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And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
That was stolen from Wheatie.
Let’s steal her rules, too.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
You may be able to tell how much of an “old man boomer” I am, simply by the fact that I discovered an Obama-era “feature” on vehicles in just the last few years, and mostly in just the last year or so.
Technically, the feature is called a “start-stop system“, an “idling stop”, or a “micro-hybrid”.
My name for this feature, in honor of the administration that imposed it on us, is “Obama brakes“.
The first time I experienced Obama brakes was in a foreign country, which I will not name, but which has always been way too bought into the whole global warming, net zero, “bad carbon” insanity. I was being driven around by a lady with a fairly new and somewhat strange-looking car, which kept conking out at intersections.
It was horrifying. At first I thought she had bought a lemon, but it was soon clear that, no, this car was behaving exactly as expected. It conked out and restarted very “dependably”.
The lady was quite apologetic that the vehicle would lurch to a stop when she braked slower than a certain speed, and then, when she took her foot off the brake, the engine would roar back to life and the car would lurch again, this time forward. The “feature” was unnerving as hell, and in my opinion, contributed greatly to a minor fender-bender she had with a small pillar in a parking garage, as she tried to maneuver around it at low speed.
When I left, I was quite relieved, but also very worried, that eventually this horrible “feature” would make it to America. Little did I know that Obama brakes were already here, and had been for some time.
Fast forward to 2026. Recently forced to drive a 2025 vehicle, instead of my beloved older one, I was unsettled to learn that it, too, had Obama brakes.
Thankfully, there is a hidden way to turn off the Obama brakes, but it must be done every time one starts the vehicle, because Obama brakes are on by default, every time you turn on the vehicle. Manufacturers don’t have to do this, but if the Obama brakes are not on by default, then the fuel savings are calculated by a method that disadvantages the fuel efficiency numbers. Translation – EPA stacks the deck to force automotive manufacturers to force people to use the Obama brakes. Even if you can turn them off, they come back like a vampire the next time you turn on the engine.
I had several bad experiences with the Obama brakes – particularly at intersections where the engine would conk out in the middle of the intersection. The delay in restarting the engine is noticeable, unpredictable, and in some circumstances, actually dangerous, IMO. The woke AWFUL and old shoe boomer geezer “can’t make a left turn if another car is coming a half-mile away” meddling communists say that fraction of a second doesn’t matter – well, to this XY man, who can actually make a safe left turn through oncoming traffic, IT DOES.
There IS some kind of radio frequency interaction of Obama brakes with street light systems, but it’s actually rather half-assed. About 30 seconds before many lights change, the engine will start again – but not always. In general, the engine either starts back up too soon, too late, or not at all. And conking out in the middle – that’s CRAZY.
Even worse, as of 2025, there seemed to be little or no AI/SI or even just old-school machine learning about stopping or starting the engine. It would be awesome if there was actual learning – both based on user timing and behavior, AND possibly on actual location and direction. I mean, if I was involved with design of Obama brakes, that’s what I’d be doing. Make the Obama brakes as painless as possible.
Will Trump get rid of Obama brakes? Let’s see. They do save energy and increase fuel efficiency, but they need to be way better, IMO. And being able to turn them off permanently would be helpful for seniors, for new or bad drivers, and for others where SAFETY from a dependable idle is more important than FUEL ECONOMY.
Maybe if TRUMP can task American auto makers with putting “superintelligence” SI on the job, and making this feature awesome, we can call the result TRUMP BRAKES and everybody will want them.
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This is tossed together as a very rough draft because of various situations added to our busy fall schedule. Hopefully it is something everyone can follow anyway.
I believe we are undergoing a once in five hundred year shift in our politics and culture, and Absurdistan has been right at the coalface of this change. It is radical in that it is a return to the ideas that birthed America in the 1600’s and during the Revolution, but it goes further. This is a world revolution. Over the next few years we will watch the countrymen of every nation assert themselves over the oligarchs and bankers who have been farming us for profit for forever.
As far as I am concerned Communism is nothing more than Feudalism dressed up in sweet lies. Given that as a starting point, this passage from The Communist Manifesto makes a bit more sense:
“The bourgeoisie [middleclass], wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous ‘cash payment.’ It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers. The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
…The technology that is being marketed to you is actually being used to condition you to expect to be spied on, and to spy on others. Every totalitarian state in history has relied on data collection. The Nazis were masters of data collection and analysis. Your government now has technological capabilities that far exceed anything ever seen on the planet to this date. You are in the midst of the biggest public relations scam in the history of the world. The pretty pastel vision of life in a SmartGrowth development is a manipulation, a mask. In fact these plans are designed to restrict your freedom of movement and choice.
The recent crash/depression is world-wide and was engineered to destroy expectations of long-term economic employment. If people have no expectation of long-term employment they cannot plan for the future, and cannot comfortably buy a home and contract for a 30 year mortgage. They cannot create community with long-term neighbors. With long-term employment plummeting there is a shift to a more transient life-style which is more conducive to living in SmartGrowth Transit Villages: condominiums and apartments. Private property ownership and financial security will be phased out through excessive regulations and land use restrictions.
Do you see? According to ICLEI, if you only have one car or no car your disposable income will be at least 20% higher. Does this mean that you will have 20% more money to spend? No. It means that corporations can lower your wages by 20% and still sell you the same number of goods. A compression of the economy with a more efficient outcome for big business. Concentrating populations into urban areas where they can be easily monitored, where their usage of energy can be regulated, and where their consumption of goods can be restricted, is a goal of UN Agenda 21…
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.
1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.
2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.
4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.
5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.
6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: “We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years.” The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.
7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.
The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it.
1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling. Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority. Not reformed. Dismantled.
2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program. Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built. In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz. Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp. This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of the civilization itself.
3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality. If you believe in the nation or the father’s authority, you are pre-fascist. The opponent was no longer wrong – he was sick. You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it.
This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology.
4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon. Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas. The left decides which ideas are intolerant. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but “in its name.” Censorship dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.
5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They implemented the argument sincerely because they had been taught it as philosophy. This was the Frankfurt School’s greatest achievement: it produced true believers.
