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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/bukele-el-salvador.md b/wiki/storylines/bukele-el-salvador.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..23ce576c @@ -0,0 +1,399 @@ +--- +title: "Bukele's El Salvador" +type: storyline +status: confirmed +kind: saga +span: 2024-04 to 2026-06 +aliases: + - El Salvador + - "Bukele" + - "EKaley" + - "B. K. Lee" + - "B. Kaylee" + - "E. K. Lee" + - "Eucaly" + - "Bikayle" + - "BKaley" + - "Naive Bukele" + - "Naidu Bukele" + - "Naya Bukele" + - "Naya Bicalle" + - "Bekele" + - "bouquetlia" + - "Ukulele" +related: + - church-of-compliance + - max-keiser + - podconf-industrial-complex + - meme-gang-wars + - tethers-turf +sources: + - raw/episodes/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/what-is-an-american-bugle-weekly-episode-66/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115/bundle.json +--- + +El Salvador is the Bugleverse's working model of a complied-with country: the +place where [[characters/nayib-bukele|Nayib Bukele]] has done, at national +scale and with prisons, what the show's compliance bit only threatens. The +hosts do not treat this as a scandal. They treat it as a proof of concept, and +the arc's entire comic engine is that admiration — [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] +and [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] praising a police state in the +untroubled voice of two men reviewing a vendor. Bukele himself never appears as +a guest; he arrives as PSAs, as headlines, and as the exemplar somebody reaches +for when the argument needs a country that actually did it. + +## The pitch (2024) + +The bit is fully formed on arrival. A Bukele PSA opens with the announcement +that "El Salvador has succeeded in its efforts to eradicate +noncompliance,"[^psa] and follows it with an offer of 5,000 free passports — +valued in the PSA at "$5,000,000,000" — to compliant scientists, engineers, +doctors, artists and philosophers abroad. Rod supplies the arithmetic nobody +asked for: the borders can open because there is room now, El Salvador having +"fewer citizens as a result of eradicating multipliers,"[^fewer] and having +built new facilities for the ones it kept. + +From there Bukele becomes the show's reference implementation. Greaser holds +him up as the model compliant head of state — a nationwide custodial lightning +wallet, and a leader who investigates his own peers into compliance — arguing +that a state-capture coin is perfectly fine so long as the state +complies.[^model] Rod, working out how to handle Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome +domestically, concludes that "if we're gonna do what Bukele did, we're gonna +need prisons,"[^prisons] to be rebranded as rehabilitating citadels. By the +second-term inauguration — covered by the show as a Bitcoin influencer event — +the admiration has found its true object: "America has a lot to learn from El +Salvador and what B. Kaylee has done. Yeah. He's built some beautiful prisons +for noncompliance."[^beautiful] The country also confers the arc's one academic +honour, an honorary bachelor's in journalism from the University of El Salvador +on [[characters/max-keiser|Max Keiser]], which Rod holds to settle the question +of Keiser's credentials permanently.[^degree] + +## The Reformation (Bugle Weekly 16) + +The only sustained challenge to El Salvador's standing comes from inside +Bitcoin media. Greaser opens the story of a Pleb Underground figure who has +"kinda taken up the mantle kinda like Martin Luther did" against +[[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]]'s El Salvador line,[^luther] on the strength of a +tweet paraphrased on air as: "El Salvador is the Bitcoin Holy Land. It's +pathetic. It's fucking pathetic."[^holyland] The theses that follow are +grievances against an approved stack rather than a theology — Chivo shouldn't +be the sanctioned wallet, River shouldn't be the sole Lightning service +provider, and plebs shouldn't let Keiser and Bukele do their thinking for +them.[^theses] + +Greaser states the charge precisely, and in the show's own currency: the +problem is not authoritarianism, it is that "what Bikayle is doing is he's +eradicating noncompliance in his country," which he allows is "kind of hard to +reconcile" with Bitcoin's founding ethos.[^indictment] Having conceded the +point he immediately argues the other side, explaining from the state's +perspective why El Salvador wants exactly one Lightning service provider: more +LSPs mean more room for noncompliance, and the value of one is "the ability to +easily crush noncompliance."[^lsp] The arc never resolves this. It simply holds +both positions at once, which is the joke. + +The refusal to emigrate is part of the same posture. Asked whether the future +is joyful or MAGA, Greaser answers joyful — enough plebs are operating +noncompliantly — and rules out expatriation on those grounds: "it's not time to +flee to El Zonte."