Non-compos mentis: Not of sound mind, insane, lunatic, unbalanced.

We must be absolutely crazy, out of our minds to waste the luxury of our First Amendment rights attempting to destroy this country for absurd political gains. It’s gang warfare on a national level. Two rival gangs vie for control of this turf called Merka and will fight to the death, even if it’s the death is the country itself.

This oppugnant mentality is rooted in the idea that if something is not available to oneself, it’s better to prevent others from having it, even if it means a loss of resources or opportunity for everyone. Does this sound familiar? One particular partisan political party is willing to destroy this republic to keep the other from having it. In psychology, it’s called spite, where the lack of something is seen as preferable for everyone rather than simply for oneself.

The Ends Justify the Means…

It doesn’t really matter anymore, does it? Since we’ve done nothing about it, it’s of little importance because if it were really important, we would do something about it. Right?

We live a life of luxury, maybe not physically or financially, but one of opportunities and options. The US Constitution affords us this luxury. We’re free to believe and think as we please and have the same opportunities as citizens, specifically freedom of speech and the press, both of which we have abused horrendously, I might add.

I know… I’ve pounded this drum incessantly over the past several years and will continue until we realize that we are guilty of misuse in the extreme. As citizens, we are culpable, but the partisan political parties and their minions, including the CMC, are reprehensible. This puerile position has no possible excuse except to reiterate that the ends justify the means.

We brazenly brandish the luxury of commenting on anything and everything, especially headline tidbits and excerpts, without appreciating or expounding the actual events or background and with no responsibility or burden for what we say. We cavalierly take every opportunity to comment, validating a lack of awareness and judgment. Every response is a non-sequitur – a statement of inference or illogical conclusion that does not follow the premises. These are often convenient misinterpretations that manipulate facts to support irrelevant beliefs and perspectives.

Partisan politics… comes to mind immediately, as do the Corporate Media Complex and Not-So-Social Media. They are the cesspools collecting this compilation of intellectual inadequacy and deficiency.

They are a striking statement and testimonial to our lavish, lenient, liberal excess.

Example:
How does investigating fraud, waste, and abuse in governmental agencies create a Constitutional Crisis? Curiously, the partisan parties on both sides of the government have campaigned on this for the past 25 years, but now it’s a crisis???

I was reminded recently that our government does not make money; it spends it. Yes, they ‘print it’, but they do not make it. We do, and are coerced to give it to them through various means: extortion.

Comments freely float between irate, insulting, and moronic criticism, never missing a beat. The nastier the better and the more moronic criticisms amass followers on the Not-so Social Media outlets where people pander to be liked and followed. Honesty and accuracy never enter their calculus. Disingenuous and outrageous accusations increase popularity, reinforcing and exaggerating egos and amplifying arrogance. Rather than using adult language, they default to coarse and objectionable verbiage, dropping F-bombs and lowering their acerbic diatribes to base-level racial slurs, slander, and supercilious remarks that are totally devoid of decency and accuracy. AMP believes this language represents its constituency. Is it a bold mischaracterization or a foolhardy pursuit of votes from the depths of the party? AMP continues to spew this effluent, so it must be its assessment of the members.

Here’s an interesting tidbit: Congress, the opposite of progress, can borrow from the Social Security Trust Fund. The actual impact is from deficit spending. Congress uses the Social Security Trust Fund to cover the shortfall. The total so far has exceeded $23.2 trillion through 2024. The allegations and accusations of theft are technically incorrect, but the reality is that deficit spending by congressional actions causes and has caused a serious shortfall, creating more panic in retirees. Social Security is the Congressional Piggy Bank.

The adjunct to this is AMP’s implication that DOGE, the team Discovering Outrageous Government Excess, seeks to terminate Social Security and Medicare. It’s just more fuel for the FUD fires to agitate and ignite Merkans. One wonders what AMP is guarding so jealously and what makes it so adamant and intransigent in protecting this turf.

While searching for a genteel way to call ‘bullshit’ I discovered a 15th Century word that describes it perfectly: Trumpery; and since this word was used over 600 years before #47’s political debut, there is no possible direct connection to our 47th President… coincidental and uncanny. [Link]

One of the Left‘s leaders ranted for 25 hours about #47’s evils. Senator Booker represents the American Marxist Party (AMP) and its delusional approach to government. There were no statements of party direction, only the vitriol that the party espouses. It’s not unity – Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) as the party claims, but segregation to seize control and overthrow the constitutional republic.

AMP’s comparisons of #47 to the worst malevolent villains in human history were embellished by insults with little grasp of the implications of these connections.

Will #47 actually murder 9 million people to foster Marxism like Stalin, begin the genocide of an entire race for hatred, and use them in horrendous medical experiments like Hitler?

