Welcome to the reality taboo where no topic is
off limits. It's February 14th, 2026. I'm Jeff
joining me as Ness First topic we're going to
start in Jefferson County, Kentucky Just south
of the Ohio River the most populous County in
the Commonwealth home of Louisville So on February
2nd, 2026, Jefferson County, Kentucky Circuit
Court Judge Tracy Davis sentenced 23 -year -old
Christopher Earl Thompson to 30 years in prison
for robbery, kidnapping, sodomy, and sexual abuse.
Roughly half of the 65 -year sentence unanimously
recommended by the jury that convicted him in
December. 2025. So back in July of 2023, Thompson,
a black man was about 20 years old, he wore a
ski mask and forced his way into a woman's vehicle
at gunpoint in southwest Louisville, he drove
her to the parking lot of Sanders Elementary
School, where he forced her to perform oral sex
on him. And he compelled her to then drive to
an ATM and withdraw $220 before returning to
the school parking lot and sexually assaulting
her again. and I wasn't able to identify anything
about the victim but I did some research on the
area of Louisville and at least as of 2000 that
area is overwhelmingly white and so I think it's
more likely than not that the victim in this
case was white and Thompson was on probation
in January 2024 when DNA evidence was linked
to him and that led to his arrest. And he was
actually in a diversion program following prior
charges of possessing a stolen firearm and fleeing
from police. And it was actually Judge Davis
who we're going to introduce shortly. She was
the one who sentenced him for the crime just
a few days ago. She was also the one who had
originally placed Thompson on the diversion program.
So for this sexual assault case, there was a
four -day trial in December of 2025 and the jury
convicted Thompson on all counts and unanimously
recommended a sentence of 65 years. Before we
go into more of the details, I'm going to play
a local news report on this story. Moving on
now to a dramatic moment in the courtroom. After
a man was found guilty on sexual assault charges,
the jury recommended 65 years for Christopher
Thompson. Judge Tracy Davis ended up cutting
the conviction time in half. WHS 11's Clarice
Shaley explains the decision. Seconds after the
start of the hearing, deciding the future for
Christopher Thompson. Before we even get appearances,
Mr. Thompson, I'm gonna need you to be respectful.
I ain't doing nothing. Well, it's fine. Okay?
What? That's fine. At the end of the day, I'm
the one with the pants beyond pissed that this
judge did this. And what example does that set?
And how do you explain this to your daughter
or your mom or your grandma? Councilwoman Crystal
Bast represents the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood.
That's where Thompson kidnapped a woman, then
raped and robbed her at gunpoint. Louisville
Metro Police released these photos of Thompson
in a ski mask at the time in July 2023. In light
of the lighter sentence, we have asked for judicial
transparency. Metro Council Republican leader
Anthony Piagentini says he'll publish a record
of Jefferson County judges decisions on a website.
This is going to be a lot of essentially manual
work by this caucus where we're going to be asking
questions of the clerk of the court, get the
data and then get it out to the voters. Davis,
elected to her seat on the bench, had the authority
to cut down the sentence. The judge said Thompson
never had mental health or anger management treatment.
