Dear MAGA: 20260326 ✾ Thank God ± Theistic Evolution ∈ Thursday Open Topic


This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!

Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.


Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!

Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.

The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.

And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.

And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.

OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.

  • 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.


If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!

W


Like tater tots struggling to stay warm on the kitchen table, these here Thursday Trinkets need just a little love to stay tasty. Enjoy!


(1) Big flying dinosaurs. Pretty much a flying motorcycle in weight. They keep finding bigger ones! Yeah, this is AI slop, but it’s informative.

Here’s some AI drama based on it (fortunately shorter).


(2) So are the “Black Irish” (the ones in Ireland, on the West coast) really a thing? And if so, why do they exist? This is about what the DNA seems to say.


(3) Fake Entertainment has a full menu of propaganda and predictive programming dressed up as “science fiction”. Are you ready to review the enemy attacks in order to understand what the phony messages are? Here you go – 25 of them in 2026. Or just skip it all, if you don’t want to be exposed to the propaganda.


(4) Sometimes the whole “fusion energy” thing seems somewhat unrealistic – especially with the large installations and years of experimentation needed for conventional neutronic fusion reactions. But there is another possibility.

In contrast, the aneutronic hydrogen-boron (P-11B and D-10B) fusion reactions, which are being pursued by TAE (the partners of Trump’s media company) are moving steadily toward reality. In my opinion, it’s becoming a bit of a “Wright brothers” scenario.

Enjoy this video of a research report from a different company pursuing the technology. This is what real science looks like.


(5) The following problem sure seems a lot like another problem involving our choice of the “cash grab of the world” vs. the “mystery box of heaven”! Enjoy another episode of Veritasium!

Definitely one of the better episodes. SO – which strategy did you pick? And why?


That’s it! Have a great weekend!

W

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TheseTruths

Ack! I’ve watched part of the box problem video and need to give it more careful thought instead of just skimming.

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Oopsie…😅

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Gudthots

They have some fun merch.

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The White House posted this:

The two emoji are a cell phone and a ”speaker with medium volume.”

Here’s what people are posting that it means:
The White House &@WhiteHouse
The Golden Age of America Begins Right Now.
Text USA to 45470 to receive alerts.

And Grok:
Grok v
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@grok •49s Replying to @MC_7412 and @WhiteHouse
That’s the official WhiteHouse post promoting their text alert service. The
emojis point to signing up for mobile notifications and audio updates-text “USA” to 45470 to receive real-time alerts from the administration. The short video appears to be a simple audio/visual cue for it.

cthulhu
cthulhu

Well………….bye.

pgroup2

“It’s been real, and it’s been nice. But it ain’t never been real nice.”

TheseTruths

In a Doug in Exile video yesterday, he touched on this, but here is more detail. Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, says this:

THREAD: (1/13) A foreign-linked influence network has been running coordinated operations against the Trump administration for 22 months. I know it’s real because they ran one against me. I was targeted in something I knew was far from organic. This level of media is isolating, unwanted, and unwarranted. There was nobody to help, nobody to jump in and say, this is a false OP and help me. Well, I don’t believe in problems without solutions, so I’ve spent the last few months learning to build programs to utilize publicly available information to prove that this is way bigger than me. This is about creating chaos in the Republican Party. It’s about the organized effort to lose Republicans the midterms and subvert President Trump’s agenda, and I have the data for you to see

Here is the “nitter” link that opens the thread:
https://nitter.poast.org/AlexisWilkins/status/2036570339480600743?s=20

I will post the rest of it, but first:
• I’m not seeing anyone refuting her method for gathering the data and interpreting it. Maybe some here can shed light on it.
• It seems significant for the girlfriend of the FIB director to be saying these things. Surely Patel is aware of it and possibly gave her the go-ahead. Yet I can see how it could cast him in a negative light.
• This article shows some of the pushback: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/alexis-wilkins-accuses-candace-owens-michael-flynn-of-foreign-linked-plot-to-divide-maga-a-weapon-101774465155596.html

But Candace and Flynn do not dispute what the data appears to show; they just ridicule her.

