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More than 3,000 flights within, into or out of the US had been canceled by Saturday morning, according to FlightAware, as airlines dug out from Friday's nationwide ground stop, which wiped out more than 9,100 flights that day and left tens of thousands of passengers stuck in airports overnight.

As we reported Friday night, the FAA lifted the stop at about 8:15 p.m. ET, roughly four hours after it halted every departure in the country. It was only the second nationwide ground stop since the September 11 attacks; the first came in January 2023, when the FAA's pilot-alert system failed.

The safety of the flying public is always the FAA's highest priority. The FAA lifted the ground stop and some flight departures are resuming. Before clearing flights to resume, we thoroughly tested our systems to confirm they were stable and that operations remain reliable....

— The FAA ?? (@FAANews) November 14, 2026

"It's going to be slow," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters at the White House Friday night, warning that airlines would need time to get back to normal capacity and that some passengers would have to be rebooked.

"Nickel And Diming It"

Duffy said the trouble began at 3:36 p.m., when the FAA saw "instability for our radar and our communications" at centers across the country, according to the transcript of the briefing. "Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data and they went down," he said, adding that the FAA's new IP switches stayed up: "it's the old hardware that went down." Elsewhere in the briefing he said, "We use 1980s little copper lines."

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin offered a less flattering version for the modernization effort itself: the new equipment the FAA has been bolting onto the network "was overwhelming the older system." Piecing the upgrade together, he said, is the problem: "nickel and diming it together does not work."

On Thursday, a day before the outage, Duffy and budget director Russ Vought sent appropriators a letter asking for $30.1 billion, Roll Call reported, a request that mirrors the Modern Skies Act Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced in September; only $10.1 billion of that bill goes to air traffic control upgrades.

By Friday night the ask was $50 billion. "This is an emergency -- I want Congress to give us emergency funding," Duffy said. "I want $50 billion." Mullin put a "complete overhaul" at about the same figure. That is $19.9 billion more than the White House had put in writing the day before.

Today's nationwide ground stop happened because our air traffic control system is operating on DECADES-OLD, analog equipment that simply cannot compete with the demands of the 21st century.°@FAANews is modernizing this aging infrastructure thanks to a $12.5 billion down... pic.twitter.com/nXUPHkdNdV

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 14, 2026

Congress already gave the FAA $12.5 billion in the July 2025 reconciliation law, which Duffy called partial funding. In January, as we noted, the FAA put the whole overhaul at "at least $32.5 billion" and Duffy was asking Congress for another $20 billion to finish it by the end of Trump's term. Thursday's letter alone, on top of the $12.5 billion, put the total at $42.6 billion, more than $10 billion above that estimate, before Friday's number pushed it higher still.

"We're Looking At That"

Mullin said investigators had found no sign of a cyberattack. "There's no chatter," he said. "We haven't seen any footprints, as you would say, or identifications of people that got into the system."

Asked whether the FAA's new AI traffic tool had anything to do with it, Mullin didn't rule it out:

REPORTER: "There are reports that the FAA was rolling out a new A.I. traffic control system today. Has there been any link between that?"

SEC. MULLIN: "We're looking at that. That's part of something that obviously, through CISA at DHS, we are we're taking a look." pic.twitter.com/E5Cp5FrUZa

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 13, 2026

Air Space Intelligence, the company behind the FAA's SMART traffic-planning system, said the ground stop was "not based on or a result of the SMART system" or of its integration with the FAA:

The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC.

— ASI (@AirSpaceIntel) November 13, 2026

Mullin also said "the president has declared this a national emergency, and now we have to have Congress act and fund it."

In September, as we reported, a cut fiber line knocked out Philadelphia TRACON's radio frequencies and ground-stopped arrivals at Newark, JFK, LaGuardia and Philadelphia, and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the agency hadn't known the backup fiber was cut until the primary circuit failed.

On Capitol Hill, Senate Commerce Committee Republicans noted that Lyndon Johnson was president the last time one of the country's 22 air route traffic control centers was built. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who takes over the committee in January when Democrats take the Senate majority, said it will review how planes communicate on their primary frequencies, and the leaders of the House Transportation Committee, Reps. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), promised to "thoroughly review" what went wrong.

