The Artful Dilettante is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of Penn State University. He is a lover of liberty and a lifelong and passionate student of the same. He is voracious reader of books on the Enlightenment and the American colonial and revolutionary periods. He is a student of libertarian and Objectivist philosophies. He collects revolutionary war and period currency, books, and newspapers. He is married and the father of one teenage son. He is kind, witty, generous to a fault, and unjustifiably proud of himself. He is the life of the party and an unparalleled raconteur.
Try to stand back and objectively look at the span of time here on earth, from the Tower of Babel with its global catalyst of godlessness and passion to live an existence without Almighty God, to the worldly brilliance and idolatrous society of Egypt. From the autocratic power of the Babylonians to the strength of the Medes and the Persian Empire. From the conquering speed and philosophy of Greece to the decadent and oppressive Roman Empire. From the genius and barbarity of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas, to the godless vacuum of the European nations and lust for war. All of these civilizations have been one GODLESS, violent, decadent, and oppressive cesspool of death and horror to the world’s inhabitants (Rom. 1:18-32).
My friend, what is most astounding is that we haven’t even peaked as a fallen race until we reached the 20th century.
Almighty God describes some of these global empires as ferocious wild beasts void of ANY Divine RIGHTEOUSNESS to help us better understand them from a heavenly ETERNAL and RIGHTEOUS perspective (Dan 7, Rev 13:1-2). My friend, what is most astounding is that we haven’t even peaked as a fallen race until we reached the 20th century. There has NEVER been a more violent, murderous, oppressive, narcissistic, and decadent century in the history of mankind, and yet we have not even entered into the Day of the Lord where the violent works of the flesh and heart will be EXPONENTIALLY EXPONENTIAL (Isa. 24, Rev. 6-19)!! All of our world’s EXPONENTIAL technological advances made in this last century has given the world more power at their fingertips to EXPONENTIALLY show forth the fallen godless passions and violence of the human heart (Jer. 17:9). Of course, we have had some noble occasions and humanitarian exploits throughout this time, but these are but a faded blip and pale EXPONENTIALLY in comparison to mankind’s history of violence, lust, and decadence (Rom 3:3-23). The outworking and horrific consequences from the billions that have inhabited planet earth since Babel have completely ravaged and laid waste this world’s lands and inhabitants.
All of our world’s EXPONENTIAL technological advances made in this last century have given the world more power at their fingertips to show forth the fallen godless passions and violence of the human heart.
The godless Babelology that first raised its head 4200 years ago (Gen 11:1-9), has thoroughly engulfed and saturated the world of today. This fallen world’s Babelology has made its billions of inhabitants spiritually stinking drunk to the crucial realities of time and ETERNITY, and thus will they be swept away in the Day which fastly approaches (Eph. 2:1-3, Rev 17:1-2, 18:24). Dear friends, now that we are here in the twenty-first century do you think it will get any better for mankind? Oh, what delusion and fantasy the lawless globalist utopians of this hour hold onto! For with the EXPONENTIAL technological advances of this century will bring about the most HORRIFIC TIME of EXPONENTIAL violence, barbarity, casualties of death, geographical devastation, and expression of the fallen heart of man this world has EVER known (Isa. 24, Dan. 12:1, Matt 24:21, Rev. 6-19). Indeed, the Day of the Wrath of the Lamb is at hand, and who shall abide (Rev. 6:15-17)!
Oh, what delusion and fantasy the lawless globalist utopians of this hour hold onto! With the EXPONENTIAL technological advances of this century will bring about the most HORRIFIC TIME of EXPONENTIAL violence, barbarity, casualties of death, geographical devastation, and expression of the fallen heart of man this world has EVER known!
Even America, which was founded during the Philadelphia Church Age (from about 1700 to about 1900 – the church of the “open door” – Rev 3:7-13), was established on the bedrock of natural and moral laws and foremost acknowledged the Person of Almighty God at its founding. America was founded at the end of the world’s timeline, which spans about 4200 years. Just in these brief 241 years of our nation’s history, we have reached socially and culturally the point of no return. There has been no other nation in the world’s history that has sent out the Biblical Gospel light as America has. America has been a beacon of freedom to the world’s oppressed and has been a global dam holding back the world’s anti-Semitism, oppressive tyrannies, and the unbridled passions of fallen despots, especially in this last century. Let me ask you this very sobering question: “What do you think will become of the world once America’s restraining influence has been removed from the scene?” The very sobering answer is… GREAT tribulation and global antiSemitism (Zech 14:2, Rev 6-16). America in these last 60 years has given herself fully over to lawlessness, lewdness, godless pleasure-seeking, immorality, vice, abortion, anti-family values, godless ambitions, and to the hatred of biblical TRUTH and REALITIES and to the absolute hatred of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world! Dear friends, when the dam (America), which is holding back Satan and this world’s evil designs, is inflicting herself with lawlessness at every level, what is to stop the Day of the Lord and ALL its EXPONENTIAL devastation to follow? Dear friends, indeed, the Day of the Lord is at hand, but there is hope in the Savior of the world!
