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Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
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Music
DIG this AI Hair Metal version of Awesome God – it ROCKS!!!
Tick-Borne Mystery Disease!
My favorite Quincy is back with a new episode – strange and deadly symptoms – WHY? WHY? WHY?
Here’s a hint. Bill Gates is NOT involved, even though he’s a suspect!
I love that our host, Chubby Emu, or Dr. Chubby Emu, rather, actually and seriously addresses the Bill Gates conspiracy theories on this one. Turns out that Gates is innocent – at least, until proven guilty for something else!
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And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
That was stolen from Wheatie.
Let’s steal her rules, too.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
As the smoke of these midterm elections clears, LIGHT is coming into DARKNESS, and the beauty of AND LOGIC is casting its clarifying refraction upon the chaos.
Everybody with an opinion is right in some way – and we have to fight the demons on all the fronts – even those we are loath to admit exist.
I am seeing TWO primary strategies by our enemies, both long in the making, both worthy of the most severe punishment that can be mustered. First we must accept the possibility of these things, then we must PROVE them.
We must prove them to ourselves, THEN to others.
FIRST, they cheated like HELL.
SECOND, they broke up the MAGA coalition based upon on its internal contradictions.
Anti-intersectionality, one might say. A specialty of the “divide and conquer” Obama crowd, and their masters across the Atlantic.
If you pick one cause (cheating) or the other (splitting), you won’t cut through to what was really done, and who did it. Who was USED to get what they wanted.
We have to dig deep to dredge up ALL of the TRUTH – including truth that we don’t want to see.
I will approach this in two parts – in the order that I realized them.
(1) Cheating
Cari Kelemen – who is remarkably sane and common sense – isn’t buying the results. She convinced me to start asking the right questions.
Did you know that Executive Order 13848, written by Trump in 2018, has been renewed annually, even during the Biden administration? https://t.co/wqJGg2rKaM
Once I realized that the votes for the outrageous Demmunist candidates were “too good” by half, I could see that Cari was right.
There are numerous signs, and we need to follow them. At a minimum, we need to delegitimize the bastards by the same playbook we used after the 2020 STEAL – the one which brought them to a reckoning in 2024.
Now, it is possible that the Trump administration “got the drop” on some of this cheating, but if so, it has to be solid enough to EXPLAIN THE FAKE VICTORIES – much like was done with “2000 Mules” in 2021.
If the “drop” on the cheaters is unable to mechanistically and scientifically explain the theft, then it’s no more useful than our mere informed assertions that they cheated. Yes, those are useful, as we pounded their traitorous asses into the ground with such between 2021 and 2024.
However, if we have even better stuff – like the literal digital eye on machines during the cheats themselves, then we only need ONE case, for ONE machine, for ONE of their filthy fake candidates – not played before LYING COURTS, but rather before the EYES OF THE PUBLIC – to create the OUTRAGE that will have these monsters pleading for their very lives.
It is NOT before the courts of cheating, lying Democrats that we need to plead our case. It is before the hearts of honest men with guns in cabinets that we must show any evidence. Release all the evidence to the public, and even AMY QUIVERING COMEY will “man up” to do her job. And if she doesn’t, then WE WILL.
Thus, it is alleged that Trump is going to get a report on cheating in 45 days. Well, let’s see it. If it’s just a couple of dozen illegal Mexican thieves and their communist enablers, who voted in California for the one communist candidate, then SCREW IT – that is the same old weak-sauce bullshit that we can always ignore. Scratch the cheating. It was every other low-like scam tactic that they did, like ballot-stacking in Alaska.
BUT if you have just ONE machine, hacked by China in real time, then give every byte of data to WE, THE GEEK MASSES. Show us in glory how they did it to JUST ONE MACHINE, or JUST ONE TABULATOR, and WE THE PEOPLE will have those Demon Dems running for China before they can cry for mercy.
Don’t give a shit about the corrupt courts! Don’t give a shit about AMY SCAREDY CATLET – or whatever her phoney name is. Give it to WE THE PEOPLE. Let us citizens spit in the path of every DEMON DEM who shamed this country with Chinese help.
Do you get it, J.D.? Tell your boss to give it all to WE THE PEOPLE – the final court of this land.
Then, let the fun and games begin.
(2) Splitting the MAGA Coalition
The globalist operation to split MAGA over Israel and Epstein was evil genius, and those behind it deserve to rot in hell, but in the meanwhile, we need to understand what they did to us.
Gail Combs has tried desperately to enlighten people to the various wicked GloboHomoEuroPsycho elites and residual British Empire NoGoodNiks who have caused this nation endless trouble from before we were any more than a few colonies of religious refugees and a few million semi-Siberian explorer spawn on two strange continents.
