A breaking news special report: what’s really behind the America.gov product launch, which looked nothing like any government initiative we’ve ever seen. Prepare to learn the astonishing truth.
Joe Gebbia, Big Balls, and the DOGE team are unsung heroes of the Trump administration. Patriots in control building great things. Contrast with Obama’s healthcare .gov, a disaster that took years and billions of dollars.
Obama's healthcare.gov was never about health care nor was it about efficient government. It was about the redistribution of billions of dollars of wealth to liberal democrats. Which is why the liberals are screaming so loudly, they are being cut off from the grifts which were making them wealthy while doing nothing - Medicare/Medicaid fraud being just one example. The truth is being found out - the grift is in every sector within which the uniparty and deep state operates.
Absolutely! The left’s leaders and most of the bureaucracy are in love with "process." They actually enjoy making people wait, while they are in control.
Yes, unimaginative— except when it comes to creating new ways to cheat, obfuscate, and line their pockets with fresh streams of cash from the treasury.
I am blown away by this move from Trump. We will never know how many birds he’s killed with this one stone.
They have no ideas on how to successfully govern this country. All they do is scream and moan about how bad things are... and Orange Man Bad. Marxism on display.
They NEED government agencies that willingly operated with archaic, backwards-ass infrastructures to enable and maintain the massive amounts of fraud detected by DOGE.
Ryan This is why the movie industry is a bomb. Populated with the left who are the most unimaginative people which is why they do horrible remakes of classic movies.
It is in the process that they can, and have, taxed us into poverty and subservience. Property tax? Unconstitutional. Vehicle license tax for non commercial vehicles? Unconstitutional. Income tax? Unconstitutional. All of the special district taxes they have now figured out how to levy on us? Unconstitutional. The process uses the power of incarceration or the loss of our homes and possessions if we dont pay their taxes. It is deeply wrong and President Trump, our greatest President, is doing everything possible to undo it all and give our country back to us.
Speaking of property tax, which I agree is unconstitutional and deeply wrong, what’s the deal with homeowners’ insurance? Ours has almost doubled from what it was when we moved here less than 6 years ago! And we have had zero claims.
I have a cabin in New Mexico where a fire was started on a nearby reservation (a guy wanted some overtime, so he started it). Homeowners insurance went from $1300 to $5,000 yearly. Our largest living expenses are property taxes and insurance.
How many millions of us have had our own 'run-in' with our Home insurance. I just finished 3 years with mine (after paying them 44 years; 11 homes; 2 roofs). Finally, the hour I was filing to sue, I got email - in the car! - that I was 'reassigned' a new adjustor after 2 years of denials after 2 separate hail storms. 5 months later I got my roof, but notified policy was cancelled. Don't know if the new one (another 'big') is better (it's cheaper).
@Margot- I'm in Western NY. While our homeowners has not gone up, our electric bill sure has. Went from- and this is budget billing, mind you- $160/mo to $230/mo to $320/mo SINCE JANUARY, all without permission from us.
Bingo, Dan! Then, they are totally unaccountable for how they spend it. It has been a while since I have seen the reconciliation of expenses I am owed per the Constitution, under Article I, Section 9, Clause 7.
12 Minutes of pure truth from Victor Davis Hanson to help everyone understand the gravity and critical importance of what President Trump has done for the USA, its citizens, and indeed for the world. Urgently need to watch and send this to everyone else you can, especially the liberal lunatics. PLEASE stop and watch, 12 minutes.
And you must go vote for every republican and against every democrat, do it in person if possible or do it by dropping off your ballot at a county office in a secure ballot box. Please don't put it in the USPS.
Dan, I will be voting straight Republican for the first time in my life. I have voted for a few in the past, but mostly Dem and 3rd party. I'm not a fan of either major party at all, but at this point it's become a crisis so I will vote for the party that will most likely not take this country over the cliff.
Mike, we must be pragmatic and do the very best we can for our country, family and friends. I applaud you for recognizing that we are in fact in an existential crisis and it is time that all hands are on deck to defeat the lunatics on the left.
Trump is doing magnificent work for the country and we must give him two more years to restore the country back to its Citizens.
At some point we must get rid of the RINOs in the republican party. They claim to represent you and me but they really represent the Uniparty and the boot of big government on our necks.
Recently we lost a young soldier from Fort Hood, TX. He was 20 years old and died in a training accident. If you could pray for his family, thank you. My son went to school with him. Private First Class Ethan James Brewer.
When you hear the word "modernization", run for the hills.
All data can be used for the digital prison being built with the data centers around you. Makes it easier for illegal aliens too. Just have fewer people to pay off. Nice to see the government "here to help you".
They have a completely different view of the Citizens. They DO NOT see us as the Constitutional Owners of the USA or the state you live in and to whom they are accountable (because we dont hold them accountable from the business end of a 2A device. If we would, they would stop it.)
Instead, they see us as their subjects from which they can make demands, use election theft, unconstitutional law making and incarceration as forcing functions, to live like royalty on our backs.
Blue Univs (redundant?) can also be in that category. The website of my Alma is so awful. It just rolls old stuff into a ‘new’ start page. I noticed it changed the name of the campus DEI office on the start page but it linked to the old one still using specific DEI language. I would love for DOGE to flag it and pull grant dollars for being so cavalier about getting its act together. Calling Mr Balls….😂
Imagine if Trump could come up with an AI system that could run the entire American government with its soul intention to Make America Great. No corruption, fraud, no two tiers of justice, no sweetheart deals, no insider trading. We could replace the entire government and all of the hacks and be back in the black in no time.
Look at the Bidens for instance. We payed for his hair, we paid for his teeth, we paid for all of his surgeries, his kids to be born, his kids insurance, his transportation, his phones, his utilities, all of their protection, it never ends. Eventually we’ll pay for his final resting place and all of his families as well. It’s like cradle to grave. Imagine a government that truly looked out for just the citizen and their interest. I think we’re on to something.
That’s the crux of the problem: former Twitter employees retrained to process AI (SI) — over our pay grades to decipher. Hope it works to our benefit. Libs want the tyranny of opaque processes like voting by mail in California.
That all depends on the datasets the AI is trained on. A new administration can "retrain it". This new tech can easily be used to funnel people to being more controlled.
People will know once the "event" is triggered. For now, this 'hammer' is used to hit a nail. At some point, it will be used on people.
Could be, but in the movie, they called the AI court system "MERCY", and if you ended up there, you were presumed guilty and had 90 minutes to prove your innocence while being able to leverage all cell phone calls, databases, etc. that were accessible by the AI system. Of course, you were required to have your phones, cameras, databases open for this kind of justice system.
I'm with Lisa on this, AI judges, AI govt. Too many Star Trek episodes about "creators" building a system that had great intentions, original good execution, but bad endings after long periods of misery! Without actually trying it, if America.gov just finds and reports info, we are probably ok for now, but it will be an ongoing battle to keep it from being "improved" into running us.
Before we establish AI/SI judges, let's hear from a few people who have actually worked as municipal, county, state, and federal judges, and learn what kind of judgment is needed to do this work.
Well, if we had that, we would not have a national debt!! I would venture to say all of our problems come from corrupt control freaks that normally have none of their own skin in the game. Same with big corps.
