Peloni: Rule by AI is the ultimate consequence of the tyranny of experts, but democracy should restored such that rule of the corrupt will be replaced with the rule of the governed, not to the rule of AI.
Large swaths of federal workers being terminated does not mean the end of government involvement in our lives. It just means you’ll no longer have humans making decisions that affect your life.
Leo Hohmann |May 06, 2025
(Photo by Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – X.com, Public Domain) [Cropped]
Many of us voiced concerns when Elon Musk said he was going to eliminate large numbers of federal workers.
Not that we were feeling sorry for the federal workers, who have for years had cushy jobs with nice benefits and wages that have outstripped those in the private sector.
No, we were concerned by what President Trump and his superstar DOGE aide Musk might want to replace those workers with.
Musk gave us the answer on Sunday and it’s right in line with the predictions of myself, Patrick Wood and others who are concerned about the rising tide of techno-tyranny in this country.
Musk attended a closed-door meeting with financial elites at the Milken Institute Global Conference, where he provided further details on “eliminating government inefficiencies” and replacing government workers with artificial intelligence.
Many Trump supporters are giddy at the though of government bureaucrats being out of a job, and I get that. But few are talking about what government by AI will look like moving into the future.
At the prestigious $25,000-per ticket Milken conference held at the posh Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, Musk laid out his technocratic vision for financier Michael Milken and others, including US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Citigroup’s Jane Fraser, and Citadel’s Ken Griffin.
DOGE and the Trump administration believe that AI can replace a sizeable portion of the government workforce in administrative, data processing, and customer service roles, dramatically reducing federal payroll costs, eliminating inefficiencies, and modernizing public services.
Last week, the latest data from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed the government had led all sectors in job cuts this year, with 281,452 of those cuts attributed to DOGE-related cost-cutting.
Technocracy expert Patrick Wood and a handful of others are saying hold on, not so fast with the jubilation. He’s warning that DOGE could facilitate a scenario in which government policy and execution of those policies gets handed over to AI, leading to the eventual end of representative government and our republic.
Here’s the rub: They can brag about eliminating inefficiencies all they want, but our constitutional republic was not designed for artificial intelligence, which can easily be weaponized against the civil rights and civil liberties of individuals. While the cost-cutting recommendations of DOGE are commendable, that’s where its role should end.
AI should never be empowered to make decisions that impact citizens’ lives. That’s best left to Congress, the chief executive and courts staffed with real human judges. While far from perfect, at least we have accountability when our government is run by human beings and not machines fed with algorithims.
President Trump, appearing on NBC this Sunday in an interview with Kristen Welker, was asked if he thought everyone, citizens or non-citizens, was entitled to due process of law under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Trump said he did not know the answer to this question. He needed his lawyers to tell him the answer to that.
Trump in his first term needed Dr. Anthony Fauci to tell him what to do about the Covid situation. He ended up locking the country down and rolling out untested and unproven “vaccines.”
This is the same mentality in a president that could one day, likely sooner than we think, turn his decision-making authority over to AI. The table is being set for that right now by DOGE and Dark MAGA.
Wood writes:
“When arch-Technocrat Elon ‘Dark Gothic MAGA’ Musk was given the singular mandate to ‘reorganize’ the federal government, what did you expect? Technocracy is falling, pouncing on America. Was it because Trump said, ‘I love Elon Musk. He’s a brilliant guy?’ Was Trump delusional? This is nothing less than a Technocratic coup, and nobody is paying attention!”
Wood further notes that as massive troves of government data are fed into the cloud to be managed with AI, the data pumps will operate in the future on a 24/7 basis.
“Further, all that data is being fused between agencies to arrive at Skynet-like control over the whole country. Worse, Musk is pledged to ‘Dark MAGA,’ AKA Dark Enlightenment, which pointedly states that Democracy and the Constitutional Republic must be destroyed (and replaced with a techno-monarchy).
