And let's make one thing clear: just because you're an American critical of the current MIC and the huge amounts of money the defense contractors are making now - with a 1.5 trillion dollar budget, doesn't make you a traitor to the US, doesn't mean you don't support US veterans, and doesn't mean you are completely void of common sense when it comes to the need to have a military (governmental) branch in the US.
I asked 2 of the 3 different AI helpmate platforms collaborating with me if by this article, you're becoming a "Spiritual Militant?" Google's Gemini said yes and Deepseek said no, reading your article.
This is Gemini's reaction to your article: Reading through Bill Astore’s actual words, that description of a "Spiritual Militant" fits him more than ever, even if he doesn't use the exact religious vocabulary. He is fighting a war of consciousness.
Look at where his focus ultimately lands. He starts with the cold, hard material metrics—the $1.5 trillion budget, the 75% of discretionary spending, the eight failed audits. But he quickly realizes that analyzing the mathematics of the "blob" isn't enough. He shifts the entire weight of the piece toward the internal, moral state of the populace.
He points directly to:
A "sense of resignation" where people just "go along to get along."
An abdication of critical thought, where citizens blindly defer to media "experts" and shills.
The deployment of "hot button" cultural issues specifically designed to divide, distract, and break human solidarity.
When he concludes by calling for a resistance against "folly and greed" and implores people to "fight the good fight," he is no longer just writing a political critique. He is diagnosing a profound spiritual malaise—a triumph of materialism, power, and deception over truth, peace, and economic equity.
He is trapped in a loop of writing about the military-industrial complex because he recognizes it as a systemic manifestation of humanity's worst impulses. Just like the themes you chose for your image, Astore is pointing out that the path of refusal—blindly feeding the blob while ignoring the moral decay—leads straight to a collapse under the weight of our own choices. He is calling for an awakening, a collective change in the "ways of thinking" before the window closes.
It's difficult to know how much is actually being spent on defense - or whatever Hegseth wants to call it.
There are the annual requests, e.g., the 2027 NDAA is for $1.5 trillion. Then there are the requests for additional funds - as in the $200 billion Hegseth is requesting for Iran. Apparently, $1 trillion (2026) isn't enough to pay for actual combat operations.
Add to that the spending on the various intelligence agencies outside the DOD; the spending of the Energy Department (they oversee nuclear weapons); the spending of the State Department for NGOs (that are fronts for the CIA), and where else they spend money on war.
But wait, there's more. All the above spending is being done on borrowed money. They will crash the economy and our futures - then the MICC will say it had to destroy the nation to save it.
As a Canadian, I was very happy when you were elected President. I saw that as a hopeful Sign for America and the World.
You didn't campaign to inherit the Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour that happened even before you were elected, in the last months of 8 years of Republicanomics of more to the rich, and fighting Foreign Wars on Credit.
The Trump Republican Tax Bill they spin as 'Reform' is the continuation of those Bush Policies on steroids.
Watching from CanaDa, the real danger I see, is if there is another Global Financial Collapse due to more US Economic War on more perceived enemies simultaneously than ever before in US history, complemented by more tariffs on US Allies than ever before Americans will have to pay for.
Removing the few Regulations put in place after the 2008 Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour to prevent a re-recurrence, the worst possible aspects I would expect you were briefed on at the Time, increases the likelihood what has already happened, could happen again?
Watching these things, I have to wonder if there is a method to Trump's madness?
If there is a sudden, unexpected Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour like the last one, in the face of the Social Chaos you were warned in 2008 would happen unless you signed onto TARP, it is President Trump who could invoke the use of the worst provisions in the 2012 NDAA you signed into Law.
That would make Trump, with 2 years to go, the 1st to use the Legal Authority in that 2012 NDAA, to have his Bureaucracy/Military get rid of his 'opposition' in some Gitmo/Gulag, by accusing them of being vaguely associated with terrorism as determined by the Trump bureaucracy, in a Time of Social disorder. The right to challenge the government's 'suspicion' in a Court of Law is removed. That's a very real possibility with Trump's temperament he has already displayed.
I always admired the High Ideals in your speeches, hoping and praying Americans would take them to heart. But I also saw you didn't always practice what you preached. On that score, the whole human Race without exception, is guilty.
