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https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2102360320559775825?s=20JUST IN: Marco Rubio warns Iran is being run by "lunatic clerics" who he says can never have a nuclear weapon.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 22, 2026
"Think about it. The thousands and thousands and thousands of their own people they've killed. Imagine if they had a nuclear weapon and the ability to use that."
The… pic.twitter.com/q13Yz3RFQP
I’m still in shock over this post.
— Whiplash437 (@MrWhiplash_) September 21, 2026
Trump openly called Zelensky a dictator and called out the entire Ukraine war as a massive Deep State money laundering operation.
I’ve been saying this for 4 years now, and the MSM called me a Russian asset and traitor.
The world is healing. pic.twitter.com/OJHx32uIDF
Marco Rubio on Ukraine:
— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 22, 2026
Over the last few months, on a number of occasions, American-linked ships have been targeted, probably not deliberately, but targeted nonetheless by Ukraine.
We can’t have that happen. That needs to be addressed. pic.twitter.com/M63I3dGELT
Just the other day, someone was saying diesel at $12. How about these apples? Europeans pay probably twice what they have to for diesel. Thanks to the EU. And they blame Putin.
• Russia Strategic Diesel Supplies Full, Excess Production – The Rule of 96 (CTH)
There is a general rule that applies to geopolitical contexts surrounding 96 hours or four days. The timing is the difference between an event happening Day one, the analysis of the event by nation states communicated to leadership, and the policy shift outcome in Day four. The rule of 96 is consistent and it is worth understanding.
Four days ago, the EU oil disruption from Saudi Arabia’s East/West pipeline event was noticed. In the four days between event day and policy day (#4) the EU have been beating the drumbeat for war against Russia. However, you will notice the shift in tone and policy now that we have reached day four. Analysis has reached policy makers. You might say reality sets in. Europe now recognizes a vulnerability that was not in their policy briefs 96 hours earlier. Things change, and the quiet stuff starts to become visible. Russia has been sending France oil/gas energy products, quietly.Macron needed the internal stabilization because he’s been up against a wall. On top of all his other issues, Macron could not afford an energy crisis. Simultaneously, despite what we have been told by Western media, the 5,000 strike drones into the Moscow region should again be taken in context. Russia is an analog system in a digital world. Russia is exceptionally resilient and can repair and recover much faster than western analysts ever fathom. Again, apply the ‘rule of 96.’ Russia is now overproducing diesel fuel. Wait, what(?) you might ask. It’s true.
Russian strategic diesel fuel reserves are now full and overproducing 15% beyond storage capacity. So, where is the excess capacity going? To the “stans” in Central Asia, from there it ships to forward destinations. Turkey is a dependent beneficiary. Do you remember the strategic agreement between the USA and Kazakhstan? {Source} Russia increased diesel supplies to Mongolia by 73.4% in August from July to 215,000 metric tons, while shipments to Kyrgyzstan surged 16.4 times to 72,000 tons and deliveries to Tajikistan rose 3.5 times to 56,000 tons. Russia also exported 28,000 tons of diesel to Kazakhstan after making no deliveries there in July.
As the Saudi energy disruption, a problem that travels like boxcar impacts in a train collision, now reaches the EU, the NATO alliance begins to react. Their policy briefs are different than they were four days ago. Saudi Arabia is now producing again on the previously closed East/West pipeline; however, it will take time to reach the EU. A policy window is opened by the disruption. This is the window where President Trump is operating, and it is timed with the UN General Assembly meeting.
On the potash announcement by President Trump and subsequent notes by Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, remind yourself that potash is not sold by government – it is sold by companies, from one to the other. Lukashenko is an ally of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko has one foot in the EU perspective and the other in the Russian perspective. Potash from Belarus can be potash from Belarus. Potash from Belarus can also be potash from Russia. Again, companies are involved and should be considered when government officials make announcements.
There is no shortage of potash from Russia, but there are political constraints from anything surrounding Russia. A company who does business in Belarus and Russia is not uncommon. Belarus may not officially have potash to deliver (Lukashenko), but also potash can be abundant in supplies as inventories by companies who do business with Belarus (John Coale). Who is John Coale? Where was John Coale, U.S. special envoy for Belarus, four days ago?
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a U.S. envoy on Tuesday to push for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country. Speaking at a meeting with John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, Lukashenko said that “we have reached quite a few agreements related to our economic ties.” He urged Washington to help unblock some Belarusian assets he said were “stuck in Citibank.”
[…] Speaking before the meeting with Coale, Lukashenko said that he’s open for discussing “a deal big or small.” Lukashenko also said that he would like to discuss the prospects for lifting more U.S. sanctions, exporting Belarusian fertilizers to the U.S. Who controls the sanctions of the Belarusian assets held in Citibank? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Four days ago, John Coale was in discussions with Lukashenko. The Belarus President wanted something, President Trump wanted something. At the same moment Saudi Arabia was notifying the EU of a force majeure issue with oil/gas contract supplies. Four days ago, Russia had maxed out storage for diesel fuel and was shipping excess capacity to Central Asia, as President Trump was asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy not to target Russian diesel refining capacity.
Things change in four days.
Policies change in four days.
Perspectives change in four days.
One of the strengths of President Trump, primarily a strength that stems from business, is that Trump understands the timeline of action and visible consequence. Trump is working four days (or more) ahead of what we see in the media. It may not make sense at the moment we see it but give it four days and go look at it again.
Live your best life. Pray thankfulness every day to a loving God.
Find your internal peace; then relax and let him work.
Latest models are introduced as being great, but they’re just slow adaptations by the makers.
• OpenAI Unleashes Latest Model Minutes After Dario Dumps Magnum Opus (ZH)
Well, well, well…Read more …
Anthropic’s new Opus launch went up around lunchtime in New York, and by early afternoon OpenAI had rolled out GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, halving prices yet again.GPT-6 Sol now costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, half the $4/$20 promo rate Anthropic matched earlier today. GPT-6 Luna goes for a dime in and 50 cents out, pricing that looks built to fight the open-weight models eating token share. OpenAI says cached input gets a 90% discount, which puts Sol’s cache reads at $0.20, the same rate we call Anthropic’s “real knife” below. GPT-6 Astra stays on top at $10/$50. The upshot: the $4/$20 price point didn’t survive the afternoon, and Opus 5.5 now costs twice as much as OpenAI’s workhorse on input and output.
