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What Does It Mean?
In one week President Trump did for a bunch of RINO state senators in Indiana who didn’t want to descend to the crude politics of partisan redistricting. And Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) just bailed out of a Senate bid against Nazi tattoo Graham Platner.
So, does that mean that the US is dividing into two extremes: extreme MAGA and extreme lefty tattoo?
Ruy Teixeira thinks that Graham Platner's surge tells us about the importance of online and social media.
[Janet Mills] was recruited by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other elements of the Democratic establishment. They worried that nominating Platner would undercut Democrats’ ability to beat moderate incumbent Republican Susan Collins…
Platner’s new model of fundraising crushed Mills’s old model. Mills depended on itemized, large-donor contributions and institutional-style support. Platner, by contrast, sought and received national media coverage, national endorsements by progressive figures like Bernie Sanders, and a high profile in the online, generally progressive and antiestablishment Democratic discourse.
So you tell me. Is Trump leading the Republican Party into a Far Right wilderness, or disciplining wimpy old geezers that just don’t have any fight in them any more?
Well, if you go to Independent Voter Project they say that
Indiana is Republican by 30.97% to 24.96%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
Maine is Democratic by 33.78% to 29.83%. But the largest bloc of voters is Independent.
So, anything could happen! Maybe the only thing that matters is gas prices.
Meanwhile California had a debate for the Governor’s primary election,, and all the Dem candidates spoke as woke as could be.
California is Democratic by 44.96% to 25.14%. Only about 30% of voters are Other.
If you are a racist-sexist-homophobe like me you hope that the Dems are lemmings jumping off a cliff. Actually, in reality, lemmings don’t jump off cliffs. It was our beloved First Nations that conducted buffalo jumps all across the Plains. Experts agree that there was no environmental consequence from these mass killings.
Meanwhile, the question is whether President Trump knows what he is doing with Iran. Experts are divided on the matter.
But I dare say that gas prices will decide the midterms.
| Wed, 06 May 2026 22:56:30 GMT |
The One and Only Question about AI
Back in February I wrote a piece on AI, and I said:
Before the Industrial Revolution government was not all that powerful. Then, not later than the 20th century with oil and autos and mass production and mass media it learned to control everything (and made a complete hash of it).
Then I asked:
Is AI going to make government even more powerful, or will it create ways for humans to dodge and weave around the politicians and the administrators and the activists and the intelligence community?
Isn’t that the fundamental question about AI? Not whether everyone will lose their jobs. We already know they will. Not whether journalism will be taken over by AI. It’s already happening. Not whether DEI bureaucrats will be replaced by AI slop that regurgitates their wokey rubbish seven ways from Sunday. Actually, the DEI-AI will probably be an improvement on the human DEI drudges.
No, the big question is whether AI will help us clog up the gears of Big Government. Not to mention Big Media and Big Everything Else.
It’s a fascinating question. Because the whole point of the administrative state is to churn out conventional wisdom as determined by the educated class and distribute it as a Direct Command to the plebs, wherever they are.
And it just seems to me that, after a century and a half of the Domination and Hegemony of the Educated Class through the Administrative State, it is Time for a Change.
Because the key takeaway of the last century and a half is that the educated class is Not That Smart. If they were smart we would have dodged:
The Spanish-American War.
The Crash of 1907.
World War I.
The Crash of 1929.
The Failure of the New Deal.
World War II.
The Cold War.
The Inflation of the 1970s.
The Mid-east Wars.
9/11.
The Rust Belt.
Obamacare.
The Climate Change Scam.
The COVID Scam.
The Autopen Scam.
Seriously. When you think about it, all the bulleted events were avoidable. Anyone with half a brain would have dodged them. But we didn’t dodge them.
And all the time we were ruled by the experts and administrators and the activists and the staffers of the educated class.
Could it be merely “events, dear boy, events.” Or a Conspiracy? Or just a double-blind proof of Hanlon’s Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
But back to my initial question:
Is AI going to make government even more powerful, or will it create ways for humans to dodge and weave around the politicians and the administrators and the activists [and the staffers] and the intelligence community?
I earnestly hope for the dodge and weave option, and so should you.
| Tue, 05 May 2026 21:54:26 GMT |
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Christopher Chantrill
He runs usgovernmentspending.com, the go-to resource for government finance data, and is a frequent contributor to the American Thinker. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Click for more.
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A Commoner Manifesto
Commoners have nothing to lose but their shame
Passion is the distinction between love and hate.
Five Year Plan equals Great Leap Forward equals Build Back Better.
The simplest way to understand human society is as Three Layers such as Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs.
My take on Three Layers is my Three Peoples Theory of Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates.
I believe that we moderns live in Three Worlds: the War World of politics, the Market World of the economy, and the Life World of family and neighborhood.
And the trouble with politics is that it reduces human society to a war against the enemy, as determined by Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
The world that we all live in today is the one created by the German Turn in philosophy, psychology, science, and meaning.
But our modern elite, the educated elite, has taken, I believe, a Wrong Turn and has imposed a cultural Great Reaction on the world, a lurch back to the primitive. This manifests in the elite’s conceited Activism Culture and its patronage of Subordinate people as its Little Darlings.
The principal reason for the elite’s Wrong Turn has been that it does not understand and does not want to understand how the Three Peoples’ Religions are necessarily different.
The root of the educated elite’s Wrong Turn is its conceit that it knows what the world needs. I think there is a better way; I call it “A Good Life Better than the Left”.
ABC of Politics – Activism Culture – “Anatomy of Revolution” – Allyism – Critical Theory – Downstream-ism – Dutch Finance – German Turn – Good Life – Great Reaction – Little Darlings – Perfect Plan – Women in the Public Square – Ruling Class – Three Layers – Three Peoples – Three Peoples Religion – Tribalism – Two Cultures – Wrong Turn
Today’s topic: A Manifesto About the Meaning of Life