“Oh, you foolish, foolish political leaders for destroying our country. Oh, you foolish, foolish citizens for letting them get away with it right under your nose. You should be screaming this from your rooftops.”
Maybe Grok’s “rant” did the OPPOSITE of damage?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-america-party-will-harm-democrats-the-most/
Musk also critized President Trump’s policy of bringing back “old industries’ and not only favoring “the iindustries of the future.” Where have we heard that before? He wants to keep the U.S. dependent and workers unemployed. At the end of the day, he’s still a neo-liberal globalist. But, DOGE has made some inroads against the Deep State so the President wasn’t wrong to work with him.
Have to say, the reports of antisemitic results coming out of Musk’s new algorithm are very troubling. And just as he succeeded in calming fears that he had made a fascist or Nazi salute at the inauguration, but that it was “just one of those things.”
Apropos of nothing:
Sid Caesar “Gallipacci”
“”Just one of those things.”
https://youtu.be/5OW7GoIl0T8?si=OfaneUbGma_eZ6m8
@Sebastien Zorn
It is really very simple:
Humans vastly underestimate the role of biology/biochemistry/anatomy, etc. when they create the terms like “consciousness”, “thinking”, “mind”, “ideas”, “imagination”, “inspiration”, “memory”, “emotions”, and the rest of the probably endless number of abstractions invented to describe the work of the brain.
The brain contains 86 billion neurons (there are different opinions as to the actual number) which communicate with each other to produce all of the above in addition to controlling the physical functions of the rest of the human organism.
In other words, a human is an unbelievably complex and complicated biological robot.
What, then, would be the point of creating, obviously primitive in comparison no matter how complicated, artificial system in order to, allegedly, for the sake of efficiency, replace the government?
The most important point in all of this is that any artificial system needs IT people to create it and to maintain it.
The conclusion – we are looking at an attempt at severe dictatorship covered up by ideas of high technological development, efficiency, need to compete with China’s communism, etc.
On a lighter note there was a 2 season Korean drama (miniseries) called, “Yumi’s Cells” 2021-22, adapted from 2020 webtoon that has the same premise as a skit in Woody Allen’s “Everything you ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask” (1972) except it’s about dating rather than sex:
“it is a cell-based psychological romance that unravels the daily life of an ordinary office worker Yumi through the eyes of the cells in her head.[5] ”
Wikipedia
and “Meet Dave” (2008)
Actually, considering the unwavering determination to pursue failing policies like the TSS, what if the State Dept. has been run by robots all along!
READER-
I think you must mean Augean Stable of King Augeas, in Greek mythology…The old geezer who used to coddle his horses….with champagne, caviar and cigars………???
https://m.facebook.com/groups/kindnessmattershumor/permalink/4142253399324322/?
@Sebastien Zorn
The SU was probably the largest vaccine and other drugs lab for the US with the exception of, possibly, India.
There were numerous cases of children having complications after the oral polio vaccine.
@Reader
While it is true that the Soviet Union was employed by the West, at least during the polio vaccine testing, this is not really responsive to Sebastien’s cited research which notes that the authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union provided it with a lessened sense of trust in the vaccines. Hence are you suggesting that this is not actually the case? Serious question, if you care to answer.
@peloni
Yes, I am suggesting this is not actually the case.
The researchers, apparently, had no idea about the SU population being used like lab rats by the US and they had their own political bias.
It was going on way longer than the late 1950s and included other medications.
Of course, the people thought those were locally made vaccines and drugs, no one ever told them otherwise, and they never had to sign any consent forms.
PM
@Reader You wrote:
“the SU was probably the largest vaccine and other drugs lab for the US with the exception of, possibly, India.
There were numerous cases of children having complications after the oral polio vaccine.”