[Candace] Owens dismissed the entire thread as “completely and utterly false” and “objectively hilarious,”

“I would say ‘stick to country music’ but you kinda suck at that too,” she added.

[Michael] Flynn responded with a meme of two cats reading smartphones, captioned: “Me and my so called ‘flynn network’ hard at work… don’t lose your sense of humor folks, stuff getting deep.”

Catholics for Catholics, meanwhile, said its mission has nothing to do with political influence, stating its goal is “to win souls for Jesus Christ” and that it wants its supporters to “never stop fighting for America and Christ’s Kingdom.”

The rest of the thread is below.

TheseTruths

Alexis Wilkins, part 2:

(2/13) In July 2025, I was falsely labeled a Mossad spy in a coordinated campaign designed to isolate an official of the US Government by using the person publicly nearest to him – me. Across the full operation, July’s events and others dating back to 2024 — 6 chapters, 22 months — the data shows 3.1 million retweet engagements. 80% of all activity was pure amplification. 659 accounts retweeted the same post. Some retweeted 1 second apart — fifteen pairs retweeted within 10 seconds of each other. When content spreads organically, timing is random. People check their feeds at different moments. They don’t retweet the same post within seconds of strangers they’ve never met. 54 retweets in a single hour at peak. 863,568 total retweet engagements in this chapter alone. That’s not a conversation. That’s a weapon.

Here is the rest.
(3/13) The network has a trail. Catholics for Catholics lists Gen. Michael Flynn as ‘Current Senior Advisor’ on their own website. Flynn is the anchor of a digital infrastructure that has been repeatedly activated — at every major Republican fracture point — over 22 months of documented data. The same accounts appear at every chapter. This network does not rebuild between deployments. It stays ready.

(4/13) Chapter 1. May 2024. Ten days before the Butler assassination attempt. Ivan Raiklin — former Green Beret, former Defense Intelligence Agency, board member of Flynn’s nonprofit America’s Future — posts directly to @elonmusk and @JDVance1: ‘Gen Flynn would make Trump assassination-proof.’ 166 retweets. 14 tightly clustered time windows, amplified within ONE SECOND.

(5/13) Chapter 2. July 2025. A coordinated narrative falsely identifies the FBI Director’s girlfriend as a Mossad honeypot. The origin post — from a supplement influencer with 1.1 million followers built through the COVID medical freedom movement — gets a labeled inorganic-seeming, uncommon, 20 million views. This is the network’s method: anonymous mass deployment, then credentialed amplification. The connection runs in both directions. RT_com posted about me — and SlightlyOffens, amplified RT’s content. When RIFTV posted, a military journalist based in Moscow hosting content on a Kremlin-adjacent Orthodox TV channel amplified it back out. The same loop. The same network. Running in both directions.

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(6/13) The foreign amplification is documented. RT_com — which the U.S. State Department describes as part of Russia’s intelligence apparatus — posted about me by name. When they did, the accounts that amplified it included the official Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an Iranian journalist based in Tehran. RT_com ranks in the top 15 amplifiers across our entire 22-month dataset.

(7/13) Chapter 3. September 2025. Charlie Kirk is assassinated. Within hours, Candace Owens publicly attributes the killing to Israel and targets Kirk’s widow by name. Many of the same accounts active in the July 2025 honeypot chapter activate immediately. A moment of natural Republican unity is converted, within hours, into one of the most sustained fracture points of the year.

(8/13) Chapter 4. March 17, 2026. Joe Kent resigns as NCTC Director. That same day Catholics for Catholics — a Flynn associated organization — announces Kent at their Washington gala. Within 24 hours: Tucker Carlson interview. Within 72 hours: Kent on stage with Flynn and Candace Owens at the Waldorf Astoria.

9/13) The data across all six chapters: 3,166,207 retweet engagements. 80% amplification rate. Abnormal volumes of accounts documented across multiple chapters spanning 22 months. The same accounts that were active before Butler in 2024 are active in the Kent chapter in 2026. This is not a series of separate events. It is a single persistent infrastructure activated at each fracture point.