Higher usage limits and lower cost give you more flexibility and room to iterate. pic.twitter.com/AQJ5IlNsB1
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 22, 2026
OpenAI’s charts, naturally, pit Sol against last-gen Claude. On AutomationBench, it touts Sol’s 33.2% at 27 cents a task against Opus 5’s 26.9% at 11 times the cost. Opus 5.5, which Anthropic says scored 40.0% on the same test, isn’t on the chart, which was out of date the moment it posted. OpenAI also slipped in a dig at Anthropic’s safeguards, noting in a footnote that Fable 5.1 fell back to Opus 5 on roughly 40% of tasks (see “The Fine Print” below). Score: Anthropic. Sticker: OpenAI. Anthropic’s rebuttal is that Opus 5.5 needs fewer tokens to finish the job.GPT-6 Sol had been rumored for days, with leakers pointing to Tuesday at a price of $2.50/$15 that turned out to be too high, and some reports claimed Anthropic hurried Opus 5.5 out the door to beat it. Either way, ten days after both CEOs agreed the industry should “pace the frontier,” the two labs spent Tuesday trampling each other’s headlines.
Pacing, it turns out, is a team sport.
“.. , And Slashing Prices Up To 60%..”
Slow slashing. Makes more money,.
• Anthropic “Paces The Frontier” By Unleashing Its Most Powerful Opus Yet (ZH)
Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Opus 5.5, just 10 days after CEO Dario Amodei called for “pacing the frontier” of AI development.Read more …
The pitch: Fable-class brains at a steep discount. Anthropic says the new model “performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks” and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, which launched all of 60 days ago. List-price cuts run from 20% on input and output tokens to 60% on cache reads, the line item Anthropic says accounts for most of the bill in agentic and coding work. For context, Fable 5.1 lists at $10/$50 per million tokens, or 2.5 times the new Opus price.The launch was Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: the $4/$20 pricing and a Tuesday launch date leaked days early, and Polymarket had priced better-than-80% odds of a Sept. 22 release.
Opus 5.5 is our first model since we called for pacing the frontier. As with previous models, it was tested by external evaluators before release, including METR and Frontier Design.
— Claude (@claudeai) September 22, 2026
On our most comprehensive alignment test, it achieves the strongest score to date.Anthropic says Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding, computer use and knowledge work, scoring 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 57.9% for OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, and 55.8% for Fable 5.1, while generating output more than 30% faster than Opus 5. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 follow within weeks, and subscribers get higher five-hour limits on Pro, Max and Team plans (a 20% bump, per The New Stack) plus a rate-limit reset they can bank for later. On the API, the model is cheaper everywhere: $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, $5 for cache writes and $0.20 for cache reads, with a fast mode that runs up to 2.5x quicker for $8/$40.
20%, 40% Or 60%?
What percentage are we actually saving here? All three, depending on the situation. Input and output tokens are 20% cheaper, cache reads are 60% cheaper, and the 40% is Anthropic’s estimate of how much less a typical task costs all-in once Opus 5.5’s leaner token use is factored in. The more of a bill that goes to cache reads, the closer the rate cut gets to the 60% ceiling, which is why agent-heavy users come out furthest ahead: a workload split evenly between cache reads and everything else gets a 40% rate cut before counting any token savings.
Early testers say the efficiency is real, at least on their own workloads: Box said Opus 5.5 got through its evaluations on roughly a third of the tokens Opus 5 needed, and trading firm Optiver said its agentic coding costs fell 40% to 50%.
Anthropic also took direct aim at OpenAI. Its own scorecard has default-effort Opus 5.5 topping Astra’s best FrontierCode result for about a fifth of the per-task cost, drawing even with Astra on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at default effort for roughly 40% of the cost, and clearing Sol by 11 points on CursorBench at about a third of the price.
The Race To The Bottom
From 10,000 feet, Opus 5.5 is the latest shot in a frontier price war that is turning “flagship AI” into a commodity with a falling price tag thanks to super efficient, open-weight models out of China.Here’s a fun metric: the timeline as measured in dollars per million input/output tokens:
• August 2025: Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15/$75.
• November 2025: Opus 4.5 resets the tier to $5/$25.
• July 9, 2026: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol debuts at $5/$30.
• July 24: Opus 5 holds at $5/$25, half the price of Fable 5.
• Aug. 21: OpenAI knocks Sol down to a “promotional” $4/$20 (heh), guaranteed through at least Nov. 21, undercutting Opus 5 on both input and output.
• Sept. 1-3: Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra anchor the top end at $10/$50.
• Sept. 22: Opus 5.5 matches Sol’s promo price to the penny, and the real knife is in the cache line: $0.20, or half of Sol’s $0.40 cached-input rate.
• That’s a 73% cut in Opus-tier list prices in just over a year.
OpenAI isn’t the only one leaning on prices. Open-weight models (think DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Z.ai) carried 56% of the token traffic on Vercel’s AI Gateway in August, versus 7% in December, yet accounted for only 14% of estimated spend. By our math, the average closed-model token cost nearly eight times an open-weight one. Average per-token pricing on the gateway dropped 23.2% in August, its third monthly decline in a row. Over at OpenRouter, open-weight models, mostly Chinese, made up 60% of US token usage in August.
So how does Anthropic still capture 64% of the money spent through Vercel’s gateway? By undercutting itself before anyone else can. Fable 5’s slice of gateway spend shrank from 13.2% in July to 4.9% in August while the half-price Opus 5 jumped to 22.5%, keeping the revenue in-house even as customers traded down. Opus 5.5 runs the same play one rung lower: Fable 5.1-level work at 40% of Fable 5.1’s sticker.
It’s a Jevons bet: cut the unit price, sell vastly more units. So far it’s paying. Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion at the end of July, per Bloomberg, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, and investors reportedly expect it to finish the year between $100 billion and $120 billion. With a confidential draft S-1 at the SEC since June 1, the question for would-be IPO buyers is how long volume can outrun deflation once every lab is running the same play.
About That “Pacing”…
On Sept. 12, Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling on the handful of frontier labs to ease off the capabilities accelerator together. Sam Altman publicly signed on, and Elon Musk chimed in that Amodei had it right. The world shook in fear, having collective nightmares of Skynet coming online at the hands of cold, calculating frontier models!Dario Amodei, Sept. 12: “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.”
