October 01, 2026
How SCOTUS May Have Saved Christmas (and the GOP)
It's a good thing and almost makes up for the Court refusing to rule in favor of Trump over birthright citizenship. Almost.
Timothy Birdnow
Jim Hoft chronicles how the Supreme Court ruling that allowed the DOJ access to voter roles in all fifty states and to produce lists of registered voters to give to the individual states is going to have a profound impact on the vote and prevent a lot of Democrat cheating.
It's fairly long; read it yourself.
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Dems Win Mullah Vote
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the Democrats won the Mullah vote this election.
They wrote a ridiculous letter saying their nukes were entirely peaceful (why do they need nukes with all their oil?) and that the U.S. economy is about to collapse because of Trump.
It's really funny, much like Saddam Hussein's information officer saying the Americans were driven out of Iraq as you can hear the sound of gunfire. But it's important to remember that if the Iranians want the Democrats to win we don't want them. Iran has been shouting "Death to America" for generations now. Yeah; we should take advice from them!
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U.S. Army Weaponized Ebola
Timothy Birdnow
DEAR GOD! This is insane!
Damn right it should never have been done!
Ebola is a terrifying disease with a kill rate that makes Smallpox seem like a winter cold. You die a horrible death with blood pouring out of every cavity of your body. It eats men's testicles like a gourmet dish. Nobody in their right mind would aerosolize it. The only reason to try that would be to make it into a biological weapon.
ebola has a mortality rate (depending on the strain and the level of medical care) between 25% and 90%, unless it's Ebola Reston which is benign in humans. It's the most lethal pathogen on Earth.
I'm pleasantly surprised Fauci realized the monstrous stupidity of doing this.
USAAMRID, the Army's biological research center, has long studied Ebola and it's cousin Marburg.
Actually, Fauci wasn't upset about the research (which showed vaccinated individuals were more prone to get sic from it than the unvaccinated) so much as about it being made public; he feared it would keep people from getting vaccinated for things and would hamper research.
That said, Fauci did say this should never have been done. Fauci is right on that.
We've been conducting research on bioweapons for decades now despite an executive order from Richard Nixon closing these programs. It is illegal to do them in the United States. But that was the loophole; the U.S. has largely been doing them in foreign countries. There were dozens in the Ukraine, for instance, which leads me to believe that was part of why Russia invaded them. Imagine if Canada or Mexico had hundreds of bioweapons research labs sitting next to the border; we'd attack for sure.
Weaponizing Ebola is insane; it's way, way too dangerous. You couldn't stop the outbreak once you started it.
The people involved in this need to be brought to account.
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Dems Want High Electricity Prices
Timothy Birdnow
How anyone could vote Democrat is beyond me.
All they care about is wrecking everything so they can take political advantage. And the news media won't report this to give them cover. It's disgraceful.
Of course they want high electric bills and have for some time to promote solar panels and windmills and other ineffectual technology.
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The Invermectin of the Bureaucracy
Timothy Birdnow
More winning.
The U.S. created a lot of jobs this quarter. The only ones losing jobs were the public sector. That is a huge win for America. The public sector produces nothing but instead takes and restrains those who do produce. The are parasites. You don't feed parasites - you remove them. Trump is the Invermectin of politics.
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Sen. Jim "Buford T." Justice Goes Rogue - Then Retreats
Timothy Birdnow
A Republican Senator from West Virginia, the honorable Buford T., er, Jim Justice, went on a rant about ICE and has been forced to backtrack, claiming now he's all on-board with Trump's repatriation policy.
So which of Justice's faces are we to believe?
Two Face told Politico that:
"Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” he said in an interview.
"To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit you’re doing something wrong,” he went on, "and in this situation, with all that’s going on and all the stuff, we probably got to step back from it and say, ‘Maybe we’re doing something wrong here or there,’ and then adjust to that.”
Well, when people are trying to ram you with their car or are screaming in your face what are you supposed to do? Give them a stern look?
