☕️ ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY ☙ Thursday, February 22, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Trump multiplier! Plus, historic cellphone cyberattack in progress; OMG's new exposé and IRS's A.I.; encouraging fluoride case wraps; Col. rep. dishes on pedo-loving dems; major Epstein news; more.

Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! And what a weird day it already is. Your roundup includes: long-awaited Trump multiplier; historic, unprecedented cell phone cyberattack … or something; OMG Media dropped a new exposé, this time from one of its citizen volunteers, and started another new national conversation; major anti-fluoride lawsuit finishes its trial and the plaintiffs are optimistic; Florida county pushes back against big fluoride; Colorado state representative complains about democrats and dishes shocking inside info; and am amazing bipartisan bill that came out of nowhere that will blow your socks off.

🗞 THE C&C ARMY POST 🗞

🪖 OPERATION MULTIPLIER: Today we multiply President Trump, who is literally being persecuted by an out-of-control, two-tiered justice system. It took a few days to put this one together, because I had to review and discard a whole LOT of fake fund-raising sites. Geez. It turns out the only reliable way to donate is on the Trump campaign website, regrettably using WinRed, which irritates some C&Cers. The good news though, it is now optional to provide a cell number.

In case you’re new, multipliers aren’t just a call for donations. It’s a group flex, where the C&C Army demonstrates its vast, collective strength. It’s not so much about raising a particular amount, it’s about sending a message to the powers-that-be, in this case, out-of-control prosecutors. When they single us out, we come together, despite our minor differences.

Here’s how it works: Even though each of us only chips in an easily-affordable amount, together it adds up to a game-changing sum. So we need everyone to help out. Even if Trump isn’t your favorite candidate in the presidential election, and even if you have principled concerns about the jabs issue, this multiplier aims is to send a message to the two-tiered justice system.

So, if you’re new, the way it works is you use the link to donate any easily affordable amount ending in $2. It could be as small as $2, or $12, or $22, or even more, depending on whatever you can afford. We always end our donations in a $2 so that they’ll know it all came from us.

What’s important is that we all lift together. You will feel terrific afterwards, I promise.

But if you can’t afford even a $2 donation, or if you feel so strongly about the other issues that, even after reflecting on the real purpose of this multiplier, it would still cause you to seriously compromise your values, sit this one out. We’ll carry it.

Finally, do it now! It only takes a few seconds. And don’t worry about all the annoying extra prompts for additional donations that WinRed always pushes at you after you click donate. You can ignore them and close the browser window as soon as your donation is submitted. As far as I know, they never end anyways.

Here’s the link again: Trump Save America. Do it now!

🗞💬 WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY 💬🗞

🔥 I am writing today’s post marveling over a historic, unprecedented, national, cross-network cellphone outage that started around 7am, as far as I can tell.

We’re still waiting for word on what’s caused it. As you can imagine, the hot takes have already started and service hasn’t even been restored yet. (Presumably, by the time you read this it will have been.)

Maybe the carriers didn’t pay their bill on time and got cut off? Can you hear me now? No.

It looks like a very sophisticated cyberattack to me. I can’t wait to hear the official explanation. This one is will be hard to blame on a router failure or a broken fiber cable.

Finally … in case this is it, it was nice knowing you all. Now, onto the rest of today’s roundup.

🔥 Getting fired from Project Veritas might be the best thing that ever happened to James O’Keefe. He and one of his trained volunteers have done it again. There’s plenty to digest in the undercover video exposing highly-questionable practices, you can watch it for yourself, and I’ll just make a couple high-level points.

CLIP: OMG exposes the IRS and its Bond-villain like artificial intelligence (14:32).

First, did you notice the name of James’ citizen-journalist program? The American Swiper Program. I assume (just by the name) the program teaches people to fish for government workers on dating apps like Tinder, where users famously swipe right to indicate interest in a date, or swipe left to flee an awkward chat conversation. Who knows how many worms are being dangled?

And, in other words, O’Keefe is turning the deep state’s techniques against them.

Next, about the use of artificial intelligence. Back when the chatbots suddenly and unexpectedly appeared on the scene last year, I supposed they were a byproduct of some secret DARPA skunkworks government technology. I’m officially doubling down on that theory. Hapless, lovelorn IRS agent Mena — who doesn’t sound like he’s from around here, just saying — freely confessed the IRS is using artificial intelligence to review people’s bank account records as targets for tax audits.

But their AI is not the same AI that we get to use. Whenever I ask ChatGPT whether Jimmy Buffett died suddenly, it prudishly scolds me because that information is private and I should mind my own business out of respect for Jimmy’s relatives (who have no concept I even exist).

