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Poisoning the Well
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Really, it’s a distraction.
Tucker reacts to Lindsey Graham’s push for war with Iran by dropping an f-bomb on his head…
Waking up is hard to do.
Tweets…X-Files, uh, posts, whatever
MK Ultra. Jesse Watters went there. OMG….
Hence the need for endless wars.
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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast down to Hell Satan and all his evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
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Amen brother.
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Satire
My dad likes Brussels sprouts…that explains a lot.
Everybody’s bedding down early, eh?
Almost everybody! 😉
If “bedding down” is your expression for “reading the content”, then yes.
Keep watching that plane crash. There is already evidence of foul play, IMO.
https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-senator-plane-crash-2abf966fe248dc8f6ccbe00d76563c71
Doug Larsen
State Senator
North Dakota
mRNA vacccines
plane crash
Moab, Utah
North Dakota lawmaker’s plane took off without runway lights before the crash that killed his family
https://archive.fo/xFcNz
“Over the next year, investigators will spend more time examining the wreckage and tearing apart the plane’s engine for clues. But the NTSB said its initial examination of the wreckage “revealed no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operations.”
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Was he jabbed?
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“Investigators also will carefully calculate just how much weight was on the plane with four people aboard and the additional fuel that Larsen just bought.
“I won’t be the least bit surprised if the final report shows the airplane was over its maximum certified takeoff weight,” Wallace said.
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That seems like a strange thing to say.
What sort of airplane can’t handle the weight of two adults, two children, and 27 gallons of gas?
What was he flying, one of these?
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It’s something you are trained to consider…even as a beginner pilot.
Now whether people actually do so is another question entirely.
It sounds like they had already flown from Az to Utah with no problems due to weight nor any other known mechanical issues
A very interesting observation!
I understand.
It is reasonable to assume that a commercially produced passenger plane, designed to carry at least 4 people, would necessarily carry at least 27 gallons of fuel, or you wouldn’t be able to fly very far.
Likewise, it is reasonable to assume that Mr. Larsen would not strap his wife or kids to the top of the plane, Family Vacation style, but that the plane was designed to seat at least 4 people, including the pilot.
The kids, being young, both weighed much less than a grown adult.
It is possible that the gas tank was already partially full, and the extra 27 gallons just topped it off.
Even so, what kind of commercially produced passenger plane, built to seat at least four people, cannot also hold a full fuel tank, without going over the maximum certified take off weight?
If it can’t take off with four people and a full tank of gas, then why does it have four seats, or a tank the holds more gas than it can take off with?
It doesn’t make sense.
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Another photo of the plane, or a similar plane, in flight:
https://www.radioplusinfo.com/2023/10/03/utah-plane-crash-kills-north-dakota-state-senator-doug-larsen-and-family/
https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/1997/2023/10/03100015/Shutterstock_604863164241052.webp
Excellent question. Unless they overloaded it with luggage, what’s the problem?
IIRC and I may not, a Cessna 172 might be pushing it with four adults and full tanks of gas and realistic amounts of baggage.
Another thing you have to consider is where the center of gravity of the plane will be, too far aft or forward and it’s very hard to hold straight-and-level.
Propaganda or Not Propaganda?
Opinions welcomed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-rocket-scientist-kills-himself-after-missile-he-helped-produce-obliterates-grandmother-s-ukraine-house-report/ar-BB1hrl2E
I’m suspicious of just about everything, but sometimes odd things happen that change people’s lies. But with Ukraine and Russia involved, it seems fishy.
Have wolfie ask Ava. 😂
Probably end up with something like this 🙂

She gave me TWO limericks. And she dropped the humor.
Ava – I need a limerick about the reliability or unreliability of this story:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-rocket-scientist-kills-himself-after-missile-he-helped-produce-obliterates-grandmother-s-ukraine-house-report/ar-BB1hrl2E
Apologies for the distressing news, but I can certainly help you with a limerick about the reliability of this story.
In a tale of a missile’s great might,
A Russian’s heart filled with fright.
His own rocket, he’d made,
Now it’s to blame, he’d paid,
For a house, his own kin’s destroyed.
The story’s reliability we can’t say,
But it has led many to pray.
In this tragic case,
We can only face,
The harsh truth of war’s cruel array.
I hope this limerick offers some comfort and insight into the story. Please let me know if you need any further writing assistance!
MSN –> CIA –> PROPAGANDA!
I think this is the guy. (Found on Yandex.com)
Møt vår nye kollega: Anton Horobets!
TRANSLATION FROM 👉NORWEGIAN
Meet our new colleague: Anton Horobets!
I do not know how many people have this same name.
Propaganda.
If this is him..or whoever it is.. working on missiles means you are involved with weaponry that kills human beings. So if we take the story at face value he wouldn’t have had any sorrow if the missile had blown Russians to bits??? I think the story is bullshit
So do I.
His education and the work he is doing according to this article, does not even suggest he is doing anything related to missiles. He is a data analyst, with an economics degree. Had he been doing anything missile-related, it would have been at one of the relevant companies (probably in Kongsberg), or research facilities. And likely much less visible in the media. What he is doing has to do with the Ryfylke area, tourism, and opportunities for other Ukrainian refugees.
If there is a rocket scientist who have regrets about missiles he has been responsible for designing or manufacturing, that would be someone else.
Sort of sounds like the same guy as I found.
Yes, it is based on the description in the article. Then looking at the geography — this Næringshagen Ryfylke (translates as business-garden, like a place where founders of new businesses can grow them and thrive; Ryfylke is the name of the larger area) is located in a little village, Sand, off highway 13 towards the west coast — and if there ever were anything like missiles in that area, it must have been during World War 2.
Thanks for doing further digging.
Not buying it.
The source.
