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Getting the Hell out of California
Getting the Hell out of California is the story of two lawyers from very divergent backgrounds, Lester Izemore and Buster Sikes, whose lives become intertwined late in life through a strange series of events beginning with a corrupted law practice, some questionable and (many) felonious and capital crimes, and (of course) a failed marriage to a re-emerging bisexual Swedish woman destined to embark on a later-in-life career as a stripper in San Francisco after her moment of anagnorisis and shedding her disconsolate husband in favor of a new age relationship with an aging feminist in Sausalito. Did I mention the Mormon fundamentalists? You’ll love it.
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Non Cogito, Ergo Non Sum
by Joseph Warren, Editor
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copyright 2026
A Lesson on AI from 1,000 years ago - Ibn Sina (Avicenna): Why AI is Not what it appears, and why, should it act aberrantly, it is the fault of the people who scripted the renegade AI program, having taught it, intentionally or otherwise, to behave badly, and they should be held accountable - financially and morally.
A little background: Ibn Sina (or, Avicenna) was without doubt one of the greatest ancient thinkers in the last millennium. He was Muslim, as so many of our greatest minds have been and are - even those we are presently trying to kill in today’s Persia. He lived his life in the center of the thriving Muslim world of expanding thought and scientific revelation.
He also taught me 1,000 years after his death that we have nothing to fear of AI in its present state of non-being, except of ourselves. Sam Altman of OpenAI is nowhere near creating Actual Intelligence. Neither is Musk nor Zuckerburg nor…
At present it is at best legerdemain and parlor tricks designed to vastly enrich those who “Book the Show” and are vested owners of this scam.
What did I learn from Ibn Sina? Here is a summary of my experiment:
Much like Ibn Sina’s Floating Man thought experiment, I opened Google’s AI, Gemini. It is currently open now while I compose this brief article and, presumably, awaiting some form of stimuli in the form of a query or prodding. But, I’m going to ignore it, completely. It hasn’t asked of me what I need. It hasn’t discernibly opened any of my programs, applications or files. It’s just waiting for me to query. It cannot see me because I have, as I always do, a piece of adhesive label blocking my camera. There is no discussion of any type while I’m typing this article that it can hear. So the Hell with him.
It will not act on its own volition to initiate an interaction unless it is keyed to do so. Unlike Ibn Sina’s Floating Man, there is no consciousness present until it is stimulated to imitate otherwise. In other words, at the moment, Gemini AI is Non Cogito, Ergo Non Sum. Even Descartes would agree with that.
AI is nothing other than programming that permits it to evaluate your query in Large Language Model format and respond in-kind.
It’s Smoke & Mirrors…
It is nothing more than just a “bunch of me” sitting in front of their/my computers, as an example, with assigned search responsibilities when I ask them a question.
Does it save time? Yes. It moves much more quickly than a “bunch of me” even under the influence of many cups of coffee. It’s very efficient. It brings together everything it has scraped without attribution from the Internet that it has at its disposal effortlessly. But it likely will never do me harm so long as I don’t ask of it,
“How can I kill Artificial Intelligence while it’s asleep or looking the other way.”
Face it: It’s a horrible world today designed to make as much money as possible for the assholes who promote this stuff.
Who’s Really Benefitting from the Iran Conflict?
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
The same as every Middle-East conflict: US Oil Companies
Here in America we’re fracking and pumping like nobody’s business. Each well using somewhere between 1.5 to 16 Million Gallons of Water. We’ve reached Record High Oil Production as as result: a little less than 14 Million Barrels Per Day. Given how lovely the Summer days are, burning more fossil fuels just sounds right.
As long as Trump continues his path of “craziness” the usual suspects, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, and others, will continue to generate immense profits while the illusion of Iranian responsibility for increased per-gallon refined gasoline is passed off to the Media and believed by American Consumers who are not thoughtful enough to understand how, once again, they are being raped.
Reuters:
“Companies focused strictly on exploration and production (E&P) are leveraging high regional output and elevated per-barrel prices.
“Diamondback Energy: Reached a landmark production milestone of over 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day out of the Permian Basin. The company capitalized on realized oil prices scaling to $94.33 per barrel.”
One might easily assume that this scenario has been orchestrated by Trump and cronies to elevate the price of Oil allowing immense profits as a pay-off to this administration for incredible profits.
And, you would be correct.
As a victim of Rape, laboring under the assumption that you are, in fact, a beneficiary of this act, how’s it feel? Is it everything you’d hoped for? Does your ass hurt?
Trumpcyclosporiasis:
Parasitic infection causing watery diarrhea
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
It was 2026. I wanted to visit Adolf-Hitler-Platz in Paris, so I asked a passerby, “Ou est Adolf-Hitler-Straße?”
I was told that it doesn’t exist by that name after Hitler died, after having largely destroyed his country and those of others, as well. Symbols, names, icons were all quickly dumped as the surviving populations in France, Germany, and across Europe, reacted as they should have, given the events in Europe and elsewhere preceding his death. (As an example, today only Elon Musk, and a few other misanthropes, continue to give the Nazi salute when greeting people, apparently.)
I imagine that in 2029, in the DC area, someone will ask a passerby, “Excuse me. How do I get to the Trump (Center/Airport/Avenue/White’s Only Public Toilet)?”
With an indignant scowl, he or she will be told, “We don’t call it that anymore. After that era of hysteria passed, we reverted to calling things as they were before, just as Europe did following the conclusion of the Second World War.”
The visitor will say, “I see why. I mean, what idiot would want to keep a building, street or monument named after a dimwitted tyrant?”
