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The latest delusional entertainment is the “AI-is-the-Antichrist” brigade. Two things happened last week to make this new panic snap into focus. First, frenetic socialist loudmouth Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (yes, really), want to impose a moratorium on what they call “artificial superintelligence.” And what if the AI companies of the world ignore them and persist? Sanders and Casar want the state to come down on them with draconian force. “Entities,” they write, “shall be subject to the corporate death penalty, and persons shall be subject to not more than 20 years in prison, which is similar to existing penalties related to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons.”
What’s that chuckling you hear backstage to the left? Why, that would be the tittering of Chairman Xi and his posse of Chinese AI developers. Bernie Sanders is doubtless one of their favorite American politicians.
They are also fond of renegade software engineers like Jacob Coxon, whose story brings me to my second point. Coxon caused a firestorm last week when, after a couple of months, he quit his job at AI giant Anthropic. Why? Because (said he) he was worried that AI might destroy the world. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, he said, “are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Gee whiz. “These will soon be superhuman systems,” Coxon skirled, “that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.”
Rating-hungry talking heads like Anderson Cooper lapped this up. “If it bleeds, it leads,” you know, and what could be more sanguinary than the impending obliteration of humanity by machines or some souped-up abacus? I loved the CNN chyron: “Ex-Anthropic Researcher: AI could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Remember, this “ex-Anthropic researcher” is a 27-year-old former junior employee who was with the company for some eight weeks. Even the Washington Post recoiled from the panic. “AI Hysteria Jumps the Shark” ran as the title of their editorial. Indeed it does, and WaPo was quite right in noting the link between hysteria, on the one hand, and calls for government intervention and regulation, on the other.
The commentator David Friedberg cut to the chase when he noted that, with the panic over AI, we are “in another trust-the-experts moment” similar to the Karen-maxing moment of COVID. Anthony Fauci told us that COVID would kill everyone unless we had ourselves injected with poison, covered our faces, and stayed indoors by ourselves while the economy shut down and grandma died alone.
Commentators from Elon Musk on down are describing the AI-government-regulation shuffle as a “psy-op.” I think they’re right. The same thing goes for the Chinese-checkers hysteria about data centers. The resource hungry server farms are needed to power the AI revolution. China is racing to build them. And they are also racing to tell flaccid American leftists that such facilities are the devil incarnate. A chap called Kevin Bass has followed the trail and connected the dots. It’s an elaborate operation whose end is to hamper American technological innovation.
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https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/13/the-madness-of-the-anti-ai-crowd/
The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd
Certain insects undergo periods of dormancy before suddenly erupting in a destructive swarm.So it seems to be with society’s appetite for panic. How long can we go without indulging in the catharsis of a panic? How many society-wide panics have we witnessed in the last few decades? There was the “global cooling” scare when we were warned that a new ice age was upon us. Then there was the “global warming” scare, which is still going strong. “Some say the world will end in fire/Some say in ice.” Al Gore is going with fire. Chicken Little warned about a “population bomb”in which untold multitudes would precipitate mass starvation and lead governments to force sterilization upon their polyphiloprogenitive charges. Now we are being warned about a terrifying birth dearth. I can imagine that, should a new Charles Mackay arise, such episodes would be included in an updated edition of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/09/why-trump-should-declare-an-election-emergency/
Why Trump Should Declare An Election Emergency
Democrats are using every means possible to keep pushing the can down the road to buy time, but there is no time left to return integrity to America’s elections.
Ron Wright | September 13, 2026
The SAVE America Act, which would have cleaned the rolls and secured the elections, passed the House and is dead in the Senate. House and Senate recesses used up the calendar. Trump then tried to do by executive order what the Senate refused to do by statute: requiring proof of citizenship, a reliable federal voter list, and limits on mailed ballots.
Election officials in fraud-prone areas, however, refuse to produce the ballots and the rolls. They call it privacy, and say doing so would expose illegal aliens to ICE! The real reason is to conceal their own conduct.
Activist federal district judges blocked those executive orders that would have counted this year.
With midterms rapidly approaching, Trump could declare a national emergency, as he has teased, on election integrity. If he does not, November runs on the same black-box machines with source code no outsider may examine, the same dirty rolls, and mass-mailed ballots that are an open invitation to fraud.
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If you don't fix elections (local, state, and federal) you'll always be known as the 'Almost' President. You almost Saved America…
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The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. It does not fit the SAVE America Act’s requirements for documentary proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote.
In short: the Fourth Amendment is about how the government may look through your belongings or monitor you, not about what documents you must produce to exercise a regulated civic right. The SAVE America Act, whatever one thinks of its policy merits or other constitutional vulnerabilities, does not create a Fourth Amendment violation.
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