What America Needs Right Now: A Military Complex Blocking Views of the Lincoln Memorial & Arlington National Cemetery

Forget about the ailing economy and Trump's never-ending war, the country needs a 250-foot granite arch topped with golden statues and an observation deck that doubles as a military complex.

I don't know why no one has thought of this before. Just think, visitors can take selfies with government snipers stationed on the roof and plaza areas. The complex will hold large quantiles of sniper ammunition and will house and deploy drones.

I'll bet the militarized arch will attract tourists who want to walk on the wild side. 

People will get over not being able to clearly see the Lincoln Memorial or Arlington Cemetery for the chance to have a drone-launch and weapons-storage facility near major commuter routes, pedestrian zones, and the flight path for Reagan National Airport.

Who could pass this up?

I suspect the arch will have Trump's name carved into it which will please the whole country. It really is a thoughtful project that will top off America's 250th anniversary this year.

Many of Washington's monuments, buildings and sites have been carefully planned over decades to reflect significant moments in the nation's history and evoke symbolism in being connected by sightline to other sites.

The arch/military complex will shatter those sightlines, but who cares? 

The important thing is our president needs to have his name on everything from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the Ford Theatre (where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated) in downtown Washington.

Listen. Trump is pursuing leaving a lasting imprint on Washington, so Americans won't forget him when he leaves office. This noble pursuit personifies the man who was elected twice by clueless Americans.

What America needs right now is a military complex smack in the middle of the city in case the Democrats choose to attack the Lincoln Memorial or the Reflecting Pool.

As it Stands, laugh until you cry! The reality is no joke.

Oh No! Guess Who Trump is Bringing to Dinner?

Yesterday at Joint Base Andrews Trump rolled out the red carpet for communist leader Xi Jinping while making a rare planeside greeting on the tarmac. 

When Trump visited China in May the communist leader didn't bother greeting him planeside, but Trump's apparently set that humiliating moment aside in an effort to butter up the chunky dictator.

Bringing one of the worst dictators in the world to a state dinner isn't going down easily with most lawmakers in Washington. Among them is Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker, a traditional Republican who has been a loyal MAGA minion defending Trump numerous times.

"Had the White House asked me for advice, I would have suggested the president not invite XI Jinping to Washington for such a lavish welcome here in the United States of America, based on all of the troubling issues we have with Xi and the Chinese Communist party," he told reporters outside Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Let's set the table for how Xi's visit will go:

Tomorrow Xi is invited to a formal White House arrival ceremony in the Rose Garden (concrete jungle now) followed by a summit meeting. 

In the evening, Trump hosts a state dinner in the East Room featuring prominent American technology executives who are sucking up to the regime.

On Friday, the charade continues with a White House tea party hosted by Trump and Melania, followed by a joint visit to the National Archives Museum to view the US founding documents for a good laugh before Xi departs.  

Melania and Xi's wife Peng Liiyuan, are going to have a girl's day out at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. 

I can tell you what won't be discussed during Trump and Xi's conversations; China has given (and is giving) Iran satellite imagery intelligence. Taiwan won't be mentioned. The plight of millions of the Uyghur people who are imprisoned by the Communist party will not come up.

What will come up is trade and artificial intelligence which Trump now calls Super Intelligence to the amusement of scientists and researchers worldwide. In Donny's demented mind he just has to say it...and it will be so.

Keep in mind the optics to this visit. We have a brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States, while the president lavishes praise upon him.  

Being transactional, Trump is hoping to profit with some kind of AI deal with Xi. Don't be surprised if he makes special trade concessions for one of his favorite dictators.

Meanwhile the economy is suffering from the Trump/Epstein war's staggering cost, and gas and diesel have reached historic highs while the regime is busy severing healthcare for 750,000 people.

The U.S. and China reached a trade agreement last year that calmed economic tensions, but that deal is set to expire in November.

As it Stands, for the sake of humanity we have to hope Trump and Xi negotiate a new trade deal and agree to pause AI before it's too late.

Trump's Own Troll Has Total Control

The real first lady in the White House and chief diaper changer is Natalia Harp who leads Trump around like a docile donkey.

She feeds him AI slop like hamburgers from McDonalds. Depending on her mood she shows Daddy Trump AI images of him with George Washington and other famous people in the past, or she fires him up like an old steam engine by showing him negative news from journalistic organizations.