At his sentencing, Thompson says he didn't commit
the crime. However, LMPD connected him to it
with DNA evidence. He's being held here at the
Louisville Metro Department of Corrections where
he's been charged with choking an officer. That
was before his sentencing. The sentencing hearing
occurred on February 2nd, and some of the things
that Thompson said, he told Judge Davis to, quote,
eat my dick. and stating, if I could spit on
you, I would. He told the female prosecutor,
quote, I will see you in 20 years, bitch. He
repeatedly interrupted the judge, stating that
he had no sympathy for the victim, the victim's
family, or anyone in the courtroom. And he also
said, dumb bitches, fuck y 'all kids, and fuck
y 'all's dead loved ones. As you heard, the judge
said that Thompson fell through the cracks and
didn't receive the care and anger management
that presumably, I guess, could have prevented
him from committing the criminal acts that he
did. But what was not mentioned in the video
clip was that in the course of her explaining,
Judge Davis explaining her reasoning for reducing
the sentence, she referenced Thompson's identity
as, quote, a 20 -year -old African -American
male that has been, you know, experienced this
society. And so she's directly referencing race
being a factor why this guy's sentence was cut
in half after a jury decided on the 65 -year
sentence. Judge Davis's website she states that
she is committed to quote the pursuit of equity
both in and out of the courtroom and she's spoken
publicly about witnessing instances instances
of unconscious bias as sometimes the only woman
or person of color in a courtroom her social
media handle is at diversity Davis and she has
pronouns in her online profile Judge Davis herself
was actually a defendant in several legal matters
prior to taking the bench. So on September 2nd,
2019 she was charged with reckless driving and
driving under the influence after a deputy sheriff
observed her swerving across lanes on Interstate
71 shortly before 7 a .m. and court records indicate
that she failed three field sobriety tests and
she later pleaded guilty. and completed diversion
program herself in July of 2022 and she talked
about this during the campaign saying, we are
all human and no one is above the law, myself
included. She was also sued by someone who worked
for her campaign who claimed that Davis stiffed
her on campaign fees and a default judgment was
eventually issued against Davis in that case.
And there was an election in 2022, at least in
Louisville, they have elections for judges. And
Davis just narrowly won, beat the incumbent,
51 % to 49%. And there's some interesting background
there. The judge who, the incumbent who lost
the election to Judge Davis was, the race got
a lot of The campaign got a lot of attention,
primarily because it came to light that the incumbent
judge, Shaw, was the judge who signed the search
warrant that led to Breonna Taylor's death. And
as a reminder, back in 2020, after George Floyd
was killed in May of 2020 and all the protests
and riots broke out, the attention was turned
to Louisville because of March 2020, a couple
months before George Floyd, there was a no -knock
warrant executed in Louisville by Louisville
police. And I won't go into all the details,
but bottom line is they had a no -knock warrant
to investigate drug trafficking. And there was
reason to believe that the drug trafficker was
actually was an ex -boyfriend of Breonna Taylor.
And so the Police executed a no -knock warrant
on Breonna Taylor's apartment and there was a
mix -up and the guy who was at the apartment,
the man thought that the apartment was being
broken into so he fired shots. The police fired
back and Breonna Taylor was killed and that became
a big media story about systemic racism and abuses
of police. And it eventually led to some criminal
charges by the Biden Justice Department. And
that was a big factor in the judicial campaign.
And so Davis ended up winning that election and
became the judge. There's actually another female
black judge in Jefferson County, Kentucky named
Jessica Green. And she gave what's called shock
probation to Armin Langford, a 32 year old black
man who had been sentenced to 14 years in prison
for 19 robberies and one burglary. So Judge Green
granted Langford shock probation in July 2024
after he had served just five months in state
custody over the objection of prosecutors. And
then about 13 months after he was released, in
August of 2025, Langford broke into a Louisville
home, abducted a mother and her two children
at Knife Point, forced the woman to drive to
a PNC bank to demand $20 ,000, and stabbed her
during the incident. In response to Judge Green
granting this probation, the Kentucky legislature
passed the Safer Kentucky Act and under the new
law, anyone convicted of a violent felony in
Kentucky must serve at least 85 % of their sentence
before becoming eligible for probation. So there's
a lot of different angles to this story. One
is, I think in this case, it's the judge reducing
the sentence of Thompson is somewhat symbolic
in the sense that he's still going to spend decades
in prison. And he even if he had gotten the full
65 year sentence, I assume he still would have
been eligible for probation. So I don't know
how much practical difference it's going to make.
