Open Thread

Over in the UK a mother of a 12 year old was sentence to 31 months for a social media post. Meanwhile, the government is starting a new campaign called “Let’s be blunt”…lauding the use of blunt-tipped knives.

Just what the heck are we allied with Britain for? They don’t share our values. They aren’t a free people. They are cowardly in the face of foreign invasion. What are we defending Over There these days? Because what is happening in Britain is pretty much what’s happening all over Europe…more controls of speech, more and more disarming the population, more and more sheep-like acceptance of tyranny by the people. A Russian conquest of Europe at this point would make it freer (Putin doesn’t care if you’ve got a pointy knife or put up a harsh post on X – as long as its not about him, of course).

I mean, we know why the British and other European governments are doing this – they see what happened over here with actual free speech among an armed population: Trump. All over Europe there are parties committed to saving their respective countries and the European Ruling Class is determined to stamp them out. I believe they will be successful at this – the being disarmed thing is the worst position for European patriots to be in. They all agreed to give up their arms because lunatics might use some other weapons to kill…the very stupidest thing a person can do, but they did it. Now that they’re facing tyranny and invasion they’ve got nothing…all the complaints in the world won’t change a thing. The European Ruling Class has the guns and so no ultimate fear. But the question remains: what are we doing allied with such people?

To be fair, the only free nation in the world is the United States. Since 1787 this has been so because only our governing document secures our arms and our speech while also saying “Congress shall make no law”. As I’ve mentioned before, no other nation has this – every enumerated right, every restriction on government power has a “but” in it somewhere. Every right can be suspended and every power exercised and on the say-so of the mere parliamentary majority leader. Its not even a King robed in history making the call…just some half-wit politician who managed to climb to the top of the greased pole. But at least in times past Europe made a play at being free…there was a time when you could say what you wanted, you could be armed (even with restrictions) and the Europeans had some guts. Those days are long past and I’ve no interest in defending Europe. A foreign conqueror is welcome to the place as far as I’m concerned.

As we’ve noted many times, polls are a weak reed but yesterday a fairly respectable pollster came out with a Trump 55% approval poll. A lot of people discounted it and it is the outlier…on the other hand, the polls showing him at 42% are clearly bogus. So, backing them out and keeping the polls which actually got 2024 reasonably correct and Trump’s approval sits around 50%…so, while 55% is still an outlier, it ain’t much of one. And what I’ve found talking to people is that they are warming up to Trump fast. They see what he’s trying to do – and they can see his opposition is merely upset that their game is being messed with. Shouts of “he’s killing kids in Africa!” are a mask for “I’m not getting my kickback from USAID!”; nobody doubts this. And it is how it was.

There is also the sheer fun of it all. A judge, mayor and Congresscritter getting arrested is a delight. It is funny. And about time. Arrest more of them! Including a lot of Republicans! Trump being able to off-the-cuff spend an hour in front of the MSM – and making them look like fools – is another fun thing to watch. And we can see the prices of food and gasoline coming down. There is a real chance that 55% is correct.

Cancer-gate is going to have more legs than some suspect. Especially now after Trump posted yesterday that he’s not blaming Joe for what happened…stating that Joe would never have gone along with open borders and such and so it was traitors taking advantage of a senile man. That is a shot across the bow – and the entry point right now for exposing the whole thing is the alleged cancer. Is it real? Was Biden really not checked for it at Walter Reed? And in all this, what was his cognitive ability? Do remember that a couple months ago Trump posted that he considered the pardons null and void. Not much happened after that but by that time Trump had listened to the Hur tapes I’m sure…plus had conversations with the White House staff (I’m talking maids and butlers and such – these are rock-solid American patriots and the most discrete people in the world…but Trump is a guy who can talk to such people and get them to open up about things). He knows now as well as anyone outside of it can what was going on during Biden’s term…and he’s laying the groundwork for basically annulling the last part of Biden’s actions.

5 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster May 22, 2025 / 8:58 am

    Ron Johnson conducted a hearing yesterday re: the “safe and effective” COVID vaccine which, surprise surprise … wasn’t all that safe or effective, and the Biden admin hid the results.