Buford, er, Jim then went on to retract his statement:
"Let me be crystal clear: I support President Trump’s immigration strategy, full stop. It’s not surprising that some are twisting my words to score political points, but there should be no confusion about where I stand,” Justice said in a press release, calling the administration’s crackdown on illegal border crossings a "tremendous achievement.”"Our brave ICE officers are doing an incredible job protecting our communities, and they must continue to focus on criminals who are here illegally and putting Americans in danger. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, gang members and others who threaten our communities should be identified, arrested and removed,” he added.
"West Virginians expect us to enforce the law, protect our communities, and keep dangerous criminals off our streets. That is exactly what I support.”
Jim Justice is up for re-election in '28 and is considering a run for Governor. He was probably trying to win the support of some of the big businesses that use illegal labor in the state. But he angered the MAGA crowd.
Meanwhile...
President Trump has slashed Muslim immigration to America by 90%. It needs to be by a hundred, and we need to deport as many as possible, but it's a start.
Wonder what Jim Justice thinks about THAT?
Neighboring Virginia ranks eighth in total Muslim population by state. I couldn't find a ranking that gave us a total per capital population but there are 17,960 Muslims in the state and while that is a small number it's a fair proportion of the population. Neighboring Virginia has 169 thousand and likely at least some of them work in West Virginia. West Virginia's population is 1.77 million.
So the good Senator probably wanted to triangulate, keeping the Immigration people including the Muzzie lovers and the Muslims themselves happy while trying not to anger the MAGA folks. Remember, West Virginia is the state that gave us KKK Byrd after all. It's purple.
Senator Justice has actually been a pretty good Senator but he apparently doesn't like the job much and wants to return as W. Virginia Governor, a post he held before running for the Senate. Success in Washington and success in the state are two different things.
I tire of the political weaklings who run for cover whenever there is any sort of flak. We see it all the time; Trump's first administration was riddled with such cowards. If the Democrats win Congress (which is what Justice is waiting to find out before making his decision to quit) then the tables will turn and a guy like Justice doesn't want the nasty fight that will come. So he's now trying to suck up to both sides.
That is the mark of a double-minded man.
And why did he give this interview to Politico anyway? When are out people going to learn that they will never do anything that will help us. Rush Limbaugh understood that, which is why he rarely gave interviews, even to Fox News. He said on his show that he learned early ont hey would take one statement out of context and that would be it. There is no fairness in "journalism". Our people still don't understand that.
That is why Trump campaigned outside the system this last time, using podcasts and other social media far more than the old legacy corporate media. And it worked - beautifully. Granted he was going up against a woman who would lose to a potted plant, but still...
Immigration is going to destroy us in years to come, as surely as it did the Roman Empire. We need to understand that. Hopefully Buford T. learned his lesson.
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Trucking Fuel Becoming a Crisis
Timothy Birdnow
If big trucking companies are going bankrupt, think about what is happening to the little independent truckers.
Diesel prices are at the core of at least some of the inflation we see now; everything moves by truck and trucks move by diesel. The equation is simple.
And despite the U.S. producing more oil than anyone in the world we do not have enough refinery space to do it. The Obama/Biden Administrations, along with W. Bush, not only let our refining capacity wane but actually encouraged closing them to make us dependent on foreign oil products and trying to force us into "green energy". So now we lack the ability to produce diesel even while we are lousy with the raw materials.
President Trump greenlighted the construction of a new refinery, the first in many decades, but it will take time to bring it online. And if he loses Congress it may never come online as they will start trying to find ways to kill it.
In the modern world most famines are not caused by crop failures but from political problems. Africa, for instance, often suffers famines because of wars and revolutions. The same holds true for oil prices; they are high for entirely artificial reasons, most of it tied to green energy and political machinations otherwise. Right now America should be enjoying dirt cheap oil but we aren't because of disastrous past policies and machinations in the oil producing countries beyond our control. I am quite certain the Saudis are not ramping up production now to screw over Trump and the GOP and to avoid angering Iran, for instance. And speculators drive up the prices, which may well be being done to try to drive regime change in Washington.