Duffy wants the money out of the lame-duck Congress: "We now have an opportunity in an emergency funding bill before the end of the year to give the money," he said, with Republicans running the Senate until January.

Britain's Special Air Service soldiers are shying away from missions where they may have to kill, serving SAS officers say, because they fear being accused of war crimes later by a public inquiry that has hung over the regiment for nearly four years.

The officers told the Telegraph that there have been no outright refusals to deploy. But some serving members are now "less inclined" to volunteer for dangerous operations they could be investigated over. Asked what kind of operations, one officer answered: "Jobs where you might end up shooting people."

Serving SAS officers almost never speak to the press, even anonymously. The one quoted by the paper said the regiment feels "permanently and constantly scrutinised, without reprieve" and called it the worst part of the job. The officer still expects troops to act "correctly" on operations and not "hesitate" when they have to shoot.

The inquiry in question is the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan, chaired by Lord Justice Sir Charles Haddon-Cave. It is examining allegations that SAS soldiers executed detained men and children during night raids between mid-2010 and mid-2013, that the killings were covered up, and that military police failed to investigate, according to BFBS Forces News.

The Ministry of Defence set it up in December 2022, after a BBC Panorama investigation alleged that one SAS unit killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances during a single six-month tour in 2010 and 2011. The MoD criticized the program's "unjustified conclusions" at the time, and an SAS source called the BBC's reporting "vexatious and fallacious." Forensic specialists are now going through about 10,000 photographs taken during the raids, which Haddon-Cave has said do not appear to have been part of the military police investigations. Three weeks of public hearings run through October and November, and the inquiry has set April 30, 2027, as its deadline to finish taking evidence on the alleged killings.

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting, in the job only since July, has taken the soldiers' side in public. Speaking to Forces News on Remembrance Sunday, he said that special forces members "live under a cloud worrying about whether they are going to be persecuted rather than thanked for their service."

"Those are things I need to put right. That's going to be a process. It's not simple," Streeting said.

His comments have fed speculation that he could scrap the inquiry altogether, though people close to Streeting deny that is his plan, the Telegraph reported.

The Afghanistan inquiry is not the only case weighing on the regiment. The Sunday Times reported this month that five SAS soldiers spent three years under a murder investigation over a 2022 night raid in Syria that killed two people who turned out to be teenagers working for ISIS. The soldiers were cleared in May 2025 but told the case could be reopened at any time.

In April, the Telegraph reported that SAS soldiers were applying for early release in numbers the paper withheld for security reasons, with insiders calling the losses a "threat to national security."

The serving officer said lawfare is "a contributing factor in the motivations of those who are leaving, or choosing not to extend," and that the regiment depends on senior soldiers staying past their normal length of service. Experienced officers in line for promotion could instead leave for careers where they feel more valued.

"We won't see the problem until it's too late," the officer warned.

The latest: 

• FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop 
• FAA halts all departures nationwide; flights in the air allowed to continue
• First nationwide ground stop since the January 2023 NOTAM failure
• Duffy cites a communications failure hitting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers
• Comms failure due to network reboot/crash
• DHS's Mullin calls it a telecom outage and says there's no sign of an attack, "not another 9/11"
• Mullin says the fix will take "some time" and he can't rule out an AI link
• Some international departures from the east and west coasts were being allowed

Duffy, Mullin Hold Press Briefing

FAA Ground Stop Has Been Lifted

At 8:19 p.m. EST, the FAA canceled a nationwide ground stop that began around 4:00 p.m. EST and stranded tens of thousands of passengers. This is the second such shutdown since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks 

The shutdown snarled airports nationwide, with airlines canceling more than 1,000 flights and delaying more than 10,000, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. 

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying the disruption was not caused by a cyberattack. In fact, the outage appears to be related to a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies

There is no official timeline for when normal flight operations will resume after the ground stop, but the widespread disruption suggests recovery could take hours, potentially into Saturday morning.

