She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Correct! No one argued otherwise. You seem to think that it is investors and taxpayers that "give" the U.S. Government money, which is a undeniably false. The U.S. government has no money. Spending is done by creating the budget and wiring the funds into accounts through the banking system.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Where did the funds come from genius? "Currency"? Laughable magic still? You think little gnomes somewhere in DC run printing presses and walk around with truckloads of cash to pay for federal purchases.
The funds came from wiring the check into the checking accounts. Poof.
Nope. The government has not ever and will not ever need "tax revenue" or "debt proceeds" to fund programs. It spends money by issuing currency.
It IS magic.
We're back to this again?
Are you willing to call both Fed Chairmen liars? One of whom is shown on record in a proceeding...
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
They, like you, believe in spooks or at least say they do for public purposes. But they are much better paid than you.
The Roman Empire was before 1971.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
What happened in 1971?
It is a private membership corporation chartered by the federal government. It is not part of the federal government. There are no federal employees on its board or its payroll. The influence the federal government has on the Fed is Presidential confirmation of the chairman proposed by Federal Reserve members and semi-annual 'Humphrey-Hawkins' session with each house of Congress.
Oh jeez. The Fed is not "private."
It's an independent entity within the government, yes. Profit-making corporation? No.
It must be hard to cling to watch your right-wing fallacies fail over and over again.
Departure from gold-standard is not relevant to modern money?
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Countries no longer use currency that is backed by tangible assets since divorcing from gold in 1971. The currency itself represents the value of goods and services of the country's economy, but it is just a point system with which they float against one another. If a loaf of bread is made to be $1 billion tomorrow, it has no effect on the United States' ability to pay any of its bills. It simply means creditors will be extremely pissed off when the U.S. debt they invested in doesn't get them anything in any kind of trade or exchange.
I didn't say 'profit making' - you did. Put words in your own mouth Pee Wee.
Again, you're inserting a strawman argument. This entire monetary discussion has the context of post-1971, which was established earlier in the thread.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