Regardless, unless something dramatic happens,
he's going to spend decades in prison. But I
think it's perhaps more relevant in what it portends
for the future, because to me this is just a
next step in an increasingly brazen nullification.
and selective enforcement of the law based purely
on racial and ethnic identity. And the idea of
a colorblind meritocracy, a colorblind neutral
application of the laws is becoming increasingly
untenable because if you just trace back a few
years to how all this came about, you had George
Floyd killed and then that led to riots and that
led to the defund the police movement which led
directly to this black female judge getting elected
and being put in a position of power where she
can explicitly because the victim is the same
race as her she's going to give him a more lenient
sentence. So you have a black man committing
violence against horrible crimes against what's
most likely a white victim, and then you have
that black defendant in front of a black judge
who says explicitly, because you're black, I'm
going to cut your sentence in half. The implications
of that are profound. America and the justice
system. It's just become, I guess the mask is
just increasingly coming off and identity politics
in its most raw form is just being shown. And
I want to move on to a second story that touches
on similar themes. So in an interview from December
31st, 2024, Texas State Representative Gene Wu,
WU, he is the leader of the Texas House Democratic
Caucus. He made some remarks, like I said, on
a podcast. He was asked about the relationship
between Latino and Asian communities in Texas.
Wu called on minority groups to unite against
a common enemy. Quote, the day the Latino, African
-American, Asian, and other communities realize
that they share the same oppressor is the day
we start winning. Wu said, quote, because we
are the majority in this country now. We have
the ability to take over this country and to
do what is needed for everyone and to make things
fairer. Also in the same interview, Wu said,
quote, the scary thing for me is that what is
driving this newest round of anti -immigrant
sentiment is purely a sense of white nationalism.
And both he and the host agreed that white people
are already or nearly a racial minority in Texas.
And he clarified that, Wu clarified that for
now white Texans remain the majority of those
eligible to vote. And he framed the takeover
language as a goal of changing that electoral
reality. And then he's expressed similar views
in other contexts. Wu, in 2023, when the Supreme
Court ruled against affirmative action in college
admissions, he tweeted, quote, congratulations
to white supremacy for winning a huge victory
today. And there were a variety of comments made
in response to this. I should say this comment
was made back in December 2024, but for whatever
reason, I think because NWOKNESS, a popular Twitter
account, they tweeted out this interview recently
in the past week and it's gone viral. And so
there's been a bunch of reactions from Republican
politicians from Texas. Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton called Wu a, quote, a radical racist
who hates millions of Texans just because they're
white. U .S. Representative Chip Roy called on
Wu to resign, writing, unlike many Democrats,
he admits his racism against white people and
called to take over this country. Former Texas
GOP Chairman Mike Rinaldi said the video showed
Wu's advocacy for white genocide. And then State
Senator Mays Middleton who's also a Republican
candidate for Texas Attorney General, said Wu's
comments show, quote, why only those born in
America should be eligible to run for office.
And then another Republican Attorney General
candidate, Aaron Wright, he suggested that Wu,
who was born in China, came to the US as a child,
should be, quote, denaturalized, writing, he
likely concealed his anti -American sentiment
throughout his citizenship application process.
Wu is a subversive whose citizenship should be
revoked. So if you combine the implications of
these two stories we discussed, the firstly that
minorities are going to continue to get into
positions of power and authority and explicitly
use their power to reward and lessen punishments
for minorities and presumably increase punishment
and infliction of pain on white people. And you
combine that with white people increasingly decreasing
as a percentage of the population very soon will
become less than 50%. And you combine that with
this woo in Texas saying that they're explicitly
going to use, the minorities are going to band
together and use their political power to take
revenge against white people. It's not a very
promising picture for the future of the United
States. So there's a lot of things we could discuss
before I turn it over to Ness. A couple things
I want to throw out is Wu's strategy essentially
I think Steve Saylor has described it in the
past as the coalition of the fringes essentially
everybody who isn't a straight white person is
going to band together and Although all those
non white straight people the surface don't seem
to have a lot in common. What the glue that is
going to bind them together is antipathy for
normal white people and that's going to be enough
to motivate them and allow them to take power.