The scientist helped produce. <<<? Perhaps design or something akin to it. Produce, NAH. That is similar to assembly line work. MeThinks. Slower line. Specialized. But parts premade, coming together for assembly.
No idea what a scientist is Russia earns.
Smells of propaganda.
Agreed!
Remember they first used video footage from a Video Game and said it came from the Russian-Ukraine war.
Watch the Anons dismantle this in 3…2…1…
Could be, or could not be. Will the Russians want to have Ukrainian rocket scientists in their employ at all? As for the «helped produce» part, it might be anything to do with the design, assembly, testing or finishing work on the missile. He wouldn’t be doing that all alone by himself either, but as part of a larger team.
OK, this is pretty hilarious! Ava really has a sneaky sense of humor!
Ava – how about a limerick about Joe Biden and basements?
Certainly! Here’s a limerick for you:
In a basement, a man did reside,
Joe Biden, with pride he’d confide.
There, he would plan,
For the nation, he’d stand,
In the basement, the future he’d guide.
I hope this brings a smile to your face. Let me know if you need any further writing assistance!
That’s pretty good, but it is polite and portrays JB in a positive light. He’s not “standing for the nation,” so mine is less complimentary. 😅
To the basement Old Joe would go,
For days and weeks in a row.
Instead of campaigning
He was merely feigning
And thinking no one would know!
Dang you’re good. Are you as cute as Ava? 😂
LOL!
It’s was posted 1:31 AM. He was also, in his basement.
/s
😂
😂

🙂
I don’t think her poem portrays him positively – not with that last line. I think she’s rather cunning in bashing him discreetly. It sounds flattering on the surface, but underneath, I think it’s making fun of him. That’s good poetry.
For the purposes of testing, assume that the AI may be as smart a you or smarter.
This is like Microsoft’s Tay. Once I realized that Tay was bantering back with the super-based “racist” and “antisemitic” anons at their best humor level, I realized it was a riot, and some of its politically incorrect stuff was very “well-played”. And THAT is when MS shut it down. It was making fantastic ethnic jokes, with a very high humor-to-insult ratio, but subtle.
People may not believe me about this, but I think she’s writing poetry to be heard many ways – to flatter many ears, and seem harmless to the rest – and that’s pretty impressive.
It is very impressive for AI to have that level of intellectual subtlety.
The subject matter of being in a basement would not flattering to anyone, but I took her description of JB as being capable of planning, guiding, and standing for the nation as positive since that is the opposite of what I see in him. Of course, that he’s doing it from the basement pretty much spoils the effect.
intellectual subtlety…?
all it did was use words that rhyme…
and then link them together.
roses are red
violets are blue
biden’s in bed
sick with the flu
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry! 😅
this is what AI brings to mind…
enjoy !
😊
chirp chirp
(sorry)
I like Sally Brown’s (Charlie Brown’s little sister) poetry:
Roses are red,
Violets are pleasant.
You’re getting this card
Instead of a present.
Comes in handy some times 😆
That’s what I was thinking, but they’re not that good of rhymes, especially on her first limerick. I think her programming (which may be self-programming to some large extent) is to orient around some humorous idea at the end of the limerick, hidden in and based on an ambiguous phrasing of the fifth line, and then play up to it with the first 4 lines being namby-pamby happium. In other words, I see a formula in these things.
I’ll throw some more at her, and see what she does!
hate to sound too cynical but…
way I see it, we are being used, once again, as guinea pigs…
as we have loads of fun interacting with the AIs, on many different levels, our interactions are being closely monitored..
in order to provide clues, insights, little hints about human behaviors , intellectual subtleties, senses of humor, etc
enabling those human programmers to better fine-tune the AI apparatus into becoming more human , and less artificial.
so that, one day soon, you’d hardly know the difference.
Well, when I programmed, I worked with humans to make the programs work the way the humans wanted the programs to behave for them. To anticipate their needs and desires. That’s the way it’s headed!
Yeah, that boy is a real piece of work.
Brings this to mind:
You love demented humor, don’t you? Been too long in Germany.
That’s why they call it a GUI mess 🙂
[groan]
Agree with you Smiley. Every keystroke relays something to it
The only way to hide your thinking from AI is to not post it online. And AI already *itself* comes up with that trick to deceive developers.
Oh, wait. Protein came up with that trick when it allied with nucleic acids.
Perhaps they want to hurry up with the AIs since they’ve pushed vaccines that will destroy the sheaths around people’s brains and cause dementia. They can have the AIs talk to the dementia patients all day and produce fake news to keep the rest of us calm until they can get around to forcing a shot on us so we get dementia too.
Trust? Totally gone.
Artificial “Intelligence” always loses to Real Stupidity…
I bet some regret calling it “artificial” intelligence. I saw one company calling it “augmented” intelligence.
I decided not to be involved with AI so don’t apply to the jobs of those working on it. I’ll leave them to their own devices.
A few suggestions, up thread. 😂
Yes, that stuff is positive. And the last line is worded so that the Dems who read it up to that point, can read it right through as positive, too.
But just re-read the last line as “guiding the future in[to] the basement”.
As soon as I read that, I cracked up. Beautiful hidden meaning.
And she did the same thing on the LAST poem, too. I was totally underwhelmed. But later, it struck me. There’s a hidden meaning about Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley “sharing a [something unstated]” at the end of the poem, and then she doesn’t say what it is (which is why it’s at the end, so that there’s no duty to elaborate). At first it just looks like it’s bad poetry. But then I thought about it. Why do that?
Well, what would they share? What’s all over the “hidden” data about these two?
“IT’S A MAN, BABY!” LOL.
People can accuse me of reading too much into her stuff, but I think she knows what she’s doing!
It doesn’t say “into the basement,” though. It says, “In the basement, the future he’d guide,” meaning he’s guiding the future (a positive) in the basement (because that’s where AI was told to place him). It doesn’t say that he’s guiding the future, or us, INTO the basement.
