Watch: AI World Takeover Hits Snag As Fake Actress Glitches and Starts Speaking Chinese on Live TV

RedState

"I mean, this couldn't be more on the nose. We've got AI presenting itself as a harmless entity, with the backdrop of China running a propaganda machine to steer the rest of the world away from reaping the benefits of the technology, only for the lovely young actress to be revealed as a secret product of the CCP."

"Perhaps fears of an AI takeover of the human race have been slightly overblown.

"Tilly Norwood, an actress created entirely by artificial intelligence, glitched during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, suddenly switching from English to Chinese while speaking with the host and accomplished Scottish actor Tom Conti.

"Norwood, a computer-generated performer being promoted as a new kind of Hollywood star, answered questions about her upcoming film before going silent and then speaking in a different tongue.

"Morgan asked why it happened, and Norwood called the episode little more than a programming “hiccup.”

"'I certainly didn't mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?" she responded.

"Morgan, ever the inquisitive journalist, asked, "How often do you just randomly start talking Chinese when you're talking to two English people?"

"The look on Conti and Morgan's faces when the AI actress begins speaking fluent Chinese is priceless." . . .  <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">EXCLUSIVE: AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking CHINESE during her interview with Piers Morgan and real-life actor Tom Conti...

Watch the full interview at 7pm (BST) https://t.co/1nTb79BH8D @piersmorgan | @TillyNorwoodX https://t.co/DDkveWvVzz— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) September 18, 2026

Natural Gas Is Cheap – Why Is Your Bill So High?

 We wait for liberal activists to call it 'big gas".

Watts Up With That?  

"Asked whether most people she knows understand their gas bill and why it may soon go up again, she replied: “I was a schoolteacher. So, of course I know how much they don’t know. But I do think a lot of us retired folks know it’s going to be worse than we expect.”

WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania—Janet Stechly, a retired schoolteacher, and her husband, a retired coal miner, pore over every monthly expense. One of the most confounding is the monthly natural gas bill for their small townhouse in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Their March bill from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania totaled $95.17, but only $13.99 of that was for the gas itself. The other $81.18 covered delivery ($40.68) and a series of hard-to-decipher items including a “customer charge” ($20.15), “pass-through charges” ($13.37), and a “weather normalization adjustment” ($6.60) that was included because warm weather meant the Stechlys had used less gas than expected. 

The retirees in this small town in western Pennsylvania will likely face even higher gas delivery charges in years to come as more power-hungry data centers are built in the region to accommodate the burgeoning era of AI. While public protests over higher electricity bills, water use, and noise caused by the buildout of data centers have erupted in several states, consumers are less aware of the effect on their natural gas bills. 

. . . "As this family’s experience illustrates, increasing gas bills have nothing to do with the price of gas itself. Nationwide, the American Gas Association reports, actual fuel itself accounts for only 31% of the average bill. It is even lower for the Stechlys, who live in the most-drilled county in Pennsylvania. Washington County has 2,148 unconventional gas wells, more than any other county in the state. All told, they produced 1.15 trillion cubic feet of gas last year. 

The price of the abundant commodity in this region is relatively low, and economists say it will remain so for some time. The expensive part is the plants, pipes, and wires that utilities install to serve new demand, and the companies recover those costs from every customer on the system with a guaranteed return, over decades, set by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC). And those charges to consumers arrive whether or not the infrastructure is actually used to meet anticipated demand.

Like other utilities, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, which serves 445,000 customers in 26 counties, makes nothing on the gas itself; it buys the fuel and passes on the costs to ratepayers. 

“Natural gas itself is completely unregulated. That’s the cheap part of it,” said Dale Nesbitt, president of ArrowHead Economics and a Stanford-trained economist who has modeled energy markets since 1974. “The pipe is regulated. That’s where you’re getting screwed. That’s where the fees are fixed.” . . . More.

Am I a 'truther?'. . . "When your culture is a sewer, the rats will proliferate. "

 Eric Utter - American Thinker

Democrat candidate says Trump supporters should be put in concentration camps – The News Beyond Detroit

"North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen recently took to Facebook to post a picture from her vacation to Germany.