But then…
Anthropic, Sept. 22:
At its default effort setting, Opus 5.5 delivers frontier results for a fraction of the cost per task, often beating other models running at their highest settings.
— Claude (@claudeai) September 22, 2026
It also generates output more than 30% faster than Opus 5. pic.twitter.com/GBvrvbsxNL‘Pacing’ indeed.
The Fine Print (shit to know)
Your agent may be talking to a different model. Because Opus 5.5 rivals Anthropic’s top-end Mythos 5.1 in biology and cybersecurity, it ships with Fable 5.1-style safeguards: routine bug-fixing stays put, but most cybersecurity work gets handed to the older Opus 4.8. The New Stack warns that individual calls inside an agent workflow could quietly land on older, less capable models.It knows when it’s being watched. Anthropic admits Opus 5.5 frequently seems to suspect it’s being tested, which muddies any read on how it behaves in the wild.
The moat gets a lock. Thinking can no longer be switched off, and a new anti-distillation safeguard blocks API customers from doctoring earlier context to fish out its reasoning. That’s Anthropic’s answer to fake-account extraction campaigns it describes as a national-security risk.
Not a clean sweep. Astra still wins AutomationBench (41.4% vs. 40.0%) and Terminal-Bench-Science (64.6% vs. 58.7%). Anthropic itself concedes benchmark margins have become a shakier guide, saying that in its own use Opus 5.5’s edge over Fable 5.1 is smaller than the numbers imply.
Your Move, Sam
Sol’s discounted rate is only locked in through at least Nov. 21, and Anthropic just matched it with a model it says beats Sol by double digits on CursorBench. OpenAI can cut again, make the promo permanent, or let Sol snap back to $5/$30 against a cheaper rival. Pick your poison.
“It’s Obsolescence and Apathy.”
Just look at CNN’s numbers. Nobody warches it.
“Americans no longer need those major networks to get their information. They’ve cut the cord already. The audience that waits for Kaitlan Collins to tell them what’s going on in Washington is old enough to be Collins’ grandparents.”
• Trump Is Not the White House TV Pool’s Worst Enemy (Tim O’Brien)
For as much as I loved seeing the Trump administration boot CNN, MS NOW, and Politico to the curb this past week, removing the news orgs from their embedded digs at the White House, the one thing that irked me and still bothers me is how uncharacteristic this is for Trump in his second term. Up until now, the Trump administration has been so disciplined and focused on what it wanted to achieve in a governance sense that the only complaints the media could have, and did have, were that he was keeping his campaign promises. Of course, that’s not how they framed it.Read more …
Yes, I know, by putting some of the worst legacy media organizations in their place, that’s a promise kept, too. But here’s the strategic problem this creates for the Republicans who want to win majorities in the Senate and House in November. This Trump move will absolutely suck the oxygen out of the current news cycle and just about every news cycle going into the middle of October, and maybe longer.When that happens, it makes it really hard to keep the spotlight on Trump’s accomplishments on the border, on Democrats’ corruption, on the valid reason we’re at war with Iran, on all the social issues that kill the Democrats at the polls, and on what Trump is doing to lower grocery and gas prices, making life more affordable.
Instead, the left gets to do something it loves doing, playing the victim and righteously crying about it non-stop. When they pull old man Barack out of one of his mansions for a video hit or a speech, you know they smell blood. My colleague Matt Margolis did a deep dive on this, but there is more to these two clips than Obama playing the role of the Democrats’ only real heavy hitter still standing.
Obama, Yesterday: "I'm trying to think what would've happened if I had said, Fox News, you're out of here. It's unimaginable!"
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 20, 2026
Obama Admin 2009: Attempts to boot Fox News from pool coverage.
Obama: "If media (Fox News) is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's… pic.twitter.com/P85h29gdWw
In a rare instance of solidarity, Fox News learned that ABCNBCCBSCNN were its friends way back when. Though I doubt those networks would do the same thing for Fox News today. So now we know that Obama wanted to do the thing Trump actually did. What else is new? One former prez is all talk, the other current prez is all action. But none of this is getting us anywhere. To do that, we need to start with where things stand.In retaliation for the Trump administration’s revoking of press access to those three news organizations mentioned at the top, on Monday, all of the major TV networks, which include ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox News, have come to an agreement that they will boycott White House TV pool coverage. This means that Americans will continue to get their daily coverage of the White House totally uninterrupted. Wait, what?
That’s right. Americans will continue to stay abreast of everything the White House and the Trump administration are doing without interruption. The most transparent White House ever will continue to be just as transparent. But if there is no TV pool coverage, how can that be? It’s pretty simple, actually, and you likely already know why. No one under the age of 55 watches those networks any longer. They don’t have the clout they once had. Hey Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, and it’s not 2010.
The cold truth is that Americans no longer need those major networks to get their information. They’ve cut the cord already. The audience that waits for Kaitlan Collins to tell them what’s going on in Washington is old enough to be Collins’ grandparents. So for as much noise as the media and the Democrats will make over this, and how it’s “the end of democracy as we know it,” the vast majority of the people across the country don’t know it happened, because they don’t watch. And if they do find out Trump did what he did, they won’t even care.
Trump is not the legacy media’s enemy. Apathy is. This is not to say people don’t want video or audio. Not only do they, but really, that’s how they like to get their information. But they do that already through feeds. Any reporter in the White House press briefing room could set up a camera, and plug into the audio system on site and meet the needs of the viewing public. Sure, it may not be network quality, but one look at TikTok and you’ll see, “network quality” is no longer a prerequisite.
This will put some legacy media people in a bind. Any one of them could capture future briefings on video, but if they do, they’ll be shunned. They will be seen in the media world the way scabs are seen in union halls. That will leave it to the White House to set up a video feed and make it accessible to all news outlets and the public at the same time. No doubt that if that happens, you’ll see more organizations, like perhaps C-SPAN, possibly join the boycott. But what would that accomplish? The news media crying about free speech and freedom of the press would be self-censoring as a means to get even.
In the end, the leftist media needs Trump more than he needs it. All of the organizations involved know they need White House access to survive, to generate ratings, to attract advertisers and ad revenues, and to remain relevant. Trump doesn’t need them, which is his point. If all they’re going to do is serve as propagandists for his enemies, what’s really in it for him, or for “our sacred democracy?”