The second question then is related. If that
does happen, will there inevitably be an increasing
sense of white consciousness? That is, just as
all the non -white groups explicitly act in their
own racial interests, will white people do the
same and start acting collectively in their own
racial interests? No, it's definitely not inevitable.
We have examples in Africa of it being not inevitable
at all that a formerly racially conscious white
population can be politically dispossessed and
then when treated unfairly and oppressed, subsequent
to voluntarily giving up power, then continuing
not to gain any sense of racial self awareness.
That's what happened in Rhodesia, in what is
now Zimbabwe, and that is what is happening now
in South Africa as well. It's important to think
about what the judge in Kentucky is doing in
terms of interest rather than any Universal ideal
or universal set of principles effectively this
guy who Was given 65 years that was reduced to
30 years is effectively a bio weapon. He almost
comically exudes or exhibits no remorse at all
for anything that he has done is totally disrespectful
to the woman whose fate rests in her hands, but
she is not individualistic either. She is a intellectualized
version of a bioweapon against heritage America
because while individualistic people of Northwestern
European descent are going to treat people that
they come across much more as individuals. She
is not doing that. She is letting this guy disrespect
her, talk about wanting to spit on her, issuing
vulgarities at her. She is putting up with a
hundred times more than she would put up with
from any of her people she views as members of
an out group. as antagonistic to her interests.
A nation's constitution to function correctly
has to be a macrocosm of the constitutions of
the people themselves who make up the body politic
and that was the case at the founding of the
United States with the famous phrase that it
was a government about ourselves and our posterity,
and it was relevant at the time when the first
Naturalization Act was passed in 1790 that restricted
naturalization to whites of good character. And
the very stark reality that we're being smacked
in the face with now is that those principles,
such as they are, are not the principles that
are important to Davis or to Wu. With some of
the tepid rhetorical pushback you're hearing
from elected or aspiring elected officials in
Texas, I think we are moving from a point where
simply pretending that anti -white bias doesn't
exist, that there isn't structural rigging of
the system against heritage Americans, against
heterosexual white Christian men from flyover
country. We're getting past the point where anyone
really can even entertain the idea that that
doesn't exist, but we're still a far cry away
from explicit white identity or any sense of
true identitarianism. What you're seeing now
with the Republican Party is increasingly that
it is becoming explicitly anti anti white, but
is still a long way away from being pro -white.
And if that sense of identity ever does come,
it is probably going to be too late demographically
for the country in its current geographic borders
to be able to continue to operate. And so with
a sense of white self -interest will come a push
for secession and political dissolution if it
gets to that point. the sadder reality. or at
least the thing that I would put my money on
where I forced to bet is that the European diaspora
in North America will go the same way as the
European diaspora in Sub -Saharan Africa did,
which is into a continuing fertility spiral and
family dysfunction, poverty, drug abuse, and
political second class status. Wu's comments
in 2024 in light of what has happened in the
Middle East with Israel and worldwide heavy skepticism
often outright condemnation of Zionism which
by the Zionist interests is interpreted as incorrigible
anti -Semitism that Wu's comments about how if
all of these disparate groups united against
the one oppressor how they might be able to turn
things around is something that is undoubtedly
being clocked by people like Jonathan Greenblatt
at the ADL as something that has to or that that
energy that Wu is feeling has to constantly be
redirected towards antagonism against whites
as separate from Jews because of course all of
the benefits, all of the structural advantages,
all of the status advantages that whites on average
have over non -whites. exists to a greater degree
among Jews. If white privilege is a thing, then
Jewish privilege is like white privilege on steroids.
