By Jo Nova
This will slow down the parasites
The most exciting thing I heard today was that AI was used to find all the nasty surprises secreted away in the 1,500 pages of US legislation that was being pumped through Congress in the days before Christmas. Legal aides must have spent all year stacking the deck with tricks to enrich the political class. No human could unpack the fine print overnight, but AI could. Then, free speech saved the day, the Capitol Pork was exposed when Elon Musk spread the word to his 208 million readers.
As Elon Musk says: I’m suspicious of laws that are longer than The Lord of the Rings.
Huge implications for the use of AI. They used AI to “read” all 1,574 pages of that monstrosity and pull out the graft and corruption. This is a game changer. They can’t hide things in multi-thousand page bills anymore.
— DJ Jones (@sgtdaviddjjones) December 19, 2024
No matter how corrupt you think Big-government is, it’s worse:
Posters on X exposed some of the hidden surprises which included a payrise for Congress, funding for Bill Gates mosquito games, bioweapons research, vaccine mandates and new rules to define National Emergencies like “climate change”.
How else to describe this other than rampant theft, hidden under a confected “rush” and loaded up with manipulative coercion to get it through?
As Glenn Reynolds points out: The cancer research bill was passed in March and cynically left to fester for months so that it could be used as a hostage against Republicans.
Seen on Twitter:
What is more outrageous, refusing to pass a 1,574 page monstrosity of a spending bill, or using kids with cancer as human shields by writing them into it? “We had to pass all the graft and corruption to help kids with cancer” – that was going to be their defense.
When Republicans reduced the bill to 115 pages, the Democrats who would have presumably passed all of it the day before, would not pass the short form without the grift and the graft.
The mega-long legislation affects all of us in the West. The longer the laws are the more it serves the uber rich who can afford the QCs (or KCs or gun lawyers), and the more it punishes the poor who can’t pay off any lawyer to find the loopholes that weren’t written into the rules for them anyway.
Australia voted against an emissions trading scheme in a landslide in 2013 but got one anyway two years later. The laws were snuck through in deceptive clauses just before Christmas 2015.
Now the talk all over US political circles is this radical idea of voting for one bill at a time…
It’s fantastic, and Trump isn’t even President officially for another 30 days.
UPDATE: The US House just passed the third revision which was 118 pages.
This is huge. ToM
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Yes, but also appalling. What the man in the street thinks no longer matters.
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Are these “Truth Bombs” that we are seeing?
People that I had written off as having no comprehension of truth are suddenly talking sense as if they always knew it!
With Trump’s inauguration still a month away!
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The swamp is indeed wide and deep, but The Republicans may have found the plughole.
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“The longer the laws are the more it serves the uber rich who can afford the QCs,”
If QC is meant to mean Queen’s Counsel then it should now be KC which is King’s Counsel. Picky I know but there it is.
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Pedantry is good JR.
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Give us a bit of time. After 70+ years it takes getting used to.
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I was watching this with interest yesterday, even though I only understood about 1/2. This is a great summary Jo. The swamp is not hidden, it’s there in plain sight. It’s the elected officials the people vote for. We’ve got the same problem in Australia and indeed possibly most of the western world.
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Looks like a very good use for AI and I’m sure that Elon Musk will use AI to assist him in reducing USA Feral Guv’ment expenditure that is deemed wasteful.
We need a Trump and an Elon here in the Lucky Country. Trouble is we haven’t and don’t look like getting anyone like that without the wheels falling off Big Time.
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It’s not really any longer the Lucky Country especially as Australia systematically destroys itself. Lucky Country is a misunderstanding from Donald Horne, our heritage gave us some good although mostly unearned or undeserved things:
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Donld Horne was lucky.
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It was a good use of good AI.
Unfortunately most AI is designed by the Left and is evil and used to censor and control information for the benefit of the Left, e.g. Goolag, Farcebook.
I don’t know who designed the aforementioned AI but I know Elon Musk is developing a good and honest AI called Grok.
A concern is that in future the Left might get their evil AI to write things in a way in which the grift embedded in funding bills is undetectable by good AI.
Also, notice how legislation from the Left is always so infeasibly long that there is no way anyone can ever read or understand it? Of course, that is its purpose.
I liked TRUMP’s rule last term. For any new legislation, two other pieces have to be removed. I also like how this bill was reduced from 1574 pages to 115 by the Republicans.
And all this is happening even before TRUMP assumes office.
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I have been using Grok now for about 2 weeks. Since it was free to all users on X, because I’m such a cheapskate. My impression so far is it’s really good. Relatively quick and for my work stuff, exceedingly accurate and up to date.
