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How much involvement do you think BlackRock really has globally with CI and intelligence?

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I mean, some people would argue that BlackRock's too big to be involved in this.

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They're not maneuverable enough.

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They're not smaller.

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They're not like an Apollo Global, for example.

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Yeah, you know your shit.

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And I don't have the answer to this, but I think I've done more research than a lot of the people that are talking about BlackRock conspiracy theories,

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because BlackRock is like the low-hanging fruit of conspiracy theories.

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And that's why I blew up on TikTok in the first place.

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Because I was talking about this sort of basic shit before I really knew anything.

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And the more I learned about BlackRock, I realized that that does not really fly.

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If BlackRock is actually pulling strings behind the scenes, they're the best that's ever done it.

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They're the most secretive.

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They leave zero tracks.

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If they're doing that, fuck Larry, good job.

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But I don't think they are.

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But they do play a really, really foundationally important role that I think most people just aren't necessarily equipped to understand.

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In that, yeah, overthrowing governments and doing covert actions and all the spy shit is very important to run the world, if that's your goal or whatever.

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But you still have to have a handle on money and on how commerce works and how finance works and just the global like, because that's this sort of like beast of its own, right?

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But capitalism just kind of does its own thing on a global scale.

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And when you have all these trillions of dollars floating around, you might have the best plans in the world.

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But if capitalism is incentivized to promote this, like, I don't know, green energy agenda, just making shit up, then you are going to have to go with that title flow or subvert it.

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And BlackRock is, I mean, it's not just BlackRock.

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It's BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, which is basically just owned by BlackRock more or less.

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They manage all of our sort of latent money that the regular people would hold that power.

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And most people then get stuck on the money side of it and they think, well, yeah, but Black and so they think, oh, BlackRock controls all this money.

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They control the world, but easily debunked because they don't.

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They manage that money for us.

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It's our money.

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They don't own the shares technically, like technically they're holding all these shares on our behalf.

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That's a fair debunk.

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But it leaves out the piece that it's not about the money because capitalism is inherently democratic in the sense that every share represents a vote of a company.

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Right. And so all these corporations like Procter and Gamble, that's like putting poison in our lotion, like Unilever, that's putting poison in our food, like Johnson and Johnson, that's putting literal asbestos in the baby powder and covering it up for 30 years.

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Like every big corporation in the world, well, in America, let's just keep it to the S&P 500, the stock market here.

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They are all majority owned by BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street to the point where all those shares represent the voting power and that voting power chooses who's in charge of those companies.

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And so when all in a real like capitalistic free market, we would all be represented in those companies because we would collectively through our retirement accounts, through just our regular holdings, through all of our money, which is trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, that would be us sort of collectively having voting power to decide who runs these companies.

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And so when Johnson and Johnson gets caught with asbestos in the baby powder and covering it up for 30 years, we would have something to say about it.

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But it's written into all the contracts of all of the ETFs, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, index funds, all these things that BlackRock and Vanguard manage, that they manage the voting rights for the shares.

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And some people, if you actively submit forms, you can request to represent your own voting rights, but no one does.

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And so it's this weird scheme where what they have now done, and I don't know if it's on purpose and nefarious, but regardless, it's extremely useful if it's leveraged,

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is they have cut off our legs in terms of our representation in the entire stock market that would make all of those corporate executives beholden to us because they have a fiduciary duty.

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It's legally binding that all of the boards of directors of all these companies and thus their executives, the CEOs and stuff, they have a fiduciary duty to serve the shareholders in the shareholders' best interest.

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And in a theoretical world, that would be us.

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And so it is illegal for them to do, even if it makes more money for the shareholders, if they're poisoning us and we don't want them to do it, and we're all telling them we don't want them to do it,

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there's another layer of like, you're legally bound to do what's best for us.

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But now their fiduciary duty is to BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, technically, because those guys are the actual shareholders.

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We are just the beneficial owners of an ETF share.

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And so that means that now all of that fiduciary duty is consolidated into one central spot.

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And every one of those guys know that they don't lose their job if we get mad.

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They lose their job if BlackRock or Vanguard or State Street get mad.

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And so suddenly they are all, all their interests are aligned to just please a few fund managers.

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And if you tank a company and absolutely obliterate its value, you sell it for parts, you extract all that wealth, give your buddies a bunch of paychecks,

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and destroy this, whatever company it is, like Toys R Us, who knows, you don't necessarily get punished for that.

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Because if that's what this sort of collective body, this money mind wanted to happen for any reason,

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you get rewarded with a bonus, with a new job.

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Because if, you know, if the guys representing all these shares that work at BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, et cetera, and the banks along with it,

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if they're pleased with what you did, doesn't matter if it was in the company's best interest, because it was in the shareholder's best interest.

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Right.

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So you suddenly, though you sunk that company through apparent mismanagement, you wind up being the CEO of this next big company,

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and you get all these bonuses, right?

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And so it just, it inherently cuts the legs off of capitalism in a way that makes the free market not represented in the way that it's run anymore.

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And that's, I think, fundamental to why we wind up with all these psychopaths that are running all these companies,

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and are completely okay with doing things like putting poison in the food and not really caring if it poisons us,

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because it makes a lot of money for everyone that's in the club.

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It sort of creates the club, this corporate club.

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And it incentivizes them all to do what's best for the club, not for the consumer.

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And we don't really have any recourse other than getting loud on Twitter now,

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because our shares are all locked away into these funds.

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So it's not that they control the world, but they do control this really important capitalistic piece of the world

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that you would have to have some level of a lid on if you wanted to achieve big things.

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And it might not be nefarious.

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It might just be that, like, they all benefit from it.

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So it's just evolved to be that way.

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I don't know.

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But it's an interesting one, because there's, like, layers to,

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oh, it's the biggest conspiracy in the world?

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Eh, not really.

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Like, oh, but there's actually a layer where it's really nefarious and evil

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in ways that directly affect all of us.

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Yes.

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In a way that, like, the CIA overthrowing Guatemala

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doesn't necessarily affect you except for the price bananas.

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And I think that's why I blew up on TikTok,

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is because I started to unpack that and show how, like,

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because this dude is in charge of this company that makes all your shampoo,

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it's full of chemicals that are going to make your hair fall out.

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And if you buy from a family-owned business

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that's run by someone who, like, a woman who cares about your hair,

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that hair product is not full of chemicals that make your hair fall out.

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You should buy from her and support a real person.

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And, like, F Procter & Gamble,

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who's, like, being sued for literal hair loss in their shampoo products,

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and then right next door,

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there's a product from Procter & Gamble to fix hair loss.

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And so those are things that affect us in real life

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that we can actually do something about

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by just changing our buying habits

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and starting to support small businesses and family-owned businesses.

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And that's, like, a whole other side of my content

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that a lot of people don't see that I love

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because it's kind of more grounded.

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It's a little less, like, fun

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because it tends to be a lot of researching of just companies

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researching who owns things,

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but it's super useful.