I think that is the tact that people like Jimmy
Dore are hoping for, even if they won't explicitly
say as much when they make appeals to clash consciousness
and askew the cultural campaigning that has been
the calling card of the Western Left for the
better part of 25 years now. I recently read
a biography of Abraham Lincoln and a few months
ago visited Springfield, Illinois so I've been
thinking about Lincoln a lot lately. Lincoln
is a key figure in the ideology or the idea of
America as a proposition nation. It presents
the Declaration of Independence as a promissory
note of equality that Americans are still working
to fulfill. And so Abraham Lincoln was an important
node on that arc of history bending evermore
towards justice. And that led Barack Obama and
February 2007, when he first announced his candidacy
for president, he did it on the steps of the
old state capital in Springfield, Illinois, the
same building where Lincoln delivered his famous
house divided speech in 1858. And it was obvious
that Obama was casting himself as the fulfillment
of Lincoln's vision, the living proof that America's
founding proposition had finally been redeemed.
Well, that was 19 years ago, and a lot has changed.
Nobody really pretends anymore that America is
ever going to reach that ideal of the supposed
promissory note of equality contained within
the Declaration of Independence. In fact, after,
I believe, starting around Obama's second term,
maybe even earlier, polls consistently showed
that Americans felt that race relations were
getting worse not better. So after the first
black presidents Racial relations actually at
least presume they were presumed to have gotten
worse So there's a lot of interesting layers
to that because we've discussed this idea before
on the reality taboo a the idea conception of
the United States at least leading at least leading
up to the Civil War that the North was white
nationalist and the South was white supremacist.
And reading through this John Meacham biography
on Abraham Lincoln, the impression at least that
I get was that clearly Lincoln was a white nationalist
who was also against slavery. Lincoln very clearly
believed what modern liberals deny, that racial
differences are real and significant, that different
races cannot live together as equals, and that
the solution is separation, not forced integration.
Lincoln opposed slavery not because he believed
in racial equality, he explicitly denied that,
but because he recognized slavery was morally
corrupting and economically harmful to white
workers. His plan was very clear. He wanted to
end slavery and then deport the freed slaves
either to Africa or Central America, thus preserving
America as a white nation. That was the explicit,
repeated, consistent goal of Abraham Lincoln.
And again, reading this book, I didn't realize
how firm Lincoln believed that slavery was abhorrent,
a horrible evil, and it was not just bad for
black people, but very corrupting to white people.
And he consistently tried to, he was successful
in getting congressional funding for colonization
efforts. He was heavily involved in scouting
out areas, like I said, in Central America, in
modern day Panama, different areas in Africa.
That's up until, really until he died, that was
his stated goal and his plan. is the insight
about it being corrosive to the well -being of
the white population, the population for which
the Constitution was ostensibly crafted for themselves
and their posterity. The correct insight that
he had and one that I would if I had a time machine
would try to tell the founders would be to pick
their own cotton and then subsequent generations
to pick their own strawberries and their own
tomatoes and then staff their own call centers
and program their own computers, program their
own cell phones. This is a pattern that recurs
again and again and again. Or perhaps second
best would be get AI and robots to do all those
things. This leveraging of lower standards to
squeeze out more economic productivity in the
short term, consistently over time, over centuries
now, manifests in really deleterious ways to
the health of the Republic, the well -being of
the people who inhabit it and who it was bequeathed
to. Ness mentioned earlier that he does not believe
that white people will develop any substantial
racial identity. And going back to Lincoln, white
racial consciousness was so deeply ingrained
in antebellum America that even the man who we
call the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln,
and a man whose legacy, a black presidential
candidate, traveled to Springfield to claim Lincoln
was in reality a proponent of racial separation
and white demographic preservation. And the gap
between the historical Lincoln and the mythologized
Lincoln is itself evidence of how thoroughly
modern discourse has suppressed the reality of
white racial consciousness. Although it seems
unthinkable, That there would be anywhere near
that sort of white racial consciousness in 2026.
It was so taken for granted that a person like
Lincoln who was considered a on the more progressive
side, although he was not quite as radical as
some of the radical Republicans in his party.
He was certainly, by the standards of the 1860s,
a progressive. Even he was a strong white nationalist.
