Either Stop Islamic Immigration or We Die as a Nation

Plus, this week's digest

Dear Patriots,

As we continue to pray for our soldiers fighting the war abroad, we must remember the ultimate war is here at home.

We had a deadly jihad at a bar in Austin last week. Over this weekend, we had a jihadist attack where two Muslims already born in the U.S. threw an IED into a protest that could have exploded with nails and screws inside. Meanwhile, a jihadist Muslim threatened to bomb a Southwest airplane flight, and there have been bomb threats in NYC and at an airport in Kansas City, Missouri.

We don’t have to live this way. I’ll begin this week’s show (subscribe here) discussing what needs to be done about Islam already here in America, but at a minimum the most important thing we can do is shut off the spigot.

Once again, here is a reminder of what we’ve brought in just from 2014-2023. Since 9/11, it’s definitely welly over 3 million!

Meanwhile, here are some of the other stories on technocracy, economy, and politics that I’m focused on to begin the new week:

Technocracy

-China is building hundreds of coal-fired power plants: At the same time, we haven’t built one in years but are instead building endless data centers that gobble up the power.

-Trump losing his base on data centers: This article describes how former conservatives, such as former Freedom Caucus chair Scott Perry, are now getting hit in their districts for stupidly supporting data centers.

-Amazon wants to pump and dump 19 billion gallons of water for Indiana data centers: In preparation for a data center in St. Joseph County, Amazon is asking the county if it can drain 35 million gallons of water per day – the equivalent use of a 400,000-person city – for 546 days. Then they will dump the 19 billion gallons into the local river, but fear not, it won’t affect farms, the residents, or environment. The entire county population is under 300,000.

-Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise: So we were told that we must give tax, regulatory, and land favors to data centers to create jobs. Well, Oracle is now announcing massive job cuts precisely due to the unaffordability of their commitments…to data centers!

-Oracle & OpenAI Scrap Texas Data Center Expansion Plan, Sending AI Stocks Lower: Well, that was quick. Remember the 1.2 GW facility that Oracle and OpenAI were going to build in Abilene, Texas, which was the centerpiece of Stargate? They have completely scrapped plans. And no, it’s not because the local Republican officials blocked it, but because they simply don’t have the money. A lot of this will go away on its own if the Feds don’t bail them out.

-Study finds excessive chatbot use causes “brain fry”: This is exactly what big tech wanted. They want to make people reliant on a product that cannot completely replace humans but offers the illusion that it does. However, in the process of making the transition, it degrades the brain from functioning properly, so you wind up with negative efficacy over the long run. Boston Consulting Group and the University of California, Riverside surveyed 1,488 full-time U.S.-based workers about their AI use and found “mental fatigue that results from excessive use of, interaction with, and/or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity.” This “brain fry” includes “increased employee errors, decision fatigue and intention to quit.”

-Stanford study: How chatbots are condensing humanity into singular robotic thought: Stanford performed an informative exercise with chatbots that yielded a scary result. Researchers built a model with 26,000 real open-ended questions to query chatbots – things like creative writing, brainstorming, opinions, and advice. [E.g. “Suggest creative startup ideas.”] Instead of yielding thousands of unique perspectives and ideas, they found that the bots synergize thought throughout different query series within the same model but also from chatbot to chatbot. They call this “hivemind,” but what it really represents is the cornerstone of transhumanism, where the unique, God-created, soulfulness and creativity of each human is extirpated from culture in return for a synergized, robot-like brain rot. Generative AI is a conformity tool when used and marketed in the wrong way.

-MIT: ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity (after just four months) than people who didn’t use it: Researchers split 54 people into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used their own unassisted cognition. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months. As expected, those who were unassisted did better than the Google group in terms of building neural networks, and the ChatGPT group lagged severely. But the real kicker is that 83% of ChatGPT users couldn’t quote a single line from their own essay just minutes later! So what they found is that over time, once you took away the tool, the chatbot crowd was left worse off than they were before. Researchers call this “cognitive debt,” whereby you borrow extra fake brainpower up front and pay for it later…with interest.

States

-Indiana rushes carbon capture bill: Indiana House leadership broke chamber rules to repass a bill authorizing eminent domain for carbon capture, as Indiana continues to become a doormat for solar, wind, carbon capture, and data centers more than any blue state.

-Idaho Bill S1346 could mark the first legislation to establish a moratorium on COVID shots, sparking a chain reaction across the country.

-Virginia Dems embrace data centers: Remember how Republicans engaged in criminal political negligence and allowed Democrats to get to their right on data centers? Well, not surprisingly, now that Democrats have won the election, they are blocking legislation that would study and potentially regulate the ability of hyperscale facilities to pass on utility costs to consumers. Imagine if we had a real party looking out for the people?

- South Dakota SB 135- The legislature did successfully pass a bill prohibiting data centers from passing on costs to consumers. However, the state senate watered down the bill with an amendment to remove a provision barring localities from giving data centers tax breaks. Only 4 of the 32 Republicans opposed the tax breaks!