But the DOJ and IRS can ask their AI prying, probing, unprivate questions about whether we usually upsize our fry order at the drive-through (despite having just promised we would stop), whether we regularly purchase drugs to keep the lead stiff in our pencils, or whether our last menstrual periods were lighter or heavier than normal based on our grocery purchases.

Furthermore, it’s not just the IRS. According to Agent Mena, it’s actually the sold-out, partisan Department of Justice. And if DOJ is handling this for the IRS, that means it’s a DOJ service, which means they’re also using bank account-scanning artificial intelligence in other areas, probably lots of them. Or maybe even in all DOJ investigations.

Without a warrant. Which is probably why romance-seeking Agent Mena doubted the constitutionality of the AI program. I do, too.

So … let’s have some fun! Let’s imagine the kind of prompts you could run if you were an out-of-control, hyper-partisan federal government with a quantum supercomputer-powered A.I. that was hooked up to all the major banks, credit card companies, social media, email systems (like Gmail), cell phone location data, and search engine history. We should give it a nifty name, since ChatGPT and Grok have names. Let’s call the crimefighting artificial intelligence SuperSnitchDOJ, or maybe just ‘SuperSnitch’ for short.

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, give me a list of registered Republicans who spent any amount of money on January 6th, 2021, within a ten-mile radius of Washington, DC.

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, give me a list of Republican Congressmen who spent $1,000 or more on OnlyFans this month.

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, which Senator spent the most on prostitutes in Las Vegas last year?

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, what are Mitch McConnell’s prescriptions?

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, who are the top 100 people who donated to anything with the word ‘MAGA’ in its name during the last 12 months?

PROMPT: Hey SuperSnitch, give me something I can use to get my ex-wife’s new boyfriend criminally prosecuted. I can’t stand that guy.

See how much fun they could have? Migrant boatloads of fun. If you could use it for one hour, what would you ask SuperSnitchDOJ?

The possibilities are sort of mind-boggling. And for partisan DOJ or IRS operatives, the sky is the limit wielding the kind of technology Agent Mena described. Could this tech perhaps explain why so many Republican Senators and Congressmen resigned this year? Could SuperSnitch be delivering heaps of AI-fueled Kompromat to the Democrats? I’m just asking.

They can’t take their AI evidence straight to court, since they want to protect their “sources and methods,” sources and methods named SuperSnitch, and since the whole thing is fantastically unconstitutional. But it doesn’t matter. It would work like this. First the AI finds them some poor snakebit insurrectionist who bought a street taco in Virginia on January 6th using his debit card. (Two hours later he bought Pepto Bismol at a gas station in Arlington.)

Having that AI banking evidence, DOJ operatives would then scour the citizen’s social media. Using a special FaceBook dashboard, a convenience only provided to the government, agents would search his deleted posts and find a selfie snap in front of the Capitol building. Eureka! Now, they’re in business. They can pursue an indictment, or maybe just reach out and see if they can settle this like gentlemen.

Anyway. The truth of whatever’s going on is probably much worse than that. In my scenario, the AI would probably have already found the guy’s deleted Facebook selfie post back in step one.

You’d think Congress would pull the plug on SuperSnitch, and fast since they are all in the crosshairs, too. The problem arises from SuperSnitch’s ability to deliver Kompromat — which also lets the AI protect itself.

I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that right now. Let’s talk about your last trip to Amsterdam.

Assuming we survive this current leadership crisis, they’ll have to give James O’Keefe a Congressional medal of honor one day.

🔥 A major anti-fluoride lawsuit wrapped up this week. There’s nothing in the media yet, of course, but Science.org ran a skeptical story about the lawsuit last month headlined, “Does fluoride in drinking water lower IQ? Question looms large in court battle.”

This fluoride lawsuit is the first case to get to trial under a ‘new’ 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act provision that lets citizens ask courts to assess a chemical’s risk when regulatory agencies prove unreliable. So years back, the Flouride Action Network used the Act after the EPA denied its request to ban fluoridation, saying the request lacked a “scientifically defensible basis.”

This week they finally got to trial.

The case is kind of exciting. They found a smoking gun. On top of scads of published studies, the FAN folks also unearthed an unpublished report drafted by the federal government’s own National Toxicology Program that concluded it was “moderately confident” that drinking water with fluoride just slightly over federal limits was associated with lower IQs in children.