My response: I don’t know. I haven’t researched that question BUT somebody should mention CHINA which was splashed all over the headlines and Trump was unfairly tarred as a racist for calling it the China Virus the way the one after WWI was dubbed the Spanish Flu though the Spanish Flu was so called only because Spain was the first to report it. Most countries tried to cover it up. And afterwards, it was taken out of the history books and documentaries I grew up with until Covid. Harder to do now, though you can tell they’ve been trying.* . Hello. That was definitely a U.S. funded lab in China and there have been allegations about secret, illegal under U.S. law! U.S. funded labs in Ukraine, as well.
* in the ’70s, I remember seeing a teeshirt in a store on St. Marks Place in the East Village that said, “There will be free speech when everyone owns a printing press. – Benjamin Franklin.”
I just queried it and got this response:
“AI Overview
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It appears the quote, “There will be freedom of speech when everyone owns a printing press”, while reflecting a sentiment aligned with Benjamin Franklin’s advocacy for a free press, isn’t a direct quote from him.
Instead, Franklin’s writings like “Apology for Printers” (1731) and “On the Freedom of the Press” (1737) emphasized the importance of widespread access to printing and the dissemination of diverse opinions for a healthy society. He championed the idea that when truth and falsehood have a fair chance to be heard, truth will prevail, according to the National Humanities Center.
One of Franklin’s famous quotes related to the role of printers and the diversity of views is:
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
This highlights his belief that a free press necessitates the willingness to publish a variety of perspectives, even those that might be considered controversial or offensive to some. He understood that the free flow of ideas, enabled by accessible printing, was crucial for a well-informed citizenry and a functioning republic. “
But your post actually bolsters my implicit argument which is a response to Felix who is constantly defending the Soviet Union and later Russia under any regime as if it is one of his utopian “socialist” societies without actually designating it as one, which as a Trotskyist he can’t really do, can he?
@Reader Of course, your response to Peloni bolsters my argument which was an answer to Felix who is always saying Socialism would do things better and differently and always defending the Soviet Union, even under Stalin, while not really taking a position on what constitutes Socialism. Here’s Ronald Reagan telling one of his famous jokes about the cynicism of Soviet Citizens.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YIYvbMP18uc?si=o70M4Godg1rt_q31
“the SU was probably the largest vaccine and other drugs lab for the US with the exception of, possibly, India.
There were numerous cases of children having complications after the oral polio vaccine.”
My response: I don’t know. I haven’t researched that question BUT somebody should mention CHINA which was splashed all over the headlines and Trump was unfairly tarred as a racist for calling it the China Virus the way the one after WWI was dubbed the Spanish Flu though the Spanish Flu was so called only because Spain was the first to report it. Most countries tried to cover it up. And afterwards, it was taken out of the history books and documentaries I grew up with until Covid. Harder to do now, though you can tell they’ve been trying.* . Hello. That was definitely a U.S. funded lab in China and there have been allegations about secret, illegal under U.S. law! U.S. funded labs in Ukraine, as well.
* in the ’70s, I remember seeing a teeshirt in a store on St. Marks Place in the East Village that said, “There will be free speech when everyone owns a printing press. – Benjamin Franklin.”
I just queried it and got this response:
“AI Overview
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It appears the quote, “There will be freedom of speech when everyone owns a printing press”, while reflecting a sentiment aligned with Benjamin Franklin’s advocacy for a free press, isn’t a direct quote from him.
Instead, Franklin’s writings like “Apology for Printers” (1731) and “On the Freedom of the Press” (1737) emphasized the importance of widespread access to printing and the dissemination of diverse opinions for a healthy society. He championed the idea that when truth and falsehood have a fair chance to be heard, truth will prevail, according to the National Humanities Center.
One of Franklin’s famous quotes related to the role of printers and the diversity of views is:
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
This highlights his belief that a free press necessitates the willingness to publish a variety of perspectives, even those that might be considered controversial or offensive to some. He understood that the free flow of ideas, enabled by accessible printing, was crucial for a well-informed citizenry and a functioning republic. ”
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So, anyway, back to the topic at hand: How many “Socialist” (not meaning Sweden) countries have we left to compare.
