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This is a devastating development.
I'm angry at Jensen Huang for his lack of discernment in women.
But I'm even more angry at what this implies for the future of AI. This is a coup.
A few hours ago, I wrote: "They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia."
It's done.
Officially, Jensen Huang resigned. In reality, the board was getting ready to throw him out. Effective immediately. He's also leaving the board. The CFO is stepping in as interim CEO. The board is even considering bringing in an outside CEO.
Thirty-three years. A company born in a Denny's, saved from bankruptcy more than once, turned into the most important company of the AI era. Wiped away in a week.
Whatever you think of his private life, look at the mechanics.
A scandal breaks. Pressure builds in Washington. Columnists demand his head. The board, which never prepared a successor, panics. The founder is out. And the man who fought the restrictions, who defended open models, who stood up to Washington, is gone.
The playbook worked. And when a playbook works, it gets used again.
The next target is Elon.
Why him? Because he's now the last builder of that scale who holds the entire chain. Rockets, satellites, energy, robots, AI, and soon chips with Terafab. He's the only one who can build both the superintelligence and the rocket that carries it into space. And he just said publicly that hiring Jensen would be an honor.
For those who want to slow everything down, there's no bigger target.
But they have a problem. You don't fire Elon Musk the way you fire Jensen Huang. He holds voting control at SpaceX. No board can throw him out overnight.
So they'll come at him another way. Regulators. Courts. Investigative committees. Government contracts. Media campaigns. Every weakness will be exploited, every mistake amplified, every procedure dragged out. They don't need to fire him. They just need to wear him down, slow him down, make every project ten times more expensive.
Open your eyes, because this is going to move very fast.
What we're living through right now isn't news. It's History.
In twenty years, this week will be taught in schools. The day America, in the middle of the race to superintelligence against China, took the man who made the chips for the entire planet out of the race. And people will ask what happened next.
The answer depends on what happens to Elon. And on what Jensen decides to do with the rest of his life.
I'm standing by my prediction.
We are living through History with a capital H.
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To my friends on the left.
You're about to be sold the most elegant trap in modern history. It will come wrapped in everything you care about: the planet, workers, justice, the climate. If you buy it, it will deliver the exact opposite of everything you've ever fought for.
Let me show you where it comes from.
In 1944, two philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Horkheimer and Adorno, wrote that reason and technology, the tools that were supposed to free humanity, had turned into tools of domination. Twenty years later, Marcuse argued that modern technology was the most sophisticated system of social control ever built. Brilliant men, with a real insight. But the lesson a whole generation of intellectuals took from them was simple: progress is suspect, and the machine is the enemy.
In 1968, the Club of Rome was founded. It was a small circle of industrialists, diplomats and scientists. Notice who was in the room. No workers, no farmers, no one from the slums. In 1972 they published The Limits to Growth. The message was that if humanity keeps growing, it collapses. So slow down, consume less, have fewer children, accept less.
Around the same time, Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s.
Here's what actually happened. The Green Revolution fed billions. The mass famines never came. In 1980 the economist Julian Simon bet Ehrlich that resources would get cheaper, not scarcer, and he won. Extreme poverty went from more than a third of humanity in 1990 to under one in ten. That didn't come from degrowth. It came from growth, energy and technology.
The pessimists were wrong about almost everything. But they won something more important than the argument. They won the institutions: UN agencies, NGOs, university departments, think tanks, Brussels. Nobody needed to coordinate. The ideas simply became the water everyone swims in. Growth is guilt. Technology is danger. The answer is always less.
Less for you, that is. Never for the people at Davos who fly private to discuss your carbon footprint.
Now watch what happens with AI. They'll connect it to the planet. Data centers drink water, burn gas and raise your electricity bill. Some of that is locally true, and the people living next to those sites deserve to be heard. Last March, Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed a national moratorium on new AI data centers, backed by hundreds of organizations.
So ask the oldest question on the left: who benefits?