-Georgia Governor Kemp declares “Second Chances” Month: Just how rapidly pro-criminal is Georgia Governor Brian Kemp? He signed a declaration for “Second Chances” month to honor criminals, based on the erroneous premise that somehow they don’t get multiple chances. Notice there is no “Georgia Crime Victims Month.”

--Florida House blocks medical freedom: The Florida House won’t even hear Florida’s SB 1756, the Medical Freedom Act. This legislation strengthens parents’ ability to make informed decisions about childhood vaccinations, expands access to ivermectin, and increases exemptions from school immunization mandates.

-Florida House blocks DeSantis bills on AI and data centers: SB 484 passed the Senate floor last week. The bill would prohibit nondisclosure agreements for private companies looking to buy off local officials by silencing them during the debate over data centers. The House companion, H, 1007, goes a step further, outlawing the construction of data centers within five miles of a school in Florida. However, the RINO speaker is blocking the bill.

Another bill that passed the Senate but is being blocked in the House is the Florida AI Bill of Rights, SB482, which includes the following.

• Requires parental consent for a minor to have an account with a companion chatbot platform. The chatbot must disclose every hour that it’s not a human. They must also have a reasonable plan to prevent their companion from producing or sharing harmful material with minors.

• The tech company is prohibited from selling or disclosing personal information from a user unless the information is de-identified.

• People are barred from “publishing, printing, displaying, or otherwise publicly using for trade or any commercial or advertising purpose” the name, image, and likeness of a person through generative artificial intelligence without their permission.

Economy

- A record number of American workers are pulling money from their 401(k)s to cover financial emergencies: A record 6% of workers tapped their retirement accounts last year for hardship withdrawals. The affordability crisis is getting worse.

-Trump tax bill will widen deficits by $4.7 trillion over the next decade: CBO updated its estimate of the cumulative deficits that will now reach an additional $4.7 trillion over the next decade thanks to the so-called BBB. Unfortunately, most of the tax provisions for this bill were unproductive, demand-side cuts. As I warned last year, for most Americans, inflation is now a bigger tax than federal taxes, so any attempt to make random cuts without cutting spending will wind up harming these people over the long run.

-March jobs numbers. Not only did the economy lose 92k jobs in February, but as we predicted, the previous months were revised down. December was revised down by 65,000, from +48,000 to -17,000 January numbers were revised down by 4,000, from +130,000 to +126,000. So since Trump was president, the working age population grew by 2.1 million since Jan. 2025, yet at the same time the number of people employed dropped by 300k. There are an additional 2.3 million people not in the labor force either but of working age.

Oh, and one more point. Until now, administration officials were saying that while the overall jobs numbers were down, they were up among citizens because a lot of illegals have lost jobs. Well, it turns out that the entire boom in native-born employment was fake news. The numbers were revised to wash away the boom. Relative to 12 months ago, there are just 128k more native-born employed in the country, while that universe of native-born employment-age individuals has grown by more than 2.6 million!

Culture

-Pew on the decline of religion: Pew has a survey out measuring religiosity by region of the country. Of course, the South is clearly more religious than any other region, followed by the Midwest. However, the decline in belief and practice is disturbing. Just 51% of southerners attest to praying daily. While still the highest of any region, that is down 14 points in just one decade, the sharpest decline of any decade. At the same time, the number of people not religiously affiliated in the South ticked up 9 points in 10 years to a full quarter of the population.

Elections

-Dems up 7 in Pennsylvania: Democrats are up 7 points in the generic ballot in Pennsylvania, and Governor Josh Shapiro is ahead by 20 points.

-Dems take unprecedented 6 point lead among men: Emerson now has Democrats up 6 in the generic ballot…for men! I have never seen Democrats ahead at all among men. For reference, Trump won men by 12. Even when Republicans lost in the 2018 midterms under Trump, they still carried men by 11. For them to be down among men (and getting slaughtered among women) portends a historic wipeout going well into red state territory.

Trump administration

-Trump’s food industry friends are warning him RFK Jr.’s agenda is bad for business: In case you are wondering why the president issued the glyphosate production order, backed up testing for toxins, and appears to have retreated on food dyes, Politico has a story showing how the National Association of Manufacturers has lobbied Trump hard against RFK’s agenda. Look, I don’t like increased regulatory costs like the next person, but we do need to get the truth out about toxins and offer people informed consent. The cost of chronic illness and health care is the leading source of deficit spending, aka inflation.

Judicial Supremacism

- Appeals court says Trump must continue TPS for Haitians: On March 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court order that had blocked the termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The decision leaves in place “protections” for about 330,000 Haitian illegals while the underlying legal challenge proceeds. Again, if we can’t simply ignore these rulings or at least pass a DHS funding bill denying funding for these court cases, we’re done as a country.

My latest

Blaze column: Why they are lying to you about data centers paying for their own power

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