Smedley Butler and the Business Plot

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    In 1933 and 1934, an alleged plot to overthrow the government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) by Wall Street Bankers may have happened. While contemporary newspapers called it a “gigantic hoax,” others, including the House’s Special Committee on Un-American Activities, found the allegations “credible.” You decide:
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 957

  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  4 роки тому +25

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  • @BuckBreaker
    @BuckBreaker 4 роки тому +332

    "War is a racket... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
    ~Smedley Butler

    • @dennismisovski9932
      @dennismisovski9932 2 роки тому +6

      Best book ever,

    • @barquerojuancarlos7253
      @barquerojuancarlos7253 Рік тому +9

      The "racket", Butler clarified, "is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many". How little things have changed since then.

    • @jeffslote9671
      @jeffslote9671 10 місяців тому

      Butler at best was a stooge doing the Soviets bidding. He absolutely was working with spies. It’s just not known if he knew it. The congressman from New York was a Soviet spy. He was the one holding the meeting

    • @orion10x10
      @orion10x10 8 місяців тому

      That's not just called war, specifically it's capitalist imperialism

  • @amommamust
    @amommamust 4 роки тому +390

    You left out a prominent coup plotter: Prescott Bush. I wonder how you missed that detail...

    • @Mike9201984
      @Mike9201984 4 роки тому +22

      amommamust
      I thought he was busy at that time financing the rise of Nazi Germany

    • @amommamust
      @amommamust 4 роки тому +26

      @@Mike9201984 Yep, that too.

    • @crusader2112
      @crusader2112 3 роки тому +54

      @@Mike9201984 he did both.
      Henry Ford also was involved I believe.

    • @raymonddav5281
      @raymonddav5281 3 роки тому +25

      @@crusader2112 Disney

    • @johnsondoeboy2772
      @johnsondoeboy2772 3 роки тому +18

      @@crusader2112 Henry Ford doubt it. He was probably just demonized because of his criticism of zionists

  • @nrsrymj
    @nrsrymj 4 роки тому +159

    "Now - you Mothers, particularly! The only way you can resist all this war hysteria and beating of tom-toms is by asserting the love you bear your boys. When you listen to some well worded, some well-delivered war speech, just remember it's nothing but sound. No amount of sound can make up to you for the loss of your boy. After you've heard one of those speeches and your blood's all hot and you want to bite somebody like Hitler--go upstairs to where your boy's asleep. Look at him."
    ~ Smedley Butler, the fighting Quaker

    • @Paladin1873
      @Paladin1873 4 роки тому +1

      @Florian Held A really bad thing.

    • @Cemi_Mhikku
      @Cemi_Mhikku 4 роки тому +3

      @@Paladin1873 Does the 'K' stand for 'krackpot'?

    • @slavesforging5361
      @slavesforging5361 4 роки тому +13

      and fathers too. who wants to give their children for rich people's profits? not I. who wants to sell the future of our country for old rich people right now?

    • @Cemi_Mhikku
      @Cemi_Mhikku 4 роки тому +4

      @@slavesforging5361 Come now, you surely know better than that. There's a LOT of people who think it's the best thing their kid could do. Especially their son.
      It's disgusting, but it's true.

    • @Paladin1873
      @Paladin1873 4 роки тому +2

      @@Cemi_Mhikku You know nothing about me, but your comment speaks volumes about you.

  • @itarry4
    @itarry4 4 роки тому +190

    Man I bet they were pissed when they discovered that Buttler was exactly the type of person he appeared to be. A decent, honest and patriotic American with real morals and a conscience. I'm sure that they had thought it all an act, for the sake of his image and that he was actually as dodgy and easily bought as the rest of them. Then when they suggested their plans and dropped in the fact that there was plenty of money available to fund it all, wink, wink the first time but were turned down they probably believed he was just being greedy and couldn't accept he'd turned them down because he wanted more money which is ehy they kept trying, unable to believe that a really decent person existed.

    • @bakomusha
      @bakomusha 4 роки тому +21

      If they had gone to the just as popular, but still in service MacArthur he would have jumped at the chance!

    • @mesamkiv7960
      @mesamkiv7960 4 роки тому +14

      I expect nothing less from any Marine past, present, or future. While the Corps is not without its villains in uniform, the vast majority of Marines serve in humble silence driven by a deep and true meaning of honor; duty; courage; discipline. In short, Semper Fidelis. Always. Not a little nor in abundance. Simply Semper Fidelis. Oh yeah, the DIs at Parris Island taught us raw recruits God created the Corps on the 8th day and saw that it was so good He decided 7 days were enough for everyone else😎

    • @citronm1405
      @citronm1405 4 роки тому +17

      Really rich business men always think everyone is for sale. The German Oligarchs at the time thought they could control Hitler also.

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 4 роки тому +2

      @Andrew Schembri He wasn’t popular with the troops after he drove out the Bonus Army, including killing women and children who were there.

    • @dannystephenson4197
      @dannystephenson4197 3 роки тому

      The people or things on W. D. C. are not human !!!!!!

  • @boldgambit7896
    @boldgambit7896 4 роки тому +99

    Yes, let's get a vocal critic of corporations and their control over the government to lead our corporate plot to take over the government.

    • @Superbl0bby
      @Superbl0bby 4 роки тому +19

      I feel like there was a loyalist in the business plot who suggested Smedley Butler because he knew he was loyal too. What a movie that would be

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 4 роки тому +18

      They chose him because he was popular with the troops and the general public for his support of the bonus army.
      It’s why they chose Smedley Butler over MacArthur.

