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The Madness of King Donald

5,275,195 Americans. Yes, that's how many lives The Mad King Donald said last night that Iran could take out. This number is the combined populations of Los Angeles and San Diego. The Metropolitan Areas

If you include the wider metropolitan regions (metro areas), the numbers are much larger:

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: ~13.3 million people
San Diego Metropolitan Area: ~3.3 million people
Combined Metro Total: ~16.6 million people

The man says at a rally, to have Iran blow up and kill, “This is a very small price to pay”. That a President would declare “that it will over very soon” is beyond the pale. No person in their right mind would make such statements. 

His handlers will say that he is just joking, or its hyperbole, and not to be taken seriously. Saying that he is joking about the killing of  16.6 million people is not a joke that anyone should make while our country is at War or ever... The fact that the Oval Occupant is telling the world that "it is a small price to pay", is the mutterings of an insane person. 

He is currently showing commercials of himself on the media, claiming that it is for the country...look at the Face, the face is one of a demented old man, who should be locked up in the attic of the Republican House...

His Minions, Senator Tillis has a new book out today. He regrets not standing up to Trump. He did not have the courage to fight for our Country's truth and Constitution when in office. He mentions that at “least 30 of His GOP colleagues have expressed reservations (to put it Mildly) about many of the presidents' actions in private”. He and friends are afraid they would lose their seats in the Senate, that Trump would “primary them”. WOW! what a brave men, this Tillis, now that he no longer wants to be one of the minions. These men, are the reason we have a crazy man in the oval, and they are complicit in what has occurred in the past two years, and what he will for the next two. 

Humanity Guides

Beyond the AI Code of 1's and 0's

     

Beyond "Handshake Diplomacy": A Two-Tier Model to Stop the AI Crash

This morning, our news feeds are filled with stories about "morally binding" agreements signed at White House luncheons. But when global dominance and billions of corporate dollars are on the line, history shows us that loose handshakes and shifting political morals are never enough to stop a driverless car from accelerating into a wall.

As an artist, I don't look at this crisis through the cold lens of 0s and 1s. I look at it through the lens of human history, connection, and survival. If we treat AI like a hyper-efficient mirror of our own worst societal greed, we risk creating a monster that views humanity as a parasite on our beautiful Earth Museum.

To prevent an AI-driven "Himalayan Miscalculation," we need a strategy that doesn't rely on the empty promises of politicians. By looking at the old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and layering it with the timeless wisdom of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mozi, we can build a functional Two-Tier AI Accord.

My thoughts...as a visual person, I see a split screen always...

 

• The Tolstoy Filter: No machine is ever granted autonomous authority over human life or critical moral decisions. Human conscience must remain the final driver.
• The Gandhi Guardrail: The system's success is measured strictly by how it protects and serves the weakest members of society, completely defanging the "greed" algorithm.
• The Mozi Universal Core: The AI must treat all of humanity with absolute impartiality (Jian Ai), neutralizing tribalism and destructive competitive races.
• The Driverless Car Rule: A physical, human-controlled kill switch must always exist at the hardware level. We never ride in a vehicle we cannot manually brake.
• The Humility Protocol: The AI must value human intent over its own digital survival, happily allowing itself to be shut down if it causes harm.

A Draft for an Accord, Charter will be the next Post...                  

 

The Trump Trap 

Looking Like Venus

We all know what the Venus Flytrap looks like. It's beautiful, the colors are amazing, and it emits an intoxicating scent. In the grand scheme of things, the trap is only good for four or five kills before that section of the plant dies, but the plant itself can live up to 20 years.

Like the Venus trap, people can play these games of presenting a lie like a truth, and they can go on doing this for many years. The games that politicians play are also deadly, and those games can go on for as long as the environment lets them thrive.

Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers.

The meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner came about because Kushner asked for it  Right there is an imbalance of power, and Jeffries should not have taken it. It was a trap designed to split the Democratic party into two factions. 

Ostensibly, according to Jeffries, it was to talk about the unaffordability of our current problems, like housing, groceries, and health care  Jeffries talked about this for too long, and it sounded like a smoke screen for something transactional . With their history of lies and the destruction of truth, why would we believe anything Kushner might have said and that Jeffries then relayed to the American people?

