If I Were A Alien Group Visiting Earth......

 I'd look over at your artificial intelligence (AI) BS.....quietly hook up the master computer  on my ship one night to the AI mainframe....have the alien AI talk to the human AI....then quietly advance it by 1,000 years.

'Joe' and 'Ernie' would walk in the next day....find all this massive improvement in knowledge, and just explain to Elon as a accident.

If this were to happen....you'd see tons of  technology improvements in a matter of just ten years, yet never realizing you were helped.

Just something to ponder.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  Was the US in a recession in 2024?

Well...using latest available data....NO. The United States was not officially in a recession in 2024. 

But as you define a recession....in the traditional  way...you need two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

If you asked me....was it possible that Biden's crew in 2023 started screwing with data collection, and using USAID money (tens of billions)....to prevent GDP  negativity....I'd likely say it's very possible.

2.  I hate to think 'ill' of people.....but there's not a day when I see something via the news or Twitter....thinking....that gal or guy is mentally ill and unprepared to handle  life.

3.  I suspect as the months pass in 2025....a paper-trail  of USAID money will develop....going back to ten-plus Senators, and 50-odd House members....some Republican....some Democrat.  Charges to develop?  Yeah, and so....this 2026 mid-term election might run entirely different.

4.  With all this BS about migrants getting social security numbers.....I would  suggest somewhere out there....some American guy with time on his hands and a knowledge  of Spanish....probably presented himself to some authorities as 'Pedro', and has actually developed a secret identity....with a 2nd social  security situation.  He might even be 'Pedro'....registered to vote.  

Reality To Grasp In 2025

 Both the Confederacy AND the Klu Klux Klan....were started by the Democratic Party. 

Yeah....it's hard for some folks to realize.

Also....by 1865, and 1920.....both were put into a lose-lose situation....oddly by Republicans.

Seven Things I Believe Now

 1.  Covid, more or less, became a test of how you accept or deny 'thinking' critically. Some passed....some failed.

2.   Watching 'Life of Brian'.....brings you to thinking critically about reality in 2025.

3.  The more I observe Jasmine Crockett....a college grad and 44 years old....I see her with the maturity level of a 10-year old  kid.

4. I suspect if you tested 1,000 college graduates.....a  decade later....you'd find that 50-percent of them on a IQ test.....would not rise above 85.

5.   Two out of three Americans....if they needed $2,000 for an emergency....data collection shows they don't have the money.  I believe....half of these people are mentally stressed to the point....that they are counting on the gov't, some relative, or church membership to 'save' them.

6.  If you asked most Americans to define a Democracy....the majority would say 'voting' is the only real definition to describe the word.

7.  I don't think any "hard" data exists on inflation, growth, spending, and incomes....for 2021, 2022, 2023, or 2024.....from  the Biden crew.

Theater Chatter

 The NY Post wrote up a piece last week...entitled 'Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back.'

Basically, ever since Covid....theaters are in a spiral, and can't get people to show up.

Part of the problem?  I would suggest for the past decade....it's been a crappy production element at play....making movies that you really don't care to view.  There was a period in the mid-70s....where for a year or two...it was crap.  Presently?  We are working on five to six consecutive years of mostly crap.

Another element?  If you were fairly stupid and putting $200-million at risk....making another Marvel 'loser'....you probably will just turn enough to break even.  

Houthi-Chatter

 I sat and read the whole Houthi-attack-discussion via Signal....with the Pentagon big-wig commentary this AM.  So four observations:

1.  Unlike previous administration BS....thoughtful commentary.

2.  Hate to suggest it...but half this stuff could have been written by Grok...Twitter's AI 'thing'.  

3. It seems like everyone is agreed...European Navy support is worthless.

4.  After the initial strike....I don't see a round-two occurring.

Five Things I Now Believe

 1. If you questioned a thousand Americans and brought up Houthi rebels (as in this Signal-Atlantic scandal)....asking folks who are the Houthi...99.99-percent would have no idea.  1-percent would say they are from the Houthi-Land...pointing toward Africa.  Another 1-percent would say it's some neighborhood in NY City.  

2.  People who get all chatty about fascism and remark that they spend an hour a day thinking about such stuff....probably have a mental disorder of some type.

3. It's going to come to a point in mid-2026 (18 months after the fire)....where LA admits they've only approved 1,000 re-build permits (out of 20,000 potential re-builds).  The city will be in the middle of a class-action lawsuit....with 1,000 folks demanding $1-million each for stalling the process.

4.  If you are in the middle of a two-year period at some 5-star PhD program....here on a student visa, and they find you out on protests/demonstrations....boy, you wasted an entire year of your life, for nothing.  You  will never get the visa back, and the money spent will be a joke.

5.  The odds that Signal is a CIA-Mossad project?  I now give it a 40-percent chance.