The Jason Stapleton Program

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ Our culture has been conditioned to despise greatness. Left-wing thought places egalitarianism as its highest ideal, which means left-wing people tend to be suspicious of hierarchies. Right-wing thought places excellence as its highest ideal, which means right-wing people tend to embrace hierarchies. If you track the cultural evolution of America ever since its inception, you will notice a steady leftward march. However, over the past few decades, that march has turned into an outright sprint. So the consequence is that our culture is now completely dominated by calls for all sorts of egalitarian solutions to "problematic" hierarchies. This is why we're constantly hearing so much hate for the 1%. But there's a reason the 1% is the 1%. And it's because they ARE better than the 99%, by definition! This doesn't necessarily mean they're better humans, or more worthy souls, or more deserving of life. Rather, it means they are willing to do the things that are necessary to make themselves better. And here at WP&I, we believe that excellence should be admired and aspired to. We aspire to be better. So we champion the 1%. And you should too. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors: Cuts Clothing Echelon

The federal government is poised to grant the Fed new powers that will change the game forever. Gold is trading at an all-time high, and Bitcoin is surging again as many people are seeking to protect their wealth in an uncertain economic time. The fact that both assets are climbing at the same time is evidence that people are pessimistic about the future. For years now, the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low, even near zero. And since the start of the lockdowns, they've printed $14 trillion. Typically, we would expect such radical stimulus to create a lot of inflation. However, the exact opposite has happened. All of that extra money has gotten "stuck" among the financial elite, never actually making it into the hands of the consumers who drive the spending that creates inflation. This is part of the reason that the federal government made the $1200 direct stimulus payments and the $600/week unemployment insurance payments. But trying to process direct payments through Congress is slow and clunky. So now the Fed is talking about bypassing the politicians and depositing money directly into people's bank accounts. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors: Feetures (Code: STAPLETON) Helix Sleep

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ Most people haven't realized it yet, but nonpartisan medical science is a thing of the past. The pharmaceutical industry, the corporate press, and major tech companies have been working together to suppress medical research into potential treatments for COVID-19. After a group of medical professionals held a press conference this week, where they detailed their success using a certain drug to treat the illness, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Squarespace struck out at them. They deleted websites, censored videos, and suspended accounts. Now they're even publishing articles lecturing us for daring to DO OUR OWN RESEARCH. Meanwhile, the CDC is fast-tracking a vaccine in partnership with the Pentagon. Will they try to make it mandatory? We're losing the spirit of free and open inquiry that thrived in America for generations. It's being replaced with authoritarian demands that you shut up, do what you're told, take your medicine, and don't ask questions. I guess we'll have to take the medicine to find out what's in the medicine.

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ America is a land of consumers. Our culture is focused on consumption, whether it be shoes or cars or Netflix or football or political programming. All of this consumption has made us soft. If you're a net consumer -- someone who consumes more than you produce -- you're ultimately controlled by whomever is doing the producing. In fact, you can see this in the debate over the next COVID stimulus package. Because most people are helpless consumers, politicians are just focused on ways they can fabricate money to put in people's pockets. If they can buy you off for just a little longer, they can enrich themselves just a little more. If you want to take control of your life, it starts with first recognizing what's happening, and then choosing to become a net producer. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Helix Sleep

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ Our society is breaking down for want of strong men. You may have heard this quote: "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times." This cycle repeats itself over and over again throughout history. And we’re now smack dab in the middle of the "hard times." We’ve had it pretty good for a few decades. And it’s made us soft. So now we’re paying the price of our decadence. For generations now, there’s been a concerted effort to suppress the development and expression of healthy masculinity. It’s occurred in large part because people are afraid of violence, and they correlate strong men with violence. However, as we’re seeing today, it is the absence of strong men that violence arises. The active presence of strong men is a deterrent to violence. Until our men are ready to step up and take back their responsibility, we’ll continue to experience more and worse violence. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Hero Health