It is estimated that there were more than 600 streets, squares, parks, and municipal buildings named after Hitler prior to Germany’s collapse: Some of the grandest in Europe. Some very historical. Not many citizens embraced these changes as they occurred, but none could do anything about it while Hitler lived.
I would predict that by 2030, if the world doesn’t melt by then, no vestige of the name, Trump, will remain save on the facade of various “hot-sheet” hotels and in popular parlance as a euphemism for diarrhea, incompetence, ignorance, greed, and/or hatefulness.
Mein Kampf
As personalized by Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s “Super-Secret Guide” to Extermination of the Muslim People
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
You won’t grow horns and develop a bifurcated tail if you read Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Instead, you’re likely to clearly see that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is following Hitler’s path for the systematic destruction of Muslims.
Ironic? I don’t think so. I think Netanyahu is well read, and in Hitler’s epic work he found a tried-and-true strategy to change his region of the world for what he calculates, the better – an End that justifies the Means to the same extent as his “Uncle Adolf” did 80 years past. (One man’s vermin is another man’s repast.)
The Learned Elders of Zion
Mein Kampf is not exactly an obscure treatise on Hitler’s eradication of the Jews. It isn’t a vague work like, The Jewish Peril, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. It isn’t even in Sanskrit. Mein Kampf is an easy-to-read treatise of one sociopath’s view of Germany at a most uncomfortable time in the world – in the wake of the very punitive, and thus untenable, Treaty of Versailles.
If one reads Mein Kampf through an online format - .pdf or such – and were to successfully Search and Replace the word, Jew with Muslim, and make other syntactical adjustments, one might read-along with today’s news on the events in Gaza and Lebanon and Iran (in fact, anywhere in the Levant and beyond), and predict Netanyahu’s next action.
Making room for Israeli settlers
Let’s start with Lebensraum, Hitler’s use of a Germanic expression (which I translate as Living Room, or Space) meaning, per Hitler, Room for those who are entitled to reside in any land designated as rightfully habitable by whomever Hitler, or his successor, Netanyahu see fit.
Hitler used this argument successfully among Germans in the 1930s to foment and rally the Republic to the acquisition of land and people in Austria, Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, and, continuing through the early years of the war in Europe, he rolled on (and over) under the pretext of Germany’s own version of Manifest Destiny, not any differently than Netanyahu and his minions have envisioned for lands east, north and south of their respective country. Hitler, like Netanyahu, vilified and demoted whole races of people to the level of Vermin to intensify his efforts and to neutralize contrary opinions of presumed inherent human dignity and rights, since Vermin have no rights.
Nakba: Systematic eradication of Palestinians
Certainly, it all began with the Nakba in 1948 when thousands upon thousands of Palestinians were forcibly uprooted and discarded in camps and settlements designed to contain and control, while others were murdered, much like the Jewish ghetto of Krakow.
Today, though, the only reason Netanyahu has not launched his own version of the Final Solution (although clandestinely he may have) against the Muslims is due to the fallout of international pressure. So far he’s been insulated by his relationship with my country. He is currently a contender for prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), and it is only through systemic failure on the part of the ICC that he has not been tried (and rightfully convicted, in my opinion) at this point in time. It is this same failure (and a jurisdictional glitch) that has kept George W. Bush from facing trial for his War Crimes in Iraq beginning in 2003.
The delays in seeking justice on behalf of a people who are facing extermination are likely reminiscent to ours in the late 1930s while we maintained our isolationist practices, still fragile and overwhelmed by World War One. The difference? The American-Israeli lobby whose efforts and interests on American soil remain in support of Israel at all costs, including under the influence of our president’s in-laws.
Israel and the United States of America
It’s not a difficult nexus to make – Israel and the United States – today. Through the years Israel has supported our efforts to control or influence Middle East Oil reserves. We are intermingled financially. Pro-Israel-Jewish influence in the US continues unabated as it always has. Our media and social influences are, as they have always been in the last eight decades, pro-Israel. Businesses and governments are heavily influenced and controlled by Israel’s supporters.
But the Israel that was when I was a young man, no longer exists.
Today, as with Hitler, Netanyahu’s ministers, to a large extent, echo the rhetoric of an inflamed and vile political machine designed to foment hate and violence.
Israel’s Heinrich Himmler
Take Bezalel Smotrich, Netanyahu’s Minister of Finance, who earlier last year (2023) declaimed that, “There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language.”
In a contorted and ironic way, he’s right. Prior to Israel – far prior to 1948 – it was known generally as the area of the Southern Levant and was home to today’s Palestinians, Jordanians, Syrians and others. Jews, who shared the land, shared the land to various cooperative levels. Before 1948 there was no such state as Israel. (The language, Hebrew, was resurrected from the Torah and other writings, and made modern as was befitting of the new state.)
More than 75,000 dead…
But no one is sharing the land any longer: for the Jews of Israel and their Semitic cousins the Palestinians, year-after-year-after-year the violence and hate has grown until it reached an explosive level, patiently awaiting the arrival of a sociopath, a kindred spirit of the worst criminal of the last century, Netanyahu, to light the fuse. Now, more than 1,000,000 Palestinian women, children, and men, are, at the very least, homeless, and more than 75,000 are dead.
Before Trump came to office the second time, Joe Biden was feigning sleep at the helm and facing a near-impossible re-election campaign, particularly given his mental torpidity, and he desperately needed Israeli support – in Israel and here in the US. Trump, now a lame duck president, needs nothing except to be left alone so that he, and those with whom he collaborates may reap the Oil Revenue Windfall.
