Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to today's special Sunday edition of Human Events Daily.

I'm joined today by Darren Beatty, editor of Revolver News for a discussion on where we are.

What is the state of things? Specifically, the state of what Darren has taken to use, but you see this term everywhere.

You started, I believe you coined the phrase, but I've seen it all across the internet.

I've seen people mentioning this even in forums that aren't even remotely associated the GAE, the globalist American Empire.

So Darren, what is the globalist American Empire and what is the state of it as you see things today?

Well, first of all, it is one of my prouder, I would say the proudest coinages that I've made.

The globalist American Empire, which lends itself to a very convenient acronym and appropriate one.

What is this?

Indeed.

So what is the state of the globalist American Empire? Well, I think we've seen a number of blows according to which a lot of the possible alternatives to the power and preeminence of the globalist American Empire have been neutralized.

And I guess we're all looking to Mar-a-Lago today to see what Trump does and how he does it. But I would say it's fair to say that at least to some degree, the Trump movement has been, if not neutralized, then diminished or crippled by the collective action of the regime and how Trump responds to that remains to be seen.

And so that's one aspect.

There was even though kind of ironically, Trump was very explicitly opposed to cryptocurrencies and calls it a scam.

And he may end up very well being vindicated by this.

So I remember specifically when he tweeted that out, I guess it was a couple of years ago now, it was in 2020 when Bitcoin was on its way to the top of the charts, everybody was talking about it became the hottest thing during because you know what happened was everybody had had those stimulus checks during the lockdown.

So Bitcoin and just crypto and the whole what they call the DeFi community was really taking off and then out of nowhere, here comes the you know they were calling in Boomer Trump with his boomer take about crypto and Bitcoin and the old dog just doesn't get it.

And now here we are two years later and we're seeing the collapse of crypto and then also seeing that these this FTX group, which to me looks like an intelligence operation slash money laundering operation is completely falling apart all of these customers left holding the bag.

And then that tweet has resurfaced and said well, maybe maybe he was on to something there.

And look, I think he would be the first submit that he doesn't understand it and that's probably why he was rightly skeptical and you know despite all of the sort of catarewalling by the crypto enthusiasts about oh, it's not used properly.

It's a decentralized protocol and such and such and you need to understand how it uses you know if you don't have your keys, you don't have your coins like all those things are probably you know valid as far as I've been able to check but you have to look at sort of the reality of of Bitcoin as a kind of semi mass adopted product and its use cases in that context beyond you know what people have called like nerd money or beyond the sort of more limited use.

And then there are more limited use cases that are confined to its more kind of secure use and yeah the FTX may just be the tip of the iceberg and you know we can look at it and say this is a big scam which it obviously is with it's a it's a big kind of money laundering operation that gets closer to the truth.

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