Along those lines I was watching Anastasia Cortez blather on ad nauseum about "they" are taking "our" [everything] and my thought was maybe an AI House would be good.
Who is Leah anyway? She came across my feed some time ago, when she was ‘questioning’ Charlie Kirk’s life insurance. I’ve been unable to find anything about her…her name, whatever this IC background she says she has, and certainly no background in economics whatsoever. The link you’ve provided only shows me that she is ‘investigating’ through links at the bottom of that substack, of whatever opinion she apparently aligns with. ???
"What I DO know is that she’s anti-Trump, pro Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and normally just that information is enough for me to no longer be interested."
"Research". On the author, not the facts in the article.
Ah, never mind. Simple enough to find. She is Renn Leah Pfeiffer, who is the niece, by marriage, of Larry Pfeiffer. That’s the CIA connection I….her uncle by marriage. I don’t know what expertise she has in finance. What I DO know is that she’s anti-Trump, pro Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and normally just that information is enough for me to no longer be interested.
I think I might be able to finally get each states' payroll protocols, so I can run payrolls, for any state's businesses. from the convenience of my local office.
I logged in and asked the new America.gov questions about COLA for Social Security in 2027, Medicare costs next year and how to verify if I am still registered to vote in former states of residence. The information provided took mere minutes vs possible hours to access the correct government websites. This site, America.gov , is user friendly. 🇺🇸 TAW
I'll admit to being tentatively excited by this - especially for my parents and how maddening it is for them to navigate through Medicare. Especially if you are able to use standard language in the query rather then having to take a class in "prompt engineering". Prior to this, I have seen AI as yet another "tech in search of a problem" - the AI assisted search rollout at my company was a disaster, the most common question from the teams was "so AI gives this answer, is it correct?"
Oh man, so true, I have found using Claude maddening with prompts. I have been using GrokBot for three weeks and it's what the others promise. What a time to be alive!!!
That is my response to using AI for legal research too. It seems to me if you are asking questions you do not know the answer to, which after all is why you do legal research, you are taking a risk. Citations to cases and statutes seem to be particularly problematic. Of course the simple solution is to verify the cites.
Agreed - and the "bug / feature" for AI to make up information out of whole cloth when it is unable to find an answer to the prompt is a nightmare. How these tools have not been coded with a simple "I don't know" in responses to queries it can't answer is beyond me.
I started out being skeptical of AI, especially after having experienced some of the hallucinatory behavior.
However, I've found Grok to be invaluable at work for turning state code into human language, for example. You still need to know enough about your subject to spot errors.
Agreed - I think it can be a valuable tool for coding - as long as it's work is checked. My concern is the increase of cognitive offloading - shoot I've seen it over the past 15 years of using GPS rather than manually plotting a route.
Methinks Grok may be involved in some way behind the scenes. I personally do not think that the gazillion (slight exaggeration) satellites Elon is putting up in the sky are all for StarLink access to the internet. Non-terrestrial data centers are more like it. Distributed to avoid a catastrophic event on earth and/or some ASAT weaponry trying to take out some in orbit. He's also into the delusional belief that we are going to die if someone doesn't play around with the atmosphere. So we have the bad geo-engineers, and the clueless geo-engineers.
Who do I call to complain? If I use America.gov, will it bring the black SUV guys to my front door faster? I think the new "SI" acronym may stand for "Silence Innocents". Maybe the people showing up will look like those British toadies harassing grandma's for a tweet the government doesn't like?
I’m pretty sure that lovely “booklet” gets read by exactly no one. I’m still working but just reached “Medicare” age and what little exposure I had previously was from helping my in-laws. It’s so complicated and obtuse that I don’t see how any sensible person can figure out what to do, much less one in their 80s or 90s. And the number of rules, and oh, by the way it kicks in 6 months retroactively, so if you’ve contributed to your HSA for the last 6 months that would be illegal so you’ll have to pay that back!!!? Like who made this so damn complicated??? Fortunately, as a still covered by insurance individual, I’ve kicked that can down the road another few years. But hopefully by then, the new website will be in full swing and will make it less painful. 🤞
I guess I didn't appreciate how big a deal this new U.S. government website was. Here's hoping they are also working on spotting fraud, like when 42 companies are running a hospice company all out of the same address. Seems like that would be an obvious tip off, but our government has been missing this scam signal for years.
My question since DOGE started has been ‘why on earth are the government systems so antiquated?’ How on earth can someone be getting SSI at 130 and nobody is flagged to check it? How can one person be getting SNAP in 2 states? All that stuff should have been modernized years ago. Glad to see this website, I hope it’s the beginning of something great.
I’m aware. My point was why was that not identified and corrected, it’s obviously incorrect in some way. And identifying and correcting errors like that should be a normal part of the process.
On the SNAP question, that's probably because states run their separate systems and there may be limitations on the feds linking them up, or even having access to them.
Diane the prior administrations were missing the fraud on purpose by the US government branches. Along with local grift by local politicians and gov workers.
Corruption at the top roles down. There were gov. people and citizens that raised concerns and they were shut down and ignored.
TAW: all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate.
Highest real median household income in history
Atlanta Fed estimates economy growing at 5 percent annual rate
Child poverty fell to just 13.4%, the lowest official rate ever recorded.
Hispanic poverty fell to 13.9%
Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1%
Construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5%
The burgeoning boom “the greatest story never told.”
Conservatives: Don't buy the left’s lies.
Clinton: Manufacturing is gone forever. China would build; we would consume. Russia and the Middle East would supply the energy. Europe would regulate. America would borrow, import, and manage its “inevitable” decline and displacement by more dynamic powers.
What IF Reindustrialization and PRODUCTIVITY keep on this projection for even just next 10 years..... discover, discover. Utilize human mind's creativity for good. Overcome the destroyers, liars. [I recognize the spiritual battle, but I pray for the grace and goodness to revive.]
What if......reindustrialization is going to be few jobs because of tech and automation. Even with a significant economic boom, $40 trillion ain't going away any time soon, especially when our amazing business guru Trump thinks we should keep blindly shoveling record amounts of money to the un-auditable pentagon.
From what I am reading the cameras are used to build profiles on drivers. And that information ultimately belongs to the company, not the municipality employing the camera.
So a corporation now has my data to sell to the highest bidder. Maybe your car insurance company? “Sorry Karen but we have evidence your were speeding 100 different times, ran 12 red lights, etc in the last 6 months so you have been deemed an unsafe driver and your insurance premium just went up 20%.” Of corse that could also happen thru car tech too.
Yep. 100%. It will be where people are told to turn when the "event" that ushers in digital currency, social credit scoring, and full surveillance gets activated. People will be "comforted" by accessing Super AI and it tells them everything is fine and it'll take care of you.
