That's a reasonable list of steps to take, but far too many are completely outside our control. To the contrary, they're entirely within the control of the party of treason.

Fact checking is good and noble work, and I salute Daniel Dale for his indefatigable efforts.

I wonder, though, how many people are truly unaware that Ukraine has thanked America for its help; some of the occasions were extremely public. Trump's accusation strikes me as telling an obvious bald-faced lie as a dominance display. That would be consistent with the rest of the show, which was quite obviously an ambush planned to humiliate Zelenskyy on TV (why else have Vance there?) I think that many…

“Now listen here, you keyboard-tappin’, soda-sippin’, algorithm-hugging layabouts! Back in my day, we didn’t have your fancy-pants machine learning or your cloud computin’! No sir! We had punch cards, vacuum tubes, and a deep, gnawin’ fear of the Soviets beatin’ us to the moon! And we liked it!

But you! You kids got beanbag chairs, kombucha on tap, and—what’s this?—a ‘work-life balance’?! Pah! That’s just another word for sloth! You wanna build true AGI? You wanna make a machine smarter than ol’…