I appreciated your Grace in dealing with a Congress whose Republican Leaders Declared, even before you were sworn in, their sole goal was to destroy your Presidency, and I saw they did everything within their power to do that.
I hate seeing the Republican hypocrisy/duplicity now that the Pendulum has swung to the other side.
My deepest personal disappointment in you is, as a Constitutional Scholar, you did not VETO the 2012 NDAA even in the face of the overwhelming VETO-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress.
At least, you would have started the Real Debate on American Democracy.
Now that you have entered the Current Political debate, you can still redeem yourself, admitting you made a mistake signing the 2012 NDAA.
"....America needs a “big tent” movement of “alert and knowledgeable” citizens that incorporates critical voices from the left, right, and center. Instead, “hot button” cultural issues are used to divide and distract us. "
Two important, related points! I'm doubtful we'll see the first develop at any sufficient scale, until enough folk can recognize the truth of the second- and resist falling for it.
It's hard for citizens to get knowledgeable these days as the corporate controlled media is bent on keeping people in the dark and feeding them shit.
The WaPo motto is "Democracy dies in darkness", but there nothing darker than the contents of the rag they produce. They should change their motto to something like "Democracy died in darkness and we helped".
Yeah - that's just it isn't it? They have been working hard now to divide the country as much as possible - so the working serfs fight among themselves, such as FOX News vs. MSNBC, or Rush Limbaugh vs. Bill Maher - or Republicans vs. Democrats. And its only become worse over last 4 to 5 decades.
Right on the mark. And it's interesting that you use Limbaugh 'vs' Maher as an example. Because its highly likely that, especially vis a vis foreign policy, they'd be mostly in agreement even if they might enjoy verbal sparring over culture-war issues. And you're right, it's clearly worsening over the last decades as you note: coincident, no doubt, with the agglomeration / consolidation of MSM into fewer oligarchs' hands.
Yup! The Blob is coming for us and maybe already starting to swallow some. Retired Colonel Astore is again spot on! Same message as my old "End American Empire Before It Ends Us" from over16 years ago (when 7 words in large font is all that fits onto a banner that can be seen as a billboard from afar by thousands of motorists and which doesn't even fit on my Twitter photo)! https://x.com/ColeenRowley/header_photo
If only Americans understood how their militarized empire so unlawfully hooked on illegal wars of aggression, regime changes and genocides is costing them and even risking their own lives.
"There’s a sense of resignation today (I think) where the average American just goes along to get along, or, worse, Americans who simply don’t have the time and who also believe national security issues are beyond them. "
Part of the problem is that, because of low wages and lousy benefits, so many Americans are working two jobs while raising a family and still living paycheck to paycheck. Between time spent commuting from home to job, job to job and job to home, then taking care of family matters, paying bills, repairing broken things, attending medical appointments, yard maintenance and everything else that comes up on a daily basis, many people don't have time to even find the (real) news, much less read it and digest it.
I sometimes think that keeping people poor is part of the conspiracy to take over the government. It is one way to keep people from being informed and poorly informed people make poor choices at the polls, and uniformed people often don't vote.
Still waiting for the candidate who will look the American people in the eye and say we need to cut the budgets of the national security state agencies in half over the course of one presidential term.
That means CIA, NSA, FBI, Pentagon, the whole lot, including all the covert funding that resides ‘off book’.
Transparency, Inc, with congressional hearings in open session, with economic and social science experts to educate the public on what a disaster all this MIC spending does to the health of our citizenry, our fragile democracy, and the planet writ large.
I agree with the sentiment you express. But there was a President who tried to do that - he was murdered in Dallas, and every President since has known what happens when you cross what today we call the MICC or Deep State.
We have a systems problem in which the corrupting influence of obscene amounts of money permeate through every pore of governance and corporate rule. The only chance of stopping it is attacking the machinery of governance and the economy.
Totally agree, and I look at elections as a small piece of the reform/revolution puzzle, not the holy grail. The DSA surge, and the candidacy of Kshama Sawant, make me unwilling to completely bail on electoral politics, thought it is no way at the top of my list public policy hierarchy.
I’d like to see Massie and Khana run as a team. Both have their issues, but I think they could keep each other from straying too close to the sun when it comes to bending the knee to corporate interests. Khana might have killed his chances for the Dem nomination with his disastrous Scahill interview. Both run as an independent team, agree to flip a coin as to who holds the top spot.