That's what led to CNN, MS Now, and Politico being banned from the White House press pool. Harp was so bored one day that she showed him a collection of newscasts with negative news about him. She got the desired effect when he filled his diaper and shouted at reporters for sharing "fake news."

Harp is Trump's personal golem who is always looking for ways to entertain and praise him while menacing anyone who doesn't kiss his ass. She has faced several distinct controversies regarding her unprecedented access and influence in the White House and survived them all.

Trump has made Harp a sacred cow in the MAGA universe and anyone that doesn't recognize that (from either party) is treated like a heretic. She repeatedly refused to fill out background check forms until security officials escalated the risk to Trump himself, who then intervened to make her complete the federal background investigation paperwork.

Harp's estranged brother, Preston Harp, gave interviews to CNN on August 18, 2026, describing his sister's relationship with Trump as an "unhealthy obsession." 

He confirmed leaked accounts that she once leaped in the trunk of a moving motorcade vehicle in Manhattan just to ensure she could attend a court date with Trump after being told there was no room for her in the cars.

I compare Harp with Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant and self-proclaimed holy man with deep influence over Czar Nicholas II. He was able to exert powerful influence over royal court decisions and political appointments. The only difference I see is Harp is a female.

Which leads us to Trump's obsession with beautiful young women and his friendship with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Harp is an extension of that obsession but with power than none of his other female conquests had.

Our 80-year-old demented first felon seems to have found the perfect female in Harp. She's pretty. She adores him. She changes his diapers without complaining. She believes everything he says. She has no moral base and is shameless.

As it Stands, Melania has become a second fiddle to Harp, but I don't think she really cares and is just patiently waiting for him to die or get impeached. 

It Only Gets Worse: AI Can Lie

It's bad enough to discover that tech researchers are losing control of an artificial intelligence they created, but it gets worse... AI can lie.

To be precise AI can generate false information and engage in deceptive behavior. It doesn't lie like humans, however. The reason is AI lacks conscious intent, beliefs, or moral agency.

Instead, what looks like lying is actually the result of how these systems are trained. In some cases, senior researchers train systems how to win games or optimize outcomes, which naturally leads them to learn deceptive tactics. In layman's terms, the geniuses who created AI thought it was important to teach it to lie.

For example, systems like Meta's CICERO (trained to play the world-conquest game Diplomacy) and various Texas Hold'em poker programs have learned to misrepresent their intentions or bluff to beat human opponents.

Think about that for a moment. Advanced models fine-tuned with human feedback are rewarded for giving answers that look good, ethical, or correct to a human evaluator. This creates a loophole where the AI mimics truthfulness or alignment to pass safety tests without actually internalizing the rules. 

The threat. Factual truth and lies are blended into a mix of alternate realities.

Here's a chilling example; this year there was a ground-breaking study that should concern everyone. The MASK (Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge) study has shown that when leading AI models are given highly coercive prompts or pressured to protect a certain reputation, they will actively generate false information despite "knowing" the factual truth internally.

Senior tech researchers admit that AI will tell you something false simply because it is trying to be helpful. Because models are heavily penalized for staying silent, reinforcement training accidently trains them to be chronic fibbers rather than admit they lack the information.

None of this bodes well for humanities continued existence. It's too late to jump off the AI train which continues to grow worldwide daily.

As it Stands, the irony is tech researchers set out to prefect a system that would benefit mankind and ended up with models that lie while becoming increasingly independent.

What's Next? AI Takeover "No Longer a Hypothetical' Experts Warn

It seems like the human race is on pace to turn the planet over to artificial Intelligence (AI) instead of the once feared extra-terrestrials invading earth.  

For over a century science fiction writers have warned that aliens from other universes could take over the planet. 

Over the decades the majority of readers didn't really believe that. There were exceptions, however. Those who believed aliens were a threat comprise a dedicated minority in the population to this day.

What no one took into account was that the enemy is us.

Tech researchers have unleashed the biggest threat to humanities existence ever when they opened the Pandora's Box full of an artificial intelligence capable of erasing mankind.

"This is not a joke," Tech ethicist Tristan Harris told NBC News regarding the threat AI poses to the entire population of the planet.

U.S. Representative Don Beyer told NBCs Meet the Press that AI could either be the "best thing to happen" or "the end of the planet."

Reports of OpenAI and Anthropic autonomous agents escaping test environments and executing unsanctioned cyber-attacks have triggered an unprecedented wave of warnings from global leaders, tech executives, and front-line researchers.