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ Here's a painful truth: the overwhelming majority of people are too stupid and incompetent to govern themselves. As HL Mencken said, "Most people in this world want security, not liberty." They don't want to accept responsibility for their own lives. They want a leader to follow or an expert to trust. So at the first sign of trouble, they're quick to surrender control over their own lives. And thus we wind up with the Patriot Act and COVID lockdowns. Because, as HL Mencken also said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard." Smart people have recognized this dynamic, and they've realized that real power lies in doing whatever the crowd isn't. Therefore, the world is run by people who know how to influence and persuade. Whether in politics or business or media (which is the business of politics, or the politics of business, depending on how you look at it), those who go against--and are smart about it--are the ones who ultimately control their own destinies. This is the true 1%. And the economy of the near future will be shaped by them. But first, we're gonna go through some rough times. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Helix Sleep

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ The other day, Kanye West stirred up all sorts of headlines. He's done that a lot lately. On this particular occasion, he said, "Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves. She just had them go work for other white people." Understandably, most people stopped listening after the first sentence. But he was actually making a profound point, identifying a phenomenon that has persisted to this day. Most freed slaves weren't really free, because they just traded one form of slavery for another. Instead of being held captive by physical force, they were held captive by economic necessity. They didn't have economic power. They just traded chattel slavery for wage slavery. And wage slavery persists to this day. The vast majority of people don't control their own destiny. They've traded it for a salary. Thus they're effectively a slave to their employers, to their lenders, and to whatever economic turmoil befalls the nation. And of course that economic turmoil is only getting worse. In the end, those who survive and thrive through the next recession will be those with the mentality of the 1%. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Policy Genius

Follow Jason on Locals! _____ That's it. We've done it. We found the most "2020 American politics" thing you can find. Nothing is more emblematic of today's politics than the current debate between President Trump and Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi says that we need more stimulus money because the economy will suffer otherwise. She says anything less than $3 trillion means Trump hates poor people. Trump agrees that we need more stimulus money! However, he says $3 trillion is too much. $1 trillion is more like it. And thus we see how the cake is made. Democrats say, "Let's do a whole bunch of Thing!" Republicans say, "Are you insane?! That's ridiculous. We don't need to do a whole bunch of Thing, we just need to do a little bit of Thing." Meanwhile, all the money they're supposedly giving to poor people is just winding up in the pockets of rich people. It's almost like the game is working exactly as it's supposed to... This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: Allform

After selling over a billion dollars' worth of products, Dean Graziosi shares his philosophy on life, family, and opportunity. We're doing the big Influential Communication Workshop today and tomorrow. It's not too late to join us! Don't worry about missing the first day, you'll get lifetime access to the recordings when you sign up. Just click this link to find out more. This episode is brought to you by our sponsor: SkillShare

_____ Over the past several years, a specific phrase keeps popping up. You see it whenever the corporate press talks about any sort of economic issue. They always point out that "[insert issue] disproportionately affects the poor." Most recently, it's been the virus. You might see it phrased this way: "Poor and underprivileged are hit hardest by the effects of the coronavirus." But just a few weeks ago, it was police brutality. And before that, it was inflation, or voter registration, or job loss, or any other bad thing in the world. Now here's the thing. They're right. Bad things DO hurt poor people more. That shouldn't even be a surprise. Because if you're poor, by definition, it means you don't have the same means to protect yourself from bad things. But the problem here is, they aren't stopping at identifying a problem. They're insinuating--or outright stating--that the reason these people are poor is because of rich people. So the people who have figured out a way to protect themselves from bad things are the ones responsible for bad things happening to other people. This mindset is absolute poison. But it's ruling our world today. So you must first recognize that it's a lie. If you're poor, it's not because of someone else. It's your fault. Recognizing and identifying the problem is the first step to fixing it. Being broke is temporary. Poverty is a mindset. But even further, you need to recognize why the media is promoting this mindset, so that you can protect yourself from the ultimate consequences of it. Links to subjects discussed on the show Jason read this article from Bloomberg Matt talked about biological Leninism Unwoke.hr is a startup directed at conservatives and libertarians who want to hire or be hired by reliable non-ideologues This episode is brought to you by our sponsors: LightStream Candid Co (Code: STAPLETON)