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  • Trump’s Intel Bailout: An “America First” Scam

    The recent $10 billion government investment in Intel is a sham disguised as an “America First” initiative. In reality, it’s a bailout to service the company’s massive debt, which was approximately $50.15 billion as of March 2025. This raises the question: is President Trump getting some kind of kickback for orchestrating this deal? The claim of putting America first is further undermined by Intel’s continued reliance on Taiwan’s TSMC, a move that prioritizes Taiwan and raises concerns about the prominence of the English language in our own tech sector.

    It’s laughable that a company like Intel, supposedly at the forefront of American innovation, has a market value of around $107 billion, while an entertainment app like TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is valued at over $330 billion. This entire situation smacks of corruption, especially since they refuse to release the Oval Office tapes from the meeting between Trump and Intel’s CEO. With the administration also planning to reinterpret treaties to sell heavy attack drones, it’s only a matter of time before Intel’s overseas supply chains face retaliatory attacks. This isn’t a serious investment; it’s a high-risk gamble with taxpayer money that seems destined to fail.

    https://wccftech.com/intel-will-use-tsmc-forever-says-cfo-as-shares-rise-after-he-confirms-plan-to-use-us-funding-to-pay-back-debt

    https://archive.is/RTObf

  • The Algorithmic Assault on My Health

    Algorithms that ignore user preferences are having a crippling effect on my health. For instance, despite repeatedly indicating my disinterest, my feed is inundated with John Bolton stories about the FBI. This digital hostility is a significant challenge to my ability to start a family, and I refuse to let it succeed.

    This isn’t confined to the Internet; it’s a reflection of a disturbing reality I’ve witnessed firsthand in New York City. There, I’ve seen people openly advocate for ideologies promoting the subjugation and demographic displacement of white people, using dehumanizing language like “inbred” and blaming them for all of society’s problems. To me, this is a clear push for eugenics and racial persecution. I believe this is symptomatic of a historically violent leftist movement that now seeks to instigate an Islamic Communist revolution.

    Furthermore, these platforms create a facade of civic engagement. Trying to communicate with public officials is a useless exercise, as they never provide a receipt or any acknowledgment that they’ve even received the f****** message. It’s a one-way street designed to absorb dissent without action.

  • The FBI and CDC: Mandated for Chaos

    I believe the fundamental mandates of the FBI and the CDC are not to foster business or stability, but to create a form of chaos. We see this in the political antics from both sides that surround these agencies, which makes me think they’ve become redundant. We are already served by the National Guard, state and local police, and U.S. Marshals. These organizations are business-minded and have a deep understanding of the communities they protect. The FBI, in my view, has gone rogue.

    I know enough about how the USA is supposed to operate to see that if things were running correctly, the FBI wouldn’t even be needed. Think about it: we have the TSA for travel security and other agencies for our borders. I can maybe understand the need for the CIA to handle international threats, but the FBI’s domestic role seems to have devolved. I believe the FBI alone has the power to throw us into a recession and can literally tank the whole country’s economy. In that sense, they are more powerful than even the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to manage economic stability. You just have to look at the political turmoil they get involved in. The Wikileaks situation in 2016 with Hillary Clinton and Seth Rich, the drama around John Bolton—these events show an agency enmeshed in politics, not justice.

    And it’s not just the FBI. The CDC operates in a similar fashion, creating chaos under the guise of public health. Their handling of COVID-19 with constantly changing and conflicting data was a disaster that hurt businesses and families. That’s why I think what Bobby Kennedy is doing now is so important. He’s trying to fire them all, and they deserve it. He has defended the firings at the CDC, citing what he views as their failures during the pandemic. Kennedy has said that the people at the CDC who “put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving.” I believe these changes are necessary to restore trust in an agency that lost its way.

