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(2.19.24)
-Explained: Trump wants to abolish the IRS. A financial expert explains how tariffs may impact the income tax system. Video link.
-EU makes tough decision against Russia: As Trump threatens to withhold aid to stop the war with Russia (as if Ukraine started it), the EU is sending a variety of armaments to Ukraine. Europe is increasingly growing worried they may face Russia without US aid. Video link.
(2.18.24)
-Trump unleashes major weapon against Mexican drug cartels: According to CNN the Trump Administration may conceal or deny the deployment of Reaper Drones targeting drug kingpins to Mexico. Source: CIA. Video link
(2.16.24)
-Spy Balloons: Remember the spy balloon that Biden allowed to fly over the continental US until it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean? A report from Newsweek states that it contained American satellite, surveillance and sensor technology that China was using for spying. According to US intelligence, the captured data was not relayed to China.
-Controlling AI: Experts are calliing for an international AI safety research project to find ways to control AI. An expert says a powerful AI could arrive within the year with millions of copies working on different tasks which would yield 50 years of medical research in the next 5. But there’s a big downside others say, namely that AI will become self-aware and eliminate the human race. More.
-More on tech policy: Palmer Luckey of Andrul Industries, a robotics weapons company, said this morning on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that Mexican drug cartels fly drones made in China across the border with drugs and munitions. Congress can authorize shooting them down, he said. Further, he said China has the ability to code and send specific instructions in digital products, such as drones and computers, that the US still buys from that country. This presents a high level risk from a national adversary of the US. Cartels have been doing this since the Biden administration, apparently taking advantage of ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris lax policies.
more coming
(2.13.25 BenQQ) Neville Chamberlain before Churchill was the British Prime Minister who posed with a piece of paper signed by Adolf Hitler that promised he would not invade Czechoslovakia if he could only have a small part of it populated by ethnic Germans. Even though I heartily support Trump in most of his policies, I've raised questions those relating to Ukraine and China for a variety of reasons. More on that coming up.
With Russia's occupation of a part of Ukraine populated by ethnic Russians, Trump seems to be stepping into a Chamberlain-like pattern of history. Does he really want to make a "deal" to parse up a smaller country's land to an overwhelmingly larger continental neighbor? Dismayingly, maybe. Such a "deal" would just begin to satisfy Russia's age-old land lust continuously stoked by Putin's obsession to regain the territories of the old Russian empire.
Putin could then also claim victory in his latest patriotic war to rid his country of Nazi neighbors (never mind, all you idiots, Zelensky is Jewish). The Nazi thing has been a propagandia lie that could only be used in a dictatorship where troublesome reporters disappear. Anyway, Putin might save himself from an otherwise probable coup if people buy his story. Letting him claim victory would help him do that. Even dictators have to communicate at least something to their masses.
But back to the WWll analogy, other nations did not step in to help Czechoslovakia as have many countries sending aid of various kinds to Ukraine.
By far, the US has contributed the most money, having 'allocated' $113.4 billion of which $60 billion has been sent in military, economic and humanitarian aid. You might be surprised to know, even some of this has to be paid back.
States bordering Russia--Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia--are terrified they will be next if a shabby deal is struck that allows Russia to rebuild itself from intrepid Ukrainian resistance to the Russian boot. Poland next to Ukraine is preparing for war. NATO is in a panic over Trump's threat to withhold protection unless they picked up more of their defense budget going to the alliance. And then you have the new Secretary of Defense muttering it is unrealistic for Ukraine to expect getting back some (or all?) of its territory swallowed by Russia.
Hey, Pete, pardon my unsophisticated geo-politics here but... Can someone break into YOUR house and occupy several rooms? What other thugs (like Xi) might then get the signal to that to others' houses, hmmm? I hope Trump and his MAGA team know when to apply MAGA America First rules and when not.
More on this coming up. What do you think? Let us know here for possible publication.
(2.3.25 BenQQ script) With Trump’s cabinet members this week fanning out like righteous avengers to:
-get 6 Americans freed from Maduro's failed state of Venezuela,
-capture and deport criminal aliens even from blue city protections,
-force Mexico to keep illegal aliens from trying to border cross with their own soldiers,
-station US forces on the other side of the Southern border,
-revanche Panama from China and reclaim original parts of the Panama Canal agreement in name of national security,
-kill terrorists in Somalia,
-levy tariffs on countries whom Trump says has taken advantage historically of the U.S.,
-and a host of other massive actions and policies he has declared as goals.
then it might be understandable what the prophets are saying about him.
And the prophets, ancient and modern alike, are saying the Big Guy is pissed and they don’t mean Donald Trump. They prophesy 2025 will be a year of annus cataclysmus, my way of saying, we’re up **** creek if they are right.
