It’s tough to know what to think about current events in the Middle East. The most honest answer that anyone could give about the situation (and which no public figure has said out loud) is that none of us really know what’s happening. Does Iran have nukes? Do they not have nukes? Is President Trump going to get us into another regime-change war? We don’t know. That’s the most honest answer any of us could give.
I don’t even want to write about Iran, honestly, because of my lack of knowledge about what’s happening. We all have our TVs on and we’re doom-scrolling on Twitter, so you know as much as I do about what’s going on. Anything I write could be outdated in a few hours. So, I thought I’d take a different tack with this:
What if everything we’re being told is a lie? Bear with me, because I’ll tie this back to Iran in a second.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is turning out to be a dud in most areas, despite all the marketing hype you see on TV. It’s really good at some things, but it’s not likely to be gobbling up everyone’s job anytime soon (if ever). Two of the things it seems to be really good at are textual analysis and historical analysis.
I gave a speech about this in Southern California recently. Nobody gets mad at the first example I’m about to share. LOTS of people get mad at the second example. But we now know the truth about some things that have been debated for decades or centuries because of AI’s processing power.
First, William Shakespeare. It’s been an open question for centuries whether “The Bard” really wrote all the plays that we had to suffer through in school like Hamlet and Julius Caesar.
We now know with 100% certainty due to AI textual analysis that William Shakespeare was a shady and unethical publisher, with mediocre writing skills. Most of the plays that Shakespeare stamped his name on were actually written by three contemporary playwrights in England. Shakespeare owned the printing press and there were no copyright laws in those days, so that’s why everybody knows his name, and not the three guys he stole most of his supposed work from.
The second example comes from the 1800s here in America. A 12-year-old girl named Harriet Tubman sustained a blow to the head with a heavy object. She suffered severe brain damage and was physically and mentally handicapped for the rest of her life.
That girl is the only Harriet Tubman who exists in the historical record in America. We know this with 100% certainty.
The Republican, gun-toting, swashbuckling black lady who led slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad never existed. The first references to her existence didn’t happen until the 1940s, when a communist newspaper scribbler appears to have invented her, with the motive of encouraging American schoolchildren to hate their own country.
That second example infuriates a lot of people. They get mad at me for pointing it out, rather than at the public school system teaching a lie to their kids.
Since everyone is already mad, I may as well jump in with another example. This one is not from AI, but it’s something to think about.
There is a lot of evidence that nuclear weapons are not real. The footage from the 1940s looks terribly fake. The bombing of Tokyo with conventional weapons caused far more casualties than the alleged nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There’s no radiation in those cities today, which are pretty and thriving. None of us have ever seen a modern detonation of a nuke.
In the aftermath of World War II, which ended with those alleged nuclear bombings, every globalist control group that MAGA is fighting against today was formed. The use of atomic bombs was the justification to create the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, the NATO alliance, and so on. What if it’s all a hoax?
On the other hand, if nuclear bombs are real, they’re probably easy to make for a country with a nuclear enrichment program. They’re 1940s technology that came about in the same decade that brought us ballpoint pens, Tupperware, and automatic washing machines. If they’re real, Iran has probably had nuclear bombs for decades (and hasn’t ever used them like the supposed crazy people they are).
If nuclear weapons are not real, then what’s happening?!
None of us know. That’s the most honest answer. We can theorize about stuff, but really, the people at the top are the only ones who know anything with certainty.
That’s why we should be thrilled that President Donald Trump is in charge right now. As JD Vance put it this week, President Trump has earned a lot of trust on the Iran issue. Everyone should calm down and let him do his job.