Throughout the 2020 presidential season, Americans were harangued with the idea that if Donald Trump won a second term in office, all hell would break loose. There would be World War III, political enemies would be locked up, our standing in the world would be diminished, life for everyone, especially the poor, would become unbearable, the press would be silenced — and on and on. Even the HBO documentary film “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections,” which was released in the spring of 2020 as a warning of Trumpish things to come, followed a narrative claiming Trump could very well be bent on manipulating the voting machines to steal the presidency — and this for a second time. Keep in mind that the Democrats are still claiming the 2016 election was not on the up and up. If you only know Trump by what the opposition left tells you, you do not know him at all. What seems very likely to have occurred is that in the production and release of “Kill Chain,” the Democrats may have gotten their own brilliant idea of election theft from the plotline. The documentary is worth a look if you want a deeper understanding of how the deep state thinks (And can that really be Kamala Harris testifying about voting machine tampering in front of Congress?) But if you do not have time to watch the entire documentary, the two-minute trailer might provide quite enough of an eye-opener. So Joe Biden gets planted behind the Big Guy desk in the White House (and not just for 10% of the take but for the whole enchilada), and from there he proceeds from day one to enact all those traitorous ideas that Trump was accused of harboring. Is there talk almost daily from the press that World War III is imminent? Are political prisoners still wasting away in the D.C. gulag after more than three years? And are these same unfortunate souls being joined weekly by still more arrestees under our weaponized justice system? Is Biden's chief political rival now a “convicted felon” by a stacked-deck New York City court system, where the prosecution created a whole new meaning to the words “Trumped-up charges”? Are we more respected, or less so, since the Biden team stormed onto the national stage? Can anyone in the working and middle class in this country honestly say they are better off today than four years ago? Could it be that they are dramatically worse off? Is the press that sees and opposes all this fascism being marginalized, hushed, boxed into its own echo chamber, with the administration only permitting the trained seals of the corporate media to applaud the audacious actions of the Democratic Party? These are just some of the big-ticket items that the left and its devilish contingent, which includes the entire Democratic Party, lukewarm Republicans, and globalists, have manufactured in just under four years. Many other obvious tyrannical deeds will spring to mind for many readers here. A rule of thumb with the left is that leftists will accuse the opposition of being guilty of that which they themselves are doing — or intend to do. Propagandists from Joseph Goebbels to Saul Alinsky have employed these tactics quite successfully, as history demonstrates. Trump himself observed this. “There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense,” he said ahead of the 2016 election. Our biggest challenge is to help enough people wake up to what has happened to our country and to know with whom the blame lies. Yes, ultimately, the blame lies with us for not being vigilant and active enough until it is possibly too late. But “better late than never” still applies. Like him or not, Trump is our man of the hour. If you only know him by what the opposition left tells you, you do not know him at all. Sure, he has a rough-around-the-edges personality and a tough-guy way of speaking and addressing the issues, but do you go into battle with a leader who is a well-spoken sheep or a hard-nosed lion? Are we finally serious enough about winning, if not for ourselves but for our children and our grandchildren, that we will lay it all on the line as some did fighting for freedom in foreign wars? They sacrificed in their time. We need now to sacrifice in ours. "I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said in 2016. “I built a great company, and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the benefits of years of successful business for myself and my family, instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, and malicious attacks. I’m doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel strongly it was my turn to give back." Most of us, no doubt, haven't been given (or achieved) the largesse of Donald Trump, but we still have our "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" intact. The possibilities of an incredible future are endless.