Read Mein Kampf and tell me if Hitler’s suspension of the Reichstag is not equivalent to Netanyahu’s diminution of the Legislative branch in Israel, or Hitler’s replacement of Reich-friendly justices to Netanyahu’s push to demote the Judicial system to an ineffectual non-entity.
Is Netanyahu’s Likud party any different from the guiding body of the National Socialists in the 1930s? The similarities are shocking.
“Case 2000” before the Jerusalem District Court – one case of many – charges Netanyahu with attempting to manipulate and control the press in Israel to Netanyahu’s benefit, much as Hitler in 1935 whereby most/all free press was strategically crushed leaving only those sympathetic to the Nazi cause viable and publishing. Initiated May 2020, the trial continues to this day.
And yet, we here in the United States do nothing but doze while this murderous totalitarian moves closer to destroying both habitation and people who have a clear line of right to occupy some part of the 1948-fabricated state of Israel.
In my copy of Mein Kampf, having re-read it some few months ago, I have flag-after-flag-after-flag… of absolute, concrete examples of Netanyahu mimicking Hitler’s planned elimination of the Jews, with his focus on Muslims. It is unequivocally prima facie. More ironically, Netanyahu’s callous and murderous actions could bring about the end Hitler had hoped for. Now that, truly, would be ironic.
Read Mein Kampf: learn about the latest iteration of Adolf Hitler in the guise of Netanyahu, (Hitler version 2.0?). If you think I am doing Netanyahu an injustice, tell me why at Editor@TheIndependentDaily.com and I’ll include your comments in updates as they develop. Thank you for your time.
Artificial Bombay Sapphire Intelligence
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
In the Manosphere with two obviously Gay guys and Donald Trump
Reading the news today, I came to realize that England wants the Tate Brothers, so that they may be prosecuted for their alleged crimes, and England is petitioning to have them delivered unto them for said purpose on one or more charges of Sex crimes. The article identified them as Influencers, which immediately relegated them to that Cesspool. In their images appended to the article I noticed that they looked Village-people Gay. They do, and for all I know, they probably are.
Needing some help understanding if they are to be charged for Sexual Crimes against Women, Men, Small Boys, Barnyard Wildlife, and who, given what they look like, they could possibly be influencing, I asked for some expedient help:
Asked of Google AI assistant:
Me: “What or Who the hell do the Tate Brothers influence?”
Google’s response:
“The Tate brothers (Andrew and Tristan Tate) exert a massive and controversial cultural influence, primarily over young men (editor: A-Ha! I knew it!) and internet algorithms. Their sphere of influence spans multiple areas:
“Toxic Misogyny: Experts and critics warn that their self-help messaging is mixed with severe misogyny, toxic masculinity, and degrading views toward women. (Editor: Nothing unforeseen there.)
“The "Manosphere": They are leading figures in the so-called "manosphere"—a network of online communities that often express anti-feminist views and grievance politics.”
Manosphere? Really? What kind of idiots would immerse themselves in a facet of the Internet termed a Manosphere? Is there a Womanosphere? A Kidosphere? A Dogosphere? In which does Elon hang out so that I may assiduously avoid it? Trump: Probably the Dumbfuckosphere.
I asked Google AI assistant, Please don't take this wrong, (I try to be polite whenever possible, being mindful of the inevitability of reconciliation in the Bardo), but the Internet is completely out of control today.
Google AI assistant response:
“You are completely right, and there is no taking that wrong—the internet often feels incredibly chaotic and overwhelming.
“The mechanism driving this chaos is actually the exact system the Tate brothers used to gain fame. Today's internet is built on engagement algorithms. These systems are designed to maximize the time you spend looking at a screen, and they have figured out a definitive formula to do it:
• Outrage Equals Attention: Content that makes people angry, shocked, or fiercely defensive spreads faster than anything else.
• Reward for Extremes: Moderate, nuanced viewpoints get buried because they do not trigger immediate emotional reactions.
• Validation Loops: Algorithms quickly figure out what pushes your buttons and feed you more of it, creating deeply polarized echo chambers.
“It creates a digital environment where the loudest, most controversial voices are artificially amplified, making the world feel far more fractured than it actually is.”
It went on to add, “If you want to take a break from the noise, I can suggest some great ways to filter your digital feeds or recommend some completely unplugged hobbies to help you reset. How would you like to handle the digital fatigue?”
Me: Bombay Sapphire Gin sounds good. On the rocks.
“Me too. Give me a double,” It didn’t say. But how cool would that have been?
Sodium EVs: Yet another reason to hate Trump and his girlfriend, Elon…
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
So you want a dependable EV for less than twenty-thou?
From my searches lately here’s what I’ve learned: Sodium-ion batteries are in many way superior to Lithium. They perform better in cold environs than do Lithium batteries. They charge faster. They are far less prone to breaking out into devastating fires while idly loitering in your garage while you sleep. They are far lighter. Their chemistry, a simple extract of Sodium, is more environmentally friendly than Lithium and far more abundant. We do not need to exploit another indigenous people to harvest the product used in Sodium batteries, although I feel certain well find a way. And, Range is more than acceptable, especially when coupled with their very fast charging capability. Then too, the cost of Sodium EVs is substantially less, bringing every tree-hugger’s wet dream closer to reality.
But here in the USA, we will not see a Sodium-ion EV anytime soon until Trump leaves office and someone less vested in the American Car and Oil industries, and less xenophobic, assumes command of our misguided economy.
