Textbook example of "I'm from government and I'm here to help." Government decided that it would provide better "access" to college. That better "access" came through student loans. The loans drove up the price of college, and buried the students in debt. Now the degrees are not worth what they used to be, and 25% of the graduates are unemployed. image
The government is signaling to us that AI companies will be on the bailout list at some point. The U.S. government fixes nothing (especially not itself). It only props up failures in the market that it has distorted. Taxpayer money and Fed counterfeiting (which further destroys the money) are used to prop up the politically-favored. Whether it be: - Mortgage Backed Securities - Big Banks - Buying equities in companies - Bailing out other failed nations Another piling is added to the collapsing "system." Eventually all of the pilings will snap in half. And then we'll be forced to do the right things for once. image
Future bailout signal. Hold your wallets. image
It doesn't matter how "smart" AI is, or becomes. We must keep AI in perspective. It can be, and is, helpful. But it cannot "run everything" and create a utopia where people are sitting around in superabundance, without work or poverty anywhere in the world. Human civilization functions on billions of individual decisions, and DISPERSED knowledge. NOT centralized knowledge. We each have SUBJECTIVE value scales that are changing at every moment. Those value scales are always private. That knowledge cannot be known by AI, no matter how much data is collected. Our desires are in constant flux. Sometimes we make rational decisions ... and very often emotional decisions. We make our decisions to act in our own local situations, with resources that are immediately available to us. We PURPOSEFULLY choose our own individual ends, and the means that we will use to TRY to achieve them. We make decisions in our minds, and with our hearts. No AI, no matter how "smart" it is can "run" human civilization. Yet, as with all the utopian schemes that come and go ... humanity will probably end up learning this the hard way. image
We always live in a world with utopia peddlers. All of the "ism's" ... The latest seems to be some kind of tech version. The key is not to get bamboozled by them. They'll always be around. It gives people with a lot of money something to do. But utopia, this life is not. Trying to create utopia ignores the nature of this world and the nature of man himself. It should be obvious that there's a lot of messed up stuff happening all the time. My job revolves around pointing it out in the political world on a daily basis. I'm never short on material. The longer we live, the more we tend to realize that the messed up stuff isn't going away. This is because it's not a matter of rearranging atoms and molecules. It's an inside job -- greed, envy, addictions, wars, sins...etc. You can't engineer these non-material things away. Neither is it some kind of mathematical equation that we need to answer. But there is good news. "Gospel" literally means "good news." Instead of leaving us in a perpetual doom loop, God became man to lead the way out of here. We are called to follow Him. But what does it mean to "follow Christ"? Unfortunately, Jesus has often been reduced to a namby-pamby hippie-like figure who simply told people "to be nice to each other." Yes, we are supposed to be nice to one another. But God didn't dwell amongst us for this very simple reason. Anyone can tell others to be nice. God came to dwell amongst us to show us the way. And He made it very clear as to what the way is. We are to take up our crosses DAILY and follow Him. We all have crosses, without exception. And we need to carry them every day. We are called to pick up our cross (let's say it's drinking too much) and "follow Him" up to Calvary. When we reach the top, we are to plant our cross next to His and climb up! That's very hard ... and gets harder. The temptation is to want to climb down from our cross. Think of the thief on the cross next to Jesus who told Jesus to climb down. He saved others, why doesn't He just climb down and save Himself and the two thieves. The Lord looked him and said nothing. God does not respond when man seeks to climb down and keep his sins intact. Jesus knew that by hanging there, He was opening up the gates of Heaven to all who choose to follow Him. Man wants to climb down. God hangs there. The thief on the other side did the exact opposite. He chose to hang there with the Lord; and asked that the Lord remember Him when He enters His Kingdom. Jesus looked over at that thief and spoke. When man conforms himself to God, God responds. On that day, they'd be together in Paradise. That's what it means to Follow Jesus. To carry our cross and hang there with Him. Any pain that we feel, He felt for the sins of the entire world, past, present, and future! If we climb down. We are to climb back up; as many times as it takes until we hang there and crucify that which is messed up within us. When you hang there and crucify your drinking problem, and it's finally dead... Back to the beginning you go. Another fresh cross will be waiting there for you to grab, and carry up to Calvary. This time it may be something like greed, or envy. As one problem disappears, and new one is waiting to be crucified. A utopia, this world is not. Following Him is to wage war (within) on everything that is not of Him. Daily. image
Trump wages wars for Israel just the same as Bush did. When Bush was doing it, however, most people had no idea. But today, Trump brags about it! Bush would hire Rubio and Hegseth … he would endorse and campaign for Lindsey Graham … he’d try kick out Massie. Bush/Trump .. whatever .. status quo. image
In 1776, the American colonies were overwhelmingly Christian, between 80-90%. The Constitution was based on the Catholic principle of subsidiarity. Local control. (That has been destroyed. All power now comes from DC). Foreign policy was, as Jefferson put it, "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." (That has been destroyed by empire, endless war, and a bankrupting "entangling alliance" with Israel). The money was sound -- gold and silver. (That has been destroyed by The Fed and counterfeit dollars). Christianity has been relegated to the sidelines as a personal intellectual hobby. In 2025, American society reflects this, in every respect. image
So our "national security" is tied to pedophiles and blackmail? And justice for these crimes threatens our "national security"? Our nation has an extremely big problem if that's the case. image
Trump saying that Epstein is all about Democrats means that: Trump has ruined his own reputation to protect Democrats, to shield Democrats from justice. He put the nation through all of this for the benefit of Democrats. That's the story he's going with? Trump has talked himself into a corner. We all know that this is not just about Democrats but the entire government. image
Wars for Israel have been all cost for America. And Trump continues it with gusto. Think about that as you read this. image