This is pure idiocy.
This is like saying “replacing the government with a giant robot” – if this is not dictatorship, what is?
BTW, they only seek to get rid of the state and federal workers who are employed by the government and are, allegedly, grossly inefficient, by replacing them with private companies, so I think that the AI which is supposed to replace the government will be actually owned and maintained by a gigantic private corporation.
In reality, many government functions have already been privatized:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_the_United_States
Based on my own reading of history books, both Roman Empires (Rome and Byzantium) began their collapse after the local business interests took over the government bureaucracy.
The following quote about Washington, D.C. is from a book authored in 2007 by Cullen Murphy Are We Rome? :
@Reader That sounds more like Musk’s mania. Apart from not wanting to be out-competed by China, I think Trump is motivated by the desire to clean out the Aegean Stable of leftist never-Trumper Deep State permanent bureaucrats in the small time window he has to do it which is what he has been saying all along. He only has until the mid-terms unless the winds of fortune remain at his back until the next president takes office on January 20, 2029 as they did not at the end of his last term.
I don’t know what you mean by “Musk’s mania”.
There is no such thing.
This is populist crap for the voters with 2-digit IQs.
Hitler also announced that he came to power “to drain the swamp” and he was also thought initially to be treated unfairly.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/08/george-orwell-reviews-mein-kampf-he-envisages-a-horrible-brainless-empire-1940.html
There are several links in the article to download the actual review.
Download it and read it, it’s fascinating.
The site Israpundit has betrayed its founders when it allows slander like this today
Quote Steven L
“Most leading politicians turn out to be fake, wasting deceiver and serving themselves and friendsl Fauci, a prototype of dishonesty and malfeasance.Still waiting for a Nuremberg II commission with full subpoena power.”
Effectively he calls here for:
* Fauci to be tried
* Fauci to be hung
And the Israpundit editor and it’s editor policy proceeds to ignore this calumny
That is… somehow equation of Fauci with Nazis …in Nuremberg
Is the present editor of Israpundit not going to do anything? Or is he actually supporting?
What a danger to the Jews israpundit has become!
I googled:” What did Trotsky say about vaccines for viruses” not expecting a serious answer but I got:
” according to the National Instituers of Health (NIH) was a link underlined in blue so I clicked on it and got”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28933923/
which had a bilbiography:
This looked interesting:
So I clicked on iit but no abstract was available but it had a similar articles list so thought this one looked interesting and I hit pay dirt:
@fquigley
I have made my position on Nuremberg clear in the past. There was no justice at Nuremberg, just a show trial in which a handful of culprits were tried. Some of these were executed, some were sentenced with terms which were later significantly reduced, and others were simply let go free. Notably, pretending that the Nazis were some form of criminal defied the magnitude of the crimes with which they were ‘accused’. In fact, the calumny of a 20 year sentence being ‘judged’ as appropriate to a man such as Speer for example, who was the largest slave holder in modern history, and directly responsible for literally unknown numbers of worked-to-death murders, is beyond explanation or defense, even if he was not involved with the formulation of the Final Solution, which he of course was guilty of doing. Importantly, Speer’s sentencing provided at least a modicum, if inappropriately and impossibly light, penalty for the horrors to which he was party and responsible. The vast majority of Nazis simply evaporated into thin air as they transitioned into the post Nazi state which after an inappropriately short period of time came to reverse the initial post war doctrine of precluding Nazi’s from serving in the govt, and unabashedly so. Had I had my way, there would not have been a few dozen defendants spread across a handful of trials, but something far more just and equalizing should have been chosen in place of the perversion of justice at Nuremberg which led to the often referenced term “Never Again. And yet, even as these trials at Nuremberg were ongoing, and shortly afterwards as well, the motivating efforts of pogroms in central Europe were showing the Jews the mocked humor of the import of that term, as was later demonstrated in silence when the Arabs came to make Arabia Judenrein as well.
