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We have created this site as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions. This is a place where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This particular thread is – for the moment – TRUST THE PLAN Thursday. You are welcome to say what you think, in a civil and courteous manner that loves your neighbor. Free speech matters! Courteous speech makes it happen.
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.
You are you. AI is AI. Keep your identity. Don’t “Borg Out” on us!
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.
Here’s a true crime video about people being stupid, sleazy, drunk, high, and in some cases angry.
Bad things happen, and the sheriff’s people eventually figure out what exactly that was.
Ignore the deceptive clickbait title. Change “sick” to “stupid”.
All the basic rules apply. When the liquor comes out, the firearms should be locked up. Don’t take drugs. Don’t fool around. Don’t come up with plans while drunk or high, and most of all, don’t actually try to do them.
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!
Music
I just love this new version of the OG Amelia song, in a new key, and set up for a faux Eurovision contest. Enjoy!
Gas Station Sandwich Medical Mystery
My favorite “Quincy” has another excellent medical whodunit. Check it out!
Organic Milk Rocks!
This is a bit of an aside, since unpasteurized milk is mentioned as a common source of Listeria.
One of the great things about organic milk is that it is not merely pasteurized, but ultra-pasteurized. In my experience, organic milk will last, unspoiled, for an absurdly long time beyond the “sell-by” date on the carton – and the sell-by date on the carton is almost always already LONG in the future. The stuff tastes GREAT, and I find it very healthy. The fact that it’s extremely sterile and lasts forever – even better.
So – for anybody who routinely deals with spoiled milk because they don’t drink it fast enough, try organic. It keeps for a very, very long time.
As many of you read this, we will be enjoying most excellent adventure known as the Fall Frolic in the lowcountry. As time permits I will return to post responses. I look forward to your comments.
Today’s thread is about two subjects with interconnections that run in parallel with one another. As one goes, so goes the other. Many who read my stories will spot that as a recurring literary theme. There is even the added flavor of a long standing Club Senate uniparty member holding We the People hostage to help enforce the status quo of an industry’s wannabe tyrants; a situation I will introduce at the end of today’s story.
The current states of institutionalized education and MAGA driven deportation are connected hand and glove. For the black hats, one is an enemy in their desire to use the other to undermine and help them dominate America. The first link below was provided by TheseTruths in a recent Daily thread. The second is more recent.
It is happening all over. I cannot help but smile about the local impact in east TN as folks discuss it in our communities. Nationwide the teachers and administrators as well as their associations and union leaders are concerned about the loss of jobs and power nationwide. The school system administrators are concerned about the loss of funding. The pandering politicians are concerned their campaign funding coffers are drying up along with the leftist votes. The publishers are feeling the pinch of people being over the woke Language Arts narratives as well as fake Science and History.
The fact is they have used our love of children to control We the People for far too long. In all of those red counties on the American map that dominate our landscape, there are two iconic institutions that attract the attention of the vast majority of residents; schools and churches. They are the glue that hold communities together. Both have been under horrific attacks for decades. It has come to the point that it is rare to see any large metro area with a sense of community anymore.
In the MAGA red areas, the two are very intertwined. Generally speaking, how one goes so goes the other. The commie tyrants know this and have established institutionalized education to undermine the God given natural rights ascribed to all of us in our founding documents. They use DEI, woke, support for sexual perversion, etc, to contaminate the minds of our children. If the laws are changed to end their “programs”, they continue them quietly or under other names. They have also infiltrated many denominations and churches through higher education and seminaries using the same tactics. This has led to some families and communities losing the cohesiveness of being united. People seem to have forgotten how to disagree without being disagreeable azzhats. We the People have come under siege when you add in the decline of industry and economic might, otherwise known as having good paying jobs, with the rise of Chyna and other totalitarian governed nations.
The good news is that is ending. MAGA and the Trump Administration are over target and figurative stealth bombers are obliterating the targets just like the real ones did in Iran.
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Oh well. It sucks for them and is great for the rest of us.