Prophets, that is, mortal human beings who say and sometimes show they can foretell the future, have always been popular. They watch the news too.
And, according to a 2018 survey of the Pew Research Center, 41% of Americans believed in psychics. A 2022 YouGov poll showed 20%. A 2005 Gallup poll found 25% trusted astrology. Whether you agree or not, that’s a lot of voters. Now to the point:
However, I don’t call every prophet a fraud. They just make it hard to believe. The rule that most prophets say is celestially set, is that we are supposed to fill in the gaps for belief. Don’t expect specificity within your own cultural norms and language. Therefore, we can never prove them wrong or right.
One, Troy Black, an otherwise average guy, has kept an online archive of what he says are his conversations with God. (He did kind of predict the recent LA fires.) In the short video I posted, you can see him talk about how God told him Donald Trump will be confronted with a “traitor” close to him. Here is a short clip inside of which is a link to his full prophecy.
Another prophet said Trump was an alcoholic Indian priest in a previous life. More on other prophets later.
At any rate, prophets have always been the object of suspicion especially among those who call themselves rationalists. After all, you don’t need to be a prophet to have announced before February 2022 that Europe would be ablaze in or by 2025, a good guess considering the actions and rhetoric of Europe’s biggest dictator most like Hitler, that is, Putin.
Second, no prophet worth his or her name would ever set a specific date for any event or world change. In the first day of Prophet School, students have got to learn don’t be specific. Specificity breeds disbelief. So may be why we have Nostradamus writing in vague quatrains and the blind early 20thcentury a conflict in Europe in the 21st century would devastate the population.
I’m going shortly to write about other prophets that have mentioned 2025 and/or Trump. They seem to be connected. Sign up to get notices of such.
(1-30.24 BenQQ) In his first official press conference addressing a national tragedy, President Trump held a press conference on the Reagan National Airport crash last night. Illustrating an all of government response, Vice President JD Vance, his recently confirmed Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy participated in the presser.
Excerpt from full presser: In what is surely to generate much criticism, Trump conjectured DEI hires contributed to the crash. Video: Fox 35.
A video captured by an earth cam reportedly shows a passenger plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter colliding and falling into the Potomac River at Reagan National Airport Wednesday Jan. 29.
Now Democrats are beginning to realize...
(BenQQ 1/27/25) Here's the fast growing realization: the hardest part of being a Democrat today, one week after Trump got started, is to convince yourself you had any reason to ever vote for Obama, much less Harris. Trump has blasted into the minds of everybody. It is cultural wakeup call from a deep sleep. Many are waking up as if from an hypnotic trance. If you were subject to being entranced by Biden, you have a problem of personal agency. Because so many looked the other way at the long discredited policies of the Biden administration as well as his alleged criminal activities regarding his documented family corruption, its time for what we call in the south a "come to Jesus moment." Media in blue cities like television stations and local papers like the local Memphis Commercial Appeal pushed or let Biden slide until they were, well, blue in their faces. Now, however, in one week, Trump is suddenly cool and the voices of the Democrats are either drifting off to an embarrassed silence save for some irrelevant grumbling or they are popping up to endorse Trump outright. What all this teaches: rank and file Democrats are learning politicos don't have their interest at heart other than manipulating them for easy votes. What else will be easy: comparing Trump-Vance to Biden-Harris to the point of Democrats being fundamentally put out by their own party.
After years of talking about it in grumbling anti-tax circles the Trump has surfaced another idea that every American should wake up over: we don't have to have an income tax. The American government can raise as much money outside of the internal revenue service as that service itself. Trump's ideas affect in one way or another every American--especially this idea: The External Revenue Service composed of tariffs, fees and taxes (scroll down for more below). Who knows how this will work out, but a part of it could also be a consumer tax. Getting rid of Biden's DEI IRS agent hires who hold your freedom in their hands would be yet another declaration of freedom.
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(BenQQ 1.20.25) Here are 30 policies and objectives specifically mentioned in President Donald J. Trump's inauguration speech this morning:
In another speech, Trump said he had made a deal with Tic Toc, the Chinese social media site, that the US government would own 50% of it in order for it to continue operations in the US.
(1.19.24 BenQQ) Announcing on X.com Donald Trump announced a new agency he has in mind: the External Revenue Service. Democrats have already started poo-pooing it because it will be funded by tariffs and other sources of income. Will he mention it in his inauguration tomorrow?
In fact, say the Dems, Trump's plan to eliminate the income tax is actually just his "silly rebranding" strategy to raise your taxes to benefit the rich.
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to Trump's idea: “No amount of silly rebranding will hide the fact that Trump is planning a multi-trillion-dollar tax hike on American families and small businesses to pay for another round of tax handouts to the rich.”