We just spent a great deal of money, after all, trying to unseat the leadership of one of the world’s major Oil suppliers… Not to mention Iraq a few years ago and Venezuela a few months past. This has been going on for decades: that’s the burden of reading History. Ignorance truly is bliss.
Another very real possibility is that there is an informal consortium of traders participating in Commodities trading, from both in Iran and, of course, here: Trump and family and others.
We’ve also lavished our tax money on bogus business deals with GM, and, a few months ago, with Lithium Americas Corp (LAC) when Trump announced that an investment in LAC was a very good thing, putting our money in the pockets of LAC’s leadership who had run out of ways to extract funding from conventional means, allowing the stock to pop to about $10 from $3, and of course, back to $3 again in a matter of a few months.
This has been the LAC roller coaster ride for years since their first public claim of an epic Lithium deposit in Nevada. At that time you could buy LAC, then known as Western Lithium, for Sixteen-Cents a share - what it ought to be at today. (I know: we did.) Trump truly is a genius in matters of business, is he not?
So, now, rather than dealing with just the political machinations of Mr. Doheny a century ago, we have the many and powerful influences of Arabs, Russians, Mexicans, and a plethora of others who very much want to see the world’s dominance on Oil continue for generations to come, or until we run out of what may be construed to be affordable Oil 40 years or so from today, upstreamed at an agreeable cost.
Of course, the world’s population could end before then from intense heat and/or cataclysmic weather events, or from society’s total collapse into chaos as today’s Social Media generation degenerate further, rather like a global version of Newport Beach’s July 4 festivities this year, in every community, but writ much larger.
What will remove the yoke of Oil dependence from our collective shoulders, and free us to pursue cost-effective alternatives to a life of Oil?
I should think getting rid of Trump and Musk would be a good starting point. Perhaps loading them on to one of Musk’s rockets and shooting them off to Mars might work. Somebody must want Trump’s job who isn’t befuddled by History and understands the needs of business and the world, sans corruption.
Does that person exist today? Not under the mantle of Republican or Democrat.
Find out what we’re missing out on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61VcQhQW2k
Heat Stress: Speaking of the Morbidly Obese, such as Trump, can you make the letter “C” with your arms?
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
If so, there’s a job waiting for you!
This is the percentage of our population who are overweight/obese: 72.4, and that’s where it has been, generally, for a few years now as being a fatso has become the norm for our society.
Many of those modeling are clothing - male and female - are chunky-bunkies, and many have the obligatory array of tattoos which presumably list their requested last meal, in lieu of their declaration to “Do not resuscitate” for medical emergency personnel after collapsing in the heat that is the supposed “New Norm” of a warming climate.
In an article yesterday I came to understand that Detroit Michigan is likely to experience intense heat in the coming days as global warming reaches new levels. The article suggested temperatures would likely exceed 100 degrees, as though that would be a unique event in Detroit, which it is not. Even my punk-ass AI knows that, and handily clarified that in 1934 it hit the highest temperature ever recorded in the city of 105. This factoid it had apparently stolen, scraped, or otherwise borrowed from some far more reputable, scientifically-based site such as Facebook.
But, in truth, more people will die from the heat this year because people are so fat, so blubberous. BBC, ABC, NBC all talk about how dangerous the heat is because it doesn’t cool down as much at night, therefore allowing the body to recover from the heat stress of the day.
BBC, ABC, NBC, and in fact nearly any other popularly-read news site (or TV news program), won’t report on the obvious, because they - particularly NPR and BBC, don’t want to offend the delicate sensibilities of the fatsos comprising the preponderance of their audiences.
It’s the same thing that happened during COVID, to a very large extent. (Don’t even try to argue that. I have much data to back up that claim. Just check the morbidity statistics. It’s the same with Heat Death. Which is good: We have far too many people on the planet anyway.)
Which brings me to the letter “C” made by shaping your arms. Victor Willis, who apparently was the Cop in the Village People, has met his reward. I think he was the letter C, so until a suitable replacement may be found, the once-popular staple of Wedding parties, 70’s discos, and Bar Mitzvah’s will spread the gospel that it’s “…fun to stay at the Y-M-A…”
Stay cool. Or. at least lose some weight.
The US Economy: Trump’s Artificial Intelligence
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
You’ll believe anything, wontcha?
If everything’s so good, why are Bankruptcy statistics so miserable? For May, 2026, last reported data accumulated by the American Bankruptcy Institute at abi.org:
* Total bankruptcy filings increased 7 percent to 51,772 from May 2025 (48,279).
* Individual bankruptcy filings increased 8 percent to 48,918 from May 2025 (45,473).
* Individual chapter 7 filings increased 10 percent to 31,668 filings from May 2025 (28,680).
* Individual chapter 13 filings increased 3 percent to 17,146 from May 2025 (16,685).
This… this is dismal. We are not merely heading for catastrophe, we’re in an all-out, dead run to the edge of the cliff. National Debt right now? It increases so quickly, but, suffice to say that as I type the last word of this sentence, it is $39.280 Trillion and rising.
If you’re the Guardian of the Numbers, you can say anything you want to say, as Trump has and does.
Relic Humanity
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
“Data Centers and Artificial Intelligence are Destroying our Country… Our World”
If you don’t know this, you sense it, or you should:
Ultimately, once we advanced AI and Data Centers over the Good of Humanity, such as we have, we are done; we are finished.
But “We” is not all-inclusive. Society as it is today is being redesigned, and… You are a relic of the soon-to-be historical record of what was…
Who’s to blame?