Will he use citizens as fodder in senseless and aggressive perpetual wars to expand the empire and ensure the viability of the Marxist ideology as other Merkan presidents and world leaders have done?

Did #47 tank the stock market to enrich his billionaire buddies? If he did, how would he be any different from other Merkan leaders and many in Congress, the opposite of progress, guilty of insider trading or using confidential information to line their pockets?

Isn’t this ‘the pot calling the kettle black’?

Case in point: How many entered Congress, the opposite of progress, with limited financial resources, and emerged as multimillionaires? How many are beholden to PACs, Super PACs, and billionaires for their successful campaigns?

Where is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in all of this? After all, they are the watchdogs of these activities and allegations. The Department of Justice (DoJ) can also question these actions and bring charges of impropriety and possibly criminal charges in severe cases. Where are they?

Does #47 really propose to end Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social services to give the money to his billionaire buddies, or is it that his actions threaten the criminal politician’s lifeblood of nefarious hidden slush funds, backdoor distribution networks, and ‘good-old-boy’ deals? Again, I mention ‘Insider Trading’, which produced multiple multi-million-dollar fortunes for too many in Congress, the opposite of progress?

Who’s watching the watchers?

The Corporate Media Complex (CMC) thinks we’re ignorant rubes and can’t possibly comprehend the complexities of world affairs or the intricacies of national or international finance and economics. We’re unschooled boobs who believe that every word spewing from these talking-heads is gospel and worthy of our highest regard.

Some of this data is intentionally complicated to obfuscate reality, but all these situations are simple when one applies common sense. I apologize for suggesting that we use a concept removed by the indoctrination centers to keep us ignorant. Common Sense is another of the nasty notions forbidden by the American Marxist Party (AMP).

Webster’s Dictionary defines common sense as “… sound and prudent judgment based on simple perceptions of the situation or facts.”

AI says, ‘Common Sense’ is ‘actually learned through experience and observation, not something we are born with.’ So, it follows that removing this theory from the indoctrination camps – schools – is imperative. We certainly can’t have anyone second-guessing the government and, god forbid, figuring things out for themselves.

Here are a few quotes about common sense:

– “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

– “Common sense is seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be.”

– “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

– “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

– “A weak mind with no common sense magnifies trifling things and cannot receive great ones.” This quote is my suggestion for the AMP Cult description.

I wrote about FUD – Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt in several past articles. I want to revisit FUD to discuss my thoughts about why AMP is spreading its lies and discontent.

AI explains that “FUD is a manipulative tactic used to instill negative emotions and influence decisions, often used in marketing, sales, and politics. It involves spreading negative, questionable, or false information to create a sense of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about a particular person, product, service, company, or even a market. It can lead people to make decisions based on fear and uncertainty rather than rational thought.”

What we see from AMP through the CMC exemplifies this statement; in fact, it embodies this tactic. Everything about the current administration is painted as negative and criticized in the extreme. AMP offers no alternatives or suggestions, only recriminations. Their every effort creates chaos to keep us from seeing the possibility of the proposal and the potential options therein.

Look at the Stock market’s recent reaction to the tariffs. The announcement caused a 3,000-point drop, using FUD as the catalyst and cudgel, blaming #47, who dared to institute a reciprocal tariff policy, but the CMC spun it into a catastrophe, costing trillions of dollars in losses. The amount of the resulting increase is immaterial, but the CMC used these numbers to create ‘panic’ by speculating about the impacts, and everyone overreacted.

Indeed, the only way to lose 7 trillion dollars would be to purchase the entire stock market before the drop and sell it at the closing price. This was obviously another FUD manipulation. No one lost trillions of dollars. It was intended to create panic – and it did just that. It reinforced the CMC’s stranglehold on this country with AMP pulling the string to make us dance, and we’ve been dancing their jig for the past 50 years.

In truth, the market rebounded, posting modest gains over the initial starting point before the drop. Granted, this information depends significantly on whose data you trust and the perspective you adopt. I prefer an optimistic point of view, realizing that stock market tracking charts are akin to seismic activity charts of the earth’s crust movement.

They jerk and jump all over the place, indicating activity. Looking closely at the chart could cause panic, but as you back away, things come into focus, and one sees the trends. What’s important is the time reference – I am not interested in the changes based on seconds or on the days’ trading. I let the short-term investors deal with the ulcers. I’m looking at the long-term for my entire portfolio.

We’re like Pavlov’s dogs: When the CMC implies the slightest hint of impropriety, scandal, or wrongdoing, we panic. They ring the bell, parade the talking head, and we march along in lockstep like lemmings, right off the panic-cliff every single time. That, folks, is called programming. We are programmed to panic when given the signal from the CMC. And… AMP wins when we panic, chipping away at our resolve and love of country, creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt: chaos.