A moratorium on new data centers freezes the ones that already exist. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta already built theirs. A moratorium doesn't stop Big Tech. It crowns Big Tech. The startups, the public universities, the open-source labs, the countries of the Global South that were about to build their own are the ones who never get to. It's the greatest gift ever offered to an oligarchy, wrapped in green paper.
And here is what nobody tells you. AI isn't the planet's problem. It's the fastest path we have to solving the planet's problems.
AI is already controlling the plasma inside experimental fusion reactors. It has predicted the structure of nearly every known protein, which opens the door to enzymes that eat plastic and crops that need less water and less fertilizer. It has proposed hundreds of thousands of new stable materials for better batteries and cheaper solar. It forecasts weather and balances electric grids so renewables can actually work at scale.
Every problem you care about is, at its core, an intelligence problem. Clean energy, food, water, disease, poverty. Make intelligence abundant and those problems become solvable. Make it scarce and the solutions belong to whoever owns it.
That's the real trap. Fear of AI won't make AI disappear. It will only decide who owns it.
A world where intelligence is rationed creates a new aristocracy. On one side, a small class with unlimited cognitive labor at its command. On the other, everyone else, dependent on that class for their health, their education, their job, their permission to speak. No chains. Just dependency. That's how every modern form of servitude has worked, and the left used to understand that better than anyone.
Everything the left has ever wanted has never been closer: the end of poverty, healthcare and education for every human being, workers freed from exhausting labor, a planet that can breathe. Marx dreamed of a society where you could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and criticize after dinner. That isn't a world of scarcity. It's a world of abundance. Abundance is the only thing that has ever freed anyone.
So stay on the left if you want. Keep fighting for the poor, for workers, for the planet. Just fight with the most powerful tool humanity has ever been handed, not against it.
Because the people asking you to give it up already have theirs.
In the next ten years, humanity will make one choice that decides the next thousand.
Option A: an Orwellian world run by a tiny hyperclass that controls AI, owns every resource, and turns the rest of us into permanent dependents.
Option B: for the first time in history, a world where the systemic corruption that has ruled us for decades simply stops being possible.
Yesterday I wrote that Milei and Bukele exposed the empire of lies. Javier Milei reposted it. Today I want to explain why that post was only the beginning, and why I've never been more optimistic.
If you're on the left, or even the far left, read this one to the end. I'm not trying to convert you. The stakes are your future too.
Start from first principles. A system produces exactly what it rewards.
For decades, the Western system has been captured by one worldview: administrations, universities, NGOs, media, international institutions. The left didn't win the argument. It won the hiring committees.
Once a system is captured, its incentives flip.
You don't get promoted for solving problems. You get promoted for managing them. A solved problem kills a budget line. A managed problem renews it every year.
You don't succeed by telling the truth. You succeed by saying the right words. So hypocrisy becomes a career skill. The professor who preaches equality and runs the most closed network in the country. The politician who votes for open borders and lives where none of it ever reaches him.
You don't build fair systems. You build systems that look fair and quietly pay the people who run them. Inflation is a tax on the poor that funds the state. Programs fund the consultants who design more programs.
That's what "systemic" means. Nobody has to be evil. Honest people inside the machine either adapt or leave. After forty years, the ones still there are the ones who adapted.
Here's the irony. The first countries to break free were the ones at the very bottom.
Argentina was bankrupt. El Salvador was a graveyard. The system had nothing left to promise them, and that's exactly why they woke up. When the lie stops paying, people stop believing it.
No civilization is dead as long as its people can still see the problem clearly. Rock bottom is often where the rebound starts.
Now the West is caught in a vise.
On one side, AI. A technology that exposes managed incompetence. When a model can read a 2,000-page law, audit a national budget and compare outcomes across 50 countries in seconds, "it's complicated" stops working. The expert class loses its monopoly on knowledge.
On the other side, a generation of tech builders who think from first principles and don't owe their careers to the system. They have more capital, more talent and more reach than most countries. And they've seen up close how the machine works.