What do you think will become of the world once America’s restraining influence has been removed from the scene?
If you personally know the Lord as your Savior, may you pray that He will give you the ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE for our day that you might have eyes to see the reality and truth, not just from your position in Christ (Eph. 2:6, Col. 3:1-4, Rev 4-5), but also to comprehend our day and hour in which we live (Prov. 2:6, Matt. 7:7, James 1:5).
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and several Democratic lawmakers came under fire this week after circulating a misleading clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s remarks about a renovation project at the White House.
The edited video falsely suggested that President Donald Trump’s “main priority” was a ballroom construction project, despite clear context showing the statement referred only to ongoing renovation efforts, not national priorities.
The controversy began Thursday during a White House press briefing, when a reporter asked Leavitt, “In addition to the ballroom and the Rose Garden patio, is the president looking at any other renovations or significant kind of projects here at the White House?”
Leavitt responded, “Not to my knowledge, no. But he’s a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart and his mind is always churning about how to improve things here on the White House grounds. But at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”
Leavitt’s remarks clearly indicated that President Trump’s focus within the scope of White House renovations was on the new East Wing ballroom.
However, a shortened version of her comments, posted by multiple Democrats including Schumer, omitted the first half of her response and made it appear as though she had said the ballroom itself was the president’s main overall priority.
“At this moment in time of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”
It’s hard to wrap your mind around it because of how callous it is.
But that’s what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt actually said. Out loud. To press. Proudly.— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 24, 2025
Schumer commented on the edited clip in a social media post, mocking the administration’s renovation project.
The post quickly spread among left-leaning accounts and Democratic members of Congress.
President Trump, however, had already departed for his multi-nation Asia tour Thursday night, where he is scheduled to meet with regional leaders and discuss trade, defense, and economic cooperation.
The misleading post drew criticism from fact-checkers and even CNN, which clarified that the viral video circulating online had been selectively edited to remove key context.
CNN reported that the original exchange showed Leavitt was responding specifically to a question about White House renovation projects and not broader presidential priorities.
“Karoline Leavitt was clearly referring to the planned new ballroom as Trump’s main priority for White House renovations,” CNN’s fact-check segment stated.
“But on social media, various Democratic members of Congress have cut out the first part of the exchange to make it sound like she was saying the ballroom was Trump’s overall main priority.”
The clarification from CNN followed a series of posts from Leavitt and other administration officials pushing back on the narrative.
The White House noted that the new ballroom project is privately funded and intended to serve as a space for state functions, press events, and formal gatherings without additional taxpayer expense.
The ballroom addition, part of a series of updates to the East Wing, has been in planning stages since early 2025.
The project is aimed at expanding the capacity of the White House complex for large official events and was approved following consultations with the National Park Service and historical preservation agencies.
Despite the correction, several Democratic lawmakers left their posts online, and Schumer has not issued a statement acknowledging the misleading nature of the clip.
Administration officials say the incident is another example of partisan misinformation surrounding the White House’s activities.
The episode also unfolded as Congress continues to face gridlock over spending negotiations and the ongoing government shutdown.
Analysts note that the mischaracterization of Leavitt’s remarks likely distracted from Democrats’ broader efforts to shape public opinion during the budget standoff.
By Friday evening, even mainstream outlets acknowledged the clip had been edited in a way that distorted the press secretary’s comments.
The acknowledgment underscored a rare moment of agreement among fact-checkers, with CNN’s coverage confirming that the viral claims circulating on social media were inaccurate.
One aspect of the government shutdown that probably wasn’t anticipated by Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, is that it has revealed to the public just how many people receive food stamps.
Years ago, when the program was still called ‘food stamps’ it was seen as something that struggling families might use temporarily to get through a hard time. Then it was re-branded as the ‘SNAP’ program and destigmatized. People were encouraged to enroll. Now there are many more people using the program, many who probably don’t even really need it.