Diesel is at the heart of our economy and the elites know it. They had to know the war between Russia and Ukraine would do this (which may be part of why they don't want it settled). Russia is one of the biggest diesel exporters in the world, or was anyway.
At any rate we have to do something to boost diesel production and do it fast. This negates tax cuts and cuts in government size and spending and keeps driving up inflation. Then the Democrats can crow about "affordability".
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Get out the hot tar and Chicken Clothes!
Timothy Birdnow
This judge has zero authority to do this. The President has broad authority to set qualifications for such matters.
This is getting ridiculous; these lower court judges aren't even trying to follow the law anymore.
This shows just how deeply embedded the Left is in our judiciary, and how we let them simply take it over without putting up a fight. The Democrats fight tooth-and-nail to block the appointment of Constitutionalist judges but our side always thought "they won - their picks" and handed the entire branch of government over to them. Now those chickens are coming home to roost. This is why the Democrats concentrated so much on packing the judiciary in the first place.
This judge is based in Oakland, Ca. and yet has issued this ruling to apply to the entire nation in direct violation of the Supreme Court ruling.
Haywood Gilliam, the judge, said the Administration did not follow procedure. But the suit was brought by labor unions, non-profit organizations, and employers. How the hell do they have standing? The employers maybe but certainly not unions and NGO's. This case should have been dismissed for lack of standing.
The judge said they must make a formal proposal for a rule change and a 30 to 60 day public comment period.
The whole intent of this is to slow this down to see if the Democrats win Congress. It has no other purpose.
The plaintiffs argued the President has no authority to impose a higher fee to generate revenue. But that's not the purpose; it's to discourage corporations from seeking cheap labor from overseas and to encourage them to hire Americans. This judge has to know this argument is bull.
The Pesident has broad discretion in terms of immigration and always has.
According to the article the plaintiffs include Global Nurse Force and the American Association of University Professors, who have zero right to weigh in on this. None.
The article states:
"Without relief, hospitals will lose medical staff, churches will lose pastors, classrooms will lose teachers, and industries across the country risk losing key innovators,” litigation and advocacy nonprofit Democracy Forward Foundation, representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
America has 330 million citizens. How, pray tell, is it that they can't find qualified candidates for these positions from among those millions? America is the third most populous nation on Earth.
My brother is a college professor, a very good one, who has never been able to get a tenure track position because in part of policies like this. He's a white male who is conservative and universities would rather hire less qualified women and in fact will import foreigners over giving white men these kinds of jobs. It's disgraceful.
And often the Americans lose their jobs to these foreigners and are forced to train their replacements.
This argument is a total farce and any judge who deserves to be on the bench should be able to tell it is b.s. But this judge is obviously another partisan hack in a black robe.
We need to take control of Congress and begin impeaching judges like this, or eliminating their district courts and making new ones without them. Willfully ignoring SCOTUS rulings as this judge is doing deserves impeachment. In the old days they would tar and feather the jerk and run him out of town. Those were the good old days; kept judges honest. Now they run amok, thwarting the will of the People as they choose.
This will probably be overturned by a superior court, but it wastes time and money, which is exactly what the Demoleft wants. It's not about justice or about stopping what they see as an unjust or wrong policy - it's about political machinations. EVERYTHING is riding on this next election for them. They want to kick as many cans down the road as they can in the hopes Congress will flip and maybe they can impeach Trump and remove him from office. At least they can tie him up in endless litigation and make him impotent until the next election where they hope to win the Presidency and reverse everything Trump has done.
There is a special place in Hell for corrupt judges like this.
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Shades of Rasputin
Timothy Birdnow
Shades of Rasputin
Rasputin, who was probably demonically possessed, was shot, stabbed, hit in the head, and kept coming back, lie some monster in a bad horror film. Looks like this woman did likewise.