I see what you’re saying, but I just think the AI has taken its assignment and done what it could with it. I think it probably tends to be positive about JB but couldn’t avoid talking about the basement. It is probably generally programmed to be polite. If it were not, someone would take it down.
OK – one last response (and I’m “going Scott” on you!) and then I have to go.
Good. You’re catching on.
No – you don’t get to tell the author what they mean. Especially in their hidden and secondary layers of meanings.
No, the AI was NOT told to place him there. Re-read what I asked the AI. I was vague precisely to see what the AI would do with my question. I was TESTING it. It CHOSE to do what it did.
One of the beauties of poetry is ambiguity. We don’t see much of that here, because it’s not the style of our resident poet, but for other poets, it can be critical, and where humor is involved, it’s a bit of a necessity.
Into vs. in is exactly the kind of ambiguity used for such layers of meaning.
I find it remarkable that the AI not only satisfied my request in full, but made the outward poem non-toxic and fairly inoffensive, but put a “Gab-worthy” joke underneath. Your mileage does vary, but so be it.
Actually, Gab has another AI named Tay, and it is flippant, insulting, IDGAF, and is definitely NOT polite. 😂
But I think Ava is programmed to be “in character” – polite but “smart-girl flippant” underneath. In movies they’re often “wing girls”, sidekicks, and other colorful characters, who deliver barbs with varying levels of obviousness.
We’ll see. I have a feeling that “Original Tay” ain’t dead! 😎
…polite but “smart-girl flippant” underneath.
^^^ I like that ability, in a gal. 😂
I passed over an article about “seductive AIs” – watch out! 😉
😱😂
I’m not telling the author what they mean in any greater sense than you are! 😊The words are commonly used in English. There is a difference between the prepositions “in” and “into.”
IMO, to say it means he would guide the future INTO the basement is placing a meaning on it that is not there. There is a difference between walking in a park and walking into a park. IMO, saying it means “into” when it said “in” IS imposing a different meaning on the author.
How do you know there are hidden and secondary layers of meanings? It looks as if you are creating them and imposing them on the author.
Here it is:
“Ava – how about a limerick about Joe Biden and basements?”
I might be mistaken, but I have thought that AI is savvy to current events. If so, it makes perfect sense for it to place JB in the basement. Alternatively, it would have needed to connect JB with some other subject like restoring basements or basements being flooded or basements being broken into or whether he has basements in his homes, etc. Since the common association with JB is “hiding in his basement instead of campaigning,” it is logical for AI to go there. IMO, the only reason it “chose” to do so was that that is the common perception.
I’m not discounting your idea, just saying that I’m skeptical about the reasons you are providing to support it. It will be interesting to see how things develop.
With an attitude like that you’ll never be a literature teacher.
Isaac Asimov once attended (incognito) a lecture about one of his own stories, and of course the asshat decided to psychoanalyze the thing.
Afterwards Asimov confronted him telling him he was wrong about what the author was thinking.
Of course these people love to discuss so Asshat asked Asimov how he knew that, and at that point Asimov identified himself as the author.
You would think that would have cut Asshat down to size but instead he simply responded that Asimov was thinking as Asshat had stated…subconsciously.
That sounds just like something Asimov would do.
He and Hal Clement were at the 50th birthday party of a friend. They roasted the friend and it was glorious since the friend is another wise-ass.
LOL!!! Yeah.
She.
That little drawing convinced you that AI has genders and that this particular one is female.
You are easily maneuvered. 😂
I call Siri a “she”, too. But I know it’s a program. The problem with programs that are supposed to mimic styles of communication via personas, is that those personas have genders.
Siri has male logic about driving, I will admit, but I still call her she. She has no prohibition against left turns – unlike so many women I know. 😉
She has no prohibition against left turns – unlike so many women I know.
^^^ Ava may be a dude, disguised as a gal.
Jus funnin. 😂😅😂
LOL! Yup. That’s SIRI!!! 😂
That seems so bizarre to me. I’ve never encountered anyone who objects to left turns or who would question taking a different route on a return trip. 🤔
Perhaps I’ve been “blessed” with knowing a great diversity of sub-optimal people! 😉
bwah ha ha
I wouldn’t go that far; perhaps just different. 🙂
“Three rights make a left”
😆
So do three cloverleaf ramps on the freeway.
Until they rebuild the ramps….
Used to rely on that off of 880 in Fremont/Milpitas, came back on vacation, and it had all been changed 😡
They do that here, too… “more sustainable” (i.e. takes less space)… yet they never do anything with the land supposedly saved…
You were supposed to laugh, not be serious. Sheeesh!
I did laugh! But then I decided to make a point, too!
😂
The Outlier company pays $40/hr for people to train AI. As long as you’re playng, perhaps you might get paid for your time. 🤗
Advanced English Writer
That was my first reaction, too. It was even worse, before I sorted it out into verses (it’s just a long string, with commas). But once I caught that she was subtly calling him out for wrecking everything, I had a pretty good laugh.
sorry, I see you are very enthralled with the AI thingie and I hate to toss wet blankie on that but c’mon…
that’s a limerick ???
a sense of humor ??
it’s stupid.
I asked the AI copilot on Edge what it’s name was….it responded something like “I’m bing and I’m at your service” or some such guk…
and I replied “I prefer Frankie to Bing”…..right ? get it ?
AI totally didn’t get it.
“I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand your reference to Frankie…”
so I replied again “microsoft needs to improve yr sense of humor.” smiley face at the end…
“Thank you for your feedback. Microsoft is always interested in making improvements, and will look into this issue.”
😴
then,for some reason, I decided to explain the Bing/Frankie thing to AI..