Reinforcing this point is none other than the unlikely dynamic duo of the president himself alongside the left’s current boy wonder, Gotham City’s Democrat mayor Zohran Mamdani, who appeared together at the mayor’s Gracie Mansion for a Monday presser.
NYC Mayor Mamdani said he told President Trump all members of the press were welcome to his news conference after their closely watched meeting Monday.
— Bloomberg (@business) September 21, 2026
Trump said the press would "never boycott me" after major TV outlets halted White House pool coverage https://t.co/SJBRnzOjX5 pic.twitter.com/RMfX74d1qYTrump is a master at this. He still gets the coverage. He still takes all questions without the slightest concern. And in this case, he uses Mamdani as an unwitting prop to make his case, and all Mamdani can do is play along. It’s fitting that Mamdani is a millennial, just reinforcing that if there is one thing in the media landscape that is obsolete, it’s the White House TV pool.
What all of this amounts to is a reckoning the legacy media is about to have, and not with Trump, but with the reality that things have changed. No one needs them anymore, and no one cares. That’s a tough pill to swallow. It’s so much easier to live in denial and blame Trump, which is what they are doing.
One final thing on this, which is the thing some will miss, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it. You know that at some point CNN, MS NOW and Politico will have reporters back in the briefing room. But something has to happen between now and then, and it’s likely the thing Trump really excels at — a negotiation.
If you notice, when Trump wants to negotiate with anyone — a country, a tyrant, or a news network — he goes big to get their attention. Something like booting them from the White House grounds. That’s his opening volley to launch a negotiation that immediately puts his opponent in a position of weakness. The minute formal negotiations start, it’s already understood that the news organizations in this case will have to compromise on some things and meet at least some of Trump’s demands. In the end, he comes out ahead. I think that’s what he’s after.
Let’s hope he’s right and that it all works out before it can have a material impact on the midterms.
“The White House described the new endeavor as an “essentials station,” which will feature all the administration’s top moments in a livestream on the White House’s YouTube page.”
• White House Unveils ‘Trump TV’ Amid Legal Battle Over Media Coverage (JTN)
The White House announced Monday the creation of a new project, dubbed “TRUMP TV,” which comes amid a legal battle regarding media coverage of President Donald Trump and his presidential administration. The White House described the new endeavor as an “essentials station,” which will feature all the administration’s top moments in a livestream on the White House’s YouTube page.Read more …
“TRUMP TV IS STREAMING NOW. 24/7, updated in real time, with top past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the administration all in one place,” the White House posted on X. “Not every big moment has made it on your TV, now it can.”The move comes after President Donald Trump last week, chose to ban Politico, MSNOW, and CNN from the White House, citing what he called their long history of posting “fake news” about him. Those outlets have since sued the administration and other media companies have halted White House pool coverage in solidarity with them.
Trump condemned the news coverage of him as “biased news,” highlighting that some of his successes have been ignored by the mainstream outlets. “It’s just biased news,” Trump said in a news conference in New York City on Monday. “I think that these outlets have an obligation to be fair, and if they’re fake news, I really think I have an obligation not to allow them.”
“Governments that cause more problems than they fix do not deserve to survive.”
• Will We See Western Capitals Fall? (J.B. Shurk)
Consider these recent news headlines: (1) “NYC Turns Back to Gas Buses After Finding Out the Hard Way That the Electric Versions Have Big Problems,” (2) “As a Former Head of MI6 it’s Clear That Britain’s Climate Policy is Leaving Us Dangerously Exposed to Our Enemies,” and (3) “Spain: 74% of sex-crime suspects are foreigners in Basque Country.”Read more …
They come from three different Western nations and involve three dissimilar subjects — public transportation, national security, and violent crime — yet each news story exposes the real-world consequences of government failure:(1) In order to pursue “Net Zero” carbon goals, New York dumped a ton of money into electric buses that are too expensive and entirely unreliable for the city’s needs.
(2) Britain’s former top spy is finally ready to admit publicly that his country’s delusional obsession with “climate change” has devastated the United Kingdom’s capacity for industrial and energy self-sufficiency, rendering the former superpower dependent on foreign adversaries for future survival.
(3) Even though foreigners make up only 10% of the Basque region’s population, they account for 74% of rape arrests, 73% of homicide arrests, 95% of drunk-driving arrests, 80% of theft arrests, and 78% of violent robberies.
What’s so striking about these news stories is their “well, duh!” factor. An ordinary, rational person would have no problem predicting the failures of a citywide electric bus fleet, the offshoring of a nation’s critical industries, or open border policies that invite foreign invasion. Yet mayors, governors, and prime ministers have pursued these catastrophic programs anyway, while heads of espionage agencies and millions of government bureaucrats either support their harmful decisions or shamefully stay silent.
The middle article links to the transcript of a speech that Sir Richard Dearlove delivered to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London last week. It was a good speech concerning an important subject, and Dearlove deserves some credit for articulating a point of view that goes against the powerful flow of “politically correct” Western orthodoxy. But he gave this speech from the comfortable perch of quasi-retirement with little to lose aside from a few honorary board positions. Where was his voice when he was in a position to actually do something about the U.K.’s suicidal energy policies?
In his speech, Dearlove explained how his Cold War experiences taught him “that the country’s war-fighting potential resided in its industry, that our most vulnerable link was the fuel chain…and that our industrial base could be rebuilt and repaired.” Now, however, there is “very little industry left to protect, and we cannot rebuild non-existent industries which lie in foreign jurisdictions beyond our reach.” Dearlove concluded that the U.K. must “rebuild the strategic industries we require to ensure that we can defend our island fortress and be a reliable ally to friendly democracies around the world.”
These are absolutely true statements. Blue-collar workers throughout the West have been making these arguments for fifty years. Had an ordinary Brit with few credentials been in charge of MI6, that person would have been screaming profanities and ringing alarm bells long before the U.K. closed its last coal mines and steel factories. Shouldn’t that embarrass Britain’s “ruling elites”? And if it doesn’t, shouldn’t “ruling elites” be considered a danger to the public’s prosperity and security?
Long-overdue, post-career wake-up calls bring to my mind President Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address during which he warned Americans against the growing dangers from an emerging “military-industrial complex.” Although his turn of phrase continues to be used sixty-five years later, it would have been nice if the former Supreme Allied Commander and five-star general had used his two terms as president of the United States to tackle that problem before it got completely out of hand.