That was the entirety of his response, thus proving Democrats have ingrained opposition to relieving Americans from the tax system as we know it. He made no further content. No willingness to even consider the possibility of supporting the "ERS" on a trial basis. If ever there was cold feet of tax payers voting for Trump, Wyden in the not unusual Democratic disconnect, inadvertently warmed them up. Currently, Americans must submit their financials to any one of thousands of possibly biased IRS employees who demand compliance on penalty of imprisonment for not following a maze of IRS regulations so complex even tax professionals don't understand them. Trump is the first president in modern history to propose complete tax relief.
Trump's idea in fact was at least shown to be workable in American history. The US government raised money at the top of the twentieth century without an income tax until 1913. Personal income tax was started during the war and has since never left burdening Americans earning an income.
Unknown at least here is what the government does at time of war or other national emergencies. Possibly one hopes some form of a universal sales tax would apply then. The External Revenue Service must be passed by congress.
(1.5.24 BenQQ) During just 4 years of Biden/Harris their cavalcade of catastrophic decisions and ill intent have resulted in policies that will long brand the Democratic Party as unthinking ideologues salivating over power and their followers as gullible pawns who never watched or read independent or opposing media that would force them to think about opposing concepts. Never mind its the role of so called professional media to do that anyway. That media could care less if under Biden-Harris regarding...
-Your dollar fell in purchasing power
-At their virtual passive and active invitation of Biden/Harris, Millions of illegal immigrants flooded into the country to soak up jobs for Americans. Then taxpayers had to pay for that outrage to cover more expenditures from municipal, state and federal tax dollars. It is estimated it will cost $100 billion to administer mass deportation. Expect to hear wails of oppression, fascism and class division from the Democratic elites who had plans to bank the migrant votes.
-With their, in effect, open border policies, Biden/Harris allowed the penetration of vicious drug and human trafficking cartels to set up operations in all major cities to corrupt officials and buy-off politicians in the same way they do throughout South America. Like any city, Memphis is not immune to their pestilence.
-Terrorists cells crossing the border with abandon while government agencies such as the FBI were busy targeting activist PTA parents and political opponents to the Democratic abuses. The result: security experts say there are hostile foreign operators waiting for a strike order.
-The literal magical creation that Trump and the millions of people who supported him were fascists and deplorables. As a backdrop to his speech casting Trump and supporters as threats to democracy, Biden colored the hallowed Independence Hall in red with American military personnel as props. Certainly looked fascist to me.
-Thus laying the ground work for the worst corruption of the legal system--which Identified these practitioners as the real fascists and not their targets--ever mounted by a political party in power: lawfare.
-The corruption of the electoral system. With the unchallenged 2024 election of Donald Trump in both electoral and majority vote, trust in the election system could be considered temporarily restored but not protected without a national voter ID card. Leaving it to the states will continue to invite cheating because parochial politics will never go away. In that regard, Trump was denied his days in local courts to make the case the 2020 election was, in his words, “rigged,” despite activist research, authors and reports.
-Due to Biden/Harris projection of weakness and aversion to leadership, Russia started a European war, Iranian proxies fired missiles into shipping lanes and China threatens a new war in the pacific.
-Biden pardons and commutes some of the blood-thirstiest killers ever after pardoning his son for his crimes including managing an international play-for-pay schemes that financially benefited his family. See my one minute video Its All in the Family elsewhere on this page.
-And then to cap it all off with a cherry on top Biden gives the medal of freedom award to individuals who not only donated heavily to his campaigns but to political partisans who betrayed Americans fighting for their lives in Benghazi.
He still has over a dozen days to go. No telling what we’ll see.
Are these the worst results of an administration ever in American history? Perhaps, but I don’t want to waste time talking about it. Historians will write books about it, both pro and con.
The only question we need to ask is how could it happen? How could it happen that the lowest quality people get into the White House and **** things up so royally. I mean they think of themselves as royals, beyond the reach of average Americans and act like it.
One part of the answer is they know how to manipulate average Americans—especially with the help of their supportive partisan media. Little was ever covered objectively—and when it was it had an obviously biased skew against Trump--not only of course in media like MSNBC, CNN, the TV broadcast networks, etc, but in local media as well. In Memphis, you just didn’t hear any critical reports about, for example, Trump’s impeachments though the district’s Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen made the media rounds rarely unchallenged that Trump was a racist and crook. The worst reporting interviewing no doubt because the market here is composed of Democrats. Media consumers never heard a critical reportorial word to the contrary from local media.
Let’s see what happens during Trump’s term with media reporting.
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(BenQQ 12.25.24 script) Two suspicious house fires occurred in north Memphis within sight of each other in the last 3 months. One was on my property and the other was on another house of my neighbor. One person who talked to that neighbor said a gas can was found next to his burned structure.