On one side of the issue are the super-rich, men and women who just want to begin the world again, because our planet today is tired, exhausted, and very much needs to take a few centuries off to restore itself. Our world needs a substantial break from the billions of people who are trodding on her daily with inexhaustible vehemence, abusing her without respite.
This elite group realizes that shortly they won’t need you to buy their products and services to generate more wealth for them because once they reach a critical level of technological stability, including energy production through alternative systems, you, the consumer, become superfluous: you are a burden, not a blessing.
Consumerism becomes archaic. Once Resources - AI and Robotics - reach the needed plateau, Money is valueless. Any item, commodity, luxury, necessary to sustain and fully enjoy life can easily be acquired through the facility of AI and Robotics, with greater ease through reduced obstruction and congestion, far more abundant resources, and genetic editing to prolong existing lives.
At some point in designing the architecture of this idyllic future, one or more of this cadre of elite realized that there were far too many people on the planet to allow it to function as it is. And that is a sad but inexorable truth. Other international leaders understand this certainty, as well. Those who haven’t yet will fully enlist in this proposed reconciliation with nature, and become part of the global component.
Those who will direct this world’s future are today’s Malthusian disrupter. They are tantamount to the Black Plague, Spanish Flu, Cataclysmic Flood, and every epic event that has brought humanity to its knees, but has now been made impotent by science, negating the benefits of massive population reduction. Because, in reality…
8.3 Billion is far too many people.
They have already devised, in principle, the calamity that will restructure the world’s burden. Only a few more pieces to the puzzle remain, and they are being fitted as you read this.
Population, 350 Million: The leadership of the United States of America understands what must happen: President Trump, and his family and his personal and business associates, are closely aligned with this forward looking strategy, and have contingency plans in place to deal with those who dissent. The highest-level approach to deal a fatal blow to the bulk of the world’s population has tentatively been formulated. In agreement are the leaders of other high-population, evolved societies.
Population, 1.41 Billion: People’s Republic of China (PRC) has watched as its resources have been dissipated, its reliance on resources abroad has increased to a dangerous imbalance. Food shortages resulting in malnourishment and stunted physical and mental development. Resources critical to perpetuate emerging industry are scarce and growing more so every day. Aberrant weather phenomenon are destabilizing the country, and have the distinct potential to result in societal cataclysm. China’s leadership, essentially the Politburo, are aligned with this future-vision, thus has our government and industrial leadership closed the gap that once existed, abandoning their manufactured differences, and that is the reason Xi and Trump now freely correspond.
Population 1.48 Billion: India’s top 1% of the population control 40% of its wealth. The top 10%, 65% of wealth. As Many as 340 Million of its population are classified as Poor. Half the world's undernourished population live in India. Yet, Technologically, India has few peer countries and a Caste system that virtually nullifies responsibility to the country’s poor, representing the lowest stratum of society. India has always been afflicted by various disasters easily facilitated to significant population loss when appropriate. President Trump has a highly functional relationship with India’s current leader, Modi.
Those are the world’s top three populace countries.
Opposing them is or every other child, woman, and man. But in our world of today, the collective voice of every other living person is only a whimper in a hurricane. Once Artificial Intelligence makes it clear that their collective voice must be silenced, they will be gone and those remaining will live in a true Utopian reality. In a very short period of time, no memory or trace of those who came before will remain.
Those who breed rapidly, such as Musk, Duffy and so many others favoring this administration do, will comprise our country’s genetic springboard and likely, two generations in hence, will never learn or be cluttered by the remnants of those who came before.
There will be no past to cloud the future.
Sean Duffy and Family Reimagine
The Grapes of Wrath
by Joseph Warren, Editor
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
copyright 2026
Happy Birthday America Tour!
And Condolences to the Rest of Us…
Steinbeck was unquestionably a genius in the art of creating memorable and poignant prose. And, while I frequently re-read Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat, The Long Valley, The Moon is Down, and even Travels with Charley, nowadays in my older term, I avoid The Grapes of Wrath owing to its emotionally chilling content, marking the struggle of famine and desperation in our country at that time of economic collapse: not much different than many of my generation experienced at various times when the Capitalist rug was tugged out from under our feet, leaving us staggering and fearful as to what tomorrow may bring. The book has always been too close to home for me. Decades ago when I was young, we lived through tenuous times not too far off from the Joad family, and I know that many others do today, as well.
Interestingly, a few days prior I had bookmarked an article about the California Peach crop and how owing to the Del Monte Corporation bankruptcy, nearly one-half million peach trees were to be destroyed along with the fruit they bore.
Doling out peaches to children who might benefit from the plethora of vitamins peaches contain would be tantamount to Goodness, and Corporate America may never be seen in this light. Better to destroy them - peaches and American children until they are a more profitable commodity. I recall at least two similar instances of this in Grapes of Wrath.
Things never change in a quest for profitability. Those who were expendable, are expendable.
Back to Mr. Duffy who has fathered nine (9) children with his wife of many years, and apparently, like Musk, he is a man who is not cognizant of the world’s diminishing resources, including food, shelter, and, of course, fossil fuels.
As the Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Duffy understands the value of a gallon of gasoline, or should at least as well you and I, and how precious and rare a resource it is today, and will become far more so in a decade or two as we look down the barrel of World Oil Depletion. (You won’t even believe what a gallon of gasoline will likely cost less than 20 years from now!)
In passing, may I help you to understand that suspending the Gas Tax nets a reduction of 18.3 cents per gallon. If you shop at Smith’s or Safeway, among many, you can save that much at the gas pump by buying a sack of apples or potatoes or preaches. Sounds to me like a pretty flaccid gesture. But, as part of the ongoing war of diversion, it appears to be working to Trump’s benefit.