The idea of dispensationalism/rapture as put forth by the Left Behind types is a recent phenomena and not how the church and the vast majority of Christians have understood eschatology for millennia. It gave Kirk Cameron some employment but shouldn't be looked at seriously. Christ will come back once-for-all. That's it. Then the Final Judgement. Jesus isn't going to be sitting on a throne in the Middle East like Solomon for years doing diplomatic things. The idea of a rapture where others just have to live then on earth with all the good people removed doesn't even make logical sense, and is heartless. We are in the age of the church now. Christ's grace is available to all either directly or through what has been revealed via Natural Law to those who haven't heard the Gospel. St. Paul does write about suffering often and how it can be a participation in Christ's sacrifice. I've know a number of "rapturists" who basically have a 'well at least I got mine' kind of attitude and get 'comfortable', instead of working the vineyard hard to make sure satan loses his grasp on every soul possible, and Jesus wins another soul for eternity.
God is building a Kingdom in the earth, not flying people out of here to go play harps on clouds while He destroys everything. Besides if people all over the world start floating up to the clouds being “raptured” then they will all be going “up” in different directions depending where on the globe they are.
Just smash your computer and phone. There are sunglasses on Amazon that block the infrared light that CCTV uses to do facial recognition. I bought a pair for around $12 but they’re extremely dark and pretty impractical for nighttime forays into public if you want to hide from Big Brother. Also get rid of your credit cards and use only cash or bartering.
The Hartford Health Care conglomerate has gone “no cash” at all their facilities.
When I tried to pay cash for my PT appointment at the facility, I was told I could pay by card or be billed. When I called Administration to complain, I was told “it was an unpopular decision.” Obviously they DO NOT CARE.
Of course the next time I visited, the card reader was non-functional, so I couldn’t pay at all!
Except I recently heard a story about all the check washing and numerous people like me had money stolen from checks in the mail. I’m not well informed on how it works exactly but use ball point pens to write checks?
I'm more worried in terms of hacking. Just about every sensitive computer system you can think of has been hacked into. Imagine, now that's it's one big system with nearly infinite rewards for those who can get in...
There are never enough things to worry about. I worry about a nearby supernova bombarding us with life extinction gamma rays, the eruption of the Yellowstone super caldera, a near earth object that crashes into the earth like the one that doomed the dinosaurs, or AOC being elect president in 2028.
I wondered for quite a while if John Thune and President Trump had a secret plan all along to "sabotage" and hold off on the SAVE Act votes. Thune certainly got a lot of grief and threats of future primarying on it. It would be wild if this forced vote on voter ID required nationwide coupled with anti insider trading puts any no vote senators in a horrible position right now. October surprise?
The timing is interesting, certainly. Every Democrat voting against it, including the insider trading piece is a potential cudgel in the last few weeks of the election. Makes litigation against it harder this close to election, if it passes. The effort to stop voter ID looks really bad .
Women and black people can’t use a computer, right? In California all govt forms have to be in 20 languages. What about braille for the blind?
On a serious note I spent over a month with 4 separate federal agencies and 2 local agencies this spring arranging my father-in-law’s military funeral. And 3 months trying to obtain a copy of my own military medical records( no joy). Hopefully this new information initiative will lessen those kinds of burdens for all including us deplorables.
I keep reminding myself that everything AI "knows" was originally sourced by a human. Combining that with "I'm from the government and am here to help" does not give me warm fuzzies.
And when ChatGPT is making up answers??? It’s terrifying that people are believing whatever AI tells them. I asked for a Russian dialog to be translated and it made up the outcome of the dialog. And when I typed in that the outcome wasn’t correct…AI said “I apologize I made that part up. I summarized the findings myself. Next time I will do better and use facts”. 😱 Not once but twice has it actually apologized for making stuff up when I typed in I only want the facts! And while I’m preparing taxes and ask what form I need for certain things, it is wrong a lot! 🤦🏼♀️ We are a gullible pack of trained seals who clap on command. We have not learned from the past. We will repeat history mistakes.
Yup. And people are eating it up. The govt pushes it and the trained seals eat it up. Remind us of another time when the govt pushed something and people ate it up without a thought of their own? 🤔
Gosh, golly. Can't think of a time. They wouldn't BS us, would they? Hah!!
And yes, making stuff up is beyond the pale. Heck of it is that could almost certainly be programmatically prohibited if the HUMAN writing this stuff cared the do so. Could be oversight, or could be intentional. Cynical me goes for the latter.
You know, in the seemingly ancient world of books, becoming more ancient faster and faster, we have a fairly clear delineation between fiction and non-fiction. Not as if that isn't precedent or anything. . . And I have 2 books active almost all the time, almost never of fiction. Can't remember the last fiction I read. Too much out there for my 81-year-old mind to learn yet before I croak. :-)
Hah! That apology was like a mugger apologizing as he is running away and keeping your watch. I have used AI on a very limited basis, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to avoid it as search engines are increasingly embracing it.
Interesting! My wife uses Chat a lot, and I'm hearing similar complaints from her. However, so far ChatGPT is good at stock analysis as far as companies go, for things not controversial. Information collecting and collating which would take days now is here in five and ten seconds. Kind of takes my breath away.
Nonetheless, I'm thinking that the AI companies/searches are and will be the new gatekeepers. And the greatest tool of Mind Control ever invented.
I agree. It is amazing what can be done. But, the fact that billions of people would need a “how to” lesson in using AI correctly -pppfffttt. The trained seals will clap at any information that is spit out.
And it’s really disheartening to think the new gatekeepers are the very ones that censored Americans, Trump, kicked people off their platforms with no way to resolve the problem because they refused to staff humans (intentional btw) and now are being ushered in to make billions off the peasants who use it. 🙄 Sorry. But seeing zucker*uck standing next to Trump all the time
Makes me want to vomit. The man is a snake, a liar and a criminal. Yet he is the very ones that tasked with being a gatekeeper? 🤮
He is STILL censoring fakebook! Community notes that STILL try to peddle lies.
I know the train left the station and it’s barreling down the tracks. Forgive me if I’m not one of the trained seals clapping.
1) So, and live long enough, and study and/or experience enough, and life is a bittersweet pill. And there are a lot of sadnesses in life, as well as exhilarations (and almost everyone remembers falling in love and hanging on every precious word uttered!) And so, I look at the unholy mess surrounding, and I say to myself, "What else is new."
2) Forever Trumpers or Never Trumpers, what is the difference? The are just cult behavior coming from opposite ends of the stick. And as Michael Yon says, "The cult one is in is the hardest one to see." And there is a lot of blindness among the sighted. And no one will ever be innoculated against blind spots.
3) And from the very beginning I have noted that nobody comes from a relative nowhere and gets on the national debt stage and the ballot in every state with just the support of regular folks. And impossibility. And so folks, and all of you reads, just think some. (And yes, will the Real Donald J. Trump please stand up.
4) No one in power can ignore power, money and influence. This is a given. But, and its a big one, the 'little people' should make enough noise and rumble in the jungle ... so much so as we the little people cannot be ignored and plain run over.
5) The focal point should be on self and home education smart, enough to figure out how the game is being played. Sending kids to public school is sending kids to slaughter (even so, many in spite of the really bad odd manage to figure out and to begin to see through the lies.
6) It will never be a perfect world. But I would like to see it on balance much better than the degenerated cesspool which the United States has become.
We are now closer to "I'm from the government and am here to help. Just sign up for digital currency, total surveillance, and social credit scoring so we know you aren't one of the '-ists', and you can have your universal-basic-income and freedom to move about the country." This site makes the coming "event" more controllable when it comes to public uprising.