That just tells you how much our country has
changed. While we're on the topic of Abraham
Lincoln, a little anecdote or tidbit I found
interesting in the book doesn't directly relate
to this topic, but I'm going to share it anyway.
So according to Lincoln's partner and longtime
friend, William Herndon, in the 1830s, when Lincoln
was living in New Salem, Illinois, he was just
towards the beginning of his law career. He,
according to Herndon, who was a close confidant
of Lincoln, Lincoln prepared an extended essay
in which he made an argument against Christianity,
striving to prove that the Bible was not inspired
and therefore not God's revelation and that Jesus
Christ was not the Son of God. And so supposedly
a friend read this and it was spread around and
they were impressed by it, but somebody was able
through the manuscript in the fire and thus Lincoln's
political future was secure because if that had
come to light during the presidential campaign
of 1860, that would have been potentially devastating
to Lincoln's chances. And so also if you follow
Lincoln's rhetoric, he began invoking the Bible
and Christianity more and more as the Civil War
began and went through until he was assassinated
in April 1865. Indeed, that is another example
of just how much things have changed. Because
of course, if an essay like that were put forward
by a political candidate, really of either party,
but especially of the Democratic Party, it would
go over without much notice, it would have no
effect on the prospects of that person's political
career one way or the other. But if anyone even
sniffed something approaching anything even remotely
close to Lincoln's views on human biodiversity,
most especially on the left, it would absolutely
torpedo their campaign. And so While correlation
does not necessarily indicate causation, I think
we are doing a disservice if we look at these
two things as if they are unlikely to be related
at all in one way or the other. And I think the
fact that there is a spiritual emptiness and
a total lack of faith on the part of western
man is one of the many reasons that that fighting
spirit is unlikely to come back because enlightened
hedonism doesn't provide any reason to sacrifice
oneself for one's posterity even on the most
basic level where the people who live in the
western world most of them don't even want to
have children let alone sacrifice for themselves
and their posterity so the idea of organizing
some sort of white awakening seems absurd to
most people because the hedonistic payoff is
so minor it's not not even that it's minor it
is overwhelmingly negative in terms of the benefits
that accrue to one individually who takes that
position and tries to push that movement forward
and so the loss of faith is one of the reasons
although I think the stronger reason is simply
that we've seen it play out decades in advance
in Sub -Saharan Africa in Zimbabwe and in South
Africa, we've seen how things can get a lot worse
than they are here. They're a lot worse for whites
in South Africa today. The oppression and the
political persecution that whites in South Africa
face is much more severe and systematic and inescapable
than it is in the United States and yet there
is no fight there. There is some emigration and
there is dwindling and death among the white
population that has elected to stay. I think
it is worth noting too that the closest that
we have to something approaching an implicit
sort of separatist identity among people of Western
European descent are among the Amish. I think
the Amish option is a more likely avenue that
whites in. West in the Western world will go
down before there is some sort of racial awakening
that attempts to wrestle back control of the
political structure for the heritage Americans
who Time has forgotten. I think it is more likely
that there will be secession again implicit at
first maybe at some point explicit but probably
more just moving away from power centers moving
away from culturally shaping areas into seemingly
less desirable areas at least in terms of status
although in terms of the quality of life as the
demographic transition continues the quality
of life the idyllic shire style existence of
the amish or however that manifests in additional
waves of whites dropping out of mainstream globo
homo culture as aforementioned the movement among
the right side of the American electorate is
towards anti anti -whitism but still as far away
from explicitly embracing white identity as it's
ever been there is no better avatar for this
than Tucker Carlson who though he appears to
have gone through a sort of damascene revelation
with regards to the anti -white nature of the
American system is as stridently as ever opposed
to any sort of white identity developing among
heritage Americans. And one of the reasons that
he puts forward for that is his Christianity.
