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.