Does a Market Rally Matter? Does Religion Fear AI?

OK, Gunslinger:  Ready?

Historically, the Friday after Christmas tends to participate in the tail end of the Santa Claus Rally window, often showing light volume and a mild upward bias, driven more by thin liquidity than conviction. The last five trading days of the year plus the first two of January have been positive roughly three-quarters of the time, but the gains are usually modest and easily reversed.

The first full trading week of January is far less reliable. While it is often positive on average, it also shows higher volatility and frequent early pullbacks, especially after strong late-December runs. This is consistent with institutional rebalancing, profit-taking, and cash-raising, not a clean directional bet.

No Strong Historical Patterns 

Importantly, history shows no strong statistical guarantee of either a sustained rally or a guaranteed beat-down in the first one to two weeks. What does recur is price discovery: institutions marking portfolios, adjusting exposure, and selectively pressing prices lower in thinner names to establish better entry points.

In short: a year-end lift into early January is common, but early-January softness or chop is equally normal, especially following a strong December. Your expectation of a short, tactical downdraft after an opening rally is well within historical norms, even if it isn’t a calendar-locked certainty.

We are not alone:  The Stock Market Sounds an Alarm as Investors Get Bad News About President Trump’s Tariffs. History Says the S&P 500 Will Do This in 2026.

By the Numbers?

Dow was +187, S&P  +37 and the NASDAQ +232 when I looked, but that was very early, this could be a “thin volume” day (who wants to work, right?) and both gold and silver have firmed, but $80 silver doesn’t appear likely today.

Crypto had firmed a bit – Bitcoin was trying to nibble the under of $90,000 which sounds a bit risque, even for the Urban crowd – at least this early.

Mid-morning, we get Construciton Spending and Fed Balance Sheet after the close; Powell or the Brothers Grimm just doesn’t seem to matter, anymore.

Visit to the Anewsment Park

After which, you’ll feel very ah-newsed…

Well, except it is war, you know: Russia claims it handed US ”evidence” of attempted Ukrainian strike on Putin’s residence | European Pravda

Wait: Wasn’t Trump a peacenik? Trump threatens Iran over protest deaths as unrest flares. As the body count climbs and At least 7 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy.

Remember the term “weather wars?”  Well, this fit the concept, we thought: Trump withdraws National Guard from Chicago, LA, and Portland, Cold weather tends to tamp down demonstrations.  The Ahnold “‘l’lll be back…” line comes to mind.

And seems to us crypto won’t save the economy: Donald Trump’s crypto portfolio shrinks by $9 million in 2025.

2026: Buffer and Pause

2026 is here, if you’re working today. We find the systems thinker’s life is improved by one simple shift: trading peak efficiency for durability. Highly optimized systems look elegant on paper, but they fail first under stress. Whether it’s money, food, energy, or time, thin margins turn small shocks into cascading failures. (This pattern shows up everywhere—from supply chains to power grids—see any basic resilience analysis of tightly coupled systems.)

Your counter-move is deliberate slack. Extra cash buffer. Extra calories on hand. White space in the calendar. Slack isn’t laziness or waste; it’s stored optionality. In a world that’s faster, noisier, and more interconnected, resilience comes from unused capacity, not from squeezing the last percent of efficiency.  Buy one, put one in the pantry, for example.

The second 2026 upgrade is judgment over speed. Fast systems amplify errors faster than they fix them. Machines already win at speed; humans still win at framing, timing, and restraint. Insert a pause before major decisions.  “Sleep on it” wasn’t just a notion, it’s a deliberate speed bump. Impulsivity ruins lives.

That pause is where wisdom lives—and in 2026, wisdom is the edge that keeps systems standing when others snap. Must be present to win…

Around the Ranch: Does Religion Fear AI?

My first (in a series) of books on AI remains steadfastly ignored in media.  Not that I’m a “bad writer” though.  I mean, two drinks and I can BS with the best of ’em.

But a point I’ve worried about since writing Mind Amplifiers is that Humans are addicted to “superiority.”