"Was the pic perhaps of a bucolic Oktoberfest scene? The Alps? The North Sea? A Black Forest torte?

"Nope, Headen was shown standing in front of crematorium ovens in Dachau, an erstwhile German concentration camp, now a somber memorial. She chose the accompanying words to complement the photo: “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany … This is where Trump supporters belong.”

"At least 41,500 people were murdered there. How is this possible?

"Astoundingly, on her Facebook page, Headen asserts that she is a CPA and business owner “running to restore human decency.”

"There is no metaphor, allusion, simile, or other semantic device that can come close to illustrating the insanity and depravity of that assertion. It is as insane as someone stating that a person who viciously murdered all three of her kids is “a darn good mother.” Oh, wait, that recently happened, too.

"One might think that suggesting that one’s political opponents be subjected to mass extermination by crematorium ovens would not be a particularly good look for a politician. However, at this point who knows? Maybe it was just her hormones acting up.

"Long-time readers know I often write about truth. The truth which we are Biblically encouraged to seek." . . . 

"I am not a “truther,” in the sense that I don’t believe the 9/11 conspiracy theories, in specific. But it should be noted that a great many other “conspiracy theories” have proven to be true. A number of which I wrote about at the time. (Russian collusion, COVID, etc., etc.) If that makes me a truther, so be it. If we aren’t willing to stand up for even the most obvious — and important — truths, what will we stand up for? Nothing that matters." 

Democrats and Antisemitism in the Midterms

"Will Michigan voters ratify this rise of antisemitism in the November midterm election? And is this antisemitism limited to the Michigan Democrat Party? Will it spread around the country? And will it become an issue in the 2028 presidential election?"  Jeffrey Lord

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Historic newspaper gives El-Sayed a savage rebuke for hiding his past while endorsing his opponent   . . . "He has deleted social media posts that reportedly called into question his attitude about America in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He's taken down roughly 100 YouTube videos that paint an unflattering picture of him and his cultural views," the conservative-leaning newspaper argued. "A candidate who feels the need to hide his past from voters is not someone who can be trusted to be the same person after Election Day as he was on the campaign trail." . . .

Democrats and Antisemitism in the Midterms | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   . . . "Over there in The Atlantic, one finds this in a profile of El-Sayed during the recent Michigan Democrat primary:

Were he to win, and then go on to defeat Mike Rogers, the presumed Republican candidate, El-Sayed would become the most fervently anti-Zionist senator. “If you want your politics dictated to you by AIPAC or Chuck Schumer, then I’m not your guy,” he said during a debate with Stevens … El-Sayed depicts Israel and its American supporters as the primary authors of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. He also blames Israel and AIPAC for a wide array of domestic social problems.

"In short? In short, El-Sayed brings nothing new to the 2026 midterms with the exception of a decided antisemitism. A plain, old-fashioned hatred of Jews — whether those Jews are in Israel or here in America.

"There is a larger issue here as this Michigan Senate election unfolds — not to mention as the entire raft of midterm elections across the country unfolds.

"That would be the role of antisemitism in the larger Democrat Party. Here in my own state of Pennsylvania, Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro is running for re-election against the GOP’s state treasurer Stacy Garrity." . . . More.

Fetterman says he 'can't compete' with Piker: 'Base loves him'

The Lindsay Clancy Frenzy Won't Die, and It Keeps Getting More Depressing UPDATED

"They have given it a name: “altruistic filicide”. Altruistic: selfless concern for others. Filicide: the killing of one’s children." Viva Frei

HotAir  

"During her next media tour stop, juror Paula Devlin says the mostly female jury knew the Lindsay Clancy trial could create change to “make it better for other women.'” Collin Rugg

"I would say that it's time to reopen the insane asylums, but there wouldn't be enough space to keep all the crazies locked up. 

"I am trying to wrap my head around the increasing frequency and severity of societal manias, and the only thing I can conclude is that, for most people, it is not their rational faculties, but rather social norms set by society and enforced by shame that keep them grounded, and that those social norms have to be grounded in religious values that are held to be authoritative. 