I suspect the blaze on my property was started by humans by mistake or intentionally. I tend to lean to the latter because the structure had no roof after a tree fell on it during a storm. (Video above is 90 seconds.)
No one was hurt and the Memphis Fire Department lost no time in knocking the blaze down. Reportedly an arsonist struck a building off Summer Ave. recently.
After pardoning and commuting (let's call them P&Cs) the sentences of some 1500, including coming over the transom today, murderers. His P&Cs even included a convicted judge who gave long sentences to kids for juvenile incarceration in exchange for kickbacks from the company holding them. As with most of his decisions throughout his administration, they were inexplicable unless Biden thought such acts would endear him with his base, which it probably did.
While pardons and commutations are standard for presidents and governors, they are not a duty to perform as if by some sort of quota. Biden's wholesale display of "compassion" compounds the devastation these criminals brought to the families. One kid reportedly killed himself as a result of his ordeal created by the judge, claims his mother.
The latest reporting on the mystery drones: they are looking for nuclear materials. For reasons of how radiation is spread, among others, here is one guy whom I follow and who I think is qualified to speak on the subject. Ryan McBeth, says no, drones are not looking for nuclear weapon or weapons in New Jersey.
A bigger danger is government either deceiving, deflecting and/or dismissively defecating on its people who pay its bills, that is, in one way or another, you. We lower case democrats almost always think that's bad. In rare conditions, like in war, espionage and word salads, the government might need to do that. Biden and Kamala have made that--that being propaganda for their gullible members--an art form. Trump supporters are least likely to accept their bull****. The good news is even Democrats may never accept it again--no matter what their media tell them to do.
Trump’s 3 biggest issues, now all at a crisis point thanks to Biden's uncritical voters who consume Democratic media, are the financials (i.e. the economy), illegal aliens and foreign wars. There are some issues lower down on the list in my opinion as well such as the weaponization of government and other issues that Trump should handled in short order soon.
At any rate, get the economy right by unleashing a growth economy where people can make more money. This will have salutary effect across the board--as it did for workers and businesses in Trump's first term. Remember my story on Tennessee businesses who were giving their workers bonuses and raises? Maybe you don't, but I do. If the Democrats don't again try to undermine Trump's policies, I expect it to happen again.
Finally, tied to the economy, there is another "unleashing" going on, that is, unleashing a military buildup, specifically technological buildup, to keep China and Russia at bay. Thanks to Biden's weak foreign policy and signals it would be OK with him if Russia invaded Ukraine and China invaded Taiwan, we have been thrown into a cold war teetering on hot. Putin and Xi want to expand into Europe and Asia respectively. This will assuredly cause regional or even world wars. However Trump has postured the "peace thru strength" foreign policy ethos. One hopes it is not too late to get these tyrannical nations under control. Otherwise, kiss it all goodbye.
But let's all remember one thing: this picture of that bloated nation eater Joseph Goering rubbing his hands greedily. He's ready to chow down on another country, in this case Czechoslovakia, with the approval of Britain and France. The historic parallels to Ukraine and Taiwan could not be more obvious. Hitler wanted the Sudetenland because some Germans lived in it. Putin wants Ukraine because some Russians live in it. Xi wants Taiwan on the same pretext.
That brings up Trump's camouflaged position on just how much he would support Ukraine. I don't think he will turn out to be this guy who will waive a piece of paper because a blood thirsty tyrant agreed to sign it in order to persuade other that said tyrant would stop his invasions.
Ok, that guy waving the paper is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after he just got assurance Hitler would stop invading Europe if he just got this one little thing. I hope somebody around Trump is telling him how much more a world war will cost the average American MORE than the billions we've already spent helping to keep Putin's greedy fingers off Ukraine and the rest of Europe. I don't expect Trump to go on about a people's right to defend their democracy, country or even existence. He seems to act like Putin's aggression and crimes are like a very bad weather event.
Trump doesn't seem to be wired ideologically but only commercially but that's not a bad thing. He's wired like a CEO and the country is his company. In my opinion he is not likely to break from that model. However, unlike Chamberlain above, I don't expect him to give away the farm but I won't be surprised if he makes some sort of shabby deal with Russia that will leave a Neville Chamberlain taste. Also, there will be tons of memes of Trump's face inlaid over Chamberlain's.
Speaking of Trump, once his reform juggernaut kicks in, blindsided recovering Democrats and whiney RINOS will be thrown against a wall. The Trump train will lurch forward and pick up speed. Some media will unctuously join in, some will charge fascism and others will simply cut back staff in anticipation of fewer consumers who will discover Trump is not at all what they said he would be if elected. Well, he's elected. All Aboard...
That's it for today folks. I'll try to get another feed out in a week or so. Merry Christmas.
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