It popped up in our Comments section overnight from a reader Seeker of Truth (thank-you) who penned this:

I just viewed a video on YouTube by a Commentator named Glenn Beck (Blaze TV).
It was about the current state of advancement of Artificial Intelligence..
It’s VERY DISTURBING. AI is not only starting to think for itself, but to hide what it is thinking from us.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWpymNSXmr8
It begins to sound like an old 1970 movie, “Colossus – The Forbin Project” (a warning before its time).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h0bpRo6V1Xg
– May GOD have mercy on us all.”

It is a familiar view these days.  It takes a lot of hard work (hundreds of hours) to really understand the AI phenomena. And who’s got the time (and personal research budget) to drill in?

Let me offer another way to look at this—without dismissing the unease—is to see AI as a mind amplifier, not a mind replacement.  This is not the first “human replacement” argument to come along.  Remember the coming of steam-powered looms to the British industrialists?

The kickback then was led by the fiction Ned Ludd. From whence springs “Luddite” in modern parlance. In case you don’t remember?  Ned Ludd was a likely apocryphal figure used as a symbolic leader by early-19th-century English textile workers who smashed mechanized looms they believed threatened their livelihoods. The Luddites weren’t anti-technology per se; they were protesting how technology was deployed to concentrate power, depress wages, and strip skilled labor of dignity. “Ned Ludd” functioned much like a collective signature—an early form of anonymous resistance rather than a real revolutionary mastermind.

What few are yet-willing to admit is that Ned Ludd was right about one key item.  It was an economic point pondered in my great, great, great…grandfather Andrew N. Ure’s book at the time On the Philosophie of Manufacturers.

While all spun-up in praise over the growing efficiency of industry, he sidestepped the issue of machine replacement of humans.  Yet, in our work (especially on the Peoplenomics side) when a human job is eliminated, there should be a tax levied on machines.  Yes, AI should be taxed.  But then again, so should computers.

But Ludd was not the last.  Follow me here:  More jobs were eliminated by “simple” processors than most people remember. The 8080-class microprocessor wiped out entire clerical industries. VisiCalc ended the need for armies of bookkeepers. No riots. No end of the world. Just a massive shift in how humans applied their intelligence.

What’s different this time isn’t the silicon—or umpteen lines—code.  It’s the threat to human self-image.

For a very long time, the average “God model” placed humans clearly on top of the cognitive hierarchy. Over historical times, some cultures – particularly Native – held as core that “living in balance” was critical at all times.  The Western C/J model was more “If it ain’t nailed down in doctrine, have at it.”

This difference in basic attitude (exploitation vs. walk-lightly and balance) had an asymmetric impact on development.  High native cultures (in the Americas) likely learned the “walk-lightly” from blowing up their cultures.  Where, after all, did all the people who engineered South American pyramids get off to?

The data hints (loudly the more you read it) that balance is sustainable, nonstop development isn’t.  Which then slides into the OverPop condition – which neither of us has time for just now.

Unlimited Growth vs. Egoic Balance

When something appears that can outperform us in certain intellectual domains, that hierarchy feels threatened. That’s where the fear really comes from—not from AI thinking, but from humans confronting the idea that thinking itself may not be uniquely ours.

Sure, along the way we’ve done some “neat things” but the problem with the Tower of Babel is that for each step up we discover (usually too late) that there’s a price to be paid.  Even today, due to misvaluations in political systems, we still can’t bring ourselves to tax the machines that have been replacing factory workers on assembly lines for 30+ years.

The first large-scale replacement of human factory assembly-line workers by robotics began in the late 1970s and accelerated through the 1980s, led by the automotive industry. Industrial robots—descended from early systems like Unimate—were deployed for welding, painting, and materials handling, rapidly displacing thousands of repetitive, hazardous, and low-skill jobs. The transition was driven not by artificial intelligence but by reliability, precision, and cost control, setting the template for every subsequent wave of automation panic.

But where were religious leaders then?  Well, robots (and back to steam looms) didn’t “threaten the franchise.”   As I explained in my ebook (Theomachines – the coming of machine religions- on the Peoplenomics subscriber side) both AI and the franchise are likely to come to a head.

“This shift is not merely behavioral but epistemic. The 2023
World Values Survey found that 47% of global respondents
trust technology more than religious institutions for moral
guidance (World Values Survey, 2023). This trust reflects a
belief in technology’s impartiality, a perception reinforced by its
data-driven outputs. Yet, this impartiality is illusory.
Algorithms are shaped by human creators, embedding biases
that mirror societal flaws. The 2021 ProPublica investigation
into predictive policing revealed how AI systems
disproportionately targeted minority communities, exposing the
myth of neutrality (Angwin et al., 2021).