"I'm not arguing that because I think the world (and our souls) would be better off if everybody were Christian; I believe that stable, functioning societies can be built on social norms stemming from other religious traditions, although I don't hold that all are of equal value. 

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"Nor do I believe that a society based on Christian values cannot fall astray, just as individuals do. Otherwise, civilized societies can fall into moral manias that make us scratch our heads in wonder. Germany, Japan, and China have all gone insane at some point, despite each having long traditions of sophisticated societies with great cultural achievements. 

"But it's pretty clear to me that when fairly rigid, religiously-based, moral structures disperse and become vague or nonexistent, moral chaos and perversion necessarily follow. And over the past century, as Christianity has died as a dominant cultural force, Western societies are morally at sea, and demonic forces have filled the void. 

"Now, when I see people saying insane things on TV or on the internet, I know intellectually that their moral frame of reference is the source of that insanity, not necessarily the actual reasoning capabilities of the people spewing nonsense. Within the moral framework within which they are acting, everything makes sense. It's the perverse framework that needs fixing, at least first." . . .More.

UPDATE: Of All the Demonic Night Hags Feminism Spat Out, Ursula von der Leyen may be the most Genocidal  

The past three generations of women have killed more people than all the wars in all of history and they are demanding the right to kill yet more. Up to birth! Post birth! Toddlers!

Blowhard Obama Is Back to Stoke AI Fears

 J.B. Shurk  

"If the Democrat Party takes control over AI, all the “politically correct” lies that run amok today will become cybernetic “truths.”  AI will tell us that some women have penises and that some men give birth." 

"If you needed another reminder why this year’s midterm elections are so important, Barack Hussein Obama II is back to make the case: Democrats intend to seize control over artificial intelligence and shape it to their advantage.  The former president, who has refused to exit the political stage a decade after leaving office, wants his communist-curious comrades to scare voters about potential threats from AI in the final weeks of election season (Remember when we used to vote in person and tally all those votes in a single day?).

"Obama is a blowhard, but he knows how to tap into voter fears for maximum political leverage.  When he entered the White House, race relations between black and white Americans were at a historic high.  Obama enjoyed extremely high approval ratings because Republicans who voted against him hoped that his presidency would heal any remaining racial wounds.  Instead of embracing that goodwill and uniting Americans in common purpose, Obama and his attorney general wingman, Eric Holder, jumped at every opportunity to pour salt in those wounds.  Even though crime statistics proved otherwise, Obama and Holder insisted (with the help of a compliant news media) that law enforcement officers were abusing and murdering black Americans.  By the time his divide-and-conquer presidency came to an end, race relations between black and white Americans had deteriorated; Democrats were screaming, “Black lives matter!” and, “Defund the police!” in the streets; and domestic terrorists had assassinated numerous police officers across the country.  Obama used the imaginary problems of “systemic racism” and police brutality to stoke fears, resentments, and racial divisions.

"Obama has a long track record of inciting public fears and using those fears as political weapons.  His decision to start banging the apocalyptic drum over AI is no different.  Just as he inexcusably convinced half the nation that police officers were murdering black Americans, he is now working to convince voters that unregulated AI means certain doom.  Obama’s not against the technological reality of artificial intelligence; he just wants to make sure Democrats are in complete control of it." . . . More.

Lindsay Clancy ‘holdout hero’ breaks his silence on what really happened...

 Revolver News

"Sadly, this trial, which should have been about three precious children who were murdered before they ever had a chance to live, turned into a circus, thanks to a pack of wild-eyed feminists who turned Lindsay Clancy into their own hero and woman’s rights leader. It was truly the downfall of the entire feminist movement." 

"The Lindsay Clancy trial ended with one hero holdout, who refused to vote for an acquittal. He believed Lindsay should be held criminally responsible for murdering her three children, and he didn’t change his position when the rest of the jury turned against him.

"Then, all the attention turned onto him.