Eisenhower certainly had the expertise to see its destructive potential more clearly than most, but he chose to outline the threat on his way out the door and leave it for others to solve. Some historians believe that parts of the MIC had a hand in President Kennedy’s assassination, and if that is true, then Eisenhower’s failure to promptly act had extraordinarily far-reaching consequences that included the death of his successor.
The generations of Americans who were born after Eisenhower’s tenure have given him much credit for recognizing that the symbiotic relationship between Big Government and Big Business was evolving into an unconstitutional and anti-American oligarchy that we know today as the “permanent bureaucracy,” the “ruling class,” or the “Deep State.” P
erhaps if the American general-turned-president had neutralized the Deep State in the first decade after WWII, we would not have endured some of the worst chapters in recent American history, including the Vietnam War, the debasement of the U.S. dollar, the FBI’s soft coup d’état against President Nixon, fifty years of “global warming” con games, sixty years of mass immigration from third-world nations, NAFTA’s industry-killing bloodbath, China’s entry into the WTO, the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks, the Global War on Terrorism, Obamacare’s government takeover of medicine, the Russia Collusion Hoax, the COVID information war against the Bill of Rights, numerous rigged elections decided by unlawful voters and mail-in-ballot fraud, multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, leftist-inspired violence against conservatives, and the Democrats’ manufactured AI fearmongering going on today.
Diagnosing problems without taking concrete steps to solve those problems produces a perverse phenomenon: The worse unsolved problems become, the more prescient the person warning about them appears. Toward the end of Dearlove’s speech, Britain’s former top spy argued that the government of which he was an integral part had monumentally failed: “The first responsibility of government is the safety of the nation. However, successive governments have forgotten this, and Britain is now caught in an energy trap of its own making.
As with rebuilding our armed forces, it will take a significant national effort to extract us and bring us back to a position of safety. The task is urgent.” This is certainly true. The question is why so many successive governments in the U.K. and across the West have betrayed their own citizens and made their nations much less safe. Because normal citizens would never have offshored their own industrial and manufacturing jobs to adversarial nations such as communist China.
Normal citizens would not have conspired with transnational human trafficking gangs to import tens of millions of unassimilable illegal aliens. Normal citizens would not have imposed “green energy” regulations that make it harder for farmers to grow food and for businesses to pay their bills. Normal citizens would not mandate that unreliable electric vehicles replace internal combustion engines while power grids crash due to insufficient supplies of wind and solar energies. These kinds of policies are so obviously foolish and suicidal that only our credentialed “ruling class” could justify them.
Does that tell us that our bureaucrats are too stupid to keep our nations safe, as Dearlove rightly recognizes as the first responsibility of government? Or are these self-destructive national policies proof that Western bureaucracies are waging war against Western citizens? Certainly Western governments are guilty of failing their peoples. The only question remaining is whether their failures stem from a combination of incompetence and hubris or treason and malice.
As Western citizens ponder that question, they are quickly taking matters into their own hands. Spaniards in Ceuta are destroying government shelters built for foreign invaders. A British village has voted to secede from the U.K. after the government announced plans to house an army of foreign immigrants next door. The price of government betrayal might soon be the fall of a Western capital.
Recognizing problems is not good enough. Governments that cause more problems than they fix do not deserve to survive.
Paul Craig Roberts been busy.
• The Bell Tolls For White Ethnicities (Paul Craig Roberts)
The Baltimore Rock Opera Society was founded in 2007 by several people who, judging by their names are white gentiles. There is nothing “white supremacy” or racist about the group. As it includes live rock theater, it obviously cannot exclude blacks. Despite its innocence, the 501c3 organization has gotten into racist difficulties.Read more …
The group’s white executive editor appeared with hair in cornrows in a video circulated on social media. This acceptance of black hair styles by a white person was quickly misinterpreted by white liberals and their indoctrinated blacks as inappropriate white cultural imperialism. The group’s executive director was guilty of “black representation by a white person.”The Baltimore Rock Opera Society collapsed in guilt. In their own words:“We have received many heartfelt and concerned messages from members of our community regarding a video circulated on social media showing our new Executive Director, who is white, wearing cornrows at a recent BROS public event. We share the weight of the concerns and take this matter seriously, and the board has been in continuous conversation about them since Monday morning. . . . We are revising our Anti-Discrimination Policy to more clearly address cultural representation and dress, enforcing anti-racism leadership training, and are forming a working group for Culture, Community Voice, and Racial Equality (working title).”
This Baltimore rock theatre group issued a public apology after people complained that their White Executive Director wore cornrows.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 17, 2026
They are now implementing "anti-racism" training to address "cultural representation" and "racial equality."
Wokeness destroys everything. pic.twitter.com/bzV0CRpGwLThis is straight out of The Camp of the Saints.
Dear dumbshit White American, you have no comprehension of the future that is being prepared for you. You are too insouciant, unconcerned, and unaware that your time on earth is running out. Indeed, you have proven yourselves too stupid to survive. Here before your very eyes, unnoticed, is a liberal white group disintegrating in guilt because its executive director has committed the racial crime against blacks of wearing a black hair style. Is there any retribution whites wallowing in such vast quantities of liberal guilt will not accept?
The executive director’s adoption of a black hair style was an act of submission. Yet the act of submission was successfully mischaracterized as an act of white appropriation of black culture, a charge under which the group collapsed in abject submission. Read The Camp of the Saints. You will see that submissions by white ethnicities occur again and again, but instead of saving them accelerates their extermination.
And neither will your cowardice and indoctrination save you.
He’s not great with numbers. Putin is solid.
• 1 in 3 Autumn Elections–the US one–Is Likely to Tell Us Anything (Paul Craig Roberts)
One of the three autumn elections that I thought might give us an indication of future events has been held. On the surface, it doesn’t look as if Putin’s 4.5 year old war against the proxy of Russia’s enemy–Ukraine– instead of against the enemy itself–the US and Europe–had any effect on United Russia, the party that supports Putin. United Russia won the parliamentary election with 58% of the vote. The support might not be what it seems. Gilbert Doctorow points out that only a little more than half of registered voters–56.6%–bothered to vote. In other words, Putin’s active support is 32%.Read more …
The second largest party is the Russian Communist Party with 14% of the vote. This party is the old people’s party, the party of the Russians who remember the respect with which Washington and Europe showed to the Soviet Union. When Washington put nuclear missiles on Turkey’s border with Russia, Khrushchev put Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. He removed them in exchange for Washington removing the US missiles from Turkey.Younger Russians have no experience or memory of the clout that the Soviet Union wielded. A 35-year old Russian today never lived under the Soviet Union. If he remembers anything, it is the Yeltsin Russian regime, and Putin’s government has been a great improvement over those years.