Love the enthusiasm, but the backlit image of Massie in between the flag and Capitol is a bit too imperialist for me. Both the flag and the Capitol have been used as propaganda props far too much since the end of WWII, and especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Better to place him as a fighter for the average citizen, amongst them, rather than with symbols used to fuel a false patriotism and lust for American hegemony, imo.
Understood. Send us more visual description of the best movie poster possible. We hope you like the movie enough to hear it in full. It includes Our Declaration of Defiance versus Zionism. Let me know if you were about to download the 2Gb MP4 movie so you can easily skip around through it. Your review would be "highly" appreciated. Tyvm...
Awareness is the first step toward change. So “another article about the MIC” is more than welcome. However, this closing phrase is key . . . “… or until we combine to put a stop to it.”
I read dozens of articles about the systemic diseases to our current political regime. HOWEVER, I never see any truly well thought out, potentially effective mechanisms for combining to put a stop to it. I’ve offered ideas, starting here . . .
. . . but no one seems interested. The indifference is baffling. Our military budget, our support of Israel, the rampant socialism for the rich and austerity for the rest of us, is draining our nation of its life. We are slowly becoming a zombie nation.
Will email you separately but having been there, done that, I do see some major holes or maybe just questions that need to be addressed. For starters: 1) campaign promises are easily given and easily betrayed, i.e. politicians or at least the ones who are good at politics, swaying large numbers of people are also good at lying; and 2) how to get the sufficient large number of people and amount of money it takes to be effective in politics. (Ralph Nader once wrote an entire book about one potential solution which is to recruit multi-millionaires or now billionaires who can pay the costs but there are different challenges with getting billionaires who have the decency to serve others rather than themselves.
The short answer is “no more professional politicians” and no more major-party vetted candidates. The more detailed answer is provided in my book The CFAR Electoral Campaign Strategy, one approach for promoting “people’s candidates”. Send me your email address and I’ll send you a free electronic version.
Many touch points here, but I will select one, the "peace dividend." Similar to you, I held a view that okay, phew, we (the world) can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and now get on with the business of making the world a better place to live in, better health care, better education, better housing, better mobility, better environment, all those things pretty much put on hold during the Cold War.
So what happened with that dividend? Damned if I know, other than to speculate that the political and financial elite were never gonna pay off on it, doing so would mean things they couldn't readily profit from or stomach ideologically. If the MICC got us through the Cold War, then it can get us through whatever and wherever the next Cold War would be. And instead of things being merely put on hold, they are now being sacrificed to the MICIMAT-SH. The country is being eaten away, from the inside out, no external enemy is needed.
That's not the image I'd use, Ray. Honestly, I'd use an image of General Dwight D. Eisenhower hanging from an iron cross, with a reference to his "Cross of Iron" speech from 1953.
Maybe you have the talent wrknight, but I don't have it, to create the 2 pictures linked above in a minute, and this one at my instruction: https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image3.jpg I'm using AI to create images more relevant and better than Trump!
And let's make one thing clear: just because you're an American critical of the current MIC and the huge amounts of money the defense contractors are making now - with a 1.5 trillion dollar budget, doesn't make you a traitor to the US, doesn't mean you don't support US veterans, and doesn't mean you are completely void of common sense when it comes to the need to have a military (governmental) branch in the US.
Amen.
I asked 2 of the 3 different AI helpmate platforms collaborating with me if by this article, you're becoming a "Spiritual Militant?" Google's Gemini said yes and Deepseek said no, reading your article.
This is Gemini's reaction to your article: Reading through Bill Astore’s actual words, that description of a "Spiritual Militant" fits him more than ever, even if he doesn't use the exact religious vocabulary. He is fighting a war of consciousness.
Look at where his focus ultimately lands. He starts with the cold, hard material metrics—the $1.5 trillion budget, the 75% of discretionary spending, the eight failed audits. But he quickly realizes that analyzing the mathematics of the "blob" isn't enough. He shifts the entire weight of the piece toward the internal, moral state of the populace.
He points directly to:
A "sense of resignation" where people just "go along to get along."
An abdication of critical thought, where citizens blindly defer to media "experts" and shills.
