1. NY Post or not to POST. Twitterati, FB confuscious. The NY Post posted a story on corruption of Hunter Biden including copies of some emails. While trying to post it, Twitter and FB blocked and reduced the sharing of said article. My biggest concern has not been Russian interference or such, it has been the power FB, Twitter, Google have to influence, manipulate. I'll give you an example. Lets say a protest takes place in Dallas. There are peaceful protestors and there are rioters. Additionally, there are videos of police beating protestors/rioters kicking them out of the way. Depending on who you are and what news you follow, your observation is completely skewed. The Righties would see just videos of the riots and damage and looting. The Lefties would see a peaceful march and abusive police. In the same event, 2 completely different observations. The Righty would argue, there are riots, this has to stop. The Lefty would argue, they were peaceful and the police are abusive. The riots were minor. The righty would say, the police abuse was minor and the riots caused. This is our problem. I have this sh1t going on in my own family between parents and siblings. Neither can take a step back and see the whole picture. So what does that have to do with the NYPost? My opinion has always been, let it all fly. Twitter/FB should really only block inappropriate content, threats, harassment, obscene, advocating violence (And I mean straight advocating violence, not this connecting the dots crap). The reason is it allows everyone to see the whole picture and make up their own mind. This parental micromanaging control is very problematic. Back to the NY Post. Maybe it was or is untrue. That's fine. The NY Post is a big enough company, that Biden and Co. could sue the crap out of them for libel, etc. By limiting or eliminating its distribution on its platform, FB and Twitter are taking an approach to change the news for the election for the specific purpose of picking the winner. There is no other excuse. Many on the left are ok with this, because they want a Biden victory. I have a problem with it, because I see a much bigger problem. What if the story is true? Should we know it or not? In my opinion, this election has shown me how incredibly dishonest and corrupt media has been and will continue to be. It is down right incredible.
2. The problem will be more centralized power. What if Twitter and FB want the US to have a dictator, but that dictator will be beholden to Twitter and FB? You can argue, that would never happen, we would stop it? Would we? All we have to stop it is a constitutional amendment (thank god). Dictators are easier to control than democracies. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing a Great Reset this year and it is very 1984esque. The WEF wants to control economic directives, sharing resources, etc. While this sounds great, it is awful. The market is great because it lets people decide what they want, when they want it and people generally decide what is best for themselves and their family. Now we can tinker with this, because otherwise people may consume all resources and then starve, but we should error on the side of free market. The WEF doesn't want that, they want centralized control at the WEF. Let me sum this up. It is my opinion that concentrating more power is not a good thing, in fact, it is a VERY BAD THING. I hate the Federal Govt taking more and more power away from cities and states. (For the record, I think MO stopping STL from raising Min Wage is complete utter BS). Decentralization is much better. If you are most responsible for yourself, your household, your family, then your neighborhood first, then the world does much better. I love the line from the Marines (Unit, Corp., God, Country). The marines were taught Unit is most important, then the marine corp. NOT the other way around. We should be governed the same way.
3. Biden's tax plan. I have pointed out that the Dems use this methodology for raising taxes on corporations. 98 Companies in Fortune 500 don't pay income tax. So we should raise the rate. My retort is that if those 98 companies pay $0 at 21%, they will still pay $0 at 28%. So really Biden and Co are just going to screw over small and med businesses who actually pay corporate tax rates. Thanks Biden. Biden also proposes a 12.4% payroll tax on income over $400K. I absolutely hate this. First off, the Buffets, the Musks, the Bill Gates, and etc. don't pay payroll taxes. They pay cap gains. That's it. Most CEOs get paid in stock options, so they avoid this tax all together. So all you are doing is really screwing over those businesses who are growing and paying taxes. You aren't fixing the problem, you are going to punish the upper income class, but protect or HELP the top 1%ers. Biden is proposing making Cap Gains treated as ordinary income. That would punish the richers a lot more than anything else. But as I have said, there are ways around that as well. How about as a compromise, we raise the SALT Cap deduction from $10K to $25K and raise LTCG taxes to 25% and raise top tax rate back to 39%? I could understand this if we really ever planned on running a balanced budget, but lets be honest, we won't run a balanced budget, so why the hell should we significantly raise taxes on the few thus causing them to move out.
4. COVID hitting Europe really hard. I guess they didn't handle it well either. I saw this morning that WALES is locking down. I assume other countries are as well. What better way to push us towards the Great Reset. BTW, if you are concerned about Great Reset, one of the things that makes it seem more likely is that Central Banks are wanting to do Digital Currencies, aka Ban Cash. We really wouldn't need banking industry either as the Central Banks could just control everything. It is crazy how much we want to be like China in terms of government control. Here's a good example of my mindset:
We do better if we operate on the bottom rather than in prison. Good luck getting food in the future if you keep pushing for the top image society.