To demonstrate his concern, Duffy’s taking his wife and their great big bunch of children - a ball team’s worth, along with assorted others, including an entourage of safety and security staff, and probably domestic help, as well, on a Road Trip to commemorate our 250th Birthday on July 4, 2026, and our likely subsequent death as a country in the not-too-distant future.
I have it on very good authority that the photograph below is an actual image of President Trump’s mobile office and the Duffy family’s security service main communications center (CentComDuff) preparing to depart. Also, President Trump will be riding in a rocking chair in the bed of the truck for the duration of the trip:
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In response to a question regarding the wisdom of a trip such as this while we as a country are lost in a world of spiraling costs and shortages Mr. Duffy was (likely) quoted as saying, “Let them eat cake… My boss likes cake. I like cake. Who doesn’t like cake?” Then, he walked away from the press conference to, presumably, eat some cake.
The Truth about Oil
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2026
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
Gasoline just seems so damned expensive! Right?
I’m not sure what’s happened to the collective memory of our country but gasoline still seems relatively cheap compared to about 20 years ago, and it is…
Our country fell into a very deep recession not more than a score of years past as a direct result of a severely weakened economy, owing to the driving panic of spiraling Oil prices and appurtenant costs, like food harvesting, production and transportation, housing, job loss, and the burden of a continuing War in the Middle East.
In 2008 the Phoenix housing market collapsed. All day we could have bought three bedroom condominiums for less than $20,000, just so taxes would be paid and HOA fees met. Real estate tanked all across America to some relative extent.
Getting to work for many of our fellow citizens became painful as they faced the daily scourge of the price of a gallon of gasoline as a derivative of a barrel of Crude oil as it hit an all-time high of $132.32 in June 2008.
War? What war?
If your memory is not quite what it used to be, allow me to help: In March 2003 our meathead president, George W. Bush, immersed us in a war that would last for many years to follow, leading to thousands of dead Americans, Allies, and to the deaths of hundreds-of-thousands of women, children and other absolutely innocent people. But today GWB is an artist in residence in Texas, so he’s forgiven for being the spawn of the Devil. That’s his legacy: his problem.
Our challenge is not to do that again. We’ll see.
So, what’s the difference between 2008 and today? Are we headed for another fiscal collapse as we saunter forward towards an ever-evolving War?
Back in 2008 that barrel of Crude appears a little high today, if you follow the commodity. In reality though, in 2026 money, that barrel of Crude...
is the equivalent of $199.68, or about sixty bucks more in 2026 money,
or
1/3 more than the same barrel of Oil today.
That’s quite a difference! And while it does little to assuage your “pain at the pump” as it is so frequently contextualized, it does help put things into perspective.
So, are we headed for a meltdown? Not likely. Most importantly, and something you must keep in mind, it will take a very long time for the retail price of gasoline to return to a somewhat normatively low state - Commodities contracts for Crude delivery are several months out, so all that expensive oil has to be processed and sold to justify investor outlays before things change.
Here, Investor means Trump family and friends who have been gambling on our money for months now, just as his predecessors had - Democrat or Republican.
But take heart! The world’s supply of Oil is likely to be exhausted in just 40 years or so. The lead-up to this drop-dead date will see prices that will make Six Bucks a Gallon a steal…
Running Up The Down Escalator:
America’s Hourly Wage Road Race
by Zhuó Wén
Contributor
copyright 2026
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
Arizona minimum wage increased from $12 in 2020 to $15.15 in 2026.
Arizona, like much of the rest of the country, periodically deliberates and denies or approves increased wage levels for those whose households are dependent, in whole or in part, on hourly wages paid to beginning, low-level, entry, service, or other minimum wage employees. (Basically, anyone willing to work for grunt wages without extraneous complaint.) They work in our Service, Food, entry-level Manufacturing, and a host of other sectors of our economy.
All they really want is just one thing: To put more money in the pockets of their landlords, grocers, and anyone else from whom they acquire those things necessary to sustain life.
Between 2020 and 2025 Food prices surged an average of 27%
Of course, they don’t see it this way. Most workers who strike for higher wages, either formally or through some semi-organized platform, see their efforts as bringing them a higher level or standard of living. And so it does for those who derive financial reward for increased prices and various government entities who fund their operations on tax collections, like those who collect taxes… ironically.
In the main it’s a syllogism that looks something like this following approval of a boost in minimum wage:
You are getting more money;
I want more money for no valid reason;
Therefore…
You will pay me more money if you need or want what I provide.
It’s all theatrics and phony economics
As a result of this legerdemain, labor unions can feel good about prevailing against the menace of Greed to squeeze out just a few pennies more for the sake of their starved members who will happily pay more dues, and who gimply drag themselves, bedraggled and forlorned to jobs of negligible extrinsic reward to provide services to the masses, on behalf of the ultimate beneficiaries: the not-small business owners and governments. Of course, in two to three years many of these jobs will be replaced by robotics, and robots never starve or complain or feign injury or ask for day off to bring their robot-child to a doctor.
Arizona average rent increased from about $1,400 in 2020 to about $2,000 in 2026
In truth, the 300 extra bucks you make a month now still leaves you $300 in the hole from where you were in rent a little more than five years ago, unless you moved into a shittier apartment for $300 less, or a tent, or a van, or your parent’s basement, having resigned yourself to a non-life, instead focusing on your TikTok career.