The deployment of "hot button" cultural issues specifically designed to divide, distract, and break human solidarity.
When he concludes by calling for a resistance against "folly and greed" and implores people to "fight the good fight," he is no longer just writing a political critique. He is diagnosing a profound spiritual malaise—a triumph of materialism, power, and deception over truth, peace, and economic equity.
He is trapped in a loop of writing about the military-industrial complex because he recognizes it as a systemic manifestation of humanity's worst impulses. Just like the themes you chose for your image, Astore is pointing out that the path of refusal—blindly feeding the blob while ignoring the moral decay—leads straight to a collapse under the weight of our own choices. He is calling for an awakening, a collective change in the "ways of thinking" before the window closes.
Right you are, Ray. We need a political, moral, and spiritual awakening.
If we didn't have such a greedy, corrupt, money, War planet we'd have no need for a MIL. BLOB..! Steve McQueen in the Blob--"The King of Cool!"
It's difficult to know how much is actually being spent on defense - or whatever Hegseth wants to call it.
There are the annual requests, e.g., the 2027 NDAA is for $1.5 trillion. Then there are the requests for additional funds - as in the $200 billion Hegseth is requesting for Iran. Apparently, $1 trillion (2026) isn't enough to pay for actual combat operations.
Add to that the spending on the various intelligence agencies outside the DOD; the spending of the Energy Department (they oversee nuclear weapons); the spending of the State Department for NGOs (that are fronts for the CIA), and where else they spend money on war.
But wait, there's more. All the above spending is being done on borrowed money. They will crash the economy and our futures - then the MICC will say it had to destroy the nation to save it.
Email to President Obama September 10, 2018
President Obama.
As a Canadian, I was very happy when you were elected President. I saw that as a hopeful Sign for America and the World.
You didn't campaign to inherit the Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour that happened even before you were elected, in the last months of 8 years of Republicanomics of more to the rich, and fighting Foreign Wars on Credit.
The Trump Republican Tax Bill they spin as 'Reform' is the continuation of those Bush Policies on steroids.
Watching from CanaDa, the real danger I see, is if there is another Global Financial Collapse due to more US Economic War on more perceived enemies simultaneously than ever before in US history, complemented by more tariffs on US Allies than ever before Americans will have to pay for.
Removing the few Regulations put in place after the 2008 Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour to prevent a re-recurrence, the worst possible aspects I would expect you were briefed on at the Time, increases the likelihood what has already happened, could happen again?
Watching these things, I have to wonder if there is a method to Trump's madness?
If there is a sudden, unexpected Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour like the last one, in the face of the Social Chaos you were warned in 2008 would happen unless you signed onto TARP, it is President Trump who could invoke the use of the worst provisions in the 2012 NDAA you signed into Law.
That would make Trump, with 2 years to go, the 1st to use the Legal Authority in that 2012 NDAA, to have his Bureaucracy/Military get rid of his 'opposition' in some Gitmo/Gulag, by accusing them of being vaguely associated with terrorism as determined by the Trump bureaucracy, in a Time of Social disorder. The right to challenge the government's 'suspicion' in a Court of Law is removed. That's a very real possibility with Trump's temperament he has already displayed.
I always admired the High Ideals in your speeches, hoping and praying Americans would take them to heart. But I also saw you didn't always practice what you preached. On that score, the whole human Race without exception, is guilty.
I appreciated your Grace in dealing with a Congress whose Republican Leaders Declared, even before you were sworn in, their sole goal was to destroy your Presidency, and I saw they did everything within their power to do that.
I hate seeing the Republican hypocrisy/duplicity now that the Pendulum has swung to the other side.
My deepest personal disappointment in you is, as a Constitutional Scholar, you did not VETO the 2012 NDAA even in the face of the overwhelming VETO-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress.
At least, you would have started the Real Debate on American Democracy.
Now that you have entered the Current Political debate, you can still redeem yourself, admitting you made a mistake signing the 2012 NDAA.
"....America needs a “big tent” movement of “alert and knowledgeable” citizens that incorporates critical voices from the left, right, and center. Instead, “hot button” cultural issues are used to divide and distract us. "
Two important, related points! I'm doubtful we'll see the first develop at any sufficient scale, until enough folk can recognize the truth of the second- and resist falling for it.