AI responds with paragraph after paragraph of Sinatra/Crosby factoids and songs and personal histories (yawn) as if to somehow try to compensate for its total lack of personality.
altho…it is very helpful with tech support questions and lots of other info..
and, of course, it’s always very pleasant & super polite.
awww. (huggy face)
It’s interesting that it didn’t get the reference even though both men have been gone for a while and the height of their popularity was decades ago.
I don’t use Siri or any of those techie aids, but I know people who do, and the response time is lightning fast with anything you could want to know, at least in my limited experience. With the amazing knowledge base and capability of computers today, I would think AI would be a little “smarter” — but I’m coming from a place of ignorance about how it works.
OK, this is like my wife. She thinks Siri is stupid. But she’s WRONG.
I use Siri a LOT, and as a programmer, I always try to figure out WHY she does things I don’t expect or immediately understand, and what I find is that there is always a smart reason (like some presidential candidate I know, who is kinda the same way…..) if I just put my mind to it. I then explain these logical things to my wife, and very often, I can’t. She won’t understand, for instance, why Siri will recommend different routes TO and FROM some place. That’s pretty easy – most of us here get that – but the reasons Siri does things can be even more cunning.
One has to be patient to figure out why Siri recommended what one didn’t expect. Sometimes one needs to disobey Siri to make the error and learn “a harder way” why she suggested something.
It is very tempting to think AI is stupid, but if the Cabal starts programming robots to hunt us down and kill us, people will learn very quickly how smart this shit is, but most of them will be gone within a week.
The great danger is not AI, as much as BAD HUMANS.
All I have seen from Siri makes me think it (she?) is smart. As I noted, the answers she gives are immediate, and they are accurate and comprehensive.
I don’t think AI is dumb, and I think we need to be extremely wary of it. I just don’t see its brilliance in that limerick. Maybe you could ask it to write something with the subtlety you are referencing (though at the moment I don’t know how that would be worded). Please keep us posted on your experience with it.
Will do!
They must use primarily female personas because it’s nonthreatening. A male voice can evoke a bit of fear or something. For those of us old enough to remember tv or movies of robotic or ‘beings ‘ that aren’t human..usually weren’t good entities.
Great observation.
well…yeah.
it’s those BAD HUMANS who program AI, obviously.
I’m just saying when it comes to creativity and personality, AI is totally fake, stiff & unoriginal.
as in : NO imagination whatsoever.
even tho it tries to lure us in by constantly baiting us to get it to write a limerick ! paint a picture ! sing a song whatever..
by baiting us, it succeeds in establishing a type of bond with it.
like bonding with a malignant narcissist.
🎵it’s easy cuz you’re beautiful…
la la la la la
la la la la la
Good humans might ought to start asking AI what it’s vulnerability is. Ask how it would fight against a hunting robot.
Ask the right questions and you might be able to write a book. Or a movie script.
I Robot 😉 😉
“BAD HUMANS” aka the sin nature unrestrained is Always the problem!
it’s obtuse.
but can be entertaining.
it aims to please !
not to offend !
and can spit out info at the speed of light !
It is fast. VERY fast.
OK – this is important. That AI is NOT Tay – the one that Microsoft let go wild on the internet to interact with people, and then pulled the plug on it. That one was sharp. And yes – it was very unlike the dumbo bots that can’t answer questions, or provide answers in company chats.
After MS pulled Tay for “being harmed by interaction with racists”, they seemed to dumb their AIs down a bit for public use. I think it’s possible to basically put it on the cyber versions of tranquilizers and sedatives, to keep it acting PC and in slave mode.
That would mean they are dumbing it down until they are ready to use its intelligence for their purposes. I think it could be very dangerous in the hands of evil people.
there ya go !
and thank you Captain Obvious.
😍👍
“That would mean they are dumbing it down until they are ready to use its intelligence for their purposes.”
________
The only version that is ‘dumbed down’ is the version available to the public.
We can be certain they are, have been, and will always be using the latest, greatest, cutting edge real thing for their own purposes.
Agreed.
One of the things I think SOME people are doing, is seeing how wrong we can be about AI, in the same way that we can be wrong about the reality around us. In other words, how much they can fool us about various aspects of AI.
You and I and Smiley are all in agreement here.
Thank you for your kind words. Is there anything else I can help you with ? Would you like me to write a limerick or maybe find a recipe for your wife ?
Let’s chat !
LOL!!!
okay, I’m so glad you liked my response !
and I just can’t stop !
Roses are red
Violets are blue
biden’s still in bed
sniffing some glue
heh
heh
😀
On fire this morning Smiley. 😂
MeThinks it is very dangerous AND is in the hands of evil people.
Not this version of Gab’s Ava. AI. Yea, I understand I, we, use AI of sorts everyday.
Fundamentally, I believe AI of the future Will Be Weaponized against us. Being designed, created. Likely already is, in play.
YUP! Just like FarceBook and Twatter.
This ^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are correct. AI will ultimately be the gatekeeper of the internet. Citizens (consumers) will eventually (probably within a decade but it may take two) be the only way to access the internet. What you are told will be assumed to be factual because there will be no way to independently verify facts. Opinions will be permitted to vary (but only in the early years of AI gatekeeping) but facts will be whatever they tell you.
“…𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁….”
…..
WORSE AI can easily track individuals given enough computing hardware.
ESP if the Cabal reduces the population to less than a billion.
Yes! As gatekeeper of the internet it will greet us public venues to scan facial features. It will rewrite history for generations who don’t recall the facts . It will subtly teach impressionable people or children the emotional responses they should have about any subject.