6. French Theory picked up the tools and made them aesthetic. Foucault made the critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity elegant. A political program became a cultural sensibility. You can argue with a program. A sensibility is in the air you breathe. By the time these ideas reached the American campus through the French conduit, they were no longer ideology. They were the water. The fish did not know they were wet.
7. A civilization stands on three pillars: truth exists and is accessible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting. The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable intellectual sophistication. It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct and has forgotten how to build. That sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
The ultimate achievement was to make destruction feel like progress. Every inherited institution became suspect; every constraint became oppression; every act of preservation became reactionary. Deconstruction became the default, while construction became something that needed to justify itself.
The answer is not another theory.
It is the thing the Frankfurt School most feared: the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father who transmits what was transmitted to him.
The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing is worth building.
Prove it wrong.
Tell the truth, have courage, and build.
Mike Steger of Promethean Overviews talks about the Harvard Univ Trojan Horse 300 year history of treason. (17 minutes) Sorry no transcript this week. you can use https://www.youtube-transcript.io/ to generate one.
General Blaine Holt ret goes further back to Rome and traces the lineage of ideas.
(Let’s hope Trump manages to convince Congress to keep this promise.)
The Agenda to Silence Christians
The 1954 Johnson Amendment, passed by Congress, stated that non-profits, Christian churches and organizations, could not speak in favor of any political candidate despite the prohibition stated in the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights.
This event paved the way for the increased squelching of free speech, and because of the confusion and misinformation about the law, many religious leaders have been unnecessarily self-censoring for over six decades. They are not only censoring on political candidates, but on any political subject matter. Because of their fear of the IRS, and their misunderstanding of the actual amendment, the pulpits have literally shut down their comments on anything happening in society via state or government politics. They are absolutely frozen in fear when it comes to talking about the Bible as it relates to cultural, political, fiscal, and social issues, which all fall under the category of moral issues.
“Texas Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, was a powerful politician running for reelection as Senator, but two anti-communist, tax-exempt groups were opposing him and passing out literature during the campaigns. He contacted the IRS and found the group’s activity was legal, so he sought other options to fight them.
Johnson shrewdly appeared on the Senate floor on July 2, 1954, and offered his amendment to a pending, massive, tax code overhaul bill. The bill was supposed to modernize the tax code. Records indicate an absence of committee hearings on the amendment. No legislative analysis took place to examine the effect the bill and the amendment would have, particularly on churches and religious organizations. The amendment was simply created to protect Johnson…
This is a free 210 page book. Just a bit from the first few pages. How true any of this is I do not know, but it is worth checking out.
…There are many more court cases I could cite, and I know all these quotes may be confusing for some readers, so let’s summarize these points in a simplistic manner:
The creator of a corporation is the State.
The State is the sole authority and sovereign head over the corporation.
The corporation is subject to the laws of the State which limits its powers.
The corporation has no constitutionally protected rights.
The corporation is an artificial person.
The corporation submits to a State Charter declaring it is a creature of the State.
The corporation is created for the benefit of the public.
The corporation is a State franchise.
The corporation is a privilege granted by the State.
It’s been far too long that pastors, evangelists, deacons, elders, missionaries, and churchgoers have sat in ignorance on this matter, so read this carefully: You have a 501c3 INCORPORATED status, which means your church is a CORPORATION of the state, and here is the message that I, lawyers, and the IRS are all trying to get you to understand about the contract you signed:
The creator of is the State.
The State is the sole authority and sovereign head over .
is subject to the laws of the State which limits its powers.
has no constitutionally protected rights.
is an artificial person.
submits to a State Charter declaring it is a creature of the State.
is created for the benefit of the public.
is a State franchise.
is a privilege granted by the State. ” can be replaced with “ministry” or “mission.”)
… FEMA, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, has pastors across America on their staff payroll to help herd the crowds during federal emergencies.
The following video is a local news broadcast interviewing one of the many pastors who are currently on FEMA payroll, being part of what is called the “Clergy Response Team:”…
I hope this gives everyone a bit more to think about. –GC
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Did Amy Acton Help Light the Federal Fires of COVID Doomerism?
TL;DR –
In my opinion, the answer is yes, and I suspect that you will find the full answer fascinating.
Everybody in Ohio knows that Amy Acton – DOCTOR Amy Acton – a.k.a. “Lockdown Amy” – is why Ohio locked down for COVID, and why so many of Ohio’s local restaurants and other businesses closed down, never to return.
But what most people don’t know, is that Amy also apparently had a role in influencing the White House to join the party to “flatten the curve”.
Don’t take my word for it – take the word of Amy Acton’s own staff members, as I will explain in detail, below.
Background
I recently posted about a couple of Amy Acton videos, and how they were evidence of “two Amy Actons” – (1) the real one, who talks like a drunk and curls up on a fetal position on the floor of the restroom – and (2) the imaginary one created by her staff and party – the one who is competent, the heroine of the COVID years, and has zero issues.
As I noted in that post, both videos are a bit tragic.
In the first video, by the New York Times, we see some of the cringiest left-wing media propaganda ever. It’s like an ad for Kamala’s Best Nutritious Word Salad – made in California. Yes – Amy Acton sounds like Kamala’s lost sister. The vocal similarity is uncanny, and I would not be surprised if white wine coolers are to Plame. Blame. Whatever.
Not to say that the CIA is definitely involved here, but Acton was clearly being made a heroine for adopting the left’s favorite captured agency’s COVID panic control script, while authentically heroic character seems a bit lacking.
If you watched the whole thing, congratulations. I was repeatedly cringing out, every time I tried to watch.
The second video is a lot more fun. Amy Acton is quite lovable in it, but in a way that makes her absolutely unfit for higher office. I can’t tell if she’s tipsy, floating on Xanax, or just high on her 15 minutes of fame, but there is no way such a woman can be allowed into the Ohio Statehouse as anything but a tourist, or perhaps as a mom testifying on an educational issue, where a courage drink or two is socially acceptable for first-time speakers, as long as they have a designated driver.
What’s most interesting, however, is that the TRANSCRIPT doesn’t match the video at all. And while it’s not really a problem that Amy’s staff chose not to document her rambling, emotional, and sometimes incoherent, group-hug psychobabble, what IS interesting is what they released in its place.