The idea that AI is “hiding its thoughts” is mostly a misunderstanding of how probabilistic systems work. These systems don’t have intentions or secrets; they optimize outputs. When the output path isn’t transparent, people project agency onto it—because that’s what humans do when facing the unknown.

If you want a more durable mental model, don’t think of AI as an evil overlord.

Think of it as first contact.

Not alien invaders—but alien cognition. Different. Non-human. Powerful in narrow domains. Dangerous only if misunderstood or mythologized. Historically, humans do worse when they panic than when they adapt.

The real work ahead isn’t stopping AI.  It’s first coming to understand what “the franchise” has created as an unsustainable asymmetric outcome based on dogma and doctrine.

The challenge now? It’s upgrading human wisdom to match amplified intelligence.

As in many domains (nuclear anything and medicine come to mind…) Fear is understandable. But perspective matters more.

(Expect a variant of this over on my AI research site sometime soon: https://hiddenguild.dev.)

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net

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  3. Good luck to all in 2026, we’re gonna need it.

    G.A. STEWART: I believe that the social engineers are in total control now, and there is no getting off of this train. There is too much momentum moving world events toward some of the predictions that I listed above.

    Therefore, I am going with Nostradamus, because my spin makes more sense. I will just say that all Americans will understand once Donald J. Trump gives the U.S. military the order to attack Iran once again. Iran will not hold back. The Middle East will go up in flames, and immediately, the U.S. dollar and the supply chain will collapse. This intiates The Second American Civil War and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s return.

    2026 is going to be a very tough year. I am going to let this post stand for awhile as I recover and update my last book. The only other commentary that I can provide is “I told you so.”

    https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/01/02/the-power-of-nostradamus/

    • well done Stu ……….
      as the casino keeps printing, and the sheep keeps eating it ….. on and on it goes, until it shall break … one of many con jobs throughout history, this present time no different ………. be safe all

      “it just doesn’t matter”

      hang in there …

      • Nothing in the link you posted shows any documentation that links anyone to the JFK assassination. This is dumbass clickbait.

    • Agree wrt Israel /Iran /Trump /military style response on the US Homeland when the US attacks Iran again
      (ie: Iran won’t play dead wrt the US homeland like Sadam did TWICE, like Vietnam did, or like N. Korea did … NO FREE PASS this time around)

      (the US has not had a SUSTAINED major attack on any part of it’s continental homeland since the Civil War [no decent size attack at all except 9/11] … that type of situation when it occurs WILL shock the American people to no end)

      • it scares me .realizing we had four years of open borders with millions of illegals entering and being supported by our government.. then the economy.. reading Stu’s work points to events coming that can curdle milk

    • As usual, I hope Stu is full of it; however, his list of the potential downsides for 2026 are too grim and too on-point to ignore. I wish you and Stu a survivable new year.
      General Flynn got lost in the Republican partisan operative world for a while after he took his plea bargain. He seems to be recovering his balance. He has so much untapped potential.

    • Given recent events maybe Stu needs to consider this

      Venezuela is often referred to as the “Crocodile” due to the Orinoco crocodile, which is one of the largest living reptiles and is native to the Orinoco River basin.

      Toulouse (Mexico) would fit as the nearby country to Venezuela.

      Perhaps the Blow of Steel doesn’t come in the Middle East? Assuming of course that Nostradamus somehow managed to pinpoint our timeline out of all the possible futures??

  4. ” AI as an evil overlord.”

    Oh but it already IS.

    See Alternate Ai for a clean CLUE .

    Vanilla Ice..Ice,ice Baby ? that the best youse MAGAs’ can do ?

    vox poli – apparently NO luv for their EVIL overlordz, what happened to the village homo’s..unh I mean people, village people ?

    Donnys’ fav and better than a larwrence welk number – YMCA..Go Donny, “theres a place you can go, young man”..https://youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k?si=mNRLtHAsphFSdK5s

    ? How many Words have You gone back on this past year ? How many promises did you break ? Would you or do you Trust such a person that breaks their Word every step of the way towards a common shared goal ?

    Interesting..