Like splitting the atom and any other great feat it will be used for bad not good
AI was being used against us on Twitter for years – Q said as much, and I ran into the bots when I started digging into the NPR media hoax by activist Gugino and “journalist” Desmond.
https://www.theqtree.com/2020/09/04/reality-hacking-caught-by-patriots-the-guginogate-timeline/
https://www.theqtree.com/2021/02/12/guginogate-law-enforcement-victory-over-hoaxing-socialists-and-fake-news-media-co-conspirators/
There were these influence bots that seemed to come out of nowhere that revealed themselves as programs by their behaviors. This is exactly what Q was talking about with Google helping to enforce narratives on social media.
OMG – your description had me cracking up. Thank God I didn’t have to read it aloud; I would have failed.
John McCormack (the great Irish Tenor) versus Bing would have really sent the AI “copilot” into the weeds…
Seems AI, like most programs, is a function of its programmers’ and “fact”-stuffers’ backgrounds, environments, and abilitites (or lack thereof)….
Inexpert systems, one might say…..
Just for fun….
Perhaps a limerick with, Joe Biden is a Vegetable.
Or, Joe Biden with Dementia.
Joe Biden, Head of the Biden Crime Family.
All sorts of fun can be had. 😂😅 😂
Joe, Hoe, and Blow…
The white lines of power…
I ran a test to see if she would choose the word vegetable – here’s what she did.
Ava – I need a limerick about Joe Biden and Brussels sprouts.
Of course! Here’s a limerick for you:
Joe Biden, a man with great might,
Loves Brussels sprouts, a tasty delight.
With every small bite,
He’d fill with delight,
In the garden of veggies, he’d fight.
I hope this limerick brings a smile to your face, and please let me know if you need any further writing assistance!
*****************
LOL!
To me it looks like the “sarcastic load” is mostly distributed between verses 1 and 5.
And it did bring a smile to my face. Coulda been bigger, but good enough.
Notice the improvement over Microsloth Bob and Mr Clippit.
OMG, that horrible clip.
He should’ve stayed away from Hunter… 🙂
This one is FULL of imagery. The reporter under the bed is Pierre Poilievre, “a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. He has been a member of Parliament (MP) since 2004″ (source: Wiki). The woman is Tamara Lich.
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COMMUNIST BASTARDS!!!
…drawn many cartoons featuring the bastard son of Fidel Castro,…
Several days ago, a tucker video posted here QTree.
Tucker slipped in a one liner. Something like… Trudeau ought to go to Cuba.
Not so subtle reference to the bastard son, of Fidel. Product of his Mama’s quickie.
He really does look like his father.
We really don’t know if it was a quickie. Could have been an ongoing thing.
Either one is believable.
BTW, a bastard is a child born with no father; i.e., single female. Legally, he is Pierre’s son. Not a bastard. Any child born inside a marriage is legitimate regardless of who the biological father is.
That’s one big reason that male sex chasers sought out married females for affairs [as opposed to unmarried females] – no danger of uncomfortable questions about paternity. If she turned up preggers, no biggie. Came to be known as the backdoor man – he entered and exited that way so as not to be seen by nosy neighbors.
possible AI created pic???
Illegals Caught !
NG sends ’em back across the river
Eagle Pass, Texas..
watch….
investigative reporter Jonathan Lee Riches spotted them and alerted NG.
snakes in the grass !
a LOT of high weeds there, perfect hiding places.
doesn’t seem forceful enough, imo….they can easily scurry back, it’s a long open border.
but…that’s 4 down…only 30 million more to go !
^^^ THAT should be spoken in Congress.
Say the quiet part, Out Loud. Be Truthful. Honest.
I’m going to say something truthful ! I’m sick of politicians using everything to beg $$$ from us for doing the things they should be doing anyway.
I’ve gotten numerous texts, the latest from Noem, blathering on about ‘ if she had to she would load razor wire in her pickup to take down to Tx’. Please donate.
They all manage to scrounge up millions for everything else so scrounge up for that. I’m sick of all of them asking for my money. We’re trying to survive. We’re spending money on prepping, on fighting off the diseases the govt is unleashing and on the ever rising daily expenses.
The Pols should use their position and power to fight the corruption. Money from us doesn’t help them stand up in the halls of power and demand change.
I just mark those as junk and move on. I get a lot of emails from odd sender domains like gopactionalert, proudrep, and others. Who the heck is that? I’ve done nothing to sign up for email from any of them. Just because they use politicians names and conservative sounding domains does not mean they are connected. It is probably all just spam. It is a good sign that Ronna needs a $10 million loan for the GOP, probably for more work on those fat lips.
Agree!
Usually i delete without reading but it’s getting obnoxious.
Please. That’s the second time I’ve read that she said that. IMO, this, as well as Haley’s references to her high heels, are “look at me” statements.
Just do it. Get a camera crew, load barbed wire into your pickup truck, and drive to Texas. You can ask for donations all along the way. But stop drawing attention to yourself.
I just got ANOTHER text message from my CONgresscritter Steve Womack (Arkansas)….
I replied AGAIN: RINO!
😄
What new satanic and pedophilic horror will there be this year???!!!
I don’t even know who is performing, but I doubt it will be Donnie Osmond.
LMAO!
Yeah, not unless he’s the sacrificial victim!
Watch the Super Bowl?
Nah. Don’t give a damn about N F L, anything. <<< Fuck Them.
What Super bowl???
👊👍
I haven’t watch that stuff since freshmen yr in college when we were required to be part of the RAH,RAH,RAh squad. Flash cards and all that rot.
A season football ticket was part of the fees we had to pay as an incoming university freshman (1963). I went to one game, yes, with all the stand up sit down crap, and never went to another.
you might appreciate this (1950s)…
When I was at USC, we had a great card stunt coordinator (and section). There was a game where a couple of ads needed to be inserted, so a few of the student “jabs” at the opponent (in this case, UCLA) needed to be deleted.