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Left, right, left.
2001 Howard (right), 2009 Rudd (left), with bipartisan support (left right).
The RET was first introduced by the Howard Government in 2001 and in 2009, with bipartisan support, expanded to 20 per cent of generation by 2020. The broadly accepted “revisionist” interpretation of the legislation was that it was designed to act as industry policy for the burgeoning renewable energy sector, while a price on carbon, via an emissions trading scheme, gradually set a long-term investment signal.
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Howard wasn’t of the right, he was a fake conservative and the Liberal Party hasn’t been truly conservative or pro-feeedom for decades. The censorship legislation, the e Safety Kommissar and support for the world’s most extreme covid lockups came from them, for example, apart from Howard being a nasty little control freak and hoplophobe.
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Except for a few months at the end Howard had a hostile senate.
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These methods should be applied to cost/benefit analysis of everything climate and green energy.
It’s time to drive a stake through the monster.
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Also to the cloaking titles such as “Air Quality” and “Safe Water” and so forth.
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There was an episode in Yes Minister which covered the Omnibus Bill tactic.
https://youtu.be/DOQUyhlGUWQ
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Here in the UK, Paul Homewood highlights one here –
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/like-net-zero-but-worse/
It’s a ‘Private Member’s Bill’ – so not Government, although I guess many in Sir Starmer’s administration will favour this.
Sets up an alternative Assembly to Parliament, and pushes WEFfy ideas generally – you know, Nut Zero, energy poverty [for the UK, but not, seemingly, China. Strangely].
And taxpayers will have to pay for it all: –
“There is to be paid out of money provided by Parliament—
(a) any expenditure incurred under or by virtue of this Act; and
(b) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable under any other 25
Act out of money so provided. ”
Section 7 of the draft bill, downloaded about 2300Z, 20th December 2024, from
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-04/0192/230192.pdf
Auto
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Incidentally, how did Sir Keir Starmer as a (supposedly former) radical Marxist bring himself to accept an imperial honour, a knighthood?
I guess it’s just more staggering hypocrisy of the Left…
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Each side tries to corrupt the other.
Maybe Sir Starmer is displaying an ironic knighthood?!? I mean, hard to tell these days.
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And don’t think for one second that our UniGov (LGT+) isn’t guilty of precisely the same fudge and subterfuge!
Vote for a second tier party but watch out for the sleepers masquerading as Liberals
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Wasn’t there something in there about making it illegal to produce AI porn with the visages of members of Congress?
I completely support this.
To prevent blindness.
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Jo, just saying , it’s now “X” not Twitter, but I know you know that :-).
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Time not to only drain the swamp, disinfect it & fill lit in with the bones of the perpetrators & then apply a generous depth of concrete.
As an adder some strong laws with really nasty consequences for law breakers, not limp lettuce leaf flogging!!
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Here is a short 2 min video from Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party in Canada who is similarly concerned about costs as American non-Rino Republicans.
I wish Australia had someone like him or even a genuine conservative party able to take Government.
https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1869752349000188151
(Click on the video to activate the sound.)
Notice how a lot of these conservative-oriented videos come out on X, they are either censored or made hard to find on Farcebook and YouTube.
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Who’s in charge of the spending?
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1869912501560746020
Now I understand. 😁
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That Congressthing is Rosa DeLauro, and it is 81 years old.
It proves that you are never too old to be a deranged purple-haired freak with a chronic case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
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Let’s hope this use of AI will help to straighten out other future suspect legislation so everyone can read and understand it.
To reduce 1500 pages of left wing garbage to just 115 pages is brilliant and must lead to more efficiency and quickly reduce the cost of government for the average citizen / taxpayer.
I hope that Elon’s Grok becomes a game changer and I’m sure he and Vivek will use it to clean up any dirty lefty legislation from now on.
I’m starting to feel more optimistic about the future for OECD countries already. Who knows?
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I’m sorry, I don’t know why this was a double posting , but the second version has been changed slightly , like Krok to Grok. Grrrrr.
[Fixed the Krok and the double. Odd, tho?. — Jo]
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Let’s hope this use of AI will help to straighten out other future suspect legislation so everyone can read and understand it.
To reduce 1500 pages of left wing garbage to just 115 pages is brilliant and should lead to more efficiency and quickly reduce the cost of government for the average citizen / taxpayer.
I hope that Elon’s Grok becomes a game changer and I’m sure he and Vivek will use it to clean up any dirty lefty legislation from now on.
