Thune is the most worthless piece-of-crap leader the GOP has ever had! There have been other deadbeats, but not with a mandate to make the kind of changes Americans want, with majority control of the House and Senate and a GOP president in the White House. That makes his ineptitude and corruption magnified by 1,000 orders of magnitude! Worthless, feckless piece of crap! And nobody wanted to oppose that?

Pulling the post and Gates’s own words on AI so the charge sits on the record, not on a slogan. He is not afraid of a machine that writes code. He is the machine that wrote code. What startles him is a machine that can read his stack, name the weak spots, and hand the map to people who don't sit on his board. The clip is Goalkeepers again: AI now codes better than young Gates. If it can write code, it can study code, find the holes, and walk into systems. Presidents have not treated the hour as real. He would rather spend the meeting on foreign aid and dead children. Trust, the post says, is the part he does not get for free. Correct. The same weekend he told Meet the Press that unchecked AI could drive “a billion deaths,” that self-regulation is not enough, that law enforcement and politicians must build a monitoring layer, that agreement will be harder than nuclear talks, that Trump’s “hoax” line is wrong, and that he wants the meeting. He also said you can still turn the computer off, and that the slowdown need not be dramatic—just the police layer. That is not a man fleeing intelligence. That is a man trying to license it. What the record says he protects He already owns a private ministry: seed, shot, fertility math, pandemic script, Goalkeepers as pulpit. PATH on tribal girls with wardens signing. AGRA missing its own hunger goals. Population as a dashboard in his own mouth. A thank-you in a room the subjects cannot enter. Alienation is the method—the child, the farmer, and the mother become metrics. An AI that is merely faster, Gates does not fear that method. It extends it. An AI that is constrained to tell the truth about grants, consent forms, yield-versus-hunger, and who sat on which board does. That is an auditor he cannot fire with a press release. What he is actually afraid of An auditor that does not report to the foundation. Code that studies code will study USAID pipes, PATH protocols, tax-exempt scoreboards, and the vendor layer Benz keeps naming. The weak spot is not only a server. It is the story that the storyteller is the only adult in the room. Loss of the pulpit. He said the quiet part: he would rather be talking about childhood deaths. AI “steals the hour” because the hour was how he stayed the narrator. Goalkeepers is a church. A public model that writes the brief without Van Jones makes the church optional. Unlicensed speech about his own files. “Safeguards and monitoring” in his mouth are not a child’s safety lock. They are a gate on who may ask which model, what about molecules, money, and men. He wants the same class that already ran health policy to hold the key. That is not fear of bioterror as a peasant fears plague. It is fear of a tool that small groups—including hostile citizens—can use the way only ministries used to. A people who can run the numbers without him. Wholesome constraint, in plain language: a system that will not lie to spare a donor, will not pad a titled man, will not treat a nation as a hotel and a child as a unit. That system does not need to firebomb a campus. It only has to keep assembling the map in public. The consortium lives on fog. Fog is what he is bargaining to keep. Not the kill switch — the wrong owner of the switch. He waved off the kill-switch debate as a nontechnical distraction. Of course he did. A switch in Washington plus industry monitoring is a switch he can still reach. A switch in a thousand kitchens is a switch he cannot. The forensic cut Open: whether any given sentence tonight is privately about a lab leak he has seen, a model he has used, or a fundraising call he is managing. Closed: the pattern. He funds the scoreboard, then demands the referee. He warns of a billion deaths in the same season he still wants the aid meeting. He is not pleading for a world where truth-constrained tools work for ordinary people. He is pleading for a world where the most dangerous tool ever invented still needs his layer. A decent intelligence in clean hands would not have to destroy him as a man. It would only have to stop letting him be the ministry. That is enough to terrify a nihilist. The fear is not that the machine becomes evil. The fear is that the machine becomes honest, and the honest machine does not need Bill Gates.