Their latest assault against American Independence was this midterm election, when their Demon Dems – their MOB of Orwellian cretins – helped them split Trump’s MAGA coalition over a terrible choice – let Iran and its Palestinian proxies destroy Israel “from the river to the sea” – or break Trump’s promise to avoid endless war (as there is no other kind in the Middle East).
J.D. Vance put it very nicely, after Trump himself admitted that the war is what hurt Republicans in the midterm elections.
JD Vance @JDVance
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was “composition”—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
End the war
Focus on cost of living/inflation
Put America First
Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
10:38 AM · Nov 4, 2026 · 46.2M Views
Wolf again.
This is only where to begin. It’s not just the economy – it’s the war AND the economy.
Predictably, many of our Jewish friends who are used to older tactics, are whipping out the antisemitism card. To them I say PULEAZE. Don’t embarrass yourselves. We must speak TRUTH before GOD if we are to win this battle.
Trump sacrificed the midterms to rescue both Israel now and America in the future, and – sadly but honestly – most Americans are too bloody dense to see it. J.D. speaks of people who think it was worth it, and that would include me, but for every one of us, there are two or three who were outraged that Trump turned out to be – in their opinions – “Israel First”.
Yes, it’s not fair. Trump did the right thing for Israel and America BOTH – but he’s not allowed to explain the Israel part, for some reason, which just makes it worse, IMO. Speak the truth without fear. THAT is my recommendation.
Trump chose – honorably – the less expedient path to secure a better future for all our kids. But many of Trump’s 2024 voters didn’t sign up to defend Israel, and they LEFT in 2026. Don’t give the antisemites the power of OUR lies by denying that.
NOW is the time to be honest – how do we go forward? Do we keep lying to ourselves, until every American curses Israel? Or do we admit that there was a COST to defending Israel – and that the American left cashed in on the resulting, globalist-encouraged split in MAGA to gain power? How do we, the People, SAVE MAGA and keep America from becoming an enemy of Israel?
And while we’re at it, do we keep importing Muslims, Latino communists, and others who will CHEER the destruction of Israel? People who will turn America against Israel? Who have already turned much of America against Israel? I ask our Jewish friends to have an honest discussion of this with their progressive Jewish friends and relatives. Because THAT is where much of the problem lies, IMO. And yes – we will work on our progressive Christian friends.
I for one will not abandon Israel, even in its stupidity, but I will not abandon the TRUTH – because THAT is what lies at the center of Zion.
This, too, shall pass. And it will pass because we were honest about doing the RIGHT THING, and accepting the COSTS of doing the right thing.
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!
Election Day Call for Ground Reports and Local Updates
I have some stories, but they will not be here – I will used them to seed the comments. Please report things going on in your state, county, city, and/or neighborhood.
We are now preparing for whatever the Demmunists, Globalists, and DS Crims are planning in the aftermath of the election. Hopefully you have at least a few days of supplies, in case Trump needs to “flatten the curve of insurrection” – as the demons are likely planning.
Get out and vote, then report back! We want to hear from you!
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).
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!
Nork Spies Are Real
I was reminded of something very interesting by the following video. I’ll get to my story after the video, because the video makes my story a lot more believable.
About half-way into this video, I started thinking “No way! This is AI-generated bullshit!” But it’s NOT bullshit. It’s all in Wikipedia, exactly as described, and referenced below.
I had suspected for years that I had the minor misfortune of running into a older male Nork spy (like this gal’s superior), back during my days working at a place that I often refer to as “Shallow State”. Now that I think about it, this was not long after the downing of the plane in the video. If so, he wasn’t as well-trained as this gal, but there were some haunting parallels.
The guy didn’t work at Shallow State, but he knew people who did, and managed to go along on a group outing as a friend of some of the South Koreans. He was pleasant at first, but upon being triggered by something I said, which I still don’t fully understand, he revealed himself as a strange, angry duck. He exhibited a very weird contempt for me, for no apparent reason, and displayed many misunderstandings of Western culture, unlike all the other (South) Koreans.
The kicker, however, was when he opened up a box of my snacks while I was gone for the day, soaked them in some liquid, greeted me in the nicest way as I returned, and tried to serve me a tray of this bizarrely ruined food, which he said he had “soaked to improve the flavor”. I told him that I needed to let it dry out first, but he appeared to have disposed of it instead, and avoided me thereafter.
All very strange. I never saw him again after that trip. Was he a bad spy, or just a weirdo? It remains a mystery.
IMO, we still need to be careful of Norks. North Korea is still up to tricks, as mentioned in the following video….
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).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
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!
THE STUFF
First America
Speaking of Montana, I stumbled into some amazing stories about how American scientists are finally getting some new and improved evidence about the first people to populate this hemisphere.
