. At the center of that shift was President Donald J. Trump, who used the chaos not just to respond to COVID-19, but to cripple the true seat of economic control in America: the Federal Reserve.
The Perfect Cover: A Manufactured Crisis
COVID-19 created the perfect storm. Fear paralyzed the public. Governments worldwide enacted sweeping emergency powers. Big Pharma cashed in with rushed vaccines. Meanwhile, trillions of dollars were created out of thin air. The average citizen saw stimulus checks and mandates. But few noticed the deeper move: the merging of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury under Trump’s watch.
The Setup: CARES Act and Treasury-Fed Fusion
Under the CARES Act, the Treasury handed over $454 billion to the Fed to support emergency lending. The Fed, in turn, leveraged this to backstop trillions in loans to corporations, states, and banks. On paper, this was economic stimulus. In reality, it marked the beginning of the Fed losing its independence. For the first time, monetary policy and fiscal policy were effectively merged—with the Treasury calling the shots.
The Kill Shot: Trump’s Quiet Coup
While the media focused on daily case counts and vaccine rollouts, Trump orchestrated a deeper war—one against the private central banking system itself. By tying the Fed's emergency powers to Treasury capital, Trump put the Fed in a chokehold. They could create money, but only with Treasury approval. That flipped over a century of monetary control.
And while many blamed Trump for his vaccine support, it’s possible he allowed Operation Warp Speed to go forward not to help Big Pharma, but to keep the public distracted while he executed the financial reset.
Aftermath: A Hollowed-Out Fed
Fast forward to 2025, and the Fed still exists—but it's a shadow of its former self. Its credibility is damaged, its independence compromised, and its tools less effective. Meanwhile, populist movements, state-level resistance to the IRS, and discussions of eliminating federal income taxes are gaining traction.
Conclusion
COVID-19 was never just a health crisis. It was a battlefield. And while many players made power grabs for control, Trump may have been the only one who used the chaos to dismantle the real engine of global control: the Federal Reserve. He didn’t just survive the deep state attack—he flipped the board.
It remains to be seen if the Fed actually goes away.
I'll believe it when I open my wallet and see Treasury Notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes.
There used to be United States Notes, issued by the Treasury.
I've got some of those, I think they have a red or brown seal.
Nice high-effort post OP.
I always liked this post:
https://badlands.substack.com/p/master-and-commander
01/25/2023: The Collapse of the Central Banking System Has Begun
Thank you that is excellent!
The Treasury is run by the government, not a private banking corporation that makes money off of interest payments. If the Treasury was in control of our currency, we would pay no interest. We also would not print money out of thin air, meaning that the value of a treasury note would not change, meaning no inflation. The fed reserve ceding power to the Treasury is a big deal. Think JFK and US Treasury notes, silver and gold backed currency.
True. What happens when a private banking corporation goes under?
Not yet… I’m still holding out hope. They’ve printed so much and China was taking money out of circulation, basically just stuffing it under their “mattress” so to speak, not putting it in banks or bonds or even buying anything.
It doesn't. At least not yet. I am convinced that Trump is moving rapidly to replace the crumbling world monetary system, which historically needs a "reset" every 40 to 50 years or so. We're overdue.
Doing this on his terms involves taking down the Fed, the tax scam, and all the private parasites, er... bankers who profit by it. I don't know exactly what it is going to look like, but you can bet that at the core it involves bitcoin. Bitcoin is going to be the backing value with stable/alt-coins tied to USD being, if Trump gets his way, the currency of world.
What about gold and silver?
I do not see any signs as to how either plays into Trump's plans. Doesn't mean that there they aren't a part of it, though. I know the central bankers want to "revalue gold," which I presume means give it a higher price so as to offset much of the debt they have created over the last 50 years, and keep their game going.
The threats of a Fort Know audit combined with the news and rumors of gold leaving the London exchange makes me think the gold is not presently there, however. What does this mean? I don't know. But I don't think we're going back to gold, which bankers hate. I've actually rolled a good size gold Roth IRA over to bitcoin.
The stable coins, probably. The bitcoin, no, not yet, though countries, institutions and billionaires are starting to take it seriously. Today you can buy BTC, but when the ghouls step in, you won't be able to buy any, you will have to earn it.
Right now you can become a Satoshi millionaire by buying $850 of bitcoin. There are 100 million Sats per BTC, making for 2.1 quadrillion Satoshis. There will only ever be 21 million BTC. If spread evenly over the Earth that would be less than 300 hundred thousand Sats per person. By getting a million now, you will have over 3x what anyone else would have. Of course, with the big boys starting to buy, many people are going to end up with zero.