"Other jurors began publicly discussing what happened during deliberations. Thanks to one pro-Clancy female juror, his identity as a black man started circulating online, and his personal history became part of the coverage. Questions about why he voted the way he did were piled high with an accusation that he hid a previous arrest so he could land in the jury box.

"Now, the man many are calling a “hero” has given his response to Fugitive TV host Ray Marcel. According to Marcel, he says he actually disclosed the arrest and answered questions before being selected. And he sets the record straight on his final vote.

He’s also describing what happened after his identity became public. Marcel reports that people have been approaching the juror’s home and relatives’ homes, leaving the family fearing for their lives.

"What began with a summons for jury duty has turned into a controversy that’s totally changed his family’s life. And now that he’s speaking out, we have a much better understanding of what happened in that jury room." . . . More.

Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?

 Intellectual Takeout 

 "Who is more civilized? The artist in the cave or homo-millennial in his dead-end life?" 

"In a previous article for Intellectual Takeout, I commented on G. K. Chesterton’s complaint that the modern world’s perception of the so-called “Cave Man” was based on a supercilious prejudice, or what might be called a chronological snobbery, which was akin to racism. The stereotype that we’ve created for our Neolithic ancestor is of a brute, scarcely superior to a chimpanzee, who treated his wife with sadistic cruelty, killing her when he tired of her and finding himself a replacement “mate” whenever he felt like it.

"Insisting that we overcome this objectionable prejudice with a little scientific perusal of the actual objective evidence, Chesterton, writing in The Everlasting Man, suggested that it might be a good idea to take a look in the cave. “What was found in the cave,” Chesterton wrote, “was not the club, the horrible gory club notched with the number of women it had knocked on the head. The cave … was not filled with female skulls all arranged in rows and all cracked like eggs.” What was actually found in the cave was art, “drawings or paintings of animals,” which, Chesterton added, “were drawn or painted not only by a man but by an artist.”

"Our ancient ancestors studied the natural world and were inspired enough to paint it. While the animals grazed, men gazed. Unlike the creatures he observed, the Cave Man was not a slave to instinct. He was born to wonder and admire the things he saw. He looked up. He saw the stars and wondered what they were and what they signified. He lived up to the label that the Greeks would give him. He was anthropos. The one who looks up. This was what separated him from all other creatures. He was a philosopher, a storyteller, a worshipper of the supernatural, and, last but not least, an artist.

"Compare him to homo millennial, that peculiar creature who has only emerged in the past decade or so. Homo millennial never looks up. His eyes are fixed on the screen in front of him or the screen he holds. He spends all of his time in a cave, probably a basement, in a room in which the light of day, if it penetrates at all, is studiously ignored. He does not wonder at the magnificence and majesty of the stars because he never looks at them." . . .  More.

Cartoon from Gary Larson's 10 Funniest Far Side Comics About Cavemen  Including the Thag Simmons tribute.

Sydney Sweeney Is Setting Women’s Sports Back, But Not How You Think

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics 

. . . "About 1000 words in, with lots more to say,  I realized I was on track to write a book rather than a column and I needed to stop. Find a more succinct take on that controversy here. So I settled on this latest Sydney Sweeney kerfuffle." 

Regarding the Sydney Sweeney ad, the left used to like coyly selective nudity - American Thinker

"It turns out I have my pick of stupid controversies to weigh in on this week. I actually started this column off with the idea that I’d dive into the fracas surrounding University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning, who found himself beset by the harpies of sports media over the fact that he confessed to finding humor in an off-color and absurd AI meme on Tuesday. About 1000 words in, with lots more to say, I realized I was on track to write a book rather than a column and I needed to stop. Find a more succinct take on that controversy here.

So I settled on this latest Sydney Sweeney kerfuffle." . . .

. . . "The people throwing a fit over Sydney Sweeney’s buxom, er, personality gracing a sports betting ad and aggrandizing themselves as the gatekeepers for what women in sports can and should be might want to take a beat and think things through.

"Because you’re going to want to avoid irritating the target market for Novig’s ad. Alienate those people, and you will find the small audience for your athletic endeavors has shrunk even more.

