🚨 Hulk Out – January 28 2025

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Happy Tuesday.

The White House released this Official Portrait of First Lady Melania Trump and now I have to look into whether or not I could pull off a cummerbund.


In Case You Missed It. 

🗺️ Google Maps will now reflect the changes made by President Trump and show the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley. Apple Maps is lagging behind this morning.

🚨 ICE officials say they’ve arrested two ISIS terrorists in America as part of their massive illegal immigrant crackdown, one from Jordan and the other from Turkey.

⛽️ Oil prices have plunged to a new a two week low. You might have noticed lower gas prices.

🇲🇽 Border patrol agents exchanged gunfire with Mexican cartels who were attempting to smuggle people into the U.S. There were no reports of injuries and the migrants were not able to cross into the U.S.

🇷🇺 Russia’s oil exports just hit a new post-sanction high this month, with China and India as top buyers.

🇮🇱 Israel and Lebanon have extended the ceasefire through February 18.

🪖 President Trump reinstated all military members who were discharged for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine and ordered them to receive back pay.

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Lead: Trump To Eliminate Income Taxes?

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President Trump once again has called to abolish the federal income tax. Honestly, I didn’t think we would hear this once he was inaugurated. I thought it was just a campaign promise like Bush’s “Read my lips, no new taxes.” But here we go!

The President said on Monday that we would like Congress to abolish the income tax. 

“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens,” he said.

He said that the United States was never richer than when it made money through foreign tariffs rather than through personal income tax of citizens.

Also on Monday, the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary. Bessent is an advocate for Trump’s tariff and growth agenda so let’s do it!

It is worth remembering that income tax was introduced briefly during the Civil War to fund that war and Americans were promised that it would be temporary. It was repealed in 1872.

The 16th Amendment in 1913 reintroduced taxes and again to fund World War I, Americans were told that it was temporary and necessary for “justifiable” government needs. By the 1940s, the government tried to bury the notion of the tax as temporary and hired Walt Disney Studios to make the film The New Spirit, starring Donald Duck as a dutiful taxpayer. This 7-minute film is an amazing artifact!

This means that income tax has been a permanent fixture of American life for barely a century. If it was repealed once, it can be repealed again!

America’s Iron Dome? Or America’s Next Big Waste of Money? 

Israel’s iron dome credit: reuters

President Trump has ordered the U.S. an Iron Dome of its own. This was a campaign promise that he has put into motion with this executive order.

The Iron Dome is what Israel calls its first-rate defense system, designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets, artillery shells, and mortars. It only works when you turn it on though. And it doesn’t work against hypersonic missiles which Iran recently deployed against Israel to devastating effect.

Ronald Reagan had a similar idea and the press called it his Star Wars initiative. It was formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). It was never completed as the money and technology simply wasn’t there.

Is it now? There are a lot of big concept in this executive order like: Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, space-based interceptors, Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, kinetic defeat of ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks.

I don’t know what any of that means and whether or not any of it would be effective against a nuclear attack but who doesn’t like the idea of a safer fence line? In theory?

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Biden’s Military Gets a DEI Makeover

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President Trump issued an executive order that will remove all gender ideology from the U.S. military.

The order does not specifically say that transgender people cannot serve in the military. It does say that the new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has 60 days to issue new medical standards for the military and that they must reflect high standards of physical and mental fitness. It further states: “It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity.  This policy is inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria.  This policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex.”

The order will remove “invented and identification-based pronoun usage” and will prevent the military from allowing males to “use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, nor allow females to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for males.”

This is a reversal of President Biden’s executive orders allowing all of the above. Leaked memos from 2023 show that the Biden administration was providing sex change operations and hormones to service members, thereby making them ineligible for deployment. The document warns that these drugs would lead to a “redistribution of fat” and “decrease of muscle mass.”

Why in the heck would a country wants a military that it cannot deploy, whose bodies they are destroying, who end up on expensive medical discharge for the rest of their lives? It is the opposite of Super Soldier Serum.

New York Magazine is Racist? 

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New York Magazine is being called out for this magazine cover and feature story indicating that conservative influencers are all spoiled rich white jerks.

“Almost everyone is white,” the article says. It quotes an “older woman in an updo” as asking: “Have you noticed the entire room is white?”

Only the image was cropped and guess who got cropped out? All the black partygoers who were standing right next to the white partygoers. When you see the entire image, there are conservative black people in the room. One of them was the party’s host.

Why would they do this?

To sell you the narrative that Republicans are a racist exclusionary club and to court back the Black voters that left the Democratic party in droves.

Remember when Time Magazine apologized for darkening Barack Obama’s skin tone on its cover? This feels like that. New York Magazine should apologize.

So who would do such dishonest journalism? This is the author: they/them Brock Colyar.

News By The Numbers

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4-5 minutes. That is how much screen time the Red Hulk has in the upcoming Captain America film, according to rumors.

$39 million. That was the holiday bonus for Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon. Employees are pissed because their bonuses this Christmas were considerably lower than usual. Didn’t he watch Christmas Vacation? You never cut Christmas bonuses or Cousin Eddie will come to your house.

$1 trillion. That’s how much the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 lost in value yesterday after the new Chinese AI rival DeepSeek launched. It’s now the number one free app in the App Store and it spooked Silicon Valley.

What’s Trending?

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Selena Gomez is trending for posting a video of herself ugly crying about deportations and its effect on migrant children. Where was she when we learned about the 300,000 unaccompanied minors that the Biden administration lost?

The singer Avery is trending because she announced that she has a debilitating bone-thinning disease after taking Ozempic for just a year, which is a known side effect.

Jim Acosta is trending because he has been ousted at CNN.

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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris.
Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected]
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