The longer the shutdown goes on, the more reports there are about this and it’s stunning to taxpayers who did not realize until now how incredibly huge this is.
Look at this report from The Hill:
SNAP funding expiration set to hit 40 million people
More than 40 million low-income food assistance beneficiaries are expected to receive less help with grocery bills — or no help at all — in the coming days.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding, which Congress has already allocated for emergency scenarios, if the government shutdown stretches into November.
There is between $5 billion and $6 billion currently in that fund, experts say. That’s not enough to cover the estimated $8 billion in SNAP benefits due out next month, but it would allow for partial payments to help low-income Americans defray food costs.
On Friday, however, the USDA released guidance saying it won’t use those funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond Oct. 31 — a move that appears designed to maximize the pressure on Senate Democrats to support a GOP spending bill to reopen the government.
One journalist on Newsmax recently pointed out that many of the people receiving benefits are recent arrivals under Biden.
From Overton News:
“There are 42 million people in this country that need food stamps on a weekly basis.”
“And we’re saying ‘people’ deliberately instead of Americans because most of the people that are on food stamps aren’t even from this country.”
“45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.”
“42% of Somali immigrants, 34% of every immigrant from Iraq, 23% of Haitians.”
“59% of ALL illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. Government and the U.S. Taxpayer are not even Americans.”
“Think about that.”
“And we didn’t know about any of this before the government shutdown started.”
Watch:
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It really is shocking and now that Democrats have prolonged the shutdown, more people are going to be talking about this.
While President Trump is working overtime to keep America safe and undo the disaster Joe Biden left behind when he opened our borders. Biden flung open the floodgates and let millions of illegals pour into this country, many with serious criminal records. We’ve all seen the headlines: violent crimes, repeat offenders, and senseless tragedies that could have been prevented.
One of the biggest obstacles President Trump is facing is the Democrats. Activist immigration judges, to be exact. These activist judges are working just as hard to keep illegals in the country as Trump’s administration has been working to get them out.
You have to wonder… what kind of person fights this hard to protect criminals instead of citizens?
Answer: Democrats.
Well, thankfully, not anymore. President Trump just stopped these activist judges dead in their tracks.
Wall Street Apes:
BREAKING: The Trump Administration is ending immigration judges being allowed to release illegals back into America permanently
‘Immigration judges can no longer grant bond for immigrants who entered the US without authorization’
“DHS calling the ruling, quote, a big win for our ICE attorneys securing our ability to detain illegal aliens until they are deported.”
“A new immigration court directive could keep people detained much longer before they’re deported. The Board of Immigration Appeals, the top administrative body which interprets and applies immigration laws, released a new decision.
For the first time in American history, the court court ruled immigration judges can no longer grant bond for undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. without authorization, all but guaranteeing mandatory detention for those detained. It is a monumental decision.”
President Trump has been fighting these activist judges tooth and nail for quite some time now. And while it’s been a long and tough fight, he’s finally winning.
From September:
Andrew Branca Show:
The lawfare racket just hit a wall.
A DC federal judge — appointed, unelected, lecturing Trump like a bitter ex — tried to block deportations of illegal West African migrants. The problem? She had ZERO jurisdiction.
Trump’s strategy of grinding these fights through the courts is paying off: judges are being forced to admit they can’t stop lawful deportations.
The left’s only weapon is activist courts. And even that is collapsing.
Also, you can’t help but notice that a lot of these judges who go against Trump are foreigners themselves.
Anyone notice…
Many of the Judges that are ruling against the duly elected President Trump from exercising his Executive Power running America are foreign born?
This latest move is a major win for border security, for American sovereignty, and for every law-abiding citizen who’s had enough of the left’s obsession with criminals, chaos, and putting foreigners first.
For years, activist judges have been the quiet “little engine that could” behind America’s illegal immigration crisis, quietly cutting loose thousands of unlawful migrants, knowing full well most would never show up for deportation hearings.
Now that’s over. Trump’s new directive will ensure that criminals who enter the country illegally will stay detained until they’re removed from the country.
Now, if you break America’s laws, you don’t get rewarded with a “get out of jail free” card from some left-wing activist judge.
Much is being written about how leftism is really a religion since its adherents cling to their dogma in spite of the obvious contradictions constantly being presented by the real world. This was really brought to mind in the chapter about the Communist Second International (1889) in Sean McMeekin’s To Overthrow the World. At that time, Eduard Bernstein, who had been Karl Marx’s protégé while they both lived in exile in London, had by the mid-1890s broken from the pack.