"Especially when female athletes posing nude, or nearly so, as a way to promote their own personal brands is something that has gone on since before Sydney Sweeney was around. At whom do you think those covers of ESPN the Magazine or Sports Illustrated were aimed, after all?

"Becoming a joyless scold at Sydney Sweeney’s intrusion into this space has the effect of telling those men — a big chunk of the audience you have, after all — who they can look at and who they can’t. What makes you so sure they’ll choose you instead of her?

"I don’t have numbers to back this, but it’s my sense that there are more men interested in women’s sports because they get a thrill out of watching hot, athletic women play golf or tennis or basketball than there are women watching, or men who appreciate the quality of play.

"And if I’m right about this, then the real pushback against Sydney Sweeney is that she’s horning in on their action. I don’t know that this gives them the high ground.

"I especially don’t know where female athletes get the idea they somehow are the gatekeepers when it comes to sex appeal and men’s sports people bet on.

"Continue pushing this, and don’t be surprised when lots of people roll their eyes and say “I’m done.” And support for women’s athletics begins to wane, because who wants to further empower a class of whiny, screeching, and scoldy feminists who insist on equality right up to the point where the price has to be paid for it?. (RELATED: Feminism, the Nose-Ring Theory, and Our Potential Extinction)   More.

Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site.

Regarding the Sydney Sweeney ad, the left used to like coyly selective nudity

"The left’s newest source of outrage is a cheeky (literally) ad that Sydney Sweeney did for Novig, a sports betting app. How dare Sweeney sexualize women in sports? But of course, the feminists’ problem isn’t sexualizing women, whether in sports or out; it’s that Sydney Sweeney refuses to play the woke game by politicizing everything. Instead, she uses her sexuality for entertainment like a wholesome 1950s sex goddess, not like an in-your-face woke lesbian athlete.  It all began with Sweeney’s “good genes” ad for American Eagle, which was hugely successful, but that Democrats insisted was an ad for white supremacy:" . .  .  More.

The Two-State Solution Is Dead — President Trump won’t tolerate this. To him it is obvious that recognizing Palestine is a reward for terror.

"Britain and Europe push Palestinian statehood despite October 7, Palestinian rejectionism, and the grave security risks it would pose to Israel." (By means of the western left.)

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"Boiling blood indeed: the authors write that “October 7 was neither uniquely Hamas nor distinctively Islamist. It was Palestinian through and through.'”

Bob Englehart

"Did the Palestinians groan for a state? Did they plead to be lifted from the dung heap and raised from the dust? No. What they did was celebrate every watershed atrocity from 9/11 to Oct 7.

"Enigmas do come wrapped in mysteries. But really. First the United Kingdom, along with countries of that provoking sort, recognized pie in the sky “Palestine” as a country. Now a member of Britain’s government has punished Israel for aborting the newly born Palestine.

"So what’s it to be — real or unreal?

"Recognizing a country with no borders, no elected government, no economy, and no way of standing on its own feet was manic to begin with. Now the European Union’s foreign minister compounds the enigma by calling on member countries to join Britain’s trade ban on Jewish communities in what they call the  “West Bank” and Israel, keeping the name from Roman rule, calls “Judea and Samaria.”

"And that is where things stand with the creaky “Two-State Solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With plans to construct new settlements in area E1 (to complicate name calling) Israel has given the West a new excuse to boycott the Jews and Palestinians new impetus for the brutal violence that always defined their identity.

"But this grim yet ironic picture conceals the real kicker. Ever since Israel’s own 9\11 — the Oct 7 atrocity — Israelis can’t stomach the Two State Solution. And thus join the Palestinian Arabs who never could stomach the concept.

"It is entirely fair to say that Israel tried and retried the peace process route to a Palestinian state which the world believes will solve the conflict. No go. Essentially it remains in 2026 what it was in 1947: the Jews said Yes and the Arabs said No.

"It is undeniable that Arab blood boils at the very thought of two states living side by side in harmony.

"No one would know that better than Hussein Agha and Robert Malley. The book Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine tells about their decades of effort, singly and together, promoting Palestinian statehood." . . . More.