I’m starting to feel more optimistic about the future for OECD countries already. Who knows?
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Afternoon all,
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald has this report in the “Just In” section in their app (paywalled):
Interestingly it implies that the 118 page version is the only one ever considered:
” It’s essentially the same deal that flopped the night before in a spectacular setback. ”
Musk gets a mention, but neither AI nor the number 1574 appear.
Cheers
Dave B
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The ABC has produced a story also without those numbers, not the big one, not the small one. Also AI is omitted.
Could this report be considered as informative, or is it misinformation in our terminology?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/us-senate-fails-to-meet-government-shutdown-deadline/104754282
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FWIW
“A.I. at Home for $250. Jetson Orin Nano”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/a-i-at-home-for-250-jetson-orin-nano/
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Makes you wonder what was ‘hidden’ away in all the past funding bills.
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Who’s at the apex of the “uber rich” dung heap to benefit the most ?.
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Take your pick: Career politicians, corporate monopolies that need the government to protect them from competition, tech giants, billionaires, bankers, Big-Pharma that needs “approval” to get on mandatory or subsidized lists, the UN which wants the money AND the power, plus any government employee or contractor (which is a quarter to a third of the entire economy).
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It may be obscured in 1500 pages but it can be seen. In contrast, the Australian public are not privy to the deals AEMO and Blackout are making to get more useless wind and solar generation.
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Nor the dollar amounts being paid to Eraring, Bayswater, Mt Piper, Yallourn, Loy Yang coal-fired generators to keep them patched up sufficiently to keep lights on for a majority of the time in most populated places – so far.
My colleagues and myself have sufficient industry contacts to be aware that these generators need about $110-120m each right now for repair and maintenance that would have been routinely done under normal operating conditions but which people baulk at paying now when the Govt tells them every second day that they will be closed down ASAP.
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It is sobering to contemplate our era of industrial complexes.
The rise of Trump and the construction of Pandemic made the sinister integration of Tech/Political/Medical/Military cooperation plainly visible.
It is as if the dark conspirators were no longer shy about making the conspiracy theorists look prescient.
Washington DC is more an autonomous industrial/cultural City State than the capitol of a Republic.
The primary apparatus in the factory town is political fund raising.
Fueled by the manufacture of fear.
Ironically, the conquering Visigoth Trump, is a godsend to the fund raising machine.
(This is the reason that IMHO the ELE resulting in the collapse of this modern Empire will likely be a volcanic or space debris ocuurance, just like the Roman/Hellenic era. We don’t change nature, nature changes us … every time.)
So, the real battle front is the minds of the public.
The Blob and their legacy media commandos, currently bloodied and in retreat, are now regrouping.
Planning to retake the minds of the citizens …
by simply purchasing the new podcast/internet media that they failed to realize had infiltrated and overwhelmed their finely oiled fear narrative machine.
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After reading this I fired off a few ripostes on X-formerly-Twitter.
I seem to have embarrassed myself.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/dec/19/department-of-government-efficiency/congress-didnt-propose-new-243000-salaries-in-spen/
The alleged increase is $6,000, not $70,000 and it wasn’t written into the bill. It merely did not include a block on otherwise automatic 3.8% increase. That increase last took place in 2009. So, it’s hardly the extortionate $70,000 per year pay Christmas gift to themselves I had railed against.
“We” haven’t just cut out the pork. Republicans are being condemned for cutting $200 million allocated to child cancer care.
Yes, I distrust the fact-checker I’m quoting, PolitiFact; they’re a left-wing bunch. But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong on this occasion. I will do more homework, but it looks as if I owe apologies to a bunch of people.
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The USA has not had an actual budget since GW Bush signed the last one in 2007. In that budget was USD 856 Billion to backstop the banks during the economic crisis of 2007. After that, Congress (Obama) used a legal trick called a Continuing Resolution which retains the last approved budget as a baseline, then adds further spending to it. They call it “Baseline Budgeting”. That “extra money” was used to fund all manner of crazy liberal things.
In truth, it reauthorizes that “one time” amount of 856 Billion USD every year for the last 16 years with additional spending added every year. So, 13.7 Trillion USD has been spent that was not intended to happen. That’s 38% of total US Debt.
It is time to get off of the crazy train before the entire economy derails.
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Is there really any ideological difference between sticking cancer help for kids into a grift bill (“save the kids, and, btw, give me a few billion $$!”), and using kids as human shields in war?
Even if you agree with them on some issues, they still ought to be removed as garbage humans.
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