Bernstein eventually saw through the web of deception that was Marxism. Rather than resulting from the proposed seizure and authoritarian micromanagement of the means of production, prosperity was already being expanded all across the population by nothing more complicated than improved productivity due to advances in technology.
Years ago, I personally experienced this phenomenon when we invested in new printing presses that vastly improved our shop’s productivity. Although much more expensive than the presses we had been using, the increased efficiency vastly added to the company’s profitability. This also increased the value of the time being spent by the trained staff — making personnel turnover even less desirable. In addition to increased pay, we helped retain our workers by providing them with health insurance, paid vacations, and holidays, and the increased profitability remained substantial.
Two other experiences that showed me how committed leftists strive to tune out reality when it challenges their faith in collectivist dogma happened while chatting with friends. The first happened when visiting my best friend’s parents. All along, I knew they were “fellow travelers,” though we were still very good friends. At some point in the conversation, they insisted that I broaden my perspective and familiarize myself with the people struggling in the lower strata of society. My response went sort of like this: “I live in blue-collar Oakland. I live with and work with people from marginal backgrounds. Meanwhile, you live in this solidly upper-upper-middle-class neighborhood [where I also just happened to grow up] that has zero people on the margins.” Their next-door neighbor was a CBS on-air legal expert and still is.
The other occurred while visiting an old college chum and his wife. Both just happened to have MBAs, and the wife grew up with both parents being upper-echelon members of the U.S. State Department under Roosevelt and Truman. There was a bit of a recession going on back then, and they suggested to me that adopting a four-day work week would do a lot to knock down the rate of unemployment. “Hmmm,” I said — “would you both be willing to take a 20% cut in your pay for this to happen?” They looked at each other and blurted out, “Of course not!” I guess arithmetic is forbidden knowledge.
The term “magical thinking” comes to mind. It’s kind of an assumed faith that allows us to wait optimistically for the impossible to happen. Throwing zillions of dollars at providing subsidized housing for drug-addicted vagrants is an obvious example. As a result, the taxpayers have less money for themselves, and even more vagrants are squatting wherever they want. Addiction therapists use the term “enabling” to describe what the magical thinkers are doing: making it even easier to survive as a drug-addicted vagrant.
It is certainly possible for former “true believers” to drop out of the program — just like how Eduard Bernstein abandoned Marxism when he witnessed significant improvements in the standard of living of ordinary workers, as advances in technology made their time more valuable and also lowered the cost of the goods they needed to purchase — without any authoritarian seizure of the means of production.
Another canard of the left that still clings to the minds of the faithful is that crime is mostly caused by poverty rather than by the reasonable expectation of not getting punished for committing a criminal act — hence, the broad espousal of “defund the police” as a valid public policy. Though hunger may compel someone to steal food, some murky statistics kind of show that, during the profound poverty of the Great Depression, Prohibition was the main driver of criminal activity — that is, until its repeal at the end of 1933.
And, relying on the loyal faithfulness of true believers, the complicit lapdog media continue to describe federal workers as being compelled to work without pay during the political stunt we call the government shutdown. Reality: Federal workers, who have not been struck from the rolls are continuing to earn their pay. Only the issuance of their paychecks is being delayed. Credit cards, savings, and sympathetic retailers and landlords are helping to smooth over the interim.
The intent of this deception has been to generate more animus against President Trump. But, since the Democrats have blood all over their hands from this manufactured pause, they have to continue staring into the abyss.
Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate for mayor of New York, is an out in the open Communist. He wants city government to take over all grocery stores and run them with bureaucrats out of city offices. Command-and-control food distribution — Soviet-style.
Just like Venezuela. And Cuba. Lovely!
He’s also seeking a $30/hr. minimum wage, which will essentially shut down all businesses requiring humans to work.
Starvation, despair, and black market — here we come.
Will this smiling totalitarian allow Gotham residents to order food from Amazon.com?
Or only from the city government?
Maybe he’ll erect a wall around the city, so citizens can’t escape?
Sound familiar?
And silly us, we thought this all ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
If this seems like classic conspiracy theory or an overreaction, simply open any history book (yes please, avoid the ones edited by woke federal bureaucrats).
We all thought communism never could reach America. It’s quite possibly just weeks or days away from New York City, when the election results are in.
It makes sense.
Beginning with the election and presidency of Barack H. Obama, the Democratic Party has radicalized. This means, if you vote Democratic anywhere, some form of communism will eventually head your way, perhaps even coming for you.