Also provided by TT below – Marco with the assist;
In contrast, with the increased deportations MAGA citizens are all happy to see no increases in taxes and bond issues to vote on for expanding school facilities due to overcrowding and ineffective teaching. They are happy to see American English spoken most everywhere with less crime, illegal drugs, vagrants, and bad drivers. They are enjoying the loss of packed drunken rat houses with foreign flags and bad hispanic music blaring. Our attention has now turned to rooting out Islamic BS with Sharia Law and blaring calls for prayer to their fake god. Some are more comfortable their kids can go out into their neighborhoods and play safely. More feel they can sit out on their front porches, visit with neighbors and enjoy the evenings without fear of being attacked or shot.
Soon there will be far fewer parents dealing with the effects of autism and other learning disabilities of their precious children as states revamp their jab regulations relating to public school enrollment. As it stands many parents have been opting out due to religious views.
Many are noticing state cumulative comprehensive English and Math scores rising again after years of decline. As they rebound the need for taxpayer paid assistants, tutors and teachers of summer school reduces. All of which makes families happy not to have their summer vacations and plans messed up by the unresponsive, dimwitted education industry hacks and their supportive politicians who make bank off the mess. Who knew that removing children of illegals who could not speak English well from public schools could accelerate a reduction in the dumbing down and distractions from classrooms to go with reducing expenses and calls for tax increases?
Well, actually, many of us in MAGA country.
Possibilities
If things keep progressing the next thing you know even more sanity may be introduced; such as public schools not starting until after Labor Day like Back In Our Day When American Education Was King and Led The World. That will include reducing all of the teacher conference and in-service days, long breaks and vacations, and many fake inclement weather and illness cancellations that create longer school calendar years. They might even use long existing technology that provides for students to do their studies at home during closures. Yes – use homeschooling style methods. Which also demonstrates the great benefit of the freedom of schedule, thought, and expression that homeschooling provides; something these egotistical wannabe tyrants fear. Yet, I realize that some families cannot do homeschooling for many valid reasons. However, they can receive some of the same benefits technology provides.
Maybe, just maybe, if PDT and patriots really do provide that $9 K stipend back to families for a parent/guardian to take care of kids at home as was done frequently Back In Our Day before overburdening citizens with taxes and regulations; we will see even more successful homeschoolers hit the mainstream and fewer kids stored in daycares before going to the widget lines of factory schools.
Children might even develop a sense of what a good family can do for their physical and mental health.
The fantastic success of public schools is why the families of students who use them simply cannot wait to pay taxes for the purpose while the rest of America who do not have kids in schools do not have to pay – right? Wait…you mean that is not how it all works? Of course we know that already, it is a rhetorical, sarcastic question.
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As we are too well aware, all taxpayers fund public schools regardless of whether the citizens have children and youth using the services. How very charitable and socialistic of our governing authorities to make it so and sell the patriotism of it all; while also undermining same with commie bullshiz in practice. What was desired for youth to be educated in the 1700’s and integrated into society over the next couple of centuries is not what necessarily works today. Blame technology improvements and the rest of the world succeeding as we fail if you desire. However, it seems to me the technology ship left port long ago and our nation’s education system is still standing on the dock. If you truly want to know why the ropes are still tied, you only have to follow the money.
Many of the inept school administrations and boards even leave it up to teachers and parents to come out of pocket to pay for some of the school supplies used in the classrooms.
It seems public education has intentionally missed their own “EFFECTIVENESS” bus. When that happens somebody wins and somebody loses. We know who they are.
What If?
For the supporters of traditional school schedules, what happens if education is truly designed for increasing the successful learning of citizen students as its highest priority? That being not only for their sakes, but for the security and prosperity of America and its real allies? I am not suggesting legal aliens be removed from public education. I am suggesting that they not be considered or provided for in how or what public school students are taught and administered. They should assimilate and conform to us. We should not be doing what has been the current accommodation practices in many areas of the country who desire to radically change America.