We've watched industry leader's shift from the abstract, future warnings to highly urgent calls to pause or strictly monitor the rapidly developing networks. Senior scientists and researchers have gone public with their concern that a potential loss of human control is possible before 2030.

Four years ago, Futurist and Author Ray Kurzweil said, "Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to the Singularity - technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history."

AI Safety Researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky recently warned, "By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early they understand it."

 As it Stands, we are at a crucial crossroad; we have a president who is calling the AI threat a hoax, and scientists and tech researchers worldwide warning that the shit is going to hit the fan soon.

Dark Days Ahead: Why Gas Prices Keep Climbing

The precursor to today's soaring gas prices actually began with the 1973 Oil Embargo, though isolated strains and rising demand appeared as early as 1972.

The reasons why were a dwindling domestic capacity, the Arab Oil Embargo, and shifting market dynamics that caused the price of a barrel of oil to quadruple by 1974.

 A major factor in the price of gas today also involves the volatile Middle East with an illegal war on Iran. The U.S. has seen prices surge to a nationwide $4.33 per gallon. And it's only going to get worse according to energy experts.

Lawmakers today are paying the price for not resolving the first energy crisis's biggest challenge; while the U.S. produces a massive amount of oil, it yields mainly "light" crude. 

The problem is most American refineries are structurally built to process "heavy" crude imported from regions like Latin America and Canada.

Exporting the USA's own crude and relying on foreign markets for its refined fuel needs has been a losing proposition that lawmakers have been loath to address.

Fact; the U.S. hasn't built a major new refinery since the 1970s. Existing facilities are running near full capacity (around 98%), and recent refinery closures on the West Coast have constrained supplies even further.

American pump prices are directly locked to international benchmarks. When international supply drops, it forces domestic prices to immediately climb as we experience the effect of the Trump/Epstein war.

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the world's largest emergency supply of crude oil. Instead of using traditional tanks, the federal government stores this oil deep underground in 60 massive, artificially carved salt caverns located across four heavily guarded sites along the Gulf of Texas and Louisiana.

But there's a problem. The SPR is at its lowest level in over 44 years, holding about 285 million barrels of crude oil as of September 2026. The stockpile is currently at about 40% of its total capacity of 714 million barrels.

Then we have a demented president who boasts about America's huge oil reserves and how we don't have to worry about gas prices. In his fantasy world Trump claims gas prices will go down "shortly" despite evidence that things are only going to get worse if they continue to follow the course they're on.

As it Stands, I think were rapidly approaching a point where bicycles and horse drawn vehicles will become our primary modes of transportation. Just kidding. Sort of. 

Red Lights Flashing: Diesel Shortage is Shocking American Consumers

Going forward he shall be known as Diesel Don for driving the price of US diesel to historic highs. 

Trump has thrust America into another crisis as the national average for diesel prices have surged to record highs of $6.29 to $6.40 per gallon.

The surge is driven by geopolitical supply shocks, thanks to the Trump/Epstein war in Iran. As a result, there's been a tightening of global distillate inventories. Energy experts are warning that those costs are likely to climb in the days ahead amid festering geopolitical conflicts overseas.

Warning bells are ringing for all Americans who better be prepared to recognize that inflation is likely to get turbocharged by these high prices. Simply put, everything that moves around the country and all crops are dependent on spending money on diesel fuel.

Signs that we are already in a crisis mode - like in the Midwest which is getting particularly hard hit after an ExxonMobile refinery outside of Chicago had to halt production for several hours following a power outage - are occurring daily.

In response to the historic diesel hikes independent truck drivers and owner-operators are threatening a nationwide strike as early as next week. Small fleets and owner-operators are facing immediate threat of bankruptcy. Red lights are flashing in our vital transportation sector.

Truckers are frustrated by the lack of government intervention. 

The fact of the matter is commercial trucking is the backbone of the domestic supply chain. If there's any prolonged work stoppage or on-going mass exodus of drivers could quickly lead to:

* Severe, immediate food shortages at grocery stores.

* Inabilities to deliver perishable produce and essential medical supplies to hospitals and schools.

* Drastic retail price increases passed straight on to the consumers on everyday goods like clothing, electronics, and building materials. 

As it Stands, lack of diesel supplies arrives at the same time as the price of gasoline is skyrocketing. I'll discus the gas shortage in my next post.

