05/27/2026
Keith Self fixates on fringe hypotheticals and culture-war distractions while staying silent about the very real abuses of power unfolding under the Trump administration.
Beyond the usual Sharia Law fearmongering, Self has spent months warning about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and speculative “vehicle kill switches,” portraying imagined future surveillance states as the greatest threat to American freedom.
Yet he says almost nothing about the real surveillance infrastructure rapidly being built around us right now: unregulated AI systems, facial recognition, biometric tracking, corporate data harvesting, and massive data-center expansion with little public oversight.
Nothing about guardrails for AI.
Nothing about deepfakes or algorithmic manipulation.
Nothing about mass digital profiling.
Nothing about how giant AI-driven data centers are reshaping communities, energy grids, water usage, and privacy protections across the country.
And he has nothing to say about the Trump meme coin or the increasingly blurred line between political power, personal branding, and crypto speculation tied directly to Trump himself.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has pushed expanded surveillance and enforcement powers: “extreme vetting” tied to social media monitoring, aggressive federal monitoring of protests, warrantless surveillance authorities under Section 702, and expanded facial recognition and biometric tracking at airports and border crossings.
“Don’t forget your papers.”
“You don’t look like you belong here.”
“No warrant needed.”
“Quiet, piggy.”
THAT’s the surveillance state.
THAT’s the erosion of civil liberties.
And through all of it, Keith Self has said almost nothing.
Here’s what I would advocate for instead:
* Rebuild our immigration system so it is lawful, functional, humane, and accountable, with secure borders, faster courts, modern technology, and due process.
* Enforce the Hatch Act and strengthen protections against political coercion and propaganda on taxpayer-funded systems.
* Defend freedom of the press and protect journalists from political retaliation and intimidation.
* Establish real guardrails for AI, facial recognition, biometric tracking, and mass-data systems before unregulated technology becomes the backbone of a permanent surveillance state.
* Demand transparency and accountability for massive AI and data-center projects that consume public resources and reshape local communities.
* And ACTUALLY stand up to the executive branch when it steps on civil liberties, even if it favors my own party.
If you only oppose government overreach when the other side does it, then you do not actually oppose government overreach at all.
And if you will not stand up for regular people when it matters most, then you are not defending liberty. You are defending power.
