🐂 Mess with the bull… – February 04 2025

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Israel

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Trump today. President Trump, worryingly, was asked on Monday about Israel annexing the West Bank and he said this:

“It’s a small country in terms of land…that’s not good… It’s a pretty small piece of land and it’s amazing that they’ve been able to do what they’ve been able to do when you think about it. There’s a lot of very smart brainpower. But it is a very small piece of land, no question about it.”

What does that mean exactly? That the U.S. President supports Israel annexing and ousting Palestinians from their homes? That he thinks that Israel has outgrown it’s country? Even if it did annex the West Bank, Israel would still be a small piece of land so….would Jordan and Egypt be next? Israel already tried to take the Sinai Peninsula but had to give it back in 1982 due to the Camp David Accords.

The Wall Street Journal cites unnamed “U.S. officials” reporting that “the Trump administration has asked congressional leaders to approve new transfers of roughly $1 billion worth of bombs and other military hardware to Israel at the same time the White House is working to preserve a fragile cease-fire in Gaza.”

This was announced by the Biden administration and President Trump has said that Israel already paid for them. Israeli officials have said that this was part of the conditions of the ceasefire.

Mexico and Canada

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The Presidents of Mexico and Canada both made last-minute deals to avoid 25% tariffs on trade with the United States, which were imposed by the White House.

China did not make a deal so 10% tariffs will be imposed beginning today. China says that they oppose this and “will take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests.”

The White House threatened these tariffs to get these countries to take responsibility for “halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.”

Mexico promised to send 10,000 troops to the Southern Border to prevent migrants from crossing North. In exchange, the U.S. promised to work “to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico,” according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

Canada staved off the tariff by promising to implement a 1.3 billion border plan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Canada will commit to “reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.  In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.   Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.”

Those are hefty promises but will they really stop the powerful and dangerous drug trade or will bad people find a way? It’s better than what we had to stop the drug and human traffic, which was nothing, but what will happen to the drug economy now?

Another partner has shown up to deter drug and human traffickers: Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele says that his country is willing to “take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.” The images are pretty scary. Could this work? And are the people of El Salvador okay with hosting the worst of the worst?

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Altitude Problem

Could the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed into a passenger airplane last week have had faulty altitude readings? That is what new data suggests.

Early investigation shows that the Black Hawk was shown an altitude of 200 feet, even though the crash happened at around 325 feet. Black Hawks are not supposed to fly above 200 feet so why were they? Did they have faulty readings? Was the system hacked to show faulty readings? Did the pilots not know that they were well over their allowed altitude?

To be honest, I’m surprised they’ve even acknowledged this much. Two men were arrested for leaking the footage of the airplanes collapsing. They were airport employees.

What’s Trending?

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The Voice is trending because the show is back for its 27th season on NBC.

Pat Hoberg is trending. He is a baseball umpire who was fired by MLB for sports betting.

Joao Felix is trending because the football/soccer player is negotiating a deal to play for AC Milan on a six-month loan.

News By The Numbers

26. That is the age of country music singer Alexis Wilkins, who is reportedly dating Kash Patel, the man who is under confirmation hearings to be the head of the FBI. They have reportedly been dating for two years. He is 44 years old.

£80 million. That is how much Netflix reportedly spent to make films with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but his first documentary called POLO is a flop and critics have called it boring. It has 3 out of 10 stars on IMDB. What is the opposite of the Midas Touch? These two have that.

97%. That is how much of USAID’s employees’ political contributions went to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. No wonder Democrats are so pissed about it being defunded.

U.S. Could Own TikTok?

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Wait, TikTok could be owned by the United States government instead of private Chinese investors? Does anyone think that’s a good alternative?

The Trump administration published an order to establish a “sovereign wealth fund to promote fiscal sustainability, lessen the burden of taxes on American families and small businesses, establish economic security for future generations, and promote United States economic and strategic leadership internationally.”

The fund would do what hedge funds are supposed to do: make investments. The President said that other countries have funds like this and putting TikTok in the fund was just one of many ideas he is spitballing.

“As an example, TikTok, we’re going to be doing something perhaps … and we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make, or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people — a lot of options, but we could put that as an example in the fund. We have a lot of other things that we can put in the fund.”

Another idea was discussed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: investing in the vaccines that the government green lights.

“If we are going to buy 2 billion COVID vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these companies and have that grow for the health of the American people.”

The government profiting from the vaccines it implements? No. Didn’t we learn from the Covid vaccine?

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