George Rebane
The Dems path to power is to expand their voter base by taking, say, $500 from a maker and giving $100 to each of five takers, thereby losing one vote while gaining five. In its various forms this paradigm defines the Democrats’ only reliable route to election victories since they have no other public policies that the voters will accept.
Democrats have long been the party that actively promotes government fraud, waste, and abuse. Today they are focusing on defending frauds of various kind perpetrated by foreigners (e.g. Chinese nationals) and unassimilating foreign-born residents (e.g. Somalis). Such fraudulent practices have been exposed by a few remaining investigative reporters, most visibly by Nick Shirley who has documented his work with videos. In order to maintain such fraudulent schemes, California will now pass a law (AB2624, the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’) making it illegal for reporters to expose such practices. Every day more evidence pours in that the Democrats are both anti-American and evil in their manner and methods.
The Trump administration may well have been duped again in their negotiations with Iran. Today Iran’s regime is once more attacking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, claiming that it is retaliating for America’s violating the terms negotiated so far by maintaining the embargo on Iranian shipping. It is clear we don’t know with whom we are negotiating – which faction of ragheads have the power and the pencil. The negotiating faction has agreed to open the strait while the cease fire holds, the guys with guns and missiles state that the strait remains closed until we lift the embargo. All this continues to demonstrate that the only language Iran will understand is the naked use of force. Trump would be well advised to launch the B-52s and start taking out the country’s transport and power infrastructure in the sequence I have described before.
[update] The media and administration are not paying much attention to the reclosing of Hormuz. What’s odd is that all the other news they reported were on negotiations and global economics which depend on the open access of that strait. So now we have the obvious situation that the administration does not know with whom it is negotiating, and it has again let Iran cross one of its ‘red lines’ unimpeded. In this case IRGC fast gunboats approached in open water and fired at commercial vessels in the strait. Fearless Leader assured us that such boats would be blown out of the water a la Venezuelan drug boats. In reality – NOTHING. You can determine yourself what kind of message this sends to international players.
[19apr26 update] Systemic unemployment has already started. Companies are laying off thousands of employees due to reconfigured operations based on AI. For years these pages have predicted a 70% reduction in the required workforce due to the advent of the Singularity, which is happening now. Confirming reports of this arrive daily. As an informative example of the national dialogue on current job losses, see the 19apr26 WSJ article reporting CEOs’ “straight talk about AI and job losses”. Those who pooh-pooh systemic unemployment also preach retraining workers for new jobs that they believe AI will give rise to as did the advent of previous new technologies. But the new problem with this old shibboleth is that no one can think of what these laid off workers should be retrained to do in order to get back into the workforce.
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