{"id":30184,"date":"2025-10-15T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=30184"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:11:20","slug":"kol-the-banking-system-is-being-weaponized-guest-jorge-jraissati-ep-354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/kol-the-banking-system-is-being-weaponized-guest-jorge-jraissati-ep-354\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banking System Is Being Weaponized | Guest: Jorge Jraissati | Ep 354"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cancel culture may be on the wane, but more insidious than social media mobs is the government\u2019s ability to cut controversial figures off from their finances through the process of de-banking. Matt Kibbe sits down with Jorge Jraissati, president of Economic Inclusion Group, to talk about this little-understood means of censorship that is a growing threat to individual liberty. As cash becomes less and less useful, we\u2019ve become increasingly reliant on banks and credit card companies to allow us to conduct basic commerce. When that tool is taken away, it\u2019s the equivalent of being totally banished from society.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Kibbe on Liberty on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/kibbe-on-liberty\/id1452905037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5qdAKla1GhQVYTi7O7gHiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL36_JCmmBwZrrsXd0VIMJXHBSuWfUm57k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freethepeoplefoundation.substack.com\/s\/kibbe-on-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Substack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/get.blazetv.com\/kibbe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlazeTV<\/a>, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More insidious than social media mobs is the government\u2019s ability to cut controversial 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MSNBC\u2019s Keith Olbermann called Kibbe \u201cThe second worst person in the world.\u201d \u00a0 Dubbed \u201cthe scribe\u201d by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don\u2019t Hurt People and Don\u2019t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. 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