A Week to Remember ...

But What Set This Chaos Into Motion?

The bulk of this article was written in the time between Biden’s disastrous Presidential Debate and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life. Talk about a week to remember.

Q posted “a week to remember” on July 14, 2019.

Trump’s assassination attempt was on July 13th, five years later.

Since the rally in Butler, Trump has picked JD Vance as his VP, the RNC occurred, and Biden has dropped out of the race. We’ve experienced an epic week—a week in which one can’t take a breath and reestablish their bearings because with every new day, a tectonic shift of the narrative occurs.

But what set all of this into motion?

I no longer believe Biden’s performance on the debate stage caused the Deep State to make its massive shift—a changing of the batter. While the argument that his obvious cognitive issues were displayed to the masses and there was no way of walking it back, everyone in the media knew of Biden’s cognitive issues for years, and they’ve been making excuses for him for years. They’ve been protecting him for years. So why turn on him now, immediately after the debate?

One could say the media couldn’t cover for Biden any longer because his cognitive decline was now too obvious. I would argue that we didn’t even see the worst of Biden during the debate. The argument I’m about to make is that it was determined Biden needed to be replaced before the debate ever occurred, and that the debate was the event that would be used to justify the decision. This helps to explain why the media so quickly and universally turned on Biden immediately following the debate. They didn’t wait for their 4am talking points, as their orders were already given to them.

What if the concoction of drugs that make Biden temporarily semi-coherent wasn’t given to him prior to the debate, but was rather withheld to intentionally expose his mental state?

In my opinion, Biden was at his most coherent during his latest State of the Union Address, after which, many commented on how drugs were used to get him into that coherent state for an hour. It doesn’t appear the same drugs were used for the latest debate. Biden was out of it from the very beginning.

Did the Deep State Cabal decide before the debate that a changing of the guard was necessary, and the debate was where and when the process would start? Was Biden being set up?

But why did this change need to occur now? What happened in the weeks prior to the debate that would lead the Deep State to believe they needed to replace Biden now? What happened that made it necessary for the Deep State to not only replace Biden, but attempt to assassinate Trump?

This is panic like we have never seen before. They could have replaced Biden at any time during the past three years. They could have tried to assassinate Trump at any time during the past three years as well. What happened that seems to have triggered their desperation?

I think it might be something that was so subtle that most didn’t even know it occurred.

On June 10, 2024, roughly two weeks before the debate, Trump first publicly put out the notion that, as POTUS, he would work towards making tips tax-free. Again, very subtle, but was this received by the Deep State as Trump saying he was going to take down the whole corrupt financial system during his next presidency?

Making tips tax-free could be viewed as a first step towards abolishing income tax.

After abolishing income tax, the money supply system would be next. Without private bankers controlling America’s money supply system, the Deep State Cabal stands no chance of surviving. To me, it is more likely that this is what sparked the Deep State desperation, and not the public waking up to Biden’s lack of cognitive prowess. The vast majority of people already knew Biden wasn’t fit to run the country before the debate ever occurred.

But why does it seem the Deep State players aren’t all on the same page? Some stuck by Biden while others abandoned him. Does this disarray stem from a power struggle between the Cabal families? The chaos could be the result of a power grab, or the chaos could have created an opportunity for a power grab.

Did anyone catch that Alex Soros and Huma Abedin recently announced their engagement? It recalls how royal families marry into other royal families to keep peace and consolidate power. Was this engagement announced to calm the mayhem between the Cabal Families, or did the mayhem result from a power grab that is occurring?

It’s clear to me that Biden didn’t give up the reins because he wants to do what is best for the country. He fought the decision, kicking and screaming to the very end. I believe he had his assets frozen and feared for his life, and that is why he has submitted to the Deep State’s decision for him to step aside. Biden needed to be replaced before people started asking the question, ‘Biden obviously isn’t running the country, so who is?’

For the Cabal to exist, they need people to believe that they don’t exist. For the system to exist, they need us to believe there isn’t actually a system. For the Cabal to control the system, they need to control the money.

Which brings us to tax-free tips.

Every major undertaking starts off with a much smaller first step. It really isn’t impossible to think that getting rid of taxes on tips could open the door to eliminating income tax altogether.

In theory, taxing tips doesn’t really make sense, it’s not income, it’s a way people are shown appreciation for meeting or exceeding customer’s expectations. It’s not quite as ridiculous as having to pay gifting or inheritance taxes for wanting to give or leave your money and property to your loved ones, but none of these taxes are easily justified, just accepted.

Some industries have turned tips into wages, making tips a necessity; by employers paying their employees little to nothing, and expecting the customers to pay the difference, tips are required for these employees to earn a living wage. The responsibility of paying the employees has been put on the customers, and if the customers don’t tip, many employees go vastly under-paid.