Regularly asserting that Christianity has no
tolerance for judging people as anything other
than isolated individuals. and he has done a
laudable job criticizing Christian Zionists most
famously like Ted Cruz by highlighting their
scriptural illiteracy, but he is susceptible
to the charge of focusing on the beam in one
person's eye while ignoring the moat in his own.
Reading from Exodus chapter 20. For I, the Lord
your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment
for their ancestors' wickedness on the children
of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth
generations." The Bible is replete with collective
punishments being visited upon entire nations.
That is not, of course, to argue somehow that
Christianity compels this sort of behavior, far
from it, but... it is important to realize that
if scripturally it is something that was commanded
or done explicitly by God it cannot inherently
be sinful in and of itself and so for him to
continue to speak as though that is the case
undercuts the scriptural foundation that he is
seemingly using to take out christian zionism
which is something that is a worthy cause that
needs to be done but with both christianity and
white identitarianism he is going just part of
the way but stopping far short of the logical
conclusions of the journey he's starting to go
down and as for the scripturally risible idea
that Christians today are somehow on the hook
for supporting the modern state of Israel as
though it is some sort of biblical commandment
to serve the chosen people. The parable of the
wedding feast is recounted in Matthew 22, offers
a strong counter right out of the gospels to
that. quote the kingdom of heaven is like a certain
king who arranged a marriage for his son and
sent out his servants to call those who were
invited to the wedding and they were not willing
to come again he sent out Other servants saying
tell those who are invited see I have prepared
my dinner my oxen and fatted cattle are killed
and all things are ready come to the wedding
but they made light of it and went their ways
one to his own farm another to his business and
the rest seized his servants treated them spitefully
and killed them but when the king heard about
it he was furious and he sent out his armies
destroyed those murderers and burned up their
city then he said to his servants the wedding
is ready but those who were invited were not
worthy therefore go into the high and as many
as you find invite to the wedding so those servants
went out into the highways and gathered together
all whom they had found both bad and good and
the wedding hall was filled with guests but when
the king came in to see the guests he saw a man
there who did not have on a wedding garment so
he said to him friend how did you come in here
without a wedding garment and he was speechless
then the king said to the servants bind him hand
and foot take him away and cast him into outer
darkness there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth for many are called but fewer chose So
that gives pretty clear -cut lie to the assertion
that there is some sort of scriptural imperative
to continue to back the nation -state of Israel
in light of the way it has behaved since its
existence. Stretching somewhat, but it's not
totally unrelated. Egonomist you gov ran a poll
this week or a couple weeks ago asking the respondents
what in their opinion is the most powerful branch
of the federal government and apropos this judge
effectively throwing out the sentence handed
down by the jury or the one that was suggested
by the jury that precedent has it that usually
the judge goes ahead and goes along with that
jury recommended sentence. And this is hardly
a phenomenon peculiar to Louisville, Kentucky.
Every day there is another news story about some
federal district judge putting a stop on an executive
action that the Trump administration is trying
to take most recently here with ending the temporary
protected status that has been temporarily in
effect for almost 20 years now for Haitians.
And given the letter of the Constitution, as
it is written, the judiciary did not have any
power at all. Constitutionally, the only court
that needs to exist in the United States is the
Supreme Court of the United States. The legislative
branch has the ability to pass all the laws necessary
to end all of this judicial interference if they
so chose, but the differences between what a
piece of paper says and what plays out in reality
are the differences between a constitutional
republic that exists for ourselves and our posterity
and what the globo homo American empire is today.
Looking at that you gov economist poll, the percentages
who say that the executive branch as the president
has the most power 62 % 24 % say it's the judicial
branch and just 13 % say that it is the legislative
branch. I don't have much additional comments
to add there. I think practically that is an
accurate assessment. You might argue that the
judiciary has more power than the executive,
but both branches have more effective power than
the legislative does, which is exactly opposite
of how the founders intended it. Another week,
another warning about the impending apocalypse
that AI has on the horizon. This one from the
AI CEO of Microsoft who Reading from Zero Hedge,
quote, is sounding the alarm over imminent mass
labor disruptions, warning that the overwhelming
majority of white collar professional work could
vanish to automation far sooner than most business
and policy leaders are willing to admit. Quoting
that. AI CEO of Microsoft, Mustafa Solomon, quote,
I think we're going to have a human level performance
on most if not all professional tasks. So white
collar where you're sitting down at a computer,
either being a lawyer, accountant or a project
manager or a marketing person. Most of the tasks
will be fully automated by an AI within the next
12 to 18 months, unquote. Later on in the article.