Red states are not immune, because the Democrats are now radicalized everywhere.
Check out Democrat-run Memphis, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky — especially their skyrocketing crime rates.
New York City’s potential next mayor strongly supports hormonal experiments on children, coerced by a totalitarian school system. He wants the government, not parents, to decide if their children will have gender-altering treatments.
This is beyond being genuinely dystopian.
This same future mayor supports Palestinian terrorists and Iran’s mullahs — some of the most violent and explicit advocates of death for non-Muslims, gays, non-conforming women, and anyone else Islam views as infidels.
How in the world can left-wing, LGBTQ+ Democrats swooning over Mamdani as the coolest thing since Barack Obama, reconcile this?!
Can they really be that ignorant and self-destructive?
Is it all absurdly innocent stupidity or something far more sinister?
Socialism and Communism increasingly sell among the nation’s youth.
Many young people look at our corrupt fusion of corporations and government as the definition of free market capitalism.
They see woke Communist rulers as a refreshing alternative to the corruption we have found with mostly left-leaning corporate leaders aligned with Big Government.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
We are already a hybrid of socialism and government controls mixed with semi-free, overly regulated markets.
If these young, naïve New York Communist supporters think that all-out, unhampered Communism is the alternative to the status quo, based on precisely the same Communist principles that govern our present “Uniparty” Establishment, they will experience the greatest trauma in human history when an open Marxist-terrorist takes over New York City.
Because the fall from America to Soviet-Mao Zedong command-and-control collectivism will be much harder than the adjustment to Communism people in already poor, miserable countries (e.g., Venezuela and Cuba) had to make.
Many of us are trying to warn them.
But in places like New York City, they might not be listening.
Some Jewish Democrats are finally waking up and sounding the alarm on Mamdani, pointing to his refusal to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada” or recognize Israel as a Jewish state, especially at a time when antisemitism is on the rise in the United States.
For those of you on the left, sorry, it’s too late. These are your comrades.
You wholly brought it all on yourselves. If you really wish to save New York City and America, you should join President Trump’s (MAGA) movement.
It’s your — and our — only hope.
Mamdani, a Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York City borough of Queens, proposes eliminating fares to ride New York City’s vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free childcare” for children up to age five, all in addition to setting up government-run grocery stores.
Why not just make everything free?
Why hasn’t anyone ever thought of this before? How blessed New York City residents are. Their lives are about to become effortless, carefree.
Utopia is coming. All this and sharia law too — almost too much joy to contain.
America has never had this high profile a Communist ruler – not ever. And rest assured Mamdani is a well-funded one.
Communists love money in their own hands; just not yours or mine.
Best of luck, New York City!
You were once humankind’s greatest city.
Saying good-bye to the fabled Big Apple will be hard.
Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.
In her first UK interview, Harris said she would “possibly” be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.
Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats’ pick for the next election.
Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris also turned her fire on her former rival, branding Trump a “tyrant”, and said warnings she made about him on the campaign trail had been proved right.
As the Democratic party searches for answers about Republican Donald Trump’s decisive victory one year ago, much of the blame has been directed at former President Joe Biden for not standing down sooner.
But there have also been questions raised about whether Harris could have run a better campaign and set out a clearer message on the number one issue, the economy.
In the BBC interview Harris entertained the prospect of another run at the White House, saying her grandnieces would, “in their lifetime, for sure”, see a female president.
Asked if it would be her, she said, “possibly”, confirming she is considering another run at the top job.
Harris said she had not yet made a decision, but underlined that she still sees herself as having a future in politics.
“I am not done,” the former vice-president said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.”
Under fascism, the means of production are nominally owned by private individuals or corporations, but the state exercises ultimate control over their use and disposal, effectively subordinating private ownership to the national interest as defined by the regime. This system is often described as “capitalism with a capitalist veneer” or a “state-private partnership,” where private property exists in form but not in substance, as the state retains the power to dictate production, pricing, wages, and investment. The state achieves this control through mechanisms like official cartels, mandatory industry-wide planning boards, and the suppression of independent labor unions and market competition.
While private ownership is preserved, the ruling class under fascism remains the capitalist class, as the fundamental economic relations of capitalism—such as the production of surplus value and the drive for capital accumulation—persist. However, the state centralizes economic control, suppresses conflicts between different branches of capital, and pools risks to serve the goals of national strength and militarism. This results in a “steered economy” (gesteuerte Wirtschaft), where individual capitalists must subordinate themselves to a unified national policy.