As to the Covid scammers being somehow similar to the Nazis, I argue that their crimes are better described without historical analogies, and that they be tried appropriately for what they actually did do rather than for any historical comparisons.
Additionally, when you ask me to chastise the appropriateness of charging Fauci under some form of Nurember 2.0, I would simply request that something more appropriate be used in its place. Some might prefer a firing squad as should have been the limit of justice reserved for the butchers at Nuremberg, but I have an alternate view.
Indeed, for my own views, if a trial is to be held for Fauci and his cohorts, it should be held, not by some remote authority, distant from the locality and the people who suffered the harms he unleashed on the world. Instead, I would challenge that his debt would not be settled in a single trial, in under an extra national tribunal, whose sense of justice and value of his crimes could be ensnared by geopolitical considerations as was certainly relatable to the re-evaluations which followed the already limited Justice at Nuremberg as I have described it. Indeed, the fraud which Fauci unleashed on the world took form in his victims amid a marbleized pattern around the world, affecting lives, livelihoods and fortunes, likely in every locality around the world where effective treatments were withheld, and toxic shots were administered. Likewise, would it not be a better source of justice to have the trials held in each of these localities, one after another til the ultimate remedy was handed down to these psychopaths, or til they were found innocent by one and all the jurisdictions in which their crimes had had an effect. Would this not have been a better sort of justice than that which was judged at Nuremberg.
In fact, you are correct in a way, while not in the way you intended, but in any event, this is the Judgement of the Editor of Israpundit, such as it is, as you have requested.
@Felix Who were Israpundit’s founders and what did they have to say about leading politicians? What about Leo Hohmann? I couldn’t decipher that sentence fragment.
Leo Hohmann and supported it appears by israpundit doesn’t have any right to lie against Anthony Fauci, nor
against the science that created vaccines
You have left yourself with no credibility Hohmann
AI Overview
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A study of former-Soviet countries indicates that exposure to Soviet communism is linked to lower trust in vaccines. This distrust stems from a broader skepticism towards state institutions and a lack of confidence in government and medical advice. The study suggests that the roots of vaccine hesitancy in these regions are tied to the legacy of a socio-political system that fostered distrust in authority.
Specifically, the study highlights that individuals with a history of living under Soviet communism exhibit lower trust in the efficiency and safety of vaccines. This lower trust is correlated with a weaker belief in government and medical advice, as well as a lack of faith in others within their community. The research suggests that this pattern of distrust is a consequence of the Soviet system’s impact on individuals’ perceptions of public institutions and the information they provide.
The study also points to factors like the compulsory nature of Soviet-era vaccination campaigns and the potential for conspiracy theories to flourish in environments with a history of limited transparency, contributing to vaccine hesitancy. Furthermore, the study notes that the post-Soviet transition has involved the adoption of neoliberal policies, which may have further complicated public trust in health systems and vaccination programs, according to Sage Journals.
PLoS One
. 2023 Mar 1;18(3):e0282420. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282420. eCollection 2023.
The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: Evidence from former-Soviet countries
Joan Costa-Font 1 , Jorge Garcia-Hombrados 2 , Anna Nici?ska 3
Affiliations expand
PMID: 36857365 PMCID: PMC9977043 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282420
Abstract
Drawing of NASA control room: men at desks facing monitors showing missiles launching. Caption: “Siri, I said, “Lunch!”
Salient cartoon that popped up on my FB newsfeed from one humor group or another.
Everybody remembers the Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) and The Matrix, (1999) then there’s Wargames (1983) the more recent comedy, Jexi (2019). Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genesis (2015), a number of Star Trek the Original Series episodes (1966-1969), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
But who remembers Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)?
OMG I forgot Isaac Asimov.
Musk’s third party nonsense made no sense to me until I remembered that the Dem paramilitary terrorists were bombing his company into bankruptcy because of his alliance with Trump.
No decision from AI. Only suggestions!
AI can be corrupt by corrupt data!
Anything man touches …!
