A lot of emails have come in asking if I can put together some hoards of gifts for children to spark their imagination and curiosity about history. I will put some together ASAP. I have some later 4th-century Roman coins at reasonable prices for gifts.
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, thank you for the WEC. Many people feel this was your best. Your solution to save our country was spectacular, and you deserved the standing ovation. My question is that you said that Trump and RFK would not listen to you despite everything you have done. You did not explain why. May I ask why?
FP
ANSWER: As I said, Trump’s plan to eliminate and replace the income tax with tariffs will fail. I understand those who proposed the idea, citing that the nation was funded by tariffs before the income tax, and a return to that funding system may look good in bullet points, but the economy is far more complex, and the socialistic goals will not be able to simply be cut without resistance. I had also warned Maggie Thatcher about imposing a poll tax. She thought the people would take the supervisory role as a check on the government if they had skin in the game. But I knew from history it would not unfold as she had hoped.
The entire issue is NOT that companies moved offshore for cheaper labor. That is the Marxist excuse. They moved because of the taxation. When I restructured major multinational companies around the world, we had to consider (1) country risk, (2) stability in taxation, and (3) taxation on the workforce.
I testified before the House Ways & Means Committee. Trump can call up my testimony, but those around him will not allow that to take place. They have their solution in play and will never allow competition, no matter how wrong they are. Welcome to politics. I was then asked why no American company had gotten a contract in China to build the Yellow River Dam. I explained that Americans are taxed on worldwide income, but Germany is not. Thus, an American corporation is already 30-35% more expensive than a German company bidding on the same project.
Trump is married to the idea that tariffs will bring back American jobs—companies left BECAUSE of the taxes. Eliminate the Income Tax, end the borrowing, and do what I said with Social Security, and the companies will return, bringing foreign companies with them. You will create the most significant economic boom in history while the rest of the world completes the economic decline outlined by the Economic Confidence Model into 2028.
Trump is sold on the Tariff idea. He will NOT listen to me. So, unfortunately, the expected economic boom people will have with Trump will be tempered and not a reality. Unless we look at the entire world collectively, we can never fight the global trend. Tariffs will increase inflation and contribute to the economic decline the world will experience into 2028.
The neocons are working overtime to release countless aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes over in January. Bloomberg has reported that the Biden Administration The Biden administration is committed to ensuring “every dollar we have at our disposal,” in a message championed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Blinken rushed to Brussels after Trump’s victory to discuss how NATO and the EU can drain America for additional funding ahead of Trump’s term. “The purpose of this visit is to focus our efforts on ensuring that Ukraine has the money, the munitions, and the mobilized forces to fight effectively in 2025 or to be able to negotiate a peace from a position of strength,” he told reporters in Brussels.
Blinken did not state that Trump was the reason for his recent visit to NATO headquarters. Yet, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said discussions are ongoing “both with the president-elect and his team and also with the outgoing administration.”
“President Biden is committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and January 20,” he said from the entrance of the huge steel and glass NATO headquarters complex. What happened to the trillions sent off to Ukraine? No one cares enough to ask or audit.
In fact, Taiwan has come out and said it is prepared to send US-provided weapons to Ukraine if asked to do so. “If the US side requests that we transfer them back to them, we will do so in accordance with the relevant regulations and return them to the US, and then the US will decide what to do with them,” a government official stated.
The neocon-funded Institute for the Study of War has said that the war in Ukraine will provide guidance for Taiwan in the future war with China that these warmongers have banked on. “The war in Ukraine offers many important lessons for the defense of Taiwan against possible aggression by the People’s Republic of China,” according to the Institute for the Study of War. The corrupt think tank said that China is studying how the US acts to defend Ukraine from Russia to see what they may face if they invade Taiwan.
There is no reason for America to add to its deficit by arming Ukraine. Trump and Vance have made it clear that these endless blank checks will cease, but nothing will stop the neocons who thirst for war at every corner.
The United States has opened a new military base 100 miles off from Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave between Lithuanian and Poland. The Plot to Seize Russia began many years ago. This is not a new development as George W. Bush began the construction that continued under Obama and was finalized by Biden.