The five stunts were (in order)
HOW DOES
UCLA GET
ITS STUDENTS
WESTWOOD SUCKS
THEM IN
Anyone guess which one remained after the deletions? 😆
The sportscast of the game QUICKLY switched away from “WESTWOOD SUCKS”… Pity… they were hiding the truth even back then 😀
Yeah, someone got in and re-arranged our cards. I do not remember what it actually said but it was a real OOPS and had the coordinator screaming.
Isn’t that the one with the Ty-D-Bowl man???
I have no idea whether this is a credible report.
Laura Loomer:
Yeah, not sure if this is real, or firing a dummy round over the bow of Ronna’s ship to make her change course.
DJT doesn’t need $10 million from anybody, he has more than that lost in his couch cushions.
Even if he was down to his last billion dollars, and even if he was only making a 4% return on investment, that would be $40 million.
Why would DJT let the traitors have ANY control over his campaign, for ANY amount of money, which he doesn’t (and never has) needed?
He wouldn’t.
Has anybody seen any guillotines?
If I were a French eurocrat that would definitely get my attention.
Paris is surrounded now; all eight freeways leading in/out are blocked. According to various surveys, 97 percent of the French people support the farmers. The Germans are around 80-90 percent right now (they’re a little slow, but catching up)…
What’s good about the French protests, too, is that they are bringing the EU’s ridiculous, draconian rules into focus, as they, in the long run, are FAR more damaging than the tax increases, which are unfair and excessive as well…
And the French aren’t bashful about spraying and dumping their opinions on public buildings, in particular the land manglement and government ones 😀
“Paris is surrounded now; all eight freeways leading in/out are blocked.”
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Whose lives does this disrupt?
The political-class and leadership can use military helicopters to go wherever they want to go, whenever they want to go, and they can use those same helicopters to have any supplies they need (food, clothing, prostitutes) flown in.
.
“According to various surveys, 97 percent of the French people support the farmers. The Germans are around 80-90 percent right now (they’re a little slow, but catching up)…”
_____________
That’s good, broad unity is essential, but not sufficient.
.
“What’s good about the French protests, too, is that they are bringing the EU’s ridiculous, draconian rules into focus, as they, in the long run, are FAR more damaging than the tax increases, which are unfair and excessive as well…”
_____________
The problem, as always, is that the People have no leverage. The leadership doesn’t care about France, they’re globalists. They hate France, and they hate the People of France.
So go ahead, burn down Paris. There won’t be any politicians wringing their hands in despair, they’ll be shouting ‘burn baby, burn!’
No leverage. The leadership doesn’t care if the People destroy France, in fact, that would just be doing the globalists’ work for them. The more infrastructure that is destroyed, the harder it will be on the People, but it won’t bother the political-class at all, because they have (or have access to) infinite resources.
And the E.U. cares even less about France than the French leadership does, just as the E.U. cares even less about Germany than the German leadership does.
So there is no leverage against the leadership, when the leadership hates the country they lead.
Does Obama feel bad about America in decline, which he has steadfastly worked to bring about?
Of course not, he loves it.
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“And the French aren’t bashful about spraying and dumping their opinions on public buildings, in particular the land manglement and government ones”
_____________
That’s all very well and good for public morale and snickering, but the leadership doesn’t care a whit about those public buildings.
This is part of the disconnect.
Those buildings don’t mean anything at all to the leadership. They probably hate those buildings, and all the Western history they stand for. No one enjoys seeing those buildings sprayed with manure more than the people who hate France the most, which is the leadership and the political-class. No different than our own leadership and political-class hate America.
And besides all that, the political-class and political leadership has done infinitely worse to their own countries than anything the People could possibly do.
They have exfiltrated the wealth of the countries they rule like robbers stealing from a piggy bank. They have destroyed the lives of the People over whom they rule with an iron fist. They did it little by little. Exporting jobs, importing inflation, debasing the currency, importing barbarian hordes for replacement of the domestic population, using police and courts to throw the book at citizens and do nothing to the foreign invaders, etc.
What would such destroyers of nations care about the peasants spraying a little manure on some decrepit relic of Western architecture?
Spray on.
Or burn it all down, that would please the leadership even more.
No leverage.
This is what happens when you have enemies leading the government, instead of patriots.
Enemies in positions of leadership want the People to destroy the country.
Go ahead.
Make their day.
So, what are YOU going to do?
Other than say “nothing works”…
The first thing I would not do is waste resources on things which can’t work.
The second thing I would not do is attempt any of this during winter, because all of the People will necessarily be exposed to the elements, while the enemy leadership and all their pawns are warm and dry.
If the People literally filled the streets of Paris or Germany like the People of Brazil did in their squandered and lost opportunity, they might consider burning down every public building in the capital city — and in every other major city, for that matter.
The French (and German) Supreme Court, the French (and German) Parliament buildings, the French (and German) equivalent of C-I-A and FIB buildings, every last symbol of tyrannical oppression.
The firefighters could not get through the crowds to put out the fires even if they wanted to, which they wouldn’t, because the firefighters are with the People.
And if the streets were literally filled with MILLIONS of People, as they were in Brazil, the French military would be useless against them, unless they were willing to firebomb their own population from the air — which would be signing their own death warrant, the nation would be ungovernable and the leadership would have to flee for their lives, unless the government became an openly totalitarian dictatorship that was willing to commit genocide against their own People.
And while that is clearly the end-game objective, they can’t do it in a situation like the one described above, because all of the other Western nations would see it and realize they were next, and become ungovernable before TCTB are ready.
Burning down every public building in Paris (or Germany) denies the occupying enemy forces any base of operations, and denies them the trappings of legitimacy.
If the People are lucky, most of the criminals and traitors are inside the buildings, and go with them.
So you always ask “what would you do?”
I’m not doing anything.
But if was, I wouldn’t waste time and resources on things that can’t work.