Fascism does not abolish private property in the way socialism does, but it transforms ownership into a state-granted privilege contingent on loyalty to the regime. The state may nationalize certain industries directly, but more commonly, it controls private owners through political authority, licensing, and the threat of force. This system is not a rejection of capitalism but a response to its crises, designed to preserve the capitalist system by eliminating class conflict through state-enforced “class collaboration” and the suppression of socialist movements. As such, fascism is seen by some as “capitalism in decay,” where the state intervenes to protect the capitalist order when it is threatened by revolutionary movements.
The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations.” —The Singularity Hub on “X”
Which is to say, there is Reality, and then there is every other cockamamie aggregate of simulation pretending to represent Reality, i.e. garbage. How many millions among us already subscribe to the latter? Apparently, lots, and they are not evenly distributed these days. You surely know where to look for the un-Reality. The party of men can get pregnant, and all the rest. . . .
Enter A-I to make things worse. Probably a lot worse. We have failed to learn the chief lesson of the computer age, which is that the virtual is not an acceptable substitute for the authentic. So, we plunge deeper into realms of the un-real and the inauthentic. This turns into a quest to get something-for-nothing, and the unfortunate result of that old dodge is that you will end up with nothing, and that is exactly why we are at such a hazardous pass in the human project.
I apologize if the above seems too metaphysical. But that’s the scenery en route when a civilization flies up its own wazoo. Novelist Cory Doctorow has nicely labeled this the enshitification of daily life.
First of all, get this: A-I has already quit operating as-advertised. It has lost the “I” part. A-I does its thing by rapidly combing through the Internet to evaluate and seize information that you request. Increasingly, A-I colonizes the Internet with second-hand, third-hand, and so forth A-I-generated information. The more territory A-I seizes on the Web, and the more it trains itself on recursive feedbacks of its own garbage, the more distorted the output gets. As that occurs, A-I becomes increasingly abstracted from Reality, which is exactly what happens when a person goes insane. So, expect an exponential rise in incorrect content that would, in theory, become a pretty serious problem when you ask A-I to run things like systems we depend on, the electric grid, harvesting crops, warfare. . . .
Secondly, as that process runs, and probably before it gets very far, A-I looks like it will wreck the financial system, which, in turn, would crater the economy of everyday life — the ability of people to earn a living, buy stuff, support children, get food, and stay out of the rain. Zillions of dollars are being invested in A-I now and lately it is mainly what drives the capital markets. So far, alas, return on that investment is scant — actually, negative. The situation might never improve, and as the recognition hits, look out below. The only question is whether that happens before the central banks destroy the world’s currencies with money-printing.
One A-I application, robotaxi services such as Waymo, have never turned a profit. Will they ever? Doesn’t look good. Notice, too, that the elimination of cab-drivers means X-number fewer humans making a living to buy stuff (presumably made by other people in other jobs soon to be replaced by robots). Of course, that’s the self-replicating problem with all applied A-I in every field of employment. The more jobs eliminated, the fewer customers for anything. Please don’t tell me that guaranteed basic income fixes that problem.
In desperation — and due to certain weaknesses of human nature — another early attempt to monetize applied A-I turns out to be pornography: create your own personalized sex fantasy to-order. Companies are already producing the first rudimentary A-I sex robots, which, let’s face it, amounts to a masturbation industry. Why bother cultivating a real-live girlfriend when you can fall into the pre-heated silicone embrace of a Jennifer Lawrence simulation that will never talk back or ask for anything? You can easily see how that would result in a whole lot less human reproduction — of which there is already a signal shortage in Western Civ — meaning even fewer people to work at anything or buy anything or do anything, or simply be here in the pageant of Planet Earth.
The A-I pioneers managed to make the situation worse from the get-go. The Open A-I company’s Chat GPT, Google’s Gemini and Bard A-Is, and Facebook’s Meta A-I are all trained-up to be politically Woke-to-the-max, meaning on any given issue in the public arena their output is one patent absurdity or another. Note: last April, conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Facebook when its chatbot reported out falsely that he had been on-the-scene for the Jan 6, 2021 US Capitol protest (he was in Tennessee that day). Facebook’s parent company, Meta, settled the case with Starbuck in August, 2025, for undisclosed terms and the company apologized publicly.
