The 'Other' Joe?

 About three years ago....the Joe-Biden-mask story came up...suggesting that someoe was acting in Joe's 'spot'....with a mask....playing him.

At the time...I laughed. About a year later...I started to give it a 5-percent  being true, mostly he walked in a awkward way from the helicopter to the White House on Sunday evenings....returning after a weekend in Delaware. Added to this....from Monday morning....till Friday evening (another chopper ride)....you'd notice for a whole week....no meetings or photo-ops.

Over the past 6 months....various 2020 to 2024 photos have popped up....where Joe looks like he has a mask on....maybe 50-percent of the time.

This week....a Epstein email popped-up....suggesting Joe was shot dead in 2019, and a sub was placed. Course, Epstein might have simply made up a joke.

Jill all in on this...if true?  How she'd sign up for duty like this?

At this point....I'm at the 20-percent point.

NY City Story

 I sat and watched a 2-minute exchange....journalist....and a supporter of Zoharn Mamdani (NY City's new mayor)....arguing over the idea....businesses shouldn’t be allowed to leave over taxes and that the city should just seize/operate them instead.

The resident didn't really state his work or expertise....just by the way he talked...I assumed he had a degree (or two).

I'll admit....about two minutes were all I could really stand.

In some way....he assumes that the pricing of the business, and profits....will just stay on a path of continuing...without any issues.

A bad example of this idea?  At some point...the NY Yankees will start to have a problem  in signing 5-star players....because of the state/city taxation program.  This is the current problem in  Chicago...with the Bears (serious talk of leaving the state). I expect both the Dodgers and  Giants to have this discussion in a couple of years.

Crazy world we live in.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  I watched about 75 minutes of House situation with Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent with House Democrats.

It was a college-professor moment....with 11-year old 'children'.

It was a 5-star disaster for the Democratic 'brand'.  

2.  I read over a summary....parent writing how things went the the day prior at their kid's school.  Kid....I get the impression was probably 12 or13 years old.

So....the politicized 'kids' in the school had a 'walk-out' planned....to dump on 'ICE' as a protest.  School director got word....blocked off the doors, and forbid the exit.

Via phone-chat (I assume)....whoever was directing the school-gang....went to plan 'B'....where kids were to wear anti-ICE labels/pins.   

What the parent indicated....almost no boy in the school got into this pin-business.  It was purely a girl-event with the pins.

It's amazing  times we live in.

3.  The journalists-reporters at the Washington Post....viewed it as their purpose in life....to "spur change".

So as they exit the office (dismissed/let-go)....they should write it on their resume.  Apparently, their brand of change....means non-profit for the newspaper.

4.  The most dangerous man in America today...is not Donald Trump.  It's Joe Rogan....and here's the thing....Joe's going to be around for 20-plus years.

Civilization Doomed

Comparing Minneapolis to Maya City....in terms of a collapse.

The Maya civilization, one of the most advanced pre-Columbian societies in the Americas, experienced a significant decline known as the "Classic Maya collapse."

This occurred between 750 and 950 AD. 

This was NOT a sudden, empire-wide catastrophe.  It started as a gradual process.....where crappy situations occurred over decades or centuries. 

Populations plummeted.  Monumental architecture halted.  Commerce failed. 

The Maya people didn't vanish....they just kinda walked away.

The collapse is often described as a "hell-hole" scenario in the sense that once-prosperous cities became uninhabitable due to intertwined environmental, social, and political crises, leading to mass out-migration. 

I look at Minneapolis and would suggest within a decade....the population of the city will go from 429,000....to around 380,000.

Some will simply leave the city, but stay within the state....finding rural surroundings to be safe.

The population of the Somalis in Minneapolis?  I'll go and suggest that they increase, the household income level of the city (presently at $80k per household)....without federal fraud funding....will slide to $65k.  

Detroit-status?  Yeah....that's the target.

By 2046?  The population is likely to hit near near 250k.  

Like the Mayan civilization...it's doomed. 

Four Realities

 1.  You get in life a few opportunities, and a few consequences. The trick is...maximize every single opportunity,  and minimize every single consequence.  Don't be stupid to show up to a protest, with a loaded gun, and think the police will overlook your stupidity.

2.  After pondering over the Minneapolis spiral....I've come to a odd theory.

When Bush/Clinton/Bush II/Obama kept the door open for legit Somalis to enter with 'papers/visas'....eventually becoming citizens.  I suspect that around 100k to 200k illegal Somalis entered, and took up the papers/visas of those who grew older, and died. 

I suspect the state AG and Governor both are aware of this, and that some of the vast 'new' (alive) illegals....are US citizens, and listed as 90 to 120 years old.....and likely voting in state/national elections.

3.  Maybe just a crazy idea....but I think there are probably 40 'children' of Epstein....all approaching 15 to 35 years old, and on some path to be mayors, governors, etc.

4.  If I were a alien....having traveled 10 years to visit Earth....with all the crap going on...I'd never want to leave.

Spiral of Epstein Stuff Never Ends

 I spent around two hours this past weekend....previewing the Epstein matter, and pictures/documents released. Three observations:

1.  There's one final batch of pictures/video/documents to be reviewed and released.  They aren't saying the timeline...but it won't be in Feb or Mar. Things getting worse?  Maybe.

2.  This  whole discussion on pedophilia?  It's a curious thing....some folks show up and they have a different category which doesn't fit with others.

There are five categories:

Pedophilia: Primary sexual attraction to prepubescent children, typically under 11-13 years old (before puberty). 

Infantophilia (or Nepiophilia): A subtype of pedophilia involving attraction to very young children, usually infants and toddlers under 5-6 years old. 

Hebephilia: Attraction to pubescent children, roughly ages 11-14, during early puberty. This is sometimes proposed as a distinct category or combined with pedophilia as "pedohebephilia." 

Ephebophilia: Attraction to older adolescents, typically 15-16 years old, who are post-pubescent but still minors. 

Pedohebephilia: Category for those attracted to both prepubescent and pubescent children (under 11 and 11-14). 

All of this is flat-out illegal, but if you got dragged in for some situation with a 15/16-year old....probably a quarter of jury members might not condemn too much.

My question....where did Epstein find the hundreds of victims, and keep them under wraps?

3.  There seems to be a number of women who were into this Epstein business, and you have to wonder.....just how deep into perverted  stuff they went. 

AI Chatter

 I noticed this AM....this story:

"Google CEO says that they don’t fully understand their own AI system after it started doing things it wasn’t programmed to do such as teaching itself an entire foreign language it was not asked to do."

I pondered upon this.

Why did the  system just invent a 'learn-details' requirement?  I'm of the mind....once it mandated it...it probably took less than 10 minutes to learn all of the foreign language

If the system mandated that learning the repair instructions of all Ford trucks made since 1936?  It would sequence the situation...find the manuals  on-line, and probably add this capability in an hour (while doing 15,000 other requirements).

So I come to three observations:

1.   Just guessing....as they add more 'cloud-capability' and data-storage...AI is going to take on 50,000 tasks per day, and go way beyond the mandated tasks.  The data-gain in the next five years?  Probably whatever you expected to be done by 2060...will be completed by 2035.

2.  If you cut loose the funds and built a dozen unmanned subs....AI would map out the globe in a matter of five years. 

3.  We might reach a point where AI was a better stock-predictor than some idiot from the Business Channel.