Trump turns the Justice Department into the Stasi

 Read it on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity blog.  https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Fall is a wonderful time of year and the Town Council meeting.

Fall Notes from Kadizzle

Fall has arrived, and it’s one of those rare times when the weather feels just right. But while we’re enjoying crisp air and golden leaves, the animals aren’t so lucky—hunting season is in full swing. On the way to Flagstaff, a herd of deer crossed the highway. The big bucks easily cleared the fence, but the mothers with fawns had to scramble for another path.

There is hope, though. On the interstate near Flagstaff, a massive wildlife overpass is under construction—an idea Canada mastered long ago. Even the old fencing is being improved, with built-in spots for elk to leap safely, and padded tops to keep them from tearing themselves up as they cross. Humans are finally giving the animals a fairer chance.

And at long last, rain blessed our corner of Arizona. The parched earth soaked it in, and the air felt alive again with moisture. Around here, rain isn’t just weather—it’s salvation.

Then came the town hall. Kadizzle had a speech ready but passed the baton to Smidly, who stepped up like a pro. Years as a church reader had made him a natural. His theme? A pointed echo from the McCarthy hearings: “Have you no sense of decency?” Smidly delivered it with the timing of a Hollywood actor, skewering the three Tea Party stooges on the council for their pandering.

The night’s climax came when Jim Ferris, one of the stooges, tried to hijack the meeting to attack the pool proposal. The town attorney warned him he was breaking open meeting laws, but Ferris wouldn’t stop. That’s when Jeff called him out, shouting over the nonsense. Mayor Steve Otto, chief stooge himself, ordered Jeff out.

The Blue scare, just like the Old Red Scare

   Over on the naftaoh blog. National Association for the advancement of Humanity.  Check it out, very good. 

Back at the Flagstaff Train Station

 

The Commander and the Bums

The commander of the free world—Kadizzle’s wife—had a doctor’s appointment in Flagstaff, which left the lowly foot soldier with time to kill. What does a man do when turned loose in a strange town with hours on his hands? Kadizzle does what Kadizzle always does: he goes to watch the trains rumble by.

At the depot, fate served up a rerun. The same rail-side philosopher he’d met on a previous visit was back on the bench. A bum by appearance, but a scholar by conversation. He had once been an educated man, but he traded in the rat race for the liberty of nothing. His philosophy was simple: happiness requires less than we think.

As they compared notes on life, a woman wandered over—another traveler on the margins. Her mind was frayed, her possessions in a tattered bag. She asked the two men to guard her worldly goods while she ran to the store. Kadizzle slipped her a few bucks and told her to bring him a Coke and something for herself. That’s how commerce works at the edge of the empire: one person buys time, the other buys sugar water, and dignity is bartered in between.

Kadizzle has always liked bums. Since childhood, he has admired the peculiar freedom they enjoy—the ability to exist outside the petty chores and schedules the rest of us are chained to. Their kingdom has no mortgages, no HOA meetings, no quarterly reports. Just benches, boxcars, and the slow shuffle of migration.

The philosopher-bum explained that Flagstaff’s nights were growing cold. Winter was coming. His plan? Head south and west where the sun still has a little mercy. Bums migrate with the seasons, just like billionaires with private jets. Both chase warm weather, but only one leaves no carbon footprint.

Maybe the rest of us are the fools. The bums roll with the weather, laugh at the system, and drink a Coke bought with somebody else’s pity. They own nothing—and in that, they own everything.

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Check out Trump's rant

Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity blog today we go into Trump's insane rant at the United Nations. https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Piss on the wall

The Daily Show: Bathroom Commandments Edition

You ever read the Bible and think, “Wow, God was really micromanaging back then”? Like, we’re not just talking Ten Commandments — we’re talking bathroom policies.

Check this gem out from 1 Samuel 25:22 (KJV):

“So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.”

That’s right. Apparently, God had a zero-tolerance policy for… wall-pee.

Now, let’s think this through. One guy has a little too much mead, stumbles outside, lets it fly against the brickwork — and BOOM! Whole village on death row. Forget Sodom and Gomorrah; this is Splash and You’re Ash.

Imagine the angelic staff meeting:

• “Uh, Lord, minor update: Jedediah took a leak behind the goat pen.”

• “Fine. Kill EVERY male in town. Rules are rules.”