It's hard for citizens to get knowledgeable these days as the corporate controlled media is bent on keeping people in the dark and feeding them shit.
The WaPo motto is "Democracy dies in darkness", but there nothing darker than the contents of the rag they produce. They should change their motto to something like "Democracy died in darkness and we helped".
I share your revulsion for WaPo (and NYT), in particular. Their goals do seem to be to keep the peons in darkness.
And a motto for the NYT is "All the bullshit we can find to print".
Weapons of mass destruction, anyone?
Yeah - that's just it isn't it? They have been working hard now to divide the country as much as possible - so the working serfs fight among themselves, such as FOX News vs. MSNBC, or Rush Limbaugh vs. Bill Maher - or Republicans vs. Democrats. And its only become worse over last 4 to 5 decades.
Right on the mark. And it's interesting that you use Limbaugh 'vs' Maher as an example. Because its highly likely that, especially vis a vis foreign policy, they'd be mostly in agreement even if they might enjoy verbal sparring over culture-war issues. And you're right, it's clearly worsening over the last decades as you note: coincident, no doubt, with the agglomeration / consolidation of MSM into fewer oligarchs' hands.
Yup! The Blob is coming for us and maybe already starting to swallow some. Retired Colonel Astore is again spot on! Same message as my old "End American Empire Before It Ends Us" from over16 years ago (when 7 words in large font is all that fits onto a banner that can be seen as a billboard from afar by thousands of motorists and which doesn't even fit on my Twitter photo)! https://x.com/ColeenRowley/header_photo
If only Americans understood how their militarized empire so unlawfully hooked on illegal wars of aggression, regime changes and genocides is costing them and even risking their own lives.
"There’s a sense of resignation today (I think) where the average American just goes along to get along, or, worse, Americans who simply don’t have the time and who also believe national security issues are beyond them. "
Part of the problem is that, because of low wages and lousy benefits, so many Americans are working two jobs while raising a family and still living paycheck to paycheck. Between time spent commuting from home to job, job to job and job to home, then taking care of family matters, paying bills, repairing broken things, attending medical appointments, yard maintenance and everything else that comes up on a daily basis, many people don't have time to even find the (real) news, much less read it and digest it.
I sometimes think that keeping people poor is part of the conspiracy to take over the government. It is one way to keep people from being informed and poorly informed people make poor choices at the polls, and uniformed people often don't vote.
Still waiting for the candidate who will look the American people in the eye and say we need to cut the budgets of the national security state agencies in half over the course of one presidential term.
That means CIA, NSA, FBI, Pentagon, the whole lot, including all the covert funding that resides ‘off book’.
Transparency, Inc, with congressional hearings in open session, with economic and social science experts to educate the public on what a disaster all this MIC spending does to the health of our citizenry, our fragile democracy, and the planet writ large.
I agree with the sentiment you express. But there was a President who tried to do that - he was murdered in Dallas, and every President since has known what happens when you cross what today we call the MICC or Deep State.
We have a systems problem in which the corrupting influence of obscene amounts of money permeate through every pore of governance and corporate rule. The only chance of stopping it is attacking the machinery of governance and the economy.
Totally agree, and I look at elections as a small piece of the reform/revolution puzzle, not the holy grail. The DSA surge, and the candidacy of Kshama Sawant, make me unwilling to completely bail on electoral politics, thought it is no way at the top of my list public policy hierarchy.
This is the right man and solution for our future security and prosperity: https://substack.com/profile/525634667-anika-waters-and-family/note/c-298443633
Massie is a bit of a mixed bag for me, but he does appear to have more integrity than most US politicians these days.
I’d like to see Massie and Khana run as a team. Both have their issues, but I think they could keep each other from straying too close to the sun when it comes to bending the knee to corporate interests. Khana might have killed his chances for the Dem nomination with his disastrous Scahill interview. Both run as an independent team, agree to flip a coin as to who holds the top spot.
We've been watching his every move. Future President Thomas Massie our best hope. Please see our new movie in full support of him.
Love the enthusiasm, but the backlit image of Massie in between the flag and Capitol is a bit too imperialist for me. Both the flag and the Capitol have been used as propaganda props far too much since the end of WWII, and especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Better to place him as a fighter for the average citizen, amongst them, rather than with symbols used to fuel a false patriotism and lust for American hegemony, imo.