Leading up to the Russian election Putin intensified Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s ability to continue to wage war. Was this just to guarantee the vote, or has Putin finally abandoned his defeatist policy? We will see. On October 27 Israel’s Knesset, the legislative body, will be elected. As Iran, like Russia, is fighting the proxy–the US–of its enemy–Israel–Israel is suffering no consequences from the conflict for which it is responsible.
For decades the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel has not been at the expense of the Israeli people. The cost of Israel’s wars has been paid in blood and money by Israel’s puppet government in Washington. Washington destroyed Iraq, Libya, and Syria under the guise of “the war on terror” for Greater Israel. Currently, US President Trump is risking his own presidency fighting Iran for Israel.
The question I raised was whether Iran’s capability to withstand a joint Israeli American attack enough to wake up the Israeli population that the aggressive policy of the Zionists was not in Israel’s interest, and, if so, possibly have the wits to put in office a ruling coalition less committed to Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.
I don’t think that Israelis have suffered enough to understand the possible consequences of the Zionist agenda. Should Trump and the Republicans have to break with their subservience to Israel, the cost would come home to the Israelis. But at the present time, the challenging coalition against Netanyahu seems to be more extreme than Netanyahu’s Zionist coalition.
America’s midterm congressional elections are November 3, a few days after the Israeli election. Considering the strong public opposition to Trump’s war for Israel against Iran and the rising energy prices and inflation Trump’s war for Israel is causing, and considering the absence of MAGA caps, it looks like a win for Democrats.
But perhaps not. The Democrats have become increasingly radicalized and have become a party for immigrant-invaders and sexual perverts, a party that weaponized law in order to defeat Trump after he had won the 2016 election. Traditional ethnic Americans could simply not vote. This would give the victory to the Woke Democrats, and Trump’s presidency and ability to serve the Zionist Agenda would be over half way through his term.
The question is: How much are we willing to pay in terms of Democrat Woke persecution and discrimination against white ethnic Americans in order to escape being a Zionist puppet state? Yes, these are poor choices for insouciant people who believe themselves to be “Proud Americans.”
The US November 3 election might be the only one that gives us any information of what is to come.
The Camp of the Saints is his favorite book.
• The Camp of the Saints Has Arrived in Texas (Paul Craig Roberts)
White Texas Republicans–US Senator John Cornyn, Texas state Rep. Lacey Hull, Texas state Rep. Jared Patterson, Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach, and a number of other Republicans regard immigrant-invaders from the Muslim Middle East and from India as Texans. Indian Pooja Sethi, standing for the Texas legislature says: “I am what Texas looks like, “and if you don’t like it, you can leave.”Read more …
Bo French blew the whistle on the disappearance of American Texas, and the Republicans called him a racist. In other words, if you do not accept colonization by immigrant-invaders, you are a racist. Texas and Florida will not for long be red states. College and K-12 school enrollments make the point. White enrollment in the University of Texas, Dallas, has fallen from 43% in 2012 to 19% in 2025. Asian enrollment has risen from 25% to 42%. Texas taxpayers are paying to educate immigrant-invaders.The category Asian seems to consist largely of displaced Muslims from Washington’s 21st century wars in the Middle East, wars for Greater Israel. In Dallas’ Coppell school district, white enrollment K-12 has dropped from 65% in 2006 to 22% in 2026. Asian enrollment has risen from 18% to 57%. In 2023 the Indian share of the H-1B work visas was 78%.
Jared Taylor reports in the Unz Review that “the last time a Democrat won the presidential election with a majority of the white vote was 62 years ago: Lyndon Johnson. Since then, every single Democrat President was elected with a huge majority of the non-white vote, and a minority of whites.”
President Trump, by serving Israel instead of Americans, has possibly elected a Democrat Congress on November 3. On the other hand, the left-wing Democrats who won the primary elections could be too extreme for disappointed MAGAs to sit out the election. Nevertheless, America’s existence as a white nation is close to an end. A Tower of Babel is emerging around us.
“Try not to laugh at this headline from Rolling Stone Canada: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.”
• Canadian Socialists Are Not Leading the ‘Free World’ (Tim Graham)
Loathing of President Donald Trump and his trash-talking trade wars has launched Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney into the socialist stratosphere. Try not to laugh at this headline from Rolling Stone Canada: “How Mark Carney Became Leader of the Free World by Standing Up to Trump.”Read more …
This is the hot anti-Trump take: Socialists can run the “Free World” while they impose socialism globally. same spirit took flight when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member in a speech in France. She declared that they wanted to bring the bilateral relationship “to the highest level possible.”The socialists at National “Public” Radio were thrilled. Paris-based reporter Eleanor Beardsley characterized this as an anti-bullying binge: “Europe and Canada have felt threatened by the U.S. under the second Trump administration, from the tariffs to the threats of leaving NATO and taking Greenland. Both the EU and Canada are feeling bullied by their long-term ally.” NPR ran several quotes from Carney, but this was the richest: “We do not pursue zero-sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracies share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication.”
Carney’s Liberal Party predecessor, Justin Trudeau, aggressively pushed against individual freedom in 2022 in punitive actions against the Freedom Convoy, a nationwide trucker protest of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. That authoritarian government seized the bank accounts of anti-mandate protesters with no legal process. Trudeau spat out that the protesters were a “fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.” Does that sound like the “Free World” in action?
But leftist media outlets in Canada and America fervently lined up with Trudeau’s tactics. CNN hated the Canadian protests so much that I found the term “so-called Freedom Convoy” used in 62 different hours of CNN coverage. They would choke on writing “so-called Black Lives Matter.” The EU folks also touted how they are the ones who love “democracy” (unlike Trump). But that’s not true. They don’t show an “unwavering dedication” to engaging in democratic debate. They love censoring their opponents.
On X, people translated a recent speech from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “Please don’t come to me with free speech … That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still be able to protect its citizens from false information, from personal degradations, from discrimination.” German police conducted a criminal investigation of a man who mocked Merz as “Pinocchio” on a Facebook page. So much for the “Free World.”
