1/Please note this slide from a Mike Flynn event this past weekend, calling for "US dollar crash, gold & silver multiply" as part of unlocking the "third seal of Revelation."

Flynn and Bannon have been nurturing this strategy for at least the last two years, and they see debt default as the path to fulfill this prophecy.

2/To them, this "US dollar crash" is a sure thing, because they are engineering it via the debt default. And they expect gold and silver to jump in value as a result. That's why they are all pushing gold through a company whose CFO used to work for Oleg Deripaska.
https://washingtonspectator.org/conservatives-hawk-birch-gold/
Conservatives Hawk “Birch Gold” In Run-Up to Debt Ceiling Crisis | Washington Spectator

For the last several years, prominent conservatives including Dr. Ron Paul, Steve Bannon, and Ben Shapiro, have been promoting gold and gold-backed assets to their audiences. One company in particular…

Washington Spectator
@davetroy FYI 2008 indicates you could have a deflationary contraction , and all asset classes would decline in value. It seems setting the house you live in on fire will have negative consequences.