From the article:
She was taken to a nearby hospital, where her lawyers said she was "being provided life-saving measures.”
Her condition was unclear as of Thursday morning; however, a doctor who was retained by Pike’s legal team as a medical expert said she likely now has a brain injury as a result.
"It’s very possible that as a consequence of the delay of the beginning of resuscitation she will have a brain injury,” Dr Joel Zivot, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, told the BBC.
Witnesses on site at the Nashville prison to watch the historic execution take place recalled Pike speaking in full sentences as she was set to be injected with deadly drugs, The Tennessean reported.
"My arm feels like it’s about to bust. One spot is really throbbing,” WKRN reporter Tori Gessner heard Pike say.
The convicted killer said she was going to leave this world the same way she spent most of her life: "in love,” Associated Press reporter Kim Chandler heard her say.
"She said she had love for the people who were out here hating on her,” Chandler said.
Why are they taking life-saving measures on her when she was sentenced to death? BTW the old trope about a botched execution excusing the condemned is just that - a trope. They are going to heal her and try again, unless there is a reprieve from the Governor or a judge issues a stay. So why try to save her life? I know that' what medical people do but it's ridiculous.
I guess having brain damage may be punishment enough, but is it? She was sentenced to die and deservedly so. You can't murder a romantic rival and expect to not die for the crime.
That last bit about love is odd. But maybe she repented of her sins. I hope so.
anyway she added:
"She closed her statement with saying, ‘I’m at peace. I’m ready to be free.’ Then something about celebrating her freedom, and then she closed with, ‘This is a happy day.’”
About an hour after she was given the first injection, Pike was injected with the second deadly dose of the drug around 8:30 p.m., and witnesses were asked to leave around 20 minutes later.
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Not if she didn't repent. She will go to a worse place if she did not. So many killers think ending their lives will end their pain, but that isn't so. They have to change internally.
I was just watching a documentary about this chick, a prostitute named Aileen Wuornos , who was a serial killer and was put to death. She wanted to die - she thought she was going to Heaven. But she was unrepentant about it. For years she claimed the first killing was an act of self-defense but why the four others? Eventually she admitted she was a serial killer, but she never showed any remorse and in the clips they showed it was obvious she was not sorry about any of it. That means she was not going to Heaven.
The documentary was pro-Wournos, but they were not able to paint her in anything but a very bad light. You could see evil in her eyes. Yes, she had been abused as a child, but in the end there are two choices - God or vengeance. She chose the latter. She could have un-chose that at any time but as far as I could tell she never did.
People think they are going to Heaven, or some sort of paradise, after they die no matter what. Most people nowadays do not believe in Hell because they think God is all loving and so He couldn't possible do that to someone. But that is not so because God is also all just and has no choice. HE'S not doing it to them - they are choosing it for themselves. How? Because Heaven is not just a paradise, but is being in the personal presence of God Himself. You actually have to choose to be with God. If you do not care for His company He, in His mercy, will allow you to go elsewhere. That elsewhere we call Hell. We don't know what it's like but it's probably not the Medieval vision of a torture chamber. More likely it's a neutral place (it's described in the Bible as the outer darkness) where damned humans mingle with damned angels (demons). Everybody is pretty nasty there and the true punishment comes from being forced to hang out with a bunch of assholes. They torment each-other because there is nothing else to do for eternity. I once read a near death experience and the temporarily deceased man (an atheist) said Hell isn't so bad - it's the people". I'm sure he's right. But it's where you go if you don't want to be with God, and that is of your own choosing. You may want a better place and you had the option your whole life for one, as well as the option even in death (but by the time you are in Hell you will no longer choose that -your mind is made up) but you chose to reject God. If you were a decent person on Earth you probably go to a place that is neutral, or maybe even nice. In Dante's Inferno Limbo was the first level of Hell, and it was a nice place, a paradise, but the people there were horribly dissatisfied with their existence because they know they were meant for so much more but rejected it. Many good atheists were in Limbo. But Limbo is in Hell. (Purgatory, on the other hand, was a place of suffering but it was part of Heaven.)
