PBS Puts Quotation Marks Around “News”

Our Founders were more afraid on one particular threat to Democracy than all of the others combined: Stupid citizens. Dumb-ass MAGA voters scared the Founding Fathers shitless: An uninformed ignoramus armed with an AR-15 and the full conviction of a stupid idea who also has the power to cast a vote frightened the Framers to a man-jack. The unwashed mob of the French Revolution frightened them. They knew that a Caesar or a Trump always gets sucked into the ensuing power vacuum after a revolution …and that scared them too. But how to avoid historical inevitably?   Continue reading →

Your New Autocracy

I told you so; and then, later, told you that I previously told you so. I told you so and you looked at me like I was nuts. Instead of throwing your phone away, you wound it around your neck. Now it’s a millstone that uses AI surveillance & tracking to generate networks targeting friends, family, and associates. Well, you screwed the pooch this time, my friends, so I’m playing the world’s smallest violin with my fingernails because:

1. You are still addicted to Facebook, Instagram, and Tik-Tok, the tools of adversarial governments, right?
2. You elected an alien lizard inside a pig suit as your supreme leader.

I am sorry the program is happening faster than we can cope with, but the January 6th House Committee and the classified document espionage in a Florida basement were our legally due processes …and the sitting administration at the time shanked it. America had plenty of time to do it right, but no purpose and no attention span. My violin is so tiny now that not even I can hear it….