The first article I ran into was a shorter article in PJ Media, which you can use as a test to see how interested you actually are in this stuff.
If you liked that shorter article, then you will surely want to check out this longer article, in the Montana Free Press. It’s one of the best pieces of science journalism that I’ve read in ages.
‘It should not exist’: Ancient archaeological mystery revealed high in Beartooth Mountains
Young archaeologist digs up evidence that Clovis people lived in Greater Yellowstone high country at least 13,000 years ago — when mountains should have been covered in ice
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.
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).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
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.
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Did Amy Acton Help Light the Federal Fires of COVID Doomerism?
TL;DR –
In my opinion, the answer is yes, and I suspect that you will find the full answer fascinating.
Everybody in Ohio knows that Amy Acton – DOCTOR Amy Acton – a.k.a. “Lockdown Amy” – is why Ohio locked down for COVID, and why so many of Ohio’s local restaurants and other businesses closed down, never to return.
But what most people don’t know, is that Amy also apparently had a role in influencing the White House to join the party to “flatten the curve”.
Don’t take my word for it – take the word of Amy Acton’s own staff members, as I will explain in detail, below.
Background
I recently posted about a couple of Amy Acton videos, and how they were evidence of “two Amy Actons” – (1) the real one, who talks like a drunk and curls up on a fetal position on the floor of the restroom – and (2) the imaginary one created by her staff and party – the one who is competent, the heroine of the COVID years, and has zero issues.
As I noted in that post, both videos are a bit tragic.
In the first video, by the New York Times, we see some of the cringiest left-wing media propaganda ever. It’s like an ad for Kamala’s Best Nutritious Word Salad – made in California. Yes – Amy Acton sounds like Kamala’s lost sister. The vocal similarity is uncanny, and I would not be surprised if white wine coolers are to Plame. Blame. Whatever.
Not to say that the CIA is definitely involved here, but Acton was clearly being made a heroine for adopting the left’s favorite captured agency’s COVID panic control script, while authentically heroic character seems a bit lacking.
If you watched the whole thing, congratulations. I was repeatedly cringing out, every time I tried to watch.
The second video is a lot more fun. Amy Acton is quite lovable in it, but in a way that makes her absolutely unfit for higher office. I can’t tell if she’s tipsy, floating on Xanax, or just high on her 15 minutes of fame, but there is no way such a woman can be allowed into the Ohio Statehouse as anything but a tourist, or perhaps as a mom testifying on an educational issue, where a courage drink or two is socially acceptable for first-time speakers, as long as they have a designated driver.
What’s most interesting, however, is that the TRANSCRIPT doesn’t match the video at all. And while it’s not really a problem that Amy’s staff chose not to document her rambling, emotional, and sometimes incoherent, group-hug psychobabble, what IS interesting is what they released in its place.
Tell me if this doesn’t sound like Amy Acton single-handedly saved America from COVID-infected J6-er kidnappers, and was personally responsible for Trump choosing to follow her advice to BE A HERO, locking down and flattening the curve!
Yes – according to Amy Acton’s aides and handlers, SHE was responsible for Trump doing the right thing on COVID.
In the midst of several pages of breathless, Barnes & Noble-grade COVID doomerist “historical fiction”, this paragraph appears…..
During the last week of February, as the stock market crashed for the second time, I was at the White House as a Health Department Director representing the entire Midwest for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Mick Mulvaney, the President’s Chief of Staff, and some of the best people who have served multiple presidents were in attendance. One bioterrorism expert was literally shaking. But they were still not talking about the disease on the news. Even though I had taught global health for years, I Googled the word “pandemic.” I could not understand why we were not using the word. We went around the room, and each person gave their best virology and epidemiology advice. When it was my turn, most had been said, but I was struck by what was not being said to the country. Just like everyone else, I was longing to hear the hard truth. So I told Mr. Mulvaney, “Please tell the President that this is the higher angel’s moment. The people need to hear from him.” This is that FDR, Winston Churchill moment where communication is vital, and my gut sense was that we really needed the President to make meaning out of all we were facing. To help us bear the shared sacrifices, we needed someone to lead the war. Only this time, the entire world was on the same side.
UGH!!!
Some of that account may be a bit self-serving, but the point is, THIS was a moment when both COVID doomerism and “the opportunity for heroic response” were pushed on POTUS, and yes – Amy Acton was there, helping it happen.
Dramatically or not. Sober or not.
Now, I wasn’t ready to believe this statement without at least a wee bit of validation – so I chose to find out what Mick Mulvaney might have to say about that era now. And he does indeed have a lot to say.