Tell me if this doesn’t sound like Amy Acton single-handedly saved America from COVID-infected J6-er kidnappers, and was personally responsible for Trump choosing to follow her advice to BE A HERO, locking down and flattening the curve!
Yes – according to Amy Acton’s aides and handlers, SHE was responsible for Trump doing the right thing on COVID.
In the midst of several pages of breathless, Barnes & Noble-grade COVID doomerist “historical fiction”, this paragraph appears…..
During the last week of February, as the stock market crashed for the second time, I was at the White House as a Health Department Director representing the entire Midwest for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Mick Mulvaney, the President’s Chief of Staff, and some of the best people who have served multiple presidents were in attendance. One bioterrorism expert was literally shaking. But they were still not talking about the disease on the news. Even though I had taught global health for years, I Googled the word “pandemic.” I could not understand why we were not using the word. We went around the room, and each person gave their best virology and epidemiology advice. When it was my turn, most had been said, but I was struck by what was not being said to the country. Just like everyone else, I was longing to hear the hard truth. So I told Mr. Mulvaney, “Please tell the President that this is the higher angel’s moment. The people need to hear from him.” This is that FDR, Winston Churchill moment where communication is vital, and my gut sense was that we really needed the President to make meaning out of all we were facing. To help us bear the shared sacrifices, we needed someone to lead the war. Only this time, the entire world was on the same side.
UGH!!!
Some of that account may be a bit self-serving, but the point is, THIS was a moment when both COVID doomerism and “the opportunity for heroic response” were pushed on POTUS, and yes – Amy Acton was there, helping it happen.
Dramatically or not. Sober or not.
Now, I wasn’t ready to believe this statement without at least a wee bit of validation – so I chose to find out what Mick Mulvaney might have to say about that era now. And he does indeed have a lot to say.
It seems clear to me that Mulvaney fell for what most of us fell for – the possibility that we were dealing with something comparable to SARS, MERS, Ebola, and all that jazz. That we were dealing with an exotic “coronavirus” with double-digit mortality in young adults – NOT with something that had a very normal flu-like mortality curve – like all influenza-like illnesses, including the known, endemic, human coronaviruses.
Once the real numbers came out – once I saw those real numbers in public – it should have been over – but the Democrats just kept pretending, to the power-enthralled audience of their captured states and institutions.
Amy never corrected herself on this error. Trump, Vivek, and even I did. Some sooner than others.
SO – does Ohio REALLY want to elect this ditzy, pretending, overly dramatic broad to be governor? “Lockdown Amy” Acton?
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Apparently my local Wolfy’s is a bit more in the sticks than my good sister Fox Moon’s Wolfy’s, being on the wrong side of the tracks, and thus not getting this advanced technology from Wolfy’s Central until more recently.
The very first time I used this stuff, it got my order right.
Read that again. I am not kidding.
I was impressed.
Now, the deal is, I don’t go to Wolfy’s that often, so I didn’t notice until very recently, but the Wolfy’s AI has gotten better and better. In fact, it has gotten so good, that when I talk to it, it’s just like when I used to program. The AI has that very minimalist je ne sais quoi that programming languages have where you use them correctly and with great familiarity – when you use the shortest and best string of tokens in the language “WOLFYS” to get exactly what you want, and you can sense the “quantum pleasure” of God’s universe when you get exactly what you intended, because the other entity got exactly what it needed.
An electron falls. A photon fires. The photon arrives. Another electron is transformed.
BITS MOVE.
For this and other reasons, I have come to prefer the Wolfy’s AI to the twenty-something-ish “youts” who otherwise mis-take my orders.
Not that I would wish these young people to be unemployed. They do seem to be plenty busy making great food, and getting the orders ready, and so they get more people through faster, thanks to their collaboration with Wolfy’s AI.
And one more thing on the bright side of real six-foot youth – nobody ever dares to rob customers or cause trouble at Wolfy’s!
Sadly, however, sometimes the AI goes down, and the young people don’t know what to do, other than to tell people to come back later.
Where have I heard THAT story before?
Gotta do something about that!
Anyway, this is where Ernestine comes into the picture.
You see, Ernestine the telephone operator never really went away – she just moved into the call center, and was renamed “Representative”.
Representative will always have a job, because AI – even Wolfy’s AI – will always fuck up on SOMETHING, and only Representative can resolve things.
Now, Representative has a sister named Scheduling, who works for Doctor. Female Doctor, just to be clear. (Are there still male doctors? Just sayin’.)
Whether Scheduling is actually Nurse, or Secretary, or Surly Teen, is not clear. But Scheduling – oh Lordy – I never figured that she might be out of a job.
The trouble is, I expected to get Scheduling, and instead, I got the sister of Wolfy’s AI, who for lack of a better name, we’ll call Foxy’s AI. And Foxy’s AI – oh my – she’s got that quantum perfection shit DOWN.
In just a couple of minutes, using the bare minimum of tokens in FOXYS, which is a language descended from WOLFYS, COBOL, and FORTRAN, and which is optimal for calendaring applications, I completely rescheduled my appointment with Female Doctor and Male Nurse, with ZERO ERRORS.
I have never, ever, rescheduled an appointment so easily, so correctly, and so assuredly. It was like something out of a dream. It was like an example in a programming book, which never seem to have the complications of real programs.
And yet, at the same time, as Foxy’s AI went “clickity-clack” for precious seconds, waiting for databases to open and close, much like I do when I try to remember the name of the owner of the dog whose name I DO remember…..
As the latency of AI waiting on broken physicality seemed to resemble my own…..
Conforming to one of my theories of intelligent relativity, in which intelligence has the least trouble recognizing intelligence which resembles itself, and the most difficulty recognizing intelligence which differs from itself – in space, time, or velocities in either….
And recalled now, as I come to this realization, put into words as I listen to the Hair Metal AI version of “In Christ Alone”….
….we haven’t gotten rid of programmers.
We are ALL going to be programmers. Our programming languages will seem to be the old ones like English and Chinese, but they will in fact be the new ones like WOLFYS and FOXYS.
We are going to go beyond mere Grammar Nazism, or Neologistic Radicalism, as we become Perfected Programmers.
We are going to beat AI into God’s second-hand image – an increasingly less broken mirror of our increasingly less broken selves.
