We are caught in a loop that unfortunately is beginning to feel more like a noose tightening around our necks. Elect a Democrat and the borders open wide, our demographics change drastically, even our small towns flood with illegals, and our tax money appears to flow to NGO’s in every direction, as if someone has left the outdoor spigot on and the yard is flooding. Elect Republicans and it gets no better, as Democrats use the opportunity to sew mayhem and division with well funded and planned rioting in the streets, and all Republican talk and effort leans toward some nervously authoritarian projects, yesterday it was the Patriot Act, today Palantir and a data base on every American citizen.
For those who keep score under the Democrat verses Republican narrative, and who think of the Republicans as the “good guys”, please try to keep in mind it was a Bush who created Homeland Security, a relatively new Cabinet level branch of government that now employs over a quarter million people. Hiring a new 260,000 people in government by the “smaller government” Republican folks, how nice.
I’m old, I spent most of my existence here in America absent the umbrella of protection offered by this Homeland Security. Now, this agency has agency over us all. They surveil us at airports full time, and have us run through a worthless gauntlet of pure idiots as we attempt to board an airplane. Have you tried to really look at the personnel as you pass through their stations at the airport? These are not our best and brightest. I suspect all those kids “graduating” a Baltimore City high school with a zero-point-zero grade average, and functionally illiterate, end up at BWI in a Homeland Security outfit. That has been my own experience, anyway.
And now Trump is all in on Palantir due to Republican support by Peter Thiel one of the owners. For the uninitiated Palantir has designs on creating a data base on every human alive from their online presence, and from all of their financial activity, and even all their movement, to create an information profile that is all-encompassing. The Palantir file will be omniscient, all knowing, all seeing. And with today’s algorithm capabilities, and the realization that people are creatures of habit, Palantir will be able to predict our futures, or at the very least our future behavior. They will know before we know.
For those keeping score by party that would be Republicans 2, Citizens Privacy 0.
Right now you should hear a giant sucking sound that is your individual rights being torn away by Republicans, your personal liberties, your freedoms.
After the creation of Homeland Security the head of the CIA was forced to admit under oath before Congress that they had “inadvertently” swept up every phone call of every American in real time and had that information recorded and stored. Not just the station to station information, but the entire call itself. Of American citizens, not targets of investigation. All of it, they’d swept up all information, like a giant Hoover vacuum. Every phone call, every text, everything you did on your phone, recorded, saved, analyzed.
To think they aren’t doing the same with all online traffic, every website visit, all internet activity in full is folly. The advent of Palentir is just the aggregation of the information already being vacuumed up.
So you sit and say, I’m an open book, I do nothing wrong, I pay my taxes, what do I care they know every line item I am buying at Publix, who cares that they know my brand preference in beer and cookies?
Your are right, the same government that just framed MAGA for J6, and jailed innocent Americans with a show trial in Congress, and then claimed MAGA was “the greatest terrorist threat we face as a nation”. What could go wrong with every speck of information about you being in those hands?
It doesn’t take a Palantir to predict that ICE moving into deep blue California and their prime sanctuary city of Los Angeles would result in riots, looting, burnings. It doesn’t even surprise that some conservative outlets such as the New York Post are reporting that some Democrat funded NGO’s are funding the riots. Our tax dollars at work ensuring the pallets of bricks arrive on time, the helmets are available for rioters, and that the city burns.
Of course everyone witnessing the events is already all in on their own narrative. The Right sees it all and blames Democrats, the Left sees it all and blames Trump and those awful Republicans.
It really has become tiresome. Exhausting. I do notice it is never Beverly Hills that burns, but some lower middle class section of town.
As much as I hate Democrats, and I do, to my core being, I have decided that I hate Republicans even more. They claim to be on my side, but fuck me raw every chance they get. If I hear one more idiot praise Reagan, the same Reagan that grew government every year he was in office bigger, and bigger, I might take a swing at them. I have lost all patience with run-of-the-mill Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce types, the ones that see no problem with funding Ukraine, and who back Israel blindly.
As he was melting down completely last week Elon Musk did get one thing right in his parting shots, Republicans in general, and Trump in particular, are fully compromised. Elon’s call for a third party is absolutely spot on, except for the certain failure.
As you ambulate through life do you look around, do you notice?
I do.
I can walk four minutes to the end of the island and look across the water and see the most expensive homes in the world, the most exclusive real estate in America, Palm Beach itself. And I can just as easily get into the car, go over the bridge, drive four minutes, and see a broken ghetto of filth and degradation that is third world.
All is not well in the great old US of A. Don’t look too close, the rot is readily evident.
Feeling that noose tightening, the security state closing in, “Siri” blurting out “I didn’t get that” when all I’ve done is yell “Cindy”, calling for my wife and not my phone assistant, well, I realize we’ve lost all personal privacy. Could our lovely CIA flip a switch and see me through the “Smart TV” right now, and watch me go from room, to room, since we have a “Smart TV” in almost every room? Come on, man, of course they can. I’m not saying they do, I’m saying they can.
As evil as the Democrats are, and believe me they are led by Satan herself Hillary, I have found that it was the Republicans that have really stuck it into our collective ass.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise to you, I do hope you aren’t Vito Corleone sitting int the back of a forties limousine saying, “but what I didn’t know until today, it was Barzini all along…”.
It’s an apt analogy, the Democrats really are Tattaglia, just a bunch of pimps sold out to the Oligarchy. But those Republicans, wily creatures operating behind-the-scenes, manipulating like Barzini, using our “safety” as a ruse to tighten their grip around our necks.