[^elzonte] + +## The doctrine hardens (late 2024–2025) + +By December, Bukele has been promoted from example to method. Greaser has him +"setting the model of how to accomplish" the shitcoiner prison, then widens the +list of exemplars to [[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] and Xi +Jinping.[^method] A week later Rod delivers the arc's purest statement of +Bitcoin-fixes-this reasoning: El Salvador could be an authoritarian state, but +because Bukele chose Bitcoin and so many people are watching, he can only "put +people in prison without trial if they really deserve it."[^deserve] Rod's own +gloss — that an American at Bitcoin Beach can do whatever he likes while a poor +local goes away for life — sits in the same passage, unreconciled. + +The country's favour proves revocable. Mid-recording, [[characters/stacy-herbert|Stacy Herbert]] +retweets [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]]'s own post "discussing that Max Kaiser and +Steve Stacy Herbert have been evicted from El Salvador" — the paper's reporting +arriving as the news it reports.[^evicted] The dystopia gets stated outright +soon after, as a thought experiment: PodConf wins, compliance is mandatory +across the board, and Bukele runs every country as supreme leader of the new +world order — so what would you have wanted to do with the time?[^supreme] + +Not everything about El Salvador is a prison. [[characters/mike-high-hashrate|Mike]] +pitches a film on air, working title "The Backup,"[^backup] about a New York +film-gig boy who ends up in El Salvador and is orange-pilled by a pupusa maker +at Bitcoin Beach. And Greaser, surveying the El Salvador DSB having party, +argues that Bitcoin podcasters attend history "as the winners, as the ones +writing the history," which makes getting the party into the record their +burden — ahead of [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]]'s corporate +event.[^history] + +That party also produced the arc's best answer to its own premise. Asked +whether affiliation with Meme Factory risked prison during the meme-gang +crackdown, [[characters/yellow|Yellow]] recounts panicking mid-introduction on +realising a government minister was in the room: "It's a meme gang, sir. It's +not the real gang, so no tattoos here."[^memegang] Greaser's verdict was that +jailing a notorious meme gang member would be a public relations nightmare for +the country. + +## Running gags (2025–2026) + +Once established, El Salvador becomes the show's all-purpose destination and +punchline. It is where Greaser proposes to deport vapers — the show's single +sanctioned use of coercion, declined for vasectomies but granted here.[^vapers] +It celebrates American independence by announcing Tether Tower, the tallest +skyscraper in South America.[^tether] It bans the Edgar haircut in public +schools[^edgar] — a policy the Bugle files as banning "the broccoli haircut of +the Global South," aimed at "rowdy Salvadoran zoomers who refuse to do their +homework (listen to 40 hours of Bitcoin podcasts per week)," which [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] +promptly nominates for import ("we need to follow el salvador's lead and ban +broccoli haircuts").[^import] + + + +> el salvador banned the beaner broccoli cut 🚫🥦 +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-08-21](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1958654053728362933) + +Its Lightning remittance corridor is repurposed by Rod into +"glaze remittances," an explanation for national diabetes[^glaze] — a bit the +Bugle later escalates to a wire, "Pleb Kruse Hospitalized In El Salvador For +Glaze Poisoning," his condition reported stable. + +It also supplies the arc's one documented outside critic. Reconstructing +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]]'s history, Richard establishes that BBC News +cited him in late 2023 for calling out El Salvador and Bukele over faked proof +of reserves — and that the BBC "cited Pleditor as a crypto investor,"[^pledditor] +which the segment treats as the greater indignity of the two. + +The last beat in the record folds the arc into the price. Bitcoin's fall to 58k +is read as a rival gang penetrating the country, and Bukele is "threatening to +do mass roundups of gang members again because he's afraid that fifty eight +k"[^58k] — the roundups reclassified as his Bitcoin rain dance. Greaser's +verdict closes the file on the model state as neatly as anything in the arc: if +your country can get destabilized by 58k gang, you are not in the strongest +position. + +## On the timeline (the accounts' record) + +The arc runs a second track on the accounts themselves — [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]]'s +headline wires and the hosts' own posts. It is the same admiration in a +different register: no PSA voice, just [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] and +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] filing El Salvador into the timeline as settled +fact. The posts predate, echo, and outlast the episode beats, and where the show +paraphrased from memory the wire prints it flat. + +### Compliance, per capita + +The premise the episodes build toward — Bitcoin as the state's cover story, not +its cargo — the timeline simply states. The Bugle runs it as a fact-check: + +> #FactCheck: Partially True ✅☑️ #Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador but the state religion is Compliance. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-07-07](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1810098871915188230) + +Rod supplies the booster gloss, treating the podcast-per-capita count as the real +export: "El Salvador has more #Bitcoin conferences and #Bitcoin podcasts, per +capita, than any other country in the world. All thanks to compliance ✅."[^percapita] +Greaser, by 2025, has upgraded the whole project from statecraft to marketing, +crediting Bukele with "one of the most successful state level Pleb Slop campaigns +in human history!"[^plebslop] — the same admiring vendor-review voice, now scoring +the state on reach. "Pleb Slop" is the show's own coinage for engagement-farmed +devotion, and awarding it to a head of state is the compliment held straightest. + +The earnest-thread parody is its own genre. Rod runs the influencer explainer +without a wink — El Salvador as "the story of a Palestinian Millennial who +transformed the world's poorest country into 'The next Singapore', in less 5 +years, using one simple yet very effective tool: Regulatory clarity."[^singapore] +The origin story gets the tearful-testimony treatment too: "When I watched +President Bukele announce El Salvador was making it legal to pay taxes with +Bitcoin at the first Miami Bitcoin Conference, I wept. I understood instinctively +what it meant for NGU."[^wept] + + + +### The vendor and the loan + +The show's running joke — that El Salvador is something the hosts *review*, like a +custodial wallet with a flag — is where the timeline is busiest, because the +vendor keeps having contract trouble. The eviction beat the episodes cover as +Bugle-reporting-its-own-news[^evicted] originates here as a wire, with the +paper's signature clause work: + + + +> BREAKING: Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert Have Been Evicted From El Salvador 🇸🇻 According to reports, @nayibbukele reluctantly ordered the eviction after Keiser refused to comply with terms of the $1.4 billion IMF loan agreement prohibiting Bitcoin t-shirts on government property. +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-18](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1869532292932304971) + +The loan itself is a companion wire — El Salvador "to borrow $1.3 BILLION $USDt +from IMF to buy #Bitcoin"[^imf] — pinning the model state's Bitcoin stack to a +Tether-denominated IMF facility, which is the arc's whole contradiction in one +headline. The damage-control cycle plays out on the timeline in real time: +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] is rumored to be "Traveling To El +Salvador To Perform Damage Control,"[^porter] and the vendor market stays +competitive, with [[characters/max-keiser|Keiser]] and [[characters/stacy-herbert|Herbert]] +courted over "a coveted government contract, to supply every El Salvadoran with a +Bitcoin node."[^nodewar] Residency, meanwhile, runs on referral: "If you want +residency in El Salvador just say [[characters/mike-germano|@mikegermano]] sent +you."[^residency] + +### The penal colony + +If the episodes treat the prisons as a proof of concept, the timeline treats them +as a service — El Salvador as the Bugleverse's all-purpose destination for anyone +out of compliance. The flagship wire, and the arc's single most-engaged post at +over 1,500 likes, is an offer: + + + +> JUST IN: President Bukele Offers To Jail [[characters/roger-ver|Roger Ver]] in El Salvador 🇸🇻 Bukele: "El Salvador prisons have big cell blocks. It's the perfect place for him" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-04](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1886806044052979808) + +From there the crime is elastic. Rod proposes deporting "EVERYONE who has tattoos +to El Salvador";[^tattoos] the Bugle finds a test case in [[characters/mike-novogratz|Novogratz]], +"deported to El Salvador 🇸🇻 over 'Luna Gang' tattoo," an ICE official conceding +that "Luna isn't a traditional street gang like MS-13 but they've been a menace to +a lot of people's portfolios."[^luna] The service model comes with onboarding — +"if you accidentally get deported to el salvador make sure you download the +@blinkbtc wallet"[^blink] — and, eventually, buyer's remorse: "lots of plebs +scrambling to figure out how to get home from el salvador right now."