    In just six months, the toll was staggering: 384,270 reports of adverse events, 4,812 deaths, and 1,736 of those occurred within just 48 hours of injection.

    We are just now uncovering what really happened from 2020-2024 and the amount of deception and level of treason is staggering

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/covid-vaccine-safe-effective-narrative-collapses-camera/

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 22, 2025 / 9:43 am

      The Biden admin not only hid the results, they continued to force people to take the drug or lose their jobs, military positions, and the right to travel freely, while using government funds to promote the drug, allowing the drug companies to continue using it under emergency use status (which protects against liability for damages) and funneled billions of dollars to those companies.

      (We are supposed to believe that this cash pipeline only ran one way.)

      This criminal activity was made worse by the government treatment of proven and cheap therapeutics such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for political reasons, because Trump had discussed them as possibly beneficial treatments. (And because they are cheap and therefore in competition with the new drugs being promoted by the drug companies.) This led to threatening doctors with arrest and/or losing their licenses to practice, hospitals literally kidnapping people and keeping them away from their relatives and forcing them to go on ventilators, governors banning the sale of these drugs in their states and pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for them, even for people who had been taking them for years.

      We have a way to calculate the damages from the drugs, but we will never know how many people died because they were forced to go on ventilators and denied proven therapeutics which, we are now learning, saved lives when brave doctors went underground and used them anyway.

      We have since learned that patients treated with nebulized steroids and/or ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine seldom died. Some doctors have said they never lost a patient when they used these treatments. I am guessing that this number of needless deaths is far larger than those caused by the drugs.

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 22, 2025 / 10:55 am

    Jeff Childers writes about AI, kind of, and what is promoted as the Next Big Shiny Thing in AI, focusing on Jony Ive and Sam Altman.

    I have my doubts about Altman. To me, he fits the profile of a CIA/DARPA/DoD-engineered boy wonder, not quite smart enough, not experienced enough, not connected enough to adequately explain his rags-to-riches story. Loopt flopped but made him rich. Every startup he touches glows. He seems to navigate trillion-dollar waters without a ripple. He makes no major blunders. People call him “brilliant,” but it’s hard to pin down exactly what he’s built that justifies the cult. In an industry full of dazzling engineers and grand theorists, Altman is a slick, smooth-faced oracle who talks about existential risks while quietly shepherding the next leap in machine cognition.

    And I wonder about AI, a revolutionary industry that, like Altman, sprang as if from nowhere, as though released from a government skunkworks lab. Like Altman’s success, nobody seems to be able to clearly explain how AI works. But set all that skepticism aside, since it’s beside the point of today’s development.

    🔥 Sam Altman and Jony Ive made the rounds yesterday announcing the new deal. OpenAI —which has never made a nickel and is hemorrhaging cash faster than an attack victim in a zombie movie— just bought a tech design company Ive started one year ago for $6.5 billion, a deal the Wall Street Journal understatedly called “a significant windfall for Ive.”

    Reporters asked Altman where the struggling AI company was getting the cash. Altman said, “don’t worry about it.” Anyway.

    The declared purpose of the new joint venture is to simplify our technology. They already have a prototype device, but it is a mysterious secret. “Altman told OpenAI staff that stealth will be important for their ultimate success,” the Journal explained, “to avoid competitors’ copying the product before it is ready.”

    Hollywood media mogul Ari Emanuel once called Sam Altman a conman (3:03). He also recounted this disturbing anecdote from a conversation with Elon Musk:

    I mention this because of a deep skepticism about AI, which is a natural progression of my deep skepticism about other “helps” such as Onstar and other automobile spyware, stories of Alexis eavesdropping on people, etc.

    I can’t even write an email with having to repeatedly kick CoPilot out, as I constantly get offers to make my email “better” by turning it over to the computer. (Which would, undoubtedly, substitute random homonyms for words and insert the rogue apostrophe into every appearance of the word “it”.)

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster May 22, 2025 / 12:26 pm

      AI is a total game changer and could be very destructive. Tucker Carlson mentioned the other day that some AI robots now are defying their operators suggesting cognitive abilities … the old sci fi moves could become a reality. And an ugly one at that. The Big Brother aspect as you mention, could be the least of our worries.

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