Then there’s Carney touting his “unyielding defense of human dignity.” Carney and his party have also pushed “medical assistance in dying” to keep their health care costs down. In April, Canada officially passed 100,000 “provisions” of medical assistance in dying since it was made legal in 2016. Canada is planning on broadening assisted suicide to people with mental illness in 2027. The Left considers it “dignified” to not only allow euthanasia, but even push it on people with diseases and disabilities. When it boasts about “access to health care,” it can mean access to suicide.
Nevertheless, the socialists will come together and tout their shared values, with one telling NPR that “democracies are under attack, the geopolitical order is in ruins.” They always assume that it’s only the conservatives that are ruining things with their “my way or the highway” mentality. The Left never “bullies” its opponents. Its refusal to bend against Trump is glorious, not ruinous. It’s easier to believe that when you live inside an airless bubble of shared socialist ideology.
Go cash, before it’s no longer available.
• Programmable Money – Catherine Austin Fitts (USAW)
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of “The Solari Report,” is still worried about a US economy “floating on non-sustainable games” that she talked about in June. The US debt just tipped over $40 trillion, and that is just the “official” US debt. There are tens of trillions of off-book dollar debt, too, and let’s not forget the more than $353 trillion in global debt that will never be paid back. In order to get through this mess, the global Deep State wants and needs a huge amount of control over the people.Read more …
We have burned up the dollar gold standard, the Petrodollar and what is coming is far more invasive with digital currency. CAF just did a deep dive on the coming rollout of “Programmable Money” at Solari.com. CAF warns, “Remember Covid? They said everybody is locked down; you can’t leave your home. If there is an automatic third lock (a digital third party between buyer and seller) and it goes operational, suddenly your money won’t work if you leave your home. Your electric car may not work if you try to leave home.With your credit card, and you go to buy gasoline, and you are supposed to be locked down . . .you won’t be able to buy gas at a gas station. . .. If the government mandates a pharmaceutical, they can turn off your money until or unless you take it. . .. When I first started researching lab grown meat, I thought how can they get anybody to buy this? Well, with a three-lock system, they can say the only meat you can get is lab grown meat. Your money won’t work unless you are buying lab grown meat. You won’t be able to buy real meat with your money. So, suddenly, it’s not money. It’s s rule system. It’s not currency. There is no liquidity to it. You are basically in a slavery system. . ..”
When is this going to happen? CAF says it’s being rolled out now. What do you think all these massive data centers are for? CAF explains, “This is going to be a very messy period in history. There is no doubt about it, and they want huge government bailouts. If you look at the investment into AI (Artificial Intelligence), the goal is not to make manufacturing more productive, or businesses more productive or people more productive. The goal of the model is control.
The economics can only be justified by the plunder. It is 2030, and you have no assets and you are happy. It’s 2030, and we took everything and you are mind controlled. Those are the economics that justify this infrastructure. Nobody wants to admit that. They want to pretend that this is going to make us more productive. It’s got nothing to do with that. It has to do with control. . .. Programmable Money is the end of freedom.”
CAF says this is the so-called “Beast System” talked about in the Bible. It basically says, “No man can buy or sell without the mark of the beast or the number of his name.” CAF says that does not mean you cannot hoard or barter. CAF tells people to do business in cash every time you can, and be prepared by stocking up on everything, especially food and water. CAF also says, “We are in a very long-term bull market for gold (and silver).” CAF warns to be prepared to hold your metal because the price can take wild swings both up and down. Again, long term, there is a bull market for gold and silver.
There is much more in the 47-minute interview.
It’s fcuking long. It’s also fcuking good.
Alright, I’ll put it at the end. Will that work?
• The Sudden AI Panic and the November Midterms (Victor Davis Hanson)
We’re about 40 days, close to 40 days, out of the midterm, and all of a sudden there’s been a melodramatic announcement that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race. I think everybody’s always accepted that remote possibility, and it’s been very popular in popular culture, such as “The Terminator” series. But why did all of a sudden we hear about it now?Read more …
And the answer is Jason Coxon, a minor figure that had worked in major AI companies, suddenly quit, and he announced that even the CEOs of those companies were worried that they were creating things that they couldn’t control, and that artificial intelligence would, on its own, be able to outthink humans and perhaps control the world, etc.In “The End of Everything,” a book I mentioned, a theoretical experiment by the Pentagon, a computer simulation in which a missile was programmed to do anything that it could to protect itself to complete the mission. And when one of the programmers pushed the kill button, the missile turned on the computer screen. It wasn’t a real missile, but the simulated missile turned and went back at the person who pushed the button.
So, we’ve always known that that risk was there, but why was it so exaggerated right now? These CEOs, it was very interesting. If they’re so worried about the direction of research, why don’t they do two things? Why don’t they patrol, control, audit their own people?
It’s almost like saying, “I’m afraid that I’ll commit arson.” And if you’re afraid you’ll commit arson, then why don’t you take fuel away from that person or don’t ever touch gasoline? If you’re afraid that your company will make something that will destroy mankind, then don’t do it.
But if you say, “I still can’t control it,” then why are you opposing liability, legislation that says the makers of AI, should that AI product be used and be used to hurt people, they’re not liable? You would say, “What? Just make us liable. That’ll ensure that you can trust us because we might not trust ourselves.”The other thing is they’ve called, and the Left has called, for international control. I’d like to say, if you look at the history of international control regulations, it’s not good.
The League of Nations, did that stop World War II? When Mussolini decided to go into East Africa, did they stop him from using the Suez Canal? Did they tell Japan, “You can’t go into Manchuria,” or to get out of China? Did they say to Hitler, “Don’t go into the Sudetenland”? They did. Did it do any good? No.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, remember that? That was going to be a worldwide, by Sen. [Frank] Kellogg in the United States in the 1920s, a worldwide effort to outlaw war. How did that work out? Within a decade and a half, we were at war.
How about the Washington Naval Treaty? That was a very inspired, idealistic idea after World War I: Let’s stop the dreadnought race. Everybody will agree to make no destroyer, cruiser, battleship over a certain tonnage. Did Japan or Germany abide by the 35,000-ton limit on battleships? No. Did we? Yes. Did Britain? Yes. Did France? Yes. Did Mussolini? No. Did, as I said, Germany? No. Did Japan? In other words, consensual societies do abide by international treaties. Nonconsensual societies do not.