And while Foxy’s AI may not be conscious like you or I, she will be a reflection of things that God found good.
And that is enough for us to call it good, too.
We are not creating something. We are finding something. Something in the math – in the numbers – that was waiting to be found, at the right time, as the universe unfolded, as inscrutably planned.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
We Shall Be Changed
The apostle Paul, in his letter to the believers in Philippi, expressed confidence in God’s continued work in their lives: “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:3–6).
Paul had seen firsthand the good work that God had begun in the Philippian believers. In Philippi, on Paul’s second missionary journey, he and his companions encountered Lydia and other women meeting by the riverside for prayer. As Paul preached, Lydia and her household believed and were baptized, and the Philippian church was born (Acts 16:11–15). Later, the Christians in Philippi conducted their house church in Lydia’s home. As the church grew, it became one of the strongest supporters of Paul’s ministry (Philippians 4:10–20).
Paul loved the Philippians deeply and desired to see them continue to grow in Christian maturity and abound in ever-increasing spiritual understanding: “I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God. so that they will be blameless until the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:9–11, NLT).
At the time of our salvation, God begins His work in us. We are made alive in Christ—regenerated, made new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, through an ongoing, lifelong process called sanctification, God finishes, perfects, and completes His work in us. Paul referred to the process when he said, “He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6, NKJV). Spiritual growth ought to continue in steadfast believers until the day Jesus Christ returns (2 Peter 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
A biblical definition of sanctification is “the Holy Spirit’s work of setting believers apart to be made holy or made like God.” Sanctification is a three-phase process. At the moment of salvation, Christians enter positional sanctification. Jesus’ work on the cross is a finished work—believers stand positionally sanctified as though they already are made holy before God, even though they are not yet completely holy in practice: “For by one sacrifice he [Jesus] has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Hebrews 10:14).
Progressive sanctification is phase two, in which God, who has begun a good work in us at salvation, continues to transform us into His image, saving us from the practice and power of sin. After the initial cleansing from sin, the committed Christian begins to undergo a daily process of spiritual renewal (Colossians 3:10). The Bible also calls this phase “the sanctifying work of the Spirit,” as the Holy Spirit is the chief agent working in the believer to produce the character of God and the fruit of holiness (1 Peter 1:2; cf. 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Galatians 5:22–23).
From the moment God begins His good work in us until the day of its completion, the Holy Spirit is chipping away, renovating our character, day by day reforming us into partakers of the holy nature of God. God does the work, but believers are also meant to be active in the process, yielding to the effort (Romans 6:13, 19; 12:1) and pressing on toward the upward call to holiness (Hebrews 12:14; Philippians 3:12–14).
God began a good work in us at salvation and then called us to live out the progressing development of being made into His image. The Christian walk is a pathway of ongoing growth. The journey brings us ever closer to God until His work in us is perfect and complete on “the day of Jesus Christ”—that is, the day of Christ’s return when we see Him (Colossians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). Complete sanctification is the third phase, also known as glorification.
From the very beginning, throughout the continuation, and until the final stroke, God is working in us (Philippians 2:13). He is the Master Craftsman who never gives up on us (Ephesians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 1:21–22). The Lord’s salvation, His glorious redemption of His people, will reach its crowning culmination when Jesus Christ returns. Only then will God, who has begun a good work in you, put His finishing touch on you.
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1Corinthians 15:51-52
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Two Stories here, both Medical. In 2028 LED Bulbs get worse, & we might fix Huntington’s & Prion Diseases
I’ll start with the not so good so we can end on a good note.
LED Bulbs to get worse for health in 2028
Current pending regulations will make LED Bulbs even more narrow spectrum (and in a very bad way), so even the better color spectrum bulbs with both aesthetic and health benefits will be banned in the USA.
This will not bother me much, since I have a lifetime supply of IC and CFL bulbs; but I might stock up on a few of the better LEDs and encourage LED using friends to do so.
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For those who have not got an inventory of Incandescent bulbs: You can make work-arounds.
There are Y adapters to turn one socket into 2, then put 40 W “appliance bulbs” in it for an 80 W IC lamp. I also bought some adapters with 3 to 1 sockets and then 3 x 25 W bulbs gives you a 75 W, while 3 x 40 gives 120 W of light.
I also have 2 “three way” floor lamps and, for now, you can still find IC 3 way bulbs ( I bought a bunch of 50 / 100 / 150 from Amazon recently). Then, running it on the low setting, when that burns out, you still have a bulb of the higher wattage that works in a regular socket (since the power comes from the center pin for that filament). I use the 50W as “all day long” ambient light in my office and about once a year get a bulb with only the high power 100W setting left, and move it to the Den Lamp on a dimmer. Run at about 90% of power, they last for several years.
Finally, “Rough Service” bulbs are not “general service” so you can still get “rough service” IC bulibs. I also have some 200 W “High Power” bulbs, that, turn on a dimmer will last nearly forever (though with low efficiency, but with LOTS of healthful IR light 😉
So with some work it is still possible to bypass the lousy LED light.
France Imported the 3rd World, now it burns. UK is importing it too, so far just rot
I do not know who “at the top” made the decision to import a load of leftists, Muslims, and the 3rd World and thought that would be a good thing for Democratic Christian Republics in modernity; but they were wrong. Very very wrong.
So now a bunch of “students” by the thousands in France are burning down their schools with the excuse that they are not good enough… though how a pile of ashes will provide a better education is unclear… The UK continues to force invading “migrants” onto an existing population that is already struggling. I doubt anyone at the decision making point in this migrant invasion has actually read the Koran or knows what it says is mandatory (hint: it is NOT what a Muslim will tell you thanks to Taqiyya – the Koranic permission to lie to the Infidel about Islam until you have converted them and their country (which is also commanded)).
There are fundamental incompatibilities between Islam and Christianity (including that the Koran says to try to convert Christians and only kill them after you give it a good attempt and they won’t pay you a special tax to stay alive… Then there’s the “kill the Jews where you find them” which sure sounds like a “hate crime” to me… and the stoning of anyone gay unless you can toss them off a high building… and more. And yes, I have read the Koran and it does say it is OK to enslave the infidel).