Well, if you can encapsulate the institutional knowledge of old-timers, and reduce time having to deal with new employees who don't know anything, then this can be good at reducing government employment numbers and costs. My wife has to navigate this issue in California pretty consistently. And they passed legislation that says AI can't take gubmint jobs away.
I think local and state court systems will fight this type of streamlining & modernization that Trump has created at the Federal level with all their energy. If court rules and forms were standardized at least across each state it would make things easier, but they insist, county by county to do things their own way. It does keep lawyers and paralegals working, but there are some legal issues that shouldn't be that difficult to deal with.
I'll be curious to also see if this system will make it easier to detect the fraudsters who have relied heavily on bureaucracies that do not communicate with each other.
I made the appointment to go to the Post Office, some 50 miles away since it was the closest one that had an appointment available within the next 2 months. I had EVERY. SINGLE. FORM. and even copies of EVERY. SINGLE. FORM. along with my expired passport. I also paid the extra $60 to expedite the process.
I was the 2d appointment, meaning I had to leave my house at the crack of dawn.
I give all the paperclipped copies and originals to the postal dude. And off I went.
I get a notice from the passport office in the hinterland that my packet was missing my expired passport. I called the number and explained to passport-dude that it was included with the packet and that I have copies of it, if needed.
Time passed.
About 2 months later, I get a manila envelope from the Houston Passport Office. Included was all of the paperwork I had submitted and a stock letter stating that they could not fulfill my request for a new passport due to the fact that I had failed to include my expired passport. Included was a form to report my passport lost/stolen. Also included in the packet was.......wait for it.......my expired passport. UGH!!!!!
My passport story is similar to yours. I was applying for a passport in 2017, had all the required documents etc but was told that certified birth certificates and so on were not sufficient documentation (!)
I eventually had to submit documentary proof of my early life, which could include but were not limited to expired driver's or professional licenses, college IDs, newspaper clippings that showed my photo and name.
Going back through my memorabilia, I did indeed find all sorts of stuff going back as far as a local news story for a girl scout award at age 11. Submitted it all and eventually got my passport.
I suspect it was my FBI file from high school that slowed it all down (possible Cuban hijacker; not joking).
Right, the problem is the government employees, not the government websites, although the websites are not great either. I have been trying to get some information from OPM for months and I have just given up. By the way, I renewed my passport on-line before without any problems.
I had to renew my passport a year ago. I did it on my phone, including the pictures! The hardest thing was to find good lighting on a white wall in my house 😅
My wife renewed her passport a couple months ago. Took the picture with an app (PhotoAiD) that ensured it met the requirements, cost was the same as Walgreens. Submitted everything online. Had a new passport in the mailbox in 10 days. We were amazed how quickly and easily it was done.
Save the $. I took my photo with my phones regular camera for nothing. It would tell you immediately if it was not good enough. My background was too dark in the first.
Joe Gebbia, Big Balls, and the DOGE team are unsung heroes of the Trump administration. Patriots in control building great things. Contrast with Obama’s healthcare .gov, a disaster that took years and billions of dollars.
Blue states are tiresome empires of dust that have become even more inefficient and corrupt than Africa: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/empire-of-dust-ccp-congoits-all-so-tiresome-meme
Obama's healthcare.gov was never about health care nor was it about efficient government. It was about the redistribution of billions of dollars of wealth to liberal democrats. Which is why the liberals are screaming so loudly, they are being cut off from the grifts which were making them wealthy while doing nothing - Medicare/Medicaid fraud being just one example. The truth is being found out - the grift is in every sector within which the uniparty and deep state operates.
Right. Like RFKjr just described: More policies, LESS verifications. LOTS of commissions, and lots more PREMIUMS PAID BY GOVERNMENT!! =SCAM!!!
Correct - paid by government actually means paid by you and me and every other honest taxpayer.
Dan, and I believe forcing docs to be directly affiliated with a particular hospital.
Obamacare was about getting all medical records digitized
It was about massive wealth redistribution, the records digitization was an add-on to get it passed.
And the Obamas living quite comfortably.
Absolutely! The left’s leaders and most of the bureaucracy are in love with "process." They actually enjoy making people wait, while they are in control.
The Left is already calling it raaaaaaacist.
What they're really crying about is losing authority without accountability.
They are the most unimaginative people on earth.
Yes, unimaginative— except when it comes to creating new ways to cheat, obfuscate, and line their pockets with fresh streams of cash from the treasury.
I am blown away by this move from Trump. We will never know how many birds he’s killed with this one stone.
Still shaking my head. Pure genius.
They have no ideas on how to successfully govern this country. All they do is scream and moan about how bad things are... and Orange Man Bad. Marxism on display.
They NEED government agencies that willingly operated with archaic, backwards-ass infrastructures to enable and maintain the massive amounts of fraud detected by DOGE.
Absolutely no policies on anything.
I'm not sure the Left is unimaginative. I prefer the word "stupid". Seriously stupid. As Thomas Sowell would say, "Stage One Thinkers".
Is some of that stupidity the direct result of too many covid shots?
You are too kind. 😂
They'd have to work hard to reach the "stupid" stage.
I keep asking myself, how is it possible for such people to win even in a mid-term year.
WEF/Transnational gangsters captured MSM. The weak minded bray.....its on TV..it must be true...
Furthermore, what is the mentality of those who vote for these people????
Ryan This is why the movie industry is a bomb. Populated with the left who are the most unimaginative people which is why they do horrible remakes of classic movies.
Captured people....dancing ti Transnational gangster$ tune
but not nearly as RAACCIST as Huckabee for Governor
Hahaha...yes!
Can someone please explain Sorkin's left eye/pupil?
They are the secret society of the Republicans.
https://substack.com/@thedukereport/note/c-348795684?r=2hbv7u
It is in the process that they can, and have, taxed us into poverty and subservience. Property tax? Unconstitutional. Vehicle license tax for non commercial vehicles? Unconstitutional. Income tax? Unconstitutional. All of the special district taxes they have now figured out how to levy on us? Unconstitutional. The process uses the power of incarceration or the loss of our homes and possessions if we dont pay their taxes. It is deeply wrong and President Trump, our greatest President, is doing everything possible to undo it all and give our country back to us.
Speaking of property tax, which I agree is unconstitutional and deeply wrong, what’s the deal with homeowners’ insurance? Ours has almost doubled from what it was when we moved here less than 6 years ago! And we have had zero claims.
Somebody's gotta pay for all those insurance claims from the Palisades Fire...and it ain't gonna be the insurance companies.
Josh Hawley just had a hearing (sigh. I know.) with whistleblowers on Allstate and State Farm talking about corruption
I have a cabin in New Mexico where a fire was started on a nearby reservation (a guy wanted some overtime, so he started it). Homeowners insurance went from $1300 to $5,000 yearly. Our largest living expenses are property taxes and insurance.
How many millions of us have had our own 'run-in' with our Home insurance. I just finished 3 years with mine (after paying them 44 years; 11 homes; 2 roofs). Finally, the hour I was filing to sue, I got email - in the car! - that I was 'reassigned' a new adjustor after 2 years of denials after 2 separate hail storms. 5 months later I got my roof, but notified policy was cancelled. Don't know if the new one (another 'big') is better (it's cheaper).
