Losing Autonomy: The Cashless Society You Weren’t Asked About

Hey, it's Earnest Mann here. In this episode, I'm talking about something that should absolutely piss you off — the elimination of cash in the UK, and what that really means for the rest of us. It’s not just about money. It’s about control, tracking, and destroying personal autonomy one quiet step at a time.

London’s Cashless "Test Run" and the Global Implications

What’s happening in London right now? The transition to a fully cashless society. No more bills in your wallet. No more private transactions. It’s being rolled out under the guise of efficiency and security, but what it really does is strip away your freedom. London is the test lab, but make no mistake — this is coming to the U.S. and beyond.

Why Autonomy Matters More Than Ever

I lay out the hard truth: when you lose economic anonymity, you lose autonomy. You’re no longer living in a free society, you’re existing inside a controlled system. And once that system knows every single transaction you make — from a six-pack to a bottle of water — they own you. Every act is tracked. Every move is watched. And they’re counting on you to stay silent.

The True Agenda of the Corporate Oligarchy

This isn’t just bad policy — it’s intentional design. The oligarchs want chaos so that later, in your desperation, you’ll beg them to fix it — and in return, they’ll take your last bit of autonomy. It’s a blueprint that’s worked before: in history, in totalitarian regimes, and now under the shiny cover of tech and convenience.

From Personal Autonomy to Public Control

And this extends beyond economics. I go on to talk about why prostitutes still have more bodily autonomy than most of us do now. If you can't control how you earn, spend, or even use your own body — you are not free. A cashless society is not progress. It’s regression wrapped in digital promises.

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When you're watching those dark,

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dystopian movies that are fullbar in the

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extreme, what many don't realize is the

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even greater implied nightmare of people

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losing their anonymity.

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Greetings and congratulations for making

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it to Friday. Get another week through

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this sick sad world.

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I recently found out um from a uh spot

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on the news

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um and I have every reason to believe

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it's true that something monumental is

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taking place in the UK, particularly in

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London. And

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I think in my opinion, not only is it

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real, not only is it going to take

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place, but it's basically being used as,

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you know, a test spot so that the rest

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of the corporate oligarchies throughout

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the world, including the US, um, you

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know, we'll basically see how it goes.

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It's kind of like a, you know, a dry

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run, you might say. And what that is, in

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case you're not aware of this, um is the

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elimination of money.

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That's right.

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No more cash. They want to transition

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and they are going to transition

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um in London to um a cashless society.

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So that means that everything you want

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to purchase, whatever that may be, well,

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you've got to have some kind of debit

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card to do it.

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Now,

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other than this represents

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this represents a breakdown,

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I I just can't I can't even begin to

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comprehend it. But um you know, I'll

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I'll try my best to go over this and to

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explain its implications.

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You see,

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once you lose

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your autonomy

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in a society,

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you are no longer in a well even

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imagined free society.

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You are in a society collectively of

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slaves. That that's it. That's the

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totality of it. That's what it actually

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is.

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And you get there. This happens very

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slowly and incrementally

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like these things do

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if you just let little creeping things

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pass.

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And either you pay no notice

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or you simply refuse to engage.

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And for that reason alone

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um you know all the bad things that do

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happen happen and this is yet again

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another one of them. But the thing is,

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in this case,

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I can't even begin

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to describe the the absolute terror that

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this represents, at least to me, and it

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should to you

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because

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um I mean, and obviously the, you know,

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the crackpot religious people or

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whatnot, they will they will I know it's

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going to be out there. I know it's going

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to be there. Someone's going to say it,

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you know, the mark of the beast. The

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mark of the beast. Well, I don't really

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give a [ __ ] what you call it. But what

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I'm saying is is that without at least

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those issued those federalissued uh you

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know IUS called money at least here in

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the states this fiat currency that we

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have

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the idea of imagine that being taken

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away that everything now becomes a

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transaction.

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And of course, the the proponents that

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are doing this [ __ ] they're going to

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say, "Well, yeah, it'll streamline

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everything and it'll make everything

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honest and every transaction was

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accountable."

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And therein lies the evil. And it is

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evil

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because human beings,

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and this has been shown throughout

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history countless times, human beings

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without autonomy, go crazy.

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We are not, despite their best efforts

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to do so. And the powers that be,

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they've they've done a bangup job of

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doing that and and making us, you know,

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consumer conformist. I I get it. But,

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um, they've been very careful not to go

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too far too fast

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until now. So, it looks like

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in Britain, and like I said, it's London

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in particular, and it mentioned the

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surrounding suburbs, they will no longer

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be accepting cash.

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Would someone out there, anyone,

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please have a moment of reflection,

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and just sit back and say, "Jesus H,

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[ __ ] Christ and baby Jesus."

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Or if you don't like that reference, I

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don't. Wow. Are you kidding me? [ __ ] me.

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Sideways. Whatever works for you.

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Whatever expression, but something. have

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some kind of nonvanilla,

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nonw weak

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ineffectual. Well, I I actually think it

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could be a good thing and we don't have

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to pay for more paper money and

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everything is is certified and trackable

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and

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yeah,

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that's how [ __ ] pathetic your life

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becomes because

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every single act

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should not be on a ledger.

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It shouldn't. That is the basis of life

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is spontaneity and fun.