Really? Over that? It’s the ultimate biblical overreaction. Like burning down your house because someone left a wet towel on the floor.

And the best part? King James translators looked at the Hebrew and said: “Should we soften it to ‘every male’? Nah. Let’s keep ‘pisseth against the wall.’” Because nothing says divine authority like 17th-century potty humor.

So next time somebody tells you America was founded on biblical values, just remember: somewhere in that holy text is a passage where God threatens mass murder if you can’t keep it in the chamber pot.

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Full Blown Dictatorship

We Are Living in a Full-Blown Dictatorship

People keep asking, “Are we really in a dictatorship?” The short answer: yes. It may not come with the old-fashioned uniforms, goose-stepping, and giant portraits on every street corner—but the mechanics are all here.

Free Speech Has Been Shackled

In a democracy, you’re supposed to be able to mock the leader, criticize policies, and share uncomfortable truths. Today, those who challenge the strongman risk losing jobs, facing legal harassment, or worse. Comedians are muzzled, journalists branded “enemies of the people,” and citizens threatened simply for posting online. When laughter becomes a crime, dictatorship has arrived.

The Law Is No Longer Impartial

Once the justice system bends to the will of one man, it ceases to be justice. Judges are intimidated, prosecutors are pressured, and the law is weaponized against critics. Instead of protecting the Constitution, the courts are repurposed to shield the regime and punish dissent. That is not democracy—it is authoritarian control dressed up in legal robes.

Institutions Have Been Captured

Congress no longer acts as a check on executive power but as a cheerleading squad. State legislatures are stacked with partisans willing to trade principle for power. Even agencies meant to serve the public—education, environment, labor—are being hollowed out and converted into tools of loyalty enforcement. A government that once belonged to “We the People” now functions as the personal property of one man.

The Cult of Personality

Dictatorships thrive on myth-making. Facts are optional; loyalty is mandatory. A dictator does not have supporters—he has believers. Every lie becomes sacred scripture, every criticism an act of heresy. When 30% of the population cheers louder for the strongman than for the truth, the danger is not looming—it is here.

The Illusion of Normalcy

The hardest part is that life can look ordinary. Grocery stores are open. The internet still runs. People still vote. But the ballot box means little when elections are gerrymandered, when opposition voices are silenced, when propaganda drowns out facts. Dictatorships don’t arrive overnight with tanks in the street—they creep in, one norm at a time, until suddenly the extraordinary becomes ordinary.

What Comes Next

If people shrug and say, “That’s just politics,” the dictatorship calcifies. But if people recognize what is happening, speak up, organize, and refuse to normalize it, there is still a chance. History shows us that dictatorships only end when people decide they’ve had enough.

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Here we go right into the worst world you can imagine

How dictators (and autocrats) will — and already do — use AI to suppress dissent

1) Mass surveillance + facial recognition to identify and track protesters.
AI powers city-wide camera networks, matches faces to ID databases, and flags people who attend protests or meet with known activists — enabling arrests, reprisals, or pre-emptive detention. China is the canonical example, and similar systems are documented elsewhere. (European Parliament)

2) Phone/network spyware and remote device compromise.
Governments deploy offensive tools (commercial spyware, zero-click exploits) to read messages, capture contacts, and plant evidence — often targeting journalists, lawyers, and opposition figures. These tools become far more effective when combined with AI to triage and analyze the harvested data. (AP News)

3) Social-media monitoring and automated content removal.
AI systems can crawl huge volumes of posts, flag “undesirable” content, and automatically request takedowns or block accounts. That enables rapid censorship at scale and makes it easy to silence voices before a story spreads. Platforms’ moderation tools can be co-opted by governments or tuned to follow local repressive laws. (Freedom House)

4) Disinformation, deepfakes, and identity-forgery to delegitimize opponents.
Generative AI can produce fake audio/video, realistic sock-puppet accounts, and automated propaganda tailored to micro-audiences — all used to smear dissidents, confuse the public, or create plausible pretexts for repression. State or state-linked influence ops have already used AI to run fake networks. (Reuters)

5) Predictive policing and risk-scoring.
By analyzing mobility, social ties, and communications, AI models can produce “risk” scores that flag people as potential troublemakers — then trigger surveillance, stops, or administrative actions without human transparency. Reports warn this amplifies discrimination and arbitrary enforcement. (European Parliament)