    This all feeds into a larger, scarier picture. We humans live a short life, and we’re watching our national debt run wild with no real strategies to fix it. The tariffs are a nice idea, but they aren’t part of a coherent plan. Then you have some Republicans, who I call the “chaos caucus”—figures like MTG and Massie—who just seem to create chaotic headlines. It’s a frightening time, and I am surprised that no president seems to see how rogue agencies like the FBI and CDC are at the center of this storm, capable of causing immense economic and social damage.

  • Performative Wreckage

    Performative Wreckage
    noun

    A political strategy involving the deliberate sabotage of constitutional order and governmental stability for the purpose of personal notoriety. Its practitioners abandon the duty of legislation in favor of headline-grabbing stunts that usurp executive functions, showing a reckless disregard for the nation’s welfare—akin to imposing ruinous economic policies merely to revel in the ensuing chaos.

    See also: The “Chaos Caucus” (Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Anna Paulina Luna, Tim Burchett).

  • A Call for Precision: We Must Stop Alienating Conservatives on the West Coast

    There is a critical problem we must address immediately: the dangerous and inaccurate conflation of conservatives in California, Washington, and Oregon with the radical leftist administrations that rule them.

    The stakes are too high for careless talk. When the governors of these states form an unpatriotic “health alliance” to defy President Trump, it is an act of the radical left. It is not an act supported by the millions of conservatives in those states. These are not “progressive” administrations; they are, as many of us see it, driven by radical leftist, communist, and Islamist ideologies that are fundamentally at odds with American values.

    To paint these entire states with one broad, blue brush is a severe injustice to those on the front lines, fighting against these very policies. When a MAGA supporter attacks “California” or “Oregon” as a whole, they are attacking the patriots who live there.

    The frustration is boiling over, leading to serious discussions about secession, like the “Greater Idaho” or “Jefferson” movement. This is not a joke. American patriots with families feel utterly disenfranchised. My interaction today, which forced me to block a user, was a direct result of this issue being treated too casually. The user’s imprecise language in this critical situation was unacceptable.

    The time for games is over. It is time for disciplined, precise language. We must clearly differentiate between the tyrannical, radical leftist leaders like Gavin Newscum and the conservative citizens they oppress.

    Make this crucial distinction. Direct your fire at the radical administrations, not at the people they misrepresent. It is carelessness what I observed today.

  • The AI Auditor: Can Machine Learning Finally End the Era of Wasteful Government Healthcare Spending?

    The Black Hole of Healthcare Spending

    There are staggering statistics about the current US national debt and the percentage attributed to healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

    There are well-documented problems of fraud, waste, and abuse: upcoding, phantom billing, medically unnecessary procedures …

    Traditional human-led audits are slow, expensive, and only catch a tiny fraction of the problem, creating a massive accountability gap.

    Enter the AI Auditor, A New Paradigm for Transparency

    Using advanced AI and machine learning models to analyze massive healthcare claims datasets in real-time.

    AI can identify complex patterns of fraud that are invisible to human auditors: collusive networks of providers, subtle anomalies across millions of claims …

    The current model is “pay and chase” … what about a future of “pre-payment verification” where AI flags suspicious claims before a single taxpayer dollar is spent?

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  • The Automated Watchdog: Promise and Peril of AI in Government Auditing

    The Automated Watchdog: Promise and Peril of AI in Government Auditing

    1. The Potential Benefits of AI Auditors

    • Massive Data Processing: AI can analyze entire government spending databases (e.g., USASpending.gov) in minutes, a task that is physically impossible for human teams.
    • Real-Time Anomaly Detection: Unlike traditional audits that are often retrospective, AI can flag suspicious transactions, contracts, or grant awards as they happen, enabling proactive intervention.
    • Enhanced Pattern Recognition: AI excels at identifying complex, subtle patterns of waste or fraud across multiple agencies and years that would be invisible to human auditors.
    • Potential for Non-Partisan Oversight: When properly designed and constrained, AI systems can apply auditing rules consistently, reducing the potential for human bias or political influence in routine checks.

    2. Inherent Risks and Systemic Blind Spots

    The risks extend beyond simple technical errors and encompass systemic vulnerabilities that could undermine the entire oversight framework.

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