Cosmic Brownie Bites
Bite the brownie. Doo it!! It's good!
I feel like I’m grinding the gears, getting from second to third hasn’t been easy. In fact, ever since the November election, everything has felt like a drag on my thought process, not that there’s that much process or thought to begin with.
I subscribe to a lot of Substack writers; for the most part the writing is pretty good and there are a lot of great independent thinkers. There were mornings when I’d open my email account and find ten or so new articles; at least eight of which were well written and thought provoking. That’s all you can ask for.
Since the end of November, the amount of original content has dropped quite a bit. Sure, there were the holidays—and that’s what I used as my excuse for four months—but still, you’d think there would be some news someone saw in a different light. Nope. Collective writer’s block. I am no exception.
It’s beginning to pick up but not from behind my computer.
My theory is two-fold. First, I think the amount of emotion going into the election sucked the air out of the room; its contentiousness brought out anger and dark forces. Second, there was the lull before the storm and then, on January 20th, the fundamentals of the world were annihilated. The speed at which the Trump Administration moved was shock and awe to both sides. Writing about a current event changes the next day, making what was written moot. I’ve thrown up my hands on quite a few pieces, thus the need for a Cosmic Brownie Bite (for those who don’t know what a Cosmic Brownie is).
The Dark Force
Trying to kill a presidential candidate is obviously a dark force—sure would like to know who Thomas Mathew Crooks really was. And the kook who hid behind the bushes? How did that guy come into being? Strangely, he surfaced from a stint in Ukraine, a country that, ten years ago, no one could fathom would become the epicenter of world corruption and destruction.
Ryan Routh tried to buy a stinger missile in July of 2024 to take out Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, of all places. Since he failed, was Crooks the backup? According to court papers, Routh was in contact with a “Ukrainian operative” to buy the weapon. A CIA whistleblower suggests that Routh was in contact with an FBI operative; or was the whistleblower covering for the CIA?
Did our government try to murder Donald Trump?
None of this is fishy at all.
Death to America
The irony is lost on all of these gray-haired “Nazis hunters”. Who terrorized private property, burning and trashing innocent people’s lives? That would be the Nazis. Who terrorizes, burns private property, and trash innocent’s lives now? The Baby Boomer Nazis.
I laugh when Democrats say they are democratic; the last time they were democratic was… well, I’m not so sure when. I think of the many times, especially in my home state of Texas, when Democrats walked out of legislative sessions because they wouldn’t get their way on a certain bill (it happened in Georgia just the other day). Another time, I remember, was when Democrats worried about the ability to extend slavery into new territories; when they didn’t get their way, they walked out on the Union and caused nearly 700,000 deaths. But I guess those people believed that was democracy in action.
And it kind of reminds me of their faux rage and protest, bought and paid for by George Soros and the gang. You would be surprised—or maybe not—that the crew funds the Hamas protests and riots, the Tesla Nazis bunch, and all of the resist nonsense. Yes, you’ve witnessed democracy in action! You are so blessed.
And how do we know these people have gone full Nazis? Well, they tell us through a poll in unambiguous sentiment.
Murder Justification: 31% and 38% of [all] respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively. (These effects were largely driven by respondents that self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, indicating significantly higher justification for violence against these figures.) [emphasis mine]
In other words, more than half of Democrat voters want Trump dead. Not dethroned, not in jail, not run out on a rail, not tarred and feathered. They want him dead, and in most gruesome fashion.
Death and Taxes (my usual rant when taxes are involved)
April Fools’ Day should be moved to April 15th; that’s when we are suckered into funding the most corrupt government in U.S. history. Even with DOGE, not all of the corruption and fraud will be exposed. It’s great that we’ve at least started the process, but because past corruption and misappropriation of public funds were financed through historic debt, we’ll be paying for this criminal enterprise for generations to come.
The Sixteenth Amendment gave us the income tax. It was passed in Congress and ratified by the States as somewhat of a political showdown between the parties, where neither really wanted the tax but used one-upmanship as a political dagger. Neither party thought the States would ratify it and yet, here we are, stuck in the middle again.
The promise then was that only the top one percent of earners would have to pay, followed in history by if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; yet one more lie in a mile long list of lies from our esteemed Congress. Now if you obey our convoluted income tax you’re going to pay through the nose:
The average 1040 filer now faces $290 in out-of-pocket costs and spends 13 hours preparing a return. The compliance burden for Form 1040 for individual income taxes reached $144 billion, an all-time high, even as the number of expected filers declined.
Taxpayers will spend an estimated 7.1 billion hours complying with the tax code for Tax Year 2024—equivalent to $316 billion in lost productivity based on private sector labor costs.
Somehow soak the rich has become soak Middle America while the rich float by with loopholes and deductions. Every time someone seems to break the ceiling into financial independence, the ceiling pushes back.
How many times have Republicans proposed simplifying the tax code to where the average American can fill out a simple postcard and be done with it? A gazillion would be the answer, as well as how much money has flowed from the American taxpayer into an unproductive market.
What intrigued me about Trump’s tariff plan was not only trying to bring fairness to free trade but as a way to replace the federal income tax as the primary source of revenue to the bloated government. As I’ve pointed out in the past, the late Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan has been the closest proposal that would have the least impact and distortion to the economy. The addition of tariffs would actually lower some of the nines, such as removing the consumption tax part of his plan. Imagine paying only nine percent of your income to the government; that would be life altering for many of our fellow Americans.
Of all things that Trump can do, reforming tax policy would be the most consequential contribution to our future.
I’m on my annual Spring jaunt to the West, driving into the wide-open spaces where there aren’t quite as many people. I am hopeful that, upon return, I’ll be rejuvenated and full of more B.S. to write about.