6) Social control systems (e.g., social-credit / behavior scoring).
AI can aggregate financial, social, and behavioral data to reward compliant citizens and penalize dissenters (travel restrictions, job/school access, public shaming). Even where full “social credit” systems don’t exist, partial scoring systems are being used to shape behavior. (NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY)

7) Automated harassment, doxxing and intimidation at scale.
Bots and AI agents can amplify abusive messages, threaten critics, flood comment sections, or dox opponents — drowning out real voices and creating fear that discourages organizing. (Freedom House)

8) Legal and regulatory capture enabled by AI “evidence.”
Governments can use AI-generated “evidence” (analytics, pattern reports, allegedly incriminating content) to justify arrests or court cases. Because models are opaque, it’s easy to present machine output as factual while avoiding scrutiny. (European Parliament)

Real examples / documented incidents

• State-linked influence operations using AI to run fake accounts and influence public discourse (reported and disrupted by law enforcement). (Reuters)

• Reports of spyware used to monitor journalists and opposition in Serbia and other countries. (AP News)

• Extensive use of facial-recognition and biometric systems in occupied/contested areas to monitor populations. (The Guardian)

• NGO and academic analyses documenting how AI amplifies digital repression and weakens internet freedom. (Freedom House)

What makes AI especially dangerous for repression

• Scale & speed: AI automates tasks that previously needed many human analysts.

• Cheapness: once trained, automated systems are inexpensive to run and can be exported.

• Plausible deniability / opacity: model outputs are opaque, making it easy to hide biases or errors as “technical” decisions.

• Personalization: propaganda can be micro-targeted to exploit emotional triggers and social fractures. (Freedom House)

Practical defenses — what citizens, platforms and policymakers can do

For individuals & activists

• Use end-to-end encrypted messaging and practice device hygiene (keep OS/apps updated; avoid suspicious links). (AP News)

• Use privacy tools: VPNs (with caution), anonymity-preserving browsers, and adversarial obfuscation (e.g., altering appearance in public photos where legal/feasible).

• Minimize metadata footprint (separate accounts for activism, use burner numbers when necessary).

• Document abuses safely (secure backups, distribute copies with trusted organizations).

For platforms & tech companies

• Harden user verification against state coercion; resist government takedown demands that violate human rights; publish transparency reports and process-level audits. (Congress.gov)

• Implement provenance / watermarking for AI-generated media and better tools to detect deepfakes. (PMC)

• Offer safer defaults, stronger account protections for journalists/activists, and independent redress mechanisms when governments request takedowns.

For governments, international bodies & civil society

• Pass targeted export controls on surveillance tech and require human rights due diligence from vendors. (NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY)

• Fund open-source tools to detect/mitigate repression (deepfake detectors, traffic obfuscation, secure comms).

• Support independent audits of government AI systems and require explainability/procedural safeguards if AI influences policing or legal actions. (European Parliament)

Bottom line

AI doesn’t invent new motives for repression — it multiplies them. The same political incentives that lead governments to silence critics become dramatically more powerful when combined with automated surveillance, disinformation, and opaque decision systems. But technology + policy + civic action can blunt those risks if actors move deliberately: better laws, platform accountability, defensive tech for citizens, and international pressure to restrict the sale and misuse of repressive AI. (Freedom House)

Rain from Heaven

Arizona Gold Rush

Rain in Arizona is worth more than Bitcoin. And guess what—it’s finally falling! Our backyard is the official catchment basin for the whole subdivision. In a decent storm, it fills up in about eleven minutes—faster than Congress can spend a budget surplus.

But then comes the mystery: once the water leaves our yard, where does it go? Kadizzle has tried to track it, but the cul-de-sacs below look like they were designed by a drunken maze-builder. Someday the old man will strap on his boots and play Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Missing Stream Flow.

In the meantime, if you want to see where all the gullible voters flow, check out the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity blog. Spoiler: Trump has been busy harvesting idiots like it’s pumpkin season.

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The local news yesterday was downright chilling. Phoenix hosted what could only be described as a memorial service for bigotry—a sendoff for a premier racist. It looked more like an idiots’ convention mixed with a fan club for compulsive liars.

