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And there’s stuff like this:
https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1660385884292673543/mediaviewer
And the whole world watches aghast.
“New IRS data show the speed with which blue states are losing taxpayers—and their adjusted gross income (AGI)—is increasing. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis found that more than 100,000 people left Illinois in 2021, taking with them some $11 billion in AGI, nearly double its 2019 total. For New York it was $24.5 billion, an increase of more than 150 percent from 2019. California, meanwhile, saw its AGI loss ($29 billion) more than triple since 2019.
That people are migrating from these states is important. But who is migrating is equally important, and the data paint a bleak picture for these states. Taxpayers giving up on the Prairie State and the Empire State made about $35,000 more per year than new arrivals. For Florida, the data are even more stark. The average income for a new arrival to the Sunshine State was roughly $150,000—more than double those leaving.
“In other words, the geese with the golden eggs are flying away,” writes economist Daniel Mitchell, referring to the IRS data.”
And the legacy media can muffle the electorate’s awareness of events. And shout, “LOOK! Climate change!!”
There is no informed discussion about the debt or the deficit. EVER. Paul Ryan was the last politician to broach the idea of restructuring entitlements and he has been vilified and sent into exile. Remember how everyone reacted when GWB raised the topic. Lost him the House in 2006 in a blue wave.
Meanwhile, Al Gore “misinforms” the public w/ his BULLS**T Social Security “lockbox”. Newt Gingrich was the last politician to squarely face the issue and that happened 29 years ago.
I asked Chat-GPT how we should regulate AI to protect mankind (and womynkind). You are right BD. Fairly empty platitudes:
“The regulation of AI involves ensuring that it is developed, deployed, and used in a way that maximizes its potential benefits while minimizing the risks it poses to humans. Below are some ways in which AI can be regulated to optimize its potential while minimizing risk to humans:
- Standards and Certification: Governments can establish standards for AI development and use, which require compliance with safety regulations, ethics, and privacy. They can also introduce certification schemes that verify compliance with these standards.
- Transparent and Explainable AI: AI systems should be transparent, and the decision-making process should be explainable. The AI systems should be able to explain how they arrive at their decisions and the rationale behind them.
- Privacy and Security: AI systems should be designed and implemented in a way that protects the privacy and security of individuals’ data. Adequate measures should be taken to ensure that the data collected and processed by AI systems are not misused or compromised.
- Ethical and Responsible AI: AI systems should be developed and used in a way that is consistent with ethical and moral values. They should respect human dignity, autonomy, and privacy, and should not be used to discriminate or harm individuals or groups.
- Collaborative Framework: Governments, academic institutions, industry leaders, and civil society organizations should collaborate to create a regulatory framework that fosters innovation, encourages responsible development and use of AI, and ensures public trust in AI technology.
In summary, effective regulation of AI involves establishing standards and certification, ensuring transparency and explainability, protecting privacy and security, promoting ethical and responsible AI, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.”
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My reaction to this story is that it highlights for me how severely my faith in institutions has been damaged over many years. I find myself reacting harshly to the notion of Stanford investigating itself . . . on any issue. Or any other institution doing so.
But stepping back, the person who wrote this could just be any of a broad array of snowflake “Karens” who parse every unfolding event in their lives like it is The Kennedy Assassination. Someone get the stain remover and get on with it. It is a pretty lame attempt at Hate Speech if that is what it was. Furthermore, I think there are far more powerful examples of Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Semitism around the country that should be given more prominence.
It’s probly cuz democrats around the country are sooo excited about the myriad choices available to them of young dynamic leaders.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Going back to the unprecedented bashing of Robert Bork and the “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas, The Left has used inflammatory and offensive rhetoric to a far greater and more extreme extent than the Right. I know DJT is Exhibit #1 in response to my assertion. If that is sufficient in the eyes of everyday moderates and conservatives to somehow justify and offset the obscenities from The Left, then our nation has sunk too far to ever achieve rough balance in my remaining lifetime. “Both sides do it”. Sure they do. But such a vacuous assertion is just a way to avoid examining the problem.
I got to this passage . . .
“Democrats believed that the vulgarization of the public square was beneath them, and that mindset was a losing tactic. The political reality is that the high-minded ideal doesn’t work if you allow your opposition to choose the battleground”
. . . and I did not need to read further. Anyone who thinks this is a remotely accurate description of Democrats lives in an entirely different universe than I do.
[quote quote=7058]Stanford would never punish the hecklers… the hecklers have become Stanford’s customer and audience. It used to be that professional schools served the profession and helped weed out the bad aspirants. Now? Show me the money. This whole episode has Stanford looking like a compromised institution.[/quote]
You’re right. The actions to discipline the students are being initiated from outside Stanford law school.
Perhaps this movie might be interesting to watch again:
This is great. There may be consequences for some of these petulent children.
If somehow Trump doesn’t get the nomination and Biden is the Dem candidate, there are a dozen GOP candidates who can likely trounce Biden.
Beeg Dawg, that was an awesome post. I can get terribly morose these days when I see the decline and collapse in every direction I look. I have not really been a pessimist in the past but so much of what I loved about our country is being debased these days. It feels much more hopeless than 1979 or 2007.
Thought I should pass along this article, which counters the graphs in mick’s post.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the-daily-chart-not-so-fast-on-cultural-doom.php
