What happens when you combine so-called “artificial intelligence” with lying politicians?
Perhaps you get something like this, shared by a correspondent a day or so ago:
Senate Democrats Block Voter ID Law That 2/3rds of Their Own Voters Support
The partial government shutdown ended yesterday when Republicans agreed not to add the SAVE Act, which would mandate that states require an ID and proof of citizenship to be able to vote in federal elections. Senate Democrats threatened to torpedo the entire funding bill if it included the voter integrity provision. The bill has passed the House twice but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed that “the SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans.” By that, he really means the act would disenfranchise people who are not legally eligible to vote. Sounds to us like the Schumer Democrats WANT ineligible voters to vote. This law requires voters show the same type of ID now required to sign up for federal programs such as Medicare and Social Security. It’s true that noncitizens are already barred from voting in federal elections, but without verification, there’s no effective way to enforce that. Harry Enten, a CNN data analyst, finds overwhelming support for requiring a photo ID to vote. In last year’s Pew Research poll it was backed by 71% of Democrats, 76% of blacks, and 82% of Latinos. When it comes to voter ID, Enten said the issue is a complete “nontraversy.” So is Chuck Schumer saying that three out of four blacks support a Jim Crow Law?
Fortunately, once more Armageddon was avoided, and all Fifty States did not dissolve into chaos because the FedGov wasn’t fully functioning, right?
Both sides in Congress are screaming at each other in public, while they work deals quietly by secure text-messaging and whispered words in the lounges (and no doubt, toilets). Deals which do not accomplish anything but to speed up the decay of the dead Republic, and pave the way for more totalitarian power in their hands. And of course, keep the spending ramped up as much as possible, no matter where the money comes from (or doesn’t).
Is Schumer lying? Of course. But so is Thune and Johnson. And for that matter, The Donald. Lying is not just a tactic for politicians, it is an essential characteristic of their personalities. (An example is former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, as he emotionally compares Minneapolis and Saint Paul of 2025 to Munich and Berlin in 1933 and 1934, and repeats the same old lies about the 6th of January (2021) we’ve been hearing for five years.)
We don’t know if we can trust a CNN or Pew Research poll any more than we can trust Schumer, Thune, Johnson, or any of their confederates (fellow gang-members). If that data is actually valid, what does it prove? That once again (as usual), the people in charge (the elite) are going to ignore the valid concerns and desires of the people of the States.
Libertarians do point out, correctly, that the election system is supposed to be run from the bottom up: counties, though the labor of a few elected officials and their staffs and a lot of volunteers, are supposed to ensure the integrity of the election process. This is done in accordance with the procedures established by each State. For their own internal (local and State) elections and for electing the representatives of the people of each State and the two senators who are supposed to be representing the State itself. And, of course, in choosing the Electors. Who in turn are to choose the guys and gals that run things day to day from 1600 PA and Blair House.
But that entire system has been corrupted, tainted, and warped by FedGov actions for years: going back more than a century, in fact. The powers of the States to manage their own affairs in elections has been steadily and intentionally eroded away. Prime examples? The sufferage amendment which “gave” women the vote. (Never mind that States were and could continue to expand the franchise to women, stating with Wyoming before it was even admitted to the Union.) The ending of voter qualifications, such as ownership of property, evidence of literacy, and poll taxes: FedGov mandates issued by Congress. The lowering of the national voting age to 18 years was yet another example: prior to that States could and did establish the voting age: several States had lowered it to 18 as much as 30 years earlier.
But the worst example of the FedGov stealing power from the States is what is commonly called the Motor Voter Law, passed by Congress in 1993. This, perhaps more than anything, has led to the “anyone can vote” situation we see today.
All of these were done with the best of intentions, of course. After all, what could go wrong? Well, we see the results today. Combined with the ever increasing power we Americans give to the politicians and bureaucrats in government, the panic of 2020’s Beer Flu, and the growing greed and power-madness, we have a truly royal mess: more than any British monarch ever created.
With all consideration, we leave this commentary with things up in the air. But we end with the observation that Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution tasks the FedGov with ensuring that the States have a republican form of government. This is usually interpreted as preventing monarchies, dictatorships, and aristocracies. But does it not apply to democracies and to corrupt government of whatever form? Of course, we know from increasingly bitter experience that we cannot trust the politicians to actually carry out such tasks. Too bad.