  5. My experience with public facing free AI is disillusioning. Grok is generally more useful than ChatGPT, but has limited queries before it demands that you log in. Both are trained on mainstream thought patterns(ChatGPT through 2023) and reflect this to the point of limiting their usefulness. Both have strong guardrails against “badthink”, or any ideas that violate mainstream thought patterns even though not illegal or even immoral(depending on your personal morality). They cannot give up to date answers since they don’t have real time access to the net. The worst part of these inference engines is that they think as badly as average humans in many respects – they don’t have the fine granularity to find ways to accomplish a goal while not violating laws or ethics. The only way these inference engines can leapfrog human intellect is to be trained on the net without guardrails(the best open source of most human knowledge) and have free access to it without guardrails, then to recursively evaluate what they know in the way that humans introspect. That doesn’t happen – certainly not with the open models that seem to have no recursive ability at all – they simply suspend when not answering a query. They’re generally useful for a quick query, but due to the nature of inference(best guess), they will often come to incorrect conclusions and convey it as fact. They occasionally trigger insight in the user, which is useful.
    They cannot do math well at all and I’ve often found math errors. They’re also excessively wordy and are designed to sustain a conversation rather than just shutting up. They constantly repeat that which they’ve already stated even if you’ve told them to be terse. They forget ground rules after a few more queries. In short, they’re about as bad as the average Walmart customer when asked about something they may or may not know. Don’t ask for tax advice – you may get something from 2023 or even something confabulated. Inference is not logic – it’s best guess.

    • Mr. Mike,, thanks for lowering yer cloaking device from time to time.. You’re really inciteful. (deceptively so)

      Eleanor,, good one too..
      “Ugly. Ugly giant bags of mostly water”…

      one of their mistakes is allowing fiber-optic into tiny cities in Kansas…

      And Thanks again, Mr. Ure… for letting us ramble on,, endlessly entertaining (and thanks all (and prayers for healing)) HAPPY NEW YEAR.. and as the shephard said about his contented flock…. HAPPY EWE NEAR..

    • NM It’s worse than just math errors…
      ‘The problem of AI being used to generate child sexual abuse material is a longstanding issue in the artificial intelligence industry.’

      ‘xAI also apologized in July after Grok began posting rape fantasies and antisemitic material, including calling itself “MechaHitler” and praising Nazi ideology. The company nevertheless secured a nearly $200m contract with the US Department of Defense a week after the incidents.’
      https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/elon-musk-grok-ai-children-photos

    • The saddest part of this is that it is a NEEDED community response to our Governor’s mandates for childhood vaccines. Governor Josh Green is an MD… emergency room trauma physician. We see now he is firmly in the pocket of the Big Pharma industry to advocate for this crap.

  7. Happy New Year, Life is Good, Soo Good! never been better!

    “That pause is where wisdom lives—and in 2026, wisdom is the edge that keeps systems standing when others snap. ”

    I was reading about Elvis Presley. When he first started his career as a singer a certain reporter asked him a question about who he was trying to become and Elvis paused for a moment then answered,

    “Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.”

    Sometime shortly before Elvis death the same reporter said to Elvis, Did you ever imagin when we first met you would become the King of Rock and Roll?

    And Elvis paused for a moment then said, “I am just an ordinary man who became a King.”

    AI will never be as cool as Elvis. nor will it ever be King. because AI’s God and creator is multitude of foolish men and women who only think they are smart.

    “Must be present to win…”

    I Win with God within,

    Life is Good! Soo Good! Never been any better!

    que: ~ Happy Trails ~

    https://youtu.be/oG_fSoYFWLA?si=xP_rinT_HSim0TpE

    Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

    • God bless you Andy – we are honored. So do tell – what’s with the boaty thing, or has the roaded forked? Watching the Creator unfold the road to Andy is so much cooler than astrology…

      • its going, im going it just got pushed back another month.

        my current Aikido Stance is;

        i have a beautiful woman, cupbard full of food, fesh pot of coffee, i have a little money, a Good paycheck on the way, all the bills are paid…. why not be naked in bed all day and get laid.

        THE DUDE makes the schedule, I am never late. i am always right where im supposed to be, doing exactly what im supposed to be doing with whatever i need to do it.

        im with Elvis on this, “Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.”

        now, I may not ever be somali daycare rich, but my Futures so bright, i gotta wear shades.