    • @aardvarkhendricks6555
      @aardvarkhendricks6555 3 роки тому +2

      Even monkeys fall from trees. Even smart people make stupid mistakes.

    • @robertsmalls2293
      @robertsmalls2293 3 роки тому +1

      I honestly wish they succeeded just because FDRs changes permanently fucked up America.

    • @epa2349
      @epa2349 2 роки тому +4

      @@robertsmalls2293
      America was already fked up before FDR took charge. Robber Baron era had turned America into oligarchic society where a few men controlled so much money they can buy out the country, kept sucking off the working class. Progressive era of Teddy Roosevelt & early 1900s put some leash on that, then conservatives swooped in 1920s & handed the power back to Oligarchs, removed all regulations off bankerd & wall street again, all the way to Great Depression.
      When FDR came to power, the country was already in free fall, over millions of families were about to go homeless & end up in street, tens of millions of American were starving, were unemployed. People had lost trust off financial, public institutions & in capitalism itself, ground was ripe for extreme ideology like fascism & communism, anarchism to take over. Before FDR took over Conservative govt of Hoover have already refused to help suffering Americans. That is where FDR came in. Because of him those millions of families kept roof above their head, able to feed their families instead of dying in the street. We transformed from an oligarchic society to a progressive society with a strong middle class. Well regulated banking & wall Street, financial sector. FDR was by no means perfect, but with base he provided & policies he enacted, America experienced the Prosperity of 40s, 50s, 60s which is often called the "Golden age of capitalism".
      FDR's changes saved Capitalism itself & America along with it.
      You want know someone who's changes permanently fked up America?
      Ronald Reagan as president.

  • @cullenami
    @cullenami 4 роки тому +197

    I wish more people talked about this.

    • @firstonracingday3407
      @firstonracingday3407 3 роки тому +5

      help make you believe the Bush family is evil

    • @Exarian
      @Exarian 3 роки тому +9

      I think the reason it's sorta obscure is threefold. On one side, William Randolph Hearst was allegedly one of the conspirators, in which case most newspapers would have a vested interest in burying this story at the time. On the other... we were in the middle of a depression and the country was shaky as is. If word got out that there was very nearly a coup that could have succeeded, that could have caused a TON of trouble for everyone involved. And finally, while Butler remained a popular figure, his socialist and anti-imperial stances would become a hard sell as time went on and the american political ecosystem no longer made room for folks like him.
      So the press largely had a reason to dismiss it, the state largely considered it too risky to openly prosecute lest it inspire someone else to attempt a coup, and Butler would go on to become at most a footnote in the typical narrative of American history because of his inconvenient political and ideological positions.

    • @theateroftheabsurd2168
      @theateroftheabsurd2168 3 роки тому +3

      Its happening now in the United States and nobody gonna stop it

    • @scottnyc6572
      @scottnyc6572 3 роки тому +6

      It’s not spoken about because it involved Skull and Bones member and Nazi sympathizer Prescott Bush being exposed.

    • @goblinpresident4234
      @goblinpresident4234 3 роки тому +3

      The capitalist media and education apparatus wouldn't have much interest in people knowing this.

  • @jbwilk511
    @jbwilk511 4 роки тому +228

    Powerful people conspiring against the well being of the many to protect their power. Really shows that people dont change..just the technology

    • @Noneofyourbusiness2000
      @Noneofyourbusiness2000 4 роки тому +5

      Well being of the many? You think social security is for the well being of the many? You are lost.

    • @jbwilk511
      @jbwilk511 4 роки тому +18

      You can have a philosophical debate on the intent or whatever but it's an undeniable fact that it pulled millions of seniors out of poverty...millions is many and poverty is the opposite of well being so yes

    • @jenniferbrewer5370
      @jenniferbrewer5370 4 роки тому +13

      What the GOP is doing now is nothing new for them. They're the ones who tried to enlist the Third Reich in this plot.

    • @sirdeadlock
      @sirdeadlock 4 роки тому

      The poor do the same thing.
      In the end, it's not as simple as an issue of superior morals.

    • @slavesforging5361
      @slavesforging5361 4 роки тому +5

      @@sirdeadlock you're right, it's about doing what's best for everyone in the country, and therefore the country itself. Butler was a patriot. they were out of their minds if they thought he wanted to be some fascist, pro rich ruler.

  • @thea8368
    @thea8368 4 роки тому +112

    If I remember correctly Prescott Bush was involved in this plot.

    • @Adreal357
      @Adreal357 2 роки тому +4

      Yes

    • @WakeAndBakeBeats
      @WakeAndBakeBeats 2 роки тому +10

      Indeed, the man was also a fan of hitler, so no surprise there

    • @ShatterHumor
      @ShatterHumor 2 роки тому +1

      He was to be the go-between for the new fascist US government and Nazi Germany

    • @NBM3
      @NBM3 2 роки тому +7

      His steel is the train tracks leading into Auswitz ... and a few panzer parts snd stuff .