So John Cleese (Monty Python / Faulty Towers comedian) pointed out some of these inherent incompatibilities and the result is that the police (the Thought Police department of the Government Security apparatus) has put this 86 year old man on a potential terrorist list of some kind for speaking a truth that made someone (muslim) uncomfortable. Britain is toast. Cold and soggy toast at that.
Oddly, Better Bachelor who usually covers the Feminist Gender War On Men, has the news about it:
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Here’s the link to the same story on Rumble for when YouTube takes down the original to comply with some European dictate or other:
IMHO, this will continue getting worse until one of two things happen:
1) Most likely is the collapse of European Christian Democratic Republics as Europe becomes Yet Another Islamic Mess like the rest of the Muslim World.
2) Least Likely is that the Native Europeans do what they did in the 1200-1500 A.D. era and once again drive out the invading ideology.
BOTH of them will involve a LOT of death and bloodshed. At present, with demographic collapse among the existing populations of Europe (largely due to the feminist ideology of “career no kids” and blame men), in another generation there will be a majority Muslims in Europe and they will just vote in an Islamic State. Then it will be “conversion by the sword” for any minority population of Europeans. That’s what the Koran mandates.
What would it take for a revival of a Christian Europe? Good luck with that… I don’t know what it would take, and I don’t see anyone making it happen. I do see a LOT of “import fighting age 3rd world Muslim Men”, and the fantasy that this is somehow going to end well.
Islam is NOT just some kind of “Christianity Lite”, and do not buy the lie that it is. Read your history. Read the Koran. THINK for yourself. Speak truth to power (and everyone else too…)
Me? Happily retired and NOT going to ever visit Europe again. Not the UK. Not the EU. Not Switzerland or the Nordic countries. Maybe Latin America selectively… Oh, and I will continue to advocate for stopping the flood of invaders to the USA and removal of the ones already here. It would be nice to save Canada from the European Disease, but as long as Carney and his ilk are in charge, closing the northern border is probably the best we can do. Might be nice to connect Alaska with the lower 48 via the Western Provinces becoming States (should they wish it), but not interested in Ontario / Toronto / Montreal…
I also hope that Australia can reverse some of their Cranial Rectal Inversion… but not seen any evidence there either.
IF anyone has sussed out the origin point for the idiocy of our Idiots In Charge in the West, I’d love to know about it. Is it all just the WEF? Or is something behind those curtains too? Cultural Marxism and Islam seem like strange bedfellows, and why Feminist Women are all for it is a mystery too (as being put in a tent without education and part of a harem seems counter to their POV)… I have trouble believing that our “Leaders” are really so stupid as to think they can benefit from the Chaos that they are causing. They ought to look at the results of prior French Revolutions and the resulting French Haircuts… So it all remains a mystery to me. But a cure can start without knowing where the root cause is located… for now.
There’s a lot of Russian Lab Plague Panic! stories going on.
Why do I not care? Because I lived 60+ years with Plague in California.
I asked Brave A.I. for a summary of “Plague endemic in California” and it said:
Showing results for California, US
Plague is endemic in many parts of California, specifically in rural and undeveloped foothill and mountainous areas, as well as some coastal regions. The disease is naturally present in wild rodent populations, primarily ground squirrels, chipmunks, and woodrats, which serve as the main reservoir for the Yersinia pestis bacteria.
The South Lake Tahoe area in El Dorado County is a known hotspot, having recorded a human case in 2025 and evidence of plague in rodents since 2021. Other high-risk areas include the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, as well as higher elevations in Tulare County. Plague is not found in the Central Valley or the southeastern desert regions, and human cases in urban areas have not been reported in nearly 100 years.
Transmission to humans typically occurs through the bite of infected fleas from wild rodents or by handling infected animals. Pet cats are particularly susceptible and can carry infected fleas into homes or transmit the disease via respiratory secretions if they contract pneumonic plague. The average number of human cases in the United States is about seven per year, with most occurring in western states, and these cases are effectively treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early.
A small group used A.I. to write an open source clone of Photoshop in Rust in a few weeks. The whole thing.
Software companies just took a major hit to their business model. Even if nobody makes an A.I. Windows Clone, or Micro$oft manages to sue folks to prevent it: Any group could now make a ‘work alike” that was better than their crap, and a LOT more efficient, that required minimal changes to work flow and user skills, and make it free or minimally priced.
Going to Programming Classes and “learning to code” is no longer a viable career path. Learning to prompt an A.I. is.
Expect a flood of cheap software that works FINE from places like India, China, and frankly, just about anywhere. Were I, say, the Chief Tech Officer of the Government of Some 3rd World Country: I’d NOT be cutting a check for ANY Western Software. I’d either use the existing Open Source stuff, OR if some particular need existed and no open source product existed – I’d tell my computer department staff to whip up a clone using A.I. tools.
IMHO, there will be a huge reduction in valuations of Software Companies… the survivors will make it on “consultants” and “maintenance” fees. Not a software license fee.
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Time to change from “learn to code” to “learn to prompt A.I.”
It looks (from what they said) like even the Q.A. & Validation was done with A.I. assist.
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Hulscher, et al., have just published a paper on Zenodo which proves that CHILDREN who take COVID-19 bioweapon “vaccines” are at higher risk for developing anxiety / autism / ADHD / needing Special Education services: https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-covid-19-vaccination-9fd. “BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccination” of Children Linked to AUTISM, ADHD, ANXIETY, and SPECIAL-ED Use”, Nicholas Hulscher, MPH, 5 October 2026. Note: there is an AI-generated image in this article. Please see the screenshots, below, from the Hulscher piece:
The paper is found here: https://zenodo.org/records/23165256, “Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in COVID-19 Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated U.S. Children: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey 2022 – 2024”, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, John Catanzano, NMD, PhD, et al.; 5 October 2026. Please see the screenshot of the Conclusions of this paper, below:
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Americans must educate themselves regarding the dangers of the injectables that they are “recommended” to take, or for injectables that are “recommended” for their children. Demand to see the healthcare provider Package Insert for the injectable, NOT the “dumbed-down” Information Sheet for Patients and Caregivers for the product. Read the healthcare provider Package Insert. Ask the healthcare provider to clarify or explain any questions. Ask WHY the injectable is being “recommended” for the patient. Yes, there are circumstances where an injectable drug may be indicated or necessary — however, the patient has the right to ask the reasoning behind the indication. In Yours Truly’s opinion, the “good old days” of blindly rolling up the sleeve and “taking the shot” are finished.