Quote, however, some jobs still remain immune
from AI for now. High on the list are occupations
that hinge on physical presence and skills such
as healthcare professionals and tradesmen such
as plumbers and welders. Those are just a sample
of jobs that are safe until AI powered optimist
robots are on the move. Unquote. It's something
we've mentioned previously, but that is one of
the big surprises that are unfolding. Is that
the technical revolution. hasn't resulted in
robots doing menial and skilled technical tasks
so that humans are freed up to engage in creative
pursuits. in the digital space, but quite the
opposite. It looks like AI is going to take over
the virtual world, but that humans are still
going to be needed for activities, skilled activities,
and menial activities in the meat space. To close
things off, talking about Congress and its impotence,
the SAVE Act passed the House this week and is
set to go up for a vote in the Senate where it
is not expected to pass. The law would require
that for federal elections that all aspiring
voters present some type of identification prior
to voting at the location that the votes take
place in. That would be either a passport, a
birth certificate, certificate of citizenship,
or a state ID. And political rhetoric is just
that. It's not dialectic. It's not meant to be
taken seriously if you're someone as jaded as
I am. But all the same, the opposition to the
SAVE Act and the requirement for voter ID that
comes from the left in the United States is that
it is inherently racist because it will disenfranchise
non -whites. And to the extent that the political
coalition in the United States is one of the
top and the bottom against the middle, there
is some truth to the fact that the conscientiousness
on the low side of that low, high and pairing
that makes up the democratic base that the lower
conscientiousness of people on the lower end
of the social stratum will do things like go
out to vote and forget their ID and then not
make the time to come back and present a valid
ID and vote. And so we'll just end up not voting
when they otherwise would. But that is something
that only has an effect at the very margins.
The more substantial reason for opposing voter
ID is, of course, to permit those who are not
citizens of the United States to be able to vote
in federal elections. And from Economist YouGov,
again, a poll giving a lie to the idea that there
is some sort of inherent racism in requiring
voters to show ID and that that is something
that Hispanics and blacks feel put upon with
having that kind of requirement. The percentages
who oppose requiring ID to be presented at federal
elections by race among whites 15 % oppose among
blacks 21 % and among Hispanics just 22 % so
overwhelmingly People of all races think that
voter ID should go forward and that valid identification
should be presented when voting. Humorously,
by political orientation, among liberals, 39
% oppose voter ID, 15 % of moderates, and just
3 % of conservatives. So this is another black,
rednecks, white, liberals, Thomas Sowell pattern.
out in the real world where blacks and Hispanics
who vote disproportionately democratic have more
in common culturally with middle American white
Republicans than either have in common with white
liberals because it is white liberals overwhelmingly
who make up the bulk of the opposition to voter
ID laws, not blacks or Hispanics. something as
intuitive as needing to present an ID card to
vote, only a high IQ liberal would be able to
do the mental gymnastics to say that that's an
unreasonable requirement, whereas Normies, it's
intuitively obvious that, of course, if you have
to present an ID to see an R -rated movie or
to buy alcohol, then you should have to present
an ID to vote. We've gone from white property
men of good status being able to vote to anyone
in the world without any requirements of documentation
at all being permitted to vote. This is democratic.
progress. This is the expansion of suffrage to
everyone in every corner of the earth, and so
I think we should be glad for it. And that sarcastic
note will do it for us this week. Thanks for
listening. We'll talk to you next time.