    • @theduckfu
      @theduckfu 2 роки тому +5

      Also Chase bank was the bank used for some of the lines of credit that were drawn out for the people that would need money for staging the coup d'état, the person running chase bank at the time was the brother-in-law to JD Rockefeller. Robert S. Clark (a wall street banker that inherited great wealth from the singer manufacturing company) (who also happened to serve under Butler in the marine corp), also planned to contribute half of his 30 million dollar fortune to the effort and I believe set up the initial funds to pay for the overthrow. The reason they approached Butler is because he had expressed anti-communist views and he had support of the disenfranchised poor military members that as you said were protesting for their bonuses of WW1. The youtube channel Carnage on Ice did an amazing look at this in really great detail, video is over 3 hours long but well worth it. I had to break up the watching over a few days but great information overall.

  • @NibblesTheNibbler
    @NibblesTheNibbler 4 роки тому +13

    I got my BA in PoliSci. I'm passionate about politics, government and history. I've read countless books and research papers related to politics, international affairs, history, etc. I've studied the things that Butler talks about in his book (the bonus army, using our military to spread business interests and set up "banana republics," the influence of bankers and industrialists on domestic and foreign policies, the fights between industry and unions/workers, colonialism, socialist movements of the late 19th and early 20th, the love affair between big business and fascism, and so on). However, I'm amazed how Butler has evaded my radar after all these years!!
    I do love it when I find another piece of the puzzle of history that I can tie into everything else I've learned. So, I look forward to reading more than just the summary of Butler's book!

    • @malcolmdouglasjr2178
      @malcolmdouglasjr2178 Рік тому

      Unauthorized bio of HW Bush. Anton Chaitkin. Treason in America. Chaitkin. Russ Baker. Family of Secrets. All essential. Youll love em ! Months of reading and re reading

  • @Crick1952
    @Crick1952 4 роки тому +71

    I've always been fascinated by this event in history. I think I first heard about it in a History Channel documtary when I was a kid. It was the first time I ever conceived that the government wasn't untouchable.
    Personally I think a lot more people should know about it.

    • @jonnunn4196
      @jonnunn4196 4 роки тому +5

      I'd suggest also studying European history; quite a few revolutions there.
      "Treason never prospers; for if it prospers, none dare call it treason."

    • @knoahbody69
      @knoahbody69 2 роки тому +2

      You're extremely naive if you think that's the case. Did I mention PRESCOTT BUSH, THE FATHER OF GEORGE H. BUSH AND GRANDFATHER OF GEORGE W BUSH WAS PART OF THE PLOT?

    • @knoahbody69
      @knoahbody69 2 роки тому

      @Hull Brady Because people are stupid. Prescott Bush is the Father of George Bush and the Grandfather of George W, both former POTUS. I bring this all of the time on social media and they think it's fake, even though there's been books written about Prescott's involvement. You can't fix stupid.

  • @bsjeffrey
    @bsjeffrey 4 роки тому +179

    war is a racket...maj. gen smedley butler.

    • @iPlayOnSpica
      @iPlayOnSpica 4 роки тому +21

      This is far more important (and ethical) to broadcast in schools than the pledge of allegiance

    • @trentbresler3179
      @trentbresler3179 4 роки тому +13

      Raspica Blue I agree and it is a shame that more people don't know the name Smedley Butler.

    • @golf2actual375
      @golf2actual375 4 роки тому +8

      You'll notice that Butler didn't go along with the plot. War isn't the racket -- it's the men (and women) who think they can make money from war and Congress happily goes along.

    • @trentbresler3179
      @trentbresler3179 4 роки тому +13

      MJ Cross that is the racket. It isn't the men and women on the battlefield that get rich from the war. It's the men in the banks and wall street that invested in whatever national resources we are after in that war. Whether that resource it the weather to grow crops as in the banana republics or it is oil in the Middle East or if it is rare earth elements (which is next up to help produce the batteries for electric vehicles). We send in the military to help secure these places so capitalism can prosper.

    • @bsjeffrey
      @bsjeffrey 4 роки тому +9

      war is a racket is the title of a speech and book by maj gen smedley butler.

  • @cmoore6131
    @cmoore6131 4 роки тому +23

    Simon: Franklin Delahhhhhno
    Never change, Simon. Never change. 🤙

  • @lens_hunter
    @lens_hunter 4 роки тому +63

    Proof positive that this country has been at each other's throats and hyperbolic forever, not just in recent times of social media.

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 4 роки тому +11

      Cotton Mather, the famed Puritan theologian, advocated for an early form of immunization against Smallpox called variolization. Somebody took offense against this, and firebombed his house with an oil lantern. So yeah, culture wars are older than the Republic.

    • @twentyarms
      @twentyarms 4 роки тому +15

      Hyperbolic? Did you miss the part where we became an imperial power and started overthrowing democratically elected governments for the benefit of our corporations? Many of the same corporations that are now so powerful they have no real allegiance to any country and are power's unto themselves? What part about that isn't completely fucking insane?

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 4 роки тому +3

      From day 1, there have been quite a number of people who haven't been too into this who democracy idea and think that the "lessers" should just serve and obey their "betters"
      (Spoilers: look up the origins of "left vs right")

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 4 роки тому

      @llriv oh look, someone who thinks the well documented business plot sounds like BS speaking out agains democracy
      HMMMMM

    • @dbz7103
      @dbz7103 Рік тому

      @@dynamicworlds1 Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding whats for dinner. Democracy is EVIL, a Constitutional Republic gives the minority a voice. You lack knowledge, history, and the universal understanding of what is God given rights defended by a Constitutional Republic. I hope in the 3 years since your comment, you actually learned something....

  • @TheCat72850
    @TheCat72850 4 роки тому +67

    Did not know about this! Somehow all the US History classes I took in high school and college ended at Civil War. Thank you for this.