What happens if the public education system becomes totally achievement based? For example, what happens if students are granted the option of accelerating the school year to be over at any time of year when they accomplish the learning goals set before them? What if they can choose to not take those nearly three weeks off for the Christmas and NY holidays? Instead, maybe do like working America does and take a holiday and then head back to work the following day. Would their working parents appreciate not having to make provisions for somebody to watch their kids while they are at their jobs? Would the students stay in rhythm in their studies and lessons not need to be reviewed repeatedly to get them back on track?
The massive waste in time in public schools becomes very clear when one homeschools. All it takes is teacher videos with web access provided to students to move things along at a more even pace that shortens the timelines.
What about canceling a formerly non-existent week long “fall break” after being in school for two months or less? You know, the periods when so many youth are bored out of their minds sitting at home playing video games and on their mobiles when the teenagers are not cruising the streets? They could fully enjoy three plus months off in their summers to do kid things with some older youth actually being able to work part time seasonal jobs for employers who need them in the peak summer season. Places where they would learn how to work and make money for future use in continuing education and tech schools. Would that make better use of time and help keep some of them out of trouble? Some may decide to not take a summer break at all and continue their studies, especially the more academically accomplished who could accelerate into colleges and universities.
Let’s cut to the chase. Do I mean to pattern public schooling like successful real world businesses who know that the customer’s desires are always the most important factor to consider? These are the businesses who continue to win while the losers do not or figure it out too late by thinking it is all about everything and everybody else. You know, like choosing to Bud Lite yourselves. Which coincidently, is exactly what the public school systems are doing to themselves.
The same common sense and business world principles can and should apply to government controlled entities such as public schools. They are to be developers of productive humans for American society. Notice I said “American” and not anything relating to the rest of the world. Our license to exist is our own. It was delivered via a revolution against tyranny through the Declaration of Independence and Constitution with acknowledgement of God’s providence. We march to the drum of what our Creator has provided and not to anybody else’s.
Instead, many of our public and some private schools are being used to produce livestock and slaves for plantation owners.
Personally I would go much more radical. I would eliminate the mandated 180 day school year laws entirely. With elimination truancy would immediately be less of a problem and administrative loads would lessen. To replace there would be mandatory student involvement in some form of public, private or home schooling. Advancement would be based on stated levels of achievement that would be required before moving on to the next level. Drop outs would not be authorized until age 18 except under extreme family emergencies. No more passing the failing students to the next grade. If the 17 year old student still cannot read, he or she stays at a first grade level in the subject until 18 years old. There is much incentive from fear of being left behind. Yup, some would need to be isolated into alternative schooling environments and situations just as they are today.
Better that than dumbing down entire student populations to accommodate those without necessary learning ability who should not be mainstreamed as well as the slackers.The latter is how it is done today. No child left behind is to keep the widgets moving down the line regardless of the quality of product. Instead, it all would become focused on achievement and the performance of each student as an individual. That is the proper definition of No Child Left Behind.
All of which could mean that levels of achievement by age groups, called “grade levels”, would no longer exist. What happens if this learning can happen over the course of the entire year in physical and virtual classrooms with options given to parents who pay for it through user fees instead of broad based taxes? What happens if tax credits, dividends and such are provided to help pay for it as applicable? What happens if students who do not have the capacity to learn at the higher levels fit for college and beyond are off ramped into other areas of interest and need within society where they can succeed instead of wasting time and running up student debts that take forever to repay? What happens if SI is used by each state to monitor progress and do administrative functions that are now done in make-work, fake jobs that cost tax payers money?
In summary, what happens when all of the invisible, intentionally erected walls to learning and progress are removed? What happens if every child has an opportunity to become the best he or she can be without cabal driven institutional interference? What happens if we really can have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness available to all American citizens?
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Once again, a guy can dream, can’t he?
Deportation
Among PDT’s many achievements, this interconnected deportation issue of exiting of illegals while securing the borders; is the one that matters most to many of us. For immigration to work for our benefit it has to be legal. Entrance through the front door with verification and documentation only. There must be a need. America’s heart has always been to provide room for true asylum needs. Many American citizens with multiple generations of ancestry here realize that America opened its doors to their ancestors as immigrants. They also know the immigration was needed by the colonies and nation. They knew it occurred legally, was documented, and entered through the front door. However, they also know it required assimilation.