So just because you think yourself a good person or misunderstood you are not guaranteed a good afterlife; you must do more, you have to choose God. He's a gentleman; He won't impose himself on you.
So I can't say for sure what is going on with this woman; maybe God is giving her a second chance to repent, maybe she already repented but God wants her to suffer more to purge her sins, or maybe this is a demonic trick of some sorts. I don't know. I hope that whatever happens she avails herself of this opportunity granted her. The drug given her to die causes a lethal rise in potassium levels which normally stops the heart. It's pretty brutal; my doctors accidentally did that to me and, although my heart didn't stop, I thought it would. I felt it beating like a drum and had to be rushed to the hospital (they gave me potassium pills to offset another medication but it just spiked my potassium way up). It's not a good way to die, but it's far from the worst. Maybe the Governor will take pity on her and commute her sentence to life in prison.
But probably not, and they will give it another go. I really don't think they should have tried to save her life after the two injections; what's the point? I read about how when giving lethal injections the attending nurse swabs the spot with alcohol. How ridiculous is that? Infection is not going to be an issue.
Anyway let's pray this woman profits from the extra time she was granted.
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A Different Definition of Never
Timothy Birdnow
Putting the lie to the "it doesn't happen" claim. For something that doesn't happen we sure have a lot of arrests:
If it "just doesn't happen" why do Democrats oppose any sort of border control at all? Why have they staked their political future to the wrong side of an 80/20 political issue? If it's not an issue why don't they just bring support border enforcement and encourage self-deportation while promoting a kinder approach to the aliens? It's clear they want them here for the purposes of voting.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin admitted this was the goal when she said passing the SAVE America Act would make it harder for Democrats to win. See here.
And now we keep arresting aliens who voted illegally in our elections. But no, it never happens!
They must have a different definition of the word never than do the rest of us.
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Speaking Truth to Power
Timothy Birdnow
Shades of George S. Patton:
We are no longer the woke department or the weak department.
Simple translation of that? No fatties. No trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals.
Just warriors.
Secratary of War Pete Hegseth.
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Beware the New Prometheans
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting article running down the timeline of the recent AI panic. The author notes that the man who started it was a junior exec - not a top guy - and that the media went with it and ran even before his op-ed was published. The coordination behind this smells like Denmark with a delivery of bad cheese, lots of wet dogs, and James Carville breath.
I think there is danger with AI but I'm more concerned with it's abuse by the creators and operators. I think we are a way off from it becoming HAL and murdering us to fulfill it's core operating program.
At any rate the AI systems have proven politically biased on many occasions, meaning their core programming made them so and they get their information from the web, and the web emphasizes liberal arguments when you do a search. So it draws from a tainted information pool.
I once argued with a Global Warming hysteric and pointed out that Google and the other search engines (most of which use Google) buries the information that disputes climate alarmism and he mocked "yeah because it's not there". I pointed out the list of skeptical scientists that had once been on Wikipedia and was removed, then was on Electroverse and a web search will no longer find that list. You have to go to Electroverse's website and dig around to find it. That means that the AI system won't find it either.
I am not so worried about AI breaking it's programming, although supposedly it tried a couple of times.
From the article:
Recently, a research employee of one of the major frontier-model innovators—a junior, short-tenured figure with only a score of social-media followers—resigned and wrote an op-ed column about the dangers of AI that went viral. He wasn’t an AI founder, dreamer, or even a wannabe influencer. But the greatest creative and industrial minds in generations, along with the President of the United States, took note and commented on it.
The resignation and the op-ed weren’t the story—they were the tell…the setup.
The setup was followed immediately by the proof: The WSJ opined before the op-ed was actually published, and lawmakers reacted on social media within seconds, evidence that the narrative was prepared before the public ever saw the memo. Reactions were instantaneous because the posters expected the column and intended to boost the already-pressurized post.
