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(1.18.25 BenQQ) Now, 2 days before President Donald J. Trump takes office, Los Angeles is still burning as a result of what is now recognized as perhaps the worst planning in history for catastrophic brushfires. The blue Trump hating city spent millions on things that didn't matter--like sending their mayor on a foreign junket at the request of Biden--inspite of being warned by officials, environmental experts as well as Trump himself: the city could imminently burn. The fires may be the final capstone of why the Democratic Party symbolizes the worst in policies for all the American people.
Already working on that end is incoming President Donald Trump. Even before taking office, he has changed political culture that has been loosely composed of left wing ideologues, politicos like our own Rep. Steve Cohen who wasted millions in trying in his personal impeachment campaigns that failed and, of course, uniform mob media hostility. In the Biden-Harris wake that now finally recognizes defeatism and weakness of the Obama-Biden-Harris eras, is a reluctant yet growing awareness that:
-the left tried and failed to make the right illegitimate;
-their anti-Trump obsession-and the horrible results thereof-will forever be inscribed in the public record for everybody to see;
-there was indeed government weaponization against an opposing political party that looked more like a dictator's whims than a democratic system;
-putting the country first, meaning the broad range of policies all working together, is a reasonable, if not beneficial, to building a system that benefits everybody. This means implementing policies that create private sector jobs with higher salaries, rebuilding a robust military and technological defense that projects American priorities worldwide as well as setting global economic objectives, such as tariffs and protecting the petro-dollar, that supports all of the foregoing.
In Memphis, which is not unlike most urban blue cities, there were few, if any, regular locally published stories about Trump that informed people who did not consume other media about his objectives. It was the journalistic equivalent of getting "towned," that is, being ignored to the point of making him disappear. The only exception to that is any possible negative angle that can be developed for the story. Either way, it is journalistic malfeasance.
People now see these "journalistic" approaches and read stories differently.
When legacy media did cover Trump, they framed the conversation that he was, for example, a "threat to democracy" with little if any evidence even when propounded by Biden himself. If anything, that threat itself is in fact a threat to democracy. Voters, except in blue media cities, saw through that.
Now, expect much of the legacy media to shift its public reporting about Trump in an effort to capture more Trump supporting consumers. However, the growing number of active and engaging free competitors that are growing online will no doubt hamper those goals.
A Review of a Commercial Appeal Story Today
(1.6.25 BenQQ) By just reading this headline you would think Trump was a Mafioso boss and was out to get away with a heinous crime yet again but a courageous independent judge was locking him behind bars..until you read the first sentence in the article that reported no jail time or incarceration. So, in effect, the judge still gets his phoney conviction but sidesteps any real criticism.
Using the law as a political cudgel, the judge still held the charges against Trump that remotely could (remotely) be detrimental to him personally and thus hamper his administration. This anti-Trump judge could have dismissed all charges but still held the 47th president of the United States under a gag order.
The article did not mention this and other trials like it are criticized by legal experts as abusive lawfare, the novel attack strategy created by the Democrats to defeat Trump when they could not do that in a fair election.
A reader not availing himself to alternative information would think Trump is a true criminal swept up in the judicial system. Not one word is spared to impart that Republican and even some Democrat critics contend this particular charge was manufactured, is expected to be overturned, his own daughter is a Democratic fund raiser who may have illegally raised money as a result of this family relation and the state of New York is mostly populated with anti-Trump voters. Some legal experts have called for professional reprimands of judges and prosecutors for practicing lawfare as "abuse of rights."
One would hope in future articles about lawfare against Trump, the paper would at least insert a standard last paragraph blurb to read like this: “Critics have attacked such charges against Trump as manufactured 'lawfare' designed to keep Trump from assuming the office of president.” That would at least provide some balancing reportage for people willing to read to the end.
(Why I did not link to the article: Paywall)
(1.5.25 BenQQ) Inspite what you, even if you have self-identified as a never Trumper, may instinctively think about Trump and his leadership team, you’ve got to admit there are some good ideas floating around government. Such ideas are like whiffs of thawing spring air during a frozen winter. And the snow and ice are pretty thick in DC today.
Even before his administration begins, concepts of good, dare I say old fashioned, governance are wafting about the staid old halls of Washington that are dedicated to spending your money on often over paid, over-benefited and unnecessary federal employees. The whiffs of reform and-aghast-saving tax payer money are terrifying the old guard. The administrative state can run from activist ideas but not hide.
DOGE is one of those ideas, although naysayers say we already have the GAO, the Government Accountability Office as well as a host of other organizations eyeing government spending.
DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency, apparently is a brainchild of Trump who has called on two other brains Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to root out waste and dismantle government bureaucracy. I am reminded of other brains who made a complete mess of things as documented in The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam.
Musk and Ramaswamy (with staff-an irony say the critics) have the job of cutting down the cost and redundant bureaucracy of government. People who run companies will say that’s efficiency. BUT opponents will retort, government is not a company. DOGE folks will say, yes it is and why not?
DOGE is a theme of government vs business that has a callback to the dark old days of Calvin Coolidge when he said to American newspaper editors almost a hundred years ago, “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.” This is different than the oft misquote: “The business of America is business.”
I’ve noted Trump’s approach to government before, namely the good CEO approach that controls spending only to what you need now and in the future. Any other expense is not good for the company. Ironically, if government is like a company, i.e. business, then government growth would be the logical outcome of that philosophy, but Trump has never indicated real growth other than in the economy and military technology nor have I heard him talk about Coolidge. Let's see what happens...
11:00 AM CT 1.2.25
from various media accounts
--Both attackers were or currently in the US Army.
--Both attackers had been stationed at the same base.
--Unknown if they knew each other.
--Both attacks occurred the same day.
--Both attackers used the same online vehicle rental company.
Trump Towers Las Vegas
--Attacker has been identified as active military member in the US Army Mathew Livelsberger.
--He has posted in support of ISIS' "war between believers and disbelievers."
--Wife is a social worker who had posted anti-Trump messages in 2016 and is reported not to have spoken to him recently.
--FBI says there is no known link between New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks, but some critics claim 'correlation is causation.'
(1.1.25 BenQQ) After the apparent ISIS attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA last night, no doubt local officials (and unofficial others) are thinking anew the possibilities of a similar attack on Beale Street in Memphis, TN.
Conjecture: Beale Street like most mass event exterior locations are relatively softer targets than indoor events like sport events.
I have been there to take pictures/video during events and New Year's, though I was not there last night having been detained by another project.
Apparently video shows the shooter driving up from Canal St then turning on Bourbon Street maneuvering past police cars to drive on the sidewalk.
The FBI has said, according to Daily Mail, the alleged perpetrator did not act alone and they are looking for pipe bombs in the area.
There were the security elements that I remember actually seeing: a highly visible police presence, including on rooftops, a weapons search for all visitors through a line in the main entrance. Most noticeable were officers dispersed among the crowd, including a horse regiment that had been stationed at a side street.
I was able to walk unchecked off Beale on side streets back then.
Also reported this morning: a truck blew up in front of Trump International Hotel in New Orleans, though that has not yet been reported as intentional.
Media stories are changing quickly but here are the key points to this hour 2:50 PM CT.
Daily Mail reported name of the alleged perpetrator as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a Texas real estate agent, worked for the US Army for 10 years in IT, was undergoing a divorce. Reportedly he flew the Isis flag as he was driving.
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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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