“Watching full self driving cut the entire line to make a left proves that AGI is here.” That’s the headline user @0xgaut posted to X to come to grips with a video from @AIDRIVR showing Tesla’s latest model creep up into an open spot in a backed-up left-hand turn lane, just like a human driver who’d draw howls, honks, and possibly physical hostility for trying the same. Does this count as “artificial general intelligence”? Hardly. It’s simply the logical move given the destination and the problem set posed by the array of cars and streets involved. But, while some might be moved to attack self-driving cars making road-rage-inducing moves on the road, the futility (and lawsuits) involved in that kind of hostile reaction point to the way that computerization far short of fabled AGI can and will still have incredibly sweeping effects. Perhaps if wayward Westerners hadn’t been so beguiled by the promise of secular ethics, we wouldn’t be in this mess today. In this telling case, the consequences would run like this: Self-driving cars connected into a large-scale network will optimize for driving paths that best balance and harmonize individual and aggregate routes. If your car should happen to take a route that strikes you as not entirely optimal from your own personal standpoint, what can you do about it, and what type of way is it worth feeling about it? Instead of feeling aggrieved, outraged, or victimized by some jerk you must somehow get revenge on, if only with a shake of the fist, you’ll probably just sigh a little and accept the situation, even if deep down you’re hit with a passing sensation of wishing the whole automated system disappeared and we went back to the days of horses and buggies. What this augurs — wherever we find such scaled-up networks of automated automobiles (lol) — is not just an end to road rage as we knew it. It’s an end to the idea that basic public order is rooted in a shared experience of justice that depends on people personally living out ethical behavior. At first blush, this looks like an attack on some of the most familiar foundations of what we like to think of as Western civilization. But, interestingly, right now the dominant Western vision of the proper relationship between society, justice, and ethics is wokeness. Yes, wokes say! Basic public order depends on a collective social justice experience in which everyone is expected to ground their every choice and behavior in ethical principles, such as diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, etc.!It’s enough to make a person question just what it is we mean, or thought we meant, by Western civilization. If networks of automated automobiles threaten the familiar contours of principled public philosophy in the West, they must pose an even greater threat to the woke notion of principled public philosophy that has emerged from Western thought to seize power ... right?Things get even more curious when you consider that Western civ got into this predicament by trying to find ecumenically nonreligious ways of optimizing for public order, but that woke civ has learned from the failure of that project by injecting back into it a new kind of religion, one that worships justice itself — and turns to technology in the hopes of perfecting the execution of justice on earth via woke programming of planetary supercomputers. There’s not much use for ethics in a society where justice-worshippers use omnipresent AI trained to micro-adjust everyone’s lived experiences in real-time, microaggression by microaggression, rewarding and punishing trillions of times a second with nanoscopic perfection. Such a world holds out the promise of transcending not just ethics but Christianity and all its spiritual practices, from discipline and discernment to repentance and forgiveness. Perhaps if wayward Westerners hadn’t been so beguiled by the promise of secular ethics, we wouldn’t be in this mess today. And, perhaps, at least some Westerners — of a tomorrow coming sooner than we might think — will reason that they don’t need to wait for the coming of the Tesla hive mind to switch out their complex intellectual ethics for the simple commandments of Christ.

The European aerospace company Airbus has recently blamed the United States for China’s unfair trade practices. This “blame the victim” argument accuses the United States of being at fault for China’s repeated violations of international trade agreements and the theft of intellectual property from American companies. Such a stance is outrageous and should not be rewarded.Ironically, this French company is in the process of demanding U.S. taxpayer money to build next generation refueling tanker aircraft for the Air Force. The American government should not contract with a European company that cannot be trusted to manufacture aircraft for the U.S. military, especially when that company has aligned with America’s most dangerous adversary.It seems clear that Airbus identifies with Chinese trade practices, as the company has a history of engaging in similar unethical business conduct.Although blaming the U.S. government for China’s well-documented unethical and illegal trade practices may not be the best way to secure contracts from the U.S. government, Airbus remains undaunted.“The CEO of Airbus has a view on who’s to blame for the trade wars that have engulfed the global economy, but unusually he’s not pointing fingers at China,” Fortune reported. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury is angry that his company has not muscled out American companies — and Chinese companies for that matter — to monopolize the world market for commercial and government aircraft.It is absurd to blame America for China’s notorious cheating. Joe Biden said on May 14: “For years, the Chinese government has poured state money into Chinese companies across a whole range of industries: steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, solar panels — the industries of the future — and even critical health equipment, like gloves and masks” leading to illegal subsidies that end up “dumping the excess products onto the market at unfairly low prices, driving other manufacturers around the world out of business.” There is no profit motive for China’s heavily subsidized products, because the government will provide the profit.In addition to illegal subsidies and dumping, Biden noted how China forces American companies to transfer technology to do business there. That is not the U.S. government’s fault. Biden cited “cyber espionage” and said China’s business practices are “not competition. It’s cheating.” I seldom agree with Joe Biden, but he is right about that.Donald Trump was also tough on China as president. When Trump announced $50 billion in tariffs in 2018 on Chinese imports, he remarked, “China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology.” The past two administrations were responding to Chinese cheating, not causing it.Airbus has its own problems. “Airbus SE (Airbus or the Company), a global provider of civilian and military aircraft based in France, has agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $3.9 billion to resolve foreign bribery charges with authorities in the United States, France and the United Kingdom,” the Department of Justice announced on January 31, 2020. The settlement indicated that the company had been accused of using “third-party business partners to bribe government officials, as well as non-governmental airline executives, around the world and to resolve the Company’s violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its implementing regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), in the United States.”It seems clear that Airbus identifies with Chinese trade practices, as the company has a history of engaging in similar unethical business conduct.Part of the charge against Airbus is that it paid bribes in China and tried to hide the bribes. The fact that “international corruption involving sensitive U.S. defense technology presents a particularly dangerous combination,” as the Justice Department noted, speaks to the idea that Airbus has disqualified itself from U.S. government contracts. It is clear Airbus blames America, not China, for Chinese protectionism and unfair trade practices, because the French company has a close relationship with the Chinese.It makes no sense for the Pentagon to award any new contracts to Airbus until the company changes direction and abandons unfair trade practices. Find an American company to build aircraft for the U.S. military.

Blaze Media reporter Sara Gonzalez exposed the hidden truths about a recent Pride event in Arlington, Texas. The Arlington Pride gathering on Saturday presented a self-described "event in a world where all people are free to express their sexual orientation and gender identity with pride."The event was determined to have a "strict zero-tolerance policy on any discrimination, harassment or bullying regarding sexual conduct, race, sex, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, beliefs and socio-economic background."Organizers warned that any type of "disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, and hate speech will not be tolerated." The warning threatened to remove and ban anyone who violated the festival's policies. "Anyone who violates our policies will reportedly be removed by police and banned from re-entry and all future Arlington Pride Celebrations," the warning threatened. Gonzalez – the host of Blaze Media's "Sara Gonzalez Unfiltered" – infiltrated the LGBTQIA event, and exposed the eyebrow-raising details of the "all-ages" Pride festival. Gonzalez stated: "Would you believe me if I told you Arlington, TX had a sexually-charged all-ages Pride festival that included a dildo booth?"According to the investigative reporting by Gonzalez, there were several dildos, advertisements for free HIV testing, exotic dances, products with explicit language, a sign alleging that Christianity and LGBTQIA cultures synchronize, and a moment when a woman exposed her breasts at the "all-ages" Pride festival. Also seen in the disturbing video is a man walking another individual on a metal leash wearing a leather dog mask. There were products with the word "c**t" on them for the family-friendly event. Gonzalez reported that there was a 5-year-old brought up on stage to interact with a drag queen, who asked the child if it was their "very first Pride." There are scantily clad individuals at the supposed all-ages event and drag queens dancing provocatively seen on the footage. There is an LGBTQ merchandise shop utilizing themes known to children, such as video games, kids' cartoons, and Taylor Swift. There is a booth featuring rainbow colors and a rainbow flag advertising "scouting for everyone." The male manning the booth is wearing a rainbow shirt that reads: "Papa Bear." (WARNING: Explicit images) — (@) Gonzalez retweeted Kyle Rittenhouse who shared a photo of two men in bondage garb at the "all-ages" Pride festival. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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