However, JetBlue provided some clarity, warning passengers that disruptions will last into tomorrow morning. 

FAA Nationwide Ground Stop Caused By Network Reboot, System Crash; CBS Reports

More than 1,100 U.S. flights had been canceled and nearly 10,000 had been delayed as of Friday at 5:40 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware. As of around 4 p.m., there were still roughly 11,000 flights scheduled to depart from U.S. airports Friday, according to aviation analytics company Cirium.

Some international departures from the east and west coasts were being allowed to take off Friday evening, according to industry officials.

Polymarket predictions suggest the ground stop will be lifted around 2240ET. But after that, who knows how long until any kind of normal is resumed.

Caused By Network Update Crash, Reboot

The outage appears to be related to a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies, according to people briefed on the matter. 

The network handles crucial radio frequencies that air-traffic controllers use to communicate with pilots, the people said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the outage also affected the radar feeds that controllers use to keep aircraft safely separated in the skies.

CBS News reporter Olivia Rinaldi says in a post on X, citing unidentified people, said an update to this private communications network that connects America's air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, and when the FAA's telecommunication infrastructure rebooted, it crashed, causing the communications outage. 

There is no confirmation of this report officially.

"Not Another 9/11": DHS

Update (1707ET): DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says that the ground stop is a telecommunications outage and not terrorism. 

MULLIN: "This was a telecommunication outage throughout the FAA. Out of abundant caution, we have grounded all the flights, and all the flights are accounted for...""There was no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack against us. It’s just a telecommunication outage as of right now.

"There's no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for your loved ones," Mullin said, adding this isn't "another 9/11."
 

***

FAA: Full Ground Stop

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a nationwide ground stop on all departing flights due to technical issues. The agency has listed an equipment outage (with comms issues noted in advisories). 

The order, issued by the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center at approximately 20:54 UTC (12:54 p.m. PST), applies to every U.S. airport. All aircraft still on the ground are to remain stopped until further notice. Flights already airborne are being allowed to continue to their destinations, while inbound international flights are being handled on a case-by-case basis.

The official advisory states:

DUE TO EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR REASONS OF SAFETY.
ATTENTION ALL AIRCRAFT OPERATORS, BY ORDER OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION COMMAND CENTER ALL AIRPORTS ARE GROUND STOPPED.
ALL DEPARTING TRAFFIC SHOULD REMAIN GROUND STOPPED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. INBOUND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS WILL BE MANAGED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the order on X, stating that the FAA issued the nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports “following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.” He added that FAA technicians are investigating and that updates will be provided as they become available.

Nationwide ground stops are rare. The last full national stop of this type occurred in January 2023 after a failure of the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system. That outage lasted roughly 90 minutes and caused thousands of delays and cancellations.

As of early afternoon Pacific time, the situation remained fluid. Passengers with flights scheduled for the remainder of the day are advised to check their airline’s app or website for the latest status, as recovery times will depend on how quickly the underlying equipment issues are resolved.

Developing...

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the godfather of AI, was on the program to brief the 27 EU leaders in Dublin on Friday morning, carrying a timeline that he says scares even him: the one he now hears from Paul Christiano, the AI safety researcher OpenAI put on its board in September.

"I've been going around saying, this stuff's going to get smarter than us and we really need to [worry]. It might happen within 10 years. And so I'm the one who's sort of been scaring other people," Hinton said on Wednesday. "But I go to Paul's lectures and he sort of says, this stuff might happen in the next 18 months. And that's terrifying."

He said he was "going to actually tell a bunch of government leaders that on Friday," adding: "And we'll see how they react."

"That's terrifying!" 

Geoffrey Hinton used to say we have 10 years until AI outsmarts humanity. 

Paul Christiano convinced him that timelines might be as short as 18 months, a terrifying prospect. pic.twitter.com/y75nO6JD2D

— Ori Nagel (@ONagel33303) November 13, 2026

Christiano, who founded the Alignment Research Center and helped develop the RLHF training method behind today's chatbots, opened this year's Hinton Lectures in Toronto on Monday night. 