    • @christelheadington1136
      @christelheadington1136 4 роки тому +6

      Where on earth did you go to school?

    • @TheCat72850
      @TheCat72850 4 роки тому +5

      Christel Headington Maryland 😌

    • @TheCat72850
      @TheCat72850 4 роки тому +7

      We’d get too the “War of Northern Agression” and just stay there.

    • @christelheadington1136
      @christelheadington1136 4 роки тому +1

      @@TheCat72850 -Isn't Biden from there?

    • @noradennis4361
      @noradennis4361 4 роки тому +2

      Really? That's sad. School has changed so much because we got to WWII and to JFK, MLK and the civil rights movement. I went to school in the 60's and graduated in 1976.

  • @StellarGryphon
    @StellarGryphon 4 роки тому +12

    I literally Googled this yesterday and now there's a video about it! Awesome

    • @stgodless
      @stgodless 3 роки тому

      it's the baader meinhof phenomenon. google that up sometime

  • @jenniferh8148
    @jenniferh8148 4 роки тому +9

    I love this video, I'm American and never knew this! History really does repeat itself...

  • @chrislair6832
    @chrislair6832 3 роки тому +40

    Not enough people know about this brilliant man. His entire article is on youtube for anyone interested. Its amazing and terrifying. He wrote it almost 100 years ago and everything is happening just like he said.

  • @ExarKenneth71
    @ExarKenneth71 4 роки тому +4

    Just think that in the 1980s Mama's in Nicaragua still told their kids that if they didn't stop misbehaving that Major Butler would come and get them. He left Nicaragua in 1912!!

  • @TheDrunkenPhaeron
    @TheDrunkenPhaeron 4 роки тому +8

    Another example of a Marine living up to our motto "Semper Fidelis" always faithful! I will take the word of one of my brothers over a businesses man any day! I hope Simon covers some other Marines like Chesty and Dan Daly they have incredible stories and are a major source of inspiration for us Marines!

    • @Radjhitoocool
      @Radjhitoocool Рік тому

      Do they still make them like that 🤔

  • @peteoconnor6388
    @peteoconnor6388 4 роки тому +57

    Sweet Jesus this is an amazing story that I had 0 knowledge of, thank you!

    • @chrisj197438
      @chrisj197438 4 роки тому +13

      Pete OConnor
      Most people don’t. Prescott Bush was very involved in this. His son and grandson went on to be president.

    • @peteoconnor6388
      @peteoconnor6388 4 роки тому

      @@chrisj197438 Maybe some dilution there.

    • @12yearssober
      @12yearssober 4 роки тому +6

      Florian Held
      He also laundered money for the Nazis

    • @12yearssober
      @12yearssober 4 роки тому +1

      Florian Held
      Gate keeper

    • @lucreziavilante5993
      @lucreziavilante5993 4 роки тому

      @Roh Hahn I guess her mother did know Aleister Crowley, but there's no proof that he is her father.

  • @kaeleklund6728
    @kaeleklund6728 4 роки тому +42

    The super rich will always turn to *literal fascism* before facing the thought of losing a fraction of that fortune. They're still doing it.

    • @michaeljohn6357
      @michaeljohn6357 25 днів тому

      Wouldn’t be surprised if we’re living in similar times today, but their new head is Trump and he’s just going along with it🤫

  • @BlacklightPropaganda
    @BlacklightPropaganda 3 роки тому +5

    The most unsung American hero in history.

    • @Charles-hy6gp
      @Charles-hy6gp 3 роки тому

      Look at this: ua-cam.com/video/bPpQBl3lgDg/v-deo.html
      The coup should happened, history would been different at all

  • @AtheistEdge
    @AtheistEdge 4 роки тому +5

    Two minor corrections:
    1. "Delano" is pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable.
    2. You don't "win" the Congressional Medal of Honor, you earn it and it is awarded to you.

    • @AtheistEdge
      @AtheistEdge 4 роки тому +2

      Sorry, one more correction....
      In the U.S. there is no such thing as an "ex-Marine". We keep the title forever. More accurate to say "former active duty Marine".

    • @AtheistEdge
      @AtheistEdge 4 роки тому

      And... regarding Mayor La Guardia... the "U" in his name is not a silent vowel.

  • @cedricroney1475
    @cedricroney1475 3 роки тому +9

    Little known fact is that his testimony was basically ignored by the government.

    • @jeffslote9671
      @jeffslote9671 10 місяців тому

      It should have been. It was commie disinformation. The congressman leading investigation was a Soviet spy 😊

  • @mostlypeacefulrowan8747
    @mostlypeacefulrowan8747 4 роки тому +31

    Contact guiness world records. You might have the most youtube channels

    • @kingjames4886
      @kingjames4886 4 роки тому

      it's the whistler network.
      coming soon: "simongraphics" and "simon blazed".

    • @liquidminds
      @liquidminds 4 роки тому

      @@kingjames4886 whistlertube will be a thing xD

    • @Mirokuofnite
      @Mirokuofnite 4 роки тому +1

      I can't wait for his porn channel Whizzers

  • @guillermozalles9303
    @guillermozalles9303 4 роки тому +4

    you forgot to include old grandpa Bush

  • @Wanys123
    @Wanys123 4 роки тому +33

    *This video is brought to you by HOI4 Kaiserreich, Butler's CSA path*

  • @canag0d
    @canag0d 4 роки тому +48

    Finally you have a new channel. Your 37 other channels weren’t enough! Haha seriously dude do you sleep???

