So, Ukraine managed to whack Russia pretty hard. Gotta say, I’m impressed…big, deep strikes right at the heart of Russia’s strategic power. They claim they did it all on their lonesome but I just have to figure they had US intel help…and probably some tech support on it, too. Trump probably does want to send a message to Putin that it is time to bring this adventure to a close…and with Putin digging in his heels, this is a necessary push.
Naturally, Putin will feel that he has to strike back, hard. That will come before any peace deal is made. It is a matter of prestige for Putin and the Russians that they make Ukraine pay for this. So, get ready for that. I do hope the Ukrainians are because if they can thwart or even just significantly blunt the Russian response then that will be just more pressure on Putin to throw in the towel.
This whole mess could have been avoided if we had a good deal maker in DC when it started with the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2012. The bottom line, as I’ve said all along, is that the Crimea and the Donbas were added to Ukraine by Stalin for domestic, Soviet political purposes. Never in the past had that territory been considered Ukrainian even in theory. The whole purpose of US and Western diplomacy should have been figuring out how to un-draw the lines drawn by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin probably after a few too many vodkas. I’m hopeful this will end with that recognition of reality.
The nut who threw firebombs at mostly elderly Jews in Boulder is in the country illegally. Because of course. We now have two iconic photos from the past 12 months – and together they define the political divide.
MAGA world:
Democrat world:
It is so beautiful, isn’t it? The shirtless, raving lunatic holding a Molotov cocktail and that Pride flag in the background…about to set fire to Jews in a liberal city where refugees are welcome.
Someone linked today on X to a video of Jasmine Crockett (D-Looney Bin) – and along with her cosplaying as ghetto (she’s actually the product of elite, private education and has perfect diction), she was asserting that once the Democrats retake the House, they will impeach Trump. Of course we all know this – because of course they will.
If they get back the House. That is the fly in the Democrat ointment: they have to win. Winning requires building a coalition around some set of actions. We’ve all wondered why the Democrats aren’t toning down the lunatic Leftist rhetoric and we can now see why: they don’t think they have to. Crockett and her like think that because they are being insanely Left they will win the House in 2026. There are older and wiser heads in the Democrat party (Schumer knows this garbage is political suicide but as an elderly Jew he’s got to walk soft in Democrat councils these days) but they can’t call the shots – they can’t get people like Crockett to shut up, that is.
We can’t know what will happen. Mid-terms are notoriously difficult for the party holding the White House. But with voter registration trends still favoring the GOP, with Trump having already raised $600 million for the 2026 effort and with the economy starting to perk up….I’ve got to start thinking that this against Democrat insanity might give us a favorable 2026.
Blogs For Victory 
When I read articles like the one linked below, I thank a God I lived in a different era. This technology will, and is changing the way we all live and not for the better in my opinion. No one will have privacy anymore and “social credit” be the new currency. Who you are, what you think, and what you do will now be the determining factors in the course of everyone’s life. Smoke too much? Well that will cost you. Watch too much true crime? You could be a danger. Big brother on steroids and it won;t be good …
https://reason.com/2025/06/02/palantir-paves-way-for-trump-police-state/
That’s enough squealing about TrumpTrumpTrump. There is a lot of implying and fear-mongering in this but not much real substance, regarding that dreaded bogey-man, “the Trump administration”, looking for any reason to share data other than to find illegals and track down fraud. Ohhh! SCARY!
This has been going on for years. My credit card company can track me across the country by looking at charges for gas, motels and food, or airline tickets and car rentals. My personal habits can be traced by analysis of what kinds of clothes I buy, where I eat, etc. When I apply for a mortgage my bank can track my spending habits. The government has even charged people for making (legal) withdrawals under the $10,000 level for reporting these transactions, reading their crystal balls to determine that this was done for nefarious purposes even though the same government decreed this to be a legal limit for undisclosed withdrawals. (And how did they learn of them if they were not disclosed?)
As for me, right now, in my day to day life, I am a lot more concerned about the way the Internet spies on me and shares data. Let me do a search on finding a secretary (a type of desk with a fold-down writing surface) and from then on every time I go online there are pop-up ads from dozens of different companies about secretaries and even other kinds of desks. I get mailers from furniture companies about desks. I have heard stories of phone eavesdropping—a couple walking into a furniture store and the husband mentioning they need a new mattress, not on the phone but just to his wife, and then being hit with mattress ads online, indicating an open mic on his phone picking up personal conversations and then sending them to….? Services like Alexa have been found to be eavesdropping on unsuspecting people.
I have had to get three new credit cards in the last couple of months, because people have used my card numbers to place online orders. When the first replacement was ordered, literally within minutes of the order going into the system with Capital One an order was placed online using the new number that had only just been assigned. When the transaction popped up in my texts and email I had to call to see if that was even my new number. (And the Capital One agent I talked to is either clinically stupid or well trained in denial, as she just kept asking me if I was sure I had not called in this order and pretending to be oblivious to the obvious fact that the information had to come from inside their system because I didn’t even know what the number was.)
So I’m not going to lose any sleep over Palantir, not after living with Echelon and internet spying and so on.
This technological surveillance is just beginning, and AI will take it to another level. It’s only just begun
Oh, we already know our phones are listening to us talk!
But surveillance is only bad if the government is getting it. That’s the key. I don’t care that Target hears me talking about how we need some cleaning supplies and sends me a coupon for 25% off Windex. It is when we have government tracking my movements and listening in where I get concerned.The National Security State needs to be dismantled. For those who might express a fear that if we don’t have it then the terrorists will have easy access I’ll point out: they already do. With all the snooping, government still can’t (or won’t!) prevent an attack. Team Trump is going to try to change things but as of this moment, the Deep State’s primary activity is monitoring us…trying to figure out who we are, what we’re saying and who our leaders are so they can be compromised.