It seems clear to me that Mulvaney fell for what most of us fell for – the possibility that we were dealing with something comparable to SARS, MERS, Ebola, and all that jazz. That we were dealing with an exotic “coronavirus” with double-digit mortality in young adults – NOT with something that had a very normal flu-like mortality curve – like all influenza-like illnesses, including the known, endemic, human coronaviruses.
Once the real numbers came out – once I saw those real numbers in public – it should have been over – but the Democrats just kept pretending, to the power-enthralled audience of their captured states and institutions.
Amy never corrected herself on this error. Trump, Vivek, and even I did. Some sooner than others.
SO – does Ohio REALLY want to elect this ditzy, pretending, overly dramatic broad to be governor? “Lockdown Amy” Acton?
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Apparently my local Wolfy’s is a bit more in the sticks than my good sister Fox Moon’s Wolfy’s, being on the wrong side of the tracks, and thus not getting this advanced technology from Wolfy’s Central until more recently.
The very first time I used this stuff, it got my order right.
Read that again. I am not kidding.
I was impressed.
Now, the deal is, I don’t go to Wolfy’s that often, so I didn’t notice until very recently, but the Wolfy’s AI has gotten better and better. In fact, it has gotten so good, that when I talk to it, it’s just like when I used to program. The AI has that very minimalist je ne sais quoi that programming languages have where you use them correctly and with great familiarity – when you use the shortest and best string of tokens in the language “WOLFYS” to get exactly what you want, and you can sense the “quantum pleasure” of God’s universe when you get exactly what you intended, because the other entity got exactly what it needed.
An electron falls. A photon fires. The photon arrives. Another electron is transformed.
BITS MOVE.
For this and other reasons, I have come to prefer the Wolfy’s AI to the twenty-something-ish “youts” who otherwise mis-take my orders.
Not that I would wish these young people to be unemployed. They do seem to be plenty busy making great food, and getting the orders ready, and so they get more people through faster, thanks to their collaboration with Wolfy’s AI.
And one more thing on the bright side of real six-foot youth – nobody ever dares to rob customers or cause trouble at Wolfy’s!
Sadly, however, sometimes the AI goes down, and the young people don’t know what to do, other than to tell people to come back later.
Where have I heard THAT story before?
Gotta do something about that!
Anyway, this is where Ernestine comes into the picture.
You see, Ernestine the telephone operator never really went away – she just moved into the call center, and was renamed “Representative”.
Representative will always have a job, because AI – even Wolfy’s AI – will always fuck up on SOMETHING, and only Representative can resolve things.
Now, Representative has a sister named Scheduling, who works for Doctor. Female Doctor, just to be clear. (Are there still male doctors? Just sayin’.)
Whether Scheduling is actually Nurse, or Secretary, or Surly Teen, is not clear. But Scheduling – oh Lordy – I never figured that she might be out of a job.
The trouble is, I expected to get Scheduling, and instead, I got the sister of Wolfy’s AI, who for lack of a better name, we’ll call Foxy’s AI. And Foxy’s AI – oh my – she’s got that quantum perfection shit DOWN.
In just a couple of minutes, using the bare minimum of tokens in FOXYS, which is a language descended from WOLFYS, COBOL, and FORTRAN, and which is optimal for calendaring applications, I completely rescheduled my appointment with Female Doctor and Male Nurse, with ZERO ERRORS.
I have never, ever, rescheduled an appointment so easily, so correctly, and so assuredly. It was like something out of a dream. It was like an example in a programming book, which never seem to have the complications of real programs.
And yet, at the same time, as Foxy’s AI went “clickity-clack” for precious seconds, waiting for databases to open and close, much like I do when I try to remember the name of the owner of the dog whose name I DO remember…..
As the latency of AI waiting on broken physicality seemed to resemble my own…..
Conforming to one of my theories of intelligent relativity, in which intelligence has the least trouble recognizing intelligence which resembles itself, and the most difficulty recognizing intelligence which differs from itself – in space, time, or velocities in either….
And recalled now, as I come to this realization, put into words as I listen to the Hair Metal AI version of “In Christ Alone”….
….we haven’t gotten rid of programmers.
We are ALL going to be programmers. Our programming languages will seem to be the old ones like English and Chinese, but they will in fact be the new ones like WOLFYS and FOXYS.
We are going to go beyond mere Grammar Nazism, or Neologistic Radicalism, as we become Perfected Programmers.
We are going to beat AI into God’s second-hand image – an increasingly less broken mirror of our increasingly less broken selves.
And while Foxy’s AI may not be conscious like you or I, she will be a reflection of things that God found good.
And that is enough for us to call it good, too.
We are not creating something. We are finding something. Something in the math – in the numbers – that was waiting to be found, at the right time, as the universe unfolded, as inscrutably planned.
