Tom Luongo fulminated epically at the British Empire on Cedric Youngelman’s podcast recently.
Tom Luongo: F@cking British have been trying to overtake Russia for 300 years. Why wouldn’t they be having tried to take over the United States for the last 110, 120, when they finally stopped fighting us? I mean, that would be after Reconstruction, right?
They finally just stopped fighting us. No, then they just started buying our politicians and then, they got Woodrow Wilson elected in 1912.
And then miraculously, we got, you know, direct election of senators, the Federal Reserve and the 16th Amendment and the Income Tax, the very next year! Hmmm.
And somehow we wound up fighting two world wars to bail the British and the French out of their frigging bullsh¡t. Hmmm.
And after both of those world wars, the price of gold was reset to the pre-war value, both times, creating a massive deflationary wave and gold flowed toward the Old Country and away from everyone. The more I study this stuff, Cedric, the more I see it all as one big goddamn British plot. And just, it does, it bothers me.
You know, the whole Fight Club thing, right? For years, I used to say, “Well, if you could fight one person, who would you fight?” I used to see Milton Friedman because, you know, he was the libertarian in wolf’s clothing. He was, because he wasn’t a libertarian. It’s like, “No, he was just, you know, the free-marketeer in wolf’s clothing.”
No, no. If I could fight one dude, I’d fight Churchill. I’d beat Churchill until, I’d beat Churchill until I shoved that cigar right down his f@cking throat, because that c@cksucker needs – that c@cksucker needs a revaluing in history!
That c@cksucker is one of the biggest f@cking mass-murderers. He’s a bigger mass-murderer – because of him, we got Stalin. Because of him, we got Hitler.
Because of British ambitions to take over Russia, we fought two f@cking, we fought two world wars for that. We watched Eastern Europe be under Stalin’s thumb for 70 years in the goddamn Cold War. F@ck Churchill!
F@ck all this, f@ck all this Limey history! I’m just so f@cking over it!
So, it’s time for everybody to just lay their cards on the table and go, “You know what? Yeah, I’m no longer, I am, I’m not a libertarian anymore. F@ck you, it’s war. There are no libertarians and there are no goddamn atheists in foxholes. Let’s go kill these motherf@ckers and be done with it.”
Metaphorically speaking, of course, because we’re on YouTube.
Like – and I mean this – you know, and how do you beat them? You beat them financially, you beat them politically. You don’t go to war with them, you don’t need to kill them. Like, you kill them by taking away their money, by taking away their power, by taking away their ability and their access to it in the future.
That’s how you do it. And that’s a very, very difficult task. And that’s what Scott Bessent is for, because Scott Bessent used to work for ’em. Scott Bessent knows how to do it.
And so, I choose to live in a world – maybe I’m Pollyanna – but I choose to live in a world where bad men can have a third act in their life.
