Donald Trump accused District Court Judge James Boasberg of trying to ‘usurp the power of the presidency’ while demanding the Supreme Court take action amid a high-stakes legal standoff.
Trump called Boasberg a ‘publicity hound’ in his latest attack on the judiciary after the judge halted his massive deportation of migrants with a temporary restraining order.
‘Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the Power of the Presidency,’ he warned.
Trump mocked Boasberg as ‘a local, unknown Judge’ and added that he’s a ‘grandstander, looking for publicity.’
Boasberg on Thursday deemed a court filing from the administration ‘woefully insufficient’ because it was filed by a low-level staffer.
One day earlier, he hosted a contentious hearing with DOJ lawyers and said he wants to find out whether the government ‘deliberately flouted’ his order.
Roberts is up to his eyeballs in this as he is the one who appointed Boasberg to be the top FISA court judge and both knew the reason was to hide FBI spying on Trump’s first campaign and presidency. Much good may come of this because, ironically, neither judge has a shred of legal or moral standing. Their entire careers are irreparably stained by their malfeasance. ABN
When Vice-President JD Vance delivers prepared remarks about Artificial Intelligence, pay attention.
JD Vance is the 2028 presidential candidate of choice for the Technocrats; the current goal is to envelop the MAGA populist movement for the intents and purposes of the collective network of Technocrats.
This motive and intent baseline will not change as Vance positions to replace President Donald Trump.
During a speech to the American Dynamism Summit, JD Vance outlines his optimism for the future of the U.S. economy, as boosted by the technological advances in artificial intelligence.
Within his remarks, Vance correctly notes some voices are saying there is going to be a major fracture between the “Techno-optimists” and the “populists.” However, Vance defines that chasm, and then refutes that fear/concern around jobs, advanced AI, automation, innovation and the economy. He misses what will be the root cause of the fracture completely.
Vice-President Vance notes there is nothing to fear from innovation, artificial intelligence, robotics and advanced industrial application of emerging technology. Indeed, all facets of economic growth through the use of all the aforementioned enterprises are correctly framed by the vice president.
There is nothing to fear on the economic front from the technological advancements currently underway.
Let me repeat, before I get misinterpreted….
Everything JD Vance says about the economic future of the United States, against the backdrop of innovation and AI is accurate. JD Vance is 100% correct. However, that’s not the predictable root cause of the upcoming fracture between the Techno-Optimists (his term) and the MAGA populists.
The fracture is going to come as an outcome of how AI networks with government and then destroys privacy, liberty and ultimately freedom for Americans.
It is not the economic side of the AI system Vance supports on behalf of his benefactors that is problematic; it’s the creation of a compliant surveillance state that flows as a natural outcome of advanced and automated AI systems within a highly weaponized government. That’s the problem. That where the fracture will occur.
Techno-optimists are not paying any attention to how their beloved AI networking can be weaponized in a surveillance state. When you combine fully automated AI data processing with ‘Real ID’, facial recognition software, digital identities created for each American and the motives of govt, you can easily predict what comes next.
The U.S. surveillance system can then be fine-tuned (depending on who is in charge of it) to use the real-time digital and physical identity to control access to systems. Write a Facebook post critical of government, get blocked from your bank account. Do something defined by government as against their interests, lose your access to travel etc.
The problem for Americans is how advanced AI will be deployed under the guise of efficiency to create a comprehensive DHS surveillance state.
The predictable system will automate, connecting every aspect of our lives to our compliance in living that life in the manner approved by those who control the system.
Privacy, freedom and liberty, core fundamental principles of our American system, are replaced with surveillance and defined citizen compliance. These are the pesky issues JD Vance and his Techno-Optimists (Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Ellison, et al) do not want to consider when they think about those pesky ‘proles’ they call “populists.”
Vice-President JD Vance has been constructed as the palatable messenger to calm the fears of MAGA. To calm those AI fears, Vance focuses attention to the well-discussed AI issues around jobs, labor and employment as outlined in his speech.