Today, that would be as the families of white farmers and ranchers who were being genocided out of South Africa by savages. They are contributors to society with expertise that benefits America. Sorry, opening the doors to more lawn service, maids, nannies, fake cleaning crews, drug cartel distributors, human traffickers, truck drivers who cannot read signs, etc. from all over the world does not meet the criteria. Most are illegals with no documentation and unable to even speak our language. Many are leeches that siphon the life out of everything good about America and never assimilate. The only people they help are the wicked politicians and other criminals who use them.
So why in the world should we believe their children would be different and should be provided schools and services funded by taxpayers that are reserved for citizens? Yet, that is what has been happening in public school districts in all 50 states until #47 arrived on the scene. Massive tax dollars have been spent to accommodate the needs of these illegal aliens. The uniparty has been more than willing to do so as their existence promotes their agenda.
Club Senate – Again
Backers of institutionalized education have a friend in Arkansas, Sen. Tom Cotton.
Cotton is a card carrying member of the uniparty’s Arkansas political mafia. Arkansans can do far better than him, but they have not yet. He uses their central time zone as his excuse for obstructing what is best for the entire country that the vast majority of We the People support. In my opinion the real reason he is using the “rules, procedures and practices” of Club Senate are much more self and cabal serving. To start, let’s look at his bio,
We thank him for his military service. However, one reason we do not trust him is because he was a rural Arkansas farm boy who went to Harvard for his undergraduate and later, his law degree. I know the town he came from and the people who live there. The path to the elite was provided. Arkansas power players frequently do that with young people of promise. It was the same with Bill Clinton. They mold their operatives at a young age. Their hand picks are usually from modest upbringings, intelligent, leaders, ambitious, etc. Cotton’s political career is filled with examples of opportunism in his bio and background. Sometimes it can be a study in contradictions. Other times it is pure DS. He will do whatever the uniparty establishment leadership cabal dictates, including the following from the above link.
“However, soon after the first of the year 2021, Cotton announced that he would not support Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. When the results came before Congress for the certification process on January 6, 2021, Cotton stood by his promise—even in the midst of the Capitol insurrection. At the same time, he opposed all efforts to establish an independent commission or select a committee to investigate the violent events of January 6.“
Why investigate when you already know it was a Fedsurrection, right Tom? The House was already on tap for that role. Time to move along.
Despite the appearance he wants to portray, he is not his own man. The globalist cabal puppet masters are the ones who developed the institutionalized education system we see that is run in all fifty states that is tanking in world rankings for academic achievement. They are receiving the desired results they seek. They are also some of the same people objecting to SI advancement because they know it has the ability to make their power and business model burnt toast.
What do you think Elon could do with public education?
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PDT pulling the plug on DOE operational controls to make the department primarily just a funder to states upset their game. If it follows that public education becomes primarily achievement based rather than the current rigidly scheduled assembly line, schools will not need to be open for all students at set times and days. If parents in part of the country do not want little Johnny standing out at the bus stop alone in the dark, he would not have to, although it sure seems interesting that many of us gray hairs remember doing so without incident back in our days. If he is still going to school and is not a car rider, the bus can come by an hour later on a second run. He could get on his i-Pad or computer and video conference the classes until dark mornings become lighter. Flexibility in the manner described previously provides many options. Instead of rigid, they could try flexible that keeps the student as top priority.
The corrupted box of the cabal is not desired and no longer needed by anybody.
Conclusion
Continue getting the illegals outta here! So many good things trundle into everyday life as the cabal’s power erodes and the foreign criminals are exited to never return. Public education is one of those things. The systemic dumbing down of students in classrooms reduces. The voter rolls recede to actual citizen levels. This is a win-win for citizens and the nation as a whole.