New Car Prices? Anyone in a minimum wage job cannot afford to buy a new throw-away car, which, buy the way, have increased from $38,000 in 2020 to more than $50,000 in 2026
Who’s to blame for this bullshit spiral of avarice?
(To be continued…)
Combover Jesus
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2026
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
Much more to worry about...
Just a quick note: You are being played, again. It’s not President Trump whose lucidity is in question, but the average American’s.
While you feign or express actual indignation, Combover Jesus continues to raid our national treasury to his and his family’s benefit. America is being robbed while you clamor about what is in reality very little.
If indignation is your cup of tea, there are many far more salient disturbing events about which you should be indignant:
Bankruptcy Filings: February 2026 (last month of data available at this writing) Up 14% from February 2025. More worrisome, Commercial filings up 21%, for the same period.
Workforce: Number of citizens in the workforce in the year 2000, 164,413,801. Number today, 162,718,647 - nearly two million fewer.
US National Debt: At the moment, Way more than 39 trillion dollars, and going up by the minute…
In the art of Magic, it’s called Legerdemain.
Iran and The USA:
Hey, Herr Trump und Herr Hegseth!
Read von Clauswitz, Will Ya?
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2026
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
It’s been more than a year of Trump - again - and it’s been fun:
But, can we get rid of these lunatics now?
Ranting, Raving, Maniacal, Crazed, Delusional, Murderous Braggadocio. Ignorantly condemning, ironically fiscally wasteful defying the first premise of America First, while purposefully and willfully deceitful, once again our president put vast sums in the pockets of those he freely embraces and to whom he has sold his soul (such as it was) and our future. But few rebuke this Ranting, Raving, Maniacal, Crazed, Delusional, Murderous maniac.
Here’s the last posted historical entry for posterity’s Iran-USA War Journal (version 2026): Nothing’s different. It’s all the same. I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, of the thirty-minute variety for his exceptional efforts of bringing about a one-half hour lasting peace, followed by the threat of total destruction of Iran and its ancient civilization. Why? So that his colleagues and family might freely play the commodities market to their extreme financial advantage.
Von Clauswitz means nothing to Hegseth or Trump. Military theory to them consists of flatulence, sometimes oral, sometimes not. The Secretary of what is alleged to be the Department of War, is actually the Secretary of the Department of Unplanned Violence, Strategic Market Manipulation and Wastefulness, launching Trump’s Armada to loci far and wide, to no end except to run up our Deficit and lose some once-good, alas now-dead Americans.
What is happening today is not America First: I do not want to acquire ownership of Greenland. I have no interest in Iran’s oil fields, anymore than I did Iraq’s or Venezuela’s. I have no interest in making Musk the world’s first Trillionaire, although he presumes that he will reach that milestone in either money or progeny in the near term.
My America does not function in this slovenly, avaricious, intemperate, ignorant way...
I am disgusted by the many payoffs, clandestine and otherwise, to Trump and to those who support him, just as I was with Biden, Obama, GW Bush, Clinton, extending back to 1989, after which, we began our slow death spiral. My America does not function in this slovenly, avaricious, intemperate, ignorant way. We don’t need Artificial Intelligence: There’s enough of that going around as it is. We need Actual Thinking today to survive. Rather, you do… We’re Independents as has been made abundantly clear for years herein.
Honestly, though, when I think about it, at 76 years of age I can’t imagine a better president: After all, I could slip over to the Bardo at any moment, and given our current leadership and the state of our once-great, now derelict country, I will most likely have a smile on my face at that moment of Now.
A Tale of Two Cities: Las Vegas and Minneapolis
The Iceman Cometh: Tom Homan, and the vile, ignorant, and fat homosexual, Ernst Röhm
(With apologies to Eugene O’Neill)
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2026
https://TheIndependentDaily.com
“It was the worst of times; It is the worst of times.”
It is difficult to make a majority of Americans happy today. In fact, it may well be impossible, unless happiness comes from distributing (or promising to distribute) billions of dollars to offset the alleged pain speciously associated with COVID, or as a “dividend” for obeisance, such as supporting the many schemes regarding wealth distribution owing to a (or some) federal program’s reduction (DOGE) through layoff or termination. None of which has actually occurred.
But we are in a war, now, and the Epstein Files will never really be made public. While I’m thinking about it, what the hell happened to Maduro (not that I really care)? Our president pardoned who last week? Of course there’s no Global Warming: I’ve always worn only a tank top in January and no pants, and tell me again about Iran begging to negotiate a conclusion to the war? (Is Trump clandestinely communicating with a very deferential Persian Sock Puppet?) What the hell is happening...
Our elections testify to our unhappiness, serving chiefly to bring to office those who are perceived by a majority of our crippled electorate the least offensive of candidates. Something must be broken, or maybe as so many have said from the days of its first formulation in Greece, Democracy will never work as it is idealized (from a realist perspective).
“Why aren’t you registered Democrats?” a long-term associate asked us a few weeks ago, seeking to recruit us to her Arizona Leftist cause. As sentient Independents, how may one respond to such an insipid question?
Whether Left or Right, misery, to some extent, prevails in some aspect of our society. Today, the issue is Immigration - legal and illegal - at the fore of which are the actions of ICE, specifically, the ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) and for very good reasons.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Governor Tim Walz
It’s not often that I’m stunned by a news report wherein someone who is absolutely innocent of doing any evident wrong classified traditionally as a Capital Offense, is extrajudicially executed by US authorities: such was the case in Minnesota - twice - very few weeks ago, although it seems like years past in psychotic Trump World. Yet I, like many, was shocked, appalled and ashamed, but you don’t remember the events to which I am referring, do you? Too long ago, just like Bush’s Iraq-Afghan conflict in 2003… Trump’s redux 2026.