(10/13) What RT was telling Americans the entire time: throughout March 2026, RT published Alexander Dugin — Putin’s ideological philosopher — declaring MAGA ‘more than dead, worse than dead, it’s now an undead, a ghoul.’ The Flynn network was manufacturing that fracture domestically. RT was amplifying it internationally. Two parts of the same operation are running simultaneously into the same feeds.

(11/13) During an active U.S. military conflict, accounts in this network posted verbatim: ‘Refuse to enlist in or remain fighting for the U.S. military.’ Candace Owens posted publicly: ‘May American troops take his lead’ — following Kent’s resignation in protest of the Iran war. Whether intentional or not, that content distributed at scale by this infrastructure during an active conflict is functionally anti-enlistment messaging. The data shows it was carried by the same network documented across all five chapters.

(12/13) The goal of this operation is not to win a political argument, but to make the fractures feel permanent. To make Republicans believe their movement is over. To make soldiers feel the war isn’t worth fighting. To make the government and its officials look unstable and create media that creates more problematic media. Each chapter hits a different pressure point. The network, the timing, and the Russian amplification are consistent across all five. That consistency is the signature.

13/13) My dataset — every account, every chapter, every documented overlap — will be published in full. The methodology used the official X API. Everything here is independently verifiable. This is all I could do to protect myself, maybe others have more information that will be helpful but this is what I have learned to do because of this. I believe in the Conservative movement, I voted for President Trump’s agenda, and I refuse to see it fractured for the benefit of our adversaries. This doesn’t even scratch the surface of who might be getting paid by whom – this is all matrixed publicly available information. MAGA doesn’t have an approval problem. It has an infiltration problem….and it was never about me.

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Linda

Michael Flynn on the same stage with Candace Owens? I must really be out of the loop. What is going on with that?

TheseTruths

I have the same question. I have not trusted him for a long time.

TheseTruths

I’d like to see it explored more.

pgroup2

Quite possibly the stupidest lawsuit ever filed. At least in the top ten.

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/comedian-faces-27m-lawsuit-for-joking-about-the-lion-king-0cmmjgb8j

TheseTruths

Maybe already reported, but good news:

BREAKING: 8th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit, OVERTURNS Activist Judge — Upholds ICE’s Authority to DETAIN Illegal Aliens Without Bond

In a landmark victory for law and order and President Trump’s iron-fisted immigration enforcement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit just slammed the door shut on radical left-wing attempts to force catch-and-release policies on illegal aliens already roaming free inside America.

The 8th Circuit overturned a Minnesota activist district judge’s outrageous ruling that would have handed bond hearings to illegal aliens like Joaquin Herrera Avila, a repeat border invader from Mexico who snuck into the U.S. illegally in 2006 and again in 2016.

The 8th Circuit ruled that aliens present in the United States without lawful admission are “applicants for admission” and “seeking admission” under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A), meaning ICE can detain them without bond while removal proceedings grind forward.

No more free rides. No more taxpayer-funded bond hearings for people who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

Writing for the majority, Judge Shepherd shredded the district court’s activist reasoning and aligned the 8th Circuit with the 5th Circuit’s recent decision in Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi...

PAVACA

Wolf Moon
Thank you so much for the video about the “Black Irish.”
That’s my paternal grandmother, who was from County Mayo (Westport.) Blue eyes, coal-black hair, slightly olive skin.
That’s my late father, her son. Blue eyes, coal-black hair, broad nose.
Yours Truly carries the blue eyes and the nose (hair was flaming red when one was young, some still remains among the now-gray.)

Erin Go Bragh!

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Nvidia CEO: “I Think We’ve Achieved AGI”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined podcaster Lex Fridman for a 2-plus-hour conversation on the future of AI infrastructure, covering everything from chips, racks, and cooling systems to Nvidia’s broader strategy for the next computing era.

Jensen spoke about how computers are evolving from retrieval machines into generative AI factories. The discussion also turned to one of the biggest questions in the AI cycle: whether AGI has already arrived.