In theory, income tax doesn’t really make sense, either.

Our founding fathers viewed income tax as being unconstitutional. Politicians had to later amend the Constitution to start taxing Americans’ incomes in 1913. Even if one doesn’t view income tax as being unconstitutional, how does one justify the same dollar being taxed multiple times? If one pays income tax, property tax, sales tax, and capital gains tax, then this is double, triple and quadruple taxation, certainly without representation.

In reality, all taxes are taxation without representation, because your government does not represent you … they do not work for you.

Again, the same dollar you earn is taxed multiple times. Imagine shopping for clothes at your local mall and paying sales tax on what you buy, then paying a tax to put the items in your trunk, another tax to take them out of your trunk, and finally, a tax to put them in your closet. No one would stand for this, yet we walk around like zombies, accepting every tax we are charged, we even justify them in our minds. We live in fear of the IRS, which is why it was created.

If we must pay taxes, it should either be on the income we make, or on the things we buy, not both. I figure with all the taxes we are charged, and inflation factored in, the biggest tax of them all, for every dollar we earn, the average American is probably left with around 30 to 40 cents to actually spend on what they want or need. In our minds, we think we pay 15%, but in reality, it’s more like 60-70% after all the taxes and inflation have taken their toll.

The question gets asked a lot, for legitimate reasons, if the Federal Reserve can print money out of thin air, why do we even need to pay taxes at all?

The truth is that we don’t really need to pay taxes to run the country, and our taxes don’t actually pay for our government. Taxes are used to create the illusion that Americans pay for their government, and the illusion that, without Americans paying their taxes, the government couldn’t function. Creating the illusion that Americans pay for the government supports the illusion that the government in turn works for them. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

We justify the taxes we pay by saying the taxes are needed for things like building and fixing roads, and operating the Postal Service. If our income tax pays to fix roads and run the postal service, why are we also paying gas tax, car tabs and postage? Remember when Trump told Amazon to deliver their own packages, and our taxes shouldn’t be used to subsidize them through the USPS? Notice how many Amazon trucks you see on the road today, and the company seems to be doing just fine.

Before the Federal Income Tax ever began, the railroad system was built, power lines were installed throughout America, and much of the highway and freeway system was put in place. We had a military, schools, hospitals and sidewalks. Again, before the Federal Income Tax was ever instituted.

Between the American Civil War and the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913, America became an economic giant without having a Federal Income Tax. It makes it kind of hard to justify needing an income tax now. It seems more infrastructure was created before the Federal Income Tax was instituted.

When was the last time you saw a new freeway built? Where is the money really going?

In reality, the Federal Reserve does print money out of thin air to fund itself, and they use that money to fund the financial system. Banks and corporations receive the money the Fed prints out of thin air. The money is passed back and forth between corporations, governments and politicians. The government represents and works for the banks and corporations, not the people.

If Americans didn’t pay income tax, people would start to wonder who funds everything. In other words, they might wake up to the scam. It’s like a drug dealer who lives a lavish lifestyle with no reported income; it becomes pretty obvious something nefarious is going on.

The biggest financial scam of them all is inflation.

Let me give you an example of how bad the scam is:

Let’s assume someone wants to buy a house. The Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air, and gives that money to the banks to lend out. This dilutes the purchasing power of existing money (inflation,) causing the cost of houses to go up. After a bank is given the money from the Fed, they lend it out to the potential home buyer, charging interest. The bank makes money off the interest it charges by lending out the money the Fed created. The politicians are paid by the banks, the banks are given free money to loan out, and the home buyer is paying for both through the inflation, manifesting itself in a higher home price and the interest on the loan. And let’s not forget that the banks are able to dole out bigger loans because of the inflation created by the Fed, whose money printing causes the home prices to go up.

Bernie Madoff is a lightweight compared to these Ponzi schemers.

Imagine being able to print money anytime you want more or need more, and passing on the cost to everyone else through the inflation it creates.

In the early 1970’s, France wanted the US to pay back a loan the US borrowed from them. Nixon’s government said, ‘no problem.’ They were going to just print up the money and send it to France. France, aware of this ongoing scam, said they didn’t want America’s fiat money, and wanted to be paid in gold instead.

This created a dilemma, as you can’t just create gold out of thin air like you can fiat money, so the US government had to pass an amendment making it illegal to pay foreign entities with gold. Problem solved. Now everyone had to take their fiat money. This act stood for 50 years, and was quietly repealed, ironically, a couple of years ago, when the BRICS nations started talking about creating their own gold-backed currency to use for international transactions instead of the US Dollar.