Put the two together and the old system is close to checkmate. It can't compete on results. It can't hide behind complexity. It can't control the narrative anymore.
So what does a system do when it can't win? It tries to own the thing that's beating it.
Listen to Marc Andreessen. He has said publicly that in 2024 he sat with Biden administration officials who told him AI would be two or three big companies working hand in hand with the government, that investors shouldn't even bother funding AI startups, and that parts of the underlying math could be classified the way nuclear physics was in the Cold War. He walked out and endorsed Trump. Former Biden officials now say that's not what was said. Read both versions and decide who you believe.
The logic doesn't depend on one lunch, though. Control three companies and you control the models. Control the models and you control what billions of people read, ask, learn and are allowed to say. Add a digital ID, a programmable currency and the scanning of private messages that Europe keeps putting back on the table. Then you don't need a Ministry of Truth anymore. A compliance department is enough.
1984 with a better UX.
And last Tuesday, Democrats took back Congress. This isn't theoretical anymore. The keys to the house are on the table.
Now imagine we don't hand them over.
Intelligence becomes almost free. Expertise stops being a privilege. A kid in a village in Brittany or a suburb of Lagos gets the same doctor, the same lawyer, the same tutor as a billionaire's son. The cost of producing almost everything collapses. And systemic corruption becomes nearly impossible, because anyone can audit every budget, every law and every promise, instantly.
For the first time in human history, a society that could be truly equal. The old left version was equality by sharing scarcity. This one is equality through abundance. A world where poverty stops being a law of nature.
Which is exactly what the left always said it wanted.
So to my friends on the left, one honest question. Which side actually leads there? The side that wants AI open, cheap and in everyone's hands? Or the side that wants it locked inside three companies and a regulator?
Milei and Bukele proved the impossible was possible at the scale of a country. AI is offering the same thing at the scale of civilization.
All we have to do is not give the keys to the people who were paid to keep the problem alive.
That's the choice. And I've never been more optimistic, because for the first time, we can all see it.
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Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
15) Freeze rent increases
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
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There's actually a specific reason for this.
The color revolution operators talk about "transpartisanship" all the time. You CANNOT succeed in a coup if you're perceived as supporting only one party.
Hegseth -> impeached by a Republican House, then removed by a Democratic Senate fulfills this requirement exactly.
That's why they keep emphasizing Massie's party label and that Massie is a Republican. They'll drive this talking point to the ground.
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Criticism? Is that what you’re calling it? You serious?
No, it isn’t just criticism. The media and some in Congress are calling everything we are doing “illegal”. And calling Hegseth a “war criminal”.
Do you know what the implication is from those reckless statements?
The implications is that WE are also “war criminals” and doing things that are “illegal”.
It’s an indictment of the entire force, not just the secretary.
It’s literally an indictment against all of us.
I don’t expect CNN to understand this after all. Which is why you are the way you are.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has frequently equated criticism of him and policy decisions to criticism of the troops carrying out those orders.
He did so again this morning: "Put the Secretary on trial today, and the men and women who carried out those orders tomorrow. If they want to come for the warriors, they're going to have to come through me."
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Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
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Our Lord commands us to focus on the means, not the ends.
Our Lord takes care of the ends.
Defend the Republic.
Despite our post-election gloom there is one practical reason not to despair. Several times in the last two decades we feared we were close to losing our republic, and each time we came back, most decisively in 2024.
The radical change in the elections from 2024 to 2026 demonstrates that our system is still extraordinarily fluid and that if we regroup, we can turn this around in 2028 or soon thereafter.
Granted, the system seems to favor those who have no qualms about breaking the rules. Granted, the Democrats will continue trying to game the system with ballot harvesting and opposing election integrity measures. They will try to destroy the Constitution (e.g., court stacking) to the point that we can't come back through democratic means.
But, for now, at least, we still have a constitutionalist majority on the Court that will impede their efforts. And if they overplay their hand as they always do, they may wake people out of their slumber before that majority is gone.