[^scramble] +The [[storylines/church-of-compliance|compliance]] posture even reaches the +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] block-list: "70% of the people that Pledditor +blocks should be in prison. The other 30% are innocent. Kind of like El +Salvador."[^blocklist] + +### The $58k Gang + +The arc's newest and longest-running timeline thread is the one the show closes +on: Bitcoin's price reread as a Salvadoran security problem. When 58k threatens, +Bukele rounds up the gang responsible. The Bugle files it as a rolling +enforcement story across the summer of 2026 — Bukele "Increasingly Growing +Concerned About 58k Gang Presence,"[^58k-a] then "Sweeping Arrests Of Suspected +Members Of $58K Gang To Combat Growing Bearishness,"[^58k-b] the market obeying +on cue: + + + +> Nayib Bukele Announces Victory Over The Bears After Rounding Up 25,000 Suspected Members Of $58k Gang / Bitcoin Hits $63,000 On The News +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-06](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2074172822793187625) + +The paper keeps score in percentage points — "Bitcoin Up 5% Since Bukele +Announced Crackdowns On $58k Gang Members"[^58k-c] — and signs off on the whole +model with a three-word wire: "Make El Salvador Great Again!"[^maga] It is the +same reasoning the episode record ends on,[^58k] arrived at from the other +direction: the roundups are the rain dance, and the timeline prints the rain. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/nayib-bukele|Nayib Bukele]] · +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · +[[characters/max-keiser|Max Keiser]] · [[characters/stacy-herbert|Stacy Herbert]] · +[[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] · [[characters/yellow|Yellow]] · +[[characters/mike-high-hashrate|Mike]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · +[[characters/coinicarus|Coinicarus]] · [[characters/jack-kruse|Jack Kruse]] · +[[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/max-keiser]] · +[[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/meme-gang-wars]] · +[[storylines/tethers-turf]] · [[storylines/pleb-persecution]] · +[[storylines/statist-bitcoiner-coalition]] · [[storylines/intellectual-silk-road]] · +[[storylines/pledditor]] · [[storylines/quarantine-motif]] · +[[storylines/yellow-memefactory]] · [[storylines/halving-2024]] + +## Disputed + +**Whether El Salvador is the first Bitcoin nation at all.** The show's own +record contradicts itself, twice, in the space of three months. A DPRK spokesman +states flatly that "The Democratic Republic Of North Korea was the first country +in the world to establish a strategic reserve,"[^dprk] dismisses El Salvador as +a Western imperial mouthpiece, and demands Kim be recognised as the world's +first Bitcoin president — a claim both hosts then treat as settled. Greaser had +already made the case himself, crediting Kim as the "Bitcoin president putting +best Korea on a Bitcoin standard first,"[^ogpresident] and asking why PodConf +rejected fearless leader Un in favour of Bukele. [[characters/yellow|Yellow]] +adds the structural comparison: Kim is running a reverse Bukele, the whole +country a Chinese-funded prison with enclosed zones inside it where you can have +a normal Bitcoin western life.[^reverse] Nothing in the record adjudicates +this. El Salvador's primacy is asserted everywhere and defended nowhere. + +**Who led the Reformation.** The name of the Pleb Underground figure who broke +with PODCONF over El Salvador is mangled six different ways across Bugle Weekly +16 for what is plainly one person — "Quinnicus," "Konekaris," "Gwenykaras," +"Carnivorous," "crimicaries." Four of the six carry an *-icarus/-icaris* +ending, which points at [[characters/coinicarus|Coinicarus]]; the two +"Quinnicus" renderings would fit [[characters/weinicus|Weinicus]] equally well. +This page reads it as Coinicarus on the weight of the endings, but the +attribution is not settled, and the Reformation beats move together if a later +source decides it. + +> *Henry's note: this page previously narrated a 2023 arc — Fiatjaf's escape to +> El Salvador, the CIA's Triple Elite Memes, Max Keiser's arrest at the National +> Palace — assembled from a breadth sweep of episode descriptions and headlines +> rather than from the record. None of it is in the verified beat index, whose +> coverage of this storyline is complete and begins on 2024-04-22. Those news +> pages may well stand on their own sources; they are not evidence for this +> storyline's arc, and I have not carried their narrative here.* + +> *irl: El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 under president +> Nayib Bukele, whose mass-incarceration campaign against gangs and second-term +> re-election in 2024 drew both international criticism and considerable +> enthusiasm from Bitcoin media. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert served as advisers +> to the Salvadoran government.* + +[^psa]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-2012|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 33:32]]. The quote spans two cues (t=2012, t=2018). The ASR renders Bukele as "EKaley" and "B. K. Lee" in the discussion that follows. +[^fewer]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-2191|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 36:31]]. "multipliers" is ASR for "noncompliers"; the quote spans t=2191 and t=2192. +[^model]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-2889|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 48:09]] — "And that that's the key right there. So Naive Bukele". "Naive Bukele" is ASR for Nayib Bukele. Prompted by a booster warning that Bitcoin "will just be a state capture coin". +[^prisons]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-573|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 9:33]]. "rehabilitating citadels" lands in the two following cues, t=578 and t=584. +[^beautiful]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-2512|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 41:52]]. "B. Kaylee" is ASR for Bukele. +[^degree]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-2513|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 41:53]] — "an honorary bachelor's in journal journalism by the University of El Salvador in San Salvador." The ASR gives "Max Kiser" and "Matt Skiser" earlier in the segment. +[^luther]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-923|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 15:23]] — "He's taken a stand against Podkoff's support of El Salvador. This is interesting." "Podkoff" is ASR for PODCONF; "Club Underground" is Pleb Underground. See ## Disputed on the speaker's identity. +[^holyland]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-936|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 15:36]]. The reader flags on air that he is paraphrasing from memory, so this is not the tweet verbatim; the other host confirms it as "a good summary" at t=950. +[^theses]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-1165|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 19:25]] — "He doesn't like Chivo Wallet as being the, you know, the sanctioned wallet of Bitcoiners." Quote spans t=1165 and t=1167. ASR gives "Max Pizer" for Max Keiser at t=1185. +[^indictment]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-975|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 16:15]]. "Bikayle" is ASR for Bukele. +[^lsp]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-1407|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 23:27]] — "is the ability to easily crush noncompliance." +[^elzonte]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-2482|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 41:22]]. The quote straddles t=2481 ("it's not time") and t=2482. +[^method]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-2460|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 41:00]] — "I think Naidu Bukele has really been setting the model of how to accomplish". "Naidu Bukele" is ASR for Nayib Bukele. Xi Jinping is named at t=2487 and has no page. +[^deserve]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-1457|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 24:17]] — "put people in prison without trial if they really deserve it. He cannot abuse that system because so many people are paying attention". The Bitcoin Beach gloss follows at t=1474. +[^evicted]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-3593|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 59:53]]. Quote spans t=3593 and t=3597. "Max Kaiser" is ASR for Max Keiser and "Steve Stacy Herbert" for Stacy Herbert; "the beagle" at t=3587 is the Bugle. +[^supreme]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-2758|Behind the Podcast 7 @ 45:58]] — "you know, he hangs out with [[characters/peter-thiel|Peter Thiel]] and [[characters/sam-altman|Sam Altman]] all day. What would you have wanted". Setup runs t=2730–2757; ASR gives "Naya Bukele". +[^backup]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-3184|Behind the Podcast 7 @ 53:04]] — "Well, the the working title was The Backup,". Plot at t=3197–3216 and t=3410–3436; casting note at t=3302. +[^history]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2053|Behind the Podcast 11 @ 34:13]] — "as the winners, as the ones writing the history." The ASR spells Saylor "Sailor" throughout. +[^memegang]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3512|Behind the Podcast 11 @ 58:32]]. +[^vapers]: [[transcripts/what-is-an-american-bugle-weekly-episode-66#t-3899|Bugle Weekly 66 @ 