This is the Constitutional Crisis AMP their minions howl about incessantly. It is the abuse of our rights as enumerated in the First Amendment.

All of this is an object lesson in the power of FUD… We’re afraid of our government, the opposition party, and, consequently, each other.

We are even told to fear our thoughts and question why we think a particular way or about certain things.

We’re told what thoughts are healthy and which are not.

We fear law enforcement even as law-abiding citizens.

Are we being surveilled, and why?

What did I do?

Who’s listening to my phone conversations?

Who’s monitoring my text messages?

Is someone monitoring the websites I visit, recording my key clicks, tracking my purchases?

It’s all part of the FUD process. You should be afraid… But… if you adopt this ideology, vote for this candidate, join this party, buy this product, or join this cult, they can allay all your fears.

What we know is a compilation of information we believe based on personal experiences and preferences, our choices. The systems we use to discover and deliver this information should be impartial, meaning they don’t care about our ideologies; those are included in the sources we use to retrieve the data, but they can be skewed to a particular partisan political perspective.

The CMC and specific interweb sources are intentionally politically biased to provide information skewed to its particular partisan political party. We can always find the information we want, but we must use caution to discover unbiased information. Data fitting our ideological penchant are all over the internet. The challenge is finding a balanced source of information; this requires careful comparisons of multiple sources and finding the thread of truth in the warp and weft of these official statements.

Thank the Maker we live in a country with the luxury of freedoms and choices.

We can believe as we wish, even if it’s all Trumpery.

AI is Artificial Intelligence – a computer program that refers to machines’ simulation of human intelligence processes, enabling them to perform tasks that typically require human cognitive functions. AI is a broad field of computer science that focuses on creating machines capable of performing tasks that humans can do, such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making. [Link]

Data provided by the University of Illinois Master of Engineering Department. For all of you 2001 and 2010 “A Space Odyssey” fans, this is where the HAL 9000 computer system was developed and programmed.

When you perform most internet searches, your responses are processed using Artificial Intelligence. In 2020, the amount of information on the internet hit 175 zettabytes (ZB). A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes; that was five years ago. In 2020, it was 64 ZB.

A gigabyte (GB) is a digital storage unit representing approximately one billion bytes of data. Specifically, it equals 1,024 megabytes (MB) or 1,073,741,824 bytes. Think of it as about 1,000 pictures from a 5-megapixel camera or roughly 250 MP3 songs. The validity of the information is a critical issue. AI doesn’t know if the information is true or false unless it is programmed to compare the data against known parameters, as in mathematics. 2+2 is always 4, but there are no databases for true or false in the news or opinion arenas. AI could return a lie and not know it or even care.

It combs through all the information available in all of the connected storage locations and replies to your request as programmed. It’s important to remember that AI programs are written by computer software engineers (humans so far) trained in state-run universities and taught by progressive left-leaning professors. That liberal bias is built into AI’s responses. The machine – computer system – does exactly what it’s told to do.

I say so far above because AI is learning to program itself.

Computer models are programs designed to simulate and study complex systems using mathematics, physics, and computer science. They can reflect the assumptions of the developers coding them, which causes them to favor certain outcomes. Additionally, AI bias can develop due to the data used to train it. AI models function by analyzing large sets of training data in a process known as machine learning. They represent real-world events or phenomena, allowing scientists and engineers to conduct experiments, make predictions, and explore various scenarios without physically manipulating the system.

“We are all foolproof and incapable of error by any practical definition of the words.” ~ Hal 9000

I just thought you might like to know…

 

 

April 16, 2025

~ The Author ~
Charles R. Dickens was born in 1951, is a veteran of the Vietnam war, for which he volunteered, and the great-great grandson of the noted author, whose name he shares.

He is a fiercely proud American, who still believes this is the greatest country on the planet, with which we’ve lost control and certainly our direction. He grew up in moderate financial surrounding; we’re not rich by any stretch, but didn’t go hungry – his incredibly hard working father saw to that. As most from that era, he learned about life from his father, whose story would take too long to tell, other than to say that, he is also a fiercely proud American; a WWII and Korean war, veteran Marine.

Charlie was educated in the parochial system which, demanded that you actually learn something, and have capability to retain it before you advance. He attended several universities in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree, and chased the goose further to a master’s, and has retained some very definite ideas about education in this country.

In addition, Charlie is a retired blues guitar and vocalist – a musician. This was his therapy career. Nothing brings him as much joy as playing music, and he wishes that he could make a living at it… but alas… life goes on!