What ensued was 25 years of terrorism, perpetrated by The Chimp and his successors upon the American people.

America suddenly became a "Homeland." It had never been that previously. The term has a certain 1930s Germany mouth feel. Heimat is how it's said in German. In 1930s Germany, there was a Heimatsicherheitsdienst  – which literally translates as Department of Homeland Security. Few at the time noticed. Not many are hip to today.

Most Americans have gotten acclimated to living in a Homeland; people under 30 today have no memory of America, before it became a Homeland. They never got to fly commercially without being processed by the Heimatsicherheitsdienst – just like we're lectured to "never forget" was done to a certain group in Germany all those years ago. Oh, it's not yet at the barking German shepherds and machine pistols pointed at our guts point. But we are getting there. Have you seen the new Agony Gloves that "ICE" will be using to handle Americans in the Homeland?

Before Nahhhhnnnlevven, it was at least technically illegal for the government to listen in on our phone calls. As in all of our phone calls. Or to log every key we tap when sitting in front of our computers. There had to be specific probable cause or a warrant. The whisper-lisping Chimp ended all of that. Data centers are putting the final row of bricks on the structure they began building all those years ago, with Flock and Axon cameras keeping real-time track of the "evildoers" – meaning, us. The Chimp's successor – Donald Trump – assures us these data centers are necessary, because we have to win the AI race with China. Most people seem to take it as a given that winning the AI race is necessary. That it is desirable. Why is it desirable to have thinking machines running everything, which is to say controlling everything? We will have no control over this, of course.

They do not say that part out loud.

I do not believe "Islamic terrorists" flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center towers or the Pentagon because – for openers – the individual accused of doing it denied doing it. This makes no sense. If Osama bin Laden and his network actually did do it, it was a masterful humiliation of the United States and he would have taken credit. Yet he did not. He in fact vehemently denied it.

Think about that.

I also do not believe that the World Trade Center Towers – including WT 7 – were made to collapse vertically into their own footprint as a consequence of being struck by commercial jets. Especially since WTC 7 wasn't struck by a commercial jet. Debris from the collapse of WTC towers one and two did damage WTC 7 and there were fires. But not fires hot enough to weaken let alone melt the building's structural supports such that they all failed at pretty much the exact same moment, which they had to have for the building to have collapsed straight down at near freefall speed. That is as improbable as Trump reciting a Cicero oration by heart, without aid of a TelePrompter.