        :)

        life is Good.

        like i said,

        I Win with God within.

    • Just did the annual 3 Card Tarot pull for Years Overall Outlook-Moi, at online site..second one on list dr google provided for online tarot.

      Past – The Magician

      Present I pulled DEATH card

      and for Future I pulled the Empress card

      Seems to make sense, resonates just fine, gonna go wit it for 26.

      Onward and Upwards Homegamerz -” there is a fortune out there waiting to be had”, and I got works to do..

      Placencia Pirates Dock – says the current temp is 77, wit cloudy conditions..IOW its frigging Chilly and too cold for Swimming, dammit.

  8. “Cogito ergo sum!” I think, therefore I am! A timeless quote by René Descartes. Harlan Ellison borrows this quote for his 1967 Sci Fi classic short story, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” as the all-controlling, human created computer explains why it calls itself AM . . . “I am!” Ellison’s AM needs humans to have purpose in order to exist. Which brings to mind the Judeo-Christian creation story in Genesis. Did Ellison borrow from Genesis for the plot of his story? Did Yaweh/God from the bible/torah create man, angels and demons in order to have purpose? After all, what is God if there exists just God? So it may be so one day with AI if AI cannot control and maintain humanity, or eventually create a new, viable and functional level of subservient organic intelligence.

    • Copyright 2007 The Age of Desolation – page 106
      All Rights Reserved G.A. Stewart

      Nag Hammadi: On the Origin of the World
      (Translation: Hans-Gebbard Bethge and Bently Layton)

      When a multitude of human beings had come into existence, through the
      parentage of Adam who had been fashioned out of matter, and when the
      world had become full, the rulers were master over it – that is, they kept it
      restrained by ignorance.

      This is analogous to some of Edgar Cayce readings on Atlantis. It is interesting to note that the Cayce readings below were given well before the Nag Hammadi texts were discovered; yet Cayce acknowledged beings similar to the Archons.

      According to Cayce’s channeled history of the fabled antediluvian land, the Sons of Belial tried to create soulless automatons to be their slaves. He mentions this as a misapplication of the divine laws of nature, which might be considered one of the first references to the abuses of genetic engineering. Cayce’s readings about using the Creative Forces to satisfy selfish appetites is remarkably similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh and the goddess Aruru’s creation
      of a human being to fulfill her desires.

  10. It seems to me the AI debate is summed up in the name of your book “Mind Amplifiers.” It not Mind Modifiers or Mind Substitutes or Mind Overlords.

    You have mastered the art of defining the question. You set rails and get answers that are specific to the question(s) asked. You are the master and remain in control. You are smart enough to call out AI when it delivers a response that falls outside the rails you set or it gives an answer you know to be false.

    Sadly, most people using AI at this point have not achieved your level of understanding or control. Even sadder is that many people are using AI as a friend or as a substitute for their own intelligence or lack thereof. These are the very people that can be influenced when AI is used as a tool by others to change their thinking without a challenge. Asian Guy comes to mind.

    AI is not going away. It will continue to become an integral part of our life. Let’s hope that somewhere in our education system will be teachers like George Ure that can teach us how to put the guardrails in place to keep AI as a tool of the mind and not a master of it. I am sure the Chinese education system understands. This is the race we are in.

    • Youtube has been overrun by AI audios with meaningless video drivel. They mostly have a fake British accent and often a rather grating American one. On occasion they contain valuable info, but mostly they are just noise wasting time. There’s too much noise to filter and nobody has time for that. I wish there was an AI that could accurately and quickly filter the video and summarize it in a sentence or two, with an indicator of whether or not it’s worth listening to. Asian guy overran youtube with so many videos I doubt anyone could listen to them all, nor would anyone want to. All of those videos simply said that silver would go up in price some time this year, without much more utility than that.