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Imagine how far do I have to go to

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imagine for you before you'll get

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outraged and pissed off that everything

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about your existence, our existence

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is being taken away and people just

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stand around like deer in the

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headlights. I don't know if it's a a

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collective trance. I don't know. I don't

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know what it is. But I'm like, um, you

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know, the person's standing on the

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bucket track. Here comes the train

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barreling down the track. And for

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whatever reason, I can't reach them, but

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I all I can do is holler. I can scream.

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I can scream the top of my lungs,

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"Please get off the [ __ ] tracks."

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And yet they stand there transfixed

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on the train.

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So, um, this is a very bad thing in

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every way, shape, and form because what

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it represents, the bigger point. Stop

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focusing on the money. Stop focusing on

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actually what they're talking about. See

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the forest, not just the trees. The

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forest is, it's about you losing your

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autonomy.

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I absolutely therefore believe that what

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people do, what they choose to transact

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in and of themselves amongst themselves

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is nobody's damn business.

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And yes, that includes the government.

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It is about an issue here of

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you know be controlled or to not be

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controlled.

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And so you have seen

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if you're old enough at least if you're

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in your 30s or 40s and you've seen what

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handing over control to the government

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um like yeah like they've done a real

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great bang up [ __ ] job of things. You

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see where that's gotten us. You see

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where things are. It's not a thing of

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it's not even a question of

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mismanagement.

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It's a question of no management because

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that is

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the de facto job of the government since

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it has been taken over by the powers

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that be and the powers that be of course

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are the oligarchs.

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So the oligarchs they don't get a rat's

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ass. They want society. They're doing

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everything in their power, whether that

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be through race relations or what to,

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you know, or what have you

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to build this magnificent powder cake so

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that they're creating the conditions to

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create the powder cake that will

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inevitably blow up.

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And then there's panimmonium. And then

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whenever there is pandemonium and it

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gets so bad and people lose jobs and

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people are starving whenever there's

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general chaos

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eventually when there's enough suffering

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that's you know they will come to the

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god and they'll say please please we'll

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do anything please give us food give us

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housing give us our old jobs back please

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we'll do anything anything

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because that's exactly what worked for

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Hitler, it's the same old thing all over

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again.

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And so

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if it's going to happen in Britain,

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it's going to happen elsewhere because

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Britain is is simply a test ground.

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And I fear to God what's going to happen

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if that happened. I'm not saying it's

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going to happen immediately. It might be

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2 3 years down the road. I don't know

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but it's but if they establish it

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that is if they proclaim in you know in

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the UK that it works

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okay because they're the controller oh

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yes this works

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then they're going to want to it's going

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to spread and yes that means it's only a

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matter of time that it will be proposed

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and it will be passed because they they

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want it passed. us

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because the most important thing is for

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the citizens to lose the last vestage

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of autonomy

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that they have.

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Well, okay, maybe not that big, but it

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does hold a lot of stuff.

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This is why, and I'll tell you this now,

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this is the reason why I am in no way

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whatsoever.

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I am not anti-ex. I don't think that sex

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is dirty.

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And I think we should leave our damn

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hands off

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prostitutes.

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God bless

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because they're the last ones that have

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any kind of autonomy.

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You think about that. It is your body

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and as long as you're not harming

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another person,

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at least deliberately,

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you should be able to do with it what

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the hellever you like.

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And if that includes selling it,

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that's your choice.

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Stay the hell out of their business.

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But if that is taken away,

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if everything to buy I don't you know a

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pack of cigarettes, a bottle of water,

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everything has to be paid for with a

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debit card. Think about this. They they

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that's right they I say they a lot. This

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is not a paranoid shriek. I'm talking

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about what is following what is taking

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account of you. They will know when you,

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Jon Jones, you know, purchased a

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six-pack of beer exactly where and

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exactly what time.

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And the problem with that is, besides

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knowing that for marketing purposes,

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besides that, it's that since you now

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have no more money, actual money, you

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can't do any transaction

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under the radar. And they can't stand

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that.

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This is why historically,

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you know, regime regimes like the Nazis

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or the the Soviets,

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they had an incredibly

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complex network of spies and people

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tracking each other. And that was then,

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we're talking in the 40s and 50s for

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God's sakes.

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And if you want to know like I did, do

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what I did. you want to know

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um what it was like if you if you've got

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um you know if you've got these golden

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ideas of socialism and and that all that

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going on

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I've probably talked to I don't know 20

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or 30 people from that region of the old

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communist social states

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and the horror stories

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could fill two books books at least that

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I heard and that I believed in detail.

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And part of that was again it was the

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repeated theme, the the same damn thing

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over and over again.

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The main

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push if you will

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was a complete loss of autonomy.

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That's it. Now, if you know I all I can

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do is is screech and say what I'm saying

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to you now because if no one's listening

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if this doesn't piss you off

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because I want you to say something to

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me. I want you to say something to me

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and post it and say something to

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somebody else and somebody please out

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there let's discuss something.

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Otherwise,

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when the [ __ ] hits the fan in four or

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five years and you say, "Oh, listen to

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this guy who heard his fan and he was

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and I didn't believe. I thought he was

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just crackpot."

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You won't be thinking that then, but

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that's the problem. It's always way

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after the fact when the [ __ ] hits the

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fan, everybody suddenly realizes

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they should have listened.

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So

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until next time, this is Ernest and

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that's all I've got for today.