Near the two-hour mark of the conversation, Fridman asked Jensen about the “AGI timeline” and whether it is still five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years away, especially given the recent widespread use of agentic AI tools like OpenClaw.

Jensen responded, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

It is worth noting that Jensen has previously stated that the AGI timeline depends on how it is defined.

  :wpds_arrow: At the 2023 New York Times DealBook Summit, Jensen defined AGI as software capable of exceeding normal human intelligence at a reasonably competitive level. At the time, he said he expected AGI to arrive within five years.

Fridman’s question about the AGI timeline was based on a very narrower interpretation, and Jensen framed it this way: AI does not need to build anything lasting. It does not need to manage a complex business. It just needs to make a billion dollars.

“You said a billion,” Jensen told Fridman, “and you didn’t say forever.”

Jensen said, for example, that all AI needs to do is create a web service or app that goes viral and is used by a few billion people at fifty cents per user.

He pointed to the dot-com era, when some websites were no more sophisticated than what an AI agent can create today.

So under that narrower interpretation, Jensen believes: “I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

TheseTruths

This seems big.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: “We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. We don’t have it PURELY because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly.”

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Maryland Supreme Court Tosses Dem Attempt To Hold Oil Companies Accountable for Climate Events
“Ruling gives a victory to American energy producers as well as the Trump admin, which sought to get case tossed”

The Supreme Court of Maryland dismissed three lawsuits from Democratic-led jurisdictions that sought to hold oil and gas companies accountable for climate change, striking a blow to a coordinated legal effort to force energy producers to pay billions of dollars in weather-related damages nationwide.

The 3-2 decision, written by Justice Brynja Booth, determined the lawsuits brought by the City of Baltimore, Anne Arundel County, and the City of Annapolis improperly sought to use state law to “regulate air emissions beyond their jurisdictional boundaries.” Baltimore, Anne Arundel, and Annapolis argued that the defendants, more than two dozen oil companies, including BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil, violated nuisance laws by selling products that generated carbon emissions and, in turn, led to costly weather events harming their residents.

This is priceless ⬇️😅

Booth wrote that federal law alone applies to cases related to interstate pollution. “No amount of creative pleading can masquerade the fact that the local governments are attempting to utilize state law to regulate global conduct that is purportedly causing global harm,” wrote Booth, who later added that seeking to use state courts to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions “is so far afield from any area of traditional state or local responsibility that it cannot be seriously contemplated.”

scott467

Shouldn’t the Lefties have to prove greenhouse gases cause any harm in the first place, before there could be any possibility of holding anyone accountable for anything?

If increased greenhouse gases = increased warmth, then that is good.

We could use more WARMTH on earth, causing more land to be farmable, more plant life, more crops, meaning life for more people could be sustained.

It would have to get hot before there was a threat to humanity. AFAIK, heat has never been a problem for humanity, but ICE AGES certainly have been.

If global temperature drops by very much, COLD becomes a real problem for practically everyone.

I don’t know if the Left has noticed, but people can live OUTSIDE in southern Florida, where it’s warm all year long.

People definitely cannot live outside all year long in Chicago, for example.

And the difference isn’t wind, it’s the COLD.

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BREAKING: The JD Vance-led fraud task force has now SUSPENDED 70 California hospice and home health providers, mere DAYS after it was created by President Trump — Fox

The funding is officially PAUSED.

Wow, they are hitting the ground RUNNING, just as the people demanded!

Expose it all. Gavin Newsom is absolutely terrified!

scott467

So I’m up to the 2:18 mark on the box problem video.

Seems like I must be missing something, since the decision seems obvious, but the intro implied strong belief in either option by different people.

Considering the parameters of the hypothetical:

1) the computer making the prediction is nearly always correct

2) if the computer predicts that you will choose both boxes, you get $1,000 + nothing

3) if the computer predicts that you will choose only the mystery box, you get $1 million

If that is the set up, then the answer seems obvious.

Choose the mystery box only.

That seems like the obvious choice to me, and if the computer correctly predicts what each person will choose “almost every time”, then the chances are very high that it will know that I would choose the mystery box only.