Listen carefully. However, the issue is not economics, it’s about privacy and liberty.
Reposted in full with permission from Sundance. I definitely see the problem but do not see any way out of it, save we the people having enough free speech to communicate our shared dissatisfaction and thus influence the powers that be. We the plebs have already allowed our civilization to be inundated with incompatible mass immigration, and we have even paid for it. Who is to blame? Not AI.
The Buddhist tradition has long been a ‘render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s’ one. I am black-pilled on our technological future when viewed in terms of the past and assessed with values formed in the past.
My white-pilled, optimistic side envisions digital babies with super-high IQs; AI so good and so well networked, everyone is wealthy and no one needs to be greedy. If everyone is super smart, healthy, and has all they need, the ancient human values of violence, dominance and might makes right, may wither away. All of us are capable of murder but very few ever do it. Several generations of digital babies will produce the finest human beings possible. In their hands AI surveillance will also have the capacity to prevent fraud, group parasitism, evil cabals. Bad as it looks today, I see lots of room for optimism and no matter what, Buddhist practice works in all worlds. ABN
Elon Musk-hating hackers have doxxed Tesla owners in the United States, releasing an interactive map showing their names, addresses, phone numbers and emails.
The disturbing website, called DOGEQUEST, also provides the locations of every Tesla showroom, charging station and the known residences of Department of Government Efficiency employees.
It even lists FBI Director Kash Patel’s home and uses a symbol of a Molotov cocktail as its cursor.
The site’s operators said they will only remove identifying information about Tesla drivers if they provide proof that they sold their electric vehicle amid a national boycott of the car maker.
It is unclear where the hacker got the information about the Tesla owners, but it has caused a lot of concern – with Musk labeling it ‘extreme domestic terrorism.’
‘Encouraging destruction of Teslas throughout the country is extreme domestic terrorism!!’ he wrote on X Tuesday night.
The website says it ‘neither endorses nor condemns any actions.’
‘If you’re on the hunt for a Tesla to unleash your artistic flair with a spray can, just step outside – no map needed,’ it reads. ‘At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.’
I don’t mind being called a conspiracy theorist. The killing of JFK was a conspiracy, and 9/11 was a conspiracy, and I wrote theories on both, so I’m a conspiracy theorist. I don’t reject any conspiracy theory on principle. Even looking into those which are obvious nonsense can teach you something about the extent of human gullibility or about the techniques of cognitive infiltration. So in 2023 I looked into the theory that Brigitte Macron was born a man. I concluded it had a very low probability, and I told Xavier Poussard and anybody who asked for my opinion. But I didn’t want to spend any more time on it.
However, I now feel some kind of responsibility to read and review Xavier Poussard’s book, Becoming Brigitte, published last month with the endorsement of Candace Owens. So I bought the original French version, read it in a day, and posted my first impression on March 12, in an ironic tweet saying: “After 292 pages, the ultimate proof. Come on, believe!”
This is a credible debunking of the theory that Brigitte Macron is a transgender man. I read the whole thing as I highly respect and enjoy Guyénot’s work. Then I read the comments under his article and became less sure again. At best, the Brigitte story is an interesting aside in our world; worth some investment if you like but not terribly important. Whether it is true or false, I will probably continue posting interesting pieces on it when I run across them. Owens is funnier on this topic than Guyénot, for whatever that’s worth. ABN
We accept that USAID was funding left-wing extremism, correct? We also accept that USAID is a front group for the CIA, correct? Yet then a disconnect happens.
Yet, for some reason I do not quite understand, people struggle to realize the two points above mean the CIA control domestic political outcomes.
The CIA is the entity, the IC silo, controlling politics in the USA, and the resistance to the politics -namely Trump- they do not agree with.
This is why I use the restaurant analogy. The CIA is the back of the house, the kitchen.