@Margot- I'm in Western NY. While our homeowners has not gone up, our electric bill sure has. Went from- and this is budget billing, mind you- $160/mo to $230/mo to $320/mo SINCE JANUARY, all without permission from us.
The same has happened to us in 4 years.
Ours has too. In only years. I was planning to shop rates.
Bingo, Dan! Then, they are totally unaccountable for how they spend it. It has been a while since I have seen the reconciliation of expenses I am owed per the Constitution, under Article I, Section 9, Clause 7.
Exactly.
Right across the west, Trump is the only politician for YEARS who tries to do good things for THE PEOPLE!
Tries to make life better.
Like forcing data centers on us?
@Steve- better than China taking over.
Better believe it
There is no power in the word yes.
12 Minutes of pure truth from Victor Davis Hanson to help everyone understand the gravity and critical importance of what President Trump has done for the USA, its citizens, and indeed for the world. Urgently need to watch and send this to everyone else you can, especially the liberal lunatics. PLEASE stop and watch, 12 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6nNolEJG0M
And you must go vote for every republican and against every democrat, do it in person if possible or do it by dropping off your ballot at a county office in a secure ballot box. Please don't put it in the USPS.
Dan, I will be voting straight Republican for the first time in my life. I have voted for a few in the past, but mostly Dem and 3rd party. I'm not a fan of either major party at all, but at this point it's become a crisis so I will vote for the party that will most likely not take this country over the cliff.
Mike, we must be pragmatic and do the very best we can for our country, family and friends. I applaud you for recognizing that we are in fact in an existential crisis and it is time that all hands are on deck to defeat the lunatics on the left.
Trump is doing magnificent work for the country and we must give him two more years to restore the country back to its Citizens.
At some point we must get rid of the RINOs in the republican party. They claim to represent you and me but they really represent the Uniparty and the boot of big government on our necks.
Do you have any sense if others like you are going to do this too?
Mike, me too
That was worth the watch!
Thank you.
Recently we lost a young soldier from Fort Hood, TX. He was 20 years old and died in a training accident. If you could pray for his family, thank you. My son went to school with him. Private First Class Ethan James Brewer.
Pam WP, how his family is grieving now and I am praying for them🙏🏻
Thank you
Outstanding! VDH at his best!!!
Truth teller in a world of liars!
USPS "mysteriously" can't get Pay To The Order Of (me) mail to me but the junk mail? Never stops. wtf, America?
Thanks for sharing VDH video!
DOGE ROCKS!
When you hear the word "modernization", run for the hills.
All data can be used for the digital prison being built with the data centers around you. Makes it easier for illegal aliens too. Just have fewer people to pay off. Nice to see the government "here to help you".
All the blue states know how to do is demand more money from citizens. Never about efficiency or cost-cutting or stopping fraud.
They have a completely different view of the Citizens. They DO NOT see us as the Constitutional Owners of the USA or the state you live in and to whom they are accountable (because we dont hold them accountable from the business end of a 2A device. If we would, they would stop it.)
Instead, they see us as their subjects from which they can make demands, use election theft, unconstitutional law making and incarceration as forcing functions, to live like royalty on our backs.
Been talking with King Charlie lately?
Blue Univs (redundant?) can also be in that category. The website of my Alma is so awful. It just rolls old stuff into a ‘new’ start page. I noticed it changed the name of the campus DEI office on the start page but it linked to the old one still using specific DEI language. I would love for DOGE to flag it and pull grant dollars for being so cavalier about getting its act together. Calling Mr Balls….😂
Report it!
Good idea!
MaryAnn 😄
And don't forget the taxpayers had to pay Michelle's former college friend to fix the screwed up mess they created and had already been paid for.
Trust the psyop!
The irony of your moniker continues to floor me.
Imagine if Trump could come up with an AI system that could run the entire American government with its soul intention to Make America Great. No corruption, fraud, no two tiers of justice, no sweetheart deals, no insider trading. We could replace the entire government and all of the hacks and be back in the black in no time.
Look at the Bidens for instance. We payed for his hair, we paid for his teeth, we paid for all of his surgeries, his kids to be born, his kids insurance, his transportation, his phones, his utilities, all of their protection, it never ends. Eventually we’ll pay for his final resting place and all of his families as well. It’s like cradle to grave. Imagine a government that truly looked out for just the citizen and their interest. I think we’re on to something.
Having AI judges would be terrific. If you break the law it’s black and white. No more judge who hates Trump so he won’t obey an EO !!
Better make sure the programer is not a democrat.
That’s the crux of the problem: former Twitter employees retrained to process AI (SI) — over our pay grades to decipher. Hope it works to our benefit. Libs want the tyranny of opaque processes like voting by mail in California.
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That all depends on the datasets the AI is trained on. A new administration can "retrain it". This new tech can easily be used to funnel people to being more controlled.
People will know once the "event" is triggered. For now, this 'hammer' is used to hit a nail. At some point, it will be used on people.
N more payouts!
Have you seen the movie "Mercy"? I thought it was a good movie for exploring the ramifications of AI in our justice system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7Djx17l8Y
no. But I guess the title to mean, only a human can give mercy based on experiential judgement.
Could be, but in the movie, they called the AI court system "MERCY", and if you ended up there, you were presumed guilty and had 90 minutes to prove your innocence while being able to leverage all cell phone calls, databases, etc. that were accessible by the AI system. Of course, you were required to have your phones, cameras, databases open for this kind of justice system.
I'm with Lisa on this, AI judges, AI govt. Too many Star Trek episodes about "creators" building a system that had great intentions, original good execution, but bad endings after long periods of misery! Without actually trying it, if America.gov just finds and reports info, we are probably ok for now, but it will be an ongoing battle to keep it from being "improved" into running us.
Before we establish AI/SI judges, let's hear from a few people who have actually worked as municipal, county, state, and federal judges, and learn what kind of judgment is needed to do this work.
Well, if we had that, we would not have a national debt!! I would venture to say all of our problems come from corrupt control freaks that normally have none of their own skin in the game. Same with big corps.
Now THATS science fiction. No crooked judges, cops or elected officials?
Along those lines I was watching Anastasia Cortez blather on ad nauseum about "they" are taking "our" [everything] and my thought was maybe an AI House would be good.
AOC is part of “They”.
I agree. The hypocrisy was stunning.
Maybe by next year it can tell us how much it has reduced the national debt.
I just posted this, but it fits here too. No more insider trading? Ha!
https://theleahfiles.substack.com/p/the-currency-killer-part-iv-the-machine
Mrs. RW
Who is Leah anyway? She came across my feed some time ago, when she was ‘questioning’ Charlie Kirk’s life insurance. I’ve been unable to find anything about her…her name, whatever this IC background she says she has, and certainly no background in economics whatsoever. The link you’ve provided only shows me that she is ‘investigating’ through links at the bottom of that substack, of whatever opinion she apparently aligns with. ???
That’s a great article!
More evidence that Trump isn’t on our side!