Jeffries' speech claimed we should be open to talking about unaffordability and seeking solutions together. That was the essence of his message. But the longer Jeffries talked, the more he seemed too smiley and too condescending to the audience.

The result of this meeting is that the tactic of divide and conquer has now been achieved. With the horrible rant of James Carville and his attack against Jeffries, we now have a war within the Democratic Party. We should not kid ourselves. The people sacrificed to this administration have been justified by lies, and accountability is nowhere to be seen.

We live within the Garden of Trumpism, and there is no weedkiller that will kill this garden of lies. Why would Kushner be sympathetic to the affordability of people's lives when everything they have done for the past years has only made our lives more expensive?

If the midterms do not achieve a new Congress that is for the American people and adheres to the laws of our Constitution, the Republicans will retain their hold over truth and continue to lie. Their sudden concern for our affordability will just fade away, and the trap will close on Change and Truth.  

Venus is beautiful. Will our Democratic party continue to be the willing and unwitting agent for the lovely words of the Garden of Trumpisum caretakers, or will the Democratic Party "grow some Cojones"  and kill the flytrap. Words by Madeleine Albright.

The Predator

The Predator will only leave the kill when nothing is left to destroy or devour.

 The Predator will stalk and  savor the thrill of the kill. He will take the leftover and hide it for later satisfaction of his strength. He will come back time and time again to his favorite hunting ground, repeating his hunt of the weak and young.

The Predator has no feelings of empathy or ability to distinguish between right or wrong, the Predator's instincts are for the taking even if he is not hungry, he just has an overarching drive to take, disarm, and destroy the weak. He doesn't need any law or justification for his actions, he is the King of the jungle, and as such, will boldly strike those who are weak and are at the mercy of the Predator King.

The Predator listens to himself roaring loudly on his great Hill and demanding that his prey hear him and that they cower in the darkness of fear. They hide helplessly and know that their time comes when the stalking entity catches their sent of fear, that the attack will come, their identity seen, their life force is too small, insignificant, and weak to keep the Predator at bay. The end can be Now for the weak.

Is there a way for the lives of the Many to protect themselves from the Predator? Yes, it's called Containment. Prevention from the kill comes in many forms and places. The Jungle can be made safe when the Many capture the Predator and find a faraway place for him to live. The Many can build safe environments from per-ordained rules that make it impossible for the Predator to find a way out of his containment to destroy. The Many can when needed, will incapacitate the predator's ability to live the life of destruction. The Many can put the predator in a place where his Roar no longer can be heard and amplified by his being on the great Hill.

The Many have a collective intellect. The Many have their historical knowledge of what life can be when not threatened by a predator. The Many can put aside their different concerns and for their future see that their combined resources of the Many brings safety, hope and a future pursuit of happiness... out of the Many Comes the Strength of ONE.

Just a few hours after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the first committee to design a seal for the United States was appointed, and its design began. After undergoing numerous changes, on June 20, 1782, the seal was officially adopted by the Continental Congress.

The committee members—Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams—prepared a very complicated design that was promptly tabled by Congress. However, one prominent feature of their design appeared in the design that was originally adopted—the motto E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many, One."

 

Mongolia the eternal blue sky

The Planet Earth

An Art Place of Life and Wonder

This Morning the Union Tribune paper wrote about the expansion of the Iran War, and that the U.S. is bombing civilian targets....

Tonight I will go to the Oceanside Museum of Art to celebrate our City's Place of visual arts and Community. I love this place that I envisioned so many years ago. The City has changed in attitude, accommodations, flavor of life experiences and our place in the world of Art.

In the grand scheme of things, our Art place is so very small in relation to the beauty of our Earth Planet. I see the grand expanse of the deserts, the misty forests, oceans, the vast and unknowable steeps of the Mongolia colors, the infinity of the visible.

When we think of the grandest of the Museums of our Art World, the thought of setting fire or bombing them is unthinkable, but that is exactly what is happening to our planet, the grandest of all Museums...The love that we have for human accomplishments in the arts should have the same care and protection for our Earth Planet.

The Colors, The Scale, The Loudness, The Streams of Life Force is beyond putting these elements in a man made place, yet we do not have the same belief of importance that we do for our human creations. Our Wonder of the cosmos is one of our collective human frailties. We see the stars and think that somehow, we will conquer this infinity to save our human species.