Anyone who thinks the masks were for respiratory protection are nuts....that was the visual cover to move assets and prisoners around undetected.
This right here.
This if true and accurate, is wonderful news.
It's AI output, most likely grok. You can coax it into assuming things.
I agree 100% OP. Nice summary. Joe Lange over at Badlands has been writing on this angle for several years, and here we are watching it play out. What folks have to understand is that Trump is revamping the entire world's monetary system, and aiming to but the U.S. and its dollars in the drivers seat.
These system's need a "reset" every 40 to 50 years after all the parasites (i.e., bankers) have drained them of blood. Then a distraction is engineered, usually a war, as they drink to the dregs before scuttling out of the light. That's what Ukraine was about. Then Gaza. Then...
The entire new system is going to be backed by bitcoin with stable/alt-coin tied to the USD layered on top. That's why Trump just created the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile. Notice that bitcoin is separate from crypto. This is because they are very different. In fact the crypto is only going to be used to buy bitcoin, which Trump says we are just going to hold like any serious bitcoiner.
Bitcoin is not fundamentally different from the rest of crypto. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and now maxis like to pretend that it's the only one that anyone should be concerned with so they act like it has some special property that makes it unique. The only thing that's unique about it is the cabal went out of their way to convince the masses that BTC is incorruptible, when in fact they corrupted it many years ago and the psyop is still going.
BTC does have a special property: it is completely decentralized. That means no one controls it except for the tens of thousands of miners and nodes operators who have a vested interest in keeping it honest and sound. All other crypto , as far as I know, have a centralized control in the form of the originator and/or a tight development team. That also means that it is the scarcest form of money ever invented -- 21 million coins and that's it, ever. No other crypto can make that claim. It is the fulfillment of the "Ideal Money" and "Asymptotically Ideal Money" that John Nash wrote lecture on from 2002 to the end of his life.
I am not aware of any BTC corruption. The network has withstood all attacks over 16 years for a greater than 99% up time. Can you detail the corruption you're talking about? And why you think it is a psyop?
When did you start getting into Bitcoin? After 2017? If so then you have only ever known the subverted narrative because that was when the coup took place.
BTC is not actually decentralized how everyone thinks. The claims you made are the standard talking points of the BTC maxis because to refute them you need to understand the history of Bitcoin and the more technical aspects of what happened.
The claim that BTC is uniquely decentralized is just ignorant. I could point to dozens of other crypto projects that are arguably more decentralized than BTC, but this argument is based on the belief that non-mining nodes contribute to decentralization. Actually only miners contribute, and BTC miners are extremely centralized.
If someone wants to run their own node, there is ONE software option, Bitcoin Core, which is controlled by Blockstream, and it was demonstrated in 2015-2017 that they will not allow competition in the space. Several attempts were made to launch competing node implementations with upgrades to increase performance, but these were all torpedoed by Blockstream and the narrative that block size had to remain permanently capped at 1MB took root.
Since then, nothing has been done to increase BTC's throughput capacity unless it involves "2nd layer" solutions which move transactions off chain, where other private entities collect the fees. Blockstream's profit model depends on crippling the base layer of Bitcoin which limits the long term viability of mining. Eventually fees will have to go through the roof or mining will become so unprofitable that the long term security of the network could be threatened.
Onboarding new users to BTC is a joke these days. It used to be you could find someone who had a miner running at home and you would just trade cash with them. Fees were always under a penny so it was trivial to send $20, $10, $5, or even less. It wasn't something anyone had to be concerned with because you could rely on fees always being low. That's what made it so amazing, but Blockstream killed that, and even celebrated when blocks became full.
Now, people are ushered onto corporate platforms that are government-regulated, with KYC, to trade sats off-chain (because that's the only way to do low volume transactions) while being told it's a sure bet that it will make them rich someday, and then maxis do nothing but talk shit to everyone who doesn't agree with their position and smear the real OG bitcoiners who made it successful in the beginning.
There is a reason all the big names from the early years have moved on to other projects. BTC has become the exact thing it was meant to destroy.
Good points. You sound like a knowledgeable old timer! I'm a relative newbie, but I am off the exchanges. I have read much of what you write before. Some I've rejected, others I still need to think about. I'll bite on your decentralized crypto claim. Can you give me the name of one you think is a good example, so I can take a look?
True enough, non-mining nodes can't build on the best chain like miners, but they can vote by refusing to pass on what they perceive as illegitimate transactions, so they become a disruptive force. I think that's a valid and, to a degree, effective safeguard. Would like to quantify it, but haven't got there yet, assuming it can be done.
I agree that the dream of many early bitcoiners is no longer possible -- we're not going to be casually spending BTC daily -- but it can still serve as a store of value, and a unit of account. It won't be a direct medium of exchange, but will back whatever is. Or at least I think that's where Trump is heading.