“The Polish-American alliance is strong, regardless of who governs in Warsaw and Washington,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski posted to social media, stating that the United States is continuing its geostrategic policies. Perhaps no member in the EU is more eager to rush US funding to Ukraine than Poland. Warsaw is now contributing 5% of its GDP to defense spending in NATO.
Russia naturally is opposed to the new base, stating back in 2010 that it did “not understand the logic and focus of U.S.-Polish cooperation in this sphere.” In other words, Russia does not understand the propaganda that it is eager to invade Poland. That was back with Hillary Clinton served as US Secretary of State. She claimed that the base was a two-fold solution to protect Poland and the US against threats from Iran.
Putin has been eager to create a neutral zone around Russia’s border. He’s outnumbered by “unfriendly nations” eager to invade. Again, this base was in construction long before even the Crimea incident. It is unlikely that Trump’s new administration will want to spend US funds in this manner. He unapologetically asks what’s in it for the US when providing protection for Europe, but will make moves to align with America First policies. Neutralizing the surrounding area from US presence could be a bargaining tool in ending the war and increasing tensions with those we now call allies.
DEI has no place in the military. The purpose of the military is to protect the people of the United States not to virtue signal or focus on the identities of individuals. Biden and Harris appointed a slew of individuals to top positions to promote a woke military. Trump is restoring sanity and dignity to our armed forces by removing these DEI policies.
Trump will sign an executive order to retire any three or four-star general “lacking in requisite leadership qualities.” We suddenly have about three times as many three and four-star generals and admirals now than we did at the peak of World War II. Trump’s order could create a super-majority of the 162 three-star and 44 four-star officers off active duty.
There is an onslaught of strange perversions happening in the US military that are quite frankly embarrassing. Maryland National Guard Colonel Brian T. Connelly marked his retirement by posing in his military uniform while wearing perverse fetish gear that made him appear to look like a dog. You simply cannot make this stuff up.
This June, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said that the military needed to focus its efforts on trans members. “We’ve heard concerns about … policies focused on the needs of nonbinary service members. Please know our commitment is resolute, just as it has been over the past three-and-a-half years, to continue our progress in full alignment with our focus on readiness and our focus on the well-being of our people, on which our readiness depends,” Hicks said.
Just look at our US Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine. They likely cannot pass the fitness portion requirement of the military requirement. How is this person the face of health? How we even allowed things to deteriorate to this point is beyond comprehension. Levine infamously claimed climate change disproportionately hurt black Americans as the woke pandering message has become utter nonsense.
The Department of Defense has spent countless funds on DEI initiatives under Biden-Harris, shelling out $68 million in 2022, $86.5 million in 2023, and a requested $114.7 million in 2024. Instead of using funds to improve national security, Biden and Harris spent millions on woke ideology that weakened our military.
Bureaucrats are incapable of changing course even when their policies fail. Amid low recruitment, the US Navy invited an active-duty drag queen to be its digital ambassador. Former US Navy SEAL Team Six member Robert J. O’Neill was part of the special operation to kill Osama bin Laden, one of the best and bravest our country has to offer. “Alright. The US Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bulls-t,” O’Neill wrote. “Not this Navy veteran. I’m ashamed of the Navy,” wrote another veteran. “It’s an insult to every veteran. The army kept making me go to trans EO-type classes before I retired. Nope. Didn’t go.”
Who the hell were they trying to recruit? Are these people even mentally fit to serve? It’s almost like they’re begging for a future draft of “all persons,” because the military knows better. The Airforce saw an uptick in recruitment after Tom Cruise released his film “Top Gun” portraying a fearless fighter pilot. You are not “fearless” for dressing up as the opposite sex. You can do what you want in the privacy of your bedroom but it has no place in the military, classrooms, or elsewhere. This recruitment strategy FAILED and was a slap in the face to our veterans who do not want to be portrayed in this light.
We saw the LGBTQ+ flag flown alongside our proud branches of the military – WHY? This claim that WOKE is somehow establishing EQUALITY is total nonsense. We are equal as human beings but not in talent, and it is a threat to the security of the United States to appoint people to top roles in our military when they lack the proper qualifications. The intense woke narrative that defies all logic has caused the pendulum to swing in the other direction. People, even if not especially within the gay community, are no longer afraid to call the woke narrative utter nonsense.
This is why McConnell stepped aside to hand the reigns to another RINO who is against We the People and will protect the SWAMP while he is pro-war.