Most leading politicians turn out to be fake, wasting deceiver and serving themselves and friendsl Fauci, a prototype of dishonesty and malfeasance.
Still waiting for a Nuremberg II commission with full subpoena power.
Most members of the Congress never make tough decisions bc they want to keep their position. That is where term limit becomes interesting. As well as eliminating the revolving door btw gov and Corp America.
@stevenl
My comment: Are you really? Hate to burst your bubble unless it’s the symbolism of the thing you’re after but:
First I asked about how many were executed, then how many were imprisoned.
And of course, remember this UN Secretary General?:
“Kurt Waldheim’s diplomatic service was tainted by his Nazi past.”
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/kurt-waldheims-diplomatic-service-was-tainted-by-his-nazi-past/
“When former United Nations Secretary General and President of Austria Kurt Waldheim died on June 14 of this year, he had been officially barred from entry into the United States for 20 years. Why? Despite a successful diplomatic career, dealing with the tensions of the Cold War and numerous crises around the world, Waldheim was unable to suppress the nature of his service in the German Army during World War II.
Born in St. Andra-Wordern, near Vienna, on December 21, 1918, Waldheim was a student at the University of Vienna in 1938, when Hitler and the Nazis announced the anschluss, or union, of Austria and Germany. Subsequently, he became a member of the Nazi student union and joined the Sturmabteilung, popularly known as the Brown Shirts. These paramilitary Nazis were basically street thugs and had gained a reputation for terrorizing enemies of the Nazi government.
With the outbreak of war, Waldheim was drafted into the German Army. During his service on the Eastern Front in 1941, he was wounded and supposedly granted a medical discharge. Insisting for decades that he did not return to active duty, Waldheim wrote two autobiographies but related very little about his later activities during the war years. Reportedly, he graduated from law school in 1944 and then married.
At the end of World War II, Waldheim’s diplomatic career developed quickly. He accepted a position in the Austrian Foreign Ministry and served in France. In 1955, he became Austria’s first delegate to the United Nations. He held the position of ambassador to Canada and was named UN Secretary General in 1972. In 1986, he was elected President of Austria amid a raging controversy as to the true nature of his involvement with the German Army in the Balkans.
During his presidential campaign, various documents that contradicted Waldheim’s claims came to light. Organizations such as the World Jewish Congress released evidence that he had actually served in the German Army until 1945. In fact, they indicated that Waldheim had been an intelligence officer in Yugoslavia and Greece during the spring and summer of 1942 and that in April 1943 he joined Department I-C, attached to Army Group E. When confronted with this information, Waldheim admitted only that he had been a clerk and denied any knowledge that his unit had committed numerous atrocities, including the executions of partisans and innocent civilians. Nevertheless, his commanding officer, General Alexander Loehr, had presented him the War Merit Cross, First Class, with Swords in 1945. Loehr was executed for war crimes two years later.
Waldheim was identified as a war criminal, but never tried. Perhaps the most compelling evidence against him is the fact that he was an apparent participant in Operation Kozara, a successful offensive against Yugoslav partisans under Tito, which was conducted in 1942. The bodies of many of those executed by the Germans were displayed on wooden gallows along the road between Kostajnica and Banja Luka. Waldheim was decorated and identified on the German Army honor roll for his participation. He also received a medal from the notorious Ante Pavelic, leader of the Ustashi, a fascist organization. Later, he was said to have approved the dropping of Anti-Jewish propaganda leaflets behind Red Army lines. One of the leaflets concluded, “Enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.”
When Waldheim was elected president of Austria, Israel boycotted his inauguration. The United States officially labeled him a war criminal, and an international commission found that he was aware of atrocities committed and failed to act in order to stop them. He became a virtual outcast from the world diplomatic community.
Although he had been a champion of peace during his tenure with the United Nations, Waldheim could not hide his Nazi past forever. In 1996, he wrote in his own defense, “I did what was necessary to survive the day, the system, the war—no more, no less.”