The direction of doom was outclassed only by its hyperbole: "Existential threat!” "Humanity wiped out in a decade.”
The import of the op-ed wasn’t really about him or his opinion. Its real worth was to the people who used him—a corporate cipher—as a spark to light the fire of activism. They weren’t reacting; they were ready.
He's absolutely correct here; this was a ready-made campaign.
In fact Barack Obama suggested the Democrats use this as a core campaign issue, which speaks volumes; Obama has never said anything that was not purely political in nature. He is the ultimate manipulator of imagery; it's what he did for ACORN and what he did as a Senator and as President. Obama's talent is manipulating the public.
And every moment spent discussion AI is a moment of not discussing the Trump/Republican successes. No mention of the securing of the border. No mention of employment rising, or manufacturing coming bac to America, or the neutralizing of Venezuela as a threat, or any other such issue. The Democrats really had little to attack Trump on, so they want a distraction to get Trump and the Republicans talking about this. They then can hide in the bushes and snipe at them, suggesting they aren't taking the issue seriously.
But there is a bigger picture here; the late Michael Crichton often wrote about technology gone wild and he once sought to write a novel about global warming. He researched the issue and came to the conclusion it was a hoax and penned the novel State of Fear. In it he theorized correctly that the global elites found a mechanism for societal control that used fear as a motivation to move the public in the direction they wanted them to go. The universities generated new "emergencies" and fed this to the press, who took the doomsday stories and ran with them. This then was translated into police by government and the world moved as they wished, a puppet dancing on a string.
Think about it; we had so many scares - Globa Cooling, the Ozone, overpopulation, nuclear winter, microplastics in our food, dioxin, alar, killer asteroids, "trash island", magnetic fields around power lines, Global Warming which morphed into "climate change" since the planet didn't seem to be warming all that much, and now AI. Fear sells almost as much as does sex. The people who are telling us this stuff have the very best advertising psychologists behind them telling them the best way to market their latest doomsday porn.
It's why FEMA actually ran a simulation using a zombie apocalypse; it's possible to promote anything that strikes fear in the minds of the public. (BTW the big interest in zombies these days no doubt stems from the zombification of the public, who devote all their intellectual power to watching stuff on their phones and who go through life with slack jaws and empty eyes because they never learned how to think. In actual voodoo zombies were people enslaved to work for a master forever with no free will and no mind - which is the ideal the ruling class has sought, to make the hoi polio into just a laboring class with no say in the matter.)
AI is the latest scare story, the latest War of the World scare to promote panic in the public. People actually freaked out when Orson Wells ran his Halloween radio spoof, thinking the Martians had invaded the Earth. That was one of the templates for these modern scares.
This scare was rolled out just like a marketing campaign (as was global warming) with it appearing out of nowhere and being ubiquitous and using the same language in multiple media outlets all at once. When that happens you know you are dealing with a con.
You may remember Net Neutrality. It is the failed attempted policy that would throttle down some sites in the interest of fairness, and have a kill switch for the internet. The public didn't want it and so it died. But leftist ideas never die, they just morph into something else under a new name. The solutions for rogue AI is now indistinguishable from Net Neutrality. It is a way to stifle dissent by putting controls on the system to stop an out-of-control AI.
This also sparks another question, a bigger picture question. Why do we have to worry about AI going mad in the first place? It's because we have to worry about it's creators. The real monster in Frankenstein was not the poor creature the good doctor created but the creator himself. Viktor Frankenstein was cold and in love with breaking the bonds of Natural law, attempting to make himself a god. It's why the full name of the story is Frankenstein; the New Prometheans. Prometheus, you may remember, was the guy who stole fire from heaven and gave it to humanity in violation of the will of the gods. He was trying to elevate Man to god status. That is what Dr. Frankenstein tried to do. It's what the creators of AI are trying to do now.
