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When I was growing up, there was a song by Stonewall Jackson with the lyric, “Everybody has to meet his Waterloo.” I’ve personally had a few. Now it’s Donald Trump’s turn. His Waterloo is the mess he created in Iran — for no apparent reason other than he thought that the bombing would bring forth an Iranian Delcy Rodriguez (male, of course). Then he could expand his empire, just as Napoleon tried to do before he met his Waterloo. At the United Nations yesterday, Trump threatened Iran with “annihilation” if it didn’t agree to his plan for the country, which is now focused on preventing the Islamic Republic from ever developing a nuclear capability. Today, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian shot back, claiming his people had become the “victims of terrorism” at Trump’s hands. Pezeshkian did say that Iran is open to a brokered end to the war, but Trump must first stop the aggression. He also canceled out Trump’s prima facie case for the war — he said Iran has the right to develop nuclear power. “Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful. We will not bow our head

President Trump today announced the creation of an AI Force, named after his first-term baby, the Space Force. There was no one named to head the group or even to be part of the group, but here we go. To recap: in the past couple of weeks, AI insiders and outsiders have been predicting that AI soon will be able to “kill us all.” This follows some AI agents burrowing into other AI engines, which seems a bit far from being able to eliminate humanity. There have also been calls for a “kill switch” to be created so that — if these AI creatures take on a Hitlerian life of their own and start building bombs, concocting poisons, or sending ultraviolet rays to wipe us all out — we’d have a means to stop them. Now, unless I’m mistaken, AI is powered by electricity, so shouldn’t there already be a way to cut the power? Anyway, Trump originally pooh-poohed these naysayers, who seem to have ganged together after some 20-something kid quit his AI gig and predicted AI would take over the world. Now, here’s what Trump wrote on Truth Social today: “I am forming the AI Force, much like

President Trump is banning CNN, Politico, and MSNow from the White House, citing Fake News. The next step might be to follow Woodrow Wilson and throw your opponents into jail; not that Trump hasn’t tried that already, but not yet on current news reporters. Trump made this announcement on Truth Social: “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW… and Politico… from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!”  Nice to see that Trump is following the proud tradition of not only President WIlson who jailed his oppoents, but also President John Adams. It was President Thomas Jefferson who restored Constitutional freedoms that Adams had curtailed. Warren G. Harding took over for Wilson, and matters normalized somewhat with the end of WWI. Who is going to curtail Trump and his mania for “my word or the highway”? President AOC?  Haha, she’d ban Fox, OAN, and Newsmax. Welcome to 1984 three decades late.