We hold elections, we change the name of the restaurant. We change the front of the house, the staff, the maître d, we even change the decor (DOGE) and the menu. But the kitchen is the same.
The judicial branch defers to the IC. The legislative branch is fearful of the IC. The executive branch is the front of the house, giving the illusion of change, but nothing really changes.
Until the system is changed, totally and radically reformed to remove the power of the IC, then nothing changes.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Repeal the 17th amendment. Start repealing the tools that created the problem, and only then do we start to free ourselves from this mess.
Eisenhower warned about it. JFK talked about it. Many more people have inferred it and have skirted on the issue, pretending there was some reform process that could be used. All of that well-intentioned inaction leads us to this place where we are now; standing jaw-agape wondering what can be done.
Take down the apparatus. Quit being fearful. Yes, leave us vulnerable to harm, but restore constitutional liberty. The people who weaponize govt use fear, real or imagined, for their purposes.
Take down the national security state. Disassemble the tools (FISA, NSA Surveillance, DHS, DOJ-NSD) and all the mechanisms in place to give the illusion of security.
Ultimately, live a life wrapped in constitutional liberty with the potential for harm always present… but live without the control mechanisms of the IC influencing every facet of life, under the ruse of security.
Find that and you will find the opportunity for freedom.
His reasoning is impeccable, but the highlighted conclusion, alas, is unlikely, probably impossible. Surveillance and control are consequences of technologies invented by humans and also the root technologies of the human brain. Game theory of power strongly indicates that power, once attained, concentrates and seeks control and growth. Hierarchies form naturally based on how our minds work, how social groups form, how languages work, how power inevitably forms hierarchies. Sundance can point to ‘the CIA’ but beyond that surface the deep power in control is not visible. Who in the CIA or who is controlling the CIA?
A relevant aside to this is even the people in control of the CIA, or whatever the deep power center is, can never be certain they are in full control. Some force, some group, some entity or enemy could always depose them at any moment. This is the deep reality that drives the need for ever more power among top people. This same reality is true in China, Russia, Europe, wherever. And this same reality is true between and among all nations and power centers on earth. It has ever been thus.
Another relevant aside concerns people who want to return to kingdoms and royalties because democracy is a failure. I agree democracy is a ridiculous way to run a nation, but also must say the deep state is today the modern version of kings and queens. We just don’t know who they are and they no longer parade in front of us in costumes. Other than that, under the sun it’s the exact same old nothing new as ever.
One last aside is it is possible that a vast surveillance state will work in favor of we the people. A super surveillance AI control state will be able to apportion goods and services more efficiently than capitalism and much less painfully. A robotic world will be so wealthy, greed will seem passe. Any elite that controls this state may reason that its control is no longer absolutely necessary because there is no longer any reason for anyone to overthrow them. ABN
Great interview, many good points made clearly and succinctly. Lutnick is another prominent Jew we can all like and admire, provided he is not a covert Jewish Supremist. There are a large number of Jewish Supremists, both covert and overt, within the Jewish community, so it is more than reasonable for interviewers to ask Lutnick if he is a Jewish Supremist, and if he disavows Jewish Supremacy if he claims not to be one. He has dubious connections with Jeffrey Epstein and should be asked about that as well. If he can answer honestly and evidence backs up his answers on Epstein and Jewish Supremacy, he would be a reasonable candidate for president of USA in 2028. I am not sure I would support him due to lingering suspicion, but if he really is clean and shows it, I would support him if he had the best chance to win. And I would definitely support him if he wins the presidency, with the same provisos in place. I look forward to the day when we we can openly draw a line between Jewish Supremists and Jews who despise Jewish Supremacy. When that day comes, Jews like Lutnick and Stephen Miller, who appear to be unreservedly pro-American, will be able to lead the Jewish community toward a non-Supremist future, allowing them to make a real contribution to USA and Western civilization and not just always take from it. ABN
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