    • @thepezfeo
      @thepezfeo 4 роки тому +9

      Simon isn't a single individual, they just recruit more British ppl with shaved heads and beards when the create more channels.

    • @harlequin2584
      @harlequin2584 4 роки тому +8

      He doesn't need sleep. He needs answers.

    • @BuckBreaker
      @BuckBreaker 4 роки тому +1

      Cocaine is a Hell of a drug.
      ua-cam.com/video/Q_4bp8bBNVw/v-deo.html

    • @drewsutton1888
      @drewsutton1888 4 роки тому +3

      It explains why he hasn't the time to research pronunciation.

  • @keirfarnum6811
    @keirfarnum6811 4 роки тому +4

    Smedley Butler also wrote “War is a Racket” after his service as a US Marine General.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 роки тому

      As far as I know I think Butler was a Lieutenant General....in the Marines they taught us to remember "Be My Little General", Brigadeer General (one star), Major General (2 stars), Lieutenant General (3 stars) and General (4 stars).

  • @jaycorby101
    @jaycorby101 4 роки тому +4

    DI: Two Marines to receive TWO medal of Honors?
    Recruits: Dan Daly and Smedley Butler!!!

  • @billbaker3565
    @billbaker3565 4 роки тому +18

    How the actions of one man might have changed world history.

  • @daisypeters3216
    @daisypeters3216 4 роки тому +2

    Dear Simon, an amazing and exciting week to you. I continue watching and loving your videos. 👍👍👍

  • @theldun1
    @theldun1 4 роки тому +23

    Smedley Butler was my great grandfathers cousin.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 4 роки тому +5

      And yours.

    • @nuclearjanitors
      @nuclearjanitors 4 роки тому

      Yeah ok

    • @nickrobertson3266
      @nickrobertson3266 4 роки тому +1

      and i assume you have evidence to back this up? or were you the kid whos dad works for nintendo?

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 4 роки тому

      @@nickrobertson3266 Just believe him. I'm the son of an electrician who was the son of an electrician who was the son of an electrician who was the son of an electrician. That's just as weird.

    • @nickrobertson3266
      @nickrobertson3266 4 роки тому

      Dont tell me what to do. You're not my real mom

  • @Poke_Doll
    @Poke_Doll 3 роки тому +2

    I just found out about this on Reddit, thought it was super interesting & was glad to find that Simon had made a video on it when I Googled it. Thank you Simon!

  • @passdasalt
    @passdasalt 4 роки тому +23

    Butler's statement at 4:10 should be spread far and wide. The US has been detroying countries for pure greed for decades and there's no end in sight.

    • @AZOffRoadster
      @AZOffRoadster 4 роки тому +1

      Bolivia being the latest victim. Need that lithium, and don't want the commies to get it.

  • @mariaamaro6458
    @mariaamaro6458 Рік тому

    You are the best, thank you for ALL of your lectures!!! YOU Make History a living, breathing organism.... thanks

  • @simbasrealdaddy2830
    @simbasrealdaddy2830 4 роки тому +8

    Let's not leave another member of the plot, Prescott Bush...the father of President George H.W. Bush.

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 8 місяців тому

      Why do you people keep saying this for that’s not important

  • @MissJellybean
    @MissJellybean 4 роки тому +10

    You should do an episode about “The Creature From Jekyll Island.” It’s about how the Federal Reserve was created. The families who started it, how they got there which is my favorite part, and how it’s a banking cartel with nothing to do with the federal government. It’s quite interesting and you can really see how America runs

  • @dianaprince3176
    @dianaprince3176 3 роки тому +3

    One of the people involved in this was Prescott Bush, father of GHW Bush and grandfather of Shrub.

  • @chrisj197438
    @chrisj197438 4 роки тому +5

    I have suggested this many times. Thanh you I will now join patreon and donate. This is an important part of America’s history that very few are aware of.

  • @TeamMunky
    @TeamMunky 4 роки тому +2

    I love this channel! All of the videos are well researched, and they never feel like they're padding for time
    Not to mention that they share obscure history in a way that lives up to the name of the channel, always able to learn something new and scratch that need for curiosity
    We love ya Simon ❤

  • @bryn494
    @bryn494 10 місяців тому

    I live in the West Chester area. His hearts in the right place but nearly all conflict is, ultimately, financially motivated.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 4 роки тому +10

    Wow! So conspiracies are sometimes real!

    • @DCMarvelMultiverse
      @DCMarvelMultiverse 4 роки тому +1

      Check out how Bush stole the 2000 election. For that matter, read Blinded by the Right wherein a checkbook journalist revealed the conspiracy against Clinton.

    • @stuffums
      @stuffums 4 роки тому +2

      Political and social conspiracies are sometimes real, or partly true. But scientific ones are almost always thoroughly debunked and give plausible political conspiracies a bad rep by having the same label

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 4 роки тому

      @@DCMarvelMultiverse Looks like I've got some reading to do on those. Ty

    • @Mike9201984
      @Mike9201984 4 роки тому

      But WTC7 definitely collapsed due to office fires and not one fuss was made about its shoddy construction.

    • @CrazyBear65
      @CrazyBear65 4 роки тому

      Conspiracies are _always_ real. Conspiracy is fact, not theory.

  • @jerrysims6551
    @jerrysims6551 2 роки тому +1

    Expert presentation. Well done, dude!