1:04:59]] — "we need to deport all the vapers to El Salvador. Like, that that should be the first order." The ASR renders "vapers" as "vapors". +[^tether]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-2818|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 46:58]] — "American fourth of July by announcing that they would be building the tallest skyscraper in South America,". "called Tether Tower" lands at t=2826. +[^edgar]: [[transcripts/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73#t-80|Bugle Weekly 73 @ 1:20]] — read out by [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]]. The cue at t=95 attributes the post to "El Salvador's president", who is not named aloud. +[^glaze]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-493|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 8:13]] — "sending glaze remittances like crazy via the Lightning Network to Plebs in El Salvador". Quote spans 8:13 and 8:15; [[characters/jack-kruse|Jack Kruse]] is the El Salvador resident at issue. +[^58k]: [[transcripts/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115#t-2613|Bugle Weekly 115 @ 43:33]]. The rain-dance line is at t=2621; Greaser's verdict at t=2843. +[^dprk]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-343|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 5:43]]. The spokesman continues at t=356–373. +[^ogpresident]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-4019|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 1:06:59]]. Quote spans t=4019 and t=4023; "the Podkoff ecosystem" at t=4036 is PodConf. +[^reverse]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3336|Behind the Podcast 11 @ 55:36]] — "the reverse bouquetlia right now. Have you heard about this? You know about this?" "bouquetlia" is ASR for Bukele. +[^pledditor]: [[transcripts/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69#t-4466|Bugle Weekly 69 @ 1:14:26]] — "he cited Pleditor as a crypto investor." "Pleditor" is ASR for Pledditor; Richard misremembers the outlet as the Wall Street Journal at t=4413 and Rod corrects it to BBC. + +[^import]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-04-16](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2044910268996575430). +[^percapita]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-04-10](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1777884359388737838). +[^plebslop]: — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-31](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1984368576304656461). "Pleb Slop" is Bugleverse coinage; the compliment is the show's, redirected to a head of state. +[^singapore]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-02-13](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1890105459920761232). Opens a thread ("Let's break it down 🧵"). +[^wept]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-04-24](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1782935977029218387). +[^imf]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-09](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1866182240700453177). The stack is denominated in $USDt. +[^porter]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-19](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1869538336928641186). +[^nodewar]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-15](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1879586736931819764). Filed as "Node War in San Salvador?"; @umbrel and @start9labs are the courting parties. +[^residency]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-06-12](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1800919557269549093). +[^tattoos]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-04-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1912100138811601260). +[^luna]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1916847450632974561). +[^blink]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-04-15](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1911988269459386752). +[^scramble]: — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-05-01](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2050344304791506952). +[^blocklist]: — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-08-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1953964040251986252). +[^58k-a]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-25](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2070225610631184566). +[^58k-b]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-01](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2072327490471870912). +[^58k-c]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-07-02](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2072516198114504975). +[^maga]: — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-06-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2071063325970997350).