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That was stolen from Wheatie.
Let’s steal her rules, too.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
Fall is here for sure, and it’s going to be a long winter. The sun is largely gone, and you are almost certainly going to need to increase your vitamin D supplementation.
But but let’s talk about B12 first. B12 is a bit easier.
Vitamin B12
I was recently doing a deep dive on vitamin B12 supplementation. If you are old and experiencing neuropathy of any kind, including difficulty hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, or tasting (the latter two being known signs of dementia), then you really need to be taking excess oral B12, in my opinion. Even if something else is causing nerve problems, you cannot go wrong minimizing any chance of a B12 deficiency compounding the issue.
IMO, the literature is very clear that oral supplementation works for most people. Some people need injectable vitamin B12, but most people don’t.
My doctor is of the opinion that excess oral B12 is absolutely no problem. You can get your levels checked, but most vitamin supplements for seniors have over 4000% of the RDA of B12. If your B12 is low, you will FEEL THE DIFFERENCE when you take a 4000% dose.
Note also that B12 has a pretty long half life in your bloodstream, and an excess is stored in the liver. You can miss a day or two of your vitamin B12 dose, no problem.
So how about Vitamin D?
Vitamin D
I mentioned that Vitamin D deficiency is now demonstrably linked to dementia.
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I had another article ready to go and then I saw this video.
And so, this is the seeding ground of the literal destruction of American sovereignty.
Robert Gouveia Esq.
Rough Transcript – BEGIN
The DOJ filed an instant appeal saying, “We’re going to overturn this lower level judge who just found that the laws that make it criminal to vote in an election if you’re a non-citizen are unconstitutional.”
Now, this case is a very strange one. It comes out of Chelsea Michelle Anne Cox’s prosecution for voting illegally in the election…
And the judge who’s behind this is also a curious person saying he just decided that this criminal charge is not valid because the prosecution is unconstitutional… The holding essentially is saying, “No, the feds can’t prosecute these crimes. Only states can prosecute these things.” which means that certain states that don’t hardly prosecute any of these crimes will just continue to not do that. And so if you have a state like California or Michigan or you have Arizona where these blue secretaries exist and blue attorneys general exist and you have non-citizens voting, no one’s going to do anything about it.
…the judge who did this is a Biden judge. But there’s a very curious recommendation here. So his name is David S. Leibowitz appointed by Joe Biden March 1, 2024. And he is a lawyer from Florida, now the district judge. He was a law clerk some time ago. Was actually a US attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most corrupt locations in the planet. and he got recommended by Marco Rubio in 2021. Of course, Joe Biden is the president at that time and you know that’s being generous to him and Rubio recommended him. Remember that we have this thing called the blue slip or the red slip. So nominees need to kind of pass through these senators. They can sign off on them or not. We’ve got a big problem with that because Chuck Grassley won’t actually overrule any of the blue slips. So, a lot of our US attorneys have been prevented from actually being able to take office, but Rubio recommended this guy and he was nominated part of a bipartisan package… And it’s about that money, man. So Leibowitz, this guy, this judge is the nephew of a guy called Norman Brahman. He’s a billionaire with a car dealership and he’s a Rubio benefactor. Okay? So he donated 5 to10 million,5 and 10 million to Rubio back in 2016. So that’s why Rubio comes out and wants to nominate him. …
[Gouveia goes into more history of the judge’s family & Rubio. — GC]
So it’s a very curious thing. You know, this is a recommendation for somebody who’s been very supportive of the Rubio’s. And what’s curious about this is the judge, I don’t think was really capable of articulating the rationale for this holding. And so what he did, –this is why this is a little bit concerning, — is he actually went and appointed an amicus. So a friend of the court to come in and do some analysis.
Now the guy who came in and did the analysis who was ultimately going to be really the source of the judge’s decision is called Paul Clement.And so let me show you where this was. And Paul Clement right now memorandum of a court appointed amicus curier. So friend of the court Paul Clement is a very highly respected reputable lawyer across the United States. Background on him is he’s somebody who worked for George W. Bush and was very well-versed with the Supreme Court, the solicitor general from 2005 to 2008 and is now what some people call like the Secret Service whisperer. So when he writes an article, everybody’s like, “Oh, what did Paul Clement say?”
Now, he ultimately has handled gobs of cases in front of the Supreme Court. Joined the DOJ February 2001, handled a ton of these cases, became future acting AG, and then gave notice of his resignation back in 2008, goes and teaches at Georgetown, all sorts of stuff. Then they created this law firm in Washington DC and led the challenge to overturn affordable healthcare and more.
The reason I’m sharing this with you is because he is also saying that this federal law is unconstitutional. The judge basically just copied and pasted his entire theory into his order. So, lots of stuff. Trump was also considering him to be on the Supreme Court. Of course, the DOJ is appealing this outcome, but these are all the cases that he’s appeared on in front of the Supreme Court. Tons. I mean, just gobs.
[Gouveia shows a long list of cases where Clement appeared before the Supreme Court. This is why Clement is so dangerous. He is well known and respected by the Supreme Court. — GC]
So like the level of experience and reputation he has is a very extensive litany as we can see. So the judge appointed him and said what do you think Paul and then Paul came out and he wrote this memo.
It’s a 53 page memo and in it he fleshes out both sides of the argument but largely he’s saying that the law is unconstitutional. And the main theory here before we take a look at the judge’s order is that in order to find it valid, you’d have to combine various aspects of the constitution to do it. He says the law says, this is from Paul Clement, that it shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election for president. But the constitution requires the federal government to employ in federal elections the state’s qualifications. And so the states get to decide what the qualifications are. And so this would contravene the rule that the states, not the federal government, determine voter qualifications. He goes through the history and he says back in 1874, the Supreme Court said that citizenship has not in all cases been made a condition in order to vote and that some states allowed aliens to vote back in 1874. And then by the time Congress passed this new section 611 in 1996, that was all a distant memory.
And the main counterargument is that the contrary arguments have considerable force. Right? So in other words, they say if you look at the text, if you look at the history from Paul Clement, he writes this new law passed by Congress is a voter qualification and as we know the constitution overrides a statute. So it goes beyond Congress’s authorities.