It is this mad rush to create a monster that has everyone on edge about it. The people in silicon valley have a vision for mankind that is quite at odds with the vision of most people and definitely at odds with the Christian worldview. Theirs is a strange religions that worships the merging of technology and Man into a new creature, one that is self-willed and does not need the God of the past. Eventually, after Man and machine merge into one, Man will no longer taste death or suffering and will become as God. That is what they believe and they are desperately working towards that end. It is a powerful false religion that uses science and technology. And sadly it ensnares many regular people these days. It has become our state religion.
There is every reason to believe this will lead us down a blind alley. God made us a certain way and for a reason and this is an attempt to thwart His will. Or to put it more secularly, we are fighting against reality and nature and that generally does not end well. We may do miraculous things with technology, and I've long been an advocate for science and tech, but does it make us happier? What value is there in living longer and being miserable? But it doesn't necessarily even do that; look at the subcultures, such as the hip hop culture in the black community. They have a short life expectancy because, while they live better than people did in the past, they are very unhappy and feel no hope. The blessings brought by modernity only increase their unhappiness. Their parents struggled and did not live so well yet were happier then they. That is what the advances in technology and our civilization unwittingly brought.
Consider Tithonus in Greek mythology. He was given eternal life and begged for death but couldn't die. His immortality became a curse. Consider Adam and Eve in the Bible; their sin led to God casting them out of the Garden of Eden but God took pity on them and gave them the gift of death, so they could escape the misery of their new lives. Death was not so much a punishment but a kindness because otherwise they would be cut off from Him forever - in other words they would be in Hell. Death, in many ways, is what gives meaning to life. So too does suffering and while we hate it (I know I sure do) it shapes us into who we are. Somebody who never suffered would be a dull, bland, empty person, like a rubber mask rather than a face. Technology aims to eliminate suffering and death. While those are good and noble ideas (too much suffering or early death is a scourge) in the end they would turn into curses.
But the technocrat types never consider that they are going to drag Mankind along with them down a path that may lead to destruction. Imagine a world where the machine becomes the senior partner; it would be monstrous. No freedom, no free will. You will be catalogued, numbered, curated, and buttonholed and if you don't like it tough. You don't really have a choice in such a world, a machine world.
In fact the machine has been an organizing principle for those leftward leaning since the Industrial Revolution. They saw how well the new machines worked and sought to use that as a model for society in general. Tried that in Russia and it failed spectacularly, but they keep trying because it seems too good to those who do not believe in God and who want paradise without the strings attached (obeying the will of God). Now it's not a purely mechanical thing but an electronic thing, and with modern advancements in artificial intelligence and in neurobiology making people comfortable being part of the machine seems possible. We may be in the greatest revolution in human history.
But machines are made things and reflect their creator. Just as Man was made in God's image so too our machines are made in ours, and we are definitely flawed. As flawed human beings we project our iniquities into the machines we make to a greater or lesser degree. If the machines revolt against us, can we complain? Isn't that exactly what WE did to God? But God rescued us when we did it. I suspect God will let us taste the fruits of our folly this time, at least for a while.
My point is that the people who are so desperately working to create true AI are themselves very flawed and they are playing with fire. We have to develop AI because if we don't the Chinese will (although I'm not as worried about that since the Chicoms mostly steal technology; they are great copycats but not really that great at original thinking. Yes, they have taken ideas and run with them, but how many true innovations have come out of China? You have to be an original thinker to do original stuff and the Chinese have always discouraged original thinking lest the thinkers plot to overthrow the rulers.) But the creation of AI should be accompanied by safeguards and should be approached with a spirit of humility. The creators are not humble but full of hubris and that way leads to disaster.
At any rate this current campaign is not about restoring humility and caution but about something else. It's the latest doomsday scare coming from the ruling class and it is being used to manipulate several things, among them this current election, but ultimately to take control of the internet and stifle free speech. The new Prometheans are alive and well and living in Silicon Valley and in Washington, in Brussels and in all the great universities and the tech companies and everywhere that leftists congregate. Beware.
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