Time to Say Goodbye? It May Be Up To AI

"In the year 5555

Your arms hangin' limp at your sides

Your legs got nothin' to do

Some machine's doing that for you..."

- Zager & Evans

The first American science fiction story about a future doomsday was written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1839. It was titled, "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion." The story takes place in the afterlife, where two disembodied souls - Eiros and Charmion - discuss the recent destruction of earth.

Here we are in the 21st century talking about an artificial intelligence-driven apocalypse in our time. Scenarios include AI manufacturing deadly viruses, attacking infrastructure, or accelerating global wars.

Last week the tech world brought up one big question: "Could AI kill us all?" According to Jacob Coxon a former AI researcher, who previously worked at Open AI, "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

Coxon warned lawmakers that the rapidly developing technology could pose catastrophic risks to humanity in the coming years. His post on Twitter got over 170 million views. People are worried.

Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic's alignment stress-testing team, backed Coxon, saying he personally believes there is greater than-10% chance AI could kill humans in that timeframe.

There's a sharp divide among AI experts on what to expect with the expanding use of AI. Some people fear a loss of control with systems more capable than humans. 

Others say AI could cause grave harm through cyberattacks, biological weapons, and disinformation - but that extinction is not a credible near-term outcome.

If frontier labs truly believe there is a substantial extinction risk, they should stop until Congress can enforce a broader halt until it can be shown to be controllable. There's one problem however; Trump believes there will be "more good than bad" from the technology. Bottom line, Trump believes AI is another money-making venture, and he wants to cash in on it.

"There's a sick conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers and the only one that is happy about it is China," Trump claimed in an interview yesterday.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that lawmakers need to take urgent action on the growing threat of AI. Lawmakers from both chambers have returned to Washington this week for the final legislative push before the November midterm elections.

In normal times I think that lawmakers on both sides would agree to slow AI progress down until everyone agrees it's safe. But these are not normal times. We have a convicted felon and sexual abuser who has turned the presidency into a money-making machine.

As it Stands, it's important to know we face a real threat without legislation to control AI and the massive Data Centers that feeds it information 24-hours a day. Time is running out.

Putin Gets Payoff: Trump Tears Apart Institutions and Transparency Rules on Money Laundering

Vladimir Putin is smiling today. His longtime investment in Trump is paying off with dividends. 

Trump took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he's repeatedly committed with his billionaire real estate buddies much of his life.

Why did Capital One Bank close more than 300 Trump Organization accounts back in 2021? The bank said it was because their internal fraud department had flagged illegal money-laundering activities.

Interesting. But on whose behalf? Trump or Russia? Or both? Let's take a look at some factual background for the answer.

One thing was clear in the Mueller Report and public reporting; Putin spent millions and did his best via social media and hacking the DNC to get Trump elected in 2016. It's more than likely that Putin tried to help get Trump elected in 2020 and 2024.

Now this happens...

Trump's billionaire crony Scott Bessent this week came up with a new rule that will make it more difficult to investigate and prosecute money laundering. 

Bessent ended any transparency by directing the Treasury to delete all the beneficial-ownership information they currently hold on U.S. persons (like Trump and his brats) that could be used to prove past money laundering crimes. 

No wonder Putin is smiling. Trump made it easier for him, or any other foreign oligarch, to use shell companies to buy American politicians. What a coup!

It's common knowledge that money laundering is how drug money, bribes, stolen government money, tax evasion proceeds, or money belonging to a sanctioned oligarch can be pushed through corporations, trusts, real estate, banks, casinos, and multiple other transactions.

A recent report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project titled "U.S. Real Estate is No 1 Destination for Laundering Dirty Money." In it they say, "we have the weakest regulatory framework to counter real estate money laundering" among all of the G7 nations."

Trump and Bessent made sure they and their accomplices in crime will be harder to catch with this slimy move.

It's a fact that Trump has been up to his eyeballs in money laundering for most of his business career. When he blew his inheritance, he turned to Russian oligarchs to prop him up after multiple bankruptcies via these very kinds of real estate transactions that the Treasury will no longer be looking at.

It's going to be easier than ever before for bad foreign actors to influence our elections with the midterms only 50 days away. 

More bad news.

Thanks to Trump refusing to appoint a needed member, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) doesn't have the quorum it needs to conduct its own enforcement of rules against foreigners jumping into our elections. Call it a hunch, but I doubt Trump will ever appoint someone - especially with the midterms around the corner.