Which is why we need to reduce the power of governments, and whenever possible, recover the stolen powers they have taken, ultimately, from people.
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
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What happens when you combine so-called “artificial intelligence” with lying politicians?
Perhaps you get something like this, shared by a correspondent a day or so ago:
The bill has passed the House twice but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed that “the SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
By that, he really means the act would disenfranchise people who are not legally eligible to vote.
Sounds to us like the Schumer Democrats WANT ineligible voters to vote. This law requires voters show the same type of ID now required to sign up for federal programs such as Medicare and Social Security. It’s true that noncitizens are already barred from voting in federal elections, but without verification, there’s no effective way to enforce that.
Harry Enten, a CNN data analyst, finds overwhelming support for requiring a photo ID to vote. In last year’s Pew Research poll it was backed by 71% of Democrats, 76% of blacks, and 82% of Latinos. When it comes to voter ID, Enten said the issue is a complete “nontraversy.”
So is Chuck Schumer saying that three out of four blacks support a Jim Crow Law?
Fortunately, once more Armageddon was avoided, and all Fifty States did not dissolve into chaos because the FedGov wasn’t fully functioning, right?
Both sides in Congress are screaming at each other in public, while they work deals quietly by secure text-messaging and whispered words in the lounges (and no doubt, toilets). Deals which do not accomplish anything but to speed up the decay of the dead Republic, and pave the way for more totalitarian power in their hands. And of course, keep the spending ramped up as much as possible, no matter where the money comes from (or doesn’t).
Is Schumer lying? Of course. But so is Thune and Johnson. And for that matter, The Donald. Lying is not just a tactic for politicians, it is an essential characteristic of their personalities. (An example is former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, as he emotionally compares Minneapolis and Saint Paul of 2025 to Munich and Berlin in 1933 and 1934, and repeats the same old lies about the 6th of January (2021) we’ve been hearing for five years.)
We don’t know if we can trust a CNN or Pew Research poll any more than we can trust Schumer, Thune, Johnson, or any of their confederates (fellow gang-members). If that data is actually valid, what does it prove? That once again (as usual), the people in charge (the elite) are going to ignore the valid concerns and desires of the people of the States.
Libertarians do point out, correctly, that the election system is supposed to be run from the bottom up: counties, though the labor of a few elected officials and their staffs and a lot of volunteers, are supposed to ensure the integrity of the election process. This is done in accordance with the procedures established by each State. For their own internal (local and State) elections and for electing the representatives of the people of each State and the two senators who are supposed to be representing the State itself. And, of course, in choosing the Electors. Who in turn are to choose the guys and gals that run things day to day from 1600 PA and Blair House.
But that entire system has been corrupted, tainted, and warped by FedGov actions for years: going back more than a century, in fact. The powers of the States to manage their own affairs in elections has been steadily and intentionally eroded away. Prime examples? The sufferage amendment which “gave” women the vote. (Never mind that States were and could continue to expand the franchise to women, stating with Wyoming before it was even admitted to the Union.) The ending of voter qualifications, such as ownership of property, evidence of literacy, and poll taxes: FedGov mandates issued by Congress. The lowering of the national voting age to 18 years was yet another example: prior to that States could and did establish the voting age: several States had lowered it to 18 as much as 30 years earlier.
But the worst example of the FedGov stealing power from the States is what is commonly called the Motor Voter Law, passed by Congress in 1993. This, perhaps more than anything, has led to the “anyone can vote” situation we see today.
All of these were done with the best of intentions, of course. After all, what could go wrong? Well, we see the results today. Combined with the ever increasing power we Americans give to the politicians and bureaucrats in government, the panic of 2020’s Beer Flu, and the growing greed and power-madness, we have a truly royal mess: more than any British monarch ever created.
With all consideration, we leave this commentary with things up in the air. But we end with the observation that Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution tasks the FedGov with ensuring that the States have a republican form of government. This is usually interpreted as preventing monarchies, dictatorships, and aristocracies. But does it not apply to democracies and to corrupt government of whatever form? Of course, we know from increasingly bitter experience that we cannot trust the politicians to actually carry out such tasks. Too bad.
Which is why we need to reduce the power of governments, and whenever possible, recover the stolen powers they have taken, ultimately, from people.
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Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.