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NGU At All Costs
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diff --git a/wiki/media/ngu-at-all-costs.md b/wiki/media/ngu-at-all-costs.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3925a86f @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: NGU At All Costs +type: album +portrait: /portraits/album-ngu-at-all-costs.jpg +artist: Richard Greaser +wavlake: e28bf527-21aa-482f-ac6d-e816fc514ba8 +status: confirmed +wpUrl: "https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/media/albums/ngu-at-all-costs/" +sources: + - raw/wp-pages/albums/ngu-at-all-costs.md +--- + +NGU At All Costs was written and produced by [Richard Greaser](https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/people/richard-greaser/ "Richard Greaser"). + +The title is not original to the record. **"NGU At All Costs®"** is the registered war-cry of [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]], the media cartel [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] built [[media/the-bugle-weekly|The Bugle Weekly]] to destroy — and on the cartel's own account, [@_podconf](https://x.com/_podconf/), it is the sign-off stamped, trademark and all, on nearly every post it publishes. The album borrows the enemy's slogan. The doctrine underneath it is documented below from the feed that coined it. + +> irl: [@_podconf](https://x.com/_podconf/) is a parody account. The real people and companies it names are the raw material of the satire, not endorsements or reporting. + +## The doctrine the title invokes + +### The house style is the trademark + +On X the phrase is a sign-off, not an argument. It is appended — ® attached — to weather updates, disciplinary notices and model executive orders alike, and it arrives most often with nothing else attached to it at all: a single unadorned post reading only *"NGU At All Costs®."* When the account does elaborate, the register is corporate-messianic. "We are changing the world. NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2024-07-30](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1818414136457597268) — is the whole of one post; "PODCONF influence knows no bounds. NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2024-05-26](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1794584712008310785) — is another. It is the same theology the show narrates in the past tense, issued instead as a live decree. + + + +### At all costs + +The load-bearing words are the last three. The slogan is a means-justify-the-ends license, and the feed states the license plainly: "We will make the Bitcoin price increase through any means necessary. NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2024-06-11](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1800580960079265985) — a promise the account files under omnipresence ("Expect us in all corners of the Earth"). The collective form is a chant: "WE WILL TOGETHER INCREASE THE PRICE OF BITCOIN." — [@_podconf, 2024-06-04](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1798097071612039434). And the collateral is named without flinching: "People will get hurt along the way towards hyperbitcoinization. Accounts will be locked. This is actually the way." — [@_podconf, 2024-05-23](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1793775935369379991). That last post is also where the cartel names its martyrs, standing by [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]] and [[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]] in the same breath as the lockouts. + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1800580960079265985-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1800580960079265985.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +### The dollar underneath the number + +Number-go-up runs, per the account, on Tether. The slogan's economics are stated as creed — "We believe in using US Dollars to strengthen Bitcoin." — [@_podconf, 2024-05-22](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1793085827058438386) — and pushed to its conclusion a year later: "Bitcoin is a utility token for USDT on Lightning. NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2025-02-24](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1893859372939218947). It is the [[characters/timmy-tether|USDT]]-as-unit-of-account thesis the Bugle spends its run attacking (see [[storylines/tethers-turf]]), here delivered as doctrine rather than diagnosis. The compliance layer is itemized product: the account lists PODCONF Digital Assets® on "our fully compliant e-commerce platform" — [@_podconf, 2024-06-13](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1801313456512987208) — a catalogue that elsewhere ships a [[bits/compliance-token|Compliance Token®]] and a [[bits/number-go-up-token|Number Go Up Token®]]. + +### The roster + +The war-cry sorts people into soldiers and obstacles. [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] is canonized — "Shoutout to @saylor our champion. NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2024-04-29](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1785074447331807443) — and [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] is enlisted outright: "@DavidFBailey is fulfilling our mission. He is our strongest soldier." — [@_podconf, 2025-03-08](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1898240986486088118). The approval extends to policy: the account endorses "a Podcasting Bitlicense for New York podcasters" on the grounds that it "will help NGU At All Costs®" — [@_podconf, 2024-12-31](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1874205004913140045), the doctrine turning licensure into a growth mechanism. + + + +### The anthem + +The record's closest musical analogue on the feed is the 2025 mission-video drop, which packages the doctrine as a song — bullet-point sacraments and all: "🔊 Strategic centralization 💰 NGU At All Costs 💪 Respect the movement" — [@_podconf, 2025-01-29](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1884618139234705544). The account bills it as "compliance has never sounded this good." + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1884618139234705544-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1884618139234705544.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +### The enemy owns the phrase + +That the album carries a PODCONF slogan is the record's own joke, and Greaser's own account draws the line the title straddles. Asked to sum the split, [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) reduces it to two men and two words: "[[characters/dan-held|Dan]] prefers KYC. @_podconf wants NGU at all costs" — [@GreaserRichard, 2024-06-27](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1806173889615024409). The slogan is the adversary's; the album quotes it back. Whether the record voices the doctrine straight or satirizes it, the source does not say — the frontmatter names Greaser the artist, and the title names the enemy. + +> Henry's note: the album page itself carries only the Wavlake credit. The section above is reconstructed from the [@_podconf](https://x.com/_podconf/) feed's use of the title phrase — a sample, not the full run — and corroborates [[orgs/podconf]] rather than the record's track list, which the source does not provide.