Then — I realize you’ll find this hard to believe — FAN found compelling evidence that CDC officials actively tried to suppress the Toxicology report’s publication. Remember, an attempt to conceal something is also admissible evidence of consciousness of guilt.

The FAN folks seem pretty confident that the real science, as opposed to The Science™,  shows that the tooth-hardening chemical is not, in fact, safe at any level. Which, if true, would mean they’ve been lying to us for a very long time for very questionable reasons. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have given this story a moment’s thought, I would’ve thought it was just more kooky, crunchy granola, Birkenstock-wearing conspiracy theories. But now, having had my face rudely shoved into the FDA and CDCs rotten, corrupt posterior over mask and vaccine “science,” nowadays it always seems safest to assume the conspiracy folks are right until the CDC proves otherwise.

A couple Florida counties have outright banned fluoride, one large county as recently as just a few days ago, which of course made liberals lose their science-loving minds. This inversion of traditional political positions is truly bizarre. Four years ago, I would’ve associated attempts to ban fluoride with tree-hugging liberals. Now … it’s suddenly conservatives. Remarkable.

The judge is now thinking about the case and all the evidence. We’ll find out what happens when he enters an order.

I guess … Progress?

🔥 Yesterday, Colorado State Representative Scott Bottoms (R-D15) posted a video in which he described feeling intensely frustrated after a committee meeting with Colorado democrats, and in the process disclosed shocking inside intel that Colorado democrats oppose punishments for people who buy infants for sex.

CLIP: Colorado Representative Scott Bottoms complains about Democrats defending pedophiles (1:52).

Listen to the whole thing. But here is a shortened, slightly-edited (for clarity) transcript of Scott’s main comments:

These are the times that I am discouraged about my job as a representative and what happens here at the capitol. All day in committee we discussed whether or not to require jail time for somebody that buys little children — 2, 3, 4, 5 year old kids — for sex. Right now, most of the time they get off on probation after buying and raping a little child. We tried to get a bill through, (representative Bradley’s) to ensure these buyers do time, a minimum of 4 years.

But democrats voted a 100% against putting these pedophiles in jail. They defended the pedophiles! They came up with all kinds of reasons, including that these buyers are victims themselves.

This is evil stuff, truly dark forces, that we're dealing with. If you can come up here and testify for bills like this, please do so. Your voice is very important.

From time to time, one ponders over how one could possibly find any common ground with people who oppose mandatory jail sentences for perverts who rape babies.

Now, don’t worry, I won’t leave you hanging with that disturbing story. Not all states share Colorado’s problems.

🔥 Hang onto your hats, MAGA or otherwise. Maybe you should even sit down. Yesterday, the Florida Senate unanimously approved a special bipartisan bill that now is on its way to Governor DeSantis’ desk. The Governor has promised to sign the bill. What is it? Here’s Governor DeSantis, to tell you for himself:

The ‘files’ DeSantis mentioned relate to Epstein’s 2006 arrest and prosecution. He was indicted by a secret Florida grand jury, but later federal prosecutors accepted a minor plea deal providing for one year (effectively) under house arrest. Epstein worked (and played) at his office and slept at the jail.

Famously, the Southern District U.S. Attorney who negotiated Epstein’s plea deal publicly claimed later that he’d been pressured to let Epstein off by U.S. intelligence agencies.

This remarkable Senate bill was filed by democrat state senator Tina Polsky (D-Boca), who sits on the Governmental Oversight and Accountability committee. It passed the Republican-dominated Senate unanimously, 37-0.  The House version was filed by state representative Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R-Highland Beach), and also passed the House unanimously. Here’s a link to the text of the bill for all you wonkish C&Cers.

Assuming DeSantis signs the bill, it takes effect July 1st, and allow all the evidence presented to the secret grand jury to become public, subject to court oversight and the right to redact certain types of information (like nude pictures of minors). Don’t get too excited. To temper expectations, the grand jury only approved minimal charges, so they probably weren’t presented with the full picture. People have long suspected something amiss.

“The public and the victims deserve to know if prosecutors steered the jury away from indicting Epstein on more severe charges,” Senator Polsky explained during yesterday’s Senate session. “There is also a compelling public need to know if this (grand jury) system worked or failed.”

Either way, assuming the grand jury materials are released, another chunk of Epstein data will fall into the public domain. Drip, drip, drip.

Okay, beloved C&C procrastinators, here’s that multiplier link again: Trump Save America. Have a terrific Thursday! And I will assume this isn’t cell phone outage doesn’t mean it’s the big one and we will meet back here tomorrow morning for C&C’s exciting Friday roundup.

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