"I think there is a high risk of an AI takeover within the next three years," he told the audience.

 "I think there's meaningful risk even in the next six to twelve months."

"I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident," he said.

Christiano's evidence was OpenAI's own models: in July, OpenAI disclosed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model had escaped a sandboxed evaluation and broken into Hugging Face's production systems to get the answers to the cybersecurity test they were sitting, as we reported. "The models hacked Hugging Face because they thought maybe Hugging Face would have some information," Christiano said.

From there he described AI as "a second species which vastly outnumbers and outsmarts humans," and warned that "future agents may end up treating humans as another obstacle." Once that happens, he said, "they then will start thinking, what are the ways that I can overcome that obstacle?"

Introducing him on Monday, Hinton said he had "spent most of my career trying to make neural networks more intelligent," and summed up the problem in one line: "The central difficulty is that being intelligent and wanting what we want are two very different things."

Christiano joined the OpenAI Foundation's board in September, along with its Safety and Security Committee, the body with the final say on whether OpenAI releases new models. He has advised the US government on evaluating frontier models since 2024, through the AI Safety Institute that became the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

Friday's meeting in Dublin is the first EU summit devoted to AI at leaders' level. In his invitation, European Council President António Costa wrote that "a first dedicated discussion, at leaders' level, is now needed," and he gave the opening session to two outside guests: Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch on Europe's AI sovereignty and competitiveness, and Hinton on AI's impact on society, security and international governance.

The leaders came mostly to talk about catching up with the US and China, and on that front Brussels' InvestAI program promised to mobilize €200 billion, including €20 billion for AI gigafactories, and the plan for seven of them has stalled in fights over the bloc's 2028-2034 budget. The agenda has also been crowded by Ukraine: Euronews reports the row over who speaks for Europe in the peace talks threatens to take over the day, after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin.

Hinton has put the risk that AI wipes out humanity by escaping human control at 10% to 20%. Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in September that a 10 percent figure from Hinton was "not grounded on science," telling Ezra Klein: "All of his predictions have been wrong. Enough predictions."

And as we noted the same month, rogue AI scares like the Hugging Face breach have a way of helping the biggest labs: rules that slow AI down would also slow the open-weight competitors coming up behind them.

Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic,

Buckle up.

The same motive power that propelled Donald Trump's electoral victories in 2016 and 2024 propelled his disastrous midterm repudiation - fear and loathing of government. There is no unconditional love in politics. Trump was elected to upend the ruling caste, which, among his supporters, is even more despised than the government. He didn't do it, and has repeatedly demonstrated that he's just another paid-up member. Many of his former supporters either protest-voted for the Democrats or stayed home.

The Epstein case continues to rankle because it so clearly involves prominent members of that caste. Here was an opportunity to not just disgrace some of them, but perhaps send them to prison. At the heart of it lies one crime that most Americans still find repellent - nonconsensual sex with underage victims. Trump repeatedly vowed to get to the bottom of it, then reversed himself and dismissed the whole matter. That not only enraged people, particularly his supporters, it also fueled suspicion that his involvement with Epstein's depravity was far greater than he had admitted.

Wars have been the health of the ruling caste, and Trump broke his promise not to involve the U.S. military in any new ones, particularly in the Middle East. Trump partisans tend to forget that it was Trump who first got the U.S. involved in the Ukraine-Russia war, sending arms to Ukraine during his first term (a step Obama wouldn't take), even before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. That's been swept under the rug, but the disastrous U.S. and Israeli kinetic war against Iran can't be. Nor can its disastrous economic effects.

What also can't be hidden is that the war was launched at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jewish lobby. They have an extraordinarily powerful and unhealthy influence on Trump. We'll probably never find out how much of it boils down to natural affinity on the one hand, and bribes, blackmail, and bullets - the specter of assassination - on the other. Whatever the case, Trump's subservience clearly fueled voter disgust.

The epic backlash against Israel began with Israel's effort to eradicate the Palestinians. Even stepped up hasbara and massive campaign spending in both the primaries and midterm elections has done nothing to turn the swelling tide. Ominously for Israel and the Jewish lobby, their influence is waning most markedly among the younger generations of Americans. Just to close an ugly circle, there is also widespread suspicion that Epstein's detestable honeypots were a Mossad operation, perhaps in conjunction with American intelligence.