  • @MarkTulsa2024
    @MarkTulsa2024 4 роки тому +28

    Butler was a voice cryiing in the wilderness. Another great video Simon. I'm sharing this with all of my activists friends. Please consider doing the Tulsa Race Massacre soon.

    • @chrislair6832
      @chrislair6832 3 роки тому +2

      I live in Oklahoma city and am in my late 30s and was never taught a thing about that disgusting time in my own state. School curriculums here are a joke.

    • @caiusmadison2996
      @caiusmadison2996 2 роки тому +1

      @@chrislair6832 yes they are. I lived in the Midwest and have family in OK, they have major overhauling, STAT, to do where education is concerned.

    • @chrislair6832
      @chrislair6832 2 роки тому

      @@caiusmadison2996 It's Just wild that something as important as teach or route as teaching future generations is deep it is taken so lightly

  • @nwm-art4177
    @nwm-art4177 3 роки тому +2

    They should make a movie about this guy

    • @RealBadGaming52
      @RealBadGaming52 8 місяців тому

      They i agree, a Movie about The Business Plot but with a twist where it did succeed and we never knew.

  • @Andy-im3kj
    @Andy-im3kj 3 роки тому +6

    "It was just a joke" is the 1900s version of a guy yelling out "IT'S A PRANK BRO IT'S A PRANK!"

  • @tomg5187
    @tomg5187 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks Simon and co, great vid!

  • @jackl4laughs
    @jackl4laughs 2 роки тому

    I just saw this video and wow, "history doesn't repeat but it does rhyme"...

  • @490Believer
    @490Believer 4 роки тому +7

    This channel is my favorite, RealLifeLore my runner-up.

  • @nathanswann1198
    @nathanswann1198 4 роки тому +2

    we are living with the result and bitter end of the military industrial complex.

  • @hokiephile
    @hokiephile 4 роки тому +18

    Rich people get real patriotic when their money is involved. Other times, they don't give a damn.

  • @BaldingClamydia
    @BaldingClamydia 4 роки тому +1

    Definitely read that as Smelly Butler. 😄

  • @kyleshiflet9952
    @kyleshiflet9952 4 роки тому +8

    Finally you got to this forgot chapter in history

    • @DarthVader1977
      @DarthVader1977 4 роки тому

      forgotten*

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 4 роки тому

      @@DarthVader1977 sorry

    • @SienjorQueso
      @SienjorQueso 4 роки тому

      keith mcdowell calm down, the writer of the original comment took it way better than you. Don’t be angry for other people

  • @AliceMarieM
    @AliceMarieM 3 роки тому +2

    You failed to mention the participation of Prescott Bush, US Senator, father of Bush41 and grandfather of Bush43.

  • @johnniemiec3286
    @johnniemiec3286 4 роки тому +8

    Interesting story. Why the choice to exclude mention of the alleged involvement of Prescott Bush? He was a wealthy individual, a future senator from Connecticut and the father George H.W. Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush, obviously two U.S. presidents.

    • @dogstar7
      @dogstar7 4 роки тому +1

      Yup, fascists played the long game and won, it would appear

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 8 місяців тому

      @@dogstar7they didn’t

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 8 місяців тому

      Because he not relevant why didn’t he talk about Walt Disney or Henry ford they involved in this to

  • @TheHomesTeam
    @TheHomesTeam Рік тому

    Incredible. Thank you!

  • @swabby429
    @swabby429 4 роки тому +23

    It's taken about 90 years, and it looks like fascism is making a come-back in the upper reaches of the US government. We need another Butler to help us.

    • @thunderspark1536
      @thunderspark1536 2 роки тому

      Nah, we just need Russia to invade Ukraine so everyone hates fascism.

  • @masonellis8038
    @masonellis8038 3 роки тому +1

    Just watched this in my homeland security course at university!

  • @jenniferbrewer5370
    @jenniferbrewer5370 4 роки тому +5

    It's not alleged. It HAPPENED.

    • @organbuilder272
      @organbuilder272 4 роки тому

      Really - Then we are ON the gold standard...

  • @friday13thfan97
    @friday13thfan97 4 роки тому +2

    The concern of losing the gold standard was more founded then it sounds outright. Gold is standard for costs worldwide and keeps currency price rather stable. Look at Switzerland for an example

  • @12yearssober
    @12yearssober 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks for this!!!!

    • @cooladam9930
      @cooladam9930 4 роки тому

      Jeffery Epstein I knew you were alive

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE 4 роки тому +5

    Everything is a Rich Man's Trick...

    • @shellchenonceau7832
      @shellchenonceau7832 4 роки тому

      At the end of the documentary you just mentionned, they showed Obama...who became 400 million richer from his presidency unfortunately....not all rich people are bad, but if they indeed profit HANDSOMELY like the Bidens, Pelosi's, Cummings, & Kerry's WHILE IN OFFICE, it is a shame that is not noted by our voters.

    • @ARIXANDRE
      @ARIXANDRE 4 роки тому

      @@shellchenonceau7832 the system favors that, so they'll legally exploit it, as will Trump being acquitted of an obvious crime.

  • @CORPORAL-dn7nn
    @CORPORAL-dn7nn 4 роки тому +2

    Oohrah Smedley Butler 🍺

  • @drusilla3882
    @drusilla3882 4 роки тому +6

    at 7:24 ... "someone suggested the idea to the ex-marine as a joke"
    Fascists today do do the same thing..."Oh, I was just joking about liking Mein Kampf"
    Reactionaries always resort to Gaslighting when they get called out.