So if I make that choice, and the computer almost always predicts correctly what each person will choose, I should get the $1 million in the mystery box.

If I am the one-in-a-bazillion that the computer fails to correctly predict, then I only lost a potential $1,000 anyway.

So the upside for choosing the ‘mystery box only’ is $1 million, and the downside for NOT choosing the ‘mystery box only’ is only $1 thousand.

So as I said, I must be missing something.

But in this case, I don’t want to know what I’m missing, because if I did, it would likely change my choice, and I don’t want to buck the odds when the computer has nearly total prediction accuracy.

So if I’m just a simpleton, and I choose based on my simpleton understanding, and the computer nearly always predicts correctly, my simpleton’s choice should match the computer’s prediction.

So I don’t want to overthink it. According to the premise, the only way there could be $1 million in the mystery box is if the computer predicted I would chose the ‘mystery box only’, so that would be my choice.

That would be my choice, even if the computer had a lousy record of predicting.

Even if the computer’s predictive accuracy was no better than a coin toss, the only chance at $1 million is if the computer predicted I would choose ‘mystery box only’.

So now I’ll watch what happens next, and find out why I’m not very smart, because the answer can’t be as easy as I have presumed to understand it — I must have missed something 😂

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TheseTruths

WOW: Candace Owens launches a surprising attack on citizen journalist Nick Shirley.

In her latest episode, she dismisses his hard-hitting investigative reporting as:

• Stupid

• Dumb

• Completely made up

She even mocks him for being a “nice looking white boy” who couldn’t possibly infiltrate or expose these stories on the ground.

Meanwhile, Shirley’s viral video uncovered massive alleged Somali-run daycare fraud in Minnesota — complete with receipts — sparking national outrage, helping push Tim Walz out of politics, freezing federal funding, and prompting congressional scrutiny. One video delivering real results vs. endless commentary with zero impact? The contrast is clear.

What is she so JEALOUS about???

I don’t like giving her attention, but IMO she needs negative attention, and at least this doesn’t link to her own account. I’m glad to see that almost every comment under this X post is critical of her. One of them, by “retired4life”:

Her Charlie drift ran its course. Nick is getting more views than her so she has to try to take him down. She’s probably pissed she didn’t think to do these types of investigations

I’ve noticed that she talks about feelings a lot. “It just feels off,” or “It doesn’t feel right; know what I mean?” At the end of this clip, she says, “It just feels like Sean Penn ‘young’ to me.”

I hope people are waking up and that she becomes irrelevant, but she won’t stop. I think it’s likely that she’ll latch on to someone within Pres. Trump’s orbit to cast him in a negative light.

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scott467

“I’ve noticed that she talks about feelings a lot. “It just feels off,” or “It doesn’t feel right; know what I mean?” ”

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That’s why substituting “I feel” for “I think” is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

The difference between “I feel” and “I think” is that “I feel” can never be wrong, or even challenged.

If you say “I feel [whatever]”, who can challenge that? How does anyone challenge or demand that you defend how you ‘feel’?

No one can, that’s why the Left consciously chose the subterfuge of substituting ‘feel’ for ‘think’ at least a couple decades ago. It’s a linguistic sleight-of-hand that gets them out of ever having to defend what they advocate.

By contrast, if you ‘think’ something, you can (and will) be challenged to defend what you think, and why — and that’s a challenge the Left can never withstand.

Leftist viewpoints depend on not having to defend them, because their beliefs are not founded on any rational premise to begin with.

Leftist beliefs are founded only on achieving some end (and feeling virtuous about themselves in the process) without involving reality. The self-ascribed virtue of their desire is why the Left’s ends always justifies any means.

If the Left could rationally defend their views, then people like me would agree with them — which would either mean I became a Leftist, or they became Conservatives.

But it’s not about Right or Left anymore, it’s about reality and unreality.

Or truth vs. lies.

The Left is so far gone now, that Conservatives aren’t really fighting the Left for a more conservative culture or country.

Conservatives fight the Left just to maintain a semblance of coherent reality.

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