I'm not that old, lol, but I guess in bitcoin years I am. I was getting into bitcoin around that time period where the block size war was at its peak so I got to experience it first hand. I was always firmly in the "big blocker" camp because that was just how most normal people understood the road map.
The psyop was convincing people that it was dangerous to increase the limit beyond 1MB because, the argument goes, if blocks were too big then the chain would grow too fast and storage would become a hurdle for independent node operators who wouldn't be able to afford to buy bigger and bigger hard drives. While it's true that we don't want 1TB blocks tomorrow, so there should be a limit, the "small blockers" took it a step further and insisted that it could never be increased beyond the initial limit set by Satoshi, so now we are stuck with blocks that have the capacity of a 3.5" floppy disk and that is effectively set in stone. Unless they can somehow flip and convince everyone that suddenly hard forks are a good thing.
So the result of the block size war was the hard fork that made Bitcoin Cash. It shares all the major parameters of BTC such as the hard 21 million supply cap, 10 minute blocks, and shares the same history with BTC up until August 1, 2017. Those alternative node implementations that couldn't get off the ground with BTC now operate on the BCH network. So if you want to run a BCH node, there are about 5-6 independent dev teams with various approaches and specializations. BCH has a soft block size limit of 32MB and can increase automatically according to network demand, with no upper limit.
Another one is Monero, which uses RandomX instead of SHA256 for mining. RandomX is optimized for consumer grade hardware and ASIC-resistant which means anyone can mine it without having to invest a fortune on specialized hardware.
Both Bitcoin Cash and Monero have no corporation or foundation behind them, but a pretty wide and diverse ecosystem of independent developers and entrepreneurs. There are others but those are the main ones.
Thanks. I'm familiar with the Block Size War, but only through what I've read. Arguments to be had on both sides. Thought BCH was extinct, will take a look at it and Monero.
Joe Lange has about a good a handle on things as just about anyone. These are extremely complex and obfuacated matters, and his ability to explain, summarize, and show why it matters has really helped me keep up with things.
Source: I sound like a shill but I'm just a retard that likes his writing.
Same here.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
...all kinds of evil.
The scripture "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" comes from 1 Timothy 6:10, not money itself, but the love of money, or greed, is the root of all kinds of evil.
Yes, Bloomberg had that article years ago
This is way better detailed than i could ever explain, thank you. I remember when this topic was talked about heavily and the importance of Steve Mnuchin
What did you tell Grok to get it to say that 😂
The White Hats used a Jujitsu move on the Old Guard! Using their planned pandemic as cover to take them out using Operation Warp Speed!
Bitcoin is created from nothing. America's debt has been accruing from issuance of money created from nothing, and debt has been piling up on America's account to the benefit of Fed Reserve (private central bankers) shareholders.
Solution to the problem is simple:
Have Congress monetize bitcoin just long enough to pay off the entire national debt with literally the electrons flashing across a computer screen. Pay off debt created with nothing with "money" created from nothing. Then demonetize bitcoin. Party is over for central bankers.
Exchange bill for bill all Fed Reserve Notes in circulation for United States Notes issued by the Treasury. US Notes in circulation and to be issued at any other time thereafter are backed by the > ~$150 Trillion in already known US mineral wealth.
Repeal the Federal Reserve Act.
Repeal 16th Amendment re: "Income Tax" and at the same time abolish all Federal AND State Income Tax systems
Pass a Constitutional Amendment enshrining tariff based US economy with establishing "The America External Tax System"
Pass a Constitutional Amendment forbidding establishment of Private Central Bank in order to outlaw any future creation and chartering of anything resembling the "Bank of North America" "Bank of the United States" or "Federal Reserve System"
What research did you undertake to learn this is the case? Got a link?
The CARES act came out in 2020. Since then, we've had 4 years of Biden. Biden spent us into inflation oblivion. If Biden was somehow restrained by what Trump did in 2020 over the course of four years, I'm not seeing it.
Uh, the fed is still there and still sets interest rates and is as powerful as ever. We still have fractional reserve banking, fiat money, and government piles debt onto debt in the form of outrageous government spending.
Pharma enriched itself and set the legal framework for mandatory vaccine ID and top down control during the next ‘pandemic’ whether that is 20, 50, or 100 years from now. We did not ‘win’
This is all just lame wishful thinking
Think baby steps doomer. You have to get into position before taking down your opponent. You can't run up to someone with your arms stretched forward yelling "I'm gonna kill you ". You fake a move, sidestep and take their guard.
Cool story Doomer. You gonna cut yourself now?
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