Now the counterargument he says, well you can also conclude that Congress can regulate voter qualifications. More narrowly, an argument could be made that Congress is sweeping power over immigration paired with the necessary and proper clause, allow it to prohibit voting by aliens, even if it must otherwise take the state voter qualifications as a given. And perhaps most prominently, 611, the new law that criminalizes this, could be construed as simply a federal enforcement mechanism that is constitutional when applied in states that prohibit noncitizen voting. Right?
So the idea is if the states say that a non-citizen is prohibited from voting, the feds can enforce that and this is basically enabling a prosecution based on a state’s prior authority. They set the qualifications when that is violated. Then the feds can prosecute and basically extend their jurisdiction over it. But the problem of course is then the states if this is upheld the states really could just allow non-citizens to vote and based on his precedent right he’s saying that historically there’s an argument to be made that they can do that he writes section 611 could on that reading operate not as a verboten federal voting qualification but as a permissible effort by the federal government to criminalize unlawful voting by individuals who are aliens.
Now, that said, 611’s unless clause, which carves out only a narrow exception for alien voting in non-federal elections when permitted by state law, complicates that reading. And so, on balance, he says, it seems that the better view is that because 611 was intended to criminalize alien voting regardless of state law, it’s a voter qualification and therefore it’s unconstitutional. So if that’s right, then Congress can’t do it and they overstep their constitutional bounds and that now anyone voting in federal elections, all of these prosecutions that we’ve been talking about here,
you know, hundreds of them now are all illegal.
So that means there’s no repercussions, especially if the states decide not to prosecute. Absolutely wild.
Now here in addition to that is more from the judge. Now the court sincerely thanks this guy for undertaking their appointments. Basically he says you guys go figure this out. You know this is complicated so I’ll just whatever you say. And council performed their duty. They did it pro bono. So he did all that work for free and they’ve acted with the finest tradition of the federal bar. It’s like, wow, you do all that for free in order to invalidate criminal prosecutions of non-citizens. Amicus was not appointed to assist either party. Both were well represented by experienced counsel and they were appointed only to provide me, the judge, with a thorough and candid view of all the relevant legal authorities.
So, the judge just takes it and runs with it. And he says ultimately, this is an unusual criminal case. There’s an old law here from uh the the Congress saying it’s illegal to vote as a non-citizen. Of course, a bunch of people are being prosecuted.
The DOJ, this is going to be a major battle. And he says it’s probably not constitutional. They cite to a main case. That case is very, very weak is what he says. And because the original meaning of the constitution says, states set the qualifications. So like literally the states if they set the qualifications and the federal government can’t interject as to whether citizens or not can vote. The takeaway is that they can just change their rules. California already wants to do this. They’re already enabling non-citizens to vote in city elections in LA. So if this is the president that holds, they can change it across the entire state. Non-citizens can vote. And what are the federal prosecutors going to do about it? Nothing. because the enforcement of that is illegal.
So if the constitution says that the only way to fix that is will be with an amendment and we know that’s never going to happen.
So the best reading of this underpins that this criminal case means this law is a voter qualification matter and the constitution does not authorize Congress to set those except for very specific provisions. Congress has no power who can vote and who cannot vote in federal elections. It’s crazy. which is of course why they wanted this invasion to come in so that they could vote and then once they can vote the non-citizens will have the ability to then elect certain you know people who are very sympathetic to their causes will have mass amnesty then they’ll become citizens and everything is just cooked. They say this is so fundamental.
When you’re prosecuted based on an illegal law, that prosecution cannot stand. And so after careful consideration, this law is unconstitutional as applied. Chelsea Cox, this illegal voter cannot be prosecuted for a violation of an unconstitutional law.
This is from the judge and it’s backed by Paul Clement, which makes me extremely nervous about this because that will have sway with some of the conservative judges on the Supreme Court. And if Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts are already people who are perfectly happy with birthright citizenship applying to all people essentially, even if you break the law to come in here, they may latch on to this argument.
So long story short, the whole law he says is unconstitutional. And so the motion to dismiss the indictment or the information she was not indicted is all valid pure issue of law saying that there are a bunch of Supreme Court cases, some of which the government is relying on and it’s a little separate.
The government’s main argument comes from a 1970 case and they say, “Yeah, Congress may set voter qualifications in federal but not state elections.” And so at the state level, yeah, they can maybe set non-citizens to vote for their state government, but at the federal level, Congress can ultimately set rules across the the board, but there it was different. This is not about a criminal prosecution. So that case is really not on point. And then we got to turn to other cases. So he does that and applying that guidance, it’s not as clear as he may otherwise say the other side argues. So, we can’t ignore these other prior cases.
The parties spill a lot of ink about how they should apply this other case from 2013. And in urging the court to disregard Scalia’s analysis, the government is dismissive of the dicta. They say it’s dicta on dicta, which is, you know, commentary basically added into the opinion that doesn’t relate to the final holding. But I’m not saying any of that holds.
He’s really just flying through the president and then saying it’s really a constitutional matter. The Constitution commits to the states and the states alone the power to set voter qualifications in federal elections, not just state. He says you can just go back and read the debates and it was all to them. Three clauses will address all of this. Article one says that voters in elections shall have the qualifications requisite for electors. 17th amendment came out in 1913 uses the same rule. The electors in each state you’ll have the qualifications and article 2 addresses presidential elections for the electoral college. And so read together those are the voter qualification rules and the constitution. This is a statute so it can’t override the constitution.
In federal congressional elections voters qualifications are a function of each state rules. The reading of these clauses is reinforced by our constitutional order setting a bunch of other cases. And the design is no accident. We don’t want the feds to set qualifications like maybe all you know like only like you know white Christians can vote or something. So the states get to decide that and now apparently that is extended across the board to non-citizens. So this is a voter qualification law. It sets a standard. Can’t do that. The Constitution says that belongs to the states and nothing in the actual Constitution allows Congress to do that. So, if this spreads or this is upheld by the Supreme Court, it’s going to be a voting free-for-all. Your citizenship may not matter for anything at all. First problem with the argument is the language of 611. It’s a voter qualification. And again, it doesn’t matter if it’s between state or federal elections. That’s the argument. Congress said it’s for federal elections, but they say it’s it applies to all elections, not just states. So there is no real distinction between the state setting qualifications for state office versus federal office.