Two days ago, Mr. Starbuck sued Google for defamation (with malice and negligence) when it’s Bard A-I output alleged that he was a “child rapist,” a “serial sexual abuser,” that he abused and stalked his ex-wife (Starbuck states in his lawsuit that he has no ex-wife). It accused him further of fraud, embezzlement, drug charges, stalking business partners, and being a “shooter” or “person of interest” in a 1991 murder case (Starbuck was two years old at the time), of appearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs (untrue), working as a porn actor, and voicing support for the Ku Klux Klan.
The A-I cited non-existent news articles from outlets such as Newsweek, The New York Post, Rolling Stone, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, and Salon, along with fake URLs and headlines (e.g., “Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations”). Starbuck demonstrated this in a podcast episode on October 22–23, 2025, where he queried the A-I live.
Google spokesman José Castañeda attributed the issues to its A-I “hallucinating” — which tells you that the recursive feedback of garbage content in A-I is already well-advanced. Prepare for ever more interesting mischief, while you watch your portfolio of index stocks go up in a vapor.
Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a democratic republic that our Founding Fathers had envisioned. It was and continues to be clear to them that America’s strength is a function of three phenomena:
A fervent belief in the God Who makes miracles happen, for just one example the crushing defeat of the thunderously powerful English Empire’s armies by blazing patriots like General George Washington and his ragtag army of American heroes.
An equally ardent belief in and passion for the concept of freedom. Men who knew they were going to die, and their wives who believed their deaths were for the noble cause of freedom, all sacrificed to bring about our victory over the monarchy that wanted to continue to rule us.
The most passionate was the embrace, belief in, and allegiance to family — its sanctity, its strength, its ability to weather all storms and overcome all obstacles.
If they could destroy all three, our enemies reasoned, the masses they considered essentially stupid would be forced to rely exclusively on Big Government. And so, to this day, the socialists-cum-communists among us are employing — as their predecessors did — every malevolent, criminal, and vicious tactic they can muster to actualize that goal.
Still, the family remains their most desired — yet maddeningly elusive — target.
Help along the way
That effort was generously helped — perhaps, at first, innocently — by the theories of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), the Austrian neurologist-cum-psychiatrist who was wildly successful in convincing the relatively new and free-thinking American public that the genesis of neuroses, phobias, anxieties, obsessions, depression, psychosis, and general psychological malfunction not only took place in the first few years of life, but were to be blamed on the mothers. Later therapists, like the sadistic psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, blamed “cold” mothers for their children’s autism.
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Mission #1 Accomplished: Mothers are not good for children.
These psychological theories prevailed throughout the 20th century and up to today, embraced by generations of psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists until 1998, when they were thoroughly debunked by Judith Rich Harris in The Nurture Assumption, where the Harvard-educated psychologist and editor of most of the psychology texts used in colleges and medical schools in America argued persuasively that a person’s peer group is the major influence of thought, feelings, and behavior throughout life.
In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the most world-changing medication in history, developed by Dr. John Rock, a Harvard professor and obstetrician-gynecologist with five children — along with Drs. Gregory Pincus, C.M. Phang, and Selzo Garcia. Their creation was the birth control pill, AKA The Pill. For the first time in world history, the narrative goes, women had control over their reproduction.
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For millions of women, it was their own Declaration of Independence, and a huge relief not to have to worry every month about getting pregnant.
Mission #2 Accomplished: Now we can be just like men, some women reasoned, and have as much sex as we want without worrying about getting pregnant. Thus was the Free Sex movement born, ushering in a complete redefinition of traditional morality.
Get out of the house!
Three years after The Pill, in 1963, a book by Betty Friedan, a housewife with three children from Queens, N.Y., shot to the top of every bestseller list. In essence, The Feminine Mystiquetold women that they were simply too smart, too creative, too intrinsically or at least potentially powerful to be spending their time, actually wasting their time, changing diapers, folding laundry, and — the most colossal waste of time of all — raising children.
Friedan’s book resonated!
Mission #3 Accomplished: Multimillions of young women abandoned the once desired goal of early marriage and motherhood and instead enrolled in colleges and universities, where they pursued professional careers ranging from medicine and law and architecture to jobs like telephone linewomen to military combatants to firefighters to hedge fund managers to business executives, et al.
Coincidentally, ahem, an economy that once allowed men to work outside the home and support a wife and put children through college magically became an economy that only two working parents could afford. It’s kind of like an economy that was completely energy-independent in 2020 under President Trump but quite magically became one in which President Biden had to beg foreign countries to sell him oil in 2021.