In one of those “you can’t make this up” moments, Trump wandered into a speech about autism while supposedly honoring Charlie Kirk. The crowd, bless their red hats, didn’t even notice the remarks had nothing to do with the dearly departed disciple. That’s the scary part—the sheer number of dolts who nod along, unbothered by the nonsense.

Once upon a time, folks packed a picnic basket and went to watch a hanging. Today, they pack MAGA hats and line up for the same bloodsport—only now the rope is around free speech. Trump is strangling it with a vengeance, and his disciples clap like trained seals, never noticing the air around them getting thinner.

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I just watched this video interview of the bumble-flumpers gathered at Charlie Kirk’s memorial in Phoenix.

Imagine showing up to a funeral service dressed in your Trump Halloween costume.

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Kadizzle thrown out of Tea Party he never was in.

 On the other bloghttps://naftaoh.blogspot.com/.  You can read how Kadizzle was thrown out of the Tea Party. 

$1,300,000 for a new house.

Here we sit in Payson, Arizona—a little mountain town that has, in recent years, been invaded by Californians. The locals don’t much like it. Around here, the default assumption is that anyone from California must be a dreaded liberal. Nothing is worse to the local MAGA rats than an educated person who dares to think.

But here’s the twist: many of these California immigrants aren’t liberals at all. They’re disgruntled right-wingers fleeing the “terrible” progressives back home. They arrive with fat wallets after selling overpriced houses in California, and they happily bid up property here, making the MAGA mess in Payson even redder and even more toxic.

About four years ago, Kadizzle built a new house in town. Thanks to the influx of rich immigrants—and Phoenix folks escaping the heat—the value has climbed nicely. One local builder has his own racket: he builds a house, lives in it just long enough to milk the tax advantages, then sells it for top dollar when the right fish swims by. One of his places nearby sold for a cool million. Now his newest house, perched right in front of our once-beautiful mountain view, is listed at $1.3 million. Maybe some rube will bite. Maybe not. But if it sells, it’ll drag our home value up with it.

That’s the strange part: Kadizzle sold the old house in North Dakota for $275,000. But that very same house, if it were sitting here in Payson, would easily sell for over half a million. Geography is destiny.

For now, Payson is riding the real estate wave. But when King Trump finishes wrecking the economy, watch how fast those “adjustments” come.

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The Vengeance president

Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity you can read about our Vengeance president. 

Big Spender-DSA Block Party 2025 With the grand daugher

Sylvie is on the far left

Over on the National Association for the Advancement of Humanity Blog

 On the NAFTAOH blog, National Association for the Advancement of Humanity, some commentary about the Donuts with Democrats group. Give it a try. https://naftaoh.blogspot.com/

Slum Warriors

The Rat Maze of Phoenix

Kadizzle had a nightmare of a drive through Phoenix yesterday. The car, a 2014 relic, still thinks malls and Blockbuster video stores are cutting-edge destinations. Worse yet, Kadizzle forgot his phone. That meant the only guide through the Phoenix jungle was the car’s outdated navigation system, which belongs in the Smithsonian.

After dropping Snoocher Bear at the airport, Kadizzle set off in search of a Costco he had never been to. That’s when the real fun began. Note to humanity: Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is the worst airport in America to pick anyone up from. It is a rat maze of confusing roads, dead ends, and signs that contradict one another. If Dante had written The Divine Comedy today, one of the lower levels of hell would look exactly like Sky Harbor’s pickup lanes.

Back to the navigation disaster. The damn GPS zigzagged Kadizzle all over hell’s half acre before proudly declaring “you’ve arrived” at the start of a gravel road. No Costco. No hope. Just rocks and cactus.

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A Nation Paved in Sprawl

As Kadizzle drove through Phoenix’s endless sprawl, he couldn’t help but think what a visitor from a civilized country might make of this mess. Strip malls as far as the eye can see, every square foot paved, every horizon scarred with signs. Title loan companies blare from giant billboards—a neon declaration of poverty and desperation.

The rich, of course, live somewhere else entirely—behind gates, hedges, and armed security systems. Their streets are manicured, their lives buffered from the chaos. But the people hooked on drugs, the working poor, and those left behind by America’s greed-driven society are stuck in the wasteland we’ve created.

This isn’t just Phoenix. This is the American model of “growth.” Endless highways. Cookie-cutter subdivisions. Billboards shouting over one another. A country built not for people, but for cars and consumption.