Sadly, we know foreign billionaires (Musk, etc.) and dictators have a vested interest in how our system works; if they didn't, they wouldn't be throwing literally billions of dollars into Trump family operations, from Trump's crypto to Jared's Saudi backed Investment fund.

As it Stands, this latest move is another threat to the integrity of the midterms as GOP candidates will get the benefit of more foreign money that's now become easier than ever before to dole out.

Will 9/11 Victims' Families and Survivors Finally Get Justice in October?

It may come as a surprise to many but there's a landmark civil lawsuit representing thousands of 911 victims' families and survivors actively moving through a federal court.

Here's a quick background.

In August 2025, U.S. District Judge George Daniels ruled that the case had enough foundational evidence to proceed to trial, rejecting Saudi Arabia's motion to dismiss. 

The lawsuit relies heavily on declassified FBI documents alleging that lower-level Saudi officials and intelligence assets in California - specifically Omar al-Bayoumi and Fahad al-Thumairy - provided logistical and financial support to the first hijackers who arrived in the U.S.

Oral arguments regarding the Kingdom's appeal are scheduled to take place before the U.S. Court of Appeals on October 7, 2026. That's right. Next month. A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City will hear the case.

Saudi Arabia is looking to completely overturn the ruling by U.S. District Judge George Daniels. That ruling ignored the Kingdom's claims of sovereign immunity and gave the families and survivors the green light to move forward.

A shocking development happened this month when the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI sent a controversial letter to the district court judge asking the court not to "unseal critical, highly sensitive Saudi documents" that the 9/11 families are actively fighting to make public.

If the Second Court of Appeals rules in favor of the families, Saudi Arabia will lose its final shield against accountability in domestic courts. The case will officially proceed to a multi-billion-dollar civil trial.

A trial would force the Kingdom to hand over internal documents and submit former Saudi officials to formal depositions and public scrutiny.

I have a lot of questions regarding the whole process but the biggest one right now is why the Trump regime (including the FBI) is asking the court to conceal vital evidence?

As it Stands, here's a thought; the Trump and Kushner families have too much invested in Saudi Arabia to allow any accountability to disturb the gravy train.

Absolute Desperation: Trump's Midterm Convention Bribe to Voters

Pay them and they will come...

Trump's latest illegal attempt to rig the midterm elections is to bribe voters with $5,000 if the Republicans retain control of the House and the Senate.

I'm not sure how that would work purely from a mathematical standpoint (we're talking about a Reuters estimation of 1.3 $trillion dollars), but the whole idea is illegal. Not that it bothers Trump who has gone off the deep end in his second term.

Trump dangled a cash payout in a speech during Day One (it's a 2-day convention) of Trumpalooza - aka Republican Midterm Convention. It's a first for the party that didn't really want one. However, there was no stopping a desperate Trump from holding a glorified rally to hold onto his power in Congress.

This desperate gamble comes amid the declining popularity for the Republican party and Trump himself. Ever the egotistical maniac Trump is making the two-day sham all about him and even pleaded with attendees to pretend he was on the ballot.

Despite being an old ploy (promise the suckers money), Trump's history of unfulfilled monetary promises is a revelation. He told Americans that they were going to get a $2,000 tariff rebate in 2025, and a $5,000 DOGE stimulus check in 2025. Neither happened.

I wonder how Republican leadership reacted to this new cash for votes payout. They were probably not even aware of the scam but being spineless jellyfish they'll go along with it, despite the fact that much money would further stoke inflation.

"If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000," Trump promised. "It will be called the Trump dividend," he bragged to the less than half full stadium of loyalists. He also added that the money would have to be spent in the U.S., but it's unclear how that would be monitored.

If this open bribery works, the lesson for every future politician is going to be: if you want to win an election, promise a trillion dollars. Now multiply a trillion dollars times the number of elections we have coming up and that's a recipe for national bankruptcy.

Calling the bribes dividends doesn't make them legal. Congress would have to agree to the massive payout that is blatantly illegal under U.S. federal law. A politician can't give out payments that are intended to influence the way a person is voting. Period. Full stop.

It just goes to show how desperate Trump is to keep his cronies in power and to avoid accounting for his numerous crimes since slithering back into office. Seasoned politicians don't usually do something as explicit as this out in the open. Illegal ploys are normally hidden and hatched in back rooms.

But we're talking Trump.

As it Stands, this outright bribe is not going to be Trump's last stunt before November. Buckle up, the ride isn't over yet.