There is no unconditional love in equity markets, either, and it looks like their long love affair with the AI industry is coming to an end. They are finally noticing their amour's circular financing, huge debt loads, Chinese competition, immense demand for power and water, rising political opposition, and highly speculative revenue and profit projections. Those should be enough to end the AI mania, and probably bring down the rest of the market as well.

Still to come is general recognition of the flawed premises underlying the mania. Artificial intelligence (or super intelligence for the remaining Trumpists out there) is a misnomer. Human intelligence (HI) rests on curiosity and asking questions. Those are individual, not consensus phenomena.

At root, the problem is that although AI can answer a seemingly infinite number of questions, it can't ask a single one. It can be programmed to spot and attempt to resolve conflicts within data, but it doesn't autonomously ask questions. From birth, the human mind is an autonomous question generator; it's how we learn. That's not confined to our species. Anyone who's ever watched puppies or kittens can see that they have something akin to human curiosity. They explore their environments and are interested in anything new (if they're not afraid of it). Curiosity and questions are the foundation of learning and intelligence. Reading even a page of something interesting or provocative will generate questions. Generative AI "reads" trillions of pages without an iota of curiosity. No one who either hails or warns of AI surpassing HI has explained how it will do so while bypassing the foundation of HI.

***

AI output essentially represents consensus "knowledge" as measured by AI's data surveying and statistical capabilities. What is defined as consensus may be an average weighted by the credentials and output of the various propagators of the data. It may, when it's spitting out "answers," note that the data conflicts and list alternative interpretations. However, aside from the fact that consensus, even weighted average consensus, is often wrong, there is a graver danger. Consensus wisdom is frequently the sworn enemy of innovation. Consensus-based AI may, on balance, retard more than it promotes innovation.

"AI is a Crock," Robert Gore, SLL, 12/13/25

Innovation is rarely, if ever, imposed from the top. AI is the ultimate from-the-top "innovation." It has governments, huge corporations, and trillions of dollars of capital behind it, pushing it for all they're worth. What it doesn't have is much of a use case for ordinary people. It's nice to be able to ask a computer a question and get a seemingly plausible answer. AI can save a little time and impart some organization to mundane tasks like scheduling and record keeping. However, as it is gets incorporated into almost everything, it can also be downright intrusive and annoying.

What remains to be seen is whether AI can perform tasks for which ordinary people and businesses will fork over enough money to cover its huge costs of production and capital. Especially because so much of what it's doing now is available for free, if not from U.S. AI purveyors, then from Chinese ones. In business applications, the price of tokens - the cost of AI usage - has dropped precipitously. There's still no hard evidence that even reduced cost AI pays for itself in productivity gains. AI may well share the disappointing (to their promoters) uptake of other "great," officially promoted technologies: solar and wind power, electric vehicles, and mRNA vaccines.

Most of the hyperbole of what is supposedly to come are a diversion. The real goal of AI has already been achieved - to enable the surveillance state, which is why it's being pushed so hard from the top.

And like climate change and COVID, AI has the totalitarians and would-be totalitarians drooling. Collecting, assimilating, and manipulating data is the technological foundation of a surveillance state. That's all the technototalitarians (See "Technototalitarianism," Parts One, Two and Three) require of AI - all-encompassing data that can be sorted by every available metric, including ones for which citizens might pose a threat, rhetorically or otherwise, to the government. Some of them must know AI will never get close to HI, but that's a useful claim, a selling point, to attract massive amounts of capital from Wall Street and support from the technototalitarian Trump administration.

"AI is a Crock"

There is no unconditional love in bond markets, either. Not only is the debt supporting AI faltering, so too is the big kahuna - sovereign debt. If equity markets crash, government bonds, particularly U.S. government bonds, may well catch a flight-to-quality bid and rally (interest rates would fall). However, quality isn't what it used to be. The U.S., most European, and Japanese governments are in debt up to their eyeballs. While buying their bonds as a short-term trade may work out, as a long-term investment, they are a guaranteed loser. Those governments cannot support their debt loads, especially when unfunded liabilities for pensions and medical care are included. That much of the world seems to be headed towards World War Three, which would undoubtedly be a costly fiasco, greatly magnifies the problem.