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Closing Thought

Kadizzle’s misadventure was supposed to be a simple errand. Instead, it turned into a reminder of what happens when greed, poor planning, and blind faith in sprawl shape a nation. A GPS can get you lost. A society built this way can keep you lost forever.

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National Association for the Advancement of Humanity.

 Kadizzle has decided to try to separate his blog into two blogs.  One blog will be non political and deal more with music and everyday life. The other blog will deal more with the political crap. To achieve this change some post will appear on both blogs until people who are interested in the political nonsense migrate to the other bloghttps://naftaoh.blogspot.com/.   You can get to the other blog by searching for naftaoh, National Association for the Advancement of Humanity.  If you want more information or have trouble getting to the NAFAOH site let Kadizzle know in the comments. There may be some rants on the new blog that are not here.  The Jimmy Kimmel thing has Kadizzle riled up. 

Never, Never, Ever talk to a MAGA alone

MAGA and the Gospel of the Lie

Kadizzle admits it—he’s a slow learner. Fortunately, his friend Jeff handed him some survival tips for dealing with MAGAs. Rule number one: always record the conversation if you can. Rule number two: never, ever talk to a MAGA alone.

Why? Because Trump set the gold standard for lying, and his followers treat deception like a spiritual gift. Trump showed them the formula: lie, repeat, repeat again—and suddenly it’s the truth.

Kadizzle has watched this play out everywhere: on legal documents, in courtrooms, over the radio. Lying is second nature to the MAGA tribe. Sometimes Kadizzle wonders if they even know when they’re lying anymore—or if the cult mindset has blurred that line completely.

But lying is just the appetizer. The real art form is distortion. A little salt here, a dash of pepper there—tweak a detail, twist an event, and voilà: a MAGA masterpiece, the kind Trump himself would applaud.

Kadizzle has been a frequent target of these lies. One of the latest came courtesy of KMOG radio, where Kenny Murphy’s gang claimed he’d been thrown out of the local Tea Party. Small problem: Kadizzle was never in it. That’s MAGA logic in action—truth optional, spectacle mandatory.

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Watched John Stewart on the Daily Show. Get the cork out

The Daily Show Just Roasted Trump to the Bone

Last night The Daily Show tore Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump a brand-new exit ramp. The mockery was brutal, the satire was perfect, and if you missed it—you missed comedy at its highest civic duty.

Then came the knockout punch: an interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa. She laid it out plain—Trump is running the same playbook the dictator in the Philippines used. Different country, same script. And here we are: America sliding straight into a full-blown dictatorship while half the nation sits quiet.

That’s when Kadizzle had to tell his buddy Jeff, “Get the cork out of your ass and do something.” Now Jeff’s forever “Corkey.” But the lesson holds: it’s time for all of us to yank the cork, get off the couch, and stop waiting to be turned into French fries while the kitchen burns down.

Shy Democrats. Silent independents. Over-polite moderates. Your quiet courtesy got us into this mess. That era is done. No more whispering. No more waiting. Speak up. Shout. Rebel.

Because if we don’t, Corkey won’t be the only one stuck—our whole democracy will be corked up tight.

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My princess

Grandpa is going to bragg about Sylvie. She is a wonder child, a diamond. She has the best bubbling personality, and is talented in so many ways. You name it acting, athletics, singing, she has it all. This is the pitch for her in her new job as a princess at children's birthday parties. 

For Sylvie, joining the Princess Ever After cast is as close to happily ever after as it gets. For as long as she can remember, Sylvie has believed in the magic and enchantment of fairytales – and their ability to inspire and empower kids. From putting on captivating shows for her stuffed animals as a toddler to starring in community theatre, high school and professional stages from grade school onward, she has been preparing to become a real princess her entire life!
Sylvie is currently a high school theatre major at Denver School of the Arts (DSA) with big dreams of Broadway and has appeared in over 20 musical theatre productions. She has performed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and has also appeared onstage at the Lincoln Center in Anastasia alongside members of the original Broadway cast. She is also a runway model, regularly walking in Denver Fashion Week and other local fashion shows.

When she’s not on stage, Sylvie loves working with kids—babysitting, leading theatre camps, and volunteering at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Being a princess performer lets her combine her two greatest passions: entertaining audiences and bringing joy to children. She can’t wait to help make your child’s fairytale dreams come true!