The BRICS countries … you know, the same countries whose leaders Trump met with back in 2017.

Coincidence?

The Petrodollar was created in the early 1970’s, as well. It was agreed that oil could only be sold using US dollars. When I say “agreed”, it was more like someone pulling up their shirt a little to show the gun tucked into their belt and saying, ‘are we cool?’

The Petrodollar gave the US a huge financial advantage over other countries and currencies. If the world had to use US dollars to settle international transactions, it meant the US government and the Fed could print up even more money to use in their Ponzi Scheme, and now many more people would be paying for it through the inflation it creates. It used to be that only Americans were having to pay for the money the Fed created and handed out to their partners in crime, but now the whole world was paying for it. This is when the US transitioned into becoming a true economic juggernaut.

It’s no wonder the BRICS nations no longer want to be a part of this system. The US government is like a crack dealer who smokes half his supply and charges double for the crack he sells to make up the difference. The world is having to pay the difference, and they are getting sick of it. Not only are foreign nations having to pay for the money the Fed creates, but the money is often used to terrorize and control these countries.

Very recently, the 50-year Petrodollar agreement ended, and immediately afterward, the mainstream media was trying to tie Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 attacks. Most remember how when the Saudi Arabian Royals started to get a little too chummy with Trump a few years ago, the media reported that the Saudis murdered and dismembered a journalist. Of course, they failed to mention he was the nephew of the biggest arms dealer the world may have ever known, or that he was a CIA asset. It’s funny the details they tend to leave out.

Income tax was forced on the American people the same year big bankers were given the ability to print money, determine interest rates and the flow of money supply through the unconstitutional creation of the Federal Reserve around 1913. Income tax, the forming of the Federal Reserve and the formation of the IRS all happened in the same year. This is not a coincidence.

If we only look at what the Federal Reserve has done just since 2006, it becomes very easy to understand that it has been used as a tool of the Deep State to control the Ponzi Scheme we know as the American financial system.

In 2007, the Federal Reserve understood the American economy was on the verge of collapse, so they started to aggressively cut interest rates to stave off an inevitable recession. They cut interest rates by 5% over the course of the year, leading into the banking collapse in the Fall of 2008, yet up to that point, no one wanted to believe the economy was in trouble. Banks continued to make risky loans, and kept bad debt on their books. Once the banking system collapsed and became insolvent, the Fed cut the interest rates all the way down to zero. To create liquidity in the financial system, the Fed bought up assets and put them on their balance sheet.

Cutting interest rates and putting assets on the Fed Balance Sheet is a short-term fix, a kind of defibrillator used to shock the economy back to life, but eventually, a normalizing must occur. Interest rates need to come back up a bit, and the balance sheet needs to be reduced. In the case of the US Economy, this defibrillator was used incessantly for the next eight years under Obama.

For eight years, the Fed never found an opportunity to raise interest rates back to a more normal level, or reduce the balance sheet. It was like they never thought the American Economy could ever leave the intensive care unit for eight years, not even for a short walk around the hospital—all while Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google were growing into massive American companies—all created, funded and given preferential treatment by the CIA and their puppets. Raising interest rates might not have allowed these Cabal-run companies to expand into mega cap companies at the pace they needed, and rates were therefore suppressed.

When Trump won the election in 2016, the first interest rate hike occurred. Trump inherited shroom-tripping Janet Yellen as his Fed Chairman and had to keep her for two years before she could be replaced. In the blink of an eye, easy money was going away, and a fake, stimulated economy was being forced to become a real economy. It’s like the American economy went from playing a doctor on TV, to needing to be a doctor in real life.

In 2018, Trump-elected-Jerome Powell took over as the Fed Chairman, and started raising interest rates aggressively to the displeasure of Trump. A 20% stock market drop occurred in the Fall of 2018, which led to rates being cut in 2019, bringing the stock market back up again. Trump knew rates needed to come up, but it had to be gradual. He was right, as he always seems to be.

When the Covid lockdowns were forced on the country in early 2020, Trump knew drastic measures needed to be taken to save the economy, to save Americans. He forced the Fed to print money at a rate never seen before. He knew this would create massive inflation, but it had to be done.

He was fighting the Cabal with their own weapon, the Federal Reserve.

When Biden took office in early 2021, the increased government spending and the inflation created by printing money to keep the nation afloat began to be seen. If one doesn’t accept that a large portion of the inflation we have experienced came from Trump telling the Fed to print money, one is simply being naive. Again, he had to do it, as it was the lesser of two evils. The Cabal plan was to destroy the American economy, likely to keep America locked down for years.