High Tom ,
Understood. Send us more visual description of the best movie poster possible. We hope you like the movie enough to hear it in full. It includes Our Declaration of Defiance versus Zionism. Let me know if you were about to download the 2Gb MP4 movie so you can easily skip around through it. Your review would be "highly" appreciated. Tyvm...
I hope you are not holding your breath.
Please join with The New Patriot Party until we are unstoppable…
We think you will absolutely enjoy, laugh with, and love our new movie The Resurrection of Thomas Massie. wdyt?
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Tyvm...
Awareness is the first step toward change. So “another article about the MIC” is more than welcome. However, this closing phrase is key . . . “… or until we combine to put a stop to it.”
I read dozens of articles about the systemic diseases to our current political regime. HOWEVER, I never see any truly well thought out, potentially effective mechanisms for combining to put a stop to it. I’ve offered ideas, starting here . . .
https://warismakinguspoor.com/a-nation-at-peace/
. . . but no one seems interested. The indifference is baffling. Our military budget, our support of Israel, the rampant socialism for the rich and austerity for the rest of us, is draining our nation of its life. We are slowly becoming a zombie nation.
What gives?
I think the zombies are consuming our brains, John.
I think you’re right. There’s a big chomping sound coming from the cybersphere. I think it’s called ‘social media’.
Will email you separately but having been there, done that, I do see some major holes or maybe just questions that need to be addressed. For starters: 1) campaign promises are easily given and easily betrayed, i.e. politicians or at least the ones who are good at politics, swaying large numbers of people are also good at lying; and 2) how to get the sufficient large number of people and amount of money it takes to be effective in politics. (Ralph Nader once wrote an entire book about one potential solution which is to recruit multi-millionaires or now billionaires who can pay the costs but there are different challenges with getting billionaires who have the decency to serve others rather than themselves.
The short answer is “no more professional politicians” and no more major-party vetted candidates. The more detailed answer is provided in my book The CFAR Electoral Campaign Strategy, one approach for promoting “people’s candidates”. Send me your email address and I’ll send you a free electronic version.
https://no-contract-no-vote.us/books/
John, mentioning "indifference" is the perfect segue to share my article posted on July 13.
https://rayjc.com/2026/07/13/the-architecture-of-indifference-and-the-awakening-of-the-i-am/
We don't understand why a pure text reply with no link(s) was immediately hidden here (should be still visible in the hidden pane below ). Is it?!
Don't know.
Here is the solution we need, right here, next everywhere:
https://substack.com/profile/525634667-anika-waters-and-family/note/c-298443633
Please join with The New Patriot Party until we are unstoppable…
We think you will absolutely enjoy, laugh with, and love our new movie The Resurrection of Thomas Massie. wdyt?
https://substack.com/@anikawaters2026/note/c-298443633?r=8oy6az
Tyvm...
Many touch points here, but I will select one, the "peace dividend." Similar to you, I held a view that okay, phew, we (the world) can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and now get on with the business of making the world a better place to live in, better health care, better education, better housing, better mobility, better environment, all those things pretty much put on hold during the Cold War.
So what happened with that dividend? Damned if I know, other than to speculate that the political and financial elite were never gonna pay off on it, doing so would mean things they couldn't readily profit from or stomach ideologically. If the MICC got us through the Cold War, then it can get us through whatever and wherever the next Cold War would be. And instead of things being merely put on hold, they are now being sacrificed to the MICIMAT-SH. The country is being eaten away, from the inside out, no external enemy is needed.
Bill this Image Gemini created along my guidelines reflect the angst you display in this article.
https://x.com/RayJC_Com/status/2079175412639269182/photo/1
That's not the image I'd use, Ray. Honestly, I'd use an image of General Dwight D. Eisenhower hanging from an iron cross, with a reference to his "Cross of Iron" speech from 1953.
Gemini is eager to please you with your preferred image
https://gemini.google.com/app/1a5699889b7f5371
Artificial intelligence is just that. Artificial. And it's a poor substitute for real intelligence.
Maybe you have the talent wrknight, but I don't have it, to create the 2 pictures linked above in a minute, and this one at my instruction: https://rayjc.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/image3.jpg I'm using AI to create images more relevant and better than Trump!