One thing that will make our job more difficult is that our side is dangerously divided. We can say that Tucker and his band of Groypers are in the minority, but we can't deny they've had a major impact demoralizing us at the very least -- and pitting us against each other with a vengeance.
Always before in my long history of political involvement and activism, I've felt like our side was fighting against the evil forces that fully intended to replace the Constitution with anarchy and capitalism with socialism. But now it seems our energy is aimed against each other. Our friendly fire is anything but friendly.
I make no apology for opposing the antisemites in our midst. We always have to fight pure evil.
But we don't need to let those miscreants divide the rest of us. We have to remain united in our fight for the Constitution, our liberty and our values.
It's a tall order, but the alternative is surrender. And that will never happen.
No, we shouldn't panic, but yes, we must unite and fight. But unification is going to require discernment to recognize imposters among us. Tucker and the Groypers position themselves inside our tent so they can stir chaos and do maximum damage.
Instead of looking at this as a sign of permanent destruction we must interpret it as a wake-up call and, operating within the system and following our principles, make whatever adjustments are necessary to preserve the Republic.
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I'm going to say something that needs to be repeated A LOT over the next two years.
If you are on the Right and someone else on the Right disagrees with you on your choice for the GOP Presidential candidate, you should definitely argue it out with them on an informed, FRIENDLY basis.
And then when the nominee is chosen, the two of you need to join hands and unite behind that candidate.
The alternative is communist jihadists.
The primary season is the time to ARGUE (respectfully).
The general election is the time to UNITE.
If you hate everyone who disagrees with you, uniting becomes impossible and so does winning.
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I want to highlight this as a reminder of the radicalization of academia. PhDs share a striking similarity with radical clerics of the Middle East at this point. Higher education has become a breeding ground for extremism.
We plant seeds in poisoned soil and wonder why the fruit of the tree tastes bitter…. and can literally kill you.
This goes for the military schools as well. They require a massive overhaul. Our military MUST be shielded from these psychopaths.
Yeah, let's talk about MAGAtard & TrumpNAZI terrorism-white supremacist terror. The mad pedo traitor @potus has been using DHS/ICE/CBP/DOJ/FBI as instruments of state terrorism since his second term. Even murdering Americans in the street & disappearing hundreds if not thousands.
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This is what I believe happened in the 96 hours before, during and after Election Day. I have little insider information, this is just me connecting some dots. I could be wrong:
1. The Trump Administration knew it would be a wipeout.
2. The Vance team coordinated with Susie Wiles so there would be a concerted information campaign to blame the loss on Pete Hegseth because of Iran and to oust him, thereby clearing a JD Vance competitor from the field (plus maybe Rubio too).
3. Trump was unaware of this campaign, which included Susie scheduling a Saturday Camp David meeting with Vance/Susie loyalists with Trump out of town (that meeting got cancelled).
4. Vance dropped his "It wasn't me" X post on Wednesday morning (which directly blamed Trump's decisions but also impliedly blamed Hegseth and Rubio), but not before a whole bunch of people (me included) had already started backing Hegseth.
5. Hegseth himself dropped an info campaign that was clearly in anticipation of unfriendly folks in the admin trying to pin the loss on him.
6. It all came to a head in the Oval Office where Trump had to choose between Susie and Hegseth. Trump chose Hegseth and ousted Susie.
This is all conjecture on my part, but it feels right. I base my assessment in part on the fact that there were media people telling me that the Vance team was POd at my "Hegseth 2028" article and they tried to discredit me in the media as being paid by Hegseth to post that article (which is an absolute lie). (Note the similar attacks on Laura Loomer.)
Politics is a nasty, nasty business.
As you see efforts to impeach Hegseth in the days and weeks ahead because he does his job so well, please consider my theory.
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CNN: Hakeem Jeffries responds to DSA supporters who chanted "You're next!" at victory party
"It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd."
Link: edition.cnn.com/2026/11/08/p…
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This. Ten times over.