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 4 роки тому

    Thank you .

  • @omegalightning5715
    @omegalightning5715 4 роки тому +10

    Why is the upper part of a statue or other things called a bust?

    • @honey_bee65
      @honey_bee65 4 роки тому +1

      Probably because that's what a woman's chest is called.

    • @LadyWhinesalot
      @LadyWhinesalot 4 роки тому +1

      @@honey_bee65 what about if you break (bust) something...or your business goes broke (bust)?

    • @animistchannel2983
      @animistchannel2983 4 роки тому +5

      It's called a bust because, anatomically, that's what that region of the body is called, basically everything above the armpits including the shoulders, but not including the arms. It does not include the tits, which on a human are part of the breast along with the underlying pectoralis muscles. You can also have a bust of an animal, which is sometimes displayed on mounted deer trophies, showing everything forward of their armpits including the neck, head, and horns, but not the forelegs.
      In skeletal terms, what makes a bust is including the clavicle and scapula regions (the upper skeletal girdle) but not the ribs.
      "Bust" as a euphemism for a woman's tits just happened because people "in polite public society" were too sexually repressed to say "tits." It is an inaccurate slang, because the tits proper are below the actual bust division line.
      However, in tailoring, if the top hem of a garment more or less follows the line between the armpits and doesn't cover the tops of the shoulders, it may be called the bustline, since it is in the right place for the boundary. In other cases, the bustline is considered the widest part of the garment that accommodates room for the tits, for the same original reason of false modesty as above.
      In garments with a higher top hem that covers the shoulders, it is more properly called the neckline even if it "plunges" down between the tits in the front, revealing some cleavage. Depending on when and where the discussion is happening, all these terms could get mixed up out of a false sense of propriety, so good luck on fashion terms.
      Probably more than you ever wanted to know about it, but there you go.

    • @NajwaLaylah
      @NajwaLaylah 4 роки тому +1

      I think it's a variation on 'breast' or maybe 'Brust' (German) for the upper torso (of men or women).

    • @omegalightning5715
      @omegalightning5715 4 роки тому +1

      @@animistchannel2983 you, my friend, are a super nerd. I've wondered this for a while. This is the most information I've ever gotten on a comment. Thank you.

  • @inomad1313
    @inomad1313 4 роки тому +2

    Now on SimonTube (formally known as UA-cam). Simon Whistler all the time on all channels with guest appearances by Karl Smallwood.

  • @jonathanvanboskerck2693
    @jonathanvanboskerck2693 4 роки тому

    Thanks.

  • @bcgrote
    @bcgrote 4 роки тому +3

    Wasn't Prescott Bush involved in this as well?

  • @stevenlouton6381
    @stevenlouton6381 4 роки тому

    Thanks Simon, another great.

  • @ornos3133
    @ornos3133 4 роки тому +3

    Do a biographics video of this man.

  • @UltraDonny5000
    @UltraDonny5000 4 роки тому +1

    Chesty may get all the glory but Smedley Butler is my favorite Marine Corps hero.
    Ooh Rah!

    • @BobbyHahaOne
      @BobbyHahaOne 3 роки тому

      Both Gen Butler, and Chesty Puller, Dan Daily, Carlos Hathcock are my personal favorites. And I am so proud to have earned the right to wear the same uniform as these great men and also very humbled at the same time.

  • @colenewaltersmusicandother9330
    @colenewaltersmusicandother9330 3 роки тому +3

    All of our soldiers in America did die in vain!! God bless Smedley

  • @metanevets91
    @metanevets91 4 роки тому

    Simon, I already listen to every Business Blaze. It's some of my favorite videos, of yours.

  • @flamingdonutgamers1652
    @flamingdonutgamers1652 4 роки тому +5

    Who invented the straw and did people know how to use them when they first arrived?

  • @LaurenMiddleton28
    @LaurenMiddleton28 4 роки тому +1

    Smedley Butler- One of the very few 2 time Medal Of Honor winners

  • @pissbaby3893
    @pissbaby3893 4 роки тому +4

    Good to hear that conservatives have been crybabies even since the days of FDR.

    • @N75911_
      @N75911_ 4 роки тому +1

      It's all Jewish infighting.

    • @AlamoOriginal
      @AlamoOriginal Рік тому

      ​@@N75911_ whatever you say fascists, go sell drugs to third world countries or euganize a gypsy or some shit

  • @gregtaylor8073
    @gregtaylor8073 4 роки тому +6

    Prescott Bush was also in on this FYI

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 8 місяців тому

      He wasn’t important

  • @ethericoutlaw4161
    @ethericoutlaw4161 3 роки тому +2

    Why is this so relevant right now......

  • @jasonterry1959
    @jasonterry1959 4 роки тому +3

    anyone else hearing static when watching this video? wtf

    • @BuckBreaker
      @BuckBreaker 4 роки тому

      Yes. Audio quality was not up to par.

    • @CrazyBear65
      @CrazyBear65 4 роки тому

      Done deliberately by the fascists to keep folks from watching and learning. Uncle Sam doesn't want you to know the truth.

    • @jasonterry1959
      @jasonterry1959 4 роки тому

      @@CrazyBear65 shit b8 i r8 0/8

  • @jaydenswift9856
    @jaydenswift9856 2 роки тому

    This is like word for word what's happening today

  • @Flaubert
    @Flaubert 4 роки тому +3

    Bernie watch out!