5. POTUS 2020. It is looking more and more like a Biden victory. This is the most insane election I have ever seen. Trump still gets the crowds. Even HRC was better at getting the crowds than Biden is. But in the end, I don't think the Crowd reps the voters accurately. I could be wrong, but I don't see how. Voter turnout is way up. I think early voter turnout was way up in 2016 as well, but early voting hasn't been around that long. Lets talk Florida. Trump won Florida in 2016 by 115K votes. So far this year, over 12K votes from mail in voting have been thrown out for failing to sign the envelope. Can't wait to see how this ends up. In 2016, almost 35% of votes were mailed in Florida. I don't' know how many were thrown out. I can't find that info to compare.
2. The problem will be more centralized power. What if Twitter and FB want the US to have a dictator, but that dictator will be beholden to Twitter and FB? You can argue, that would never happen, we would stop it? Would we? All we have to stop it is a constitutional amendment (thank god). Dictators are easier to control than democracies. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been pushing a Great Reset this year and it is very 1984esque. The WEF wants to control economic directives, sharing resources, etc. While this sounds great, it is awful. The market is great because it lets people decide what they want, when they want it and people generally decide what is best for themselves and their family. Now we can tinker with this, because otherwise people may consume all resources and then starve, but we should error on the side of free market. The WEF doesn't want that, they want centralized control at the WEF. Let me sum this up. It is my opinion that concentrating more power is not a good thing, in fact, it is a VERY BAD THING. I hate the Federal Govt taking more and more power away from cities and states. (For the record, I think MO stopping STL from raising Min Wage is complete utter BS). Decentralization is much better. If you are most responsible for yourself, your household, your family, then your neighborhood first, then the world does much better. I love the line from the Marines (Unit, Corp., God, Country). The marines were taught Unit is most important, then the marine corp. NOT the other way around. We should be governed the same way.
3. Biden's tax plan. I have pointed out that the Dems use this methodology for raising taxes on corporations. 98 Companies in Fortune 500 don't pay income tax. So we should raise the rate. My retort is that if those 98 companies pay $0 at 21%, they will still pay $0 at 28%. So really Biden and Co are just going to screw over small and med businesses who actually pay corporate tax rates. Thanks Biden. Biden also proposes a 12.4% payroll tax on income over $400K. I absolutely hate this. First off, the Buffets, the Musks, the Bill Gates, and etc. don't pay payroll taxes. They pay cap gains. That's it. Most CEOs get paid in stock options, so they avoid this tax all together. So all you are doing is really screwing over those businesses who are growing and paying taxes. You aren't fixing the problem, you are going to punish the upper income class, but protect or HELP the top 1%ers. Biden is proposing making Cap Gains treated as ordinary income. That would punish the richers a lot more than anything else. But as I have said, there are ways around that as well. How about as a compromise, we raise the SALT Cap deduction from $10K to $25K and raise LTCG taxes to 25% and raise top tax rate back to 39%? I could understand this if we really ever planned on running a balanced budget, but lets be honest, we won't run a balanced budget, so why the hell should we significantly raise taxes on the few thus causing them to move out.
4. COVID hitting Europe really hard. I guess they didn't handle it well either. I saw this morning that WALES is locking down. I assume other countries are as well. What better way to push us towards the Great Reset. BTW, if you are concerned about Great Reset, one of the things that makes it seem more likely is that Central Banks are wanting to do Digital Currencies, aka Ban Cash. We really wouldn't need banking industry either as the Central Banks could just control everything. It is crazy how much we want to be like China in terms of government control. Here's a good example of my mindset:
We do better if we operate on the bottom rather than in prison. Good luck getting food in the future if you keep pushing for the top image society.
5. POTUS 2020. It is looking more and more like a Biden victory. This is the most insane election I have ever seen. Trump still gets the crowds. Even HRC was better at getting the crowds than Biden is. But in the end, I don't think the Crowd reps the voters accurately. I could be wrong, but I don't see how. Voter turnout is way up. I think early voter turnout was way up in 2016 as well, but early voting hasn't been around that long. Lets talk Florida. Trump won Florida in 2016 by 115K votes. So far this year, over 12K votes from mail in voting have been thrown out for failing to sign the envelope. Can't wait to see how this ends up. In 2016, almost 35% of votes were mailed in Florida. I don't' know how many were thrown out. I can't find that info to compare.