I'm seeing an increasing groundswell on the Right saying the entire election was stolen.
I'm also seeing analysts I respect saying that the voting shift was consistently demographic-based across the board, a trend which would not be possible in some sort of electronically manipulated election.
I'm not saying voter fraud does not exist. It does. Alaska is an easy example.
I only ask that you remember that the Color Revolution plotters expected to win the midterms, and expected to use Trump and the MAGA movement contesting the results as a "redline" that could be used to declare Trump "illegitimate" and overthrow him.
That "redline" could occur anytime between now and January 3rd (the date the new Congress is seated).
I'm not telling you not to look for voter fraud.
I AM telling you to use good judgment and discernment and to realize that there are bad actors who may be stirring up some of these arguments as false flag ops.
Please be discerning.
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I'm seeing an increasing groundswell on the Right saying the entire election was stolen.
I'm also seeing analysts I respect saying that the voting shift was consistently demographic-based across the board, a trend which would not be possible in some sort of electronically manipulated election.
I'm not saying voter fraud does not exist. It does. Alaska is an easy example.
I only ask that you remember that the Color Revolution plotters expected to win the midterms, and expected to use Trump and the MAGA movement contesting the results as a "redline" that could be used to declare Trump "illegitimate" and overthrow him.
That "redline" could occur anytime between now and January 3rd (the date the new Congress is seated).
I'm not telling you not to look for voter fraud.
I AM telling you to use good judgment and discernment and to realize that there are bad actors who may be stirring up some of these arguments as false flag ops.
Please be discerning.
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James Talarico doesn’t worship Jesus.
He worships a demon he names Jesus.
His demon agrees with him and challenges nothing he says.
But he got elected because people think he seems nice.
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"We joked about digging up a dead guy so we can shoot him again. When called out on it, we donated to an anti-gun charity so that when we get power, you won't be able to stop us."
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They’re just going to keep talking like this until anyone who disagrees with them are killed. They’ve been rewarded for murderous rhetoric and celebrating the death of their fellow Americans at the ballot box. So they’re thinking, why stop now?
As a GWOT veteran, what concerns me the most is that they’re beginning to talk like Islamic terrorists. It’s not hyperbole, I mean that.
Using declarative and descriptive statements that paint their enemies as ripe for the slaughter. They were dehumanizers. It’s what allowed them to kill one another so effortlessly. To butcher one another.
This is not the language of a political party that wants to make anyone’s life better through policy. It only aims to exterminate its enemies.
I strongly condemn this language.
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This just means the Galaxy is ours to colonize, if only we have the stomach to stop babysitting the Third World and the bottom quintile of our own society.
THE FERMI PARADOX HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
for sixty years you have been sold a mystery. the universe is huge, the stars are old, somebody should have called by now, and the silence demands an explanation.
three researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford went to check the arithmetic under the product.
what was in the old packaging: one number plugged into each slot of the Drake equation. a single value for the share of planets where life starts, a single value for the share where intelligence appears. point estimates.
the trouble is that our knowledge of those quantities is smeared across orders of magnitude. you cannot be uncertain by a factor of a billion and then write down one number for it.
so Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord fed in the whole spread of the uncertainty instead. they ran it twice, once from their own reading of the science, once from the range of published estimates in the astrobiology literature.
the output:
> probability we are alone in the Milky Way: from about half to near certainty
> probability we are alone in the observable universe: from about 40 to 85 percent
at those numbers the silence stops being strange. nothing is missing from the sky. no paradox left to explain, and no Great Filter needed to explain it.
i went in expecting to find the trick, because a paper that deletes a famous problem usually has one. what i came out with is a complaint about method. one number written where a range belongs, repeated for sixty years.
the fine print, and i am the one insisting on it. these are probabilities under the distributions the authors picked, so change the assumptions and the numbers move. the paper measures how little we know and it does not prove that nobody is out there. what it takes away is your right to be surprised that nobody has called.
link in the comments