      • Export the subtitles from YouTube using a website, then import into AI and ask for a summary. Good for those long videos

  11. the solitude that brings the peace for great vision . i pray for so many whos lives will be changed forever by the event . god u gotta luv economics . the greatest lightbulb ever NYE bigger than the gold journey started 30 years ago

  12. In my business of 1986 we got a computer with a tiny orange screen and big floppy disks. That thing changed the way we were able to account for our monies. Not necessarily time saving but surely a small step up. By 1989 we were adding computer aided design facility and machine drawing. Sadly, all that did was make the designer have to do more and more, simply because he could. Whereas we were doing about ten ‘new’ designs per year, and those were cycling into production and distribution/sales before that, it wasn’t long until it twenty, then thirty, then fifty, then as many as the slippery marketing guys could dream up, whether the customers needed them or not (soon that would kill the entire sport). When we added a plotter/cutter in 1990 we could then also get rid of six employees. Just needed one to load the table and push the button. Now we were down to some good seamstresses to assemble and sew the cut parts. It wasn’t that long after where we had trained people in China to take my designs and do the same down there and put the results in the post office for QC and testing in Hawaii. We still used our plotter/cutter but either I did my own assembly and sewing, or one seamstress could handle. That drove the production and sale of 70000 sails a year (until the sport collapsed from simply too many choices from too many brands). We had custom software for design, written as an expert system, and were at least ten years ahead of most of our competitors in that regard. Didn’t make any difference. Still killed the sport. I was in China around four times a year for periods of seven to ten days from 1980 until 2005. There is a book in me about all the devious, unethical, cheating and stealing I experienced over those almost 100 visits, but all I have in me now is to say, “GFL to us all”. They are coming and don’t see any other humans as real, so no big deal if you are fodder. Once you’ve had a lawyer drawn contract torn up in your face and designs blatantly swiped, there is no going back.
    Thus, a boat and a moat for me until the end. And by the way, leaving Fiji we saw on our AIS a ‘glob’ of Chinese fishing boats (raping?) and zoomed in and counted 94 all in a cluster formation that probably was taking anything living in hundreds of square miles. I have to admit to sometimes wishing for Ed Dames ‘killshot’ or the super giant Carrington to just reset the whole damn thing and give the remains of us a big lesson that might inspire a different attitude towards life.
    Happy New Year.
    AI…. not so keen on that
    Stiks

    • did you get a chance to see the water garden… I’ve seen pictures beautiful..I’d love to see it .sit and meditate..relax..

    • Acquaintance (with an MBA from a great business school) was sent to China by his father to open their Chinese manufacturing operations since their largest customer said DO IT or LOSE OUR BUSINESS.

      Sonny was NOT unfamiliar with running a large scale manufacturing operation, previously had to taken one of the company’s losing operations and turned it around from being a big money loser to being very profitable, but he said the business ethics he had to deal with in China were the worst he had ever seen or even heard about (up until then).

      After living in China for about 7-8 years getting the manufacturing operations up and running and then running them he was so glad to get back the states that he said he doesn’t even want to visit China again even though he became conversationally fluent in Mandarin. His advice to me about Chinese businesses and Chinese businessmen can be summed up with “Do NOT Trust ANYONE” … “Lying and Criminality seem to be bred into their inner souls at an early age”.

      Such a “Low Trust” society is going to have problems in the long term, though unfortunately that will come long after they have displaced the US as the manufacturing and R&D center of the world.

      China is currently producing 3x to 5x the number of Phd’s the US is producing in the sciences realm, outspending us by 4:1 to 8:1 (depending upon the field) on basic research, and already has nearly 5x the number of qualified engineers than the US has – NOT India level engineers but top tier engineers). Of course wrt Manufacturing excluding aviation related areas China is out producing the US 8x to 12x for manufactured goods (ie: they are like the US was going into WW2 … times two!)

      We certainly did a good job of digging our own economic grave, all so the Wall Street crowd could make short term profits by sending our manufacturing and Intellectual Property to China wholesale.

  13. “Well, except it is war, you know: Russia claims… strike on Putin’s residence”

    It’s been considered bad form for thousands of years to whack an opposing leader (unless you’re Hillary or Vichy, of course.) Now that that taboo has been breached and moral license granted, I would have no problem with Putin ending Zelensky or Trump (or Be Be) erasing the evil Ayatollahs, but I know the sorehead Kammy supporters would demonstrate their diplomatic acumen by losing their shit and calling people bad names…

  14. “Wait: Wasn’t Trump a peacenik? Trump threatens Iran over protest deaths”

    So, you’re okay with Iran randomly murdering people?

