Just when I thought I could write about something other than the incompetence of the co-presidents running or ruining America (I should have known better), up pops some more deranged actions of the Elon Musk/Donald Trump administration. I don’t have to go into details because I know all you astute The Voice readers have heard the details. While the GOP is currently slamming Big Bird for warping kids minds by feeding them liberal gobbledy gook, national security adviser Mike Waltz and defense secretary Pete Hegseth are handing out top-secret war plans in Happy Meal boxes. What I found completely ironic was a commercial featuring Kristi “No-Nothing” Noem touting the fact that we should be grateful to Our Dear President for making America safer, which was immediately followed by the first ABC news story being the breach of the Signal chat, where top secret attack plans on the Houtis were outlined in full color and surround sound, sending our aforementioned Dear Leader and his lock-stepped boot lickers into full “Deny and Deflect” mode.
Not to be outdone, JD “Just Dippy” Vance and his wife invaded Greenland, landing with no official greeting committee, to insult the Danish government and subtlety threaten them to “Do what we say or else.” With the upcoming tariffs piled on to these acts of brilliance, the stock market to dropped hundreds of points, further wiping out retirement savings. Hey, MAGA voters: Are you having fun yet?
The Musk/Trump tag team is busy with their gaggle of goons erasing any mentions of people of color wherever they find it, so white people don’t have to feel bad about what they did to those people. This is right out of the 1984 playbook, where Big Brother had a section of the government whose sole task it was to eradicate anything from the past that cast shade on the status of Big Brother’s organization. Read 1984 if you haven’t already or read it again if you have.
Today, with all the tech available at our fingertips, (or whatever body parts you use for available tech that weren’t available in 1947 when Orwell wrote 1984), it would be easier to eliminate past history. It’s all being digitized and could be erased with a tap of the delete key. It’s so easy that any 12-year-old schoolboy with access to a computer, tablet or smart phone can quickly Google the information he needs to complete a school assignment and get back to emailing naked pictures of models to his friends.
Regarding tech, a major concern today is Artificial Intelligence (AI). But I don’t care about that. I care about cancelling subscriptions to online programs I no longer need or want or cancelling memberships to organizations I can’t remember joining and that probably made me a member when I forgot to shut down my computer one night. They all promise you can easily cancel your subscription or membership, but as you spend hours or days scrolling through endless screens to find out how to cancel while your houseplants die and your children go hungry, another billing cycle has passed and another $129.95 has been charged to your credit card. The only way out of the endless cycle is to enter a witness protection program. You can easily find one by Googling “Alternatives to suicide.”
Okay, I admit, there is one thing concerning AI that I do care about. In the past if you wanted to post a picture of your dog farting, you’d need to add a caption such as, See? This is my dog farting, and viewers would have to take your word for it. The next big tech innovation let you post a video with sound of your dog farting. Now with AI, you can create a dog farting that isn’t even yours or doesn’t really exist, but farts up a storm cloud.
Isn’t life grand?