The Rogue Scholar

So many just have random questions. I will try to answer by sharing quotes, links, videos, podcasts, my own random answers, you name it. You are the show on this episode of The Rogue Scholar! PSA: ANY trolls will be patted on the head and ignored :) Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube Real Progressives website

So you want to cut the military budget? They have ways of making that hurt... a lot. On purpose. Featured article: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3194361/dod-releases-report-on-defense-spending-by-state-in-fiscal-year-2021/ Race to the Bottom website: https://realprogressives.org/race-to-the-bottom/ YouTube clip of John Fetterman being interviewed by Savage Joy, talking abou...

Ben Norton joins Steve to talk about everything from Tulsi Gabbard's anti-woke grift to energy concerns across Europe, to the drums of war we're hearing now and what solidarity really looks like. You won't want to miss this one. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

When your representatives and government as a whole do not represent you, your struggles or the necessary policies to save us from extinction... what is pragmatism in a world without agency through the allowable paths forward? Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

(Discussing Bill Mitchell's recent Article) #MMT The supremacy of the national government to control its own unit of account regardless of the desires of speculators should NEVER have been in question... Bill Mitchell shows us that is true and on display in Japan! Key links http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=50605 https://twitter.com/billy_blog/status/1580446339577835520 Mentioned in this ep...

So you say you are an independent? What do you do when assessing the world around you with so much theater and fake news? How do you survive a world where none of the politicians and candidates actually represent progress? Exhibit A: Tulsi Gabbard #Grift #Tulsi #TulsiGabbard #Independent #Democrats #Republicans #Wokeness #Wars #ClimateChange #Neoliberalism #MMT #Steve Grumbine #TheRogueScholar #Re...

The Wall of Gaylord has no rival... until now. Bernanke winning the Swedish Central Banker Awards are rich calling it "Memorial Nobel" No, not the Nobel Peace Prize... not that that is an esteemed award anymore... but this is straight up out of the neoliberal propaganda mill. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Time is short. #LearnMMT #EachOneTeachOne #Austerity #Murder #Neoliberalism #MMT #Biden #ClimateChange #GlobalSouth #Pakistan #Poverty #AqdasAfzal #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Where do you begin when your president is busy telling the country we should be celebrating deficit reduction? #Biden #DeficitReduction #LearnMMT #Austerity #Neoliberalism #EachOneTeachOne #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

The System exploits us all. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Class War in Modern Times Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Inflation comes, bad people blame MMT. Let us be fair, they aren't good people... they know they are simply hoping to keep the poor poor and the rich rich and anything that disrupts that power dynamic must be bad, yes? No... Much of what is attributed to MMT is filling potholes with sand. It's bullshit. Period. No need for pinky-out sensibilities. I am fighting for us to survive, not to have mimos...

What if our kids were taught these important lessons in elementary school and beyond? Can it be anything other than an attack on our survival? Abuse to our children? Real honest conformity to hyper-nationalism and austerity??? What if our children were taught that our government was there to serve the needs of the people and was self-funded. That the nation issues currency out of thin air by sover...

I hate this world we continue to press for that relies on rugged individualism and immediately pits people against each other in this dog-eat-dog world of unfriendly competition, class balkanization and worse, leaving those who fell behind... behind. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progressives website Real Progress In Action YouTube

Makes Progress One Step Forward, Ten Steps Back How to overcome the lies, deceit, fake news, false information and tribalism that keeps lies alive and well in their own echo chambers? Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube Real Progressives website

Ask for nothing, get nothing. Expect nothing, get nothing. We've been trained to keep our eyes down, speak when spoken to and to deprive ourselves of basic needs to prove we are tough and not dependent on government. Well... we aim to break that generational curse. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube Real Progressives website

This matrix like wash, rinse repeat cycle that we have been programmed to accept as there is no alternative, has literally kept us on the hamster wheel, harmless and ineffective. From celebrating volunteerism to celebrating donations for crises fit for a currency issuing central government. #Austerity #Neoliberalism #Murder #MMT #Economics #Unemployment #Inflation #SteveGrumbinne #TheRogueScholar...

Money springs forth from the currency-issuing national government in most cases, other times, it may be a super state entity like the European Central Bank, but there are levels of money, and we will address the central government, state and local governments and of course, bank money aka private credit. We will also take a completely insufficient look at the hierarchy of money and money-like thin...

What happens when the idea has everyone excited, but then you have to make some sacrifice or commitment beyond just the excitement? American politics... "why don't they go out and do it right?" well, they (the powers aligned against us) don't take off. They do more for a lie than we do for the truth. And little by little resistance is worn down and those who hang on and fight are labeled extremist...

Being a solutions architect is a real challenge in this dystopian world where progress isn't defined as solving problems but whether an ownership class budged a little. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

What more needs to be said? Apparently, in a democracy, you are kept back by dullards who do not understand shit from shinola. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=589408362634478&id=100046959583546 In the end, Biden and gang want us trapped. It serves their master's needs. #Biden #StudentDebt #Neoliberalism #CancelStudentDebt #MMT #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #Real...

These folks are bad people. They attack a lie that they have fed to the American people and we see far too many fall prey to it. #SocialSecurity #Matrix #Biden #Sanders #FICA #Neoliberalism #MMT #Greenspan #PaulRyan #Sirota #Kelton #Mosler #7DIF #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #RealProgressInAction Sanders nails Biden for being a liar (albeit sweetly for the vote blue sycophants)...

Twisting ourselves into knots to feel good when the news is either fake news or bad news. Mentioned in this episode: Real Progress In Action YouTube

From the left and right, we have talked about how MMT exposes motives, but the shocker some have to come to grips with... Not all MMTers are socialists nor are they all progressives. But their hearts are under a microscope as we realize their core motivations. This becomes inflamed however when religious sects within the left make bold, incorrect statements that hurt leftist policy space and wreck...

Scumbag say what? #InflationReductionAct #DeficitReductionAct #Biden #Democrats #Congress #Neoliberalism #Austerity #CorporateTax #MMT #Economics #SteveGrumbine #TheRogueScholar #RealProgressives #realprogressinaction