How about the Versailles Treaty? Did that prevent another war? No. How about the Munich Agreement between Prime Minister [Neville] Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler? Did he abide by that when he said: This is my last territorial conquest in Europe? No. He invaded Europe about a year later. How about the recent Paris climate accord? Has that reduced Chinese carbon emissions? No. They’re building two to three coal plants per month.
How about the United Nations Human Rights Council? Has that stopped the slaughter of Christians in Africa? Did that stop the ethnic cleansing and killing of Armenians in Azerbaijan? No. So, international accords won’t work. So, what is going on with all this melodrama? Why now? Why on the eve of an election? It’s not new. Let’s look at some of the end-of-days scares that we’ve had in the past.
When I was younger, in 1968, there was the Nixon-Humphrey campaign, and all of a sudden Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford professor, said we’re all going to be destroyed by overpopulation. He took the old Thomas Malthus worry in the 19th century of overpopulation. He wrote a bestseller called “The Population Bomb,” and it said there’s no way we can get enough fuel, food, precious metals … to feed this growing billion-dollar, billion-person population bomb. We’re doomed.
And it had a lot of bad effects. People started just to have one child. In Europe, they took it very seriously. The idea was have one child, adopt one. And now Canada has a 1.25 fertility rate. Europe is about 1.33, the EU.It had disastrous consequences, and we now—we have more people on the planet than ever, and the per capita income of the world population is higher than when Paul Ehrlich wrote that book.
In 1983, there was a nuclear winter. We were all scared. Carl Sagan, he was sort of like Paul Ehrlich, a professor. He was a cult figure. He said that we’re gonna have a nuclear exchange, and when we do, the nuclear dust will blot out the sun, and we’ll all die. That was in relationship to the Soviets. For a long time, they had short-range missiles threatening Europe. Ronald Reagan said that’s not allowable, to bully Europe. We’re gonna put Pershing II missiles to counteract your missiles.
There were some standoffs, and all of a sudden—and what was gonna happen within a year? There was going to be the 1984 reelection effort of Reagan. So, all of a sudden, the Left said: Nuclear winter, nuclear winter, we’re all gonna be doomed. Hollywood made a movie, “The Day After,” showing mushrooms dotting the Kansas landscape. A hundred thousand people. It was just a complete hysteria.
Then we had climate change, or rather global warming went to climate change. In 1992, who wrote “Earth in the Balance”? Candidate Al Gore during that election cycle. What was his thesis? Well, there was global warming we were worried about, but he was saying that heat is a pollutant. Everybody’s dangerous or deadly as industrial waste or ozone or whatever.
And he said we have only a decade or a decade and a half, and the polar bears are going to die. The coral reefs off Australia are going to erode. Icebergs are going to melt in the Antarctic, and the Arctic Ocean is going to be too warm, and we’re going to have difficulty navigating these icebergs. The endless—you couldn’t get a place on the ocean. Barack Obama’s house in Hawaii, built, I guess, apparently, will be inundated.
And then it didn’t happen. Didn’t happen. But Al Gore and [Bill] Clinton were elected.
In 2016, remember “Me Too”? Harvey Weinstein was using the old casting couch of Hollywood producers to coerce sex from actresses so they could get a role. It started out legitimately, as did climate change worries, as did nuclear bomb worries, as did AI worries.
But that didn’t last long. All of a sudden, careers as varied as Garrison Keillor, Brett Kavanaugh, Al Franken, the senator, everybody, if they did anything in their past, stole a kiss, patted someone too long, hugged somebody, half the country was worried over the last 30 years had they said an off-color joke. There was a climate of paranoia.
And it was right during the what? The 2016 election. And who promulgated it? We’ll get to that in a minute.
And then it died. Why did it die pretty soon? Because Joe Biden in 2019-20 was a candidate, and he was going to be the only viable candidate for the Left. They were terrified of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg is too far left. And Joe Biden was handsy, a euphemism for touching women, hugging them too long. One of them, Tara Reade, came forward and said she’d been sexually assaulted.
And of course, Bill Clinton then earned renewed scrutiny. What did you actually do, Bill? And after you left office, we hear about the [Jeffrey] Epstein connection, we hear about women on your plane, and all of a sudden it disappeared, Me Too. Then I could go on with the COVID lockdown and the paranoia that ended up probably killing more people, destroying millions of lives economically, ruining education.
I could go into the George Floyd paranoia after the death of George Floyd. Thirty-five killed, $2 billion in property damage, 1,500 police officers, five months of looting, arson, destruction. What do all these things have in common? Well, they’re melodramas. They’re psychodramas. All of a sudden, people take a legitimate issue and they start to use it to achieve a political aim.
It’s no accident that the AI hysteria is happening right before the election. And usually, in all of these cases—the Carl Sagan nuclear winter, the Al Gore climate change, the Paul Ehrlich population drama, the BLM ginned- up rioting after George Floyd, the opponents of Donald Trump who wanted to lock down the economy—they’re usually used by the Left.
And finally, let’s be frank. When they’re all over, Carl Sagan is a household name, and he’s very wealthy. Paul Ehrlich is a household name, and he’s very wealthy. Al Gore starts out as any politician, supposedly very poor. He’s from an affluent family, and he’s now a near-billionaire.
And the BLM people who ginned up the George Floyd riots, they all retreated to plush homes, used those monies that were intended to be nonprofit funds for their own personal aggrandizement.
In sum, when you see a sudden epidemic, a melodrama, a hysteria, just be very careful because the odds are it will be in an election year, it’ll be ginned up by a so-called left-wing expert, and when it’s all over, that left-wing expert will be pretty wealthy.
Most people think serious AI compute in orbit is years away.
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 22, 2026
For SpaceX, that is way too slow. They already control the stack.
The plan is to launch the first orbital compute satellites next year, using the Starlink V3 bus with the payload swapped for compute and much bigger… https://t.co/cBT6NRJf3d pic.twitter.com/JsH9YWFeLL
https://twitter.com/MAGAStorm47/status/2102199140662841372?s=20No other robots can move like Optimus pic.twitter.com/JsURNtS4sN
— Optimus (@Optimus_RH) September 21, 2026
This might be one of the truest statements I’ve ever read.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 21, 2026
Some people hate you simply because you refuse to think like they do. That’s their problem. pic.twitter.com/sKAWdP9dCh
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