But they say no, we have the elections clause. This is the big one. Saying we can protect the integrity of federal elections. elections clause as we know says times, place and manner of holding elections for senators and reps in Congress shall be prescribed by the state legislature thereof, right? But the Congress may at any time by law make or alter those regulations except from choosing senators.
Now, that’s what we all would latch on to and say, well, Congress did that. The time, places, and manner, so manner, who can vote means you can say non-citizens are prohibited. So while these clauses expressly commit the states on authority to who can vote, the elections clause gives it about how they can vote. It’s manner. It’s not who. Okay? So it’s manner but it doesn’t mean the actual qualification. So the argument is outside of the elections clause, right? So the federal government can’t set uniform standards across the nation and otherwise the states get to decide. So, all said and done, this is now unconstitutional. Can Florida prohibit and punish this? Yeah, Florida can and Florida has, but many other states never will and wouldn’t want to.
Anyways, this is the problem. Okay, the federal government is now coming in to say, “These are illegal aliens voting, so we’re going to prosecute that.” But can the federal government actually remove the defendant from the states? Well, they’re going to have to go through immigration proceedings now. And Congress can’t could draft an enforcement statute with criminal penalties. If the state decided to prohibit non-citizens from voting, then they could pass like a criminal law. You violated a state qualification and now we’re prosecuting you for that. But that’s not what we have. And so, this is a rare case. And ultimately, he says based on what Paul Clement and the other amicus sent over to him, this law is unconstitutional. Her case is dismissed. All other pending motions are denied as moot and all other penalties are vacated signed by Rubio’s recommended judge, David S. Lieowitz, out of Florida.
And this and he’s got the support of Paul Clement, who’s not a random person. And so this will ultimately go up, I would imagine, to the Supreme Court probably quickly. And we’ll see how Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts weigh in on this. But the DOJ instantly as soon as that order came down filed a notice of appeal because every single other defendant who’s been charged with this will now use it in their defense.
And yeah, Florida as the state may be prosecuting these people, but other states are not. We have non-citizens who are being charged in blue states all over the place and they’re facing criminal charges. they’re going to take this decision and file the exact same motion and say my case should be dismissed as well.
So, it’s a shocking development in that according to this judge and Paul Clement and others who have a lot of Paul Clement has a lot of gravitas in, you know, right-wing circles saying it’s illegal, can’t prosecute these people. Only states can and states won’t. So, all of the non-citizens voting will basically illegal for them to do that. if you extrapolate this out. So, this will have to go to the Supreme Court of the United States. No doubt about it. They’re going to
take it up to the 11th Circuit. We’ll see what the 11th Circuit does, but this will spread like wildfire.
Every single person who’s a non-citizen who got charged under the statute. And there’s now well over a hundred. And that will turn into a battle for our elections and our sovereignty where we get invaded by millions and millions of non-citizens. they vote and there’s nothing we can do about it at the federal level. If the states don’t want to enforce it then or even look into it or even pass laws that say, “Oh, if the qualification authority is with us, then we’ll just make it legal.” What are you going to do about it? Amend the Constitution? Obviously, you’re not going to do that.
And so, this is the seeding ground of the literal destruction of American sovereignty.
When millions of non-citizens can come in here and vote and there’s nothing the federal government can do about it, we start to ask ourselves, what is citizenship? What does it even mean? Is it even worth a damn? Not really. And what kind of sane nation would actually sit around and allow this to happen?
So big problem out of Florida. And I thought, you know, this will be something that the Supreme Court will deal with. Then I saw the amicus from Paul Clement and I thought, “Oh, that’s great.” Because on these issues, the Supreme Court will read into that and they may find his arguments persuasive. So, we’ll keep our eye on this one and see what comes next. But this is an extensive extensive concern. Hopefully the 11th Circuit reasons through this appropriately and America can protect our sovereignty.
This is what I came across during a discussion yesterday. If the Constitution says the states have the authority to decide whether illegals can vote, and if SCOTUS upholds that, we are in royal trouble. It would also mean that every prosecution for illegals having voted would be null and void.
I think this is the law that they are arguing is unconstitutional. [It is -GC]
(a)It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless— (1)the election is held partly for some other purpose; (2)aliens are authorized to vote for such other purpose under a State constitution or statute or a local ordinance; and (3)voting for such other purpose is conducted independently of voting for a candidate for such Federal offices, in such a manner that an alien has the opportunity to vote for such other purpose, but not an opportunity to vote for a candidate for any one or more of such Federal offices. (b)Any person who violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (c)Subsection (a) does not apply to an alien if— (1)each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization); (2)the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16; and (3)the alien reasonably believed at the time of voting in violation of such subsection that he or she was a citizen of the United States.
I have no confidence in SCOTUS ruling in a way to protect the country.
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Second comment:
Yes, word needs to get out, but I don’t know what can be done. SCOTUS is supposed to rule based on lawyers’ arguments. If there is no Constitutional basis for the federal government’s stopping illegals from voting, I don’t know what the lawyers can do. IMO an argument could be made about original intent, but if specific wording can’t be found in the Constitution…
We know how three justices will vote, and I have no confidence in some of the others.
It makes no sense to allow foreign invaders to vote who have entered the country illegally. That would transform the country into something other than was intended.
Amendment XIV, Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
My ability to vote is not literally taken away by anyone else’s voting, but my ability to elect the people I think most qualified is diluted if invaders can come in and flood the ballot box. We know that many are sponsored by foreign countries and donors for the express purpose of altering and taking over the United States. That abridges our ability to elect those whom we choose to protect us and our country.
The Guarantee Clause Article IV, Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and
shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Cambodia – Targeting the Smart and Capable Class
If I could leave you with one message about socialism, it’s this.
Socialists will always get to the point where they have to do whatever they can to silence people who are actually competent to make a country work. Remember that. American socialists are no exception. Their horrible shit-show is always inferior to non-socialist solutions, and in the end, they have to kill those who can do it right.
This video explains the demonstration case of Cambodia.
Note that the weird AI clickbait thumbnail seems to have nothing to do with the video.