Which leads to another Monday Morning Quarterbacking story down the road about why the Democrat Party must be exterminated from the planet. We have become so accepting that there must always be black hats to oppose white hats. That is a false premise of our existence. It is OK for the United States of America to actually be united. It is OK for there to be NO political parties at all. There will still be plenty of points, courter points, disagreements and such to keep things moving and interesting.
Until next time, be blessed, PRAY, VOTE, trust the plan, and most of all trust God.
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).
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Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Commies won’t win!
And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!
MUSIC
Let’s see what’s on YouTube. What is The Algorithm up to?
Let’s start with some SI Epic Celtic Metal Worship Rock! This was algorithmically suggested to me, and I have to say, it’s just addictively good.
YouTube throws all sorts of “experimental” stuff at me – typically just posted with zero comments. Try some “Viking metal”! LOL. I think I still prefer Celtic Metal!
Now, how about some Taiwanese folk metal? (This is quasi-“real” music). Truthfully, Taiwanese folk music is its own thing, and frankly better than this “studio metalized” stuff, but whatever.
This is pretty much the same scam as the “fiddle chicks” with more silicone, only three strings, and no bow.
Here’s a quick cover of ZZ Top by the same gal.
THE STUFF
More “House of El” commentary on AI – whoops, I mean SI. This video pretty much backs up her prior video, but with even more nailing down of her conclusions.
As an aside, an advertisement with significantly less AI “makeup” shows her real face and mid-level earrings, which are not that far from her staged look.
Wheatie Wisdom. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone. No running with scissors. No food fights. AI stuff posted, requires a link. Please use spoiler, for longer posts. Wolf Speak. No obnoxious behavior towards fellow QTreeper(s). Freedom of Speech is honored here QTree. But Do Know, every poster, IS personally responsible for what they post.
Prices pulled last evening. Gold $4,181.90 Silver $57.74 Bitcoin $81,545
Seems like such an obvious solution.
Elon blasted out the obvious…
Until we muster up honest conservative majority, we’ll…
Stuff…
Ideally, below article(s) and such of interest, that caught my eye.
Idle chatter. Slow Guy on the road through 3 November. Early enough to vote!
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Worthy retread. Posted last Saturday. Great Tulsi speech. If ya missed, truly worth your time. Otherwise, scroll on below.
Tulsi…
Shreds flock cameras and the like.
Calls out islami ideology IS an IMMINENT threat to America.
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Laughing here…
Buc-ee’s returns to Simply Saturday.
Buc-ee’s is a fascinating company.
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Chiefio delivers…
But first. What the hell is Polymath Truth?
Brave.
The polymath truth is the concept that genius and exceptional achievement are not innate traits reserved for a select few, but are instead driven by intense curiosity and the ability to connect disparate ideas. Rather than being defined by deep expertise in a single narrow field, a polymath is characterized by their refusal to silo knowledge, allowing them to recognize patterns across boundaries and synthesize insights from multiple domains.
Key aspects of this perspective include:
Curiosity over Credentialism: True polymathy is about what you chase and how you see connections, rather than simply accumulating facts or awards.
Pattern Recognition: The core superpower of a polymath is seeing how different fields echo each other, modeling systems, and translating complexity into clarity.
Creative Synthesis: Polymaths create by letting inputs from diverse areas collide, resulting in novel solutions and insights that specialists might miss.
Action-Oriented: It is not just about knowing many things, but about applying that broad knowledge to solve specific problems and generate innovation.
Globalism requires a “shared vision” or a kind of Group-Think. Polymaths do not.
I don’t find this presenter particularly compelling (she plays with her hair a lot, and hesitates at the limits of her training), but does cite published literature on the topic and seems to have understanding of it). Her basic exposition is that Polymaths (people with skill and understanding in multiple domains of knowledge) are resistant to Group-Think while many (most?) others are not.
I think I have seen that in real life (rather too often…)
It also explains some of my social interactions as I am a polymath, don’t do group-think, and have often got “the hairy eyeball” from a group of agreed people when I point to something that shows them wrong. (Covid, The Jab, Global “Warming” and a long list at work over the decades). What I see as “Keeping a Tidy Mind” where new assertions must integrate with the proven body of knowledge spanning multiple domains – such as Geologic History which “Global Warming” ignores… they see as an attack on The Consensus.