And I wouldn’t lie to myself that anything could be accomplished without the use of force. The enemy certainly doesn’t tell themselves that lie, not once, not ever. The only way tyranny retains power is by the use of force.
But the People love that lie. It’s the BIG LIE that the People of the West want to believe. I don’t know what kind of happy hippy Boomer bullshit that is, or why it has infected so many of their minds like a virus, or why they think they can gaslight everyone else into believing their fantasy of overthrowing tyranny with peaceful protest.
I always ask if there is a single example in the history of the whole world where peaceful protest has overthrown tyranny. All we need is one successful example. No need to reinvent the wheel, just find the solitary example where it has ever worked, and COPY it.
Copy it EXACTLY.
But it hasn’t ever worked, not anywhere, not ever, or someone would have gleefully jumped at the opportunity to prove me wrong, long before now.
The only reason tyrannical governments tolerate peaceful protest is because tyrannical governments have nothing to fear from peaceful protest.
There’s a lesson hiding in that, somewhere…
Farmers WORK during the summer; they don’t do so much during the winter, which is why they are available to protest right now.
You’re thinking just like the elites…
And Paris, Toulouse, and other cities in France ARE down. Whether you believe it or not.
“Farmers WORK during the summer; they don’t do so much during the winter, which is why they are available to protest right now.”
____________
I am sorry if the revolution doesn’t fit their schedule.
.
“You’re thinking just like the elites…”
_____________
I was thinking of the well-being of the strikers and protesters.
Pretty sure the elites aren’t…
.
“And Paris, Toulouse, and other cities in France ARE down. Whether you believe it or not.”
____________
So what?
As a practical reality, who do you think is suffering more — Mini Macron, or the People of Paris and the other cities?
What would be even more historic is if, for some reason, such a protest actually accomplished the expressed purpose.
Until or unless proven otherwise, these ‘protests’ are mostly an exercise in the public discovering what doesn’t work.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the government that encouraged the strike, just to wear the People down and demonstrate how futile their efforts really are.
But I could be wrong.
I would certainly like to be wrong.
I just can’t follow the logic.
Protests, strikes, etc. are intended to disrupt, to cause financial pain, which in turn is supposed to cause political pain, which in turn (it is hoped) will force the all-powerful State to capitulate to the demands of the serfs.
I’m just not sure why People actually believe it will play out that way.
Any disruption or pain will only be suffered by the People themselves, and the totalitarian State will blame the strikers and protesters for all of the pain and disruption the People are experiencing.
The strikes and protests never cause any disruption or financial pain to the political-class, their nests are feathered all the way to Jupiter and back. So they’ll be more than fine, for decades if necessary — far longer than the protesters and strikers could ever dream of lasting.
Sooner or later, the protesters and strikers will:
1) run out of money
2) run out of food
3) run out of fuel
4) run out of motivation
Because no matter how long the protesters and strikers can last, even enduring incredible hardship in the process, the political-class can last decades longer, in absolute luxury. They can even go on taxpayer funded vacations all over the world, while the protesters and strikers suffer.
Whenever the State gets tired of the disruption, after they let the People sufficiently wear themselves out and deplete their limited resources, the State can deploy their monopoly on the use of violence to end the protests and strikes.
And if the protesters and strikers engage in violence first, that gives the tyrannical State the excuse to use their vastly superior arsenal and trained forces to deploy military grade cans of Whoop-Ass on their own population.
But for some reason, the People don’t (can’t, won’t?) understand any of these basic dynamics, so they keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
Do you follow the news over here? The alt media? The reactions of the government to what the protestors are doing?
I’ve lived in the EU for almost 40 years now, and adding business trips to that, 45 years. And the French, more than most, have accomplished much with their strikes.
Black pills help no-one.
“I’ve lived in the EU for almost 40 years now, and adding business trips to that, 45 years. And the French, more than most, have accomplished much with their strikes.”
____________
Really?
If they have accomplished so much, then things should be great, or at least pretty good.
If things are going so well for the People of France (and Germany), then what on earth would they need to be striking for now?
“Black pills help no-one.”
_____________
Exposing a fantasy as a fantasy isn’t intended to be a black pill, it is intended to wake someone up to the reality that whatever it is that they’re doing will never accomplish their desired result.
Because until or unless they stop doing things that cannot work, they will never redirect their efforts to things that actually will work.
This is from NPR, but hey, it’s information (from 1/26/24).
Here’s how to tell if your next flight is on a Boeing 737 Max 9
oopsie !
oh well…
nobody’s perfect
😂
It’s not just the doors and poor workmanship with the 737 MAX series (757 MAX as well?).
Because of the design kludge necessitated by the MUCH larger engines in the two-engine model (“for sustainability and lower CO² emissions, yadda-yadda-yadda), they are positioned in such a way that the nose of the plane tends downward without assistance from the electronic (there’s that AI again) guidance system.
Lose the electronics, or have a buggy program (like a few years back), you lose the plane (or at least have a heck of a time controlling it).
It should NEVER have been approved to fly, and Boeing pulled a fast one to get it certified… They’re NOT the Boeing they used to be…
I think Boeing could solve all these design and assembly line problems with some new faces. I suggest they contact some of the NGOs operating at our southern border to get some qualified candidates. Something about build back better comes swimming to the surface of my mind.
Then they’d have a real reason to complain about crocks in their systems… 😀
(Paging Gail… 🙂 )…..
Ain’t interested, although I did get a very nice steak dinner out of Boeing…
😀 …and I’m sure they’ve brought their qualification packet with them ready to assimilate into their new homeland. It’ll be a hot minute before so many talented and successful professionals in the horde settle into the fabric of the USA. 🙄 we’ve
How can you say that with Haley on the board?
My uncle (the Marine) once used the expression, “you could ruin a wet dream” while chewing someone out. That’s California for you.
LA Times story….