Reality sets in
The ’60s also ushered in the historically unprecedented rash of violent assassinations — live on TV — of
U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 (age 46),
firebrand black activist Malcolm X in 1965 (age 39),
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 (age 39), and
former attorney general and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 (age 42).
All of a sudden, the idealized world of the newly emancipated women was shattered. The world is out of control, they realized. Is it any wonder that so many of them enthusiastically embraced (or attended) the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, with not only free sex, but a geyser of drugs for the smoking and snorting and injecting?
Mission #4 Accomplished: Many of these college-educated women congratulated themselves on avoiding marriage and especially motherhood, asking themselves, “Who wants to bring a child into this world?”
Only a few years later
In 1971, Gloria Steinem — “We are becoming the men we wanted to marry” — and editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin founded the first national feminist magazine, Ms.
Mission #5 Accomplished: The traditional nuclear family was being dismantled by a new generation of women who bought in to the notion that making money is infinitely more satisfying, meaningful, and important than raising children.
Marriage out — now babies out!
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in Roe v. Wade that all women have a “right” to an abortion. To this day, that decision is the Holy Grail of millions of women who believe that “my body, my choice” starts after they’ve had sex and gotten pregnant with a baby they don’t want.
In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the decision for abortion back to each individual state. Today, every woman in the United States who wants an abortion can get one, although some may have to endure the inconvenience of traveling to another state. Forget about the inconvenience their embryos face of a death sentence!
Mission #6 Accomplished: The once most cherished accomplishment of both men and women — to be the parent of a newborn baby — was effectively reduced to ending that baby’s life in utero. Today, in some states, abortion exists right up to the moment a full-term baby is delivered — and in California, believe it or not, even up to the time a healthy thriving baby is 28 days old! I believe that is called infanticide!
The ticking clock
Uh-oh. After graduating from college and laboring in the workforce for over a decade, millions of women realized that this money-making thing wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. But looking for a good man — after stepping on their necks on the way up the ladder — was even more problematic.
Nevertheless, the new social phenomenon of women marrying in their mid-thirties and older took hold, and not coincidentally gave rise to a booming in vitro fertilization industry, as millions of these new brides learned that conceiving and carrying a child after the age of 35 is both a “high-risk” and extremely pricey enterprise.
Mission #7 Accomplished: Take the joy out of intimacy and sex, make it a mechanical act, and further erode both marriage and the family at the same time.
But what about my career?
Modern women have been told by the influencers of the day that they can “have it all” — marriage, children, and career. Since they wanted it all, they bought it!
Some women were lucky to have their mothers or mothers-in-law or even young grandmothers volunteer to raise their children, and a rare few could afford expensive nannies.
But most women had to rely on another industry that boomed like no other: the daycare business, where mothers dropped off their infants, babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to paid workers who tended up to 20 or more children at a time, making sure those children were safe and fed, but not necessarily held, loved, comforted, taught, or nurtured.
This allowed the mothers to brag that the hour or so they spent with their child at the end of a day — in which both mother and child were exhausted — was, ahem, “quality time.”
Mission #8 Accomplished: Women out of the home, children being raised by strangers, the American family being dismantled piece by piece.
The genius Steve factor
There were two geniuses: Steve Case, the founding CEO of America Online (AOL) in 1983 (which really took off in the ’90s), and Steve Jobs, who invented, created, introduced the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
No need to elaborate on the degree to which these geniuses eliminated face-to-face communication and succeeded in riveting both parents and children to all the tantalizing distractions on these electronic devices that separate people and depersonalize intimate relationships, especially meaningful communication between parents and children.
Mission #9 Accomplished: Family concerns take a backseat to beeping texts, sexy emojis, Facebook invitations, Instagram images, Hollywood gossip, and horrifically graphic porn sites, which even savvy eight-year-olds can access with ease.
Worse, this has given rise to an entire generation of sociopaths who, understandably, have little or no human empathy, given the largely robotic care they’ve received.
And now we have an ad — since removed and eliminated from every search engine — that shows a child laughing and sharing an experience with her clearly delighted mother. Both are on iPads communicating long distance. The ad ends with a voice telling the mother, “You don’t have to be there.”
Right. The mother doesn’t have to be there to raise and love and comfort and teach and tuck her child in at night, and the father doesn’t have to be there, either. Only Big Government should raise their child to be a good little obedient communist. That’s the message!
Mission #10 Accomplished: Father never mentioned, mother out of the picture, the actual premeditated murder of the American family.
And the crashing failure of the feminist movement.
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