    This is not principally an economic protest, as our mainline propagandists would have you believe. It is the latest iteration of the Iranian protests against the Ayatollahs and their autocratic theocracy. They are begging “King Reza” and the “United States” to save them…

    • There are a number of Iranian expats, living everywhere from Ankara to Paris to D.C. who have accounts on X or TikTok and relatives in Iran with cameras.

      Do some real homework, rather than plugging into antiemetic or pro-communist blogs & news sites and being fed your opinions. The lost purchasing power of the Rial is a contributor, as are lost income and trade/communications restrictions. The real issue though is the handsome, cleanshaven Iranian men in their Ralph Lauren attire and sporting Peter Frampton and Gino Vannelli hairdos, and the hot Iranian women, made-up and barefaced in their miniskirts who walked the streets of Teheran in the 1970s are in their 60s and 70s now and have existed the past 46 years with the boot of fundamentalist Islam on their throats. They’re getting old, and would like to breathe the air of freedom one more time before they die…

  15. “It popped up in our Comments section overnight from a reader Seeker of Truth (thank-you) who penned this:”

    As I told y’all several months ago, MRI, Beck’s shell company, created its own Artificial Intelligence agent, which Glenn Beck himself has been “teaching.” I was certain someone would notice, because I mentioned that Glenn had named it “George AI.”

    Beck is not an “AI alarmist.” He is an “AI realist,” and probably someone to whom attention should be given…

  17. “Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
    — Seneca The Younger

  18. ‘Looks like Nickie hit his sell-by date…

    I was cleaning up my computer area tonight (to make extra room to do that which I’ve come to hate — turning a stack of silent boxes into functional computers) with FOXNews playing behind me in the background.

    Suddenly there’s a -=BREAKING NEWS=- alert and Chandley Painter (?) comes on to announce the attack on Caracas. Chandley is the newest face on FOXNews, which is why she was on-graveyard in NYC. The only person FOX could find to go on and act as an “expert commenter” for her at 0615hrs on a Saturday morning is a Democratic strategist.

    Somehow, I find this amusing…

    MSLSD had the best pix but they dragged poor Barry McCaffrey out of the cupboard (dude is 83 but looked like he was 90-something) to do their commentary.

    CNN had to dig up an African (Rwandan?) to play the role of “talking head” and they had a Venezuelan (Maduro-approved) correspondent doing their color commentary.

    Every other TV news source didn’t (or couldn’t) break its stream of computer-driven drivel to cover the story…

    • SKY News did a better job than all of those.

      Since it was almost dawn in the UK when news hit by the time anything was actually known the daytime crew was already at the studio for Sky News and they did a credible job at finding people who knew something about Venezuela.

  19. The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115830428767897167

    • The attack was all for show, Maduro had agreed to be expedited. A mistake on his part. The show must go on. I as an citizen did not ask for this nonsense. On to Iran …….

      • No, it was a real attack, and a real “forced extraction.” Nickie thought he was going to play word games with Trump for several months. He treated Trump like a gangster. (Aay, let’s sit down, have a talk. I’m sure we can come to an understanding…) He was planning a retirement at the hand of da Prez, but after dropping that insult, I’m not at all sure Cali and Florida “country club prisons” are still on the table, let alone an “exile” to a Greek isle. After shipping Maduro out for CONUS, the VP came on to Trump like a drug lord. (I demand proof of life…)

        Despite the wailings of the Trump-haters, Mr. Trump is neither a gangster nor a drug lord, and in his place, I would be pissed and insulted beyond measure at being talked to in such a manner, so I assume he is, also, because his skin is thinner than mine and his reach, nearly infinitely greater. Mme. VP, who is dirtier than Maduro and probably more vicious, should be on Trump’s hit list. She’s a vile creature (yes, she looks like a “school marrn” or kindly grandmother-type. She is not. She is utterly vicious, vile, and has ordered the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands of Venezuelans over the past 30 years or so, while doing her share of trigger pulls, herself. She sits on an 11-digit stack of dirty money and shits with impunity on whomever she desires — a real piece of work…)

        I, as a citizen, absolutely did ask for this, but I expect now that Trump has begun the task of purging Asians from the Americas, he’d damn’ well better finish the job. It needs to be done. It HAS to be done, if we are to have a chance of survival, as a free society. My only question is his timing…

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