Only if you just believe it, without doing any research yourself.
"What I DO know is that she’s anti-Trump, pro Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and normally just that information is enough for me to no longer be interested."
"Research". On the author, not the facts in the article.
Mrs. RW
Ah, never mind. Simple enough to find. She is Renn Leah Pfeiffer, who is the niece, by marriage, of Larry Pfeiffer. That’s the CIA connection I….her uncle by marriage. I don’t know what expertise she has in finance. What I DO know is that she’s anti-Trump, pro Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and normally just that information is enough for me to no longer be interested.
Yes, we are definitely on to something!
I think I might be able to finally get each states' payroll protocols, so I can run payrolls, for any state's businesses. from the convenience of my local office.
I likey!
This could WORK!!!
Credit to Young Frankenstein…
James, me thinks you're on to something 😉
Don't forget the library....
I logged in and asked the new America.gov questions about COLA for Social Security in 2027, Medicare costs next year and how to verify if I am still registered to vote in former states of residence. The information provided took mere minutes vs possible hours to access the correct government websites. This site, America.gov , is user friendly. 🇺🇸 TAW
I'll admit to being tentatively excited by this - especially for my parents and how maddening it is for them to navigate through Medicare. Especially if you are able to use standard language in the query rather then having to take a class in "prompt engineering". Prior to this, I have seen AI as yet another "tech in search of a problem" - the AI assisted search rollout at my company was a disaster, the most common question from the teams was "so AI gives this answer, is it correct?"
Oh man, so true, I have found using Claude maddening with prompts. I have been using GrokBot for three weeks and it's what the others promise. What a time to be alive!!!
That is my response to using AI for legal research too. It seems to me if you are asking questions you do not know the answer to, which after all is why you do legal research, you are taking a risk. Citations to cases and statutes seem to be particularly problematic. Of course the simple solution is to verify the cites.
Agreed - and the "bug / feature" for AI to make up information out of whole cloth when it is unable to find an answer to the prompt is a nightmare. How these tools have not been coded with a simple "I don't know" in responses to queries it can't answer is beyond me.
I started out being skeptical of AI, especially after having experienced some of the hallucinatory behavior.
However, I've found Grok to be invaluable at work for turning state code into human language, for example. You still need to know enough about your subject to spot errors.
Agreed - I think it can be a valuable tool for coding - as long as it's work is checked. My concern is the increase of cognitive offloading - shoot I've seen it over the past 15 years of using GPS rather than manually plotting a route.
You could have gotten that info from free Grok.
So I asked America.gov and ChatGPT if and how to renew my FL CCW. America.gov gave me way more info that ChatGPT. Interesting.
I'm curious. Can you run the same query to Google's Gemini, and also Grok (accessed from the website or as a feature inside X itself.)
From my usage the past year for work and religious purposes, I find this order the best in terms of me trusting what I see. (Trust but verify.)
Grok,
Gemini,
Co-Pilot,
ChatGPT.
(I've also tried some genre specific AI's but for general, I use the above.)
is there a way of getting Grok without going inside of X first? I use Copilot because it's right there all the time.
Yes, grok and america.gov gave me the same answer. Call a human government employee.
Methinks Grok may be involved in some way behind the scenes. I personally do not think that the gazillion (slight exaggeration) satellites Elon is putting up in the sky are all for StarLink access to the internet. Non-terrestrial data centers are more like it. Distributed to avoid a catastrophic event on earth and/or some ASAT weaponry trying to take out some in orbit. He's also into the delusional belief that we are going to die if someone doesn't play around with the atmosphere. So we have the bad geo-engineers, and the clueless geo-engineers.
Who do I call to complain? If I use America.gov, will it bring the black SUV guys to my front door faster? I think the new "SI" acronym may stand for "Silence Innocents". Maybe the people showing up will look like those British toadies harassing grandma's for a tweet the government doesn't like?
Medicare sent out their 2027 info booklet. You could have looked there...????
I’m pretty sure that lovely “booklet” gets read by exactly no one. I’m still working but just reached “Medicare” age and what little exposure I had previously was from helping my in-laws. It’s so complicated and obtuse that I don’t see how any sensible person can figure out what to do, much less one in their 80s or 90s. And the number of rules, and oh, by the way it kicks in 6 months retroactively, so if you’ve contributed to your HSA for the last 6 months that would be illegal so you’ll have to pay that back!!!? Like who made this so damn complicated??? Fortunately, as a still covered by insurance individual, I’ve kicked that can down the road another few years. But hopefully by then, the new website will be in full swing and will make it less painful. 🤞
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O Yahweh, be my helper.”
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
That my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
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Time to worship at a data center.
I guess I didn't appreciate how big a deal this new U.S. government website was. Here's hoping they are also working on spotting fraud, like when 42 companies are running a hospice company all out of the same address. Seems like that would be an obvious tip off, but our government has been missing this scam signal for years.
My question since DOGE started has been ‘why on earth are the government systems so antiquated?’ How on earth can someone be getting SSI at 130 and nobody is flagged to check it? How can one person be getting SNAP in 2 states? All that stuff should have been modernized years ago. Glad to see this website, I hope it’s the beginning of something great.
Nobody was getting SSI at 130. That was a lie. The 130-year olds are in the database archive.
I’m aware. My point was why was that not identified and corrected, it’s obviously incorrect in some way. And identifying and correcting errors like that should be a normal part of the process.
On the SNAP question, that's probably because states run their separate systems and there may be limitations on the feds linking them up, or even having access to them.
They should be able to at least compare across states, otherwise it’s ripe for fraud… as we’ve seen.
That is one of the things I like about it. It should leave the digital equivalent of a paper trail. Banks have been doing this for years.
Diane the prior administrations were missing the fraud on purpose by the US government branches. Along with local grift by local politicians and gov workers.
Corruption at the top roles down. There were gov. people and citizens that raised concerns and they were shut down and ignored.
Like the guy who’s been ripping off the Military insurance! How the H___ does that not get caught!!??!! 🤯
I would say they could’ve figured that out without AI, if they had tried. Databases holding that info have been around a very long time.
That’s my thinking exactly! Should have been done 20 years ago.
TAW: all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate.
Highest real median household income in history
Atlanta Fed estimates economy growing at 5 percent annual rate
Child poverty fell to just 13.4%, the lowest official rate ever recorded.
Hispanic poverty fell to 13.9%
Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1%
Construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5%
The burgeoning boom “the greatest story never told.”
Conservatives: Don't buy the left’s lies.
Clinton: Manufacturing is gone forever. China would build; we would consume. Russia and the Middle East would supply the energy. Europe would regulate. America would borrow, import, and manage its “inevitable” decline and displacement by more dynamic powers.
Trump rejected every part of that nonsense.
Social Security drying up…
What IF Reindustrialization and PRODUCTIVITY keep on this projection for even just next 10 years..... discover, discover. Utilize human mind's creativity for good. Overcome the destroyers, liars. [I recognize the spiritual battle, but I pray for the grace and goodness to revive.]
What if......reindustrialization is going to be few jobs because of tech and automation. Even with a significant economic boom, $40 trillion ain't going away any time soon, especially when our amazing business guru Trump thinks we should keep blindly shoveling record amounts of money to the un-auditable pentagon.
