How You End Up With A EBT-Card With $30,000 On It?

 I paused over this idea.

You have a friend who has a $1,500 monthly EBT credit deal. Your friend...is a druggie, and would prefer cash.

You go tp the buddy and offer $1,000 cash, for the card.   Every month for two  years.....you pay $1000 in cash. The card keeps accumulating $1,500 monthly.

First year....$18,000 on the card. $6000 profit.

Second year....$36,000 on the card. $12k profit.

Cost to you?  $24,000.  You've got a profit of $12,000.

You use the card....maybe once a month....for $500.

Audit? Never will occur.

Tax-free....better deal than a bank CD.

It would be better....if you had four friends.

Humble Thoughts

 1.  Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin is apparently involved in a plot where fed-prison staffers stole Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney-client emails and funneled them to him, which he then leaked to the media in an attempt to smear President Trump.

I pondered over this.

AG action?  They will go after the fed-prison staffers first....basically charging them....then bringing up a deal if the whole story is told...IDing Raskin, and the pay-off (I assume cash). If there is some luck....they will be fined, and fired...with no jail.

Then Raskin  would come up....having to explain the deal....where he got the cash (I assume a  lobbyist-buddy). Guessing on the amount?  I'm  of the mind the fed-prison  staff folks were asking for $10k a week for monitoring and funneling. 

Getting kicked out of the House?  Once the AG  puts the deal up and helps him avoid jail....but having tax issues to admit to....the House can dump Raskin out.

This won't  be settled until Oct/Nov of 2026....I suspect.

2. How this EBT-card mess  will go?

I think Trump in early 2026 will demand a complete person-by-person audit, and require each American (particularly EBT-folks) to have an national ID card.   It's the only way to fix the mess.

Q-and-A

1. Will TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) end in 2029?

I am of the opinion that the intensity will drop by 50-percent....but it will linger even 10 years after his death.

Meaning?  At some point, in 2030....some TDS-suffering soul....will  attempt to attend a family situation, with pro-Trump family members, and try to get past their issue. Meanwhile....the pro-Trump member will say something, and re-trigger TDS all over again.

2.Will VDS (Vance Derangement Syndrome), DDS (DeSantos Derangement Syndrome), or RDS (Rubio Derangement Syndrome) occur next, and be just as serious?

YES.

3. Is there a cure for TDS?

I'm of the mind that if you go old-style empathy (what existed prior to 2000)....about half of the problem goes away.

Disconnecting from the news (limiting yourself to just 30 minutes a day)...also  helps.

4.  Can TDS be passed down to kids?

Kids rebel....so the odds are....they are laughing their ass off at the whole discussion of TDS.

5.  In 15 years, as Baron Trump reaches age 35 and possibly running for President....won't BT-DS start to occur?

Well...yeah....99-percent chance of such.

Ten Humble Opinions

 1.  If you checked the anti-Joe Rogan folks carefully....none of them have ever viewed a single episode of Rogan....to reach their conclusion of hating Rogan.

2. In the back of my head....I keep wondering...there in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s....how did we survive without  'safe-spaces'?

3.  Pondering this week....in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the evil group that Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin were fighting was THRUSH, a secret international organization bent on world domination through terrorism, espionage, and advanced technology.

Oddly enough....I think here in 2025....THRUSH probably really does exist, that Epstein was a member, and that Antifa is a sub-unit of THRUSH.

4.  Starbucks in 2026?  I'm predicting 25-percent of shops will be closed by the end of the year....mostly over strikes, and unwilling  nature of consumers to pay $5 for a cup of coffee.

5.  If you had a hundred-thousand Democratic voters lined up, and explained the general 'promises' of NYC soon-to-be-mayor Zohran Mamdani...half of them 50,000...would NOT be able to vote Democrat.

6.  Just a gut feeling...more than 1,000 Antifa members will likely be convicted of some felony charge, and spend a minimum of 1-year in prison.  Most all of them are ill-equipped (mentally) to handle prison life.

7.  There's some rumor....that the 'orange' used to make Cheetos....will be eliminated.   My question....will people eat a neutral color Cheeto?

8. In a primary situation....VP Vance versus Gov DeSantos....I think DeSantos could win 20-plus states.  

9.  If you've been on SNAP longer than 10 years....in a highly urbanized-high cost region....you should be forced to relocate to central Kansas....to the lowest-cost area possible...for your good, and the good of tax-payers. 

10.  One of my theories on why aliens continue to visit and study the Earth.....is that they are amazed by our crazy folks.