The 2008 Financial Crisis Radicalized Tim Into Conspiracies

• 1:48:08Tim has been listening to Alex Jones since 1999 or 2000, frequenting the GCN Network.
• 1:48:25He was almost an Instagram profile watching Loose Change and other conspiracy material daily.
• 1:48:43The 2008 financial crisis is what got him into conspiracy theories hardcore.
• 1:48:59Tim realized the entire economy was based on nothing during the mortgage collapse.
• 1:49:40He was working with middle-aged guys with families while the government pushed homeownership statistics up to 70 percent.
• 1:50:28When the mortgage-backed mortgages started falling apart, Tim began questioning other things and becoming very cynical.
• 1:51:14He started investigating how the economy works, what the US dollar is backed by, and whether the president actually does what people think.
• 1:51:39Family Secrets by Russ Baker, which he bought at Borders in Long Island during the 2007 crash, was the book that really opened his eyes.
• 1:52:33Tim noticed the Bushes had been in the White House for most of his life—HW as vice president and president, then his son for two terms.
• 1:53:28The book showed him the Bushes were not masters but servants to a class of very powerful, wealthy people behind the scenes.
• 1:53:56Tim learned about wealthy industrialists planning a coup to overthrow FDR, involving General Smedley Butler and a planned march on Washington.
• 1:55:05Connecting the pieces, Tim realized the same group uncomfortable with democracy was behind Kennedy's assassination and CIA coups in Latin America.
• 1:56:12It's not ten guys smoking cigars but an evolving class of people with similar interests who unite against outsiders threatening them.
• 1:56:51Asked if he buys into the whole conspiracy, Tim counters with a joke about Christians making money off war instead of blaming one group.

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