Me too
Ask Congress what they did with the SS $$$$$....
The Social Security Trust Fund? Ha!!
American.gov is giving me Big Brother vibes.
Big Brother is, and has been, here since the Patriot Act was enacted. At least.
yes, and now all the flocking cameras!!
From what I am reading the cameras are used to build profiles on drivers. And that information ultimately belongs to the company, not the municipality employing the camera.
So a corporation now has my data to sell to the highest bidder. Maybe your car insurance company? “Sorry Karen but we have evidence your were speeding 100 different times, ran 12 red lights, etc in the last 6 months so you have been deemed an unsafe driver and your insurance premium just went up 20%.” Of corse that could also happen thru car tech too.
Trump recently said he likes flock cameras. I'm shocked (not)
Yep. 100%. It will be where people are told to turn when the "event" that ushers in digital currency, social credit scoring, and full surveillance gets activated. People will be "comforted" by accessing Super AI and it tells them everything is fine and it'll take care of you.
But if that ‘event’ is the rapture? Will it matter to many of us here?
The idea of dispensationalism/rapture as put forth by the Left Behind types is a recent phenomena and not how the church and the vast majority of Christians have understood eschatology for millennia. It gave Kirk Cameron some employment but shouldn't be looked at seriously. Christ will come back once-for-all. That's it. Then the Final Judgement. Jesus isn't going to be sitting on a throne in the Middle East like Solomon for years doing diplomatic things. The idea of a rapture where others just have to live then on earth with all the good people removed doesn't even make logical sense, and is heartless. We are in the age of the church now. Christ's grace is available to all either directly or through what has been revealed via Natural Law to those who haven't heard the Gospel. St. Paul does write about suffering often and how it can be a participation in Christ's sacrifice. I've know a number of "rapturists" who basically have a 'well at least I got mine' kind of attitude and get 'comfortable', instead of working the vineyard hard to make sure satan loses his grasp on every soul possible, and Jesus wins another soul for eternity.
God did remove Noah and family before destruction, God did remove Lot from Sodom before destruction. So there is that.
God is building a Kingdom in the earth, not flying people out of here to go play harps on clouds while He destroys everything. Besides if people all over the world start floating up to the clouds being “raptured” then they will all be going “up” in different directions depending where on the globe they are.
Just smash your computer and phone. There are sunglasses on Amazon that block the infrared light that CCTV uses to do facial recognition. I bought a pair for around $12 but they’re extremely dark and pretty impractical for nighttime forays into public if you want to hide from Big Brother. Also get rid of your credit cards and use only cash or bartering.
The Hartford Health Care conglomerate has gone “no cash” at all their facilities.
When I tried to pay cash for my PT appointment at the facility, I was told I could pay by card or be billed. When I called Administration to complain, I was told “it was an unpopular decision.” Obviously they DO NOT CARE.
Of course the next time I visited, the card reader was non-functional, so I couldn’t pay at all!
Choose the "Bill me" option and pay by check.
The overlords hate checks almost as much as they hate cash.
We are dealing with IRS hassling us, because we sent in a paper income tax form and paid by check, instead of doing it online.
Mrs. RW
Except I recently heard a story about all the check washing and numerous people like me had money stolen from checks in the mail. I’m not well informed on how it works exactly but use ball point pens to write checks?
Big Brother is giving you govt. Vibes.
Don't be a doomer. Exciting changes and massive increases in productivity are coming, which will bring wealth with it.
Absolutely. I keep thinking.... even the elect if that were possible
I'm more worried in terms of hacking. Just about every sensitive computer system you can think of has been hacked into. Imagine, now that's it's one big system with nearly infinite rewards for those who can get in...
There are never enough things to worry about. I worry about a nearby supernova bombarding us with life extinction gamma rays, the eruption of the Yellowstone super caldera, a near earth object that crashes into the earth like the one that doomed the dinosaurs, or AOC being elect president in 2028.
I wondered for quite a while if John Thune and President Trump had a secret plan all along to "sabotage" and hold off on the SAVE Act votes. Thune certainly got a lot of grief and threats of future primarying on it. It would be wild if this forced vote on voter ID required nationwide coupled with anti insider trading puts any no vote senators in a horrible position right now. October surprise?
Yeah. That crossed my mind too. If this is right, then Thune took a load of abuse but never wavered.
Except the timing so close to the mid-terms seems odd.
The timing is interesting, certainly. Every Democrat voting against it, including the insider trading piece is a potential cudgel in the last few weeks of the election. Makes litigation against it harder this close to election, if it passes. The effort to stop voter ID looks really bad .
Seems unlikely to me. Thune has pushed back against PDJT too many times.
Wait a minute…married
Women and black people can’t use a computer, right? In California all govt forms have to be in 20 languages. What about braille for the blind?
On a serious note I spent over a month with 4 separate federal agencies and 2 local agencies this spring arranging my father-in-law’s military funeral. And 3 months trying to obtain a copy of my own military medical records( no joy). Hopefully this new information initiative will lessen those kinds of burdens for all including us deplorables.
LOL of the day:
“My most recent renewal visit involved first stopping for a Walgreens passport photo that bore a stunning resemblance to a Pinellas County mugshot.”
The instructions SPECIFICALLY say NOT to smile, so yeah... you look like an inmate from the get-go.
I keep reminding myself that everything AI "knows" was originally sourced by a human. Combining that with "I'm from the government and am here to help" does not give me warm fuzzies.
And when ChatGPT is making up answers??? It’s terrifying that people are believing whatever AI tells them. I asked for a Russian dialog to be translated and it made up the outcome of the dialog. And when I typed in that the outcome wasn’t correct…AI said “I apologize I made that part up. I summarized the findings myself. Next time I will do better and use facts”. 😱 Not once but twice has it actually apologized for making stuff up when I typed in I only want the facts! And while I’m preparing taxes and ask what form I need for certain things, it is wrong a lot! 🤦🏼♀️ We are a gullible pack of trained seals who clap on command. We have not learned from the past. We will repeat history mistakes.
same experience here, but after apologizing it would go right back to making up stuff.
Yup. And people are eating it up. The govt pushes it and the trained seals eat it up. Remind us of another time when the govt pushed something and people ate it up without a thought of their own? 🤔
Gosh, golly. Can't think of a time. They wouldn't BS us, would they? Hah!!
And yes, making stuff up is beyond the pale. Heck of it is that could almost certainly be programmatically prohibited if the HUMAN writing this stuff cared the do so. Could be oversight, or could be intentional. Cynical me goes for the latter.
You know, in the seemingly ancient world of books, becoming more ancient faster and faster, we have a fairly clear delineation between fiction and non-fiction. Not as if that isn't precedent or anything. . . And I have 2 books active almost all the time, almost never of fiction. Can't remember the last fiction I read. Too much out there for my 81-year-old mind to learn yet before I croak. :-)
Yup.
Hah! That apology was like a mugger apologizing as he is running away and keeping your watch. I have used AI on a very limited basis, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to avoid it as search engines are increasingly embracing it.
And the fact that it MADE UP STUFF and passed it off as fact! Shouldn’t that be enough to say woah woah woah? Nope.
