Can Bitcoin Save The West? | American HODL & Peter McCormack

**American HODL** (0:00)
There's a reality here that you guys are all asleep to. In order to hold the line, you have to be willing to let somebody put a bullet in your head.
I am looking at the chessboard and saying, we are the only alternative path.

**Danny Knowles** (0:12)
They've tried both parties, nothing works. Like, what is the solution?

**Peter McCormack** (0:16)
We are heading to dark places, whether it is sectarian violence, whether it's actual civil war. The answer is freedom. Freedom is what brings the left and the right together, because it reduces the size of the state and the influence. It reduces the money printing, and within that, you have Bitcoin, which is a solution.

**Danny Knowles** (0:31)
What I'm not sure about is whether you can get there without some form of authoritarianism.

**Peter McCormack** (0:36)
This is reality, like the veil has been lifted now. The anti-freedom is allowing someone to vote away your money. They're closing the doors. You need to be acquiring assets for when everything changes. You can't convince them, you have to defeat them. So everything is war.

**Danny Knowles** (0:49)
I don't think any government party wants to give total freedom to its people.

**Peter McCormack** (0:54)
No, they don't. The people have to take the freedom.

**American HODL** (1:00)
How did the proposal for the stadium go? How was it received? Well, I was there when that was all breaking.

**Peter McCormack** (1:04)
With some and shit with others, as always is.

**American HODL** (1:06)
But you think it's going to go through? Does the council pissed at you still?

**Peter McCormack** (1:09)
We'll get it through. It's whether we can raise the council. 60 million quid.

**American HODL** (1:12)
Yeah.

**Peter McCormack** (1:13)
That's the challenge.

**American HODL** (1:14)
The council's always pissed. Yeah, them.

**Danny Knowles** (1:16)
Because he's at war. He is at war.

**Peter McCormack** (1:18)
Always at war.

**Danny Knowles** (1:19)
Why is it always at war? You just put a tweet out.

**Peter McCormack** (1:21)
We started.

**Danny Knowles** (1:21)
That Liz Trust responded to, don't do this. Have we started? The Liz Trust responded to.

**American HODL** (1:25)
You have to assume the minute you sit down, it's going.

**Danny Knowles** (1:28)
Pete knows this. He's just trying to trick me.

**Peter McCormack** (1:29)
I just beat the dick.

**Danny Knowles** (1:31)
It's nice to be reunited.

**American HODL** (1:32)
It is. It feels good.

**Danny Knowles** (1:33)
The old crew.

**Peter McCormack** (1:34)
The band is back together.

**Danny Knowles** (1:35)
The band is back together. Your tweet, everything is war.

**Peter McCormack** (1:39)
No, I didn't say everything is war.
My tweet was, coming to this realization that my Twitter feed is literally full of how society is divided at the moment. Half the people are socialists, slash communists, slash Marxists, who are talking about having policies such as the highest paid person in a company can be only paid 10 times more than the lowest paid, and that we need to tax billionaires and subsidize energy, all this socialist nonsense. And then the other half is free market right wingers. And so this divide exists.

**Danny Knowles** (2:15)
Is this a Twitter divide, or is this a war?

**Peter McCormack** (2:17)
No, I think Twitter is always a lens to reality.
I think it always is. It's the representation of what's going to happen at the ballot box. It's like, I think we're heading towards an inflection point in the UK, and perhaps in other places such as Canada and Australia, and where it's like, which way, Western man. And it's a decision between free market fascism and communism.

**Danny Knowles** (2:41)
I don't think people know that that's how it's being framed.

**Peter McCormack** (2:44)
Well, I'm being slightly facetious, but so I said I've given up trying to discuss this and debate with socialists, because it doesn't matter what economic arguments you provide. You can show them an entire history of socialism killing tens of millions of people, and you can show them economic facts. They just won't listen. They are ideologically convinced that we need to live in a socialist environment, as I am ideologically convinced we need free market economics. And so if you can't win the argument, what's the point? Liz Truss replied and said, well, this is a point with communists. You can't convince them. You have to defeat them.
And so I was thinking about that in the lift, and I realized the only answer to this is we just have to go and kill them all.

**American HODL** (3:30)
And now you have become the communists, this is the problem.

**Peter McCormack** (3:33)
So it's like, then I'm thinking, well, it's like the art of war. How do you win this war? Well, if you have, if you think it's a political war to win, you have 40% of the people don't turn out and vote. So you have to mobilize the non-voters. You have to convince whatever is in the middle ground that conservative economics is what you want, and you have to kill all the lefties. Stop.