Hamas in Its Own Words | ADL  

"Peace is not an option for Hamas, only violence: There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. (Hamas Charter, Article 13)."

Does Cory Booker practice his rabid face in front of a mirror?

Cory Booker eyes

92-Year-Old Grassley Has Enough of Young Whippersnapper Cory Booker: 'Are You Ready to Shut Up?'   

Booker had gone full-on Hamlet monologue mode, frothing at the mouth and emoting and performing with all his heart as he personally attacked the FBI director with innuendo and insinuation. You could tell he thought he was killing it in the above nearly four and a half minute clip, but Grassley was obviously embarrassed that this guy is a sitting United States senator, because he’d probably be cut from his local community theater program for overacting.

Some Booker parody:   CNN Reinforcing Camera Lenses In Case Cory Booker Stares Directly At Them During Debate   

Booker suffers from a rare disability eye doctors call: “Insane Eye Balls” or IEB. “It’s when the brain is so corrupted the eye balls actually try to escape directly through the sockets,” Dr. Simons explained. “In extreme cases, like with Booker, the eye balls become so desperate they can easily break glass.”

Cory Booker's crazy eyes!

Give Us a Monopoly or Everyone Dies!

Ann Coulter  

"At least those demands were direct: Don’t let anyone compete with us. But all regulation imposes costs that are going to be harder for startups to bear."

Broc Smith

"Does Artificial Intelligence pose a threat to humanity? Absolutely! But only assuming humanity is defined as “the billionaire owners of A.I. companies intent on crushing their competition.” [Ed: I don’t think that’s the definition.]

"You don’t need to be a super smart A.I. machine to know that large corporations love government regulation. Compliance is a fixed cost for them, but often an insuperable barrier to new entrants. Regulations allow the incumbents to maintain their market dominance by blocking up-and-coming rivals.

"University of Chicago Economist George Stigler won a Nobel Prize for pointing this out fifty years ago. It wasn’t just a theory. Stigler’s argument has been demonstrated over and over again. In fact, it seems so obvious, I’m not sure he even deserved a prize. But people probably think the same thing about gravity, our heliocentric world, or selling books over the Internet. Today, those seem obvious, too.

"As Stigler said, regulation is fantastic for oligopolists, and also great for the politicians they buy. It’s only a disaster for consumers. That is precisely why these unwarranted gifts to greedy companies are always preceded by florid scaremongering.

"From 1938 to 1978, existing airlines warned that allowing others to compete with them would cause planes to fall out of the sky. The industry would be under so much pressure to offer low prices, they would sacrifice safety to cost-cutting. In fact, since deregulation, not only is flying a lot cheaper, but fatal plane crashes have declined exponentially.

Licensed taxi drivers predicted that ride-share companies like Uber would be a “sexual haven for predators.” Getting into an Uber would be like “swimming in a sea full of sharks—one day you are going to get bitten.” They lost, which is why today it’s possible to ride in a car that doesn’t reek of curry and body odor and to end up with a driver capable of finding Grand Central Station.

"At least those demands were direct: Don’t let anyone compete with us. But all regulation imposes costs that are going to be harder for startups to bear.

"Philip Morris lobbied heavily for The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibited cigarette companies from offering branded merchandise, free samples, or putting up billboards—i.e., all the marketing tools that might have allowed newcomers to break into the business.

"This had absolutely nothing to do with Philip Morris wanting to lock up its undisputed 50% share of the tobacco market. I don’t even know why the law became known as the “Marlboro Monopoly Act.” It was for the children!" . . .

Be Very Suspicious of the ‘Put the Brakes on AI’ Crowd | The American Spectator   

. . . "And once AI is “regulated,” it’ll be the legacy incumbent AI players who dominate the market in collusion with the government. Just like the automotive industry, and practically every other former center of capitalist innovation.

"President Trump is railing against these people. He’s correct to. This is such a nakedly corrupt play that it stings the nostrils. Let’s just hope the public is wise enough to see it after everything we’ve been through that it falls flat."