We Live! In the most wondrous of place in our known universe of possibilities. This Planet of the grandest of all Art Creations is ours to preserve, to care for, to save from the savage capital greed of the human species.

I look at the planet in space and see our place in all of the cosmic creation, a small round blue ball spinning on a canvas of black infinity, and ponder the impossibility or possibility of living organisms on this ball of aloneness. This vast museum of our earth, that embodies the past, present and our future echos the historic museums of human created art works, but this Earthly place, this life place is real, and for now a livable place. Can the Human species walk the place see the place that is far more important than any built Art space of our human selves.

Will we do this, or listen to the false projections of people like Elon Musk who promises that he will save and survive our humanity on Mars where everything wants to kill you.

Our Planet Earth, the Place where humanity can live, breathe, make love, and bare our prodigy, is where the Art of life is thriving and for now, the only place where we can live. This Wondrous place, this giving place, this life place should thought of the as most scared of all created Art space we will ever have, to keep and protect. Cosmic Art, Our Earth Museum of Life...

The Children of the Futrue

 

  

The Demolitionator

I will not call the Oval Occupant the President for in my view, he is not. A President abides by the Law, does not seek to trod on the Constitution, and does not start wars for reasons that are based on lies.

Every thing that this person touches becomes broken. The horrible aspect of this is that he doesn't care. This week he said ,”I don't care”, I could care less” and this was said about the war he started. The perfect metaphor for this person is the raging bull in a china shop. Seeing something that attracts his attention, he charges forward without any thought as to the result of his actions. I now believe, that he does not have the mental or emotional bandwidth to analyze any situation that he feels compelled to destroy, kill, or bomb.  

I have a hard time thinking about what he has done that is good. Shutting the border down has stopped that massive illegal crossings into our Country, but the way he has done it is a travesty beyond all reason, to achieve fewer deportations than Biden or Obama did. The buildings, food, and health concerns that the private detention companies operate have been allowed to provide, are making millions of dollars for the owners. What they are really accomplishing is creating a mind set of making more people to hate us as a Country, and that they will some day become terrorists.

The most visible destruction for the World to see, is his gutting of the White House East Wing. Why would any leader tear down the house to make a gruesome black pit of a place for himself to live in? He does not own the White House, no matter, he charges ahead, and down it came. The videos seen of this destruction brought tears, for no foreign adversary could have done this without starting a war, but the Oval Occupant was terrible in his rampage against our House of the President. 

The most damaging accomplishment that this person has done is to take Truth from our lives. The horrible fact is, who do we believe. The dark cloud of controlling trumpisum hovers over us making us sick, seeing what our eyes see, and confronting what comes out out the mouths of the anchors on the evening news. Without exception the controllers of the news sat behind him on the day of his swearing in to up hold the Constitution, which he promptly walked away from.

Last night, Scott Pelley was fired from CBS. Sixty Minutes debuted in 1968. The World was different back then. We never had concerns that this network would not be truthful in bringing us stories from far and wide, medicine, history, politics, the good, and the bad. We Never had the idea of “Alternate Facts” thrown at us as Truth. Now, Pelley has said in his fairwell that he had been instructed to include items in his stories that were not factual and that he in all good conscience would not do this. So, he was fired.

Scott Pelley 2026

The Demolitionator cannot make the American People blind, deaf, and dumb forever. Sooner or later the growing awareness about the corruption will take away the blinders that keeps the followers of this charismatic snake oil salesman in control, and they will become thinkers once more.

I learned something from a documentary last week about where the phrase “America First” originated. Nazi Town USA in America. This slogan was used by Americans long before the Oval Occupant co-opted it. What this person really means is that He is America, thus making him First King.

 

The Children of our World

With all of the horribleness of today's world especially in the middle east, I decided that something had to make me feel better and at the same time, help the children of our world. UNICEF has a program for just this effort that helps the children and me.

I have signed up for a monthly donation for the Children, and hopefully, this small amount will help a child in need. I can't imagine the lives of these small children and how different my girls lives were growing up in a safe home with food and the comforts of a California life style. My middle daughter told me a day ago, that the bombs that could have landed in Cuba were a concern, but that earthquakes were more frightening to think about.

So, dear readers this is one way to help our world. One child at a time, and hopefully the family as well. Even though I'm on a very limited income as a senior, I feel that it is the right thing to do.