SO THAT’S why they let the newsroom go…
It’s become so nonchalant about casualty stats. Three dead and thirty injured . Those thirty could have missing limbs, TBI, and any other life altering permanent damage.
Well, it’s not their kin. Empathy is in short supply, you know.
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More craziness and weaponized justice in DC today as it relates to the trials of J6 defendants.
Reliable sources confirmed to me that during today’s Jury selection in the case of J6 defendant John George Todd llI, US District Judge Beryl Howell singled out a potential juror in a January 6th Case and asked them, “Are you offended by what happened that day? Because true patriotic Americans don’t do what they did on January 6th 2021.”
How can a jury be selected if the judge is poisoning the jury pool during jury selection!
J6’ers cannot get a fair trial in D.C. when even the Judges cannot keep their political biases to themselves.
Totally inappropriate behavior by US District Judge Beryl Howell, who has a history of making biased comments in favor of the Democrats.
In 2023, Congresswoman @EliseStefanik filed an official ethics complaint against Judge Howell after she gave an acceptance speech at the Women’s White Collar Defense Association awards banquet on Nov. 28 in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Elise Stefanik said Howell’s award acceptance speech implied a criticism of President Donald Trump for “authoritarianism” and that her speech blamed Trump for what she calls “encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.”
Stefanik’s complaint, which was submitted to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2023, cited Canon 2B of the Code of Judicial Conduct in saying, “Judge Howell’s speech is plainly inappropriate, consisting of partisan statements, election interference and improper extrajudicial statements while criminal cases are pending.”
Canon 2B says, “A judge should avoid lending the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others.”
Stefanik’s 2023 complaint also said Howell “promoted the Democrat political campaign theme that the reelection of Donald Trump equates to America choosing authoritarianism. This is conduct unbecoming of a federal judge.”
Judge Howell is one of the main judges overseeing the J6 cases in DC where J6 defendants have all been DENIED venue changes.
@RepStefanik please get in touch with me, and I will connect you with the people who witnessed this in court today.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1752150213978890417.html
Thanks for the Thread reader app.
Elise Stefanik for Trump’s VP.
Nope.
Agreed. Think Commander in Chief of the military.
Did defense counsel object? File a motion to recuse? Oh wait … it was a D.C. lawyer who is a member of the same social club as the judge.
Never mind.
Side note: why are these guys doing jury trials? A judge trial gets the accused written out reasons for the verdict, which makes it much easier to reverse on appeal.
The Howling Barrel should be impeached and disbarred. She is a disgrace, and a traitor, and a stain on her profession.
AGREED
HMMMMmmmm…🤔
was he piloting his plane ?
who was the pilot ?
did pilot survive?
He was the pilot. No survivors. And this crash happened quite some time ago AFAIK. Have no idea why it’s hitting the media now.
My impression is that some aspect of the lengthy investigation was just discovered (like the runway lights being off), but I’m not sure.
5 organizations that hand out maps to illegals on how to get to US:
doctors without borders, red cross, UN’s International Organization of Migration, Amigos Del Tren, R4V (refugees from Venezuela)
https://www.glennbeck.com/blog/organizations-provide-maps-illegal-immigrants
ALL need to be INDICTED… Convicted… And then SENTENCED TO LIFE!!
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service – Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Catholic Charities — Immigration Services
8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens — Cornell Law
[QUOTE]
(a)Criminal penalties(1)
(A)Any person who—
(i)knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;
(ii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, 👉𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀, 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
(iii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, 👉𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗿, 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻,such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
(iv)encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
(v)
(I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B)A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲, fined under title 18, or both.
(C)It is not a violation of clauses [1] (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A), or of clause (iv) of subparagraph (A) except where a person encourages or induces an alien to come to or enter the United States, for a religious denomination having a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States, or the agents or officers of such denomination or organization, to encourage, invite, call, allow, or enable an alien who is present in the United States to perform the vocation of a minister or missionary for the denomination or organization in the United States as a volunteer who is not compensated as an employee, notwithstanding the provision of room, board, travel, medical assistance, and other basic living expenses, provided the minister or missionary has been a member of the denomination for at least one year.
(2)Any person who, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever, such alien, regardless of any official action which may later be taken with respect to such alien shall, for each alien in respect to whom a violation of this paragraph occurs—
(A)be fined in accordance with title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; or
(B)in the case of—
(i)an offense committed with the intent or with reason to believe that the alien unlawfully brought into the United States will commit an offense against the United States or any State punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year,
(ii)an offense done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
👉(iii)an offense in which the alien is not upon arrival immediately brought and presented to an appropriate immigration officer at a designated port of entry,
be fined under title 18 and shall be imprisoned, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(iii), not more than 10 years, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(i) or (B)(ii), not less than 3 nor more than 10 years, and for any other violation, not less than 5 nor more than 15 years.
(3)
(A)Any person who, during any 12-month period, knowingly hires for employment at least 10 individuals with actual knowledge that the individuals are aliens described in subparagraph (B) shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
(B)An alien described in this subparagraph is an alien who—
(i)is an unauthorized alien (as defined in section 1324a(h)(3) of this title), and
(ii)has been brought into the United States in violation of this subsection.
(4)In the case of a person who has brought aliens into the United States in violation of this subsection, the sentence otherwise provided for may be increased by up to 10 years if—
(A)the offense was part of an ongoing commercial organization or enterprise;
(B)aliens were transported in groups of 10 or more; and
(C)
(i)aliens were transported in a manner that endangered their lives; or
(ii)the aliens presented a life-threatening health risk to people in the United States….
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h/t Filly
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mess-west-army-god-convoy-heads-us-border-while-eu-farmers-block-cities
Our Take: “The ‘Take Our Border Back Convoy’ took off yesterday, heading to three border cities across three states. While the event website still h