A legacy of terror and murder has outlived Kurt Waldheim, and years of diplomatic service are destined to fade into obscurity.”
My comment: Whoaw! 1938? That jumped out at me. Had to verify these dates. Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria, March 12, 1938, Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938.
If Waldheim was a Brownshirt from March 1938 until he was drafted into the army with the “outbreak” of war in 1941 – he took part in Kristallnacht!
“On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
And timely Pièce de résistance (no pun intended) :
What did he do before joining the Brown Shirts?:
HE WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT! And a member of the Nazi Student Union.
“AI Overview
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The concept of “Eurabia” and its associated conspiracy theory are primarily attributed to Bat Ye’or, whose writings, particularly the 2005 book “Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis”, popularized the idea. The theory posits a deliberate collaboration between European nations and Arab states, starting in the 1970s, to reshape Europe’s culture and identity, often implying a hidden agenda of Islamization. ”
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L’esprit d’escalier (look it up):
I wrote in the last post, “HE WAS A COLLEGE STUDENT! And a member of the Nazi Student Union.”
It just occurred to me to wonder, “Gee, might it not have been called – wait for it –
“Students For Justice in the Sudetenland?”
A perenially relevant must-read but especially now and in this context as well as in that of Egypt’s rearming and saber-rattling in Israel’s direction; “Sadat’s Strategy” by Paul Eidelberg (1979) PDF (also available as a used book on Amazon and other sellers online for those who don’t like to open links.)
https://afsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SadatsStrategy_Eidelberg1.pdf
More on Eurabia:
Algemeiner article today about 6 terrorists sought for massacre in French restaurant in 1982. Norway refused to extradite.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/07/10/french-prosecutors-seek-trial-of-6-for-deadly-1982-terror-attack-on-jewish-restaurant/
Italy also concluded such an agreement which is why the ring leader of the Achille Lauro Hijacking was released and got away. later found dead in Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad on the
day America liberated it.
End of last year, those that enjoyed free elections voted for Donald. I can quite easily understand why voters would be willing to get a new leader after the catastrophes of Obama and Biden and I can also quite easily understand why there is a suspicion that the new leader, like the previous ones, is less than 100% trustworthy. Also, when compared to Harris, he is still far ahead.
Partly, this is due to DJT’s MO of not telling people how he intends to achieve the desired results. The reason for this behavior are obvious: if he were to tell the public what he intended to do, the opposition would do all they could to deflect and evade the desired results, not because they wouldn’t benefit from them, but in order to make sure that DJT doesn’t chalk up a win. DJT has said numerous times that he will not spill the beans before the act is done.
This leaves all of us in the situation that we either believe he will do what he says, or we believe he will try to deceive us while striving for a third term. Whatever the case, his record, so far, has been better than we could have expected. Of course, he started off within his first 100 days, but on the other hand, his first 100 days have been uphill and against the wind since he was elected, so in sum he got the 100 – 177 or about -77 days so far and they are all against the efforts of the opposition. Taking this to measure his performance leaves him with plenty of time to catch up.
We should not forget the more than 200 cases and court appearances filed against him to make sure that he will need even more time to catch up unless he can do something which is quite within his powers to make them back down.
With regard to his powers as the leading executive of the USA, he can demand of the DoJ to discard the judges who feel they can play president any day of the week. He can also demand of the US Supreme Court to ditch all of the frivolous cases against him. There is a lot more he can do which so far hasn’t been attempted.
I have nowhere seen the Trump responsibility for the deaths in the
Texas floods being mentioned by Peloni and Sebastien Zorn
Are these two and others just operating as tools of Maga
How shameful!
@Felix
Please explain
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/09/trump-nws-cuts-texas-floods/
There have been a lot of articles about the fear that the U.S. will be overtaken in the race for AI by rivals such as China. “We must not allow a mineshaft gap!”
https://youtu.be/ybSzoLCCX-Y?si=LjsGWY6NHPPXCBAj