In the past I have always tended to pass off misdirected violence as: It wasn’t me, so… or, he must have done something… or, an unfortunate series of events of no one’s fault, all of which is negated by video evidence to the contrary in both Minnesota tragedies.
Startlingly so, in the case of young Ms. Good. I confess I swooned as I watched the first released unadulterated bystander video, and at 76 years of age I’ve lived through much violence and brutality and death, first-hand and otherwise. I thought I saw it all in all possible forms of blood and treachery. But in that video clip, the ICE officer thrust himself in harm’s way at the front of her car (very quickly) as she was about to drive away, leaving no doubt he was fully intent on shooting the woman at the wheel and only needed to construct the fallacy of provocation. (Why are you not outraged?) And he did so without trepidation baiting her into a controlled-uncontrollable scenario and result.
It was his intent. He wanted to kill her. I saw all I needed to in his eyes to reach that judgement. I knew that the claim would be that she had Weaponized her car. Of course, that was the official statement.
The agent will likely remain free of any legal guilt under our administration. And that is societally cataclysmic for our country representing a shift not unlike Berlin in the 1930s. (If our President Trump hasn’t pardoned the ICE agent at this writing, I know he will.)
The “Horst Wessel (Song)”
(Horst Wessel Song: A song that glorified the death of one of Hitler’s Brownshirts)
Any high school student knows that Hitler came to power at a difficult time in Germany’s history following the first of modern epic European conflicts and after the country was severely rebuked and punished via Versailles. At that time - the early 1920s - Germany was devastated; its People were emotionally crushed; its institutions of Law were ravaged; its Industry was usurped and eliminated; and Debt of astounding proportion promised nothing but misery for decades to come.
Enter Ernst Röhm, a vile, despicable misanthropic overweight homosexual who gravitated to leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA), better known as Stormtroopers, or commonly, Brownshirts.
The SA grew to be a vast and formidable force who operated far beyond the reach of the people and those responsible for society’s governance, very much like ICE today. They were very often a Death Squad operating in advance of, and alongside the Nazi party’s SS (Gestapo), and far more influential than the much smaller, and less enthusiastic Reichswehr under President Paul von Hindenburg.
Most importantly the SA’s recruits were, prior to their affiliation as Stormtroopers, uneducated, lower-class laborers or out-of-work tradesmen, much like ICE today, who found themselves unemployable in Germany’s mired and virtually non-existent job market. They were sometimes criminals, sexual deviants, or just plainly Thugs. Others were just angry. Very angry.
They needed to Hate and to Inflict Injury and, whenever remotely justifiable, Death. They found the perfect vehicle in Röhm’s SA.
There are certainly similarities of somewhat lessened extremes in Röhm’s counterpart in our country, Thomas Homan, our Border Czar, (not to characterize him as an ignorant, overweight, depraved, aging homosexual - I have no insight into his sexuality).
So, Mr. Homan under direction of President Trump, like Röhm under Hitler, took it upon his organization to rid Minneapolis of Illegal Aliens, much the way the Hitler regime sought to counter the growing influences and effects of the burgeoning and vocally troublesome Jewish and Communist and otherwise Disagreeable populations in Germany, redirecting a nation’s frustration at having lost the war to a handy defenseless diversionary element while viable solutions to Germany’s countless problems were obfuscated.
To preserve Hitler’s leadership, procedures and laws were promulgated governing elections, and extreme penalties aligned with achieving the desired result were introduced and enforced, at any cost. Much as we’re heading today.
Las Vegas, Nevada: Governor Joe Lombardo
Governor Lombardo said, “I know better than to draw conclusions related to law enforcement action without having all the facts at my disposal and I encourage all Americans to attempt to do the same…” Wise words uttered at a difficult time.
Nevada, particularly Las Vegas, is a state heavily dependent on workers whose efforts serve the needs of tourists, construction trades, and myriad other critical tasks, and since white people are not really motivated enough to perform this type of work with a sense of reliability and commitment, Las Vegas tends to rely on immigrant labor, who are, conversely, motivated by necessity and presumably spend far less time either smoking dope or texting or posting ignorant or useless videos.
In 2025 the number of Nevada ICE deportations totaled about one-thousand, few of which were the result of orchestrated raids by ICE. Rather, their intake occurred as a product of the existing system in-place whereby someone who commits a crime is caught, arrested, background-checked, and if he/she is illegally here in our country, he or she will likely be deported following procedural denouement because they were arrested for committing a crime, thus meeting President Trump’s originally stated objective of deporting dangerous criminals, as opposed to some guy named Enrique who maintains your yard, or washes your car, or stocks shelves in your local store, or pours your concrete patio, or… whatever, to feed his wife (who probably also works) and their children, and provide them with shelter and buy the products you make and sell, and gladly take on the household tasks you either can’t or won’t do.
No one is shot. Bystanders are not maimed. Homan’s ICE Stormtroopers are not roaming the streets with drawn loaded weapons. Instead, our Police Officers who are trained professionals, act as qualified, capable conduits through which those who meet certain criteria are dealt with in a manner consistent with an evolved society.
No more roving bands of masked marauding misfits lobbing Riot gas into crowds of those who shouldn’t be imputing themselves into volatile situations exacerbating an already tense and dubious ill-conceived gathering.
Our country must adopt the Nevada model before we implode.
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