Notice that the Deep State doesn’t seem to really accuse Trump of creating the inflation we now have. To accuse Trump is to draw attention to the Ponzi Scheme. The Cabal wants the world to believe inflation is a naturally-occurring event, and that it’s not purposely created by the printing of money backed by nothing.

The Cabal can’t afford the public to understand that the whole financial system is a scam. Who is going to continue to play at a roulette table if they know the wheel has a magnet, or play craps if they know the dice are loaded? The system must be protected at all costs.

Instead of blaming Trump for creating the inflation by printing excess money, the media tried to downplay the inflation, acting as though it wasn’t really that bad. They told the public that they weren’t really experiencing what they were experiencing. If the media blamed Trump, the public would have discovered where inflation really comes from, which would bring down the system.

Just as the American public can’t know that Biden doesn’t really run the country, the public can’t know that their debt servitude is completely avoidable. Income tax is unnecessary to run the country. Income tax does help to expand the size and control of the government, and it is used to control Americans, but it’s not necessary to run the government

It is not a coincidence that Trump has recently come out saying tips shouldn’t be taxed. One could say this is a pandering move to the service community for their votes, but I believe this is a baby step towards income tax in general being reduced, and eventually revoked. I believe that, when back in office, Trump will use tariffs and corporate taxes to fund the government, and that the government and government spending will be reduced to a manageable level.

Less government, less government control.

I believe revoking the Federal Income Tax can’t happen on day one—January 20, 2025. If this occurred, a panic would take over the financial system, and legitimate programs might go unfunded. But I believe making tips tax-free would be a good first step before then reducing overall tax rates—eventually eliminating Federal Income Tax altogether. But to eliminate it altogether, a process would need to occur. Government jobs and programs will need to be reduced and, in some cases, eliminated, but it can’t all happen on day one.

They say every journey begins with a first step, and I believe making tips tax-free is that first step.

The Deep State Cabal can’t allow any of this to happen. The puppet masters who really control the world must keep their identities a secret, and they must keep their Ponzi Scheme from being exposed and dismantled. I fully expect all the Deep State players to go into full panic mode over the next few months, but I don’t believe they will succeed in maintaining their power and control.

How do I see the next few months going leading into the election, and following the election?

I think the Deep State will continue to be exposed. I believe the table will continue to be set for an American economic recovery in 2025 … think Supreme Court decisions. I believe the Deep State in America will continue to shift to Europe, more outside of Trump’s control.

Something to ponder: Boeing stock was at $323 the day Biden took office. Within eight weeks, it was down to $95 a share. Have you heard any bad news come out about Airbus during the past few years? Where is Airbus located?

France.

Within Europe, I see a Deep State power struggle as well, with Cabal families in England, France and Germany fighting to have a bigger share of Deep State power.

Which Cabal families back Harris, and which families might back another candidate? Will the Deep State try to create unity within the cartel, or will the power struggle continue?

Instead of focusing too much on what the Deep State might do in a war they have already lost, I’m focusing on removing the blinders I’ve worn my whole life. I’m trying to open up my mind to the possibilities of what life will have to offer once the system has been dismantled, and power is returned to the people.

Trump is subtly telling us what awaits us when this war is over. Trump winning in the Fall isn’t just about surviving the Deep State, it’s about the ushering in of an era of prosperity.

The best is most definitely yet to come, and it’s coming sooner and bigger than one might be able to comprehend. Try to break free of the chains that limit your expectations. Don’t base your future expectations on your present and past experiences that have been influenced by the Cabal your whole life. Real change won’t occur overnight, but it will occur.

Instead of worrying about what the next few months hold, I am opening up my mind to what the future CAN be.

One can understandably say Trump pledging to make tips tax-free has absolutely nothing to do with the chaos the Deep State is currently experiencing, and one could argue the chaos comes from finally recognizing the severity of Biden’s mental condition. But maybe making tips tax-free is a shot across the bow—a warning to the Deep State that their days are numbered, that their system is about to be demolished down to its foundation.

Finally, I’ll leave you with a teaser and a timeline:

On July 13, an assassination attempt was made on Trump’s life. Six days later, Sheila Jackson Lee died. Two days later, Biden pulled himself out of the campaign race. The next day, the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle sat before the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, during which, Cheatle made mention of Jackson Lee’s passing. She also mentioned how Jackson Lee was engaged in oversight of the Secret Service.

The following day, Cheatle stepped down from her position atop the Secret Service.

Four questions for the reader:

Was Sheila Jackson Lee involved in the planning of the assassination attempt on Trump? If so, is she now dead because of the attempt, or because the attempt was unsuccessful? Did Biden step down fearing he would be next?

And finally, will Jackson Lee be buried wearing her infamous pedophile ring?

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