Reminds me of people who used to say “Snopes says” well who is “snopes”? 🙄
Interesting! My wife uses Chat a lot, and I'm hearing similar complaints from her. However, so far ChatGPT is good at stock analysis as far as companies go, for things not controversial. Information collecting and collating which would take days now is here in five and ten seconds. Kind of takes my breath away.
Nonetheless, I'm thinking that the AI companies/searches are and will be the new gatekeepers. And the greatest tool of Mind Control ever invented.
I agree. It is amazing what can be done. But, the fact that billions of people would need a “how to” lesson in using AI correctly -pppfffttt. The trained seals will clap at any information that is spit out.
And it’s really disheartening to think the new gatekeepers are the very ones that censored Americans, Trump, kicked people off their platforms with no way to resolve the problem because they refused to staff humans (intentional btw) and now are being ushered in to make billions off the peasants who use it. 🙄 Sorry. But seeing zucker*uck standing next to Trump all the time
Makes me want to vomit. The man is a snake, a liar and a criminal. Yet he is the very ones that tasked with being a gatekeeper? 🤮
He is STILL censoring fakebook! Community notes that STILL try to peddle lies.
I know the train left the station and it’s barreling down the tracks. Forgive me if I’m not one of the trained seals clapping.
1) So, and live long enough, and study and/or experience enough, and life is a bittersweet pill. And there are a lot of sadnesses in life, as well as exhilarations (and almost everyone remembers falling in love and hanging on every precious word uttered!) And so, I look at the unholy mess surrounding, and I say to myself, "What else is new."
2) Forever Trumpers or Never Trumpers, what is the difference? The are just cult behavior coming from opposite ends of the stick. And as Michael Yon says, "The cult one is in is the hardest one to see." And there is a lot of blindness among the sighted. And no one will ever be innoculated against blind spots.
3) And from the very beginning I have noted that nobody comes from a relative nowhere and gets on the national debt stage and the ballot in every state with just the support of regular folks. And impossibility. And so folks, and all of you reads, just think some. (And yes, will the Real Donald J. Trump please stand up.
4) No one in power can ignore power, money and influence. This is a given. But, and its a big one, the 'little people' should make enough noise and rumble in the jungle ... so much so as we the little people cannot be ignored and plain run over.
5) The focal point should be on self and home education smart, enough to figure out how the game is being played. Sending kids to public school is sending kids to slaughter (even so, many in spite of the really bad odd manage to figure out and to begin to see through the lies.
6) It will never be a perfect world. But I would like to see it on balance much better than the degenerated cesspool which the United States has become.
Right there with you! Making stuff up... Seriously?!? I can do that myself.
Sunnydaze,
Well don't be a trained seal.
You have agency and personal responsibility for how you interact in the world. Verify then trust.
I use Grok since I feel it’s not as duplicitous as Chat.
We are now closer to "I'm from the government and am here to help. Just sign up for digital currency, total surveillance, and social credit scoring so we know you aren't one of the '-ists', and you can have your universal-basic-income and freedom to move about the country." This site makes the coming "event" more controllable when it comes to public uprising.
Heh. In some states, all one has to do to open the personal data gates is have a driver's license.
Well, if you can encapsulate the institutional knowledge of old-timers, and reduce time having to deal with new employees who don't know anything, then this can be good at reducing government employment numbers and costs. My wife has to navigate this issue in California pretty consistently. And they passed legislation that says AI can't take gubmint jobs away.
Puts me in mind of the 1999 film, "The Iron Giant".
Good morning y'all, from the sunny South!
Good Morning from very hot So. Calif. Where summer just doesn't want to give up it's mighty grip. I'm so ready for Fall!
Morning DN. We have autumn weather in NE KS.
Hi from Johnson County Kansas!
Back at you from Shawnee County 😉
Hello from Raleigh, NC! Home of the worst AG/Gov Roy Pooper!!
Happy Wednesday all - gonna heat up a bit in NoVA - then back to fall. 🍁🍁🍁
Good morning! Still hot in Houston but changes are coming, or so the weather forecasters promise us.
I think local and state court systems will fight this type of streamlining & modernization that Trump has created at the Federal level with all their energy. If court rules and forms were standardized at least across each state it would make things easier, but they insist, county by county to do things their own way. It does keep lawyers and paralegals working, but there are some legal issues that shouldn't be that difficult to deal with.
I'll be curious to also see if this system will make it easier to detect the fraudsters who have relied heavily on bureaucracies that do not communicate with each other.
ADM
It is already happening. Digital footprint, like it or hate it, it has been here for years.
The prior administrations just used it to keep their grift and people in line.
Trump is using it for the American good.
I for one like seeing all the fraudsters that have already been caught.
Operation Economic Outcast that Scott Bessent put into place could of been done long ago.
So.....about trying to renew my passport.
I made the appointment to go to the Post Office, some 50 miles away since it was the closest one that had an appointment available within the next 2 months. I had EVERY. SINGLE. FORM. and even copies of EVERY. SINGLE. FORM. along with my expired passport. I also paid the extra $60 to expedite the process.
I was the 2d appointment, meaning I had to leave my house at the crack of dawn.
I give all the paperclipped copies and originals to the postal dude. And off I went.
I get a notice from the passport office in the hinterland that my packet was missing my expired passport. I called the number and explained to passport-dude that it was included with the packet and that I have copies of it, if needed.
Time passed.
About 2 months later, I get a manila envelope from the Houston Passport Office. Included was all of the paperwork I had submitted and a stock letter stating that they could not fulfill my request for a new passport due to the fact that I had failed to include my expired passport. Included was a form to report my passport lost/stolen. Also included in the packet was.......wait for it.......my expired passport. UGH!!!!!
My passport story is similar to yours. I was applying for a passport in 2017, had all the required documents etc but was told that certified birth certificates and so on were not sufficient documentation (!)
I eventually had to submit documentary proof of my early life, which could include but were not limited to expired driver's or professional licenses, college IDs, newspaper clippings that showed my photo and name.
Going back through my memorabilia, I did indeed find all sorts of stuff going back as far as a local news story for a girl scout award at age 11. Submitted it all and eventually got my passport.
I suspect it was my FBI file from high school that slowed it all down (possible Cuban hijacker; not joking).
Hope you were not planning on any trips in the near future!
Right, the problem is the government employees, not the government websites, although the websites are not great either. I have been trying to get some information from OPM for months and I have just given up. By the way, I renewed my passport on-line before without any problems.
I had to renew my passport a year ago. I did it on my phone, including the pictures! The hardest thing was to find good lighting on a white wall in my house 😅
My wife renewed her passport a couple months ago. Took the picture with an app (PhotoAiD) that ensured it met the requirements, cost was the same as Walgreens. Submitted everything online. Had a new passport in the mailbox in 10 days. We were amazed how quickly and easily it was done.
Save the $. I took my photo with my phones regular camera for nothing. It would tell you immediately if it was not good enough. My background was too dark in the first.
Hey @Jeff Childers thank you for work all these years. Can you help us get the word out about the Roundtable? https://nursesoutloud.substack.com/p/the-nurses-story-the-victims-story
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