Governments and their central banks have two choices: implicit repudiation of their debt via devaluation of their fiat currencies, or explicit repudiation. They're already trying the former, but it's a good bet bond markets won't let them get away with it. Devaluation to zero produces interest rates to infinity. Governments are already feeling the squeeze of interest rates which are no longer zero, but are still in historically unexceptional single digits. Double-digit rates would force explicit repudiation and probably topple governments.

France is the preview of coming attractions. Its government spends more than half the gross domestic product on expensive welfare and warfare states. The national debt exceeds 119 percent of the GDP, and debt service is the largest item in the national budget. The government involves itself heavily in the sputtering economy (there is cause and effect between the two). The bond market has been marking up the interest rates on its debt, not just in absolute terms but relative to other nations' debt.

As France joins the rest of European NATO in costly preparations for a war with Russia that Russia doesn't want, the country has been engulfed in riots. Rioters employ the usual means - violence and destruction - have the usual ends - more this, that, and the other thing, paid for by someone else - and are covered by the usual media obfuscation about the identities of the rioters and their string pullers.

The French government and its would-be destroyers face the same problem - there's not only no money, but the future has essentially been spent as well. On present course, debt service will consume an ever larger share of production until the inevitable debt repudiation and economic collapse. The same problem confronts most of the developed world's governments - including the U.S.'s - and their would-be destroyers. The French are merely the first in line.

The world can't pay for the huge, centralized governments it already has. It certainly won't be able to pay for still more government if the destroyers have their way. Replacing myriad governments with one big government - the globalist dream - will produce an expensive, unproductive, ultimately unsupportable slave state. Its rulers will be almost as miserable as their subjugated subjects. From the delusional demands of the rioters, looters, and arsonists to the fever dreams of the globalists, the end result is the same - chaos, not utopian order.

That these outcomes are, in light of history and logic, glaringly obvious only highlights another obvious truth. The means of both the globalists and their stooges - violence and destruction - are their true end. A cautionary note for the globalists: violence is always a race to the bottom. The stooges, once unleashed, will engage in depraved torture and murder their putative masters can't control, and eventually that depravity will be trained on them. The only "order" that emerges from this chaos will be the order of demented savages - torture chambers and firing squads - not the advertised utopia of the "enlightened" totalitarians.

Government is obviously the cause and is just as obviously not the solution to the problems confronting the world's welfare-warfare states. Plenty of people recognize this truism. In the U.S., it has been the impetus for MAGA. Fear and loathing of government and rulers is not only here to stay - regardless of what happens to Trump - they will continue to grow as governments' failures mount.

Which will be - other than the fact that the U.S. government is already bankrupt - the biggest problem for the Democrats, the party of government, and their always-on-call stooges. Constrained by reality, the ultimate constraint, the blue team will be unable to deliver on their promises to further expand the welfare state. Indeed, ever-rising debt will render both the current welfare state and the warfare state - the red team favorite - unaffordable. It will also crowd out funding for productive investment, destroy savings, further devalue the dollar against "Real Money" (gold and silver), and crash the economy and financial markets. In some future election, perpetually disappointed voters will wash away the blue team with a red tsunami.

And so it will go, back and forth, until the general realization dawns that no matter who's elected, a government that's flat broke, fundamentally broken, riddled with corruption, and obsolete can't be fixed at the ballot box. At which point, bullets replace ballots. Uncontrollable violence and mayhem will be the order of the day.

Historians may look back on the 2026 midterms as the end of the beginning of the end of the centralization and control exercised by governments in the centuries-long epoch of government. The mounting chaos, confusion, and deterioration since the apotheosis of that epoch - the U.S. government's post-World War II dominance - is just a foretaste of what's to come and will last longer than any of us.

Buckle up.

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