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Where this leads me to ponder
There are a few ponderings that come from this.
1) To what extent is Globalism a case of Group-Think?
2) Have the sociopaths at the very top learned to harness Group-Think to promote Globalism?
3) Is that why the “Leaders In Charge” seem more like the “Idiots In Charge” since they were selected by the sociopaths for their submission to the Group-Think Narrative being pushed from the top? (Think Klaus Schwab to the WEF hoard of followers / “leaders” to be…)
4) Is this why so many of the Best & Brightest who call out Bull Shit in The Narrative get attacked and smeared by said apparatus? The Sociopaths at the top pushing to “name & shame” (or Dox & Destroy…) them via using their “Idiots in Charge” (and their “useful idiot follower hoards – Antiffa, BLM, etc.) for the attacks. Those in a Group-Think Consensus Group absolutely hate anyone in the out-group showing they are wrong. They can’t accept being shown stupidly wrong.
5) Is this also why the push for Boss Babes? Women are MUCH more interested in “consensus” and “agreement”, so would naturally push for expulsion of the Polymaths and adoption of the Group-Think Narrative. Plus, a Female Sociopath is far more sinister (vicious?) in their attacks and quite indirect in their revenge. So put Ursala at the top as the sociopath manipulator, then Kaja Kallas falls in line easily without thinking.
I asked Brave Browser “Women leaders of the EU” and the A.I. answered:
Four women currently hold the five most powerful positions in the European Union, leading a significant shift toward gender parity in the bloc’s top institutions.
The current female leaders are:
Ursula von der Leyen: President of the European Commission (since 2019, re-elected 2024).
Roberta Metsola: President of the European Parliament (second term secured in 2024).
Christine Lagarde: President of the European Central Bank (since 2019).
Kaja Kallas: High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (appointed 2024, succeeding Josep Borrell).
The only male in this top tier is Antonio Costa, the President of the European Council. Von der Leyen has been named the world’s most powerful woman by Forbes four consecutive years (2022–2025) and has actively pushed for gender parity in her Commission team, appointing women to six of the eight top vice-presidency roles in her second term.
I note in passing that “gender parity” in Ursela’s POV means ONE man in five top rolls and TWO men out of 8 at the next tier. So 5:1 and 3:1 women over men. Yeah, that’s “parity” all right… /snark;
Is the whole “meritocracy bad” and DIE Diversity Inclusion Equity based on race and gender due to this? The desire to put more “Group-Think” prone folks in authority and exclude the Polymath who disrupts the Group-Think and derails the Narrative Railroad?
I find it an interesting frame for looking at these questions, even if I can’t provide any definitive answers.
BUT it does seem to fit all the known facts. And, putting on my Sociopath Emulator Hat: it sure looks to me like, were I a socipath at the top, I’d NOT want a widely knowledgeable polymath who would fight me on The Narrative (of deception?) I was pushing, and I would want a lot of emos under me who would just follow my lead and conform to group pressure…
What is an emo person like? An emo person tends to be quiet, introspective or shy, and can be creative. They spend time alone or with people who share their interests listening to music or making emo-influenced art. They have deep emotions but aren’t always only angry or sad.
One also wonders if the Gay Guy stereotype comes into play here too. More emotional, less likely to be a polymath. More into music, art, clothes and other “girly stuff”… just a speculation / question. It would be amusing to look into group-think vs polymath tendency by social group with gender & “orientation” as markers.
In Conclusion
So there you have it. Insight of the day, but consisting more of questions than answers.
But it sure points toward more conformance to “all the known facts” than “doesn’t fit”…
We have created this site as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions. This is a place where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This particular thread is – for the moment – TRUST THE PLAN Thursday. You are welcome to say what you think, in a civil and courteous manner that loves your neighbor. Free speech matters! Courteous speech makes it happen.
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.
You are you. AI is AI. Keep your identity. Don’t “Borg Out” on us!
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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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?
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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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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.
10:40
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.