Government corruption is not isolated to Washington. The media, academics, lobbyists, think-tanks, pharmaceutical companies, big tech, and perhaps every organization with ties to federal agencies compromises the corrupt system. It is finally time to drain the swamp.
I often speak on how bankers simply never serve time in prison because they hire the people from the agencies who are supposed to regulate them. Goldman Sachs, for example, may pay a fine but they never send their own to jail. Any fee paid is never even close to the money they actually made, rather, it is just a pay-off. We see the same system throughout every organization or university that government has tarnished. They have become above the law.
A study entitled “Lobbyists into Government” (Benjamin C. K. Egerod and Joshua McCrain (2023)) examines what occurs when a lobbyist transitions into a role in government. Lobbyists are trained to influence and persuade government officials to act on behalf of their corporation. Lobbying firms often hire men and women with prior government experience to gain access to their connections. There are no laws preventing these individuals from entering the government, as both sides of the aisle are drenched in corruption. It has become one giant revolving door. As they say, “It’s one big club and you’re not in it.”
Anthony Fauci acted as the director of the National Institutes of Health while also acting as a top funder of bioweapon research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Stephen Hahn once served as the FDA commissioner in charge of regulating Moderna, one of the pioneers of the COVID-19 vaccine, and then Hahn went on to work directly for Moderna. Scott Gottlieb played the same move with the FDA and Pfizer, as did Mark McClellan with the FDA and Johnson & Johnson.
Kennedy said that the new government would listen to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, who had been forced into hiding for speaking out against blatant corruption. Countless individuals have risked their freedom and lives to raise the alarm on the magnitude of government corruption. They have been demonized by the media as conspiracy theorists or even domestic terrorists.
The swamp has expanded to every corner of the US. Universities and think tanks produce studies to align with their funders’ political interests. We must starve these corrupt actors of government funds. Then, the new administration must examine how extensively this corruption damaged American lives. We allowed bad actors like Fauci to sell us on the idea of a never-ending pandemic blamed on Chinese peasants at a wet market when he was actively funding gain-of-function research. Kennedy, in particular, has a bone to pick with Fauci.
The Biden Administration focused on multiplying the public sector and expanding government oversight. Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies — essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement,” Mr Trump added.
Elon Musk said he looks forward to draining the swamp in Washington. “All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining,” he posted on X. Vivek posted that they “will not go gently” on corrupt officials.
In addition to damaging American society and aiding in the demise of our very civilization, this corruption is extremely expensive. Trump noted: “Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.'”
This is one of the main reasons why they attempted to assassinate Trump. The politicians crying that Trump will have them imprisoned know they were acting with ill intent. Our public servants must serve America and American interests. Our food, medicine, education, and every area of life must be free of exploitative practices that only benefit the establishment. IT IS TIME TO DRAIN THE SWAMP.
The word is out that Donald Trump will begin mass deportation efforts this January. Luckily for migrants, the Canada border remains open thanks to the Liberal government, which is attempting to assure the people that the migrant crisis will not flow north.
Abdulla Daoud, executive director of The Refugee Centre in Montreal, claims that “policy takes time.” Daoud has underestimated the newly appointed US border tzar, Tom Homan, and fails to acknowledge that illegals began fleeing America the moment Trump’s victory was declared. Daoud insists the crisis is not imminent. “Whatever Trump will enact, we will not see the remnants probably for another year,” he said. As it stands, he said, the majority of people who come to his centre claim asylum after arriving at the airport.”
Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, a World Economic Forum darling, insists that the border is secure. “I want people to know their borders are safe and secure, and they will continue to be, come what may, in the world,” Freeland told a reporter with CBC radio. Naturally, she will encourage this surge of illegal migration as she is a former decision-maker for the WEF. Let us not forget that Justin Trudeau tweeted the hashtag #WelcometoCanada in 2017 after Trump began to crack down on migrants.
No one knows how many migrants have already entered Canada. The nation’s population reached an all-time high this year after surpassing 41 million despite a sharp decline in the birth rate. Every poll indicates that Canadians want secure borders. They blame the housing crisis and uptick in crime on these illegal residents. Trudeau’s popularity is declining as Canadian society and culture begin to shift, and the future surge of migrants at the Canadian border will only spell trouble for the left.