But what if Target hears you tell you wife you aren’t going to declare a payment on your tax return? Or that you disconnected a nanny-state sensor in your car?
Well, then Target is no friend! But, you’re right – it isn’t just government…but government is still, IMO, the real problem…it is those who can arrest me I’m most concerned about. That everyone in the whole, wide world knows my business is not ideal but as long as it doesn’t get to someone who can issue a warrant for my arrest, then its ok. One thing certain is we’re never go back to a non-surveillance society. We will be surveilled! Unless, that is, you really get off the grid and stay away from all but the smallest communities of people. But if we can enact laws stating that the government may not have info on us – I’m talking mere possession, however obtained – then we’re safe. We would have to make it a felony for any agent of government to obtain info about a citizen absent a specific, one-off warrant to obtain that information.
A funny “AI story. This story is almost too weird to be true, but it made me laugh.
A once-hyped AI startup backed by Microsoft has filed for bankruptcy after it was revealed that its so-called artificial intelligence was actually hundreds of human workers in India pretending to be chatbots.
Builder.ai, a London-based company previously valued at $1.5 billion, marketed its platform as an AI-powered solution that made building apps as simple as ordering pizza. Its virtual assistant, “Natasha,” was supposed to generate software using artificial intelligence.
In reality, nearly 700 engineers in India were manually coding customer requests behind the scenes, the Times of India reported.
That takes the “Artificial” part of II to a whole new level.
Trump is only POTUS for 4 more years so the surveillance state will just wait him out. Where will this be in 10 years? How about 20 years? AI surveillance could have some benefits, but I see more potential harm and less freedom than any benefit. That’s what the arc of history teaches us anyway … just look at what Fauci did in 2020 with a little unchecked power. The State will know everything about us and I don’t think there will be much effort to use that information to improve anything other than more government control. But maybe I am too pessimistic lol
To me the most dangerous aspect of this level of surveillance is the blithe acceptance of it by so many. We are of an age to remember being chilled by the malignance of “Big Brother Is Watching You” and now people are “so what?”
Dude, this is happening on Trump’s watch.
So government surveillance and AI started just 4 months ago? This is bigger than the POTUS sweetheart but thanks for showing us all once again how obsessed with Trump you are. Good luck with all that
So generous of you to give him clicks.
History always started last week with these people.
And on this, I trust Trump. He’s earned my trust. Took a shot for me. I don’t endorse every action of Trump (for instance, I think he’s mistaken in still considering H1Bs to be useful) but he’s the only person in DC who I fully trust to be looking out for me. I’m not worried about Trump coming after me – because he won’t. I’m worried about the 3rd tier bureaucrat currently taking a low profile as they try to undermine Trump from within while waiting for the time they can order my arrest.
I’m worried about the 3rd tier bureaucrat currently taking a low profile as they try to undermine Trump
That’s exactly it. Along with cutting the federal government workforce, I suggest we lay off all 2 million+ federal employees and have them reapply and reinterview as well as open the position up to everyone. We still have a bureaucratic cancer in our government.
Yes, the effort to collect all of the information about us into one place started four months ago.
LOL fuck these people are stupid. One has to wonder what the goal of the Patriot Act and the department of homeland security was … hmmmmm curious minds.
We trust Trump because we know he doesn’t need this. Heck, didn’t even really want it – he was first asked about running for President in the 1980’s. He thought the system would eventually work itself out. It didn’t – so, he stepped forward. And everyone in the system who loved him turned on a dime and started to hate him because he did this. You hate him because he did this; that is, you only hate him because you’ve been told to hate him.
Now he’s been the target of monstrous illegality by those sworn to uphold the law. He’s been slandered every imaginable way. He’s been shot! And there are your people, still out there stoking the fires of hatred hoping that somehow, some way some lunatic will get through and kill him.
Yes, I trust him – because he’s one of us.
Budget deficits by year since 2000 shows how we amassed $36 trillion in debt. And the same politicians are still there …
2000: $236 billion
2001: $128 billion
2002: $158 billion
2003: $378 billion
2004: $413 billion
2005: $318 billion
2006: $248 billion
2007: $161 billion
2008: $459 billion
2009: $1.41 trillion
2010: $1.29 trillion
2011: $1.30 trillion
2012: $1.07 trillion
2013: $680 billion
2014: $485 billion
2015: $442 billion
2016: $585 billion
2017: $665 billion
2018: $779 billion
2019: $984 billion
2020: $3.13 trillion
2021: $2.77 trillion
2022: $1.38 trillion
2023: $1.70 trillion
2024: $1.83 trillion
Two Chinese have been arrested trying to smuggle dangerous pathogens into the country, which should be cause for everyone to reconsider what Covid was … excluding those of us “conspiracy theorists” of course. The sovereignty of America and our way of life is currently being attacked on all fronts … including domestic and while we strive for a peaceful resolution, we have to keep all options on the table. Yesterday, Kash issued this response:
‘This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP[Chinese Communist Party] is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply,’ he said.
To which I wonder … why aren’t we doing the same thing? If this is what they are doing, then let’s engage with them and ramp it up by a factor of 10. Expel them and isolate them. Additionally, we need to do the same with Democrats. Remember how quickly Democrats ramped up the Jan 6 committee and started issuing subpoenas, embarking on indictments, and having prime time news conferences? Where in the hell are Republicans re: this Biden coverup? This is a YUGE scandal and the GOP Congress is silent. We still don’t know how to fight.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14778397/university-michigan-researcher-yunqing-jian-zunyong-liu-pathogen.html