  • @pakde8002
    @pakde8002 4 роки тому +1

    Well, that was certainly a timely bit of information.

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 4 роки тому +3

    facism doesn't have to.mean a swastika and little moustache

    • @CrazyBear65
      @CrazyBear65 4 роки тому

      Fascists own the world, and they have for a very long time.

  • @BoostedPastime
    @BoostedPastime 4 роки тому +1

    Starts at 0:34

  • @bencox3641
    @bencox3641 4 роки тому +8

    Capitalist were in favor for fascism, who will have guess.

    • @bencox3641
      @bencox3641 4 роки тому

      @Joe Briggs Jr Not true capitalism fallacy.

    • @The_king567
      @The_king567 8 місяців тому

      Nice try dude lmao go cry somewhere else

  • @Claytone-Records
    @Claytone-Records 4 роки тому +3

    More of the same old, folks.

  • @erikv.smykal5578
    @erikv.smykal5578 4 роки тому

    glad you finally got around to this.
    ol' Duckboard is the only Marine worth venerating, anymore.

  • @sgtgrash
    @sgtgrash 4 роки тому +5

    This all sounds very familiar, except this time the fascists are in power.

    • @tammy6610
      @tammy6610 4 роки тому

      If you think that none liberals are fascist you are seriously not only misinformed but blind as well. Last I checked the left are the the ones on camera actually doing what fascist did.

    • @sgtgrash
      @sgtgrash 4 роки тому

      @@tammy6610 What, like driving cars into crowds of innocent protesters? Oh wait...

    • @sgtgrash
      @sgtgrash 4 роки тому

      @Comrade Ronald Oh Ronald, the shame!!! 😥 From cheerful, burger-promoting, corporate clown to the red/yellow camo of an urban guerrilla, your downfall is complete...

    • @tammy6610
      @tammy6610 4 роки тому

      @@sgtgrash you mean the Bernie supportor

    • @tammy6610
      @tammy6610 4 роки тому

      I say a good 97% of the vicious attacks are done by antifa. There is no excuse to become violent. They are extremely racist too. Andy Ngo, Milo and Candce Owens are proof of that

  • @RobertWBates-hw5ej
    @RobertWBates-hw5ej Рік тому +2

    Their criticisms of Rossevelt's gold devaluation were valid on many levels.

  • @Jame5man
    @Jame5man 4 роки тому +4

    American financiers: we need fascism, let’s ask this guy who doesn’t like us to lead the troops who’ll support us

    • @slavesforging5361
      @slavesforging5361 4 роки тому +1

      They're used to buying anyone... and you have to bear in mind he spent his entire career fighting wars for them, and he was aware of it. why wouldn't they ask him? It's in Butlers very short book (more of a pamphlet based on his speech's) War is A Racket.

  • @bobthegoat7090
    @bobthegoat7090 4 роки тому

    In the intro when you mentioned business blaze, which I love, and you said how it also included fun it made me think that you haven't really included much funny behavior on this channel lately. I like it isn't every video and so spread out, but I really miss the period you had where you did this. It was hilarious, to say the least. That said I still love this channel. The extra humour would just be a plus.

  • @Aboz
    @Aboz 4 роки тому +5

    "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the original creepin' socialist."
    - - Archie Bunker

  • @shanemac1111
    @shanemac1111 Рік тому

    Having more success today.

  • @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88
    @Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88 4 роки тому +15

    I swear you mispronounce things on purpose....

    • @johansmallberries9874
      @johansmallberries9874 4 роки тому +1

      Haha Franklin D’lahno Roosevelt got me

    • @IJustWantToUseMyName
      @IJustWantToUseMyName 4 роки тому

      I just finished watching a video about FDR by another Brit and she pronounced it the same way, so it must be standard for them. Of course, she’s deaf, so...

  • @Saitaina
    @Saitaina 4 роки тому

    The best description of Business Blaze is being invited to sit in in a conversation between two mates who aren’t in the same room, but still manage to retake the piss out if each other and the topic.

  • @shanek6582
    @shanek6582 4 роки тому +4

    I’ll ever understand why people put communism on the far left and fascism the far right, they’re very closely related and both leftist ideas

    • @brianphillips7696
      @brianphillips7696 4 роки тому +3

      Florian Held it is the way right wing nuts think. They do it to distance themselves from the evil of Nazi politics. Anything evil , according to them, is obviously a leftist creation and can have nothing to do with right wing thinking. Evangelicals do the same thing when they put out that Hitler was an atheist. He was at least nominally a Christian (along with 90% of all Nazi party members) but they don’t want to admit the evil was theirs.

    • @highcouncil1302
      @highcouncil1302 4 роки тому

      @Florian Held no it's not fascism is derived from socialism

    • @highcouncil1302
      @highcouncil1302 4 роки тому +1

      @@brianphillips7696 fascism traces its Origins to socialism

    • @brianphillips7696
      @brianphillips7696 4 роки тому +1

      High Council no it doesn’t that is right wing propaganda. Go get a real education and stop getting your info from Prager U, Fox News, and the ilk.

    • @highcouncil1302
      @highcouncil1302 4 роки тому +1

      @@brianphillips7696 yes it does Fascism advocates for a centrally planned economy just like socialism

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb 6 місяців тому

    Jerry Maguire was saying “show me the money!” waaaay before the movie